Bronze door through time and space

Chapter 603 Yellow Turban Warrior
Zhang Jue saw the problems faced by the Yellow Turban Army, but found that they were difficult to change, so he turned his attention to the Taiping Art.

Tianping Yaoshu is divided into three volumes, namely the Heaven Volume, the Earth Volume and the Human Volume. By taking advantage of the right time, right place and right people, one can change one's fate and save people. It is a rare Taoist scripture.

Unfortunately, Zhang Jue had too little time, especially after being betrayed by a traitor, he was forced to run all the way and couldn't stop at all.

In this situation, Zhang Jue could only modify the Yellow Turban Warriors' method as an emergency measure regardless of the consequences, even though this method was against the harmony of nature and went against the original intention, but he no longer cared.

The Yellow Turban Warriors were not a regular group of heavenly soldiers or generals, but more like servants and guards serving the gods, so there was a huge gap between the upper and lower limits.

Ordinary Yellow Turban strongmen can only do menial work and are no different from puppets.

However, the Yellow Turban Warriors under the saint's seat are able to capture Golden Immortals, making people terrified.

Luo Zhenren in Water Margin has a thousand excellent Yellow Turban warriors under his command. If a real fight breaks out, all the armies in the world combined will be no match for them.

However, it is not easy to refine a Yellow Turban Warrior of this quality, so Zhang Jue used humans as the material and talismans as the root to refine a human version of the Yellow Turban Warrior.

The upside is that it's fast and cheap, the downside is that it's cruel.

In Yan Xu's opinion, the so-called human version of the Yellow Turban Warrior is a humanoid monster that has been nine feet tall, with skin of bronze and bones of iron, and is ignorant and fearless, with its spiritual potential forcibly opened up by talismans and then forcibly shaped.

Although this method works quickly, it will cause serious damage to the user's mind, making him stupid and foolish, and his life span will also be shortened. Otherwise, Zhang Jiao would not have described it as "harmony to nature".

But the effect is indeed powerful. It can easily transform refugees into war beasts, so no one can resist the temptation, especially for the Yellow Turban Army who lacks weapons and well-trained soldiers.

Therefore, even though Zhang Jue repeatedly warned against using them with caution, Cheng Yuanzhi still secretly trained 300 Yellow Turban strongmen. However, before they were fully trained or even had time to be mobilized, they met the three brothers Liu, Guan and Zhang, and Yan Xu ended up getting the advantage.

Yan Xu didn't need Cheng Yuanzhi's unique talisman at all, and he easily took over these three hundred half-finished Yellow Turban warriors.

These were carefully selected from the 50,000 Yellow Turban Army, and each of them could be said to be one in a hundred. After their spiritual potential was forcibly activated, each of them was like being protected by the Nine Dragons on a steroid planet, with muscles swollen beyond belief, but they were all dazed, silent, and their reactions were a little slow.

But they are really strong. They can lift stones weighing hundreds of pounds at will. You can't tell at all that they are refugees who have not received any training.

This is only a semi-finished product. If you continue to refine it, it will be like practicing the Dragon Elephant Prajna Sutra and the Thirteen Taibao's Golden Bell Cover. You will have copper skin and iron bones and infinite strength. You will be unstoppable on the battlefield like a ferocious beast.

However, the requirements become higher and the risks become greater as time goes by. No one knows how many can survive, so Cheng Yuanzhi is also hesitating whether to continue refining.

Yan Xu touched his chin and tried to improve the Yellow Turban Warrior's technique as modified by Zhang Jiao. At the same time, he was pondering the original method of refining the Yellow Turban Warrior. However, he was soon interrupted by Liu Bei.

After Liu Bei's army returned victoriously, Liu Yan personally welcomed them and rewarded the soldiers, giving this virtuous nephew enough face and making his name begin to spread among the gentry.

However, the next day, he received a letter from Qingzhou Governor Gong Jing, saying that the Yellow Turban rebels were besieging the city and were about to capture it, and begging for rescue.

Liu Yan asked someone to invite him to discuss something, but Liu Bei didn't know the other party's purpose, so he hurried to find Yan Xu.

"Once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back. Since you have chosen this path, it's either victory or death. There is no turning back and no need to hesitate." Yan Xu knew that even if he advised him not to go, Liu Bei would still go in the end. He came to him now just to see if there was a more reliable way.

"However, you have no official position and no reward from the court, so you cannot take the risk of fighting in vain. This time when you go, you should say that you are willing to serve the court and relieve the governor's worries. But we have few soldiers and generals, and you are willing to serve but unable to kill the bandits. I want to select some young and strong soldiers from the surrendered Yellow Turbans and incorporate them into the army." Yan Xu said.

Liu Bei looked hesitant. It was not that he did not want to expand the army, but that he could not afford to support it.

Maintaining and training troops is always very costly and expensive. Without official positions and food and wages, how could Liu Bei dare to expand his army?

The 500 soldiers and horses they maintain now are all supported by the Zhang family selling off their property. It is already difficult to sustain them continuously, and if they want to expand the army further, the Zhang family will have to sell straw sandals to make a living.

"I have a little wealth, you can pay it first, and then pay it back when the court rewards you." Yan Xu knew Liu Bei's concerns and waved his hand nonchalantly. In fact, if he didn't want the relationship between the two sides to deteriorate, he would be fine even if he gave it away for free.

After hearing Yan Xu's words, Liu Bei felt relieved and went forward. When Liu Yan tested him, he agreed decisively.

"I am ready to go."

Liu Yan was overjoyed and agreed without hesitation to Liu Bei's request to select young and strong men from the Yellow Turban surrendered soldiers to incorporate into the army. He also allocated 500 swords and spears, 300 shields, and 100 leather armors to strengthen the army.

At the same time, Liu Yan also ordered Zou Jing to mobilize 5,000 troops and go to Qingzhou with Xuande, Guan and Zhang.

In the original novel, they lost the first battle, but this time Liu Bei expanded his army to 3,000, which was not much different from Zou Jing's 5,000 soldiers. He also had two fierce generals and brothers, so his say increased greatly. So they joined forces, claiming to have 15,000 soldiers, and marched in with great momentum and drums beating. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei each led a thousand elite soldiers and went straight into the enemy camp.

Guan and Zhang at this time have grown faster than before, especially after killing Deng Mao and Cheng Yuanzhi, they have each mastered a military skill.

Guan Yu's martial arts skill is the Blue Dragon Slash. Once it is performed, a blue dragon phantom will surround his body, enhancing the power of the slash. If three consecutive slashes are performed, the blue dragon phantom will fly out and release a powerful shock wave, which is perfect for charging into battle.

Zhang Fei's military skills are also not bad. He has a thunder roar that can lower the morale of enemies in front of him. It is a range skill and is perfect for him who is good at breakthroughs.

The two men were as fierce as dragons and tigers, piercing the vital points of the enemy's formation like two steel knives. One of them killed the general, and the other seized the flag, causing chaos in the enemy army.

Upon seeing this, Liu Bei ordered his men to beat drums to cheer, and at the same time, the left and right armies marched out together to expand the results of the battle.

Guan and Zhang fought their way through the enemy's formation, then turned around and killed again.

The bandits were defeated by the three-pronged attack and rushed to the city of Qingzhou. The prefect Gong Jing personally led his troops out of the city to assist in the battle. The bandits were greatly defeated and the siege of Qingzhou was lifted.

After Gong Jing had rewarded the troops, Zou Jing wanted to return, but Liu Bei stopped him.

"I recently heard that General Lu Zhi was fighting the bandit leader Zhang Jiao in Guangzong. I used to be Lu Zhi's student, so I want to go and lend a helping hand to my teacher."

This was a move of loyalty and filial piety, so Zou Jing left some baggage behind and led his troops back.

Yan Xu helped Liu Bei reorganize his army and incorporated hundreds of elite soldiers, so after this battle, the military strength increased instead of decreased.

However, Liu Bei had no official position at that time, and having too many soldiers was not a good thing, so he selected 3,000 of them as combat soldiers, and the rest were civilians. In fact, they could still kill people with knives.

Liu, Guan and Zhang led their troops to surrender to Guangzong, went to pay a visit to their mentor Lu Zhi, and stayed in front of the tent to await orders.

Yan Xu stayed in the camp, looking into the distance, staring at people from a distance.

He knew that the other party was the great and virtuous teacher Zhang Jue, but the other party didn't know who he was, but it didn't matter anymore.

At this time, Zhang Jiao's luck was backlashing. Heaven wanted him to die, people wanted him to die, and he had to die. He had reached the end of his rope, so why would he care about a glance?

Speaking of which, Zhang Jue's life was truly sad and lamentable.

Clearly he was fighting for the people, but the Yellow Turban Army spread its influence over a thousand miles and caused the people to lose their hearts. Without the protection of the people's wishes, God naturally brought down divine punishment on him, and his time was numbered.

But Yan Xu didn't think that Zhang Jiao would accept his fate so easily. If he did, he wouldn't have taken this heaven-defying path.

I just don't know what backup plan he has that can help him break his own fate.

(End of this chapter)