Chapter 11: The Han Army Fights the Yellow Turbans
Approaching March, He Jin was the general
Led the sergeants of the five battalions of Yulin on the left and right to stay in the capital pavilion, and the weapons were all on the right to guard the imperial capital
In addition, the imperial capital passes such as Zihan Guguan, Dagu, Guangcheng, Yique, Yuyuan, Revolving Gate, Mengjin, and Xiaopingjin were set up to garrison the commanders; He also issued an edict to all localities to strictly defend themselves, and ordered all prefectures and county governments to fight yellow turbans, train soldiers day and night, count weapons, and gather righteous troops.
On the other hand, the imperial army that was the first to send elite troops to suppress the main force of the Yellow Turban Rebellion in various places:
In Lu Zhi, he led the deputy general and the five soldiers of the Northern Army to be in charge of the northern front and deal with Zhang Jiao's main force; Dozens of battles, large and small, countless casualties, both sides have lost and won, and no one can help anyone for a while.
And Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun each led an army,
There are more than 40,000 people under control of the Five Schools, the Knights of the Three Rivers and the elite warriors who have just been recruited
In the Yingchuan area, the Yellow Turban Army was rehabilitated, and the Yellow Turban Army, which could still be fought by the Han Court, was defeated and retreated, and over time, the Yellow Turban became more and more courageous, and the Han army fought equally, and even sometimes won a small victory.
Under the leadership of Sun Jian's courage and strategy, he broke several cities, killed the Yellow Turbans and fled, collected and surrendered 10,000 Yellow Turbans, and Sun Jian's troops became bigger and bigger in several battles.
Sun Jian was very heroic, and several times he encountered the large forces of the Yellow Turban Army, so that Sun Jian killed the Yellow Turban with fewer victories and more than he left, and killed all the way to fight against the main force of the Yellow Turban in Yingchuan.
At this time, it was rumored that Zhang Mancheng of the Yellow Turban Army attacked and killed Nanyang Taishou Qinjie County and Shou Chu Gong was killed, and the defenders died nearly 10,000, and most of Nanyang was occupied by the Yellow Turban.
After the news came out、、、 the generals of the Han Court were very worried.
For a time, the morale of the major Yellow Turbans soared, this was the first time that the Yellow Turban Army took the main city after the uprising, and the loss of Nanyang gave Zhu Jun the Yingchuan and Luoyang Imperial Army guarded by the Imperial Army, which was very pressed, and did not dare to move the army at will, for fear that the Nanyang Yellow Turban would raid Luoyang.
If Zhang Mancheng of the Nanyang Yellow Turban connects the Yingchuan Yellow Turban, the Yingchuan area guarded by Zhu Jun and Sun Jian will be more dangerous, and if Zhu Jun and Sun Jian fail, the imperial army will only have Huangfu Song on the other side of Yingchuan, and it will be difficult to defend it alone, and Yingchuan will fall into the hands of the Yellow Turban, and the imperial capital will be even more dangerous.
At that time, Zhang Mancheng, Bo Cai and other major Yellow Turban generals will lead the Yellow Turban to cater to Zhang Jiao and surround Luoyang in one fell swoop, and then the Han court will be extremely dangerous.
It was not until April that Zhu Jun's army was finally defeated by the Yellow Turban Bocai and retreated to Changshe.
Zhu Jun found Huangfu Song, and in order not to be guarded by each other, he had to enter the Changshe with him.
And Bo Cai led the Yellow Turban Army to besiege the city, and the Han army of Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun combined was not as large as the Yellow Turban, and the morale of the Han army was low.
At this time, it was reported that the Runan Yellow Turban Army defeated Taishou Zhao Qian in Shaoling, and the Guangyang Yellow Turban Army killed Youzhou Assassin Shi Guo Xun and Taishou Liu Wei.
At the beginning of May, the imperial capital saw that Huangfu Song was besieged.
At this time, Cao Cao, who had recruited troops, had almost been recruited, and the matter was more urgent, so the emperor sent Cao Cao to lead the army to rescue. But when reinforcements hadn't arrived.
Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun thought of a plan, in the evening blowing a strong wind, Huangfu Song ordered the soldiers to sneak out of the city, to the enemy camp, light the torch, use the weeds around the Yellow Turban military camp, burn the enemy camp with fire, shout to attack, the city also raised torches to respond, Huang Fu Song with drums to help the battle, rushed into the enemy formation, the Yellow Turban Army was in chaos, running around, and Bo Cai was chased and killed by Huang Fu Song all the way.
At this time, the Yellow Turban Army was attacked by Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun and Cao Cao from three sides, killing tens of thousands of people, and the Han army won a complete victory.
In June, Huangfu Song ordered Cao Cao and Sun Jian to be the vanguard of the left and right, and led the sergeants to fight Zhang Mancheng, while Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun stayed in the position, and after several days of competition, they finally killed Zhang Mancheng.
After Zhang Mancheng's death, the Yellow Turban Army in this area was changed to Han Zhong as the commander, (it is recorded in the book that Zhang Mancheng was commanded by Zhao Hong after his death, but I personally like Zhao Hong, so I can't bear his death, change it, forgive my selfishness) led more than 100,000 Yellow Turbans to occupy Wancheng, recuperate, and wait for Zhang Jiao's instructions.
Left behind except for the generals who defended the city,
At this time, Huangfu Song and Zhu Junjun sent troops to attack Runan, the Yellow Turban of Chen State,
Bocai, who was pursued by Huangfu Song's troops, fled all the way to Yangzhai, and was finally defeated by Hanting Peng Tuo in Xihua, wanting to lead the remaining Yellow Turbans and the Yellow Turbans who also fled to Wancheng Zhang Mancheng's subordinates.
But Huangfu Song sent Sun Jian to lead a large army to Wancheng to besiege the city, after more than ten days Zhu Jun and Cao Cao successively came with reinforcements, Sun Jian entered the city first, killed into the city, everyone advanced like ants, broke the enemy army, and finally succeeded in pacifying the Yellow Turban Army in the area of Yuzhou, but the main generals of the Yellow Turban still fled.
On the other hand, Lu Zhi broke Zhang Jiao several times during the battle, killing more than 10,000 people with heavy injuries and thousands of small injuries, and a few days later, Zhang Jiao received the news that the Yellow Turbans in Yuzhou were all defeated, individual generals fled, and the Yellow Turban soldiers either died or surrendered.
Zhang Jiao was helpless, and his side was also defeated by Lu Zhi, so he had to retreat to Guangzong.
Lu Zhi pursued Zhang Jiao all the way to Guangzong, and after Zhang Jiao entered Guangzong City, he ordered all the city gates to be closed and pay attention to all the news of the imperial army.
Lu Zhi ordered the siege of the city, camped outside the city, built buildings to block, dug trenches, and made ladders, which would be able to capture the city when completed.
During this time, Emperor Ling sent Zuo Feng to inspect the military situation, and Zuo Feng, who was ordered to inspect, was high up and made things difficult for Lu Zhi's soldiers everywhere, but no one sent by the emperor dared to make trouble for Zuo Feng.
Someone persuaded Lu Zhi to bribe Zuo Feng, but Lu Zhi refused, and Zuo Feng returned to the imperial capital to falsely accuse Emperor Ling of Lu Zhi of besieging but not attacking and fighting ineffectively.
Emperor Ling was furious and ordered Lu Zhi to be arrested, and Lu Zhi was sent back to the imperial capital in a prisoner car and imprisoned.
The edict was readjusted: Huangfu Song led the people north to Dongjun
And Zhu Jun went to Nanyangping to the remnants of the yellow scarf,
And sent Dong Zhuo to lead the army to replace Lu Zhi.
On the other side, Zhu Jun led the troops and Jingzhou Thorn Shi Xu Xuan and Qin Jie gathered a total of 18,000 troops to besiege the Yellow Turban on the other side, and it could not be conquered from June to August.
But Zhu Jun still rushed to attack the Yellow Turban, and finally the leader of the Yellow Turban was killed and replaced by someone else.
Zhu Jun was also invincible because of the small number of soldiers, and he was worried that he would be attacked by the yellow turban when he attacked the city, so he expanded the siege, built a fortress, and piled up earth mountains to watch the city.
When everything is ready.
Zhu Jun's army beat drums to attack the southwest, the Yellow Turban Army was led away, and Zhu Jun personally led 5,000 elite soldiers to cover the northeast, sneak attack the enemy's rear, and attack the city.
A few days later,
The Yellow Turban Army was frustrated, their morale was low, and after a while, when they ran out of food, they didn't know what to do.
Eventually, he surrendered to the Han army.
Zhang Chao, Xu Xuan, Qin Jie and other lieutenant generals all thought it was acceptable, but Zhu Jun thought that if he accepted it, he would give the people the wrong idea that they would be good for thieves and beg for surrender, so they did not accept it and planned to rush to attack the enemy army and break through and slash and kill.
However, several battles could not be overcome, Zhu Jun climbed the mountain to watch the Yellow Turban Army, the Yellow Turban understood that there was no way out, the Han Army did not accept their surrender, but provoked all efforts to fight, so Zhu Jun was unable to conquer for a long time.
In the end, Zhu Jun broke the siege, and the Yellow Turban really went into battle, and was broken by Zhu Jun, and Zhu Jun pursued the Yellow Turban north for dozens of miles, killing more than 10,000 Yellow Turbans.
The Yellow Turban surrendered again, and Qin Jie, who had always been at odds with the Yellow Turban leader, killed him. This move made the Yellow Turban Army uneasy, and pushed Sun Xia as the commander, resisted desperately, and finally stationed troops in Wanzhong City.