Once the Tang Dynasty, how powerful it was, all the nations came to the dynasty, and the four seas were served.
However, in the hundred years after the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, after one turmoil after another, the vitality of the Tang Dynasty had been lost for the most part, and the end of the dynasty was only the last fatal blow.
The last years of the empire were often plagued by disasters, and great floods and droughts were often accompanied by catastrophes and chaos.
In 875, when Huang Chao was 45 years old, Wang Xianzhi, a Puyang man who was also a salt smuggler, gathered thousands of people to revolt. Huang Chao quickly responded.
A few months later, tens of thousands of people had gathered.
The rebel army rampaged through the Central Plains, with great momentum, rapidly expanding to hundreds of thousands of people.
The Tang Dynasty was unable to suppress the rebels for a while, so it adopted the strategy of suppressing and caressing at the same time, and gave Wang Xianzhi the title of an official, hoping to recruit him.
Wang Xianzhi was shaken in his heart and wanted to accept Zhao An, but Huang Chao did not agree, so a conflict broke out with Wang Xianzhi, and most of the rebels did not agree, so the matter was abandoned.
Although the rebels did not accept the offer, after the conflict, Huang Chao's team parted ways with Wang Xianzhi's team.
In 878, Wang Xianzhi was defeated and killed in Huangmei, Hubei Province, and his remnant rebel army defected to Huangchao, embracing him as the "Yellow King" and also known as the "Great General of the Heavens".
Huang Chao gathered tens of thousands of people and ran rampant in Jianghuai. Huang Chao wanted to move north and west, but because the Tang Dynasty had mobilized a large number of troops in the north, the rebel offensive was blocked. At the same time, the rebels in the south also suffered major defeats.
In order to protect himself, Huang Chao had to pretend to submit to the imperial court.
But he soon surrendered and rebelled.
Huang Chao could not open the situation to the north, so he turned south.
The rebels crossed the Jiangxi of Anhui and invaded Fuzhou in late 878, killing tens of thousands of foreigners in the city. In 879, he crossed the Nanling Mountains, captured Guangzhou, and slaughtered more than 100,000 foreigners in the city.
Huang Chao originally wanted to use Lingnan as a base, but the rebels could not adapt to the hot climate of Lingnan, and the plague epidemic in the army was prevalent, and there were three or four soldiers who died of infection.
As a last resort, the rebels moved north.
In the early 880s, it invaded Hunan, and then was invincible in the Yangtze River Valley, and the military strength soon grew to 200,000.
In September 880, the rebel army crossed the Huai River and went north to the Central Plains, and the army expanded to hundreds of thousands.
In November, it captured the eastern capital Luoyang.
In December, tongguan was breached.
In January 881, huang Chao was 61 years old, and he had repeatedly failed in scientific expeditions, leading hundreds of thousands of rebels to capture Chang'an City, the heart of the Tang Empire.
Huang Chao took the throne in Chang'an and established the state as emperor. Because he is from Shandong, Huangchao's national name is "Daqi". Change the yuan "Jin Tong", and take the current year as the first year of the Jin Tong.
This is the peak of Huang Chao's life. Huang Chao was not able to create a great dynasty like the later Zhu Yuanzhang.
After capturing Chang'an, he seemed to have begun to gain self-reliance, and did not suppress the remnants of the Li Tang Dynasty in time.
This allowed Emperor Tang, who had fled into Sichuan, to order armies from all over the country to counterattack Chang'an.
The soldiers and horses of the Qin king in various places approached and surrounded Chang'an, and Huang Chao abandoned the city and left, but after the officers and soldiers entered Chang'an, they actually rushed to plunder the property of the people in the city, and the military discipline was scattered.
Huang Chao took the opportunity to counterattack, annihilated the officers and troops, and occupied Chang'an City again.
In 882, the situation began to be unfavorable to Huang Chao, and his general Zhu Wen defected and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, and Emperor Tang, in recognition of his loyalty, gave him the name "Quan Zhong", which was later Zhu Quanzhong.
In 883, Huang Chao again abandoned Chang'an and retreated eastward.
In 884, all the way back, Huang Chao, who had fallen to Pingyang, was defeated by his former subordinate Zhu Wen in Henan.
After successive defeats, he fled to Shandong, his hometown and where his uprising began.
In 884, Huang Chao was 64 years old and was defeated and killed in Taishan. At this point, the great uprising he led finally came to an end.
Although the Huangchao Uprising ultimately failed, the rebel army swept across the territory of the Tang Dynasty, covering the Southern and Lingnan regions of the Central Plains, giving the Tang Dynasty the final fatal blow and completely draining the vitality of the Tang Dynasty.
In 907, 23 years after Huang Chao's defeat and death, his former subordinate Zhu Wen (Zhu Quanzhong) usurped the throne as emperor, and the Tang Dynasty officially collapsed.
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