In 611 AD, because the Sui Emperor expeditioned to Goguryeo and recruited troops nationwide, the people were not happy. In the end, Wang Bo, a native of Shandong, took the lead in uncovering the Changbai Mountains in the Zouping area of Shandong Province, opening the curtain on the peasant revolt at the end of the Sui Dynasty.
After Wang Bo's uprising, he created a "Song of death in the Liaodong Wave", which was widely circulated in the folk and resonated with the vast number of low-level people. After Wang Bo's uprising, a large number of low-level people in Shandong went to Changbai Mountain to join the peasant army. After Wang Bo's uprising, people everywhere also began to revolt, and finally pushed the Sui Dynasty to its complete demise.
This history, many friends who are familiar with the history of Sui or Tang, should be familiar with it. Because in the last years of the Sui Dynasty, the Wang Bo Uprising was a landmark event, marking the beginning of the Great Peasant Revolt at the end of the Sui Dynasty. But what is interesting is that after Wang Bo's uprising, it became more and more diluted. However, Dou Jiande, Wang Shichong, Li Mi, Li Yuan, and other separatist forces who later raised troops left a strong mark in the history of the late Sui Dynasty.
Then, why did Wang Bo, who was the first to raise an army, gradually disappear later? What is the final outcome of Wang Bo?
In fact, the reason why Wang Bo gradually became marginalized later was because not long after he started his army, he was beaten down by the Sui army!
Wang Bo is a native of Zouping, Shandong, from a low-class family, and his birth year is unknown. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, shandong was the most unlucky place in the entire Central Plains. Because yang guang has carried out several super projects, the shandong region has the greatest oppression. To build the Grand Canal, through Shandong, it is necessary to mobilize a large number of manpower. The construction of Luoyang City and the palaces in various places are basically not far from Shandong, and a large amount of labor will be drawn from Shandong. In the conquest of Goguryeo, Shandong was the only way for armies everywhere, and it was also the main source of soldiers at that time.
These mountains were pressed down at the same time, and the people in Shandong, Hebei, and Henan basically could not survive. Therefore, in the last years of the Sui Dynasty, it was also the peasant revolt in this area, which was the most fierce.
In the seventh year of Daye, when the Sui Emperor recruited troops from all over the country to conquer Goguryeo, Wang Bo took the lead in the uprising in his hometown. At that time, many people knew that as long as they went to Liaodong to fight, they basically could not come back. Instead of going to Liaodong to die, it is better to take the initiative to revolt, and maybe you can win a way to live. Therefore, after Wang Bo's uprising, many ordinary people quickly surrendered to Wang Bo and joined the rebel army.
As the saying goes, 'Standing on the vent, pigs can take off'. At that time, Wang Bo stood on the cusp of the late Sui uprising, and as the leader of the first peasant army to raise an army, he naturally grew rapidly. In just one year, the peasant army under Wang Bo's command expanded to tens of thousands.
But at the same time, the gun shot the head bird, and Wang Bo's growth also attracted the attention of the Sui Dynasty officials.
At that time, the Sui Dynasty suffered serious losses in the process of conquest of Goguryeo, and the defenders in various places were seriously insufficient. Therefore, the method adopted by the officials and armies of the Sui Dynasty against the peasant army can be summarized as 'letting go of the small and fighting the big ones exclusively'. Whoever has the most power, they will fight them. At that time, the general in charge of suppressing the peasant army in Shandong was named Zhang Sutuo. This Zhang Sutuo is extremely capable of fighting, and the 'patron king Yang Lin' in the novel is based on him.
Therefore, after Wang Bo grew stronger, Zhang Sutuo came with the Sui army. After a brief confrontation, the peasant army led by Wang Bo was directly defeated by Zhang Sutuo and collapsed. Moreover, Zhang Sutuo chased Wang Bo all the way, and after several major battles, Wang Bo's tens of thousands of troops were beaten by Zhang Sutuo and only less than 10,000 people were left.
With more than 100,000 troops in his hands, Wang Bo also had self-confidence again, and immediately decided with the leaders of the other peasant armies to fight a big battle and directly attack Zhangqiu.
Such a big action naturally could not conceal Zhang Sutuo. Next, Zhang Sutuo led 20,000 Sui troops to come. After a major battle, more than 100,000 peasant armies were once again crushed by Zhang Sutuo.
After this battle, several of the strongest peasant armies in Shandong were seriously injured. Although Wang Bo himself escaped by chance, there were only a few thousand people left under his command, and he could only return to the mountains again and slowly recover his vitality.
This year is the ninth year of great undertakings.
In the next three years, the peasant army in Shandong basically did not make any major moves, because it had already been beaten by Zhang Sutuo. Wang Bo did not dare to grow himself quickly, for fear of attracting Zhang Sutuo's attention again. But in the past two years, in the Henan region, there was a peasant army force that suddenly emerged. This peasant army is the famous Wagang army.
At the beginning, the Wagang Army was not particularly strong. But later, because of the addition of Li Mi, a great nobleman of the Sui Dynasty, it suddenly swelled up. Two years later, the Wagang army was strong and strong, reaching tens of thousands of people. After that, the Wagang army fought a big battle with Zhang Sutuo, who came to encircle and suppress, and finally under the leadership of Li Mi, zhang Sutuo was killed.
At this point, the Wagang Army had completely grown bigger.
For more than a year, the Wagang army swept through henan and expanded its sphere of influence to the Shandong region. Without Zhang Sutuo's suppression, the peasant army led by Wang Bo could continue to develop. But Shandong at this time is no longer the Shandong of a few years ago. Because of the intervention of the Wagang Army, coupled with the rise of Dou Jiande, the living space belonging to Wang Bo has become smaller and smaller. Even if many ordinary people want to join the peasant army, the first thing that comes to mind is the Wagang army, not Wang Bo.
At this time, it was already twelve years of Great Cause, and the rule of the Sui Dynasty in various places was already crumbling. Although Wang Bo no longer needed to worry about attracting the pursuit and killing of the Sui Dynasty officials, the peasant army led by Wang Bo was very slow to develop. Compared with the Wagang Army, it is no longer worth mentioning. Therefore, at this time, Wang Bo could only be like other peasant armies, zun Wagang army as the leader.
After that, in the thirteenth year of Daye, this year was also the year of the total collapse of the Sui Dynasty. Those famous Sui dynasty heroes, such as Liu Wuzhou, Li Yuan, Xue Ju, Xiao Milling and others, basically started their troops in this year. Although these people started their troops relatively late, before they started their troops, each of them had a certain amount of power and made sufficient preparations. For example, Li Yuan was originally the highest administrator of the Taiyuan region. After the uprising, in just five months, it attacked Chang'an all the way and became the strongest separatist force in the late Sui Dynasty.
Compared with them, Wang Bo at this time was no longer in line. Even in the Shandong region, Wang Bo could not rank up. Because at this time, Dou Jiande had already grown bigger, with more than 100,000 troops, far from being comparable to Wang Bo.
When the local tyrants were rising up, Li Mi of the Wagang army led the Wagang army to besiege Luoyang. Prior to this, many leaders of the peasant army, including Wang Bo, even jointly elected Li Mi as emperor. However, Li Mi thought that luoyang had not yet been captured, so he refused. After a major battle, Li Mi annihilated most of the Luoyang defenders and almost took Luoyang. But at this moment, a news suddenly came: Yang Guang, who was far away in Jiangdu, was actually strangled to death by the forbidden army under his command.
After Yang Guang's death, the Sui army of Jiangdu under his command was inherited by Yu Wenhua and . In order to avoid the situation of being attacked by the enemy in his belly and back, Li Mi could only shake hands with Luoyang first, and turn his head to fight Yu Wenhua. After another big battle, Yu Wenhua and Li Mi beat him down.
At the same time that Yu Wenhua was killed, Li Mi's side was not very smooth. After Li Mi defeated Yu Wenhua and then turned his head to fight Luoyang. But at this time, the Wagang army was already exhausted. After a great battle, the Wagang army was defeated. In order to regain his vitality, Li Mi went to attach himself to Li Yuan. As a result, Li Yuan saw through his plan and did not give him real power at all. Later, Li Mi tried to escape, but was intercepted and killed by Li Yuan's men. After Li Mi's death, the original huge territory of the Wagang Army was directly divided between Li Yuan, Dou Jiande, and Wang Shichong.
In the process of the collapse of the Wagang Army, Wang Bo still failed to share too many benefits. Because whether it was Dou Jiande or Wang Shichong, the power was far from being comparable to him. At this time, Wang Bo no longer has the qualifications to compete for the deer world, and can only choose the strong side to rely on. Finally, after careful consideration, on March 11, 619, Wang Bo led his people to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, and Li Yuan immediately appointed him as the governor of Qi Prefecture.
After surrendering to the Tang Dynasty, Wang Bo worked very hard. Under the persuasion of Wang Bo, Qingzhou, Laizhou, Mizhou and other places all surrendered to the Tang Dynasty. In this matter, Wang Bo also made a great contribution, so he received Li Yuan's attention.
But Wang Bowan did not expect that soon after, he would die in a vendetta.
After that, Wang Bo followed the Tang general Sheng Yan's division and attacked Xuchang County together. During this period, Wang Bo, on behalf of the Tang army, requisitioned military food from Tanzhou. However, Li Yiman, the assassin of Tanzhou, had a vendetta against Wang Bo, so he simply refused to give him military food. After the end of the war, Sheng Yanshi came to Xingshi to inquire about the crime, and arrested Li Yiman and imprisoned him. Later, Li Yiman died in prison in anger. Soon after, when Wang Bo returned with his troops, he happened to pass through Tanzhou. While passing through Tanzhou, Li Yiman's nephew, out of anger, captured Wang Bo and finally killed him.
In this way, Wang Bo, who took the lead in opening the curtain on the peasant revolt at the end of the Sui Dynasty, died in a simple vendetta.
Looking at Wang Bo's life, we can actually see that Wang Bo is actually just a small person standing on the cusp of the times. On the stage at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Wang Bo rose up because of an accidental event, the first to rise up, and became a key figure. But when he was on the cusp of the storm, his ability was not enough for him to develop further.
When Zhang Sutuo was there, he couldn't beat Zhang Sutuo. After Zhang Sutuo's death, he did not seize the opportunity to quickly grow bigger, and then let Wagangjun and Dou Jiande leave behind. After the collapse of the Wagang Army, he also failed to seize the opportunity in time to expand his territory. Later, although he surrendered to Li Yuan, because of his limited ability, he also did not receive attention, and finally died in this inexplicable vendetta.
To put it bluntly, Wang Bo is the kind of person who stands in the center of the historical stage by chance. However, with his ability, he is not enough to play the role of the protagonist on this stage, so he will gradually be marginalized and eventually become nameless.
For a person with limited ability, too much opportunity to hit the head is not necessarily a good thing.