Chapter 766: The Tang Dynasty Falls

Wang Chongrong and Li Ke successfully invaded Chang'an with the combined army, and Tian Lingzi took Tang Xizong out of Beijing for refuge. Zhu Mei and Li Changfu, who originally cooperated with Tian Lingzi, also defected and led the army to pursue Tian Lingzi.

The two were imprisoned by Li Xuan, the king of Xiang, and Li Cohen was appointed prime minister, Li Changfu was secretly dissatisfied, and took the opportunity to persuade Wang Chongrong, Li Keyong and Li Changfu to jointly recover Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty of Xingyuan.

On the way back to Beijing, Tang Xizong clashed with Fengxiang Li Changfu, when Wang Chongrong was killed by his subordinates, Tang Xizong was able to return to Chang'an thanks to Li Maozhen's pacification, and Li Maozhen also succeeded Fengxiang Jiedu envoy.

In 888, Tang Xizong died, and his brother Li Ye was supported by the eunuch Yang Fugong, that is, Tang Zhaozong. Xuanwu Zhu Quanzhong and Hedong Li Keyong disagreed for some reason, and the two sides struggled continuously from the imperial court to the feudal town.

At that time, Zhang Quanyi and Li Hanzhi competed for the envoy of Heyang Jiedu, and the two sides respectively pulled Zhu Quanzhong and Li Keyong to fight.

As a result, Zhu Quanzhong won, annexed Heyang and Luoyang, and occupied almost all of Henan Province after defeating Qin Zongquan.

At that time, the eunuch Yang Fugong and the prime minister Zhang Jun were at odds, and the two sides won over Li Keyong and Zhu Quanzhong respectively. In 890, Zhu Quanzhong and Zhang Jun failed to attack the Hedong Army, and Zhang Jun was demoted.

Li Keyong seized the opportunity to annex Luzhou and Zezhou in Zhaoyi, and occupied the area of present-day Shanxi Province. Soon the eunuch Yang Fugong lost power, and Yang Shouliang rebelled in the south according to his brother Shannan Xidao Jiedu, and the Tang family quelled the rebellion with Li Maozhen and others, and Li Keyong's power in the imperial court declined.

Fengxiang and Li Maozhen were at odds with the Tang Emperor because they could not expand their territory, and the two sides went to war. In the end, Li Maozhen and Wang Xingyu were victorious, and they controlled the Guanzhong region, and the eunuchs and the outer court were under their control, and the Tang dynasty was left with only one capital.

At this time, the Tang Emperor was reduced to the spoils of war wrestling with various feudal towns, and was finally taken away by the feudal towns and replaced by them. In 895, Wang Chongying died in Hezhong, and Wang Xingyu, Li Maozhen, Han Jian and others competed with Li Keyong in Hedong.

Wang Xingyu took the opportunity to enter Beijing to kill Prime Minister Wei Zhaodu and others, and plotted to depose Tang Zhaozong. Li Keyong urgently led the army to help, and Wang Xingyu was killed by his subordinates, and the Tang family was able to settle down.

Afterwards, the Tang dynasty established the four armies of the palace, Li Maozhen and Han Jian approached Chang'an in 896, Tang Zhaozong fled to Huazhou, and the four armies of the palace were abolished.

In the end, thanks to Li Keyong and Zhu Quanzhong's army, Tang Zhaozong was able to return to Chang'an in 898.

Then Prime Minister Cui Yin and eunuch Han Quanzhu fought for power. Tang Zhaozong was imprisoned by the eunuch Han Quanzhu, and Cui Yin urgently summoned Zhu Quanzhong to help.

And Han Quanzhu forced Tang Zhaozong to take refuge with Li Maozhen, and Zhu Quanzhong led his army to besiege Fengxiang. The following year, Fengxiang's army ran out of food and grass, and Li Maozhen had no choice but to kill the eunuch Han Quanzhi and others to reconcile with Zhu Quanzhong.

Zhu Quanzhong took the opportunity to control the power of the DPRK, and also slaughtered hundreds of eunuchs and sent troops to control Chang'an. Cui Yin regretted it and deliberately got rid of Zhu Quanzhong's threat, and secretly recruited the six armies and twelve guards, which was detected by Zhu Quanzhong's eyeliner in Chang'an.

In 904, Zhu Quanzhong killed Cui Yin and forced Tang Zhaozong to move the capital to Luoyang, and Chang'an City was destroyed. In August of the same year, Zhu Quanzhong killed the emperor and set up Li Ji, the son of Zhaozong, as the emperor, that is, Emperor Tang Ai.

In the following year, Zhu Quanzhong wantonly degraded the court officials, and all of them were killed in the White Horse Station and thrown into the Yellow River, which was known as the disaster of the White Horse.

Zhu Quanzhong wanted to wait for the unification before seizing the throne, but due to the failure of the expedition to Huainan, he forced the Tang Emperor Chan Wai as early as 907, and after the founding of the Liang, the Tang Dynasty died, and the period of five dynasties and ten kingdoms began.