Is the Yellow Turban Army really hopeless after Zhang Jiao s death?

After Zhang Jiao's death, the Yellow Turban Army did go into decline, but it did not have the strength to fight, Zhang Jiao had a great influence on the Yellow Turban Army.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the government was chaotic and politically dark, the act of buying and selling officials, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty government seems insignificant, which greatly hurt the interests of the poor people, Zhang Jiao saw this situation, founded the Taiping Road.

At first, as a Taoist priest, Zhang Jiao just spread his beliefs, and then used Fu Shui to save people, but later their strength became bigger and bigger, and then Zhang Jiao's ambition grew, out of consideration for the people under his command, and out of dissatisfaction with the entire government, he decided to overthrow this government, so he responded to every call and established the Yellow Turban Army, the largest resistance organization in the late Han Dynasty, under the leadership of Zhang Jiao, the Yellow Turban Army was unstoppable.

The Yellow Turban Army swept half of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but Zhang Jiao died prematurely, about Zhang Jiao's death, there are also many stories circulating in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, on the one hand, it is said that he leaked the heavenly machine, so God punished him and let him die prematurely, on the other hand, he was seriously ill, so he died of illness, in short, no matter which way it is said, after Zhang Jiao's death, the entire ** Turban Army fell into a leaderless state.

Zhang Jiao's three brothers are self-proclaimed Tiangong General, Earth Gong General and Rengong General, as the Tiangong General Zhang Jiao died, the entire army fell into a catastrophe, in fact, if you concentrate superior forces to advance into the center of the Eastern Han Dynasty regime, the outcome is still unknown, but as a Rengong General Zhang Liang does not have that courage, so Zhang Jiao plays a soul role in the entire Yellow Turban Army.

After Zhang Jiao's death, the Yellow Turban Army actually had the ability to turn the tables, but they didn't seize the opportunity and eventually became hopeless, and Zhang Jiao can also be said to be the belief of the Yellow Turban Army.

The cohesion of the Yellow Turban Army itself is not strong, and most of the soldiers in it are poor people. There is no one else available other than Zhang Jiao.

After Zhang Jiao's death, the Yellow Turban Army was really hopeless, because Zhang Jiao was the leader of the Yellow Turban Uprising, which was of great significance to the Yellow Turban Uprising and had a great impact.

After Zhang Jiao's death, the Yellow Turban Army was suppressed, and the participating Yellow Turban Army forces were scattered to various parts of the Eastern Han Empire, and the people's hearts were scattered.

Zhang Jiao is the leader of the Yellow Turban Army, and he is a spiritual leader for the Yellow Turban Army, and his influence is very great. After Zhang Jiao's death, the Yellow Turban Army began to break up, without command, detailed planning, and defeat was only a matter of time.

Zhang Jiao's influence on the Yellow Turban Army was indeed great, and after Zhang Jiao's death, the Yellow Turban Army did go into decline.

Zhang Jiao is the backbone of the Yellow Turban Army, after his death, the entire Yellow Turban Army has no leader, and the people's hearts are scattered like a plate of loose sand, such a team will not go long.

After Zhang Jiao's death, the entire ** Tin Army fell into a state of leaderlessness, in fact, if the superior forces were concentrated to advance into the center of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the outcome was still unknown, but Zhang Liang, as the general of the people, did not have that courage.

About ten months after the uprising, the main force of the Yellow Turban Army was defeated by the combination of the government and the powerful forces. Soon, Zhang Jiao also died of illness during this period.

Zhang Jiao (?) 184), a native of Julu (now Julu County, Xingtai City, Hebei Province). He was the leader of the "Yellow Turban Army", a peasant rebel army in the late Eastern Han Dynasty of China, and the founder of Taiping Dao.

Because he received the Taiping Qing Lingshu (i.e., the Taiping Sutra) preached by the Taoist priest Yu Ji and others, he took religious salvation as his own responsibility, and used some of the religious concepts and social and political ideas in it to organize the masses, and preached at the beginning of the Ling Emperor Jianning (168 172). In the first year of Zhongping (184), Zhang Jiao took the slogan of "the sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the age is in Jiazi, and the world is auspicious", called himself "General Tiangong", and led the masses to launch an uprising, which is known as the "Yellow Turban Uprising" in history. Soon Zhang Jiao fell ill and died, and the rebel army was quickly suppressed by the Han Dynasty.

is similar to Zhou Yu's death, first he was sick and then he died.

After the Jizhou Yellow Turban died of illness in Zhang Jiao, Zhang Liang led the Guangzong to stick to Guangzong. In October of that year, Huang Fu Song led the official army to attack the Yellow Turban military camp, and Zhang Liang was killed. More than 30,000 Yellow Turban soldiers were brutally killed, more than 50,000 people bravely threw themselves into the river and died, and Zhang Jiao was suspected of being dissected and killed.

Zhang Bao was also immediately defeated in Xiaquyang and killed, and more than 100,000 Yellow Turban troops were killed.

Because although they are huge, they are generally some untrained peasants, and after seeing the battle on the battlefield, they will be afraid, especially after Zhang Jiao is dead, no one can stand up and be the leader.

Due to the joint extermination of the bureaucratic landlord class, and the inappropriate strategy of the rebel army, the lack of internal unity and combat effectiveness, it eventually perished quickly.

The Han court was still very strong, the contradiction at that time was the contradiction between the big landlords and the Shu landlords, those big landlords monopolized resources, the people at the bottom lacked the way to rise, Cao Cao hit the big landlords for a period of time, and later Sima Yan period of the big landlord power, only to the Sui and Tang Dynasty imperial examination system to solve this problem, Zhang Jiao did not recognize the situation, the sky is dead, the yellow sky is standing, the attack is too wide, will be unprecedented, politics, unity of the majority is the most important, Li Shimin did not forget to test the attitude of the important generals first.

As for the reasons for the defeat, there are the following points, the first of which is the dispersion of forces. The Yellow Turban Uprising was a well-prepared uprising, and the thirty-six sides, which rose up at the same time, really showed great strength. However, if we look at the historical records and compare the map, we will find that these 300,000 people are spread out in a vast area from Hebei to Jianghuai, and the number of people at each point is not large.

If more than 300,000 is in one place, it is estimated that the government will work harder, but when dealing with tens of thousands of people, the government should still have the ability. This is followed by a rabble. The original identity of the Yellow Turban thieves was nothing more than farmers, fishermen, handicraftsmen, hawkers, etc., as powerful as Orion is estimated to be a general, wise as a fortune teller or a god can be a staff officer, a few people can have a little combat experience, and at the beginning of the killing is estimated to be soft.

Zhang Jiao and others may have great ambitions and geniuses, but after all, they have not been experimented, and the fate of those who talk on paper is both in front of and behind him. Again, it's a bottleneck. If it is a peasant war caused by a spark, at the beginning, due to the weakness of the insurgents, it often cannot attract the attention of the imperial court and facilitate development, but once the imperial court pays attention, it is the 100,000,000 million army that attacks and suppresses in turn, and whether it can defeat the encirclement and survive becomes the key to the success or failure of the uprising.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion was not able to overcome the bottleneck, and when they were unveiled, they were immediately attacked by the imperial court due to their sheer size, and the rebels did not survive the attack. It is conceivable that if they had withstood this round of blows, even if the losses were severe, those who did not know much about military affairs would have learned from the battle, and the road ahead would be easier. Fourth, there is the issue of geography.

The main force of the Yellow Turban Uprising was on the plains of Henan and Hebei, and the geographical conditions were too simple. Look at the successful peasant uprisings in history, Li Zicheng is in the mountains of Shangluo, Huangchao is in Mount Tai, and the Green Forest Army is in the Dahong Mountains of Hubei, even the Liangshan described in the Water Margin has mountains and rivers, and the terrain is complex. For the peasant army in the growth period, having a complex terrain means that there is an extra way to survive, and once the war is tight, it is necessary to escape from the mountains and dangers, without this condition, the Yellow Turban Army cannot afford to lose.

The fifth is the question of the capacity of the successor. If Zhang Jiao could get away with it, maybe the Yellow Turban Army would not end hastily, but unfortunately he died. Chen Sheng died with Xiang Liang on top, Gao Xianzhi died with Huang Chao, Gao Yingxiang died with Li Zicheng on top, but Zhang Jiao's successor after his death was useless.

From the historical records such as Liu Split, Guan Hai and others, often have tens of thousands, if they can do a little, in the chaotic Eastern Han Dynasty in the last years of the famous hall. Sixth. If you have to add a sixth, it can only be said that this uprising did not appear at the right time, and the Han Dynasty was able to effectively organize forces to fight back.

Zhang Jiao lost to luck, all uprisings and rebellions have no conditions for inevitable success, the difference is just good or bad luck, Xiang Yu destroyed Qin, but lost the battle between Chu and Han, because Han Xin followed Liu Bang, Xiao He followed Liu Bang, Zhang Liang also followed Liu Bang, Liu Bang has luck than Xiang Yu, to insist on saying that Liu Bang is better and so on, see who dies with him. If Zhang Jiao is lucky, he can change the dynasty, which has nothing to do with the so-called background.

The Yellow Turbans face a strong enemy. After the outbreak of the uprising, the suppression of the Yellow Turban Army not only had a huge Eastern Han official army, but also a large and small armed force in various places, and they faced the crazy suppression of the entire landlord class, and finally were outnumbered and finally defeated.