Chapter 10: The Fall of the Yellow Turbans

Since March, the Yellow Turban Uprising led by Zhang Jiao, Zhang Liang, and Zhang Bao has swept across the country in an instant.

In ancient times, according to the Five Elements Doctrine, Qin was the virtue of water, and water made fire, so Han was the virtue of fire.

Zhang Jiao established Taiping Dao with the slogan of "the sky is dead, and the yellow sky should stand", because fire gives birth to earth, and then it is soil virtue, and the soil is yellow, so the yellow turban soldiers all tie their heads with yellow scarves.

It means that Taiping Dao is about to replace the Han Dynasty to rule the world.

Within a month, wars broke out in 28 counties in seven prefectures across the country, and the Yellow Turban Army was overwhelmed, and the prefectures and counties were lost, and the officials fled, shaking Kyoto.

Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty saw that the Yellow Turban was powerful, and immediately ordered the general He Jin to guard the capital, and Huangfu Song, Lu Zhi, and Zhu Jun led the army to quell the rebellion.

Lu Zhi led the main force of the Han Dynasty to fight against the main army of Zhang Jiao, Huangfu Song crusaded against the Yellow Turbans in the Yingchuan area, and Zhu Jun and Sun Jian were the military assistants, recruiting young people from all over the country to fight against the Yellow Turban Bocai.

Not wanting Zhu Jun's army to be defeated by Bocai, he retreated to Changshe in April and joined Huangfu Song, and Bocai also surrounded Changshe with the Yingchuan Yellow Turban.

At this time, the Han army was small and demoralized, and it was about to be broken by the yellow turban.

Seeing that Huangfu Song was surrounded, Jingshi immediately sent Cao Cao to lead troops to support.

Just when Cao Cao's army had not yet arrived, Huangfu Song saw that the sky was blowing with a strong wind, and immediately had a plan.

The Yellow Turban built a military village with weeds, so Huangfu Song asked people to go out of the city at night and light the weeds with torches.

The fire took advantage of the wind, and the Yellow Turban camp was immediately burned, and Huangfu Song immediately sent troops out of the city to attack the Yellow Turban.

At the same time, Zhu Jun also led the army out of the camp to attack the Yellow Turban, and in this case, the Yellow Turban was immediately defeated.

Just as the Yellow Turban was about to escape, he met Cao Cao, who was supporting, and under the attack of the three parties, the Yellow Turban was beheaded by tens of thousands, and the Han army won a great victory over Changshe.

With Changsha as a turning point, in June, Nanyang Taishou defeated Zhang Mancheng and beheaded him.

After Zhang Mancheng, the Yellow Turban took Zhao Hong as the commander and occupied Wancheng.

Bocai, who fought with Huangfu Song and others, also fled to Wancheng at this time, and the Han army began to attack Wancheng in one place.

During the siege war, Sun Jian, the tiger of Jiangdong, took the lead in climbing the city wall, and the rest of the Han army followed closely behind and broke through Wancheng, and since then all the yellow turbans in Yuzhou have been defeated.

During this period, Lu Zhi led the main force of the Han army, the Northern Army, to defeat Zhang Jiao many times and kill more than 10,000 people.

Zhang Jiao had no choice but to retreat to Guangzong, and Lu Zhi followed closely behind and began to build siege equipment, seeing that Zhang Jiao was about to be defeated.

At this time, Emperor Ling sent Zuo Feng to inspect the military situation. Zuo Feng asked Lu Zhi for a bribe, but it didn't work.

Zuo Feng immediately falsely accused Emperor Ling that Lu Zhi was not in a good position, and Emperor Ling was furious, so Lu Zhi was put in a prison car and escorted back to the capital.

After that, Huangfu Song went north, Zhu Jun continued to fight against Zhao Hong, and Lu Zhi's army was handed over to Dong Zhuo to lead.

At this time, another five-bucket rice road appeared in Ba County, but the capital did not pay attention to the matter of the five-bucket rice road.

Whether it is Taiping Dao or Wudou Rice Dao, it is early Taoism.

Zhu Jun defeated Zhao Hong and killed him, and the Yellow Turban changed Han Zhong to be the commander, but he was still defeated by Zhu Jun and was besieged in the city by Zhu Jun.

The Yellow Turbans begged to surrender to the Han army with low morale, but Zhu Jun refused. Because he thought that if he accepted the surrender of the Yellow Turbans, they would rebel when they thought it was advantageous, and beg to surrender when the war was unfavorable, and once this atmosphere was promoted, it would be very unfavorable to the Han Dynasty.

The Yellow Turban, who had no way out, burst out with huge combat power, and then defeated Zhu Jun in succession.

Seeing that the siege was not overcome, Zhu Jun also knew that it was because the Yellow Turban had no way to retreat that he was so strong, so he let go of an encirclement, and sure enough, the morale of the Yellow Turban was immediately discharged, and Zhu Jun successfully attacked the city.

Han Zhong's army fled, and Zhu Jun pursued for dozens of miles, killing more than 10,000 people.

Later, there was a civil strife in the Yellow Turban, and Sun Xia killed Han Zhong to replace him, so the Yellow Turban was unsettled.

Zhu Jun took the opportunity to attack the Yellow Turbans, and killed more than 10,000 people and the commander Sun Xia, and since then the Yellow Turban rebellion in the Wancheng area has been quelled.

In August, Huangfu Song arrived at Cangting in Dongjun, broke the yellow scarf, captured Bu Ji alive, and killed more than 7,000 people.

Dong Zhuo, who replaced Lu Zhi, was unfavorable in the face of Zhang Jiaojun, so he asked Huangfu Song to immediately go north to support him.

Soon after, Zhang Jiao died of illness and was succeeded by Zhang Liang.

In October, Huangfu Song led his troops to Guangzong and fought against Zhang Liang, but failed to win the first battle.

The next day, Huangfu Song did not attack, but went out of the camp to check the enemy's situation, and he found that the Yellow Turban's garrison was relatively lax.

So in the early morning of the next day, Huangfu Song led the army to raid the Yellow Turban, and from the early morning to the afternoon, the Yellow Turban was broken.

More than 30,000 Yellow Turbans were killed in this battle, and 50,000 Yellow Turbans fled to drown near the river embankment, and countless prisoners were taken.

Zhang Jiao was also exhumed from the grave and sent back to the capital.

In November, Huangfu Song and Julu Taishou Guo Dian broke through Quyang, beheaded Zhang Bao, and captured more than 100,000 prisoners.

Since then, the Yellow Turban Rebellion has largely subsided, but there are still small groups of Yellow Turbans active in various places.

At the same time, Ma Teng's army also arrived outside the city of Hanyang, and he had already completed his encampment, and was about to launch his first attack on Hanyang.

Originally, it was taboo to use troops in winter, but Hanyang County was not far from Jinseong County, and this was just a military training, not a full-scale war.

Qin Hua's meaning is to let the soldiers experience the battlefield in various environments.

In the first siege, Ma Teng sent 8,000 soldiers.

Although there is a lot of difference in strength, but Ma Teng's army has attacked the city wall several times, after nearly half a year of training, Ma Teng's army is much stronger than Han Sui's rabble, but because of Qin Hua's order, when the city wall is about to be occupied, Ma Teng has withdrawn his troops.

Just when Han Sui was terrified because of this battle, Ma Teng never attacked again.

It seems that because of the arrival of winter, Ma Teng is ready to strike the army, but the military camp has not been evacuated.

A month later, Han Sui discovered that Ma Teng's intention was to trap himself in Hanyang City.

Almost none of the small troops he sent were able to come back alive, and Beigong Boyu's support for himself could not enter Hanyang City at all.

"Reinforcements?"

Han Sui had this idea all of a sudden, and then he became nervous.

Hanyang City is just an isolated city, and if it is surrounded all the time, then it is impossible for it to hold out for too long.

So Han Sui decided to take the initiative.

At the end of December, Han Sui took the initiative for the first time and attacked the Ma Teng military camp.

I didn't want Ma Teng to be prepared, in addition to the arrows like a torrential rain on the front, he was attacked by cavalry when Han Sui retreated to Hanyang City.

In this battle, Han Sui's army lost more than 3,000 people, and Han Sui himself was also shot with an arrow, although it was not fatal, but it was impossible to go to the city wall again to lead the troops in a short time.

Han Sui handed over the military power to Bian Zhang, and he temporarily commanded the whole army.

Bian Zhang was just a literati, he had no concept of leading the troops, he could only go to Han Sui every day, and he himself was just a herald.