A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 369 Liangzhou rebels are causing chaos in the world

October
After more than a month of uninterrupted and long-term attacks, Xiaquyang was finally captured. In this battle, the Han army beheaded tens of thousands and captured more than 100,000 people. The leader of the Yellow Turban Army, Zhang Bao, died in the rebellion.

Since then, the large forces of the Yellow Turban Army have been pacified all over the world, leaving only a few small bandits that threaten the county. Among them, there are two relatively large ones.

For example, Guan Hai and Guan Cheng of Qingzhou were in Mount Tai, and Zhang Niujiao and Fan Kai of Jizhou were in Heishan. Their troops numbered no more than 10,000 people, but because they were in the mountains, they could not be destroyed by the imperial court.

November

Huangfu Song suppressed most of the Yellow Turbans in the world by himself. He relied on this power to become powerful in the world. In order to prevent the remnants of the Yellow Turbans from Changshan County from causing trouble,

Liu Hong appointed Huangfu Song as Zuo Chaqi General, leading the shepherds of Jizhou. He was granted the title of Marquis of Huaili, with the title of Marquis of Huaili and the taxation of Huaili and Meiyang counties, and a total of 8,000 households in the town.

The generals who contributed to the pacification of the Yellow Turbans also received rewards. Cao Cao, the Cavalry Commander, was appointed Prime Minister of Jinan; Sun Jian, the Assistant Army Sima, was promoted to the Sima of the other departments;
Gongsun Zan, the governor of western Liaoning, was promoted to the rank of Zhonglang General and was granted the title of Dutinghou. He led his cavalry and stationed in the Wuhuan vassal country to monitor the Wuhuan leader Tanzhi Wang who surrendered to the Han Dynasty.

The commoner Liu Bei was appointed as the county captain of Anhu County. Gongsun Zan told him that this might be the reason for offending Huangfu Song at that time.

Although he was unwilling to do so, Liu Bei still accepted the appointment from the imperial court, dismissed most of the rural warriors, and took only a few dozen cavalrymen. Guan, Zhang, Jian Yong, and Bai Jin went to Anxi County to take up their posts.

Anxi County is located in the Zhongshan Kingdom and is a county under the Zhongshan King. Since the princes and kings of the Eastern Han Dynasty have lost the right to manage domestic administrative affairs, except for the Bai Kingdom, all county officials and ministers of the princes and states in the world are controlled by the central government. Assigned by the imperial court. The princes and kings only had the right to collect taxes.

In addition, regarding the establishment of state animal husbandry, Taichang Liu Yan proposed to Liu Hong.

Liu Yan was originally the governor of Youzhou. Because of his contribution to the annihilation of the Yellow Turbans in Youzhou and because he was a clan member of the Han Dynasty, he was promoted to Taichang Qing.

Although there are no major rebellions in the world today, there are still countless small rebellions and remnants of the Yellow Turbans who have escaped into the mountains and forests.

Especially in some mountainous counties, almost all channels of communication with the outside world are blocked by the remnants of the Yellow Turbans. And it is impossible for the imperial court to send the Central Forbidden Army to annihilate local areas.

The local counties were unable to deal with it. Therefore, in order to wipe out the local rebellion and the remnants of the Yellow Turbans in the mountains and forests, Taichang Liu Yan proposed to Liu Hong to restore the prefectural pastoral system of the former Han Dynasty and change the governor to state pastoralist.

Give the state pastor the right to recruit soldiers and identify bandits, so that the court can deal with the remnants of the Yellow Turbans in the local area without spending a single soldier, a single pawn or a single grain.

Moreover, the state pastors in each state are all members of the Han clan, and are naturally aligned with His Majesty. They will never collude with the local bandits like the powerful local families.

After thinking for a while, Liu Hong agreed with Liu Yan's suggestion. It happened that Zhu Jun was leading his troops to fight fiercely with the remnants of the Yellow Turbans at Wancheng in Nanyang County.

However, Jingzhou is mountainous and swampy, and the barbarians are disobedient and often make troubles with the Yellow Turban bandits. Therefore, in order to quell the rebellion in Jingzhou, Liu Hong appointed Liu Biao, one of the eight horses, as the shepherd of Jingzhou, and at the same time appointed Liu Yan as the shepherd of Yizhou and Huang Jin. Wan is the pastor of Yuzhou.

November

Fusong, the Muhuang of Jizhou, expressed his gratitude to Jizhou for its frequent wars this year. Many people were displaced and had no way to produce on the land. Therefore, they could not collect taxes at all. He asked the court to waive taxes for a year to support the hungry people.

Liu Hong believed that Huangfu Song's request was very reasonable, so he agreed to his request and ordered a general amnesty for the whole country. He changed this year's reign to "Zhongping", which means that the Yellow Turban thieves were pacified.

Due to Liu Hong's amnesty, Dong Zhuo was also pardoned and released from prison.

December

There was a rebellion in Liangzhou. The Hu people Beigong Boyu and the Xianling Qiang rebelled. They supported the powerful Han Bian Zhang and Han Sui as commanders and attacked and killed Ling Zheng, the captain of the Qiang school, and Chen Yi, the prefect of Jincheng.

The second year of Zhongping
New Year
Beigong Boyu, Li Wenhou, Han Sui, Bian Zhang and others led tens of thousands of cavalry in the name of "crusade against eunuchs", attacked the three auxiliaries, and invaded the Han Dynasty's garden tomb.

Liu Hong was furious when Liangzhou rebelled again, and this time he was actually beaten to the late emperor's tomb. Fortunately, King Bai had donated a batch of money and food, otherwise he would have no money to send troops.

So he ordered Huangfu Song to be removed from the post of Jizhou Mu, and he was asked to return to the town of Chang'an to defend the royal gardens and mausoleums, and to lead the army on the expedition as General Zuo Chaqi.

At this time, Situ Yuan Wei recommended Dong Zhuo, who had just been released from prison, because he had been in Liangzhou for a long time and was familiar with Liangzhou's military. Dong Zhuo became Huangfu Song's deputy general, became Zhonglang General, and resumed commanding the army.

April
The Nanyang Yellow Turbans were pacified by Zhu Jun, the general of You Zhonglang, and the imperial court appointed Zhu Jun as the general of You Chariot and Cavalry.

After Zhu Jun led his troops back to Beijing, he was appointed Guanglu doctor by Liu Hong. He added 5,000 households in the city and was granted the title of Marquis of Qiantang. Later, he left his job due to the death of his mother. After serving, he started his career and was appointed as a great craftsman, then transferred to the post of Shaofu or Imperial Servant.

July
The imperial army and the Liangzhou rebels fought many battles in Youfufeng. However, because the rebels were tens of thousands of cavalry and came and went like the wind, and with the help of the powerful Han people in Liangzhou, the Huangfu Song tribe fought against the rebels many times. , there is no way to get them.

Instead, he taught them to become stronger and stronger, further expanding the strength of Bian Zhang, Han Sui and others, with a crowd of one hundred thousand, and the world was in commotion.

Liu Hong was dissatisfied when he saw that Huangfu Song could not do anything to help the rebels, but instead allowed them to grow stronger. Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong also made slanderous remarks. Finally, he ordered to recall Huangfu Song, take back his left cavalry general Yinshou, and deprive him of 6,000 food and feudal households. The title of Duxianghou was changed to the title of Marquis of Duxiang, with a settlement of 2,000 households.

Because after the Yellow Turban Army was pacified, Huangfu Song became the shepherd of Jizhou. When he saw that Zhao Zhong's residence in Ye County exceeded the regulations, he reported to the emperor to confiscate it.

Later, when Zhang Rang, the minister of the Chang Dynasty, saw that he had given money to the envoy when he went to Quyang, he thought that he was like Duan Juan, a general who gave everything he wanted, so he asked him for 50 million yuan, but Huangfu Song refused and felt resentful.

In order to block the offensive of the Liangzhou rebels, Liu Hong appointed Sikong Zhangwen as General Chariot and Cavalry to take over the affairs of the Third Auxiliary Military Region.

I appointed Yuan Pang as the deputy general, Dong Zhuo as the general to break up the bandits, and Zhou Shen as the general to destroy the bandits. At the same time, he invited Sun Jian, the Sima of the other tribes, who had distinguished himself during the pacification of the Yellow Turbans, and Tao Qian, who was good at military affairs, to join the army.

After Zhang Wen arrived in Chang'an, he ordered to summon Dong Zhuo. However, Dong Zhuo believed that he was from Situ Yuan Kai and was an old man from Liangzhou, so he arrived late.

Zhang Wen was furious and blamed Dong Zhuo, but Dong Zhuo retorted everywhere and made some offensive remarks. Seeing this, Sun Jian, who joined the army, advised Zhang Wen to take the opportunity to kill Dong Zhuo to establish his authority. However, Zhang Wen was new to the country and needed Dong Zhuo's western expedition. Rejected on the grounds of experience.

Later, tens of thousands of imperial troops faced off against the Liangzhou rebels in Meiyang County, and neither side could do anything to the other.

November

A meteor streaked across the sky, and the light shone into the rebel camp. The donkeys and horses neighed. The rebels, mostly barbarians, thought this was an ominous sign and prepared to retreat.

Dong Zhuo had been in Xiliang for a long time, so he naturally knew the customs and ideas of the Hu people. He believed that the rebels would definitely withdraw, so he led his troops to attack together with Bao Hong of You Fufeng, and defeated the rebels, beheading thousands of them before returning.

The rebels were defeated and returned to Yuzhong County, Jincheng County, Liangzhou. Zhang Wen believed that this was a rare opportunity. He should take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold and his own victory to lead his army in pursuit.

So he sent Zhou Shen to lead 30,000 people to pursue him. Dong Zhuo followed the instinct of a soldier and proposed to lead troops to meet Zhou Shen. However, Zhang Wen was still resentful of Dong Zhuo's offense and disagreed. Instead, he asked Dong Zhuo to lead 30,000 people. Fight against the Xianling Qiang.

In the end, Zhang Wen sent six groups of troops, five of which, including Zhou Shen, ended in failure. Only Dong Zhuo's army was fully mobilized and stationed in Youfufeng.

Zhongping three years
March
The imperial court granted Dong Zhuo the title of Marquis of Zhuxiang due to his meritorious service, granting him a fief of 1,000 households.

Zhang Wen was exempted from the responsibility for the defeat because he drove the Liangzhou rebels out of the Sanfu area. Instead, he was appointed Taiwei by Liu Hong, setting a precedent for the absence of the three princes from the government.

October
Zhang Wen was summoned by the imperial court and returned to Luoyang.

Same month
There was a fight among the Liangzhou rebels. Han Sui killed Bian Zhang and others, and surrounded Longxi with more than 100,000 troops.

Zhongping four years
April
Geng Bi, the governor of Liangzhou, and Fu Xie, the governor of Hanyang, were killed by Han Sui and others, causing chaos in Liangzhou. In the same month, Zhang Wen was dismissed because the bandits were not defeated.

Before Liu Hong could react to what happened in Liangzhou, Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju from Yuyang County joined forces with the Wuhuan rebels to launch a rebellion in Youzhou, killing Ji Chou, the captain of Wuhuan School, and Liu Liu, the governor of Youbeiping. Yang Zhong, the governor of Zheng and Liaodong, plundered You and Ji.

After weighing the pros and cons, Liu Hong decided to give up Liangzhou's military strategy and treat it on the defensive. On the contrary, Zhang Chun and others rebelled without delay.

However, most of the central imperial army of the imperial court was stationed in the Sanfu area to prevent the rebels from Liangzhou from invading again. Since there was no one available, Liu Hong ordered Zhonglang General and Wuhuan Governor Shi Gongsun Zan to lead his troops to Jizhou. , counties and counties in Youzhou cooperated to suppress the rebellion.

At the same time, Zongzheng and Liu Yu were appointed as the shepherds of Youzhou to cooperate with Gongsun Zan in putting down the rebellion of Zhang Chun and Wuhuan.

In addition to the war, various political events that supported the emperor and replaced Liu Hong also continued to emerge. For example, Wang Fen tried to support Hefei Marquis, Yan Zhong persuaded Huangfu Song to stand on his own, and other incidents occurred one after another. Although they failed in the end, they also made Liu Hong gradually came out of Xiyuan's enjoyment.

May
In order to make up for the vacancy that the Forbidden Army was far away in Chang'an and could not protect itself. In addition, the general He Jin controlled the left and right Yulin, and his military power became more and more powerful. Liu Hong, who felt a deep sense of crisis, established the "Eight Colonels of Xiyuan" in Xiyuan, and even He Jin had to obey his orders.

Therefore, he placed high hopes on these forbidden troops. He even led the army's commander himself and named himself supreme general. At the same time, he appointed his most trusted eunuch, Jian Shuo of Xiaohuangmen, as the captain of the army, to command the others on his behalf. Seventh Colonel.

In order to maintain combat effectiveness, many captains from aristocratic families were appointed. For example, Yuan Shao, Bai Xing, Cao Cao, etc. were all appointed as Zuojun, Xiajun, and Dianjun based on their family background.

Zhongping five years
October
Liu Hong held a military parade in Pingtang, Luoyang, and inspected the newly established Xiyuan Army on horseback with a sword.

In the same month, the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou and Xuzhou revolted and attacked counties. Liu Hong sent Bai Xing, a lieutenant in the Xiyuan Army, to lead troops to attack the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans, and appointed Tao Qian as the governor of Xuzhou to suppress the Xuzhou Yellow Turbans.

November

In the continuous attack, the Liangzhou rebels finally launched a leader, so the rebels, led by the leader Guo Guo, surrounded Chencang County in Youfufeng.

Liu Hong had no choice but to re-enable Huangfu Song and appoint him as General Zuo, supervising former general Dong Zhuo, each leading 20,000 soldiers to resist the enemy.

(End of this chapter)