This is the most tragic battle in Chinese history, but also the landmark node of the Tang Dynasty's transformation from prosperity to decline, how dazzling the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, how chaotic this civil strife is, the lives are ruined, the generals and generals take the lead in killing wives and sharing food, this is the famous "Anshi Rebellion" in history.
The fundamental reason why the "Anshi Rebellion" broke out is that the festival of the Tang Dynasty is different from other dynasties, the Festival of the Tang Dynasty is different from other dynasties, the Festival of the Tang Dynasty has both its own land, and the people under its jurisdiction, as well as the management of the army, and also levies taxes for the imperial court, this treatment is directly equivalent to a prince, in fact, the moderation of the Tang Dynasty makes the jurisdiction of one place is also good, but the Tang Dynasty's moderation makes An Lushan alone serve as the envoy of the festival in three regions, and these three areas are still bordering each other, and the total number of troops is 200,000. This was enough to set off waves, and An Lushan's side still had Shi Siming plotting for him, and even if An Lushan was stupid, he knew the advantages of holding heavy troops.
But really to investigate the guilt of this, Li Linfu is the key figure who triggered the "Anshi Rebellion", it is precisely because he believes that civilian officials can only contribute their words and suggestions, and really when the country is in crisis, it is necessary to personally suppress the military attaché, so he suggested that the re-activation of the clan general, in fact, Li Linfu's idea is not wrong, the fault lies in excessive decentralization, resulting in An Lushan and other foreign tribes becoming the "main force" of the Tang Dynasty, but any emperor with a slightly farther vision will not let such a thing happen, after all, Power was only true in his own hands, and during Tang Xuanzong's reign, he was not at all aware of the expansion of the power of An Lushan and others.
If Tang Xuanzong did not have a sense of crisis, then it was barely justified, until An Lushan's wolf ambitions could not be hidden after all, when the An Shi Rebellion was launched, Tang Xuanzong was still not impressed, he thought that An Lushan could not turn over any movement, and was still indulging in being his "stable" emperor, the Tang Dynasty had been in a state of peace and prosperity before, not to mention that the people had never seen a war, even the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty had never had actual combat, and when An Lushan led 150,000 people to rebel, the entire Tang Dynasty was very chaotic. Filled with panicked footsteps and fleeing soldiers, An Lushan easily captured Hebei. Tang Xuanzong reacted after seeing An Lushan attack the city, and hurriedly commanded and dispatched troops to suppress An Lushan, but if Tang Xuanzong could pay attention to An Lushan's rebellious behavior, I am afraid that Tang Dynasty would not suffer from this disaster, Tang Xuanzong not only did not analyze the battle situation in combination with the situation on the front line, but instead gave a blind command, no matter whose advice was adopted, Tang Xuanzong did not know what was useful information, Tang Xuanzong's "wayward" command caused many generals to suffer losses, even in the face of the great enemy. Tang Xuanzong disregarded the innocence of giving the generals the name of sin, who would be willing to be loyal to them?
In the end, Tang Xuanzong was the king of a country, and the ministers of the DPRK and the people of the world were waiting for Tang Xuanzong to wake up, but in the end, what the people of the world were waiting for was the news that Tang Xuanzong had fled with his relatives, and in other words, no one could forgive Tang Xuanzong's behavior of escaping from the battlefield, so the generals launched a mutiny at Ma Songpo and killed Yang Guifei and others, and after the crown prince Li Heng ascended the throne, the Anshi rebellion ushered in a turning point. Speaking of this turning point, we have to mention Zhang Tour, when everyone was fleeing, only he held his position, Zhang Tour was originally the county commander of Qinghe County, Hebei Province, but because of his honesty and honesty, he was ostracized and was transferred to this remote place in Henan, once the Anshi Rebellion was launched, many county orders had already fled with their bags, and Zhenyuan County, where Zhang Tour was located, was also in danger of being invaded, and the Taishou of Zhenyuan County, in order to protect himself, also let Zhang Tour go to meet the rebels, Zhang Tour of course refused to be this traitor, preferring to be crushed by jade rather than Waquan, he led the soldiers to hold zhenyuan County.
Zhenyuan County is after all a county, the total strength of the army is only about two thousand people, did not wait for Zhang Tour and others to resist the rebels, Yongqiu County ordered Fox Chao to surrender, in turn to resist the Tang army, and also arrested a lot of people, and even all of them were killed, Zhang Tour, after hearing about this, immediately led troops to the rescue, deliberately created chaos, let the people of Ling Fox Tide chaos, Zhang Patrol took the opportunity to attack Yongqiu County, but also let Fox Tide, the traitor, drove away, and later Zhang Tour and others changed positions three times, and the last position was the "Battle of Suiyang", Why is it the last position? The occupation of Henan was a matter of time sooner or later, even if Zhang Tour and his troops insisted on holding these positions, most of the large and small battles were won, and Suiyang was eventually attacked by the rebels, and Zhang Tour ended up with a city destroyed and killed.
Zhang Tour with a strength of about 7,000 troops can kill more than 120,000 rebels, but really did to hold the Henan position, ten months of time the rebels have not attacked Henan, but this battle is not as beautiful as the surface, the number of soldiers led by Zhang Tour is small, coupled with a long-term war of attrition, food has become the most scarce problem for soldiers, as long as the rebels besiege the city, then the soldiers in the city have no food supply, seeing that the soldiers are physically weak, they have reached this juncture. Zhang Tour made a bold decision, he killed his wives and concubines, and then distributed them to his generals, and later the soldiers also killed their own slaves one after another, including the old, weak, sick and disabled in the city, and if they caught the rebels, the soldiers could eat a full meal, and unconsciously the soldiers ate more than 30,000 people.
In order to resist the rebels, Zhang Tour did not hesitate to kill his own wives and concubines, on a moral level, it is really difficult to accept Zhang Tour's approach, but Zhang Tour sacrificed himself for the sake of the country's righteousness, which is also an indisputable fact, it is precisely because Zhang Tour persisted for ten months and bought time for the Tang Dynasty to quell the rebellion, which ended the Anshi Rebellion, Zhang Tour was posthumously named the Duke of Deng by Tang Suzong, no one can evaluate whether Zhang Tour's choice is right or wrong, can only say that the war is undoubtedly cruel.