【The Rise of the Young Eagle】

Dong Zhuo was born in a powerful family of landlords on the western border of the Han Dynasty at that time, with a rough and fierce personality, but he was rough and fine, and he aspired to be a ranger since he was a child. When he grew up, he traveled to the Qiang people's residence many times, relying on the power and wealth in his family, and he had friendships with many Qiang chiefs.

Later, Dong Zhuo went home to manage the fields, some Qiang chieftains who came to the mainland to visit him, Dong Zhuo was very happy to see these old friends, he even slaughtered the ploughing cattle that were being used to plough the fields to entertain them, the Qiang chiefs were moved by Dong Zhuo's righteous and bold behavior, and they later collected more than 1,000 heads of cattle, horses and sheep and various livestock to Dong Zhuo to repay his hospitality.

At that time, the rebellions of the Qiang people came and went, in Liangzhou and Bingzhou. Due to the deterioration of politics and the decline of the national power of the Han Dynasty during the Hengling period, the Qiang rebellion ushered in a greater climax, which the imperial court could only barely suppress. But these all provided Dong Zhuo with a stage to show his talents, and also provided an initial opportunity for his ambitions.

Dong Zhuo is very burly, and his martial arts are strong, and he is also very good at riding and shooting. At that time, Emperor Huan ordered the selection of children of the good family from six counties, including Hanyang, Longxi, Anding, Beidi, Shangjun, and Xihe, to serve as Yu Linlang, who was in charge of the emperor's guards, and Dong Zhuo was directly selected by the imperial court. Since then, Dong Zhuo has been on the rise, promoted all the way, and soon became a lieutenant general in the imperial court.

In the first year of Yongkang (167), Dong Zhuo served as Yulin Lang, and soon he was promoted to Jun Sima (the subordinate officer of the general, the auxiliary general), and followed the Zhonglang general Zhang Huan to crusade against the rebellious Qiang people in the state. Therefore, he was promoted to Langzhong, who was responsible for guarding the safety of the palaces in the capital, and was very trusted by the imperial court, and was also rewarded with 9,000 fine silk horses, but Dong Zhuo didn't ask for any horses, and gave them all to his subordinates, so he was deeply trusted by his subordinates.

Dong Zhuo was subsequently promoted due to his merits, and his official fortune was prosperous, and he successively served as the commander of Guangwu Ling, the northern governor of Shu County, and the lieutenant of Wuji in the Western Regions in charge of the affairs of the ethnic groups in the Western Regions, and was later dismissed. But then he reinstated and was appointed as the assassin of the state, and later served as the Taishou of Hedong, and finally recalled to Kyoto to worship the general of Nakaro.

After the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Lu Zhi, the commander of the north at the time, refused to pay bribes to the eunuchs sent by Emperor Ling to inspect, was framed and dismissed from his post, and was escorted back to Luoyang in a prisoner car. Because of Dong Zhuo's own brilliant achievements, Emperor Ling sent Dong Zhuo to replace Lu Zhi to continue the crusade against the Yellow Turban Army led by Zhang Jiao, but Dong Zhuo was defeated by Zhang Jiao and was forced to withdraw the army, and Dong Zhuo was finally removed from his post to meet the responsibility of defeat.

【The Hidden Eagle】

In November of the first year of Zhongping (184), on the eve of the fall of the Yellow Turban Uprising, the thieves of Xianlingqiang and Caohan County in Beidi County in Liangzhou rebelled, supported the Qiang people Beigong Yu (also known as Beigong Boyu) and Li Wenhou as generals, killed Chen Yi, the Taishou of Jincheng County, coerced Bian Zhang and Han Sui to join the gang, and elected Bian Zhang as the leader. In the second year of Zhongping (185), Bian Zhang and Han Sui led a large army into Luoyang in the name of crusading against eunuchs, approaching Chang'an, and even hitting the area of the royal family's garden mausoleum, and the imperial court faced an unprecedented threat.

In order to resist Bian Zhang and Han Sui, Emperor Ling of Han mobilized all the forces that could be mobilized, and Dong Zhuo was therefore restored to his original position as a Zhonglang general, and was worshiped as a broken general, and Sikong Zhang Wen, Zhijin Wu Yuan Peng, and Dangkou General Zhou Shen led hundreds of thousands of cavalry and infantry to attack Bian Zhang and Han Sui.

The two sides met for the first time in the Meiyang area, and the officers and troops were defeated and had the upper hand. However, the Han army held on to the territory according to Dong Zhuo's suggestion, because the rebels were on an expedition of laborers, and after a long time, the soldiers wanted to return to Jincheng, and the army was unstable, Dong Zhuo took the opportunity to attack with Bao Hong and others, and won a complete victory. Subsequently, the Han army was divided into six ways to attack and set out to attack Bian Zhang and Han Sui in Longxi, and Dong Zhuo, Zhou Shen and others each led one road. However, due to blindly going deep into the enemy's territory, the grain and grass could not keep up, and the reinforcements could not arrive in time, but the rebels fought more and more, the officers and troops were gradually surrounded, and the grain and grass were almost exhausted, and Dong Zhuo and others fell into a huge crisis.

But the calm and experienced Dong Zhuo did not panic, and after being surrounded by rebels, he ordered his soldiers to build a dam in the river, cut off the flow of water upstream, and then spend the whole day catching fish and shrimp in the dam. The rebel generals thought that Dong Zhuo's army had run out of food and that it only took a while to surround Dong Zhuo's army and collapse without a fight, so they gradually relaxed. As a result, Dong Zhuo took advantage of their laxity to easily lead the army to break through, and it took a long time for the rebels to discover that when they wanted to pursue, the river was too deep to cross. In the end, only Dong Zhuo's army was intact in the Sixth Route Army, and Dong Zhuo also led his division to be stationed in Fufeng County after breaking through.

In the third year of Zhongping (186), Han Sui killed Bian Zhang, Beigong Boyu and Li Wenhou, annexed their subordinates, supported more than 100,000 troops, and marched again to surround Longxi. In the same year, Liangzhou Assassin Shi Geng Contempt led the six county soldiers to crusade against Han Sui, but unfortunately Longxi Taishou Li Xiangru, Jiuquan Taishou Huang Yan, Geng Contempt's Sima Fufeng people Ma Teng and Hanyang Kingdom rebelled successively, Geng Contempt was killed by his subordinates, Han Sui, Ma Teng and others jointly promoted the kingdom as the mainstay, jointly marched into Sanfu, and fought all the way to the area of Chencang, and surrounded Chencang City.

In November of the fifth year of Zhongping (188), the imperial court sent the left general Huangfu Songdu and the former general Dong Zhuo to lead 20,000 people to resist. In February of the sixth year of Zhongping (189), Huangfu Song broke the kingdom under Chencang City, and the kingdom was then abolished by Han Sui and others.

As Dong Zhuo continued to make meritorious contributions, his power also expanded, and he had a mixed army of Liangzhou people and Han Chinese, and even the imperial court faintly felt threatened. In the fifth year of Zhongping (188), the imperial court recruited Dong Zhuo as a young government with no real power on the grounds of his outstanding merits, but Dong Zhuo politely refused and refused to take office. The following year, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty was seriously ill, and hurriedly issued an edict to summon Dong Zhuo, and worship him as the pastor of the state, and subordinate his troops to Huangfu Song, which was intolerable to the ambitious Dong Zhuo, so he rejected Emperor Ling again, Dong Zhuo wrote: "I have been trusted by Your Majesty, and I have been in charge of the army for ten years." In the whole army, feelings have been cultivated for a long time, and they are attached to my kindness and are willing to die for me once and for all. I beg your Majesty's permission to bring this army to Bingzhou to guard the frontier for the country. ”

Emperor Ling issued an edict to rebuke Dong Zhuo, but Dong Zhuo still refused to obey and stationed his army in Hedong County to observe the changes in the situation.

The imperial court was worried about Dong Zhuo's two refusals, but soon those big names didn't have time to pay attention to Dong Zhuo, because Emperor Han Ling really couldn't support it.

After Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty died of illness, the eunuch group headed by the "Ten Standing Servants", the group of relatives headed by He Jin, and the scholar group headed by the Yuan family began to catch fire in Luoyang with the little emperor as the center, until a piece of pie fell from the sky and smashed in front of Dong Zhuo.