The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 684 Submission
Weak countries have no diplomacy, it has always been like this, and it has been like this since ancient times.

Although Tian Zhong was standing under the steps, he looked down at Zhang Lu as if he was standing on a high place.

Neither the words nor the actions showed the slightest respect.

"I only give the envoy a quarter of an hour to think about it."

"The life and death of five buckets of rice depends on the king's thought."

Tian Zhong's words undoubtedly gave Zhang Lu an ultimatum.

"Han Shu Su Wu Biography" records a sentence that proves how much confidence the Han court envoys had when the Han Empire was strong in the past.

"Southern Vietnam killed the Han envoys, slaughtered nine counties, Wan Wang killed the Han envoys, and hung his head on the North Tower, North Korea killed the Han envoys, and immediately killed them. Only the Huns did not hear!"

During the reign of Emperor Zhaodi of the Han Dynasty, Kucha and Loulan in the Western Regions united with the Huns to kill Han envoys and loot property.

Fu Jiezi asked to go to Dawan as an envoy, questioned Loulan and Qiuci with the imperial edict of the Han Dynasty, and killed the envoys of the Huns, and was appointed Pingyue Supervisor.

In the fourth year of Yuanfeng (77 BC), he was ordered to bring Jin Jinxiu to Loulan Kingdom in the name of reward.

At that time, Fu Jiezi and the King of Loulan were sitting and drinking, and Chen Wu showed it.

When he was drunk after drinking, Fu Jiezi said to King Loulan: "The emperor asked me to report privately to the king."

King Loulan then got up and followed Jiezi into the tent, holding his tongue, and the two strong men stabbed him from behind, crossed their blades to the chest, and died immediately.

King Loulan died unexpectedly, left and right were shocked, and escaped from the royal court.

Fu Jiezi beheaded Loulan King without any panic, and only said one sentence to the crowd of Loulan officials who came to the royal court to speak.

"The king is responsible for the sins of the Han, and the emperor sent me to kill the king. He should set up the former prince as a hostage to the Han. The Han soldiers will arrive, so don't dare to move. If you move, the country will be destroyed!"

The entire Loulan Kingdom, photographed by Fu Jiezi's power, was afraid of the crusade by the Han army, and did not dare to move lightly.

Fu Jiezi beheaded Loulan King Angui at the banquet, and made Loulan Proton, who was in the Han Dynasty, the king.He was granted the title of Marquis of Yiyang with meritorious service.

The reason why Fu Jiezi dared to kill King Loulan directly was not because of any sharp words, but because of the powerful military strength of the Han court at that time.

Now Tian Zhong is as confident as Fu Jiezi was back then, relying on the strong military strength of the Yellow Turban Army.

Guanzhong was occupied by Dong Zhuo at the beginning, and when the Yellow Turban Army invaded Guanzhong, a large number of Guanzhong people, powerful, and aristocratic families entered Hanzhong from Ziwu Valley and Xiegu.

The spies and eyes and ears of the Eagle Wolf Guard also took this opportunity to infiltrate the fleeing team, entered the land of Hanzhong, and developed rapidly in the land of Hanzhong.

Zhang Lu spread the five-dou rice way in Hanzhong County, and controlled the people under his rule with the five-dou rice way.

In addition, Zhang Lu also received the support of the leaders of the Bayi ethnic minorities, Du Wei, Pu Hu, Yuan Yue and others.He adopted a lenient policy to rule Hanzhong, and the people enjoyed it.

Zhang Lu's power gradually expanded, and those who moved to his place dared not refuse.

Wu Dou Mi Dao expanded its influence by virtue of the power of the regime.Followers of the Five Dou of Rice Road need only pay five Dou of rice to enter the Tao.Zhang Lu entered Hanzhong in the second year of Chuping (191). Now two years have passed, and the followers of Wu Dou Mi Dao in Hanzhong County are increasing.

However, the management of Wudou Rice Road is much looser than that of Taiping Road. Although Zhang Lu has set up a sacrifice to manage the Taoists, Zhang Lu has lived in Hanzhong and Yizhou for a long time, and he has no idea how cruel the outside world is.

The Eagle Wolf Guard has never encountered any serious obstacles in its development in Hanzhong County, and it can even be said that it is like a fish in water.

Hanzhong County was completely undefended in front of Eagle Wolf Guards.

The development of the Eagle Wolf Guard in Jizhou was hindered by the "evil spirit", the development in the south was hindered by the embroidered clothes envoy, the development in Guanzhong was hindered by the Xuanting Guard, even in Liangzhou it was also hindered by Ma Teng and Han Then his dark guards obstructed him.

But in Hanzhong, Zhang Lu never thought that he would be infiltrated by a spy agency like Eagle Wolf Guard.

Today's Hanzhong County is already riddled with holes, and the Eagle Wolf Guard has penetrated to the root.

The military deployment map of Hanzhong County was even obtained by the Eagle Wolf Guard in Hanzhong County.

It is precisely because it was discovered that there are only about [-] soldiers in the entire Hanzhong County, and more than half of them are recruits.

The defense situation of Yangping Pass was also clearly controlled by the Eagle Wolf Guards. Once the battle started, the Yellow Turban Army would not need to expend much effort to capture the entire Hanzhong.

Now Zhang Lu's situation is actually in a desperate situation.

The Yellow Turban Army in the north and west is already overwhelming the border, and the south is Yizhou, which is Liu Yan. Zhang Lu just broke his face with Liu Yan. It is impossible for Liu Yan to support Zhang Lu. As Tian Zhong said, Liu Yan Hearing that Zhang Lu was attacked, he would definitely send troops to the Northern Expedition, hoping to get a share of the pie.

And Nanting in the east is still not out of danger at this time, the army is all in the north and east, and there is not much spare power to help him, not to mention that Zhang Lu can't think of any reason for Nanting to send troops. .

Now Wuguan is occupied by the Yellow Turban Army, and Nanyang County is exposed to the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army. Nanting was forced to leave a large number of defenders in Nanyang County, and Liu Biao also gathered a large number of soldiers in Xiangyang City. It is worried that the Yellow Turban Army will go south to attack Nanyang.

Hanzhong County is now actually like an isolated island, surrounded by seas in all directions, making it difficult to develop.

Zhang Lu's complexion kept changing, and the floating dust in his hand trembled slightly from Zhang Lu's grip.

As the master of the way, no one treats him with respect and respect, but Tian Zhong doesn't care about him at all.

but……

Seek it from the situation, not on the person, the situation is stronger than the person.

With no support on all sides, with more than [-] soldiers under his command, and more than half of them were new soldiers, Zhang Lu knew that it was really impossible to block the front of the Yellow Turban Army.

The Yellow Turban Army has fought all the way, and it can be said that they are almost invincible and invincible.

Xiao Guan was so dangerous, it still fell apart under the attack of the Yellow Turban Army.

Although Zhang Lu is in Hanzhong, he still knows that one of the Yellow Turban Army can throw huge stone bombs hundreds of steps away, and any city walls and passes under its bombardment will be defeated without any suspense.

Tian Zhong stood silently in the audience with his hands behind his back, Zhang Lu knew that Tian Zhong was waiting for him to make a decision.

Zhang Lu opened his mouth, wanting to speak, but he seemed to have suddenly lost his ability to speak, and it was difficult for him to speak.

Zhang Lu regretted a little, he regretted arranging so many Taoist officials, generals and armored soldiers in the palace pavilion to intimidate Tian Zhong.

Intimidating Tian Zhong, on the contrary, became a joke.

Now everyone's eyes in the hall are not focused on Tian Zhong, but on him, and everyone is waiting for Zhang Lu's answer.

Zhang Lu looked around at the Taoist officials and generals in the hall, and all the people Zhang Lu looked at bowed their heads, not daring to raise their heads or raise their eyes.

Zhang Lu sighed slightly in his heart, all the Taoist officials, generals, and armored soldiers in the palace had already lost their fighting spirit.

Let them face the Yellow Turban army, let them resist the Yellow Turban army is simply a dream.

Zhang Lu's gaze finally settled on Zhang Wei.

Zhang Wei's eyes were slightly flustered, and he quickly lowered his head.

The general heard that the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army were suppressing the territory, so how could the soldiers under the command of Hanzhong County remain indifferent.

I'm afraid that a large group of soldiers will lose their fighting spirit when they hear that they are going to resist the attack of the Yellow Turban Army.

The record of the Yellow Turban Army is really sensational.

In the Battle of Luoyang, the Yellow Turban Army withdrew from Luoyang. It was because Xu An chose to withdraw on his own initiative, not because he was truly defeated.

Zhang Lu slowly let go of Fuchen's hand.

He is the tenth grandson of Zhang Liang, Marquis of Liu in the Western Han Dynasty, and the grandson of Zhang Ling, the founder of Tianshi Taoism. Tianshi Taoism has been passed down for hundreds of years, and he really does not want the orthodoxy of Tianshi Taoism to be cut off.

"Xu An..."

Zhang Lu raised his head slightly, looking at the beams and pillars above the pavilion.

Xu An's rise was really like a shooting star, born out of nowhere.

No one can find out his origin, and there are very few descriptions of Xu An's background, almost all are legends.

Some people say that Xu An is from Jizhou, some say that Xu An is from Youzhou, and others say that Xu An is from Bingzhou.

There are countless legends about Xu An, but all the legends are related to immortals and gods.

Moreover, when Xu An was born, he was always accompanied by visions.

Zhang Lu closed his eyes.

The eight prefectures rose together, both inside and outside, and Taiping Dao, with millions of Taoists, was wiped out by the Han army in just ten months.

However, Xu An was able to lead hundreds of people, and in nine years, brought the Taipingdao, which was on the verge of complete extinction, back to life.

Until the development of today's huge scale, it is equal to the Han and Wei courts.

There are more than ten million people under his rule, and hundreds of thousands of people in armor.

There are countless rumors about Xu An.

Attacking the two counties, the fire of immortals rises, and the magic soldiers descend from the sky.

On the western expedition to Xianbei, the bright moon is the lamp, and the stars are the guide.

In the battle of Gaopingchuan, the sky was burning with fire, and the earth was boiling.

……

Zhang Lu had heard about that battle after battle.

He actually questioned such rumors.

But one person said it was false, and two people said it was false, but ten thousand people said it, and one hundred thousand people said it, but Zhang Lu's heart was shaken.

Three people can become a tiger, let alone the legend of thousands of people?
In Liangzhou, some Qianghu Han people who were afraid of Xu Anqiu's settlement fled to Hanzhong County, and many of them were soldiers who had participated in the Battle of Gaopingchuan.

Without exception, they all described the frightening sky fire to Zhang Lu.

All said they heard drums beating from heaven, and hooves of horses.

Although Zhang Lu still had doubts in his heart, it was an indisputable fact that in the battle of Gaopingchuan, Xu An only used tens of thousands of horses to defeat the Liangzhou coalition army which was several times larger than that.

The cavalry army of Liangzhou was criss-crossing the world. In the past, Huangfusong led the imperial army of the five schools and Sanhe, and they had nothing to do with it. Until the later Chencang guard battle, it was determined that the cavalry army of Liangzhou lacked siege experience, and they attacked when the Liangzhou army was exhausted. Except for some achievements, there is no founding father.

"Ugh……"

Zhang Lu sighed lightly.

Three points in the world.

Xu An occupies the land of Guanzhong, Liangzhou, and Bingzhou, as well as two counties of Youzhou, Monan outside the Great Wall, and has countless elite soldiers and strong generals.

Yuan Shao proclaimed himself emperor in Jizhou and established the State of Wei, occupying the four prefectures of Ji, You, Qing, and Sili, with strong soldiers and strong horses.

Liu Xiedong fled to Chendu, his capital, and re-established the Han court, entrenched in the five prefectures of Yu, Yan, Xu, Yang, and Jing, with counselors like clouds and famous generals like rain.

In fact, he also has great ambitions, how could he be willing to live in a place of the size of Hanzhong County.

But helplessly, the position of Hanzhong County is too embarrassing.

Originally Jingzhou was in war, he could also consider developing towards Nanyang County.

However, Jingzhou was also pacified by Liu Biao. If you leave Xiangyang in the north, you will find Yimapingchuan, and the Nanyang Basin is completely undefended in front of Xiangyang.

Just relying on the thousands of soldiers in hand, not to mention whether it can block the Jingzhou soldiers in Xiangyang, or whether it can defeat the county soldiers in Nanyang County is in between.

Developing to the south, the road to Shu is difficult, and it is difficult to go to the blue sky. Liu Yan's army is several times larger than him, and there are pass barriers, how can he attack Yizhou?

Developing to the north, Ziwu Valley and Xie Valley only need to send two or three thousand troops to block them easily.

Developing to the west, Hanzhong County has few horses and most of them are infantry, while Wudu County belongs to Liangzhou, which is rich in war horses. To the point of dizziness.

Although Hanzhong County is rich, but it is dead, he doesn't know why.

It's just that there is a trace of luck in his heart after all.

The world is in chaos, as long as he defends Hanzhong County, there may be a turning point.

Several years have passed, but the turning point has still not appeared.

Taipingdao defeated Han Sui and Dong Zhuo like a gust of wind and thunder, and successfully occupied Liangzhou and Guanzhong.

Then he set his sights on Hanzhong County.

Zhang Lu was a little lucky before, he did not agree to the envoy's request for a meeting with the envoy of the Yellow Turban Army.

However, this time he couldn't refuse.

Nearly [-] troops of the Liangzhou Yellow Turban Army were gathered at the border of Wudu County, ready to send troops southward at any time.

And the commander-in-chief of this army is none other than Xu An, the Taoist leader of Taiping Dao.

Zhu Jun, Lu Zhi, Zhang Yi, Xu Bu, Han Sui, Ma Teng, Dong Zhuo...

Which one is not an outstanding person, and which one is a generation of mediocre?
But in the end, they were all defeated by Xu An's men, without exception.

Liangzhou's tens of thousands of cavalry could not stop Xu An.

The nearly [-] troops in Guanzhong could not stop the Taiping Road.

Now there are only tens of thousands of soldiers in Hanzhong, so how can they stop the Taipingdao's offensive.

Tian Zhong had lobbied countless people over the years, he saw Zhang Lu's face changing, and he already roughly guessed Zhang Lu's thoughts in his heart.

Tian Zhong bowed his hands and spoke again, this time his tone was much more respectful.

"According to the "Moon Order", when all things grow in spring and summer, slaughtering, alcoholism, grain and grass are prohibited, and charity houses are established, with righteous rice and meat in them, and free food for passers-by."

"The envoy is in charge of Hanzhong County, and the people of Hanzhong County are stable. There are many people in Liangzhou and Guanzhong who have avoided disasters. The stability of Hanzhong is actually the government of the envoy."

"Tianshi Dao and my Taiping Taoist originate from the same source. Shi Jun is the inheritor of Tianshi Dao, so he should know my Taiping Dao quite well."

"The world has been in turmoil for many years, and the people are living in dire straits. Only my way of peace can end the troubled times and return the world to a bright future."

"My Master Wang is passing through the border, and all the people in the world eat pots of pulp to welcome Master Wang."

Tian Zhong looked solemn, bowed his hands, and bowed solemnly to Zhang Lu.

"The revolution of heaven and earth is formed in four seasons, and the revolution of Tang and Wu follows the sky and responds to people! Today, we, wrapped in yellow scarves, gather together and decide to revolutionize the world. The power of the Han Dynasty is exhausted, and Huang Tian will surely replace it!"

"If Shijun can abandon the darkness and turn to the light, it will be a blessing to hundreds of thousands of people in Hanzhong County."

"My Taiping Dao entered Hanzhong, and I will not interfere with the preaching of Tianshi Dao. Tianshi Dao can even preach in Zhongzhou, Liangzhou, and other places in Bingzhou. Please think deeply."

Zhang Lu stood up slowly, walked down the steps, and walked in front of Tian Zhong, bowing slightly with both hands.

"Zhang Lu, prefect of Hanzhong, has met his comrades."

(End of this chapter)