The World of Yellow Sky

"Is Sima worried that the current situation is unclear and the outcome is unpredictable?" Cheng Feng held the reins tightly and cupped his hands, "Although the Yellow Turban Army has a large number, they are just a group of farmers after all. The Yellow Turban Army, our army is a few points braver than the Yan and Qing county soldiers, even if we can't defeat the Yellow Turban Army, we will definitely be able to gain a lot of military exploits, and we will have an explanation to the superiors at that time, at least we will not lose our position."

"I'm not worried about that..."

Wen Chou frowned, looking at the rushing Zhangshui not far away, instead of following Cheng Feng's words, he asked Cheng Feng instead.

"Cheng Feng, how long have you been with me?"

"How long..." Cheng Feng was taken aback for a moment, he didn't expect Wen Chou to ask him this question at this time.

"Ten years."

Cheng Feng thought about it carefully, and then gave Wen Chou's answer. He remembered that when the army was recruited, he followed Wen Chou to join the army, and then he followed Wen Chou all the time, from the market to the wilderness of Saibei, Fighting fiercely all the way, fighting all the way, and finally gained a firm foothold among the Jizhou Army.

"ten years……"

Wen Chou raised his head and looked towards the sky, but he was a little melancholy.

"Unexpectedly, ten years have passed in a flash..."

Wen Chou lightly held the reins and led the horse forward. The cavalry behind him did not receive the order, and no one followed. Several guards who wanted to follow also noticed that Wen Chou's gesture did not move forward.

Cheng Feng glanced to the left and right, hesitated, and finally followed.

"Sima..."

Cheng Feng drove his horse forward and shouted cautiously.

Wen Chou turned around with a solemn expression, and Cheng Feng couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart.

"Do you still remember the battle when Jing Jing chased Zhang Yan?"

As soon as Wen Chou mentioned it, Cheng Feng immediately knew what Wen Chou was talking about, not because of anything else, but because of the deep memory.

The battle of chasing Zhang Yan was originally just an ordinary battle in their military career for them. They did not expend much effort to wipe out the rear troops left by Zhang Yan.

But the last group of Yellow Turban soldiers who fought to the death made their memory very deep.

At the end of the war, there were only 34 members of the Yellow Turban Army left, but they still fought to the death, and those Yellow Turban Army who had already been defeated took advantage of the opportunity to gather again.

Later, the leader of the Yellow Turban Army declined Yan Liang's offer, and the entire army was wiped out.

On the way back to the camp, everyone was surprisingly quiet, no one spoke, and there was no sign of victory.

Now in Cheng Feng's ears, he could even vaguely hear the roar of the Yellow Turban Marquis before he died.

"Dare to ask the general, should I wait for the little people to starve to death at home?!"

Hungry, Cheng Feng is not without experience, there is no food in his stomach, wishing to eat all the edible things in his stomach...

Cheng Feng never wanted to bear that kind of feeling for the rest of his life.

Wen Chou's family is fairly well-to-do. Although it is not a powerful family, it can be considered a wealthy family, but Cheng Feng once struggled on the line of food and clothing.

After meeting Wen Chou later, he wandered with Wen Chou as a ranger, and lived some rich days. Even when he joined the army later, Wen Chou entrusted his relationship to enter the army. Otherwise, according to Cheng Feng's family background, he would definitely not be able to enter the army.

"Could it be..."

Cheng Feng felt a little thirsty in his throat, and he finally thought of why Yan Liang and Wen Chou marched much slower than usual when they led troops to transfer.

Wen Chou nodded, and both of them fell silent.

Cheng Feng looked at Wen Chou with a serious face, and thought that Yan Liang hadn't been so concerned about countering the rebellion since the pursuit battle. chase.

Wen Chou knew that Cheng Feng understood the reason, so he didn't speak any more. He looked past Cheng Feng and looked a dozen steps away, under his banner, a cavalry in embroidered clothes.

The cavalry soldier in embroidered clothes was the adjutant sent by the embroidered clothes emissary. His name was the lieutenant general, but he was actually the supervisor of the army.

If it weren't for Jian Shuo surrendering his military power and ordering the release of a large number of arrested officials in Jizhou, the embroidered messenger would be even more arrogant than he is now.

Since that day's chase, Yan Liang no longer just stayed in the barracks every day practicing martial arts and training the army. Instead, he began to pay attention to the lives of the common people.

It was also from that time that they knew what happened.

After the Battle of Shijian Mountain, the civil unrest did not disappear, and Yan Liang and Wen Chou received an order to suppress the rebellion again. That time they did not go to the place and directly attacked the rebels, but they learned about it first.

But it was this kind of understanding that made Yan Liang and Wen Chou change their minds.

The people gathered in all directions united, broke into the houses of two big local families, killed officials and rebelled, and rose up...

The reason is simple and terrible. The local landlords colluded with the officials and collected all kinds of exorbitant taxes. Those so-called taxes were completely unheard of and unseen.

But this is the case, but it is a reasonable thing to embezzle people's property, turn people into slaves, insert labels and sell children...

Yan Liang didn't know about it, and Wen Chou didn't know about it either. The two of them lived in very similar places. They both lived in the same place with one family and one surname. Even if there were some conflicts in the clan, they didn't have such blatant and sensational things happened.

The imperial court's speeches have always been upright and strict, and they have always been upright.

The Yellow Turban Uprising in the seventh year of Guanghe was defined as a rebellion by the court, and the cause of the previous severe drought was also said to be a punishment from heaven for doing evil by the Taiping Dao.

Those who starved to death because their food was confiscated also became the targets of demons.

In a sense, many officers and soldiers of the Han army, many ordinary people, they couldn't figure out the truth of many things at all, just like Emperor Hui of Jin who lived in the deep palace.

During the famine, the people had no food to eat, so they had to dig grass roots and eat tree bark. Many people starved to death because of this.After Jin Huidi sat on the high throne and listened to the minister's report, he was very puzzled and said: "The people have no corn to satisfy their hunger, why don't they eat minced meat?"

Under the preaching of the imperial court, the Yellow Turban and Taiping Dao have become synonymous with demons in many places.

Ancient times are not the same as modern times. Many people have never stepped out of their hometowns and narrow circles. They are confined to one place, illiterate, and have no opinions. What they hear and see is all they hear and see. See.

And those who hold the right to speak and interpret the edicts are those powerful families who hold knowledge and power.

Most of the time, the people can't know the truth at all. The "truth" they know is the powerful and powerful families who want them to know the "truth".

Like Emperor Hui of Jin who sat high on the throne, they had extremely limited knowledge of the outside world.

The eight prefectures came together, and millions of yellow scarves rose up to resist. Because of the famine and the desperate resistance due to disasters, in the preaching, it was just a cult called Taipingdao, which bewitched a large number of people to resist the imperial court beyond their control.

"Report!!"

Everyone followed the prestige, and saw a Lingqi with a feather on his back galloping from the front.

"Two miles ahead, we found traces of 'Moth Thief', and our team is engaging the scouts of 'Moth Thief'!"

Chapter 4: The Bird Enters the Cage

Under the banner, the embroidered emissary in embroidered clothes looked at Wen Chou with a rather unkind expression.

Xie Du is the Silver Seal Embroidered Clothes Envoy of the Hejian Kingdom. He was originally in charge of a county, but after the Yellow Turban Army entered Jizhou, Jian Shuo recruited Yan Liang and Wen Chou to attack the main force of the Yellow Turban Army and at the same time recruited some embroidered clothes emissaries. Come as an adjutant to monitor the army, Xie Du is one of them.

Jian Shuo didn't trust the officers of the Jizhou Army at all. Wang Fen's rebellion was almost a certainty, and Wang Fen's cronies such as Yan Liang, Wen Chou, and Gao Lan were even more distrustful.

If it wasn't for the Yellow Turban Army's sudden invasion of Jizhou, and King Wuhuan Qiao also went south from Youzhou to attack Jizhou. was thrown into prison.

Xie Du moved his horse forward a few steps, and said to Wen Chou in a deep voice.

"Wen Sima, I said earlier that the march was slow. You and Yan Sima said that the 'moth thief' is powerful. The terrain here is undulating, and there may be ambushes, so you need to march slowly to prevent accidents..."

Xie Du glanced to the left and right, his tone suddenly became sharper, and he raised his tone a little.

"Now that the scouts have dispersed, and the traces of the 'Moth Thief' have been found, there is no ambush this time, and the enemy army is right in front of us. Why is Wen Sima still hesitating and shrinking?"

"Could it be that Wen Sima and Yan Sima have other thoughts in their hearts?"

Xie Du crossed his eyebrows and raised his eyes, stood up and pressed the knife, stared at Wen Chou, and asked in a cold voice.

The embroidered clothes envoys in Jizhou are not incompetent rats. After the establishment of embroidered clothes envoys in various locations, the first to be censored are of course leading generals such as Yan Liang and Wen Chou.

It is not extremely difficult to find out the situation of Yan Liang and Wen Chou. The embroidered clothes messenger naturally also learned of the change in the attitude of Yan Liang and Wen Chou.

"Wen Sima may have seen something that he shouldn't have seen before, and felt compassion for those thugs..."

Xie Du's voice was cold, as cold as ice. At this time, Xie Du was only three steps away from Wen Chou, and the heads of the horses on both sides were almost touching each other.

"But I hope Wen Sima remembers one thing..."

"This Jizhou is still the Jizhou of the big man after all, and this world is still the world of the big man after all. Even if the little bandits are rampant for a while, they will never be rampant forever!"

"Wen Sima is the army Sima of the Han Dynasty, and he is a citizen of the Han Dynasty. Wen Sima's people live in the territory of the Han Dynasty, and they are also the people of the Han Dynasty."

A stern look suddenly appeared in Wen Chou's eyes, and fierce murderous intent rose from Wen Chou's body.

Cheng Feng's face was stern, and he also stared coldly at Xie Du who was slowly riding his horse. Like Wen Chou, he didn't say anything.

The birds flew up from the forest, as if they were disturbed by the scouts fighting not far away, and then several roars of beasts came from afar.

Xie Du reined in the horse beside the ashen-faced Wen Chou, turned his head to look at Wen Chou, and lowered his voice.

"They killed officials and rebelled, cholera states and counties, and committed a lot of crimes. They are no longer the people, but thugs, but rebels."

"Wen Sima is a smart person. Wen Sima should be very clear about what to do and what not to do. I can turn a blind eye to what happened before. I just hope that Wen Sima doesn't need me to remind him again."

"Blow the horn."

Wen Chou's face was ashen, he did not tilt his head, and gave the order in a cold voice.

Cheng Feng raised the horn and blew the horn vigorously.

"Woo——————"

Hundreds of cavalrymen of the Han army heard the order, and they all drove their horses forward. Wen Chou pulled the reins violently, and the bay red horse under his seat neighed, turned around, and galloped forward. In this way, it was reclassified into the cavalry formation and relisted in the leading position.

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On a hill next to the official road, Xu You rode a white horse quite leisurely, as if the enemy army that the scouts came to report earlier did not exist at all.

On the official road, vehicles loaded with goods drove forward slowly. All the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army looked nervous and looked back from time to time. They had already learned that there was a Han army not far away. The cavalry set their sights on them.

Lu Bu and Zhang Liao led a group of cavalry and stood quietly behind Xu You, but their expressions were not as confident as Xu You's, but worried.

Neither of them knew what Xu You was going to do. Originally, this supply team could have evacuated first yesterday.

But Xu You let the people transfer first, and even delayed for a while before letting the transportation team set off, and he didn't seem to dispatch troops to stop the advance of the Han army.

Now there are only more than 2000 cavalry with Xu You, but none of the infantry.

The same number of Hu cavalry met with the same number of Han cavalry, and almost all the defeated ones were Hu cavalry. Martial arts, in fact, are not inferior to those nomads on the grasslands, and even surpass them.

Xu An's current armaments are barely able to arm the main force and some reserves under his command. Naturally, there is not much armament for these Huqi, and most of them still use their own equipment.

Yan Liang and Wen Chou have more than [-] cavalry. Although Jizhou belongs to the interior, the cavalry in the interior is generally much weaker than the cavalry in the border counties. However, in order to guard against Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun in Youzhou, they went south to attack In the hinterland of Jizhou, the generals under the command of Yan Liang and Wen Chou are almost all elites. With only two or three thousand Hu cavalry, it is absolutely impossible to stop the assault of these Han cavalry.

The normal tactics should be to use the mobility of Hu cavalry to contain the elite cavalry of the Han army, and use infantry to block the advance of the Han army. As long as it can be delayed until everyone completes crossing the river, it is a victory.

If it is head-to-head, using Hu Qi to confront the Han cavalry head-on is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg.

Although Lu Bu and Zhang Liao were conceited and brave, they were not arrogant enough to lead these Hu cavalry to defeat the elite cavalry of the Han army led by generals Yan Liang and Wen Chou despite such a disparity in strength.

"Report to the envoy of God that the enemy general Wen Chou personally led the cavalry to arrive. Our scout team was defeated and the defense line has been retracted. The enemy army is less than four miles away from our army!"

A scout flying horse with a command flag on his back rushed over, but before he could get close, he shouted loudly.

Xu You's complexion didn't change, and he still looked confident. In fact, without the scout reporting, Xu You had already seen the red banner that appeared on the official road not far away.

At the same time, on the official road, the Yellow Turban Army's luggage team also discovered the banner of the Han Army, and the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army who escorted the luggage were naturally panicked.

Xu You unhurriedly raised the binoculars and observed the Han army ranks not far away. Sure enough, a familiar figure appeared in the lens.

Xu You is very familiar with Yan Liang and Wen Chou. As a shepherd of Jizhou, Wang Fen intends to win Yan Liang and Wen Chou, but Yan Liang and Wen Chou are not from aristocratic families. All the matters were handed over to Xu You to deal with.

Xu You did what he liked, and made friends with Yan Liang and Wen Chou. I dare not say that he knows his character and military strategy well, but he is quite familiar with it, and Xu You has a clear understanding of the ills in the Jizhou Army. It's also why he dared to fight Yan Liang and Wen Chou this time with only more than [-] Hu Qi.

"Report to the envoy of the gods, the Han army has about [-] follow-up cavalry, about ten miles away from our army, led by Yan Liang himself."

Another scout arrived in a hurry and reported the latest situation to Xu You.

"It's not what I expected."

Xu You smiled lightly, and his eyes moved away from the cavalry led by Wen Chou, and turned further away.

A large net has been quietly opened, and the bait he released is about to be discovered, just like a fish entering a wire net and a bird entering a cage.

Xu You led the horse and turned around. Lu Bu and Zhang Liao were not good at hiding their expressions, and they never thought about hiding their thoughts from Xu You, and Xu You naturally noticed the expressions of Lu Bu and Zhang Liao long ago.

"However, there are thousands of enemy troops in the area, why should the two generals look worried?"

Holding the rein in one hand and the folding fan in the other, Xu You asked with a smile.

Zhang Liao was young and vigorous. Hearing Xu You's question, he directly raised the question in his heart, but his tone was not aggressive, and he was quite calm.

"The Han army has 2000 cavalry, and more than [-] infantry. The military division sent the army away, and only led me to wait for [-] cavalry. I think it is difficult to stop the Han army from advancing."

"Stop the advance of the Han army?"

Xu You glanced at Zhang Liao arrogantly, and said with a sneer.

"Who said my purpose is to stop the advance of the Han army? If that's the case, isn't a certain Xu Ziyuan a person who is not in name?"