The third year of Chuping is destined to be an extraordinary year.
To the west of the Taihang Mountains, the situation was undercurrent. Dong Zhuo, the Grand Master, built the Yinwu in Xi County and completed it at the end of March. He moved the Taishi Mansion to the Yinwu and moved all the grain and grass he had plundered and accumulated over the past few years to the Yinwu.
Among them, there were as many as four million shi of grain. The dock was seven feet high, covering an area no less than that of Chang'an City, and the supplies in it were enough to last thirty years. Dong Zhuo was very satisfied with this and said to himself: "It just can't be pacified."
In the world, if I have this place, I can spend my old age peacefully."
During this period, Taiwei Zhao Qian was ordered by Taishi Dong Zhuo to successfully instigate Jialong's rebellion in Yizhou, and then led his troops to attack Yizhou southward and conquer Hanzhong County. Unexpectedly, when he entered Jiange, Liu Yan sent troops to block Jiange.
At the same time, they mobilized Qiang soldiers from the Guanghan vassal state and successfully quelled Jia Long's rebellion. Zhao Qian could not hold out at Jiange for a long time, so he had to leave Su Gu, the prefect of Hanzhong, and then led his troops back to Chang'an from Baoxe Road.
Han Sui, Ma Teng and other coalition forces in Liangzhou were frightened when they saw that Dong Zhuo had won several battles in a row this year. In early February, Dong Zhuo timely sent his admonishment doctor Wen Yi to Longshang to appease him, and granted Han Sui the title of governor.
The generals of the West, Ma Teng, the generals who conquered the west, and the other leaders were all the generals of Zhonglang. Except for Song Jian, the king of Han Dynasty at Heshou, all the warlords in Liangzhou were recruited by Dong Zhuo. After the recruitment, Han Sui and others also reciprocated, and immediately
Pay tribute to the Grand Master.
In terms of Bingzhou, Xu Huang completed his army reorganization and was appointed by Chen Chong to try to regain Shangjun. Starting from Sanchuan County, he repeatedly sent a small number of cavalry as surprise troops, bypassing Qiuci and Fushi, and constantly harassed the people south of Zomashi River.
The Xiongnu tribes moved all the people of the Tiefu tribe they encountered back to Xihe. Dugu went to Bei and tried several times to set up ambushes, but they all ended in failure, which made him very angry. He then reported it to General Jianwei Xu Rong.
After Xu Rong learned the news, he tried to return the favor and led thousands of people to attack Sanchuan County on a small road. However, the Baibo Army had been cultivating southwest Shishi for nearly ten years. If Xu Rong made the slightest move, he was led by Xu Huang.
They set up an ambush and attacked, resulting in nearly 2,000 casualties. The attack was not effective, so the Liang army had to retreat and ordered Dugu to go to Beido to build a fort to reduce nomadic herding. However, as a result, the herdsmen of the Tiefu tribe were extremely dissatisfied with the princes in the tribe, and many of them had
Those who took the initiative to flee to Lishi made Shangjun's defense line extremely weak. Under such circumstances, Xu Rong expanded the local army to prepare for war. As expected, the two sides will definitely have a big war after the autumn harvest.
To the east of the Taihang Mountains, various forces are entangled, sometimes reconciling, sometimes fighting to the death, and the situation is even more complicated.
The first is Hebei. After Han Fu, the former shepherd of Jizhou, abdicated, he was repeatedly forced by Yuan Shao's generals. Han Fu finally could not bear the humiliation and committed suicide in Chenliu County. The news spread to Jizhou, which then caused a large-scale rebellion by Han Fu's old troops: Zhao
He came out of Pingxiang and invaded Julu, Cheng Huan went to Xiangguo and occupied Zhaoguo, and Li Li entered Gaoyi and captured Zhongshan. Each had ten thousand people, and they joined forces with the Black Mountain Army to respond with great momentum.
What was even more fatal for Yuan Shao was that Han Fu's son Han Chun led the remaining Han clan to flee north to Youzhou and asked Liu Yu to send troops to avenge Han Fu.
Fortunately, as early as the beginning of the second year of Chuping, Yuan Shao listened to the strategy of Chief Shi Fengji and pretended to be enamored of Liu Yu. He repeatedly sent Zhang Qi, the former Lelang prefect, as an envoy to pay tribute to Liu Yu. While inquiring about the reality of Youzhou, he claimed that he hoped Liu Yu
Yu proclaimed himself emperor in Youzhou. Although Liu Yu had no intention of proclaiming himself emperor, seeing Yuan Shao's behavior, it was inconvenient to become an enemy of Yuan Shao. When he sent an envoy to return the courtesy, Yuan Shao also bowed to the north and bowed to the envoy, which greatly reduced Liu Yu's hostility.
.So when Han Chun came to surrender, he tried to comfort him, but had no intention of going south.
However, Fenwu General Gongsun Zan was very hostile to Yuan Shao. He advised Liu Yu: "Yuan Benchu was disloyal to the imperial court in order to give him the title of envoy. He also forced the Jizhou Mu to be killed. This was in fact a treason. He was a great thief of the country."
Ah! Now Han Chun comes to defect to you because he thinks you are benevolent. How can you sit back and watch?" But Liu Yu was still unwilling to become an enemy of Yuan Shao, so Gongsun Zan led the troops on his own. In February, he issued a petition against Yuan Shao in Fan Yang.
, counted Yuan Shao's crimes in detail, and led 20,000 troops southward to Zhongshan Kingdom.
At this time, Yuan Shao had just gathered an army to annihilate Zhao Fu, and was in the process of killing Cheng Huan in Zhao State. The war was reaching a critical moment. When he heard the news that Gongsun Zan was going south, he was shocked and had to divide his troops. Yan Liang and Chun Yu Qiong each led an army of 10,000 to occupy the area.
The two cities of Zhongqiu and Bairen resisted Gongsun Zan, Li Li and other troops who went south to assist. He personally led an army of 40,000, with Zhang He and Qu Yi as his minions, and stepped up the attack on Xiangguo City. This war has now swept across the country.
Hebei is about to continue to upgrade.
And south of the river, battles were even more frequent.
In the battle with the Liang army, Yuan Shu lost Nanyang first and then Yingchuan. For a while, he did not dare to fight with the Liang people again, so he donated tens of millions of dollars to Guo Si's tribe who occupied Yingchuan, hoping to exchange for peace between the two armies.
This played into Guo Si's wish. After he invaded Yingchuan, he was afraid of Guan Yu's troops who were waiting at Shenyuan Pass, so he immediately agreed, leaving only Guo Gong, the newly appointed governor of Yuzhou by the imperial court, to join Li Jue's troops and go south to continue to Liu Biao.
Apply pressure.
After Yuan Shu gained some peace, he neither dared to go east to regain the lost territory nor start a war with Cao Cao, so he turned south to plunder Yangzhou. Chen Wensu, the governor of Yangzhou, had always been friendly with the Yuan family in Runan, but he did not expect that Yuan Shu suddenly launched an attack and was unexpectedly attacked.
Xu Kun led his troops to besiege Shu County, but was soon defeated by the leader of the city. Yuan Shu appointed himself the shepherd of Yangzhou, captured Lujiang and Jiujiang counties one after another, recruited Zhang Xun, Qiao Rui, Ji Ling and other generals, and tried to move to the south of the Yangtze River.
Counties.
But for Liang Jun, the focus at this time is still on Liu Biao in Jingzhou.
After Li Jue's troops conquered Nanyang, all the counties in Jingzhou were frightened from Xiangyang to Jiangling. Li Jue selected celebrities in Nanyang such as Deng Yu, Deng Xuanzhi, Cen Hong, son of Cen Hao, and others, and went to the north of Mianshui River to show off their martial arts, such as
Yin County, Zhuyang County, Shandu County and other counties surrendered one after another. Before arriving at Deng County, Liu Biao had already sent new troops to station, and the general was the new Jiangxia Governor Huang Zu.
Huang Zu went against the weak attitude of Mianshui counties and said forcefully to Li Jue's envoy: "If you want Huang to surrender, you have to give Li Jue's head in exchange!" Li Jue was furious when he heard this, and the entire army besieged Deng County.
, Unexpectedly, the siege failed for more than ten days, so Xiangyang sent Kuai Yue to lead the army from Xianshan, and repeatedly attacked Li Jue's troops from the flanks. Li Jue suffered successive disadvantages, so he had to temporarily withdraw his troops.
After a slight repair, Li Jue and Guo Si joined forces and once again led an army of 60,000 people southward to surround Deng County. Their troops were directed towards Xiangyang. Apparently, they had made up their minds and would not withdraw their troops until Xiangyang was forced to surrender.
Liu Biao was inspired by Huang Zu's battle in Deng County, and he also made long-term plans to mobilize reinforcements from various counties in Jingnan, and at the same time sent envoys to Guan Yu in Henan to ask for reinforcements, hoping to attack the Liang army from the north to the south.
The east and west are equally divided with the Huishui River as the boundary.
Unexpectedly, after the envoy arrived in Henan, he was unable to see Guan Yu. Instead, he learned a piece of news that shocked the world.
At the end of March, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army had completely conquered the two counties of Taishan and Langya. Tao Qian and the Taishan bandits were defeated and retreated to Donghai County. This was an ordinary thing and not worth mentioning. Unexpectedly, after the Yellow Turban Army defeated Langya, Liu Shun, the king of Langya,
Liu Xi and his son were captured by the remaining Yellow Turbans, but the Yellow Turbans not only did not harm them, but treated them with great courtesy.
At the beginning of April, the Yellow Turban Army led Prince Langya and his son to Mount Tai where they were enshrined, and they prayed to heaven:
"Today, the world is in great harm. The imperial court imposes excessive taxes and expropriations, officials pretend to be public servants for their own benefit, powerful annexations continue, thieves are rampant in the counties and counties, corvees lose time to farm mulberry trees, and floods and droughts are overwhelming all over the world. This is a state of maladministration and moral decay!
It was like this when Emperor Gaozu founded the country, and Emperor Ai was out of power for two hundred years, and his destiny was about to be exhausted. But the ancestors rose from the green forest to pay tribute to the people, and then received orders from the emperor to reorganize the Han Dynasty. It has been two years since then.
After a hundred years, we know that the time has come for the big man to receive another order.
The unworthy descendant Liu Shun (Xi) was worried when he saw the troubled times. Although his virtues are shallow, today I have been elected by the people. They hope that I can make decisions for the people and refresh politics. I remember that the common people were in trouble and were accused by Mi, so I will avoid it.
I hold my gallbladder in my mouth and live on the ice. I will temporarily follow the group's discussion."
So Liu Shun was made emperor by the Yellow Turban, Liu Xi was made the prince, Jianyuan Gengcang was established, and the capital was Linzi. Then Zhang Rao was made the general, Guan Hai was the chief Sima, Xu He was the Sikong, Guan Cheng was the Situ, and Wu Ba
He became a Taiwei, and after occupying various counties and setting them up as prefects, he even sent a message to the four prefectures of Yanzhou, Jizhou, Xuzhou, and Yuzhou, ordering the county guards from all over the country to surrender to the Linzi court.
Liu Dai, the governor of Yanzhou, received the message and ignored the dissuasion of the chief historian Chen Gong. He immediately led the soldiers from the prefecture to attack Juping, Liangfu, Boxian and other places under the Yellow Turban rule. As a result, he encountered Zhang Rao's tribe on the south bank of the Wen River. The two armies fought.
Liu Dai's entire army was wiped out, and the Yellow Turbans took the opportunity to capture the four counties of Jibei, Lu, Dongping, and Rencheng.
Cao Cao was temporarily elected as the governor of Yanzhou by Zhang Miao, Chen Gong and others. He gathered the remnants of Liu Dai while blocking the Gengcang army, and barely stopped the battle line at Juyeze. Guan Yu saw that Cao Cao was in trouble, so Guo Si withdrew his army and led the main force in Henan.
Heading to Shanyang to join forces, they managed to gather an army of 40,000 on one side, and gradually gathered an army of more than 100,000 on the other. The two armies faced each other, and a war was about to break out.
The impact of the Yellow Turban emperor's establishment was not trivial. Wherever the message went, the people were in uproar. Many of the remaining Yellow Turban troops who had survived Zhang Jue's death raised troops to respond, and the roads to Linzi were crowded with people and vehicles. In January
During this period, no less than 400,000 people came to Linzi's court.
When many celebrities learned that the Yellow Turbans had established a new emperor, and saw this scene, they could not help but feel shaken. They talked privately: "The ancestors who came out back then were in the Green Forest Army, and there are no people who can compete with them.
It's just red eyebrows. Now that the Yellow Turban can make King Langya the emperor, we can no longer regard him as a common person. Perhaps the one who determines the world is among them!" So there were also famous people such as Wang Weng, Liu Zheng, Wang Du, and Cheng Gong.
Teng Dan and others joined the army.
In these eight years, the Han Dynasty encountered countless rebellions. Those who were as powerful as Zhang Jiao were defeated in just one year; those who had been separated for as long as Han Sui and Song Jian were still cramped in a corner of Longshang; those like Zhang Chun claimed to be the emperor.
However, the Yuan Dynasty was never established. But now the Gengcang Army gathered the three of them, changed the Yuan Dynasty and established the emperor, sent troops to the four states, and the world responded, as if they were competing in the Central Plains and competing for the world.