People in the Three Kingdoms: Starting from Preaching

Chapter 76: Every Opposition with Han (Please Read!!!)
In a flash, half a month passed, and the most important spring plowing of the year finally came to an end. It was also at this time that Yuyang completed all the pre-war preparations under the will of the leader Xu Chen.

Before the end of the spring plowing season, the Yellow Turbans will take the initiative and launch an offensive against the three surrounding counties.

Before that, he led the Yellow Turbans in exile. At that time, he didn't have to worry about anything. He just fought and ran along the way. If he had no food, he would fight the local tyrants. If he had food, he would continue to run.

But now that we have a base, we can't fight in such a rough manner.

If he couldn't win when he was in exile, he could just run away. But if he couldn't win now, he would lose the base that he had built up with great difficulty. Xu Chen didn't dare to take it lightly when preparing for even a small battle.

Recruiting soldiers, preparing food and fodder, boosting morale, pre-war training, ideological mobilization, and building equipment.

It took nearly half a month to carry out each task one by one, and the Yellow Turbans finally managed to prepare the entire army to its full potential before the end of spring plowing.

Xu Chen and Wang Dang stood together on the top of Yuyang City. Looking down from the height, they could see small teams gathering quickly and then merging into the main army in an orderly manner. Slowly, the momentum of that huge army emerged.

For this battle, the Yellow Turbans' original army of 5,000 had all returned to the army, and they also conscripted 2,100 young and strong men from the seven military settlements under Yuyang to join the army, plus 1,400 civilian laborers, as well as accompanying craftsmen and military doctors, a total of nearly 9,000 people, carrying cartloads of baggage, all gathered here.

When there are more than 10,000 people, it becomes a huge crowd. In fact, you don't need 10,000. Nine thousand people plus a huge amount of baggage can also create the effect of a huge crowd.

This is also taking into consideration that people dare not use too much manpower for spring plowing, otherwise Xu Chen could easily raise an army of tens of thousands or even thousands.

The army was gathering. Even though the soldiers were keeping quiet under the command of their superiors, the sounds of footsteps, officers' commands, and the movement of baggage transport made the city wall extremely noisy.

However, although the army is huge, it does not appear chaotic when viewed from a high position. No matter whether the group is as small as a squad of one or two, or as small as one hundred or one thousand, the soldiers can all go their own way under the leadership of the officers, and there is no entanglement or disorganization among them.

Although it was just a marching formation, something could already be seen.

If it were the Yellow Turbans in the past, they would not be able to gather on such a large scale like they do now.

Seeing the actual results, Xu Chen felt a lot more at ease. At least it showed that the strategy of focusing on training grassroots officers was not wrong. This was the most cost-effective way to form combat effectiveness at present.

After half a month of training, the army has become more organized. Now the Yellow Turbans can be considered a real army.

However, although the scene in front of them was grand and made people's blood boil, Wang Dang, who was standing next to Xu Chen, seemed a little absent-minded. He was visibly frowning, as if he was worried about something.

While the army was gathering below, he turned his head several times to look at Xu Chen, and finally couldn't help but speak: "Master, you have been teaching us mathematics for the past few months, I think I have learned it quite well, and some things can be figured out if you calculate slowly."

Xu Chen didn't understand, so he looked at him and smiled, "So what?"

Wang Dang cleared his throat and said to Xu Chen with a worried look: "Master, haven't you ever calculated it? According to the salary you set, the money spent on this war is unimaginable. I calculated it for half a month and finally got a rough number, but it's too scary. Do we have that much money?"

Hearing that he was worried about this, Xu Chen could only shake his head: "No."

Wang Dang became even more worried when he heard this: "Then how are we going to pay it back? If we can't get it out by then, it will be a big problem!"

"If you don't have it, you can rely on them to earn it. If you don't have it now, you will have it after the war." Xu Chen pointed to the army below and looked at him with a smile: "I still say that, neighbors are my granary. If we take down several surrounding counties, we can not only check the property of many aristocratic families, but also receive the autumn harvest of several counties. How can it not be enough?" Wang Dang nodded silently when he heard this. Of course he understood this truth.

What he was really worried about was not that he could not pay the money this time, but that he felt that fighting a war like this was too expensive.

"That being said, this is a huge expense, and life will be very difficult in the future. Besides, when the Han Dynasty deployed troops, it just recruited soldiers for service. Why don't we follow their example and spend more money instead?"

"If we learn everything from the Han people, then why do we need to overthrow the Han people?"

When Xu Chen heard Wang Dang's words, he felt helpless for a moment. He could only say that it is still difficult for people to look at problems from a perspective beyond the times.

It was the customary practice of the Han Dynasty to use soldiers for military service in battles, and the world took it for granted that this was the case. Now that Wang Dang was in power, his views on this issue were similar to those of the Han Dynasty, and he just wanted to milk the cows even if they were not given grass to eat.

At this time, Xu Chen pointed towards the city gate. Wang Dang looked and saw that the people in the city formed into teams, each carrying water and food, to see the army off.

However, there is a discipline in the army that the soldiers will not eat a single grain of rice from the people, so it seems that there will inevitably be a tug of war between the two sides.

"Why are the people willing to support us? It's because we are different from the Han. If we did the same thing as the Han today, would the people still leave the city to see us off?"

Looking at the people walking out of the city gate and getting along harmoniously with the Yellow Turban soldiers, Xu Chen felt half emotional and half happy.

Wang Dang was also staring blankly at the scene below. This was not a show arranged in advance by the Yellow Turbans. The people came here on their own accord. So he was a little dumbfounded to see such a scene.

Although he was a Yellow Turban general, he never expected that the people would be willing to go to such lengths.

Watching from afar, the people kept feeding the soldiers with food, but the soldiers acted as if they were facing a great enemy, dodging everywhere and explaining something in a panic. Although this extreme tug of war was a bit funny, Wang Dang was more moved when he saw it.

If the Yellow Turbans acted like the Han court, would the people still be willing to do so?

When Wang Dang saw this scene, he suddenly had the answer in his mind.

"If the Yellow Turbans rule the world one day, it must be because we are completely different from the Han Dynasty. You must remember something I have to say." Xu Chen patted Wang Dang on the shoulder, smiled and left a few words, then turned and walked towards the city.

"As long as we oppose the Han, our cause will be accomplished!"

When Wang Dang heard this, he was shocked and suddenly felt a little ashamed. He felt that his vision was far from that of the leader.

No wonder he can be a religious leader while I can only be a crude general.

While he was still criticizing himself, he heard Xu Chen, who had already started to walk down the city wall, calling out to him from afar.

"What are you still standing there for? It's time to go to war!"

(End of this chapter)