People in the Three Kingdoms: Starting from Preaching

Chapter 131 Go to see the leader
Seeing Wang Dang coming, Zhang Zhongjing tactfully took his leave, while Xu Chen ordered his personal soldiers outside the door to send the newly compiled history textbooks and papers to the printing factory. These contents would be reprinted and turned into a new version of the Natural History Sutra and textbooks.

After explaining all this, Xu Chen asked Wang Dang to sit down, and then he perked up: "Old Wang, tell me in detail, what's going on?"

Wang Dang immediately laughed: "Master, didn't you ask Tian Shitou to send people to various places to contact the Yellow Turban brothers? Now it is indeed effective. That group of Yellow Turban brothers in the Jizhou Mountains are coming to us."

Hearing that the intelligence agent had indeed played a role, Xu Chen was delighted.

The Yellow Turbans in the mountains of Jizhou were naturally the Black Mountain Army. He believed that as long as he could get one of them to come and surrender to him, more would surely come in large numbers, which would be hundreds of thousands of people!
"Where are they? I will go and meet them myself!"

Xu Chen stood up at once. He thought to himself that since others were coming, he must show his sincerity so that they would have no worries in the future.

After saying that, he walked out.

Wang Dang grabbed him and said, "Don't worry, Master. It's a good thing that our brothers have come to us. However, they were stopped by the Han army on their way here and are now trapped in Hejian, Jizhou. It was our intelligence officer who came first to report the news, and then the news was delivered."

Xu Chen thought there would be some big problem, but when he heard that it was the Han army from Hejian, he relaxed.

"Hejian is nearby, just send troops to support them!"

After saying that, Xu Chen shouted outside the house, calling Tian Shitou over, and then issued an order: "I order you to immediately lead 1,000 cavalry and 2,000 infantry, a total of 3,000 troops to Hejian to support the Yellow Turban brothers."

Tian Shitou was in charge of the intelligence system, so he knew what was going on and immediately saluted in response.

Xu Chen gave another reminder: "Remember, this trip is not to capture cities, but to save people. If the Han army blocks the battle, just try to repel the enemy, not to win. Just bring people back quickly!"

Tian Shitou agreed again, and Xu Chen gave him the military token. After Tian Shitou got it, he went to the parade ground to start selecting soldiers for the battle.

Picking up one person is not a big deal. Both Wang Dang and Xu Chen have enough confidence in the fighting power of the Yellow Turbans and are completely relieved to leave it to Tian Shitou.

"It's been more than two years since the Yellow Turbans were defeated. I wonder how my brothers are doing now." Seeing that everything was arranged, Wang Dang sat down with peace of mind and couldn't help but sigh.

Xu Chen looked over and clearly saw the anticipation and excitement on Wang Dang's face. It seemed that this guy had deep feelings for his brothers in the Yellow Turbans.

He was muttering to himself when he heard Wang Dang mutter something in a low voice, and then he became a little proud.

"Although I can't see how they are doing, I know they are not doing well. If we really want to compare, we are the only one who is living a comfortable life among the Yellow Turbans. When they come, let them see our strength."

Xu Chen found it a little funny when he heard this. It turned out that most people couldn't avoid the need to show off in front of others.

"I heard that there are countless leaders of all sizes in the Five Elements Mountain (Taihang Mountain). If you know a lot of them, you should try to maintain some relationships with them. We are short of people here, so we will take as many as possible. We can always find a way to settle them down, whether they are farming, working or marching."

"This"

Wang Dang was a little embarrassed for a moment: "Master, you don't know that most of the brothers in the Five Elements Mountain don't use their real names. If they see someone riding a white horse, they call him Zhang Baiqi, if he runs fast, they call him Zhang Yan, and if he has a loud voice, he is Zhang Leigong. They all like to use the surname Zhang of the Great Sage Master. Even if I recognize them, I have to see them in person. I don't know who is who just by hearing these names."

Xu Chen was stunned and found it interesting. These guys roared like tigers in the mountains and really had a lot of martial arts spirit.

It's just that Xu Chen found it interesting, but Zhang Baiqi who was far away in Hejian didn't find it interesting at all. Now he just felt anxious and overwhelmed.

When going down the mountain to fight in the countryside, you would encounter tough opponents. Now, just crossing the road, you can also encounter obstacles.

In the mountains and forests of Hejian, a group of Yellow Turbans were huddled together, feeling quite cramped. However, no matter how cramped they were, they could not get out because there were more than 3,000 soldiers outside blocking their way out.

Although they are now becoming more and more like bandits, even if they are bandits, they are only occupying the mountain stronghold.

This time they were carrying more than a thousand people to Youzhou. With such a scale, they could no longer move in the deep mountains. They could only stay here and rely on the woods to fight against the government soldiers. As soon as they went out, they would be blocked and besieged by the government soldiers.

In fact, the officers and soldiers outside had tried to attack several times in recent days, but in the complex environment of the woods, finding people and fighting were very unfavorable. Zhang Baiqi led the Yellow Turbans to ambush and attack, causing the officers and soldiers to suffer a lot of losses, which made them completely give up the attack.

Although the officers and soldiers did not attack, they were still blocking outside, looking as if they wanted to wear out the Yellow Turbans.

The officers and soldiers' approach was effective, and as time went by, they were almost able to wear down the Yellow Turbans.

Now in the depths of the forest, except for a few Yellow Turbans on guard, the rest of the people were lying on the ground in all directions.

After holding out until today, their food supply was almost gone, and now they could only try to reduce their physical exertion. If this continued, they might have nothing to eat tomorrow, and they would have to bite the bullet and go out to fight the soldiers.

But what made Zhang Baiqi despair was that his own troops were not many to begin with, but those officers and soldiers had the advantage in manpower and were well-trained elite soldiers. If it were not for the forest to take shelter, he would have been killed by the enemy long ago.

Zhang Baiqi and Huang Long both looked as if they had lost all hope in life, and now they were somewhat regretting their decision to go to Youzhou.

"Brother Huang Long, do you think the Yellow Turbans in Youzhou are really as good as that kid said? Everyone has land to farm, all the powerful families have been defeated, there are no exorbitant taxes, and the Yellow Turbans count all the people for money, whether they are soldiers or workers!"

"Whether it's good or not, we have to go and see first. If they are really powerful and Youzhou can really stay, then we can bring all the women and children here and make Xu Chen the leader. What's wrong with that?"

The two chatted casually, and when they mentioned the name Xu Chen, their eyes flashed.

Every time they talk about this, they would think of the "Natural Sutra" that they asked the captives to read in the mountain village. They still remember the enlightenment and shock they felt when they first heard what was preached in it.

Xu Chen worked hard to reveal the cruelest and coldest part of human society, and then used the natural law to let everyone see clearly why the world is like this today.

It turns out that my life is hard, and it is not my fault, but because I have so many heavy mountains to carry on my shoulders.

It turns out that all distinctions between high and low are false. There is no high or low in the natural attributes of human beings. It is only under the alienation of the social system that some people become lowly and some people become so-called noble.

Therefore, naturalism is about achieving fairness for the vast majority of people and about making this wrong world right.

Although they were both starving due to the lack of food, they felt inexplicably energized when they thought of their lofty ideals.

Ninety-nine percent of the Yellow Turbans were poor people at the bottom of society, and even small leaders like them were no exception. This idea immediately resonated strongly with them.

They may not be optimistic about the leader named Xu Chen, but they are willing to take a look at such an ideal.

So, they took more than a thousand people across Jizhou and went to Yuyang to see with their own eyes whether this ideal was really being practiced there. If everything was true, then he would not mind worshipping Xu Chen as the leader.

Just as the intelligence agent said, all the Yellow Turbans in the world can unite under that ideal.

"I just don't know if we can get through this difficult time." Zhang Baiqi was silent for a moment.

Huang Long also became pessimistic: "If God really wants us to die, at least let us see it with our own eyes. I won't accept dying on the road like this!"

Zhang Baiqi sat up slowly, leaned against a tree, and sighed helplessly: "It is too difficult to shake the Han court. No matter where we go, the people we meet are not easy to deal with. It was the same with Zhao Zilong before, and it is also the same with the guy who is blocking us today. There are talents like this everywhere in the Han Dynasty. Can we really defeat them..."

Huang Long agreed with what he said. The guy outside was so flawless in commanding the troops that the Yellow Turbans had no temper at all.

In the past, when fighting with soldiers, even if we couldn't defeat them, we would still be completely powerless to resist. At worst, we could retreat safely. But the group of soldiers outside fought in too methodical a way.

Obviously, there were only more than 3,000 soldiers, but they made Huang Long feel that there were 5,000 or 6,000 soldiers.

Huang Long gritted his teeth and said, "I'm afraid we won't even have the strength to fight tomorrow. It's better to have this last meal and kill them to our heart's content!"

Zhang Baiqi was silent for a moment, his eyes gradually became fierce: "It's death anyway, there's nothing to be afraid of!"

Soon, there was movement in the woods. The Yellow Turbans made a fire and cooked. After eating the little remaining food, they were ready to go out for a fight to the death.

Outside the woods, Zhang He, the Sima of the Jizhou army, who was wearing light armor, looked at the smoke rising from the forest and suddenly perked up, realizing that something was wrong.

The Yellow Turbans had cooked very little food in the past few days, but this time the amount was unusually large. After a little thought, he realized that the Yellow Turbans had no food and were going to fight to the death.

"All troops, stand in formation, be on alert, and prepare for battle. The enemy is about to come out!"

Following his order, the officers and soldiers immediately followed suit and soon formed a well-trained military formation, fully prepared to meet the enemy.

Sure enough, not long after, the officers and soldiers saw a commotion in the mountains and forests, and then a large number of Yellow Turbans rushed out from them, making a lot of noise for a while.

Zhang He's face was as gloomy as water and he remained unmoved. In his opinion, fighting to the death was nothing more than committing suicide.

(End of this chapter)