The Anshi Rebellion was a war in which An Lushan and Shi Siming rebelled against The Tang Dynasty in the fourteenth year (755) of Emperor Xuanzong Tianbao's reign, and the reason why this war dragged on for eight years was that in addition to the strength of the Anshi rebels, it was not unrelated to the riots of Tang Xuanzong and Tang Suzong's father and son.
One of the riot operations- Tang Xuanzong urged GeShu Hantong to fight a decisive battle
At the beginning of An Lushan's rebellion, although unstoppable, he quickly captured a large number of states and counties of the Tang Dynasty, but he was also met with heroic resistance from many local generals, and Zhang Tour was one of them. It resisted the rebels for several days, frustrating the An Lushan rebels and buying time for the Tang Dynasty to organize effective resistance. The Qin King's army from all over the country marched to Tongguan one after another, and Tang Xuanzong also appointed the famous general Ge Shuhan to lead 200,000 elite troops to resist the rebels on the front line of Tongguan.
Originally, Tongguan was the gateway to Chang'an, the capital of the empire, and with the gathering of heavy troops, An Lushan could not cross the Thunder Pond with all his efforts, but at this time, Tang Xuanzong listened to Yang Guozhong's rumors and let Ge Shuhan lead 200,000 elite Tang troops to fight a decisive battle outside Tongguan.
Although Ge Shuhan knew that there was deception, but the king's order could not be violated, he soon went out of the pass and fought a decisive battle with An Lushan, because An Lushan had already been ambushed, a generation of famous generals had died in battle, 200,000 elite troops were destroyed, the Chang'an Portal was opened, Tang Xuanzong had to seek luck in the same year, go to Chengdu to avoid chaos, and his own forces were also vacated after his son Lingwu ascended the throne, and yao was honored as the Emperor Taishang, who had no real power.
The second operation of the riot - Tang Suzong overcame the two capitals (Chang'an, Luoyang) and began to suspect the general
In the second year of De (757 AD), an Shi rebels were infighting, and An Lushan was killed by his son An Qingxu. Emperor Suzong of Tang appointed the famous generals Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi to borrow back the Qi soldiers, retake the two capitals, and welcome back the Taishang Emperor Li Longji. Shi Siming, who occupied Fanyang, surrendered, and An Qingxu fled to Yecheng to resist stubbornly, and it seemed that the peace of the world was just around the corner. Suzong's self-confidence exploded in an instant, and he changed the era name to "Qianyuan" in the next year, as if everything could be repeated, and Datang could be ZTE again.
Immediately afterwards he was punched in the face,
In September of the first year of the Qianyuan Dynasty (758), Emperor Suzong sent nine envoys to gather more than 200,000 infantry and cavalry to prepare to annihilate An Qingxu in one fell swoop and retake the city of Yecheng. As a result, because Emperor Suzong did not trust Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, who were zhongxing ministers, he did not set up a supreme commander, but only appointed the eunuch Yu Zhao'en as the overseer of the army, and soon because of his blind command, Shi Siming, who had been demoted and rebelled, sat on the fisherman's profits. "Ten thousand horses, only three thousand remain, and one hundred thousand armor is abandoned."
These two tumultuous operations caused internal turmoil in the Tang Dynasty, and the highest power changed blood, after all, a dynasty of heavenly sons and a courtier, tang Xuanzong trusted people, Suzong basically would not use. What's more, Emperor Xuanzong also protested against Li Heng's rebellious behavior of not asking for instructions to ascend the throne.
When Li Henglingwu ascended the throne, Emperor Xuanzong's younger son and Suzong's younger brother Yongwang rebelled in Jiangling to a certain extent, which also diverted the attention of the Tang Dynasty to a certain extent, delaying external counter-rebellion again and again.
Coupled with the fact that Emperor Suzong did not trust Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, who were ministers of Zhongxing, it was not unreasonable that the An Shi rebels had been in trouble for eight years.
It can be said that at that time, the Tang Dynasty could not unite and made many decision-making mistakes, and the foreign rebels were rampant, if it were not for zhang tour, Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi, these Zhongxing ministers and an shi rebels who had many internal infighting, the Tang Dynasty would not have been destroyed by the An Shi rebels.
Therefore, the anshi rebellion lasted for eight years was a relatively good result at that time, and the Tang Dynasty was finally able to suppress the rebellion not because of internal unity, and the wise decision of the Ming Jun, but only some of the sages assisted and the AnShi rebel army had more serious infighting.
Rotten meets worse, history has long been arranged.