On December 5, 880, the Huangchao rebel army captured the Tang capital Chang'an, and Emperor Tang fled to Chengdu. Huang Chao sent Zhu Wen to lead troops to garrison Dongwei Bridge. At this time, Tang stationed the soldiers and horses of the Gongbei camp led by Zhuge Shuang at Liyang, and Huang Chao sent Zhu Wen to recruit Zhuge Shuang, who was persuaded by Zhu Wen to surrender to Huang Chao.
In February 881, Zhu Wen was appointed as the capital of yuhou in the southeast, and was ordered to capture Dengzhou, capture Shi Zhaojing, block the Tang army attacking north from the Jingxiang region, and stabilize the situation in the southeast of the newly established Qi regime. In June, when Zhu Wen returned to Chang'an, Huang Chao personally went to Bashang to work for the army. In July, Zhu Wen was also transferred to Xingping, west of Chang'an, to fight against the Tang army mobilized from the prefectures of Ying, Qi, Yan, and Xia. In August, Li Xiaochang (李孝昌) and Xia Zhou (夏州節度) stationed Li Sigong at Dongwei Bridge, and Huang Chao sent Zhu Wen to defend him. In September, Zhu Wen defeated the Tang generals Li Sigong and Li Xiaochang in the area around Dongwei Bridge. In November, Meng Kai and Zhu Wen defeated li xiaochang and Li Sigong of Xia prefecture in Fuping, and the second Li collapsed and fled back to the original town.
In February 882, Huang Chao appointed Zhu Wen as a defensive envoy to Tongzhou and left Zhu Wen to attack on his own. Zhu Wen led his troops south from Danzhou and soon conquered Tongzhou, where shi Micheng fled into the river. At that time, Wang Chongrong had tens of thousands of troops in Hezhong Jiedu, entangled other feudal towns, and planned to retake Tongzhou. Zhu Wen and Wang Chongrong fought in the river, and Wang Chongrong selected 30,000 elite soldiers to attack Zhu Wen, and Zhu Wen was afraid and sank all the boats in the river.
After Zhu Wen was defeated by Wang Chongrong, he asked Huang Chao for support, and entered the table ten times, all of which were hidden by Huang Chao's left army, Meng Kai. He also heard that the Huangchao army was in a state of embarrassment and distress, and most of the generals were distraught, and his close generals Hu Zhen and Xie Hui advised him to surrender to Tang anyway, and Zhu Wen deduced that the Huangchao rebel army was bound to fail, so he was prepared to surrender to the Tang Dynasty.
Map of the situation of the division of the town at the end of the Tang Dynasty
In September 882, Zhu Wen and his henchmen plotted to kill Huang Chao's overseer Yan Shi and lead the soldiers and civilians of Tongzhou to surrender to Wang Chongrong. Yang Fuguang wanted to kill Zhu Wen, but Wang Chongrong stopped him and said: "Now that the Huang Chao soldiers and horses have been surrendered, all those who surrender will be pardoned, and Zhu Wen's bravery can be used, and it is ominous to kill him." Zhu Wen recognized Wang Chongrong as his uncle, and Wang Duo obeyed the edict and made Zhu Wen the envoy of the Tonghua Festival. On the same day, Wang Chongrong quickly wrote a sonata and reported it to the imperial court. Emperor Tang of Tang, after seeing the song in Shu Commandery, gave Zhu Wen zuo the official position of general of JinWuwei and served as the deputy envoy of the Hezhong camp, and also gave him the name "Quan Zhong". From then on, Zhu Wen commanded his old troops and the soldiers in the river to act together, and everywhere he went, he was invincible.
In February 883, the Tang court appointed Zhu Wen as an envoy to the Assassination history of Bian Prefecture and the Xuanwu Army, and he would wait until the Tang army recaptured the capital. Therefore, Zhu Wen stepped up his siege of Chang'an with various Tang armies. In April, Huang Chao withdrew from Chang'an, went out from Lantian Guandong, and invaded Cai Prefecture, where Tang Cai Prefecture made Qin Zongquan surrender and besieged Chen Prefecture.
In July 883, Zhu Wen entered Bian Prefecture and took up the post of emissary of Jiedushi. Since then, Fenzhou (Xuanwu Army) has become his base camp. At that time, the starving people in The Song and other places were everywhere, the materials used by the officials and the people were exhausted, the arrogance of the soldiers and horses inside and outside was difficult to suppress, and they were facing internal and external crises, but Zhu Wen's military strength was increasing day by day. At that time, Cai Prefecture assassinated Shi Qin Zongquan and huang Chaoyu's party and besieged Chen Prefecture together. Emperor Tang issued an edict, because Huang Chao was not at peace, and Jia Zhuwen solicited envoys for the northeast to support Chen Prefecture.
In the spring of 884, when Huang Chao's army was still very strong, Zhou Qian, Shi Pu, Zhu Wen, etc. could not resist alone, and together they asked for help from Li Keyong in Hedong. Zhu Wen attacked HuangChao's forces at Wazizhai and captured Wazizhai, and Huangchao's generals Li Tangbin and Qianyu, the king of Chuqiu, surrendered to Zhu Wen. At that time, there were many remnants of Huangchao troops on all sides of Chenzhou, and Zhu Wen divided his troops to extinguish the Huangchao army that surrounded Chenzhou, and experienced forty battles, large and small. In April, Zhu Wen's army captured Xihuazhai, and Huang Chao's general Huang Siyi was left alone to flee to Chen Prefecture on horseback. Zhu Wen took advantage of the victory to pursue, and marched with a clamor. Huang Chao's army retreated, and Zhu Wen invaded Chen Prefecture. Because Chen Zhou's assassin Zhao Xian was very grateful to Zhu Wen, he greeted him in front of his horse and then attached himself to him. Soon after hearing that Huang Chaoyu was still in Guyanglei north of Chenzhou, Zhu Wen returned directly to Bian Prefecture.
At this time, Hedong Jiedu made Li Ke use the edict of Emperor Tang to lead thousands of cavalry and horses to jointly plot to eliminate Huang Chao, and Wang Mandu, who had joined Zhu Wen in the north of Zhongmu, went to war with Huang Chao's army, and attacked Huang Chao's army when he was halfway through the river, and finally defeated Huang Chao, killing more than 10,000 Huang Chao's army, and the remnants of Huang Chao quickly surrendered. Compared with Li Keyong, a Shatuo, everyone was still more willing to surrender to Zhu Wen, who was also the general of huangchao, so Huo Cun, Ge Congzhou, Zhang Guihou, Zhang Guiba, and others were all under Zhu Wen's command.
"Bad Guy" Li Ke used
In 884, after Li Keyong's crusade against Huangchao, he passed through Bian Prefecture and rested his army at the Fengchan Temple to rectify the situation, and Zhu Wen invited Li Keyong to a banquet at Shangyuan Yi. Li Ke lost his temper with drunkenness and angered Zhu Wen. In the evening, after the banquet had dispersed, Li Ke fell asleep drunk. Zhu Wen's ambushed soldiers came out and set fire to the house, and the servant Guo Jingba extinguished the candle, hid Li Keyong under the bed, splashed water on Li Keyong and told him. Fortunately, heavy rain extinguished the fire, and Li Ke used his entourage Xue Tieshan and He Huihu to escape from the Weishi Gate with a rope and return to his troops by the light of lightning; in July, Li Ke used it to go to Taiyuan, reported the matter to Tang Shuzong, requested to send troops to Beizhou, and sent his brother Li Kexiu to lead 10,000 troops to garrison the hezhong region. Emperor Tang persuaded him to put an end to the matter. At the same time, because of the merits of breaking the Yellow Nest, the Tang Dynasty made Li Ke the King of Longxi County.
In June, Huang Chao's soldiers fled to wolf and tiger valley and died, and Qin Zongquan of Cai Prefecture took over Huang Chao's position. Qin Zongquan marched out and invaded the surrounding feudal towns. Xuan Zhuwen was attacked by Qin Zongquan, the situation was very critical, xiang Tianping jiedu zhu Xuan, Zhu Xuan sent his brother Zhu Jin to lead troops to rescue Zhu Wen, defeated Qin Zongquan at Hexiang. Zhu Wen was very grateful to Zhu Xuan and became a brother with Zhu Xuan. On September 2, Emperor Tang created Zhu Wen the title of Inspector situ and Tongping Zhangshi (同平章事), and was made the Marquis of Pei Commandery (沛郡侯), with a thousand households.
In the first month of 885, Qin Zongquan extorted a lease from Wang Xu of Gwangju, but Wang Xu could not meet Qin Zongquan's demands, and was furious and sent troops to attack Wang Xu. Wang Xu was very frightened, and mobilized all 5,000 soldiers and horses from Guang and Shou'er Prefectures to drive the officials under his command to cross the river and go south to trap Ting and Zhang'er Prefectures. After that, Qin Zongquan became more and more rampant, attacking the Ying and Bo prefectures, Zhu Wen led his army to the rescue, reached Jiaoyi, engaged Qin Zongquan's troops, killed thousands of enemy troops, captured the enemy general Yin Tielin alive, cut off his head and hung a warning at the city gate before returning. On April 14, Emperor Tang created Zhu Wen the Inspector Taibao and increased the number of food households to 1,500.
"Bad Guy" Zhu Wen
On March 1, 885, Emperor Xianzong of Tang issued an edict sealing Zhu Wen as the King of Pei County. At the same time, the Yicheng army of Huazhou made An Shiru overthrown due to the rebellion of his subordinates, and the general Zhang Xiao appointed himself as the queen of Huazhou. Zhu Wen then sent Zhu Zhen and Li Tangbin to negotiate, and then attacked Xiazhou and appointed Hu Zhen as the queen of Huazhou. In November, Yang Fuguang's troops led Lu Yanhong to the east to conquer Xiangzhou, and sent his troops Qin Yu and Zhao Dezhen to lead an army to attack Xiangzhou and conquer Xiangzhou. In December, Emperor Huanzong of Tang issued an edict to crown Zhu Wen as the Inspector Taifu and changed his title to the Prince of Wuxing County, with 3,000 households.
In February 885, he was proclaimed emperor at Cai Prefecture, and the state name was still used as Qi, in order to show that he would inherit the tradition of HuangChao, and he established his own small imperial court as an official, and in Leap February, he sent his younger brother Qin Zongyan to attack Jingnan. In June, Li Hanzhi and The Qin general Sun Ru, who remained in the eastern capital, refused for several months, and Li Han's army ran out of food, so he abandoned the city and fled west to Shichi, capturing the eastern capital Luoyang. At this point, the division of troops to capture more than 20 prefectures such as Shaanxi, Luo, Huai, Meng, Tang, Xu, Ru, and Zheng became the most powerful warlord group in the Central Plains. In August, an army was sent to attack Chen Prefecture, which was more than a hundred miles away from Cai Prefecture, and Chen Prefecture's forces were very weak, and the assassin Shi Zhao was engaged in battle, and could not make Zhao Li submit. The Tang court issued an edict with Zhao Xian as caizhou's emissary. Zhao Yi received assistance from Zhu Quanzhong and married Zhu Quanzhong as a son and daughter, and since then his strength has greatly increased. In October, Qin Zongquan defeated Zhu Wen again in the Octagon.
On February 1, 887, Zhu Wen was ordered to make Zhu Zhen the Assassin of Zizhou and sent him to the host province to recruit soldiers. Within ten days, more than 10,000 people had been recruited. On April 8, back in Bianzhou, Zhu Wen said happily: "My big thing can be done." At this time, The ministry of Qin Zongquan in Cai Prefecture set Zhang Zhitun in the northern suburbs, and Qin Xiantun in Banqiao, each with hundreds of thousands of people, and the fence up of the tree was connected for twenty miles, and the army was very strong. Zhu Wen said to the generals: "They are recuperating and waiting for the opportunity, and they will definitely attack us." Moreover, Qin Zongquan estimated that we had a small number of troops, and did not know that Zhu Zhen had arrived, thinking that we were afraid and could only hold our position. It is better to take it by surprise and preemptively strike now. So he personally led the troops to attack Qin Xian's camp, the soldiers fought bravely to be the first, Qin Zongquan was indeed defenseless, and conquered four camps in succession, killing more than 10,000 people, at that time people thought that there were gods secretly helping each other. On the 27th, the Qin general Lu Yao led more than 10,000 people to camp on both sides of the Beishui River in Wanshengshu, north of Putian, and built bridges across the river to control the river transport road. Zhu Wen selected elite soldiers to attack him. At this time, it was foggy, and Zhu Wen's troops were only found when they reached the Lu army camp, so they broke into the Lu army camp, and there were many people who died in the lu army, and Lu Yao also committed suicide by throwing himself into the river. Qin Zongquan's many troops in Henan were defeated one after another, and they did not dare to rush to attack again.
Zhu Wen's sphere of influence after the destruction of Emperor Qin's power
On May 3, Zhu Wen sent troops from the Sour Jujube Gate, from early morning to noon, and engaged Qin Zongquan's army, defeated Qin Zongquan, pursued and killed for more than twenty miles, and the dead bodies piled up. Qin Zongquan was ashamed of this defeat, so he became even more tyrannical, so he personally led several generals from Zhengzhou to raid and rushed straight into Zhang Zhi's military camp. On May 8, the armies of Zhu Wenyan, Yun, and Huazhou all rushed to reinforcements and set up a position on the bank of the Bianshui River, and the large army was well-armed and very majestic, and the flag was very spectacular. Qin Zongquan saw the military appearance of Zhu Wen's army and did not dare to take a step out of the military camp. The next day, Zhu Wen commanded all the armies to attack the Qin Zongquan military camp together, killing more than 20,000 enemies from 4:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Collect your troops at night and get countless cattle and horses, heavy items, weapons and armor, and captives. That night, Qin Zongquan and Zhang Zhi secretly fled, pursued them at dawn, and returned after Yangwu Bridge. Qin Zongquan failed in several battles with Zhu Wen. Because his own troops were several times that of Zhu Wen, but he repeatedly lost to Zhu Wen, his heart was angry. When he retreated to Zhengzhou, he slaughtered the people in the city and plundered the houses in the city before leaving for a long time. Then they dispersed their forces in Shaanxi, Luo, Meng, Huai, Xu, Ru and other prefectures and occupied them there. Because the soldiers under his command feared Zhu Wen, when Zhu Wen arrived with his army, the defenders of the city abandoned the city and fled.
In 888, Zhu Quanzhong concentrated his forces on besieging Caizhou. Zhu Quanzhong appointed himself as the commander of Cai Prefecture on all sides, led his army into Hua Prefecture, successively conquered the three towns of Liyang, Linhe, and Ligu, and occupied Luozhou and Mengzhou, relieving the worries of the west. In May, Xuanwu's army was defeated at Longpi and advanced to the city of Caizhou and attacked the north gate. After months of siege, in February 889, Qin Zongquan's subordinate Shen Cong defected, broke Qin Zongquan's legs, imprisoned him, and sent an envoy to report to Zhu Wen. On the same day, Zhu Wen accepted the edict to appoint Shen Cong as a posthumous official in Huaixi. Soon after, Shen Cong was killed by the general Guo Fan. In the same month, Guo Fan escorted Qin Zongquan to present zhu Wen, and Zhu Wen sent someone to release Qin Zongquan to Chang'an in a prison cart. After arriving in Chang'an, Tang Zhaozong went to Yanxilou to accept the captives and immediately beheaded Qin Zongquan under a single willow tree. Caizhou pingding. Emperor Zhaozong of Tang ordered Zhu Wen to be made a lieutenant of the Inspectorate, a Zhongshu Ling, and the Prince of Dongping, in order to reward caizhou for his merits in pacifying CaiZhou.