When every Central Plains dynasty is about to fall, there will be a group of famous generals who fight to the death for him. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, there were Meng Tian and Zhang Han, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, there were Li Guangbi, Guo Ziyi, Gao Xianzhi, Feng Changqing, Ge Shuhan and others, in the late Ming Dynasty, there were also Shi Kefa and Zheng Chenggong, and of course, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, there were Lu Zhi, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun.

【Lu Zhi】

Lu Zhi (139-192), the character is dry. A native of Zhuo County (now Zhuozhou, Hebei). Economist and general in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

When he was young, he worshipped the great Confucian Ma Rong as his teacher and recommended Zheng Xuan as a fellow disciple. After completing his studies, he returned to his hometown Zhuo County to teach, and his disciples included Liu Bei, Liu Deran and Gongsun Zhan.

In the fourth year of Xiping (175), the barbarians of Jiujiang County, Yangzhou rebelled, and the imperial court thought that Lu Zhi was both civil and military, so he worshiped him as the Taishou of Jiujiang County. After Lu Zhi took office, he quickly put down the rebellion. Later, he and Cai Yong, Li Xun and others proofread the classic books of Confucianism and will stand at the gate of Taixue in the form of carved stone tablets, which is known as "Xiping Stone Classic" or "Taixue Stone Classic" in history. After that, there was another barbarian rebellion in Lujiang County, and Lu Zhi was once again successfully ordered to put down the rebellion. More than a year later, Lu Zhi was recalled to the imperial court to serve as a councilor, and together with Ma Riyan, Cai Yong, Yang Biao, Han Shuo and others, he surveyed the classic books of Confucianism in the Dongguan school, and participated in the continuation of the work of "Hanji" (historically known as "Dongguan Hanji").

After the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Uprising, Lu Zhi was the general of Beizhong Lang, and led the five schools of the Northern Army to fight against the main force of the Yellow Turban Army led by Zhang Jiao in the area of Jizhou. However, because Lu Zhi refused to bribe the eunuchs, he was framed by the eunuchs, not only lost his position, but was also escorted back to Luoyang in a prison car, and sentenced to life imprisonment (commutation of the death penalty). In the end, thanks to the help of Huangfu Song and others, Lu Zhi was reinstated as an official and still held the position of Shangshu.

After the death of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, General He Jin took power, and after Lu Zhi learned that He Jin was preparing to recruit local warlords into Beijing, he strongly opposed it, but unfortunately He Jin did not listen. After Dong Zhuo took power, he was ready to abolish the Han Shao Emperor Liu Wei, and only Lu Zhi was the only one in the entire court who was not afraid of the power and raised his voice to oppose it, Dong Zhuo was enraged and prepared to kill Lu Zhi, and finally under the intercession of Cai Yong, Peng Bo and others, Lu Zhi escaped death and was only dismissed.

After Lu Zhi lost his position, he asked to return to his hometown to retire, but Dong Zhuo ostensibly agreed to secretly send a killer to chase and kill, but it was unsuccessful. Lu Zhi later lived in seclusion in Youzhou, and after Yuan Shao got Jizhou, he worshiped Lu Zhi as a military advisor. But only a year later, in the third year of Chuping (192), Lu Zhi died.

Lu Zhi is both civil and military, famous works at home, learned as Confucianism, a model of scholars, and a master of the country.

【Huangfu Song】

Huangfu Song (?) — 195), the meaning of the word. A native of Chaona County, Anding County (now Pengyang, Ningxia). A military strategist in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

Huangfu Song is the nephew of the famous Eastern Han Dynasty general Huangfu Gui, and his father Huangfu Festival also served as the Taishou of Yanmen County and was a border general for a long time. He was born in a family of Jiangmen since he was a child, learned Wentao Wuluo, and began to be promoted as filial piety and Maocai. Tai Lieutenant Chen Fan and General Dou Wu were recruited one after another, but they did not go. When Emperor Ling, the bus was levied as a councilor, and he was promoted to the north.

After the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Emperor Song wanted Emperor Ling of Han to propose the abolition of the party, and obtained the consent of Emperor Ling of Han. Soon appointed Huangfu Song as the left middle lang general, holding the Fu Festival, and the right middle lang general Zhu Jun, a total of five schools, three rivers knights and recruit Jingyong, a total of more than 40,000 people, Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun each unified the army, together to crusade against the Yingchuan Yellow Turban. However, they were not effective in the early days, but were surrounded by the Yellow Turban Army led by Bo Cai in the area of Changshe, but Huangfu Song was not chaotic, took advantage of the dark night to set fire, calmly commanded the army and finally defeated the Yellow Turban Army, and then he won several battles, and then annihilated all the Yellow Turban Army in the Yingchuan area. He was also named the Marquis of the capital for this reason.

At that time, Lu Zhi, the general of Beizhonglang, and Dong Zhuo, the general of Dongzhonglang, attacked Zhang Jiao, but they were ultimately in vain, so the edict ordered Huangfu Song to lead troops to fight. Huangfu Song had just arrived in Jizhou, and it happened that Zhang Jiao died of illness, so Zhang Jiao's younger brother Zhang Liang was stationed in Guangzong, but the first battle did not achieve victory. Huangfu Song was not disappointed by this, but he observed the Yellow Turban Army led by Zhang Liang more carefully, and found that these troops could not fight at night, so he quietly gathered troops at night, and finally broke through Guangzong City in one fell swoop, beheaded Zhang Liang, and won the first 30,000 ranks, and about 50,000 people fled to the Yellow River and drowned. Then Huangfu Song made persistent efforts, and defeated Zhang Jiao's other younger brother Zhang Bao in Quyang, and killed him, which basically pacified the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and Huangfu Song was also named the general of the left chariot cavalry, and Jizhou Mu, Feng Huaili Hou, two counties of Huaili and Meiyang, a total of 8,000 households.

The first thing Huangfu Song did after becoming the pastor of Jizhou was to go to the imperial court, please exempt Jizhou from one-year land rent to support the hungry people. The common people made a song to praise him: "The world is in chaos, the city is in ruins, the mother does not protect the children, the wife loses her husband, and the emperor is restored to live in peace." At this time, Huang Fu Song's prestige reached its peak, and Yan Zhong, a native of Hanyang, persuaded him to seize the opportunity on the grounds of the government's inconvenience and the emptiness of the sea, and the south was in charge, but Huang Fu Song did not listen to him.

Later, Huangfu Song returned to Luoyang, passing through Yedi, and saw that the house of Zhao Zhong, a regular servant, exceeded the system, so Shangjuan confiscated his house. Zhang Rang, the regular attendant, asked him for 50 million in money, but Huangfu Song did not give it. At this time, Huangfu Song could offend the eunuchs miserably, and Zhao Zhong and Zhang Rang joined forces to impeach Huangfu Song in a series of battles without success, costing money and food. Emperor Ling listened to the rumors, recalled Huangfu Song, took back his left chariot cavalry general's seal, and cut off 6,000 feudal households. Changed the title of the townsman, and there were 2,000 households.

In the second year of Zhongping (185), due to the Northwest Rebellion, the imperial court ordered Huangfu Song to return to Chang'an to defend the royal garden. In the fifth year of Zhongping (188), the Liangzhou people led a large army to surround Chencang, and the imperial court took Huangfu Song as the left general and supervised the former general Dong Zhuo, each leading 20,000 soldiers to resist the enemy. Dong Zhuo advocated a quick attack, but Huangfu Song did not adopt it, but fought steadily and steadily, waiting for the opportunity. In the end, the enemy army was exhausted, Huangfu Song took the opportunity to win with one blow, the enemy army was defeated and fled, and then he led his troops to pursue, and won successive battles, breaking the kingdom's troops and killing more than 10,000 people.

After Dong Zhuo took power, Huangfu Song commanded 30,000 troops stationed in Fufeng County, and Jingzhao Yin Gaixun secretly discussed with Huangfu Song to crusade against Dong Zhuo. However, in order to prevent accidents, Dong Zhuo preemptively attacked, recruited Gai Xun as the councilor, summoned Huangfu Song as the captain of the city gate, and was also ready to trick Huangfu Song back to the city to kill, Huangfu Song was righteous and righteous, did not listen to the dissuasion of his subordinates and insisted on returning to Beijing, and was soon arrested. If it weren't for his son Huangfu Jianshou desperately interceding for him, and even going to Dong Zhuo, Huangfu Song would probably really have to worry about his life! In the end, Dong Zhuo let go of Huangfu Song and appointed him as the councilor.

After Dong Zhuo was killed in the third year of Chuping (192), the imperial court appointed Huangfu Song as the general of the expedition to the west and slaughtered Dong Zhuo's clan. Soon Li Dao Guo Yan was in turmoil, and Huangfu Song was reappointed as the general of the chariot cavalry, and in August of the same year, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. In December, due to the appearance of a meteor, he was dismissed. Since then, he has served as Guanglu Doctor and Taichang. In the second year of Xingping (195), Huangfu Song died of illness, and the imperial court gave the hussar general a seal and ribbon, and appointed one of his family as Lang officials.

Huangfu Song has made outstanding military achievements in his life, and there are countless large and small battles, and he has almost no defeats, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the military god of the late Han Dynasty.