Traveling quickly at dawn and night, we finally arrived at Hulao Pass.
The towering city wall stands tall in the starry night... The ancient method of tamping the earth wall, when properly maintained, is really as hard as ordinary steel.
The pass was difficult to cross, so as a clan member and a cavalry captain, I passed the pass when the city gate opened at dawn.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, caring leads to chaos. At this time, the local supervision system collapsed. As long as you have an identity, you can even let large groups of soldiers enter the capital. Why do you still care about your small group leaving the capital?
Outside the window, the lazy attitude from the officers to the soldiers explains everything.
Zhang Liao (Jiang Chen) looked back and asked: "My lord, with so many heroes, Dong Zhuo will collapse soon, why not kill Yuan Shao, Sun Jian, or even..."
He didn't say the name, but Ye Qing knew it.
"Isn't Yuan Shao more powerful than Cao Cao at this time? It's just that people on earth can ignore the top local heroes, but they can't ignore the feudal officials in the upper world."
Thinking this in his mind, he laughed and secretly sent a message: "What the people on earth need is a chaotic late Han Dynasty... I am not exempt from it, but the principle of one thing rising and the other subsiding is applicable at any time."
Zhang Liao nodded understandingly and listened attentively to his lord's explanation.
"Economically speaking, if Dong Zhuo's army expansion is insufficient, his ability to plunder the people of Luoyang City will be reduced. This is only one aspect. What is more important is that the economic pressure will be reduced. At the same time, Dong Zhuo's status will no longer be as strong as in history. What will happen to the princes of Guandong?
What’s the reaction?”
"Politically speaking, the suppression of the dragon energy of the Han Dynasty is also weakening. It will not be easy to burn Luoyang and move the capital to Chang'an. If the burning of Luoyang can be prevented, the Liu family's dragon energy can be preserved to the maximum extent and benefit from it.
Who else will be the biggest?"
"I, Liu Bei, am not only a prince of Guandong, but also a clan member of the Liu family," Ye Qing said, feeling very happy in his heart.
Even if these are still far away, the prestige brought by defeating Dong Zhuo's army alone is enough to make the world regard Liu Bei as a hero. At this time when the hope of reviving the Han Dynasty is not slim, there should not be too many people coming to join him.
The real battle set the trend for five years.
"The next time we enter, it will be the harvest season..." Ye Qing thought calmly as he looked at the continuous golden wheat fields outside the car window.
At sunset, thousands of troops passed through Mengjin and encountered greater trouble.
Not a single boat at the ferry was found, not even the sheepskin rafts that are popular in the Yellow River area - the skin is peeled off by cutting off the four hooves, head and tail of a sheep, then tying the holes and blowing them into airbags, and tying them side by side to form a raft.
"Lord, the people around me said that when Ding Yuan entered the capital, he was afraid that the heroes from the north would come to the capital to seek credit and burn down the ships in Jinkou in this area." The scout reported.
"They are all ambitious, and they will die early..." Ye Qing cursed secretly, looking at the river and sighing.
Zhuangzi once wrote that the Yellow River has no limit in autumn. Although it is now slightly dry due to drought, it is not possible to swim across it without the equipment of men and horses, so everyone can only discuss ways to cross the river.
Beep——
Rolling smoke and dust rose from the road behind, and the vigilant sentry immediately blew his bamboo whistle from the top of the tree.
Guan Yu held the sword in his hand and shouted, a majestic red horse with fire-like eyes came running towards him from the trees. It was Red Rabbit with its spiritual eyes.
He Mao, Yin Zishen, and An Min came together and attracted a group of family guards, shouting from a distance: "Xuan Degong has done such a great thing, but he is still slowing down here. Aren't you afraid that Dong Zhuo's army will crush him?"
"I'm here to defeat Lu Fengxian, and I'm short of the core of thousands of people. Let's see who can crush whom." Ye Qing laughed, looking back at Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhang Liao, and Zhou Ling, all of them looked calm.
They were just one step away from entering the Tao through martial arts. After experiencing the armed battle with Lu Bu, the world's best military general, the warriors made the most rapid progress in the life-and-death struggle. It can be said that they benefited a lot.
grown up
Zhang Fei chuckled: "What do you scholar-bureaucrats know? It's just me and my eldest brother, and ten thousand people are here to deliver food."
Guan Yu sat astride the obedient red rabbit horse, stroking his beard and smiling without saying a word, watching the smoke and dust dissipate. He felt that it was a pity in his heart - he was in a mysterious state now. He wanted to find someone to test the sword, but he couldn't.
"Is it necessary to go to Hebei and kill Yan Liang and Wen Chou as the elder brother said before he can break through in one fell swoop?" Guan Yu thought with some suspicion. The elder brother always likes to joke, and he doesn't know whether it is true or not.
"These generals are so impressive." He Mao and others came closer to take a look, and they were all shocked. Zhang Liao had already found out the basics of each family, and it was the leader of the Ye family - Jiang Chen.
What's even more terrifying is that these two great generals, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, both took the rank of general out of tens of thousands of armies. At this time, they grew up rapidly in advance. How terrible is this?
Unless tens of thousands of troops are mobilized to encircle and suppress this group of people, the preparations involved are complicated and can be done with just one order.
In the past, it took seven or eight days for the imperial court to mobilize troops normally. The Northern Army had just joined the Xiliang Army and people were still undecided. Even half a month was not enough.
Dong Zhuo obviously couldn't muster such troops and left Luoyang - the private soldiers of heroes from all over the country were still hoarding in the high-walled compound outside the city. He no longer had any fear of Lu Bu's force, and Ye Qing was ahead of him, so he was eager to try.
In this situation, he was in the center of the storm. Dong Hei was very precious about his life and how could he dare to move.
"It's a waste of time that Ye Qing became famous. I thought he would just give up when he saw good things, but he was just dormant to cultivate his strength. If he doesn't move, he will be fine. If he moves, he will be shocked." He sighed secretly, and He Mao handed over his hand: "Xuan Degong is famous for his battle.
In the world, great plans and great undertakings are before our eyes, can we be allowed to join in?"
"oh?"
Ye Qing was startled, and quickly said: "Welcome."
After a pause, he sent a message to He Mao: "My family, please stop talking nonsense. What happened in Luoyang that made you come here in such a hurry?"
"Yuan Shao led most of the Xiyuan Army to besiege Dong Zhuo in the west of the city. Xiliang Army reinforcements rushed to the battlefield. They were defeated both internally and externally. Only a few cavalrymen protected the Yuan family and young ones and broke out. They took the shortcut from Black Mountain back to Qingzhou."
Ye Qing was shocked when he heard this and took a simple map he had copied from the Imperial College in the south of the city: "Where to cross the river?"
"It should be..." He Mao paused, turned to look at Ye Qing, and then at the generals who were getting more and more eager to try, and couldn't help but swallowed: "What are you thinking about?"
"Who knows how many people will die in the vast Black Mountains?" Ye Qing's finger was cruising on the map. The Eight Routes of Taihang in later generations were not fully developed at this time. There was a relationship with Zhang Yan, a group of thieves in the Black Mountains. Taking advantage of Zhang Yan's ignorance of the details of the Yuan family's army, he
How difficult is it to check the comings and goings of a foreign cavalry team?
At best, when Zhang Yan is half-dead and takes the blame, she can reluctantly accept it.
"Oh my god, this is so crazy." Yin Zishen's eyes widened. Aren't you afraid of this person?
"Crazy?" Ye Qing laughed.
Yuan Shao has deep roots in Qingji and Hebei Provinces in the north. He has a fellow disciple in Youzhou, Gongsun Zan, which is already a headache. Ye Qing doesn't want to go back and mess with this guy Yuan Shao.
This made Cao Cao and Sun Jian proud.
Moreover, after Lu Bu committed suicide, a sense of crisis oppressed his heart. He had to follow his own heart, and the leaders of these later heroes, whether Yuan Shao, Sun Jian... or even Cao Cao, would die one by one.
The earlier these enemies die, the lower the obstacles to unifying the world will be, and the stronger I will become with the dragon energy... If I can have the dragon energy of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu and bring back a tenth of it to the upper world, I will laugh out of my dreams.
He Mao was also puzzled: "Is it necessary to be in such a hurry?"
"You don't understand this." Ye Qing shook his head and did not explain: "Where to go? This matter does not involve you, I will go there..."
"Report——" The messenger ran in, looked at He Mao and others, and then at Ye Qing.
"explain."
"Master, there are angels outside," the messenger said with excitement and awe on his face.
Under the surprised gazes of He Mao and others, Zhang Fei jumped up and straightened his clothes. Guan Yuhuo opened his eyes, twirled a long beard, and ignored his heartache: "Is the emperor here?"
Since the Zhou Dynasty abolished the old Shang ancestral god and established the Haotian Sacrifice, the emperor has carried out his destiny on behalf of the heaven.
The three thousand years of history throughout the subsequent dynasties are truly the longest and are not some kind of counterfeit.
At this time, every decree of the emperor has already established an aura of orthodoxy. Regardless of the disdain of the high-level officials, as long as the Han Dynasty has not completely ruined its brand, there is a centripetal force of great righteousness among the people...
Ye Qing looked at everyone's expressions. Jiang Chen, Zhou Ling, and He Mao had absolutely no such experience, and felt a little emotional. This was the difference between the minds of the indigenous people and the people on the ground.
The sign of the Han Dynasty was not built in a day. What did Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu do in the first year after he entered Luoyang?
Sacrifice to Haotian to show the world, build the temple of Gaozu to honor Zhengshuo, rebuild the Taixue to correct the literary industry, and divide the fields into households to meet the people's expectations... Do all these things that the people expect, and only in the second year can good generals be sent to attack the princes.
, built his own palace, coaxed the queen, it seems that Liu Xiu rose from a poor family scholar, and conquered the world most leisurely in history. The difficulties he overcame were no less than those of the founding emperors of any dynasty. In fact, his skills in regulating the world were the most mellow, and he was praised by a certain person in later generations.
Taizu of the Datu Dynasty believed that he was "the emperor who was the most knowledgeable, the best at fighting, and the best at employing people."
How could someone other than this extraordinary person come to the Han Dynasty to conquer the world for the second time?
There is no such special example in any dynasty before and after. Not only did the people of Qin and Han Dynasties remain popular, but also the emperor was outstanding.
"Even if so many people starve to death, and even if the upper class is cynical, the Liu family's brand among the middle and lower classes has not fallen... But if this continues, it will soon fall..."
Ye Qing knew in his heart that this was probably a good thing rather than a bad thing. He stuffed the map into Zhou Ling's arms and said, "I'll go and greet the angel in person."
I was startled when I saw him when I went out. Coincidentally, this eunuch was the Xiao Huangmen who led the way back to the palace and accepted dozens of taels of bribes. He was very lucky.
At this time, the eunuch, dressed in bright clothes, had been promoted. He winked at Ye Qing, spread out the imperial edict and read it out.
"Prefect of Yingchuan County" Everyone was dumbfounded and looked at Ye Qing.
Ye Qing composed himself, kowtowed and thanked Zhou Ling, asked Zhou Ling for twenty taels of gold, and took the opportunity of receiving the imperial edict and stuffed it into the eunuch's hand.
"Thanks to your advice last time, I survived. How can I ask for money from my savior?" The eunuch declined in a low voice. He couldn't resist Ye Qing, so he had to accept it and touched it in his sleeve, with a smile on his face.
Is there any eunuch in the world who doesn't love money? How much is a so-called benefactor worth?
Ye Qing invited him to the forest and interrogated him carefully. He found that money in the Han Dynasty was still very valuable. Even if the price of food soared, these twenty taels of gold were still worth ten years. This eunuch simply regarded Ye Qing as a fool.
Biological parents, they can’t wait to reveal all the news...
Everyone outside the forest pricked up their ears to listen, but it seemed that they had gained nothing. Only Guan Zhang and the other four people, whose martial arts had reached the threshold of entering the Tao through martial arts, could hear clearly. Their expressions were all different... It was obvious that the news from Luoyang was both
There is good news and there is bad news.
Ye Qing let the eunuch out and stayed there alone for a long time. He didn't say much when he came out. He only ordered the entire army to be summoned to go south and divert to Yingchuan County.
"No more than the river?" Zhang Fei asked with some regret. Just now he heard that Yuan Shao had left his uncle Yuan Wei's family and rode directly around Hedong County. He estimated that he would reach the north bank of the Yellow River in two days, but there was no trace of it at all.
Talk about the kindness of this family member.
"Yes." Ye Qing nodded. Historically, Yuan Shao ignored the life and death of his uncle in the court and directly launched an army. Dong Zhuo immediately killed the Taifu Yuan Wei.
To be honest, all the heroes in the troubled times of the late Han Dynasty had this kind of absolute appearance.
However, feeling a cloud of yellow energy descending, the same yellow energy, which is more than five times that of Duqiwei, is the real power and foundation.
Chapter completed!