The poem is full of bold and unrestrained heroism, fierce momentum, bursts of murderous intent, astonishing spirit.The momentum is so great that it is rare in poetry.From this poem, we can read Huang Chao's strong desire for Chang'an.This desire is not only the desire for a city, but also the desire for supreme power.At this time, Huang Chao's ideal is no longer as simple as being a Jinshi. His ideal, or ambition, has evolved into the ambition of Lingyun, and Chang'an is the other side of the ideal. Lin Kuan, a poet at the end of the Tang Dynasty, had two lines of poems: "Mo Yan will win the world immediately, and heroes since ancient times have interpreted poems." This poem is quite appropriate for Huang Chao.Now, the lofty aspirations in Huang Chao's poems have been realized, Chang'an is right in front of us, and the fragrance of the sky permeates Chang'an, and the city is full of golden armor.How emotional Huang Chao was at this time, he really did not expect that the ideal would be realized so easily, and the victory would come so quickly, because just a year ago, he was on the verge of failing and fleeing several times.

In the first month of the sixth year of Qianfu (879), Huang Chao's army was attacked by Zhang Lin and Liang Yan, the generals of Gao Pian in the feudal town, and was defeated. Huang Chao had to develop to the south where the Tang army was weak, entered Guangdong, and surrounded Guangzhou (now part of the Guangdong).The strange thing is that Huang Chao was not in a hurry to attack the city. Instead, he wrote letters to Cui Qi, the observation envoy of East Zhedong in Tang Dynasty, and Li Tiao, the envoy of Jiedu envoy to Lingnan East Road in Tang Dynasty, asking them to write letters to the Tang court on his behalf: as long as the court grants him the balance ( Today Dongping North, Shandong Province) Jiedushi, he is willing to surrender.This was indeed Huang Chao's ideal at the time.The reason why it is the Tianping Jiedushi instead of other places is because Tianping is rich and the second is because Huang Chao himself is from Shandong.From this we can see the rural complex deep in Huang Chao's heart.

Cui Jiao and Li Yuan were afraid of Huang Chao's momentum, especially Li Yuan, who was surrounded by Huang Chao's army, so they tried their best to do so.Li Tiao was a descendant of the clan of the Tang Dynasty and was quite influential in the court.The two important ministers tried their best to play, begging the court like a grandpa to sue a grandma, to give Huang Chao an official balance.Tang Prime Minister Zheng Tian believed that Huang Chao's request should be agreed in exchange for peace in the world.However, another prime minister, Lu Xie, colluded with the eunuch Tian Lingzi in power, and wanted their confidant Huainan Jiedu envoy Gao Pian to make meritorious service for the war, so he resolutely refused to surrender.Emperor Xizong had no opinion and was basically controlled by Tian Lingzi, so he did not approve Cui Jiao and Li Tiao's memorial.

Huang Chao was a little disappointed after hearing the reply from the Tang court, but he still did not give up easily. He personally wrote a letter to the Tang court, asking for the next best thing, and asking to be the governor of Guangzhou. Perhaps it was indeed seeing Huang Chao's sincerity to surrender. This time, the Tang court attached great importance to it and specially conducted court discussions.Prime Minister Zheng Tian thought it would be a good idea to grant Huang Chao the Guangzhou Jiedu envoy first as a way to slow down the troops. He said: "The rebellion of Huang Chao was originally caused by famine, and the people who depended on it just wanted to be fed. The country has not used soldiers for a long time, and the soldiers have forgotten to fight. It is better For the time being, make allowances and give it to an official. The bandit army originally started in a year of hunger, and when it is a year of good harvest, who among the soldiers does not miss their homeland and wants to return? Once they leave, the yellow nest is the meat on the case. This is the so-called war without fighting A soldier who surrenders. If we just rely on force to fight now, the consequences will be really unpredictable." Another prime minister, Lu Xie, hoped in his heart that his confidant Gao Pian would be able to win the battle against the bandits alone, and he could not hold on: "Huang Chao is a small thief, and it is very difficult to defeat the bandits. Yi, but now the officials are appointed to show cowardice and make the army alienated from morality!" After discussion and discussion, the Tang court finally decided to award Huang Chao a false official who "leads the government".

Although Guangzhou was the largest foreign trade port and one of the important wealth supply places in the Tang Dynasty at that time, and it was also a political and military center in Lingnan, after all, compared with the Tang Dynasty, it is obviously different from the world.If Huang Chaoqiu's request to be the governor of Guangzhou is approved, I am afraid that history will go in another direction. At that time, the Tang court already knew that Huang Chao would be angered.On the issue of whether the peasant army should be recruited or eliminated, the main combat faction always had the upper hand in court.Sure enough, Huang Chao scolded the ruling prime minister after receiving the letter of appointment from the head of the Tang court.It can be seen from this that he was extremely disappointed, and it also showed that he did have great expectations for this Guangzhou Jiedu envoy.

Under strong dissatisfaction, Huang Chao began to rush to Guangzhou with his army.In September of the sixth year of Qianfu (879), the peasant army captured the important town of Guangzhou and captured Li Tiao, the Tang Jiedu envoy.He also divided his troops to take Guizhou (now Guilin, Guangxi) in the west, and controlled most of Lingnan.Afterwards, Huang Chao claimed to be "the capital of the righteous army" in Guangzhou, and issued a call to action, reprimanding the Tang court for "the eunuchs stood up to the dynasty, the filthy beetle disciplined the outline, pointed out that the ministers and the middlemen left behind the structure, and the officials lost their talents."At this time, Huang Chao showed the talent and keen eyesight of a scholar, and the history said that the problems pointed out in the call to arms were "all extremely poor at that time".

At this time, Huang Chao should be very satisfied.He originally wanted to be the governor of Guangzhou, but now, even without the recognition of the Tang court, he is already the real master of Guangzhou.Huang Chao has been quite tired of moving around for many years. After occupying Guangzhou this time, he intends to stay here to operate, "forever the nest." According to Huang Chao's performance in the early stage, if there is no major accident, he probably doesn't plan to leave Guangzhou again.He did write the ambitious "Chrysanthemum Poem", but the experience of traveling around for many years has slowly worn away his ambition.After wandering for a long time, his ideal has evolved from "the world" to "a corner". As long as there is a rich city and he can be the lord of the city, he will be satisfied.It is this strong sense of "city lord" that made Huang Chao linger there for a long time after occupying Chang'an, always reluctant to give up, and finally lost there. Closer to home, after Huang Chao got Guangzhou, he was planning to develop it into a base area. The peasant army suddenly suffered a major setback. However, it was not the defeat on the battlefield against the Tang army, but the unique climate in Lingnan.Huang Chaojun is mostly from the north and is not used to the local climate in Lingnan.And just in this year, from spring to summer, the epidemic is very popular.After entering the winter, 30 to 40 percent of the peasant army died of miasma, and the number dropped sharply. Huang Chao was still hesitating, he didn't want to give up the hard-won Guangzhou easily, but his subordinates couldn't stay any longer, "persuading him to return to the north for the sake of great profit".Huang Chao saw that the morale of the peasant army was quite low, and it was difficult to last in Guangzhou, so he decided to lead his army northward and fight back to the Central Plains. After the peasant army captured Guangzhou, the Tang court was extremely panicked, and hurriedly appointed Prime Minister Wang Duo as Jingnan Jiedu envoy, and the southern camp recruiting commander was stationed in Jiangling. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers were stationed in Tanzhou (now Changsha, Hunan), "using the road to the north of the Lingling Mountains to reject Huangchao". Just at this time, the water in the Xiangjiang River was soaring, and the peasant army made dozens of large rafts by themselves. They went down the Xiangjiang River from Guizhou, went down to Yongzhou (now Lingling, Hunan) and Hengzhou (now Hengyang, Hunan), and arrived in Hunan. Under the city of Tanzhou, an important town. Tang general Li Xi, who was guarding Tanzhou, closed the city gate tightly and dared not come out to fight.Huang Chao saw that Li Xi was so cowardly, so he mobilized his army to attack quickly, but the result was down in one day.Li Xi led a small number of his confidants to escape.At that time, there were 100,000 Tang troops in Tanzhou, all of whom were killed by Huang Chao, and their bodies were thrown into the Xiangjiang River. The blood stained the Xiangjiang River, and the dead bodies covered the entire river. Shang Rang, the powerful general of Huang Chao's victorious faction, pushed Jiangling (now Hubei).All the way northward, the peasant army was greatly enriched and expanded. When it attacked Jiangling, it claimed to have 500,000 troops.At that time, Wang Duo, the Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty, served as the Jiedu Envoy of Jingnan and sat in Jiangling himself.Seeing that the Peasant Army was huge and the Tang army in Jiangling was less than 10,000 people, he was afraid, so he left Liu Hanhong to guard Jiangling, and he led the troops to retreat to Xiangyang.In order to conceal the truth of his escape, Wang Duo declared that he wanted Xiangyang to join the army led by Liu Jurong, the Jiedu envoy of Shannan Dongdao. Tang General Liu Hanhong was not a kind person either. Seeing Wang Duo abandoning the city and leaving a mess to himself, he felt angry, so he simply robbed Jiangling wantonly and set fire to the city, almost completely burning Jiangling City.The people of Jiangling were forced to flee to nearby valleys.It was the middle of winter, and there was heavy snowfall, and a large number of innocent people froze to death.There are zombies all over the mountains and plains, which is shocking.Liu Hanhong then led his troops to flee north and became a bandit. More than ten days after Liu Hanhong destroyed Jiangling, Huang Chao's army arrived.However, Jiangling at this time has become a charred empty city that is still emitting green smoke.Even Huang Chao couldn't believe that the scene in front of him was actually caused by Tang Jun himself. The world rises and falls alternately, and it is the common people who suffer.Later history books mostly record Huang Chao as a murderous "thief". In fact, Tang Guanjun is definitely no better than Huang Chao.Huang Chao always has a reason to kill, either for military pay or revenge, but Tang Guanjun often kills indiscriminately for no reason. Li Tiao, who was captured by Huang Chao in Guangzhou, was detained in the peasant army.At this time, Huang Chao had occupied more than half of the Jingnan area, and he was unwilling to make progress. He threatened Li Tiao to present himself to the Tang court, and then asked for the post of Jiedushi for him, so as to realize his ideal of "city lord".Judging from the fact that Li Tiao once played for Huang Chao, this person is not a straightforward and upright person.However, after being a prisoner of the peasant army, he probably already understood the attitude of the Tang court towards Huang Chao. It is more likely that he stayed in the peasant army for a period of time and had a deeper understanding of Huang Chao and his troops. There are not enough people to compete with the court.Therefore, Li Tiao showed the last bit of backbone of a disciple of the clan, and resolutely refused, saying: "My wrist can be broken, but my appearance can't be done." Killed in anger. Up to this time, Huang Chao still hadn't made up his mind to explore the world. For him, every step he took was passive, because he was pushed to the other side by the rejection of the Tang court. Huang Chao then joined forces with Shang Rang and continued to attack Xiangyang.Liu Jurong, the Jiedu envoy of Nandong Road in Tangshan, joined forces with Cao Quanzhen, the governor of Tangzizhou and the recruiting envoy of Jiangxi Province, and stationed troops in Jingmen (now Hubei) to resist Huang Chao.Liu Jurong made a plan in advance, he was in charge of setting up an ambush, while Cao Quanzhen led Qingqi to face Huang Chao, and then Cao lured the enemy to go deep. The day before the battle between the two sides, Liu Jurong selected 500 good Shatuo horses, equipped with ruthenium bridles and algae, and rushed to the camp of Huang Chao's army.Huang Chaojun thought that the opponent's horse ran over in a fright, so he was naturally happy to take it for his own use.Because these sand horses are good horses and saddles, they were all seized by the generals first.The next day, Huang Chao's army fought with Cao Quan's army, Cao Quan's army pretended to be defeated and left, Huang Chao sent his army to chase.After chasing for a while, Huang Chao realized that something was wrong and wanted to order the troops to withdraw.The Shatuo people in the Tang army immediately shouted in Shatuo language, and the Shatuo horse heard the master's voice, and immediately ran forward, and the peasant generals who were riding on the Shatuo horse could not hold back.As a result, Huang Chao's army entered Liu Jurong's ambush circle dramatically. The Tang army's ambush was launched, Huang Chao's army was defeated, and was chased all the way to Jiangling. Seven or eight out of ten peasant troops were captured and killed. At this time, if Tang Jiedu sent Liu Jurong to continue chasing Huang Chao, Huang Chao would either be captured or killed, nothing less than these two fates.However, what is amazing is that Liu Jurong suddenly ordered to stop the pursuit, and even made some shocking remarks: "The imperial court often doesn't count. When we settle down, we will be thrown aside, and some people will even be offended by merit. We might as well let the generation of Huang Chao remain, thinking that our generation has the capital of wealth." He took the "high theory" of "capitalism" deeply, so he no longer mentioned the matter of chasing Huang Chao. Another Tang army, led by Cao Quanzhu, continued to pursue the peasant army.Huang Chao fled for his life in embarrassment and was almost captured alive. However, the heaven favored him again.When Cao Quanzhen was about to cross the Yangtze River, the Tang court appointed Duan Yanmo, the capital of Taining, as the recruitment envoy on behalf of Cao Quanzhen at this critical moment, which really fulfilled Liu Jurong's prophecy that "the court has no faith".Under such circumstances, Cao Quanzhen was hit and naturally stopped the pursuit.Huang Chao escaped with the defeated generals and fought in Jiangxi, Anhui, Zhejiang, Hubei and other places. The team quickly expanded to more than 200,000 people, and his power recovered. In this battle, Prime Minister Wang Duo not only failed in size, but also abandoned the city and fled first, which directly led to the destruction of Jiangling.And the biggest culprit, Liu Hanhong, was recruited by Wang Duo afterwards.The troops of the Tang court were all commanded by such generals, and the ending can be imagined. There is another joke about Wang Duo who is afraid of his henpeck.Wang Duo was afraid of internal affairs, and when he left Beijing, he only brought his concubine Ji with him and left his wife in the capital.One day, his subordinates suddenly came to report: "Madam is halfway before leaving the capital." When Wang Duo heard the report, he was very frightened, and asked the people around him, "Huang Chao's soldiers are gradually approaching, and Madam is rushing from the north angrily. Come on, we will arrive soon, what should we do?" One of the staff joked, "It's better to surrender to Huangchao." Everyone laughed. Liu Jurong, the governor of Tangshan Nandong Road, returned to Xiangyang after breaking through the Yellow Nest.At this time, the "Jingnan Mutiny" occurred in Xiangyang.Jingnan Supervising Army Yang Fuguang ordered Zhongwu General Song Hao to temporarily take charge of government affairs, and Taining Metropolitan Duan Yanmo led his troops to guard Jingnan City.Soon after, Emperor Xizong ordered Song Hao to be the pacifier of Jingnan. Duan Yanmo felt that it was a shame to be under Song Hao, and he always opposed Song Hao.Song Hao forbade the felling of locust trees in the street, but Duan Yanmo's subordinates violated the prohibition, so Song Hao ordered the soldiers to be punished with sticks.Duan Yanmo was very angry, and rushed into the military mansion with a sharp knife in his arms, killing Song Hao and his two sons on the spot.Yang Fuguang, the supervisor of the army, pretended not to know anything, and only wanted to calm down the matter. He reported to the Tang court that Song Hao was killed by enraged soldiers because of his brutality.So Emperor Xizong issued an edict to appoint Duan Yanmo as the governor of Langzhou, and Zheng Shaoye, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, as the governor of Jingnan. It can be seen from the above that the strength of the peasant army at that time could not compete with the Tang court at all.However, the Tang court did not have a unified command and dispatch, and there was no powerful and powerful commander-in-chief.These are quite unusual for the Tang Empire, and Huang Chao happened to take advantage of these unusualness intentionally or unintentionally.It can be said that Huang Chao's ease of use has completely exposed the truth of the incoordination among the various institutions of the imperial court. After the new year, in 880, when Xizong changed the Yuan to the first year of Guangming, Huang Chao's luck began to improve.He led his army to leave Ezhou (now Wuchang, Hubei) and march eastward. Within a few months, he joined Xiarao (now Boyang, Jiangxi), Xin (Shangrao), Chi (now Guichi, Anhui), She (Shexian), Wu (now Jinhua, Zhejiang) ), Mu (Jiande) and other states. Huang Chao's successive victories shocked the Tang court once again. On the one hand, Emperor Xizong appointed Huainan Jiedu envoy Gao Pian as the commander of all roads and camps, and commanded all troops to jointly attack Huang Chao's army.At the same time, soldiers from Zhaoyi, Ganhua, and Yiwu were recruited to go south to fight with Gao Pian. Gao Pian was a well-known general at the time.The Gao family has been generals of the Imperial Army for generations, and his grandfather was Gao Chongwen, a famous general who pacified Xichuan in the Xianzong Dynasty.Gao Pian himself led troops at the border all the year round to defend against the invasions of the party and the Tibetans, and made great achievements repeatedly.When he served as a servant under Zhu Shuming, he once "shot two eagles with one arrow", and was called "the servant of the fallen eagle", which was a good story for a while.Gao Pian was once the envoy of Xichuan Jiedu, where he was punished harshly and killed innocent people indiscriminately. Gao Pian liked sorcery. Whenever he dispatched troops, he would unfurl banners at night, line up, and point to the soldiers who burned paper-drawn people and horses, and distributed red beans, saying: "Soldiers in Shu are cowardly and cowardly. I'm going to send the Mysterious Goddess Soldiers to march ahead." The Shu army felt humiliated when the commander said so.Gao Pian also ordered the people to use Zumo money for transactions, and those with less than a hundred money should be executed.Because of the severe and cruel punishment, the people in Shuzhong felt uneasy. At that time, Nanzhao harassed the border in the southwest and once besieged Chengdu. At that time, Jiedu envoy Yang Qingfu recruited sudden generals with high-ranking officials, thus resisting Nanzhao's attack.After Gao Pian arrived in Chengdu, he claimed that Shuzhong had been repeatedly invaded by the southern barbarians, and the people had not recovered their property, so the salary of the Tu general was stopped, and the Tu general resented him abnormally.Later, the sudden generals couldn't bear it anymore, and rioted and attacked the Jiedu envoy's mansion.Gao Pian hid in the toilet and was not discovered by the generals, so he survived.In the end, it was the eunuchs who supervised the army to send people out to summon the sudden generals, promising to restore their official positions and salaries, and then the sudden generals returned to the camp.Gao Pian's Tianping army kept the gate of the camp tightly closed. Seeing that the sudden general retreated, they opened the gate and pretended to attack.After chasing to the north of the city, there happened to be hundreds of servants building a stadium there.The Tianping army actually killed all these servants, cut off their heads, and sent them to the Jiedu envoy's mansion, claiming that they had killed all the rebels.Gao Pian immediately rewarded him with rich gold and silk. When Gao Pian was hiding in the toilet, he had already secretly recorded the names of the rebellious generals, and sent people to surround these families at night, jump over walls and break into houses, and kill them all, regardless of age.Some babies were culled and killed on the doorstep, some were smashed to death on the pillars, and the blood flowed into canals for a while, and the sound of crying shook the sky. Thousands of people were killed.In the evening, Gao Pian sent someone to drag the corpse into the river with a cart. Because of Gao Pian's "iron and blood" methods, after Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao's peasant army moved to the south of the Yangtze River, the Tang court appointed Gao Pian as the Jiedu envoy of Zhenhai (now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu), the military commander of all roads, and the Jianghuai salt and iron transfer envoy.In the following year, he moved to Huainan (now north of Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province) to know Jiedu's affairs. Gao Pian is not just a warrior, he is also a poet with outstanding talents. "Tang Poetry Chronicle" called his poems "elegant and strange".At that time, it was common practice for military governors to support scholars.When Gao Pian was in Yangzhou, he also absorbed a group of talented people into his shogunate.Among them, the most famous was Cui Zhiyuan, an overseas student from Silla (now the Korean Peninsula), who was later hailed as the originator of Korean Chinese literature and the "father of Eastern culture".At that time, Cui Zhiyuan admired Gao Pian very much, recommended himself to him, and was reused by Gao Pian with courtesy.Cui Zhiyuan was ordered by Gao Pian to write the call to action "Book of Discussing Huangchao", which was widely recited all over the world.Later, when Cui Zhiyuan returned to Silla, Gao Pian saw him off with a generous reward and awarded him the title of "National Messenger" on behalf of the court. Back to the topic.Gao Pian was ordered by the Tang court to be in crisis, and at the beginning he was able to fulfill his duties. He spread the call to recruit soldiers from all over the world.In March of the first year of Guangming (880), Gao Pian sent Xiao general Zhang Lin across the south of the Yangtze River to attack Huang Chao.Most of Huang Chao's subordinates were recruited temporarily and could not compete with Tang's regular army. After losing the battle, Huang Chao had to retreat to Raozhou (now Boyang, Jiangxi).Zhang Lin took advantage of the victory and marched.Zhang Lin seems to be Huang Chao's nemesis by nature, and he can win every time he fights Huang Chao.In May, Huang Chao retreated to Xinzhou (now Shangrao, Jiangxi Province). At this time, under the imperial edict of the Tang Dynasty, several armies including Zhaoyi and Yiwu from the north had rushed to Huainan to assemble, and Zhang Lin led his troops in pursuit.The net was tightened, and Huang Chao once again faced the fate of failure.What is especially unbelievable is that the plague was once again prevalent in Xinzhou where the peasant army was stationed. Most of the peasant army died of the disease and their vitality was seriously injured.At the critical moment that made matters worse, Huang Chao had no choice but to throw out the last tactic of delaying the attack.On the one hand, he sent someone to send a large amount of gold and treasure to his arch-enemy Zhang Lin, begging his subordinates to show mercy; on the other hand, he wrote a letter to Gao Pian, expressing his willingness to surrender. At this time, Huang Chao had already seen that it was difficult for the central court of the Tang Dynasty to command and mobilize the armies of the various factions in a unified manner, and there were still conflicts among the various armies of the Tang Dynasty. He hoped to use the internal contradictions of the enemy to escape from the trap again.Given Huang Chao's current situation, he knows that the Tang court will never easily agree to his surrender. When he was in the upper hand, he sincerely expressed his surrender before, but the Tang court refused to allow him. Now that he is at a disadvantage, would the Tang court be so stupid? ?Definitely kill him!But this is Huang Chao's last way, no matter what, he must try.From the experience of his previous few escapes from death, he thought that he should be able to continue to survive in the cracks. Gao Pian is also a veteran of the Jianghu, and there is the former Huang Chao's general Bi Shiduo beside him, so he can't fail to see Huang Chao's delaying strategy.But he also has selfish intentions, and he wants to use his tricks to lure Huang Chao to come to the door to ask for surrender, and then kill him, so that he can win the first victory against the thief.Not only that, Gao Pian was also afraid that other Taoists would share the credit with him, so he went to the court, claiming that the peasant army "will not be peaceful every day, and will not bother all Taoist soldiers, please send them back." Before that, Prime Minister Lu Xie was dismissed because of a quarrel with another prime minister, Zheng Tian.Later, because Gao Pian's general Zhang Lin had made great contributions to the battle against Huang Chao, and Gao Pian was recommended by Lu Xie, so Lu Xie was recalled to serve as prime minister.At this time, Lu Xie certainly hopes that Gao Pian will make the first contribution, because the two of them are grasshoppers on the same rope, and both of them will prosper and lose.Therefore, Prime Minister Lu Xie dismissed all Tang soldiers in the name of the court. Huang Chao found out that the Taoist soldiers of the Tang Dynasty had already crossed the Huaihe River in the north, so he immediately broke up with Gao Pian and went to battle.Gao Pian was furious when he learned about it, and ordered Zhang Lin to attack Huang Chao's army.Zhang Lin, who had always been able to effectively restrain Huang Chao, was defeated this time. Zhang Lin himself died in battle, and Huang Chao's power recovered.And took advantage of the victory to capture Muzhou (now Jiande, Zhejiang) and Wuzhou (now Jinhua, Zhejiang).In July of the same year, Huang Chao led his army to cross the Yangtze River north from Caishi (southwest of Ma'anshan, Anhui today), and encircled Tianchang, Liuhe and other counties. Huang Chao's army was very powerful for a while. Gao Pian and Huang Chao's scheming scheme ended in Gao Pian's failure.At this time, Bi Shiduo urged Gao Pian to attack according to the danger to prevent Huang Chao from advancing eastward, and Gao Pian was quite moved.However, Lu Yongzhi, a sorcerer beside him, was afraid that Bi Shiduo would be favored for his meritorious service, so he resolutely stopped him.Gao Pian saw that the Taoist soldiers had returned to the north, and Zhang Lin died in battle again, "I can't control my own strength, and I dare not send troops because of timidity, but I ordered the generals to be strict and protect themselves."At the same time, Gao Pian expressed his urgency to the imperial court, exaggerating the strength of Huang Chao's army, claiming that there were 600,000 rebels, and they were less than 50 miles away from Yangzhou. The Tang court had always placed high hopes on Gao Pian. Seeing his performances, the court ministers who had been eagerly looking forward to him pacifying the bandits were greatly disappointed, and were "terrified by human feelings".Therefore, Emperor Xizong issued an edict to severely punish Gao Pian, saying that he dismissed all Taoist soldiers and sent Huang Chao to cross the river when the Tang army was unprepared.Gao Pian made an excuse on the table, saying that he suffered from hemiplegia and "will not return to battle." At that time, Huang Chao's army claimed to be only 150,000, and the actual number should be far less than this number.Gao Pian lied about the military situation, just to make excuses for his timidity.After that, he embraced himself.The Tianping Jiedu envoy and the deputy governor of the east, Cao Quanzhen, 6,000 people resisted Huangchao with all their strength. Because they were outnumbered, they withdrew and stationed in Sizhou to wait for the arrival of reinforcements from all walks of life.Gao Pian didn't come out to rescue one soldier at a time.For this reason, the king's husband of later generations said angrily: "Those who do not forget the family for the country, forget death for the king's loyalty, do not have trustworthiness, porpoise fish, righteousness, ghosts and gods, but squander and enthusiastically use their wisdom to benefit for a while are all so-called petty ones." There are talents. Those who have small talents are only the wisdom and courage of ordinary people. Small imitations are learned, but great responsibilities are given to them in times of crisis. Ancient and modern people have used this to subjugate their countries. Different, but high-level parallel writing. … But those who disintegrate and collapse in the Tang Dynasty to tend to ashes are actually (high) parallel." After that, Gao Pian has been sitting in Yangzhou to preserve his strength.When Huang Chao's army entered Chang'an, the capital of Xijing, the imperial court repeatedly conscripted Gao Pian to "go to the disaster", but he wanted to gain the benefits of a fisherman, and wanted to annex the two Zhejiang provinces and separate one side, so he could not stay.The Tang court was of course very angry with his self-respect and inaction. In the second year of Zhonghe (882), Emperor Xizong of Tang ordered the dismissal of Gao Pian's soldiers and horses, and the salt and iron transfer envoy. Gao Pian had already lost his military power and his financial power, so he immediately rolled up his sleeves and cursed angrily.He also immediately instructed his staff member Gu Yun to draft a memorial to Xi Zong, with extremely rude words.It said: "It is your Majesty who does not use humble ministers, and it is certainly not that humble ministers are responsible for His Majesty." It also said: "The treacherous ministers have not yet realized, and Your Majesty is still confused. He does not think about the burning of the ancestral temple, and does not feel sorry for the destruction of the garden mausoleum." It also said: " Now the sages are in the wild, the court is full of traitors, and your Majesty will be the king of subjugation, and this son will be released soon!" ("Zizhi Tongjian Volume 255") put all the responsibility for the defeat of the Tang Dynasty on On Xi Zong.Xi Zong was furious after reading it, and sent Zheng Tiancao to demean Gao Pian vigorously.It said: "Who will admit the words of 'the treacherous officials have not realized'! I dare not take the words of 'Your Majesty is still confused'!" He also said: "You can't tie Huang Chao to Tianchang, and you can catch the generals!" One is an important official of the court, and the other is the emperor of the empire. The two come and go, which is not too different from the scolding of shrews on the street.So far, the two sides have completely torn skins. "The (Gao) Pianchen Festival is lost, so the tribute will be cut off."Later, Chang'an was recovered for the various Taoists, and Gao Pian regretted it very much, feeling that he had not taken credit for it. Gao Piansu believed in gods, so he used Lu Yongzhi, a warlock, and gave him military and political power.Lu Yongzhi took the opportunity to seize power and killed the veteran general, which led to up and down separation.General Bi Shiduo was a descendant of Huang Chao, and he was often in danger because of this.Bi Shiduo had a concubine who was very beautiful.Lu Yongzhi was clearly a cultivator, but while Bi Shiduo was away on business, he blatantly broke into Bi's mansion and forcibly raped his beautiful concubine.After Bi Shiduo found out, although he dared to be angry and dare not speak out, he wished in his heart that Lu Yongzhi's body would be broken into thousands of pieces.In the third year of Guangqi (887), Bi Shiduo was ordered to go out to Gaoyou, and Lu Yongzhi "waited thicker, (Bi) Shiduo became suspicious and fearful, saying that disaster was imminent".After Bi Shiduo arrived in Gaoyou, he joined forces with Gaoyou Town General Zheng Hanzhang and others to counterattack Yangzhou.The city fell, Gao Pian was imprisoned, and was killed shortly thereafter. In the end, he ended up being betrayed by all relatives. After Cao Quan's army was defeated, Huang Chao's army crossed the Huaihe River to the north, marched from the Huaihe River to the north, and marched in full armor.After that, all the way was like a broken bamboo, breaking through Shenzhou (now Xinyang, Henan), and divided troops into Yingzhou (now Fuyang, Anhui), Songzhou (now Shangqiu, Henan), Xuzhou, and Yanzhou, and all Tang officials fled. The balance of history began to favor Huang Chao's side.In mid-November of the first year of Guangming (880), Huang Chao led the peasant army to conquer Ruzhou (now Linru, Henan), and then marched northward without stopping.In the Tang Dynasty, troops from the feudal towns such as Hedong (in Taiyuan Prefecture) and Tianping (today's Dongping North, Shandong Province) advanced to suppress them.The peasant army was as powerful as a broken bamboo, and conquered Luoyang, the eastern capital, on the 17th.Tang Dongdu stayed behind Liu Yunzhang and led a hundred officials to welcome the surrender, and the city was Yanran. At the beginning of December, Huang Chao led an army of peasants to Tongguan through Shan (now Shan County, Henan) and Guo (now Lingbao, Henan).Qi Kerang and Zhang Chengfan, the defenders of Tangtong Pass, had few soldiers and no food. The peasant army defeated the Tang defenders, conquered Tongguan, and the army pointed directly at Chang'an.On the fourth day of December, Emperor Xizong issued an edict to appoint Huang Chao as the Taiping envoy, writing a stroke of near farce for history.How could Huang Chao care about the Taiping Jiedushi at this time?He cares more about Chang'an. On the fifth day of December, Emperor Xizong fled to Chengdu in embarrassment under the protection of Tian Lingzi's shence army. Only a few people followed, and most of the civil and military officials, kings and concubines did not know the whereabouts of the emperor.Huang Chao entered Chang'an smoothly without any resistance, and he finally realized his long-cherished wish of "the fragrance of the sky penetrates Chang'an, and the whole city is covered with golden armor". At this time, Huang Chao discovered that only when the greatest ideal is realized, the experience of the past narrow escape will be endless aftertaste.If the Tang court had agreed to him as the governor of Guangzhou, what would he be like now?If Liu Jurong, the envoy of Tangshan Nandong Road Jiedu, had been chasing after him, he would have died long ago, right?If... There are too many ifs. History is like this, with its inevitability, but also too many contingencies.In many inadvertent chances, Huang Chao realized his greatest ambition, and wrote his profound strokes on the scroll of history.