The World of Yellow Sky

Of course, Zhang Wei's army was a bit sparse and ordinary, so Xu An was naturally worried about letting Zhang Wei lead the army. In fact, the current leading general of the Hanzhong Army was General Xingyi Zhang Yang, and Xu An asked Zhang Yang to assist Zhang Wei as the deputy general.

Of course, he is called an assistant, but he is actually the main general. The most important reason for this is to save Zhang Lu a little face.

Strictly speaking, the second dispatch was sent from Jiangzhou City in Yizhou, not Jingzhou.

On June [-]th, Yizhou Yellow Turban soldiers approached Jiangzhou City, and [-] Yizhou Yellow Turban Army surrounded Jiangzhou City almost impenetrably.

At the same time, the Yizhou Army and the Dongzhou Army were completely wiped out in the Battle of Chengdu, and the news that Xu An led the Yellow Turban Army to the south was quickly spread throughout the counties and counties of Yizhou, driven by the Yinglangwei Tiqi hidden in various places.

The guards of Jiangzhou City saw the great disparity in strength, the Yellow Turban army approached the city, and heard the bad news of the Battle of Chengdu. They did not dare to resist and surrendered the city. There are not many equipment in the city. In fact, if the city guard of Jiangzhou has some backbone, he can persist for ten and a half months, buying precious time for the Han court.

Jiangzhou City fell in one day, and Zhao Zhi was not an indecisive person.

If he had been indecisive, he might have died on the battlefield along with Ma Xiang and other Yellow Turban soldiers when Ma Xiang was defeated.

The importance of Jiangguan is self-evident, and Xu An sent people to explain the importance of Jiangguan to Zhao Zhi.

Although Zhao Zhi used to be just a low-level farmer, he is now the commander of nearly [-] Yizhou Yellow Turban Army, which is no longer what it used to be.

Jiangzhou City surrendered, but the city guards of Jiangzhou City did not send anyone to spread the news to other cities, and the few people who wanted to escape before the Yellow Turban Army in Yizhou were encircled by the cavalry arranged by Zhao Zhi in advance Block all.

The Jiangzhou city guard surrendered, and Zhao Zhi's mind became active.

Now that the main force of the Yizhou army has been defeated, the news of Ren Xian's death in battle is about to spread throughout the prefecture, and every city in Yizhou is panic-stricken.

Most of the armor worn by the Yellow Turban Army in Yizhou was captured from the Han army, but the flags and scarves were different, and they only needed to be changed a little. In Jiangzhou, there were scarves and banners from the county seat of the Han army.

So Zhao Zhi escorted the city guards of Jiangzhou City, and led more than [-] yellow scarf soldiers who had replaced the Han army's equipment and took some intentionally destroyed Han army banners, and rushed all the way northeast, pretending to be defeated.

Zhao Zhi left more than [-] soldiers to guard the city, and then led more than [-] soldiers under his command to march directly northward towards Jiangguan.

The 2 people were divided into front and rear teams, and the front team was a disguised rout led by Zhao Zhi.

The front team will go first for about four or five days, and the rear team will follow the path traveled by the front team.

These disguised broken soldiers in the front team are all the elite of the Yizhou Yellow Turban Army, and there are about [-] people in this part.

Although the rear team is not as good as the front team, it can also be called the elite soldiers of the Yizhou Yellow Turban Army. At least they all have battle experience, and there are more than [-] people.

Zhao Zhi knew the importance of Jiangguan, so he personally led an army of [-] to march towards Jiangguan in the northeast direction, but he did not forget to report the situation of Jiangzhou to Xu An.

At this time, Li Yan had just left Jiangzhou with his army for about ten days, and he should have arrived at Fujie City in Qianwei County.

Although it is not something to boast about, these Yizhou Yellow Turban Army disguised as routs, ordinary people can't see the flaws at all, only the battle-tested generals can see some clues.

And the reason for this is not because of any complicated reasons.

Without him, only familiar with Seoul.

If the Bingzhou Yellow Turban Army led by Xu An has won many battles, then the Yizhou Yellow Turban Army led by Zhao Zhi is the other extreme - repeated battles and repeated defeats.

Since the defeat of the Maxiang army, Zhao Zhi may have really no commanding ability, or for other reasons, facing the Dongzhou soldiers and Yizhou soldiers who were attacking and suppressing, they all ended in defeat.

However, Zhao Zhi was able to escape from the encirclement net of the Han army with his main force every time, which also made the Yizhou Yellow Turban Army do some in-depth research on escape.

In the few victories of the Yizhou Yellow Turban Army in the later period, Zhao Zhi ordered his army to be defeated, deceived the generals of the Han army, and then took advantage of the Han army's carelessness, ambushed on both sides of the road and defeated the Dongzhou soldiers who were in charge of the attack at that time. .

From Jiangzhou, head all the way to the northeast, pass through the four cities of Zhixian, Pingdu, Linjiang, and Quren, and go down the river, and then you can go to Yufu City and Jiangguan after a few tens of miles.

From Jiangzhou all the way to Jiangguan, hundreds of miles of road.

Li Yan took tens of thousands of Han soldiers and civilian husbands all the way, and it took nearly a month to rush from Jiangguan to Jiangzhou.

But this is going upstream, and the army is moving forward.

And Zhao Zhi led the generals under his command, and could borrow boats all the way down the river.

Zhao Zhi led hundreds of people to punting ahead. The guard of Jiangzhou city didn't want to take risks. He surrendered out of greed for life and fear of death. Now Zhao Zhi wants him to take risks with them. How can he be willing to camp.

But the situation is stronger than others, Jiangzhou City Guard's wife, children, family members are all in Jiangzhou, and his life is in Zhao Zhi's hands, so he can only go on the road with Zhao Zhi.

In the Battle of Chengdu, Ren Xian died, Dongzhou soldiers and Yizhou soldiers snipe and clam fought, benefiting the Yellow Turban soldiers. Jiang and Qu Ren four cities.

Ren Xian was in the four cities, and only a few hundred soldiers were left in each city to maintain law and order. He didn't arrange too many soldiers at all. Only more than [-] soldiers were left in the city of Jiangzhou as a precaution.

Ren Xian's original arrangement was that if the Yizhou Yellow Turban Army turned against them, with these three thousand soldiers plus the young and strong defenders in the city, it would be difficult for the Yizhou Yellow Turban Army who lacked siege equipment to capture the river in a short time. After all, Jiangzhou was also one of the cities that Liu Yan ordered to fortify.

It's just not enough, people are not as good as heaven.

No matter how strong a city is, it needs people to defend it.

During the Ming Dynasty, the city wall of Beijing City was more than ten meters high and more than ten meters thick. It could be used for galloping horses and chariots. Its circumference was 28 miles, and there were 170 enemy towers.

But what was the result?

In the 17th year of Chongzhen, on March [-]th, the Chuang army attacked Beijing.

In the early morning of March [-], Zhang Jinyan, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, opened the Zhengyang Gate of Beijing City to welcome Liu Zongmin's troops into Beijing.

In just two days, this strong city that took decades and generations to build fell.

After the Chuang army suffered a big defeat at Yiyishi, Li Zicheng directly gave up the fortified city of Beijing and fled all the way west. All his ambitions were trampled under the iron hooves of Guan Ning and Baqi smash.

Jiangzhou surrendered. No one could have imagined that when the county magistrates in the four cities of Badong were still panicked by the news of the defeat of the main force of the Yizhou army, Zhao Zhi led the yellow scarf army disguised as Jiangzhou's rout. When they arrived at the city, seeing the guards of Jiangzhou City and the soldiers under his command throwing away their helmets and armor, the county magistrates of the four cities had no doubts.

Originally, Zhao just wanted to swindle and open the city. After entering the city, he would kill all the defenders in the city. After taking the city, he left a small number of defenders and handed it over to the large troops behind to occupy it.

But when Zhao Zhi entered Zhixian County, the county magistrate of Zhixian County wanted to flee eastward with them.

After Zhao Zhi hesitated for a moment, he agreed. He was still worried that there might be some flaws.

However, the request from Zhi County Magistrate resolved Zhao Zhi's last worry.

Afterwards, both the county magistrates of Pingdu, Linjiang, and Quren chose to flee to Jiangguan with Zhao Yi and his party.

They are all county magistrates in Yicheng, and they are very aware of the situation in Hanting.

Now that the situation in the Central Plains is changing, the Han army and the Wei army have invested hundreds of thousands of troops to confront each other in the north.

Although Li Yan brought more than 1 soldiers this time, they were not blind. Naturally, it could be seen that most of the soldiers led by Li Yan were recruits, and some of them were simply civilian husbands. Dare to say it is a soldier.

Now that Jiangzhou has fallen, the Han army led by Li Yan may be in danger.

The more than 1 Han troops led by Li Yan were originally pieced together, and this is no secret.

This also proves that in the short term, the Han court cannot send enough soldiers to assist the interior of Berkshire.

Once the Yellow Turban Army comes in at that time, they will have to face those ferocious Yellow Turban Army directly.

Based on the hundreds of soldiers under the command of the city guards of the four cities, they undoubtedly hit the stones with eggs, so the county magistrates of the four cities did not hesitate much, and followed the so-called soldiers brought by the city guards of Jiangzhou with their valuables and family members. Jiangzhou's defeated troops fled all the way to the east of Jiangguan.

Ren Xiandu was defeated, and the main force of the Yizhou Army was defeated by the Yellow Turban Army. The Yellow Turban Army suddenly appeared in Chengdu, and then suddenly appeared in Jiangzhou like a divine soldier. .

There are more than [-] people in Jiangzhou, and tens of thousands of young and strong, and now they have also been broken by the Yellow Turban Army.

According to those defeated soldiers who escaped from Jiangzhou, tens of thousands of Yellow Turban Army troops suddenly appeared outside and inside Jiangzhou City as if they had fallen from the sky.

Cooperating from the inside to the outside, and sandwiched between two sides, they had no way to hold on. They could only escape in chaos before the Yellow Turban Army attacked aggressively. Only a few hundred of them escaped from the huge Jiangzhou City.

The team, which originally consisted of only a few hundred people, gradually gathered like this, and became more than 2000 people.

But in fact, behind them, there is a team of thousands of people following them, and those teams are the teams of powerful families from the four cities.

The Yellow Turban Army's treatment of the powerful family before entering Guanzhong was quite detailed.

If you are willing to take refuge in the Yellow Turban Army, obey the rules and regulations of Taipingdao, and do not cause public grievances to boil, Taipingdao can forgive them.

But if they resist stubbornly, or if they want to join the Han court, then the Yellow Turban Army will definitely not relent.

The Yellow Turban Army first occupied Bingzhou, and when the Eagle Wolf Guard was first established, its initial reputation was obtained by killing powerful families in Bingzhou. It is even more instinctive to resist the embroidered messenger who has a similar function to the Eagle Wolf Guard.

However, with the gradual growth of the Yellow Turban Army, after entering Guanzhong, Xu Rong, Duan Yan, Fan Chou and others, as well as Liangzhou Wang, Jia and other aristocratic families, Taipingdao did not blindly kill all the powerful families.

The eagle wolf guard's methods have not weakened, but have become more vicious.

Now the Eagle Wolf Guard's policy towards powerful families has already changed.

Win over those powerful families who are willing to surrender and have a good reputation, divide those who are hesitant and do little harm, and attack those powerful families who are extremely vicious and full of public grievances.

The eagle wolf Wei Tiqi, who was lurking in the counties and counties of Yizhou, spread the news, and it naturally reached the ears of the powerful families in Yizhou.

These powerful families can last for hundreds or even hundreds of years, so they naturally have their own unique features, and there are basically no mediocre people who can be their patriarchs and suzerains.

When they received the news, they understood that it was the Yellow Turban Army's message to them through rumors.

For the Yizhou powerful families in the hinterland and south of Yizhou, this is a life-saving straw.

Even those clans with a bad reputation will do everything possible to please the local ordinary people, wanting to spare their lives, or escape into the mountains and live in seclusion in the secret Wubao.

However, the powerful families in the four cities have a better choice, so naturally they will not give up easily.

After all, no matter how good the Yellow Turban Army said, it was just heard that the Yellow Turban Army really turned their backs, or charged them with certain crimes.

After all, if you want to commit a crime, there is nothing to worry about.

People are knives, but I don't feel good about fish.

The number of people is increasing, and there are almost 600 people in the team following Zhao Zhi, of which more than 400 are his soldiers, and the rest are the defenders of the four cities and the officials and officials of the four cities. Among his family members, there are more than [-] people who are capable of fighting.

Zhao Zhi didn't let those powerful families be with them, but let them follow behind.

What he said to the county magistrates of Sicheng was that if the Yellow Turbans really catch up, they can be blocked for a while, so as to buy them time to escape.

Moreover, its team is mixed with fish and dragons. If spies from the Yellow Turban Army are mixed in, it may break the big event.

Everyone listened to what Zhao Zhi said was reasonable, so they acted according to Zhao Zhi's words and did not allow those teams from powerful families to join them.

Although those powerful families fled, they still brought a lot of property and family members with them, so the marching speed was naturally much slower than most of the soldiers.

In fact, the specific reason is that Zhao Zhi has few soldiers. Now there are more than 500 enemy troops living in the same camp without any defense. Only 400 people are needed.

But if you add those thousands of powerful families, then things will be extremely difficult.

The subordinates of those powerful families all have private soldiers, and they will never live in the same camp. Naturally, they cannot be allowed to act in the same team.

"Jiangguan!"

On the cargo ship, a soldier standing on a high place trembled, pointed at the exposed city wall ahead, and shouted excitedly.

"Jiangguan!?"

"Jiangguan!"

"finally reached……"

A loud shout erupted from the boat.

All the soldiers were cheering, and some even wept with joy.

Entering Jiangguan means entering the territory of Jingzhou.

With Jiangguan as a barrier, their lives will be guaranteed.

But, will everything really go as he wishes?

In the bed cabin, Zhao Zhi slowly opened his eyes and looked towards the bright place ahead.

The river flows eastward, and the sound of the water is like a bell.

Zhao Zhi slowly pushed open the wooden door, and the river on both sides was vast, like thousands of miles of flat land.

And right in front of his fleet, an island lay across the river, and a city built on top of the island surrounded by mountains appeared in front of his eyes.

At the end of the new dynasty, Gongsun Shu ruled Bashu separately.

Build a city on the island, the well in the island, the white air rises, like a white dragon soaring.

Gongsun Shu called himself Baidi, and named the city Baidi City.

In the courtesy of Baidi Caiyun, Qianling Jiangling returned one day.

The "Baidi" in the previous sentence refers to Baidi City, which is located in the easternmost part of Berkshire.

Once they occupy Baidi City and Jiangguan, they can directly threaten the hinterland of Jingzhou if they go downstream.

The vast river is also behind the Baidi City, suddenly narrowed to only one-third, and the water flow feels more than several times faster.

Jiangguan is facing Baidi City, and it is built in the south of Baidi City. It faces the river in front and rests on red armor in the back, making it vulnerable to attack.

The two cities echoed from afar, thinking of Austrian aid.

The most dangerous places in the world are Qu Tang and Yan Yu.

Each boat enters the gorge for several miles, and the rear boat will continue to sail. The water is raging, and it is impossible to analyze it for fear of encountering each other suddenly.

Facing the mighty power of heaven and earth, Zhao Zhi couldn't help but feel extremely small in his heart.

If Baidi City and Jiangguan are attacked by force, the river will be stained red with blood when they capture here...