The World of Yellow Sky

Li Yan's evaluation in history is mixed. Although his personal morality is not good, his ability is still quite outstanding. He and Zhuge Liang were Liu Bei's Tuogu minister before his death.

But it was just a little pity, in fact, even if Li Yan could be captured, it would be difficult to recruit Li Yan.

After all, Li Yan is from Nanyang, and the Li family can be considered a big family in Nanyang. Li Yan's family members are all in Nanyang, so it is definitely impossible to belong to the Taiping Dao.

This time in the Battle of Yizhou, it was a surprise to kill Li Yan.

Nowadays, the famous generals in the Han court are like clouds, and the counselors are like rain. How much Han court can be weakened will help the development of Taipingdao.

With the defeat of the Han army led by Li Yan, it also marked that the Yellow Turban Army completely wiped out the remaining forces.

The five counties in Nanzhong handed over their surrender forms, and the last few cities in Berkshire also announced their surrender.

In the fourth year of Chuping (193), September 25th.

The last city in Yizhou Prefecture also submitted a letter of surrender to Xu An.

Although the Nanman tribes did not submit the form of surrender, when the envoys of the Yellow Turban Army arrived, the leaders of the Nanman tribes also expressed their willingness to accept the rule of Taipingdao.

From then on, the whole state of Yizhou belonged to Huangtian, and the fiery red banners of the Han court no longer flew over all the cities, but the earthy yellow banners of Taiping Road.

The territory controlled by Taipingdao has expanded again, and it has become a behemoth in the true sense.

Its territory reaches Rushui in Youzhou in the east and Yumen Pass in Dunhuang County, Liangzhou in the west.

From the north to the area of ​​Zhuoxie Mountain and Junji Mountain, the old land of Xianbei in the west, it faces Karasuma and other northern tribes.

The Nantong tribes in Nantong, the area of ​​influence has been extended to the location of Burma in later generations.

Taipingdao now occupies the four prefectures of Liangzhou, Bingzhou, Zhongzhou, and Yizhou, and also occupies two counties in Youzhou.

If we look at the distribution of provinces in later generations, the territory of Taiping Road has now expanded to Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Ningxia, Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou, Yunnan, Inner Mongolia and other places.

The vast territory far exceeds that of the Han and Wei dynasties.

Although the population of Yizhou has not been censused, and it has gone through several wars, there must be millions of people.

Now the population of Taipingdao has already crossed the tens of millions mark.

After Guo Tai and Zhang Wei also captured Jiangguan, they each led their troops back to the city and could not defend themselves.

The Jingzhou army received the news of the retreat of the two armies, as if they were amnesty, they had no intention of pursuing them at all.

Jingzhou has few horses and cavalry. Although the central and southern part of Jingzhou is densely covered with rivers and is not good at cavalry, the terrain of Nanyang County is flat, and the cavalry come and go like the wind. The Jingzhou army is powerless to resist.

These ordinary Jingzhou soldiers who have been in the south for a long time have never seen thousands or even tens of thousands of cavalry charge into battle.

When they saw the most war horses, they were just seeing those aristocratic families with dozens of horse guards before and after going out.

However, Guo Tai led the Yellow Turban cavalry under his command this time, and there were really tens of thousands of cavalry. In order to keep the Jingzhou Army as much as possible so that they would not dare to support Yizhou, Guo Tai's harassment this time was almost a real attack on Nanyang.

The four cities of Danshui, Nanxiang, Xixian, and Shunxian in Nanyang County were defeated by Guo Tai and Zhang Wei, and even a large-scale battle broke out with the Jingzhou Army.

There are more than [-] soldiers in Jingzhou, relying on the city to stand firm, and there are still many brave people from the countryside to help in the battle, but the final result is a big defeat. If there is no city to rely on, these Jingzhou soldiers will be all killed by Guo Tai Kill all.

Now that the world is divided into three parts, the situation is changing again.

However, Wei Ting became the weakest party, occupying only Youzhou, Jizhou, and Qingzhou, and the Sili part. Under the two waves of offensive organized by the Han army, Wei Ting lost control of Yanzhou and Xuzhou one after another. .

The setback of the attack and the defeat of the war also made Qingzhou precarious.

The Han court occupied the five states of Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, and Jingzhou, and Jiaozhou had already surrendered in name. If Qingzhou was taken over, it would occupy the land of seven states.

Dahan had thirteen prefectures, Taiping Road occupied four prefectures, Han Ting occupied six prefectures, and Wei Ting only occupied three prefectures.

The offensive and defensive momentum of the Central Plains has changed again, and has evolved from Wei Ting's offensive to Han Ting's offensive.

According to the report from the Eagle Wolf Guard, the Han Court is actively preparing for the Northern Expedition.

The attachment of Jiaozhou also made Hanting lose part of its worries.

The news that Xu An had captured Yizhou also made Hanting feel a strong sense of crisis.

Occupying Taiping Road in Yizhou will be able to attack the Han court from multiple places.

The loss of Jiangguan made it very possible for the Yellow Turban Army to go down the river.

Jiangguan was lost, and there was no natural danger to stop the Yizhou navy going down the river. Liu Biao transferred Huang Zu, who was originally the prefect of Jiangxia, to be the prefect of Nanjun to guard against possible attacks by the Yizhou Yellow Turban Army.

Although he knew that the situation in Yizhou was complicated, it would definitely take a long time for Taipingdao to fully control Yizhou.

However, the Yellow Turban Army had a precedent of continuing to attack after just capturing a place, so Liu Biao still chose the safest arrangement.

After Hanting learned that Yizhou was captured by the Yellow Turban Army, it also quickly formulated a plan for the Northern Expedition.

It will take time for the Yellow Turban Army to digest Yizhou, and once it has completely digested Yizhou, the possibility of the Yellow Turban Army leaving Jingzhou will greatly increase.

Once the Yellow Turban Army really joins the battlefield, they will be completely dragged into the quagmire of the battle formation, and they will be deeply trapped.

Han Ting and Wei Ting didn't want to be two tigers fighting each other. In the end, the Yellow Turban Army picked up the deviation in vain, so the two forces joined forces to drive Taipingdao back to Guanzhong.

But no one thought that Yizhou, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, would change its situation continuously in such a short period of time.

Hanzhong County had already chosen to join the Taiping Road, and the Yellow Turban Army had already entered Yizhou before everyone realized it, and then occupied it even before the news spread. Jiangguan closed the main passages between Jingzhou and Yizhou.

Only now did the people in the Han court understand that Xu An was advancing by retreating, like Guan Zhuangzi in the Warring States Policy, hiding from the sight of the two tigers, waiting for the two tigers to fight each other and become weak.

Thunder moves like a storm, if it doesn't move, it will be done, and if it moves, it will be like a thunderbolt, and there is no time for people to react.

Even though he knew Xu An's tactics, he couldn't guard against it.

Compile and watch the history of the Yellow Turban Army's battles, whether it is attacking Shangdang, Bingzhou, Youzhou, Liangzhou, or wherever.

It seems that the Yellow Turban Army has begun to weave a large net very early, and it has already begun weaving when their enemies are not vigilant.

When the enemy finally woke up and understood the imminent threat, the big net had already been woven completely, and it had already become the possession of the Yellow Turban Army, which was shattered by the fierce offensive of the Yellow Turban Army.

Wei Ting's army has always given people the impression that they are well-armed, with sharp armor and sharp blades.

The army of the Han court has always given the impression that the army is rigorous and the generals are brave.

However, Taipingdao's army only left an impression of swiftness, as swift as a flash of lightning in a rainstorm.

Before the enemy could react, the Yellow Turban Army had already defeated them, disintegrated them all, and ended the war.

The marching speed of the Yellow Turban Army is really unimaginable. The marching speed of the cavalry army can even reach more than 200 miles in a day at the fastest.

The elite infantry of the Yellow Turban Army can march more than 100 miles a day. Of course, this is not the marching speed after carrying heavy armor. Carrying heavy armor and the like will inevitably slow down the marching speed.

But even so, it is an extremely terrifying thing. There is no step of the Han army and Wei army infantry that can travel more than 100 miles in one day, at least so far, neither the Han army nor the Wei army have done it.

It is almost impossible for other armies to imitate the tactics of the Yellow Turban Army.

The elite infantry of the Yellow Turban Army can maintain a high speed for a long time. They have been trained for a long time and have good endurance. Most of them are from poor farmers. Their endurance has become extremely good due to long-term farm work. , They have long been accustomed to successive battles, and the logistics force composed of wheelbarrows and four-wheeled carriages guaranteed their logistics rations.

Of course, their willpower is far beyond ordinary people, and all the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army who can become the direct-controlled army are all Taoists of the Taiping Dao.

The surrender of the Western Xianbei, Southern Huns, Wuhuan and other tribes made the Yellow Turban Army not lack of meat. Now the elite infantry of the Yellow Turban Army often have meat in their meals, and a large amount of meat also makes their bodies stronger.

Most of the cavalry of the Yellow Turban Army has two horses per person, or even three horses per person. Although it puts a lot of pressure on logistics, it also gives the cavalry army of the Yellow Turban Army the ability to move quickly.

After the Yellow Turban Army occupied Yizhou, the Han court felt the urgency.

So Sun Jian wrote a letter to ask for a war, and wanted to launch a large-scale northern expedition when Taipingdao digested Yizhou.

Sun Jian's request spread to Chen Du, and the officials of the Han court quickly agreed on a strategy. After all, the threat of the Taiping Dao was real. Not long ago, the Yellow Turban Army sent out Hanzhong and Wuguan to attack Nanyang County, which already caused shocks in the government and the public. After all, Nanyang County is not far from Chendu.

The Han court made a plan to divide the troops into two groups to attack Wei and attack Qingzhou first.

The first route, led by General Zhu Zhi, led Sun Ce, Ling Cao, Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin and other generals, attacked Beihai State in Qingzhou via Langya State in Xuzhou, and captured the eastern part of Qingzhou.

The second route, led by former general Yuan Shu, led Cao Cao, Liu Bei and other generals to attack Qingzhou's Pingyuan County and Jinan Kingdom through Yanzhou's Jibei Kingdom, and captured the western part of Qingzhou.

Advance in two ways, encircle left and right, in order to completely trap Qingzhou soldiers in Le'an and Qi.

Once Qingzhou is captured, the Han army will have a large number of crossing points. At that time, the Yellow River will no longer be a barrier that hinders the Han army from going north, and the land of Jizhou will be completely exposed to the front of the Han army.

The Han court was not in a hurry to attack the Luoyang area. Now Taipingdao can threaten Jingzhou, and now Hangu Pass is still in the hands of Taipingdao. It is also a good thing for Yuan Shao to continue to spend his troops in Luoyang area.

With the strategy established, the Han army began to prepare for the attack on Qingzhou.

Sun Jian did not leave Puyang City, but ordered his subordinates to station at Baima and other ferry crossings. He was also known as Yu Guangcheng Guan and stationed troops. He gave Wei Jun a signal that he was about to attack Luoyang, in order to confuse Wei Jun as much as possible and concentrate his forces in Luoyang. The district and Dongjun ease the pressure on Qingzhou.

It's just that although Han Ting's calculation is good, Qi Mei is restricted by the embroidered clothes envoy who has already regained some vitality and has no way to detect the actual situation, but how to prevent it is still caught by the Eagle Wolf Guard.

The mobilization of the Han army was not concealed from the eagle wolf guards who had been lurking in the Han court for a long time.

Yinglangwei secretly passed the news that the Han army was preparing to attack Qingzhou to Qi Mei, and gave Wei Ting a warning in advance.

And that's not really the beginning.

The real beginning was on October 193th in the fourth year of Chuping ([-]).

Before attacking Qingzhou, on the [-]th, the court wanted to discuss again the candidate for Yuzhou Mu.

On the [-]th, Ting Wei received several anonymous letters of report. Several officials close to Sun Jian were reported. Officer interrogation.

Originally, it was a bit sensitive when such a thing happened at this juncture, and it was inevitable to think that Wang Yun and Liu Chong wanted to eliminate dissidents.

But what made things out of control and caused the Han court to shake was because an official who raised objections was found to have died inexplicably in his own home...

Chapter 718 Gossip, the strategy of punishing one's heart

Because Chen Du was not originally the capital of the Han court, it still retains many divisions that only ordinary cities can have. Moreover, because of the expansion of the imperial palace, the current Chen Du has actually expanded a lot, and the original city walls have long been destroyed. It was demolished and continued expansion began.

After the expansion of Chendu, the Imperial Palace became the Beicheng District.

There are many concentrated small workshops in Nancheng District, which are residential areas for residents in the city.

Xicheng District is a newly built garden, where the government offices and forbidden troops are located.

The imperial army has more than [-] people, and it is in charge of ten school lieutenants. Among them, five battalions are under the command of Fu De, who are responsible for the defense of the outer city.

The other five battalions were headed by Lu Yu, the son of the late Shangshu Lu Zhi, who were placed under the imperial guard.

Fu De is the eldest son of Fu Wan and the elder brother of Fu Shou, Empress of the Han Court.

Nowadays, apart from the main three-party forces, the Han court actually has a fourth-party force independent of the three parties.

And this fourth party force is Fu Shi, who is a relative.

In just a few years, Fu Wan has been promoted to several positions. Not long ago, he was promoted to the executive Jinwu, in charge of inspections, violence suppression, and rape supervision.

The Fu family did not participate in any struggles, and there were only two senior officials in the Fu family, one was Fu De and the other was Fu Wan.

Although today's son is young, he also has his own ideas.

In fact, Liu Xie is now considered a pro-government, neither the Sangong nor Liu Chong and Sun Jian are qualified to make decisions on major court affairs, they must first submit to the emperor to obtain an edict before they can act.

It's just that Liu Xie mostly agreed to their request, and didn't refuse much.

In addition to the imperial guards, Chen Du also had two guards, Huben and Yulin. Shanghong, the former military school captain, served as the general of Huben Zhonglang, and Wang Yue served as the general of Habayashi Zhonglang.

Luoyang and Chang'an are two capitals, one is in the hands of Taipingdao, and the other is in the hands of Wei Ting.

Liu Chong used to be the king of Chen. At the beginning, Liu Xie fled to the east and fled to Chendu. With the support of Chen Wang Liuchong and Yuzhou governor Kong Ni, Liu Xie re-emerged in Chenxian, the capital of Chen State, and the name of Chenxian was changed to Chendu.

Later, everyone discussed and wanted to change the name.

But Liu Xie said that although the two capitals have fallen, there is still a day to restore the capitals. Why do we need to establish a new capital?

Chen Dusui retained its original name, which has not changed until now.

The market in Chen Duzhong is mainly in the south of the residential area of ​​Dongshi.

Dongcheng District used to be a residential area in Chen County, where rich households around Chen County used to live. However, since Liu Xie entered Chen County and Chen County became Chen Capital, the original owners have moved out one after another.

The buildings here were also demolished and rebuilt as the residences of official families, and as a waiting place for foreign officials who came to Beijing from other places to wait for the imperial edict.

The Central Plains was in constant turmoil, and the wars continued almost every day.

However, the war has lasted for many years, but the flames of war have never spread to the vicinity of Chendu. Recently, it has only burned to the border of Yuzhou.

In Chendu, there is still a rare tranquility in this troubled world.

It's just that this peace can no longer be preserved.

In the fourth year of Chuping (193), October [-]th, early morning.

In Dongcheng District, around a mansion, there were many generals in armor and with swords around their heads.

This lifang has been isolated from other lifangs by the imperial army and has been listed as a restricted area.

Just yesterday in the workshop here, an official was found dead in the study at home with no external injuries and no signs of poisoning.

Originally, this kind of thing happened at an ordinary time, so the government would naturally deal with it, and it would certainly not alarm the imperial army, but now it happened to be in a relatively tense atmosphere.