The emperor took turns to do it, and next year to my house"Since ancient times, the dynasties have changed continuously, Xu is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, or a foreign invasion, or a traitorous government, whenever the people in the chaotic world are happy and miserable, the initial peasant uprising is the most simple want to overthrow the tyranny and save the people from water and fire, but when the dynasty was overthrown, all walks of life fought for the pinnacle of power, deceitful, fighting with each other, and the efforts of the rebel army finally made a wedding dress for the people with the heart. There are many rebel armies in China's history, and today we follow the ponies back to the chaotic world and count the combat strength of various rebel armies.
The rebel army confronted the officers and soldiers
First, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the "Huangchao Uprising" first of all, Huangchao was the most appealing leader in the peasant rebellion in history, and the Huangchao Uprising was also the most far-reaching peasant uprising at the end of the Tang Dynasty. According to historical records, Huang Chao was born in 820, the time of the uprising was 58 years old, is the oldest leader of many rebel armies, history records that Huang Chao died in 884, only 6 years from the beginning of the uprising, although there are old men talking about the mentality of juvenile madness, but after all, into the twilight years, plus there is courage and strategy, Huang Chao was born in a salt merchant family, good at riding and shooting, rough pen and ink, rare poetry, young people have great ambitions, hope to pass the examination of the imperial examination, contribute to the Tang Dynasty, the most important official, However, due to the fact that he rushed to the examination many times but returned home, because the power of the Gate Valve Clan during the Tang Dynasty was great, coupled with the natural disasters and man-made disasters and social contradictions at that time, Huang Chao raised the banner of rebellion in anger.
Huangchao rebel army is relatively large, in fact, the first to rebel against the Tang Dynasty is Wang Xianzhi, in 874 AD, the Central Plains flood and drought, Henan is the most serious, Tang Yizong reigned when the tax increased, the state and county officials are afraid of being implicated and do not speak of the disaster, resulting in "the people are exiled, there is nowhere to complain."
So Wang Xianzhi, a salt smuggler in Puyang, gathered thousands of people and attacked the prefecture and occupied the county, capturing several cities. The momentum has soared. After that, there was a rumor that said: "The golden toad fights for its eyes, but the world of Caozhou is reversed." When Wang Xianzhi rebelled, the whole world was very afraid at that time, afraid of war and chaos, but the active Huang Chao persuaded his sons and nephews to gather thousands of people to respond to Wang Xianzhi, and since then the Huang Chao rebel army has become increasingly powerful.
The Huangchao rebel army was huge in scale, lasted six years, fought in 12 provinces, and traveled more than 15,000 miles, completely disintegrated the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and established its own Daqi regime, and established a high-level change system, and a four-phase system of one dynasty, which eventually led to the division of tang dynasties and towns, the complete loss of centralized power, and the survival of dynastic rule in name only. Eventually, The Xuanwu army that was demoted to Tang made Zhu Wen usurp the throne.
In terms of influence, compared with the strength of the previous dynasty and the dominance, the Huangchao Uprising should be ranked as the most effective of the various rebel armies in history.
Second, the "White Lotus Rebellion" at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, in fact, history is always so similar, in the chaotic world, the use of missionary demagoguery is not a few, and similar to the "Yellow Turban Uprising" led by Zhang Jiao at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, let's first talk about the White Lotus Rebellion, which is a mysterious civil society, people familiar with history know that this sect is very evil, when it was first established, the faith was still very normal, leading people to good. There is a great posture of universal sentient beings, and there are very few canons, the teachings are simple and easy to understand, it is easy to pull people's heads, and the threshold for entering the religion is extremely low, so low to what extent, in other words, there is no threshold for the earth. So the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty can't sit still, your development is a little fast, there are foreign tigers on the outside, you also give me such a bomb inside, that is not OK, you have to take measures quickly, so the first Maozi generation founder Yuan was exiled by the emperor.
The White Lotus Sect rebel army
Although the boss fell, but at least the sect did not fall, because this thing leads people to good, there is no harm, the old bustard is still willing to believe, so it is getting stronger and stronger. After the Establishment of the Yuan Dynasty in Mongolia, these emperors did not have the heart to take care of these civil affairs, just thinking that the world was so big, going out for a more turn, conquering the European continent, and as a result, in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, due to the unfair treatment of the Han people, it eventually led to the outbreak of the uprising. Not all of the rebel army was the White Lotus Sect, but most of the poor people could not live anymore, and everyone rebelled in the name of the White Lotus Sect, so there were indeed many people who rebelled, including those who did not have sects and other sects, but at that time, the White Lotus Sect was relatively famous, so many people who did not know the reason felt that everyone was the White Lotus Sect, so the White Lotus Sect became synonymous with the rebellion cult, and went farther and farther on the road of rebellion.
Coupled with the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, the tyranny of the Yuan Shun Emperor, coupled with the locust plague, the flood in the south, the drought in the north, the complete riot of the White Lotus Sect, those small groups and forces were all dealt with by those in power according to the White Lotus Sect, friends who have read Jin Yong's martial arts novels should have seen the Book of the Dragon Slaughter in Yitian, part of the plot is still close to history, Zhang Wujie's prototype may be Han Lin'er, the son of the Leader of the White Lotus Sect, Han Shantong, Zhang Wujie's Ming Sect rebel army eventually succeeded in pushing to the Yuan Dynasty, but Zhang Wujie had no intention of participating in the struggle between the secular and the court. In the end, he gave the right to Zhu Yuanzhang, and he took Zhao Min away from Middle-earth! And in history, Han Lin'er was taken in by Zhu Yuanzhang and drowned in the river!
I have to say that the fighting power of the White Lotus Sect uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty was also the strongest of many rebel armies, because it not only pushed to the court regime, but also replaced it. In second place, it is unyielding.
Third, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, some people say that the Jintian Uprising led by Hong Xiuquan is the largest peasant uprising in Chinese history, Xiao Ma believes that it is not entirely true, to say that there are some achievements of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but it is only the occupation of Nanjing, the establishment of a short-lived regime, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was suppressed very quickly, and almost died out!
Taiping Rebellion
The fourth is the peasant uprising led by Li Zicheng, the king of the invasion, this peasant uprising can be said to be very successful, pushed to the Ming Dynasty not to say, but also directly hit the capital Beijing City, the establishment of the Dashun regime, but the place of the way and the size of the rebel army is not the first three big, but it can also be said that it is very powerful, if it were not for Wu Sangui to open Shanhaiguan, perhaps there would be no later Qing Dynasty or anything!
In terms of fame in history, there are about nine peasant rebel armies in addition to the above three, as well as the "Dazexiang Uprising" led by Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, the "Yellow Turban Uprising" led by Zhang Jiao, the "Green Forest Chimei Uprising" in the late Western Han Dynasty, and the "Fang La Uprising" in the Northern Song Dynasty, but the results achieved are not as big as the previous times, so the combat effectiveness ranks slightly behind!
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