The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire - Chapter 82

[Chapter 81 The Yellow Turban Uprising]

During the reign of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the imperial court was corrupt, the eunuchs and their relatives were constantly fighting, and the frontier wars continued. Bewitched by his reputation in business for ten years, he joined Taiping Dao.

In 184 AD (Jiazi year), Zhang Jiao invited believers to raise troops against Han on March 5 with the slogan “The sky is dead, the yellow sky will stand, the age is in Jiazi, the world is prosperous”.

However, a month before the uprising, a disciple of Zhang Jiao named Tang Zhou confided in Ma Yuanyi, who was the capital’s inner responder. Ma Yuanyi was torn apart by a car. The officers and soldiers vigorously arrested and killed the followers of Taiping Dao, implicated more than 1,000 people, and ordered Jizhou to hunt down Zhang Jiao.

Due to the sudden incident, Zhang Jiao was forced to launch an attack in February one month ahead of schedule. Zhang Jiao called himself “General Tiangong”, Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang were “General Digong” and “General Ren Gong” to rise up in the northern Jizhou area.

They burned down the government, killed officials, and robbed all over the country. Within a month, wars broke out in twenty-eight counties in seven prefectures across the country. The Yellow Turban army was like a broken bamboo.

Seeing that the Taiping Road was so powerful, Emperor Ling of Han hurriedly took He Jin as the general on Wushen day in March, and led the five battalions of Yulin and left to settle in Duting, and ordered weapons on the whole to guard the capital; Guangcheng, Yique, Luyuan, Xuanmen, Mengjin, Xiaopingjin and other Kyoto gates were set up to be garrisoned by commanders; they issued an edict to guard against each other, and ordered the prefectures and counties to prepare for battle, train soldiers, arrange weapons, and convene rebels.

Huangfu Song asked to lift the ban on the party, and gave the sergeants the money from the palace and the good horses in the West Garden to improve morale, and Lu Qiang said to the Emperor Ling: “The party has been accumulating for a long time. ”

Emperor Ling of Han accepted the proposal, gave amnesty to the party members on the day of Renzi, returned the migrants, asked the ministers to donate horses and crossbows, and recommended the descendants of the generals and people with deep strategies to go to the bus office for interviews.

On the other hand, they sent elite troops to suppress the chaos in various places: Lu Zhi led the deputy general Zongyuan and led the five sergeants of the Northern Army to take charge of the northern front and deal with the main force of Zhang Jiao;

Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun each led an army to control more than 40,000 soldiers from the Five Schools, Sanhe Knights, and newly recruited elite warriors to attack the Yellow Turbans in the Yingchuan area.

Zhu Jun also went to the table to recruit Sun Jian from Xiapi to be the Sima of the army. He led the youths from the village and recruited various merchants and elite soldiers from Huaishui and Sishui. A total of more than 1,000 people set out to join Zhu Jun’s army.

On the day of Gengzi, Zhang Mancheng attacked and killed Chu Gong, the governor of Nanyang County, in response to Zhang Jiao.

In March of the seventh year of Guanghe, the plain outside the city of Yizhou CD.

It’s just that on the plain where many people usually go out for a green outing, a group of soldiers in blue and red armors are gathering.

In front of the soldiers stood a high platform more than ten meters high, and the left and right of the high platform were full of civil and military ministers in gorgeous armor or brocade official uniforms.

The battle of the high platform was the king of the royal kingdom, Zhong Yu, who was surrounded by countless people. At this time, he was gathering the whole army to conduct an oath-taking meeting on this plain.

After the conference, he will lead his army to the east. Since the whole of Yizhou has been pacified, he will have been rested, well-armored, and a large army with sufficient food gathered under the CD city.

As soon as the news of Zhang Jiao’s uprising came, he would lead a 100,000-strong army to leave Badong County and head straight for Jingzhou.

Try to occupy the entire Jingzhou in the shortest time, before the Han Dynasty has reacted, and then raise its troops eastward, attack Yangzhou, and join the entire northern princes to rule by river.

Now, the news has come that Zhang Jiao revolted in a hurry because of the traitor’s betrayal, and was poorly prepared in all aspects.

In history, it was because of this betrayal that Zhang Jiao’s plan was greatly damaged, and this massive uprising was quelled by the Han Dynasty in nine months.

And this time, he held the swearing-in meeting to declare his illustrious military prestige to the people of the whole Shu.

Second, I came here to announce to the whole army that the Han Dynasty was ruthless.

It can be said that after this swearing-in meeting.

The whole Yizhou dares to confront themselves directly, and even those who are conspiring to rebel will definitely put down their minds and wait and see for a while. As long as they are victorious and not defeated in the front line, they will never dare to raise the idea of rebellion.

The soldiers under his command saw the miserable state of the common people all over the Central Plains, and compared with the realistic conditions that they could at least eat enough under their command, their loyalty to them in their hearts could at least greatly increase him.

This is also the reason why so many princes and generals in ancient times liked to play the oath conference, one is to promote their own strength, and the other is to attract justice to their side, so that the world can return to their hearts.

“The Han Dynasty has no way, ignores the people’s livelihood, the rulers and officials are greedy, eat the marrow of the people, so the people have no way to survive, their families are destroyed, and they are displaced. Today, there are Julu people Zhang Jiao, who have raised soldiers to resist the Han Dynasty, gathered millions, and swept the eight states. , and now the whole big man is a place where the flames are everywhere.”

“Now that Yizhou has recovered, all the people have returned to their hearts, hundreds of thousands of men in armor, and the accumulation of food and grass is like a mountain. It is time to be diligent and brave. Now, in the name of your king, I have ordered all the soldiers to raise their divisions and leave Jingzhou in the east to attack the Wudao. Xing benevolence and righteousness, eliminate violent people.

Our army is victorious!

“Zhong Yu’s impassioned voice spread from the high platform to the ears of all the sergeants with the help of the luck point exchange system.

“Long live the king, our army has ten thousand victories, ten thousand victories, ten thousand victories.” All the soldiers could not help but feel awe in their hearts when they saw such a miraculous aspect of their great king. answered loudly.

On March 15, the seventh year of Guanghe, the Lord of the Kingdom of UU Kanshu www.uukanshu.com held a swearing-in meeting on the CD. He counted the wickedness and wickedness of the Han Dynasty, and dispatched 300,000 troops, known as one million to the outside world.

Spread the word to the world, for a time the court shook, and the world shook.

The morale of the Han Dynasty officers and troops, which were already unfavorable in combat, was even more sluggish. Compared with the Yellow Turbans, which had strong morale, they were even more invincible.

The situation in the world is even more turbid at this moment, and it is difficult to see clearly.

At the end of the month, Zhong Yu’s army was like a broken bamboo, and it even went down to dozens of cities, built Ping County and Yidu County.

At the beginning of April, the troops were divided into four groups, all the way to attack several counties in the north of Xiangyang County, all the way to attack several counties in the east of Jiangxia, all the way to attack several counties in the southeast of Changsha, and all the way to attack several counties in the south of Wuling.

Zhong Yushuai’s 50,000 troops were stationed in the two counties, dispatched in the center, and coordinated with the Quartet.

In mid-April, Bocai defeated Zhu Jun, and Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song retreated to Changshe City.

The Runan Yellow Turban Army defeated the prefect Zhao Qian in Shaoling, and the Guangyang Yellow Turban Army killed Guo Xun, the governor of Youzhou, and the prefect Liu Wei.

At the end of April, the Zhongyu North Road Army captured Xiangyang County, Nanxiang County, and Weixing County, facing the Nanyang Yellow Turban Army across the river, and the two sides did not attack each other.

The East Route Army broke through Nanjun, Jiangxia and Wuchang, and the army was divided into two parts. One part was stationed in Anlu City to prevent the Yellow Turbans from going south, and the other part was stationed in Chaisang City and looked at Yangzhou.

The South Route Army broke through Tianmen County, Shaoling County, Wuling County and Lingling County.

The Southeast Route Army broke through Nanping County, Hengyang County, Changsha County, Xiangdong County, Guiyang County, and Ancheng County.

The two armies were stationed on the border of Jingnan, ready to invade Jiaozhou at any time.

However, in January, the entire Jingzhou was completely under the command of Zhong Yuyuguo. For a time, the situation of the big man was suddenly precarious, as if a broken ship was about to sink at any time.

In Luoyang City, Emperor Ling was very frightened, and he kept ordering the defenders from all over the country to step up their operations, to quell the chaos of the Yellow Turbans as soon as possible, and to deal with his stronger enemy, Yuguo.

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