Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 387 Guzang One Hundred Thousand Soldiers

   There is a valley about twenty or thirty miles east of the old city of Pingyang.

  Although the valley is not very big, many farmers used to sneak here to reclaim farmland and grow crops.

  Because this valley was originally considered a land of no owner.

   No man's land means no tax...

  It is actually not easy to be a farmer these days, especially under the double blow of local indigenous and nomadic peoples.

Although the national taxation has been crucified and has not changed for many years, there are too many other taxes that need to be paid. The population tax that is calculated from birth is also called mouth money, and there are two kinds of corvee fees. A large project has already burdened ordinary farmers quite heavily, and there are also miscellaneous taxes on various industrial and commercial and mountain wood products...

In order to limit the unauthorized migration of peasant households and to restrain commerce, in the process of the circulation of many commodities, the taxation is extremely serious, and there are so many items that it is outrageous. , Customs tax, six animal tax, wine tax and other taxes, what is even more unbearable is that the emperor often asks all places to carry out so-called "contribution fees", that is, the prefects and vassal states in various places provide the central government in the form of tribute. various material possessions.

  Of course, all the money, the autumn tax, and even the various taxes with various names will not be paid by those who are officials or the powerful gentry in the countryside...

Therefore, there are many farmers, maybe it is because there is one less rain from God, or one more rain, or it may be that they went to the city for an extra trip and couldn’t help but buy a new dress, or it may be that they have a headache and a fever that has lasted for a few days. Being able to work in the fields led to a poor harvest in the end, and then I couldn’t make up the tax, so I borrowed money to pay it, and then I was lucky enough to get through it, but I was unlucky and couldn’t pay the interest...

  Final vicious circle, the family is destroyed.

Therefore, many voluntary or forced farmers came to this valley and began to live here secretly. Until one day, maybe the government discovered this place, or maybe the Yellow Turban bandits also came to this place. Anyway, the Baibo Army at that time Commander Guo Da finally revolted here...

   "When Baibo raised his troops, he claimed to have hundreds of thousands." Fei Qian looked at the valley and said, "It was in this valley that he raised his troops."

  The tone is flat, like a number of one hundred thousand, which is no different from ten or twenty...

  But it startled the horse beside him,

   "Emissary Fei, are you serious?"

  One hundred thousand, he has never seen tens of thousands of soldiers since he was a child, and one hundred thousand is simply a number that is completely beyond his imagination.

Huang Cheng has experienced the Yellow Turbans in Jingxiang, so he also knows that the number of the Yellow Turbans is extremely powerful. He laughed and said, "They are all imaginary numbers. Look at this valley, how big it is. It really takes ten Thousands of people, I am afraid that the valley will be filled up if it is not crowded with people!"

   Fei Qian nodded, and rode his horse slowly towards the valley.

  After the Baibo Army uprising, Baibo Fort was built here, which is a stockade piled up with stones on the edge of the cliff...

   This fact also shows the strength of the Baibo army at that time. If there were 100,000 soldiers, what kind of stockade would they build? They could sweep the entire river east.

  The number of 100,000 soldiers may be used by Guo Da to scare people in order to bluff, or it may be used as a shield by these gentry in Hedong...

With banditry, it is natural to increase the number of soldiers, the county soldiers, and the private guards of the rural tyrants, etc. Naturally, one can also add one more. For the peasants in the countryside, it can be said that with the Yellow Turban, the natural protection fee still needs to be charged more Some, otherwise how would you raise soldiers to protect you?

  Then the tax that needs to be paid to the country or something, I said I want to pay it, but there are 100,000 yellow scarf thieves outside the city! Can't send it out!

   That's one hundred thousand soldiers!

hehe.

  While walking, Feiqian looked at the abandoned Baibo Fortress, the birthplace of the Baibo Army, which was later encircled and suppressed, but at that time the Baibo Army had expanded, swept through the surrounding villages, and fled into the Luliang Mountains...

  Baibo Base is located in the center of the valley, and the distances from the three exits of the valley are not too far apart. Although it has been destroyed by the encircled county soldiers, some of the overall wreckage remains.

  There is a small stream from the mountain peak on the east side, the water volume is not large, it flows down between the mountains, meanders through the whole valley, and then flows southwest...

   "So, the Baibo bandits don't have many troops now?" Ma Yue asked, following behind.

Fei Qian looked left and right at the cultivated land in the middle of this valley, which was once again barren, and couldn't help shaking his head slightly, saying: "I don't know exactly how many people there are in Baibo now, but it's probably about 30,000 to 50,000 people..."

   "30,000, 50,000?" Ma Yue frowned, the strength of 30,000 to 50,000 is not too small!

Fei Qian looked at Ma Yue, guessing that he might not be able to distinguish the battle structure of the Yellow Turbans from that of the Huren. After all, Ma Yue had always been in Shangjun, and later followed Ma Yan to Hedong, so he might not be able to know the Yellow Turban Army. And the difference in the number of Hu people's army.

So Fei Qian turned his head and said to Huang Cheng: "Shuye, tell him..." After all, Huang Cheng has experienced the period when the Yellow Turbans first started, and he has also fought against the Yellow Turbans. Relatively speaking, at least he knows better than Ma get more.

Huang Cheng nodded with a smile, then pulled Ma Yue and said, "Actually, the number of yellow scarf thieves is not the same as that of the barbarians. If the barbarians are in a hurry, even barbarians and children can mount horses and shoot arrows. But the yellow turban thief is different. Generally speaking, if one-third of the men who drag their families and mouths are men, it is considered very good, and among these one-third of the men, most of them have never held a knife and gun, and they only go to battle with a burst of blood. , I don’t know how to coordinate battle formations…”

Huang Cheng seemed to have thought of something, his smile faded away, and his voice was a little low: "... when the Yellow Turban Bandits were still in charge of the Zhang Family and the three brothers, those Yellow Turban bandits were really fearless, even if they were unarmed, they would pounce on them Grab, bite with your teeth, that was how many county soldiers were defeated at that time... However, after the death of the three brothers of the Zhang family, the Yellow Turban no longer had the **** courage it had before. With thousands of yellow scarf thieves running all over the place..."

"...So, the large number of yellow turban bandits in the early stage is actually not a big deal, but if they fight to the back, those who remain are mostly strong and strong men, and they have gone through many battles without dying, so they are called trouble... The white wave bandits are now That is to say, after one or two battles, there is still some gap between the county soldiers..."

   Ma Yue let out a groan, only then did he realize that he had thought something wrong just now, and couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

  Fei Qian had already inspected the whole valley in detail. After thinking for a while, he called Ma Yue and said, "Zidu, have you ever seen how Hu people herd sheep?"

   Ma Yue nodded, and said: "I have seen it, give orders by driving and shouting, and circle the flock to prevent them from being scattered."

"Good! Tomorrow you will bring one hundred Bingzhou cavalry and four hundred Hu cavalry to hide here..." Fei Qian let the horse get closer, and confessed, "... Maybe Zidu will be like a hundred thousand soldiers by then. !"

   Long Banqiao Head…

   Xia Houen: Who are you?

   Zhang Yide: Zhang Fei from Yan is here!

   Xia Houen: Hahahaha, I have never seen someone who is still shouting after being cut...

   Zhang Feizu...

   PS: It’s still 39 degrees today... Nima, the author’s fungus is about to turn into jerky...

  (end of this chapter)