In 184 A.D., in the sixth year of Han Guanghe, August 15, the city of Nanpi was broken, more than 80,000 Yellow Turban Army were captured in northern Xinjiang, Cheng Yuanzhi died in battle, and the Yellow Turban Army of Jizhou was completely swept away in just half a month in addition to more than 100,000 soldiers and horses attacking Wei County.

But the question is, since the Yellow Turban Army is so watery, why did the three-way army, which commanded hundreds of thousands of elites, lose again and again? Could it be that the only remaining elite army of the Han Dynasty has also become a parallel import?

Otherwise, in fact, in addition to the miserable defeat of Lu Zhi's Western Route Army, the losses of Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun's two-way army were not large, and Huangfu Song is now in Lantian and Dong Zhuo of Hangu Pass to form a corner, suppressing Zhang Jiao's thief army outside Hangu Pass.

After all, now that Luoyang is blocked, he suffers from war at night, and King Chen of the Yuzhou line does not have enough grain and grass, how can he send it to Zhu Jun? As for the Central Plains and Yangzhou, they are still the territory of the Yellow Turban Army.

In such a helpless situation, Zhu Jun can only be self-reliant, raising grain and grass while fighting, which is rare in ancient and modern times, but fortunately, since the Yellow Turban Army was completely defeated, the heart of the Shi clan gate lord once again returned to the Han, where Zhu Jun's army passed, it would generally be assisted by the Shi clan gate lord, less enemy intelligence, more grain, grass and clothing, it can be said that the army and the people are united.

Although the comparison between the strength of the Yellow Turban Army and the Han Dynasty is still very large, the combat power is getting bigger and bigger, especially after the Tianci Army joined, the weak combat power of the Yellow Turban Army is more prominent, just because of the fear that the casualties of the melee between the two sides will be too large, otherwise it will not be necessary to pacify Jizhou for even half a month, and the main waste is to waste on the march.

Zhang Jiao's Western Road Crusade Army had 600,000 horses, Zhang Liang had more than 300,000, Zhang Mancheng in Nanyang had 1560,000, Zhang Bao had more than 600,000, and the Yellow Turbans of the Central Plains, including the Guanhai Department that was raging in Qingzhou, had almost 1.56 million, with a total of more than 3 million!!

And what about the officers and soldiers? The 200,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry of Dong Zhuo of Hangu Pass, the 80,000 Beidi County Iron Cavalry of Huangfu Song of Lantian County, the 100,000 elite infantry of Jingzhou Thorn Shi Ding Yuan, the 50,000 Yu Lin Lang who guarded Luoyang, the 50,000 Northern Army, the 150,000 miscellaneous troops under the command of King Chen stationed in Xinzheng, the more than 200,000 Jizhou Army of Zhu Jun and the soldiers and horses of the Central Plains Prefecture, well, plus the 790,000 Tianci Army who had just gone south to Qinwang, about half a month, the total number of troops was more than 1.6 million.

Without the addition of the God-given army, the number of the Han army would not even be one-third of the Yellow Turban Army, but it cannot be denied that the combat power of the Han army completely surpassed that of the Yellow Turban Army, because the Yellow Turban Army was uneven, and there were even many old people over fifty years old, but why did the Han army lose consecutive battles? Could it be that the Han army is all vegetarians?

In fact, the biggest reason is in the grain and grass, the Yellow Turban Army can rob the people, but the Han Army cannot, as mentioned earlier, the Han Dynasty has been suffering from natural disasters for many years [***], how to pay the grain if there is no surplus food in the people's homes? If you can't receive food, the granary of the government will naturally be empty, and if there is not enough food for a large army, how can you fight? I'm afraid I can't even walk, right?

Among them, the worst situation is the 200,000 Xiliang iron cavalry of Dong Zhuo of the original West Route Army, Xiliang has now been cut off by Zhang Jiao, who occupies Chang'an, and there is no food to send over, and Luoyang in the rear is besieged again, even if it is not surrounded, it can't send much food, Dong Zhuo himself is an ordinary small gate valve, and he can't go to the upper class of the Han Dynasty at all, plundering the people, Dong Zhuo doesn't dare, robbing the wealthy, Dong Zhuo doesn't dare, and no one sends food to Dong Zhuo, so Dong Zhuo's current situation is very bad, even to the extent of killing horses to satisfy hunger.

But maybe the time hasn't come yet, maybe he was moved by Lu Zhi's behavior, Dong Zhuo still sticks to Hangu Pass, no matter how the men and horses sent by Zhang Jiao provoke and persuade him to surrender, Dong Zhuo just doesn't let go, he fights when people come, and chases after people run, and he can't grab the food of the Yellow Turban Army, so he simply eats the corpse of the Yellow Turban Army!

Dong Zhuo has gone crazy, in order to guard the west gate of Luoyang, he has gone completely crazy, Dong Zhuo's move, although there are mixed reviews, but it must be said that most people are moved by Dong Zhuo's feat of loyalty to the country, and even in private, those Sili people who are worried about being plundered by the Yellow Turban Army have sent the surplus food at home to Dong Zhuo's military camp, and some people even married their daughters to the sergeants.

Is Dong Zhuo really willing to die unyielding? In fact, it is not, because Dong Zhuo has Li Ru next to him, Li Ru has already seen that the Yellow Turban Army is now at the end of the strong crossbow, as long as he holds Hangu Pass and waits for Liu Tai to go south, the Yellow Turban Army will be like a grasshopper after the autumn, and it will not be able to jump for a few days. Death also guards Hangu Pass, this is Dong Zhuo's idea.

The founding hero and the national salvation hero are two completely different concepts, the founding of the country is most admired, and the savior can get unimaginable prestige, especially in the Han Dynasty is now on this broken ship, can lay an unimaginable solid foundation for the future, as mentioned earlier, Dong Zhuo has ambitions, but Dong Zhuo's ambition is mainly to dominate the world, Dong Zhuo believes that as long as this battle is passed, even if he does not go to the court to be a third duke or something, he can also control all the states and counties in the entire western part of the Han Dynasty, what is the difference between this and the king of the torn land?

In fact, not only Dong Zhuo's situation is not good, but Huangfu Song's situation is also a bit bad, food, Huangfu Song is not lacking, because Huangfu Song itself is a gate valve family, it is not difficult to transfer some food from the gate valve in Guanzhong, but the difficult thing is Huang Fu Song's current situation, there is Zhang Jiao's six or seven hundred thousand army in front, and there is Sima Jia You of the Dajin Dynasty who is ready to take a bite at any time, although Zhang Liang retired gloomily, but Jia You is not an ordinary person, that is Jia Xu's disciple, at least it is impossible to be easily calculated by Huang Fu Song again.

Zhang Liang led the defeated army back to Weixing after regrouping, and once again gathered 300,000 troops, originally Zhang Liang wanted to go north by himself, but Zhang Jiao's "holy decree" drove Zhang Liang to Nanyang, although Zhang Liang was unwilling, but to the eldest brother Zhang Jiao, but did not dare to resist at all, and even did not dare to say any more nonsense, and directly handed over the military power to Jia You, Zhang Liang understood that Zhang Jiao's move was to pave the way for his daughter Zhang Wan!

Since ancient times, it is not for nothing that women are in power, when they become empresses, but they have never appeared, the news of Zhang Jiao's dying is the first time that Zhang Liang got it, and Zhang Wan was named the princess, Zhang Liang also understood Zhang Jiao's arrangement, Zhang Jiao did not plan to give the throne to his two younger brothers, but passed the position to his only daughter Zhang Wan.

Although there is a lot of opposition in the Yellow Turban Army to Zhang Wan becoming a princess, it can only become a fact at Zhang Jiao's insistence, but the strange thing is that Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao are very silent, isn't this a bit weird? In fact, Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao's ambitions are really not big, if it weren't for Zhang Jiao, the two of them would rather still farm in the township and take care of their children, but the problem is that Zhang Jiao is their eldest brother, and they can't help but listen.

So when Zhang Jiao issued an edict to let Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang go to the fiefdom, neither of them refused, and rushed to the fiefdom directly with people to take office, Zhang Liang's royal land was in Nanyang, Nanyang was now besieged by Sun Jian with more than 100,000 troops, and he couldn't go, so Zhang Liang went south to prepare to go to Jiangling to develop, and Yangzhou did not have cholera, so Zhang Bao arrived safely in his fiefdom.

What the two of them couldn't imagine at all was that leaving the Yellow Turban Army this time made them completely leave the road of dominating the world, and they died before their brother Zhang Jiao, why? Zhang Liang of Jingzhou will not talk about it for the time being, but Zhang Bao of Yangzhou is a bit tragic, because Zhang Bao arrived in Shouchun, the royal capital, and received a bad news before he could live down!

A big uprising broke out in Huiji County, and the banner of this "uprising" was not the Yellow Turban Army, but the banner of the Han clan "Liu", the Dragon Banner, and the Wang Division! Who is this person? Needless to say, it was Liu Bei in the area of Huiji County, since Liu Bei began to secretly recruit and train soldiers, he ordered Kong Yun to be a military advisor, and adopted Kong Yun's advice to wait for the times to change, and it didn't take long for Liu Tai to lead hundreds of thousands of troops to pacify Jizhou in half a month.

Liu Bei was excited, because the time for Liu Bei to rise had come, and at this time, it happened to be the period when Yangzhou was empty and the soldiers and horses were transferred north by Zhang Bao and Jia Long to join Yanzhou. Obviously not.

So after discussing with Kong Yun, Liu Bei decided to revolt on the spot! Overturning the brutal and unkind rule of the Yellow Turban Army, Huiji County is located in a remote area, close to the Shanyue area, because of the influence of Shanyue, the people are already fierce, when the Yellow Turban Army was okay, the people of Huiji County were not disgusted, but during this period of time, in order to support the front line, the Yellow Turban Army can be described as inhumane, desperately forcing the people to hand over the surplus food, unable to live, can the people not rebel?

was angry, but no one took the lead, and he didn't dare to rebel, and Liu Bei became the fuse, and the banner was together, and there were countless followers all of a sudden, and even some gate lords and scholars also sent a large number of grain, grass and gold and silver utensils to fund Liu Bei, Liu Bei has people, there are food, generals, military advisors, there is no shortage of anything, and he is afraid of a bird?

There are not many Yellow Turban garrisons in Huiji County, and all the counties in the entire county add up to only a few thousand people, which is just a piece of cake for Liu Bei, in less than a few days, Liu Bei's one or two thousand people are getting bigger and bigger, and they swept the Yellow Turban Army in Huiji County with a thunderous momentum, in order to buy people's hearts, Liu Bei made some statements that were better, but the county officials who dared to run away by the Yellow Turban Army were reinstated, reduced some harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and issued military rations to the people, and suddenly became famous in Yangzhou.

In order to allow Liu Bei to recover the entire Yangzhou as soon as possible, some young and strong people are vying to come to the top, and Liu Bei also just plans to expand the army, wanting to further expand the results.

After taking Kong Yun's opinion, Liu Bei expanded the army to 50,000 people, divided into the left, center and right three route armies, the left route army of 15,000 people for Liu Bei's second brother Xiang Fei as a general, attacking the Yellow Turban of Wu County, the right army of 15,000 people for Liu Bei's third brother Fan Hong as a general, attacking the Yellow Turban of Poyang County, the middle route army Liu Bei personally took command, 20,000 soldiers and horses, until Danyang County!

Liu Bei's ambition is not small, if the Three Route Army all succeeds, then Liu Bei can control the entire southeast of the Yangtze River, Jiangdong, is Liu Bei's territory, and the strength of the Yellow Turban Army in the three counties in front of him can be described as very small, it is a real God-given opportunity, can Liu Bei grasp a big opportunity in this fate? Nobody knows because, it's an unknown.

After recruiting soldiers, Liu Bei has a lot of talents, including the cornerstone of the future Jiangdong Empire, because of Liu Bei's southward migration, history has been completely disrupted, can these individual talents still show their due glory?

Liu Bei's actions are very eye-catching, the worst of which is Liu Tai in the northern Xinjiang, Liu Bei slipped to Huiji County, Liu Tai didn't know, but he didn't expect Liu Bei to be able to set off such a big storm, if the news of Yangzhou reached Liu Tai's ears, Liu Tai would definitely drop his jaw, because the Taoyuan rebellion in history inevitably happened, and there was even one more Kong Yun! Kong Yun? Kong Ming? The number of days!

(To be continued)