Chapter 23: Zhang Bao’s End (Part 1)

After Qingzhou Governor Gong Jing opened the city gate, the general Yan Bin and others welcomed the city, he rewarded the soldiers and invited Yan Bin and his generals to the court. He also reported the victory of the battle of Linzi to the court. After receiving Gong Jin's letter, Emperor Ling praised Yan Bin fiercely in front of the civil and military officials of the court. The civil and military officials of the court also admired Yan Bin very much. The first battle was 3,000 and defeated the enemy 50,000, and the second battle was 5,000. Emperor Ling directly issued an order to Yan Bin, on the one hand, praising him, and on the other hand, asking him to advance westward as soon as possible to join the battle to encircle and suppress the Zhang Jiao brothers.

Yan Bin once again carefully selected 6,000 people from the 400,000 prisoners to expand into his own team. In this way, Yan Bin's troops were composed of: his own personal guards who led 100 people; Zhang Fei led 300 heavy cavalry with 300 people; Zhao Yun led 600 light cavalry with 1,000 fighting infantry with 1,000 troops; Huang Zhong led the archers with the largest number of troops; Guan Yu, Wei Yan, and Xu Huang led the 2,000 infantry with 2,000 troops. A large number of Qu Chang and Tun Chang were promoted from the original Northern Army soldiers. The former Northern Army soldiers became at least ten men. You should know that the former Northern Army soldiers were all veterans, and they were standing still for many years in the army. After following Yan Bin for only half a year, they became officials of all sizes, so they devoted themselves to Yan Bin.

After a few days of rest, Yan Bin remembered the captured Zangba and asked someone to take him to his tent. Zangba was tied up and pushed in with an angry look on his face. Yan Bin waved his hand to ask his personal guard to retreat, and personally loosened the ties for Zangba. He asked Zangba to sit down and said, "Xuan Gao, come and follow me."

The Tibetan Ba's face was originally relaxed because Yan Bin personally relaxed his ties. After hearing Yan Bin's words, he started to slap again: "If you want to kill, kill, cut it. I absolutely don't want you dog officials to surrender."

Yan Bin smiled softly: "Xuan Gao, I know that your father was also a minor official. He was loyal and upright, and had a reputation. However, he died unjustly after being framed. So you joined the Yellow Turban Army in anger. But Xuan Gao, have you ever thought about what caused your father's tragedy?"

"It's not because of you dog officials, it's not because of this corrupt court."

"Yes, it seems to be true on the surface. But what if your Yellow Turban Army succeeded in rebellion? So what if Zhang Jiao became the emperor? After the overthrow of the tyrant Qin, Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang founded the Han Dynasty. But what is the difference between Qin and Han? So even if Zhang Jiao became the emperor, the whole world would change the soup and not the medicine, and the suffering was the people after all. Your father's tragedy was a system problem. If you cannot change it from the fundamental system, it would be useless for anyone to become an emperor. I asked you to help me, just let you help me change this unreasonable system."

Zangba asked in confusion: "Are you like you are rebelling?"

Yan Bin shook his head: "At present, I have no plan to rebel. If a great man can support him, he will support him. If he cannot support him, he will make plans. But I must change this unreasonable system."

Listening to Yan Bin's heartfelt words, Zangba couldn't help but soften his knees and kneel down to Yan Bin and said, "Lord, Zangba is willing to go through fire and water for his lord's ideal."

After conquering the Zangba, Yan Bin also appointed Zangba as the lieutenant of Huang Zhong. Considering that he would fight with the Yellow Turban Army in the future, in order to avoid the embarrassment of Zangba, Yan Bin ordered Zangba to lead 200 men to go to Beihai to take Taishici's mother to Zhuojun, and live with Diao Chan and Huang Zhong's family. In a letter to Taishici's mother, Yan Bin first praised Taishici as a hero he admired very much, but heard that Taishici is not in Beihai now. In order to be afraid that the old man would make any mistakes in this chaos, he asked her to stay in Zhuojun temporarily.

After receiving the imperial edict from Emperor Ling, Yan Bin was a little embarrassed. At this time, the fire in Changshe had already started, and it would be useless if he went there. When he went to Guangzong Sect, Lu Zhi, was afraid that Lu Zhi would be escorted back to Beijing soon. He hated Dong Zhuo, a fat man who was in trouble with the country and the people, and he didn't have to think about helping him. When he went to Quyang to attack Zhang Liang, he was afraid that Huangfu Song and Cao Cao had already arrived there. The great contribution he had been mixed in among them was also diluted. It seemed that he had to go to Yangcheng to attack Zhang Bao. I hope that Zhu Jun could take this great contribution alone before he led his army to arrive.

Thinking of the tight time, Yan Bin hurriedly bid farewell to the governor of Qingzhou Gong Jinghou. He hurried to Yangcheng with more than 10,000 soldiers and horses. After more than half a month of marching, he finally arrived at Yangcheng with Zhu Jun's army. At this time, Yangcheng was simply a chaotic nest of thieves. After Zhang Bao burned Changshe, no one was convinced by his brothers Zhang Liang, so he led his subordinates to occupy Yangcheng. Yangcheng was originally a small city, but after moving into Zhang Bao's 890,000 Yellow Turban Army, the whole city was in chaos. In addition, the Yellow Turban Army's military discipline was lax, and every day there were stealing, fighting, forcing them to buy and sell, and bullying men and women. The people of Yangcheng were in great trouble.
Chapter completed!