three kings

Chapter 26 The world is in chaos
Just when Sun Can followed Liu Hua to study the art of war, it was also the time when the world was in chaos.

The first year of Zhongping, Emperor Xiaoling.

The situation in Dahan became even worse. The hungry peasants couldn't bear it anymore, and finally broke out in a full-scale resistance. The largest team was the Yellow Turban Uprising led by the three brothers Zhang Jiao.

Zhang Jiao was originally from Julu County, Jizhou. He has two brothers, the second is Zhang Bao, and the third is Zhang Liang.

That Zhang Jiao was originally a talented scholar, because when he went to the mountain to collect medicine, he came across an old man with blue eyes and a childlike face, holding a stick of quinoa. This man was the old fairy of Nanhua. Essential Techniques hopes that he will benefit the world, and Zhang Jiao is lucky to be this destined person this time.

Zhang Jiao had already done a lot of research on folk medicine. After getting "Taiping Yaoshu", he was like a tiger with two wings, and he soon acquired a superb medical skill.

It's just that these brothers intend to plot wrongdoing, using the religious form of "Taiping Dao" to fool the masses under the pretext of treating people.In about ten years or so, Taiping Taoism has spread almost all over the world, especially Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Youzhou, Jizhou, Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Yanzhou, Yuzhou and other eight prefectures. As many as 10 people.

Then the three brothers Zhang Jiao set up 36 squares within the Dahan area, with more than 1 people in the big square and 7000 people in the small square.

For the convenience of swearing, they also circulated four formulas as internal codes.These four formulas are: "When the heaven is dead, the yellow sky shall stand; when the age is Jiazi, the world will be blessed."

Jiazi is the first year of Zhonghe, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, that is, [-] AD.

At the beginning of February, the leaders and believers of all parties have already started preparations.They used lime to write slogans such as "Jiazi" on the city gates of Luoyang and the walls of state and county government offices.

Ma Yuanyi, one of the most generous of them, first notified about tens of thousands of believers in Jingzhou and Yangzhou, and invited them to gather in Yecheng to prepare for an uprising.As a result, the believers in charge of it have begun to gather in Yecheng.

However, at this critical juncture, Tang Zhou, a disciple of Zhang Jiao, a believer in Taiping Daoist, and a native of Jinan, reported the uprising to the local government because he was afraid of failure and being arrested.

Once the news spread, the government and the public were shaken, and Emperor Ling was furious in court.Therefore, the court officials urgently ordered the arrest of Ma Yuanyi, and the car was broken in Luoyang; they urgently mobilized all forces to hunt down and kill more than a thousand followers of Zhang Jiao; they also notified Jizhou to arrest Zhang Jiao's brothers and their families.

Zhang Jiao and others discovered that the matter had been brought to light, so they used various methods to notify all parties starry night and immediately revolted.Before the uprising, the rebels first killed the captured corrupt officials to sacrifice to heaven.During the uprising, Zhang Jiao's army all wore yellow scarves (the symbol of Huang Tian) on their heads, and they were called "Yellow Turban Army" at that time.After the uprising, Zhang Jiao called himself "General Tiangong" according to the theory in "Taiping Jing" that "there is a rule of heaven, there is a rule of earth, and there is a rule of man. General Gong, whose younger brother Zhang Liang called himself "General Ren Gong".

Within a few days, the Yellow Turban Army on the 36th side began a series of attacks on counties and counties, burning government offices, releasing prisoners, confiscating official property, opening granaries, and punishing corrupt officials and local tyrants.In less than ten days, the world responded.The prefects and governors of the eight prefectures of Qing, Xu, You, Ji, Jing, Yang, Yan, and Henan rushed to the capital one after another, and Emperor Han Ling was also anxious like ants on a hot pot.

After negotiation, captains were set up at the eight critical passes near Luoyang, which increased Luoyang's defense.The imperial court also dispatched two armies to suppress the peasant uprising.

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And all of this has nothing to do with Sun Can. Although Sun Can wanted to join the army, Sun Zhe and Liu Hua did not agree.There are two reasons: Sun Zhe reasoned that Sun Can was still young; while Liu Hua persuaded him because he was not proficient in studies.

In Liu Hua's view, the "Yellow Turban Rebellion" was just an opportunity, and it was dispensable, but the real moment of making a fortune was when the eighteen princes were begging for Dong.

Faced with the persuasion of his father and mentor, Sun Can could only suppress his eagerness to move.In addition to accompanying Prince Liu Bian to study, the rest of the time is just learning the art of war and martial arts.

During this period, he also searched for the whereabouts of the woman many times, but in the end he found nothing.In order to reduce his longing for that woman, Sun Can only put all his heart on learning the art of war.

On the other hand, the first battle of the Han army was unsuccessful. In April of the same year, the army led by Zhu Jun was defeated by the Yellow Turban Army Bocai's team and retreated. The army led by Cai was besieged in the city. The Han army was small in number and their morale was relatively low.

And the Yellow Turban Army in Runan defeated Zhao Qian, the prefect of Shaoling in Shaoling, and the Yellow Turban Army in Guangyang also killed Guo Xun, the governor of Youzhou, and Liu Wei, the prefect. The Yellow Turban Army did not retreat because of the actions taken by the Han Dynasty. On the contrary, there is a great momentum to dominate the world.

In May of the same year, seeing that Huangfusong was besieged, the capital sent Cao Cao to lead an army to rescue him. However, before the reinforcements arrived, Huangfusong had a plan in mind. When a strong wind blew in the evening, Huangfusong ordered the soldiers to leave the city secretly with torches. Using the weeds growing around the Yellow Turban Army camp, they used fire to attack and smash the enemy. The army on the city responded with torches.Encountering Cao Cao's reinforcements again, they were flanked by Huangfusong, Zhu Jun and Cao Cao on three sides, beheading tens of thousands of people, and the Han army finally won a big victory.

In June, Nanyang prefect Qin Jie fought with Zhang Mancheng and beheaded Zhang Mancheng.

The good news spread to Luoyang, and Luoyang was full of joy.

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Luoyang Imperial City Concentrates on the Palace
Liu Bian, who was eight years old at the time, was playing with a new toy Sun Can brought him—a slingshot—in the courtyard.It's not easy to practice this thing, Liu Bian didn't hit the target even once in the fights, so he felt a little disappointed.Seeing that Sun Can was reading a book in the courtyard, he couldn't help but pick up his mouth.

In the past, Sun Can would play with him immediately.But since he became obsessed with the art of war, he didn't pay much attention to him.Although it was still the same as before, every time he entered the palace, he would bring some delicious food and small toys from outside the palace, but he seldom played with him anymore, and even when he played, he was absent-minded.

Once, Liu Bian pestered Sun Can to play hide-and-seek.Sun Can was helplessly entangled and nodded in agreement.Liu Bian happily hid in a hidden place for half an hour.

At first, Liu Bian thought that the place where he hid it was so wonderful that Sun Can could not find it.

This guy has never beaten Sun Can in games, and this small victory really made him very happy.

However, when he walked out by himself, he was immediately dumbfounded.Sun Can didn't look for it anywhere, just kept looking at the military book in the courtyard without moving a muscle.

It turned out that when Sun Can was waiting for Liu Bian to hide, he was bored and picked up Liu Hua's "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and read it. After reading it, he forgot everything, and let Liu Bian's pigeons go for half an hour in vain. He was so angry Liu Bian almost went crazy.

He came to Sun Can's side and said dissatisfiedly: "Brother Sun, don't look at it yet, you teach me first, I can't hit it right no matter what."

Sun Can had no choice but to put down the book of war, took the slingshot and clay pellets made of embryo soil from Liu Bian, and said: "The slingshot has no aim, but it can be estimated. Hold the slingshot frame tightly with your left hand and hold it flat with your right hand. Hold the center of the rubber band and the center of the slingshot frame, align the center point with the place you want to shoot and release your right hand, and pay attention to the rubber band to form a triangle with equal length when tightening the rubber band. Then, let it go!" put At the exit of the word, a mud pellet hits a small dragonfly lying on a reed in the pond three meters away.

Sun Can returned the slingshot to Liu Bian, and said: "Playing this game mainly depends on experience. As long as you practice for a long time, you will naturally be able to hit every shot." After speaking, he picked up the book of war and read it carefully. .

Liu Bian was dissatisfied and said, "Brother Sun, why don't you come and play together! What's so interesting about these military books, and they're useless."

Sun Can laughed and said: "Why is it useless? Every word written in the book of war is the essence of chapters summed up by the predecessors. If you can master the art of war, you can go to battle to kill the enemy and defend the country. In the future, I will also ask Wei Qing, Just like Huo Qubing, revitalize the great man and promote the prestige of our country."

"Hehe, well said!"

(End of this chapter)