When Emperor Dezong of Tang dynasty had a minister named Wei Lun as an envoy to Tubo, passing through Dunhuang on the way, he did nothing and was inexplicably surrounded by a large group of locals, frightened, and later after communication, he learned that these people were not Tubo's rebels, let alone bandits, they were local residents, because they heard that there was a homeland to envoy, so they came to see them. And the two sentences of one of the old men suddenly brought The Seven-Foot Man to tears.
"May I ask your Excellency, is the Son of Heaven all right?" Now my sons and grandchildren have not forgotten the Tang Costume, but I don't know if the imperial court still thinks about our place and our group of people?"
Wellen didn't answer because he didn't know, and even if he did, he couldn't answer.
And the old man and the surrounding crowd didn't seem to have time to listen to Wei Lun's answer, because the old man was already hiding his face and weeping after asking. The people next to him finally couldn't bear it one by one and cried bitterly.
Looking at the homeland from afar, there is only weeping!
This is the environment in which Zhang Yichao grew up, oppressive and cruel.
Zhang Yichao, a native of Shazhou (沙州, in present-day Jiaohuang, Gansu), was born in the fifteenth year (799) of emperor Zhenyuan of Tang. The year of his birth was actually not long after Shazhou was annexed by Tubo, only eighteen years. As the last Tang territory conquered by the Tubo army in Hexi, the soldiers and civilians of Shazhou had resisted alone and bravely for ten years. Although Shazhou was eventually forced to surrender due to the lack of food in the city, the Shazhou defenders negotiated with the generals and forced the Tubo side to agree not to forcibly relocate the people in the city. In the words of the history books, this move laid the mass foundation for the future uprising of Zhang Yichao.
In the first forty years of Zhang Yichao's life, he saw too many parts of life and death, and felt people's strong thoughts about Datang. Therefore, after discovering the news of the great chaos and chaos in Tufan, Zhang Yichao made one of the most important decisions in his life: to expel the People of Tufan and return to his homeland.
In order to re-establish the banner of Datang on the city pool of Shazhou, Zhang Yichao alone will certainly not be able to do it. He needs helpers, and even more he needs to unite all the forces that can be united. So in order to realize the plan to restore Shazhou, Zhang Yichao began to run hard and dangerously.
His first target of persuasion was the local elite. Convincing the local clan is not particularly difficult for Zhang Yichao, because none of these big families really like Tubo, and more importantly, the Zhang family itself is one of these big families.
According to records, the Zhang family was "a general of the state", and Zhang Yichao's father, Zhang Qianyi, was an official to the Ministry of Works Shangshu. Therefore, the Zhang family has a relatively strong influence in Shazhou, and it is even likely that they are the leaders of the local clans. Anyway, the final result was that Zhang Yichao successfully persuaded the major families, and the families of all ethnic groups expressed their willingness to follow the Zhang family.
After gaining the support of local powerful forces, Zhang Yichao went to meet with the spokesman of another major force, the senior monk Hong Wei.
The area along the Silk Road was originally a region with a strong Buddhist tradition, and after the Tubo people occupied it, the power of Buddhism was not weakened, but strengthened, after all, the Tubo people had many Buddhist believers at that time, and there were not a few devout people. As a result, monks have a high status in the local area, and sometimes speak even more effectively than officials.
Although Hong Quan was a high monk who was a monk at an early age and immersed himself in the Buddhist scriptures for most of his life, although his Buddhist attainments reached a very high level and he could see through and let go of many mundane things, he still failed to let go of one person, that is, his mother.
His mother was from Nanyang, also surnamed Zhang, and is said to be somewhat related to Zhang Yichao. She followed Master Hongquan's father to Shubian that year, saying goodbye to her hometown and relatives, knowing that this parting turned out to be a farewell, because Tubo cut off the passage from Shazhou back to the Central Plains, Master Hongquan's mother eventually died in a foreign land, and could not be buried in the Central Plains, which became an eternal pain in Master Hongquan's heart.
Therefore, when Zhang Yichao proposed that he wanted to return the city to Tang, the string in master Hong's heart was touched again.
"No, but that thing, it seems that I will not be able to cultivate the right results after all!"
After a long silence, Master Hong suddenly stood up and let out a heartfelt sigh.
"That's it, that's it. According to you, according to you. ”
Hong Wei laughed and helped Zhang Yichao, he had already made up his mind to overcome all difficulties and do his part for his mother and for the suffering sentient beings in the depths of this land.
Being able to join Hong Yichao was of great significance to Zhang Yichao, because the monks under Hong Wei were an extremely strong armed force, and with this quasi-army as the backing, Zhang Yichao truly felt that his confidence in expelling the Tubo army was a little more certain.
In the end, what remains are a group of potential fighters with the highest risk factors, one by one, Han officials who are on duty for the Tubo people.
After Zhang Yichao's careful observation and sincere lobbying, An Jingmin, deputy envoy of Shazhou, Yan Yingda, and other tribal envoys were successively impressed by Zhang Yichao and decided to risk being exterminated to help Zhang Yichao and others.
Zhang Yichao finally gathered the forces that he thought were the most important, and the news came that made everyone feel even more excited. The content of this news is that Hedong Jiedu made Wang Zai lead the Northern Forces to defeat the Tubo army that had gone to Yanzhou to invade. In this way, after a long period of recuperation, Datang has recovered a certain amount of national strength, dared to face the strong enemy head-on, and even has the strength to defeat the strong enemy in the field.
So let's take advantage of this opportunity and step up our actions.
One morning in March of the second year of da zhong (848), the Tubo soldiers guarding the city gate had just changed their defenses, but suddenly a heavily armed team with armor and armor suddenly appeared next to the city gate. The dress of this army is very familiar, but it is not any part of the Tibetan army. So which part of them are they? Suddenly, someone thought and blurted out in horror:
"Tang Jun! That's Tang Jun!"
Soon, the screams of the Tubo soldiers spread throughout the city: "Tang Jun, Tang Jun has come to kill!"
As in the pre-rehearsal, when Zhang Yichao led his family and monks to seize the city gate, the people near the city gate spontaneously rushed to help, so the officers and native soldiers of Tubo saw the scene that terrified them for a lifetime, and thousands of people rushed to them like crazy demons.
These ordinary people, who were honest and even a little timid, actually turned into evil wolves overnight, ignored the shiny sabers, and rushed up from all directions, seeing the Tubo soldiers fall on the spot, and generally without struggling a few times, the Tubo people were tied into rice dumplings and thrown aside.
The spirit of the Tubo defender was already completely frightened. It is estimated that the usual uncle is used to it, and now suddenly so many people who do not want to die rise up to resist, the contrast is too big, really can not accept, so he immediately fled into the wilderness and went straight out of the city.
The Tubo army, which was already a little helpless, encountered the incident of the leader running away at a critical moment, and naturally it was scattered in minutes, and Zhang Yichao and his supporters took the opportunity to control all the city gates and seize the actual control of Shazhou.
The uprising was successful, and with the support of everyone, Zhang Yichao temporarily took charge of the thorn history affairs in Shazhou and presided over the work in the city.
Although Shazhou has been restored, this is only the first step in the Long March. There are many things to consider next, such as how to get in touch with Chang'an through the layers of Tubo defenses, how to effectively deal with the Tubo army that may attack, and so on.
Therefore, the first order issued by Zhang Yichao was: repair the armored troops, and combine soldiers and peasants.
Of course, it was also imperative to inform the imperial court of the news of shazhou's restoration as soon as possible.
At that time, Liangzhou and other places were still controlled by Tubo, and the direct access to the Tang Dynasty was blocked, so the future of Chang'an was promising, and the sinister and brave people who were not wise and brave were not up to the mission of the emissaries. With this in mind, Zhang Yichao decided to recruit volunteers in the city.
As soon as the news came out, there were countless applicants. After layers of screening, Zhang Yichao finally selected a small group of people represented by Tang Wuzhen, a disciple of Master Hongquan, and divided them into ten roads, carrying hollow wooden sticks contained in them that were presented to the imperial court, and taking different routes to the Tiande Army garrison (present-day Urat Qianqi, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region).
Before setting off, everyone expected the difficulties of the trip, but no one expected that among the ten envoys sent, only Tang Wuzhen finally arrived at the destination, and this was two years later.
After the restoration of Shazhou, the Tubo tribes were still busy with the civil war and had no time to take care of it, but the people of the eight prefectures in Hexi suffered in the Tubo civil war, and for a time, "in five thousand miles, the red land was destroyed."
Seeing his compatriots suffer from human tragedies one after another, Zhang Yichao finally couldn't bear it. If he stood idly by and turned a blind eye, even if Shazhou could finally escape the disaster of the Tujun army's destruction of the city, Zhang Yichao might not be able to escape the condemnation of his conscience and would suffer for the rest of his life.
Therefore, he gathered the entire city of soldiers and civilians, expressing the hope of taking the initiative to attack the neighboring states, taking the opportunity to expel those Tubo soldiers who were killed and fled, and uniting all parts of Hexi to defend everyone's family, property and dignity under the banner of the same Tang Dynasty.
Zhang Yichao's proposal received strong support from almost everyone. He took the Guangfu Army, which was temporarily assembled by the Shazhou Han Army, monks and brave soldiers, and went to the battlefield without the slightest hesitation or timidity.
For the sake of the people's tranquility, for the ideal of serving the country, and for the sake of a peaceful future, this army fought again and again, winning consecutive battles, and successively recovered Guazhou (present-day Guazhou County, Gansu), Yizhou (present-day Hami City), Xizhou (present-day Eastern Turpan City), Ganzhou (present-day Zhangye City, Gansu), Suzhou (present-day Jiuquan City, Gansu), Lanzhou (present-day Lanzhou City, Gansu), Buzhou (present-day Ledu District, Haidong City, Qinghai), Hezhou (present-day Linxia City, Gansu), Minzhou (present-day Min County, Gansu), and Kuozhou (present-day Huaxia County, Qinghai).
By August of the fifth year of Dazhong (851), Zhang Yichao had already led an army to retake the entire Hexi Corridor except Liangzhou.
Therefore, this time Zhang Yichao sent a high-level real mission to return to China to report success. The delegation consisted of twenty-nine people, headed by Zhang Yichao's brother Zhang Yitan, who brought to Chang'an this time no longer a simple document of victory, but a map of eleven prefectures such as Gua and Sha. This move means that Zhang Yichao has no interest in dividing Hexi and establishing himself as king, and everything he has done so far is for a pure ideal: to serve the country and save the people.
The day the Hexi mission arrived in Chang'an, the whole capital was sensational. This time it was more sensational than a year ago.
People can't believe that such a group of people can exist in a distant homeland – a strong warrior who has a heart for his homeland.
Within three years, it was a miracle to keep the isolated city of Shazhou from losing its defense, and even to take almost the entire hexi!
Tang Xuanzong Li Chen himself was even more excited. Feeling the loyalty and courage of Zhang Yichao and his subordinates, he issued a special edict to vigorously praise the heroic deeds of Zhang Yichao and others, and instructed the propaganda department to do a good job in relevant work so that the whole world would know about these heroes.
In October of that year (851), the imperial court decided to place the rebel army in Shazhou, and zhang Yichao was the first envoy of the rebel army and the observer of the eleven prefectures, which meant that after a hundred years, the Hehuang region once again officially became the administrative district of the Tang Dynasty, with Yiwu in the west and Lingwu in the east, and millions of families in the land of more than 4,000 miles once again became the people of the Tang Dynasty.
However, Li Chen could not have imagined in his dreams that the vitality of this rebel army would be stronger than that of the Tang Dynasty, and until the end of the Five Dynasties period of the Tang Dynasty, it was still active on the stage of history.
Zhang Yichao's righteous deeds brought him great honors, he became the focus of everyone's attention overnight, and the people of the Tang Dynasty regarded him as a national hero, fortunately, in the face of flashy and vain name, Zhang Yichao maintained a rare soberness.
He clearly realized that although the Tubo high-level was in a state of fragmentation, they would never allow the Tang Dynasty's forces to return to the Western Regions again, or show the slightest possibility of such a situation. As Zhang Yichao expected, the Tubo people really regarded Zhang Yichao and his rebel army as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh. Although the internal contradictions among the Tubo people are very large and many, they still have a consensus on this issue: Those who abandon me must not stay!
Therefore, while strictly ordering the Tubo army in Liangzhou to strengthen training and do a good job in defense, they also encouraged the Tubo tribes near the rebel army and even the Dangxiang and Hui tribes to invade. Anyway, even if you can't eat the rebels in one go, it is a good choice to consume the strength of the other side.
For these uninvited guests, Zhang Yichao's response was to resolutely and unanimously see and fight again and again.
After suffering several major losses from the rebels, the regular army in this area of Tufan basically had a long memory, and anyone who said it was crazy or was greeted by the superiors for three generations of relatives, and did not pass through the territory of the rebel army.
In September of the tenth year of Da Zhong (856), the less memorable King Tuhun took advantage of the ripe wheat and led a large brigade of men and horses to grab grain. As a result, he was not only defeated by the Gui rebels, but also chased by Zhang Yichao's division for more than a thousand miles, all the way to the Territory of the Tuhun Department itself. This battle is estimated to have really helped the Tuhun King to have a long memory, so in the subsequent historical materials, we basically can no longer see the relevant accounts of the Tuhun King.
In fact, an opponent like King Tuhun was not a threat to Zhang Yichao, but at most a pleasure in life, and what he really cared about was the gang that had long been entrenched in Nazhi County (northwest of present-day Hami City) west of The city of Yizhou.
Nachi was originally a small and inconspicuous county town, but since the Uighurs who had destroyed the country and the Tubo soldiers who had fled the area during the civil war had gathered here, the place name Nazhi had become a place where the people of Yizhou had heard about it. These people were outlaws who fought without their lives, so the local defenders were not opponents at all, and the people of Illinois had been harmed by them for a long time, and the loss of life and property was very serious.
After Zhang Yichao's analysis, he believes that the Uighurs and Tubo people here are still not monolithic, so the best way to break the enemy is to fight the enemy in an organized manner, and to clean up the division in unity and break through each one.
So Zhang Yichao made a small move to make the Tubo people believe that this military operation of the Rebel Army was to implement the call of the Tang Dynasty court to eliminate the Hui rebel army, and as long as the Tubo people did not get in the way, they would not be affected.
After successfully achieving the neutralization of the Tubo people, Zhang Yichao seized the time and launched a surprise attack on the Uighurs who were in office.
The Uighurs did not seem to like to live in the city, which greatly facilitated the return of the rebels. When the Rebels suddenly charged from all directions, the brave and warlike Hui people fell into an unprecedented panic, and many of them were cut to the ground by the Gui Rebel cavalry that galloped to the front before they could get on their horses. The rest of the people saw that the situation was not good, and they also gave up the idea of fighting back, only knowing to run.
Zhang Yichao did not intend to let these people go easily, because he knew that the hands of the people here were all covered with the blood of civilians. To avenge the murder of our compatriots, there is no hesitation or mercy.
Under the command of Zhang Yichao, the Gui rebel army pursued the whole line, and on the way of the Hui people rushing to nazhi county, it was another heavyweight critical attack.
In this way, the Huilu gang was completely crippled, and the Tubo soldiers soon found that without the assistance of the Huiren, they could not toss up. However, the defense level of the Yizhou defenders was improving day by day, and over time, the Tubo rebels who found themselves unprofitable finally had to find another way out, and the problem of accepting posts was completely resolved.
After defeating the Hui people, Zhang Yichao still marched toward the horse and trained his troops day by day, because he still had a wish. This wish is to recover Liangzhou, completely change the situation of "road obstruction Xiaoguan Yanxin is rare", so that the rebel army and the motherland can truly achieve connectivity.
Liangzhou City is not like Nazhi County, which is a place where you can fight. Liangzhou has been an important town in Hexi since the Southern and Northern Dynasties, with a strong city and a complete defense system, and most of the Tubo soldiers who were defeated by Zhang Yichao have gathered here.
The Tubo army in Liangzhou City is conservatively estimated to be at least 10,000 people, while Zhang Yichao's rebel army can organize a campaign of no more than 10,000 at most. According to the art of war, it is necessary to attack Jiancheng with more than five times the strength of the troops, but Zhang Yichao did not care about this, he already had an iron heart to restore Liangzhou, after six years of fierce soldiers, in August of the twelfth year of Dazhong (858), Zhang Yichao officially announced: Eastern Expedition to Liangzhou!
This multi-ethnic expeditionary force was commanded by Zhang Yichao's nephew Zhang Huaishen, totaling 7,000 people. Due to the lack of relevant historical materials, we cannot fully restore the whole picture of this arduous and bloody Battle of Liangzhou. What we only know at present is that the Tang army chose the marching strategy of dividing the troops into two roads and attacking in combination. And a unit that had disappeared for a long time on the northwest battlefield also reappeared in this battle, and the strange knife team was once again revealed.
Although there were surprise horses composed of the Mo Dao team and the native soldiers of various ethnic groups in the northwest, the Battle of Liangzhou was still protracted.
Zhang Huaishen fought a bloody battle under Liangzhou City for three years before he finally conquered Liangzhou. At this time, it was already the second year (861) of Tang Yizong's Chengtong.
The palace in Chang'an changed owners, but Zhang Yichao's loyalty remained the same. After the liangzhou victory came, he still sent an emissary to Chang'an at the first time to play the imperial court.
Emperor Yizong of Tang was a famous emperor in history, but when he learned that Zhang Yichao had sent emissaries, he still took time out of his busy schedule to receive them, because the restoration of Liangzhou meant that the Helong region, which had been trapped for more than a hundred years, had all returned to the territory of the Tang Dynasty. Moreover, the only way of the Silk Road is also opened up for the rebel army!
However, Tang Yizong did not have the ambition of his ancestors, he did not intend to continue to run the Silk Road, and he had no interest in the affairs west of the Gobi Mountains, so although the court was very surprised to hear the news, the response was extremely slow. It was not until two years after the restoration of Liangzhou that the imperial court decided to reinstate liangzhou jiedushi to command The six prefectures of Liangtao, Xi, Bu, He, and Linliu, and issued an edict that Zhang Yichao would also lead Liangzhou Jiedushi, thus reaching its peak in history.
However, at this time, Zhang Yichao made a decision that shocked everyone: to enter Chang'an.
The reason why Zhang Yichao had such an idea was because two such events occurred in the seventh year of Chengtong (866).
One was that in October of that year, the Tang army eliminated the last Tubo forces in Hexi, and neither the Gui rebel army nor the Tang court had the advantage of looking west. The long-lost peace and tranquility once again befell the land of Hexi, and the next task is to restore the prosperity of the past. Therefore, Zhang Yichao decided that he no longer had the need to remain in Shazhou to deter the enemy.
Another thing is that the direct cause of Zhang Yichao's trip was that near the end of the year, Zhang Yichao received an unfortunate news that his brother Zhang Yitan had died in Chang'an.
Zhang Yitan stayed in the capital since he led a delegation into the imperial court in the fifth year of Da Zhong (851), which is also an old rule. However, where the general commands a heavy army, some of his brothers and nephews must stay in Chang'an, to put it at a high level, it is His Majesty the Emperor who sympathizes with the generals on the expedition, follows his family, and allows the generals to have no worries when they are on the front line; To put it more realistically, it is afraid that the general will rebel and leave his family as hostages.
Now that Zhang Yitan had passed away, and Zhang Yichao's reputation in the Hexi region was in full swing, it was difficult to guarantee that the imperial court would not suspect that Zhang Yichao had the intention of dividing one side, so in order to reassure the emperor and ensure the continued stability of Hexi, Zhang Yichao decided to go to Chang'an to meet the emperor himself and play the role of his dead brother.
In the eighth year of Emperor Yizong of Tang (867), Zhang Yichao set off for Chang'an. Before leaving, he handed over all the military and political power of the rebel army to the person he thought was the most suitable candidate, Zhang Yitan's son Zhang Huaishen.
After nearly two months of trekking, in February of that year, Zhang Yichao and his party finally arrived in the capital Chang'an
He had imagined this majestic city more than once in the descriptions of his grandparents and in the records of books, and this time, he finally had the privilege of seeing the prosperity and bustle of the city with his own eyes.
This is the capital of Datang! This should be the capital of Datang!
This year, the children of Dunhuang in the past finally made their dreams come true!
This year, Zhang Yichao was already sixty-nine years old.
Knowing that Zhang Yichao took the initiative to enter the court, Tang Yizong was deeply surprised, so the imperial court appointed Zhang Yichao as the commander of the Right God Wu Army, and found a large house in Xuanyangfang in the city and gave Zhang Yichao as a residence.
Five years later, Situ Zhang Yichao died peacefully at his home in Chang'an at the age of seventy-four.
Zhang Yichao, who was originally ordinary, completed his extraordinary life, but the cause he created continued.
After Zhang Yichao entered the dynasty, Zhang Huaishen, during his tenure, followed his uncle's method of governance, encouraged production, lightly dispensed with small gifts, and treated everyone who was willing to live here equally, regardless of Fan Han. Of course, for the enemy who dared to destroy this side, Zhang Huaishen also resolutely fought back like Zhang Yichao. In the eleventh year of Weitong (870) and the sixteenth year of Weitong (875), he led his army to defeat the Invading Uighurs of Ganzhou in succession, maintaining stability in the jurisdiction of the rebel army.
However, due to Tang Yizong's suspicions, Zhang Huaishen was delayed in receiving the appointment of jiedushi and could only take charge of the Gui rebel army for a long time as the assassin of Shazhou. Not being recognized by the imperial court made Zhang Zhunshen's prestige in the hearts of the people diminish. After Tang Zhaozong ascended the throne, although he officially crowned Zhang Zhunshen as an envoy to Jiedushi, at the same time, he also appointed Zhang Yichao's son Zhang Huaiding as the assassin of Shazhou, which further aggravated the division of the rebel army.
In the first year of Da Shun (890), Zhang Huaishen was assassinated by his cousin Zhang Huaiding, and the Gui rebel army fell into nearly ten years of civil unrest, and by the time Zhang Chengfeng, the grandson of Zhang Yichao, quelled the civil unrest and presided over military affairs, the jurisdiction of the Gui rebel army had been reduced to the scope of Guasha Prefecture.
Zhang Chengfeng immediately sent someone to the imperial court to apply for the appointment of the envoy to stay, but when the emissary went to Liangzhou, he heard the news of the demise of the Tang Dynasty and had to return to Shazhou.
While everyone was preparing to celebrate the new emissary, the messenger fell on his knees and reported to Zhang Chengcheng:
"There is no more Datang in the world!"
When the crowd heard the news, they were all shocked and lamented. Zhang Chengfeng could not believe that the Tang Dynasty, which he had so longed for, had perished, so he sent emissaries to the Central Plains again to inquire about the news. After confirming the fact that Zhu Wen had usurped Tang, Zhang Chengfeng was indignant and ordered to continue to use Tang Zhaozong's era name and refuse to recognize the Later Liang regime. Soon after, in order to gather the morale of the people, Zhang Chengfeng established the Western Han Dynasty Jinshan Kingdom according to the suggestions of the people, called the Wen Shen Wu Tianzi.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhang Chengfeng misestimated his own strength and constantly used troops against the surrounding areas. Because of the isolation of the overseas and the loss of the support of the Central Plains, although the Jinshan State achieved a certain military victory in the early stage, it also consumed a lot of itself, and finally lost in the duel with the Ganzhou Uighurs. The Uighurs of Ganzhou then launched a counterattack, uniting tubo and other Uighur tribes to directly attack the city of Shazhou, at the critical moment Zhang Chengfeng personally climbed the city gate to command the battle, and finally under the efforts of the entire army and people in the city, repelled the enemy army, but the main Uighur force remained in the territory of the Gui rebel army. The heavily wounded rebels could not completely expel the enemy for a while, while the surrounding forces were eager to move. In the end, Zhang Chengfeng was forced to cancel the name of the country and ask the Uighurs of Ganzhou for peace.
In 914, after Zhang Chengfeng fell ill and died, the power of the rebel army fell into the hands of Cao Yijin. The Cao rebel regime learned the lesson of Zhang Chengfeng's enemies on all sides, and established new relations of friendly exchanges on the basis of equality with the Uighur regimes of Ganzhou, Xizhou Uighurs, and Khotanese through marriage and other means, in order to coexist.
At the same time, the Cao regime also actively restored its subordinate relationship with the Central Plains Dynasty, successively accepting the titles of Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han, and Later Zhou, and enshrined Zhongyuan Zhengshuo, taking advantage of the prestige of the old Tang Dynasty in the minds of the people of all ethnic groups, in order to establish its own orthodox position among the ethnic groups in the northwest. Internally, it continued to recruit leading figures of the Guachawang and ethnic minorities to participate in the rebel regime in order to expand the political base. These measures enabled the Cao clan to return to the rebel regime not only recognized by the Central Plains Dynasty and the surrounding ethnic minority regimes, but also supported by the soldiers and people in the territory, enabling it to survive and develop in the complex ethnic relations of the five generations.
After the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Gui rebel army, which had grown again in strength, decided to make a shame and prepare to unite with the Song army to attack the Ganzhou Uighurs from east to west, and open up the road to the Central Plains for the Gui rebel army, but because the Ganzhou Uighurs had already preemptively declared themselves vassals to the Northern Song Dynasty, the Northern Song rulers were unwilling to raise swords again, and the Gui rebels had to continue to struggle to survive in an environment surrounded by strong enemies.
After the rise of the power of the Dangxiang people, the Space for Uighurs was constantly compressed, and the Uighurs who had lost their territory launched a fierce attack on the Rebels. Under the strong attack of the Dangxiang and Uighurs, the last Guiyi army jiedushi made Cao Xianshun have no choice but to lead the remaining more than a thousand people to surrender to the Western Xia army, and the Guiyi army was destroyed by Li Yuanhao.
It is worth mentioning that before the fall of the Rebel regime, a large number of books of great cultural value were hidden in the Mogao Caves, which were only discovered in the 90s of the last century and have now been scattered around the world.
One hundred and eighty-five years of time, the vicissitudes of the sea, the mulberry fields, the Hexi Corridor, many familiar faces are no longer in many familiar landscapes finally changed, the only thing that has been handed down seems to be the triumphant song sung by the rebels when Zhang Yichao was triumphant.
The heavens and the earth are vast, the sound of the sound of the return of thousands of armies and horses is like an ear.
The afterglow is endless, and it will not fade for a thousand years.