Chapter 35 Battle
Si Xiaofei could never have imagined that the leader of the Taiping Rebellion would be a seemingly aimless man like Zhang Jue.

But no matter what, the Taiping Rebellion was an established fact.

The most important thing for Daqian now is to mobilize the entire army to wipe out the Yellow Turban Army in a very short time!
As long as the Yellow Turban Army is wiped out in a short period of time, Daqian will still be one of the five great dynasties of Tianwu Continent, and the country will be worry-free!

On the contrary, if Daqian showed signs of decline when suppressing the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

Then, countless ambitious people inside and outside Daqian will immediately take action upon hearing the news.

By then, Daqian was truly standing on the brink of survival.

Although the Yellow Turban Army is now powerful, it is nothing more than a rootless duckweed.

What Daqian really feared was the group of people behind the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

No matter how powerful any dynasty was, there will always be rebellious forces in the dark.

This has nothing to do with whether the dynasty is strong or the emperor is wise, but because human ambition is endless.

If the country is strong, those rebellious forces will naturally continue to lurk in the dark and dare not act rashly;

But if the national power declines, under the impetus of countless ambitious people, rebellious forces will emerge one after another like mushrooms after rain, and they will be impossible to kill.

It has been more than 500 years since Daqian established its capital in Tianwu Continent, and the number of people killed has exceeded millions.

Not only enemies but also many of the Daqian Dynasty's own people died under the ruthless iron hoof.

Although there are many forces in Daqian that are dissatisfied with the imperial court, their strength is too dispersed and of varying quality.

Although it may bring some trouble to Daqian, it cannot shake its foundation.

But if someone could unite these forces into one, they would surely be able to deal a fatal blow to the dead tree of Daqian.

And now this person has appeared, he is the Taiping Sect leader Zhang Jiao.

On the other hand, Daqian Emperor Si Xiaofei wanted to suppress the Yellow Turbans in the five states of Daqian as soon as possible to prevent the situation in the entire Daqian world from further deteriorating.

He made every effort to organize good generals and sent elite troops to the five states of Daqian to suppress the unrest in various places.

After much planning, the Daqian court decided to send troops in three groups to quell the rebellion.

The Daqian army was led by three war gods of Daqian and was responsible for the war in the five states of the central region of Daqian. Two of the war gods each led an army of 150,000 and set out from two checkpoints on the flanks of Qiandu.

Go and suppress Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang who have been expanding outward.

The central army, led by the strongest god of war, led an army of 200,000 to the Luzhou battlefield to deal with Zhang Jiao's main force.

Just talking about the Yellow Turbans during this period, after the joining of Huang Chao, King Meng Hu and Meng Zhang, the Taiping Sect, which was supposed to rise up hastily, quickly improved some of its shortcomings in their hands.

During this period, the Yellow Turbans not only passively accepted various blood transfusions from the masterminds behind the scenes, but also actively tried to ask them for advice on military training methods and other dragon-slaying techniques.

However, for various reasons, the group of people behind the Yellow Turbans were all secretive and it was difficult for them to send direct military assistance to the Taiping Sect.

But under Huang Chao's instructions, the Taiping Sect asked the group behind them for many veterans or wounded soldiers with war experience.

After arriving at the Taiping Sect, they cooperated with Meng Zhang, who had just arrived to take over the power of the Prince Yun's Palace, to train the Yellow Turban Army.

The peasant army, which was originally a group of scattered sand, at least had a trace of the shadow of a regular army, which was a thousand times stronger than the Yellow Turbans at the beginning. When the Yellow Turbans just started the uprising, they lived up to everyone's expectations, even though Meng Zhang and others did not take direct action.

However, the Yellow Turban Army relied on their most basic qualities and the advantage of their large numbers to defeat the poorly armed county soldiers of Daqian, leaving them in disarray and in disarray.

Only a few people retreated, and the rest were either captured along with the city or sent directly to see Huang Tian.

Therefore, the Yellow Turbans in history were not the reality today after all. Zhang Jue, who was at the headquarters in Luzhou, was worried that Zhang Liang, who was marching outward, lacked experience and was afraid that he was not as experienced as the veteran generals who had fought in the imperial court for many years.

Therefore, he sent his disciples Huang Chao, Shan Shituo and Meng Huwang to assist Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao.

Therefore, under such circumstances, although the Yellow Turban Army was composed of civilians and was seriously short of weapons and armor and had low combat effectiveness, they could not resist their large numbers.

Relying on human wave tactics, although the Daqian army tried its best to defend the city, all major cities were still in danger.

Until the arrival of the three armies of the Daqian court, they confronted the large forces of the Yellow Turban Army in Luzhou to the south of Qianzhou, where the Daqian imperial capital was located, and in Ruizhou and Wuzhou on both wings.

Frontal battlefield: Zhang Jue personally led an army of over one million, and together with Meng Zhang, confronted the imperial court's general Qiu Longteng, who was out to destroy the country, in Luzhou.

Left battlefield: Zhang Bao led hundreds of thousands of troops, together with Huang Chao, Shan Shituo, and Zhang Conglong to confront the imperial guards god of war - Tan Mengjun in Ruizhou.

On the right battlefield, Zhang Liang led hundreds of thousands of troops and confronted the imperial general Shen Zhian in Wuzhou together with King Menghu.

And Meng Zhang was worthy of being the saint-level commander of Jitong 104. Shortly after Qiu Longteng led the Daqian army to Luzhou, he set up an ambush in the area north of Luzhou.

Relying on the numerical advantage of the Yellow Turban Army, they defeated 50,000 of the Qian Army in one battle and won the first major victory since the official war with Daqian.

Although the battle record was extremely brilliant, the Yellow Turban Army also suffered nearly 100,000 casualties.

However, the Yellow Turban Army in Luzhou, which is located at the Yellow Turban headquarters, still has hundreds of thousands of troops, and has recruited another 100,000 young and strong men from the crowd into the army, and its military strength has almost recovered.

The Yellow Turban Army had no military pay, and they could fight as long as they had food and fodder, and they also had plenty of reserve troops.

However, the army of the Daqian court needs to be paid. If the consumption continues at this rate, Daqian, which has lost the three states in the central region, cannot afford it.

The most important thing is that the Daqian court also realized through this battle that the Yellow Turban Army was not as weak as they had imagined.

Although they were poorly equipped, they had received the most basic training and had a very strong sense of resistance. They wanted to quickly wipe out the Yellow Turban Army.

Given the circumstances, it's almost impossible.

Although Qiu Longteng still has more than 100,000 troops under his command, and each of them is elite.

But it would undoubtedly be extremely difficult to rely on these people to defeat the hundreds of thousands of fearless Yellow Turban Army led by Meng Zhang.

In desperation, Qiu Longteng was forced to go on the defensive, replenishing troops on the spot while preparing to defend the city and launching a defensive counterattack.

The two sides fought dozens of times in these three states, with both sides winning and losing, and the war situation gradually fell into a stalemate.

The Daqian army's battle situation in Luzhou was not going well, which made the Daqian court worried, but the battle situation in the other two directions was even more intense.

Among the imperial guards, Tan Mengjun, who came from a Confucian family, met Huang Chao, who was also born a Confucian scholar. The friction between the two sides was extremely fierce. Ruizhou on the left battlefield became the main battlefield between the two.

(End of this chapter)