Chapter 232: Yellow Turbans of Qingzhou
Guo Hao disappeared the moment after the meeting. It felt weird being together with everyone , as if they were out of place.
It's no wonder that Guo Hao felt strange. Strictly speaking, he and Chen Xi were from the same hometown. To him, these players were no different from the local natives. However, since everyone adhered to the same culture, they could barely play together.
After Guo Hao left, Zhang Ji finally couldn't hold it anymore. Qingzhou, that was his hometown, and he was almost certain to become the boss of Qingzhou.
The former Yellow Turban players present were all very excited. It was finally their turn to turn the tables. Most of them had joined forces with Zhang Ji at the beginning, and all the people hiding in Mount Tai were theirs.
The faces of the former imperial court players were not very good. None of the generals sent by Guo Hao were their subordinates. In other words, the former Yellow Turban players had already gained the upper hand before they even went there.
Although we are all in the same group now, no one is saint and everyone cares about the differences between close and distant relatives.
The Yellow Turbans are all friends who have risked their lives for each other, while they have to compete from the beginning. The only one who can overpower them, Guo Hao, is too skilled and cannot leave the field directly. Intrigue is inevitable among them on this journey.
With various emotions, a group of players hurriedly set off with their troops after receiving logistical supplies. If they were slower, Zhang Ji and other players who stayed in Qingzhou to guard their home would have taken the first prize.
Don't wait until they arrive, Liangshan has already been razed to the ground. You can't even get their soup, let alone eat their meat.
Deep in Mount Tai, Bo Cai's former player aide Duo Xing and their player Li Cai, who tricked Guo Hao into killing Cheng Yuanzhi, both received messages from Zhang Ji in reality.
"How many people can we get together now?" Duoxing asked, tapping the table.
"One Yellow Turban Warriors Legion, one mixed legion, and two hundred thousand regular soldiers!" Li Cai, who was in charge of logistics, flipped through the records and gave a definite number.
They are basically the last rays of the Yellow Turbans. This wave of attack on Liangshan is their chance to turn things around. It can directly help all the Yellow Turbans cleanse their identities and become ordinary people again.
Although Guan Hai, Zhang Yan and others were persuaded to surrender, and even Zhang Ji was persuaded to surrender, the Han Dynasty always defined the Yellow Turbans as traitors. After all, they were labeled as traitors. For the sake of stability, the Han Dynasty could not continue to show leniency to the Yellow Turbans.
The Yellow Turbans must achieve some merits so that they can clean themselves up and stand on the same starting line with others.
"Guan Hai and Zhang Yan are here, as are all the major leaders. This is a good opportunity!" Li Cai was very excited. Their current life was still okay, but after all, it was deep in the mountains and forests, and it was definitely not comparable to city life.
Previously, the Yellow Turban players couldn't wait to go to Luoyang to join the imperial court in order to find a way out for these Yellow Turbans. Crowding nearly five million people in the mountains is really not a long-term solution.
In history, there were millions of Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou, and there will be even more in this world. Some players acted as small generals, and too many Yellow Turbans were led to escape. Moreover, Huangfu Song did not have the opportunity to massacre the Yellow Turbans in Lei Jingguan due to the obstruction of Guo Hao and others.
The local government of Qingzhou was too lazy to hunt down the Yellow Turbans in Mount Tai. In fact, anyone who was willing to give up their Yellow Turban identity was sentenced to one year of hard labor and then their civilian household registration would be restored. Sometimes they were even accepted as refugees.
But they could not accept a population of one million. Even if they wanted to, they were powerless. They could not bear the time of migrating outward little by little, as many people would die.
"Quickly send people to investigate the situation in Liangshan. The army from Luoyang will arrive in about a month. We don't have much time left." Duoxing analyzed calmly.
"Also, send someone to inform the local government and see if we can get some material support. If that doesn't work, we can buy it." Li Cai also calmed down. The lineup sent from Luoyang was not bad, which proved that Liangshan's strength should not be bad.
The Yellow Turbans have no shortage of men, but weapons and equipment are really scarce. It would be great if they could get a batch of war equipment from local governments.
"Go find someone to gather those leaders who are just eating and waiting to die. This is our chance to turn things around. Tell them the situation. The Yellow Turbans need their strength." Li Cai took out a list. On it were all the Yellow Turban leaders who had lost their will to fight. They would rather be a civilian farmer than work as a Yellow Turban leader again.
He could turn a blind eye to it before, but now he can no longer tolerate these people continuing to get away with it.
"We should deal with Zhou Cang and Liao Hua first, and then the others will more or less listen to them." Duoxing pondered for a moment. In the past, they could choose to live a free life, but not now. This is their chance to turn things around.
Although they are players, they are not heartless. They are together every day, so how could they abandon all the Yellow Turbans and just run away?
Soon, all the Yellow Turban leaders were gathered together to study strategies to attack Liangshan.
Zhou Cang, Liao Hua and others also arrived at the scene. After all, they could not sit idly by and watch the Yellow Turbans be destroyed.
"They are just some bandits. I can just take the Yellow Turban warriors with me!" Zhou Cang said expressionlessly. No matter how weak the Yellow Turbans were, they were a force that had confronted the imperial court head-on. He was too lazy to sit here and listen to Li Cai's nonsense about just some bandits who occupied the mountains and became kings.
Guan Hai and Zhang Yan also nodded in agreement. The battles they participated in were even more outrageous than Zhou Cang's. They had seen Lu Bu and fought against the Military Soul. They really didn't take Liangshan seriously.
"Commanders, please listen to the intelligence we have found first." To be honest, before getting the intelligence, Duoxing and Li Cai had the same idea. Are there any famous generals in Liangshan? It seems that only Lin Chong, Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, Qin Ming and the like can be considered threats. Can Shi Qian really be considered a threat?
But after they checked, they found that things were completely different from what they thought.
The 108 Liangshan heroes are all at the level of having internal energy leaving the body, and they also have two legions, Tiangang and Disha, with extremely powerful and terrifying strength.
The most crucial people who went to investigate also pointed out that everything in Liangshan was not normal. They could not get into Liangshan at all, and they lost many brothers at the foot of the mountain for nothing.
It's not like they haven't read Water Margin before. The 108 heroes are all reincarnations of demons. The current situation seems wrong no matter how they look at it.
But it's okay if the internal energy leaves the body, as long as you don't attack by force, you can just lure them out and kill them in batches. But if there are some demons or other factors getting in, then it's hard to say.
"Qi, you are playing tricks!" Zhou Cang threw the information away with disdain, and then Zhang Yan, Liao Hua and Guan Hai all had the same opinion.
They are the leaders of the Taiping Sect. Strictly speaking, they are Taoists. Who would be afraid of the so-called demons? Do they really think that the Taiping Sect talismans are just for show?
Li Cai and Duo Xing were a little embarrassed. They really didn't know any Taoist magic from the Taiping Sect. They had learned it at that time, but hadn't used it for a long time.
