Chapter 467: Hopes of complete lockdown dashed
Chapter 467 Hopes of a complete blockade are dashed
Chapter 466: Hopes of complete lockdown dashed
Among the three people from Qin, Sun and Cao, Qin Wen is the eldest, so he is the eldest brother.
Sun Jian is the same age as Cao Cao, but he is older than Cao Cao in months, so he is the second brother, and Cao Cao is the third brother.
The three of them all became princes in the end, and they supported each other in troubled times, which became a good story.
Looking at the two sworn brothers kneeling in front of him, Qin Wen said with a serious face: "I now order Cao Cao to be the chief general and Sun Jian to be the deputy general. They will lead an army of 100,000 people and enter Nanyang through Wuguan to support the South Route Army in attacking Yique Pass."
“No!” the two of them responded together.
Gongsun Zan and other generals looked dissatisfied, but this was understandable. After all, Qin Wen's preference for Sun Cao was too obvious, but what if he was dissatisfied? Who made Qin Wen the governor?
After sending reinforcements from the south route, Qin Wen immediately began to consider reinforcements from the north route, and finally set his sights on Dong Zhuo.
“Dong Zhuo, where is Yuan Shao?”
“The end is here.” The two of them stood up together and responded.
“We now appoint Dong Zhuo as the chief general and Yuan Shao as the deputy general. He will lead an army of 100,000 people, march to Puban and enter Bingzhou across the Yellow River to support the Northern Route Army in attacking Xiaopingjinguan.”
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Dong Zhuo is the commander of the 200,000 Liangzhou Army, and Yuan Shao is a member of the Yuan family, the first aristocratic family in the world. Only making friends with these two people is in line with the long-term development of the Qin family.
As for the rest of the princes, no one has caught Qin Wen's eyes so far, so there is no possibility of offending him.
In this way, 200,000 Han troops left Hangu Pass in two groups, while Qin Wen continued to lead
Surrounding the Yellow Turbans from the south to the north, once they reach their destination, the Yellow Turbans will have no chance of breaking out of their cage.
January 20, the third year of Zhongping (186).
Zhang Shicheng led and stormed Dagu Pass, but under Bai Qi's tight defense, Zhang Shicheng launched more than ten attacks but failed to conquer it.
January 24th.
Huangfu Song led the army and went south to attack Xiaopingjin, preparing to completely lock the north gate of Sizhou. However, it was also affected by the climate and failed to conquer it after several strong attacks, so he had to temporarily retreat to Mengjin Pass.
February 10th.
Cao Cao's reinforcements arrived at Yique Pass and joined forces with Qin Hao. Afterwards, under the day and night fierce attack of more than 100,000 Han troops and countless fierce generals, they finally captured Yique Pass at the cost of 30,000 soldiers. The Yellow Turban South Gate was completely locked.
After conquering Yique Pass, Qin Hao organized a tight defense while sending reinforcements to Dagon Pass. So far, the east gate was also foolproof.
February 16th.
Dong Zhuo's reinforcements finally arrived at Mengjin Pass, and Huangfu Song immediately led an army of 150,000 people southward to attack Xiaopingjin for the second time.
After a month-long siege, the Xiaopingjin city gate was finally smashed by Li Yuanba's ten hammers, and the north gate of Sizhou was completely locked.
Since then, except for the burned Hulao Pass, seven of the eight passes in Luoyang have been returned to the hands of the Han army. Everyone realized that the Yellow Turbans were probably in danger.
February 20, Sizhou’s private grain reserves were finally completely exhausted.
There are more than three million people in Sizhou's four counties and 78 counties. The Yellow Turbans' military grain reserves are only enough for the army for two months, which is not enough to feed the three million people.
But if food relief is not distributed, the Sizhou Yellow Turbans will be exhausted just to suppress the people's riots.
But if it is to divide the grain, it is equivalent to waiting for death.
In desperation, Zhang Sheng had to order the entire territory of Sizhou to be abandoned, and the entire army gathered in Luoyang City to defend it.
Zhang Shicheng, Li Zicheng, Chen Youliang and other commanders who were leading troops outside gave up their defense and returned to Luoyang.
At this point, the Yellow Turban can only use this method to delay time.
After all, the walls of Luoyang City are high and thick, and with hundreds of thousands of heavily guarded troops guarding it, it is impossible for the Han army to break through the city, and the more than 70 people who abandoned the city will also increase the logistical burden on the Han Dynasty. The Yellow Turbans currently have two hopes.
The first is to wait until the climate warms up so that they can break out of the prison.
The second is to hope that the Kanto Yellow Turbans can break the cage from the outside, so that they can be rescued.
God seems to be on the side of the Han Dynasty. Today's winter is unexpectedly long. The Yellow Turbans have waited and waited for the temperature to rise. However, the Yellow Turbans in Guandong have not been able to break through Zhang Liao's defense line, let alone break through the Dagu Pass.
An atmosphere of despair is gradually spreading among the Luoyang Yellow Turbans.
House seemingly endless rain.
At this time, the people of Luoyang also launched a riot.
Luoyang, once the imperial capital, was the largest and most affluent city in this era, with millions of people living in just one city.
However, with the outbreak of war, the conscription, the relocation of the capital, and Xiang Yu's massacre, the former imperial capital never saw its previous prosperity, and even its population dropped sharply to 700,000, but it was still the most populous city.
Among the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, in terms of the strength of the people's opposition to the Yellow Turbans, the people of Sizhou were definitely the strongest.
After the Yellow Turbans occupied Sizhou, they implemented the "Heavenly Land Acre System", which allowed the Yellow Turbans to win a lot of people's support in Sizhou.
But the people of Luoyang are still ungrateful. The people of the imperial capital are used to being arrogant. In addition, too many Luoyang people died at the hands of the Yellow Turbans. This hatred cannot be offset by a little "small favor".
In order to delay time, the Yellow Turbans abandoned more than two million people in Sizhou, but the 700,000 people in Luoyang also needed to eat?
The Yellow Turbans did not have enough food, so sharing the food meant waiting to die.
In order to survive on food, coupled with the hatred of relatives, the Luoyang riots intensified.
Seeing that the situation was getting out of control, Zhang Sheng proposed to distribute food to quell the riot, but he did not get the support of any commander, not even Zhang Baiqi Zhang Niujiao.
From the perspective of the Yellow Turban senior officials, they have done their best to the people of Luoyang, but even if they can't win back the hearts of the people of Luoyang, they can only kill all the die-hard loyalists of these big men.
Luoyang was about to face another massacre, but just when it was about to be carried out, Zhang Jiao personally stopped it.
In the palace hall, Zhang Jiao, with a pale face, said weakly to the Qushuai: "Go down and distribute the grain to the people of Luoyang to quell the riot."
“Master, we can’t share the food.”
Zhang Niujiao knelt down to persuade, and then Zhang Baiqi also said: "Master, if we divide the food, there is really no hope of getting out of trouble."
Zhu Yuanzhang stood up immediately, and other commanders also expressed their opinions, hoping that Zhang Jiao could take back his life.
Zhang Jiao smiled miserably and asked: "Can you persist until you are out of trouble without dividing food?"
Zhu Yuanzhang opened his mouth, but he didn't know how to answer.
Everyone knew that facing the hundreds of thousands of Han troops who occupied the right time, place and people, it was almost impossible for them to get out of trouble.
The hopes of the Yellow Turbans have been dashed, but it is indeed too cruel for them to admit this fact.
Zhang Jiao knows that no one can accept it, so why is he willing to accept it? But what if he doesn't accept it?
It failed in the end!
Zhang Jiao felt extremely miserable in his heart. He did not care for power or reputation, but for the benefit of the poor people in the world, he did not hesitate to offend the famous families in the world, but there were still people who wanted to rebel against him.
The first update is here, and the second update will be before twelve o'clock. The Yellow Turban chapter is about to end, and the progress will be very fast.
(End of this chapter)