Speaking of the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was a chaotic era, but it was also an era of capable people, and all kinds of famous generals sprung up like mushrooms, such as Zhang Liao, Li Dian, LeJin, and Cao Ren under Cao Cao, Zhou Yu, Lü Meng, and Cheng Pu under Sun Quan, and Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun under Liu Bei were even more well-known. But if you talk about the first famous general Huang Fusong at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it is estimated that many people do not know much. This veteran who rose up during the Yellow Turban Rebellion was like a meteor across the sky, and although he tried his best to quell the rebellions of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he could not save the decline of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the end.
Huang Fusong is a native of Anding County, Liangzhou, whose date of birth is unknown, he was born from a young age, his father Huangfu Jie was Yanmen Taishou, and his uncle HuangfuGui was also a famous general of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Since the family was a border general, Emperor Fusong naturally learned a martial art and was skilled in bow and horse, and was promoted to filial piety and Maocai, and then served as a county langzhong, and later served as a linfen county order. After his father's death, Emperor Fusong resigned as an official to guard his father's filial piety, and the imperial court recruited him several times as an official, until the Han Ling Emperor recruited him as a waiter by bus before he was called an official, and later served as the Northern Taishou.
In 184 AD, the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, and seeing the rebellion of the eight states of Qing, Xu, You, Ji, Jing, Yang, Yan, and Yu, the Eastern Han court immediately took measures to suppress it. Emperor Hanling not only deployed heavy troops at the eight passes around Luoyang to strictly prevent the Yellow Turban Army from attacking, but also adopted Emperor Fusong's suggestion to lift the party ban, release the Tianxia Party members, and give the soldiers the Money of Zhongzang and the Horses of the West Garden. Huang Fusong himself was also appointed as the general of Zuo Zhonglang, and joined forces with the general Lu Zhi of Beizhonglang and the general Zhu Juan of the right middle lang to dispatch the elite generals of the world to attack the Yellow Turban Army.
Lu Zhi led an army to suppress the Yellow Turban Army's base camp in Jizhou, and the heavy responsibility of fighting the rest of the Yellow Turban Army fell on Emperor Fusong and Zhu Juan. At that time, the two men's troops could be dispatched included the guards commanded by the five schools of the Northern Army as the standing army of the Beijing Division, the Sanhe cavalry of Hedong, Henan, and Hanoi, and the elite warriors recruited by the two men totaling more than 40,000 people. Emperor Fusong and Zhu Juan divided these soldiers and horses in two, and then divided the soldiers into two ways to fight the Yingchuan Yellow Turban, which was the greatest threat to Luoyang. Unfortunately, the soldiers and horses led by Zhu Juan failed to engage Bo Cai, the leader of the Yellow Turbans of Yingchuan, and Emperor Fusong had to retreat to Changshe to avoid his front, while Bocai, who was with a great victory, took the opportunity to encircle Changshe.
Emperor Fusong's soldiers and horses at this time were about 20,000 people, and the Yingchuan Yellow Turban troops led by Bocai outside the city were no less than 100,000, although they could not attack the city because of the lack of siege equipment, but it was still possible for this large group of people and horses to surround the Changshe. The soldiers in the city are all afraid of the Yellow Turban Army, lest they be attacked by it, but Emperor Fusong relieved his soldiers, saying that this wave does not understand the art of war, and now the Yellow Turban Army is camped in the grass, if we sneak in at night and take fire attack, then we will definitely be able to repel the Yellow Turban thieves. When everyone heard that this was also a good idea, people were at ease and began to prepare for the fire attack on the Yellow Turban Army.
Huang Fusong's luck was really good, and within a few days, there was a strong wind this night, so he sent people to sneak out of the city to set fire to the Yellow Turban Barracks, and then suddenly led his army out of the city to attack the Yellow Turban Army when the fire in the Yellow Turban Barracks was out of control. The main force of the Yellow Turban Army was peasants, and there was no problem in fighting a tailwind battle on weekdays, and it was a bit unbearable to encounter a fire attack and then a surprise attack this night, and was soon beaten by Emperor Fusong and fled. It just so happened that Cao Cao, who was a knight lieutenant, led the army to arrive, and Emperor Fusong and his joint efforts to kill the Yellow Turban Army were defeated, not to mention, Zhu Juan also led the army to chase the Yellow Turban Army with Emperor Fusong, and the Yellow Turban of Yingchuan was devastated, and Bo Cai could only flee with the remnants.
After that, Huang Fusong and Zhu Juan pursued Bocai together, defeated Bocai again at Yang Zhai, and then defeated the Yellow Turban Army general Peng Tuo, pacifying the three counties and disarming the Yellow Turban Army in the east. In August of the same year, Emperor Fusong defeated Bu Ji at Cangting, beheaded more than 7,000 members of the Yellow Turban Army, and at the request of the imperial court, succeeded Lu Zhi, who had been recalled to the Beijing Division, and led an army to attack Guangzong, the Yellow Turban Army's stronghold in Jizhou. This time Emperor Fusong's luck was very good, because the first thief of the Yellow Turban Army, Zhang Jiao, had died of illness, and now Guangzong City was guarded by his third brother Zhang Liang, who first attacked unsuccessfully and then pressed his troops to stay still, until Zhang Liang relaxed his vigilance and suddenly attacked the city at night. Zhang Liang was caught off guard and breached the city, and more than 30,000 Yellow Turban soldiers including Zhang Liang were killed, and more than 50,000 people committed suicide by throwing themselves into the river.
After the Battle of Guangzong I, the Yellow Turban Army was seriously injured, and the remnants were garrisoned in Quyang by Zhang Jiao's third brother Zhang Bao, which was the last organized army of the Yellow Turban Army, and after annihilating them, the Yellow Turban Rebellion was over. Emperor Fusong then joined forces with the giant deer Taishou Guodian to attack Quyang, and Zhang Bao was killed here when the city was destroyed, and as many as 100,000 people were captured by the Yellow Turban Army. For these captured Yellow Turban soldiers, Emperor Fusong did not give them any mercy, and directly killed these more than 100,000 captives. The imperial court also made him a general of the Left Che Riding and served as the pastor of Jizhou because of Emperor Fusong's pacification of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and at the same time granted him the title of Marquis of Huaili, and the taxes of the two counties of Huaili and Meiyang amounted to as many as 8,000 households.
At this time, the position of state pastor is no longer an idle post in the past, but a land that can really control a state in the true sense. As the pastor of Jizhou, Emperor Fusong held the richest Jizhou in the north, and he was also a general on the left car who held military power, and his power was no less than that of the ten permanent attendants who were leaning towards the opposition, and sooner or later he would become the target of these eunuchs. If Emperor Fusong did not want to be victimized by the Ten Permanent Attendants in the future, then his best way was to quickly use the advantages at hand and his own reputation to monopolize the government, and Yan Zhong, a counselor under Emperor Fusong, advised him to "claim the southern side", that is, to develop power in the imperial court, so as to achieve the method of controlling the government.
Emperor Fusong was naturally reluctant to act in this way, but he could not imagine that he had missed the last opportunity to save the Eastern Han Dynasty. The reason is also very simple, the Yellow Turban Rebellion not only caused the rise of the local magnates and clans, but also led to the rapid expansion of the power of the states and states, if the imperial court can not have an iron fist to suppress the states and clans, then it is only a matter of time before the greater turmoil than the Yellow Turban Rebellion comes. The strategy proposed by Yan Zhong, as Emperor Fusong's chief strategist, seemed to want Emperor Fusong to be a powerful vassal, but in fact it was the last chance to save the Eastern Han Dynasty.
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Emperor Fusong was really unwilling to do this "great rebellious thing", which eventually led to Yan Zhong being discouraged and choosing to return to his hometown in Hanyang, and Emperor Fusong himself not only lost the opportunity to save the Eastern Han Dynasty, but also found it difficult to do so alone. The ensuing Rebellion of the Ten Constant Attendants and Dong Zhuo's entry into The Capital caused the Eastern Han Dynasty to lose its last vitality and prestige, and Emperor Fusong himself was imprisoned by Dong Zhuo, and the disaster that Yan Zhong said finally arrived. However, at this moment, Emperor Fusong, who had been the first general of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was no longer able to turn the tide, and could only watch the situation deteriorate, and finally died in the chaotic world.