Call of the Other World: Rebuilding the Glory of Zhenbei

Chapter 15: The Imperial Court is Outraged, Five Armies
The first year of Shenwu, early March.

This year was the Jiazi year that comes once every sixty years. The Emperor of Great Xia hoped that Great Xia would have a new look and it would be a peaceful year. However, in this year, which held his infinite expectations, a "big earthquake" came.

That is: the Taiping Sect, the largest religion in the Great Xia Dynasty, actually rebelled.

The leader of the Taiping Sect, Zhang Jiao, declared a rebellion in Julu City in Jizhou Road. As many as one million Taiping Taoist followers, led by Zhang Jiao and his nine Vajra, thirty-six Heavenly Generals, and seventy-two Earthly Fiends, launched a fierce attack on the various sects of the Great Xia Dynasty.

Since all the Taiping Sect followers wore yellow scarves on their heads, they were also called the Yellow Turban Army. They shouted slogans throughout the attack: "The Blue Heaven is dead, the Yellow Heaven should be established, the year is Jiazi, and the world will be blessed with good fortune!"

In addition, in order to prove the authenticity of his efforts to benefit the people, Fan Zeng, as a military advisor, specially added a slogan: "Oppose the tyrannical Xia, kill the tyrant, punish the treacherous and corrupt, and eliminate the evil!"

"The blue sky is dead, the yellow sky should be established. Although it is the Jiazi year, the world will be blessed!"

This loud slogan sounded the clarion call for the Yellow Turban Rebellion to resist the brutal Xia. From then on, heroic rebel forces emerged one after another in various places, taking root and sprouting like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.

As the saying goes, when the wall is pushed, everyone falls.

As the Yellow Turban Army launched a rebellion, many ambitious bandits or short-sighted careerists immediately smelled an opportunity.

Therefore, after the Yellow Turban Army launched a rebellion throughout the country, they immediately took advantage of the situation and wanted to take advantage of the situation.

In addition to these people, heroes from all over the country also raised their troops to respond. The fact that they responded to the Yellow Turban Army in such a short time showed that they had already been in collusion with each other for a long time.

The bandits of Mount Tai in Huainan responded to Zhang Jiao's call and rose up against the Xia;

The Dongting Lake bandits in Jiangdong Road directly led their troops to attack the county governor's mansion and kill the governor;

There are also Chaohu bandits, Jiangxia bandits, East China Sea bandits, West China Sea bandits, Luanyi Mountain bandits, Bahuang bandits, Dianfeng bandits, Chaos bandits and so on.

In addition, the Yellow Turban bandits swept across the country from west to east and from north to south, and countless common people were "converted" by their doctrines, and their momentum became increasingly powerful.

A wave of uprisings broke out, with bandits from all over the country responding to the uprising. The rebels rose up one after another and began to wreak havoc on the land.

Tens of thousands of ordinary people wrapped yellow scarves on their hands and suddenly became members of the rebel army, starting the huge revolutionary cause of "fighting the local tyrants, dividing the land, and distributing the food!"

As the old nest, Jizhou Road was even more revolutionary. Originally, it was thought that with Jizhou Road's status as the first road in the Great Xia Dynasty, it would be able to survive in this wave of uprising.

Unexpectedly, the first area to be overwhelmed by the tide of uprising was the so-called Jizhou Road, which surprised many people in Daxia and felt extremely unbelievable.

However, this is understandable, because Jizhou Road is Zhang Jiao's place of preaching and foothold. How could he allow other forces to live nearby? As the saying goes, "How can you allow others to sleep next to your bed?" This is exactly what it means.

The rebels were unscrupulous and continued their great cause with great vigor and vitality. The common people from all over the country were in dire straits and began to flee.

Wherever the Yellow Turban Army passed, they were like locusts, leaving no grass behind. Wherever the Yellow Turban Army passed, the local supplies, food, gold, silver and treasures were confiscated, making a great contribution to the great cause.

This cut off the last way of survival for the common people, and they had no choice but to follow the rebels and join in this grand cause.

Of course, there were many more common people who were unwilling to "go along with the crowd" and had to travel thousands of miles alone to other places. These people were both old and young. When the news of the Yellow Turban Rebellion reached the ears of the Great Xia Emperor through the Jackdaw Department, the Xia Emperor, who had been looking forward to a new year and a new atmosphere this year and was immersed in wine and sex, was completely stunned!

If he was confused by Zhang Jue's sudden rebellion at the beginning, then after he saw the scale of the rebellion, he was extremely trembling and frightened.

There were a million rebels in the Yellow Turban Army alone, and this does not include those who took advantage of the situation and wanted to cause trouble. If you add up all the numbers, it would be a staggering number.

What's more, the first thing the Yellow Turban Army did after entering the city was to open the granaries to release grain to help the poor people, and then to kill corrupt officials and powerful people.

When the vast majority of poor slaves saw the corrupt officials and landlords who usually bullied them and acted arrogantly being killed one after another, they applauded and shouted that God has eyes. As a result, many of them joined the ranks of the Yellow Turban Army, which caused its size to grow rapidly like a snowball.

Rebellions happen every year, but no one would have expected that this time it would be the Taiping Sect, and it would come so suddenly and so fiercely.

It was impossible for Zhang Jiao to go unnoticed with such a big movement.

In fact, some people had already seen through it, but their influence was not taken seriously. In addition, some ministers in the court were bribed to cover for Zhang Jue, so no one listened to this kind of voice.

And as everyone knows, Confucianism and Taoism have always been the most loyal supporters of Daxia. They are the two sharp swords of Daxia. They have made indispensable contributions to suppressing the rebellions of hundreds of schools of thought and maintaining local stability.

The Taiping Sect is the largest sect in Taoism. If it openly rebels, wouldn't that be going against the entire Taoism?

Where does this put other Taoist schools? And how does the imperial court view Taoism?
Moreover, you, Zhang Jue, are already over fifty years old. Instead of enjoying your retirement, you are taking the risk of exterminating your entire clan by rebelling. What exactly are you trying to achieve?

Do you want to be emperor?

But even if you conquer the country, how many years can you keep it?
And who will inherit it?
You, Zhang Jiao, don’t even have a son.

If you rebel, all nine generations of your clan will be killed!
However, at this point, it no longer mattered whether one understood why Zhang Jue rebelled or not, because Zhang Jue rebelled after all, and it affected the entire body.

This turned the Great Xia Dynasty, which originally looked like a giant, into a precarious paper tiger.

Now the most important thing for Daxia is to mobilize the entire army to wipe out the Yellow Turban Army in a very short time!
As long as the Yellow Turban Army is wiped out in a short period of time, Daxia will still be the same Daxia, and the country will have no worries!

"Pass on my orders."

"Order Grand Commandant Huangfu Jun, Grand Marshal Beitang Ye, General of the Household Li Jing, Marquis of Tongwu Dugu Zhan, and General of Divine Power Beigong Yu to lead the elite troops of Daxia and divide them into five armies to attack the Yellow Turban rebels."

He also issued an imperial edict to the generals of all regions of Daxia to take strict precautions in all places, and ordered all provinces and counties to prepare for war, train soldiers, organize weapons, and summon the rebel army.

Faced with such a dangerous situation, Emperor Xia finally stopped the trap of enforcing the law and took it seriously, and began to seek advice from civil and military officials in the court.

The Great Xia Dynasty has stood on the continent for more than 500 years. Its prestige has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and naturally it has no shortage of loyal ministers and capable generals.

In order to suppress the Yellow Turbans in various parts of the Great Xia Dynasty as quickly as possible and prevent the situation in the entire Great Xia world from further deteriorating, the Xia Emperor even sent people to deliver messages to the four royal palaces, ordering them to send troops to cooperate in suppressing the Yellow Turban rebels.

(End of this chapter)