Chapter 162 Red eyebrows
After the fifth reunion "takes hostage" Chai Rong and comes together, things have changed interestingly.
Chai Rong was forced to follow the instructions of the fifth reunion to pass the message, informing the county soldiers, the Sima, the military guards, and the soldiers who had been frozen under the orders of the subordinate Shixiong, who had not moved as if they were as mountains and could not pull the bow and the frozen county soldiers began to obediently towards Wulu City, although they were still very slow.
Wu Lun thought to himself: "This is the norm in the late dynasty. The court could not command the county two thousand stones, because the officials in the border had their own thoughts and couldn't know how many people were waiting for success or failure."
But on the other side of the two thousand stones no longer feared the authority of the central government. They came by themselves, but they could not command the counties and powerful people, and could only rely on them.
In the end, the local tyrants were most useful because the county soldiers were squeezed layer by layer and could not even guarantee their food and clothing. However, the great tyrants could directly give out the benefits to the military officers, and then control the bottom of the team through them. Just like the scene in front of them, Chai Rong's speech was better than the fifth reunion and Shi Xiong combined.
No matter how big the Qin and Han dynasties built a great country, there was no system that was not corrupt for two hundred years in the world. During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, the military merits and titles were ineffective, and the conscription system was almost corrupt. However, the recruitment system became more and more popular, and countless people paid for the service of the service, which caused the government to simply collect a sum of "service money" and directly recruit the strong.
The accumulated problems in the past century are hopeless. The local government has become increasingly relaxed and Wang Mang beat the Huns again. After several strong medicines in Jucheng, the soldiers have to rely on strengthening their men to make up their numbers.
As for the county soldiers, is it because of the unfulfilled honor and unfulfilled merit? Of course, it is for money and money and a good meal!
Theoretically, the imperial court officials became mercenaries. Whoever gives food will be his father!
The fifth reunion basically controls the financial power of several counties in the county. He has food on hand, but he doesn't want to feed them very much. It's just that because the county soldiers are too slippery and cannot be trusted, and their combat effectiveness is also a mystery.
The fifth reunion is heard that those soldiers from Yanzhou County who followed Jing Shang to Mount Tai to wipe out Fan Chong could only catch up with ten miles and walk a little faster, and they could disperse themselves.
Fortunately, their opponent was not smart. When they arrived in Wulu City, they saw dense crowds of refugees.
A total of seven or eight thousand people stood in a mess, without an array or a banner, and followed the village party coach Qu. The refugees from the plains also captured several towns along the way and seized some armor and weapons, but the proportion was still very small.
From their weapons, we can basically judge the profession before the refugees: the one who holds hoes and shovels is the farmer, the one who uses harpoons to cover the fishing nets is the hunter, the one who is concentrated to make bows and arrows is the hunter, they are all poor people who cannot survive, and they are forced to lose their way out by the flood and harsh policies. They gather together and only seek to survive.
"So why do you want to attack Wulu City?" This is something that the fifth reunion didn't understand. It is easy to wander between Heji and specialize in fighting small towns and towns. You can constantly get food by looting, but this team is coming to Wulu City, which will inevitably attract various counties to help.
They didn't even have decent siege equipment. They had attacked Wulu City for several days, and attacked the city with moths. They were moms gathered to cling to the wall and walked up, but they were like moths flying into the fire, leaving only hundreds of corpses that fell under the wall, but Wulu City still failed to capture it.
After all, the hundreds of defenders inside knew that they would let the refugees come in and destroy the tombs of King Ru of Yuancheng (Wang He) and King Qing of Yangping (Wang Sui). Even if they did not die on the spot, they would be dealt with by the angry emperor.
Ma Yuan rode on the horse and looked at it from a distance and narrowed his eyes and said, "Although there are many of them, they are mostly scattered and unquenched, so it is not worth fearing."
He defeated hundreds of Huangze thieves with hundreds of people and successfully incorporated them. He knew that the will and order of the thieves would be worse than that of the county soldiers. He only pointed to the hundreds of people who were surrounded by a car among the refugees: "That is the elite thief. With a little discipline, look at the car, it should be where Qu Shuai Chi Zhaoping is?"
The refugees had stopped attacking Wulu City and turned around toward the county soldiers. Although they took Chi Zhaoping as their leader, they had many small Qu generals under them. They had already opposed Chi Zhaoping's insistence on attacking Wulu City. Seeing that they had indeed attracted the official army, they began to evacuate the battlefield without hesitation and led their troops to run away from the battlefield.
During this run, the refugees were in chaos and wanted to follow them. They had always avoided the enemy's strong and attacked the weak. However, Chi Zhaoping asked his confidants to kill a few people and stabilize their positions. Because they were not willing to give up on Wulu City, they sent a few Qu generals to test the quality of the soldiers in Weicheng County to see if they were as useless as Heping and Shouliang counties.
No matter how corrupt the county soldiers are, they still have the benefits of armored soldiers, and no matter how unordered they are, they still have the order. Seeing the soldiers and armored soldiers, the fools are forced to do so. Only those refugees who believe in the words of "gods" promoted by Chi Zhaoping, who believe that after digging Wang Mang's ancestral grave, their hometown can be rescued from the flood, and they shouted and rushed over.
The county soldiers were very good at judging the situation. Seeing that the refugees were serious, they did not ask for rewards first. They shot out the crossbows in their hands in disorder, and nailed more than a dozen people to the ground. The screams and blood from their companions also made the refugees behind wake up, and immediately ended the charge and retreated.
There were more and more Qu generals who retreated by themselves, and half of Chi Zhaoping's manpower was retreating. She estimated that there were as many as 2,000 soldiers in the county, and the defenders of Wulu City and Yuancheng, who were afraid that they would lose their opponents, so she also asked someone to drive a car to retreat.
Seeing the refugees leaving at once, Shi Xiong was overjoyed: "Da Yin, you just took the opportunity to chase the dead and chase the north, and you will definitely be able to make a lot of money!"
Then? Will Wang Mang reward you and the soldiers? Haven't you seen that the county soldiers have closed their stalls and sat on the ground? What's more, the Fifth Reun always has some pity for these refugees who are desperate and forced to be thieves and massacre them, and it is not as good as cutting off the heads of the Huns.
But the fifth reunion still signaled Ma Yuan to pursue him for no reason, but it was just to let the new recruits who had been practicing for more than two months see blood, just like the purpose of him pulling Zhu Tufeng to fight Lu Fang bravely.
The new soldiers brought by Ma Yuan were significantly different from the county soldiers. It was not only because they were regarded as the fifth republic and were armed with all their arsenals, but also because they were covered with yellow turbans.
Speaking of which, most of these new recruits were bandits from Wei County. Di Wulun had previously worried that they would not be able to attack the refugees, but when Ma Yuan took everyone to pursue, the new recruits' performance surprised Di Wulun.
"The fifth man will eat and eat, and the fifth man will hit whoever he asks him to hit!"
There were even people who enlightened themselves in this way: "How many people from Hanoi, Dongjun, and Wei are the same words, but these refugees are from the downstream foreign counties with different accents, and they are not considered murder."
Therefore, these "Yellow Turban Army" were ordered to raise the butcher's knife to the poor brothers, and some of them were even a little excited about being arrogant, which was in sharp contrast with the county soldiers who were lazily following behind.
Fortunately, the fifth reunion emphasized in advance that he only wanted to expel the refugees from the country, regardless of beheading, but only counted as a captive. Then he stopped the Yellow Turban soldiers who were chasing them and captured some of the prisoners and a slow-running coach.
This needs to be carefully examined. Di Wulun thinks that the Yellow River Flood is also a good source of troops. Like Huang Ze, you can definitely recruit a lot of troops by planting a flag-controlled rice, but you have to figure out the ingredients.
Furthermore, the people of this era had few national and ethnic consciousness, were extremely xenophobic, had serious regional discrimination, and were regarded as aliens with different accents. Soldiers in different counties must be divided into several battalions, otherwise they can do it themselves. They should not be impatient for recruiting soldiers, and they must make plans for the long term.
Chai Rong flattered the fifth reunion, flattered him to command freely and defeated the enemy.
Shi Xiong was still unsatisfied and regretted that the refugee team had withdrawn, but he didn't know that this was done intentionally by the fifth ethics.
Wu Lun glanced at the county soldiers and soldiers: "These county soldiers were not successful enough. If they were to deal with the Wu'an Li family, they were not worthy of reliance, but they were more likely to be defeated. It would be better to use the excuse of defending the emperor's ancestral tomb nearby and transfer Chai Rong and a thousand county soldiers to Yuancheng. This would distract him and save me from worrying about my back at critical moments."
Chai Rong is a hidden danger, but he cannot be killed - the fifth reunion cannot be killed by himself.
Wu Lun looked at Shi Xiong: "I want to support this waste belonging to Shi Xiong. I will use today's affairs to get a little bit of apart, so that he and Chai Rong will fight each other for a long time, so that the two of them will check and balance each other, and they all need my support."
So after Chai Rong left, Di Wu Lun attracted Shi Xiong and sighed: "The Great Yin commands the people and commands the soldiers. This dynasty has been a practice. Today's battle should be ordered to command the order, but Lun oversaw the affairs of the people and hopes to forgive the crime."
"I understand that this is an extraordinary time and can only use power. Fortunately, the Great Yin is here today, otherwise it is still possible to say whether the refugees can repel it." Shi Xiong was a little embarrassed. It was really impressive for the county soldiers to put his few moves. However, the fifth reign used a little trick that made his eyes lit up.
Shi Xiong only said intimately: "Thanks to the fifth emperor, I can see clearly that the person who blocked my control of the county soldiers was Chai Rong. As long as he held him hostage or eliminated him, the county soldiers could obey my orders..."
"I learned!"
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Chi Zhaoping and others retreated to the northeast. This adventure to attack Wulu City was first damaged by hundreds of people under the city, but was chased by the fifth registrar and lost hundreds of people. The Qu soldiers took the opportunity to do their own things, resulting in at least half of the seven or eight thousand people gathered in the Yellow River Flood.
But even so, Chi Zhaoping still couldn't turn back to see Wulu City.
Yuancheng, Wulu, and the Wang family’s ancestral tomb are the concrete signs of her resentment towards the court - why do we, the innocent people downstream, want to block disasters for the imperial temple?
People who have nothing like gambling more, and she herself believes in those words.
"You can take revenge by capturing Yuancheng; destroying the Tyrant's Ancestral Temple, and the flood on the plain will fade!"
Chi Zhaoping has regarded this as his goal for the rest of his life. The time for her rebellion was too short. Next, she must continue to promote it to the ministry so that they can believe it and be willing to do this with their lives.
But this test also made Chi Zhaoping understand that fighting Yuancheng would definitely attract rapid support from the government army, and her power was not enough.
"Then look for foreign aid."
Chi Zhaoping started his career by making six jobs and eight jobs. In addition to gambling, the bones in her hands can also be used for divination. She threw the sperm high and fell into the palm of her hand and opened it to see it. It was a great number!
"There are rumors on both sides of the river, saying, "There are thieves in the rivers and lakes, claiming to be King Fan, and the surname is Liu. Ten thousand people have gone through the journey and are not subject to pardon orders. They want to move Qin and Luoyang'!"
"Everyone said that Fan Chong was Liu Xin, who was launched a war with Zhai Yi more than ten years ago. He must have hated the new room and wanted to dig the emperor's ancestral tomb."
"Send someone to the East, to Mount Tai, and look for King Fan!"
"Just say that Pingyuan Chi Zhaoping is willing to be his 'giant'!"
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The Wei Dynasty Yuancheng County (Guan County, Shandong) is more than four hundred miles east, and Mount Tai is Mount Tai.
At this moment, the "King Fan" in Chi Zhaoping's mouth was like a grassroots image. Fan Chong had messy hair and his curly beard made his face look big, and he was sitting on the stone couch with tiger skin.
Fan Chong raised one hand high and caught the lice under his armpits. They like to parasitize on the scalp and under them, especially when they don’t take a bath for a long time in winter. Fan Chong just let one go, and after pinching it, he didn’t care about his image at all. He has been through this for decades.
When he heard the captured King's scout called him King Fan tremblingly. He couldn't help laughing.
Then he looked stern: "Push it down and chop it!"
"Nai Gong is most annoying to others to randomly arrange my life experience."
Fan Chong didn't want anyone to serve him, so he carried a can of water to drink, and cursed while drinking: "My family is in Langya. Eight generations of people are tenant farmers and poor households. I hate those kings, princes, generals and ministers the most in my life. Who dares to say that I am Liu Xin anymore? I call me the 'king' and will kill him!"
Fan Chong was born with pain and had enough of the days when he was trampled on him. Now that he has become the world's famous thief, he did not have the same name as Chen and Wu, and he asked his subordinates to remain grassroots titles like him.
Fan Chong called himself the "Three Elders". His generals, Bing'an from Langya, Xu Xuan, a native of Donghai, were called "Entertainment". Further down, there were the clan history, all of which were known as the village officials as the countrymen. As for the common name, it was "giant".
So Fan Chong likes others to call him Fan Giant and Fan Sanlao, so he is kind!
Although the team has grown to tens of thousands, there is still no red tape. It only stipulates that those who kill people die, and those who hurt people are bound by words, without documents, flags, divisions, or orders.
But such a seemingly loose team was extremely powerful under the leadership of Fan Chong. It became a climate from Langya to Mount Tai, which severely damaged the county soldiers and attracted the imperial court to send general Jing Shang to attack.
With the beginning of spring, Jing Shang began to gather tens of thousands of troops and approached Mount Tai from the west. Jing Shang followed the way, Yanzhou's governor was the way, and Qingzhou's governor was the way.
Their military decision was made by a group of people who helped each other pinch lice and talked about it.
"No matter how many ways he comes, I only gather my troops and stare at Jing Shang to fight! As long as he can be defeated, the rest of the soldiers of the Mu County in the Prefecture will not have to worry about it!"
Fan Chong slapped a lice that had sucked blood and was swollen and purple to death on the stone table, as if this was the king's army.
Unlike Chi Zhaoping, who retreated when he encountered a strong enemy, Fan Chong and others were not afraid at all. Jing Shang had been encircling them for more than half a year. I don’t know how many family members died at the hands of the king’s army. Even though they were moths flying into the fire, they had no choice but to fight with the king’s army to the end!
Just at the foot of Mount Tai, a big battle!
Someone suggested: "There are also many strong men and women in the government and county soldiers, who are as ragged as us. If they are not distinguished during the war, they may kill the wrong person."
Unlike the big yellow turret leader in Wei, Fan Chong and others were trapped near Mount Tai by the official army. It was so difficult that they could not even get a turban to wrap their foreheads. However, Fan Chong laughed and said, "Isn't this simple?"
He came outside the stone cave. The spring rain had just fallen, and the soil on the mountain was moist. Fan Chong only bent down and pinched a handful of soil. The soil that these farmers liked the most was red soil on the mountain, which was ochre-brown, which was also the color of the bottom layer and prison clothes.
Fan Chong just pasted a hand of ochre mud, smearing it little by little on his eyebrows, creating an exaggerated pair of red eyebrows.
The bandits of Mount Tai followed suit, and they were like Fan Chong, dipped in mud, helped each other, applied them to their eyebrows, and after looking at each other, they all laughed out loud, and then sang songs from the land of Qilu with simple weapons, and followed Fan Chong to fight the decisive battle with the government army!
On that day, thousands of people in Mount Tai were covered with red eyebrows!
This will become their logo and new name.
"Red Eyebrow Army!"
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ps: Chapter 2 is at 13:00.
Chapter completed!