xymnovel Chapter 34 Battle
Chapter 34 Battle
Si Xiaofei never imagined that the leader of the Taiping Rebellion would be someone like Zhang Jiao, who seemed to have no ulterior motives.
But no matter what, the Taiping Rebellion is a fait accompli.
The most important task for the Great Qian Dynasty now is to mobilize the entire army and annihilate the Yellow Turban Rebellion in a very short time!
As long as the Yellow Turban Rebellion is quelled in a short time, the Great Qian Dynasty will still be one of the five great dynasties of the Tianwu Continent, and its rule will be secure!
Conversely, if the Great Qian Dynasty were to show signs of weakness while suppressing the Yellow Turban Rebellion...
Then, countless ambitious people inside and outside the Great Qian Dynasty will immediately take action upon hearing the news.
At that time, the Great Qian Dynasty will truly be standing on the brink of survival.
Despite their current formidable strength, the Yellow Turban Army is nothing more than a rootless duckweed.
What the Great Qian Dynasty truly feared was the group of people behind the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
No matter how powerful a dynasty may have been, there will always be rebellious forces lurking in the shadows.
This has nothing to do with whether the dynasty was strong or the ruler was wise, but rather because human ambition is endless.
If the country is strong, those rebellious forces will naturally continue to lie in the shadows and dare not act rashly.
However, if a nation is in decline, under the impetus of countless ambitious individuals, rebellious forces will spring up like mushrooms after rain, and they will be impossible to eradicate.
The Great Qian Dynasty has existed for over five hundred years since it established its rule over the Tianwu Continent, and the number of people killed in the process is well over one million.
Not only enemies died under the merciless iron heel of the Great Qian Dynasty, but also many of their own people.
Although there are many forces dissatisfied with the court within the Great Qian Dynasty, their strength is too scattered and their quality varies greatly.
Although it may cause some trouble for the Great Qian Dynasty, it cannot shake its foundation.
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However, if someone could unite these forces into a single force, they could surely deliver a fatal blow to the withered tree that is the Great Qian Dynasty.
And now this person has appeared; he is Zhang Jiao, the leader of the Taiping Cult.
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On the other hand, Emperor Si Xiaofei of the Great Qian Dynasty wanted to suppress the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the five states of the Great Qian Dynasty as soon as possible to prevent the overall situation of the Great Qian Dynasty from deteriorating further.
He mobilized his best generals and dispatched elite troops to suppress unrest in the five prefectures of the Great Qian Dynasty.
After much planning, the Daqian court decided to send troops in three routes to quell the rebellion.
The three War Gods of the Great Qian Dynasty each led the Great Qian army to be responsible for the war in the five states of the central region of the Great Qian Dynasty. Two of the War Gods each led an army of 150,000, starting from two passes on the flank of the capital.
They went to suppress Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang, who had already expanded outwards.
Meanwhile, the central army, led by its strongest war god, set out with 200,000 troops to the Luzhou battlefield to engage Zhang Jiao's main force.
Speaking specifically of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, after Huang Chao, Meng Huwang, and Meng Zhang joined them, the Taiping Sect, which should have hastily raised an army, quickly improved some of its shortcomings under their leadership.
During this period, the Yellow Turbans not only passively accepted various blood transfusions from the behind-the-scenes manipulators, but also actively sought their advice on army training methods and other dragon-slaying techniques.
For various reasons, the people behind the Yellow Turbans were not allowed to operate in the open, so they could not directly send military aid to the Taiping Sect.
However, under Huang Chao's instructions, the Taiping Cult obtained many veterans or wounded soldiers with war experience from the group behind them.
After arriving at the Taiping Sect, these people, together with Meng Zhang, who had just arrived and taken over the power of the Yunwang Mansion, gave the Yellow Turban Army a thorough training exercise.
This gave the previously disorganized peasant army at least a semblance of a regular army, making them a thousand times stronger than the Yellow Turbans at the beginning.
The Yellow Turban Army lived up to expectations when it first rose up, even though Meng Zhang and others did not directly take action.
However, relying on their basic skills and sheer numbers, the Yellow Turban Army still routed the poorly armed county troops of the Great Qian Dynasty, leaving them in a sorry state.
Only a few people managed to retreat; the rest were either captured along with the city or sent directly to meet their maker.
Therefore, the Yellow Turban Rebellion in history was not the reality of today. Zhang Jiao, who was stationed at the headquarters in Luzhou, was worried that Zhang Liang, who was going to launch an expedition, was not experienced enough and was not as shrewd as the veteran generals of the court who had fought for many years.
Therefore, he sent his disciples Huang Chao, Shan Shituo, and Meng Huwang to assist Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao.
Therefore, despite being composed of civilians and suffering from severe shortages of weapons and armor, resulting in low combat effectiveness, the Yellow Turban Army still managed to amass a large number of soldiers.
Despite the Daqian army's best efforts to defend the cities, relying on sheer numbers, the major cities remained in grave danger.
Until the arrival of the three armies of the Great Qian Dynasty, they confronted the main force of the Yellow Turban Army in Luzhou, south of Qianzhou, where the capital of the Great Qian Dynasty was located, and Ruizhou and Wuzhou on both sides.
On the main battlefield: Zhang Jiao personally led an army of over a million, together with Meng Zhang, to confront Qiu Longteng, the general who had destroyed the country, at Luzhou.
On the left side of the battlefield: Zhang Bao led hundreds of thousands of troops, together with Huang Chao, Shan Shituo, and Zhang Conglong, to confront Tan Mengjun, the war god of the imperial guards, in Ruizhou.
On the right side of the battlefield, Zhang Liang led hundreds of thousands of troops, together with Meng Huwang, to confront the imperial general Shen Zhian in Wuzhou.
Meng Zhang, worthy of being a Saint-level commander of the 104th level of the Jitong, laid an ambush in the area north of Luzhou shortly after Qiu Longteng led the Daqian army to Luzhou.
Relying on the numerical superiority of the Yellow Turban Army, they wiped out 50,000 of the Qian Army in one battle, winning their first major victory since the formal start of the war with the Great Qian.
Despite their brilliant achievements, the Yellow Turban Army also suffered nearly 100,000 casualties.
However, the Yellow Turban army in Luzhou, which was the headquarters of the Yellow Turbans, still had hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and they had recruited another 100,000 young men from among the masses to join the army, so their strength had been almost restored.
The Yellow Turban Army did not receive military pay, and could fight as long as they had food and supplies, and they also had a large reserve of troops.
However, the army of the Great Qian Dynasty needs to be paid military salaries. If this continues, the Great Qian Dynasty, having lost the three central states, cannot withstand such a drain.
Most importantly, the Daqian court also learned through this battle that the Yellow Turban Army was not as weak as it had imagined.
Although they were poorly equipped, they had received basic training and were very tenacious in their resistance, wanting to quickly wipe out the Yellow Turban Army.
Given this situation, it's almost impossible.
Although Qiu Longteng still has over 100,000 troops under his command, each one is an elite force.
However, it would be extremely difficult to defeat the hundreds of thousands of fearless Yellow Turban soldiers led by Meng Zhang with just these people.
Left with no other choice, Qiu Longteng was forced to adopt a defensive posture, replenishing his troops on the spot while preparing to defend the city and launch a defensive counterattack.
The two sides clashed dozens of times in these three states, with each side winning and losing, and the battle gradually reached a stalemate.
The Daqian army's campaign at Luzhou was going poorly, which worried the Daqian court. However, the fighting on the other two fronts was even more intense.
Tan Mengjun, a Confucian scholar from the Imperial Guard, encountered Huang Chao, who was also a Confucian scholar. The friction between the two was extremely intense, and Ruizhou on the left side of the battlefield became the main battlefield between the two.