Chapter 133 The first defeat is critical

The various Yellow Turban armies led by Zhang Jiao captured the local officials and killed Jitian at the beginning of the uprising.After capturing the city, they frantically snatched supplies, opened the government's arsenal, and selected strong peasant children to form a "regular army". There is a practical problem in front of the rebels, and that is the family members. According to the law of the Eastern Han Dynasty, all the crimes committed by these peasant rebels are capital crimes, and they must implicate the nine ethnic groups.If the family members are left where they are, they will be rounded up and suppressed by the government army who came to support them later, and those poor family members will be mercilessly killed.After the able-bodied young male laborers leave, their family members will be wiped out by the government.

The Eastern Han Dynasty ruled the country with filial piety, and the folk filial piety was mellow, and the rebels brought their families to fight together.The family members were reluctant to put down the cattle, farm tools, and even some simple furniture.People have to sleep and eat wherever they go, and they have to bring mats, quilts, pillows, kitchen knives, iron pans, clay pots, copper basins, chopsticks, bowls, brushes... carrying shovels, kitchen knives, and Holding sticks, driving pigs, pulling sheep, leading cattle...the army is mighty and mighty, forming an army of mixed components, like bees and ants, they disperse and gather at times, and commanding is very difficult.

The leaders of the Yellow Turban Army can also realize that the organization is bloated, the action is slow, the goal is too big, and the mobility is too poor, but this is a last resort. In addition, the people who fled did not bring much food, but now their family members are accompanied by an army. There are 30,000 troops and 100,000 family members. Each catty of grain per person costs more than 100,000 catties per day.Long before this, there was a shortage of food and grains all over the country, and hunger was frequent. Even if you have money, you can't buy food.Wherever the Yellow Turban Army passed by, it was like locusts. Whether it was in the homes of the people or planted in the fields, they were all eaten and robbed by the Yellow Turban Army, and what could not be taken away was burned.

Sun Jian led the forward scouts to report: The Yellow Turbans couldn't tell whether they were soldiers or peasants.It is moving slowly towards the southeast. Huangfusong and Zhu Jun each led a part, and marched in two ways, on the left and right, and rushed to the road to jointly suppress the Yingchuan Yellow Turban Army. Cao Cao led the slow-moving logistics team. Some were pushing carts in the mud, blocking the way for the horses; , Cao Cao looked at it and frowned.I am afraid that apart from the Yellow Turban Army, which does not distinguish between soldiers and civilians, this is another motley army that moves slowly and behaves strangely.

Cao Cao ordered that the mixed teams be sorted, so that the horses carrying the goods go first, followed by the convoy, and finally the people carry the shoulders. Anyone who delays the march for no reason will be dealt with by military law.After some rectification, the speed was indeed much faster. The news came from the front that Zhang Mancheng attacked and killed Chu Gong, the governor of Nanyang County, and responded to Zhang Jiao. The former army Zhu Jun and Sun Jian had just marched more than 30 miles south of Changshe, when they were ambushed and defeated by the Yellow Turban Army led by Bo Cai. The vanguard of more than 4,000 people suffered more than half of the casualties.In desperation, Zhu Jun led his troops to retreat. Huangfusong, who was sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai and was waiting for the news of the victory from Zhu Jun, suddenly lost his footing.The front army is defeated, and the rear army's supplies have not arrived. If they don't retreat into the city quickly, the soldiers' supplies will be interrupted.At that time, if you don't need the Yellow Turban Army to fight, you will all run away.

Huangfusong immediately ordered more than 10,000 sergeants from the remaining troops of the Central Army and the Front Army to rush to the nearest city, Changshe. Cao Cao received the news of the defeat of the former army and urgently ordered to stop the march. If he was close to the enemy without the protection of heavy cavalry and infantry archers, so much baggage would become the spoils of war for the Yellow Turban Army. The rear army had more than 300 carts and ready-to-replace horses. Cao Cao ordered the old and weak soldiers to stay behind and wait for orders. He selected strong engineers and logistics soldiers to form a cavalry assault team of more than 1,000 people. They took bows and arrows and rode on horses. , Go straight to Changsha, ready to cooperate with the officers and soldiers in Changshe city.

As soon as Huangfusong and Zhu Jun's main force entered Changshe City, Bocai led the army to arrive. Huangfusong was very worried that the rear army's food and grass would be looted by the Yellow Turban Army.