The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 31

It didn't take long for a middle-aged man in a green robe and a man in linen to walk in with a pile of bamboo slips.

When Zhao Le saw the two come in, it was like seeing a savior, and hurriedly left the seat to pick up the bamboo slips in their hands.

The man in green robe and the man in linen pleaded guilty, placed the bamboo slips in their hands on Xu An's desk slip, and respectfully made a series to Xu An who was sitting at the desk.

"Li Heng meets the general."

"Wang Ren greets the general."

"Exemption."

Xu An waved his hand and said lightly, and the two of them sat beside Zhao Le with a look of sincerity and fear, and then the scene fell into silence again.

The three of them looked at Xu An who was sitting at the desk with a serious face and did not dare to ask, especially Liu Pi, who was sitting beside Xu An with a long black beard and a fierce look.

Wang Ren struggled for a while, but finally broke the silence and said.

"Report to the general, we are all residents of the settlement near Lutai Mountain. It is only because the Taihang Mountain bandits are rampant that we are forced to go up the mountain to protect ourselves. It is not to avoid taxes. All taxes are made up."

Xu An shook the lacquer ware in his hand, looked at Wang Yi and said in surprise, "What tax?"

Wang Yi was stunned, and several thoughts came to his mind. Could it be that these Han soldiers wanted to break their promises and kill them as thieves and use them as military exploits?Or are you greedy enough and want more benefits?

Not to mention that Wang Ren and the others had a lot of thoughts in their hearts, Xu An just thought the three people sitting on the side were very funny.

Now Xu An is in a good mood. He thought that he would have to fight a bloody battle in Lutai Mountain. Even Xu An was ready to lose more than half of his soldiers, but he didn't expect it to be so easy.

This Lutai Mountain is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Before, these farmers could block several times more than ordinary soldiers with only a hundred or so people by virtue of the dangerous terrain.

Now replace it with these fierce soldiers who were killed by the sea of ​​blood and corpses. They not only have strong armor and sharp blades, but even fifty pairs of strong bows. Ordinary county soldiers will not be able to attack this Lutai Mountain without thousands of people.

What's more, with the current situation, only a few places in Jizhou have been suppressed by the Yellow Turbans, and the Yellow Turbans in the rest of the prefectures are still active again, and they have no time to take care of the thieves in Taihang Mountain.

Even if the Han army who entered Jingxing once again found out that only two or three hundred people who had broken through Guancheng wanted to pursue it, and when they saw the heavily armed soldiers on the wall of the village, and the natural dangers of Lutai Mountain, as long as the Han army commander was still there, A little brain, will not attack without authorization.

After all, if the loss of soldiers and generals did not capture Lutai Mountain, the loss of office and dismissal would only be considered light, and even if Lutai Mountain was captured, it would only annihilate a group of thieves with hundreds of people, but so many soldiers were killed. ?
As for the armor and other weapons lost in the arsenal, the Yellow Turbans from all over the country broke the city and took away more weapons, which is almost irrelevant.

Even the Taihang Baxing and several Guancheng are in the hands of thieves. Even if the Han army went crazy and wanted to send troops to destroy all the thieves in the Taihang Mountains, they had to use them first, and Xu An would never turn.

"This……"

Wang Ren was so anxious that he couldn't speak, Zhao Le turned his eyes and leaned against the door, and Li Heng put his hand into his waist calmly.

Xu An put down the lacquerware he was playing with, and said calmly, "We are the envoys of Huangtian. I don't remember that you still owe us taxes?"

"Yellow... Huang... Huang Huangtian? You? Aren't you the Han army?"

Zhao Le became a little stammered because of his nervousness.

"I never said that we are the Han army, but you are not mistaken about one thing. I am indeed a general, but I am a general of Taiping Road."

Xu An looked at the expressions and movements of the three, and said in surprise.

The three people in the house were all shocked by Xu An's words, and they were all stunned for a while.

They thought it was the Han army to settle accounts after the autumn, but they didn't want to be a fake Han army team of Yellow Turban thieves. They didn't think about this at the beginning.

After all, this group of people was wearing the iron armor that the real Han army only had, as well as the incomparably sophisticated weapons and Han army robes.

"If we were the Han army, wouldn't you really think that you guys still have a way to live? If you don't talk about evading taxes and corvee service, the Han army might even forgive you, but if you just say that hiding your armor is a big crime of treason and tribal punishment. !"

"You have already turned grass into bandits. The bamboo slips of the Han army in Jingxing Pass clearly record that Wang Ren, Li Heng, and Zhao Le hid in Lutai Mountain and gathered a crowd as bandits."

Xu An stood up and looked down at the three people with different faces in front of him, and continued.

"Why do you think the Han army will let you go? Do you know what they did to our Yellow Turban army? There was a severe drought in the world and no grains were harvested. The imperial court not only did not provide relief to the victims, but also took away the remaining food from our hands. , we are just seeking a way to survive, they have defeated the Han army, and they have to cut off the heads of our yellow turbans to make a 'Jingguan'."

Xu An grinned, revealing a row of snow-white teeth, and crouched in front of the three of them.

"How did the imperial court treat you? When the entire Xue family was killed by thieves, and when the surrounding settlements were destroyed by thieves, did the imperial court come to take care of you?"

"Do you think you can live your whole life in peace in Lutai Mountain? There are hundreds of pirates in Taihang Mountain, big and small, and there are four forces around you, with more than [-] people. It's only temporary if they don't come to attack you, otherwise you really think that Can you defend Lutai Mountain alone?"

"Even if you defended Mount Lutai, do you want your descendants to hide in this little Mount Lutai from now on?"

The three of them looked at each other, and when they heard what Xu An said, they felt more and more frightened. After all, what Xu An said was indeed the truth. These problems were only bothering the three of them, and they were also trying to find a way to survive. But they are almost powerless on these issues and can only take one step at a time.

They are just a bunch of civilians after all.

Xu An ignored them, stood up again and walked to the door. Upon seeing this, the soldier on the side pushed the door slowly from left to right.

The sunlight outside the house spilled into the house from outside the courtyard, and Xu An felt the warm sunlight shining on him.

"Dare to take your family to this Lutai Mountain, it has proved that the three of you are brave and resourceful, but people can't just see the present, but also take into account the future. You may not have a choice before, but now it is different. "

With his back to the house, Xu An slowly pulled out the ring-head knife around his waist, and the cold blade of the blade reflected the sunlight into the house.

"You look up at the inside and outside of the house. Who do you think can stop us from the bandits in the Taihang Mountains? Look at the ring-headed knife in my hand. There may be leather in the Taihang Mountains that can block the sword in my hand. First?"

"I think you're all smart people, and you should know what the right choice is."

The three of them looked behind Xu An. Not far away, a car drove a bundle of halberds and swords. Armored soldiers in heavy armor drove a large number of cattle and horses into the camp.

Xu An turned to look at the three people in the room and said coldly, "If you follow my will, you will live, if you go against my will, you will die. It's up to you to choose which way you want to go."

After moving to Jizhou, fighting Guangzong fiercely, fighting Quyang, and swindling Jingxingguan all the way, Xu An is no longer the kind and kind college student of later generations.

His heart slowly hardened. After a hundred battles, he had a power of his own, and unknowingly he had become a qualified commander.

Looking at the golden crow in the sky, Xu An raised the ring-head knife in his hand high.

"The yellow sky will surely illuminate the world, just like the sun hanging above my head now."

(End of this chapter)