In any case, after the battle on Dong Zhuo's side, the Jizhou Yellow Turban Army was completely wiped out.
In the end, they failed to defeat Jizhou. They were quite powerful at the beginning, but soon fell into internal strife. After the internal strife, they became corrupted at the speed of light, sitting back and watching the loss of strategic opportunities.
One or two did not make much difference, but the number of their own family members and money expanded rapidly.
Wang Meng has more than fifty female relatives.
Yan Sheng had more than thirty female relatives.
Gao Zheng is considered incorruptible and has only eighteen female dependents.
To be honest, in such a short period of time, they did not make any achievements in military and political affairs. Instead, they competed with each other on the issue of women, as if they were engaging in an arms race.
They are indeed worse than Zhang Jiao.
Therefore, after the Han army, which fully represented the interests of the ruling class and upper class society, arrived in Jizhou, their demise without the leadership of a strong man from heaven and who failed to successfully represent the interests of any social class was an irreversible fact.
At this time, it was the ninth day of May in the seventh year of Guanghe, and it had only been four months since the Yellow Turban Army uprising in Jizhou.
In just four months, they collapsed.
After Lu Zhi captured Julu County, he opened the coffins of the three Zhang Jiao brothers, then packed their bodies together with the living members of the Zhang family and sent them to Luoyang in a truck, leaving them to the disposal of Emperor Liu Hong.
In Liu Bei's view, the victory of the Han army in the northern battlefield actually meant the final victory of this war.
The Yellow Turban Army did not attack Jizhou and did not have any impact on Youzhou and Bingzhou. It had a big impact on Jizhou, but it was not as big as Zhang Jiao was alive. He heard that the Yellow Turban Army in many counties was very small. existence, local officials alone succeeded in extinguishing them.
Judging from Liu Bei's own senses, the main impact of this Yellow Turban Army on Jizhou is the surrounding counties centered on Julu County, which is about half of Jizhou.
The uprising in the core area has failed, so can those on the Central Plains battlefield still persist?
Is it really impossible for the Central Han Army led by Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun to make achievements?
Of course not.
While the northern battlefield was completely victorious, changes in the southern battlefield and eastern battlefield also occurred in favor of the Eastern Han Empire.
The Yellow Turban Army, which was struck first by the Luoyang court and lost its soul leader before the uprising began, took advantage of their inherent disadvantages to the extreme. After gaining some advantages in the early stage, they immediately fell into decline and entered a stage where everyone was shouting for a fight. the point.
Except for a few Yellow Turban troops who can maintain the discipline of not infringing on innocent people, most of the Yellow Turban troops are robbers and bandits armed with steel knives. For them, officials, landlords and ordinary people are the same, and they are all their "supplies" ".
As a result, the government wanted to exterminate them, the powerful landlords wanted to fight against them, and the people wanted to flee from them. They soon fell into astonishing isolation, and no one else could help them except themselves.
The energy quickly disappeared.
Whether it was Zhang Mancheng, who was once able to draw a 50-50 draw with Zhu Jun, or Bu Si, who could defeat Huangfu Song, they were all unable to succeed.
Zhu Jun quickly regained his strength and fought a field battle with Zhang Mancheng in Nanyang County. The two sides ended in a draw. However, Zhang Mancheng lost too many elite troops and was unable to succeed. He had to retreat to Wancheng to defend and could no longer compete with Zhu Jun in the field.
In just one battle, Zhang Man lost all his energy and energy, which shows how shallow his background is.
Zhu Jun then surrounded Wancheng and divided his troops to attack the surrounding small units of the Yellow Turban Army, achieving a complete victory.
Huangfu Song's side launched another attack on Bu Si in mid-April.
Because of the previous failure, Huangfusong seemed to have been under a lot of pressure from Lu Qiang, so he was more careful this time, strictly following what he had learned, and taking every step carefully.
Bu Si did not catch any more opportunities and made many mistakes. Instead, Huangfu Song seized the opportunity and launched a strong attack when Bu Si and others were crossing the river, defeating the main force of Bu Si's army in one fell swoop.
After Dongjun was pacified, Huangfu Song continued to march eastward and wiped out several rebel armies under the banner of the Yellow Turban Army in the Taishan County area, and achieved a great victory.
Then he also submitted a petition to the imperial court, claiming that the local government was encouraged by the imperial court and spontaneously organized manpower to fight against the Yellow Turban Army.
A group of prefects and county magistrates were very successful in guarding important prefectures and county towns. Some local tycoons also made considerable contributions. While protecting their own industries, they contained and eliminated many Yellow Turban troops, which laid the foundation for the imperial court to quell the Yellow Turban army. Credit deserves reward.
It can be said that the Central Han Army in Luoyang brought by Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song played a role in eliminating the main force of the Yellow Turban Army. In addition to large-scale main battlefields such as Nanyang and Dongjun, many branch battlefields were fought by local people themselves. Solved.
Some county guards and magistrates with a small number of county soldiers and other armed forces defended the city and drove away the Yellow Turban Army. Some powerful local landowners also enclosed land for their own property. The Yellow Turban Army could not get supplies and ran into obstacles everywhere. It was exhausted in the endless battles.
Seeing that the Yellow Turban Army had no future, the smart people quickly left the team and ran away to survive. The dull people clung to the banner that no one cared about, "The sky is dead, Huang Tian must stand", and they sadly held on until the end of their lives. Last breath.
The fundamental reason is that the Luoyang court responded promptly.
Although this response could no longer prevent the war from happening, it successfully controlled the scale of the uprising.
The Yellow Turban Army failed to achieve a record that shocked the world at the beginning, and the Eastern Han Empire was not defeated immediately and was unable to fight back.
What the people of the world saw was the Eastern Han Empire's state machine that was decayed but still functioning, and the Central Han Army that seemed weak but was actually still fierce.
Therefore, the local centrifugal forces that were ready to move did not dare to further unleash their ambitions.
Therefore, after the Yellow Turbans uprising, they failed to elicit further local response in most areas. This Taiping Dao uprising did not shake the rule of the Eastern Han Empire in a real sense.
Although the rule of the old empire is struggling, it is still continuing without any substantial changes.
When Lu Zhi took the lead in sending good news to the court, the situation in the entire Central Plains was also changing in favor of the Luoyang court. The Yellow Turban Army was continuing to fail and decline.
Lu Zhi does not yet know the situation in the southern and eastern theaters.
While he sent people to report the good news on his side to the court, he also began to reorganize the battlefield, and prepared a table to give his own suggestions on some aftermath matters after the war, and how to restore production in Jizhou that had been damaged by the war. Give some of your own opinions.
After the counter-insurgency war between Jiujiang County and Lujiang County ended, Lu Zhi also gave such advice and acted in this way. He had practical experience and the suggestions he made were based on experience.
However, he did not expect that these suggestions he put forward would bring a great inspiration to the Jinwen school.
In Luoyang City, the war of words between the Modern Literature School and the Ancient Literature School was still going on. Yuan Wei and Yang Ci were still trying hard to get rid of each other's power to record Shangshu affairs. At this juncture, in mid-May, Lu The good news about Zhi came.
Liu Hong learned that the North Route Han Army led by Lu Zhi and Dong Zhuo had achieved a decisive victory in Hebei. All three main forces of the Jizhou Yellow Turban Army had been wiped out, and the remaining small fish and shrimps were also being swept away. The war in Hebei has ended. Declare victory over.
Liu Hong was very happy and immediately made the matter public, and began to prepare to discuss rewards for the main participants such as Lu Zhi and Dong Zhuo.
After the news was widely publicized, both the modern literature school and the ancient literature school had a great response.
(End of chapter)
