"The heavens are dead, the yellow heavens are standing, the years are in the nails, and the world is auspicious!" Zhang Jiao, like his Taiping Daoist, shouted revolutionary slogans. On The day of The Year of Jiazi (March 5, 184 AD), an army was raised to overthrow the Han Dynasty, but was informed by traitors. In February 184 AD, the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out ahead of schedule, and within a month, there were wars in 28 counties in seven prefectures across the country, and the Yellow Turban army was like a bamboo, the prefectures and counties were lost, the officials fled, and the world was shaken.
In the face of the fierce rebel army, the Eastern Han court made arrangements: Lu Zhi led the deputy general Zong Yuan to lead the five colonels of the Northern Army to take charge of the northern front and negotiate with Zhang Jiao's main forces; Emperor Fusong and Zhu Juan each led an army to control more than 40,000 people in the five schools, the Three Rivers Knights, and the newly recruited elite warriors, and attacked the Yellow Turban Army around Yingchuan. Under the command of the three famous generals, only 8 months later, the Yellow Turban Rebellion was suppressed. Interestingly, the three famous generals who quelled the Yellow Turban Rebellion had three generals under their command at that time- Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Jian!
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Huang Fusong can be called the first general at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and most of the merits of the Yellow Turban Army must be recorded in the name of Huangfu Song. Just as the so-called wind knows the strong grass, Ban Lang knows the loyal subjects, Huang Fusong himself is a shogun, and his uncle Emperor Fugui is one of the three Mings in Liangzhou. In the face of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the imperial court remembered Emperor Fusong, and he suggested that the Han Ling Emperor lift the party ban, pardon the Tianxia Party members, and give the Zhongzang money and the Horses of the West Garden stables to the generals, so as to gain the support of the Shiren clique and improve the morale of the Han army. Emperor Fusong was given the title of General of Zuo Zhonglang and led an army to put down the rebellion
Zhu Juan faced the disadvantages of the initial battle of the Yellow Turban Army, Emperor Fusong they were surrounded by the Yellow Turban Army, and the Beijing Division saw that Emperor Fusong was surrounded, and sent Cao Cao to lead the army to rescue. However, when the reinforcements did not arrive, Emperor Fusong had already made a plan, and in the evening when the wind blew, Emperor Fusong ordered his soldiers to secretly go out of the city with torches in hand, using the weeds around the Yellow Turban army camp to attack the enemy with fire, shouting to attack, and the city also raised torches in response.
Just at this time, Cao Cao, who had been appointed by the imperial court as a knight lieutenant, arrived with reinforcements. The rebel army led by the Yellow Turban general Bo Cai was attacked by Emperor Fusong, Zhu Juan, and Cao Cao on three sides, killing tens of thousands of people, and the Han army won a great victory. After the Yellow Turban of Yingchuan, which was closest to Luoyang, was scattered, Huang Fusong, Zhu Juan, cao Cao, and others continued to fight in Runan, Nanyang, Xihua and other places.
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Zhu Juan (朱儁), courtesy name Gongwei, was a native of Shangyu County, Huiji County. As soon as you look at Zhu Juan's place of origin, you know that he is a southerner, and it is also the reason why Zhu Juan will bring Sun Jian, a Fuchun man from Wu County, in the future. Zhu Juan was born in the cold door, supported his mother, was known for his good righteousness and light wealth, and was respected by the township. In the south, many rebellions were quelled, and in the face of the Yellow Turban Uprising, the imperial court did not forget this famous general of "counterinsurgency". He was given the title of Right Lieutenant General and led the army to suppress the rebellion.
When Sun Jian was a teenager, he was appointed as a county clerk for breaking the pirates, and after that, he was transferred to the three counties and did not get promoted. When the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, Zhu Juan asked Sun Jian to serve as the Sima of the Zuo Army, and in this sense, it was Zhu Juan who brought Sun Jian with him. Sun Jian left his family and dependents in Shouchun County, Jiujiang County, and recruited some soldiers in the Huai and Si areas, plus the young men from the same village who followed him on an errand in Xia Pi County, a total of 1,000 elite soldiers. After that, Sun Jian led more than a thousand soldiers to accompany Zhu Juan in the southern expedition to the north.
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Lu Zhi (鲁植), courtesy name Zigan, was a native of Zhuo County (涿郡, in present-day Zhuozhou, Hebei Province). Zhuo County Zhuo County is not very familiar, Liu Bei, Zhang Fei are Zhuo County Zhuo County people, so when he was a teenager, Liu Bei and Gongsun Zhan followed Lu Zhi to learn. Huang Fusong was born in the Gate, Zhu Juan was born in the Cold Gate, and Lu Zhi was a scholar of the Eight Classics of Zheng'er and a master of scripture. After the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Han Ling Emperor Bai Luzhi was made the general of Beizhong Lang, and ordered the general Zongzong of Wuhuan Zhonglang to serve as his deputy, leading the soldiers of the five regiments of the Northern Army (namely tun riding, Yue cavalry, infantry, Changshui, and shooting sound) to Jizhou to pacify the Yellow Turban Army.
Lu Zhi won consecutive battles, and Zhang Jiao led his army to retreat to Guangzong County, and the city was held to death. Lu Zhi led his army to besiege the county seat of Guangzong, and dug trenches, manufactured siege equipment, and prepared to attack the city. As a result, because he refused to pay bribes to the eunuchs who came to inspect, Lu Zhi was dismissed from his post and imprisoned, and after the Yellow Turban Rebellion was put down, Emperor Fusong returned to Luoyang, he wrote to Liu Hong, pushing the credit for the Yellow Turban Army in Pacifying Jizhou to Lu Zhi, so Lu Zhiguan was reinstated and remained Shangshu.
The history books mention only one sentence that the twenty-four-year-old Liu Bei followed the lieutenant Zou Jing, who made military achievements in the battle to suppress the uprising, and then participated in the suppression of Zhang Chun's rebellion in the fifth year of Zhongping (188), and was awarded the title of Lieutenant of Anxi County. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is said that Zou Jing was a general of Youzhou Mu Liu Yan, but in fact, there was no Youzhou Mu at that time. Most likely, Liu Bei should have crusaded against the Yellow Turban in Lu Zhi's army, because Liu Bei himself was a native of Zhuo County, and Lu Zhi was responsible for the crusade for the Yellow Turban in Jizhou.
Huang Fusong, Zhu Juan, and Lu Zhi were the three famous generals who quelled the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and they continued the rule of the Eastern Han Dynasty. However, cao cao, Sun Jian, and Liu Bei in the respective formations of the three of them later grew up to become heroes who competed for the world, which was really very interesting, perhaps there was providence in the darkness.
References: Notes on Pei Song in romance of the Three Kingdoms, Romance of the Three Kingdoms