In September, Zhang Jiao, who had extended his life for three months, finally died, and according to Zhang Jiao's requirements, Zhang Bao and others did not mourn, and their diet and daily life still made the same.

Due to the long-term siege of the Han army, the Yellow Turban Army became more and more relaxed, and there was a shortage of food in the army, many soldiers could not get up from hunger, and people surrendered to the Han army every day in exchange for a full meal.

In the middle of the night on October 1st, Huangfu Song, who had already learned about the city's defense structure and the current situation in the city through the surrendered Yellow Turban Army, decisively launched a night attack.

The first to climb the city was Cao Cao, who took the lead, quickly opened the city gate, the Han army swarmed in, and Guangzong, the last fortress of the Yellow Turban, was thus captured.

Zhang Bao was protected by his confidant Zhou Cang, with hundreds of guards and the most loyal disciples, from the east gate to break out of the siege, to Zhang Mancheng of the Toujie Bridge, Dong Zhuo led the Xiliang Iron Cavalry to chase hard.

Fortunately, the Tiger Mask Army had already arranged for Liao Hua to meet Zhang Bao thirty miles east of Guangzong City, killed Dong Zhuo, and took Zhang Bao back to Jieqiao.

However, on the way to break through, Zhang Bao was hit by Dong Zhuo's arrow in the back, and he was about to die when he insisted on Zhang Mancheng's camp.

He retreated everyone, including the tiger-faced military division, leaving only Zhang Mancheng, Tang Zhou, and Zhou Cang.

"Man Cheng, it seems that I am also going to follow the eldest brother, and I am reunited with the third brother below, and the three brothers can be together again, but they are not alone." He took out the contents of his arms.

"This is the Taiping Dao's Seven-Star Sword and the Yellow Turban Army's Tiangong General Seal, and the Taiping Dao and the Yellow Turban Army will be entrusted to you in the future, my brother said, you are followed by Tang Zhou, in short, don't bury them."

"Brother also said that if Lu Bu can be trusted, then take refuge in him, if he is also a despicable villain, it is our mortal enemy, and the tiger-faced military master should also be careful to mention." As soon as he said this, blood gushed out, and Zhang Bao, the three leaders of the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the last of them, also died.

Zhang Mancheng looked at the seven-star sword and the seal of the heavenly prince in his hand, and then looked at Zhang Bao who died in front of him, and suddenly found that he had no joy of being in charge of power at all.

Maybe it's an inappropriate metaphor, but that's what it feels like, I gathered Zhang Bao's corpse and ordered someone to quietly find a secret place on the mountain, dig a deep pit, bury Yu Si, and leave a mark for future generations to find.

Zhang Bao was dead, and the tokens of the Taiping Dao and the Yellow Turban Army were also transferred to Zhang Mancheng, and Zhang Mancheng became the supreme leader of the Taiping Dao and the Yellow Turban Army, and the rest of Zhang Bao's troops were also submissive to him under the leadership of Zhou Cang.

Zhang Mancheng called himself "General Taiping", named Tang Zhou as "General Dangkou", and still worshiped the tiger-faced people as military advisors.

He followed the advice of the Humian military division, and the army marched eastward to occupy the county of Qinghe, Zhilanling, and Liao became the vanguard, leading 50,000 people to attack Pingyuan County, preparing to cross the Yellow River from the plain and enter Qingzhou according to the plan of the Humian military division.

The Han army in Qingzhou is far less than that of Jizhou and Yanzhou, and it is not as strong as the central official army, full of mountains and rivers, lakes and seas, with a broad space for activities and rich resources and population.

After the Han army broke through Guangzong, Huangfu Song ordered people to dig up Zhang Jiao's coffin and kill the corpse, which was extremely cruel.

He also believed that the Yellow Turban Army in Guangzong were all hardcore Taiping believers and incorrigible heretics, so he did not accept prisoners, and more than 30,000 Yellow Turbans were killed, and more than 40,000 Yellow Turban soldiers and their families were forced to throw themselves into the river and die.

However, the Yellow Turban Army that counterattacked in a desperate situation also gave the Han army a lot of casualties, and many people died with the Han army, after all, Guangzong's Yellow Turban Army was mostly elite, and they had been in the religion for the longest time, and they were the most loyal to Taiping Dao and the Zhang brothers, and many people fought to the death.

Cao Cao, Sun Jian and others did not agree with Huangfu Song's final decision, and after the victory, they added many casualties, which was unwise, but who dared to say anything?

Therefore, in the final battle of Guangzong, the Han army under Huangfu Song also suffered a lot of casualties, while Lu Bu's Bingzhou army and Gongsun Zhan's Youzhou army did not participate in the final general attack on Guangzong at all, so they were naturally unscathed.

After the city of Guangzong was broken, they turned to Hejian, Bohai and other counties, saying that they were going to exterminate the remnants of the Yellow Turbans in these places, and they would not continue to pursue Zhang Mancheng in the south at all.

Just when Huangfu Song, Lu Zhi and others were struggling with whether to continue to pursue Zhang Mancheng's Yellow Turban Army, good news came from the battlefield of the southern front to encircle and suppress the Yellow Turban Army.

After a three-month siege, the Han army on the southern front led by Zhu Jun, Jingzhou Assassin Shi Xu Xuan, and Nanyang Taishou Qin Jie finally broke through Wancheng.

In the middle, he resorted to a divisive plan and provoked the infighting of the Yellow Turban Army, Han Zhong killed Zhao Hong and surrendered to Zhu Jun.

Zhu Jun thought that if he accepted Han Zhong's surrender, it would give the people of the world a wrong signal, "If it is profitable, it will be a thief, and if it is not profitable, it will be surrendered", so he rejected Han Zhong's request to surrender.

However, several subsequent sieges failed to break through the defenses. Zhu Jun analyzed that it was his own siege that made the Yellow Turban Army think that they were in a Jedi and fought against the water, so it was difficult to overcome.

He tried to unravel the siege of the two city gates, and sure enough, Han Zhong led his army to break through in a hurry, and was killed by the Han army in ambush, Han Zhong surrendered, but was killed by Qin Jie, the Taishou of Nanyang, who had an enmity with him.

The remaining Yellow Turban Army elected Sun Xia as its commander and fled to Jingshan. The Han army pursued and killed all the way, and finally broke the Yellow Turban Army in Jingshan, Qin Jie's general Huang Zhong beheaded Sun Xia with a knife, and nearly 20,000 Yellow Turban troops were killed together with Sun Xia.

The remaining few Yellow Turban troops scattered among the mountains and forests, and the Yellow Turban Rebellion in Nanyang County was finally quelled.

Zhu Jun led the victorious army and came north to help Huangfu Song and exterminate Zhang Mancheng, the last Yellow Turban Army. Because he needed to wait for Zhu Jun's arrival, Huangfu Song could only stand still and watch Zhang Mancheng enter Qingzhou.

After the Han armies of the north and south met with Guangzong, they still did not belong to each other, and they all wanted to monopolize the great achievements of this last battle.

After the last Yellow Turban Army captured the plains, it did not stop and continued to march eastward, entering the country of Jinan.

There were a large number of poor people and victims of hunger and cold in various parts of Qingzhou, and the arrival of the Yellow Turban Army brought them hope.

Everywhere the Yellow Turban Army arrived, it would open warehouses to release grain in the county seat, exterminate the powerful landlords who had committed the most heinous crimes in the surrounding areas, and the people who had tasted the sweetness joined the Yellow Turban Army one after another, and it expanded to 300,000 people within a month, which was still the result of merit-based admission.

The tiger-faced military division proposed to Zhang Mancheng that now the Yellow Turban Rebel Army in the whole country has basically been wiped out, and Zhang Mancheng is left, and if he adheres to the slogan of Taiping Dao and the name of the Yellow Turban Army, it will be a bit of a big move.

He suggested that Taiping Dao should be changed to Taiping Religion, go underground, cancel the slogans of Taiping Dao to overthrow the rule of the imperial court, and the Yellow Turban Army should also be changed to the Qingzhou Army, and the yellow scarf on the head should be tied around the neck to show the difference.

Zhang Mancheng had no opinion, and Tang Zhou strongly agreed with it on the side, so he naturally reformed it according to the suggestion of the tiger-faced military division.

On the way to the Qingzhou Army, the Tiger Mask Army Division did not forget to practice the training of various departments, he tried his best to expand the equipment of the longbowmen, and also collected a lot of horses, so that the elites of the Qingzhou Army could learn to ride horses, at least learn to control them.

璆 (qiu), 戮 (lu), 颉 (jie)

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