Chapter 269 Encounter
"Sir, it seems that enemy troops are gathering at the mountain pass ahead!" Ninja Dog reported to Uesugi Kenshin.
"Hehe, let the ninjas check more carefully to prevent them from falling into traps!" Uesugi Kenshin ordered disapprovingly. For three or four consecutive days, he led the Liangshan army to break through ten lines of defense. In his opinion, it was just the Yellow Turban Army repeating the same old tricks.
He was annoyed by the Yellow Turbans' constant resistance to his defense line. The captured Yellow Turbans would rather die than betray their gathering place. Although it seemed that he was unstoppable, he still could not find the Yellow Turbans' gathering place. In fact, he was like a headless fly without a purpose.
"Mr. Lin Qing, does your White Lotus Sect have any talent in this area?" Uesugi Kenshin turned to ask Lin Qing beside him. His premonition told him that if this dragged on, an accident might happen.
His legion talent worked very well with the Liangshan Army. The legion talent he named Dragon Power, combined with the demons' tough basic talents, produced a very good destructive effect. Basically, every strike could cause these demons to launch extremely destructive attacks.
This was also the reason why the Yellow Turban Army's ten lines of defense were defeated in successive battles. There was a huge gap in the basic qualities of the two sides. What's more, Uesugi Kenshin's legion talent could help the demons exert extraordinary destructive power.
"Are you ready?" Zhou Cang said with a frown. He could see the hidden and sneaky ninjas around him, but he had to endure it in order to conceal their ultimate weapon.
"It's still a little short. I'm afraid you guys will have to rely on your flesh and blood to resist!" Tang Zhou said calmly, "I'll lead the Yellow Turban Warriors to charge down in a while. You guys can start when you're ready."
"Tang Zhou, you..." Zhou Cang wanted to say something, but was stopped by Tang Zhou.
"My legion's talents are very suitable for such tasks. Everything else depends on you!" Tang Zhou said very solemnly.
"...I will..." Zhou Cang was silent for a moment and then nodded. Although he didn't know what Tang Zhou's legion talent was, neither he nor Liao Hua was suitable.
His legion talent has been completely changed because of the Yellow Turban relics. Now the only function left is probably the liberation of will. It is simply unrealistic to delay time.
"I'll go too. I'll take advantage of the chaos and try to find the weakest point to kill the other side's commander."
Liao Hua also said lightly that his legion talent could help him fight his way out in any complex environment. In fact, it was only the effect of seeing through it at first, but now it was completely the effect forced out by the continuous pursuit and encirclement.
"I leave it to you. If you can tear open a gap, we might win!" Zhou Cang said with some expectation. No one wanted to die. If they could win, no one would die.
"I'll try my best!" Liao Hua closed his eyes. Theoretically he could do it, but would the opponent really give him this opportunity?
Under Zhou Cang's command, a military formation with a circle outside and a square inside slowly took shape. The clouds in the sky condensed into one again, and a faint yellow cloud blessed every Yellow Turban soldier.
This was the only military formation he knew, inherited from Zhang Jiao's Formation of Heaven and Earth. The formation of being round outside and square inside embodied the idea of the sky being round and the earth being square, and it used the power of heaven and earth to enhance the blessing effect. In other words, Zhou Cang inherited the Yellow Turban legacy, otherwise he would never have been able to learn such a military formation.
As Zhou Cang's army deployed, Uesugi Kenshin's vanguard slowly appeared on the horizon.
Looking at the aqua-blue line coming from the horizon from afar, many Yellow Turban commanders had sweat on their palms. They remembered the five Beigong schools in the past and felt a similar sense of oppression.
However, as Uesugi Kenshin's army got closer, many generals breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the enemy was definitely not as strong as Huangfu Song.
As the saying goes, "Experience makes a good doctor." They didn't know how to set up a battle formation, but they had been besieged and attacked by Huangfu Song many times, and the Yellow Turban leader who didn't figure out the trick died early.
Every general sitting there was an old veteran who had experienced Huangfu Song's encirclement and suppression campaigns more than ten times. They could see the gap between Uesugi Kenshin and Huangfu Song at a glance.
Although I don’t know the level of my opponent, as long as they are not as strong as Huangfu Song and the five schools of Beigong, I will have a chance to win.
Arrows were placed lightly on bowstrings, weapons were held tightly in their hands; as veterans who had fought in hundreds of battles, they were not afraid of war.
As the Liangshan army approached to within about a mile , everyone on the Yellow Turban side was ready.
Zhou Cang is now extremely grateful to Li Cai and Duo Xing for getting so many military weapons and equipment from the local provincial capital, otherwise he really wouldn't have the courage to let his brothers fight to the death with sickles and hoes.
In fact, the local provincial governments were well aware of the intricacies of this matter. Even their former governor, Chang Xi, had become a bandit, so how could they not understand this?
On the surface, the imperial court did not revoke the wanted order for the Yellow Turbans, but it never sent anyone to attack the remaining Yellow Turbans. It was simply because it wanted to save face and was reluctant to kill so many laborers. Otherwise, how could the officials in these states and prefectures open up welfare policies to the refugees? They also coveted these strong laborers.
You should know that the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou can be regarded as the remaining elite of the Yellow Turbans, and half of them are young and strong. Whether these people are farmers or participating in construction, they are a visible demographic dividend.
If the imperial court had not been unwilling to give in, they would have sent people to the Taishan Mountains to recruit people long ago. Even if the local area could not afford to support them, they could still transfer them to government offices in other regions.
So Li Cai and Duoxing reached an agreement with the local prefectures. As long as they defeated Liangshan, these Yellow Turbans would be transformed into rebels. By then, the court would be able to save face and they would be able to reap the demographic dividend. Why not do it?
Large quantities of standard equipment appeared in the hands of the Yellow Turban soldiers. After Chen Xi's subsequent large-scale equipment was transferred to Qingzhou, the local officials became more confident.
Chen Xi was just about to point at their noses and tell them to incorporate the Yellow Turbans of Qingzhou. If they still didn't understand, they could just resign from their posts and live in seclusion.
In this way, the Yellow Turban rebels equipped with regular army equipment were born. They even had a large number of powerful weapons such as bows and crossbows.
"Shoot!" Zhou Cang gave an order and a rain of arrows burst out. Relying on the numerical suppression, good results were achieved.
Although the archers on the Yellow Turban side were captured temporarily and had no accuracy at all, they still caused considerable casualties to the Liangshan side due to their unimaginable numbers.
"It's actually the main force!" Uesugi Kenshin was stunned, then he sneered at the Yellow Turban Army that appeared at Yamaguchi. He was worried that he couldn't find the Yellow Turban headquarters, but he didn't expect that the Yellow Turban Army would actually come to his door.
Uesugi Kenshin glanced at the Liangshan army. The monsters that were shot by arrows were cursing and wiping out the arrows on their bodies. Except for some unlucky ones who were shot in vital parts or turned into hedgehogs, the other monsters were not even injured slightly.
