In the fourteenth year of Tianbao, Tang Xuanzong, who was full of disappointment and pain, lamented weakly in front of the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu: "There is not a single righteous soldier in the 24 counties of Hebei. ”
Tang Xuanzong's complaint was not empty, the 1600-mile journey from Fanyang to Luoyang, even if it was a normal march, it would take half a month, and An Lushan only took thirty days to sweep through the north and south of the great river, and even captured the heavy city of Luoyang, the forward troops had reached Tongguan, so rapidly advanced, enough to show that the An Lushan rebels had gone all the way south, and almost did not encounter any substantial resistance.
What made Tang Xuanzong even more desperate was that the assembly order issued by the imperial court to the envoys of jiedushi in various places ten days ago did not get any response, and none of the hundreds of thousands of Tang troops on the border line of thousands of miles appeared in Chang'an City.
The old emperor who personally created the prosperous tang dynasty was confused, could it be that under the bright and beautiful appearance of the Tang Dynasty, there was such a vulnerable soul hidden?
Tang Xuanzong was puzzled
In fact, in the illusion of the prosperous world, Tang Xuanzong's monarchs and people who excessively consumed their own spiritual strength had long lost the ability to resist risks and setbacks, and after decades of dreams were broken by the iron horse of An Lushan, the tang monarchs were still numbly fantasizing about being immersed in the peaceful scene of singing and dancing, unwilling to open their eyes to see the mountains and rivers shattered, the country broken and the family destroyed.
However, the brothers Yan Gaoqing and Yan Zhenqing, who were in the whirlpool, unceremoniously tore apart the dreams of the Military and people of the Tang Dynasty, placed the weak and fat Sheng Tang in front of everyone, and jumped into the volcano that saved the country without hesitation.
This is a past of An Lushan after Fanyang's uprising in Fanyang, depicted in the Tang history reading "Bloody Sheng Tang", the author Wang Jueren used very delicate thinking to explain the panic and confusion of the prosperous Tang Dynasty from top to bottom after An Lushan's uprising, and compared the numbness, arrogance, arrogance, arrogance, arrogance and panic of the emperor and the people before the war and the panic, confusion and helplessness after the war began, exposing the pale wilt under the beautiful veil of the Sheng Tang Dynasty.
However, when history comes to a critical juncture, the family power accumulated over the years will always produce heroes who compete with it, and Yan Gaoqing of Changshan is one of them.
Statues of Yan Gaoqing and Yan Zhenqing brothers
Yan Gaoqing's five generation ancestors are Yan Zhitui, the author of the "Yan Family Training", and it is precisely because of the Yan family training that the descendants of the Yan family are often higher than ordinary people in the cultivation and personality realm. By the time of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, the shrewd and capable Yan Gaoqing had been appointed as the Taishou of Changshan, and his cousin Yan Zhenqing had also been sent to the plains to serve as a Taishou for offending the chancellor Yang Guozhong.
Changshan was under the jurisdiction of An Lushan, but the plains were not, but the two places were only a few days away from Fanyang, and they were the only places for An Lushan to go south. When An Lushan arrived at Gaocheng under the jurisdiction of Changshan from Fanyang, Yan Gaoqing, who had weak troops and had no preparations, decisively gave up resistance and personally went to Gaocheng to meet An Lushan as a sign of surrender.
An Lushan did not trust Yan Gaoqing, who had come to show his kindness, and out of the need to win people's hearts, he gave him three purple robes and goldfish bags, but took Yan Gaoqing's sons as hostages, and placed Li Qinqiu's thousands of people and horses at the mouth of Jingxing to monitor Changshan.
However, Yan Gaoqing's surrender was only a strategy to slow down the army, and after avoiding An Lu Mountain, which was urgently needed to go south, Yan Gaoqing secretly recruited soldiers and horses at Changshan to strengthen the city defenses. At the same time, Yan Zhenqing, who was in the plain, was also fully prepared, personally sending people to contact Yan Gaoqing and plot to cut off An Lushan's retreat route.
Statue of Yan Zhenqing
When Yan Zhenqing killed Duan Ziguang, an envoy of An Lushan, in the plains and raised the banner of Bao Tang, Yan Gaoqing forged a military order from An Lushan, summoned Li Qin, who was monitoring him, to Changshan, beheaded him in a staggered manner, quietly controlled Jingxingkou, and took An Lushan's subordinates Gao Mi and He Qiannian in the same way.
In order to save his life, He Qiannian, at the behest of Yan Gaoqing, spread false news that Li Guangbi had led 10,000 troops to Hebei, forcing Zhang Xiancheng, who was besieging Raoyang, to flee. Yan Gaoqing took advantage of the heat to strike iron, lobbied around other counties in Hebei, and reclaimed the 17 counties that surrendered to An Lushan to the imperial court, and made great contributions.
However, Li Guangbi did not come, and the emissaries sent by Yan Gaoqing to Chang'an were also detained by the Tang general Wang Chengye who was stationed in Taiyuan, and after receiving the report that Wang Chengye had beheaded Li Qinzhuo, Tang Xuanzong promoted him to the position of General yulin, and did not investigate the ins and outs of the matter at all, but instead left Yan Gaoqing, who was devoted to the country, aside.
However, An Lushan's army came, and Shi Siming and Cai Xide's 20,000-strong army surrounded Changshan eight days after Li Qinzhuo was killed, and the small city of Changshan, which could be captured at any time, could not stop the rebels of An Lushan at any time, and Yan Gaoqing, who had been fighting on the front line, sent people to Wang Chengye in Taiyuan for urgent help.
Shi Siming besieged Changshan
Wang Chengye did not move, he hoped that Yan Gaoqing would quickly die in battle, as long as Yan Gaoqing died, the matter of killing Li Qinzhuo would become a headless account, even if Tang Xuanzong wanted to investigate in the future, there would be no result.
Wang Chengye's selfishness brought Hebei's resistance to An Lushan to a low ebb, and the leading figure Yan Gaoqing was captured after the city was destroyed, and Changshan City was also bloodily slaughtered.
Yan Gaoqing, who was escorted to Luoyang, was scolded by An Lushan: "You are just a small Household Cao, I took care of you, let you sit in the position of Taishou, I have something sorry for you, you want to create my rebellion." ”
An Lushan angrily scolded Yan Gaoqing
The 65-year-old Yan Gaoqing's eyes widened in anger and he sneered at each other: "You are just a slave who herds sheep, it is the Son of Heaven who takes care of you, let you sit in the position of the Envoy of the Three Towns, the Son of Heaven has something to be sorry for you, you want to create his rebellion." My family has been loyal to the country for generations, and now it is a thief for the country, how can it be said "anti"? ”
Yan Gaoqing's words made An Lushan blush and his neck thick, and an angry An Lushan ordered someone to cut off Yan Gaoqing's tongue, cut off his legs, and execute him lingchi with one knife after another, along with Yan Gaoqing, who was also killed by Changshan's chief Shi Yuan Luqian and his two nephews.
However, due to Yang Guozhong's obstruction, after Yan Gaoqing was killed, he did not receive any posthumous titles from the Tang court, and it was not until two years later, when Guo Ziyi recaptured Changshan, that Emperor Suzong of Tang posthumously awarded Yan Gaoqing the title of Crown Prince Taibao, and the entire Yan family, in this bloody turmoil, died for the country as many as thirty people, several times more than the imperial Li clan.
The Yan family is full of loyal martyrs
Wang Jueren has great respect for the Yan family in "Bloody Tang Dynasty", and he uses heavy brush and ink to depict the lives of Yan Gaoqing and Yan Zhenqing's brothers, and his personality integrity is extremely praiseworthy.
"The Yan Gaoqing and Yan Zhenqing brothers who grew up in the Yan family, who are the model of personality education, have different learning, cultivation and personality realms from others, so when the rebels of An Lushan swept through the north and south of the great river, and countless Tang officials and people knelt at the foot of An Lu Mountain, only the Yan family brothers could contend with the rebels with the spirit of preferring to die and fight until the last moment, and the reason why Yan Gaoqing and Yan Zhenqing had such a character was not from the successful education under the Sheng Tang Dynasty. It's a family origin. ”
Writer Wang Jueren
"Bloody Tang Dynasty" is Wang Jueren's masterpiece, and he depicts the magnificent 300 years of the Tang Dynasty in a humorous writing mode. As a modern book, it integrates cumbersome and complex historical records, not only on top, not idealistically, and expounds many historical figures from an objective point of view.
I read the full set of "Bloody Tang Dynasty" very early on, and I learned a lot from it. The real reasons for the change of Xuanwumen, Di Renjie before the Shenlong coup, the relationship between Tang Xuanzong and An Lushan, etc., it dissects the surface of history one by one, and allows readers to understand each historical event at a deeper level with unique interpretation.
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