Chapter 15: The Old Era Ends
In June 779, a generation of male lord Li Yu died.
In the Anshi Rebellion, Li Yu searched for troops and put down the rebellion in the name of the marshal of the world's soldiers and horses. On the bank of the Fengshui River, Guo Ziyi led the Chinese army, Li Siye led the front army, Wang Sili led the rear army, and the Hui soldiers and horses were led by Ye Hu as a mobile team, and the Xiangji Temple killed 60,000 enemies in a battle, which opened the curtain of the Tang Dynasty's reorganization of mountains and rivers to recover the world. Li Yu was afraid of invisible, Yu Liang was profound, wide and able to break, and immediately ordered to pursue the victory, the enemy army broke and fled, and the Jingshi Chang'an finally recovered after 15 months of falling to the Anshi rebels. With his own body, he blocked the Hui army from plundering Chang'an. Then he led the army eastward and pacified Luoyang, Tokyo. With the great merit of recovering the two capitals, he was canonized as the crown prince. In the first year of Baoying, Li Yu ascended the throne. The following year, the Anshi Rebellion was put down.
Although the Anshi Rebellion was pacified, the Tang Dynasty Emperor Li Yu's country was still fragmented. Hexi and Longyou were not in Tibet; Anxi and Beiting were blocked from traffic and struggled to support; The four different races invade each other; The local heroes of the pacification of the rebellion and the rest of the Anshi army will run rampant and divide one side; The population of Datang also dropped from 9 million households in its heyday to 5 million households, and its national strength was greatly damaged. The Tang Dynasty was no longer able to rely on the center to maintain the rule of the whole country, and the centralization of power in the early Tang Dynasty was no longer appropriate.
Fight the world immediately, you can't rule the world right away. The Tang Dynasty had to change its strategy, appease An Shi's generals, raise the people first, and recuperate. Because of this, he was accused by countless people of appeasing and nurturing traitors, and he could not take advantage of the remnants of the defeat of the Anshi army, sweep away the remnants of the peace history, and level the river, so that the division of the feudal towns became more and more intense, especially Wei Bo was the most.
During the Tang Dynasty, the first feudal towns began to be set up, mainly because of the excessive expansion of the Tang Empire, the frontier areas needed strong military support, and the transfer of troops from the Central Plains to guard for a long time could no longer meet the needs, so they had to set up feudal towns. With the Anshi Rebellion as a turning point, the expansion of the Tang Empire came to an end and began to turn to defense. The Anshi Rebellion even became a turning point in Chinese history, and from then on, the Central Plains Dynasty had to establish a defensive posture, always on guard against the southern invasion of foreign races from the north, and no longer had the ambition of expansion.
At this time, the Tang Dynasty set up an observation room in the south, and used the taxes from the south to support the northern feudal towns, which also shouldered the heavy responsibility of resisting the Tubo, Hui, Khitan and other foreign races, and the local feudal towns played a good buffer role in the stability of the empire. Since then, the feudal towns, together with the Southern Ya controlled by the imperial bureaucracy and the Northern Division under the command of the Central Forbidden Army by the eunuch group, have constituted the three pillars of the Tang Empire, maintaining the rule of the Tang Empire for more than 100 years to a certain extent.
After the death of Emperor Zong of the Tang Dynasty, the crown prince Li Shi succeeded to the throne. The first thing Li Shi did when he became emperor was to respect Guo Ziyi as his father, take away his military power, and let him make Yu Hou Li Huaiguang the envoy of the Suining Festival, Shi Changqianguang, the governor of Lingzhou, as the envoy of the Lingzhou Festival, and the Zhenwu military envoy Hun Ying as the protector of Shan Yu Dadu, and lead the people.
Since then, the old generation who have quelled the rebellion in Anshi have all come to an end.
When the news reached Weibo, the older generation of generals represented by Tian Tingjie were deeply disturbed. Tang Dezong, who had just succeeded to the throne, the first thing he did was to concentrate the military power in his own hands, and I am afraid it was not simply because Guo Ziyi's skills were high. Guo Ziyi adhered to the strategy of the first emperor, pacified the feudal towns, and stabilized the great. The newly enthroned emperor may have to do the opposite. At present, Wei Bo's new Jiedu envoy Tian Yue is recruiting troops, this nephew's move will undoubtedly touch the nerves of the new emperor, he is really worried that the new emperor will take them Wei Bo first.
When Dezong Li Shi was fourteen years old, the Anshi Rebellion broke out, and the following year Chang'an was lost, Tang Xuanzong fled to Sichuan, and the world fell into great turmoil. Li Shi tasted the war and the pain of his family and country, experienced the baptism and test of war, and was determined to put down the thieves and restore the mountains and rivers. After Tang Dynasty Zong ascended the throne, he appointed Li Shi as the marshal of the world's soldiers and horses, and he shouldered the mission of the final decisive battle with the Anshi rebels. After a year of pursuit, the Anshi Rebellion was pacified. He wanted to continue to march north with the aftermath of the great victory, cutting off the remnants of Anshi, but at this time, Tang Dynasty Zong ordered to stop the march and garrison the south bank of the Yellow River. I can only sit and watch the three towns of Hesu continue to rise, and fight against the imperial court, every time I think of this, I grit my teeth, and I can't wait to give birth to Tian Chenghei, Xue Song, Li Baochen and the like. Now that the three of them are dead, the remnants are still there, and the arrogance of the three towns of Hesu has not diminished. It's time to pull out this thorn in the eye.
The battle between the new generation is about to begin.
Tian Tingjie shared his worries, but Tian Yue disagreed. Tian Yue believes that the emperor is newly established, and now is the time to stabilize the regime, rashly send troops, fearing chaos, Li Cheng should understand this truth, he will first use other means to toss himself, and then he will raise the banner of righteousness and raise troops to fight. The new emperor, Tian Yue is acquainted, when his uncle followed Shi Siming to raise troops to the south again, under Luoyang City, he had seen this young man. At that time, Li Shi was holding on to the city, and his golden armor was particularly dazzling. When his uncle's vanguard arrived at the city, he led several people to provoke him many times, but he never held out, and drank tea at the head of the city calmly, as leisurely as watching a play. On the contrary, it provoked the provocative people in the city, and Tian Yue threatened to capture this little prince alive and let him lead the horse and saddle him. After the arrival of Shi Siming's army, he surrounded Luoyang City, Tian Chengsi led the vanguard troops to block reinforcements east of Luoyang, and Tian Yue led a small team of men and horses to ambush at the west gate to prevent the Tang army in the city from breaking through. When Shi Siming's army was about to break through Luoyang City, Ximen suddenly broke out a team of men and horses, and went straight to Luoshui. Tian Yue took the lead and blocked their way.
The young general of the golden armor shouted: "Who is coming?" Hurry up and get your name on! ”
Tian Yue replied loudly: "I am Lu Long Tian Yue, the pioneer of Dayan!" ”
As soon as Tian Yue finished answering, he found that another young general poured out of the city gate, dressed in golden armor. Tian Yue was puzzled, which one is Li Shi? After thinking for a moment, he sneered, left the young man in front of him, and led the troops to catch the young man in golden armor behind. Since it is a suspicious soldier, it is impossible for the prince to take the risk. When the young man saw that the crowd was coming, he hurriedly turned his horse's head and galloped south. Tian Yue chased after him, and shot over the mount with an arrow, and the golden-armored boy rolled down and was captured. Tian Yue went to the camp to invite merit, only to find that the young man in front of him was not the prince, and the real prince was the one he met for the first time, and he had already fled. Tian Yue was full of regret, and he missed the great credit.
Now that the former golden-armored boy has already transformed into the current emperor, it is a matter of time before he does it to himself, he will not be soft, which is why as soon as he took office, he began to recruit troops, rather than sit back and wait, it is better to take the initiative.