Chapter 27: The man doomed to a world of cholera

Chapter 27 The man doomed to cholera

Chapter 26: The man doomed to cholera

Some people may not be outstanding in martial arts or have top-notch intelligence, but they are destined to become the source of cholera in the world. Huang Chao is such a person!

The Yellow Turban Army has gone through many detours in original history, but in this life with Huang Chao, the rebel king with an intelligence of 95, as a military advisor, the Yellow Turban Army will naturally not take the detours it has taken before and continue to make the same mistakes.

The Yellow Turban Uprising made two biggest mistakes in original history. First, it offended aristocratic families all over the world, and second, it was a rogue bandit strategy.

 There are two points mentioned, but in fact there is only one point, that is, the Yellow Turban Army has offended the famous families in the world, so they have to adopt bandit tactics.

Why did the Yellow Turban Army offend the famous families all over the world?

 At the beginning of the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu promised to share the world with the aristocratic families in the world, thereby gaining the support of the aristocratic families to reestablish the Han Dynasty. However, this also resulted in the current situation where the aristocratic families are unable to leave behind.

The total number of wealthy families is less than one percent of the total number of Han people, but they occupy 95% of the world's wealth, and they still encroach on people's land through various legal or illegal means.

 When people can no longer survive, they will naturally stand up and resist.

The Yellow Turban Army are almost all poor people, so it is not difficult to imagine the attitude of the Yellow Turban Army towards wealthy families.

 In the original history, the Yellow Turban Army did not distinguish between good and bad families, and directly massacred them on sight, so they were naturally boycotted by all the families.

This directly resulted in that whenever the Yellow Turbans attacked the city, the aristocratic families in the city would unite to help the Han army defend the city.

Moreover, the support from the aristocratic family is very strong. They need money for money, food for food, and materials for materials. If they still can't defend it, they will even send private soldiers to help defend the city.

It's impossible not to help. Once the city is destroyed, the whole family will be destroyed. All the clan members will be killed, and the family fortune will be cheaper. This is unacceptable to all the aristocratic families, so they will naturally resist one after another.

Therefore, it can be said that the Yellow Turban Rebellion was not Zhang Jiao's rebellion against the Han Dynasty, but rather the poor people's rebellion against the rich.

  This is a war between the poor and the rich triggered by the long-standing class contradictions within the Han Dynasty. The Yellow Turbans represent the poor class, while the Han Dynasty represents the aristocratic class.

 What do the poor people have? There is nothing but itself.

But wealthy families control power, material wealth and knowledge, so the competition between poor people and wealthy families has always been unfair.

The power of the aristocratic families during the Eastern Han Dynasty was far greater than that of other dynasties. Even the Han Dynasty did not dare to touch it lightly, let alone Zhang Jiao?

 Hence, from the moment it stood on the opposite side of the world’s aristocratic families, the Yellow Turban Uprising was doomed to fail.

  After the Han Dynasty had aristocratic families to help defend the city, the defensive power immediately increased greatly, while the advancement speed of the Yellow Turban Army was greatly reduced, until finally the successors were weak and stagnated.

 Failing to capture the city means that the team cannot continue to grow in strength.

 At this time, the Han Dynasty, which had already reacted, exploded with amazing strength when faced with the crisis of national subjugation. If the Yellow Turbans want to resist, they have to change their strategies and use popular bandit strategies to strengthen themselves, otherwise they will only be wiped out.

But this life is different. With a wise man like Huang Chao here, he will naturally not watch the Yellow Turban Army jump into the pit.

 Huang Chao first stated to Zhang Jiao the disadvantages of offending the world's aristocratic families and the disadvantages to future development in front of all Qu Shuai.

 Huang Chao originally thought that everyone would agree if he explained the truth, but he did not expect to be opposed by all Qushuai except Zhang Jiao, including Hong Xiuquan and Fangla.

At this time, Huang Chao realized how resentful the Yellow Turbans, or the common people, were towards the aristocratic family.

Although Huang Chao also belongs to a poor family, the family is not unable to untie the pot, so he did not understand this resentment deeply at first, but it is not too late to understand it now.

This kind of resentment was not formed in a day or two, but accumulated over 200 years. It is almost impossible to resolve. Even if you and others do not take action, people will definitely stand up against the Han in the future. The Han should be in trouble.

Although all Qu Shuai disagreed, Huang Chao did not give up, but changed his approach to persuade from another angle.

Huang Chao said this, the Han Dynasty and the aristocratic family are like two big mountains. If the Yellow Turban wants to completely move them, it will definitely consume a lot of energy and time. If the two mountains are moved together, it will be time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the gain will not be worth the loss. It will be much easier if you move them one by one.

 The Han Dynasty and the Aristocratic Family are like these two mountains. After destroying the Han Dynasty, we can turn our guns against the Aristocratic Family without too late!

 It will definitely be time-consuming and labor-intensive to deal with the two together, so why not use a time-saving and labor-saving method?

 Huang Chao's concise metaphor made all the commanders fall silent. In the end, Zhang Jiao decided to change the original policy of the Yellow Turban Army, so that it would no longer target the aristocratic families in the world, but the small aristocratic families that were causing trouble for one side.

Zhang Jiao didn't know that his decision saved the Yellow Turban Army, which was doomed to fail. If the Yellow Turban Army still stands on the opposite side of the world's aristocratic families, even with the help of Xiang Yu and other summoned figures, it is destined to fail. After all, no matter how strong an individual is, he cannot fight against the general trend. .

The Yellow Turban Army changed its attitude towards the World Family, and the World Family saw that the Yellow Turban Army did not provoke them, so naturally they would not take the initiative to provoke the Yellow Turban Army.

They don't care about the rise and fall of the Han Dynasty. They only care about the rise and fall of their own family. Besides, there is nothing wrong with the change of dynasty. Maybe it is an opportunity for their own family to grow!

Of course, there are still people who care about those notorious little aristocratic families. When these aristocratic families saw that those ordinary pariahs actually dared to stand up and rebel, and attacked themselves just because of a trivial matter, they were immediately horrified, so they tried their best to Assist officers and soldiers in defending the city. After all, the power of the small aristocratic family is limited, and it cannot play a big role at all. However, for the garrison officers and soldiers, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is still meat, which is better than nothing!

Under the influence of Huang Chao, the Yellow Turban Army in this generation was not attacked by the joint snipers of the world's aristocratic families. Before the Han Dynasty reacted, the siege of the city was naturally very smooth. With a base area that continued to supply blood, the Yellow Turban Army naturally did not need to compete with the original history. Follow the same tactics as the bandits!

 What is the rogue strategy?

 Just ignore production, ignore farming, and do not take occupying territory as the main purpose. After capturing the city, they mainly use looting to quickly increase the strength of the rebel army in a short period of time.

The rogue strategy has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that it can indeed strengthen the strength of the rebel army in a short period of time, thus giving it a better chance of winning when faced with encirclement and suppression by officers and soldiers.

The disadvantage is that it is difficult to control. It is easy to say at first, but after tasting the sweetness, the red-eyed rebels will no longer care about etiquette and morality. By then, the rebels will become a rebel army, and their reputation will be completely ruined. And it will bring great damage to society.

 Huang Chao’s own path of rebellion followed the rogue bandit strategy, no, it was more thorough than the rogue bandit strategy. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to call it the locust route.

Of course, the reason why Huang Chao did this was because he had no choice. If he had a choice, with Huang Chao's 95 points of intelligence, he would never choose the popular bandit strategy.

Huang Chao does not have as good a foundation for rebellion as Zhang Jiao. The rebel army is not only outnumbered, but also in a passive state. Under such a situation where the strength of the enemy and ourselves is too disparate, if the strategy of rogue bandits is not adopted, the only thing waiting for Huang Chao is Was wiped out all the way.

In history, Huang Chao brought rogue warfare and mobile warfare to the extreme. In the high-intensity continuous battles, the team not only did not reduce its personnel, but also fought more and more. After the rebels broke through a city, they immediately seized food and destroyed the city, and the people lost their homes and food. In the end, other than joining the rebels, there was no other option but to starve to death.

Whenever the rebels were short of food and grass, Huang Chao would directly supplement their food with human flesh. Therefore, wherever Huang Chao's army went, they were almost exhausted, and the local people were not killed, but eaten.

The reputation of Demon King Huang Chao also comes from this. With this cruel method, Huang Chao broke the Tang army's blockade time and time again, and brought huge losses to the Tang army. In the end, he brought down the Tang Dynasty and ruined the greatest empire in Chinese history. dynasty.

It is precisely because Huang Chao's reputation is extremely bad that he understands how important a good reputation is. Conquering the world does not happen overnight. Without a good reputation to attract heroes from all over to actively invest, it is almost impossible to achieve success.

As long as the rogue strategy is adopted, the reputation of the rebel army will be completely ruined sooner or later, which is almost impossible to change.

By then, not only will no talented people defect, but even the common people will not take the initiative to join the rebel army, and the team will no longer receive regular troop reinforcements. This will be a fatal blow to any rebel army.

But why did the Yellow Turban Army pursue banditry policies in history?

Regardless of the scale of the Yellow Turban Uprising in original history, there were over a million rebels at the beginning, and later it spread to tens of millions of people. After the Han Dynasty experienced this riot, the population directly increased from 50 million to 50 million. It dropped to more than 30 million, and more than 10 million people died in this, which shows how much damage the Yellow Turban Uprising caused.

However, although the damage was great, the Yellow Turban Army did not actually capture much territory. The obstruction of the aristocratic families caused great difficulties to the Yellow Turban Army's siege. In fact, the actual occupied territory was not even a state, and there was a gap between the territories. It can't even be connected, it's just a piece of enclave, and it's possible to be recaptured by the Han Dynasty at any time.

That's why the Yellow Turban Army adopted the bandit strategy, because instead of being wiped out one by one by the Han Dynasty's concentrated forces, it would be better to engage in bandit warfare and take the initiative to attack, which might still have a chance of survival.

In the face of life and death, reputation is somewhat insignificant. After all, if you can't even save your life, what's the use of fame?

Huang Chao's suggestion gave the Golden Rebellion, which was destined to fail, a slight chance of success. He only killed small aristocratic families who had done evil. Although he offended the aristocratic family, he did not offend the whole family, and he would not stand on the opposite side of the aristocratic families in the world.

With no aristocratic family to block the Yellow Turban Army's offensive, its offensive was almost smooth sailing. After capturing the city, the Yellow Turban Army immediately punished the evildoers, released grain and recruited troops. After leaving some garrison troops, the main Yellow Turban army immediately continued to attack other cities.

Although doing so will cause the dispersion of troops and affect combat effectiveness as the territory expands, it can ensure the stability of rule, continuously provide blood transfusions to the Yellow Turban Army, and enhance sustained combat capabilities.

Of course, in addition to the above, Huang Chao also formulated a strategy for Zhang Jiao to unify the world: the three-step strategy of the Yellow Turban Heavenly Kingdom.

 The first step is to concentrate on capturing Yuzhou.

Due to the uneven distribution of the power of the Taiping Religion in various places, the strength of some places is actually not enough to deal with the local officers and soldiers, so Huang Chao suggested to Zhang Jiao that the relatively weak ones among the 36th Route Rebels should be transferred away from the local area first and concentrate their strength first. Capture important and captureable territory.

Ten birds in the forest are worse than one in the hand.

Since the Taiping Sect has the greatest influence in Yuzhou, and because Yuzhou is the richest and most populous state in the Han Dynasty, it has become Huang Chao's first target.

After Zhang Jiao saw Huang Chao's plan, he thought it was very feasible, so he directly transferred 12 of the 36 canal commanders to carry out the incident in Yuzhou, and also sent Xiang Yan there to ensure nothing went wrong.

 The second step is to occupy the Central Plains mainly, with Hebei as a supplement, and Jing Yang as a secondary. The Central Plains consists of the three prefectures of Yan, Henan and Xu, while Hebei consists of the four prefectures of Hebei, Qingyou and Hebei.

Although the Central Plains is easy to attack and difficult to defend, because it is in the hinterland, the defenders are relatively small, wealthy and have a large population. If we can capture the entire Central Plains, we can gain millions of soldiers.

 The terrain of Hebei is difficult to defend and difficult to attack, but if it is fully occupied, it can be invincible.

Our Taiping Sect has the weakest power in Jingyang, so we can postpone the attack on the two states without wasting too much force. We only need a partial force to take what we can, and let go if we can't.

As for the third step of Huang Chao's plan, it is much simpler and cruder. Based on the realization of the second step, he will unite the Yellow Turbans' millions of soldiers to directly crush Luoyang, the capital of the Han Dynasty, and destroy the Han Dynasty in one battle.

【This National Day, Liuxiang visited a lot of places. Liuxiang No. 2 went to Fantawild Oriental Divine Painting, Phase 4, and Liuxiang No. 4 was going to Huangshan, so the recent updates were a bit unstable. Liu Xiang also knows that September is really a bit lazy, and it is true that he didn’t write many words. Liu Xiang is very sorry, and I don’t have to explain. After the National Day, Liu Xiang will do his best to code, and at least resume updating once a day. I hope everyone can read more Support, thank you! 】

　　

　　

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