"Your Majesty! "Your Majesty! In 756 A.D., the sound of the rebels' horses' hooves shattered the beautiful dream of the Tang Dynasty, and Tang Xuanzong Li Longji fled in a hurry with Yang Guifei's brothers and sisters, Gao Lishi and several favored princes, leaving only a dry palace eunuch to cry blood and cry out.
The incident happened suddenly, Xuanzong and his entourage did not have all the food and drink, and they were panicked like a lost dog, and Xuanzong still didn't believe that his righteous son Anshan, who was so trusted, would betray him, grabbed the attendant and shook it repeatedly, shouting hoarsely.
Anshan, is it really the other way around? Chang'an has fallen? How so? The attendants around him didn't dare to answer, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing, and the crown prince Li Heng gently rubbed his father's back, "Since last year, the two traitors of An and Shi have raised troops, it's true!" ”
Xuanzong looked at his son in a daze, "I am as kind to him as a mountain and obey his words, why does he betray me?" In response to Emperor Ming, only Li Heng's sigh was given.
In 745 AD, it was the sweetest year for Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, and the woman he had been thinking about for a long time, Yang Yuhuan, the peony flower that bloomed charmingly in the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, officially entered the palace and became his concubine. Although he is over sixty years old, he is as excited as a teenager.
Since he ascended the throne, he has made great efforts to make the country right, put things in order, pro-virtuous ministers, and far villains, so that the chaotic atmosphere of the Wu Zhou Dynasty was completely punished and the law was completed, and the chaotic atmosphere of appointing people as relatives was new. In order to better consolidate the court, the harem is a harmonious atmosphere between the ladies and concubines.
And since his favorite Concubine Wu Hui passed away due to illness, the harem has grown older, and without the company of Concubine Wu Hui's knowledge, Xuanzong's heart is mostly empty, and he only feels that the harem women are dull and boring, which makes him feel unhappy and always angry for no reason.
Once watching the song and dance, Yang Yuhuan, the princess of Shou who heard the sound, recklessly broke into the palace, the pretty newlywed**, and with the girlish bright and ignorant, and full of thousands of styles, seeing the Yaxing who disturbed her father-in-law, she hurriedly asked for guilt.
Unexpectedly, this occasional relationship made Xuanzong deeply infatuated with his daughter-in-law, and that smile made him obsessed. And what happened in the palace had already been known by Shouwang Li Mao, and when he heard that his father had taken a fancy to his princess, his soul was immediately scattered.
Soon, Yang Yuhuan invited himself to become a female Taoist priest, and five years later, the Yang family, who had gotten rid of the royal status, was named the concubine of Xuanzong. Xuanzong got this beauty, he was happy for a while and forgot his worries, and he listened to the songs and dances with the concubine every day, and his ears and temples were grinding, and he had already left the country behind.
And the newly appointed first assistant Li Linfu, seeing that Xuanzong was in the government, was even more happy to monopolize power and cronyism. In order to prevent other important ministers from dividing their rights, he played to Emperor Ming, "The family is a general, I am afraid that there will be rebellion, and it will be unfavorable to the country!" ”
And Hu people are always in the border, and they have no foundation in the court, they are honest and loyal, and they are loyal and brave to let Hu people be generals, loyal and brave, and very appropriate", and Tang Xuanzong readily agreed. The Turkic Anshan took this opportunity to enter the sight of Tang Xuanzong.
Although Ansan is cunning, he is obese and cute. He is the best at pretending to be stupid in front of Tang Xuanzong, pretending to be loyal, and at the same time recognizing Yang Guifei as his mother, coquettish and flattering, and successfully won the favor of Tang Xuanzong and became a party envoy.
On the other hand, Tang Xuanzong loved Wu and Wu, and reused Yang Guozhong, the cousin of the concubine, to gradually replace Li Linfu, while Yang Guozhong and An Shan, the two favored ministers, fought for power and profit, and the contradictions became more and more intense, and An San had 180,000 elite soldiers and had the strength to oppose the Tang Dynasty.
Tang Xuanzong was still indulged in tenderness with the noble concubine, neither to adjust and resolve the contradictions between the two, nor to divide the rights of the two.
In 755 A.D., Anshan brazenly raised troops and launched a rebellion from Fanyang, and an urgent 800-mile military report was sent to Beijing.
Soon, Shi Siming also raised troops in response, Fan Yang quickly lost, and then Chen Liu, Xingyang, and Luoyang fell one after another, and the rebels rushed to Chang'an with lightning speed, until Chang'an fell, Tang Xuanzong still did not believe that Anshan really rebelled.
Xuanzong was furious, appointed Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing to lead the army to quell the rebellion, and in the face of the fierce rebels, Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing wrote to Xuanzong in succession, applying to lead the army to hold the city, consolidate the defense, and fight a protracted battle with the rebels.
But at this time, Xuanzong was already carried away by anger, not only sent a number of supervisors to the front line to urge Gao Xianzhi to attack, but also issued countless strict orders, Gao Xianzhi and others had no choice but to give up the consolidated city and attack with tears.
Sure enough, in the face of the powerful rebels, the Tang army, which lost the protection of the city, had no chance of winning, and was quickly defeated by the rebels, and the defeated Tang army ushered in the cruel punishment of Xuanzong, the generals Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing were beheaded, and the task of counterinsurgency was handed over to the veteran general Ge Shuhan.
As a senior veteran, Ge Shuhan knew that Gao Xianzhi's decision was correct, but the stubborn Xuanzong still couldn't listen to his advice, and repeatedly urged Ge Shuhan to go to war, quickly eliminate the rebels, and let himself return to Chang'an as soon as possible.
Ge Shuhan, who was in a dilemma, supported him for a period of time, but he still couldn't defeat the rebels, but he received a report from the imperial court with more and more severe wording, seeing that Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing were dedicated to serving the country but finally died miserably, he finally collapsed.
In 756 AD, the darkest moment of Tang Xuanzong's life came, Chen Xuanli, the leader of the Praetorian Guard, led the forbidden army to kill the traitor Yang Guozhong, forced the concubine Yang Yuhuan to death, and controlled Tang Xuanzong, and the crown prince Li Heng Yu Lingwu ascended the throne as the emperor, and respected Xuanzong as the emperor.
And Ge Shuhan did not bring good news to Xuanzong, but surrendered to Anshan. And Suzong Li Heng, reused the famous generals Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, the situation of the Tang army began to reverse, and gradually good news came, and the real bloody storm was coming.
In 757 A.D., An Qingxu, the son of An Shan, sent the general Yin Ziqi to lead more than 100,000 elite soldiers of the Hu people such as Tongluo and Fugu to rush to Suiyang, and instantly surrounded Suiyang. At this time, there were less than 7,000 soldiers in Suiyang City, and people were panicked for a while.
In the inner hall, Zhang Xun, the deputy envoy of the festival, sat opposite Xu Yuan, the county commander Yao Xu, and the guards Lei Wanchun and Nan Jiyun, and were speechless for a long time. After a while, Zhang Xun slowly spoke, "Rank, Yin thief is coming, claiming to be 250,000, but there are actually 150,000 elite soldiers."
And in Suiyang City, there are less than 10,000 soldiers, and the people are old and weak combined, less than 100,000 people, this battle is dead and lifeless, if the rank has the intention of regretting death, the patrol does not dare to stop it, and the patrol only seeks to rank for the sake of Li Tang's foundation for more than 100 years, and do not vote for the enemy! ”
Zhang Xun said, Lei Wanchun jumped up first, "Shangguan said this, the eldest husband is loyal to the monarch and patriotic, if he dies in battle for the people of the monarchy, he will get it!" Xu Yuan and Yao Xue said together, "I only wish to die in front of the king!" "Nan Jiyun only wants to die in battle.
Zhang Xun rectified the defenders, strengthened the city, and repelled wave after wave of rebels, Yin Ziqi saw that the Tang army was stubborn and could not be attacked for a long time, so he couldn't help but get anxious, and erected a roof wood to hit the city gate.
The rebels set up trebuchets, the city wall collapsed, the rebels swarmed in, and the defenders were not afraid of death and the rebels fought hand-to-hand, and the rebels could not hold on, the sound of killing inside and outside the city shook the sky, and at the critical moment, Nan Jiyun was condescending, bending the bow and arrows, and was in the left eye of Yin Ziqi.
When the rebels saw the commander screaming again and again, they fell to the ground in response, and they were all shocked and retreated hastily. The defenders took the opportunity to repair and strengthen the city walls, and once again turned the corner. The people in the city were all overjoyed when they saw Zhang Xun repeatedly defeating the enemy army, but Zhang Xun was worried.
It was spring, and there was not much food in the city, and with 7,000 more defenders, it was even more scarce. The rebels expected that there would be no food in the city, so they surrounded Suiyang City like an iron bucket, and Zhang Xun couldn't even deliver a letter asking for help, vowing to trap the city alive.
Gradually, the food was insufficient, the defenders of the city only got a spoonful of food every day, so hungry that they couldn't hold the gun, Zhang Xun couldn't think about it, killed all the war horses in the city to satisfy their hunger, and the soldiers caught sparrows and grasshoppers, and tried their best to survive.
Zhang Xun went to the inner room, his concubine had not eaten for a few days, she was so hungry that she only had one breath left, she looked at Zhang Xun with tears in her eyes, and begged, "My lord, it is not a pity for the concubine to die, please kill the concubine and satisfy the hunger of the sergeants!" I hope that the king will be set in the north, and the concubines will also be blind."
Zhang Xun tearfully killed his concubine and gave the sergeant to satisfy his hunger, while the others sacrificed their concubines and young sons, and the defenders ate human flesh with tears, and the crying of the whole city shook the heavens and the earth. After that, Zhang's garrison fed on human flesh and held on to Suiyang for five months.
In October, the city is like hell, the city wall is full of holes, when the rebels attack again, the defenders don't even have the strength to stand up, Zhang Xun solemnly bowed to the west, "The minister has been poor, the day the city is broken, he was born as a Tang minister, and he will repay the country's kindness in the next life!" ”
Yin Ziqi led an army of more than 100,000 to attack more than 7,000 soldiers, and fought for six months, he was already annoyed and ashamed, Zhang Xun and others vowed not to surrender, and did not scold the traitor to the last moment of his life.
The battle of Suiyang, although it ended in the destruction of the city, but the fierce and bloody scene, greatly stimulated the rebels, but the Jiedu envoys in various places were greatly boosted by Zhang Xun's death, and the towns of Fan rose up to quell the rebellion, and the Anshi rebels fell into great passivity.
In 758 A.D., Su Zong appointed Guo Ziyi as the deputy marshal of the world's soldiers and horses, and Li Yuanbi as the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, and led a total of nine Tang troops to besiege Yecheng, the old nest of the Anshi rebels, first defeated 100,000 troops of An Qingxu, and then defeated Shi Siming's 130,000 reinforcements.
After the rebels were defeated and retreated, Suzong did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, and still hesitated under the repeated requests of the generals, which led An Qingxu and Shi Siming to reorganize their troops and recover the favorable situation that was easy to fight.
Until 761 A.D., the rebels were infighting, Shi Siming was killed by his son Shi Chaoyi, internal cannibalism continued, the Tang army gradually gained the upper hand, in October, the Tang Dynasty succeeded to the throne, appointed the general Gu Huaien as the Shuo Fang Jiedu envoy, marched into Luoyang.
Fugu Huaien also invited the Hui army as foreign aid, and attacked together, and the rebels were defeated. Shi Chaoyi gathered 100,000 elite soldiers to help, the morale of the Tang army was at its peak, and the rebels were demoralized, and fled without a fight.
In 763 AD, Shi Chaoyi's generals surrendered one after another, and handed over all his family to the Tang army. The Anshi Rebellion, which lasted vigorously for more than seven years, was officially put down.
Although the Anshi Rebellion was pacified, the impact on the Tang Dynasty was very amazing, and the Tang Dynasty was sharply reduced from 8.9 million households and 53 million people to 1.93 million households and 7 million people, with a population drop of 87%, and the economy was seriously damaged.
The Anshi Rebellion seriously undermined the economic development of the region north of the Yangtze River, once causing a desolate scene of thousands of miles of depression and no grass, and then successive dynasties gradually shifted the economic focus to the area south of the Yangtze River, which has continued to this day.