At the same time that Zhang Mancheng and others captured Wancheng and killed Taishou Chu Gong, the central official army led by Zhu Jun, the right middle general of the Han Dynasty, capsized in the small river ditch in Yingchuan County.

Zhu Jun, who was helped by Sun Jian and others, still made the mistake of underestimating the enemy when facing the Yellow Turban thieves who were regarded as grass mustards, and lost to Qu Shuai Bocai of the Yingchuan Yellow Turban Army under Yingyang City.

was chased and killed by Bo Cai's army, and retreated to Changshe, only to meet Huangfu Song, who came to his rescue, and only then did he gain a firm foothold.

Huangfu Song was originally going north to Jizhou, but as soon as he was about to leave, he received a military order from He Jin, saying that Zhu Jun was defeated in Yingchuan, and Yingchuan County was too close to Luoyang, and the emperor was panicked, so he could only order him to take Yingchuan first, help Zhu Jun, and exterminate the Yellow Turban thieves in Yingchuan County.

Hearing that Zhu Jun had been defeated and retreated to Changshe, Huangfu Song directly led the army to Changshe, joined forces with Zhu Jun, repelled Bocai's first tentative attack, and defended the city together.

The Han army was small, and they had just lost the battle, and their morale was low. Bocai's Yellow Turban Army was just the opposite, winning battles in succession, full of fighting spirit, breaking the landlords' powerful dock forts along the way, opening warehouses to release grain, and landless and hungry people from all over the country joined the army one after another, at least they could eat with their mouths.

By the time Bocai surrounded Changshe, Bocai's Yingchuan Yellow Turban Army had expanded to 200,000 troops, and although there were a lot of miscellaneous fish to eat, the number was still several times that of the Han army.

After the siege of Bocai, he urged the soldiers to attack the city day and night, and there were two famous Han generals besieged in this Changshe city!

Huangfu Song sent a letter for help to Luoyang early, asking His Majesty the Emperor and General He Jin to send reinforcements as soon as possible.

He Jin received a letter from Huangfu Song asking for help, and he also panicked, scolding Zhu Jun for being incompetent and exhausting the three armies. But scolding and scolding, this reinforcement still has to be sent!

After the unification of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, he gathered 5,000 people from the last reinforcements that Luoyang could send, several battalions of forbidden troops and some soldiers and horses of the Sili Captain's Department.

But who will be sent to lead this reinforcement army? The three famous generals, Lu Zhi is on death row, Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song are all trapped in Changshe.

He Jin had a lot of discussions with his staff, and in the end, Yuan Feng's son, Yuan Shao, recommended one person to He Jin, Cao Cao and Cao Mengde.

And He Jin's important aide He Hao also praised Cao Cao, believing that Cao Cao usually likes to study the art of war and has martial arts, so he can take on this important task.

In fact, He Jin also knew Cao Cao, and thought that when he had not become a general, he also had close contacts with Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and others, after all, Cao Cao was also an official eunuch, and his father Cao Song was once an official to a lieutenant.

Knowing that Cao Cao is proficient in the art of war, has martial arts, has great courage, and has also served as a speaker in the court, since there is no better candidate, he can only choose Cao Cao.

He Jin appointed Cao Cao as the cavalry captain and led the 5,000 Han troops to Changshe to reinforce Huangfu Song.

Cao Cao was in charge of the military at the beginning, and he took it seriously, he thanked Yuan Shao, He Hao and other friends, and received the order from He Jin, so he led the army to the long society under the pretext of the military emergency.

In fact, the situation of Changshe was not as serious as in the first few days, after Huangfu Song led the army to Changshe, the Han army in the city reached 40,000 and the public, and most of them were elites such as the Northern Army and the Forbidden Army.

The city of Changshe is strong, and there is plenty of grain and grass. Bocai sent the army to attack for a few days, but the Yellow Turban Army had low combat effectiveness and backward equipment, and there was no good way to face the Han army that could not hold out.

So after attacking for a few days, Bocai changed his style of play and changed to besiege but not attack, intending to trap the Han army.

Huangfu Song is a person with extremely rich experience in battle formations, and he has fought countless battles in his life, and he discussed countermeasures with Zhu Jun and Sun Jian.

Sun Jian pointed out that the Yellow Turban thieves outside the city fought in an irregular manner, and the marching formation was full of loopholes, as evidenced by the observation of the camp they built, indicating that this wave of talent would not lead the troops to fight at all, and the way of the battle formation was ignorant.

Although the company camped for dozens of miles, they did not know how to dig trenches, nor did they know how to clear the trees and weeds in sight.

Sun Jian's words inspired Huangfu Song. Huangfu Song ordered people to find the county chronicles of Changshe, and then sent Changshe county Cheng, county orders and others, inquired about the local weather conditions, and compared the records of the county chronicles.

Huangfu Song found that in this season, the south wind would often blow here in Changshe, and the main camp of the Yellow Turban Army was outside the south gate.

Immediately discussed with Zhu Jun and Sun Jian about the specific way to deal with it, he explained his plans and plates, Zhu Jun is also a veteran of the battlefield, although Sun Jian is young, he also knows the art of war, and he thinks it is feasible, so he goes down to prepare.

In the evening of the same day, a southerly wind blew, and the wind was not small.

When it got dark, the south gate of the Changsha quietly opened, and groups of Han troops quietly marched out of the city.

Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun, and Sun Jian each led an army and secretly went around the camp of the Yellow Turban Army.

Sure enough, it was disorganized and the guard was lax. Huangfu Song personally beat the war drums, and the Han army lit torches one after another, igniting the trees and weeds around the Yellow Turban military camp.

The south wind blew the fire towards the Yellow Turban Army's camp and spread it. The Han army, which had been prepared for a long time, threw clay pots and skins filled with fire oil into the Yellow Turban Army camp, and the fire burned even more vigorously.

The Yellow Turban Army in their sleep was awakened by the fire and panicked, some were busy fleeing, and some were busy fighting the fire.

The three-way Han army beat the war drums, raised torches, and surrounded the Yellow Turban Army camp. When the Yellow Turban Army, which lacks training, encounters such an emergency, it will not be able to find soldiers, and soldiers will not be able to find generals.

Those who fled outside the camp were killed by the Han army's indiscriminate arrows, and many more fled to the south, fleeing wherever there was no fire.

The Han army rushed into the camp of the Yellow Turban Army, which was not yet on fire but was in chaos, and slaughtered it, no one organized a resistance, and they fought separately, and soon they had no intention of fighting.

Bocai also lost control of the army, and several of his cronies, He Yi, Huang Shao, and He Man, led their own elite soldiers to protect Bocai and escaped from the camp in chaos.

Huangfu Song and others led the army to cover up and kill, and the Yellow Turban Army either fled for their lives or surrendered on their knees.

Bocai led the army to retreat to Runan County, and suddenly another Han army was killed in front, which was the 5,000 reinforcements led by Cao Cao.

Cao Cao saw the fire in the direction of Changshe from a distance, and concluded that this must be the Han army burning the Yellow Turban camp, and if the Yellow Turban Army wants to retreat, it must retreat to Runan, so he took a shortcut and directly led the army to ambush here, and sure enough, he stopped it.

But after all, the Han army had few soldiers, and the Yellow Turban Army was numerous, so they couldn't be surrounded on all sides, and they still couldn't stop the Yellow Turban elite soldiers who were willing to fight hard, and Bo Cai and others escaped by luck.

Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun, Sun Jian and Cao Cao, who came to help, joined forces together, and the momentum was greatly boosted. In the first battle of Changshe, after all, it still won a big victory, eliminating tens of thousands of Yellow Turban Army.

Zhu Jun, Huangfu Song and others led the army, beheaded the wounded and captured and the Yellow Turban Army that had surrendered, and built the "Jingguan" on the high ground outside the city to set an example.

Although Cao Cao and Sun Jian felt that this was too cruel, they were humble and indifferent, and they were not qualified to speak out to stop Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun.

颙 (yong), Jingguan is a cruel treatment of the corpses of the defeated side in ancient times, like a pyramid, piled up in a heap to warn the enemy.

(End of chapter)