The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 84
"Could it be Xu An?"

Huangfu Song's face was gloomy and uncertain.

Liang Yan nodded. This person seemed to have appeared out of thin air. Liu Pi and Gong Du, the two Yellow Turban Army commanders, were actually below him. Just last November, after the Yellow Turban Army was defeated in the Battle of Quyang, A remnant of the Yellow Turbans broke through Jingxing Pass and ran into the Taihang Mountains.

Then, news came from the Han army scouts one after another that in just a few months, Xu An had united the bandits in the central Taihang Mountains.

The speed of the rise is unbelievable, and even when the guard of Jingjingguan received the news, he repeatedly confirmed it three or four times before sending it to Huangfu Song's desk.

"Then it makes sense. After harvesting the armor in Jingxing Pass, there is indeed a battle strength, and this Xu An seems to be quite unusual..."

Huangfu Song tapped lightly on the desk, thinking about how to deal with it.

"What else does the document say?"

Liang Yan sat back to his original position, spread the documents on the desk, and replied, "Yan Liang, Wen Chou, and Gao Lan have integrated the army and are now stationed fifty miles away from Jingxing Pass, preventing them from leaving the pass. So there is no need to worry about the Yellow Turbans in the Taihang Mountains entering the hinterland of Jizhou.”

"There's one more thing..." Liang Yan paused for a while, and said a little heavy: "Most of the cavalry and horses that went on the expedition were lost after the battle at Shicriish Mountain. Now there are only more than [-] warhorses in the barracks."

Huangfu Song only felt a headache while holding his forehead. It was a nightmare for the Yellow Turbans to have a large number of horses.

Knowing that it was the Battle of Xia Quyang, the Yellow Turbans' cavalry numbered only two or three thousand, and there were still a lot of bad horses.

The advantage of the Han army over the Yellow Turbans was largely due to the fact that they had well-trained armored cavalry, while the cavalry of the Yellow Turbans were just infantry on horses.

Therefore, when fighting, the armored cavalry of the Han army can often win more with less.

If the Yellow Turbans were defeated in the field, few would be able to escape and return to the city, and most of them would be wiped out in the wilderness by the cavalry of the Han army.

After repeated battles, including this defeat, Jizhou's cavalry has lost nearly [-] people and lost thousands of horses.

Now that Jingjing Pass is not in the hands of the Han army, if the Yellow Turban Army relies on these captured warhorses to form a cavalry team of a thousand people to go out and loot, I am afraid that most of Jizhou will not be peaceful.

At least outside the Jingjing Pass, an army of thousands of people can be stationed all year round to defend it.

Huangfu Song turned to look at the map of the mountains and rivers behind him, and was slightly absent-minded: "The current situation is chaotic, there are many bandits in the Taihang Mountains, and half of the Taihang Baxing is not in the hands of the imperial court. I'm afraid that this will lead to chaos."

"What do you mean by the envoy?" Liang Yan leaned forward slightly.

Huangfu Song straightened up, with a sharp light in his eyes, he said coldly: "I will write to the imperial court, I will personally lead the troops, take Jingxing, and then dispatch the three prefectures to attack the Taihang Baxing together, and defend the Baxing with heavy troops. The bandits in the Taihang Mountains were trapped in the mountains."

At this time, the decisive Han general seemed to be back.

"Luoyang urgent order!"

Suddenly, the sound of a soldier's report came from outside the house.

Huangfu Song couldn't help frowning, could it be that something happened in Luoyang again?
In the past, there was a disaster for the party. The emperor listened to the slander, and the imperial court wanted to suppress the party members. At the beginning of this year, the doctor Liu Tao bluntly wrote a letter. He was thrown into prison and died on hunger strike.

"Bring it up."

"promise."

The soldier outside the house agreed, the wooden door opened, and the soldier walked quickly into the house with the letter in both hands, placed it on Huangfu Song's case, and then immediately bowed his head and exited the house.

Huangfu Song opened the letter with a serious look, his brows furrowed, his face uncertain.

"Emissary?"

Seeing that Huangfu Song's expression was wrong, Liang Yan asked.

Huangfu Song let out a long sigh and said helplessly: "The leader of the Qiang Hu, Bei Gong Boyu, led tens of thousands of Qiang cavalry to invade the Sanfu area and invade Yuanling. The emperor ordered me to guard Chang'an and attack the Qiang Hu."

"It seems that Jingxingguan can only be put on hold for the time being..."

Huangfu Song stood up, walked to the door, and opened the wooden door.

Huangfu Song's back became more and more hunched, as if there was a heavy burden on his shoulders, and the sound of rain rang in Huangfu Song's ears.

Year after year, month after month, I always hear news of rebellion and Koubian, from black hair to gray temples.

He swept away barbarians one after another for the big man, and quelled one rebellion after another for the big man, but why did it not subside, but instead intensified.

……

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

The passionate and vigorous sound of war drums reverberated in the valleys of Banyun Mountain, and countless sergeants wrapped in yellow scarves poured out from the camps everywhere and merged into long and narrow khaki streams. Under the command of generals and schools at all levels, Slowly entered the campus.

Teams of sergeants of the Yellow Turbans stood on the school grounds, drums and whistles were heard endlessly, countless flags fluttered in the wind, and the khaki-colored flags stretched out from the crowd like a dense forest.

Xu An was sitting on the commanding platform, and a group of yellow angels wearing heavy armor stood by their swords. For several months, Xu An selected yellow turban warlocks from the Taiping Taoist to serve as the army. Today, every village has one installed. A warlock of the Yellow Turbans.

The warlocks of the Yellow Turban Army serve as military judges, and secondly, they promote the teachings to the sergeants in the army. Xu An's arrangement in this way has been regarded as a small success. Then some fanatical believers were selected and recommended as Yellow Angels.

Today, the Yellow Angels' personal guards under Xu An's direct jurisdiction already number [-] people, nearly one Qu's troops.

After the Battle of Stone Crisp Mountain, Xu An's prestige in the army was unparalleled for a while. The ordinary sergeants of the Yellow Turban Army almost regarded Xu An as a god-like existence, which also accelerated the speed of ordinary thieves and bandits to believe in the Way of Peace.

The three-way drum stopped, and the school field was already full of soldiers with their heads wrapped in yellow scarves. At first glance, they looked like a khaki ocean.

In the past, when the soldiers gathered, there were often sergeants who arrived late, and after beheading dozens of people according to military law, even after beheading a soldier with little military exploits, no one dared to arrive late.

On the school grounds at this time, only the sound of the hunting wind whistling by the strong wind and driving the flags was heard, and there was not a trace of noisy human voices. Xu An's army was extremely strict.

There are many Taiping Taoists in the Yellow Turban army under his command. If someone whispers, even if the military judge and Shangguan don't see it, the sergeants of this team will report it themselves, so there are few whispers after the formation.

(End of this chapter)