After a tragic war, the Han army camp was full of wounded soldiers and mourning.

The huge casualties brought great physical and psychological trauma to the Han army, and the extreme exhaustion and strong resentment of the army almost made it impossible for Huangfu Song to continue to lead the army, almost causing a mutiny.

For this reason, Huangfu Song had to let the army rest and recuperate, and rewarded them with a lot of money to save the morale of the army, give them money, meat to eat, and wine to drink, so that they could vent and relax for a while, and also opened a ban on gambling in the army, allowing gambling.

The effect is okay, after eating the meat and getting the money, the soldier's resentment is less, and after starting to gamble, he is indeed relaxed and tense.

However, it is also true that the number of casualties under the First World War was too large, and many people could not stay any longer, feeling that life was more important than money.

In less than a month, from the end of June, after the end of the war, to the end of July, when preparations for the second wave of military operations began, more than 1,200 people were reported to have successfully escaped from the barracks and disappeared.

It's still successful, and it's even more unsuccessful.

So Huangfu Song ordered these fleeing soldiers to be severely punished, and they were hung up and hung not far from the camp gate, and they were whipped and exposed to the sun every day until they died.

Such a terrible punishment barely stopped the flight of the soldiers, and also made Huangfu Song more and more worried, but there was no way, the pressure from the imperial court and the modern literary school made him have to win.

So Huangfu Song ordered to march to Taiyuan County to govern Jinyang County, and then consider the matter of entering the mountains north.

From Jinyang County to the north, it is a huge and continuous mountainous area, the big mountain peaks are set with small peaks, one mountain after another, you can't see much flat land, if there is no guide to guide the way, it is very likely to get lost in it, and be used as a meal delivery by wild beasts.

The mountain bandits and the rebels of the Southern Xiongnu all hid in the mountains to recuperate, and if they did not come out, Huangfu Song could not fight a decisive battle with them on the flat land, and could not give full play to the advantages of the Han army, so he could only march north.

Then he tasted the pain of playing away.

On the way to Langmeng County, the army was attacked many times, and Huangfu Song commanded the army to respond calmly and did not let the rebel attack succeed, but when the army approached Langmeng County, the logistics were threatened by the rebels.

This made Huangfu Song feel a full crisis, and immediately dispatched heavy troops to protect the grain road and maintain the stability of the grain road.

But as a result, there were far fewer troops available to launch an attack, and in a sense it also increased the number of fledgies of soldiers who were dissatisfied with him.

Huangfu Song wanted to stop and reorganize the army, consolidate logistics at the same time, and deal with the flight of soldiers, but the pressure of the modern literary school was given to him again.

Liu Bei's brilliant victory gave the Jinwen faction the upper hand in the political struggle, which they could not accept, and they needed Huangfu Song to resolve the war as soon as possible and overpower Liu Bei with a big victory.

Huangfu Song deeply felt the helplessness of being a man with a knife in his hand, so he could only lead 30,000 people to force an attack on Yuxian, which was occupied by the rebels.

The rebels held on to Yuxian, Huangfu Song could not win many strong attacks, and there were constant threats in the rear, he let his nephew Huangfu Li lead the army to ensure logistics, but Huangfu Li was also tired of existence, and it was very painful to be tortured by the rebels.

In the end, Huangfu Song felt that he could not continue, so he sent troops to burn the mountains and forests near the grain road, trying to make the rebels have no room to hide in this way.

This worked, as the Han army's large-scale burning of the mountains and forests posed some threat to the rebels, and the movement of the elusive rebels under the cover of the mountains and forests was restricted, and the logistics were slightly smoother.

Just when Huangfu Song thought that everything was developing in a good direction, on August 13, a large number of rebels suddenly appeared in the Baibo Valley in the northeast of Linfen County, Hedong County.

Under the banner of the Yellow Turban Army of Taiping Road, these rebels rose up under the leadership of the leader Guo Tai, and directly cut off the grain route of the Han army.

This news was learned by the Luoyang Imperial Court and Huangfu Song almost at the same time, and both the imperial court and Huangfu Song were shocked, never expecting that they would only pay attention to the bandits in the mountainous areas of Bingzhou, and as a result, a large number of Yellow Turban Army appeared in the valley of Hedong County!

The Luoyang court reacted as quickly as possible, and ordered the hussar general Zhang Wen to immediately lead 20,000 troops north to Hedong County to attack the Yellow Turban Army in the Baibo Valley, meet Huangfu Song, and open up the grain road.

And Huangfu Song also immediately blocked the news, pretending to return to the army to recuperate, give up attacking Yuxian, and return to Jinyang County with the army.

However, the news that the grain road was cut off was still broken by the Han soldiers who were dissatisfied with Huangfu Song, and the Han army was in chaos, and Huang Fu Song could not control the situation.

At this time, in Yu County, Zhang Yan had already arrived.

He led his generals Sun Qing, Wang Dang and others to attack decisively, attacking the chaotic Han army, and defeated the 30,000 Han troops led by Huangfu Song to attack in one fell swoop, and the Han army collapsed and fled in all directions.

Huangfu Song had no choice but to flee in embarrassment under the protection of his personal guards.

After returning to Jinyang County, the 20,000 Han troops and 10,000 Southern Hun cavalry who stayed in Jinyang County could not keep calm, and the Southern Hun cavalry took the lead in running, and the Han army collapsed and fled all the way south, unable to control it at all.

Seeing that there was no hope of victory, Huang Fu Song thought of the embarrassing treatment he was about to encounter, and was ready to kill himself with a knife, but fortunately, Huang Fu Li, who was following him, was quick to take Huang Fu Song's knife, knocked him unconscious, and then fled south with him and his guards.

In this battle, the Han army was almost completely annihilated, and 50,000 Han troops fled in Hedong County and Taiyuan County in disarray, unable to count their whereabouts, and no one had the ability to count their whereabouts.

The rebel alliance led by Zhang Yan won a complete victory, and in one fell swoop went south to conquer Jinyang County, and then went south to capture Qi County, Jingling County, and Zhongdu County, playing triumphant songs all the way, killing many officials, and controlling almost the entire territory of Taiyuan County.

In Hedong County, the Yellow Turban Army in the Baibo Valley suddenly erupted without the imperial officials noticing, causing the collapse of the Han army in one fell swoop, which brought great deterrence to the Luoyang Imperial Court.

Although the hussar general Zhang Wen rushed to Hedong County to stabilize the situation with his troops, he failed to reverse the collapse of Huangfu Song and Taiyuan County.

The Yellow Turban Army in the Baibo Valley was also very tenacious, and fought stubbornly with Zhang Wen in the Linfen area, but Zhang Wen could not win.

By the end of August, the dust had settled on the Northern Expedition led by the Luoyang court, Huangfu Song was defeated and lost, and the 50,000 Han army collapsed.

Liu Hong was very annoyed.

Ignoring the above table of Huang Wan and others, he ordered to seize all the powers, positions, and titles of Huangfu Song, depose him as a concubine, and put him and his nephew Huangfu Li, including thirteen generals, to prison and die.

Huang Wan interceded for Huangfu Song and was reprimanded by Liu Hong.

Huang Wan's cronies, Geng Zhong and Fan Tao, interceded for Huangfu Song, but were reprimanded by Liu Hong and then dismissed.

The modern literary school was dealt a heavy blow, its momentum was setback, and it almost collapsed.

Under such circumstances, at the beginning of September of the fourth year of Zhongping, Zhang Yan led the army from Taiyuan County to the south, joined forces with the Baibo Yellow Turban Army, and the two armies jointly fought to launch an attack on Zhang Wen.

Zhang Wen had few troops, was demoralized, and could not resist, so he was forced to retreat to Wenxi County, where he complained to the imperial court and asked for support.

Liu Hong was furious again, and ordered Zhang Wen to be demoted from a hussar general to a rear general, relieved him of his military power, and transferred him back to Luoyang, and ordered the Wei general He Miao as the main general and the former general Zhou Shen as the deputy general, and commanded 20,000 troops to go north to Wenxi County, take over Zhang Wen's army, and fight against Zhang Yan and Guo Tai's rebels.

So far, the situation is not at its worst.

(End of chapter)