People in the Three Kingdoms: Starting from Preaching

Chapter 44: Stop it, Yellow Turban (Please read!!)
After explaining to all the Yellow Turbans the meaning of the Natural Religion of Immortality, Xu Chen clearly felt a change in their spirits. These common people who were being besieged by the imperial court were less fearful and more stable.

No matter whether they have a family or descendants, as long as they have the promise of the leader, there will be people to worship them and offer incense to them after their death.

As for matters of life and death, they no longer need to worry about death. The Divine Religion will naturally arrange a final resting place for them. Without any worries, they only need to focus on their careers...

Xu Chen converted the Yellow Turban spirits in his own way. It was already late at night, and Gu'an County had long been under the control of Wang Dang and his men. The wealthy and powerful people in the county had also been cleared out.

After the experience in Zhuo County, the Yellow Turbans were able to replicate that approach quite skillfully and did not require Xu Chen's attention on every detail.

As soon as we entered the county government office, Wang Dang came over first. One could clearly feel the heavy emotion he was feeling from his expression.

"Master, our army has lost more than 300 soldiers in this battle, 600 seriously injured, and nearly 1,000 slightly injured. Although we have asked Mr. Zhang to start treating these wounded soldiers, but..."

When Xu Chen heard this, he couldn't help but frown. Taking Gu'an by force in less than a day was certainly something to be happy about, but the price was also painful.

Wang Dang and he both knew that although those seriously injured soldiers were still alive, they were just waiting to die. They either had broken limbs, extensive burns, or puncture wounds caused by bows and arrows.

Even with a medical genius like Zhang Zhongjing, he doesn't have the ability to save so many people. In this situation, personal contribution is just better than nothing.

In fact, what the army needs is not a top doctor, but a large number of basic nursing staff, which is a condition that the Yellow Turbans cannot meet at all now.

In other words, in this battle alone, including the seriously injured and dead soldiers, the final casualties were almost around a thousand...

When Wang Dang saw Xu Chen’s frown, he also sighed.

"After all, we captured four to five hundred officers and soldiers in this battle. If we absorb them, our army's strength can still be maintained at about 3,500 people."

Wang Dang spoke again and made a suggestion, and his suggestion automatically ignored the large number of surrendered auxiliary soldiers. These soldiers were temporarily conscripted from the people for military service. In fact, they were just ordinary people and did not have much combat effectiveness.

Even Wang Dang himself knew that the Yellow Turbans' current strategy was to fight a war with light troops and rapid marches. Bringing these soldiers with little combat effectiveness into the team would only slow down the march of the main army and increase the logistics of the main army.

Xu Chen nodded when he heard this. There will always be casualties in a rebellion. If you choose to go down this path, you must be mentally prepared for what happened today. In the future, there will only be more people who will sacrifice, not less.

He quickly calmed down and prepared to face the next round of tests.

“When recruiting soldiers, remember to disperse them to minimize the possibility of them connecting with each other.

Also, remember to let the brothers in the army talk more about the hardships they experienced when they were oppressed by the nobles in the past, and instill the teachings of our Naturalism.

We also need to let the brothers treat them as their own people. If we cannot accept them, we will never be able to make them truly believe in our religion."

Xu Chen immediately gave instructions on some important matters. After all, the officers and soldiers themselves were not of the same kind as the Yellow Turbans and were only forced to join the Yellow Turbans. How to assimilate them was a problem.

He sat in the main seat of the government office. This was supposed to be the position of the county magistrate, but now he had occupied it without any courtesy. It was somewhat incongruous for a young Taoist priest to sit in the office.

As Xu Chen spoke, he was still looking at the map of Youzhou that he had looted from Gongsun Zan's office. He was thinking about the next strategy and calculating the time. "We don't have much time. Tomorrow we must follow the old rules of Zhuo County and deal with the wealthy families and distribute the wealth. We must leave immediately the day after tomorrow. If we delay for another day, the possibility of being chased and intercepted by the soldiers will be increased."

"Understood, I'll arrange it right away, and it won't delay our plan!"

Wang Dang responded solemnly and followed the order without any hesitation.

It was not easy to finish all these tasks in one day, but after Wang Dang exploited the captured Han officials to do their work, he managed to finish all the tasks.

He followed the advice of one of the captives named Ju Su, and while organizing the people to participate in the action, he also divided the Yellow Turbans into groups to take turns working, classified the many tasks, and made full use of the time during the day and at night. Only then was he able to complete the work that should have taken two to three days in one day.

This made Wang Dang sigh that those who had received education and served as officials were indeed different. They were the ones who were good at doing things.

Within one day, all the wealthy families in Gu'an County were captured and executed in the vegetable market. Xu Chen preached the doctrine on the spot just like he did before, and then immediately began to distribute supplies to government offices and wealthy families.

The whole process was done in one go. It is conceivable that in the future, Huangjin will become more and more proficient in this fixed process and can carry it out spontaneously.

By the morning of the next day, the Yellow Turbans, after a rest, regained their spirits, and then, under the reluctant gazes of the people of Gu'an, they set out again on their journey of exile.

Because they acted extremely quickly, they had already finished everything they had done. On the other side, Zou Jing and his group, who were chasing the Yellow Turbans, only received the news that Gu'an City had been captured, which undoubtedly surprised them greatly.

"What? The Yellow Turbans took Gu'an in just one day!"

Upon hearing the reported news, both Zou Jing and Gongsun Zan exclaimed in surprise. The three brothers Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who were riding closely behind them, also looked at each other in surprise.

Especially after asking for details, they found out that the Yellow Turbans had defeated them head-on, which was even more unbelievable for them.

Zou Jing's expression suddenly became serious, and he immediately pulled the reins of his horse to start a conversation with them.

"No wonder this group of Yellow Turbans caused Bogui to suffer a great loss. With equal forces, it would take me ten days or half a month to capture the city, let alone a day. How could they be so fast?"

"Humph, they are indeed different from ordinary bandits, but so what? As long as I can fight them head-on, I will definitely be able to defeat them completely!"

When Gongsun Zan heard about the past incident in which he had suffered a loss, he immediately became dissatisfied. No matter what the Yellow Turbans had done, he felt that it was just a bunch of useless people, and the reason why he had stumbled was purely because of carelessness.

Zou Jing was well aware of Gongsun Zan's arrogant temper, so he didn't say much. He just looked towards Gu'an with concern.

"No matter what, this group of Yellow Turbans is really good at fighting. If we let them keep running like this, our Zhuo County will be destroyed. We must not let them continue to massacre the nobles and aristocrats in the counties!"

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