Chapter 190: Oath
April 13, the sixth year of Guanghe.
Under Fenggao City, Zhang Chong, the general of Taiping Road, ordered all the Taishan Army to gather in the east of Bo County. The ministries originally stationed in various places handed over defense to the field guards in each city and assembled within three days.
All of a sudden, Taishan's army and cavalry came out in all directions, and their feathers flew across. After receiving military orders, the various ministries handed over the defense to the field guards, and then they entered Bo County with cold armor, forests of spears and halberds, and the sound of chariots and horses.
At this time, Zhang Chong was already in the big tent in the east of Bo County. He wore yellow clothes and fasted in the big tent without eating for a day and a night. On April 16, the army gathered together, with five thousand soldiers fighting furiously. Zhang Chong finally came out of his tent and shouted:
"Raise swords and soldiers, exchange for peace, and restore the Qingming Dynasty to the world!"
All the sergeants wore apricot yellow forehead scarves, linen clothes and straw sandals, and shouted:
"Raise swords and soldiers, exchange for peace, and restore the Qingming Dynasty to the world!"
The sound moves Wenshui.
Zhang Chong called again:
"This battle must be won. Now we gather our troops and go north to show the emperor of the Han Dynasty what the anger of the people in the world is."
"Must win" "Must win"
Later, Zhang Chong killed the ox and the white horse, sacrificed to Huang Tian, and committed the three major crimes of the Han Dynasty:
The first crime: the country is immoral and immoral. The second crime: officials carried out excessive conquests and violently plundered the remnants of the people. The third crime: greed for power and excessive annexation.
For these three crimes, I sued Huang Tian and said:
"The sky is dead, and the yellow sky should stand. Do justice for heaven, and ask for orders for the people."
Afterwards, the entire army worshiped Huang Tian and swore an oath to fight.
Zhang Chong left Yang Mao to guard Laiwu, and took 5,000 elite troops with him to march north to Jibei Kingdom along the Wenshui River by boat and carriage.
On April 18, the Taishan Army marched north to Snake Hill.
The Jibei State Administration Office stationed in Sheqiu abandoned the city and left. Zhou Feng in the city opened the door to dedicate the city.
Zhang Chong took grain from the city, opened an arsenal, and recruited 500 poor people from Sheqiu, led by Zhou Fengtong to garrison Sheqiu. Zhang Chong continued to lead his army northward along the Wenshui River. Along the way, those who believed in the Taiping Tao in Jibei State burned their houses and destroyed caves, and their entire families defected to Zhang Chong.
After Zhang rushed to the territory of Dongping Kingdom, his troops already had more than 10,000 people. For a time, the yellow flag was fluttering and the world was about to change.
After entering Dongping Kingdom, the first resistance they encountered was under the city of Zhangxian County. The local Taiping Road rebellion started ten days ago, but it was put down within two days by the Huang family of Zhangxian County, a powerful family in the county.
In recent generations, the Huang family has produced county magistrates with six hundred shi, and they are among the most powerful in Zhang County. There are many magistrates in the county under their sect. There are 8,000 households in Zhangcheng, and it is an exaggeration to say that the Huang family owns half of them.
The Huang family had a brilliant man named Huang Cen. He studied in the countryside since he returned from Taixue. He saw the internal troubles in Taiping Road in Dongping Kingdom and had already arranged for his tribe to get involved.
On April 8, when Taiping Road in Guozhang County of Dongping launched an uprising in accordance with the instructions of Dongjun Buji, they were discovered by the Huang family's children who had mixed in.
Huang Cen united the four powerful men in the county, each sent out their clan troops, and directly massacred the backbone of Taiping Dao who were about to revolt. They massacred 2,000 believers, men and women, right on the edge of Wenshui River. The blood of patriots dyed Wenshui red.
Those who denounce the Taiping Way:
"Moth thieves are evil and powerful like jackals, flooding the roads. During the day, they hold knives and dance cards to seize people and property on the Wenshui River. Business travelers traveling through the Wenshui waterway were forced by them and dared not go any further. As a result, the leaves in Zhang County were depressed, and the group Parts to appease the place."
In other words, the reason why Huang Cen killed these people on the Taiping Road was very simple. It was because these people kept killing business travelers on the Wenshui River, causing heavy losses to the Huang family who relied on this waterway for their livelihood. Huang Cen originally thought these people were just ordinary bandits, but when he heard from the surrounding counties and counties that these bandits wearing yellow scarves were killing officials, he knew that these people were serious rebels.
Therefore, in the past ten days, he organized a network of villages and towns in Zhang County to protect each other and support each other. Then each mutual guarantee center conducts a self-inspection, checking whether there are any remnants of the Taiping Dao rebellious party inside the wall. If there are any, they will be dealt with directly.
This Huang Cen is indeed a capable man. While other counties and counties were still sweeping away the snow in front of each other and only caring about self-protection, this man had already figured out the idea of mutual protection. Therefore, in just ten days, the two sides of Taiping Road were destroyed. Thousands of believers counted them all out, beheaded them by the Wenshui River, and hung the carved heads on wooden sticks along the road.
So when Zhang Chong came along the Wenshui River, what he saw was a human tragedy. Wenshui was barren, but the road was littered with heads. Some of the heads looked as if they had been chopped off not long ago, and their faces before death could still be seen. The despair and anger had not faded away at all.
The Taishan Army walked on the dusty road, walking through the forest of heads of these comrades, which was heavy and depressing.
In the end, Li Damu couldn't stand it anymore. He rushed to Zhang Chong's army from his headquarters and asked for orders:
"Qu, let me take my troops to find out who killed these comrades in a vendetta. We must make them pay with blood."
Zhang Chong waved his hand to signal Li Damu to calm down, and was about to say that Meng Ju was reporting back with several flags on his back and one person tied up.
It turned out that when Zhang Chong saw this scene, he had asked Meng Ju to take someone to find someone who knew the situation and ask about the situation.
As soon as Meng Ju came, he dragged the tied man and said to Zhang Chong:
"This man and his two companions had been watching in the forest, sneaking around. I saw that this was a spy, so I caught him."
Zhang Chong asked the trembling young man warmly:
"What's your name?"
"The villain's name is Liu Liu."
"Why are you spying on our army?"
That made Liu Liuliu keep trembling and didn't rush to speak. He looked at the wolves and tigers around him and knew that this time was going to be difficult.
Zhang Chong took the photo and was afraid of Liu Liu, so he just asked:
"It's not difficult for you. I'll ask a few questions and let you go."
After all, it was the desire to live that prevailed. Liu Liu asked softly:
"What does the general want to ask?"
"What's going on with these heads?" Liu Liu breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that he was just asking this question and replied:
"This is about a group of water bandits that we reunited in Zhang County. Two years ago, the leader of this bandit was recruited by the county, but the remaining bandits scattered to the countryside and swamps. These people invaded the countryside and plundered the settlements. , roared and gathered in Wenshui, plundered the passenger boats, and made the Wenshui waterway impassable. ”
After hearing this, Zhang Chong didn't say much, but asked:
"Who taught you these words?"
Liu Liuqi was confused. He didn’t care whether he should teach him or not. He replied:
"No one teaches me, it's just like that."
Before Zhang Chong could say anything, Cai Que kicked him and cursed:
"You bitch slave, you are still chattering here. The few words you just used, are they said by a person named Liu Liu like you? Xiao Ju Wenshui, Hot Niang, Nai Gong can't say such elegant words. .”
Maybe it was Cai Que's violence, maybe it was his words that were irritating, but Liu Liu blushed a little and didn't dare to speak anymore.
Zhang Chong asked again:
"Did you see these people gathering on the water and looting other people's houses?"
Liu Liu shook his head and said he didn't know, he was not from this area. Seeing that he had let it slip, Liu Liu confessed:
"General, I am a disciple of the Huang Gui family. I work for the master as a slave, and I am not from this area. Ten days ago, the master invited everyone to have a meal and told everyone that there are bandits gathering at the Wenshui River. If the waterway is blocked, the millet harvested later will not be transported out, and everyone’s work will be in vain. Oh, by the way, the above sentences were also said by the master’s disciples, and this is what I learned. I brought people to kill these thieves, and many people died.”
Zhang Chong understood and asked:
"Then why are you here?"
"My master asked me to stay here to see if any rogue relatives or friends come to steal people's heads. If so, let us keep an eye on them."
Zhang Chongran asked:
"Have you ever killed anyone?"
Liu Liu was stunned and shook his head:
"The villain has been weak since he was a child and has never seen blood, so he hasn't killed anyone."
"No blood?"
"Yes, yes, I can't see it, I feel dizzy when I see it."
Zhang Chong said calmly:
"That's good. I'll give you a rope and strangle you to death. Don't tell me, this way of death is quite noble. It is said that emperors die without blood. I didn't expect that although you, Liu Liu, are cheap, you are still very high-spirited. ”
Liu Liu was dumbfounded. He shook his head hurriedly:
"General, you made a mistake, you made a mistake. The villain didn't kill anyone and didn't want to die."
Zhang Chong asked lightly:
"Look at your hands."
Liu Liu was stunned and looked at his hand in confusion. There was nothing there.
Zhang Chong asked Li Damu's hand to be shown to everyone, and they saw that this song was dark, rough, and calloused. And look at Liu Liu, there is no mud between his fingernails.
Zhang Chong is wearing Liu Liu:
"I don't know your real name either. You said you wanted to pretend to be poor. Have you really seen what poor people look like? Also, some really poor people will be trusted by their masters to do such sinister things. People want to You still have to go fishing to collect the corpses of your relatives. Is this what people do? In the end, a few serious poor people will memorize those useless phrases, what, invade the countryside, plunder the settlements, and gather together. Wenshui, plundering passenger boats, Wenshui is blocked, how can we go four or six times?”
Liu Liu panicked now, knowing that his life was hanging by a thread, and he hurriedly begged for mercy:
"General, I didn't mean to hide it. I am the slave of the Wuyan Liu family. I have important news to report. I only ask the general to spare my life."
Zhang Chong frowned and scolded:
"No need, I don't feel comfortable living with people like you. Besides, didn't you tell me everything?"
After saying that, ignore him and let Cai Que take action.
Cai Que took his abdominal girdle and strangled Liu Liu slowly and forcefully from behind. Liu Liu kept trying to think of something to say, but he stuck out his tongue and walked away with a black face.
After finishing cooking Liu Liu, the pig and dog, Cai Que asked Zhang Chong in confusion:
"Qu Kui, how did he tell us?"
Zhang Chong smiled and shook his head:
"Some people, although they look smart, actually often do stupid things like asking the answers in the form of questions."
Seeing that everyone including Cai Que and Li Damu didn't understand, only Dong Fan from the collision team smiled slightly. Zhang Chong smiled and clicked on Dong Fan:
"Justice, tell me."
Among the many generals in the army, Zhang Chong was particularly optimistic about Dong Fan. This man was brave and resourceful, and he was a good general. He took Dong Fan with him, firstly to inspect him as a person, and secondly, to use his ability to lead the collision team. The Collision Corps is both a battle sequence and a training sequence for military officers. If you want to join the Collision Corps, you must have accumulated military merits to a certain level. To graduate, you must not only be literate but also understand military strategy. Once you are released, you will immediately become a military officer. The origin of the general. Third, Zhang Chong wants to reuse Dong Fan and keep him by his side as the leader of the collision team to increase his prestige.
Dong Fang was called out by Zhang Chong and he explained with a smile:
"This man says he belongs to the Wuyan Liu family. When he comes here, doesn't it mean that the Huang family in Zhang County and the Wuyan Liu family have colluded together? Maybe he wants to ambush us somewhere right now? ”
As soon as he said this, everyone took a breath, ambush? Where?
And here, Fei Jun came to report immediately with the flag on his back:
"We have arrived at Gaoshan in front, and the former military general Xie Bi sent a report, fearing an ambush."
Are there any friends from Jining? Is what Gao Shan wrote hit the mark? This is realism, haha, so pretty.
(End of chapter)