Chapter XXXVII: The Yellow Turban Rebellion I
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In the seventh year of Guanghe, that is, in February 184, Zhang Jiao's disciple Tang Zhou reported to the imperial court, saying that Zhang Jiao would rebel after January, and also colluded with the eunuchs Feng Xu and Xu Feng, and then made an appointment with Ma Yuanyi, the marshal of the Luoyang Yellow Turban Canal, to take Luoyang in one fell swoop, capture the emperor, and overthrow the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty.
Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty was furious when he learned that he had been promoted to a general overnight and summoned He into the palace, and Zhang Rang, who was a member of the Ten Standing Guards, and Zhao Zhong also found Jian Shuo, who had military power, to discuss overnight in order to protect himself, and then led troops to arrest Feng Xu, Xu Feng and other eunuchs who colluded with the Yellow Turban, and Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty ordered He Jin to transfer troops to capture Ma Yuanyi, the commander of the Yellow Turban Qu.
Two days later, Ma Yuanyi was killed by a car, Feng Xu and other eunuchs were also ordered to be executed by Emperor Ling, the entire Luoyang was implicated in thousands of people, large and small officials died outside the noon gate in batches, ordinary civilians are countless, all those who believe in Yellow Turban Taoism were executed, and Emperor Ling ordered Jizhou to assassinate Zhang Jiao and capture the Yellow Turban thieves.
When Zhang Jiao learned the news, he shouted angrily, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and he almost fainted to the ground, but fortunately, Zhang Jiao's two younger brothers were discussing the matter of raising troops at the moment, and they supported Zhang Jiao in time.
"Big brother, big brother's golden body, don't be angry with this criminal," Zhang Jiao's second brother Zhang Bao said with relief while helping Zhang Jiao sit down.
"Yes~ Big brother, wait for me to break Luoyang, and then dig out the thief's heart and lungs to see if he is a wolf's heart and dog lungs" Zhang Liangya gritted his teeth and said resentfully.
"Huh~~Huh~" Zhang Jiao is Zhang Jiao after all, he was just angry and anxious just now, and he calmed down instantly after relieving himself.
"Now that the matter has been revealed, the imperial court will definitely order the arrest of us and others, and now we can only start the incident in advance" Because of the vomiting of blood just now, Zhang Jiao's face was slightly pale at this time.
"In this way, second brother, third brother, you will immediately pass the news to all places, no matter what, three days later, raise the banner of righteousness for your brother first."
"Now it's all about this" Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang glanced at each other and nodded in response.
"Don't wait, you can leave now," Zhang Jiao said.
"In this way, the elder brother needs to take care of himself," seeing that he was about to leave, Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang said reluctantly, the eldest brother is like a father, for the three Zhang brothers who lost their parents at a young age, Zhang Jiao, even if he is a brother, is also a parent, raising two younger brothers to grow up, and the relationship between the three brothers is by no means comparable to ordinary brothers.
"Go, when you and my brother reunite, it will be the day to seize the world" Although Zhang Jiao was reluctant, he was the eldest brother after all, and the stakes were very high.
"Okay~ When my brothers reunite, it will be the day to seize the world, and it will also be the day when the eldest brother will ascend the throne as the emperor," Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang said excitedly.
"Go ahead," Zhang Jiao said, waving his hand.
"Big brother, take care" Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang glanced at Zhang Jiao again and retreated.
"Quick, go and gather all the leaders in the vicinity and come to discuss the matter" After Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang walked away, Zhang Jiao commanded to the guard wrestler.
"Ahem, cough~~ and watch me Zhang Jiao fight with this big man" After a while of coughing, Zhang Jiao looked up to the sky, looked at the gradually setting sun and muttered.
Three days later, Zhang Jiao took "Cangtian is dead, Huangtian should stand, the age is in Jiazi, the world is auspicious" as the slogan, raised troops against the Han Dynasty, Cangtian refers to the Han Dynasty, and Huangtian refers to the Yellow Turban Sect, and according to the Five Virtues, the Eastern Han Dynasty belongs to the fire virtue, the fire gives birth to the earth, and the soil is yellow, which means that it is the Yellow Turban Sect, so the Yellow Turban soldiers and believers all wear yellow scarves on their heads and take fire to rejuvenate the soil, and Zhang Jiao calls himself "General Tiangong".
In just a few days of the Zhangjiao uprising, Jizhou responded everywhere, and there were 100,000 in just a few days, and then Zhang Jiao sent troops from Julu to capture the heavy city of Guangzong in Jizhou, and started the beginning of the Yellow Turban Rebellion with the momentum of Guangzong Julu.
And after Zhang Jiao raised troops, Zhang Jiao's second brother Zhang Bao followed closely in Youzhou, raised troops against the Han, and called himself "General Digong" There were tens of thousands of responders in a few days, and there were countless counties along the way, and after Zhang Bao, the third brother Zhang Liang also responded in Qingzhou, calling himself "General Rengong", but Zhang Liang did not stay in Qingzhou for a long time, and entered Yanzhou along the way.
Within one month, among the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, eight prefectures, including Qing, Xu, You, Hebei, Jing, Yang, Yan, and Henan, responded to Zhang Jiao's call and raised troops against the Han, all wearing yellow scarves.
And the Yellow Turban parties such as Zhang Mancheng, Zhao Hong, Peng Tuo, Bo Cai, Bu Ji, Cheng Yuanzhi, etc. all began to appear on the stage, and they all stepped onto the stage of history and became momentary figures.
When the Han Dynasty reacted, the Yellow Turban Rebellion had spread over most of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty got the news, almost couldn't believe what he had heard, and then he was furious, and could only urgently summon the ministers to discuss, and finally led the Yulin Army with the general He Jin, guarding the Beijing Division, and set up heavy troops in the Tiger Prison, Bishui, Hangu and other passes to defend Luoyang.
On the one hand, he issued an edict to all localities to strictly guard against yellow turban thieves, ordered all states and counties to train soldiers, order weapons, and call on the righteous army to prepare for battle, and on the other hand, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun were the left and right lieutenant generals to lead the five schools to quell the chaos, a total of 40,000 horses, and Huangfu Song took the opportunity to write a letter to ask for the lifting of the party ban, and took out the palace money and good horses to reward the soldiers to show the emperor's favor and improve morale.
For the sake of his own foundation, Emperor Ling could only reluctantly agree, lift the party ban, take out the money in the palace to show the emperor's favor, and get Emperor Ling's favor and reward, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun led 40,000 elite soldiers with high morale to start a months-long counterinsurgency journey, and then the four governments jointly recommended Lu Zhi as a general to lead the northern counterinsurgency.
Emperor Liu Hong humbly admonished, Bai Lu Zhi as the general of Beizhong Lang, also known as Wuhuan Zhonglang General as a member, led 50,000 troops to Jizhou to level the Yellow Turban thief Zhang Jiao, Zhang Jiao heard that Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty worshiped Lu Zhi as a general, and did not think so, at this time the Yellow Turban was fighting a success, the momentum was unprecedentedly huge, how could Zhang Jiao care about a book in the middle of the court that had no record.
Originally, with a wise and cautious character like Zhang Jiao, such a thing should not have happened, but the successive good news and the momentum that swept most of the world made Zhang Jiao a little blindly confident, so that when Lu Zhi was about to hit Guangzong, he reacted, but it was too late by then, and Zhang Jiao fell ill in a fit of anger.
And this huge Yellow Turban Uprising also led to a lot of heroes, three of whom are the most familiar to later generations, but these three people happened to be under the account of three older generation counterinsurgency generals, the first person is Sun Jian under Zhu Jun's account, and the second person is Cao Cao under Huangfu Song's account, and Liu Bei under Lu Zhi's account in the future.
One of the most brilliant is the Jiangdong Tiger Sun Jian, as the founder of Wu in history, Sun Jian was a county official when he was young, broad-minded, curious, at the age of seventeen he attacked the pirates alone, and then led thousands of people to defeat tens of thousands of thieves in the county government when he was a captain, because the battle was extremely brave, so it was called the "Jiangdong Tiger".
Since then, Sun Jian has been the first fierce general in Zhu Jun's army, and has made many military exploits in the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and the other person is Cao Cao, who is the official worship of the cavalry captain, at this time Cao Cao is under the account of Huangfu Song, this time the leader of the army is Cao Cao's first time in his life to lead the army to the battlefield, who would have thought that the cavalry lieutenant has since had a glorious life.