In the next few months, Chang'an City became more and more unstable, and the reason why the situation in Chang'an City was so unbearable was because the Huangchao bandits were becoming more and more intense.

Zhang Lan, who prides himself on being the nemesis of the Yellow Nest, could have completely defeated the Yellow Nest in March, but at that time, the epidemic in the Yellow Nest Army had not been cleared, and the combat strength was greatly damaged. Huang Chao adopted the strategy of Shang Rang and others, on the one hand, he sent bribes to Zhang Luan, and on the other hand, he wrote a letter to Gao Biao, expressing his willingness to accept Zhao'an.

Gao Biao has been suppressing bandits for so long, he has long been impatient, and now the biggest thief in the world is willing to surrender, he is overjoyed, and ordered Zhang Lan to postpone the attack on Huangchao. and wrote to the imperial court that "the Yellow Suppression of the bandits will be peaceful in a few days", and let all the reinforcements from Zhudao go back.

But who knew that after Huang Chao relieved himself, he flatly denied that he was going to surrender. Then, at the end of June, Huang Chao seized the opportunity in western Zhejiang and wiped out Zhang Lan's troops in one fell swoop.

In July, Huang Chao led his army across the Yangtze River from Quarry (present-day Nanjing), only a river away from Gao Pi's base camp Yangzhou. Regardless of the scolding and dispatch of the center and the emperor, he ignored himself.

In this way, the great opportunity to gather the country's troops to exterminate the Huangchao banditry in one fell swoop disappeared and dragged the Tang Dynasty into the abyss.

Throughout the history of Wang Xianzhi and Huangchao bandits from their rise to entering Chang'an, it can be found that at least three times, Huangchao escaped death, and the generals who fought against Huangchao repeatedly connived at Huangchao's bandits for three reasons.

The first is to ask the generals to raise their own respect, among which the words of Song Wei, the commander-in-chief of the early bandits, are the most representative: "The imperial court has no kindness and is capricious." Only by keeping these thieves can our soldiers be rich and noble. ”

The second is corruption, the Tang Dynasty has now become seriously corrupt officials, and even military generals are vulgar, what are they fighting to the death for? It's not because of the money and wealth, and the reason why Gao Biao and his generals such as Zhang Lan are keen to follow the Huang Chaojun is to make money. After re-taking over the city, anyone who had contact with the thieves was put in prison and had no family property.

The third is to despise the Huangchao Army, whether it is the generals who encircle and suppress the Huangchao Army, even the prime ministers in the court do not take the Huangchao bandits seriously. A few years ago, the Yizong Dynasty had just pacified Pang Xun's rebellion, so the Tang Dynasty thought that Huang Chaojun was also the same as Pang Xun's turmoil, and they focused more on fighting for power and profit.

Combining the above three reasons, it finally led to the Huangchao Uprising that ruined the Tang Dynasty. I have to say that history is quite ruthless and absurd, and none of the high-ranking officials and dignitaries in the bureau could have imagined that a small civil unrest would eventually subvert the Tang Dynasty for nearly 300 years.

As an outsider, Li Bao has always been very calm, and after a few months of relocation, his industry has basically completed the construction of Weizhou City, which is in full swing.

In May, Zhang Qingping had already taken over as the envoy of Shannan Xidao Jiedu, and at the same time, the imperial court canonized Zheng Ningji, the envoy of Fengxiang Jiedu, as the defense envoy of Weizhou, and Zhang Chengye continued to preside over the work of Weizhou City as the deputy ambassador of Fengxiang Jiedu.

Li Bao had spare time at this time, and took Ling'er Xinniang Yunfang and other beauties to play and feast all day long, so as to kill time. For all kinds of chaos in Chang'an City, it seems that I have not seen it.

He only needs to wait until the day when Huang Chaobing comes to the city, and lead his cronies to escape from Chang'an City, and from then on, he will be at ease, and the sea and sky will no longer be subject to any constraints.

In September, the Huangchao army defeated the official army in Huainan, and then ordered the army not to steal property, only to coerce the people, so far the Huangchao army has become a force, and the troops are approaching Luoyang and Chang'an Erjing.

Huang Chao's army of 500,000 men encountered little resistance along the way, and now in November, Huang Chao's army had reached Ruzhou (now Linru, Henan) and approached Luoyang, Tokyo.

Needless to say, the people in Chang'an City are panicking. In the Daming Palace, the emperor Li Yi immediately ran out of ideas, and hurriedly went to the Yanying Hall to discuss matters with the prime minister of the Political Affairs Hall. All the prime ministers had no ideas, and Emperor Li Yi was even more anxious to cry.

Tian Lingzi was also helpless, he reviewed himself in front of the emperor and the prime ministers for mistrusting Gao Biao, and threw the black pot to Dou Lu Yao, who strongly recommended Gao Biao.

Dou Lu Yao was difficult to distinguish at this time, but he was also very disappointed in Tian Lingzi, although Dou Lu Yao was back, but how to deal with the Huangchao bandits under the city, he still had no idea.

Under the strict pressure of the emperor, the prime ministers expressed their opinions, but their opinions on how to defend themselves against the bandits were also divided.

Some people advocated the transfer of troops from all towns in the pass to guard Tongguan, but Tian Lingzi, the lieutenant of the Shence Army, thought that this strategy was feasible, and he also asked himself to lead the two Shence army bowmen to guard the pass; Some people believe that the rebel army has 500,000 people, and Tongguan has no heavy troops, so it is difficult to hold on.

Emperor Li Yi didn't know what his psychology was, but he decided to let Tian Lingzi lead his troops to defend Tongguan in the east.

Just two days after the defense decision was made in the court, that is, on November 17, when the Huangchao army approached the city of Luoyang, the Tang army general Qi Kerang led his army to retreat to Tongguan. As soon as Zike let the front foot go, Liu Yunzhang, who stayed in Tokyo, led the crowd to welcome Huang Chao into the city and surrendered.

Tokyo Luoyang has fallen, and it is not far from Chang'an, Tian Lingzi, who was still preparing for defense, panicked, he didn't know what to do.

Liquanfang, Tian Lingzi house.

Tian Lingzi's face is serious, his ugly face is a little more attractive because of the tightness, but most of the people sitting in the hall are his henchmen, except for Li Guang, who is the most flattering and scolding him on weekdays, there are also a few scribes, they are all Tian Lingzi's staff, sheltering under him, doing evil.

Tian Lingzi looked at the silent crowd and said, "Let's all talk about it, what should our family do in this situation now?" ”

Li Guang looked at everyone, then at Tian Lingzi, he pursed his lips, and then said in a low voice: "Lieutenant Tian, don't be in a hurry, didn't we let Chen Yuanjun go to Shuzhong to operate a long time ago, as long as we brought the official family to Shuzhong before that Huangchao thief Kou entered Beijing, what thieves were we afraid of at that time?" ”

Li Guang said exactly what Tian Lingzi said in his heart, this kid is clever and knows how to figure out Tian Lingzi's mind best. But at this time, the Huangchao thieves had not yet reached the city of Chang'an. If you leave at this time, then the history books of future generations don't know what to write about themselves. It was Tian Lingzi who was noncommittal to Li Guang's opinion and continued to look at the others.

On November 21 of the first year of Guangming (880), Emperor Xi took Tian Lingzi as the commander of Ru, Luo, Jin, Jiang, Tong, and Huadu, and sent the left and right armies eastward.

After Li Bao saw the edict, he sneered in his heart, how could this Tian Lingzi go to guard Tongguan by himself, and he didn't know that the ghost who was going to die for the dead was going to die. Unexpectedly, in the afternoon, Zhang Zhifang, the commander of the right army of the Weiyuan Army, came to the door in person.

At this juncture, Zhang Zhifang is here, there must be something important. Li Bao didn't dare to slack off, and immediately ordered the palace people to prepare tea, and retreated, and invited Zhang Zhifang to the study for a secret talk.

In the next few months, Chang'an City became more and more unstable, and the reason why the situation in Chang'an City was so unbearable was because the Huangchao bandits were becoming more and more intense.

Zhang Lan, who prides himself on being the nemesis of the Yellow Nest, could have completely defeated the Yellow Nest in March, but at that time, the epidemic in the Yellow Nest Army had not been cleared, and the combat strength was greatly damaged. Huang Chao adopted the strategy of Shang Rang and others, on the one hand, he sent bribes to Zhang Luan, and on the other hand, he wrote a letter to Gao Biao, expressing his willingness to accept Zhao'an.

Gao Biao has been suppressing bandits for so long, he has long been impatient, and now the biggest thief in the world is willing to surrender, he is overjoyed, and ordered Zhang Lan to postpone the attack on Huangchao. and wrote to the imperial court that "the Yellow Suppression of the bandits will be peaceful in a few days", and let all the reinforcements from Zhudao go back.

But who knew that after Huang Chao relieved himself, he flatly denied that he was going to surrender. Then, at the end of June, Huang Chao seized the opportunity in western Zhejiang and wiped out Zhang Lan's troops in one fell swoop.

When he arrived, he didn't dare to slack off, so he immediately ordered the palace people to prepare tea, and retreated, and invited Zhang Zhifang to the study for a secret talk. , Tongguan has no heavy troops,

In the next few months, Chang'an City became more and more unstable, and the reason why the situation in Chang'an City was so unbearable was because the Huangchao bandits were becoming more and more intense.

Zhang Lan, who prides himself on being the nemesis of the Yellow Nest, could have completely defeated the Yellow Nest in March, but at that time, the epidemic in the Yellow Nest Army had not been cleared, and the combat strength was greatly damaged. Huang Chao adopted the strategy of Shang Rang and others, on the one hand, he sent bribes to Zhang Luan, and on the other hand, he wrote a letter to Gao Biao, expressing his willingness to accept Zhao'an.

Gao Biao has been suppressing bandits for so long, he has long been impatient, and now the biggest thief in the world is willing to surrender, he is overjoyed, and ordered Zhang Lan to postpone the attack on Huangchao. and wrote to the imperial court that "the Yellow Suppression of the bandits will be peaceful in a few days", and let all the reinforcements from Zhudao go back.

But who knew that after Huang Chao relieved himself, he flatly denied that he was going to surrender. Then, at the end of June, Huang Chao seized the opportunity in western Zhejiang and wiped out Zhang Lan's troops in one fell swoop.

In July, Huang Chao led his army across the Yangtze River from Quarry (present-day Nanjing), only a river away from Gao Pi's base camp Yangzhou. Regardless of the scolding and dispatch of the center and the emperor, he ignored himself.

In this way, the great opportunity to gather the country's troops to exterminate the Huangchao banditry in one fell swoop disappeared and dragged the Tang Dynasty into the abyss.

Throughout the history of Wang Xianzhi and Huangchao bandits from their rise to entering Chang'an, it can be found that at least three times, Huangchao escaped death, and the generals who fought against Huangchao repeatedly connived at Huangchao's bandits for three reasons.

The first is to ask the generals to raise their own respect, among which the words of Song Wei, the commander-in-chief of the early bandits, are the most representative: "The imperial court has no kindness and is capricious." Only by keeping these thieves can our soldiers be rich and noble. ”

The second is corruption, the Tang Dynasty has now become seriously corrupt officials, and even military generals are vulgar, what are they fighting to the death for? It's not because of the money and wealth, and the reason why Gao Yu and his generals such as Zhang Lan are keen to follow