Who is Zang Hong?

In fact, Zang Hong is very famous, he is one of the heroes of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, that is, a warlord.

Zang Hong was born in 160 and died in 196, the character Ziyuan (一作子原), a native of Sheyang County, Guangling County (now Sheyang County, Jiangsu), and Taiyuan Taishou Zang Min (Min mí

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Zang Hong's father, Zang Min (Min mí

He successively served as the Xiongnu Zhonglang General, Zhongshan Taishou, Taiyuan Taishou and other positions, and had a great reputation during his tenure as an official. He once quelled the rebellion of the demon thief Xu Zhao.

When Zang Hong was fifteen years old, he was worshiped as a boy because of his father's merits, and he was famous in Taixue. Zang Hong is burly and exceptionally good, and when he was in his 20s, he was elected as a filial piety and a lang, and was elected as a county magistrate along with Liu Yu (繇yáo) and Wang Lang.

In the last years of Zhongping (184-189), Zang Hong resigned and went home, and was hired as a meritorious Cao by Zhang Chao, the Taishou of Guangling.

At that time, it was Dong Zhuo's rebellion, Dong Zhuo killed the young emperor Liu Wei, and Zang Hong had a premonition that the world was in turmoil. So, he persuaded Zhang Chao to say, "Mingfu, your ancestors have received the grace of the country for generations, and your brothers both control a large county, and now the royal family has gone through this catastrophe, and the rebellious ministers and thieves have not been punished, this is the time for the righteous martyrs in the world to repay their kindness and serve their lives." At present, Guangling County is relatively stable, and the county is very wealthy, if at least 20,000 people can be recruited by mobilization, so as to punish the national thieves and set an example for the people of the world, it will be the greatest righteousness! ”

Zhang Chao obeyed him and traveled west with Zang Hong to Chenliu to meet his brother Zhang Maung (邈miǎo) to discuss the matter of raising troops.

The two hit it off, so there was a sour jujube alliance.

The Kwantung Coalition Army later formed a prairie fire, and if you explore its initiator, it should be Zang Hong.

Soon, Zhang Chao and Zhang Maung (邈miǎo), together with Liu Dai, Kong Xuan (伷zhòu), Qiao Mao (瑁mào) and others formally raised troops in Sour Zao.

At the sour jujube conference, Zhang Maung (邈miǎo) said to Zhang Chao, "I heard that you are in Guangling, and you don't care about administrative education, rewards and punishments, etc., all of which are left to Zang Hong." What kind of person is this Zang Hong? ”

Zhang Chao replied, "Zang Hong's talent and wisdom are all better than me, I like him very much, he can be described as a genius in the sea." ”

As soon as Zhang Maung (邈miǎo) heard this, he immediately met with Zang Hong, and after the dialogue, Zhang Maung (邈miǎo) was "very different", and found that Zang Hong was indeed a talent, and immediately recommended Zang Hong to Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, and Kong Xuan (伷zhòu), and the two thorn histories also liked it very much.

Later, the team arrived, and the sour jujube alliance held a meeting to preach to everyone the course of action of this move, but when the altar was set up to swear an oath, all the princes pushed each other and refused to go to the altar to take the oath, so they pushed Zang Hong to the altar.

Zang Hong did not shirk, ascended to the altar and swore a blood oath, Zang Hong's tone was impassioned, his voice was full of emotion, tears exchanged, and he delivered an inspiring speech:

"The Han family is unfortunate, the emperor is out of control, the thief Dong Zhuo takes advantage of the provocation and indulgence, the disaster is supreme, the people are abused, and the great fear of losing the society will cover the four seas.

"At present, Yanzhou Thorn Shi Dai, Yuzhou Thorn Shi Xuan (伷zhòu), Chen Liutai Shou Maung (邈miǎo), Dongjun Tai Shou Mao (瑁mào), Guangling Tai Shouchao, etc., entangled the volunteers, and went to the country.

"We swear: All our alliances and concerted efforts will lead to the death of ministers and their heads will be the same. There is this alliance of Chongqing, and it is impossible to lose its life, and there is no legacy. The Emperor and the Queen of Heaven, the ancestors and the Ming Spirit, are all learned!"

Zang Hong's rhetoric was impassioned, and when he heard this oath, he was not moved and excited.

But since then, due to various reasons, the princes of all walks of life have been suspicious of each other, hesitated, and the grain and grass were exhausted, and the Sour Jujube Association collapsed in 192 A.D. (the second year of the first peace).

At that time, Zhang Chao stayed in Chenliu and sent Zang Hong to Youzhou to contact the great Sima Liu Yu

In the battle, Zang Hong could not pass and had to stay in Yuan Shao's army.

When Yuan Shao saw Zang Hong, he also valued his talent, "very important".

At this time, Qingzhou Thorn Shi Jiao He died of illness, and Yuan Shao appointed Zang Hong as the Thorn History of Qingzhou.

At that time, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army was very active, and the war was raging for many years, resulting in "the state was depressed, and all were mounds and ruins", Zang Hong served for two years before and after, under his governance, Qingzhou showed a new look, "a group of thieves ran away".

Yuan Shao "sighed his ability" and reappointed him as the Taishou of Dongjun of the Yanzhou Thorn History Department, and his seat was in Dongwuyang, on the north bank of the Yellow River in Dongjun.

In the second year of Xingping (195), Cao Cao surrounded Zhang Chao in Yongqiu.

Zhang Chao said to his subordinates, "In this case, maybe Zang Hong will come to save me." ”

His subordinates all thought that Yuan Shao had a very close relationship with Cao Cao, and Zang Hong was reused by Yuan Shao, so he would not destroy his future and go to trouble from afar.

Zhang Chao said, "Ziyuan, a person who is second to none in the world, will never turn his back on his principles." I may only be restrained by Yuan Shao, and I won't have time to save me. ”

Zang Hong heard that Zhang Chao was besieged and in danger, crying barefoot, and immediately led his troops and horses to the rescue, and asked Yuan Shao to increase the army, of course Yuan Shao would not agree, and finally held it for three months, Yongqiu was broken by Cao Cao, and Zhang Chao's family was exterminated.

Zang Hong was then full of resentment towards Yuan Shao, and he announced that he would sever relations with Yuan Shao, which was tantamount to declaring the independence of Dongjun.

Yuan Shao was very angry, so he personally led the troops to ask for the guilt, Yuan Shao besieged Zang Hong in Dongwuyang City, but no matter how he attacked, he couldn't take it down, and the siege lasted for a year.

In the third year of Xingping (196), Yuan Shao ordered Chen Lin to write a letter to Zang Hong to persuade him to surrender, and Zang Hong wrote a thousand-character essay, which was completely preserved in the "Heroes of the Late Han Dynasty", and the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" and the "Book of the Later Han" were slightly abridged in the excerpts.

After Yuan Shao received the letter, he knew that Zang Hong swore not to surrender, increased his troops and attacked urgently, and the food in Dongwuyang City was exhausted, Zang Hong thought that the death period was not far away, and called his subordinates to them and said, "Yuan Shao's ambition is very great, and he plots against the Han Dynasty, I died for the righteousness, and it is worth dying to die, you don't need to die with me, you can escape with your family before the city is broken." ”

The generals and the people of the city burst into tears and said, "We will die together!" ”

Zang Hong was relatively comfortable in Dongjun's Taishou office, during this period, he had three beautiful concubines, and when Yuan Shao besieged the city, they were all besieged in the city.

Zang Hong is a Taishou, a provincial cadre, and a beautiful man, of course beauties love heroes, and his wife and his three-room concubine love him very much. When Yuan Shao started to besiege the city, it was fine, there was food and drink, but once it was besieged, it was besieged for a year, oh my God! If there is no food and no rescue soldiers, how can life be good?

At first, there were rats and the leather on the weapons to eat, but then everything was eaten, and in the end only three liters of rice remained, and Zang Hong had people cook it into gruel for everyone to drink.

When Zang Hong returned home, his wife and children were already in a pool of blood. It turned out that it was his wife who killed the child, and she committed suicide again. However, his three beautiful concubines are still alive.

Zang Hong asked, "They all cut themselves, why are the three of you still alive?" ”

Wu Shi, one of the three concubines, said, "We three, sisters, think, there is no food in the city, and the soldiers are powerless to resist, husband, our sister, sister, three, one, willing to make sacrifices, sacrifices, defend the city, fight, you kill me, we kill, fill the army, but the army food......"

Hearing this, Zang Hong's dignified man burst into tears.

…… Zang Hong killed his three concubines and distributed them to the soldiers to satisfy their hunger. The soldiers all cried bitterly, and they couldn't look up at Zang Hong. At this time, seven or eight thousand men and women in the city died together on each other's laps, but not a single defector.

In the end, Dongwu Yangcheng was still broken by Yuan Shao and captured Zang Hong.

Yuan Shao used a lot of curtains to set up a scene, gathered generals, and summoned Zang Hong.

Yuan Shao asked him, "Zang Hong, why did you betray me so much?" Have you taken it now? ”

Zang Hong was so hungry that he couldn't stand up, sat on the ground and stared at Yuan Shao and said, "Your Yuan family has been four generations and five dukes, which can be described as a great grace of the country. Now that the royal family is weakened, you have no intention of auxiliary wings, but are full of your own ambitions, but it's a pity that my Zang Hong is not strong enough, and I can't kill you with my own hands to avenge the world, where can I be convinced? ”

Yuan Shao was annoyed and angry, and ordered Zang Hong to be killed.

Later generations said that the first righteous man in the world was Zang Hong, not Guan Yu.