Tang Yi sneered: "Who in the Huangchao Heavenly Sword Rivers and Lakes of the Great Ming Dynasty doesn't know? Fu Bo blushed and said: "Why do you think that this sword is the Yellow Nest Heavenly Sword, is there a special code?" ”

"Yes, Brother Fu, can you see the golden chrysanthemum engraved on the Heavenly Sword?" Tang Yi looked at Fu Bodao.

Hearing this, Fu Bo leaned closer and glanced at the Heavenly Sword on the wall, and sure enough, he saw that there were a few golden chrysanthemums left on the sword, which he couldn't see if he didn't look carefully.

"How?" Tang Yi asked Fu Bo coldly.

"Yes, yes, but you can't just rely on these few little yellow flowers?" Fauber slyly argued. Tang Yi sneered and said, "Of course, you can't conclude that this sword is the Heavenly Sword of Huangchao back then based on a few little yellow flowers!" But? "But what, is there any legend that can't be realized?" Yes, there is, didn't Brother Fu see a yellow character engraved on the chrysanthemum? Fu Bo leaned closer and looked at it, and sure enough, there was a yellow character, and said suspiciously: "What if there is a yellow character?" Tang Yi smiled and said, "I wonder if Brother Fu has ever heard of such a poem?" ”

"What poem? Fauber asked curiously. Tang Yi smiled and read out loud: "When autumn comes, on September 8, I will kill a hundred flowers after the flowers bloom."

The heavenly incense array penetrates Chang'an, and the city is full of golden armor.

Fauber was stunned and said: "This poem is so familiar, it seems that I have heard it there!" Tang Yi smiled and said, "Of course, I am familiar with this poem, which is exactly what Huang Chao did!" ”

"What did Huang Chao do, that short-lived emperor could make such a powerful poem, impossible, right?" Tang Yi sneered and said, "Yes, it was he who wrote it, according to rumors, it was written when he was eight years old!" Fu Bo was a little surprised and said: "Eight years old, this person is indeed not simple, but what does this Yellow Nest Heavenly Sword have to do with him?" Tang Yi smiled and said: The connection is big, according to rumors, there was an old couple in the public welfare village in ancient times, and there was a child in his 10s who couldn't speak.

One day, the three of them went to the street together and saw a man selling a big catfish weighing seventy or eighty pounds.

The son, who had never spoken, suddenly spoke and said that he wanted to buy the big fish. The husband and wife were overjoyed when they heard this, so they bought the big fish.

When they got home, they broke open the belly of the big fish, and saw a sword with a sheath in the belly of the fish. The son said, "This is a sword that a hero has told me to keep for him, and do not unsheath it, or we will suffer." But the old couple who were very curious just didn't believe it, and couldn't help but take a look.

As soon as I pulled it out, I didn't know what was going on, but I saw a flash of red light, and the whole family was killed.

And the sword flew straight up Huangchao Mountain and stuck there. Soon after, Huangchao, who led the army to rebel, was closely pursued by the 800,000 troops of the imperial court, and the situation was very critical, and he happened to come to the bottom of Huangchao Mountain.

Huang Chao, who was standing on the bow of the boat, stretched out his hand, caught the sword, and then pulled out the sword, and waved it at the chasing army, only to see that hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses were killed, wounded, and beaten to the ground, and retreated.

Huang Chao returned victorious. Later, Huang Chao hung the sword at home. One night, his old mother was also curious, and did not listen to her son's warning, and secretly pulled out the sword to see what was going on, but before she could react, she saw a flash of red light, and the head of the old mother of Huangchao fell, and the sword flew to the top of Huangchao Mountain.

Without the sword, Huang Chao soon defeated the people of Huang Chao Tang Caozhou. Born as a salt merchant, he accumulated wealth and gathered people, especially to take in outlaws.

Since Tang Yizong, due to the excessive extravagance of the royal family, heavy taxes, and floods and droughts in successive years, the people have been unable to make a living, and bandits have risen in groups.

In the first year of the Tang Dynasty, floods and droughts occurred in Henan year after year.

"The wheat is only half harvested, the autumn crops are almost gone, and the winter vegetables are at least." But since Yizong

"The use of troops is endless, and the more urgent the collection becomes", and the states and counties do not talk about the disaster, resulting in it

"The people are in exile, and there is nowhere to complain." So Wang Xianzhi and Shang Junchang gathered thousands of people and rose up in Changyuan.

Wang Xianzhi claimed to be the general of the Heavenly Supplement Average, and he was also the commander of all the powerful people in the sea, preaching all the ways, and reprimanding the Tang Dynasty officials for corruption, heavy servitude, and unequal rewards and punishments.

In June of the second year of Qianfu, Wang Xianzhi and others captured Puzhou and Caozhou, and defeated the official army that came to suppress it.

At this time, Huang Chao and his brothers and nephews Huang Cun, Huang Kui, Huang Siye and nephew Lin Yan gathered thousands of people to respond to Wang Xianzhi, and hungry peasants from all over the country rushed to join the rebel army.

"In a matter of months, the crowd grew to tens of thousands." Before that, it had been circulated in various places

The folk song of "The golden toad fights for his eyes, but the world in Caozhou is opposed". Now that Caozhou has been captured by the peasant army, the folk song has been fulfilled, indicating that the storm of peasant uprisings will rise throughout the country, which greatly boosts the morale of the peasant army and greatly shocks the rulers of the Tang Dynasty.

The Tang court in the Central Plains saw that Wang Xianzhi and the Huangchao rebel army were powerful, and immediately ordered Huainan, Zhongwu, Xuanwu, Yicheng, and Tianping to attack the rebels.

In the situation that the enemy was strong and we were weak, Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao adopted the mobile tactics of avoiding the real and the virtual, and led the army into the siege of Yizhou.

In July of the third year of Qianfu, Tianping Jiedu made Song Wei defeat the righteous army under the city of Yizhou, and said that Wang Xianzhi was dead and dismissed the soldiers.

Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao took advantage of this favorable opportunity, and after a short rest, they moved to Henan and quickly captured Yangzhai, Jiacheng and other eight counties.

Then, the peasant army captured Ruzhou and shocked the eastern capital of Luoyang. The Tang court used both soft and hard measures, on the one hand ordered the pardon of Wang Xianzhi and others, and on the other hand, he frequently mobilized officials and troops from all over the country to suppress the peasant army.

After Wang Xianzhi captured Yangwu, he attacked Zhengzhou, and in December of the same year, he successively attacked Shen, Guang, Lu, Shou, Shu, Tongzhou and other places, approaching Yangzhou, and Huainan Jiedu envoys repeatedly complained to the imperial court.

Under the heavy blow of the peasant army, many state officials in Tang were frightened. When Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao attacked Qizhou, the state assassin Shi Pei Wei lured the leader of the rebel army and asked the Tang court to appoint Wang Xianzhi as the Zuo Shence army and supervise the imperial history.

Wang Xianzhi's mind was shaken, and he wanted to give up the struggle and accept Tang's official position. Huang Chao was furious and rebuked Wang Xianzhi and said: "The founder made a big oath and ran rampant in the world, and now he will take the official and go to the left army, so that the more than 5,000 people will be safe!" At this time, the crowd was furious and scolded, and the angry Huang Chao punched Wang Xianzhi to the point that his head was bleeding.

After this conflict, Huang Chao led 2,000 men and horses to the north and parted ways with Wang Xianzhi.

In February of the fourth year of Qianfu, Huang Chao led the army to capture Yunzhou and killed Xue Chong. In March, Yizhou was captured again.

Although Huang Chao has connected the two states, it is still a lonely army, and its strength is weak. At this time, Wang Xianzhi's general Shang Rang was stationed in the mountain, and Huang Chao met with Shang Rang to protect the mountain.

Soon after Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi joined forces again, they attacked Songzhou, but the peasant army was defeated due to the large number of reinforcements transferred by the Tang court.

So Wang Xianzhi led the original team to the south and split with Huangchao again. Huang Chao led his headquarters to fight in a roundabout way in Qi and Huang, and due to the defeat in the battle, he had to return north to the Central Plains and even go down to Kuangcheng and Puzhou.

In February of the fifth year of Qianfu, he turned to attack Bozhou. During this period, after Wang Xianzhi conquered An and Sui Erzhou one after another, he was once again tempted by the Tang Dynasty to surrender, and sent Shang Junchang and others to contact, but they were killed by the Tang generals.

Wang Xianzhi knew that he had been deceived, so he marched into Jingnan, and soon died in defeat in Huangmei. Some of the remaining people went south and were active in Jiangsu and Zhejiang; The other part was led by Shang Rang to the north and joined Huang Chao in Bozhou.

Wang Xianzhi died, and the generals pushed the Yellow Nest as the main one, known as it

The "Storming General" was changed to the Yuan Wangba, and the division of officials and posts was established, and the peasant military power was initially established.

Soon, after Huang Chao led the army to attack Yi and Pu Erzhou, the situation was reversed again. Tang Ting ordered Zhang Zimian, the general of the right guard, to recruit envoys for the northeast camp and supervise the troops to suppress the peasant army.

Huang Chao wanted to march into Xiangyi and Yongqiu, but was blocked by Li Yi, the envoy of Huazhou Jiedu. Most of the rebel armies operating in various places were also routed by the official army.

Huang Chao wanted to attack the eastern capital, and the Tang court quickly sent a large number of reinforcements. At this time, Tang Ting once again lured him to surrender and ordered Huang Chao to be the general of the right guard, but Huang Chao

"The towns of the feudal domains are not the same, and they are not enough to control themselves", and still refused to surrender to the Tang Dynasty. In March of the fifth year of the Huangchao Uprising, Huangchao led the army to attack Bian, Song and Song Prefectures, and the Tang Dynasty recruited envoys with Zhang Zimian as a camp in the southeast to stop the rebels.

Huang Chao turned to attack Weinan, Ye, and Yangzhai, and Tang Ting ordered 1,000 Heyang soldiers to go to the eastern capital to guard the palace with Xuanwu and Zhaoyi soldiers, and also recruited 3,000 Yicheng soldiers to guard Yique, Wujiao and other places near the eastern capital, so as to strengthen the defense of the eastern capital.

Huang Chao saw that the official army in Henan was strong and difficult to win, while Jiangnan was relatively weak; And Wang Xianzhi's old general Wang Chongyin captured Hongzhou again, and turned to Hunan, so he led the army to cross the river to the south, echoing with Wang Chongyin's department, and successively captured Qian, Ji, Rao, Xin and other prefectures.

In August, the Huangchao army attacked Xuanzhou, and was defeated by the official army in Nanling, so it entered eastern Zhejiang, passed through Wuzhou to Quzhou, and then overcame thorns and thorns, opened a mountain road of 700 miles, and invaded Fujian.

In December of the same year, the rebels captured Fuzhou. In the peasant army there were

The legend of "every Confucian, the flesh, the division will be overthrown", which means that if you encounter a Confucian, you will be killed, and the army will inevitably be destroyed.

Probably because Huang Chao repeatedly tried to enter the ranks, he was quite sympathetic to Confucianism, so when the peasant army entered Fujian, he burned the official mansion and killed the officials, but all those who claimed to be Confucians were relieved and did not ask.

When the rebels passed in front of Huang Pu, the school secretary of Chongwen Pavilion, they immediately ordered: "This Confucian, extinguish the torch and burn it." "In the first month of the sixth year of Qianfu, the Huangchao army was attacked by the generals Zhang Lan and Liang Zhang, the generals of the vassal Gao Biao, and repeatedly failed the Huangchao uprising, so they entered Guangnan and surrounded Guangzhou.

During this period, Huang Chao once sent a letter to Cui Xuan, the observer envoy of eastern Zhejiang, and Li Yuan, the envoy of the Lingnan East Dao Festival, asking for the balance of the festival.

The two were afraid of the power of the Yellow Nest and tried their best to play, but the court did not allow it; Huang Chao wrote by himself and asked for the envoy of the Guangzhou Festival, but he only granted the rate of the government.

Huang Chao was angry and scolded the government, so he rushed to attack Guangzhou, and then occupied this important town in Lingnan in September, killed Li Yuan, and then captured some prefectures and counties in Lingnan.

Huang Chao calls himself in Guangzhou

"The rebel army is unified", and issued a document to reprimand the imperial court

"The eunuch erected the handle of the dynasty, and the discipline of the beetle refers to the structure of the ministers and the Chinese bribing the bereavement of the bereavement, and the tribute loses talent", proposed

"It is forbidden to stab the property of the history colony, and the county orders the stolen people", the text said, the history said

"It was all extremely unscrupulous at the time." The Huang Chao army has been fighting in various places for many years, and this time it occupies Guangzhou.

"If you want to occupy the South China Sea, you will always be a nest", as a base for resisting the rule of the Tang Dynasty. But in this year, from spring to summer, the epidemic was greatly prevalent, and many soldiers of the righteous army were infected with the epidemic.

"The deceased is thirteen or fourteen", and there are many subordinates

"Persuade the north to return for great profit". Huang Chao saw that it was difficult to last in Guangzhou, so he decided to return to the Central Plains.

In October of the same year, Huang Chao led the army to leave Guangzhou, marched to the northwest, and captured Guizhou.

After that, Shang Rang took advantage of the victory to attack Gangneung, claiming to be 500,000. Jingnan Jiedu made Wang Duo see that the righteous army was huge, and the soldiers of Zhudao did not arrive, thinking that Jiangling was difficult to hold on to because of the few soldiers, so he retreated to Xiangyang.

After Shang Rang conquered Jiangling, he joined forces with Huangchao to attack Xiangyang, but was ambushed in Jingmen and was defeated by the official army with great losses.

Huang Chao collected the remnants, rested a little, and then crossed the Yangtze River to attack Ezhou and broke through the outer city. After that, he turned to attack 15 prefectures, including Rao, Xin, Chi, Xuan, She, and Hangzhou.

At this time, the Huang Chaojun was able to develop again,

"200,000 people." Huang Chao's victorious march in Jiangsu and Zhejiang shook the Tang Dynasty again, and Tang Xizong appointed Huainan Jiedu to make Gao Biao the commander of all the Taoist camps, and ordered him to quickly attack the righteous army, and at the same time recruited Zhaoyi, Reform, and Yiwu soldiers to the south to fight with Gao Biao.

In March of the first year of Guangming, Gao Biao sent his general Zhang Lan to cross the river to the south, and the Huangchao army lost the battle and retreated to Raozhou.

Zhang Lan took advantage of the victory to march again, and in May, Huangchao retreated to Xinzhou. At this time, the northern Zhudao army had already marched to Huainan, and Zhang Lan led his troops to pursue very urgently, and Xinzhou happened to be in the midst of an epidemic, and many of the righteous soldiers died, and their vitality was greatly injured.

At the moment when the rebel army was in a very critical situation, Huang Chao skillfully used a strategy to delay the army: on the one hand, he bribed Zhang Lan with a lot of money to slow down his march; On the other hand, he sent a letter to Gao Biao, saying

"Surrender". Gao Biao fell into the trap of the Yellow Nest, thinking that it was done, so he went to the court and claimed to be a righteous army

"Don't be peaceful, don't bother the soldiers, please send back." When Huang Chao learned that the Zhudao soldiers had crossed the Huai River north and dispersed to their towns, and the rebel army had also recovered its combat capability, he seized the opportunity to kill Zhang Lan in one fell swoop, defeated the Huainan soldiers, and took advantage of the victory to capture Muzhou and Wuzhou.

In July of the same year, Huang Chao led the army to cross the Yangtze River from quarrying north, and entered the siege of Tianchang, Liuhe and other counties.

At this time, Gao Biao saw that the Dao soldiers had returned to the north, and Zhang Lan died in battle.

"I can't control my own strength, and I don't dare to send troops for cowardice, but I order the generals to be strict and protect themselves", and at the same time told the court that the righteous army was 600,000, which was less than 50 miles away from Yangzhou.

afterwards

"So he called the wind paralysis and did not return to war." Tang Tingben had high hopes for Gao Biao, but when he saw that Gao Biao was in a hurry, he immediately panicked, and hurriedly ordered Henan to mobilize troops from various provinces to garrison Lishui to prevent the Huangchao army from advancing north.

In September, the rebel army defeated the Sizhou official army, and encountered the internal strife of the Lishui official army, and each dispersed to their own town, so the rebel army all crossed the Huai River.

Huang Chao called himself

"General of the Led Soil", team

"From the north of Huai, the whole crowd walks, does not steal goods, but drives Ding Zhuang as a soldier." After the rebels captured Shenzhou, they drove into Ying, Song, Xu, Yan and other prefectures, and everywhere they went, the officials fled in all directions.

At first, when the rebels crossed the Huai River in the north, the prime minister Dou Lu Yao had proposed to grant Huang Chao the envoy of the Tianping Festival, and then send troops to get rid of him when he arrived in the town.

Another prime minister, Lu Xian, insisted on disobeying, believing that as long as he sent troops to defend Sizhou, the rebel army would not be able to enter the pass, and would have to plunder the river and Huai, and he would be powerless.

Soon the rebels went north, Huaibei was in an emergency, Lu Xian was ashamed and said that he was sick, and the Beijing division was also full of terror.

In November, the rebels entered Ruzhou, and Huang Chao called himself

"Heaven makes up for the average general", and passed on the officers and soldiers to say: "Everyone should defend the base, don't offend my front!" I will enter the eastern capital, that is, to Jingyi, and ask myself for sin, without foresight of everyone. At this time, the imperial court was in a mess, and some people advocated the transfer of soldiers from all towns in the pass to guard Tongguan, and the eunuch Tian Lingzi also asked himself to lead the two gods to lead the crossbowmen to guard the pass; Some people believe that the rebel army has 600,000 people, and Tongguan has no heavy troops, so it is difficult to hold on.

However, Xizong still decided to let Tian Lingzi lead his troops to defend Tongguan in the east. On November 17, Huangchao's army entered the city of Luoyang, Tang general Qi Kerang retreated to Tongguan, and Liu Yunzhang, who remained in the eastern capital, led the crowd out of the city to welcome Huangchao into the city.

The rebels were well-disciplined, just

"For the sake of going away, the market is gone".