The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 297 The Road to Death
Solving financial problems lies in increasing revenue and reducing expenditure.

The matter of opening up sources of income, including farming and the implementation of various taxation laws, has gradually entered the right track.

Whether it's financial or military.

With an army of the size of the Yellow Turban Army, it is imminent to improve the troops and streamline the administration, and it must be properly resolved.

Bingzhou, half of the county in the east of the river, is really unable to support such a large-scale army.

However, it is a severe task to reduce the nearly [-] troops to a standing army of more than [-], and the remaining [-] will serve as a reserve force for military settlement.

Personnel placement, military sentiment, and social issues all have to be considered.

These problems are hidden problems, not a one-sentence solution.

Xu An walked back and forth in the government office.

Many things bothered him. It is now 187 years, four years since Zhongping.

The rebellion in Youzhou was just in August, and it would take some time to pass the news from Youzhou to Bingzhou and then to Hejun, but the history of the north has not changed much.

The rebellion of Zhang Chun, Zhang Ju and Qiu Liju was almost ready.

In a few days, the news of the rebellion in Youzhou will shake the world, and it will also make the emperor of the Han Dynasty who sits high in the palace furious.

The only thing that had some influence was that Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty approved in advance Liu Yan's proposal of delegating authority. This edict would probably strengthen Youzhou's military strength to a certain extent.

Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun's rebellion should be hindered more than in history, but these are not problems.

After all, Zhang Ju, Zhang Chun and Wuhuan conspired to raise an army, and Wuhuan of the three counties was led by him, and the momentum was extremely powerful.

They garrisoned troops as fat as Kou Lueqing, You, and Jizhou, and even as brave as Gongsun Zan were defeated by them.

Xu An sent out to Runan County in Yuzhou before, and the Eagle Guards in Qingyan and Xu Sanzhou also received news.

They have already got in touch with the hidden local Taiping Taoists and the Yellow Turban Army lurking in the mountains.

In the original time and space, in the fifth year of Pingping (188), at the beginning of the year, the four prefectures of Qing, Yan, Xu, and Henan revived the million yellow scarves, which once again shocked the government and the public.

However, the rebels in the four prefectures did not have a unified leader, but fought on their own. In the end, the Han court dispatched the military academy lieutenant Bao Hong to crusade against the Yellow Turban Army in Gepi County, Runan County, Yuzhou, which was the most powerful.

The two sides fought in Gepi, and Bao Hong successfully defeated the Gepi Yellow Turban Army.

Then, except for the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, Yu, Yan, and Xu could only be defeated one by one, and the situation was gradually controlled by the Han court.

Only the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou still has the strength to fight.

Beginning in October of the fifth year of Zhongping (188), the remnants of the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou revived and conquered the city along the way, and soon grew to hundreds of thousands of people.

At that time, the state and county officials in Qingzhou saw that the banner of the Yellow Turban Army was approaching, so they all abandoned the city and fled, not daring to meet it.

In the second year of Chuping (191) of Emperor Xiandi of the Han Dynasty, 30 people from Qingzhou Yellow Turbans attacked Mount Tai, but were defeated by the prefect Ying Shao, and the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans had to retreat.

He joined forces with the remnants of the Yellow Turbans in Xuzhou and went west to Jizhou to attack Bohai County, intending to join the Black Mountain Army, but was chased and intercepted by Gongsun Zan in Dongguang.

In April of the third year of Chuping (192), the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou gathered again, claiming to be a million people, and went south to attack Yanzhou, defeated Liu Dai's army, the governor of Yanzhou, invaded Yanzhou, and beheaded Liu Dai.

But then the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army also encountered their biggest opponent-Cao Cao.

The Qingzhou Yellow Turbans gathered heavy troops and fought Cao Cao's army in Shouzhang. The Qingzhou Yellow Turbans suffered another disastrous defeat and could only retreat.

In December of the same year, Cao Cao's army pursued the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army all the way in Jibei.

The Qingzhou Yellow Turban had no choice but to fight again, but unfortunately they failed in the end and could only choose to surrender.

So Cao Cao organized the elite of the Yellow Turbans into Qingzhou soldiers, and the Yellow Turban Rebellion in Qingzhou did not finally subside until then, after five full years.

There are millions of believers in Taiping Taoism in the four prefectures of Qing, Yan, Xu, and Henan.

Xu An's previous plan had always been to complete what Zhang Yan hadn't accomplished in history—successfully joined forces with the Qingzhou Yellow Turban.

Although it is separated from Jizhou, this is not a dream.

Xu An knew about this period of history. He chose to go south to fight Zhu Jun to block the future of the entire Taihang Yellow Turban.

All along the way, he has been attacking Hedong and Bingzhou without stopping, and he has been mobilizing his troops for the purpose of plotting this matter.

Originally, the Yellow Turban Army in the Qing, Yan, Xu, and Henan prefectures had their own commanders, and they were dissatisfied with each other and it was difficult to support them.

But now it is different, Xu An is Zhang Liang's direct disciple, he inherited the immortal book "Taiping Jing" of Taiping Dao.

He even captured Zhang He, killed Zhang He to avenge the hero general Zhang Liang, and then defeated Zhu Jun in Kuicheng. The revenge of the defeat of the Yellow Turban Army was famous all over the world.

Under the leadership of Xu An, the Taihang Yellow Turban Army has evolved into the Bingzhou Yellow Turban Army. There are [-] states in the world, and the Yellow Turban Army has already captured one state. At this time, the Bingzhou Yellow Turban Army is in full swing.

All the peace paths in the world are led by him, and Xu An takes over as a great virtuous teacher.

According to the information returned from Yingwei Tiqi, the commanders of the Yellow Turban Army of the four states and the leaders of Taiping Dao, after confirming the identity of Yingwei Tiqi, respected him immensely, and recognized Xu An's great virtuous teacher. status.

He also respected Xu An's military strategy, and no one raised any objections.

When the yellow turban armies of the four prefectures merge into one, advance together, and unify the uprising, it will definitely be more powerful than the original.

The time selected by Xu An was in August of the fifth year of Zhongping (188).

Because at this time, the Youzhou rebels had almost occupied the entire Youzhou.

The ambitious Zhang Chun saw through the weakness of the Han Empire, so he dispatched King Wuhuan Qiao, one of the "Three Counties of Wuhuan", Su Puyan, Lord Wuhuan of the Liaodong vassal, to lead an army of [-] south to attack Jizhou.

King Wuhuan Qiao led more than [-] men on foot and cavalry, heading south all the way, like a broken bamboo.

Break through Bohai County, Pingyuan County, Qinghe County all the way, and spread to Qingzhou.

In the same month, Gongsun Zan fought against Zhang Chun, Qiu Liju and others in Shimen, a subordinate state of Liaodong, and Zhang Chun and others were defeated.

Zhang Chun left his wife and children and fled to Xianbei territory.

Gongsun Zan continued to pursue, but because he went too far, he was besieged by Qiu Liju in Guanzi City in western Liaoning for more than [-] days.

It was not until Qiu Liju's army who besieged the city left Liucheng because of exhaustion of food, that they were spared death.

And Xu An's plan is that at this time, the Yellow Turban Army of the four prefectures of Qing, Yan, Xu, and Henan will rise up at the same time, gather and go north to respond to the troops of Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju.

He led his troops east out of the Taihang Mountains, attacked Jizhou, and joined forces with the Yellow Turban Army of the four states in Jizhou.

Xu An was many times stronger than Zhang Yan in history. There were nearly [-] soldiers in the soldiers battalion and sharp warrior battalion, more than [-] cavalry battalions, and tens of thousands of battle-hardened veterans.

This is Xu An's confidence, Bingzhou has a vast land and sparse population, more than enough to accommodate a million people.

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Xu An also knew clearly that even if he plotted for so long, even with the cooperation of Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju, the million yellow turbans in the four prefectures might be able to reach Taihang Mountain successfully, and not many people would enter Bingzhou after all.

From Qingzhou to Bingzhou, this road is destined to be a road of death formed by the accumulation of countless corpses.

(End of this chapter)