The Three Kingdoms: The Oath of the Peach Garden, the Rise of the Han Dynasty

The roof exploded, revealing four long yellow cloths, each covered with writing:

With my true energy, I unite with the creation of heaven and earth! Thunder God, assist me! The affairs of the world are now under my control!

The Azure Heaven is dead, the Yellow Heaven shall rise! In the year of Jiazi, great fortune will come to the world!

I can summon wind and rain, command thunder and lightning! Wherever the Way is applied, it is all under my control!

When the heavens cease to cover, the yellow heavens will take their place. When the yellow heavens stand, the people's hearts will be at peace, and the world will be at peace!

In an instant, the yellow light shone brightly, and under the illumination of the rising sun, it seemed as if the yellow sky was changing!

Zhang Jiao muttered incantations, and the Taiping followers around him swayed in response to his chants.

Suddenly, Zhang Jiao shouted:

"Fellow Daoists, please follow my Heavenly General to save the people from this calamity!"

The Taiping followers and the Yellow Turban rebels then shouted, "Great Teacher! Great Teacher!"

Zhang Jiao faced the Han army and Li Chang, his peach wood sword and talisman aimed at the enemy, as if they were truly fighting a magical duel from afar!

"The Taiping Heavenly Arts will unify the world! Lightning strikes and thunder flashes, bringing great changes to the world! Chasing clouds and lightning, thunder soars through the nine heavens!"

Lightning flashes and thunder roars, changing the world! The ghostly path opens wide, twists and turns occur! Gaining insight into Yin and Yang, stealing the heavens and altering the earth. Defying the heavens to become a ghost, the Yellow Heaven to become the Way!

May Heaven above bless all people! May it save the common people from suffering and bring peace to the world in times of chaos!

Obeying the will of Heaven, I am the Yellow Heaven!

Those who obstruct the Heavenly Emperor will be punished by Heaven!

As Zhang Jiao and the Taiping followers finished speaking.

In the sky, a thunderous roar followed once more!

Streaks of lightning seemed to be striking the two tallest altars!

For a moment, Li Chang felt like he was the villain!

And there is...

He cursed loudly at a once-popular game from his past life!

Alright, alright, Haji, you bastard, you actually managed to get GG right here! I was wondering why this Three Kingdoms game was acting so strangely all the time!

Li Chang stood opposite, gazing at the gaunt figure from afar.

The first day ended just like that, with Li Chang suffering a temporary defeat.

As the Yellow Turban rebels gained momentum, the morale of the Han army correspondingly declined.

The next day, just as dawn broke, Zhang Jiao took the stage first.

He burned several military flags captured from the Han army on the stage.

That's all thanks to Dong Zhuo!

The flags twisted, blackened, and turned to ashes in the firelight. The Yellow Turban soldiers below the city erupted in cheers, their shouts even louder than those of the Han army the day before.

At the same time, they covered the other Han army flags with swords and the Yellow Heaven Cloth!

The faces of the Han soldiers turned pale again, as if they were covered by something, feeling heavy all over!

At the same time, something was pointing at my forehead, and the more I thought about it, the more I realized that even the soul in my forehead was aching!

Li Chang calmly climbed up to his own platform, which was several meters higher.

He had a large number of yellow turbans from the Yellow Turban prisoners brought over, hung them in a big bundle on a bamboo pole, and then took out a talisman from his pocket and stuck it on.

"If Zhang Jiao can burn the Han flag, then I can seal the Yellow Talisman."

He pointed his peach wood sword and loudly chanted a few incantations that no one could understand:

"**@##**#*……"

Even he himself didn't understand!

Then he used the tip of his sword to flick the talisman away. The talisman flipped a few times in the wind before landing on the ground.

The yellow headscarf, along with the talisman, was suddenly stained red with blood. Before anyone could check, it was stained again without any fire!

"I have sealed away the Yellow Turban magic! From this day forward, Zhang Jiao's spells will no longer be effective!"

The Han soldiers looked at each other in bewilderment. Was that really the case?

They didn't understand, but they definitely felt more energetic!

There is no longer that feeling of burden and thorns from the soul!

"Great! Our Taoist priest has made a move! We're saved!"

The Han army then began to cheer.

The two sides traded blows, with each side experiencing victories and defeats.

On the third day, Li Chang raised the platform another foot.

On the fourth day, Zhang Jiao's platform was raised by two feet.

On the fifth day, Li Chang covered the platform with yellow papers bearing the names "Huangfu Song," "Zhu Jun," and "Da Han," saying that this was to "borrow the national fortune of Da Han to suppress evil spirits."

On the sixth day, Zhang Jiao wrote runes on a yellow silk ribbon with his own blood and hung it high on the city wall.

On the seventh day, Li Chang's platform reached a height of three zhang (approximately 10 meters). Standing on it and looking down, people appeared as ants.

On the eighth day, Zhang Jiao's platform reached a height of four zhang (approximately 10 meters). He had to be tied to a pillar with ropes to maintain his balance, but he eventually managed to stand on it.

On the ninth day, Li Chang struggled immensely to climb up! He didn't even dare to look down!

That's too high! I'm too scared to climb any higher!

On the tenth day, Zhang Jiao set up seven nail-headed arrows, each inscribed with the birth dates and names of Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun.

Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun were alarmed, and at the same time felt their yang energy being drained, and they became increasingly drowsy!

That night, Li Chang specially brought two jade pendants that were almost broken and barely visible. He said they were talismans passed down from his ancestors' lineage, Zhuangzi. If the jade broke, it meant that the disaster had been successfully averted!

At the same time, let them stay near their own tents and protect them!

Late at night, Li Chang ordered Wang Jiang to quietly strike a gong near Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song's tent!

A loud bang!

The two were startled awake, and when they got up to look, the jade was indeed broken!

They immediately went to Li Chang's camp and saw that Li Chang was pale, his lips were chapped and his eyes were dark!

It is especially noticeable under the illumination of the Seven Star Lamp!

The two were so moved that they wished they could sell themselves to Li Chang!

On the tenth day, Li Chang got up early again and hung Zhang Bao's head and headless corpse on the high platform.

Zhang Jiao vomited blood!

defeat!

The soldiers on both sides, who were initially tense and fearful, gradually became numb, and eventually even looked forward to it.

Every day before dawn, the soldiers on both sides would automatically line up and crane their necks to watch the two Taoist priests fight.

Some people have even started betting odds, betting on who will go on stage first today, and who will win today!

Someone made up a jingle:

"Master Li, Taoist Zhang, whose stage is higher?"

The cooks carried loads of steamed buns on shoulder poles, delivering them to the front lines as they sold them, shouting, "Hot buns! Hot buns! Watch the contest and get hot buns with it!"

After enjoying the excitement for seven or eight days, problems arose.

In August, the midday sun in Jizhou is scorching hot, and in the afternoon, there are occasional convective rain showers caused by the "battle of wits".

The soldiers were exposed to the sun for hours every day, and if they got caught in the rain, they couldn't change into dry clothes immediately, so more and more of them fell ill.

First, it was the ordinary soldiers. Some suffered from heatstroke and fainted, some vomited and had diarrhea, and some felt cold and shivered.

The tent of the army medical officer was packed with people, and the medicinal herbs were in short supply!

Then came the generals.

After standing with Li Chang under the scorching sun for days, several of the older officers collapsed.

Two days later, even Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun started to have fevers and coughs!

On the twelfth night, Huangfu Song lay on his sickbed, his face ashen, with a damp cloth covering his forehead.

He coughed and said to Li Chang, who was sitting beside the couch:

"Master Li, we can't fight anymore. If we continue, the Yellow Turbans won't fall, but we'll fall first."

Li Chang remained silent. His own complexion wasn't much better; days of exposure to the scorching sun had tanned him considerably.

If it weren't for the constant requests to carry water up, K would have given up long ago!

Damn it, how come Zhang Jiao has been clinging to life for so long?! Has he been on drugs?