In A.D. 184 (the year of Jiazi), Zhang Jiao met his followers on March 5, with the slogan "Heaven dies, Huang Tian should stand, and Jiazi is the best in the world", which means the outbreak of the Yellow turban insurrectionary. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, in order to quell the rebellion, local governors had to hold the emperor to make the princes. Although the Yellow turban insurrectionary uprising ended in failure, the situation that the vassal regime and the Eastern Han Dynasty existed in name only was irreversible.

During this period, Liu Bei was awarded an official position by the court because he participated in the suppression of the Yellow Scarf Uprising, and Cao Cao was able to form Qingzhou soldiers who fought in the south and north because he subdued the Qingzhou Yellow Scarf Army. As for Gongsun Zan, whom I want to talk about today, he became famous at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty because he defeated the Yellow Scarf Army in the battle of Dongguang.

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Specifically, the so-called battle of Dongguang refers to a battle that broke out in Dongguang County, Bohai County, Jizhou (now Cangzhou City, Hebei Province).

In this regard, it is recorded in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty that in the second year of Chuping, 300,000 people from the Qing and Jin Dynasties entered the Bohai Sea and wanted to enter Montenegro. Zan rode 20 thousand people in one step, hit back at Dongguang South, broke it, and beheaded more than 30 thousand people. The thief abandoned his car and ran across the river. Because of its meager strength, the thief recovered greatly, killing tens of thousands of people and collecting more than 70 thousand people. Armor properties are unpredictable and have gained a great reputation.

In the second year of Chuping (19 1), Qingzhou Yellow Scarf Army attacked Bohai County (now northeast of Nanpi, Hebei Province) and assembled 300,000 people. It is true that these 300,000 people are not all soldiers, including the families of the Yellow Scarf Army. However, due to the court's inability to support it, it still brought great pressure to Gongsun Zan.

More crucially, Qingzhou Yellow Scarf Army is also preparing to join the Brakeshan Army in Jizhou. The Brakeshan Army was a peasant uprising army in Hebei at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Its main characters are Zhang, Zhang Yan. In this regard, in my opinion, if the two insurgents unite, it will inevitably bring greater harm to the Eastern Han court. So, Gongsun Zan decided, led twenty thousand people to Dongguang County, Bohai County, and confronted the Yellow Scarf Army of three hundred thousand people.

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Although the strength gap was huge, Gongsun Zan took the initiative and successfully defeated the Qingzhou Yellow Scarf Army. In this World War I, Gongsun Zan achieved a record of beheading 30,000 people. After the defeat, Qingzhou Yellow Scarf Army abandoned the trench and fled across the river. To this, Gongsun Zan was not in a hurry to pursue, but waited for them to attack when crossing the river halfway, thus defeating the Yellow Scarf Army. Tens of thousands of people were killed, more than 70,000 people were captured, and there were countless chariots and belongings.

So obviously, in the battle of Dongguang, Gongsun Zan brought a fatal blow to Qingzhou Yellow Scarf Army. On this basis, Gongsun Zan's reputation also resounded throughout the world. It can be said that Gongsun Zan showed outstanding command ability in the battle of Dongguang, which not only consolidated his separatist forces in Youzhou, but also extended his power to Jizhou and other places, and became a hero of the northern generation for a time.

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Of course, the victory of the battle of Dongguang also made Gongsun Zan swell day by day, thus belittling Yuan Shao and other opponents. So Gongsun Zan transferred troops to attack Yuan Shao. Gongsun Zan's offensive was fierce, which greatly shocked Hebei. At that time, Jizhou counties surrendered in succession. Yuan Shao got a fright. In order to please Gongsun Zan and ease the situation, he promoted Gongsun Zan's younger brother Gong to be the prefect of Bohai, but Gong defected as soon as he arrived in Bohai.

In the second year of Chuping (19 1), Gongsun Zan broke through Qingzhou and Xuzhou Yellow Scarf Army, and the troops became stronger and stronger, and entered the border bridge (so the address is in Wei County, Hebei Province today). Gongsun Zan personally appointed Yan Gang as the animal husbandry of Jizhou, Tian Kai as the animal husbandry of Qingzhou, and the mountain scenery as the animal husbandry of Yanzhou (now northwest of Jinxiang County, Shandong Province), and appointed county magistrate. Soon after, Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao broke out in the battle of the boundary bridge. In this battle, Gongsun Zan's cavalry was blocked by Yuan Shao's general Juyi, whose strength was greatly weakened and his momentum was frustrated.

In the end, Gongsun Zan's ambition was greatly reduced. Later, Gongsun Zan built Yijing Building to defend the tomb of Youzhou. To sum up, the battle of Dongguang is an important highlight moment in Gongsun Zan's life and an important peak of his career development. However, after reaching the peak, Gongsun Zan also went downhill and was even eliminated by Yuan Shao.