In the "Historical Records of Lian Po Lin Xiangru Biography", Lin Xiangru said such a paragraph: ".The reason why Qiang Qin did not dare to increase his troops in Zhao was because the two of us were there. Now the two tigers are fighting together, and their momentum is incompatible. Therefore, for this reason, I put the urgency of the country first and then the personal vendetta. This passage shows the importance of the relationship between the two countries to the stability of the DPRK. Lin Xiangru's words are like truth, which have been verified again and again in the long river of history that followed.
1) Ge Shuhan and Yang Guozhong came together because they had a common enemy, and this enemy was An Lushan, who was extremely trusted by Xuanzong from the Tang Dynasty.
Ge Shuhan and An Lushan were both border generals in the Tang Dynasty, one in the northwest and the other in the northeast, there was not much intersection, but after all, they were officials in the same dynasty, and they were both local festival envoys who led troops to fight, and the two seemed to have a competitive mind secretly.
Geshuhan is a legend in the northwest, and the folk song "Geshu carries a knife at night" expresses the people's admiration for him. From the beginning of the stone castle, Tang Xuanzong's reuse and trust in Ge Shuhan skyrocketed, and Ge Shuhan himself was also very competitive and occupied an absolute advantage in the northwest battlefield. In the thirteenth year of Tianbao, the dividing line between Datang and Tubo was pushed to the west of Qinghai Lake.
According to the record of "Zizhi Tongjian", "China was strong and prosperous at that time, from the west of Anyuan Gate to the Tang Realm of 12,000 miles, Lu and Yan looked at each other, mulberry and hemp were wild, and the rich people in the world were not as good as Longyou." "The Shence Army established by Geshuhan not only played an important role in the Anshi Rebellion, but also became the pillar of the later Tang Dynasty, because of this army, the Tang Dynasty was able to continue to exist for another 150 years after the Anshi Rebellion.
Just when Ge Shuhan was trying his best to serve Tang Xuanzong, An Lushan in the northeast also sprung up. However, in addition to fighting, An Lushan was also able to curry favor with the emperor, which allowed him to receive higher treatment than Ge Shuhan. Ge Shuhan is very psychologically unbalanced because of this, and he looks down on An Lushan from the bottom of his heart for people like An Lushan who can curry favor. As a result, everyone knew that An Lushan and Ge Shuhan were at odds.
In order to alleviate the contradiction between Ge Shuhan and An Lushan, Tang Xuanzong specially organized a banquet when the two entered the court at the same time, and asked Gao Lishi to come forward as a peacemaker. However, not only did this banquet fail to achieve its goal, but the contradiction between Ge Shuhan and An Lushan increased.
2) Yang Guozhong and Ge Shuhan became friendly, largely because of the discord between Ge Shuhan and An Lushan. Yang Guozhong also relied on a knot to get to the top, he once stammered An Lushan, but An Lushan looked down on him, and Yang Guozhong was very angry. It's the same stammer, what's so great about you being a fat man, you look down on me, and you regret that day!
Yang Guozhong saw that Ge Shuhan and An Lushan were not in harmony, so he tried his best to win over Ge Shuhan. He knew very well that a very important reason why An Lushan was extremely favored by Tang Xuanzong was that he had soldiers in his hands. Ge Shuhan also has it in his hands, and Yang Guozhong wants to unite with Ge Shuhan and cultivate his own forces to confront and suppress An Lushan.
At the same time, Yang Guozhong tried his best to blow the wind in front of Tang Xuanzong, saying that he would definitely oppose it. However, Tang Xuanzong never believed it, he felt that he was so good to An Lushan, he would definitely not rebel against himself. It's a pity that Tang Xuanzong overestimated An Lushan's humanity.
3) When the Anshi Rebellion broke out suddenly, Feng Changqing, the envoy of Anxi Jiedu, was reporting on his work in the court. Feng Changqing also came over on the battlefield, and Tang Xuanzong looked for Feng Changqing as if he was grasping a life-saving straw to ask Feng Changqing about the strategy of retreating from the enemy. Feng Changqing swore that he would give me an army and promise to repel the rebels soon. Tang Xuanzong believed it and immediately ordered the recruitment of troops.
After decades of peace, people have forgotten how to fight, and there are all kinds of problems with the weapons in the arsenal. But the biggest problem is not these, but the rebels in An Lushan are advancing too fast, and these newly recruited soldiers have not had time to train before they go to the battlefield.
A group of untrained recruits, against experienced cavalry, the result can be imagined. Feng Changqing was defeated again and again, and he quickly retreated to Shaanxi County with his army. Here, he met his old partner Gao Xianzhi. After analysis, the two decided to retreat to Tongguan and hold the last pass of Chang'an.
Strategically speaking, retreating to Tongguan was the best decision for the official army, but Tang Xuanzong was too self-righteous and too anxious, he was very angry at Feng Changqing's repeated defeats, and even more angry at Feng Changqing and Gao Xianzhi defending without a fight. So, with a holy decree, Feng Changqing and Gao Xianzhi were beheaded, and Ge Shuhan, who was recuperating in bed, was forced to return to the battlefield.
4) Ge Shuhan was actually very reluctant, not unpatriotic, but he was already bedridden.
Goshuhan was a Turkic and had the distinct characteristics of a Turkic people: good wine and lust. His hobby quickly emptied his body, and on the way to the court to report on his work, Ge Shuhan suffered a stroke in the bath and almost died. was finally rescued, but since then he has become a waste and recuperated in Chang'an.
War makes a dead man have a place. Ge Shuhan took the banner of the dead Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing, and went to guard Tongguan, the gate of Chang'an.
Because Ge Shuhan was bedridden and could not command, Tang Xuanzong assigned him a person named Tian Liangqiu to be in charge of military and political affairs, and Wang Sili was assigned to be in charge of cavalry, and Li Chengguang was in charge of infantry. According to Tang Xuanzong's meaning, it was enough for Ge Shuhan to be only responsible for commanding these three people.
After being reused, the first thing Goshuhan did was to put himself above the coals. He cleaned up all his enemies.
An Sishun is a cousin of An Lushan who is not related by blood. Before the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, An Sishun had repeatedly presented to Tang Xuanzong, asking him to beware of An Lushan, and he might rebel. Because of his previous work, after the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, An Sishun was not implicated.
Due to the previous discord with An Lushan, the relationship between Ge Shuhan and An Sishun was also very poor. After being reused, Ge Shuhan found someone to forge a letter written by An Lushan to An Sishun, which was full of blessings and hardships. Ge Shuhan handed over the forged letter to Tang Xuanzong, and at the same time counted An Sishun's seven crimes, and he asked Tang Xuanzong to kill An Sishun.
has already killed Feng Changqing and Gao Xianzhi, and the only one who can fight is this waste brother Shuhan. Therefore, Tang Xuanzong's requirements for Ge Shuhan were all met unconditionally, he killed An Sishun and his younger brother An Yuanzhen, and his family was released outside the mountains.
In dealing with An Sishun, Yang Guozhong felt that he had dealt with it too seriously. As the prime minister, he asked for a lenient treatment, but Tang Xuanzong did not listen at all. Yang Guozhong couldn't help but feel a chill in his back. This time it's Ann Sishun, what if it's yourself next time? He saw that in order to let Ge Shuhan fight with peace of mind, Tang Xuanzong would agree to all his requests.
5) Since Prime Minister Yang Guozhong succeeded Li Linfu, people have found that his methods of excluding dissidents are more ruthless and hateful than Li Linfu's. He can say black as white and death as alive. This kind of rogue prime minister has no bottom line in doing things. An Lushan's rebellion was also the killing of Yang Guozhong. This is where Wang Sili's suggestion comes.
Wang Sili saw that Ge Shuhan easily won down the person he didn't like, so he suggested to Ge Shuhan: Yang Guozhong is angry with everyone and God, it is better for you to be a good general who will leave a name in history, and let the emperor kill Yang Guozhong.
Considering that Yang Guozhong was the prime minister and had a good relationship with him before, Ge Shuhan did not agree. Wang Sili did not give up, and continued to encourage Ge Shuhan: Or, I will take 30 cavalry to rob Yang Guozhong to Tongguan, and then we will kill him again?
robbed and killed the prime minister, and Wang Sili figured out that if he really did that, it would not be An Lushan's rebellion, but Ge Shuhan's rebellion. Although Ge Shuhan is a general who grew up on the battlefield, he is both civil and military, and he has read a lot of military history books, and he understands this truth very well.
Just when Wang Sili wanted to use various methods to get Ge Shuhan to solve the traitor Yang Guozhong, some people around Yang Guozhong also said Ge Shuhan's saying: At this time, Ge Shuhan has almost all the heavy soldiers of the imperial court in his hands, if he points the finger at you, the prime minister, wouldn't you be very dangerous?
Hearing this, Yang Guozhong broke out in a cold sweat, An Sishun is a good example, for Ge Shuhan, he has to be on guard. How to prevent it? Yang Guozhong thought of a way, he told Tang Xuanzong that in order to ensure that nothing went wrong, another line of defense could be added behind Tongguan. So, he recruited 3,000 young people for training, and recruited another 10,000 soldiers to garrison Bashang, and put his close confidant Du Qianyun in charge of these 10,000 people, nominally to protect the emperor's safety, but in fact to guard against Ge Shuhan.
Ge Shuhan has been on the battlefield for a long time, how can Yang Guozhong's little tricks hide from him? In the face of the facts, he also became wary of Yang Guozhong. He worked hard in the front, in case Yang Guozhong took out his ......nest in the rear
In order to protect himself, Geshuhan asked for the army to be handed over to him. Tang Xuanzong agreed to his request. Soon, Ge Shuhan found an irrefutable reason to kill Du Ganyun. At this point, there will be a complete disharmony, which is doomed to the later ending.
6) At this time, Tang Xuanzong got the news that the rebel army in Shaanxi had less than 4,000 troops, and they were all old and weak soldiers, and they had no defense. Tang Xuanzong was overjoyed and eagerly ordered Ge Shuhan to go out of Tongguan and recover Shaanzhou and Luozhou.
The experience on the battlefield told Ge Shuhan that this was the enemy's strategy to lure the enemy, and he told Tang Xuanzong that if he went out of the customs at this time, he would fall for the enemy's tricks.
Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, who were far away in Hebei, also paid attention to the battle situation in Tongguan at all times, and they also gave the same advice, they must hold Tongguan and not send troops easily.
Yang Guozhong also knew that guarding Tongguan was the best way at present, but he was even more suspicious that Ge Shuhan would take the opportunity to harm him, so he kept telling Tang Xuanzong to let Ge Shuhan send troops while the enemy was defenseless.
With the support of the prime minister, Tang Xuanzong trusted his judgment even more. He constantly sent eunuchs to give orders to Ge Shuhan: out of the customs, out of the customs! Fight, fight! Reconquista, Reconquista!
Wave after wave of eunuchs came to convey the emperor's order to Ge Shuhan, and if he continued to defend it, he would not obey the decree, Ge Shuhan cried a lot, and then ordered to go out of the customs.
7) The result of the exit was already expected, the Tang army was defeated, Tongguan was lost, and Ge Shuhan was tied to a horse by his subordinates and surrendered to the enemy An Lushan.
The last line of defense in the capital was lost, and Tang Xuanzong hurriedly summoned his ministers to inquire about countermeasures. Prime Minister Yang Guozhong first shirked the involvement,".It has been ten years since people sued Lushan for the opposite, and they don't believe it, and today's things are not the fault of the prime minister. ("Zizhi Tongjian Tang Ji 34").
In extraordinary times, in the face of extraordinary things, the prime minister, as the head of a hundred officials, did not find a way to solve problems for the emperor, but first cleared his name.
In fact, as early as the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, Yang Guozhong had already thought of a way out for himself. He is the envoy of Jiannan Jiedu, and he has prepared the deputy envoy, so there is "thousands of rides to the southwest". It's a pity that just more than 100 miles out of the capital, there was a change in Ma Wei, Yang Guozhong was killed, Yang Guifei hanged herself, the crown prince Li Heng went to Lingwu and hurriedly ascended the throne, only Tang Xuanzong continued to flee westward in a hurry.
The discord between the generals and the blind command of Tang Xuanzong were the main reasons for the loss of Tongguan. The fall of Tongguan made Chang'an lose the last barrier, and Tang Xuanzong had to flee west in a hurry. All of this is indeed a bit of a self-inflicted blame.