In the first year of Tang Wude (618), before Li Mi returned to Tang, he said to the generals: "I have millions of soldiers, and once I am disarmed and returned to Tang, it is comparable to Dou Rong in the eastern Han Dynasty when Emperor Guangwu was born, and his merits are so outstanding, how can he make me a prime minister!" After arriving in Chang'an, Li Yuan was superficially very affectionate, but only li mi was the pillar of the state and Guangluqing.
Li Mi's Wagang army was once the most powerful anti-Sui rebel army, and even Li Yuan "humbled the award" and was willing to promote him as the leader of the alliance.
In the twelfth year of Daye (616), Li Mi defected to Zhai Rang's Wagang army and used his strategy to gain Zhai Rang's reuse. Later, Zhai Rang elected Li Mi as the leader of the Wagang Army, known as the Duke of Wei.
Li Mi repeatedly defeated the Sui army, more and more people, and slowly he already had the strength to compete for the world.
At this time, Zhai Rang's brother Zhai Kuan and his general Wang Ruxin encouraged Zhai Rang to seize power over Li Mi. After Li Mi learned of this, he pretended to arrange a banquet to entertain Zhai Rang, and after entering the table, Li Mi sent a warrior to behead him from behind, and killed his brother Zhai Kuan and the general Wang Ruxin.
After this incident, Li Mi gained absolute leadership over the Wagang Army.
In the first month of the fourteenth year of Daye (618), Yu Wenhua and Jiangdu strangled the Sui Emperor with a training scarf, and Yang Hao, the king of Qin, was made a puppet emperor, and led an army of 100,000 to the north.
After the officials of Dongdu learned of the death of Emperor Sui, they supported Yang Tong, the king of Sui Yue, as emperor, with the era name of Emperor Tai.
Yu Wenhua and the army came to the west, and Shi LingYuanwen in the Eastern Capital City offered a plan to pardon Li Mi and let him fight Yu Wenhua.
The other officials agreed with Yuan Wendu's plan, so they sent emissaries to appoint Li Mi as Shang Shuling, Taiwei, and Duke of Wei.
At that time, Li Mi confronted Dongdu, and the east had to defend against Yuwen and, in case Dongdu sneaked in from behind, he would be attacked from behind, which was a problem he often worried about.
When he saw the emissary who had come to persuade him to surrender, his heart was overjoyed, so he demanded that he surrender to the Emperor Tai Lord, and asked him to destroy Yu Wenhua and atone for his sins.
Since there was no more war trouble coming from the direction of the western and eastern capitals, Li Mi used all his forces to attack Yuwen and Yu wenhua.
Li Mi knew that Yu culture and grain and grass would be exhausted, so he designed to pretend to negotiate peace with him. Yu Wenhua and Zhongji thought that they could get Food Support from Li Mi, so they let the soldiers eat it at will.
Yu Wenhua was furious when he learned the truth, and engaged in a fierce battle with Li Mi's army at Tong Shan, fighting from morning to dusk.
Yu Wenhua and his generals Zhang Tong'er and Chen Zhiluo surrendered to Li Mi with more than 20,000 men. Yu Wenhua and his army were left with 20,000 men, and had to march north to Wei County.
Li Mi knew that he would do nothing when his strength was greatly reduced, so he returned to Gong County in the west, leaving Xu Shijian in Liyang to prevent Yu Wenhua and march south, and he prepared to go to the eastern capital to see Emperor Yang Tong.
At this time, Wang Shichong of Dongdu launched a mutiny and took sole control of the government. Li Mi had no choice but to turn back to Kim Yong-seong.
After Li Mi committed suicide, zhai rang, he gradually became proud, and he did not know how to cherish the soldiers, and the soldiers who made meritorious contributions were not rewarded, and in order to recruit rebels, they gave the subordinates very generous treatment, which caused dissatisfaction among the soldiers and soldiers of Wagang.
Zhai Rang's death, although it did not trigger a major mutiny, caused Li Mi's image to be damaged to a certain extent, and Li Mi's approach caused his general Zuo to gradually lose trust in him, and his generals also showed a centrifugal tendency.
In addition, after the Battle of Tongshan Mountain, the army suffered heavy losses. These are very unfavorable to the Wagang Army. However, Li Mi, as the commander-in-chief, ignored these factors, thinking that after many defeats in the Eastern Capital, the army had long been scattered, and the generals would kill each other again, and it would be easy to pacify them.
Li Mi defeated Yu Wenhua and some despised Wang Shichong, not even setting up walls to defend the enemy.
Wang Shichong launched a surprise attack and tied up a person in his army who looked like Li Mi in advance, and just when the two sides were fighting fiercely, Wang Shichong led this person to the front, causing the soldiers to shout loudly: "We captured Li Mi alive!" The Sui soldiers all shouted loudly. At this time, the ambush soldiers rushed down the mountain from the North Mountain, and Li Mi's camp was burned. As a result, the Wagang army was defeated, and Li Mi led more than 10,000 people to flee to Luokou.
Li Miyin's heart was scattered, and he was unable to return to heaven, so he decided to defect to Li Yuan in Guanzhong.
Tang Gaozu Li Yuan was very happy to hear that Li Mi had come and sent emissaries to greet him. Li Mi was very happy to see this situation, and said to the generals: "I have millions of soldiers, and once the liberation of the army will be returned to the Tang, a large area of Shandong will be under my command." Knowing that I had returned to Tang and sent envoys to recruit me, I would definitely be attached to me, and compared with Dou Rong's return to The Land of Hexi to Emperor Guangwu of Han, his merits were also very outstanding, how could he let me be a prime minister! ”
On the eighth day of October, Li Mi arrived in Chang'an. Li Mi's generals in Shandong, Liu Dewei, Li Yude, Gao Jifu, Jia Yanfu, and others heard that Li Mi had arrived in Chang'an and led his troops to surrender to the Tang Dynasty. Qi Gongshun, a rebel who occupied Beihai (present-day Shandong), had submitted to Li Mi, and when he heard that Li Mi had surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, he also surrendered to the Tang Dynasty.
Li Mi always thought that he could be the prime minister with great merit, but after arriving in Chang'an, he was not warmly received, and his subordinates and soldiers did not eat for several days, and they were very angry.
On the surface, Li Yuan was very affectionate with him, often referring to him as a brother, and marrying his niece to Li Mi as his wife, but only taking Li Mi as the shangzhu guo and Guanglu Qing, and giving him the title of Duke of Xingguo, which disappointed Li Mi. Li Mi did not get the respect that the courtiers deserved, and the ruling prime minister even asked Li Mi for bribes, and Li Mi was furious in his heart.
Li Yuan sent Li Mi to the east of Mount Kun to collect the remnants of his unfinished territory. When Li Mi traveled to Huazhou, Li Yuan regretted it, although he wanted to transfer him back, but he was afraid that he would rebel, so he issued an edict ordering Li Mi's troops to slow down and advance, leaving Li Mi alone to return to the dynasty and discuss things.
After receiving Li Yuan's edict, Li Mi thought that he would die when he returned, so he killed Li Yuanlai and captured Taolin County and advanced eastward.
After Li Mi crossed Shaanzhou, he was too careless, so he slowly led the people forward, and sure enough, he crossed the mountain and came out of the south, encountering the attack of the ambush troops of Sheng Yan's division, and Li Mi's troops who had lost contact could not take care of each other. Li Mi and Wang Bodang were killed, and the first ranks were teleported to Chang'an.
The vigorous Wagang Rebellion, which ended marked by the killing of Li Mi, was the most influential and morale-boosting of all the rebel armies of the late Sui Dynasty, and the most important force that overthrew the Sui Dynasty.
