Mobile combat type and passive type. The former is like Huang Chao in the late Tang Dynasty and the peasant army in the late Ming Dynasty. The latter is Fang La in the Northern Song Dynasty. The Yellow Turban Uprising in the late Eastern Han Dynasty also belongs to the latter type.

So Zhang Jiao started his action, and began to rely on the Taoism of Taiping Dao, which preached that good and evil will be rewarded, saying that people's behavior determines the length of their life, so he Ask people to do more good deeds and be charitable so as to increase their life span.

The appearance of Zhang Jiao brought them hope, so his Tao of Taiping began to spread to ten, ten to hundreds, and hundreds to thousands, until the entire Jizhou became believers. From here we can see that Zhang Jiao does have a good mind, because he knows how to take advantage of situations.

But what is puzzling is that the rebel army was initially very powerful and had a very good reputation. Why did it fail in the end? Why is this? Let’s briefly analyze several important reasons for the failure of the rebel army.

The Yellow Turban Uprising was so powerful that it spread to most parts of the country, and the Eastern Han Dynasty hurriedly responded. Zhang Jiao organized thirty-six parties across the country, but after the uprising, the Yellow Turban armies across the country basically fought independently and were scattered. To deal with the Yellow Turban armies scattered throughout the country, the Eastern Han Dynasty adopted a strategy of defeating them one by one, and finally won.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the government and warlords still had strong military strength, so much so that the famous saying "A country is always destroyed by weakness, but the Han Dynasty alone is destroyed by strength." Compared with the Yellow Turban Army, the government army Occupying an absolute advantage in quality and equipment, even if there was the Yellow Turban Rebellion at that time, external minority regimes still did not dare to launch a large-scale invasion of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and could not distract the pressure faced by the Yellow Turban Army; finally, from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms

So warlords in various places also actively annihilated them. Therefore, although there were a large number of people responding, the peasant army was originally a disorderly army and was naturally no match for the regular troops. Soon, the three brothers Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, and Zhang Liang were defeated and died. Without their leading role, the Yellow Turban Army quickly disbanded