The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 192 Raiders of Hedong
After negotiating the land tax, Yan Zhong looked at the generals of the Yellow Turban Army who were sitting in the experience department, and then asked: "Ming Gong, I should not be called only for the land tax, right?"

Xu An nodded and admitted, "Yes, there is one more thing."

All the generals and schools who had passed through the Yellow Turban Army cheered up and looked at Xu An.

Xu An continued: "The Eagle Guard has found out the news. Lu Zhi has returned to Sili from Bingzhou. The soldiers from Shangjun and Xihe counties have returned to the county. The pressure on the Han army in the north has been relieved."

"Liu Pi, take the topography map of mountains and rivers, and the sand table."

"promise."

Liu Pi, who was standing behind Xu An, immediately agreed, turned around and gave orders, and the Tiqi of the Eagle Wolf Guards moved quickly.

Not long after, a huge map of mountains and rivers was hung in the hall of experience.

The terrain around Dang County on this map of mountains and rivers is quite detailed, but the rest of the counties look a bit crude.

This is because this map was drawn based on the original topographic map of Shangdang County, plus some information from the recent Eagle Guard investigation, and some memories of Xu An.

Everyone looked at the topographic map of mountains and rivers in front of them, and their moods were a little agitated for a while.

Taiyue, Wangwu, Taihang, and Shangdang were painted with light yellow dye, the forces of the Huns in the north were painted with light blue paint, and the Han Dynasty was painted with light red.

At this time, the situation of the Han Empire in Bingzhou was not optimistic. The four counties of Yunzhong County, Wuyuan County, Shuofang County, and Dingxiang County were basically all light blue paint, as well as the northern part of Shang County and Yanmen County. , also a light blue paint.

In fact, these four counties had already belonged to the sphere of influence of the Huns by the fourth year of Zhongping. The emperor still obeys the orders of the Han Empire.

The light red pigment that belonged to the Han Empire was sandwiched between the blue and yellow colors, that is, the forces of the Huns and the forces of the Yellow Turban Army led by Xu An.

Now in Bingzhou, the Han Empire actually only controls the four counties of Yanmen County, Shang County, Xihe County, and Taiyuan County.

The long border also put great pressure on the Han army in Bingzhou.

After a while, a sand table was also pushed out by the Tiqi of the Eagle Wolf Guard, and placed not far in front of Xu An, in front of the huge mountain and river topography map.

"Get up, everyone, come and take a look at this sand table."

In the experience department, all the generals of the Yellow Turban Army gathered around and gathered in front of the sand table, carefully observing the sand table Xu An was talking about.

The sand table was cut out of sand and gravel, and the area was quite large, depicting the same place as the topography map of mountains and rivers hanging in front of everyone.

The place where the Han army was stationed used a red flag to indicate the location of the Han army, and the yellow flag was the place where the Yellow Turban army was stationed.

The small flag on the top also has the name, which represents the general who leads the army.

Liu Pi, Zhang Yan and others had seen Xu An's sand table at Jingxing Pass. Xu An had set up a similar sand table on the eve of the attack on the Han army's camp on Shijian Mountain.

However, Guo Tai, Xu Huang and the others were naturally unheard of and unseen, so they found it novel.

Zhou Cang propped his hands on the edge of the sand table and said: "This sand table is much clearer than the topographic map of mountains and rivers."

"Indeed." Guo Tai nodded, "If you are fighting in the mountains, scouts survey the terrain, and you can place sand tables in the camp, it will be much more convenient to mobilize troops."

Xu An said with a smile: "The Eagle Guard's Tiqi is learning from this. In future battles, I will naturally send the Eagle Guard's Tiqi to help set up the sand table."

"But today is not for you to see what this sand table can do."

Xu An took a long stick and pointed at the hanging map of mountains and rivers.

He has learned some history of the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and he still remembers the Xingyang civil uprising in the fourth year of Zhongping (187).

Compared with Zhang Yan who unified the Taihang Mountains in history, he now only has one more Shangdang County. Zhang Yan chose to recruit An after that, while Xu An chose to carry the banner of the Yellow Turban Army and continue to fight against the Han Empire.

The butterfly effect has not yet been revealed. Xu An has not changed too many things. In ancient times, transportation was inconvenient. If things that happen thousands of miles away do not change much, it is actually difficult to affect other places in a short period of time.

The reason for the civil uprising in Xingyang was that the officials were exploited too much, which caused the people of Xingyang to rise up and kill officials to survive.

In other words, basically the Xingyang civil uprising will still be repeated according to the historical situation, but in order to ensure the correctness of what he said, Xu An also verified the information of the Eagle Wolf Guard.

Before that, he had sent some Yingwei people to Luoyang, and Qing, Yan, Yu, and Xu four states to establish intelligence offices.

Some people were specially arranged by him to go to Xingyang just to find out about this matter.

And the Eagle Guard lived up to expectations and sent rough information.

The people of Xingyang agreed to join the uprising in February. The Yingwei people pretended to be rangers, and they were also mixed into the sequence of the Xingyang civil uprising.

"In February of this year, the people of Xingyang will rise up. The rebel army will win in the early stage, and the Han army will not be able to resist. They will advance all the way to the middle base, which is here."

Everyone looked in the direction indicated by the long stick in Xu An's hand, and the head of the stick landed on the east side of Luoyang City, the middle base of Hanoi County.

"However, the rebel army in Xingyang is weak and will be defeated by the Han army in about March. The Han Empire will not allow any force to threaten the important area of ​​the capital."

Guo Tai's complexion changed slightly, but he calmed down quickly. He had also heard rumors about Xu An from other generals before.

Now Xu An is confident that in February of this year, the people of Xingyang will revolt.

Guo Tai looked around Liu Pi, Yan Zhong and the others and saw that they seemed to be convinced, so he didn't ask any questions.

Xu An looked around at the crowd and said: "The eyes of the Han army will be temporarily attracted by these rebels, and what we have to do is to take advantage of the distraction of the Han army's attention and attack Hedong County in one fell swoop."

"I thought about helping the rebels in Xingyang, but the Eagle Guard sent a scouting report. The Han Empire has now strengthened its defense in Hanoi County, and the Yellow River is naturally dangerous. There are very few places for us to cross the river, and the gain outweighs the loss, so It is simply unrealistic to join forces with the Xingyang Rebels."

"So I decided that taking advantage of the time when they were attracting the attention of the Han army, taking Hedong County can be regarded as sharing some pressure for them and comforting their sacrifice."

Holding the long stick in his hand, Xu An looked at the crowd and asked, "Do you have any objections to the capture of Hedong County?"

Everyone replied without thinking: "But listen to the orders of the great virtuous teacher and general."

Xu An's prestige in the Yellow Turban Army even surpassed that of Zhang Jiao in the past. The decisions he made were rarely refuted by the generals under his command. Only Yan Zhong would occasionally raise some details that Xu An hadn't noticed.

Guo Tai was newly attached, so naturally he would not rashly question Xu An's decision.

Xu An was quite satisfied with the reaction of the generals, and continued: "In this case, let me talk about the strategy I made first, and everyone, let's watch the sand table."

Everyone followed Xu An's long stick and looked towards Hedong County in the sand table.

Hedong County is located to the east of the Yellow River, and to the south is Zhongtiao Mountain. The south of Zhongtiao Mountain is adjacent to the Yellow River, so it can be called a dangerous place.

It faces the Yellow River in the west and Bingzhou Shangjun across the river, and faces Taiyue and Wangwu Mountains in the east.

To the north is the southern part of Luliang Mountain, bordering Xihe County, while the flat area in the county is from the Yellow River area in the southwest to the northeast area, that is, the southeast of Luliang Mountain, bordering Taiyuan County.

After everyone watched for a while, Xu An continued, "It's the end of January now, and it will be February in a few days."

Xu An paused, and said in a deep voice, "Where is Guo Tai?"

"The end is here."

Guo Tai quickly clasped his fists in response.

"Now the Wangwu and Taiyue mountains are under our jurisdiction. The Baibo army is good at mountain warfare. I need you to send a partial division into Zhongtiao Mountain to occupy Zhongtiao and attract the attention of the Han army."

Guo just agreed after Taiwei thought about it.

"There's another place."

Guo Tai looked at the place Xu An was pointing at, and the place Xu An was pointing at on the sand table looked like a valley, in the very center of Hedong County, and that place was also the middle of the flat area of ​​Hedong County.

"Here?" Guo Tai had a puzzled look on his face.

"This is the White Wave Valley."

Xu An smiled and answered Guo Tai's doubts.

Guo Tai's eyes flickered, and he raised his head to look at Xu An.

He was still wondering why Xu An would designate him as Baibo General and his subordinates as Baibo Army.

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