Chapter 8 History has taken a turn
It wasn't until Huang Qiong's tenth birthday that he received the "Benji" from his mother, which recorded the deeds of the emperors of this dynasty, that he knew that he was not from the Tang Dynasty, nor from the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty. Rather, a dynasty that was completely unfamiliar and did not exist in the history he knew, and had never heard of.
In the Great Qi Dynasty, Huang Qiongke never knew when a Huang Qi appeared in Chinese history, except for the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, when a Xiao Qi and a Gao Qi were divided between the north and south of China. He is not an idiot, his surname is Huang and he is a prince, so what else can the royal family have if he doesn't have the surname Huang?
Before he saw this "Taizu Benji", he never knew when his ancestors in his previous life had such a glorious situation and established that dynasty. It wasn't until he finished reading this book of Taizu and the previous emperors of this dynasty that he understood that history had taken a 180-degree turn in his own era.
His Emperor Taizu Gao was none other than the late Tang Dynasty, who had repeatedly referred to state civil servants, but he had never been able to do so. In the end, in a fit of rage, he changed his career to become a smuggler and changed to selling illicit salt. In the end, under the chaotic situation at the end of the Tang Dynasty, he used the large wealth accumulated by his family to sell illicit salt for generations to rebel.
Huang Chao, a famous anti-expert in the late Tang Dynasty who called himself the general of the sky, and later occupied Chang'an and became the emperor. According to the history he knew, the so-called Emperor Taizu, after occupying Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, not only did not have the courage to chase after the poor. On the contrary, he turned a blind eye to the tens of thousands of elite soldiers stationed in Chang'an and close to Chang'an, and paid attention to enjoyment and pomp.
The former Tang Emperor's set of fun skills, you don't need to learn yourself. Not only did he not gain a foothold in Guanzhong, but he was driven out of Chang'an City within two years. What followed was defeat after defeat, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses quickly dispersed, and the generals died and surrendered. In the end, he also died tragically in the valley of Taishan Tiger and Wolf, not to mention, his head was sent to the emperor of the Tang Dynasty in Sichuan to ask for merit.
But in the era when he came, it has become a territory, larger than the Northern Song Dynasty that should have appeared now. It is basically the same as the territory of the late Tang Dynasty, and it should even exceed it a lot. Not only the sixteen states of Yanyun and the Outer Great Wall are firmly controlled, but even in the northwest territory, almost the entire territory of Gansu and Ningxia in later generations, and most of Qinghai.
The entire territory stretches from the 16 prefectures of Yanyun in the north, to the Red River in Vietnam in the south, to the Yumen Pass of the Hexi Corridor in the west, to the sea in the east, to the southwest and Dali across the Jinsha River, and across the Snow Mountain to confront Tubo. In the northwest, it is located on the Qinghai Plateau, and the founder of the Great Unification Dynasty across the Qinghai Lake from the Tibetan tribes.
Although in his previous life, Huang Qiong's father had always told him that their family was the descendant of Huang Chao. The ancestor of their family was the son of a concubine born to Houna after Huang Chao entered Chang'an City. When Huangchao withdrew from Chang'an, his mother was able to evacuate with the army when most of the other concubines were abandoned.
When the battle of Chenzhou was stalemate, he already knew that he was at the end of the road. Once completely defeated, the Tang Dynasty will not let go of any of its descendants, so as to completely eradicate the roots. I am afraid that when I entered Chang'an, what I did to the Li family's dragon sons and phoenix grandchildren will be staged again.
In the case that the older sons and nephews are too big and are still in the command of the army. Secretly dispatched his henchmen to carry a batch of treasures looted from Chang'an. With this son and his mother, he secretly left the team and went to Hebei. At that time, the feudal towns in Hebei were strong, and they rebelled against the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty was already beyond the reach of the whip there, and it was safe to escape there.
Later, they have been living in Hebei, until the early years of the Republic of China, in order to escape the famine, the grandfather and his family came to the Northeast in the east of the country, and they became authentic Northeast people. In his previous life, when his father said that if Huang Chao's rebellion was successful, their family would be the descendants of the royal family, Huang Qiong had always just smiled, only thinking that his father was bragging.
It's just that I didn't expect that when I came, history came to a 180-degree turn, and my ancestor really succeeded in rebelling and became the founding emperor of a generation of unified dynasties. And when he came to himself, he has been passed down to eight generations of emperors, which can be said to be a long time enjoying the country.
However, although in Chinese history books, there has always been a focus on the superior, and some of the words in this book are unknown. But from this chronicle, it is concise, and even a one-stroke description of what Emperor Taizu did after entering Chang'an. Huang Qiong didn't see that his ancestor looked like the founder of the country now?
The speed of its corruption and depravity, although it did not catch up with the Heavenly King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom a thousand years later, was not far behind. Since entering Chang'an, not only have he been widely recruited and indulged in lust, but he has not been out of Chang'an City for many years, not to mention a single step, and even occasionally out of the palace only to take the imperial chariot. In a few years, I may not even be able to ride a horse.
Not only did his ancestor corrupt himself at an astonishing rate, but even those subordinates who had fought with him for thousands of miles and could be regarded as the rest of their lives were also lost in the drunken gold fans in Chang'an City. Not only is the general trend plundering people's wealth, but the speed of decline in combat effectiveness is also amazing.
Within two years, many generals were so knowledgeable that they couldn't even ride horses, and they had to sit on their shoulders when marching and fighting. The enemy troops who were still close at hand were not taken care of, and their mansions were built in extraordinary luxury. Although he only controlled most of the former Tang Gyeonggi Province, the western part of Togi Province, and a corner of Hedong Province, he was quite enthusiastic about fighting for power.
There are hundreds of thousands of troops inside and outside, but even the more than 100,000 soldiers and horses of the former Tang Dynasty around Chang'an can't be defeated. The most fatal thing is that not only are the generals at all levels intoxicated with wine, but they have lost the will to continue the war. There are even some teams that have faintly been divided into one place.
Such a team, no matter how Huang Qiong looks at it, is not a new dynasty, and it should have the atmosphere when the country was founded. You must know that when Emperor Taizu entered Chang'an City, the main force was not devastated. The Tang Dynasty had not yet completely collapsed, and at least a considerable part of the feudal towns in various regions still listened to the imperial court.
After the occupation of Chang'an, Emperor Taizu only cared about pleasure, and he had no confidence to chase after the poor. When ** eases up, according to the style of his ancestor, there is no possibility of success at all. And according to the history I knew at the beginning, it is exactly such a trend.
His own Emperor Taizu, who occupied Chang'an for only two or three years, was driven out of the Guanzhong territory by the cooperation of ** feudal towns, coupled with the cooperation of Shatuo soldiers and party cavalry. And after losing the battle all the way, the morale of the army was completely dispersed, and the generals around him died and surrendered.
By the time Tiger Wolf Valley was completely defeated, even his nephew betrayed him. Take your head and go to the Tang Dynasty to ask for merit and reward. How did I get here, but it was a 180-degree turn. For Huang Qiong, this turn was really a bit urgent, so he couldn't figure out where the change had occurred.
It wasn't until she saw a name she had never heard of in her previous life that Huang Qiong discovered where the turning point of this history was. Liu Zhirong, an emperor of Taizu who was attached to Guangzhou when he was transferred to Guangzhou, first served as a secretary by Taizu's side, and after Taizu ascended the throne, he was awarded the title of Hanlin Bachelor, and then transferred to the military department Langzhong.
In the third year of Jin Tong, that is, in the second year of the former Tang Dynasty, he led 500 cavalry into Tongzhou as a labor envoy. At the banquet, he killed the rebellious Tongzhou defense envoy Zhu Wen, his adviser Xie Tong and the general Hu Zhen and his army. Immediately before the siege of Tongzhou, Wang Chongrong, the envoy of the Tang River in the middle of the festival, and all over the country came to the aid of more than ten feudal towns in the former Tang Dynasty.
In the same state, the former Tang Dynasty copper coins were collected, more than 10 refined copper casting cannons were melted, and more than 10,000 catties were made as sharp weapons. In the case of failing to obtain reinforcements, he fought several times with ** and the Shatuo army that came to his aid with inferior troops. In the end, with the support of artillery, he defeated the former Tang Dynasty deployed in the towns of the Hezhong Domains in one fell swoop, and defeated more than 100,000 troops who came to aid Shatuo.
Successively captured and killed more than ten Jiedu envoys and supervisors such as Wang Chongrong, the envoy of the Jiedu in Hezhong, and Li Keyong, the leader of the Shatuo Army, fled to Hedong with only more than 1,000 remnants, and cleared the last elite around Chang'an in one fell swoop. Immediately, he and the generals successively captured the states of Gyeonggi Province, Guannai Province, and Longyou Province in the former Tang Dynasty, and completely lifted the siege of Chang'an City by the former Tang Dynasty. After the battle of Tongzhou, he was promoted to the envoy of the Fenning Festival with military merits.
After the battle in the river, he wrote to Emperor Taizu, offering a plan to prune branches and leaves first, and then remove the main pole to destroy the Tang Dynasty. It is proposed that in addition to holding Guanzhong with part of the troops, the rest of the hedgehogs gathered in Guanzhong will be exhausted. With a force out of Henan, the main force of the ** Kwantung gathered in Henan at that time was contained.
With an elite army through Hedong and capture Taiyuan, solve the Shatuo Army, which poses the greatest threat to Guanzhong and march into Guandong. If the goal can be achieved in both battles, the elite will be sent to pass through Shandong and Hebei, and in Dinglianghuai and Jiangnan. In the end, he sent troops to capture Liangchuan and completely solve the strategy of the former Tang Dynasty.
In this recital, this person asked himself to lead the army into Henan in order to contain the more than ten feudal towns in the Kanto region mobilized by the former Tang outside Tongguan, which was almost equivalent to seventy percent of the troops of the former Tang in the Kanto region. And proposed to take the crown prince as the prison army, with the heart of Emperor An Taizu. For this suggestion, after the Battle of Guanzhong, the main force of Guanzhong was originally wiped out, and Emperor Taizu, who was at ease, did not adopt it at first.
However, after the battle of Guanzhong, the Shatuo army that retreated to the east of the river died but did not freeze. Repeatedly cooperated with the party cavalry in the northwest direction and sent troops to attack Guanzhong. The largest one even hit the Baqiao on the edge of Chang'an. made Chang'an City frightened three times a day, and Emperor Taizu almost abandoned the city. Under the persuasion of the crown prince, Emperor Taizu finally accepted this person's suggestion after several hesitations.
In the fifth year of Jintong, Liu Zhirong deployed the deputy capital of the Jingdong camp and Henan Yin, collected 50,000 troops from Henan who had newly defeated and returned to Guanzhong, and marched into Henan with the prince as the supervising army. The command post headquarters was in Tongguan, and there were several battles with more than 100,000 elites in Tang Guandong. Although after several hard battles, it failed to reproduce the achievements of breaking the army in Guanzhong, but the main force of the former Tang Guandong princes and towns was firmly contained in the front of Tongguan.
The 100,000 troops of the Shangrang Department of the East Hedong took advantage of the fact that the main force had no time to take care of Hedong, and the opportunity of the emptiness of the Hedong troops successfully captured Taiyuan, and the last 30,000 elites of the Shatuo Army in Hedong were all annihilated north of Taiyuan. It's just that although the Qi army won in this battle, in the face of the stubborn resistance of the Shatuo army, the armies in the east of the river also suffered heavy losses, and they were unable to go east to Taihang according to the original plan.
In order to ensure the safety of the flank of the main force of the Qi army, which was resting after the Battle of Hedong. The former Tang feudal towns that were ready to withdraw after hearing the fall of Hedong were contained in Henan. In the winter of the fifth year of Jin Tong, he personally led more than 10,000 cavalry to borrow the road to the east of the river, crossed the Yellow River three times and penetrated Luoyang and Bianzhou, captured the states east of Luoyang in one fell swoop, and cut off the retreat of more than 100,000 troops from more than ten feudal towns in the former Tang Dynasty in Henan.