Cao Mengde was dragged up not because of Taiping Dao's rebellion, but because this guy was sleeping there!

Experienced people may know that if a hungover person sleeps on the bed, he is likely to be drowned in his own vomit. Obviously, Mrs. Ding is such an experienced person.

Over the years, Cao Mengde has continued to study and practice martial arts, but he has also been drinking and having sex. He really lived a happy life.

But as soon as he was happy, the title of Yilang, which was widely used in the streets of Luoyang, was not enough for him to learn about the occurrence of "big events" in the DPRK at the first time.

Yes, Tang Zhou's debut made everyone realize that this was a 'big event'! But it was only to the extent of a big event.

Someone is plotting a rebellion and has colluded with two of the regular eunuchs. These eunuchs are really hateful!

Then I asked again, and there was actually a rebel leader named Ma Yuanyi who led hundreds of thousands of young refugees from Jingzhou and Yangzhou across the Yellow River, and then turned to Hanoi County in the west at Yecheng, preparing to occupy Mengjin... Very soon

Obviously, this rebel actually wanted to use this method to bypass the Sishui Pass, Xuanmen Pass and other checkpoints in the east of Luoyang, and then cooperate with these two eunuchs to capture Luoyang directly! This must be taken seriously!

Finally, let me ask again, Tang Zhou and Ma Yuanyi were actually just one of the many disciples of Zhang Jiao, while Zhang Jiao worked hard for many years and established thirty-six parties all over the country!

The context of the matter was temporarily clear, and the elites at the empire's center immediately prepared a response plan overnight.

First of all, the safety of Luoyang is the most important. Ma Yuanyi and the 100,000 refugees in Hanoi are only one Yellow River away from Luoyang. They must make an immediate decision. While the other party is still unaware, elite officers are sent overnight to directly arrest this animal according to the information provided by Tang Zhou.

Bring to justice!

Secondly, he quickly issued an edict to the officials in Jizhou, asking them to arrest Zhang Jiao immediately in the same way as the leader!

However, after these two emergency measures were put in place, for the first time, there was a split and controversy in the central center regarding the Qushuai and their members from the thirty-sixth party. Perhaps because there were too many involved!

Just look at the two Zhongchangshi who took refuge in Taiping Road. You will know that the eunuchs from Huangmen Supervisor have something to do with Taiping Road, so they seem to be unwilling to see the situation of pulling out carrots and bringing out mud, so

These people all suggested that the emperor should publicly pardon people from the level of Qushuai... The mighty virtue of the Han Dynasty is here, and the emperor's holy name remains the same. They are all subjects of the Han Dynasty. They were just bewitched by the bandit leader. Send an edict.

You can find your way back naturally, so why do you have to fight to the death?

However, whether it is Sangong or everyone at the Shangshutai, although they all feel that this matter should be eliminated as much as possible and that comprehensive turmoil must not be caused by arbitrarily expanding the scope of the attack, they generally believe that Qu Shuai

The backbone of the rebels must be punished severely! Otherwise, where is the dignity of the Han Dynasty?

The emperor had some doubts about this. This smart man had spent too much time in the West Garden and had lost his basic judgment... Of course he knew that the matter was serious and must be taken seriously, but he also knew that the two groups of people had different attitudes.

There's something fishy about it, so I can't help but be a little suspicious.

In short, the emperor felt that he needed to listen to it again and think about it.

In fact, it’s not just the emperor. On weekdays, the imperial ministers and ministers who directly control the power of the empire, these great figures who have an extremely thorough understanding of people’s hearts, laws, and political tricks, how many of them can imagine what will happen next?

What about the matter?

In the final analysis, it seems at this time that this is just a treasonous move that was exposed at the critical moment!

It's just that the scale is bigger and the organization is tighter...can it still shake the Han Dynasty? Is it possible that the countryside outside has begun to say, "The world has been suffering for a long time"?!

As a result, a rapid pursuit began outside, but the DPRK and the Central Government still did not think about the military situation, and only argued endlessly from the perspective of criminal law... It was as if every one of the thirty-six commanders could be easily captured.

On February 15th, Ma Yuanyi, the most trusted and powerful commander in Taiping Road, was arrested and captured.

On February 16th, the Jizhou Governor's Department, which currently had no governor in office, received the official decree from the court in Yecheng. On the same day, Ma Yuanyi was escorted back to Luoyang.

On February 17, after a night of interrogation, Ma Yuanyi was openly beaten to death. On the same day, according to the confessions of Ma Yuanyi's Taipingdao key members who were also arrested in the same case, plus the confessions of two regular servants and their confidants, Luoyang closed the city gates, Sangong, Shangshutai, Huang

The gate supervisors and the Sili Xiaowei Mansion all came out, starting with the bribed palace guards, and began to raid the entire city. Thousands of Taiping Dao believers were arrested and imprisoned.

On February 18, the Jizhou Governor's Department tried to arrest Zhang Jiao at the urging of the imperial envoy, but before the arrest could be made, several spies hiding in the state leaked the news. Zhang Jiao received the news, no longer hesitated, and immediately arrested him in Ju

Lu started the uprising in advance, and at the same time used all means to spread the news in all directions, calling on large and small parties from all over the country to join forces.

So, in the past ten days, countless Yellow Turban believers wrapped their heads in yellow scarves, saying, "The sky is dead, the Yellow Sky will stand." Thirty-six squares, distributed in seven states, all started at once!

And Zhang Jiao claimed to be General Tiangong, his younger brother Zhang Bao claimed to be General Digong, and his younger brother Zhang Liang claimed to be General Renggong. They each contacted and dispatched according to their previous plans, attacked the government, and killed officials to sacrifice to heaven!

When things got to this point, the Central Committee was already a little panicked, but in the end they still stabilized their position. They first stopped the ridiculous punishment dispute in front of the emperor, and then rarely united as one, formulated a military strategy with extremely high efficiency, and then in the emperor's palace

Under his urging, he quickly summoned the county guards, governors, and school captains from all over the country, asking them to dispatch their troops and annihilate these yellow scarf thieves on the spot with military means!

However, what happened next, not to mention the people in the center, even Zhang Jiao did not expect... There is no way, the local government is too vulnerable!

In the past few days, before the central government's previous military orders had received any feedback, Luoyang had taken the initiative to see the summons documents sent quickly from various places. The documents showed that the twenty-eight counties in the seven states of Youji, Yanqing, Xujing, and Xujing were actually all at once.

Emergency! Especially in the two places of Jizhou and Yanyu, the Yellow Turban Army is unstoppable! Officials from all over the country have abandoned their offices and fled, and the official temples are empty. In Qinghe and Anping, the kings of the two countries were actually captured alive!

Not to mention being wiped out on the spot, the rule of the Han Dynasty in these two places has almost completely collapsed!

This is probably what it means when the world responds and the capital is shaken.

At this time, the emperor and all the central officials finally came to their senses... but in turn, they were so panicked that they didn't know what to do.

I really don’t blame these central elites... After more than a hundred years of peace, at most the Liangzhou Qiang were a little more ruthless. Who has ever seen such a situation?!

On the twenty-sixth day of the second month of the Jiazi year, Zhuojun, Youzhou.

At this time, it was only seven or eight days since Zhang Jiao Julu raised his army, but Gongsun Xun had suddenly learned of the traces of the Yellow Turban Army.

Of course, he has not been idle during the past seven or eight days. In the first three days, he basically cleaned up the core members of Taiping Road in Zhuo County and the north of Zhuo County, and worked hard to control the Taiping Road incidents in half of Zhuo County to "cases"

Within the scope... As for the Taiping Dao Xiaofang in the south of Zhuojun who quickly rebelled and occupied Fangcheng, basically we can only give up.

As for the next few days, to be precise, after hearing that most of Guangyang County to the east had been captured by Taiping Road, he was actually working hard to relocate the people on the east side of Zhuo County.

According to the original plan, we should first try to get into the city, and then try to move to the mountainous area on the northwest side of Zhuo County. However, after doing this for a few days, we only gathered a mere 20,000 to 30,000 people, and suddenly came from the east.

According to the news, the main force of the Yellow Turban Army in Guangyang County gave up the attack on the remaining cities of Guangyang, and instead joined the Yellow Turban Army in Yuyang County further east, heading directly towards Zhuo County.

What was expected... Zhuojun is the gateway to Youzhou. If the two big cities of Zhuoxian and Fanyang can fall into the hands of these Youzhou Yellow Turban Army, they can immediately connect to their base camp in Jizhou; and in turn, they can

The posture of being able to advance and attack, and retreat and defend threatens other counties in Youzhou in the north.

In fact, Gongsun Xun believed from the beginning that as long as the Youzhou Yellow Turban Army still had some strategic thinking, they would definitely try their best to capture these two cities.

But he never expected that the other party would come so quickly!

At this time, it had only been seven or eight days since Zhang Jiao raised his army, it had only been eleven or twelve days since Wei You came to inquire, and it had only been only sixty days since Gongsun Xun took office as the prefect of Zhuojun!

"How many people are there?" In the official temple, Gongsun Xun, who was wearing a crown and a sword, was obviously startled for a moment as he lowered his head to write a document, and then immediately raised his head.

"Return to your Majesty," the official said quickly. "There are about twenty to thirty thousand people...at least twenty-five thousand or more! There are too many people, and the main reason is that the bandit army marched in an indiscriminate manner, and the organization is too chaotic, so we can't be careful.

It is estimated that... we may be able to see the bandit vanguard tonight."

Guangyang County borders Zhuo County, or simply it borders Zhuo County. Its fallen southern cities can reach Zhuo County directly, and the distance is only a few dozen miles... As long as they attack, a large force can only take a day at most, and You

If the vanguard of the Yellow Turban Army, who has captured many cities in Duoma Prefecture, comes in cavalry form, they might be able to arrive in half a day.

"That's not what you mean." Lu Fan frowned and interjected. "Let me ask you, isn't there only one big square called Taiping Road in Guangyang? Counting the small square called Taiping Road in the south of our Zhuo County, even if we add one piece, it won't be enough.

It should be over 20,000, right?”

Yi Cong quickly shook his head: "Return to Mr. Lu, they are all people who have just plotted rebellion. There is no order in their march. I'm afraid they won't be able to make suspicious soldiers... On the plain, covering the sky and the earth, there must be 25,000 soldiers."

More than a large army! Moreover, almost all of this large army crossed the border from Guangyang County in the east, and we have not seen any bandits converging in the southeast."

Lu Fan immediately gave up the fantasy, but asked the other party to go and rest quickly... In fact, Yi Cong was a scout for the local frontier army before following Gongsun Xun in Yanmen. He has always been an expert in this field. Lu Ziheng also started from the beginning.

Deep down, I believed the other party’s judgment.

However, this number is still a bit surprising and nervous.

"Shu Zhi, how many troops are available in the city now?" As soon as the people left, Gongsun Xun, who was in charge, immediately held his pen and looked at Wang Xiu who had been silent on the other side.

Wang Xiu held a volume of documents and replied almost without hesitation: "It depends on whether the monarch wants to defend or attack?"

"How many soldiers can the defender have?"

"If we keep it, there are now four to five thousand men in the city. In an emergency, if we recruit the sons of aristocratic families and good men, and then mobilize the young people in the city, we can have more than ten thousand men!" Wang Xiu thought for a moment and gave an accurate answer.

Answer.

"In other words." Gongsun Xun nodded slightly. "In terms of just defending the city, you probably have nothing to worry about?"

"good."

"Then what if I want to go out and fight in the field to meet the enemy?" Gongsun Xun continued to ask. "How many soldiers can I have?"

"Including the temporarily recruited rangers and the expanded county soldiers, there are now 300 righteous followers, 1,200 cavalry, and 1,600 county soldiers..."

"Three thousand soldiers and horses?"

"No!" Wang Xiu immediately corrected him. "Before, there were more than a thousand strong men who were punished as city guards. These people can help defend the city, but they need someone to look after them. Moreover, there are also 20,000 to 30,000 civilians entering the city. With so many people,

There must be Taiping Dao believers among them, and they also need to be guarded and intimidated." At this point, Wang Shuzhi said frankly. "If you go to war at this time, with the safety of this city in mind, I am afraid that you can only bring the fifteen hundred people with you.

cavalry……"

"What if we temporarily recruit more people from the city?" Gongsun Xun still did not give up.

"It takes time." Wang Shuzhi replied seriously. "There is enough food and cloth, as well as enough cast iron and wood, but it takes time to make ordnance, uniforms, and flags. Without ordnance, how can we go to war?"

Gongsun Xun was speechless.

"It would be great if we were in Zhongshan!" At this moment, Lu Fan, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly interrupted in frustration.

The three people in the hall, plus Han Dang who was standing at the door, were all silent for a moment.

In other words, this situation is the inevitable consequence of Gongsun Xun's sudden transfer from Zhongshan to Zhuojun!

In Zhongshan, he worked hard for three years. Not only did he hoard a large amount of military supplies and set up a complete defense line, but more importantly, under the banner of public security, he also organized and trained a team of up to five people in the county using the so-called Shiwu method.
To be continued...