Chapter 26 3. From Yingchuan to Jizhou

Although the Yellow Turban Uprising was massive, its power was quite scattered, mainly concentrated in three areas including Jizhou, Yingchuan, and Nanyang, and other ministries were also limited to the local area.This made it possible for the Eastern Han government to concentrate its forces and defeat each of them. The imperial court recovered from the chaos at the beginning, and Yin Hejin, a relative of Henan Province, was appointed as the general and granted the title of Marquis Shen. He commanded the left and right Yulin and the five battalion battalions in Duting to defend Luoyang. Taking Lu Zhi as the general of Beizhong Lang, he went north to Jizhou to attack Zhang Jiao.

The prefect of the north, Huang Fusong, the veteran general of the battlefield, was Zuo Zhonglang general, and the right Zhonglang general Zhu Fa and the five schools, together with Sanhe knights and recruited more than 40,000 brave men, to jointly attack the closest to Luoyang and the greatest threat to the Eastern Han regime. Yingchuan Yellow Turban Army Bocai Department. "Book of the Later Han Dynasty" stated that Huang Fusong "warmly sympathized with the soldiers and won the hearts of the people. Every time the army stopped, the tents had to be erected, and then they gave up the tents. The soldiers all ate, but they themselves tasted the food. Some officials accepted bribes for business reasons. , Song even gave him money and things, and the officials felt ashamed, or even committed suicide." It can be seen that Huangfu Song is a very popular commander.

In 184 A.D., the first year of Zhongping, Emperor Ling of the Eastern Han Dynasty, in mid-April, Huangfusong and Zhu jointly attacked the Yellow Turban Army in Yingchuan.The war did not go well at the beginning, Zhu was defeated by Bocai's army, and Huangfusong resigned from the Changshe.At that time, the Han army was weak, but Bocai's army was powerful, and Huangfusong's subordinates were all panicked. However, the Yellow Turban Army lacked military experience after all, and was immediately caught by Huangfusong.He calmly said to his subordinates: "The victory or defeat of a battle does not lie in the number of people, but in the strange changes in the art of war. You see, although the Yellow Turban Army's morale is strong, Bocai lacks military common sense. Build a camp. If you set off a fire in the middle of the night while the moon is dark and the wind is high, the enemy will be in a state of confusion, and if you attack at this time, you will surely win."

So Huangfusong ordered a few of his subordinates to light torches to go up to the city for defense, giving Bocai the illusion that the main force of the Han army was busy defending the city.In the dark, he organized elite soldiers to quietly go out of the encirclement, set fire and yelled, and the troops in the city also beat drums to fight. Bocai's army was in chaos and scattered in all directions.At this time, Cao Cao, the captain of the cavalry, who was hailed as "a capable minister in the world and a hero in troubled times", was ordered to lead an army to help. Zhu also organized the remnants to surround the fleeing Yellow Turban Army. Bocai's army was beheaded by tens of thousands. , almost completely wiped out.

This is the first time Cao Cao, the future hero, faces a real war. The court of the Eastern Han Dynasty immediately made Huangfu Song the Marquis of the capital for this achievement.However, Zhu was not rewarded because of his gap with the eunuch. Huangfusong and Zhu Chengsheng attacked the remnants of the Yellow Turbans in Runan and Chen, defeated Bocai again in Yangzhai, and Peng Tuo in Xihua. The rest of the Yellow Turbans either surrendered or dispersed. All three counties were pacified. Huangfusong attributed the credit to Zhu and wrote a letter asking for rewards for him. The imperial court then made Zhu the Marquis of Xixiang, and moved the town to the thief Zhonglang General.In August, Huangfu Song's army defeated Bu Ji's troops of the Yellow Turban Army in the Battle of Cangting, captured Bu Ji alive, beheaded more than 7,000 people, and then went north to aid the Jizhou battlefield.

At this time, the battle on the Jizhou battlefield was not smooth. Although the Eastern Han Dynasty successively dispatched North Zhonglang General Lu Zhi and Dong Zhonglang General Dong Zhuo to command the battlefield, no breakthrough was made, and the two sides were in a stalemate.Therefore, when Huangfu Song's army pacified the Yellow Turban Army in Yingchuan and Dongjun, the Eastern Han Dynasty immediately transferred this main force to Jizhou in order to break the stalemate on the Jizhou battlefield. The Jizhou Yellow Turbans were led by the Zhang Jiao brothers, with 200,000 soldiers, the most powerful strategic force in the Yellow Turban Army.After Lu Zhi entered Jizhou, he fought several times with Zhang Jiao's army and beheaded more than 10,000 people. The two sides were in a stalemate in the Guangzong area.Although Lu Zhi did not win a decisive victory, he firmly contained this powerful Yellow Turban Army and bought time for victories in other battlefields.

However, taking Huangfusong's glorious victory in Yingchuan as a reference, the Eastern Han Dynasty was still dissatisfied with Lu Zhi, and sent Xiao Huangmen Zuofeng to the front line of Jizhou to inspect the battle situation.Left and right persuaded Lu Zhi to bribe Zuo Feng, but Lu Zhi refused, so after Zuo Feng returned to the court, he bad-mouthed the emperor, saying that Zhang Jiao's army was easy to break, but Lu Zhi refused to do his best.The court listened to Zuo Feng's one-sided words, and sent Lu Zhi to the capital in a prison car, and sent Dong Zhonglang, Longxi Dong Zhuo, to command the Jizhou battlefield instead of him.However, Dong Zhuo was not much better, and he was defeated in the battle of Xiaquyang immediately, and was convicted for it-but this small defeat did not seem to affect his political future.

In October of this year, Huangfu Song led his army into Julu County, Jizhou, and confronted Guangzong with Zhang Liang, the general of Rengong.At this time Zhang Jiao had died of illness, and his army was led by his younger brother Zhang Liang. This army was numerous, elite and brave.Zhang Liang's army was mostly ordinary people recruited temporarily, lacking experience in confronting regular troops, seeing Huangfusong refusing to fight behind closed doors, he gradually relaxed. Huangfusong organized his troops at night, and at dawn he charged into Zhang Liang's position. The two sides fought fiercely until evening, but Zhang Liang's army could not hold on and was defeated.The Han army beheaded Zhang Liang, killing more than 30,000 Yellow Turban soldiers, and another 50,000 people were squeezed into the river and drowned. All the families of the soldiers were captured by the Han army, and more than 30,000 baggage vehicles were burned.The Han army broke open Zhangjiao's coffin, beheaded the body and sent it to Luoyang for public display.

After the Battle of Guangzong, Huangfusong and Guo Dian, the prefect of Julu of the Han army, attacked Zhang Baojun in Quyang, beheaded Zhang Bao, and captured more than 100,000 Yellow Turban soldiers. "In the south of Quyang City. Huangfusong was appointed General Zuo by the Eastern Han Dynasty because of his great contribution to the battle against the Yellow Turban Army, led Jizhou Shepherd, and was granted the title of Marquis of Huaili with eight thousand households in the city.Huangfusong was a knowledgeable bureaucrat. He was a shepherd in Jizhou. He asked the imperial court to use Jizhou's one-year land rent to help the victims, which eased social conflicts and was loved by the people.At that time, Jizhou ballads sang: "The world is in chaos, the city is a ruin, the mother can't protect the child, the wife loses her husband, and Huangfu can live in peace." At that time, Huangfu Song was powerful all over the world.

The Yellow Turban Uprising sounded the death knell of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but the rulers did not wake up because of it. At that time, there was poverty in the country, and the government was in turmoil. People of insight were looking for their own future. The original letter made Yan Zhongyou persuade Huangfu Song: "What is hard to get but easy to lose is time; when the time is not coming, it is opportunity. Therefore, the sage Act in accordance with the times, and the wise man takes advantage of the opportunity. Today, the general encounters rare luck, takes advantage of the frightening opportunity, but does not follow the luck, does not act when the opportunity arises, how will he protect his reputation?" Today, the world is in chaos, and the opportunity is rare, General Huangfu You walk on a knife's edge, you must have a plan, right?

Huangfu Song: "Ah, what are you talking about? I don't understand..." Yan Zhong: "The way of heaven has no relatives, and the common people are capable. Today, the general receives the battle ax in the late spring, and receives the merits in the late winter. The soldiers move like gods, and the plan is no longer counted. It is easy to destroy the strong, and it is easier to destroy the strong than Tang Xue. Ten months In the meantime, the magic soldiers sweep with electric power, seal the corpse and carve stones, and report to the south, the prestige of the dynasty, and the rumors spread overseas. Although Tang and Wu's deeds, there is no high-ranking general. The merits of this body are not rewarded. You have the virtues of a superior person, but the mediocre ruler in the north, how can you seek peace?" Your general Huangfu is powerful in the world and supported by the hearts of the people, but the court is dim, and it is very dangerous for you to make such a contribution without rewarding it! Huangfusong: "I worry about state affairs all day long, and I am loyal, what's the danger?" Yan Zhong: "Then, I might as well make it clearer...but you have to make sure you don't betray me... Back then, Han Xin couldn't bear to betray Liu Bang because he "undressed me and pushed me to eat" and refused. Kuai Tong persuaded him to take advantage of Liu Xiang's confrontation to establish himself as king, and gave up the good opportunity to divide the world. In the end, he regretted it when the sword was in his throat. Today, your general Huangfu has more authority than Han Xin back then, and the current emperor His power is far less than that of Liu Xiang back then, and it is a good time to become a school of his own and seize the world, but you must not learn from Han Xin!" Therefore, you should "advocate kindness first to attach to Sui, to revitalize martial arts to subdue later, to conquer the people of Hebei, to mobilize the people of the seven prefectures, to gallop ahead with feathers, to reverberate the army behind, to cross the Zhang River, to drink Ma Mengjin, the crime of punishing eunuchs, eliminates the accumulation of grievances." In this way, "Although children can use their fists to exert their strength, women can use their clothes to use their lives. What's more, the pawns of the bears are the soldiers of the fast wind! Mix together Liuhe, call the system in the south, move the treasures to Jiangxing, and push the dead Han to the already fallen, the real magic will come together, and the wind will come at a good time." Otherwise, "If a husband is rotten and does not carve, it is difficult to support the dynasty of the declining world. If you want to support the dynasty that is difficult to support, carving a decayed tree is like walking a pill against a hill, facing the current and falling away, how easy is it? Eunuchs live in groups, share the same evil like a market, do not follow orders, power belongs to close learners, under the faint of the master, it is difficult to live for a long time, not rewarded for merit, slanderous people look sideways, if you don’t plan early, you will regret it.” In short, the Eastern Han Dynasty has become so decayed that it is difficult to be loyal and assist.Now that everything is ready, you General Huangfu should take advantage of the situation to rebel, overthrow the Eastern Han Dynasty and replace it.If you give up this opportunity, you will regret it in the future! Huangfusong stuck out his tongue, so you meant to say this!In fact, it's not that I have much ability to clear the Yellow Turban, it's just that the opponent is really bad.I am a relatively traditional person. Although I have made some achievements, I think it is too rash to think of rebellion because of this achievement.Even if, as you said, you offend the eunuchs in the court and are framed, at best you will be dismissed from office and live in idleness. Even if you are killed, you will have a good reputation. I dare not hear about rebellion. Yan Zhong saw that he was a lump of elm, he really didn't understand, maybe he would report him, so he turned around and ran away.He flew across the sky of history like a shooting star, leaving only this wonderful speech. The following year, Bian Zhang and Han Sui caused chaos in Longyou. In the spring of this year, the imperial court sent Huangfu Song to guard Chang'an. However, General Huangfu once passed through Yecheng when he was attacking Zhangjiao in Jizhou, and saw that the house of the Zhongchang servant Zhao Zhong's house was beyond the standard-the department-level cadres actually enjoyed the treatment of minister-level cadres-it was not pleasing to the eye, and he sent the victory report by the way. Sued the court and confiscated the house.In addition, Zhang Rang asked Huangfusong for 50 million yuan for activities, but he didn't give it. He didn't even think about who Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong were——Emperor Han Ling often said "Zhang Changshi is my father, Zhao Changshi is my mother"!At that time, he was fighting against Zhang Jiao in Jizhou, the court was relying heavily on him, and the eunuchs didn't dare to make trouble.Now that he was transferred to Chang'an, the eunuchs began to take revenge.These two eunuchs made a small report to the emperor, saying that Huangfu Song had failed in the battle and wasted military expenditures, so he should be punished. In autumn, the imperial court confiscated General Huangfu back to the capital. The original 8,000 households in the fief were forced to deduct 6,000 households. In less than a year, for Huangfusong, fame is indeed like a dream. People between the Han and Wei dynasties spoke highly of Huangfusong.Wei Taiwei Hua Xin said: "People at the time said that Huangfu Song's invincibility and the battle of Ruyu were attributed to Zhu, and Zhang Jiao's victory was originally attributed to Lu Zhi. , the world is very important. If you can be honest and not contend for the world's importance, then the grievances and misfortunes will not be deep."