In December of the seventh year of Guanghe, Zhu Jun returned to Beijing, and Lu Zhi returned to his hometown.

Chen Xu led the Yellow Turban Army to hide in the mountains and did not dare to come out, marking the failure of the Yellow Turban Uprising.

In that year, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty changed the name of the country to 'Zhongping', which was known as the first year of Zhongping.

In the first month of the second year of Zhongping, Chen Jing, Wang Yan and others led more than 100,000 yellow scarves to Mount Tai, which made the officials of nearby counties panic and hurriedly asked the court for help.

The imperial court thought that the Yellow Turban had regained and did not dare to be careless, so it sent Zhu Jun to quell the rebellion again.

But I didn't want the Yellow Turban Army to attack the city or plunder the land, but just rushed to the Taihang Mountains every day.

After Zhu Jun heard the news, he thought that the Yellow Turban Army must want to join the Yellow Turban remnants in Taihang Mountain, and he didn't expect to attack the city.

He fought a lot with the Yellow Turban Army, and he knew the courage of the Yellow Turban Army, so he inevitably had a different kind of thought in his heart, so he deliberately slowed down the march.

Sure enough, the Taishan Yellow Turban Army did not commit any mistakes all the way, and directly crossed Yanzhou and Jizhou, and came to the Taihang Mountains.

In February of the same year, Zhang Niujiao and Chu Yan considered that Hejian Country was not a place to stay for a long time, so they led the crowd to Mount Tai and occupied the cottage abandoned by Chen Jing and others.

At this point, history changed again.

Zhang Niujiao did not die in battle, and Chu Yan did not become the leader of the Montenegrin army. The two occupied Mount Tai, known as the Taishan Army, gathered the displaced people, and often went down the mountain to harass the nearby counties, and the momentum was quite strong.

Although the weather in July is very muggy, it is still quite cool on Xufu Mountain due to its high altitude.

After Chen Jing came to Xufu Mountain with Taishan's yellow scarf, the total number of people in the cottage has exceeded 150,000.

Of these 150,000 people, one-third are young and able.

Because for the homeless, if the body is not strong enough, it is very easy to starve to death. As a result, the proportion of old and weak women and children in the Yellow Turban Army became smaller.

There were about 50,000 young and strong people, and Chen Xu discussed with everyone for a long time, and decided to recruit 20,000 elite soldiers, and the other 30,000 as reserves.

Due to the overpopulation, a small Xufu Mountain cannot accommodate so many people.

Fortunately, the Taihang Mountains stretch for more than 800 miles, and there are many mountains. So, Chen Xu sent people to set up four camps in the dangerous mountains near Dazhai.

In this way, there were only 30,000 horses in each camp. If it is evenly distributed, the strong in a stockade can only get 10,000.

But in reality, there were only 6,000 able-bodied men in each village, and most of them were older men.

Chen Xu selected 20,000 relatively young men, organized them into an army, and practiced continuously every day.

Chen Xu knew that there was still a period of time before the world was in turmoil.

If you select those people in their thirties to train into elite soldiers, it is estimated that at the beginning of the troubled times, they are already a little older. If they had fought for another ten or eight years, they would have already become old.

Therefore, most of the soldiers selected by Chen Xu were men between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. In this way, there are many Yellow Turban soldiers who do not match their age and are forced to retire.

This has greatly reduced the combat effectiveness of the 20,000 soldiers under Chen Xu's account.

As for the remaining Jingzhuang, they are not only responsible for the daily patrol of the cottage, but also help the people grow crops.

Many people don't understand what Chen Xu did.

But Chen Xu knows the trend of history, and for the sake of long-term planning, he can only select these young people who are still immature to form a ragtag army.

Soon after Cheng Yu arrived at Xufu Mountain with the large army, he was persuaded by Tian Feng to recognize Chen Xu as the master.

Chen Xu was overjoyed, but until now, he didn't know how Tian Feng persuaded Cheng Yu.

Whenever he asked about them, they always laughed and didn't say anything.

Today, the five camps of the Yellow Turban Army in the Taihang Mountains have all been established.

Chen Xu proclaimed himself a general, Tian Feng was the left army division, Cheng Yu was the right army division, and Xia Houlan was in charge of the law and specialized in managing disputes in the cottage.

In addition to the surviving Qu Shuai, as well as Wang Yan, Chen also promoted Dian Wei, Chen Hu, Chen Jing, Chen Qing, Li Guo, Liu Bi, Gong Du, Yang Feng, and Bai Rao as Qu Shuai.

The rest of the meritorious people have many rewards. For a time, the whole cottage was beaming.

As a result, Chen Xu's account was full of talents, and his momentum became more and more powerful, and even the nearby officers and soldiers did not dare to come to encircle and suppress.

Chen Xu occasionally sent people down the mountain to sell furs and buy daily necessities, but those officials also turned a blind eye.

Fortunately, during this time, the Yellow Turban Army has been busy building internal affairs, and they have no heart to go out to loot. This makes the situation in the area of Xufu Mountain a little weird.

In November of the same year of the Yellow Turban Uprising, the Qiang people Beigong Boyu could not bear the oppression of corrupt officials and rebelled.

Liangzhou Yicong Song Jian, Wang Guo and others helped to deceive Jincheng, beheaded Taishou Chen Yi, kidnapped Bian Yun, Xin'an Ling, and engaged in Han Yue, and elected Bian Yun as the leader of the rebels.

Later, Bian Yun and Han Yue felt that they were deeply sinful and could not turn back, so they changed their names to Bian Zhang and Han Sui.

In March of the following year, Bian Zhang and Han Sui led the Qiang people into Kou Sanfu, and the soldiers pointed directly at Chang'an and invaded the garden tomb.

Since Huangfu Song had been killed in battle, Emperor Ling of Han urgently summoned Lu Zhi back to Beijing and dispatched Dong Zhuo as an assistant to quell the rebellion.

Bian Zhang and Han Sui are both famous people in Liangzhou, and they are resourceful. In addition, the Qiang people are brave, and they are even more angry at the oppression of the Han family, so they are not afraid of death.

Officers and soldiers have been fighting with them for months, and it has been difficult to achieve anything.

Chen Xu was thinking about the war in Xiqiang, when suddenly Cheng Yu and Tian Feng came over together.

When Chen Xu saw the two, he hurriedly greeted each other and asked, "The two military advisors are here, but what's the matter?" ”

Both of them had some sadness on their faces, although Cheng Yu was captured by Chen Xu for a longer time than Tian Feng, but Tian Feng was loyal to Chen Xu before Cheng Yu.

Therefore, when the position was set, Chen Xu took Tian Feng as the left army division.

In the Han Dynasty, the left was respected, and although both of them had the title of military division, the status of the left army division was obviously higher than that of the right army division.

Today's Tian Feng is only in his twenties, but Cheng Yu is already in his forties. Chen Xu was afraid that Cheng Yu would be angry, so he had always taken great care of Cheng Yu.

How could Tian Feng not know his father-in-law's thoughts?

In fact, when he was appointed as a military division, he originally wanted to give up the position of the left military division to Cheng Yu, but Chen Xu did not agree.

In Chen Xu's view, although Tian Feng is young, he has real talent and learning. In addition, he was loyal to himself earlier, and set a strategy for the Yellow Turban Army to take root in the Taihang Mountains and wait for an opportunity.

It has solved many shortcomings in the army for Chen Xu, so that whether it is in terms of qualifications or merits, this is far from being comparable to Cheng Yu.

If there is merit, it will be rewarded, and if it is wrong, it will be punished. As the commander of a group, if Chen Xu can't be fair and just, he will definitely leave trouble for the group.

So even though he knew that Cheng Yu was full of talent, and knew that Cheng Yu was far older than Tian Feng, he still arranged him under Tian Feng's position.

Qualifications and merit are very important things for every group.

Tian Feng looked at Cheng Yu and did not speak.

When Cheng Yu saw Tian Feng's gaze, he knew that he wanted to give up the limelight to himself.

Cheng Yu is forty-four years old this year, for an ancient, this age is still nothing, I am afraid it is really difficult to get ahead.

The reason why he defected to Chen Xu was that he didn't have the mind to show what he had learned in his chest? So in the face of Tian Feng's humility, he no longer shirked.

Putting away the emotion in his heart, taking a deep breath, Cheng Yu said calmly: "Although the lord brought a lot of grain and grass up the mountain last year, it has been half a year now, and I have missed the planting season again, so that there is no grain in the spring storage. ”

"Now there are still two months before the harvest of grain, if the lord doesn't want to get some grain and grass in advance, I'm afraid that the grain in Dazhai can only last for another month."

When Chen Xu heard this, his brows furrowed.

He knew that the Yellow Turban Army consumed food very quickly, so since the day he went up the mountain, he asked everyone to save food while leading his tent soldiers into the mountain to hunt beasts.

He didn't expect that the grain and grass in Dazhai would be consumed so quickly.

As if seeing Chen Xu's doubts, Cheng Yu opened his mouth and said: "Lord, if it is according to the consumption of ordinary people, the grain and grass in the village will naturally not be consumed so quickly. ”

"But the 20,000 soldiers trained by the lord and the 3,000 cavalry have increased the speed of grain and grass consumption in the village a lot."

Chen Xu suddenly realized.

When the soldiers trained, the amount of food would increase greatly.

In addition, most of the 20,000 soldiers he recruited were of the age of growing their bodies, and if they were not fed, I am afraid that their physical development would be affected. So Chen Xu never stingy with the food of these people.

Chen Xu looked at the two of them who were at ease with the old gods, and hurriedly asked, "If the military advisor has a plan, please teach me!" ”

The two of them looked at each other, and both smiles appeared on their faces.

Cheng Yu continued: "For today's plan, since there is no food in the army, we have to send troops to attack the county seat, and seize some food from the county government and the powerful and big households to help the emergency." ”

"As long as we wait until the autumn harvest, these 800 miles of Taihang Mountain Range can fully feed millions of people and horses."

Chen Xu continued to ask: "According to the opinion of the military advisor, where should we attack?" ”

Cheng Yu took out a map made of silk cloth from his bosom and said: "Xufu Mountain is located at the junction of You, Bing, and Hebei Prefectures, and there are many places where we can attack. ”

"However, Youzhou is a bitter cold land, the land is barren, and even if our army breaks through the counties, it will not be able to get a large amount of grain and grass."

"Although Jizhou is wealthy, it is densely populated. However, the Yellow Turban Rebellion last year had almost exhausted the grain and grass in it, and it was not desirable. ”

"Although the state is deserted, there are many deserts and mountains. However, the Yellow River crossed the entire state from north to south, watering large areas of fertile land. ”

"Whether it is Xihe County in the center, or Taiyuan and Yanmen counties in the east, they are all large grain-producing counties."

"And Yanmen County is just in the west of Xufu Mountain, we only need to go out of Taihang Mountain, and we can attack nearby counties."

In the end, Cheng Yu pointed his finger at the location of Yanmen County on the map, and his meaning was self-evident.