When Shen Chen learned that he had another elder, it was already two days later.
In the Han Dynasty, the mother's father was not called grandpa, but grandpa.
His maternal grandfather was Deng Hong's cousin, so he would call Deng Hong his great-uncle, which means "tang".
So what should Deng Hong’s child be called?
From the seventeenth uncle or aunt.
Because the Deng family is a big family, there are six brothers in Deng Hong's generation, and even more in the next generation.
Shen Chen's mother had to call Deng Hong's children "brother and sister".
It’s really hard to be young.
Shen Chen's face has been darkened all day long. He is not a senior member of the clan. Everyone is his elder. Even Zhuge Liang is two generations older than him, and now there is one more.
But there is nothing we can do about it. Who told him to have a bad background?
You can't blame your parents for why you are not from a well-known family and why you are not higher up in seniority.
Of course.
There is good news too.
Liu Biao decided to send troops.
Act according to the plan and start to lure the Yellow Turbans around Nanyang.
Zhang Xiu also quickly wrote to the leaders of the surrounding Yellow Turban Army, asking He Yi, Liu Pi, Huang Shao, He Man and others to come to Nanyang for a feast.
By mid-February, Cao Cao had already led his troops to conquer Yingchuan and Runan Yellow Turbans.
At this time, He Yi, Liu Pi, Huang Shao, He Man and others had also learned the news and immediately began to send people to contact Yuan Shu.
But what kind of bird is Yuan Shu?
Now I am still dreaming about the emperor's spring and autumn dream, and I don't pay attention to them at all.
This resulted in the Yellow Turban Army being isolated and helpless in the face of Cao Cao's wolf-like force.
Because He Yi's territory was in Yingchuan County, and Cao Cao sent troops from Chenliu to attack He Yi's home base of Xu County. He was defeated and had to gather his troops to flee south.
After entering Runan, they joined forces with Liu Pi, Huang Shao, He Man and others. Cao Cao's troops were approaching, heading towards Wuyang, Xiping, Dingying and other places.
At this moment, in Xiping County, Huang Shao's territory, He Yi, Liu Pi, Huang Shao, He Man and others gathered together to discuss how to deal with Cao Cao.
Everyone sat in separate rows. He Yi looked around and said, "Everyone, Cao Cao has already killed us and is about to kill us all. Are you just going to watch as the swords and axes pile up on you and your death is imminent?"
"Cao Cao is powerful and has many soldiers and horses. I'm afraid it will be difficult to confront him head-on." Liu Pi said with a sad face.
"Yes, we should think of a countermeasure." Huang Shao also said.
He Yi said anxiously: "Then you think, in my opinion, everyone should unite to fight against Cao Cao."
"Unite? How to unite?"
He Man on the side sneered: "You can't defend Yingchuan yourself, and now you come to ask us. It's nothing more than dragging us into the water and asking us to help you deal with Cao Cao. Why should I help you?"
"He Man, what are you talking about?"
He Yi was furious and said: "I know you complained about my attack on you last time, but you know in your heart that it is now the end of our lives. If we don't unite, we will all be killed by Cao Cao."
"snort."
He Man said coldly: "At least I am not attacked by Cao Cao now. It has nothing to do with me."
"You gutless rat!"
He Yi was furious and wanted to cut with his knife.
"Come on."
He Man did not show weakness and also drew his sword to fight back.
"Both of you stop it."
"The enemy is still fighting among itself, what on earth do you want to do?"
"Stop fighting."
Liu Pi and Huang Shao quickly tried to dissuade him. After a while, they finally managed to persuade him.
Historical records of this group of people indicate that each of them had tens of thousands of followers.
But in fact these tens of thousands include the elderly, weak, women and children.
The actual number of soldiers who can actually fight is less than ten thousand, or even less, just a few thousand.
Otherwise, Cao Cao only had 40,000 to 50,000 troops, and they had tens of thousands of troops. The total number would be more than 100,000, so they should be able to fight Cao Cao no matter what.
In addition to the small number of troops, more importantly, the Yellow Turban Army was also suffering from serious internal conflicts and fought with each other a lot.
Since the death of Zhang Jiao, the Yellow Turban Army has been scattered and working independently. Although they occasionally unite with each other, most of the time they are on their own guard and deal with it carefully, making it difficult to form a unified command.
Therefore, Cao Cao defeated them one by one, first defeating the Yingchuan Yellow Turbans and then attacking the Runan Yellow Turbans.
This attack also made Cao Cao a lot of money, harvested a large amount of labor and cattle, and made full preparations for the farming system.
At this moment, He Yi and others naturally did not know that they were a stepping stone to Cao Cao's success in history, but they also knew very well that if they did not do something now, they would definitely be eliminated by Cao Cao.
So the internal strife was internal strife. Under the persuasion of Liu Pi and Huang Shao, He Yi and He Man finally did not fight. One sat down angrily, while the other sneered.
At this time, the soldiers guarding the door came to report: "Report, Chief Gong is here."
"Gong Du is here?"
Huang Shao then said: "Let him come in."
Gongdu was stationed in Shangcai, which was farther away on the east bank of Ru River, so it was the latest to arrive.
As soon as he came in, he saw that the situation on the field was quite tense, and he asked in confusion: "What's wrong? Cao Cao hasn't come yet, but you guys fought first."
He Yi put away the knife and said to He Manu, "Ask him."
"Forget it, what's the fuss about?"
Huang Shao waved his hand to He Man who was about to have a fit and said, "Now let's think about how to deal with Cao Cao."
"How else can we deal with it? People have knives on our necks."
He Yi said coldly: "If you want to die, then just sit here and wait to die. I don't want to die anyway."
"How to fight? Can you beat them?"
He Man spread his hands and said: "Our total strength is only twenty or thirty thousand. We have no fighting spirit, our weapons are not very good, and we don't have any armor. How can we fight with others?"
Everyone knows that the Huanshou sword of the Han Dynasty was a sharp weapon against the nomads in the north, but they don't know that the output of iron tools in the Han Dynasty was extremely limited.
Therefore, there are actually very few real ring-shou steel knives. Only the central regular army, that is, the fifth school of the Northern Army has them.
At that time, the iron ore was in the hands of the imperial court, and the technology of the steel frying method was relatively backward, far inferior to the steel pouring method. As a result, the iron tools among the people were mainly pig iron and wrought iron.
As for the weapons of the Yellow Turban Army, only the generals often had steel knives, and the weapons and equipment of ordinary soldiers were very poor.
How bad is it?
In the early days of the Yellow Turban Uprising, farm tools, wooden spears, bronzes and a small number of pig iron blades were the mainstream weapons of the rebels.
Even more than ten years after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, they have not developed much.
Due to the suppression by the imperial court and local princes, the Yellow Turban Army at the bottom was very worrying in terms of the quality of its soldiers and their weapons and equipment.
Therefore, facing Cao Cao's army, which was like wolves and tigers, not only did they have far fewer soldiers and horses than Cao Cao, but their weapons and equipment were also far inferior, making it impossible to fight.
Otherwise, the historical "Three Kingdoms" said that each of them had tens of thousands of soldiers. If these tens of thousands were all soldiers and had enough weapons and equipment, then their strength would be stronger than Yuan Shu, and Cao Cao would not be able to defeat them.
Therefore, the truth of the few sentences in the history books is actually that the tens of thousands of soldiers included men, women, old, young, women, and children, and there were only a few thousand soldiers with poor weapons and equipment. They were no match for Cao Cao.
Now they also know this very well. Even if five relatively strong leaders gather together and concentrate all their troops, it is impossible to defeat Cao Cao.
As a result, everyone here looked sad and felt deep despair.
And at this moment, Gong Du looked at the four people who looked lonely, scratched his head and said: "Since we can't beat them, then at worst, we can run away."
"Where can I escape?"
Liu Pi laughed at himself: "Cao Cao is in the north, Yuan Shu is in the east, and Liu Biao is in the south. Are you going to escape to Gaoling Mountain?"
Gong Du said: "Let's go to Nanyang."
"Nanyang?"
He Man shook his head and said, "Will Liu Biao agree?"
"He has to agree even if he doesn't agree."
Gong Du took out several letters on bamboo slips and said: "This is the letter I intercepted on the road. It was sent to us by Zhang Xiu, the leader of the Xiliang Army. They were originally going to Yingchuan and Runan to deliver letters. I didn't expect you to be captured."
When Cao Cao arrived in Xiping, he happened to meet me outside the city and asked me to hand it over to you."
"Are you sure it wasn't a robbery?"
He Yi looked at him suspiciously while finishing the letter.
Gong Du said awkwardly: "I did want to steal their horses at first, but they are good at equestrian skills, so I left the letter and left."
In fact, everyone is illiterate.
However, there are always some literate people in the huge Yellow Turban Army, such as the original Yellow Turban Taoist priests.
Only after someone read the letter did they understand what was going on.
Zhang Xiu went south from Guanzhong to Wuguan, defeated the army sent by Liu Biao, and occupied Nanyang.
Because he felt that he was weak and was afraid of Liu Biao's army, he invited them to garrison in Nanyang together to hold a grand event.
"Is this embroidery reliable?"
After reading the letter, He Man was very skeptical. He had never heard of a leader named Zhang Xiu in the Xiliang army.
Huang Shao thought for a while and said, "It's not far from Nanyang anyway. Send someone to inquire about it?"
Zhang Ji attacked Nanyang at the end of January, less than a month had passed. In ancient times, there was little information. Only people from the north moved to Nanyang, and few people from Nanyang moved out. Therefore, they had no idea that major events had happened in Nanyang.
At that moment, Huang Shao immediately sent people on horseback to Nanyang to find out the news. Xiping was very close to Nanyang, the nearest place was only ten kilometers away, but to find out the information, he had to go to Wancheng.
Zhang Xiu had already entered Wancheng at this time, so two days later, they got the latest information about Nanyang.
In January, Zhang Ji, the leader of the Xiliang Army, attacked Nanyang and was shot to death by Liu Ya in Rangcheng.
Zhang Ji's nephew Zhang Xiu took his place and continued the attack.
Wenpin, the defender of Rangcheng, was defeated and was forced to withdraw his troops. Deng Ji, the defender of Huyang, and Liu Wei, the defender of Fancheng, and Wang Jie were defeated by Zhang Xiu in the wild.
From then on, Zhang Xiu occupied Wancheng.
Except for the failure of Wenpin, these news are basically true and can completely withstand scrutiny.
Moreover, Liu Biao also cooperated with Zhang Xiu and evacuated Wenpin to Xinye. After Zhang Xiu entered Wancheng, he announced with great fanfare that he had defeated Liu Biao and occupied Nanyang.
For a time, the entire Nanyang people thought that Zhang Xiu had become their ruler, which briefly caused a certain amount of panic.
Fortunately, Zhang Xiu immediately announced the plan to calm the people and ordered the Xiliang army to commit no crimes in autumn, thus calming the people's hearts.
After learning the news, the five leaders held a meeting again.
This time, without any hesitation, they all agreed to go to Nanyang to join Zhang Xiu.
After all, the Xiliang army is powerful and can indeed be relied upon.
And just when the Yingchuan Runan Yellow Turbans and dozens of large and small Yellow Turban forces around Nanyang were invited by Zhang Xiu to Nanyang to participate in the grand meeting.
In late February, after more than ten days of rest and recuperation, Cao Cao prepared to go south to attack Runan.
Cao Cao is very happy now.
Because after conquering Xu County, a large amount of He Yi's supplies were captured, including a large number of cattle and young laborers, which supplemented a lot of resources for him.
Therefore, after learning that He Yi had fled to Runan and joined the Runan Yellow Turbans, Cao Cao became even more hopeful about them.
"The Yellow Turban Army is a good thing."
On the way to Dingling, Cao Cao rode a tall horse and said to Cao Hong and Cao Ren beside him.
He compared the Yellow Turban Army to a thing, because his fortune in recent years was inseparable from the Yellow Turban Army.
First of all, the reason why he was able to obtain Yanzhou was because the Black Mountain Army of the Yellow Turban Remaining Party invaded Yanzhou, and the Yanzhou governor Liu Dai was killed.
Chen Gong and others elected him as the governor of Yanzhou, and he had a basic base.
Immediately afterwards, the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans came to send people and equipment. Millions of Qingzhou Yellow Turbans were captured by him, and he recruited 40,000 to 50,000 elite soldiers, who became Cao Cao's early Qingzhou soldiers.
Now they attacked the Yellow Turbans in Runan, Yingchuan, and captured a large amount of supplies.
It can be said that without the Yellow Turban Army, Cao Cao would not be where he is today. The power he has now is all due to the Yellow Turban.
Cao Hong said with a smile: "Yeah, I didn't expect them to be so rich in supplies. If I had known they had so much grain, grass and cattle, they should have wiped out the Yingchuan Yellow Turbans long ago."
Cao Cao looked around, overlooking Ru River in the distance. On the vast plains, there were abandoned lands everywhere. He sighed with emotion: "Yingchuan and Runan have been prosperous places in the Central Plains since ancient times. It is a pity that the mountains and rivers are now broken. If we could occupy this place to recuperate,
It should be good.”
Cao Hong said: "We have driven away the Yellow Turbans from Yingchuan and just moved the people here."
"Um."
Cao Cao nodded and looked from a distance. After passing Dingling, he was almost to Runan.
Cao Ren said nothing at the side. His ear was cut off. Although the wound was healed, the wound in his heart was difficult to heal, so he became even more silent. He looked towards the south with a solemn gaze and suddenly said: "The Shen family seems to have
Let’s move to Nanyang.”
Cao Cao glanced at Cao Ren, who had a wooden face, and sighed: "Zixiao, I know that the resentment in your heart is difficult to calm down. But you still have to focus on major things, and we will talk about revenge in the future."
"I know big brother, I just will always remember it."
Cao Ren turned his head and looked in the direction of Runan. At this moment, he transferred all his anger to the Yellow Turban Army.
Because only by occupying Yingchuan and Runan can the Cao family's power reach Nanyang.
However, what Cao Cao did not expect was that this trip was destined to disappoint him.
The army passed Dingling and approached the Wuyang Xiping area.
But the scouts reported that there were no Yellow Turbans in the city.
Cao Cao was very confused, so he stepped up his efforts and sent out scouts to find out the whereabouts of the Yellow Turban Army.
A few days later, the scouts reported that more than ten days ago, He Yi, Liu Pi, Huang Shao, He Man, Gong Du and other more than 100,000 Yellow Turban troops united and headed for Nanyang.
at the same time.
Bowang Mountain in Nanyang, northeast of Wancheng, is the gateway to Nanyang.
Gan Ning, Deng Hong, Chenchen and more than 20 cavalrymen were at the top of the mountain overlooking the mighty Yellow Turban army in the north.
The foot of the mountain is densely packed with migratory people, carrying the old and the young, fleeing towards Nanyang.
Most of the people Shen Chen saw were ordinary people, and only a few soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army protected them as they headed south. This must be good news for them.
At this time, he opened his hands and hugged the front, because standing on the top of the mountain, he seemed to have embraced the dense crowd at the bottom of the mountain.