Familiar with the history of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, after the Yellow Turban Uprising, the Western Liang Army became one of the most powerful elite soldiers at the end of the Han Dynasty, and Dong Zhuo was indeed the leader of this Western Liang Army, and later under the secret orders of the great general He Jin, he led the army into Beijing to fight against the Ten Constant Attendants, but took the opportunity of He Jin's killing to control the government. Dong Zhuo was the first person to hold the Son of Heaven hostage, for no other reason than to possess an absolute military power, the Western Liang Army. So how luxurious is the lineup of military generals under the powerful minister Dong Zhuo?
The Western Liang Army took Dong Zhuo himself as the commander, Li Dai, Guo Feng, and others as generals, followed by Han and non-Han soldiers in Liangzhou, and elite soldiers with "Qiang Hu" as the mainstay, thus forming a Liangzhou military group with combat effectiveness. As for Dong Zhuo's general lineup, it is also very strong, otherwise it can call the wind and rain on the historical stage at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty? Dong Zhuo's organization was organized according to the right track of the Eastern Han Dynasty at that time, with six major generals, and the military generals in the Quansheng period were divided into three systems: the Western Liang system, the Luoyang system, and the Hezhou system.
Let's first talk about the Liangzhou warriors:
TOP 1 Dong Min
Dong Min (東旻), courtesy name Shuying, was Dong Zhuo's younger brother and general of the Guanzhi Left. The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms and the Biography of Dong Zhuo quotes the Book of Heroes as follows: Zhuo's father Junya, from a micro-official, was a lieutenant of the Yingchuan Lun clan. He had three sons: the eldest son, Meng Gao, and the early death; the second is Zhuo; and the Zhuo di Min character Shuying.
TOP 2 Bovine Auxiliary
Niu Fu, Dong Zhuo's son-in-law, served as a general in Zhonglang. The conquest of the White Polish Army could not be won. When Dong Zhuo was killed, Niu Fubei was in Shaanxi. Lü Bu sent Li Su to recruit Niu Fu, but was defeated by Niu Fu. Later, some soldiers in niufu camp betrayed and fled in the middle of the night, causing civil unrest, niufu thought that the whole camp was rebellious, so he took gold and silver jewelry and fled alone with his close confidant Hu Chi'er and five or six other people. Hu Chi'er and the others sought money and killed them, and on the way, they beheaded them and sent them to Chang'an.
TOP 3 Dong Yue
Dong Yue (東越), Dong Zhuo's subordinate General Dongzhong Lang (中郎將軍) under Dong Zhuo,was sent by Dong Zhuo to garrison Shichi to resist the attack of the anti-Dong coalition forces in the Kwantung Region, and after Dong Zhuo's death, Dong Yue was killed by Dong Zhuo's son-in-law Niu Fu.
TOP 4 simmer
Duan Simmer, the word Zhongming. Originally a general under Dong Zhuo's account, Dong Zhuo ordered him to garrison Huayin. In the second year of Xingping (195), Liu Xie, the Emperor of Han, returned to Luoyang from Chang'an and traveled to Huayin. Duan Simmer came out of the camp to greet him and provide food and clothing for the emperor. Yang Ding, who escorted Emperor Xian, was at odds with Duan Sheng, falsely accusing him of colluding with Guo Feng, and the two sides fought fiercely for more than ten days, and were persuaded by Liu Xie. In the fourteenth year of Jian'an (209), Duan Simmer died.
TOP 5 Hu Yi
Hu Yun (胡轸), courtesy name Wencai, was a native of Liangzhou (present-day Wuwei, Gansu). At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo's generals, and Yang Ding, who was also from Liangzhou, were both famous Haojie in Liangzhou, and in 191, Sun Jian asked Dong Zhuo, and Dong Zhuo sent Hu Yun to lead 5,000 troops to attack Sun Jian and make Lü Bu the governor of the horse. Hu Yun and Lü Bu were at odds, the soldiers in the army were scattered, and Hu Yun and Lü Bu were defeated. In 192, Dong Zhuo died, Li Dai rebelled, wang Yun sent Hu Yun and Xu Rong to fight Li Dai in Xinfeng, Xu Rong was killed in battle, and Hu Yun led the people to surrender.
TOP 6 Li Dai
Li Dai (李傕), originally a general of Dong Zhuo's army, was sent by Dong Zhuo as a lobbyist to send an anti-Dong coalition to Sun Jian's army to persuade Sun Jian to form an alliance with his relatives, but Sun Jian refused. Later, he was sent by Dong Zhuo's son-in-law Niu Fu to Zhongmu to engage Zhu Juan, destroy Zhu Juan, and then plunder Chen Liu, Yingchuan and other places. After Dong Zhuo and Niu Fu were killed in 192, Li Dai had no one to rely on, so he adopted Jia Xu's plot, and together with Guo Feng, Zhang Ji, Fan Chou and other former Dong Zhuo's subordinates, attacked Chang'an, defeated Lü Bu, killed Wang Yun and others, occupied Chang'an, and held the power of the imperial court.
TOP 7 Guo Feng
Guo Feng (郭汜), also known as Guo Duo (郭多), a native of Zhangye, Liangzhou, was born as a horse thief and later became a general of Dong Zhuo and was good at using soldiers, and Liu Ai, a servant at the time, believed that Li Dai (jué) and Guo Feng were above Sun Jian in their ability to use troops to fight. In the third year of Chuping (192), Guo Feng was ordered by Dong Zhuo's son-in-law Niu Fu to lead tens of thousands of troops with Li Dai and Zhang Ji to engage Zhu Juan (jùn), and after breaking Zhu Juan, he went to Chen Liu, Yingchuan and other places to plunder, and the army was taken captive and killed. After Dong Zhuo was killed, the Liangzhou generals had no one to rely on, so they used Jia Xu's strategy, and the joint army would attack Chang'an, defeat Lü Bu, kill Wang Yun and others, occupy Chang'an, and control the power of the imperial court. A few years later, Guo Feng was killed by the general Wu Xi.
TOP 8 Zhang Ji
Zhang Ji, Wuwei Zuliren. In 191 (the second year of Chuping), Zhang Ji was ordered by Dong Zhuo's son-in-law Niu Fu to lead tens of thousands of troops with Li Dai and Guo Feng to engage Zhu Juan, and after breaking Zhu Juan, he went to Chen Liu, Yingchuan and other places to plunder, and the place where the army passed was killed. After Dong Zhuo was killed, Zhang Ji and Li Dai led an army to attack Chang'an and served as a general. Soon, he was promoted to the rank of General of Zhendong, the Marquis of Pingyang, and the Commandery of Tun Hongnong. When Emperor Xian moved east, Zhang Ji was promoted to the post of general of The Hun Horse, leading an army to escort Emperor Xian, and later, because of conflicts with Dong Cheng and others, he pursued Emperor Xian with Li Dai and Guo Feng. In the first year of Jian'an (196), Zhang Ji attacked Yongcheng due to the lack of food for his army, and died in the middle of the stream.
TOP 9 sheet embroidery
Zhang Ji's nephew, Chu accompanied Zhang Ji on his expedition, and in the third year of Chuping (192), Dong Zhuo was killed by Lü Bu, and Zhang Ji, together with Li Dai, Guo Feng, and others, attacked Chang'an to avenge Dong Zhuo. Zhang Xiu followed Zhang Ji and rose to the rank of General of Jianzhong with military merit and was enfeoffed as the Marquis of Xuanwei. After Zhang Ji's death, Zhang Xiu took over Zhang Ji's forces, joined forces with Liu Biao, and tuned at Wancheng.
TOP 10 Lemon
Li Meng, a native of Liangzhou, was a general of Dong Zhuo at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the winter of the first year of Chuping (190), Li Meng and Xu Rong led an army to meet the anti-Dong coalition led by Sun Jian, and engaged in battle in the east of Liang County, where Sun Jian's army was defeated. In April of the third year of Chuping (192), Dong Zhuo was assassinated. In May, Li Meng joined the Liangzhou Army led by Li Dai and counterattacked Chang'an. In June, the Liangzhou army attacked Chang'an City, and Li Dai took control of the imperial government. In the month, the imperial court rewarded the generals of the Liangzhou Army. Li Meng served as a lieutenant general in the Fu Army. In February of the second year of Xingping (195), Li Dai killed Fan Chou and Li Meng at a banquet.
TOP 11 Fan thick
Fan Chou, originally a general of Dong Zhuo's army, after Dong Zhuo's death, together with Li Dai, Guo Feng, Zhang Ji and others, joined forces with more than 100,000 people to counterattack Chang'an, defeated Lü Bu, killed Wang Yun, and controlled the power of the imperial government. Later, Because Ma Teng had a gap with Li Dai, he joined forces with Han Sui to attack, and Li Dai sent Fan Chou and Guo Feng to engage him, defeating Ma Teng and Han Sui under Changping Guan. Fan Chou pursued Chen Cang, and han Sui made a friendly boycott, but was suspected by Li Dai. In the second year of Xingping (195), Li Dai had his nephew Hu Feng stab Fan Chou to death at the meeting (one said to have killed him with a staff while drunk).
TOP 12 Huaxiong
Hua Xiong, a military general under Dong Zhuo, was the governor of Dong Zhuo's account. In 191 AD, the Kwantung warlords jointly attacked Dong Zhuo, and Sun Jian, who was then the Taishou of Changsha, broke Dong Zhuo's army, and Hua Xiong was killed by Sun Jian's army in this battle. According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, when Sun Jian participated in the campaign against Dong Zhuo, he defeated and escaped for Xu Rong, and later collected the defeated army, and carried out a dramatic counterattack at the Yang people, breaking Dong Zhuo's army and defeating Hua Xiong. In addition, there is also a record in the Zizhi Tongjian that Sun Jian took Huaxiong as the head.
TOP 13 Wang Fang
Wang Fang, Wang Fang is Dong Zhuo's general. In May of the third year of Chuping (192), Li Dai and Guo Feng led an army to counterattack Chang'an City, vowing to avenge Dong Zhuo, and contacted the Liangzhou army all the way to the Three Auxiliaries, and Fan Chou, Li Meng, Wang Fang and others joined one after another. On June 1, Li Dai's army invaded Chang'an City and took control of the imperial government.
TOP 14 Yang Ding
Yang Ding (杨定), also spelled Shuxiu, was a figure of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, a general of Dong Zhuo, who was the same as Hu Yi as the Lord of Liangzhou. After Dong Zhuo's death, the imperial court was ruled by Li Dai and others, and in the first year of Xingping (194), Yang Ding was made a general from Zhennan to a general of Anxi, with the same power as the three dukes. In the second year of Xingping (195), Fan Chou was killed by Li Dai, and Yang Ding, fearing that Li Dai wanted to poison himself, joined forces with Guo Feng to threaten Tianzi, but preemptively attacked Li Dai. Yang Ding originally wanted to return to Lantian, but was blocked by Guo Fengjun and turned to flee from Jingzhou, where he has been missing ever since.
This was followed by Xu Rong of the Luoyang department and Lü Bu of the Xiangzhou department.
Xu Rong, a general at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Originally a general of Zhonglang, he once recommended to Dong Zhuo That Gongsun Du, who was from the same county, to be the Taishou of Liaodong. Defeated Cao Cao's independent pursuers at the Battle of Bishui and Sun Jian's forces at the Battle of Liangdong. After Dong Zhuo's death, he was ordered by Situ Wang Yun to engage Li Dai and Guo Feng, and died in the Battle of Xinfeng, where he was killed in the rebellion. Xu Rong in history can be described as a fierce man who has been famous for a while. His record is staggering enough. Although his records are few, they are enough to make him crowd into the ranks of the first-line generals of the Three Kingdoms.
Lü Bu (Lü Bu), also spelled Fengxian, a native of Jiuyuan County, Wuyuan County, Lü Bu served in Hezhou because of his bravery, and served as a knight lieutenant in Shi Dingyuan, stationed in Hanoi, appointed Lü Bu as the chief, and was very close to him. After the death of Emperor Ling of Han, Ding Yuan received a call from He Jin to lead an army to Luoyang, plotted to kill the eunuchs, and was appointed as the chief of Jinwu. When He Jin was killed by the eunuchs, Dong Zhuo entered the capital, lured Lü Bu to kill Ding Yuan, and then annexed Ding Yuan's army, and appointed Lü Bu as a knight lieutenant, and swore to marry him as a father and son, and admired and trusted him very much. Lü Bushan rode and shot, was known as the "Flying General", and was soon promoted by Dong Zhuo to the rank of Zhonglang General and the Marquis of Fengduting. When the Kwantung Army rebelled against Dong, Lü Bu also participated in the war, but was defeated by Sun Jian because of his disagreement with the general Hu Yun, and finally Dong Zhuo forced Emperor Xian of Han to move the capital to Chang'an. Dong Zhuo knew that he was fierce and hated by others, so he often asked Lü Bu to be his bodyguard and guard the middle cabinet, and later joined forces with Situ Wang Yun to kill Dong Zhuo, and was immediately defeated by Dong Zhuo's old subordinate Li Dai and others.
Lü Bu's subordinates also included Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, Cao Sex, Hao Meng, Cheng Lian, Wei Xu, Song Xian, Hou Cheng, and many other brave generals.
Although Dong Zhuo's acquisition of Xu Rong and Lü Bu was not from the Western Liang army after all, Dong Zhuo rarely let Xu Rong and Lü Bu command the army alone, fearing that they would rebel. It can be seen that Dong Zhuo's lineup of generals is still very luxurious.