Xuande

Chapter 324

After a tragic war, the camp of the Han army was full of wounded soldiers, and mourning was everywhere.

The huge casualties brought huge physical and psychological trauma to the Han army. The extreme exhaustion and strong resentment of the army almost made it impossible for Huangfusong to continue to lead the army, which almost led to a mutiny.

For this reason, Huangfusong had to let the army rest and reorganize, and offered rewards to restore the morale of the army, giving them money, meat, and wine to let them vent and relax for a while, and for this reason, they banned gambling in the army , to allow gambling.

The effect was not bad. After eating the meat and getting the money, the soldiers felt less resentment. After starting to gamble, they really relaxed their tense spirit.

However, it is also true that the number of casualties during World War I was too high. Many people couldn't stay any longer, and felt that life was more important than money.

From the end of June after the end of the war to the end of July when preparations for the second wave of military operations began, in less than a month, a total of more than [-] people were reported to have successfully escaped from the barracks without their whereabouts.

This is still successful, and there are more unsuccessful ones.

So Huangfusong ordered to severely punish these escaped soldiers, hang them up not far from the gate of the camp, beat them every day and expose them to the sun until they die.

Such a horrific punishment barely stopped the soldiers from fleeing, and made Huangfusong more and more worried, but there was no way, the pressure from the imperial court and Jinwen School made him have to win.

So Huangfu Song ordered to march to Jinyang County, the prefecture of Taiyuan County, and then consider going north into the mountainous area.

From Jinyang County to the north, there is a large and continuous mountainous area. There are small peaks surrounded by big peaks, one mountain after another, and there are not many flat lands. If there is no guide to guide the way, it is very likely to get lost in it and be regarded as Deliver food to your door.

The bandits and the southern Xiongnu rebels all hid in the mountains to rest and recuperate. If they didn't come out, Huangfusong couldn't fight them on the flat ground, and couldn't take advantage of the Han army, so he had to bite the bullet and march north.

Then he tasted the bitterness of away games.

On the way to Langmeng County, the army was attacked many times. Huangfusong commanded the army to respond calmly and prevented the rebel attack from succeeding. But when the army approached Langmeng County, the logistics were threatened by rebel raids.

This made Huangfusong feel a complete crisis, and immediately dispatched heavy troops to protect the grain road and maintain the stability of the grain road.

But in this way, the number of troops that can be used to launch an attack is much less, and this also intensifies the number of escapes of soldiers who are dissatisfied with him in a sense.

Huangfusong originally wanted to stop and reorganize the army, consolidate the logistics at the same time, and then deal with the soldiers fleeing, but the pressure from the Jinwen School came to him again.

Liu Bei's brilliant victory has put the Jinwen School at a disadvantage in the political struggle, which they cannot accept. They need Huangfusong to resolve this war as soon as possible, and overwhelm Liu Bei's limelight with a big victory.

Huangfusong deeply felt the helplessness of being a man with a knife in his hand, so he could only lead a forceful attack with 3 people to attack Yu County, which was occupied by the rebels.

The rebels held on to Yuxian County. Huangfusong failed to win many times with strong attacks, and there were constant threats from the rear. He asked his nephew Huangfu Li to lead the army to support the logistics, but Huangfu Li was also exhausted and tortured by the rebels very painfully.

In the end, Huangfusong felt that he could not continue, so he sent troops to burn the forest near the grain road, trying to make the rebels have no room to hide in this way.

This is effective. The large-scale burning of the mountains and forests by the Han army brought some threats to the rebels. The movements of the rebels who used the mountains as a cover to hide and disappear were restricted, and the logistics were a little smoother.

Just when Huangfusong thought that everything was going in a good direction, on August [-]th, a large number of rebels suddenly appeared in Baibo Valley, northeast of Linfen County, Hedong County.

Under the banner of the Taiping Road Yellow Turban Army, these rebels rose up under the leadership of the leader Guo Tai and directly cut off the Han army's food road.

This news was learned by the Luoyang court and Huangfusong almost at the same time. The court and Huangfusong were shocked. They never expected that they only paid attention to the bandits in the mountainous area of ​​Bingzhou. Big Yellow Turban Army!
The Luoyang court reacted as quickly as possible, and ordered Hussar General Zhang Wen to lead [-] troops northward to Hedong County to attack the Yellow Turban Army in Baibo Valley, to meet Huangfusong, and to open up the grain road.

And Huangfusong immediately blocked the news, pretending to return to the army to rest, gave up attacking Yu County, and wanted to return to Jinyang County with the army.

However, the news that the food road was cut off was still released by soldiers of the Han army who were dissatisfied with Huangfusong. The Han army was in chaos, and Huangfusong had difficulty controlling the situation.

But at this time in Yu County, Zhang Yan had already arrived.

He led the generals Sun Qing, Wang Dang and others to attack decisively, attacking the chaotic Han army, and defeated the [-] Han army led by Huangfu Song in one fell swoop. The Han army collapsed and fled in all directions.

Huangfusong had no choice but to flee in embarrassment under the protection of his personal guards.

After returning to Jinyang County, the [-] Han troops and [-] Southern Huns cavalry who stayed in Jinyang County could not keep calm.

Seeing the hopelessness of victory, Huangfusong thought of the embarrassing treatment he was about to encounter, and was about to kill himself with a knife. Fortunately, Huangfu Li, who was by his side, snatched Huangfusong's knife, knocked him unconscious, and took him and his personal guards They fled south together.

In this battle, almost the entire Han army was wiped out. Fifty thousand Han troops fled in embarrassment in Hedong County and Taiyuan County.

The rebel alliance led by Zhang Yan won a complete victory. They went south and captured Jinyang County in one fell swoop, and then went south to capture Qi County, Jingling County, and Zhongdu County. They played triumphant songs all the way, killed many officials, and almost controlled the The entire territory of Taiyuan County.

In Hedong County, the Yellow Turban Army in the Baibo Valley suddenly rose up without the imperial officials noticing it, causing the collapse of the Han Army in one fell swoop, which greatly shocked the Luoyang court.

Although Hussar General Zhang Wen rushed to Hedong County to stabilize the situation, he failed to save Huangfusong's collapse and Taiyuan County's collapse.

The Yellow Turban Army in Baibo Valley was also very tenacious. They fought tenaciously with Zhang Wen in the Linfen area, but Zhang Wen could not win.

By the end of August, the Northern Expedition led by the Luoyang court had been settled. Huangfusong was defeated and the [-] Han army collapsed. It's the limit of what he can do.

Liu Hong was very annoyed.

In disregard of Huang Wan and others' advice, he ordered to seize all of Huangfusong's power, position, and title, depose him as a commoner, and put him and his nephew Huangfu Li, including 13 generals, in prison for death.

Huang Wan interceded for Huangfusong, but was reprimanded by Liu Hong.

Huang Wan's confidantes, Yilang Geng Zhong and Fan Tao came forward to intercede for Huang Fusong, but were reprimanded by Liu Hong and dismissed.

The Jinwen School was hit hard, and its momentum was set back, and it almost failed to recover.

Under such circumstances, at the beginning of September in the fourth year of Zhongping, Zhang Yan led his army to the south from Taiyuan County, joined forces with the Baibo Yellow Turban Army, and the two armies joined forces to attack Zhang Wen.

Zhang Wen had few soldiers, low morale, unable to resist, so he was forced to retreat to Wenxi County, and asked the imperial court for help.

Liu Hong was furious again, and ordered Zhang Wen to be demoted from General Hussars to Rear General, relieved of his military power, and transferred back to Luoyang. Twenty thousand soldiers went north to Wenxi County to take over Zhang Wen's army and fight against Zhang Yan and Guo Tai's rebels.

So far, the situation is not the worst.

(End of this chapter)