The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 713
The moon star is thin, and the black dragonfly flies south.

There was silence in Baidi City.

The river flows eastward, and the sound of the waves is like music.

Zhao Zhi closed his eyes slightly and lay on the bed.

The lights have been turned off, and the house is dark.

Zhao Zhi just quietly listened to the sound of water constantly ringing in his ears.

Along the way, he was accompanied by the sound of the river flowing into sleep. Before he knew it, the sound seemed to have merged with him. Without this sound, he might have difficulty falling asleep.

It was already the night of the third day they arrived in Baidi City.

There was nothing wrong with his eyesight. At the beginning, he thought that the sailors in Yizhou were not like regular sailors, but more like water thieves, and he was indeed correct.

Because the so-called Yizhou naval divisions currently stationed in Baidi City were formerly water thieves, and they were all water thieves under Gan Ning's command.

When Gan Ning was young, Qing Xia murdered people and ran for his life in hiding. He heard in the county that he was regarded as a water thief on the river. The people of Badong gathered together, holding bows and crossbows, and carrying bells and bells.

Steps are old chariots and riders, water is connected to light boats, attendants are embroidered with embroidered patterns, which are like light roads, and stops are often made of silk brocade, which is used to show extravagance.

In order to open up the road between Yizhou and Jingzhou, Ren Xian agreed to cooperate with the Jingzhou army inside and outside to attack the Jiangguan defenders.

For this reason, Ren Xian gathered most of the sailors he could control, and the water thieves under Gan Ning were also in his recruiting sequence. After all, they fought on the river, and the water thieves under Gan Ning had rich experience and combat power. It is not comparable to ordinary sailors.

After the joint Jingzhou Army defeated the Jiangguan garrison, those conscripted naval forces were naturally temporarily kept in Baidi City by Ren Xian.

After all, Jiangguan is more than [-] miles away from the main battlefield of Chengdu, and it is also [-] to [-] miles downstream from Jiangzhou to Jiangguan. If it is an ordinary civilian ship, it will take nearly [-] days to reach it.

However, the time spent on military ships is naturally much faster than that of civilian ships. After all, civilian ships often need to dock, but civilian ships are smaller and riskier.

Although the river is not as dangerous as overseas, it is not uncommon for ships to be destroyed and people killed if there is a little carelessness.

Going upstream takes more time.

Even if all these soldiers were transferred back to Yizhou, it would not help the battlefield in Yizhou at all, so these soldiers were naturally left in Baidi City, leaving a lot of food and grass.

Gan Ning joined the Yizhou army. With his many meritorious service, he was relied on by Ren Xian, and he followed up to attack Qianwei County and other counties. Gan Ning was arranged by Ren Xian as a vanguard to march all the way north.

However, because most of the water thieves under his command were recruited to go to Jiangguan, his real followers were only thirty or forty people.

Jiangguan is more than [-] miles away from Chengdu. What happened in Chengdu was only because Zhao Zhi arrived, so that the defenders of Baidi City knew the situation on the front line.

The defeat on the front line made the whole Baidi City noisy and uneasy gradually spread in Baidi City.

Although the water thieves under Gan Ning's command were still staying in the camp due to the constraints of the military order, Zhao Zhi knew that if there was no more news about Gan Ning, they might lose their composure and want to go into the hinterland of Yizhou to investigate information.

There are different opinions on the news of the defeat of the Yizhou Army on the front line, and there are only three things that are certain.

One is that the main force of the Yellow Turban Army has entered the hinterland of Yizhou.

The second is that Dongzhou soldiers have all surrendered, and those Dongzhou people who robbed and killed caravans and captured villagers in the hinterland of Yizhou were all convicted.

Those who commit the most heinous crimes and those who are full of public grievances will be executed immediately.

Inferior people are sentenced to reform through labor according to the crimes committed, ranging from several years to decades, and they will be dispatched to mines and other places to use labor to offset the criminal law.

Liu Yan died by self-immolation, and Leng Bao, Deng Xian, Wu Lan, and Pang Xi of the Dongzhou Army died in battle.

Liu Gui was beheaded to show the public, and his crime was to plunder with troops, slaughter Xiangju, and spread the news to the first three counties.

The Dongzhou general Pang Yi, who obeyed Liu Yan's military order, burned, killed and looted all the way from Zitong, and forced the strong men to go south, was passed down to the first five counties to show his smallness.

The third is that Ren Xian was beheaded when he broke through the siege, and all the more than [-] Yizhou troops in Chengdu surrendered.

The Yellow Turban Army was marching towards Shu County and Qianwei County at this time, and the army had penetrated into the central part of Yizhou.

Except for Ren Xian, the news about the other generals in the Yizhou Army is ambiguous, and there is no way to know it.

After all, this is the news that the Yellow Turban Army released on purpose, and Xu An asked the Eagle Wolf Guard to release the news that he wanted the people of Yizhou to know.

Xu An was sending a signal, a friendly signal, through the Eagle Wolf Guard.

Although the Yellow Turban Army accepted the surrender of the Dongzhou soldiers, the Yellow Turban Army did not ignore the crimes committed by the Dongzhou soldiers in Yizhou.

The evil leader is punished, and the followers are convicted.

And the defeated Yizhou Army did not kill them all, but incorporated them.

I even heard that those who are willing to serve in the army can join the Yellow Turban Army as an army. If they are not willing to serve in the army, the Yellow Turban Army promises to pay travel expenses and let them go home after the war is settled.

It seems that some Yizhou soldiers whose hometowns are in Guanghan, Shujun and other counties that have been occupied by the Yellow Turban Army have received travel expenses and returned to their hometowns.

However, these are rumors after all, and it is difficult to tell the truth from the falsehood, so everyone is still skeptical.

But even so, the rumors still matter.

Zhao Zhi could obviously feel that the soldiers in Baidi City and the soldiers in the four cities were all relieved. They didn't have too obvious hostility towards the Yellow Turban Army.

In three days, Zhao Zhi figured out a lot of things.

In Baidi City, there are [-] soldiers in total, more than [-] of them are water bandits from Ganning.

The remaining [-] people were soldiers under Ren Xian's command, led by a military Sima from the Ren family.

When the Yizhou Army and the Jingzhou Army joined forces to attack Jiangguan, they mainly dispatched naval forces and relatively few infantry.

After capturing Jiangguan, Jiangguan was handed over to the Jingzhou army for guarding. According to Ren Xian's original plan, some of the surviving Yizhou army soldiers stayed in Baidi City, and the rest returned to Linjiang and Quren.

When they first attacked Jiangguan, they actually dispatched an army of about a thousand people, and then recruited some soldiers from the two cities of Linjiang and Quren, and forced some strong men.

The water thieves under Gan Ning's command also obeyed his commander in name, but in fact, the military Sima of Baidi City was not very able to manage these water thieves who were originally under Gan Ning's command.

After all, the reason why these water thieves joined the Yizhou Army was not because of any disputes with Dongzhou people, nor because of the prestige of a powerful family such as the Ren family, but simply because Gan Ning also joined the Yizhou Army. The object of allegiance has always been Gan Ning.

Their ships were all docked in the port in the northeast of Baidi City. The port was connected to Baidi City, but they needed to cross two city gates to pass through.

Most of the sailors live in Baidi City like the defenders of Baidi City, but there are about [-] people living in the barracks in the port, and there are certain guards on each ship. Their vigilance The sex is very high, compared to those lazy Yizhou soldiers in Baidi City, I don't know how much higher it is.

On the other hand, the defenders of Baidi City were lax in armament and poor in vigilance. During these three days, the water thieves belonging to Gan Ning often went out to patrol the port, but the defenders of Baidi City hadn't even conducted drills. .

This made Zhao Zhi feel familiar. Facing elites like the Jingzhou Navy and Yizhou Navy all of a sudden, Zhao Zhi felt a little at a loss. It was better to deal with the old opponents of the Yizhou Army.

Only now did Zhao Zhi understand why those military instructors from the north didn't pay attention to the Dongzhou soldiers who were fighting with them and the Yizhou army.

Comparing the two, you can see the gap.

The reality of Baidi City has been grasped, and the intelligence of Jiangguan is similar to that of Zhao Zhi.

There are about [-] defenders in Jingzhou at Jiangguan. The defender is Zhang Shuo, a lieutenant of the Navy in Jingzhou. It seems to be a general of Huang Zu, the prefect of Jiangxia.

There are more than [-] soldiers from Jingzhou and more than [-] soldiers from Yizhou. There are more than [-] soldiers in total, but Zhao Zhi only has more than [-] soldiers under his command now. This is a big problem.

Zhao Zhi arranged for an elite force of more than [-] people to follow behind the powerful family in Yizhou by boat, but these [-] people would hardly play a role in their next actions in Baidi City.

Baidi City is an island in the middle of the river, and the only way to get to the island is by ferry, and the places where you can go to the island are sentry posts of the Yizhou Navy. Once you land on the island, you will be discovered immediately.

As for the nearly [-] infantry who followed behind, they couldn't help Jiangguan at all.

Those pawns were originally going to take over the four cities of Zhixian, Pingdu, Linjiang, and Quren along the river.

After some soldiers arrived in Zhixian County, they would separate from the main force and follow Yanshui to collect Fuling.

For more than [-] miles, if you don't take a boat by foot, the time spent will be calculated on a monthly basis.

Moreover, the weather is getting colder and hotter now, which makes marching extremely difficult.

After a period of time, the southern states and counties of Jingzhou and Yizhou will find it difficult to march, not to mention snakes, rats, ants and miasma in the forest, but the scorching heat is enough to cause a large-scale non-combat attrition of an army.

When fighting, you need to wear armor. In this weather, I am afraid that you don't have to walk around and fight in battle, but you are already sweating profusely.

Although the soldiers in Jiangguan and Baidi City still have a lot of armor in their warehouses, none of them are willing to wear armor. Most of them wear light and breathable short skirts or military uniforms.

However, although there are too many enemies in the two city gates, it is not impossible to seize the city gates.

Not all the Dongzhou soldiers who had guarded Jiangguan and Baidi City were killed. About [-] Dongzhou soldiers survived.

These surviving Dongzhou soldiers were demoted to slavery, and were divided almost in half by the Jingzhou Army and the Yizhou Army as coolies and servants.

The chores and hard work in Baidi City are basically done by those Dongzhou soldiers who survived. Most of them live outside Baidi City and built some simple houses to survive.

Zhao Zhi walked to the window of the attic, looking at the silent Baidi City, the time passed little by little, and his originally peaceful heart couldn't help but feel turbulent.

There are too many uncertainties in the future, and now he only has four hundred people under his command, and the number of enemies is ten times that.

Wanting to seize Jiangguan and Baidi City at the same time is undoubtedly a trick in the middle of the fire. If you are not careful, you will set yourself on fire, and you will die.

Zhao Zhi didn't have much hatred for those Dongzhou soldiers in Baidi City.

He knew that most of these Dongzhou soldiers had never fought against them, so there was no hatred.

In fact, the real object of enmity has never been Dongzhou soldiers, Yizhou soldiers, those powerful families are the real culprits, Zhao Zhi has always been very clear.

Those Eagle Wolf Guards from the North explained everything very clearly. The powerful family has a rich background, the clan is strong, and they are in a strong position.

And they are just small families, poor, unarmed, and vulnerable.

Just because we are in a weak position, we should unite all forces that can be united, and we should not make too many enemies.

"Unite all forces that can be united..."

Zhao Zhi stared at the streets in Baidi City, in a trance, as if he had returned to the Zhongping era.

At that time, they gathered together and wore yellow scarves on their heads.

In fact, many of them don't even know what the so-called Yellow Turban teachings are.

If it weren't for those so-called powerful families who robbed and plundered, how could they have rebelled.

But in the end, those powerful families didn't even leave them a way out.

At that time, they really united all the forces that could be united, and wherever they went, the people gathered in the villages all won food and went there.

only……

In the end, they completely deviated from the direction without knowing it.

From the day Ma Xiang called himself the Son of Heaven, everything changed...

Zhao Zhi sighed softly and looked away.

There are about [-] Dongzhou people in Baidi City, and these can be used.

After all, if they have no way to get out of their current situation on their own, and if someone can help them out of the sea of ​​suffering, it is impossible not to get their support.

The rumors only said that only Ren Xian was killed in the Yizhou Army, and there was no news about the rest of the generals.

But Zhao Zhi, as the leader of the Yizhou Yellow Turban Army, naturally knows more inside information.

He also knew about Gan Ning's capture, and it seemed that Xu An had the intention of taking Gan Ning back.

Now that Gan Ning was captured, the water thieves under Gan Ning's command could not be easily killed, and perhaps they could think of ways to take advantage of them.

Zhao Zhi turned his mind slightly, he already had a general strategy in his mind.

The fleet of the powerful family had already arrived at the dusk of the second day, and the matter had been agreed upon.

Under Zhao Zhi's instruction, the city guards of Jiangzhou and the county magistrates of the four cities also reached an agreement, and sent envoys to Jiangguan to negotiate with the Jingzhou army guarding Jiangguan.

Zhang Shuo, the guard of Jiangguan, did not refuse the Yizhou Army's request to allow the people to pass through Jiangguan, but he did not agree. Instead, he said that he needed to report to the superior.

Then Zhang Shuo sent boats to the upper reaches and set up guard posts as a warning, saying that if they found traces of the Yellow Turban Army, they would immediately let the people pass through the river pass, so that the people would not be put in danger.

It has to be said that Zhang Shuo, the guard of Jiangguan, is a smooth person.

Although he didn't get the desired result, Zhang Shuo's promise also gave Zhao Yi some room to operate.

People in the other three cities are far away from Jiangguan, but the distance from Quren to Jiangguan is only more than two hundred miles. These powerful families do not lack livestock, so they mostly use horse-drawn carts and ox carts, and they travel faster. There are still three days to arrive at Jiangguan...

Zhao Zhi closed his eyes again and lay down on the bed.

Success or failure, just three days later!
(End of this chapter)