If you give a name to the historical Emperor, the Han Ling Emperor Liu Hong can definitely rank in the top ten, under his rule, the Eastern Han Court is in chaos.
Liu Hong likes money, so he cleverly set up a title to sell the official, which is a clear price tag, and Tong Shu is not deceived. Selling officials is also common in other dynasties, for example, Emperor Wudi of Han also engaged in it, and Emperor Wudi of Han sold officials to raise money for the state and subsidize military expenses, but Liu Hong collected all the money from selling officials into his own pocket.
Liu Hong's strange things are not only that, he also set up an inner court market, acting as a businessman to sell and buy, in order to have fun, he also built a naked tour hall, and even required the palace women not to wear clothes in it.
In the feudal dynasty ruled by a single husband, the monarch's actions had a huge impact on the country, and Liu Hong's words and deeds all foreshadowed that the Eastern Han Dynasty was about to come to an end.
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At the same time that Liu Hong was wantonly lascivious, a wave of religion arose in the folk, which was the Taiping Dao cultivated by Zhang Jiao. At the end of dynasties, revolts were often accompanied by religion, not because of how noble their teachings were, but because the people were too bitter, and they needed a spiritual sustenance, a hope to get out of trouble.
Zhang Jiao of the giant deer seized the pain points of the people and began to hype his Taiping morality, Zhang Jiao believed in the way of Huang Lao, recruited disciples widely, and used water to cure diseases. The paper note was burned to ashes and then put into the water, which became a good medicine for Zhang Jiao to cure the disease and save people. Obviously, it is impossible to treat the disease with such a prescription, but many people have really recovered their health, which is the so-called psychological cue.
As long as the psychological cues reach a certain level, even a glass of water can become a life-saving medicine. In the past ten years, Zhang Jiao's morality has spread throughout the country, and its followers have grown to hundreds of thousands.
Historical records record that "General Fang Yu also." More than 10,000 people in the large square, 67,000 in the small square, each with a handsome canal. False rumors :"The heavens are dead, the yellow sky is standing, the age is in the nails, the world is auspicious"
In order to facilitate management, Zhang Jiao divided the troops into 36 parties, in other words, it can be understood that each military region, some parties more than 10,000 people, some fang thousands of people, and then set up commanders, forming a powerful force.
At that time, officials were corrupt, eunuchs were rampant, and the people were not happy, and the people joined Zhang Jiao's troops and began to challenge the central court. The dim-witted Emperor Han Ling finally couldn't sit still, although he liked to have fun, but he also understood a truth, if the imperial court was finished, he, the emperor, would have no time to play.
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In order to facilitate the distinction between the enemy and the enemy, all the people in Zhang Jiao were wrapped in yellow turbans, so they were also called the Yellow Turban Army. The Yellow Turban Army burned the official office, attacked the city strategically, and even penetrated into the interior of the imperial court.
The eunuch's stubborn disease is difficult to cure, and the eunuch who seems to have a heart with the emperor actually served as the internal response of the Yellow Turban Army, and wanted to come to the inside and outside, if it were not for a traitor among Zhang Jiao's disciples, he would have really changed the dynasty.
Emperor Han Ling was really frightened, so he immediately summoned his ministers to study the plan, and immediately used several generals, mainly including Emperor Fusong, Lu Zhi, Zhu Juan, and others.
Huang Fusong was a famous general at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it was precisely because Emperor Han Ling correctly used Huangfu Song that the rebellion was resolved, otherwise the consequences would be really unimaginable.
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Fighting a war requires a lot of money, and the Eastern Han Empire has reached such a field, and the Han Ling Emperor can only cut flesh and vomit blood. Previously, Liu Hong, the Emperor of HanLing, sold the official Andejue and accumulated a lot of wealth, which was originally something he wanted to enjoy himself.
Emperor Fu Song asked emperor for money and grain and horses, so as a last resort, Emperor Hanling opened his own vault, allocated enough military expenses, and opened the royal stables to supply war horses.
The Han army mobilized 40,000 people and divided them into two armies, which were led by Emperor Fusong and Zhu Juan, who was the first to encounter the Yellow Turban Army. The Yellow Turban Army attacked fiercely, and Zhu Juan was actually defeated.
Emperor Fusong had no choice but to retire to Changshe, which was located in the northeast of present-day Changge County, Henan Province, and the leader of this Yellow Turban Army was named Bocai. The Yellow Turban Army had many soldiers, the Han army was trapped in Changshe, and panic in the army began to spread.
Emperor Fusong did not think much of this, as a general who led troops for many years, he found the flaws of the enemy army after a little observation. In order to stabilize the hearts and minds of the army, Huang Fusong summoned the generals to give a lecture: "There are strange changes in the soldiers, and they are no longer widowed." Now the thief camps according to the grass, and it is easy to be wind and fire. If they burn in the night, they will be greatly frightened. ”
Although the enemy has many people, the organization is disorderly, the combat effectiveness is limited, and since ancient times, the conquest of war, the large number of soldiers does not mean that we can win the battle. Bo Cai did not understand the art of war, and his troops were stationed in the wild grass, which gave Emperor Fusong the opportunity to attack with fire.
Everything was ready, and there was an evil wind, and this night, Emperor Fusong observed the direction of the wind, saw that it was beneficial to himself, and immediately sent a small number of elite soldiers out of the city from the small road, and lit the dry grass with a fire.
Along with the fire, the Han army waved its flag and shouted, as if thousands of troops and horses rushed to the yellow turban army camp. The so-called Yellow Turban Army was actually an uprising of peasants, and its combat strength was not at all comparable to that of the regular army.
Huang Fusong seized the opportunity to attack Kaicheng, and together with Zhu Juan and Cao Cao, the cavalry lieutenant, he killed the Yellow Turban Army in a big defeat, beheaded tens of thousands, and won a big victory! Just as the so-called "profit and temptation, chaos and take it", Huang Fusong's one-handed martial arts can be played with magic, and it is obvious that in front of Huang Fusong, the Yellow Turban Army is not an opponent at all.
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Huang Fusong's side won the victory, while here the Northern Zhonglang general Lu Zhi and the Eastern Zhonglang general Dong Zhuo, the Han army encountered trouble, it was difficult to win for a while, and the two sides fell into a stalemate.
Emperor Hanling saw that The battle situation on Lu Zhi's side was not good, and immediately transferred Emperor Fusong and ordered him to destroy Zhang Liang, who was Zhang Jiao's younger brother, and the three Zhang Jiao brothers were the core leaders of the Yellow Turban Army.
Huang Fusong, the commander of the firefighting brigade, led his troops to fight with Zhang Liang's troops, Zhang Liang was brave and good at fighting, and Huang Fusong was difficult to win, so Huang Fusong retreated to the city.
The art of war has clouds: "The strong avoid it, the angry and scratching it, the humble and proud, the hard work, the kiss and the departure."
Since the Yellow Turban Army is in full swing, the best way is not to fight him for the time being, and when he relaxes his vigilance, he will take it in one fell swoop. Therefore, Huang Fusong, while being on strict guard, let the soldiers rest well.
Zhang Liang's temporary victory was somewhat relaxed, and in the evening, Emperor Fusong secretly gathered his troops and waited until dawn to launch a charge. Huang Fusong's countermeasure was to "attack them unprepared and surprise them", and the early hours of the morning were the most sleepy moments for people, and also the most vulnerable time for the Yellow Turban Army.
Emperor Fusong suddenly opened the city gates and launched a charge against the unsuspecting Yellow Turban Army, and the battle lasted all day, until in the evening, the Han army defeated the enemy army in one fell swoop, beheaded 30,000 people, and more than 50,000 people were drowned by the Yellow River.
At that time, Zhang Jiao had already died of illness, and then Emperor Fusong ordered people to open the coffin, cut off his head, and send it to the capital. Subsequently, Emperor Fusong pursued and killed the old three Zhang Bao, defeated the Yellow Turban Army at Quyang, and beheaded more than 100,000 people. The Yellow Turban Army had such a momentum after ten years of brewing, but within 1 year (184 AD), it was suppressed by Emperor Fusong, and in this battle, Emperor Fusong could be described as a great achievement.
After this war, Huang Fusong's prestige reached its peak, and if Huang Fusong had a little more ideas, it would be a matter of hand to overthrow the Eastern Han Dynasty, but Huang Fusong chose to be loyal to the country.
Although Huang Fusong was so brave, he could not save the decline of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the curtain of the chaotic world had been opened, Huang Fusong was just a bright light in the gray sky, and the starlight suddenly appeared but was fleeting.
Author: Our special guest author Nine Fish Pavilion
Reference: Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Vol. 71