Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Yellow Turban Falls

In April, Lu Zhi, the general of Beizhonglang, led the officers and soldiers of the five schools of the Northern Army and some soldiers from prefectures and counties into Jizhou to suppress the main force of the Jizhou Yellow Turban Army led by Zhang Niujiao. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Lu Zhi led the army to break Zhang Niujiao several formations and beheaded more than 10,000 levels. Zhang Niujiao surrendered to Guangzong. Lu Zhi ordered the soldiers to dig trenches, build ladders and rush cars to besiege Guangzong, but because the thief chief Zhang Jiao was sick and patrolled the city, the morale of the Yellow Turban generals in the city was greatly boosted, and it was difficult to break the city in a hurry.

Emperor Shiling sent the eunuch Zuo Feng to Jizhou to inspect, but Lu Zhi refused to bribe Zuo Feng. Zuo Feng was resentful and returned to Beijing to falsely accuse Lu Zhi of being afraid of the enemy like a tiger and ineffective in combat, and Emperor Ling was furious when he heard this, and returned Lu Zhi to Beijing to punish him and put him in prison, and changed his order to Zhonglang to attack Dong Zhuo to attack Guangzong. Dong Zhuo brought 10,000 Xiliang tribe to Guangzong at the beginning, Guangzong City's original Lu Zhibu soldiers were dissatisfied because of Lu Zhi's unjust imprisonment, Zhang Jiao in the city through careful reciprocation, thinking that this is a good opportunity to defeat the official army, carrying Zhang Niujiao, including all the personal disciples, poured all his Guangzong troops out of the city to storm the official army Dazhai.

Dong Zhuo originally thought that the Yellow Turban Army had lost several battles in a row, but he never expected that he would encounter Zhang Jiao's all-out attack as soon as he came, and he had just arrived in Guangzong and had not been able to collect the military hearts of the soldiers of the original Lu Zhi Army, so Dong Zhuo could only flee in embarrassment under Zhang Jiao's surprise attack. If it weren't for the three brothers Liu Guan and Zhang, who had come to Lu Zhi's rescue, they might have been chased and killed by Zhang Jiao, resulting in the annihilation of the entire army.

The news of Dong Zhuo's defeat reached Luoyang, and Zhang Jun wrote to him, believing that the reason why Zhang Jiao was able to gather hundreds of thousands of people to revolt was due to the eunuchs. Eunuchs' fathers, brothers, children, and in-laws served as magistrates of prefectures and counties, and they violated the people and committed misdeeds, and the people's grievances had nowhere to be sought, so they took risks. Therefore, Zhang Jun thought that the heads of the ten permanent servants should be beheaded and hung at the south gate of the Beijing Division, and the rebel army might disperse on its own.

Emperor Ling handed over Zhang Jun's watch seal to the eunuchs, and the eunuchs were exempted from kowtowing after seeing it, falsely claiming that they would voluntarily go to prison to calm the world, and that they would leave their wealth as military expenses. Emperor Ling was furious and ordered the eunuch to look at things as usual, and sent Zhang Jun to prison and executed him for fornicating with Zhang Jiao.

It just so happened that at this time, the news of Huangfu Song's pacification of Yingchuan and Chen's Yellow Turban Army was transmitted back to Luoyang, and Emperor Ling was overjoyed to be crowned as the marquis of the capital with Huangfu Song's merit, and soon came the news that Zhu Jun recovered Wancheng and broke the Yellow Turban Army in Runan, and Emperor Ling moved Zhu Jun as the general of the town thief. The eunuch knew that Emperor Fu Song and Zhu Jun had always disliked the eunuchs, so in order to prevent Emperor Fu Song and Zhu Jun from gaining power, they entered Emperor Yanling, and moved Cao Cao, the grandson of Cao Teng, to Jinan as the prime minister of Jinan, as a future foreign aid for the eunuch forces.

Because there were still many small groups of Yellow Turban Army in the south, Emperor Ling left Zhu Jun to continue to suppress the Yellow Turban Army in the south, but ordered Emperor Fu Song to continue to lead the army north. In August, Huangfu Song, with the assistance of Cao Cao, the prime minister of Jinan, broke the 100,000 Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army led by Shuai Bu of the Yellow Turban Daqu in Cangting. In this battle, Emperor Fu Song defeated the main force of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army in one fell swoop, and captured the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Daqu Shuai Bu Ji, beheaded more than 13,000 ranks, and killed more than 20,000 Yellow Turban soldiers after the war.

After breaking the main force of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, Huangfu Song continued to lead troops into the Jizhou Yellow Turban Army. At this time, hearing the news that Bu had defeated the 100,000 Yellow Turban Army, Zhang Jiao, the general of Tiangong, who was already ill, was so angry that he vomited blood and died three liters.

The Jizhou Yellow Turban Army was stationed under the city of Guangzong under the leadership of Zhang Jiao's brother Zhang Liang. Zhang Liang was brave and good at fighting, and with the momentum of mourning and victory, he actually repelled Huangfu Song, who had won consecutive battles, for several miles.

Seeing that Guangzong's Yellow Turban Army could not be defeated, the next day Emperor Fu Song let Zhang Liang invite battle outside the camp, but he hid in the camp and did not come out. On the third day, when the defense of the rebels was a little lax, Huangfu Song led his army to launch a fierce attack on the Yellow Turban Army in the early morning. The Yellow Turban Army was caught off guard and was defeated by Huangfu Song, Zhang Liang was defeated and died, and more than 100,000 soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army were killed on the spot, more than 50,000 surrendered, and the rest fled to the north with Zhang Niujiao. Huangfu Song tried his best to dispel everyone's opinions, and forced the more than 50,000 soldiers to jump into the river in Hanoi and die.

In November, Huangfu Song took advantage of the victory to attack, and broke Zhang Jiao's brother Zhang Baojun with Julu Taishou Guo Dian in Xiaquyang, beheaded nearly 100,000 people, and Zhang Bao died in battle. At this point, Huangfu Song finally pacified the main force of the Yellow Turban Army in Jizhou, and with this merit, Emperor Ling was canonized as the general of the left chariot cavalry, leading the Jizhou Mu and the Marquis of Huaili.

Shangyong, Zhang Mancheng, the commander of the Daqu who commanded tens of thousands of Yellow Turban troops rampaging in Nanyang, fell on the bed with concern when he received the news of Zhang Jiao's death. When his condition improved slightly, Zhang Mancheng convened a military council, preparing to summon the sergeants to fight to the death with the Wancheng officers and soldiers, intending to draw the attention of the officers and soldiers. But before Zhang Mancheng could make pre-war arrangements, the news of Huangfu Song's defeat of the Jizhou Yellow Turban Army came. Zhang Mancheng's eyes were black, and he immediately fainted at the military council, and died of a recurrence of his old illness that night.

"Han Qushuai, now that all the troops and horses have been broken by the official army, and Zhang Dashuai has died at this time, where should we go next?" Sun Xia, who once pretended to be Han Jin to surrender to Zhu Jun, after Zhang Mancheng, Zhao Hong, Huang Shao and others died one after another, and now he is second only to Han Zhong in the Shangyong Yellow Turban Army. But although his position and power in the army have been greatly improved, with the annihilation of the main force of the Yellow Turban Army in Jizhou, the general trend of the Yellow Turban Army in the world has gone, and Sun Xia, who is the 'Yellow Turban Remnant Party', has not been able to have the slightest sense of joy at all.

As the supreme commander of the Shangyong Yellow Turban Army at this moment, Han Zhong is also worried about the current predicament: "For example, today, General Gong, General Digong, and General Rengong have passed away one after another, and the main forces of the Yellow Turbans in other prefectures and counties have been defeated by the official army, and the Huangfu dog thieves are even stained with the blood of hundreds of thousands of sect members. ”

"It's really not possible, let's just carry out Zhang Dashuai's last order, and go to fight to the death with the Nanyang official army, even if we die, we have to pull a few pads!" Sun Xia seems to be a loyal old farmer, but when he is cornered, he still has the bloody courage to fight to the death.

"No, although we have hundreds of thousands of sergeants, in fact, due to the lack of military rations these days, there is only one meal a day, and the sergeants not only have a great loss of morale, but also almost the bottom. If such an army could attack a fortified city like Wancheng, it could only be easily slaughtered by the official army. If it only concerns the life and death of the two of us, it will be fine, but at present, the lives and deaths of these hundreds of thousands of people cannot be buried because of our recklessness. Hearing this, Han Zhong only vetoed the proposal after a little thought.

"Then according to Han Qushuai's meaning, what should we do?" Although Sun Xia also has a little brain, but as the so-called Qiao woman is difficult to cook without rice, in the face of the current shortage of military food and the defeat of the Yellow Turban Army in various places, Sun Xia really can't think of any other way to save the hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban Army of Shangyong.

"The letter sent to Hanzhong before, what is the reply of Zhang Xiuke of the Five Doumi Sect?" Han Zhong remembered the letter he had sent to Hanzhong to buy grain when he was short of food, and suddenly felt that if Zhang Xiu in Hanzhong was willing to take in his people, it might not be a good choice for him to lead the people to Hanzhong to join Zhang Xiu.