The territory controlled by the Black Turban Army is all counties that have been severely affected by locust plagues, and there is no hope for summer and autumn grain this year, and even next year. So there are only two possible options at the moment. The first is to attack the granary town, and the second is to take the land that has not been invaded by the locust plague.

As a result, Jianghui County, one of the three major warehouses of Sun State, was one of the three major warehouses of Sun Kingdom, and was less affected last year.

It is not realistic to go south to Zhiguo, the west and northwest of Zhiguo are the hardest hit areas by the locust plague, and Zhiguo has strong national strength, last year's disaster relief was strong, the foundation of the people's will is solid, and there is no basis for inciting large-scale rebellion, otherwise it would not be possible to sweep the population from Zhiguo back to Wanchuan and Pengyuan counties.

Then, all that is left is to fight Changsun and Xianguo.

The country of Changsun was almost unaffected last year, and after the loss of Chunan County, the Black Turban Army attacked all the way west, intending to expand the grain harvest area. The locust plague in Qiunan County of Xianguo is also serious, and only by taking Qiunan County and attacking the capital county where the tomb is located to the east can it be possible to lay down the largest granary of the capital county.

The only reasonable explanation can only be that the Black Turban Army designed to lure Lu Ji away from the palace capital city to avoid being dragged by Lu Ji to the palace capital city for a decisive battle, so it is the most beneficial to the Black Turban Army.

The news of fake gold quickly spread throughout the city through the Anmin notices posted by the government office, and Jiang Min even sent "real gold" to Qin Han.

"Qin Ye, how can this real gold still have such a cover door, isn't this self-inflicted!"

Gao Heng said in surprise, and Qin Han said meaningfully:

"Yes, I have never seen real gold, and I never thought that it could be made by Jiang Min. If this kind of news spreads, won't the Black Turban Army be messed up? ”

"Isn't this a trick for us, do you need to notify Waifu to stop gold trading and use silver money instead?" Gao Heng proposed.

"No, vanne can make fake gold, and he can make fake money. However, you can inform Waifu of this matter, just pay attention, we are making money, not for the sake of upside down. However, after the defeat of Lu Ji, the battle of Shanling was very important. You have to send men and horses to contact as soon as possible, if the eastern front can conquer the Lingling before autumn, the Black Turban Army will be able to gain a foothold in the Central Plains. ”

"But what if the northern army of the Jin Kingdom crosses the river to help defend the tomb?"

"Nope." Qin Han categorically denied. "The Jin State will sit and watch the chaos of the Xian Kingdom, only the more the Xian Kingdom is in chaos, the Jin State is the biggest beneficiary, even if the Qiu Nan County is taken, as long as the Jin Ling is still in the hands of the Xian King, most of the Jin army will not come to the aid in a big way, and even the fall of the Jin State is also happy to see the Jin State.

Moreover, the elite of the Northern Army of the Jin Army is still in Qiguo, even if it returns to the army, it will be after the autumn, and the Jin Army has no possibility of moving the remaining Northern Army to the west at this time.

At present, the Jin State is focused on stabilizing the territory occupied by Jiangdong East County, and is also on guard against Jiangdong County's rebellion and the Zhi army pressing on the border. Therefore, unless the Black Turban Army reached the riverside at the end of summer, the Jin Army would never be able to advance westward. ”

"But the Lingling is impregnable, if you want to take the Lingling within two months, I'm afraid it is impossible. What's more, the main force of the Xian army still exists, and the Black Turban Army can't be allowed to attack the city of Qiling within two months. ”

"Yes, but the news over there is that it is going to take Chengling before the end of July, which is really intriguing. Even if the 120,000 army of Lu Ji was wiped out, or mutinied, Xianguo still had 70,000 Zhennan troops, more than 10,000 garrison troops and forbidden troops in Chenling, 100,000 soldiers from various counties, and hundreds of thousands of conscripts. ”

"Qin Ye, could it be that the Black Turban Army has already controlled the city west of Chenling, and only changed banners overnight after the total annihilation of Lu Ji's soldiers and horses?"

"No, even if you have already controlled the cities west of Chenling, you will never suddenly change your banner before you conquer Chenling, so strong, wouldn't it force the Jin army to come to the aid in a big way.

It is only possible that after defeating Lu Ji, the main force of the Xian army was lured to a decisive battle, and the main force of the Xian army was defeated with a strange plan, and it was directly under the city of Chenling. In this way, the northern army of the Jin State could besiege the tomb before it reacted. ”

A few days after this conversation ended, Sun sent an envoy to contact the Central Plains countries to join forces to crusade against the Black Turban Army, but the countries refused, and the alliance was bankrupt before it was completed, in fact, it is not difficult to expect that there will be a unanimous reaction from all countries.

Sun Guo, as the overlord of the Central Plains before Zhiguo, and Changsun Guo and Jin Guo, as potential competitors for hegemony, are of course more willing to sit back and watch Sun Guo lose, let alone send troops to crusade against the chaotic army in Sun State, and the rest of the princes can't avoid where they can provoke the Black Turban Army.

Some people in the government and opposition of the Liang State even suggested that since the Black Turban Army had already occupied a larger area than the Qi State, it would be okay to settle the situation and calm the people after two years of planting and sealing the country.

In May, the cult ideology of the Black Turban Army spread rapidly, and millions of people in various parts of the country were ready to act because of disasters, and all kinds of sabotage and anti-tax actions reached a peak, and riots broke out in the northern counties of Xu State, forcing Xu State to transfer the 200,000 Zhennan Army that was pressing on the defense line of Qianyue Mountain to resist Jin Xuedi's northern invasion to the north to quell the rebellion.

The army of Lü Ji pursued the enemy south, and on the sixth day of the fifth month, the news was cut off, and the news of Chunan County was also cut off. The whole territory of Qiunan was like evaporation, and the Lingling did not receive any news for five consecutive days, and none of the post guards and scouts sent returned, indicating that the army of Lu Ji was afraid of accidents.

Finally on the ninth day of the fifth month, the Black Turban Army invaded the capital overnight, and the vanguard headquarters was actually a newly recruited soldier of the Zhenxi Army, and the government and the opposition of Xianguo were in an uproar.

The 80,000 troops of Lu Ji were besieged by the 400,000 troops of the Black Turban Army in the Mageng River on the twenty-sixth day of April, and were ambushed by the front and back, and the 80,000 troops except for more than 10,000 people surrendered to the enemy, 40,000 people died in battle, and more than 10,000 people who did not surrender were all killed in the pit on the bank of the Mageng River, so that the floating corpses of the Mageng River flowed into a river of blood for hundreds of miles.

The commander Lu Ji was killed in battle, and all the generals and officers above the commander were beheaded, and the Black Turban Army took advantage of the situation to go north, secretly instigating the rebellion of the defenders of the mandala and cutting off all communication messages from Qiunan to the capital county.

Within six days, the palace capital of the county government was stormed, and more than 40,000 officials, wealthy households, and powerful families were slaughtered, and they repaired in the mandala for one day, enveloping the army of 500,000, and the soldiers pointed directly at the outpost of the capital county.

The news spread to Guangxin, the time was already May 11, Bailiyan took turns off that day, and sorted out the deserted village reclamation, weaving, metallurgy, breeding and other things in the department store. Sikong Nan came in a panic, and even didn't bother to report it, kicked in the door and almost collapsed on the ground:

"Big, my lord, it's not good, it's not good......"

Bai Liyan (Wei Xian) was shocked, thinking that it must be Lu Ji's defeat. immediately motioned for Liu Zao and Yang Dun to go out, then poured a bowl of water and gave it to Sikong Nanduan:

"Why are you so flustered? Could it be that Lu Ji was defeated. ”

"Miserable, miserable......"

Sikong Nan was stunned and wanted to cry, Bai Liyan was confused, and asked eagerly:

"What miserable!"

"Lu Ji's entire army was annihilated, and more than 10,000 people were captured by the Black Turban Army, and because they refused to surrender and rebelled, they were all killed by the Black Turban Army. The 500,000-strong army has already reached Wuliao, and it will definitely be in the tomb within a month. ”

"What, half a million people." Bai Liyan was taken aback, and she was so shocked that she could barely close her mouth. "How can there be 500,000 Black Turban Army!"

"It's true, my lord, the 500,000 troops of the Black Turban Army are attacking Fog Talk, and Fog Chat is just a small city, and it won't last more than a day. King Xian sent an edict to the king three days ago, and all the Zhennan troops had gone north to Chengling, and the soldiers of the three armies of Dongyuan, Suidang, and Jiangdong were assembling in the capital county, which was going to destroy the country. ”

"No, it can't be. How many people do you need to support an army of 500,000, and where can the Black Turban Army support so many people. ”

Bai Liyan was still skeptical, to say that it was not impossible to defeat Lu Ji, and it was not impossible to annihilate the entire army, but to concentrate four or five hundred thousand superior troops in a short period of time to gather and annihilate 80,000 elites, how could the Black Turban Army do it.

But after thinking about it, Bai Liyan was stunned:

"Don't you say!"

"What do you think?"

Just listening to a fist slamming on the table, Bai Liyan gritted her teeth and said:

"Careless, really careless. I thought that the defeat of Sun Guo in April was a fluke of the thief soldiers, but I never expected that the thief soldiers would retreat and concentrate their forces to attack Xianguo first. ”

It is not impossible to say that the Black Turban Army has gathered hundreds of thousands of troops in a short period of time, and there are no more than two sources of strength for the Black Turban Army: one is the peasants, tenants, and slaves who are exploited and oppressed.

In addition, there were 100,000 Zhendong troops who mutined in Sun Guo, as well as mutinous county soldiers in various counties, and this time more than 60,000 soldiers mutined in the Xian army, and no less than 250,000 regular field troops.

In addition, there is a peasant rebel army with a huge base, and a regiment equipped with the ordnance of the treasury, as long as there is enough food to feed a few million people, so many people can be completely separated from production in a short time, and all thrown into the war movement, and it is not impossible to gather millions of soldiers in a short time.

500,000 soldiers are probably such a patchwork army, and if the other fronts are combined, the total number of troops that the Black Turban Army can put into battle will reach at least 800,000.

The biggest drawback of peasant uprisings is that they are extremely short-lived, often ending in a year or two. The reason for this lies in the fact that the peasant army does not have reliable logistical support and the people's hearts are scattered.

In the early days of the peasant rebel army, the logistics relied more on fighting local tyrants and killing the powerful, plundering the official warehouse as the main source of gain, when the government organized a counterattack and strictly controlled strategic materials, most of the peasant rebel army that hastily raised troops did not have time to think about operating the base area, and most of them would finally fail due to the complete exhaustion of logistics such as money and grain, and even be lured by the division and profit of the government and finally collapsed.

The dispersion of people's hearts is also a fatal wound.

The overwhelming majority of the rebel army consisted of the poor masses who had been subjected to extreme oppression and exploitation, and their morale was extremely sharp, and it was difficult to maintain such morale for a long time as the war dragged on.

When the initial murder turned into panic, the morale and combat strength of the peasant rebel army began to decline, and the great reason why the vast majority of the peasant rebel army could not succeed was that they could not become more frustrated and courageous and finally persevered.

As logistics became more and more scarce, sooner or later the peasant army would have to be annexed by stronger forces. And in the end, those who were able to seize power through the popular rebellion were all the elite who mixed up or defected to the rebel army.

In order to survive, the peasant rebels eventually became disgruntled elites who had to rely on certain so-called disgruntled elites. Without the covert support of the elites, the resources in the hands of the peasant rebel army alone would not have been able to afford the entire war.

However, the Black Turban Army took a completely different path, by capturing the official warehouses and obtaining a large amount of grain and ordnance, and did not organize people to resume agricultural production, and in fact, due to the locust plague, there was no possibility of resuming agricultural production this year.

At the same time, it obtained a large amount of resources needed for war from the outside through fake gold, so as to mobilize all the men who could be involved in the war, in order to launch a short-term riot, launch a super-large-scale attack, launch a full-line war with unimaginable manpower, and constantly push the controlled territory to the grain hoarding and arable areas through war, so as to achieve the ultimate goal of occupying the rich grain-producing areas and plundering the national treasury.

Giving up this kind of war potential will come at the cost of completely abandoning the productive forces and transferring all human resources to war, and it is more like an extreme wartime mobilization system, which is difficult to do without an extremely inflammatory cult.

Once this kind of cult system is implemented, it will bring about tremendous destructive power in a short period of time, and it will be possible to launch foreign conquests with hundreds of thousands, nearly a million soldiers, and several million people, and for a large country with only four or five hundred thousand standing troops, the numerical superiority alone can cancel out almost all the qualitative superiority.

What's more, all countries have important border defense tasks, and mobilizing two or three hundred thousand troops to quell the rebellion is already the limit, encountering several times their own thieves, Yu Oiling tactics is no different at all, and even invisibly helping the Black Turban Army to exercise its soldiers and battle capabilities.

The Central Plains is undoubtedly the weakest in the Xian State, the Black Turban Army suddenly stopped in the south of the palace capital, and then lured Lu Jinan down, the purpose is to transfer the combat strength of the Black Turban Army from Sun State to Xian State, and finally swallow the capital of Xian State.

The advantage that the Black Turban Army's super-sized rioters can gain will never exceed half a year, and after half a year, the grain and grass will be exhausted one after another, and the Black Turban Army is bound to collapse. After laying down the granaries of the Lingling and the rich areas of the plains, the Black Turban Army will undoubtedly gain the fattest base area.

King Xian issued an edict at this time, obviously Lu Ji was completely annihilated and killed in battle, and the powerful officials were slaughtered and killed, and he was frightened by the cruel methods of the Black Turban Army.