Chapter 27 4. Battle of Nanyang

At the same time that Huangfu Song went north to Jizhou, Zhu also went south to Nanyang to crusade against the Nanyang Yellow Turban Army. The Nanyang Yellow Turban Army has tens of thousands of people, and its leader is Zhang Mancheng, known as the "God Envoy".In March of the first year of Zhongping, the "Taipingdao" sect led by Zhang Mancheng captured Wancheng, the governor of Nanyang County, and beheaded Chu Gong, the governor of the county.However, this Yellow Turban Army had no great ambitions. After capturing Wan, it sat guarding the isolated city for more than a hundred days. It neither supported the Yingchuan Yellow Turban Army Bocai, Peng Tuo and other units that were close at hand, nor actively developed its surroundings. It was so dazed. More than a hundred days.In June, the reassured Eastern Han Dynasty launched a counterattack. Nanyang prefect Qin Jie led an army to attack the Yellow Turban Army in Wancheng and killed Zhang Mancheng.The rest of the Yellow Turbans supported Zhao Hong as their commander-in-chief. Although they had grown to more than 100,000 people, they were still confined to Wancheng and did nothing.Zhu Hui, together with more than 18,000 people from Jingzhou Inspector Xu and other departments, surrounded Wancheng. Due to the disparity in the strength of the two sides, they attacked from June to August, but were unable to attack.

Someone in the imperial court impeached Zhu and was about to replace him. Thanks to Sikong and Zhang Wen's memorial to protect him, he said: "In the past, Qin used white to start, and Yan used Leyi. Both of them have been recorded for a long time, and they can defeat the enemy." As a result, it will be a taboo for military strategists to change in the middle of the battle. It is recommended to continue to observe.Under the urging of the court, Zhu attacked the city with all his strength and killed Zhao Hong.The Yellow Turban Army elected Han Zhong as its leader and continued to occupy Wancheng to resist the Han army.

Zhu built a camp outside the city of Wan, and built a mountain of earth to approach the city to observe the movement.The Han army bluffed and beat drums to attack the southwest of Wancheng. Zhu Zi led the main force of 5,000 people and quietly moved to the northeast of the city.The Yellow Turban Army lacked military knowledge, and large troops were concentrated in the southwest to meet the Han army, but there was a gap in the defense of the northeast, and Zhu took advantage of the gap to break in and break through the big city of Wancheng. Seeing that the big city had been broken, Han Zhong had to lead his remnants to retreat to the small city, and begged the Han army to surrender.Zhang Chao, Sima of the Han Army, Xu Xu, Inspector of Jingzhou, and Qin Jie, Prefect of Nanyang, all agreed to accept the surrender, but the chief general Zhu believed that the Yellow Turban Army started from an internal rebellion, which was different from foreign enemies.If the surrender is accepted, it is tantamount to connivance of the rebels to rebel if it is beneficial, and to surrender to save their lives if they are unfavorable. This will inevitably cause more new rebellions, so Han Zhong's surrender was rejected.

Seeing that there was no way to surrender, the Yellow Turban Army guarding the small town had no choice but to defend the city desperately.Zhu saw that the Yellow Turban Army could not hold on, so he withdrew from the siege and did not attack.Seeing that the Han army retreated from the siege, Han Zhong led his troops out of the city to prepare to move. As soon as the Yellow Turban army left the city, they were besieged by the Han army and beheaded more than 10,000 people. Han Zhong himself was killed by Nanyang prefect Qin Jie.Seeing that they could not break through, the rest of the Yellow Turbans retreated back to the city and pushed Sun Xia as their leader.

The Han army is rushing to attack. In the future, the mighty general who will be famous all over the world, and now the small army officer Sima Sun Jian, will lead the crowd to conquer the city first.Sun Xia led his troops to flee, and the Han army pursued to Jingshan in West Hubei, where they defeated the Yellow Turban Army again and beheaded more than 10,000 ranks. Sun Jian, courtesy name Wentai, was born in Fuchun, Wujun.When he was seventeen, his father took him by boat to Qiantang, where he met pirate Hu Yu and others who robbed a business traveler and divided up the spoils on the shore.Fear of sailing, no one dares to enter.Sun Jian said to his father, "This thief can be attacked, please take it!" His father was shocked, can you do this?Children's house, what are you making a fuss about!Seeing his father's refusal, Sun Jian went ashore with his sword in his hand, yelled and pointed at him. The thieves were shocked, thinking that the army was coming, and fled one after another.Sun Jian pursued and beheaded one man.Since then, the seventeen-year-old boy has become famous.Later, he was brave and brave, and followed the official army to defeat Xu Chang and his son, the Kuaiji demon who claimed to be "Emperor Yangming".In the "Yellow Turban Uprising", Zhu Hui knew people with his eyes and urged Sun Jian to be the commander of the army. He really made great military exploits.

So far, several of the most important Yellow Turban armies have been wiped out one by one.In order to commemorate the illustrious martial arts in beating the Yellow Turban, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty decided to change Yuan Zhongping.