Chapter 121: The Ambassador from Luoyang
Flames rose from time to time in the Han army camp. It was Ge Xuan who was using the flame talisman to burn the insects until the sky turned white. It gradually faded.
Because this brain-eating worm is also a little afraid of the sun.
The medical supplies sent by Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao were sent by people when Huo Hai ordered the setting fire to destroy the entire Han army camp. However, there were only a group of cavalrymen who checked the situation. After Zhu Jun, who was awakened, nodded to them with difficulty, the people returned to Huangfu Song camp to report the situation. If they pulled the supplies over again, it would be at least half a day later.
Seeing the Earth Fire Talisman activated by Cui Xuan and others together ignited in the camp, tears gushed out from Zhu Jun's eyes like spring water.
In the end, there were less than 8,000 Han troops who were picked up by the Heishan Army. In other words, there were more than 12,000 soldiers and thousands of civilians whom he brought from Luoyang and would be burned to death. You must know that most of these people were clan soldiers he brought from his family and rural brave men recruited from his hometown. Now, he regrets bringing them to fight such a battle, and he regrets the words of Zixu and others who believe in it, allowing Wu Kui to enter the military camp.
"Maybe, this is the retribution of God to kill prisoners!" Zhu Jun, who was unable to stand firmly, sat on the ground and murmured to himself.
The current situation is that most of the army has lost, and all the food, grass and livestock have been burned. He does not think he will have any future life. He only hopes that Huangfu Song can defend it and not allow the Yellow Turbans of Jizhou to go south to attack Luoyang.
Seeing that the soldiers of the Black Mountain Army were able to start to rescue the Han soldiers according to their own routines and temporarily continue their lives, Huo Hai also brought Chu Yan and others to Zhu Jun.
"We should be able to talk about the recruitment now!" Huo Hai did not have the joy of the winner on his face, and he looked at Zhu Jun lightly and said.
"Recruiting?" Hearing these two words, a glimmer of light suddenly popped up in Zhu Jun's eyes.
Because, after he woke up, he always regarded himself as a prisoner of the Black Mountain Army. Now, the leader of the Black Mountain Army actually wanted to talk to him about reunion, which made his mind suddenly come alive.
The Han army suffered such heavy losses this time, and the ending after he returned to the court was not good. After all, the defeat of Changshe and the long-term attack on Wancheng had already made the Han Emperor very unhappy with him. The killing of prisoners after the capture of Wancheng also damaged his reputation among the people.
When the government and the people did not like him, it was normal for him to suffer such a great defeat, not to mention dismissal from office or title, or to be sent to take the blame and beheaded.
However, if he had a contribution to surrendering to the Heishan Army, that would be different.
As long as the Black Mountain Army surrenders to the court, no matter what conditions are, the north can be quickly pacified, and the situation will definitely not be worse than continuing to fight now. Moreover, once the Black Mountain Army surrenders, Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang will definitely give up resistance. At that time, the whole country will be quickly pacified, which is a great achievement.
As long as the loss was pushed to Wu Kui, the mortal enemy of the Han Dynasty, the Han Emperor would not only not blame him, but would even reward him for compensation.
After all, many people died in his Zhu family in this battle, and in the end he ended the battle.
After Huo Hai seemed to have settled down, he spoke again, "The current situation, you don't think we still need to fight!"
"The Heishan Army did not pursue a rebellious act of siegeing cities and plundering land. If it was willing to surrender, the court would definitely give you an official title. However, the Yellow Turban Army was different. In this world, millions of innocent people were killed and injured, all because of the three brothers Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang inciting the people's hearts. The court could bypass those ignorant people, but they could never spare the three culprits of their brothers." Seeing that Huo Hai really wanted to surrender to the court, Zhu Jun immediately began to plan for the court.
"You can spare it? General Zhu has the final say. If the two of them can convince the Yellow Turban Army in various places to stop causing trouble and properly resettle them, it will still be valuable to the court. In the end, how to deal with them will be decided by the emperor of Luoyang." Huo Hai woke up Zhu Jun and said.
Why did he give up defending the Black Mountain Village and lead the entire army here to take a risk?
I just want to stop the war as soon as possible, reduce some casualties, and protect Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang as much as possible.
"If the emperor pardons them, I will naturally have nothing to say." Zhu Jun thought about it and spoke.
Huo Hai nodded with a smile, "Then please ask General Zhu to go to General Huangfu's camp again. If you can convince him to write to the court together with you and accept the Black Mountain Army and the Yellow Turban Army to submit to the court, then I will do my best to help you heal more than 7,000 soldiers under your jurisdiction, and let you bring them all to Luoyang."
The meaning of Huo Hai's words is to keep Zhu Jun's subordinates as hostages and force him to successfully convince Huangfu Song. Zhu Jun naturally understood it as soon as he heard it. In the end, it was because of previous considerations that nodded and agreed to Huo Hai.
After Huo Hai asked Yu Ji to diagnose Zhu Jun's body and confirmed that there were no insects in his body, he asked several cavalrymen to lead horses and asked him to go to Huangfu Song's camp.
Seeing Zhu Jun agreeing to help, Chu Yan, Wang Dang and others' expressions relaxed. They naturally wanted to save Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang. Among them, Chu Yan asked Huo Hai with some concern, "Will the court agree to pardon General of the Earth and the Artificial General?"
"This depends on Cao Mengde's performance in Yecheng. If he could persuade the northern aristocrats to write a letter together, he would have succeeded." Huo Hai said inconsistency.
After all, the Yellow Turban Army caused a nationwide war and someone must be responsible for this matter. A dead Zhang Jiao was not very convincing at this time, and Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang's heads were almost the same.
Just as the war came to an end here, the land of Qingzhou was rolling in smoke and war was everywhere.
Gongsun Zan's attack speed was very fast. In just ten days, he pulled more than 20,000 troops to sweep the Yellow Turban Army units in Qingzhou. With the help of the three brothers Liu, Guan and Zhang, he was almost invincible. There were almost no enemy in all the big and small generals in front of the two generals Guan and Zhang. In just a few days, all the Yellow Turban Army troops retreated to Linzi, the Qingzhou capital. Gongsun Zan naturally chased them all the way. Even though there were nearly one million people gathered there, in his opinion, it was like grass.
Because there was no ruthless person among the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou, even Guan Hai, the strongest late-stage expert in internal strength, could not withstand Guan Yunchang's three swords.
Huo Hai knew a little about the war news here, so he wanted to promote the peace talks as soon as possible. Otherwise, if he urgently wanted military merits to prove his Gongsun Zan, he would definitely kill many Qingzhou Yellow Turbans.
As for Cao Cao, his movements were really fast. Moreover, he immediately believed the messenger sent by Zhu Jun and began to run around the city families that had been gradually convinced by him. After Cui Xuan and other monks returned to their respective families under the command of Huo Hai, hundreds of vehicles of medical supplies were transported to the camp of the Black Mountain Army by them.
In less than three days, Cao Cao marched with his chariots and horses for more than 200 miles to find Huo Hai. After seeing more than 7,000 Han soldiers who were killed by various treatments in the Heishan military camp, he couldn't help but shivered.
When he saw the land within a radius of several miles opposite the Black Mountain Army camp, he truly understood how cruel the wars involved in by monks were. A few days ago, when the fire from deep soil rose, not to mention the people standing on the ground, even the earthworms hidden deep in the land would be burned to ashes, and even all the metal utensils in the Han army camp were burned to ashes.
This situation has given Huo Hai a way to improve smelting technology. Although the cost of spiritual talismans is extremely high, using some places where there is already earth fire, the consumption speed of spiritual talismans will decrease exponentially. As long as it can melt various difficult metals, refine high-strength alloy metals, and create many modern things, it is not impossible. At least, it can also bring the elegance of the Black Mountain Army's swords, guns and other weapons to a higher level.
However, after thinking about it, Huo Hai still has a problem that needs to be solved. How to mass-made talismans? This thing must be done with his modern thinking to solve different chemical reactions in this world. At least, he must first thoroughly study the Yin and Yang Five Elements Tai Chi and Bagua, and only after getting started with Taoism.
Zhu Jun's process of persuading Huangfu Song was not smooth, but the imperial edict from the court to admit the Heishan Army was faster than Huangfu Song's ideological struggle.
The reason is that Guo Tu’s diplomacy over the past few months has played a role. It is approaching Mid-Autumn Festival and the various crops planted in the fields of Heishanzhai have matured.
After Liu Yan ordered people to deliver the new crops that Guo Tu gave him to Luoyang, Liu Yu held a banquet for all the officials of the court to eat. After confirming that there was no problem, he presented them to the Emperor of Han. After Liu Hong ate these new crops made according to the cooking methods of Heishanzhai, he shouted that he had eaten pig food before.
When he was having a full meal, Liu Yu mentioned that at least millions of people in the world were not full. They rebelled not because Liu Hong was unpopular, but because of natural disasters and man-made disasters, and there was no food. At present, since Heishanzhai has high-yield and delicious crops that can solve this problem, they should be recruited to calm the situation as soon as possible.
Otherwise, the more people fight, the more people have no food to eat, the more people have no food to eat, the more they will fight, and the more they will be able to fight, the Han Dynasty will collapse under such a vicious cycle.
After hearing this, Liu Hong believed it. After all, the court did not have so much money to support so many people who had no food. It would be better to throw them all to the guy named Huo Hai of the Black Mountain Army.
So, while Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun were still arguing about whether to fight or to be harmonious, a group of small yellow gates from Luoyang came to the Han army camp.
After hearing Liu Hong's imperial edict, the two were stunned.
Liu Hong actually pardoned Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang for their death crimes, ordered them to make meritorious service, dismiss the Yellow Turban Army in Jizhou, and persuaded them to stop causing trouble.
Huo Hai, who presented new grains, made great contributions to the court. After the court made contributions, he would be rewarded.
Chapter completed!