613 AD
Yang Xuangan Uprising: The name of the uprising is actually a rebellion
In 613, Yang Xuangan launched a mutiny at Liyang and raised an army against the Sui.
Yang Xuangan was the son of Yang Su, the founding father of the Sui Dynasty. Yang Su, a member of the same ethnic group as the Sui Emperor Yang Jian, made great contributions in the Sui Dynasty's efforts to pacify the world and eliminate the Turkic threat. Yang Su also helped the Sui Emperor Yang Guang to seize the position of crown prince, so he also held a high position of power after the death of Emperor Wen of Sui. However, the Sui Emperor was a tyrant and full of suspicion of Yang Su, and even said that if Yang Su did not die, he would kill his entire family.
As the son of such a great hero, Yang Xuangan was very talented, and his political performance was very good when he was a magistrate, and at the same time, he was afraid of the Sui Emperor, afraid that he would one day be persecuted by the Sui Emperor. Moreover, talented people often have ambitions, Yang Xuangan followed the Sui Emperor Yang Guang to conquer Tuguhun, and on the way back to the division, he wanted to attack the Sui Emperor when the soldiers were tired, but was persuaded by his uncle Yang Shen.
By the time the Sui Emperor first conquered Goryeo, peasant uprisings had already occurred in Shandong and Hebei because the people were overwhelmed. At this time, Yang Xuangan once again moved his mind to raise troops and rebel against Sui. During the second conquest of Goryeo, Yang Xuangan was sent by the Sui Emperor to supervise the transportation of grain and grass, and was in a heavy position in the rear of the army. Yang Xuangan deliberately delayed the delivery of grain and grass, wanted to exhaust the army, and at the same time recalled his two younger brothers and prepared to start an incident.
The Sui Dynasty general Lai Hu'er set out from the sea to attack the city of Pyongyang, and Yang Xuangan falsely claimed to be a rebel, claiming to go to pacify the anti-thieves and raise an army to occupy Liyang. Then he scavenged for supplies in the city, recruited people's husbands, and called on nearby states and counties to send troops to help.
Yang Xuangan's good friend Li Mi rushed to Liyang at this time and became Yang Xuangan's mastermind. Li Mi proposed three strategies: the upper strategy was to occupy Youzhou in the north, cut off the rear road of the Sui Emperor's army, and let the army lack food and collapse without a fight. Zhongce marched west to Guanzhong, captured Chang'an, controlled Tongguan, and took advantage of the favorable terrain in the Guanzhong region to counter the imperial army. The next strategy was to attack Luoyang nearby, but Luoyang was the center of Sui Dynasty rule, and it was difficult to predict whether luoyang would win or lose.
Yang Xuangan's view was exactly the opposite of Li Mi's, he believed that Luoyang was full of hundreds of officials, and if luoyang was captured and the families of hundred officials were taken hostage, they would be able to gain the upper hand, so Yang Xuance chose the next strategy.
Yang Xuan's inspiration to raise troops seized the opportunity of the peasant uprising against the tyranny of the Sui Emperor, so he also conformed to the will of the people and proposed that he had raised an army to save the people and overthrow the tyranny. And Yang Xuangan opened a warehouse to release grain and buy people's hearts. Therefore, many ordinary people believed it and joined his team. In other parts of the country, under the influence of Yang Xuangan, a large number of rebel armies appeared in the two years of the uprising. Subsequently, there was also a split within the ruling clique of the Sui Dynasty, and many bureaucrats who were dissatisfied with the Sui Emperor also joined Yang Xuangan's rebel army, such as Yang Gongdao, son of Yang Xiong, the founding father of the Founding Fathers, and Han Shichen, son of Han Huhu. After the Sui Emperor learned of Yang Xuangan's rebellion, he quickly withdrew his army from Liaodong and returned to rescue Luoyang.
Yang Xuangan advanced into Luoyang and encountered the army of Shangshu Weixuan. Yang Xuangan liked to personally lead the charge, repeatedly engaged with the Wei Xuan army, and defeated the Wei Xuan army many times. However, Yang Xuangan's younger brother Yang Xuanting was killed by an arrow during the battle. As Sui Dynasty reinforcements continued to arrive, Yang Xuangan gradually lost. Moreover, at this time, Yang Xuangan was too lazy to disguise anymore, and began to directly claim that he had raised an army in order to become an emperor, and gradually alienated Li Mi and others, reusing the descendants of the great nobles who came to join him. Originally, the war situation was unfavorable, and it was not possible to take advantage of the resistance psychology of the common people, and Yang Xuangan gradually embarked on the end of the road.
Yang Xuangan abandoned Luoyang and prepared to go to Guanzhong. On the way, ordinary people told Yang Xuangan that there was a Hongnong Palace nearby, and that they had hoarded a lot of grain and should attack it. Yang Xuangan led an army to attack Hongnong Palace, but as a result, he did not win the battle for three days and was chased by the pursuing soldiers. Yang Xuangan was defeated at Dongduyuan (東杜原, near present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi), leaving only a dozen cavalry to escort Yang Xuangan to escape. On the way to escape, Yang Xuangan said to his brother Yang Jishan: "I have failed, I don't want to be humiliated, you kill me!" So Yang Jishan killed Yang Xuangan. Then Yang Jishan attempted suicide and was caught. The Yang family was liquidated by the Sui Emperor, all the men were killed, Yang Xuangan was violently killed in the street, and the grave of his father Yang Su was also planed.
Yang Xuangan's ambitions failed, but his rebellion opened the "Pandora's Box", and many rebel armies that responded to Yang Xuangan appeared in the Sui Dynasty, and the chaos in the world at the end of the Sui Dynasty was inevitable.
Conclusion: Yang Xuangan's uprising dealt a heavy blow to the rule of the Sui Emperor, causing a wave of national uprisings from Jiangnan to the northwest, and sounded the death knell of the Sui Dynasty.
Yang Xuangan's Rebellion: A "central blossoming" type of war that was not well fought, one of the famous scuffles
617 AD
Li Mi took over the Wagang Army: reforged wagang village
In 611, the green forest bandit Zhai Rang gathered a crowd to oppose the Sui in Wagang Village, and constantly added rebels, so his strength grew. Later, Li Mi, who had followed Yang Xuan, the Duke of Chu, in revolt, defected to Wagangzhai. In 613, Yang Xuangan, who had rebelled against the Sui, was defeated. In 617, Li Mi was elected as the leader of the Wagang Army and took over the rebellion.
Long after, Li Mi pretended to invite Zhai Rang to drink with several of Zhai Rang's cronies, and asked Zhai Rang to pull a very beautiful bow at the banquet, and when Zhai Rang turned to pull the bow, he was hacked to death from behind by someone arranged by Li Mi in advance.
Why Li Mi wanted to kill Zhai Rang had to start with the establishment of the Wagang Army. The predecessor of the Wagang Army was Wagang Village, founded by Zhai Rang. Later, because of the tyranny of the Sui Emperor, many peasant rebels joined Wagangzhai, and Wagangzhai developed from a bandit gang into a peasant rebel army. Li Mi joined the Wagang Army with the peasant rebel army. And his arrival also changed the fate of the Wagang Army.
Li Mi's identity was different from that of these peasant rebels. He was from the Gaomen Shang clan, complete in both literature and martial arts, and was once obsessed with studying and did not want to come out as an official, and later followed Yang Xuangan to rebel against the Sui. After the defeat of Yang Xuangan's army, Li Mi and Wang Bodang, the leader of the peasant uprising, joined Wagangzhai. Because it was Yang Xuangan's relationship with the fleeing generals, at first Zhai Rang did not trust Li Mi and once locked him up outside the military camp. Later, Li Mi advised Zhai Rang through Wang Bodang, and Zhai Rang released him and began to weigh him heavily. Once, Xingyang Tongshou Zhang Sutuo led an army to attack Zhai Rang, and Zhai Rang was so frightened that he wanted to escape. Li Mi felt that Zhang Sutuo had courage and strategy, and could use it to fight. Li Mi asked Zhai Rang to lead his troops to defeat, and when the enemy army came to pursue, he led his troops out of the woods and chased zhang Sutuo, and Zhai Rang attacked Zhang Sutuo back and forth, and finally defeated Zhang Sutuo. After this battle, Li Mi's reputation rose rapidly. In addition, he is usually good at using money to win people's hearts, so many people are willing to work hard for him.
Zhai Rang did not have a clear goal for what he wanted to develop into. Li Mi pointed him to a clear path and captured Xingyang (荥阳, in modern Xingyang, Henan). Because Xingyang is not only an important military town, there is also a big granary nearby - Luokoucang. In a chaotic world, being able to eat is the biggest benefit, and if there is grain, there will be people to follow, and if there are people, they will not have to worry about no soldiers, and soldiers can do great things.
In 616, Zhai Rang captured Xingyang at Li Mi's suggestion, and the following year he captured Luokoucang. After Zhai Rang occupied Luokoucang, he immediately opened a warehouse to release grain, helped the hungry, and took the opportunity to recruit soldiers, and the army soon grew to hundreds of thousands. Soon, Yang Tong, the King of Yue, sent Hu Benlang to lead More than 20,000 troops from Liu Changgong to attack the Wagang army, but was defeated by Li Mi.
At this time, Zhai Rang felt that Li Mi's merit, prestige, and ability had surpassed his own, so he ceded the position of leader to Li Mi, and he took the old unit to manage a battalion alone. Nominally, Zhai Rang called Li Mi the Duke of Wei, and Li Mi made Zhai Rang the Duke of Wei.
Zhai Rang did not have much ambition, and he ceded the position of chief to Li Mi because he wanted to gain benefits through the Wagang army and did not want to take too much risk. Zhai Rang's thinking was still stuck in the stage of robbing the house, so when some generals of the Wagang Army got some gold and silver treasures in the war, he asked to give him a part. In addition, Zhai Rang always felt that he could depose Li Mi at any time.
The Wagang army developed well under Li Mi's control, and even had the opportunity to compete for the world, which made some of Zhai Rang's cronies and his brother extremely red-eyed. They were not willing to share only a little treasure, so they persuaded Zhai Rang to take back Li Mi's power. Zhai Rang felt that he was not suitable for power, so he did not agree.
Zhai Rang's older brother Zhai Hong was a big boss, and he felt that this kind of thing could not be cheapened by outsiders, and his brother did not do it himself. Zhai Rang didn't take it seriously and smiled. However, this matter was known to Li Mi, and with Zhai Rang's usual unscrupulous habits, Li Mi already had ideas about him, so Li Mi immediately launched an action, which led to the beginning of Li Mi's killing of Zhai Rang.
After killing Zhai Rang, Li Mi appeased Zhai Rang's old department. Personally bandaged Xu Shijian's wounds, went to Zhai Rang's military camp alone to appease them, and let Xu Shijian and Shan Xiongxin and others lead the troops alone, temporarily stabilizing the situation. After that, Li Mi completely took charge of the Wagang Army.
Conclusion: After Li Mi took over the Wagang army in an all-round way, the Wagang army developed to a maximum and became one of the three strongest rebel armies at that time, but Li Mi's measures to kill Zhai Rang made him chill the hearts of his subordinates, although he stabilized the situation at that time, but the Wagang army was separated from the people and laid the groundwork for later failures.
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