Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Conquest of the Yellow Turbans

In 184 A.D. (the year of Jiazi), Zhang Jiao met with the believers on March 5 to raise an army against the Han Dynasty with the slogan "The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the year is in Jiazi, and the world is auspicious"; "Cangtian" refers to the Eastern Han Dynasty, and "Huangtian" refers to the Taiping Road, and according to the speculation that the Five Virtues have always said, the Han Dynasty is the fire virtue, the fire gives birth to the earth, and the soil is yellow, so all believers are tied with a yellow scarf as a mark, symbolizing to replace the corrupt Eastern Han Dynasty. On the one hand, Zhang Jiao sent people to write the word "Jiazi" on the door of the government office as a recognition, and on the other hand, he sent Ma Yuanyi to Jingzhou and Yangzhou to gather tens of thousands of people to Ye to prepare, and went to Luoyang several times to collude with the eunuchs Feng Xu and Xu Feng, wanting to cooperate with the outside world.

However, a month before the uprising, Zhang Jiao a disciple named Tang Zhou informed, confessed to the inner response of the Beijing division Ma Yuanyi, Ma Yuanyi was torn apart, the officers and soldiers vigorously arrested and killed the believers who believed in the Taiping Dao, more than 1,000 people, and ordered Jizhou to hunt down Zhang Jiao, due to the suddenness of the incident, Zhang Jiao was forced to attack in February a month in advance, known as the Yellow Turban Uprising or the Yellow Turban Rebellion, because the rebels tied the yellow turban on their heads, so they were called "Yellow Turbans" or "moth thieves", Zhang Jiao called himself "Tiangong General", Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang were respectively "Digong Generals", respectively in Yanzhou and Jizhou, Qingzhou, Youzhou, Jingzhou, Xuzhou, Yuzhou, Yangzhou eight prefectures and twenty-eight counties gathered 36 large and small parties, tens of thousands of people, small and small parties set up a canal commander, divided into Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, Zhang Liang direct leadership, the three of them gathered hundreds of thousands of believers at the same time to launch an uprising in eight states, known as millions. In the local attack and plundering of the prefecture and county, one after another killed the county guards, captured the city, for a time the entire Han River fell under the Yellow Turban Army uprising, this is the famous "Yellow Turban Uprising" in history.

The news flew to Luoyang like snowflakes, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty heard it like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and he was so frightened that his whole body was soft, he hurriedly summoned the general He Jin, Zhonglang General Lu Zhi, Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun, etc. to discuss countermeasures, and ordered He Jin to take command of the Governor of the Great Metropolis to discuss, Lu Zhi, Huangfu Song, and Zhu Jun respectively went to Jizhou, Youzhou, Yanzhou and other places in the hard-hit areas of the Yellow Turban Army to quell the rebellion, and the official army also began to collect righteous troops in various places to fight against thieves, and ordered the local Taishou to be responsible for suppressing the Yellow Turban Army in their own regions, and for a time the entire Chinese land was shrouded in the clouds of war.

Xiliang, as the only state and county that did not have the Yellow Turban Army uprising, can really be described as a "paradise", and Dong Zhuo felt "gloating" from the heart! For what? As a feudal official who is also in charge of the local military and government, he is the only one who is in a paradise and is free from the scourge of war, first, his own strength has been preserved, and second, the strength of warlords in other states and counties has been weakened, so he will undoubtedly sit back and watch himself become bigger and stronger and become the overlord of the whole world.

Dong Zhuo was wishful thinking in his heart, and at this time, someone reported that the imperial envoy was here! Dong Zhuo's face suddenly became cloudy after hearing this, at this time the imperial court came to the envoy nine times out of ten there is nothing good, Dong Zhuo's wishful thinking in his heart was shattered all of a sudden, and after a while, the envoy sent by the imperial court came to Dong Zhuo's mansion, Dong Zhuo hurriedly went down to the palace to greet him, and after the greetings were completed, the envoy took out the emperor's edict and said Dong Zhuo said: "Zhonglang will also be the Western Liangmu Dong Zhuo to receive the order!" ”

Dong Zhuo heard that he hurriedly knelt on the ground to listen to the holy decree, and then the envoy announced: "Fang today under the Yellow Turban thief Kou Xing to make a rebellion, the following offenses, chaos in the world, the imperial capital suffered, the people of Li suffered, in order to quell the rebellion, the Holy Lord repeatedly decided to send the general of Zhonglang to Xiliang Mu Dong Zhuo to recruit the deputy governor of Yuzhou to quell the rebellion, Qin this!" ”

"Thanksgiving!" Dong Zhuo received the holy decree with trembling hands, as if he was on the edge of the abyss.

After a year of preparation in Xiliang, Dong Zhuo once again embarked on the journey of the Yellow Turbans in the East, this time he raised 100,000 troops to send troops to Yuzhou, you must know that this is a hard-hit area flooded with Yellow Turbans, it seems that the emperor is still very kind to himself, and ordered him to be responsible for the requisition of this hard-hit area, or pay special attention to himself! There was no way for Dong Zhuo to take out all the "belongings" he had carefully stored in Xiliang with the 100,000 army, after all, he was working for the emperor, and he had to obey as a courtier. …,

Dong Zhuo will be the general on the same day, and he will send troops to recruit the Yellow Turban Army in Yuzhou on the same day, and several generals under him: Li Dao, Guo Yan, Guan Yun, Fan Chou, Zhang Ji, Li Su, Hua Xiong, Niu Fu all followed the expedition, the Yellow Turban Army thieves are huge and numerous, so they can't be taken lightly, Guan Yun followed Dong Zhuo as a former general, he is no stranger to the Yellow Turban Uprising, whether it is the history he learned in middle school or the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the result is of course a failure, but what he didn't expect was that he actually ran into it, To be honest, this is a peasant uprising, the peasants as the name suggests this is an exploited class, their uprising must not be able to survive, the rule of the late Han Dynasty is so dark, uprisings are very normal, but the protagonist of this uprising is Zhang Jiao, this person's reputation is not good, he has studied history He understands that this is clearly a demon, using the preaching of the sermon to gather a lot of disciples, using this way to demagogue, in order to achieve their ulterior purposes, in fact, to put it bluntly, this Zhang Jiao is a full careerist, With strong political ambitions, he gathered popularity in the name of preaching, and finally served his political ambitions, caused chaos in the world, and finally achieved the goal of overthrowing the regime, and once the majority of peasants pushed him to the right position, he could not change the way people exploited people at all, and the peasants were oppressed and tortured as well, so the vast number of peasants in the Yellow Turban Uprising were used, and the protagonist Zhang Jiao was the real culprit. So this uprising is not black and white, since Zhang Jiao launched a rebellion, he is a sinner in history, so there is no need to show any mercy to him, the same is true for the Yellow Turban Army, Guan Yun thought of this and strengthened his determination to crusade.

Dong Zhuo's army set off from Xiliang, after more than half a month to reach the border of Yuzhou, the most flooded Yellow Turban Army gathering place in Yuzhou at the moment is Wancheng, here the Yellow Turban Army leader Yang Mancheng killed Taishou, captured the city, stationed troops in Wancheng, gathered 7, 80,000 people, Dong Zhuo's army rushed to this far, soon to approach Wancheng, someone had already reported that Wancheng was too guarded Yang Mancheng, Yang Mancheng was shocked after hearing it, and soon led his army to rush out of Wancheng to fight Dong Zhuo, the two sides set up a position 20 miles west of Wancheng

The Yellow Turban Army was wrapped in a yellow scarf and held a weapon, and the team poured out like a plate of loose sand, although there were many people but the queue was not neat, Guan Yun thought to himself: After all, it is a rabble without formal training, although there are many people but there is no majesty, people can't feel that kind of murderous spirit, compared with the Xiliang soldiers they trained, it is like a confrontation between a separate column and the regular army, the Xiliang army is not only neat and uniform, but also the team is neatly arranged, looking horizontally and vertically, it is a "Qi" like a copper wall, majestic, Seeing this, the Yellow Turban Army couldn't help but put some people in danger.