People in the Three Kingdoms: Starting from Preaching

Chapter 9 Where is the road?
Who is Marquis Yi Yang? He is Fu Jiezi, who said, "The Han army is coming, don't move, or the country will be destroyed," and planned to kill the King of Loulan.

As soon as Xu Chen heard this, he knew that there was probably no hope of persuading the enemy to surrender today. The guy in front of him was not just an ordinary scholar from an aristocratic family, but a famous family with a long history of merit and honor. It would be extremely difficult to get him to change his stance and work for the rebels.

"You are just a defeated general, but you are so arrogant. What's your name?" Xu Chen asked coldly.

"I am Fu Xie. We were defeated by the enemy today. This is because I am incompetent in leading the troops. Please kill me or chop me up!" Fu Xie stood with his head held high, his eyes determined and unwavering.

When Wang Dang saw this situation, he was immediately unhappy.

Whether the prisoners surrender or not is one thing, but we will not deny them a chance to live just because they refuse to surrender. We will just give them more food to keep them alive. Who knows, they may change their minds one day.

This is the reason why Zhang Zhongjing and Ju Su were able to survive.

But Fu Xie was the first one who continued to rush forward like this after being captured.

"Since he wants to die so badly, there is no point in saying more. Just fulfill his wish. I will kill him now!" Wang Danghu glared at him and was about to draw his sword to behead him.

But Xu Chen held him down and said, "General, there is no need to do this. If you don't want to surrender, then you can be treated as a prisoner. We Yellow Turbans are a righteous army. I believe that sooner or later he will return to the right path and convert to our religion."

Wang Dang frowned and looked at Xu Chen. After a long while, he pressed the hilt of the knife and took a step back, which was regarded as his agreement with Xu Chen's suggestion.

Xu Chen smiled and sent someone to take Fu Xie away, but when he turned around, he breathed a sigh of relief without leaving a trace.

I openly opposed Wang Dang, but Wang Dang backed down. It seems that he has become more and more accepting of my identity as the leader.

From now on, I won't have to worry about making him obey my orders, but at least the status of both sides will be much more equal. As my say in this remnant army becomes more and more powerful, it will be just a matter of time before I can completely control them.

If they want to make the Yellow Turbans stronger in this chaotic world, they have to bite the bullet and do it themselves, otherwise they will have no chance of survival relying on this motley crowd.

It was precisely because Xu Chen knew that the Yellow Turbans lacked talent that he was willing to spare Fu Xie's life.

It doesn’t matter whether he surrenders or not now, as long as we get him first. There is still a long time to come, and who knows if there is no possibility that he will surrender to us?

It's okay to have a bad temper, it's not a big deal.

After the battle ended and the head count was taken, Xu Chen was shocked to learn the number of casualties among the Yellow Turbans. Despite being greatly outnumbered and it being an ambush and siege, the Yellow Turbans still lost six or seven hundred men, and the number of injured reached over a thousand!
Moreover, some of these injured soldiers would surely die later. If the battle continued like this, the Yellow Turbans might lose nearly a thousand men.

Such a terrible plague only took away a few hundred lives in the end, which was not as small as the battle just now.

Xu Chen felt heavy-hearted. This era might be a heroic stage for some people to achieve success, but for the common people at the bottom, there was only misery and helplessness.

Looking at the mountains and plains filled with broken limbs and flesh, such a horrifying hell scene would surely give him nightmares if he were in the future, but now he has long been numb, and in the end he can only sigh that human life is worthless.

When the Yellow Turbans were collecting corpses, they also stripped useful clothes or equipment from the bodies. No one considered that the dead were the most important, and no one cared whether the dead were decent or not. The living were the most important.

There were more than 5,000 remaining Yellow Turbans when they entered the mountains, but by the time they left, there were only 4,000 left, including the several hundred Han soldiers who surrendered.

When they came out of the woods, the Yellow Turbans all felt as if they were reborn. Before that, most of them had never thought that they would be able to come out alive. Both the plague and the Han army were difficult for them to fight against.

Fortunately, they were blessed by God, and after following the guidance of the Heavenly Master, they finally overcame the difficulties and survived successfully.

Feeling the air and sunshine outside, many people knelt down and cried. For them, just to survive, they had to use up all their strength. After walking out of the woods, Xu Chen saw this scene and was silent for a while.

Wang Dang, who was standing next to him, was also touched.

"Although we have escaped the disaster, where should we, the Yellow Turbans, go in the future? This world is so vast, where can we find a place to stay..."

Wang Dang looked at the Yellow Turban followers who were both sad and happy, then looked at the vast and clear sky, and finally he could only let out a long sigh, his tone filled with confusion and worry about the future.

"I still remember when the great and virtuous teacher was here, he could raise the eight states with a flick of his hand, swallow the heavens and the earth, and stir up the wind and clouds, and beat the Han Dynasty to the point of collapse. How high-spirited he was at that time.

All the officials of the imperial court must bow down, all the noble families are nothing but dogs, wherever I go, the Yellow Turbans will surrender, no matter who hears the name of my great and virtuous teacher, they will be terrified. "

When he said this, Wang Dang seemed to have returned to the time when he was high-spirited and unrestrained. Fire burned in his eyes and his face flushed slightly.

But the next second, the light in his eyes went out, and his expression suddenly became lonely.

"What can we do? What can we do? The great cause was annihilated overnight. Now the Yellow Turbans have reached their end. We can survive today, but what can we do tomorrow?

Without the great and wise teacher, where will the Yellow Turbans go? Your Majesty really has no idea!"

After Wang Dang finished speaking, he sat on the ground in a daze, and his mental state became no different from those of the Yellow Turban soldiers.

Before this, they had to deal with the plague and the pursuit of the Han army, and had no time to think about anything else.

Now that they have been able to take a temporary respite, the negative emotions caused by the defeat of the Yellow Turbans and Zhang Jue's death from illness have resurfaced.

Zhang Jue was their leader both in reality and in spirit. The death of their leader was undoubtedly a huge mental blow to them. Coupled with the miserable and difficult current situation, they were naturally filled with fear about their future fate.

Xu Chen knew how important Zhang Jiao was in the hearts of the Yellow Turban followers, but he knew even more that the real charlatan could not save the working people, and that the "Taiping Dao" was not a panacea.

If you really want to save the people of the world, you have to rely on yourself, a fake charlatan.

He must erase the image of Zhang Jue from the Yellow Turbans' minds and replace him with his own.

We should kick out all the "Taiping Dao" and give them something more practical and progressive.

Today's Yellow Turbans are ignorant and blind. They rebel but don't know why they are rebelling. They destroy but don't know how to build. They can deal a heavy blow to the Han Dynasty but cannot become the protagonists of the era.

In order to survive and for the sake of the working people who disappeared in the dust of history, Xu Chen felt that he needed to reform the Yellow Turbans.

"General Wang, I have received another revelation from heaven."

Xu Chen patted Wang Dang who was in a daze, and then smiled at him.

"This time, God has shown us a path, a difficult but bright path..."

(End of this chapter)