Ge Shuhan is a drunkard, a mellow beauty, and always accompanies him, so that he is weak.

In February of the 14th year of Tianbao (755 AD), on his way to the pilgrimage and when he arrived at the Tumen army, he suddenly suffered a stroke because of the bathing guide, and he woke up from a coma for a long time, and he fell into the sequelae of half of his body

After returning to Beijing, he had to stay at home. Sometimes, it is also a kind of luck to die at the right time, if Ge Shuhan returns to the west at this time, he will definitely be the same as Wang Zhonghe, starting and ending well.

Leaving a reputation of loyal ministers and good generals, he will be remembered in the history books, but it is a pity that he was rescued and resurrected.

The contradiction between Yang Guozhong and An Lushan became more and more intense, and finally reached the point of being out of control. In the fourteenth year of Tianbao, An Lushan, the envoy of Fanyang (now southwest of Beijing), Pinglu (now Chaoyang City, Liaoning), and Hedong (now Taiyuan, Shanxi), led 150,000 Fan and Han soldiers, falsely claiming to have served the secret decree of the imperial court.

In the name of crusading against Yang Guozhong, killing Luoyang and Chang'an, for a long time, the Tang Dynasty's troop layout was heavy on the outside and light on the inside, and An Lushan's troops were the best in the world.

Occupied many counties north of the Yellow River. Tang Xuanzong woke up from a big dream and hurriedly deployed the defense of An Lushan. He asked the famous generals Feng Changqing and Gao Xianzhi to lead the troops to resist the enemy, but the difference in strength between the two sides was too great.

The Tang army was defeated all the way, Luoyang was lost, and had to retreat to Tongguan (now northeast of Tongguan, Shaanxi), and the strong wall did not come out. Tang Xuanzong couldn't accept such a setback, and listened to the false accusation of the eunuch Bian Lingcheng,

sent people to behead Feng Changqing and Gao Xianzhi to show the public, and the imperial court lost two experienced generals, laying the groundwork for the earth-shattering disaster that followed.

At this time, Tang Xuanzong thought of Ge Shuhan, who was sick and died at home, although Ge Shuhan tried his best to resign for physical reasons, but finally accepted the emperor's appointment.

Tang Xuanzong also let Tian Liangqiu serve as the marching Sima, and Wang Sili, Li Chengguang and others served as subordinate generals, leading 200,000 troops

, go to Tongguan to resist the enemy. Before leaving, Tang Xuanzong personally walked. Let the hundred officials go to the suburbs to send each other, and add Ge Shuhan as the left servant of Shangshu, and the same Zhongshu Men Pingzhang, and place ardent expectations on Ge Shuhan.

After Geshuhan guarded Tongguan. Due to physical reasons, it was difficult to deal with daily military affairs, so he appointed Sima Tian Liangqiu to preside over the overall situation.

Tian Liangqiu did not dare to act arbitrarily, so he let Wang Sili be in charge of the cavalry and Li Chengguang was in charge of the infantry. But Wang Sili and Li Chengguang were not convinced by each other,

They often quarrel and refuse to cooperate well, resulting in inconsistent orders in the army. In addition, Ge Shuhan's army was "strict but not compassionate", and the morale of the Tang army was low and people had no fighting spirit.

In the first month of the fifteenth year of Tianbao (756 AD), An Lushan proclaimed himself Emperor Dayan in Luoyang.

Therefore, he was not questioned by Tang Xuanzong. However, Geshuhan has always hated Ann Sishun. At this time, the power is in hand,

made people forge a letter written by An Lushan to An Sishun, and pretended to catch the messenger at the gate of Tongguan City.

made An Sishun bear an indefensible black cauldron, An Sishun and his younger brother An Yuanzhen were both executed by the imperial court,

The family was exiled to the barren land of Lingnan. The rabbit died and the fox was sad, Yang Guozhong, who had always supported Ge Shuhan, also felt a cold swish in his back, and he was worried that the next enemy that Ge Shuhan would eliminate would be himself.

At that time, people believed that An Lushan's rebellion was caused by Yang Guozhong's persecution, so Ge Shuhan's subordinate Wang Sili persuaded Ge Shuhan. "An Lushan rebelled,

It is an excuse to clear Yang Guozhong, if we leave 30,000 troops to guard Tongguan, the rest of the elite will return to the capital. Kill Yang Guozhong,

There is no excuse for An Lushan's advance", Ge Shuhan also had this intention, but he also considered that if he really wanted to act like this, he would become An Lushan's second. In the end, Wang Sili's opinion was not adopted.

However, the plan of the two quickly spread to Yang Guozhong, and now the heavy troops of the imperial court are in the hands of Ge Shuhan, as long as Ge Shuhan raises his arms,

Yang Guozhong died without a place to be buried, in order to protect himself, Yang Guozhong came up with a countermeasure, he obtained the consent of Tang Xuanzong,

3,000 elite soldiers were recruited, led by henchmen, trained day and night, and another 10,000 troops were recruited, led by henchman Du Qianyun, nominally to defend against the rebels, but in fact to guard against Geshuhan.

Ge Shuhan knew this, and immediately submitted a request to bring the army of Bashang into the unified command of the Tongguan army, and in the name of discussing the military situation, he summoned Du Qianyun to his camp, beheaded him, and annexed his army.

After this contest, Yang Guozhong panicked, and Ge Shuhan was also restless all day long, and he was beating drums in his heart.

At this time, Li Guangbi and Guo Ziyi led the army to defeat the rebel Shi Siming Department one after another.

Cutting off the line of communication between the rebel front line and Fanyang's nest, the rebels' eastward advance was blocked by Zhang Xun in Yongqiu (now Qixian County, Henan), and in the south was blocked by Lu Jiong in Nanyang (now Dengzhou, Henan).

Under the management of Ge Shuhan, Tongguan is impregnable, and the main force of the An army launched attacks on Tongguan again and again, which lasted for half a year, but it was in vain.

The goal of westward expansion into Chang'an became very slim. Geshu Han is a generation of famous generals, and he sees the current shape very clearly, he believes that although An Lushan occupies a vast area of Hebei, his subordinates are all Fan generals and Hu people.

Wherever they go, burn and plunder, and the people will never return to their hearts. If the Tang army sticks to Tongguan and the rebels can't attack it for a long time, the army will definitely be disheartened, and all the rebels will leave.

At that time, the shape of the Tang army was indeed developing in the direction of favoring the Tang army, and the good news was frequently reported in various places, which made Tang Xuanzong regain his confidence in victory, and the traitorous minister Yang Guozhong also kept fanning the flames on the side, demanding that the Tang army go out of Tongguan and fight a decisive battle with the rebels.

Tang Xuanzong listened to Yang Guozhong's slanderous rumors, and constantly sent envoys to urge Ge Shuhan, who repeatedly expressed to the emperor.

"An Lushan has been in the army for a long time, proficient in the art of war, and now he is prepared, and he is good for a quick battle. The rebels hide their elite, luring our army with the old, weak, sick and disabled, there must be tricks, if our army goes out lightly, it will inevitably fall into the trap of the rebels, and it will be too late to regret it".

Tang Xuanzong had been carried away at this time, and he couldn't listen to Ge Shuhan's golden and jade words, he was harsh and harsh, and walked out of the faint trick of hatred for eternity.

Tang Xuanzong urged Ge Shuhan to go out to meet the enemy on the grounds of "unpreparedness of the thief", and the envoy "looked at each other with his back", which caused great pressure on Ge Shuhan, and he had the experience of Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing.

Of course, Ge Shuhan knew what the consequences of disobedience were, and on the fourth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar in the fifteenth year of Tianbao (756 AD), Ge Shuhan "wept and went out".

The Tang army was stationed in the western plains of Lingbao (now Lingbao, Henan). Lingbao is backed by mountains in the south, the Yellow River in the north, and a narrow mountain road 70 miles long in the middle, where the rebels are carefully arranged by the mountains and rivers. Just wait for the Don army to break into the ambush zone.

On the eighth day of the first month, the decisive battle began, Wang Sili led 50,000 elites to take the lead, and Pang Zhong and others led an army of 100,000 to follow.

Another 30,000 people beat drums high on the north bank of the Yellow River to assist. The rebels deliberately showed weakness. The team was not in order, and the Tang army really hit the plan, went all the way, and was lured into the pass. Countless rolling logs and rocks on the mountain fell like hailstones,

The Tang army had no room for turnover on the pass, and suffered heavy losses in the dead and wounded. Ge Shuhan saw that the general situation was not good,

Ordered the felt carts to open the way in front, and the rebels had already had a second hand, pushing dozens of lit straw carts down the valley. Soon the flames were raging, and the Tang army couldn't see the target clearly, only knew how to fire arrows indiscriminately until sunset.

The crossbow bolts were exhausted, only to find that they had not hurt the enemy in the slightest. At this time, the commander of the rebel army, Cui Qianyou, ordered the elite cavalry to kill from behind the Tang army, and attacked back and forth, and the Tang army could not exert the power of the large number of people at all.

Floundered. Tens of thousands of people fell into the Yellow River and drowned, and the cries of despair were earth-shattering.

The Tang army on the side of the Yellow River scrambled to squeeze onto the grain ship, due to overloading. Hundreds of grain ships eventually sank to the bottom of the Yellow River. The remaining Don troops tied their ordnance together,

Using guns as oars, they rowed to the other side of the Yellow River, and only one-tenth of the soldiers finally landed on the shore. There are three trenches dug outside the city of Tongguan, which are two zhang wide and one zhang deep. The fleeing Tang army fell into it and soon filled the deep ditch,

The people behind stepped on their bodies before running back to Tongguan, Ge Shuhan counted the number of people, 200,000 troops, and only 8,000 people remained. The rebels were accumulating a sharp edge, luring the Tang army to abandon the danger and go to war.

He also pretended to be invincible and lured the Tang army into an ambush circle, causing Ge Shuhan to suffer an unprecedented defeat in his life, and his reputation as a victorious general was also in vain.

Geshuhan cleaned up the remnants of the defeated army and re-held the pass, wanting to continue to deal with the enemy. After a short rest, the rebels rushed straight towards the Tang army.

Seeing that the general was gone, the general who was promoted by Ge Shuhan and the others saw that the general situation was gone, and made up their minds and kidnapped Ge Shuhan.

"The 200,000 army has been wiped out in your hands, what face do you have to see the Son of Heaven? Didn't you see the fate of Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing", Ge Shuhan was still calm at this time, and he said with a straight face,

"I'd rather be killed by the emperor like Gao Xianzhi, you let me go", Huo Turen and the others saw that he refused to give in, and tied Ge Shuhan's feet to the belly of the horse, along with other generals who refused to surrender,

and they went east together. At this time, the rebel general Tian Qianzhen arrived, Huoba Guiren surrendered to him, dozens of Tang army generals were sent to Luoyang, Tongguan fell, and Chang'an was in danger.

After An Lushan saw Ge Shuhan, he was triumphant, "You have always looked down on me in the past, how about now", Ge Shuhan had no heroic courage at this time, and actually knelt in front of An Lushan, prostrate himself on the ground and apologized, "I don't know Your Majesty with the naked eye, so much so."

His Majesty is the lord of chaos, the destiny of heaven, now Li Guangbi is in Tumen, Lai Yao is in Henan, Lu Jiong is in Nanyang,

I will surrender them for His Majesty, and I can pacify the Tang army of the three parties in one fell swoop", An Lushan was overjoyed, and immediately made Ge Shuhan a commonplace, and ordered someone to drag the fire to Guiren down and behead the public, so as to show favor to Ge Shuhan.

After receiving the letter, all the generals under Ge Shuhan in the past wrote back to scold him for not dying for the country and losing the dignity of the minister of the country.

The battle of Lingbao made the battlefield turn sharply, Tang Xuanzong took Yang Guifei's sisters, as well as his own prince and grandson, plus thousands of officials and forbidden troops,

Flee to Shu in a hurry. When the team marched to Ma Weiyi (now Xingpingxi, Shaanxi), the soldiers of the forbidden army finally couldn't bear it anymore and killed Yang Guozhong and his henchmen, and forced Tang Xuanzong to kill Yang Guifei.

In July, he ascended the throne in Lingwu (now southwest of Lingwu, Ningxia) for Tang Suzong, who was enshrined as Emperor Taishang from afar.

Zhang Xun

"The spring of the war is bitter, and the lonely city is becoming more and more dangerous. Surrounded by the moon halo, divided like a fish. Repeatedly tired of the yellow dust, when the white feather is waved. The sores are still out of the array, and the blood is even more ascending.

Faithfulness should be invincible, and steadfastness and forgiveness. No one reports the Son of Heaven, what do you want to do", whenever I read the biography of Zhang Xun in the Tang Dynasty, I always feel gloomy, when abstract morality is more important than the life of the entity becomes a consensus,

Anything appalling can happen, and I thought of Lu Jiong, the envoy of the Shannan Dongdao Festival at that time,

He held on to Nanyang for a whole year, and finally ran out of ammunition and food, led his army to break through the siege, and the rebels' attempt to attack the Jianghan area came to naught when they were heavily defeated. Zhang Xun did not follow Lu Jiong's example,

He chose to use the people in Suiyang City as military food, and after eating the women in the city, he then ate the old people and children among the men.

It's really a picture of hell on earth, Zhang Xun reads the book of sages, I don't know how he feels when he does these things? Mr. Bai Yang once commented on this, "Tragic martyrdom,

It is an honest act of personal responsibility, but it must not be generous to others and force others to die for themselves. You must not kill your comrades, especially women and children, because if you have one of them, you are beasts."

The lives of the Chinese, in the eyes of robbers and bandits, are certainly worthless, and in the eyes of loyal and righteous people, they are also worthless, no wonder Mr. Bai Yang "every thought, sorrow and indignation".

The battle of Suiyang, which lasted ten months, ensured the supply of Jianghuai and continuously supported the Tang army of the counterinsurgency, the Tang Dynasty did not die, Zhang Xunli had meritorious deeds, he was less than 10,000 people, full of strange schemes, eliminated 120,000 rebels, shot the rebel leader Yin Ziqi in one eye, and restrained An Qingxu's hundreds of thousands of troops before and after,

So that the main force of the Tang army can calmly counterattack, triumphant all the way, and quickly recover Chang'an and Luoyang, if Zhang Xun is not a famous general of the Tang Dynasty, then there is no famous general in the Tang Dynasty, if Zhang Xun does not hold Suiyang,

Tens of millions of people in the Jianghuai region are about to be ravaged by the war, and the destruction of life is an inevitable end, but Suiyang can only hold on to cannibalism, which makes people doubt Zhang Xun's moral sentiments.

Mencius once said, "Kill an innocent person and win the world, not for", Zhang Xun, this controversial figure, has been at a loss since the Tang Dynasty.

Zhang Xun was born in 709 A.D. and died in 757 A.D., his hometown, the "Old Tang Book" said that it was Puzhou Hedong, and the "New Tang Book" said that it was Dengzhou Nanyang, and the "New Tang Book" was used here to say that Dengzhou Nanyang belongs to today's Henan.

Zhang Xun has been very smart since he was a child, and he never forgot to read the book only three times, and he never forgot it for the rest of his life.

He is well-read and memorized, every time he meets someone, he will immediately remember his name, and when they meet in the future, they will blurt out, there is no one who does not know, that is to say, when he guarded Suiyang, there were tens of thousands of people in the city, and he later led the soldiers to slaughter everyone, he knew. (To be continued.) )