Chapter 27: Going to the front and going to the back
At this time, fifteen miles behind Gongsun Xun, the thousand men of Cheng Pu and Gao Shun had actually been completely overwhelmed by the Yellow Turban Army. However, in the Han army camp not far from here, all the soldiers who had already put on armor
Le Jin, Li Jin, or Lu Fan, who personally climbed up to the observation tower in the camp to watch the battle, had no intention of attacking at this time.
Of course, Lu Fan was a little hesitant for a time. However, seeing the Yellow Turban Army rushing up in waves and retreating in waves, the Han Army, which had transformed into a round formation, was not only able to defend, but also counterattacked from time to time.
During the charge... In short, although the Han army suffered some casualties, Lu Ziheng really felt that there was no need to give an order... Especially since the battle situation on the river side was unclear, Lu Fan did not know when Gongsun Xun would lead his troops back.
Correspondingly, Liang Yuan, the actual coach of the Dongwuyang Yellow Turban Army, was almost collapsed at this time! He collapsed not because of the tenacious fighting power of the Han army, but because he lost control of the 20,000 Yellow Turban Army.
! The 20,000 Yellow Turban Army, along with their own commander, fought on their own, with chaotic formations and inconsistent steps. They were just surrounding a thousand people and beating them randomly!
In fact, judging from Lu Fan's tall watchtower, there would never be more than three Yellow Turban troops engaging the Han army at the same time, and they would not form a siege at all.
And just when Liang Zhongning was anxious but helpless, this son of a wealthy family in Puyang, who usually relied on his talents, suddenly realized something in a flash of light - he realized how deeply he had misunderstood large-scale wars! This
It’s not that I’m incompetent, or that the Yellow Turban Army is all trash, it’s that everyone from top to bottom has no military experience in large-scale combat!
Perhaps if you fight a few more battles, you will be able to control your situation more freely? However, will the Han army give you a chance to practice?
On the battlefield, Liang Zhongning, who looked dazed, figured this out, but became even more desperate and collapsed... Because thinking further, this smart man further understood that no matter where he was, the seemingly powerful Yellow Turban Army was not
With the confidence to fight the Han army in the field, the Yellow Turban Army was almost unlucky in a large-scale field battle!
In fact, Liang Yuan was right. What he didn't know at this time was that Bo Cai defeated Zhu Jun. In fact, it was Zhu Jun who failed to attack Yangdi and was defeated by the Yellow Turban reinforcements from all directions and counterattacked.
That's all. But even so, after Zhu Jun retreated to Changshe, the 20,000 main force still suffered little damage.
After thinking about this train of thought further, Liang Zhongning was almost at a loss, because it ultimately meant that after the Han Dynasty reacted and dispatched a hundred thousand main troops to the north and south, the seemingly powerful Yellow Turban Army actually had little chance of actually being defeated.
To seize the Han Dynasty and the world... But if this is the case, what is the point of his family defecting to Buji?
Liang Yuan and Liang Zhongning originally thought that even if Dongjun was defeated, they could take the remaining troops to find Zhang Jiao... But now it seems that isn't it a waste of effort?
At this thought, Liang Yuan, who had already failed to command effectively, gave up command half with resentment and half with self-destruction. Instead, he just kept shouting and encouraging the Yellow Turban Army to attack a mere thousand Han troops.
Of course, it is still impossible to attack randomly.
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On the bank of the Yellow River, the Yellow Turban Army finally found a place of temporary comfort - the solid, straight and healthy Yellow River embankment behind them!
The cavalry can't rush up the embankment!
What's even more interesting is that when the Yellow Turban Army retreated to the embankment, the Han Army actually paid gold and retreated. They even threw down two drums and simply turned to the north!
Bu had been forcibly escorted to the river embankment by a group of Yellow Turban soldiers. He first cried at the corpses of thousands of Dongjun children under the embankment. When he raised his head, he saw the Han army heading north, but he realized that the Han army was going north.
After annihilating Liang Yuan and Zhang Bo's 20,000 troops on the east side of Wuyang, he became even more nervous. Then he thought about what Liang Yuan had said to him before he left, and he regretted it more and more. However, in the blink of an eye, he felt even more nervous.
Hearing someone crying around him, he recalled the formation of the Han army's cavalry charge just now. He felt even more sad when he thought that such a powerful soldier might have to deal with the great virtuous teacher in the future...
"Commander Bu!" Seeing the Han army go away, someone finally reacted after escaping from death. "Hurry up and let people go down and carry our wounded soldiers to the embankment!"
Bu suddenly came to his senses, wiped away his tears quickly, and forced himself to give the order.
Then, someone else hurriedly said: "Commander Bu, at this point, the two deputy commanders in Dongwuyang cannot be saved. Please quickly order the withdrawal of troops across the river! When we return to Puyang, we still have more than 10,000 people. We still have more than 10,000 people."
With food, we may be able to support the reinforcements of the great virtuous teacher and the inevitable commander-in-chief!"
Bu Ji didn't know how powerful the cavalry was at this time, so when he heard this, he first thought that the 20,000 Yellow Turban Army in the north who had already left the city would be hunted down by the Han army on the plain, and his heart was as sharp as a knife... However, he
But he also knew that he could not delay any longer at this time. It would be useless to wait any longer. It was right to take advantage of the Han army's U-turn and return to Henan from the pontoon bridge!
However, before he could force himself to stand up, he opened his mouth to give an order, but the crying around him suddenly became more intense. Moreover, many people were wailing on the top of the embankment facing the south bank of the Yellow River, or rather towards the Yellow River.
Bu was greatly puzzled. With the help of several soldiers, he managed to climb up the embankment, but like these people, he suddenly knelt down and cried bitterly!
It turns out that there is no floating bridge on the Yellow River at this time?
Only the Han army's boat division was crossing the Yellow River, which was only a few hundred paces wide. Then, a group of iron-cable boats with a large banner of "Sheng" was majestically commanding from the center, dispatching countless small boats to carry groups of bow-wielding men.
The strong men of the army were cruising on the river and eyeing the north bank with eager eyes!
Come to think of it, how could the Han army reveal such a flaw? Then Shen Zhengnan returned to the army overnight and made preparations with Wang Xiu. When the fighting started here, they rushed down from the upper reaches with the power of the water and the big ship.
, broke through the Yellow Turban Army pontoon bridge on the spot!
The boats that formed the Yellow Turban Army's pontoon either sank directly to the bottom of the river, or were captured and untied, and in turn connected to the Han army's boats, becoming a boost to the Han army.
In fact, the former Dong'e County Prime Minister Wang Du, who was in charge of the pontoon, knelt down in despair earlier than Bu Ji. At this time, he was crying in panic on the inside of a embankment somewhere downstream.
Bu had cried for a while, stood on the embankment and looked around for a while, trying to persuade the whole army to go north to find Liang Yuan and Uncle Zhang, but he still couldn't open his mouth; he wanted to persuade the whole army to go along the embankment to the left and right, but he couldn't open his mouth.
But I understand even more that this is in vain!
In despair, he stopped crying and stood frozen in the fierce river wind...without him, he was just waiting for news from the north.
What if, what if the north wins?
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Fifteen miles, or less than twenty miles, don't go too fast for the cavalry... In another time and space, Cao Mengde traveled more than three hundred miles a day and night in order to chase Liu Xuande. This was a non-stop extreme operation.
At this time, the Han army had only fought fiercely for more than half an hour before galloping back, and its horsepower was actually quite sufficient. Therefore, just when Bu was looking at the river without tears, the Han army's forward arrived almost in the blink of an eye!
But at this time, the Dongwuyang Yellow Turban Army was still in a mess and couldn't figure it out!
Cheng Lian's more than a thousand Bingzhou cavalrymen, who were the first to arrive, took the lead and inserted themselves directly into the huge and in fact disorderly formation of the Yellow Turban Army. Cheng Lian had a clear view and rushed left and right with spears, directly coming to
Under the largest Huangtian banner, an elderly leader who was shouting on his horse was stabbed down with a spear.
It is Uncle Zhang, the deputy commander of the Yellow Turban of East County!
Just when Zhang Bo died in the battle, the main force of the Han army's cavalry had already entered the formation; and long before that, Lu Fan, who saw the smoke and dust from a distance, also directly ordered to open the camp gate to let Li Jin in the camp, and Le Jin Quan
The army went out to fight; Cheng Pu and Gao Shun were not people who would lose their chance of fighting. They drew their swords and fought hard, leading a thousand soldiers to bloom in the center of the enemy's formation... Under attack from three sides, the 20,000 Yellow Turban Army in front of the South Gate of Dongwuyang
They were defeated faster than the 20,000 Yellow Turban Army who worked so hard to cross the Yellow River!
Gongsun Xun, who arrived later, had to give a very rough order in a hurry, which was to let the infantry seize the empty Dongwu Yangcheng, and the cavalry drove and killed 20,000 defeated troops and headed towards the Yellow River!
A chaotic fight!
The 20,000 Yellow Turban troops here suffered thousands of casualties and thousands more surrendered. Before the cavalry successfully outflanked and drove them away, there were quite a few who fled in all directions... But at this time, they could no longer care about the remaining seven or eight thousand.
People, deliberately driven by the Han army, fled while surrendering. It was not until dusk that the defeated army was driven to the river embankment by the equally exhausted Han army, but only five or six thousand people remained.
people.
These people tried their best to climb up the embankment and escaped the pursuit of the Han army. However, like the remaining Yellow Turbans here, they looked at the river and became desperate.
"Tell them!" Gongsun Xun, who had been running for an afternoon and was extremely tired, sighed. "Without food, it is useless to defend the river bank. Our army will take action after resting its strength... Promise them
Just surrender!"
The generals were so exhausted that even Cao Cao, who was said to be fond of massacring cities, had no energy to say anything at this time. As for Guan Yu and others who were surrounding him at this time, there was no need to say anything... It seemed that the latter was going to remonstrate like this.
However……
"Not surrendering?" Gongsun Xun asked in surprise.
"It's not that we won't surrender." Qianzhao, who went to persuade him to surrender, immediately replied. "There were fifteen or six thousand people on the embankment. About five-one of them surrendered directly after hearing the words, but more people had to wait for the fortune teller's order...
...In my opinion, those who are willing to surrender on the spot are mostly former rangers and scoundrels. Most of the people who were originally civilians have to listen to the words of fortune tellers because they believe in the Tao of Taiping!"
"The Tao of Taiping is ridiculous, but it has deceived people so much!" Guan Yu, who had dismounted early because his horse was overwhelmed, could not help twirling his beard and became angry.
"Isn't there a saying that says, 'If you don't see the coffin, you won't shed tears; if you don't see the Yellow River, you won't die'?" Zhang Fei, who had just arrived here on horseback, was speechless and couldn't help but mutter in public. "So many people have died now, and the Yellow River has no way out."
Why don't they give up?"
Everyone looked at Gongsun Xun who was riding on a white horse. The latter thought for a moment, but finally his impatience prevailed, so he got off his horse and said with all his strength: "First, let people block the upstream and downstream embankments, don't let them escape, and then
Go and find out where the divination is, and persuade him to induce people to surrender... Tell him that I am not a person who is easy to kill. The war has been decided and Dongjun has been peaceful. I will not regard them as enemy invaders. That is
He Buji and these Taiping believers can also settle on the spot!"
The generals had mixed reactions, but after the quick victory in Dongjun, no one dared to question anything in front of him, so everyone quickly carried out the order.
Bu had stopped crying long ago and did not continue to stand on the embankment and look out. He just sat quietly on the top of the river embankment surrounded by a group of broken soldiers.
However, when the news came that he was persuading him to surrender and that Gongsun Xun was looking for him, the famous disciple of the great sage and mentor had a more vivid expression: "Isn't this General Gongsun entertaining us? Regardless of the Taiping believers and backbones or not, all of them are
Settled locally? He is good at fighting and performing meritorious service, so he can naturally become an official elsewhere in the future, and naturally he will not regard us Taiping Dao believers who stayed in Dongjun as enemies. However, we have killed so many officials, can the local government not treat them as enemies in the future?
Do you regard us as your enemies? If he doesn’t kill us today, won’t the government kill us in the future after he is gone? And so many of us were killed by the Han army, how can we not regard the Han Dynasty, the government, and General Gongsun as our enemies? He
The tyrant is here today and we dare not move. If he is gone, why can't we take revenge?"
After saying this, Bu Ji actually smiled at the surrounding Yellow Turban soldiers as he usually did when preaching.
The defeated soldiers didn't know what their psychology was, even though some of them were injured, they actually started laughing at this time.
"In short, the sky is unfair and unkind, making it impossible for us to survive. And what we believe in is Huang Tian. There is no hunger, no oppression, no need to pay dozens of times a year, and no need to drown when giving birth to a boy.
If a girl can be raised, she will not be unable to find a wife; if she gets sick, she can be cured by drinking talisman water... You have all seen this." Bu Ji continued to cross his legs and smile, and his voice became louder and louder."
Therefore, it is said that the power of the blue sky and the yellow sky are incompatible! We tried to bring Huang Tian to the present world, but we were defeated for a moment, and we cannot surrender to the lawless sky!"
"Then what should we do?" Almost everyone around them wanted to ask instinctively, but no one spoke because they knew that Bu Shuai would tell them.
"Then we have no choice but to die." Bu Ji continued with a calm smile. "I heard what Vice Admiral Liang said... Everyone is destined to die. It may be heavier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather. As far as we Taiping Taoists are concerned,
, To die for Huang Tian is to be more important than Mount Tai!"
"Commander Bu, I don't dare!" A man next to him suddenly shed tears of shame. "The cavalry of the Han army are so powerful. If you cut them with a knife, you will break your arms and legs. If you poke them with a spear, there will be another hole in the body..."
"I'm afraid too." Bu Yi immediately smiled and consoled him. "I feel pain too... But we don't have to fight with the Han army's cavalry, knives, and spears. Isn't there the Yellow River behind us? We are all Dongjun.
Isn't it good for my children to be born by the river and die in the river? The body can also be preserved, so that you don't have to be ashamed to meet your ancestors at the foot of the spring... Moreover, although it is not mentioned in the "Taiping Jing", nor is it said by the great sages and good teachers,
But every time I cross the Yellow River, I still wonder, is there any relationship between the Yellow River, the Yellow Spring, and the Yellow Sky? Is it true that the Yellow River is connected to the Yellow Spring, and if you die from here, you can enjoy the blessings of the Yellow Sky?"
At this point, Bu had already struggled to get up, but he no longer looked at the Han troops under the embankment, nor did he pay attention to the tragic scenes around him. Instead, he knelt down, kowtowed, and muttered something.
As I said before, most of the rogues and rangers had already surrendered. The densely packed soldiers on the embankment here were mostly Taiping believers. When they saw this, they immediately woke up and knew that Bu Ji was kowtow to forgive, so they also followed suit.
emulate.
And soon, with Divination as the starting point, on the embankment under the setting sun, most of the defeated soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army knelt down and kowtowed, chanted something, and performed the Taiping Road kowtow and forgiveness ceremony. Even most of the wounded soldiers struggled despite the blood stains on their broken limbs.
Get up and follow suit.
"What a demon!" Cao Mengde was sitting on the ground, but when he saw such a situation, he almost jumped up in shock. "Wen Qi, you are such a demon, do you actually want to surrender? How did you get here when you are a famous general in the world?
How benevolent a woman is? Don’t you see that all these people are monsters?!”
Gongsun Xun stared at the situation in front of him with a dark face and said nothing, as if he didn't want to answer this question.
On the other side, Bu has been muttering words and praying mantras, intending to forgive his sins, but he finally slumped and kept silent... He thought that he would ruin tens of thousands of Dongjun's children, and because he did not know the military, the great sage and good master's overall situation was shaken (he is still
Everyone thought that Gongsun Xun was going to attack Zhang Jiao). How could one so-called sinful person be transformed back to innocence by a momentary ritual?
After thinking about it, it seems that I can only use the water of the Yellow River to cleanse the blood on my body as I just thought! I hope there can be a connection to the Yellow Spring and the Yellow Sky!
As soon as he thought about it, Bu said nothing. He was the first to stand up, walking staggeringly but resolutely. He walked boldly into the Yellow River like a person who wanted to cross the river. This is what is called crossing the river and crossing the river.
The Taiping believers on the river embankment woke up one after another. Most of them turned around and chose to surrender. However, many people still imitated Divination and jumped into the water!
But I don't know who suddenly mentioned it, saying that before his death, Marshal Bu once said that if you throw yourself into the Yellow River and die, you will enjoy the blessings of the Yellow Sky after death and no longer suffer the suffering of the sky... After hearing this, many people hesitated.
He actually gave up his thoughts and turned around and threw himself into the river; the injured even begged the people around him to take them into the water; some people who had already reached the embankment and were ready to surrender turned back and died as if they were home!
For a time, seven or eight thousand people fell on the embankment of the Yellow River, and many of them committed suicide one after another!
There were countless Han troops under the embankment, and they were all stunned!
In other words, the former Dong'e County Prime Minister Wangdu was lucky. He lost the pontoon bridge and was so-called four defeats in four battles. However, after being defeated by Shen Pei this time, he was completely washed downstream on a larger boat. Then
, the Han army surrounded the defeated troops, but exposed his general outside the encirclement. At this time, there were so many people who committed suicide that everyone in the Han army was horrified, and no one was too lazy to clean up the surrounding area, but his confidants saw the opportunity.
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"Wang Jun!" He was still the confidant. At this time, he gritted his teeth and came to Wang Du. "Now is a good time to escape... A few of us have seen it. The damage to this boat is not serious.
We can cross the river with a hundred steps. The main force of the Han army is in Hebei at this time, and they will also clear out the defeated soldiers in Hebei in the next few days. Take this opportunity, let's cross the river to the south! It will get dark soon, and the Han army will not
Coming after me!"
Wang Du gave a bitter smile, but stood up suddenly, and then while adjusting his armor, he said easily: "You can go on your own!"
"What are you saying, Your Majesty?" The confidant was suddenly startled. "We, some scoundrels, have been raised by you for many years. How can we abandon you? How can we behave like animals?"
"You all came to me to seek some merit, but I accomplished nothing. Instead, I turned you into thieves and bandits. It's obvious that I can't stand you." Wang Du said calmly. "Before I started the incident, I went to my old residence in Dong'asi City.
A lot of property has been buried in it for the future, but it is no longer needed now, so it is just a gift to you as an apology..."
When the confidant heard this, he immediately interrupted the other party: "Could it be that Wang Jun wants to accompany Na Bu to die? They are members of the Taiping Dao because they believe in Huang Tian.
How can a person like Wang Jun believe the absurd words?!"
"Who said I was going to die because I believed in Huang Tian?" Wang Du said with a smile, but couldn't bear the sobs. "A scholar dies for a confidant, but you... I... I was a county official back then.
At that time, I tried my best, but was thrown away like a rag by the successive county magistrates, who thought that my strong posture had stained their county temple. After joining the Yellow Turban, although he accomplished nothing and suffered repeated defeats, Bu Shuai never
Abandoned me, but repeatedly entrusted me with important responsibilities! Today's defeat, Commander Bu... Commander Bu died for his Huang Tian, but I only died for him. The so-called minister who dies is the king! I would like to ask you all... I would also like to ask you all.
Complete!"
After saying this, Wang Du bowed respectfully to his confidant and a group of astonished disciples and subordinates, and then turned and walked towards the embankment.
After walking a few steps, he suddenly came to his senses again, turned around and saluted again to the people who wanted to take action: "Gentlemen, you are different from me. Commander Bu and I are friends, and I have failed him many times.
But he has the same trust in me as usual; but I am ungrateful and unkind to you, and you do your best to me... Besides, you are all brave and resourceful people, and you are young, and you will definitely have a future in the future! Please don't
Follow me!"
Several people immediately stood by the river in shock.
On the other side, after saying this, Wang Du finally spent the whole day alone, struggling to reach the embankment under the setting sun, and then walked along the embankment to find where he had gone. The Han army officers guarding the edge of the embankment saw
He came to surrender on his own initiative, and listened to his calm explanation of his reasons, and respected him for considering life and death as nothing, so he took him to the canopy of the Chinese Army to find Gongsun Xun to make the decision.
"Are you Wang Du?" Gongsun Xun had already moved under the umbrella on the embankment. He heard Bu's death words from the prisoner. At this time, his face was extremely ugly, but when he saw this person coming, he still couldn't help it.
He opened his mouth and asked, "Major of Dong'e County? He was buried in a river and died in search of divination?"
"Yes!" Wang Du took his time and saluted respectfully.
"Why do you want to die from him?" Gongsun Xun asked with a dark face. "You, a county magistrate, don't forget to believe his bullshit Huang Tianzhi!"
"The foreign minister doesn't believe it." Wang Du remained unhurried, but calmly explained his reasons.
As soon as these words came out, not to mention Gongsun Xun being silent, everyone around him from Cao Cao down also looked at him with admiration and even had a little more respect.
"Aren't you willing to surrender?" Gongsun Xun asked this question for those around him.
"The only thing is death." Wang Du replied proudly. "I am incompetent for half my life. I will be ridiculed by the people of Dongjun for decades in the future. If I return before my death, I am afraid I will be ridiculed by the people of the world for thousands of years."
"This is the place where Bu has thrown himself into the river." Gongsun Xun felt his chest was tight, but after all, he pointed to where he wanted to go. "You can do whatever you want!"
Wang Du respectfully thanked Gongsun Xun, and then he turned around and jumped into the river without stopping. However, he was like those foolish people who regard the Yellow River as the Yellow Sky. They went to the river as if they were home and regarded death as returning home.
"What a pity!" Lou Zibo couldn't help but say after all. "If he hadn't been a thief, he would have died so generously, and his reputation would have spread throughout the county."
"If you don't want to cross the river, you will cross the river!" Before he could finish his words, someone suddenly chanted loudly under the embankment behind him. "If you fall into the river and die, what will you do to the general? To die so generously is to follow the thief.
In the future, it will be enough to be famous throughout the state and county!"
The voice was sad and clear. Everyone on the embankment thought it was a certain celebrity here, but when they looked back, they turned out to be a prisoner of the Yellow Turban Army who had surrendered before! However, everyone had experienced too many things today, and they didn't know how to deal with it for a while.
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"Good poetry!" Gongsun Xun turned around and said. "This is the famous Yuefu poem "Honghou Yin" from North Korea City in Lelang County. It tells the story of a crazy fool who forced himself to cross the river and drowned... There are so few scholars in the world, why is there only one in the Yellow Turban Army?
Another one? Tell me, who are you?"
"Yellow Turban Army Yanzhou Deputy Commander Liang Yuan, named Zhongning!" This man held his hands far away under the embankment. "My defeated general made the king laugh!"
"I have heard of you!" Gongsun Xun said seriously. "Since you have surrendered, how about you stay here with peace of mind and appease the surrendering soldiers for me?"
"Your Majesty!" The people on the embankment put down their hands and said with a smile. "I didn't mean to sing poems to attract your ideas. I originally abandoned my helmet and armor and pretended to be an ordinary soldier. I wanted to get through and survive in an ignoble way. Unexpectedly, I saw Wang Du.
That waste has such magnanimity, I can't help but feel ashamed. In addition, when I left Puyang, I advised Commander Bu not to cross the river, but he insisted on going his own way and led troops here. It is as sad as the person in this poem... Therefore,
With my heart agitated, I couldn't help but think of this song, so I stood up and recited it to see off the two fools!"
"Then what?" Gongsun Xun's expression became even more unkind.
“Then I naturally chanted this song to myself and sent myself, the fool, ‘crossing the river’!”
Gongsun Xun suddenly laughed forcefully: "That Bu didn't listen to you anymore. He crossed the river without authorization and buried the Yellow Turban of Dongjun. You don't blame him, but instead like Wang Du, you want to repay him for his kindness?"
"Of course not!" The man down the embankment replied proudly. "Bu Shuai's wife's benevolence ruined the situation. It is his own fault. But although the world is big, there is no place for people like me to go except in the river..."
"What does this mean?" Gongsun Xun was still laughing.
"Your Majesty, you have rare kindness. You want to take in the local soldiers, but have you ever thought that this is similar to Commander Bu's? It's purely a woman's kindness?" The man under the dike suddenly mentioned something unrelated.
topic. "Someone just relayed to you what Commander Bu said before he died, and I heard clearly that his foolish nonsense is not worth mentioning, but one thing is right... Heaven and Huang Tian are not at odds with each other, and since
One is to regard the other party as an enemy and cannot change it! Otherwise, how could there be so many people following him to 'cross the river'? Then since I have fought for Huang Tian, even if I don't believe it, even the people of heaven will tolerate it.
I am no longer worthy of you! In this case, instead of lingering and still being oppressed by the people of heaven, it is better to die generously and smile at the people of heaven with the gesture of 'crossing the river'!"
Gongsun Xun opened his mouth. He wanted to say, "I can tolerate you and wait for people like Huang Tian", but most of the army officers from Cao Mengde on down were here, and people like Huang Tian also made him feel that something was wrong, so he finally said this
It's not said out loud.
At this point, the sky was getting dark, and the people on the embankment came straight up the embankment. Although Gongsun Xun and the generals on the embankment tacitly agreed, they still escorted Wang Du as before because they were worried that he would burst out and hurt others.
Generally, you should carefully watch this person coming up.
Passing by the embankment, this person didn't even look at the countless people who were looking at him around him. Without stopping, he walked straight towards the sparkling water below. As the two people stopped, this person even sang loudly like before.
Starting from:
"The public has no way to cross the river, but the public actually crosses the river!"
If you fall into the river and die, what will happen?!"
He sang several times from the embankment to the river. When the water was up to his neck, a wave hit him under the setting sun, but in the end there was no more sound.
Everyone on the embankment was speechless and stood still for a long time, until the sunset completely set on the upper reaches of the Yellow River.
"Taiping Dao is really a monster that deceives people!" Cao Mengde finally yelled at the Yellow River as boldly as he could after a long time, but what he said was just the old words he said before. "Bu Yi is also a monster, and he has deceived so many people into following him.
So to follow him into the river is really an unforgivable sin!"
The surrounding generals also seemed to wake up one after another and agreed with each other.
"However, who forced these people to die rather than believe in this illusory Huang Tian?" Gongsun Xun wanted to ask Cao Mengde this old question in public, but in the end he did not say it, and turned around and left.
Instead, it was the Yuefu terms that I had just heard several times.
The poem says:
"The public has no way to cross the river, but the public actually crosses the river!"
If you fall into the river and die, what will happen?!"
——————I am the dividing line between crossing the river and dying——————
"At the end of Guanghe, in the fifth month of summer, Taizu and the Yellow Turban Yanzhou Qu Commander Bu Ji, deputy commander Liang Zhongning, and Zhang Bo fought in Cangting and Dongwuyang. There were 40,000 thieves, Bu Yiliang, and Zhang led 20,000 troops to attack Wuyang in the east.
In Taizu's camp, Fuqin led 20,000 people across Cangting and crossed the river to attack his back. Shendu stationed on the side of the Yellow River and reported the information to Taizu at night. Taizu sent Cheng Pu and Gao Shun to lead a thousand elite troops five miles south of Dongwuyang.
They were blocked in the road, so they drew up their cavalry and rushed to the river. Waiting for Bu to arrive, they rushed to attack them. Bu was defeated, and Pei also cut off his pontoon bridge from the river and could not return. He went back to Liang, Zhang raised 20,000 troops, but repeatedly failed to break the march.
He raised thousands of troops and waited for Taizu to return, but he was also defeated. He drove the defeated troops back to the river, connected the front and rear, and defeated them. The plan was to capture more than 10,000 people below Zhang Bo, and to surrender more than 10,000. The dead who went to the river were self-conscious, and those below Liang Zhongning were captured.
, there are seven thousand people, and the east county is flat." - "Dian Lue". Annotation by Yan Pei Song
ps: Regarding the Yellow Turbans who threw themselves into the river... I checked the information carefully. In addition to being massacred, the Yellow Turbans were more likely to commit suicide. In "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", about the performance of the Yellow Turban Army after a certain battle, the original text is "Five people died after going to the river."
Ten thousand people'... Fifty thousand people... In the end, sixteen thousand words before and after... There will be no tomorrow... Don't look forward to it.
