The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 434 The Road to Death
The Eagle Wolf Guard recruited a large number of capable men and rangers, making the task of suppressing bandits easier.

Huanglong's move not only solved the bandits in the middle of the Taihang Mountains, but also ensured that the people in the four states would not be harassed by bandits when they passed through Jingxing and entered Shangdang County.

It also made the remaining thieves and bandits in the entire Taihang Mountain tense. Although Huanglong's main targets were only the bandits in the middle of the Taihang Mountains, the thunderous tactics of the Yellow Turban Army also scared a lot of thieves and bandits in the Taihang Mountains.

So not long after Yu Du returned to Tianjing Pass from Hanoi County, he received all kinds of strange news. Some bandits entrenched in the deep mountains and old forests all voluntarily put down their weapons and surrendered to the nearest Yellow Turban Army.

And Liu Shi was also baffled, because the bandits hidden in the north of Taihang Mountain also surrendered to the Yellow Turban garrison in Taihang in the north. At that time, there were more than [-] bandits who surrendered under the command of Yu Du and Liu Shi.

It is definitely impossible for these bandits to join the Yellow Turban Army. The current Yellow Turban Army is implementing a policy of elite soldiers. It seems that none of Xu An's direct subordinates can appreciate the quality of these bandits.

So [-] people were packed together by Liu Shi and Yu Du, and sent to the Agricultural Affairs Department managed by Fu Qi, to contribute to the Yellow Turban Army's farming cause, and use labor to wash away the sins they committed.

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The Yellow Turban Army of the Four States marched all the way from Pingyuan County, Qingzhou, with a total of about [-] million people when they set off.

However, after passing through Qinghe County and Anping Country, they arrived at Zhangshui. According to rough statistics, there are only less than [-] million people left, and many of them died on the road or in battle. On the battlefield...

Even if the eagle and wolf guards are running around day and night, even if the generals of the Yellow Turban Army are staring at them almost all night, even if the amulets of the Taiping Road are gritting their teeth, dragging their extremely tired bodies, holding the golden hoop bell Walking on the official road, he treated diseases for the people of the four states with care.

But nearly one hundred thousand people died on the road, on the battlefield...

The people who came all the way from Yan, Yu, and Xu three states, after a long journey, many people died on the road, and the further back, especially in Qinghe County, the rapid march many times made a lot of people die. people die.

With the epidemic, the number of dead is unknown.

Internal and external troubles came at the same time, which made Ji Ang's head more gray hairs.

There are [-] million people, and there may be less than [-] people who can finally reach Bingzhou. From the land of four states to Bingzhou, it is destined to be a road of death made of countless flesh and blood and countless bones. ...

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The situation of the battle of Linping was not clear, and Ji Ang could have sent a part of the army to assist Zhang Yan. This was also something that had been discussed before.

Zhang Yan and Chen Bing were in the front to resist the Youzhou Army. After Ji Ang led the army across the river, he sent some troops north to Linping to support Zhang Yan's troops in the battle.

But in the actual situation, when the epidemic broke out, the troops under Ji Ang's command were simply stretched, and the originally planned reinforcements did not support at all. This is one of the reasons why Zhang Yan fought so hard and so hard.

At this time, the epidemic has begun to worsen. Although there is Hua Tuo's prescription, Hua Tuo can only treat part of the disease after all. He can't cure everyone's disease.

More importantly, the Yellow Turban Army is almost out of medicinal materials.

In just five days, the Yellow Turban Army's reserve of medicinal materials had dropped to half. The medicinal materials carried by the Yellow Turban Army in the four states were partly obtained from searching the medicinal material shops of the government and powerful families, so the reserve was very limited.

The other part is the reserve of the Bingzhou Yellow Turban Army. Because of his previous experience in escorting people to relocate, Xu An ordered people to prepare a lot of medicinal materials for treating common diseases in advance.

There were as many as one million people transferred from the four states, and there must have been many wounded soldiers. At the beginning, the number of people who moved north from Hanoi County was less than tens of thousands, but many people still fell ill during the journey.

There are more than [-] people in the four states, and the distance they need to travel is much longer than the original migration distance of Hanoi County.

Therefore, Xu An asked Yu Du and Huang Long, the generals of the Taihang Army, to send troops to collect herbs in the Taihang Mountains very early on.

Today's Taihang Mountains are mostly uninhabited places, and there is no shortage of medicinal materials at all. Under the planned arrangement, the all-night pharmacological talisman led the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army to search according to the map, and they really collected a lot of medicinal materials. .

This time when the Bingzhou Yellow Turban Army went on an expedition, Xu An even brought over most of the Fu Zhu and doctors who were proficient in pharmacology and could cure simple diseases, in order to ensure that more people who migrated from the four states would arrive in Bingzhou.

Xu An brought the main force of the Bingzhou Yellow Turban Army and the Sizhou Yellow Turban Army together, and at the same time left most of the medicinal materials and doctors to Ji Ang.

But even so, thousands of calculations, after all, was a little miscalculation. The sudden epidemic almost destroyed the fragile medical preparations of the Yellow Turban Army.

According to calculations, [-]% of the original medicinal materials are needed to save all the patients who can be treated. If there is no medicinal materials, some people are destined to be abandoned.

At this time, the camp of the Yellow Turban Army in Sizhou was already under martial law due to the impact of the epidemic. Ji Ang sent troops to block the camp on the north bank of Zhangshui River, and the camp on the south bank of Zhangshui River was also blocked. After five days During the observation period, none of the people outside the camp were infected with the disease, which can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune.

Now that the people in the camp on the south bank of Zhangshui River have been observing for a period of time, Ji Ang thought there was a high probability that there was nothing to do, so he re-selected a place to build a pontoon bridge. At this time, the people on the south bank also began to slowly walk to the north bank through the pontoon bridge. go.

Outside the big camp of the Yellow Turban Army of the Four States, at the wide-open camp gate, a group of dark-faced soldiers lined up and left. They tried their best to straighten their chests and straighten their waists as much as possible.

A crowd of generals with yellow scarves on their heads stood silently behind Ji Ang, no one spoke, no one spoke, only the sound of hunting being swept up by the banners and the wind, and galloping not far away. And go to the footsteps of the orderlies.

Ji Ang didn't stand still, he lowered his head, holding a helmet full of wind and frost in his arms, and his body was covered with wind and dust, just sitting on the ground in a decadent manner.

His eyes were dim, his complexion was very gloomy, and his back was very hunched, he didn't look like a general at all.

Most of his hair is already gray, and black hair is a minority in Ji Ang. No one would believe that he is a person who has just reached his thirties and is only in his thirties. He is more like a An old man in his twilight years.

"Da da da……"

A rhythmic sound of horseshoes came to Ji Ang's ears, and the four horse legs appeared in Ji Ang's field of vision from far to near.

Ji Ang opened his cloudy eyes and looked up to the front. At this time, the cavalier who delivered the order had already got off his horse, squatted on the ground, and said respectfully.

"General, the banner of the great virtuous and good teacher has been five miles away, and it will arrive in a blink of an eye."

Ji Ang raised his head, his cloudy eyes became slightly clearer, and he remembered the figure he saw in Xindu City in the past.

The affairs of the world seem to be under control, every word and deed is convincing, and any words spoken from his mouth seem to be extremely convincing.

He still remembered the scene when Xu An held his hands and solemnly entrusted all the Taiping Dao believers in the four states to him.

Ji Ang stood up slowly, his eye sockets were slightly red.

He really failed the entrustment of the great virtuous teacher, the expectations of the public, and the way of peace. He really didn't know how to face Xu An, how to face those soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army who were fighting outside.

Ji Ang stood up straight and straightened his spine. He remembered very clearly that Xu An once said that one should live with a straight spine.

The world should be the world of the people, the court should be the court of the people, and the country should be the country of the people.

(End of this chapter)