The Yellow Turbans Begin Chaos

Author: Magic Prince

The Yellow Turbans Begin Chaos

After Xiang Yu collected this part of the Southern Xiongnu rebels, he then fought with the remaining rebels. He suffered several heavy losses in the battle with Xiang Yu. These rebels were beaten and abandoned, and some of them were directly killed.

They broke up and fled, and some surrendered to Xiang Yu.

At the beginning, Xiang Yu's troops only had 200 people, and the total number including various logistics personnel was only 500. As a result, after several battles with these Southern Huns rebels, the number of soldiers not only did not decrease, but became more and more, until he

Almost all the rebels were wiped out, and the number of combatants in the entire army reached more than a thousand. Counting the logistics personnel, there were more than 2,000 and close to 3,000.

Xiang Yu felt that the number of people who surrendered to him was indeed too many. His army mainly consisted of elites, and too many people would become a burden. Therefore, Xiang Yu carefully screened the surrendered soldiers and only left

There were only a small number of elite soldiers, and the remaining Xiang Yu handed them over to the Shan Yu Qiangqu of the Southern Xiongnu at this time.

The Chanyu of Qiangqu was very happy that Xiang Yu helped him wipe out the rebels. He also refused to hold those rebels who surrendered accountable and only rearranged them. However, a big reason why they rebelled before was because of the rebellion.

Shan Yu was dissatisfied, and he was also very dissatisfied that the Huns could only live within the arranged range. Many people were not satisfied with Xiang Yu's arrangement.

Many of them hope that Xiang Yu can reconsider. They would rather follow Xiang Yu than return to the original place of the Southern Xiongnu and be ruled by the Shanyu who they feel is incompetent. In this way, the situation becomes very embarrassing.

, after all, he is also Shanyu, the nominal supreme leader of these southern Huns. As a result, the people under his rule would rather follow Xiang Yu than follow him.

Xiang Yu is actually quite uncomfortable. His purpose of handing these rebels back to Shan Yu was not to embarrass Shan Yu. Now, instead of turning into a good thing with the best of all three things as he expected, this matter has made himself and Shan Yu miserable.

, the three parties that surrendered to the rebels were trapped in some kind of stalemate.

In the end, Shan Yu had no choice but to come up with a compromise plan, allowing those rebels who were willing to follow Xiang Yu to follow Xiang Yu, and he would take over the rest. In this way, Xiang Yu originally planned to only retain an elite force of 500 people.

There were still about 800 troops left, and the total number including logistics was about 1,500. The remaining more than 1,000 surrendered rebels returned to Shan Yu's rule.

In any case, this matter can be considered a relatively satisfactory solution. From this incident, we can also see how embarrassing the actual status of the Southern Xiongnu Chanyu was at this time. Although he was still nominally the supreme ruler of the Southern Xiongnu

However, they have actually lost a large part of their control over the Southern Huns. In many things, as long as they are related to the Eastern Han Dynasty, they often have to give priority to the interests of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and in many things, they do

Without the right to make decisions, even some Eastern Han officials with low official positions were often difficult to provoke, because behind them was the entire Eastern Han Dynasty.

There is no doubt that the Eastern Han Dynasty's strengthening of control over the Southern Xiongnu Chanyu was a double-edged sword. Most of the guards around the Southern Xiongnu Chanyu were elite soldiers assigned by the Eastern Han Dynasty. They also protected, monitored and controlled the Chanyu.

The role of the Shanyu made the Chanyu dare not act rashly. As time went by, the Chanyu's position in the hearts of the Southern Huns became more and more precarious. In this way, it became more and more necessary to rely on the power of the Eastern Han Dynasty to maintain the Chanyu's superficial rule.

Further weakening the Chanyu's real power and status in the hearts of the people.

This can be said to be an endless cycle with no solution. Perhaps this day has been doomed since the Southern Xiongnu merged into the Eastern Han Dynasty in the early Eastern Han Dynasty. It was just that when the Eastern Han Dynasty was still strong enough, there were still enough resources to support the Eastern Han Dynasty every year.

Assistance was provided to the Southern Xiongnu, and there was enough military control capability to maintain the rule of the Southern Xiongnu. However, with the changes in the entire political situation in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, the entire empire began to gradually decline and collapse from within, and the ability to control the border areas would only

Getting weaker and weaker.

In the border areas, whether the Qiang, Huns, or Xianbei people are constantly launching rebellions or intrusions, and with the corruption and weakness of the central government, the overt or covert political struggles between the eunuchs, relatives, and the gentry class are becoming more and more intense.

As a result, the central government of the Eastern Han Dynasty was gradually unable to rely on its central army to maintain its rule over these border areas.

Therefore, talents like Dong Zhuo were able to gradually grow up by fighting against the Qiang people on the frontier, and finally gained powerful military power. At this time, Xiang Yu also obtained the army he wanted in the battle with the Southern Huns rebels.

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And obviously this is not the end, but just the beginning of a series of troubled times and chaos in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

When Xiang Yu was preparing to return victorious, he received a letter from Dong Zhuo. The content of the letter was about a large-scale uprising of the Yellow Turban bandits. He, Dong Zhuo, was ordered by the emperor to participate in the suppression of the bandits, and Dong Zhuo also knew Xiang Yu's story.

He was very happy with the news of victory and hoped that Xiang Yu could follow him to destroy the Yellow Turban Army.

After reading Dong Zhuo's letter, Xiang Yu sighed softly. He recalled the conversation he had with Zhang Jiao, the leader of the Yellow Turban Army. Time flies, and several years have passed. At that time, Xiang Yu really considered whether to use the Yellow Turban Army.

He wanted to use the power of the army for his own use, but in the end he gave up this idea. Those peasant rebel armies may be very large in number, but their own combat effectiveness is too weak.

They themselves are farmers who have not had enough to eat for a long time and are about to starve to death. Their physical fitness must be very poor. There are even a large proportion of old, weak, sick and young among them. In addition, there is a lack of formal weapons and armor and professional military training, as well as a large number of possessors.

Even if the number of grassroots military generals with sufficient experience is too large, they are just a ragtag group of people, and it will be difficult to achieve anything in the end.

Moreover, the peasant uprising army of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang in his previous life also left a lot of bad impressions on Xiang Yu. He knew that most of these peasants who lacked sufficient education were extremely short-sighted and could easily unite for temporary interests.

It is also easy to cause division and instant collapse due to temporary uneven distribution of benefits. These peasant armies are neither good opponents nor good teammates. It will be very dangerous to place hope on them.

But Xiang Yu was actually not very willing to participate in the massacre of these peasant armies. Yes, in his opinion, the regular army of the Eastern Han Dynasty or the army he led were basically incapable of facing a group of troops dominated by farmers.

It is equivalent to a tiger entering a flock of sheep. No matter how many sheep there are, they may seem huge, but they are still a group of sheep after all.

A big weakness of the sheep is herdity, which makes it easy for the sheep-like peasant army to be defeated on a large scale on the battlefield. Even if it is only killed in a small local battlefield, it is likely to be quickly converted.

It will lead to an all-round defeat of the entire army, and the lack of sufficient training and actual combat experience as well as well-trained battlefield command generals will lead to this situation.

Thinking of this, Xiang Yu was not in a hurry. Of course he would not disobey Dong Zhuo's orders, but he would not rush to keep up with Dong Zhuo's march. Instead, he decided to slow down his march and wait until Dong Zhuo and other Eastern Han generals fought with the Yellow Turban Army.

Go back on your own after a while.
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