Feast Taoyuan Haojie Three Knots of Righteousness Behead the Yellow Turban Hero for the first meritorious service

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the government was corrupt, the eunuchs were powerful, the people of the world were confused, and thieves flocked to the city. Julu County has three brothers: Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang. Zhang Jiao was originally a talent who was not in the right position, and one day he went into the mountains to collect medicine and met an old man with blue eyes and a childlike face. He called Zhang Jiao to a cave, gave him three volumes of the Book of Heaven, and said to Zhang Jiao, "This is the Taiping Technique, and after you get it, you want to save the world, and if you have a different heart, you will definitely be punished badly." Zhang Jiao asked the old man's name, and the old man said, "I am the Old Immortal of Nanhua." After saying that, he drifted away in the breeze. Zhang Jiao got the book, studied day and night, could call the wind and rain, and was known as the "Taiping Daoist". In the first month of the first year of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the plague was spread, and Zhang Jiao treated people and called himself a "great sage and good teacher". Due to the large number of apprentices, Zhang Jiao set up thirty-six parties, more than 10,000 people in the large square, and 67,000 people in the small side, each with a leader, called the general. He sent people everywhere to spread the word: "The heavens are dead, and the yellow sky should stand." Years in the nails, the world is auspicious. "Privately built a yellow flag and raised an army to revolt. Zhang Jiao called himself "General of Tiangong", Zhang Bao called himself "General of Digong", and Zhang Liang called himself "General of Rengong". Officers and soldiers fled in the face of the wind. The general He Jin hurriedly asked the emperor to pass down an edict and ordered the generals everywhere to send troops to requisition.

One of Zhang Jiao's armies reached Youzhou. After Liu Yan, the Taishou of Youzhou, heard about it, he hurriedly summoned his subordinates for consultation. Because there were too few soldiers in hand, it was decided to issue a notice to recruit soldiers, and the list text was sent to Zhuo County, bringing out a hero in Zhuo County. Although this person is not good at reading, he has a broad temperament, has great ambitions, and is good at making friends with the world's haojie. Seven feet and five inches tall, with two earlobes on his shoulders, and his hands over his knees, he is a descendant of Liu Sheng, the King of Jing of Zhongshan, with the name Bei and the character Xuande. Liu Bei lost his father at an early age, his family was poor, and he made a living by weaving mats and selling straw shoes.

At this time, Liu Bei was already twenty-eight years old. That day, when I saw the list, I let out a long sigh, but unexpectedly, a person behind me said loudly: "The big husband does not contribute to the country, why sigh?" Liu Bei looked back and saw that it was a big man who was eight feet tall, with a leopard head and ring eyes, a swallow jaw and tiger whiskers, a voice like thunder, and a galloping horse. Liu Bei asked for his name, and the man said, "My surname is Zhang, my name is Fei, and my character Iside." Selling wine and killing pigs for a living, so as to make friends with the world's haojie. Just saw you read the list and sighed, so just ask. Liu Bei said: "I was originally a relative of the Han Dynasty, my surname was Liu, and my name was Bei. Now I heard that the Yellow Turban was in trouble, wanting to defeat the thieves and stabilize the people, but only hated himself for his lack of strength, so he sighed. Zhang Fei said: "I have some money, I can recruit some township heroes, and do something big with you, how about it?" Liu Bei was very happy and went to the hotel with Zhang Fei to drink. While drinking, I saw a big man, pushing a car, and stopped in front of the store. The man entered the hotel and sat down and said to the bartender, "Bring me wine, and I'll hurry into town to join the army." Liu Bei looked at the man: nine feet tall, with a beard two feet long, his face as red as a jujube, his lips like rouge; Dan phoenix eyes, crouching silkworm eyebrows, dignified appearance, majestic. Liu Bei invited him to sit with him and asked for his name, and the man said, "My surname is Guan Mingyu, and I am a Xieliang person in Hedong." Because the local heroes were bullying others, they were killed by me and fled the rivers and lakes for five or six years. Now that I heard that there were recruits here, I came to sign up. Liu Bei then told him his thoughts, and Guan Yu was very happy.

Then the three of them came to Zhang Feizhuang together to discuss important matters. Zhang Fei said: "There is a peach orchard behind my village, and tomorrow I will worship heaven and earth in the garden, and the three of us will worship as brothers and work together to achieve great things." Liu Bei and Guan Yu both said, "Good! ”

The next day, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei prepared a sacrifice in the peach orchard, burned incense and bowed down, and swore to heaven: "The three of us, although we are not the same surname, are willing to become brothers and work together to save the crisis." Report to the state, make the people live and work in peace and contentment, do not seek to be born on the same day of the same month of the same year, but only wish to die on the same day of the same month of the same year..." After swearing, liu Bei was worshipped as the eldest brother, Guan Yu as the second brother, and Zhang Fei as the third brother. After the worship was completed, he slaughtered the cattle and set up wine, gathered the warriors in the village, and more than three hundred people in total, drank bitterly in the peach orchard. At this time, another Zhongshan merchant gave fifty good horses, five hundred and two gold and silver, and a thousand pounds of iron. So after the banquet, Xuande asked the craftsmen to build weapons. Liu Bei struck a double-stranded sword; Guan Yu made the Qinglong Yanyue Sword weigh eighty-two pounds; Zhang Fei made an eight-point steel spear. The three men each raised their weapons and wore armor, and gathered more than five hundred villagers to meet Liu Yan, the Taishou.

Liu Yan was very happy to see that so many people had come to defect, and at that time he recognized Liu Bei as his nephew. A few days later, it was reported that Cheng Yuanzhi, the general of the Yellow Turban Army, had led 50,000 troops to attack Zhuo County. So Liu Yan ordered his subordinates Zou Jing, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei to lead five hundred troops to meet the enemy. Liu Bei and others led their troops to the foot of Daxing Mountain, and they were encountering enemy soldiers. When the two armies faced each other, Zhang Fei stood up with the spear of the eight snakes, and Guan Yu swung a large knife, and after only two or three rounds, he killed the enemy general under his horse and returned with a great victory. Liu Yan personally came out to greet him and rewarded the soldiers.

Zhang Jiao, the leader of the Yellow Turban Army, attacked Guangzong, and the defender Lu Zhi led 50,000 soldiers to defend the city. So Liu Bei, together with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, led five hundred soldiers to Guangzong for reinforcements. Arriving at Guangzong, Lu Zhi ordered Liu Bei and others to go to Yingchuan to inquire about the news, and allocated him a thousand officers and soldiers. At that time, Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao's brothers were facing off against Emperor Fusong and Zhu Jun at Yingchuan. Liu Bei led his troops to Yingchuan overnight. By the time we reached Yingchuan, the enemy soldiers had been dispersed.

At dawn, Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao led the defeated army to escape. Suddenly, I saw a group of military horses with red flags and intercepted the way. One of the leading generals was seven feet tall, with thin eyes and a long beard. This man was Cao Cao, the knight. Cao Cao character Meng De, nicknamed Ah Qi, was a native of Peiguo County. His father Cao Song was originally surnamed Xiahou, but because he was the adopted son of Cao Teng, the zhongchang attendant, he changed his surname to Cao. When Cao Cao was a teenager, he liked to hunt and sing and dance. One of his uncles saw Cao Cao wandering all day and told Cao Song. Cao Song reprimanded Cao Cao. Cao Cao suddenly came up with a plan, and when he saw his uncle coming, he pretended to fall to the ground and pretended to have suffered a stroke. The uncle panicked and ran to tell Cao Song. Cao Song hurried to see, cao Cao was normal as usual. Cao Song said, "Uncle said you had a stroke, how can this be good?" Cao Cao said, "My son has never had this disease, because my uncle doesn't like me, that's why he said that." Cao Song believed him. Later, when his uncle said that Cao Cao had any faults, Cao Song did not believe it. As a result, Cao Cao was allowed to indulge in debauchery. At that time, a man named Qiao Xuan said that Cao Cao had the great talent of an anthemone. Nanyang He Yong said that he could calm the world. Xu Shao of Runan saw Cao Cao and said, "You are a capable vassal of the Taiping World Dao and a traitor of the Chaotic World Dao." Cao Cao listened to the great joy. When Cao Cao was twenty years old, he became a lieutenant in the north of Luoyang. After taking office, he was forbidden to do so, and he was not afraid of the powerful and noble, so he became very famous. Later, he made the Dunqiu County Order. Because of the rise of the Yellow Turban Army, he became a knight lieutenant and led a horse infantry army of 5,000 people to yingchuan to help in the battle. When Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao were defeated, Cao Cao stopped him and killed him, killing tens of thousands of people and capturing a large number of banners, golden drums and horses. Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao fought desperately to escape. Cao Cao met Emperor Fusong and Zhu Jun, and immediately led his troops to pursue Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao.

The general Emperor Fusong then ordered Liu Bei to return to Guangzong overnight, and Liu Bei had no choice but to lead his troops to Guangzong. Halfway to the road, I suddenly saw a group of people and horses carrying the prison cart over, and if I looked closely, the person who was imprisoned in the car was Lu Zhi. Liu Bei was very surprised and hurriedly got off his horse to ask why. Lu Zhi said: "I surrounded the thieves in Zhangjiao, but Jiuwei could not win, and offended the envoys sent by the imperial court, and the imperial court was furious and sent me back to Beijing to question me." Zhang Fei was furious and wanted to kill the escorted officers, but Liu Bei stopped him.

The three of them agreed not to go to Guangzong again and to return to Zhuo County for the time being. The next day, they were leading their soldiers north when they suddenly heard shouts of death from behind the mountain. When I climbed the mountain, I saw that the officers and soldiers had been defeated, and the Yellow Turban Army was all over the mountain. Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei led their men and horses to rush over, and they encountered enemy soldiers pursuing and killing the officers. The three bravely rushed to kill, the Yellow Turban Army was in chaos, retreated more than fifty miles, and the three rescued the Zhonglang general Dong Zhuo. It turned out that Dong Zhuo was sent by the imperial court to take over Lu Zhi's leading troops to defend the city, but he suffered defeat. However, dong Zhuo did not expect to see that Liu Bei's three people did not have a meritorious name, and they were very contemptuous of them, so angry that Zhang Fei was furious and wanted to raise a knife to kill Dong Zhuo.