Chapter 628

The Taiping Army finally encountered suppression from regular armies and began to suffer very heavy casualties.

Especially in Jiaying Prefecture, when Zhang Jiao gathered 100,000 Taiping troops to attack this prefecture, they were met with a head-on blow.

The 100,000 troops lost 90% of their strength directly in Jiaying Prefecture.

Even Zhang Jiao had not expected this battle.

In Jiaying Prefecture, there were not only elite soldiers and capable generals sent by the major aristocratic families; both the quantity and quality of the soldiers and martial artists far exceeded the Taiping Army troops brought by Zhang Jiao.

And Zhang Jiao did not expect that Wang Yue, the guardian deity of the Great Han imperial family, was actually waiting for him in Jiaying Prefecture.

With the blessing of the Taiping Essential Arts, Wang Yue would naturally not be Zhang Jiao's match, but Wang Yue did not fight Zhang Jiao to the death.

After Wang Yue discovered that Zhang Jiao's strength was above his own, he just kept dragging Zhang Jiao along, not letting Zhang Jiao go down to influence the direction of the battlefield.

With Wang Yue's containment, the Taiping Army would naturally not be a match for the soldiers gathered by the major aristocratic families; after all, whether in terms of weapons and equipment or numbers, the Taiping Army was not a match for the armies sent by the major aristocratic families.

In the end, the Taiping Army was just a group of farmers who had put down their hoes.

The reason why the Taiping Army had been able to defeat the people of the major aristocratic families before was, apart from the help of the strange techniques in the Taiping Essential Arts used by the three Zhang brothers.

It was also because the armies sent by the major aristocratic families at that time were not their own elites, but just the old, weak, sick, and disabled sent to piece together an army.

Now it was different; in order to ensure their families could be passed down for a long time, the major aristocratic families were like people risking their lives, throwing their coffin-bottom elites onto the battlefield one after another.

They understood very well in their hearts now that if the Great Han perished, they would definitely not end up well.

After all, if the host dies, how could the parasite still be alive??

After being hit head-on by the Great Han aristocratic families in Jiaying Prefecture, Zhang Jiao also fell into deep thought.

Zhang Jiao would never change his policy toward the major aristocratic families, but he did not expect that the decrepit Great Han could erupt with such terrifying power at a critical moment.

This was where Zhang Jiao had miscalculated.

Zhang Jiao was, after all, not from an aristocratic family, and he did not know enough about the true parasites of the Great Han, the aristocratic families that had ruled the Great Han in the shadows for hundreds of years.

If the aristocratic families were truly pushed to the limit, their power would be an extremely terrifying force.

If the major aristocratic families of the Great Han truly united, the combined strength of the power they gathered would not even be lower than any empire!

This was the accumulation of hundreds of years!

And in this chaotic battle between the major aristocratic families and the Taiping Army, countless famous generals emerged from this battlefield.

The Flying General Lü Bu, the Fierce Tiger Sun Quan, the Three Heroes of the Peach Garden Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, the hundred-step-piercing Huang Zhong, the ancient evil Dian Wei, the tiger-crazy Xu Chu, the Little Overlord Sun Ce, and the Four Pillars Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Gao Lan, and Zhang He.

On the battlefield, the major martial aristocratic families soared directly into the sky; Dong Zhuo of Liangzhou, the Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu of the four generations and three dukes, Liu Biao of Jingzhou, one of the Eight Dragons, Ma Teng of Xiliang, countless terrifying aristocratic families emerged from this chaos.

As for those with infinite wisdom and intelligence like demons, they were too numerous to count; the genius Guo Jia, the ghost fox Li Ru, the poisonous scholar Jia Xu, Xun Yu, Chen Gong, and the Confucian commander Zhou Yu—one after another, talents as wise as demons emerged from all over the Great Han like a hundred flowers blooming, and they were quickly recruited by the various aristocratic families.

They played a huge role on every battlefield, making the Great Han, which was originally one-sided, look like a withered tree meeting spring; not only did they block the Taiping Army's offensive, but they also took back the Great Han's land from the Taiping Army step by step!

The Taiping Army, frustrated everywhere, gradually lost its former morale due to the failures on one battlefield after another.

Countless Taiping Army soldiers wanted to put down the weapons in their hands and go back to being farmers.

After all, they were not regular soldiers to begin with; they were common people coerced by the great families, and they longed for a peaceful life in their hearts. If they had food to eat and could survive, they would never go to the battlefield to risk their lives!

The three Zhang brothers naturally saw all of this happening in the Taiping Army, and he had to think of a way to solve the current problem.

Otherwise, the great situation he had built in the Great Han would end in failure, and now that the major aristocratic families were emerging one after another and the masses were rising, if there were no Taiping Army, the Great Han would definitely become even more fragmented!

And it would be in an era of warlordism for a long time, and the countless blood and fire would be countless times more tragic than the current war!

The ordinary common people could not see it, but he, Zhang Jiao, could see this matter clearly, and he would never allow this to happen.

Zhang Jiao had made up his mind; even if he died in the future wars, he would eliminate all these parasites of the Great Han! ===== CHAPTER 629 =====