There were a few people at the end of the Han Dynasty who chose to stand directly against the aristocratic families, without any acting, and their outcomes were not good. Even Cao Cao, after he had conflicts with the Yanzhou aristocrats in the early days, the Yanzhou aristocratic families turned around and welcomed Lu Bu into Yanzhou, and defeated Cao Cao so much that he was left with only three counties. If I were a governor or an emperor, I would naturally have a way to negotiate with these powerful families, but in the current situation, I can't push them too hastily, I have to take it slow. Chapter 47: Recruiting and Capturing Prisoners The next day, Liu Zhuang sent troops to investigate the movements of the Yellow Turban Army, and then began to train the soldiers himself. Before that, at the White Horse Pavilion, everyone had no way to retreat, and if they did not train they would die, so everyone held their breath and there was no need to emphasize discipline. But now it is different. There are surrendered Yellow Turban soldiers and Mayi militiamen, and the personnel composition is extremely mixed. Liu Zhuang first re-issued the Qin and Han Dynasty reward system. As long as they are willing to fight and win, everyone can be promoted, get rich, and live a good life. Look at the soldiers in Yitun. The last time they won a battle, each of them seized 20 strings of money, which is almost the total income of an ordinary farmer for two years. After arousing the greed in people's hearts, Liu Zhuang began to set military regulations for everyone. The daily training volume, what was allowed and what was not allowed, and the order of the superiors must be immediately executed on the battlefield were clearly written down. Everyone in the camp, including Sima Liu Zhuang, had to obey the regulations, and anyone who violated the regulations would be punished. The rewards and punishments in the military camp were open and transparent, and everyone had to act within this framework, which frightened these people. This is rare. This is the first time I heard that military law can be effective against a superior. Let's see if he is serious. On that day, Liu Zhuang personally led everyone in training, and completed all the training goals by himself. He also ate with the soldiers and did not give any special treatment to them. This made the soldiers admire him very much, and they felt that Liu Zhuang was also one of them, not some high-ranking officer. However, if anyone violated the rules, Liu Zhuang would be very strict and punish them personally. He would never tolerate or condone any violations and would enforce strict discipline, which made the soldiers both respect and fear him. During the time when Liu Zhuang and the Beidi officers were training soldiers, Tuoba Yun took the 200 men who had already completed training out for reconnaissance. All the men were divided into groups of five and spread out to the farmlands on the north bank of the Luoshui River, looking for the remaining half of the Yellow Turbans. Finally, on the third day, they found their location - they were hiding in a hill southeast of Mayi and setting up camp. The terrain was very dangerous and not easy to fight.
This group of poor refugees had probably been forced into a desperate situation. In order to survive, they had become so extreme that they would do anything to survive. Their initial slogan was to burn down government offices, targeting only Han officials and troops. But now, in order to feed more than a thousand people in the camp, they were wreaking havoc in the fields like locusts, attacking everyone indiscriminately. The seeds that the Huang family servants had just planted were dug out and eaten by them. The fortress, which was as luxurious as a small castle, was also attacked. The flames blackened the outer walls, but it did not fall. The local Yellow Turban Army seriously lacked the means to break into the city. Not only that, the land of some other free people was also looted by the Yellow Turban Army. They were so hungry that they couldn't tell friend from foe. First they burned government offices, then robbed wealthy families, and now it has developed to the point of robbing whoever they catch. Even the earliest Yellow Turban generals were a little confused: "The Great Sage Master taught me the art of peace, telling me to only kill government troops, and not to harm other wealthy families and ordinary people. These people should be our friends." But why did they all stand against us? The peasant soldiers from the White Horse Camp were the ones who attacked us the most fiercely in Mayi. But if we really follow this program, the first ones to die will be our own people! Why did things develop to this point? ? ? Liu Zhuang ignored the confusion of the Yellow Turban Army and carefully confirmed the enemy's intelligence: more than a thousand people crowded on a mountain, extremely short of food? I know this question. After finding out the enemy situation, Liu Zhuang immediately gave the order for the entire White Horse Battalion to set out and go to besiege the hill in a mighty manner. With more than a thousand people acting together, such a big movement could not be concealed. Liu Zhuang simply took the three captains Tuoba Yun, Yuchi Hong, and Hou Cheng, and two hundred armored cavalry and a hundred Han light cavalry with him, relying on their speed advantage, and rushed to the foot of the hill first, blocking all entrances, which stunned the Yellow Turban Army. The speed of the cavalry was so fast that several Yellow Turban scouts and spies lurking in Mayi City wanted to send a message to everyone, but before they arrived, the hill had been blocked by three hundred cavalrymen. The frightened spies returned to Mayi overnight to continue their disguise. The Yellow Turban Army took advantage of the fact that only two cavalry units came to the White Horse Camp and immediately organized a group of warriors to try to break out from the mountain. However, when they were halfway there, they saw arrows covering the sky and pouring down like a rainstorm. They were shot in the face by the two hundred soldiers and suffered heavy casualties. Before they could react, Yuchi Hong personally led his elite Khorne troops and a group of horses to launch a counter-charge. These Yellow Turban soldiers rushed down the mountain in a panic, and could not even form a complete anti-cavalry spear formation. Their formation was also scattered by the rain of arrows. As soon as they came into contact, they were defeated head-on by this group of Khorne lunatics! The scattered formation of five hundred infantrymen was pierced through from the center by a hundred heavily armored soldiers and horses, and was shattered. The people who were knocked away, beaten back, and scared away were scattered everywhere. After breaking through the enemy's formation, Yuchi Hong led a hundred men and horses to turn their spears around and charge again from the inside to the outside. The two charges completely crushed the morale of the remaining Yellow Turbans, causing the remaining soldiers to flee back to the mountain screaming, and they did not dare to continue charging down. Their personnel are of good quality, and there are even some laid-off and retired veterans of the Han Dynasty, but their weapons and equipment, as well as the overall quality of their personnel are far inferior to those of the White Horse Battalion. Half a day later, the infantry of the White Horse Camp also arrived. More than a thousand people surrounded the hill tightly, leaving no room for escape. Now, they had no chance of getting out. Liu Zhuang also caught the moment when the enemy was most afraid, and sent a surrendered Yellow Turban Army to persuade them to surrender. We were all poor people who could not survive in Dingxiang and Yanmen. Sima Da of the White Horse Camp was also one of us. Most of the refugees from Dingxiang followed him. A bunch of officers and soldiers led by Lu Bu from the Northern Di Camp also joined us! We were all fellow villagers and comrades in arms. Let's not fight here! He chose a better way out for us. Surrender! The other military commander will pardon you! The Yellow Turban Army was a little shaken at this moment, but the leader still refused to surrender and defended himself on the hill. Liu Zhuang was not in a hurry. In this kind of mountainous terrain, a rash attack would result in too great a loss. So he simply stationed his entire army on the garrison and fought the Yellow Turban Army head-on with the food and fodder he had stored and the 500 dan of wheat given by the Huang family. On the first day of the siege, some Yellow Turban soldiers were dizzy from hunger and began to be unable to hold on. They dug wild grass on the mountain and ate tree bark to satisfy their hunger. The next day, some starving Yellow Turban soldiers sneaked down the mountain to surrender at night and were immediately treated kindly.
On the third day, the Yellow Turbans in Mayi, who had surrendered individually, turned into surrendering in large groups. A large number of refugees from Dingxiang and laid-off soldiers went to Liuzhuang to make a living. The Yellow Turban leader found that nearly one-third of the people had fled, and he immediately lamented that the people's morale had been dispersed and he could no longer lead the team. With a look of despair on his face, he organized his troops and tried to make a final breakthrough. However, they couldn't even break out of the resistance of 300 cavalrymen, let alone break out of the encirclement of 1,000 men. Every time they broke out, they were shot with crossbows and bloodied, and corpses were scattered all over the ground, and then their morale collapsed. There were several times when they took advantage of the night and managed to reach the White Horse Camp, but they found in despair that they could not defeat it at all. Although the soldiers of the White Horse Battalion were refugees and militiamen, most of the officers were born in the military and had all kinds of disciplines. The training was exactly the same as that of the army. At night, there were all kinds of sentries, secret sentries, and night watch systems. After discovering the enemy, the entire army could go into battle as quickly as possible. The training of the soldiers was not as good as that of the Han regular army for the time being, but fighting a group of peasant soldiers without armor and lack of training? It was simply a dimensionality reduction attack. During the third breakout, the leading Yellow Turban general was hit by a javelin thrown by a sword and shield soldier, which pierced his heart and killed him on the spot. The army was in great chaos and all the remaining Yellow Turbans chose to surrender. Liu Zhuang counted the number of people and found that more than 1,300 people surrendered. The Yellow Turbans in Mayi were finally completely pacified. This Yellow Turban Army sent to the end of the Han territory seemed to be a branch of a branch, and there was not even a Thunder Warrior leading the team. Liu Zhuang selected strong men from the internal camp and dispersed them to join the White Horse Camp to prevent them from gathering together to cause trouble. But this was because he was too cautious. Most of these people were soldiers who were laid off and repatriated from the Beidi Camp a few years ago. They joined the Yellow Turbans because they could not survive. When they entered the military camp and saw old captains such as Lu Bu and Song Xian, they felt as if they were back home. The soldiers who deserved to be paid got paid, and those who deserved to be promoted got promoted. Liu Zhuang set up a new third section and promoted some sergeants and team leaders with outstanding military achievements in the first and second sections to become garrison commanders and team leaders of the third section. One of the garrison commanders was the soldier who shot and killed the leader of the Yellow Turbans with a javelin. He was originally an unknown refugee, but because of his merit in shooting and killing the enemy general, he was promoted on the spot by Liu Zhuang to be the head of a 100-man garrison. Everyone was envious of him and they were all ready to change their class and status by taking advantage of this once-in-a-century chaos. Although there are only 300 people in the third song, which is not fully staffed, the framework of officers and veterans has been formed, and when there are more soldiers, we can just stuff them in. Other meritorious soldiers were promoted to sergeants or squad leaders of the first and second troop, and those positions just happened to be vacant. Seeing that the White Horse Camp had initially expanded its third camp, the generals fought again for the position of the commander of the three camps. In the final decisive battle, it was Zhang Liao who won the second battle. At this moment, Hou Cheng, who had been defeated by Zhang Liao once, also figured out the strengths and weaknesses of Zhang Liao's abilities. This little girl had extremely strong bursts of power but insufficient endurance, so he simply gave up the long spear in his hand, took two shields, and fought Zhang Liao head-on. Relying on his physical advantage as an adult man, years of experience in fighting on the edge of a knife, and extremely passive and despicable tactics, he consumed Zhang Liao's magic power until it was exhausted, and narrowly defeated the 16-year-old Zhang Liao. The little girl was so angry that she stomped her feet, and became the marquis of Sanqu Army amid the cheers of the old generals of Beidi. Huang Si saw that the Yellow Turbans had been pacified, so he did not dare to delay and immediately opened the fort. He not only found the bamboo slips that recorded the other half of the knowledge of "Profane Priests", but also took out a lot of treasures and gave them to the Sima of other departments and two military officers. Lu Bu got a low-level perception amulet, +2 perception, which raised her perception to 11, the threshold for using first-level divine spells, and also obtained a fine steel halberd. Although it was not as good as the gift prepared by Ding Yuan, it was much stronger than ordinary iron weapons, or even ordinary steel weapons. Tuoba Yun got a low-level physical amulet, +2 physical strength, allowing himself to withstand more damage. By the way, he took a resistance cloak and draped it on his shoulders to increase his resistance to magic. After much thought, Liu Zhuang chose a low-level perception amulet and hung it around his neck. In an instant, his already terrible vision and hearing were enhanced again because of this small amulet, increasing from 20 to 22. One's perception is not only linked to the spell ability of the [Profane Priest], but also affects the strength of one's dynamic vision, thereby increasing hits and dodges. Afterwards, he also chose a fine steel halberd and a fine steel ring-handled sword as his main and secondary weapons. The wooden handle of this thing is three meters long and the halberd blade is one meter long. It is simply a long-handled sword that can stab and chop, combining sword and spear into one. The infantry spear method he learned this winter can also be used. The halberd is handsome, but the moves are too complicated and a bit too difficult to learn. Zhang Liao and Lu Bu are good at using them because they have been practicing since childhood, which is not suitable for him who started out late. 【精钢长槊】：3~13点物理伤害，额外+1命中，15%暴击率。200%暴击伤害。 【精钢环首刀】：2~9点物理伤害，额外+1命中，10%暴击率。200%暴击伤害。 As for Lu Bu's fellow villager, he was also interesting. He seemed to know the value of "Profane Priest", so he divided the bamboo slips into two halves, and sold one half to Lu Bu and the other half to the Huang family. As a result, both sides were confused and had no idea what the book meant, nor could they learn anything from it. Lu Bu felt that he had been cheated, and the Huang family thought it was garbage and threw it directly into the corner of the library to gather dust. And now, both volumes are finally in my hands. Chapter 48: The Divine Tree of Heaven and Earth After finally getting the long-awaited "Profane Priest" and completing the book, Liu Zhuang studied it carefully. The book for Lu Bu was the second volume, which recorded a Shang general stealing the power of the gods and fighting against the Zhou army that was punishing the gods. It only told you how to use the mana siphon, and you had to be within thirty meters of any believer to quietly plunder his divine power. The first volume of the Huang family records the detailed divination and sacrificial ceremony before the merchant went to war. It only tells you how the belief system of the gods works, how to sense the gods pouring their mighty power into the mortal world, and how mortals use their devout faith to exchange... Liu Zhuang learned the way to sense divine power from the bamboo slips and slowly closed his eyes. His entire consciousness was immersed in a sea of chaos. Somewhere in the dark, he sensed the brilliant starry sky in the night sky. Along with a deafening roar, the stars in the sky fell from the sky to the earth. The scene was spectacular and majestic, like a Mount Buzhou supporting the heaven and the earth. In the transparent galaxy, countless bright stars are shining with the five primary colors of blue, red, yellow, white and black advocated by Confucianism.
At the moment when this vast galaxy was about to fall to the earth, it split into thousands of tiny lush branches, densely spreading in all directions. At this moment, Liu Zhuang's entire consciousness was suspended in the sky. He looked down and found that he was standing in the Central Plains of Kyushu. The branches of the divine trees, as brilliant as the galaxy, densely stretched to every corner of the Han Empire. At this moment, the five-colored galaxy hanging in the sky no longer looks like Mount Buzhou. Instead, it looks more like an upside-down galaxy sacred tree, with its roots deeply rooted in the thirty-three heavens. The trunk grows in the opposite direction, touching Mount Tai from the sky. Its branches spread across the Central Plains, with long rivers as branches and numerous stars as leaves, providing supreme Confucian power to every Confucian scholar of ancient texts. Carefully sensing the divine power, a brilliant branch of the Galaxy Divine Tree fell in Yanmen County, and then split into more tiny divine branches and leaves, spreading to several Confucian scholars in Mayi City. Now, I only need to plunder the divine power directly from this tree, and no longer have to snatch the divine arts that the priests have already prayed for. However, there is a difference between divine arts and magical arts. In theory, the lifetime limit of a priest is determined by the god he believes in. He can only use the divine arts that the god knows. Although it is relatively easy for Confucian scholars who study ancient classics to learn, they will be bound by the classics for their entire lives. It was very difficult for Confucian scholars to develop the New Text School, but they broke away from the limitations of God from the very beginning. Although the blasphemous priests are not bound by any restrictions, they can only obtain the Confucian knowledge bestowed by the predecessors on the sacred tree of Confucianism, just like the Confucian scholars of ancient texts. Just like you cannot count the grains of rice in your own rice jar, the gods are too lazy to count, let alone count them. They don't know whether the divine power they have spread out has been stolen. The blasphemous priests take advantage of this loophole. Liu Zhuang looked through it carefully. He was only a first-level blasphemy priest and could only steal four divine spells a day. He did not rashly hang himself on a Confucian tree. Instead, he followed the branches that connected Yuchi Hong and Dugu Yan, the two priests of Khorne and Slaanesh, to test the main trunk. The branches behind Yuchi Hong were not the five-colored galaxy of Confucianism, but brass flowing with blood. Liu Zhuang's consciousness continued to move forward along the branches and discovered the second divine tree hanging upside down in the sky on Earth. Compared with the Milky Way sacred tree in Confucianism, this brass sacred tree does not have any solemnity or magnificent beauty. It is filled with only slaughter and terror. It has brass as its pole and skulls as its leaves. Every branch is densely packed with skulls of various shapes. Not only that, but rolling blood will always flow and echo on this tree of brass and skulls. The sacred tree of Slaanesh is even more heavyweight. Its entire trunk is made up of the naked bodies of countless handsome men and beautiful women, twisted, squeezed, and softened together, like a pillar of flesh and blood connecting heaven and earth. The leaves and fruits on it are all in the shapes of male and female organs that symbolize reproductive worship. Liu Zhuang felt like he was going blind after taking a few glances. These two divine trees are hanging down to the earth from the direction of Europe, and seem to be the locations of Rome and Greece. The god of war Mars and the goddess of love Venus are suspected to be their shells. Not far away, there is a branch of magic, which is entangled with the Confucian five-colored galaxy tree. It is especially severe in Jizhou. Its color is bright yellow, which is the source of the magic of the Yellow Turban Army. Liu Zhuang followed the clues and found the divine tree supporting the heaven and earth in a place roughly in Tibet. It was made up entirely of golden flames, as dazzling as a thousand suns. Liu Zhuang's eyes were burned at the mere sight of the sun's fire, and he couldn't look directly at it. Rolling thunder entangled this golden flame tree, erupting with a deafening roar! These sacred trees are the channels that connect gods and mortals, and connect the physical world and the subspace. There are far more gods in the world than these four, but according to the clues he has obtained now, there are only these four sacred trees in the sky that can be found. Among them, the Brass Tree of Khorne has the least amount of spells that can be stolen, and they are all powerful and powerful enhanced spells. Slaanesh's spells are relatively rare, and are mainly based on illusion, charm, control, and spells that increase agility. Confucianism and Huangtian have a lot of optional spells, which is basically a normal full list of priests and is very complete. Liu Zhuang was dazzled by the powers of the four gods, and finally chose two as his regular magic arts; he would not choose the other two for now, as there were still many magic casters here, and when he met them, he would steal their two most important magic arts on the spot, so that they could broaden their horizons and know what the evil human heart is, and pay attention in the next life. Even if you don't encounter a spellcaster, it's a good idea to let others help you hold on for a while while you temporarily sense and plunder two targeted spells. [First Ring Divine Art·Fist of Khorne]: Consumes 1 divine power, Strength +6, lasts for one minute. [First-Ring Divine Spell: Human Gigantism]: Consume 1 point of divine power to make a humanoid creature's height double, weight eightfold, strength +2, agility -2; weapons and armor also become larger, power increased, and add 1 to 6 points of thunder damage, lasting for one minute. So weird, who does this yellow turban trust? Yellow skin? The transformation of the Thunder Warrior can make a person meters tall, and there are a lot of spells in the magic that can make people bigger. Are you a green skin? I am the biggest, I am the strongest? After Liu Zhuang completed his studies as a blasphemous priest, he also began to pass on this knowledge to Tuoba Yun and Lu Bu. The two were very strong, but there were obvious problems with their career planning. First of all, Tuoba Yun was almost a heavy-armored druid who could not perform divine arts. She was good at melee combat in various forms of bears and tigers. In this case, various professions that used weapons were actually not very suitable for her. It was okay for her to use the hunter profession to play with bows and arrows and add long-range attack methods, but there was really no need to continue learning other things. Just like me, I will directly become a Profane Priest. The problem of low perception can be compensated by external forces such as Perception Amulets. A giant armored bear roared and gave me a [Fist of Khorne] and a [Grace of Slaanesh], and then rushed out. This scene is very exciting to think about. Tuoba Yun's perception is only 12, far lower than Liu Zhuang's 22, so he learns very slowly. After he finally learns, the number of divine arts he can plunder every day is only 3. The 10-point perception gap is not very obvious in the early stage, but it will become more and more huge in the later stages. As for Lu Bu... Liu Zhuang said that he didn't quite understand your build. Your Rage is for the Barbarians' violent amplification, but why do you only have 1 Barbarian level? Why do you train so many levels of Cavalry?
"Being a cavalry commander is the only way for ordinary people to strengthen their mounts. Even so, our mounts are much more fragile than us. A good horse is a treasure that a cavalry commander dreams of." Lu Bu was also helpless. "It's okay. I can adjust slowly later. If I don't practice my Cavalry General skills for a long time, my level will decline because my body gradually becomes rusty." Liu Zhuang was thoughtful. This was the reset point. He carefully checked Lu Bu's profession and found that apart from some problems with the profession, the six specialties that she had studied hard in the past few years were more terrifying than the other. [Powerful Attack]: When launching a melee attack, for every -1 point of hit, the damage will be increased by 2 points. [Jumping Slash]: You combine jumping and charging to launch a critical strike, with the additional damage of [Power Attack] x3. (For every -1 hit, there will be +6 damage) [Barbarian]: After charging the enemy, if you can immediately follow up with a [Power Attack], the additional damage of this [Power Attack] will be x3. Liu Zhuang's forehead broke out in cold sweat. The multipliers add up but not multiply. In other words, after Lu Bu finished charging, he immediately followed up with a jump slash. The damage increase of the powerful attack could reach an astonishing six times! -10 hits directly added 120 damage. As a level 3 hunter with less than 20 health, he owed Lu Bu five lives after being hit. No, I might not even be able to catch her first charge, so there is no need to charge and then do a jump and slash. [Full Charge]: When you initiate a charge attack while riding, your melee damage is x2. If you are using a long-pole piercing weapon such as a spear/halberd/lance, your melee damage is x3. [Dragon Dive]: When you launch a dive attack at a certain height, this attack will be tried as a [Full Charge] while riding. If you launch a dragon dive while riding, the damage of ordinary melee weapons is increased from x2 to x3, and the damage of long-pole piercing weapons is increased from x3 to x4. [Quick Shooting]: Shoot multiple feather arrows continuously. For each additional arrow shot, the hit rate of all feather arrows shot in this round will be reduced by 2. What an ultimate stormtrooper? His professional combination is terrible, but his expertise is extremely terrifying because of the Han army's standard cavalry and vanguard training. Liu Zhuang thought about it. Lu Bu's perception was negative. Even if he got a perception amulet, his perception was only 11. With 11 perception, he could learn 1st-level magic. With 19 perception, he could learn 9th-level magic. This was the most basic threshold. Her berserk strength bonus was already terrifying enough, and it was hard to imagine what could force her to stack up her berserk strength after adding status. Therefore, after Lu Bu acquired the Level 1 Profane Priest, Liu Zhuang taught her not to use all amplification spells, but to take a [Protection from Evil] from the Confucian Five-Colored Galaxy, which could make her immune to control effects like charm, and make up for her and her mount's magic resistance shortcomings, and then focus on learning the barbarian's berserk skills. Although the Profane Priest is powerful, he is not suitable for everyone. Lu Bu's regular berserk state gives him +4 strength, an amplified +8 strength, and a bloodthirsty state gives him +12 strength. Once the rage is cultivated into a high-level rage of +6 strength, or even the ultimate rage of +8 strength, the rage will spread like wildfire and the strength will be tripled to +24. Even the nine-ring magic of the blasphemous priest cannot give you +24 strength at once. You just need to gain some important magic at a few levels. Liu Zhuang taught Lü Bu and Tuoba Yun the power of the blasphemous priests, and Lü Bu and Tuoba Yun also taught Liu Zhuang all the necessary skills for the Han army's cavalry to charge into battle. After Liu Zhuang learned the [Powerful Attack], he further learned the [All-Out Charge], gradually training Liu Zhuang into a killing machine as terrifying as them. Chapter 49: Other Department Sima As the days passed, the White Horse Battalion became more and more experienced in training. Liu Zhuang gradually increased the proportion of cavalry in the White Horse Battalion. Among the thirteen captains, eight were cavalry generals. Lu Bu, Song Xian, Tuoba Yun, and even Zhang Liao were all systematically trained according to the specialty standards of the Han Dynasty's cavalry. Their specialties were all [violent attack] and [all-out charge]. However, most of them were not as violent as Lu Bu, and could not jump that high, so some people did not learn [jump and slash] and [dive attack]. These cavalry generals were not used to leading infantry troops. The more than 500 Han infantrymen were laid-off veterans who had been fired from the Beidi Camp. They used to do the work of cavalrymen, and were not used to suddenly becoming infantrymen. Fortunately, Tuoba Yun's Xianbei tribe was famous for raising and training horses. This was Yanmen Mayi, so it was not difficult to buy good horses. Lu Ze was quite wealthy, and the old Beidi generals were also very good at training cavalry and war horses. The three parties increased the number of cavalry little by little. At this moment, only four garrison commanders were willing to lead infantry, namely his second brother Lu Shi, Double Axe Zheng Jiang, and two veterans from Dingxiang who had followed him from Baima Pavilion and were promoted to garrison commanders step by step based on their military merits. Yanmen County was originally a border fortress of the Han Dynasty, very far away from Zhang Jue's preaching range, and separated by the Taihang Mountains. Moreover, there were four battalions of elite Han troops stationed there to resist nomads. Therefore, the Yellow Turban rebels who started an uprising here only lasted for a month before they were killed completely by the fierce and terrifying local border troops and soldiers recruited by powerful people. Ding Yuan also returned to Mayi with the Beidi Camp that he had reorganized with the Guo family of Yangqu. After arriving home, Ding Yuan was completely stunned. What is this White Horse Camp? Your Majesty did agree to recruit soldiers privately, but you have assembled such an intimidating army in just one month? Even the Guo family of Yangqu armed their own servants so quickly! The equipment, number of people, and horses are almost the same as our Beidi Camp! How did Liu Zhuang and Lu Bu do it? Wait, how come these guys have armor? And they are equipped as a team? Damn, a month ago you reported that the armory was burned down by the Yellow Turbans? Was it burned down? Are you kidding me!? Normally this matter is easy to handle. You can just write a letter to your superior and ask him to transfer one or two battalions to assist in the battle. The two or three times troop advantage is more than enough to deal with this group of people. Then, throw the main culprit into prison and use a large-scale memory restoration technique. They will say and spit out whatever you want them to say. But it's different now. These people are not bandits, but the legitimate army of the Han Dynasty. If the Han army fights each other, it will at least require the order of the Bingzhou governor, or even the general in Luoyang City, and the emperor. Moreover, it is already March, and it will soon be the summer and autumn when the nomads go south to forage for food. It's crazy to start a civil war in the Han army now?
At this moment, many people also sensed the seriousness of the problem and the beginning of the collapse of the empire at the beginning of the chaos, and began to make plans. However, in the eyes of the local wealthy families and prefects in Yanmen, Liu Zhuang's White Horse Camp, which was composed entirely of peasants and lowly merchants, was too annoying. These people's positions and interests were very different from ours. A few civilians controlled the direction of the army, and everything was considered by a group of unimportant civilians. But their power is so great that we cannot control it... In view of the powerful Baima Camp, some powerful families also tried to win over Liu Zhuang and pull him into their own camp. They thought the best way was to marry their daughters to him and directly tie their interests to the Baima Camp. However, they found out that Liu Zhuang was already married and had two wives. This kind of relationship was unacceptable to the aristocratic families. Why should my well-educated and well-mannered daughter marry him as a concubine? Even if she was a co-wife... Lü Bu was a merchant woman, and Tuoba Yun was a soldier, why should they be on the same level as my daughter?