307 times, the six armies did not send helpless, like a moth eyebrows and died before the horse

When the eight immortals crossed the sea, they didn't know that the world was in chaos.

Mei Zhenyi took Yang Yuhuan away that year, and Li Longji took Yang Yunu, the princess of Shou, into the palace and canonized her as a concubine. Internally, Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong were used to make An Lushan bigger. And An Lushan and Yang Guozhong will not get along with each other and have suspicions of each other.

Yang Guozhong is Yang Guifei's cousin, and it is not clear what the name of Yang Guifei in history is. There is no record in the two historical materials of the "New Tang Book" and the "Old Tang Book", and it is not mentioned in the "Zizhi Tongjian" compiled by Sima Guang in the Song Dynasty. It's just that a hundred years after she was given death, the literati's wild history miscellaneous records made up "Yang Guifei's small character Yuhuan" to be handed down to future generations, and Mei Zhenyi heard Yang Yuhuan's name before she crossed over.

In the Tang Dynasty, literati also wrote that "Yunu, Taizhen Xiaozi also", perhaps because the name Yunu was not as good as Yuhuan, and later literati preferred to quote the name of Yang Yuhuan. What is going on with the thousand-year-old circulation, I'm afraid even Mei Zhenyi, who has experienced that era, can't say clearly.

The territory of the Tang Dynasty was vast, and all ethnic groups lived together and integrated, showing the gentleness of the prosperous era. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, due to the continuous conquest and expansion of the territory, the government military system was implemented in various places, and the military power of Gyeonggi and the state capitals was extremely important. In the Kaiyuan period, there was nothing to do in the country for a long time, only the frontier was disturbed from time to time, and the Tang Dynasty set up ten military towns in the border areas, and each town was in charge of several state administration, finance and taxation, household registration, land, and military power, and gradually formed a pattern of external reality and internal emptiness, which became a hidden danger of the central power.

The relationship between Yang Guifei and An Lushan was extremely intimate and a bit chaotic, and Xuanzong also attached too much importance to and trusted An Lushan, who could fight well, and appointed him as the envoy of the three towns of Pinglu, Fanyang, and Hedong. Among the 500,000 border troops of the Tang Dynasty, 200,000 were commanded by An Lushan, and they were the most elite troops who had been tempered by the battle formation. At the same time, the Gyeonggi garrison in the Chang'an area was less than 100,000.

In such a situation. People who are a little ambitious may have other ideas, An Lushan has been recruiting troops to strengthen the power of his cronies.

Hexi Jiedu made Wang Zhonghei and Prime Minister Yang Guozhong successively sue An Lushan for rebellion, but Li Longji only said that he did not believe it, and there is a certain amount of truth in the historical record that Li Longji came to a faint in his later years, but Li Longji, as a promising hero of the generation, was he really so completely confused? Li Longji could already see that the situation was not right at this time. But tiger farming has become a problem, and it is very tricky to deal with.

Li Longji's name is a great achievement, and An Lushan has indeed made outstanding military achievements, and he was single-handedly raised under the favor of the Son of Heaven; if it were not said that this person had rebelled, wouldn't he be slapping Li Longji himself in the face? On the other hand, the general has a heavy army outside, and it is easy for others to talk about it. If someone sues the border general for rebellion, the Son of Heaven will directly nod and say "I believe", as long as there is a rumor, I am afraid that the border general will really be forced to rebel.

The crown prince Li Heng also said that An Lushan has traces of disobedience, and he is the future monarch. Li Longji also considered handling this matter, followed the advice of Prime Minister Yang Guozhong, and recruited An Lushan into the Hajj.

If you are leading the army, you have the strength to fight against the Central Chamber. If someone in the DPRK and China impeach you for plotting rebellion, what choice do you have? There are only two ways to go, one is to show your innocence with practical actions, and the other is to immediately rebel and protect yourself. An Lushan chose the first road first, and after receiving the edict, he immediately galloped into Beijing.

Yang Guozhong once said to the Son of Heaven that if An Lushan wanted to rebel, he would not dare to come. As a result, An Lushan really came, which made him very embarrassed. In the first month of the thirteenth year of Tianbao (754 AD), An Lushan entered Beijing to visit the Son of Heaven and cried: "The ministers are Hu people, Your Majesty is not promoted, tired and modest, and graceful to ordinary people." Yang Guozhong was jealous and wanted to murder his ministers, but the ministers would die. ”

Li Longji had kind words and comfort. And the reward will be added again. He was crowned as the left servant of Shangshu, and his son was sealed. Give more houses, fields, slaves and maids, and the grace will remain the same. In March of this year, when An Lushan left Beijing and returned to Fanyang, Li Longji personally saw him off, and took off his royal clothes and draped them on his body at parting, a touching scene of gentlemen and courtesy!

As history turns to this page, some people may ask: If An Lushan had been killed or had found an excuse to detain him in Chang'an, would it have been possible to stop the Anshi Rebellion? Li Longji had never moved this idea, and it is unknown whether Prime Minister Yang Guozhong and Prince Li Heng had ever had such a plan.

But based on the situation at that time, if An Lushan was really killed or locked up, the biggest possibility would probably be another result - this rebellion would come early. An Lushan's son An Qingxu and his subordinate general Shi Siming, etc., each with ambition is not a fuel-efficient lamp, if An Lushan falls into Chang'an, these people are very likely to immediately raise troops. At that time, An Lushan did not rebel after all, and there was no direct evidence of any rebellion.

Li Longji chose to appease An Lushan in order to delay the army. This is helplessly wise, but it is definitely not wise, Xuanzong favored Yang Guifei in his later years, and he was indeed negligent and stupid, otherwise it would not have caused this kind of situation where it was difficult to raise tigers, he was hesitant and inappropriate to Yang Guozhong and An Lushan, but these two people were related to Yang Guifei.

An Lushan left Chang'an like a frightened bird, rushed all the way to the bank of the Yellow River, changed horses and took a boat down the river day and night, and rushed back to his old nest Fanyang.

In the first month of the second year, An Lushan went to the imperial court and asked for the promotion of thirty-two foreign generals to replace the original border town Han generals, and the hesitant Li Longji finally began to think about how to deal with An Lushan. When An Lushan came to Chang'an last year, Li Longji planned to confer Tongping Zhangshi and leave him in Chang'an to worship the prime minister, which was both honorable and far away from the army in the border towns.

At that time, Yang Guozhong said: "Although Lushan has military merits, he does not know how to read, how can he be the prime minister! Li Longji also gave up his plan. At this time, Li Longji was ready to issue an edict again, allowing An Lushan to enter the court to worship the prime minister. Yang Guozhong was deeply jealous of An Lushan, how could he let him enter the dynasty and divide power, instigated the ministers to dissuade him, and once again discussed it but not decided.

Yang Guozhong naively thought that as long as he relied on a letter of inquiry from the imperial court, he could get rid of An Lushan, and did another thing in Chang'an, instructing Jingzhao Yin Yamen to send someone to raid An Lushan's mansion in Chang'an under the pretext of searching the counter-accusations, arrested Li Chao, a guest of Anfu, and sent them to Yushitai for questioning. An Lushan heard the news and knew that it was not good, and since then he has said that he is sick and has not seen any guests, and he will never return to Chang'an.

June of this year. The lord of Rongyi married An Qingzong, the son of An Lushan, in Chang'an, and Li Longji ordered An Lushan to enter Beijing to attend the wedding, and An Lushan resigned from his illness in the future. In November of this year, the Son of Heaven sent an envoy to Fanyang to check the reality of An Lushan's illness, and An Lushan took the opportunity to forge an edict and said to his subordinates: "The Son of Heaven has a secret decree to order Lushan's generals to enter the court to seek Yang Guozhong, and all the monarchs should join the army." Then they rebelled.

From the beginning. On the one hand, Li Longji single-handedly pushed him to the cusp of the storm and was in a dilemma; on the other hand, a series of incidents occurred in the DPRK and China, forcing An Lushan to rebel. Which factor is more important, I'm afraid even An Lushan himself can't tell, in short, the Anshi Rebellion began.

At that time, the world was peaceful for a hundred years, and the people did not know how to fight, and the local garrison soldiers and horses did not go to the battlefield. In his life, he had never even seen a scene of fighting, how could he stop the army of tigers and wolves under the command of An Lushan? An Lushan waved his army like a bamboo, and it took only 35 days to drive straight into and capture the eastern capital Luoyang, and the next year he proclaimed himself emperor in Luoyang and established the country as Dayan.

The Tang Dynasty mobilized military horses. Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing were sent to guard Tongguan, and ordered the troops and horses of various military towns to gallop to aid the Beijing division, and the generals Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi marched from Hebei to attack the rear of the rebels, which curbed the momentum of the rebels for a while.

Datang has accumulated prestige for a hundred years. Li Longji was still living in the fantasy of the prosperous era at this time, and he didn't take An Lushan too seriously, and wanted to quickly settle the rebellion. Bian Lingcheng, the eunuch of the supervising army, failed to ask for bribes in the Tongguan army, and returned to Chang'an to complain to the Son of Heaven that the Tongguan guards Feng Changqing and Gao Xianzhi were bluffs and thieves, cowardly and avoided the battle, and abandoned Shaanxi for hundreds of miles, shaking the morale of the army.

Li Longji had long been dissatisfied with the war, and after hearing this, he beheaded Feng Changqing and Gao Xianzhi, and ordered Ge Shuhan, who was recuperating in Chang'an, to be the commander. He led the temporarily mobilized 200,000 troops out of Tongguan and fought a decisive battle with An Lushan, but the Tang army was defeated, Ge Shuhan was captured and surrendered, and An Lushan took advantage of the situation to capture Tongguan.

As soon as Tongguan was lost, there were no soldiers to use and no danger to defend east of Chang'an City, Li Longji took Yang Guifei, the crown prince Li Heng, and the prime minister Yang Guozhong, etc., and fled Chang'an in a hurry under the escort of the Yulin Forbidden Army and went south. Ten days later, An Lushan's rebels occupied Chang'an. The momentum reached its peak for a while.

An Lushan is called the emperor. He also occupied the national capital, thinking that he was done. did not pursue to the southwest, and indulged in alcohol and entertainment day and night. And at this time, An Lushan's body is not good, he has always been too obese, according to the current words, in his later years, he may suffer from diabetes, high blood pressure and a series of complications, under the indulgence of the body, the body is declining, the temper is becoming more and more irritable, his eyesight is gradually declining, and he can't even see things.

Not to mention the Great Yan Emperor An Lushan, only to say that the Tang Emperor Li Longji fled south in panic, and came to Ma Weiyi two days later, and there was a confusing palace coup here, known as the Ma Wei Mutiny, and the instigator behind the scenes is suspected to be the crown prince Li Heng.

Li Heng is forty-five years old this year, and it has been 18 years since he became the crown prince, so he can't wait for a long time. In the early years, Li Longji favored Concubine Wu Hui, listened to slander and killed his three biological sons, and Li Heng, the former loyal king, also almost suffered. After the death of Concubine Wu Hui, he was made the crown prince, and after so many years of trembling, he was dissatisfied with his father and the powerful ministers of the court.

An Lushan's rebellion, Li Heng thought that he had already reminded his father, but his father failed to stop it, and it was no longer suitable to hold power, and it was time for him to come to power. He knew that there were not a few people in the forbidden army who hated Yang Guo Zhongdi, and this was available for the army. After escaping from Chang'an, on the night of that day, Li Heng ordered Li Fuguo, the eunuch of the East Palace, to secretly recruit Chen Xuanli, the commander of the forbidden army, and planned to launch a mutiny under the pretext of getting rid of Yang Guozhong. At this time, Li Longji was still in the dark.

This time he fled south, accompanied not only by the forbidden army and ministers, but also by the envoys of various subject countries. The next morning, when the dinner was opened, more than 20 Tibetan envoys went to Chen Xuanli to ask for food, but Chen Xuanli said no, and asked them to go to Prime Minister Yang Guozhong.

There is a Shenyu Temple next to Ma Weiyi, it is the palace of Xuanzong temporarily, on this day Yang Guozhong just walked out of the Buddhist hall and got on the horse, he was stopped by a group of Tubo envoys, surrounded him to eat, and spoke in a hurry mixed with words. Before Yang Guozhong could reply, the forbidden army outside the temple shouted: "Yang Guozhong colluded with Hu Fan to rebel!" An arrow hit the saddle.

Yang Guozhong was frightened and fell off his horse, hurriedly fled into Ma Weiyi, and was chased and hacked to death by Yulinjun, and the soldiers then killed Yang Guozhong's sister Mrs. Han, his sister Mrs. Qin Guo, and his wife's family. Wei Fang, the imperial historian, drank the forbidden army and was also killed, and Zuo Xiang Wei Jiansu was beaten to the ground and bled out, Chen Xuanli appeared in time to restrain the soldiers to save his life.

Killing Yang Guozhong is just the first step to test, once you succeed in seeing the army's heart. Chen Xuanli began the second step of forcing the palace and led the army to surround Shenyu Temple. The noise alarmed Li Longji, and asked what was going on left and right, and someone outside the door reported that Yang Guozhong had been executed for plotting against him. The Son of Heaven was shocked but there was nothing he could do, and he sent his chamberlain Gao Lishi to ask the sergeant to step down. The Yulin Army did not retreat, and Li Longji had to go out in person to appease.

Seeing the arrival of the Son of Heaven, Chen Xuanli dismounted and knelt down and bowed: "Yang Guozhong rebelled and has been killed." His sister Yang Guifei should no longer serve His Majesty, and may His Majesty cut his love and put Yang Guifei to death. ”

Li Longji shook, if it weren't for Gao Lishi's support, he almost fell to the ground, just a few days of effort, the dignified Son of Heaven has fallen to such a point, and everyone has rebelled and left. can't even keep the woman he loves the most. Li Longji didn't answer for a long time, and Chen Xuanli couldn't stand on his knees, and the scene was so deadlocked.

Li Longji still wanted to maintain the dignity of the Son of Heaven and Earth, and finally said with a cane: "I will deal with it!" turned around and walked into the Shenyu Temple, and the army was still surrounding the temple and did not retreat. The onlooker minister also saw the situation clearly. Jing Zhao Silu joined the army, Wei Ge chased into the temple and persuaded: "Today, the public is angry, and the safety is only in the evening, may Your Majesty make a decision as soon as possible." As he spoke, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Li Longji repeatedly.

When Wei Ge raised his head, he saw that the gray-haired emperor had already burst into tears. muttered to himself: "The concubine often lives in the deep palace, and An Zhi Guozhong is conspiring?"

Li Longji knew very well in his heart that Yang Guozhong had no military power, and it was impossible to rebel in this situation. At the same time, he also understood that some people hated Yang Guozhong, and he must kill him quickly, but unfortunately he couldn't say these words. Forced by the situation, the soldier did not listen to his orders, and he had to admit that Yang Guozhong had rebelled. Since this is the case, it can only be argued that Yang Guifei did not know.

Gao Lishi persuaded: "The noble concubine is innocent, but Yang Guozhong has been punished, how can the soldiers and soldiers let her serve Your Majesty with peace of mind? This is already very blatant, the soldiers killed Yang Guozhong without authorization, how could they leave Yang Guifei, do they still have to wait for her to take revenge in the future and settle accounts? Li Longji wants to protect himself. can only conform to the will of the people.

Li Longji was helpless. Ordered Gao Lishi to lead Yang Guifei to a pear tree in the backyard of Shenyu Temple, and gave him a white silk hanging. Yang Yunu was Chinese New Year's Eve at the age of thirty and eight. Over the years, she has been raised in the deep palace and is still beautiful and jade, and Xuanzong still takes her with her when she flees in panic, which shows that her grace has not diminished.

Poor Yang Guifei didn't know what happened until Gao Lishi came with a white silk, tears were sprinkled like pearls with broken threads, her whole body was trembling, and she asked, "Where is the Son of Heaven?"

Gao Lishi didn't dare to raise his head, and replied in a low voice: "The mountains and rivers are broken, and the Son of Heaven is powerless." The six armies forced outside the palace gate, and the concubine should not be blamed. ”

As he was talking, a thin but clear voice suddenly came from Gao Lishi's ears: "Gao Lishi, you will personally hang Concubine Yang, please listen to me." He was taken aback, looked up and turned to look, and the voice said, "Don't look around, I can't be seen by you, just do what I say!"

Gao Lishi hanged Yang Guifei, and Xuanzong ordered the body to be carried to the Buddhist hall for Chen Xuanli and other generals to come to check. Chen Xuanli and the others took off their armor and kowtowed: "The ministers are planning to kill Yang Shun, and they have not respected the holy decree, please give correction to the crime." ”

Li Longji could only reassure: "I don't know anyone, with today's turmoil, I want to go to Shu to reorganize the army and horses to quell the rebellion, and you and other people with lofty ideals in the country should be rewarded, what is the crime?"

All the soldiers bowed down together and shouted long live, and the Son of Heaven ordered Gao Lishi to hastily bury Yang Guifei, silently shedding tears. The soldiers reorganized their horses and continued to escort forward, and the mutiny came to an end. However, not far from Ma Weiyi, a group of local squires knelt down to stop the car, on behalf of the "people", asking for the crown prince Li Heng to lead the army to quell the rebellion, and the soldiers of the Yulin army also knelt down and begged His Majesty to ask for the people's request.

As soon as he saw this scene, Li Longji already knew that this was clearly arranged by the prince, that is, to seize power and kick himself away again. But now that the heart of the soldier has followed the prince, it is impossible to listen to Li Longji's orders anymore, if Li Longji continues to be in power, he will turn around in the future and calm the world, these people will be worried about their own safety, and only by supporting the crown prince can they keep their net worth.

Li Longji had no choice but to leave the prince and be named the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses to lead the army to quell the rebellion. Li Heng led most of the Yulin Army to part ways with his father and the emperor, and went north to Lingzhou to collect the military horses of the northwest town. Escorted by a group of forbidden troops, Li Longji continued southward into Shu and arrived in Chengdu on 28 July.

Li Longji fled Chang'an on June 12 in the 15th year of Tianbao of the Tang Dynasty (756 AD), and on June 14, he went to Ma Weiyi to encounter a mutiny and killed Yang Guifei, and then encountered the crown prince seizing power. Li Longji, as a generation of prosperous emperors, was not at ease at the mercy of his son, and on July 15, on the way south, he made one last struggle and issued an edict, which was known as the "Dividing Edict" in history.

Ordered the crown prince Li Heng to be the marshal of the world's soldiers and horses, and led Shuofang, Hedong, and Pinglu Jiedu envoys, and went to Lingzhou to gather military horses from the northwest border towns and take Chang'an and Luoyang in the south.

He ordered Yongwang Li Lan to be the envoy of Shannan Dongdao, Lingnan, Qianzhong, and Jiangnan West Dao, and went down the Yangtze River, recruiting soldiers and horses, fighting grain and grass along the way, and going north to quell the rebellion.

This was a strategy of dividing the army into two routes, and judging from the situation at that time, the war in the north and the stability in the south, and the dispatch of King Yong to manage the Yangtze River valley was also a long-term plan to prevent the Yellow River valley from being unfavorable. Li Longji was still a little unwilling, he didn't want to retreat from the highest peak of the historical stage so quickly, and he still wanted to play the imperial technique of checks and balances by the sons and generals.

It's a pity that this division system was issued late.