Chapter 301 Nine Days
In the dark cell, the candles illuminated everyone in a terrifying way.
Ma Yuanyi interrupted Lu Xun's memories, his tone was as cold as frost, and terrifyingly cold:
"How did you set the fire in Lutai?"
Lu Xun swallowed and asked:
"Can I have a glass of water?"
Ma Yuanyi nodded, and then a strong man brought Lu Xun a glass of water.
It's a pity that this water has no honey!
Lu Xun was really thirsty. Even if it was water without honey, he drank it all in one gulp, and then answered Ma Yuanyi's question honestly:
"I managed a shop in Lutai, and we would meet each other every day when he went out to collect firewood. I learned from him that this winter snow, Lutai consumed a lot of firewood, and now that the snow has melted, the weather has changed. It's cold, so I need more firewood. Now the city is in urgent need of firewood, and because the four gates are closed, it's too inconvenient to go out to collect firewood, so I asked me what I thought."
Ma Yuanyi interrupted and interjected:
"Why did you develop this restaurant? This kind of people are usually old people in the church. How do you develop it?"
Speaking of this, Lu Xun is also a bit proud of himself. He is indeed quite talented in this area.
He told Ma Yuanyi that this chef had a shortcoming, that is, he liked gambling. And this is the most forbidden thing on Taiping Road, so this person just plays it in private. After Lu Xun found out about this later, he set up a trap for this person, causing him to lose a large amount of money to them.
And he didn't tell the cook about Zhang Jiao's assassination. He only said that he would use his network to do Lutai's supply business.
After saying this, Lu Xun couldn't help but conclude:
"Everyone has a weakness. As long as you catch it, everyone can be used to my advantage."
After saying this, Lu Xun continued to talk about this matter:
"So I brought a batch of coal into Lutai."
Lu Xun wanted to say more, but was interrupted by Ma Yuanyi again. It was obvious that Ma Yuanyi was not here to be a listener. He wanted to get more details from Lu Xun's confession.
So Ma Yuanyi asked:
"Coal? What is that?"
"Oh, it's a black stone that can burn directly. It was said to have come from Jinan, but no one noticed it at first. Then suddenly someone said that this stone can burn and is better than charcoal, and it spread."
Ma Yuanyi chewed on the word Jinan, silently glanced at Dong Zhao beside him, and said nothing more.
He motioned for Lu Xun to continue.
Lu Xun continued calmly as if he was talking about something that had nothing to do with him:
"After the charcoal was presented, it passed quickly. Later, I led people to deliver ten carts of charcoal disguised as laborers, and stored it in the warehouse under the deer platform. Then, on the morning of November 8th, I The cook led them into Lutai, and then lit the coal with a fire."
Anger appeared on Ma Yuanyi's face, but he still said with a straight face:
"How many people were involved in this?"
Lu Xundao:
"There were about a thousand people involved in this matter, most of them weaving people. The leader was called Wu Si, who specialized in supplying yellow scarves to Taiping Road. With the talisman festival, you can go in and out of Guangzong. Some of my important things are entrusted to this People contacted the Han army in Handan."
Ma Yuanyi was furious after hearing this:
"Huang Miao, you still dare to bully me? You can gather thousands of people to do this kind of thing? You still want to connect with others. I think you are really not afraid? Come here!"
Lu Xun was shocked and trembled:
"Don't dare to bully me. Those are indeed servants who don't know what they are doing. Those who really joined me in the fight, less than thirty of them, have all been captured by you."
Lu Xun actually didn't deceive Ma Yuanyi. He was just a little embarrassed to tell the details before.
After all, before carrying out the task of burning Lutai, he did gather warriors to attack Lutai, because it was safer to kill Zhang Jiao by hand. But no matter what, reality hit him hard. After counting, the number of people willing to fight him head-on was less than thirty.
In the end, he had no choice but to just set fire.
Lu Xun now felt that he had said enough. He stretched the bell on his neck and prayed:
"This ring is too tight. Can you loosen it for me?"
Unexpectedly, Ma Yuanyi snorted coldly:
"It's better to circle around. Who did you give those notices to before? Write down the list first."
Lu Xun had already finished his explanation and reported the list directly without hesitation.
The clerk on the side quickly wrote it down and handed it to Ma Yuanyi.
Ma Yuanyi looked at the list and couldn't hold back his anger, but he didn't want to lose his composure in front of Dong Zhao, so he held it back.
Later, Lu Xun was taken down.
Dong Zhao, who had watched it from beginning to end, said to Ma Yuanyi at this time:
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid this list is fraudulent. Lu Xun's explanation was too smooth. I'm afraid he's planning to create a quarrel here."
Ma Yuanyi thought for a moment and felt that what Dong Zhao said made sense.
He was also convinced of Dong Zhao's quick wit, and he was not shy and directly asked Dong Zhao what plan he had to catch these remaining gangsters.
A dark fat man like Dong Zhao could make three strategies in one step. He only thought a little and came up with a plan for Ma Yuanyi.
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In the sixth year of Guanghe, on November 9th, the morning light was dim.
The purge of Guangzong City has ended, but the exhausted Taoist disciples heard another news.
The envoy of the gods captured the culprit who burned Lutai. The murderer was indeed a spy of the Han army in the city.
All the Taoist disciples were filled with righteous indignation and wished they could sleep on his skin and eat his flesh. How dare you attack Huang Tian's will in the human world? No matter how many times you die, you will not be able to atone for your sin.
These people rushed to the military mansion one after another, and the crowd was furious, calling for this person to be executed.
Then a Taoist official came out and told everyone that he could not be killed yet. This person had other agents in the city, but he turned out to be stubborn and would not torture him no matter how hard he tried. There was no choice but to escort him to the military mansion, where the great virtuous master would pry open the man's mouth.
Just like that, the news swept through Guangzong City like a hurricane.
Two hours later, on a side road, a group of yellow scarf soldiers protected a covered carriage on the way to the military mansion.
When the convoy passed a pavilion, a group of masked warriors suddenly jumped out of the wall. They jumped off the wall and attacked the yellow scarf army.
The leader of this group of masked warriors is clearly the Yellow Turban warrior Yan Zheng.
Since Lu Xun and others disappeared, Yan Zheng has been worried. Later, I finally found out that Lu Xun was captured by Ma Yuanyi's people, and even more that Lu Xun didn't let go after being tortured for days, and was about to be sent to the military government.
Even though Yan Zheng didn't believe the lies told by the great virtuous teacher, Yan Zheng could only see a lot of his methods. How to transform snakes in the sky, hunt down cows across mountains, summon wind and rain, it's so miraculous.
Therefore, Yan Zheng knew that this was the only chance to solve his future problems. So, he gathered his confidants and the fifteen people who had accepted Lu Xun's confession that day at his home.
In order to coax everyone to take risks with him, Yan Zheng solemnly said:
"Lu Jun was arrested, and he has not said a word until now. He is just waiting for our rescue, and saving Lu Jun means saving us. When he is sent to the military mansion, my life will no longer be ours, so I am determined to give it a try and rescue him." Lu Jun.”
At this time, everyone was blocked in a corner. They knew that Guangzong City could no longer stay, and the only way was to surrender to the Han army. And this road cannot be entered without Lu Xundai.
Therefore, no matter what, this Lu Xun must be saved.
In the end, a total of fifty-two people were present, forming an alliance with blood, forming a death squad and ambushing the escort team.
They learned from a reliable person that the escort team must pass through at noon. So he lurked here and prepared to attack and kill. But unfortunately, they will all die in vain in the end.
Just because all this is a strategy set by Ma Yuanyi.
Here, Yan Zheng led his men to rush out, and hundreds of yellow scarf warriors poured out in front and behind the road. They directly surrounded Yan Zheng and others, and then began to massacre these people.
In this way, Yan Zheng and others came to an end.
Finally, Yan Zheng, whose arms were chopped off, was dragged in front of Ma Yuanyi, leaving a bloody mark.
Ma Yuanyi glanced at Yan Zheng, snorted coldly, took out his knife and chopped off his head, not wanting to say another word to him.
In this way, the Han army spies and those who were instigated to rebel in the city were solved by Ma Yuanyi and Dong Zhao. But they all knew that the real danger to Guangzong was not the traitors in the city, but Wei Shou under Julu City.
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When the servant in ragged clothes prostrated himself in front of him and told him that the Wei family of Guangzong was destroyed and all his wife and children left at home were dead.
Wei Shou spat out a mouthful of blood, but he did not fall down. Instead, he immediately called to the guard general Tao Sheng, took out a book from his arms and gave it to him, and ordered him to lead a thousand guardsmen to pick up the people according to the list.
This was what Wei Shou had been investigating in the army since he came out of Guangzong, and the list was full of people from Zhang Bao's line.
But before Wei Shou could kill these generals first, these people led various troops to surround Wei Shou's army. It turned out that since these people came out of Guangzong, they had received a secret order from the local general Zhang Bao to immediately surround and kill Wei Shou as soon as the Tiqi arrived.
But Wei Shou was not given for free. Of the 40,000 troops leaving the city, only 20,000 were under his control, and the remaining 10,000 were composed of various commanders, who were already hesitant.
Twenty thousand versus ten thousand, Wei Shou still has a chance.
He called his own party and cried cuckoo's blood to everyone:
"I and you all overcame thorns and thorns to build this Taiping Road from the great sage and mentor. We should have tried our best to repay Huang Tian and establish Huang Tian's prosperous age. But Zhang Bao, the clown, hated us and couldn't get along. We had to get married. It is painful for the enemy, but it is easy for the enemy. I can die, but why do you deserve it? It is better to chop off my head and give it to Zhang Bao, so as to avoid the tragedy of fratricide and separation of flesh and blood."
At this time, all his confidants were crying:
"The great sage and good teacher is too ill to take charge of the affairs, and the earthly general is not wise. He must have done it for the small group of people around him. If this man is allowed to succeed, how can we carry out Huangtian's ambition? We are willing to follow Wei Gong to return to the army and prosecute ourselves, and clean up The ugliness of the group can be calmed down by the Qing Dynasty.”
In this way, Wei Shou sighed:
"That's all, the matter has come to this. If I continue to act coyly, won't I be letting you down? Then we will attack the rebels first, and then fight back to Guangzong to seek an explanation for our clan wife who died in vain."
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Everyone present was from the Wei Party. Their families in Guangzong had all been massacred, and they had long had a blood feud with Zhang Bao. So after hearing what Wei Shou said, the crowd became excited and shouted:
"Here."
So, Guo Dian on Julu City saw that the Yellow Turban Moth thieves outside the city suddenly formed a formation under the city, and then started fighting in the ice and snow.
Guo Dian was puzzled by what he saw, and Gao Lan, the Julu captain next to him, advised Guo Dian to take the opportunity to send troops.
But Guo Dian looked at the chaos below the city, shook his head and said:
"Don't worry, I can't understand the situation now, so stay calm. We have too few soldiers to allow us to fight recklessly."
What Guo Dian said made sense, so Gao Lan stopped trying to persuade him and lay down on the wall with Guo Dian to watch the fighting below.
Guo Dian and other Han generals on the city were confused, and the Yellow Turban soldiers below were even more confused.
We were all members of the same family before, so why did we suddenly end up at war with each other in the blink of an eye?
In fact, Zhang Bao's original plan was not like this.
Originally, Wei Shou could be captured and killed as long as three or five people were in the tent. Not only is it easier to succeed, the impact of confusion is less.
But no one in the army was willing to risk going to Wei's camp. They would rather surround and kill Wei Shou surrounded by troops than go into danger alone.
In this way, what was originally a beheading operation in the army was executed into a battle formation.
Many Yellow Turban soldiers could not bear to point their swords at Paoze, so they returned eastward and planned to return to Guangzong on their own. More and more people followed suit and broke away from the constraints of the military officials, running toward the east like a river rushing to the sea.
Guo Dian, who had been watching the battle on the top of the city, was overjoyed when he saw this and ordered the entire army to attack.
Therefore, his four generals, Gao Lan, Zhao Fu, Cheng Huan and Wei Liang, attacked and directly poured out of Julu to pursue the retreating Yellow Turban Army.
The morale of the army was devastated, and there was no one to snipe. Naturally, the army was defeated like a mountain.
Along the way, the Yellow Turban Army abandoned their helmets and armor, no longer caring about the giant deer, just to escape.
While Gao Lan and others were killing each other over there, they suddenly heard someone shouting in the chaos:
"Gao County Lieutenant, I, Julu Wei, am willing to surrender."
When Gao Lan heard the sound, he looked over and saw that it was Wei Shou who was a wealthy man in Julu back then.
In this way, Wei Shou, who claimed his destiny and had the ambition to conquer the clouds, surrendered to Julu Han soldiers with his remaining troops.
In this battle, the Hebei Yellow Turbans suffered little losses, but because Wei Shou took the lead in surrendering, thousands of people laid down their weapons and surrendered to the Han army.
After that, Guo Dian was afraid that he would not be able to suppress the surrendered troops because he was short of troops in the city, so he simply drove them onto the ice of Dalu Ze. Later, the Han soldiers emptied the ice lake, and thousands of Yellow Turban troops sank into the ice lake in despair. Keep company with the fish and shrimp in the lake.
And Wei Shou saw everything and was devastated.
Now, Huang Tu's hegemony has been wiped out in an instant, and he has also caused thousands of murders. But it was precisely because of this that Guo Dian did not kill Wei Shou. After all, did this man have any choice?
In this way, the Hebei Yellow Turbans' majestic appearance ended hastily because of the Guangping Incident.
The Guangping Incident was not just an internal struggle among the upper class of the Yellow Turbans in Hebei. In fact, its far-reaching impact was difficult for contemporary people to understand.
Only future generations will be able to discover from this history that this struggle meant that Taiping Dao, the force that generalized the anti-Han cause, was completely morally bankrupt at this moment.
The faith of a large number of lower-level Taiping Taoists collapsed because they discovered that the highest Taoist priest who controlled the ideology in the religion had betrayed and surrendered to the enemy, and thousands of his fellow Taoists died in vain. Who still believes in what they say about Huang Tian’s ideal?
They also found that the Taoist officials in the upper echelons of Guangzong seemed to regard the world as one family as a slogan. If they really wanted to kill them, they were no different from the Han army. They all regarded them as nothing more than nothing.
That is to say, when many low-level Yellow Turbans were hesitant and panic-stricken, a ground-breaking action by the Taishan Army later drew the attention of these people back, and also allowed these ordinary Yellow Turbans who were at a loss to find a new destination.
Because while Guangzong was busy purging his dissidents, Zhang Chong took the Taishan Army into action again.
But this time, they made everyone in the world realize that he, Zhang Chong, was invincible!
(End of chapter)