After the Battle of Meiyang, internal strife among the Western Liang rebel army intensified, and Han Sui killed the other rebel leaders and annexed their troops. Later, Liangzhou assassin Shi Geng disdained Fu Xie's advice, and forcibly sent troops to crusade against the rebels, but was killed by his subordinates, and Liangzhou was in turmoil, and eventually rebellions broke out.

The rebels of Zhulu took the kingdom as the leader, and once again sent troops to disturb Sanfu, but were defeated by Huangpu Song, the kingdom was deposed because of this defeat, and the rebels were led by Yan Zhong, but he soon died of illness, and the rebels fell into infighting again.

【The Fall of Xiliang】

In the third year of Zhongping (186), shortly after the Xiliang rebels retreated from Sanfu, Han Sui killed Bian Zhang, Beigong Boyu and Li Wenhou, annexed their troops, and began to dominate the family. Subsequently, Han Sui commanded more than 100,000 troops to surround Longxi County, and under the great pressure of the rebels, Li Xiangru, the Taishou of Longxi County, rebelled against the court and united with Han Sui.

Under the frequent rebellions in Liangzhou, the position of Liangzhou Assassin has also changed many times, and the Liangzhou Assassin at that time is no longer Yang Yong, who is protecting Gaixun, but Geng Contempt.

Although Geng Contempt actively recruited soldiers from the six counties to prepare for war, he was cronyistic and devoted himself to Cheng Qiu, and Cheng Qiu was selfish and greedy, and the scholars in Liangzhou hated him. In the same year, Fu Xie, one of the ten permanent attendants, and Zhao Zhong, the general of the chariot cavalry, had a grudge and was transferred from Luoyang to take over as the Taishou of Hanyang County.

After Fu Xie arrived, he said to Qiu Xian: "You have not been in office for a long time. The people have not been well indoctrinated. When the thief army heard that the official army was about to be conscripted, they would inevitably unite as one. There are many soldiers in the border areas, who are brave and good at fighting, and they are hard to fight. Our army, on the other hand, is newly formed from the armies of the six counties, and the upper and lower levels have not yet been reconciled, and in the event of civil strife, it will be too late to regret it. It is better to let the army trim up, cultivate the prestige of the commander-in-chief, and make the rewards and punishments clear. When the thief army sees that the situation has eased, they will inevitably think that our army is timid, and they will compete for power and profit among themselves, and they will inevitably deviate from morality. Then, you lead the educated people to conquer the broken thief army, and you can sit back and wait for the completion of the great work! ”

However, Geng disdainfully did not listen. In the summer and April of the following year, Geng's army marched to Didao, Liangzhou did not drive a mutiny, responded to the thief army, first killed Cheng Qiu, and then killed Geng Cong, and Liangzhou was in chaos. The army Sima Ma Teng and the Hanyang Junren Kingdom led their troops to defect to the Han Sui rebels. The kingdom proclaimed itself the "General of the United People", and Han Sui and Ma Teng embraced him as the leader of the rebel army and led their army to besiege Hanyang County. Fu Xie, the Taishou of Hanyang County, was killed in battle, and since then, the Eastern Han government has basically lost control of Liangzhou.

According to records, at that time, the kingdom sent Huang Yan, the former Taishou of Jiuquan, to persuade Fu Xie: "The Han Dynasty can no longer rule the world, are you willing to be our leader?" Fu Xie pressed his sword and scolded Huang Yan and said, "As a Taishou officially appointed by the state, are you acting as a lobbyist for the rebels?" So, Fu Xie led the left and right to rush to the thief army and died in battle.

After the rebels were strong, they once again gathered their forces to attack the Sanfu area.

【Defeat of the rebels】

In November of the fifth year of Zhongping (188), the kingdom besieged Chencang. Emperor Ling issued an edict to appoint Huangfu Song as the general of Zuo, and led the former general Dong Zhuo, each with 20,000 soldiers to resist the kingdom.

Dong Zhuo said to Huangfu Song: "The situation in Chencang is critical, please hurry up and rescue." Huangfu Song said: "Otherwise, it is better to win a hundred battles than to win without a fight." Although Chencang is small, the city walls are strong and well-guarded, so it is not easy to attack. Although the kingdom's troops are strong, but they can't capture Chencang, the troops will be tired, we take advantage of their fatigue to launch an attack, this is a strategy to achieve complete victory, what rescue is needed! "The kingdom besieged Chencang for more than 80 days, but failed to break it.

In the spring, in February, the troops of the kingdom were exhausted and retreated. Huangfu Song ordered a march in pursuit, and Dong Zhuo said, "No. The art of war says: 'Don't force the poor, don't chase after the people.' Huangfu Song said: "Otherwise, we did not attack before, but to avoid their sharpness; Attacking now is to wait until their morale is already low. We are now attacking the weary army, not the 'conversion,' and the kingdom's troops are fleeing, and they are no longer ready to fight, and they are not 'poor men'. So Huangfu Song led the army to attack alone and ordered Dong Zhuo to be a backup. Huangfu Songbian attacked continuously and won a complete victory, killing more than 10,000 people. Dong Zhuo was ashamed and angry, and since then he has formed a hatred with Huangfu Song.

【Xiliang Neidou】

After the defeat of Chen Cang, the internal contradictions of the Xiliang rebels intensified again, and Han Sui and others took this opportunity to abolish the position of the head of the kingdom and coerce Yan Zhong, a native of Hanyang, to serve as the leader of the former Xindu County and lead the various departments.

Yan Zhong himself is a famous man in Liangzhou, once spoke highly of Jia Xu, thinking that he had the talent of Zhang Liang and Chen Ping, and also persuaded Huang Pu Song to launch a coup d'état after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and it was ironic that he failed to persuade Huang Pu Song, and after escaping, he was forced by Han Sui and others to become the leader of the rebels.

However, Yan Zhong soon fell ill and died, and the rebels were once again ownerless, and Han Sui and others gradually fought for power and profit, and then attacked and killed each other, so the power gradually weakened.

【Xiliang Chaos】

The Xiliang rebels were able to develop and expand rapidly after the Battle of Meiyang, and the history of the Xiliang Thorn at that time was also the most "meritorious". If Zuo Chang's indulgence led to the rise of the rebels, then Geng's contempt for cronyism and quick success created the expansion of the Xiliang rebels. In order to quickly eliminate the rebels, Geng Contempt did not listen to Fu Xie's advice, gathered most of the troops in Liangzhou together, and he was nepotistic, offended his subordinates, and finally forced almost all of his subordinates to defect to the rebels, and a small number of officials loyal to the Eastern Han Dynasty (such as Fu Xie) were also killed under the offensive of the rebels, and the situation in Xiliang was eroded.

After the Battle of Chencang, although the imperial court once again inflicted heavy losses on the rebels, it began to be unable to control Liangzhou, because at that time, the local army in Liangzhou was basically out of the control of the imperial court, and the local grassroots government basically lost its management, which was completely different from after the Battle of Meiyang, that is to say, the Han court at that time had the foundation for managing Liangzhou.

And the Xiliang Rebellion also had a very profound impact on the entire Eastern Han Dynasty, not to mention the rest, Dong Zhuo was reinstated because of this series of rebels, and developed and grown, after the Battle of Chencang, Dong Zhuo has begun to disobey the orders of the imperial court and refuse to return the military power, laying the groundwork for the follow-up ****.

After the Xiliang rebels successively lost the kingdom and Yan Zhong, the internal contradictions intensified, which was a great opportunity for the imperial court to recover Xiliang, but at this time, because of the rebellion of the ten permanent servants and the rebellion of Dong Zhuo, no one could take care of the chaos in Liangzhou, and since then, the imperial court's control of Liangzhou has been in name only, until Cao Cao defeated the Guanzhong coalition army and Xiahou Yuan swept Xiliang, and then Liangzhou officially returned to the control of the Eastern Han Dynasty again.

Note 1: Dong Zhuo's disobedience to the orders of the imperial court in the later period also had a lot to do with the chaos in Liangzhou, because a large number of imperial court officials rebelled at that time, which was a great stimulus for those careerists, but I didn't notice this before.