When the eastern states of the Han Dynasty were busy exterminating the Yellow Turban disaster, Liangzhou, located in the northwest, was not at peace.*eng.com**Longxi County, the Baima Qiang, the Ganlang Qiang, the Shaodang Qiang, the Shaodang Qiang, the emperor was not born at all because the emperor returned to Chang'an. Instead, it became more and more disasters to Longxi, Jincheng, and Wudu. That's not the end. Beidi County, located in the northern part of Liangzhou, is the place adjacent to Shangjun in Bingzhou mentioned in the previous article. The Xianling Qiang there also gathered people to rebel, intending to advance in the direction of Bingzhou.

In the winter of the first year of Zhongping (184 AD), the Xianling Qiang and the bandits in Beidi County rebelled, supporting the Qiang people Beigong Boyu, and Li Wenhou as the general, killing Leng Zheng, the captain of the Qiang guard. Then, this group of bold and arbitrary guys became increasingly rampant. They even went west to prepare to join the Shaodang Qiang, who rebelled west of Jincheng, and killed the prefect Chen Yi, the prefect of Jincheng (now in Qinghai Minhe Hui Tu Autonomous County), kidnapped Han Yue (Han Sui, whose name is Wenyue) and Bian Zhang, and recommended them to be military advisors and commanders. Han Sui was a man of strategy and knew how to command troops and fight. He was very familiar with the situation of the Qiang people and Han people in Liangzhou. After he had his advice, the Qiang people became more wings, and became a big trouble in the northwest of Liangzhou.

Emperor Ling was extremely furious after learning that Jincheng rebelled. He originally wanted to hide in Chang'an to seek peace, but he did not want to be peaceful in the west of Chang'an. The world was so big that there was only one in Yizhou and Shuzhong. Emperor Ling summoned all the ministers to discuss the plan to pacify the Qiang, so many ministers recommended a local snake from Liangzhou to command troops to suppress the rebellion of Han Sui, Bian Zhang and others. The person recommended by everyone was Dong Zhuo.

Dong Zhuo was born in a wealthy and powerful family in Lintao County, Longxi County (now Min County, Gansu Province). At that time, Lintao was a remote area and was adjacent to the residence of the Qiang people in the northwest ethnic minority. Dong Zhuo was pampered since he was a child, and he formed a kind of indulgent, willful, rough and fierce character in his youth. According to historical records, Dong Zhuo "loved heroes at a young age, and had a long and fierce nature in Qiang, and was rough and fierce and conspiring."

Dong Zhuo is not only strong and powerful, but also knows martial arts. He rides a horse and can carry two shoes and arrows and shoot left and right. His wild and fierce personality and strong body make the local people afraid of him. Not only do the villagers dare not provoke him, but the Qiang people around him dare not be negligent.

In order to protect himself, Haoshuai, the leader of the Qiang tribe, often came to visit him with a large amount of livestock and property, and called him brothers and brothers with Dong Zhuo. Dong Zhuo was familiar with the local situation. Seeing that the Qiang people were so afraid of him, he thought about how to use and control them, cultivate and collect trust from the Qiang people, and lay the foundation for their long-term development. So, with ambition, Dong Zhuo did not hesitate to spend his property at all. Whenever the Qiang people came to his home, he would kill cattle and sheep to entertain the Qiang people, so as to gain their support and support for him.

On the one hand, the Qiang people were afraid of Dong Zhuo's fierceness, and on the other hand, they felt that Dong Zhuo's "generous" was so they all followed him and were willing to wait for his dispatch. Once, a Qiang man saw that there were only a few cattle and sheep left in Dong Zhuo's family, so he rushed thousands of cows from far away and gave them to Dong Zhuo. This shows that Dong Zhuo had such a great influence among the Qiang people at that time.

In addition to making friends with Qiang people, Dong Zhuo also paid attention to maintaining his status and influence among the local tyrants. With his extraordinary talent and martial arts, he won over and annexed other forces, and continuously consolidated and expanded his power. He often played the role of a hero and enjoyed the reputation of "Heroic Hero" in the local area. At the same time, Dong Zhuo also recruited a large number of frustrated and down-and-out rogues. They were moved by Dong Zhuo's loyalty and followed him wholeheartedly.

Not satisfied with his current status, Dong Zhuo began to accumulate strength and wait for an opportunity to develop. In 167 AD, Dong Zhuo served as Yulinlang and was in charge of the Yulin Army (Hanyang, Longxi, Anding, Beidi, Shangjun, Xihe). Soon, he was promoted to the Sima of the Army and followed the General Zhang Huan of the Central Army to fight against the rebellious Qiang people in Bingzhou.

During the war, Dong Zhuo tried his best to show himself, fully leveraging his bravery and powerful advantages, rushing and shooting from side to side. Due to his outstanding achievements, he was promoted to the doctor for his merits. Later, he was promoted to the Northern Commander of the County and the Northern Commander of the Western Regions (the official name in charge of the affairs of various ethnic groups in the western region). According to the development of history, Dong Zhuo also wanted to be appointed as the governor of Bingzhou. Unfortunately, this position was currently occupied by a guy who was known as the little overlord of Bingzhou, so the court had to grant Dong Zhuo the governor of Liangzhou.

With the continuous expansion of power and the continuous rise of status, Dong Zhuo formed his own team. The famous "Xiliang Army" in history was Dong Zhuo's direct troops. The "Xiliang Army" was commander of Dong Zhuo, with Li Jue, Guo Si and others as generals. Below are Han and non-Han soldiers in Liangzhou, and elite soldiers mainly "Qiang and Hu", thus forming a combat-effective Liangzhou military group. Let's see which generals are under Dong Zhuo!

Hua Xiong, who is nine feet tall, has a tiger body, a wolf waist, a leopard head and ape arms, is a native of Guanxi. He is now the position of the cavalry captain under Dong Zhuo, and is commanded by 50,000 horse and infantry troops.

Li Ru, whose courtesy name is Wenyou, was from Fengyi, Sili. Dong Zhuo's son-in-law is a counselor and think tank. This person's wisdom is not far from that of Jia Xu, and he has the ability of Xun You. Since Dong Zhuo won Li Ru, he has become more powerful and has suffered many defeats.

Li Jué (jué), whose courtesy name was Zhiran, was from the northern part of Liangzhou. Guo Si was originally a scoundrel in Liangzhou who made a living by stealing horses. In history, these two people did a lot of harm to the people after Dong Zhuo's death, and they were so bad that they were in their hearts.

Zhang Ji, a native of Wuwei Zuli, is a captain in Dong Zhuo's army. This person is average, but he has a super powerful nephew named Zhang Xiu, who is Tong Yuan's second apprentice, known as the "King of Northern Guns", and his martial arts skills are not much worse than Zhao Yun.

Xu Rong, a native of Xiangping, Liaodong, had the talent to command troops.

There are also several miscellaneous fish such as Li Meng, Fan Chou, Wang Fang, etc., who have besieged Chang'an in history.

There are also three people, Hu Wencai, Yang Qiaoxiu and Duan Wei (wei), who are all Dong Zhuo’s confidants.

However, Bian Zhang and Han Sui led 100,000 Qiang people. In the continuous annexation and war, their strength increased rapidly. Soon after, they occupied the four counties of Jincheng, Wuwei, Anding and the northern region. The army stocked up in Anding County's Quegu, and put forward the slogan "clear the lord and attack the treacherous and slanderous people", which was very close to Chang'an.

When Emperor Ling saw that he had no way to retreat, he was urgently promoted to General Pingxi, and led infantry soldiers, including Yuan Pang, General Zhou Shen, and others to station more than 100,000 cavalrymen between Youfufeng and Zuofeng, to protect Chang'an Zhouquan.

The two armies confronted each other in the first day of the first lunar month. Because the Qiang soldiers were fierce and brave and strong in morale, the Han army led by Dong Zhuo encountered a fierce attack, and the situation was very critical. Zhou Shen and others were anxious, afraid that the Spirit Emperor would blame him. However, Dong Zhuo looked at them with a free look and comforted them, "Our army failed in the battle, but it was not lost at all. Just wait for the opportunity to stabilize the soldiers' emotions. Once the situation changes, they will rise up and attack, and they will defeat the enemy. If we panic, the morale of the army will be dispersed. If the enemy takes advantage of the situation, wouldn't it be dangerous?"

I don’t know if Dong Zhuo was lucky. One night a few days later, it was the bright moon in the sky and the stars were shining brightly. A meteor that was more than ten feet long suddenly appeared in the night sky. Half of the sky was like a pillar, and it fell directly into the Qianghu camp. Bian Zhang was shocked and the war horses in Han Sui camp were neighing wildly. After awakening, the sleeping Qiang people were also stunned and at a loss by this sudden strange phenomenon. The Qiang people have always been superstitious and thought that this was an ominous sign and did not want to stay for war. They just wanted to return to Jincheng quickly. Suddenly, there was a riot in the Qiang people’s military camp and it could not be calmed down for a long time.

The explorer quickly reported this emergency military situation to Dong Zhuo. After hearing this, Dong Zhuo immediately took action and led the Han army to attack the Qiang people. Because the morale of the Qiang people who were in chaos was affected and the organization was not strict, most of the soldiers had no thoughts and defense preparations at all, and they were severely injured and killed or injured in an instant. Dong Zhuo won a great victory, and Bian Zhang and Han were defeated and left Yuzhong (now the central part of Jincheng County, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province).

Seeing that the opportunity was rare, Dong Zhuo immediately led a large army with Zhou Shen and others to chase and suppress the fugitive army, but in one breath he chased the Qiang people to Zuli of Wuwei. Since Wuwei was the sphere of influence of the Qiang people and there was support everywhere, Dong Zhuo and others went blindly and violated the military taboo of "not chasing the enemy without chasing", and were finally surrounded by tens of thousands of Qiang people. The Han army, who was alone and deeply invaded by the division of the Western Qiang troops.

Because the reinforcements from the rear could not arrive in time, within a few days, the food and grass of each army were exhausted. The encircled troops did not decline at all, but the attack became more fierce and the situation was very critical. At that time, the army led by Zhou Shen and others was completely defeated, and only Dong Zhuo's army designed to escape.

It turned out that Dong Zhuo, who was originally calm and sophisticated, was still calm when he was besieged by the Qiang people. He ordered the soldiers to build an embankment in the surrounding rivers, cut off the upstream flowing water, and catch fish and shrimps in the dam. The generals of the Western Qiang thought that Dong Zhuo's military rations had been exhausted, and could only rely on catching fish and shrimps to fill their hunger, so they only surrounded and did not attack, trying to trap Dong Zhuo's army.

Taking advantage of the Qiang people's reassurance, Dong Zhuo led his troops to escape overnight. The Qiang and Hu cavalry learned that Dong Zhuo's army was fleeing and went to pursue him. They found that Dong Zhuo broke the dam when he left. Because the river water was too deep, he could not cross the river, so he had to give up.
Chapter completed!