In the first year of Baoying, the Tang Hui army attacked Luoyang, and Shi Chaoyi, who had only a few hundred horsemen left, was forced to flee to Mozhou, and when he reached Guangyang, he was rejected by the defenders. Shi Chaoyi was forced to take a detour through the hot spring fence, but was caught up by Li Huaixian, who was trailing behind, and in the embattled song, Shi Chaoyi swung his sword in the forest and killed himself. Since then, the Anshi Rebellion that has raged the Tang Dynasty for nearly 8 years has finally been put down, and the Tang Dynasty has ushered in a short-lived ZTE.
The Anshi Rebellion was a turning point in the Tang Dynasty's transformation from prosperity to decline, and the Anshi Rebellion, which lasted for nearly 8 years, not only destroyed the Kaiyuan prosperous era established by Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, but also broke the soul of his beloved concubine Yang Yuhuan. For the people of the Tang Dynasty, the Anshi Rebellion was a huge disaster, and it was recorded in the Old Book of Tang: "The palace was burned, ten did not exist one, the hundred Cao were abandoned, and there was no ruler rafters." The great poet Du Fu, in his "No Home", one of the "Three Officials and Three Farewells", also wrote that "After the Lonely Heavenly Treasure, the Garden Lu but Artemisia Quinoa." I have more than a hundred families in my house, and the world is in chaos" verse is enough to prove the impact of this protracted war on ordinary people.
In the early days of the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty army was gradually defeated and retreated, and it was not an opponent of the Yan army at all. Li Longji, who fled in a hurry, even if he did not give up, he could only let his concubine Yang Yuhuan come out to carry the pot, and let a woman become a scapegoat for the imperial court. What is more serious is that at this time, the Tang Dynasty has fallen into a situation where eunuchs have abused their powers, and the imperial court has used eunuchs to serve as the supervisors of the imperial army in order to avoid the situation of rebellion of military generals again, but it is not known that this move almost plunged the Tang Dynasty into the abyss of collapse.
At that time, there were two imperial court generals who had the ability to fight against An Lushan, one was Gao Xianzhi and the other was Feng Changqing, both of whom were famous generals of the Tang Dynasty and the last straw of the imperial court, but both of them were framed and killed by the eunuch Bian Lingcheng sent by the imperial court to supervise the army.
In the early days of the Anshi Rebellion, the rebel army was strong and the imperial court army could not resist, and after the hasty defeat of Feng Changqing, Gao Xianzhi decided to retreat to Tongguan. After Bian Lingcheng learned the news, in order to ask Tang Xuanzong for merit, he impatiently wrote a secret note to the imperial court, saying: "Changqing shook the people with thieves, and Xianzhi abandoned Shaanxi for hundreds of miles, and stole the grain of soldiers." Tang Xuanzong was old and faint, and actually believed Bian Lingcheng's lies, so he secretly ordered Bian Lingcheng to get rid of Feng Changqing and Gao Xianzhi.
Feng Changqing's defeat was actually forgivable, because the soldiers he had hastily recruited were all pawns of some peddlers, and without the slightest combat experience, it was impossible to be the opponent of An Lushan's elite army. Moreover, judging from the subsequent battle situation, Gao Xianzhi's decision to retreat to Tongguan was also very correct, but Tang Xuanzong did not believe the imperial court general, but instead believed the ghost words of the eunuch Bian Lingcheng, which eventually led to the self-destruction of the Great Wall by the imperial court. After Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing were wrongfully killed, the imperial court fell into an embarrassing situation of no general available, and by this time Tang Xuanzong had already repented of it.
People often say that the times create heroes, if there is no Anshi rebellion, if the imperial court did not unjustly kill Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing, then I am afraid that there would be no later world-famous general Guo Ziyi. When the Anshi Rebellion broke out, Guo Ziyi was at home guarding filial piety for his mother, although he joined the army in high school martial arts very early, but he was never used by the imperial court, even if he made meritorious contributions to the imperial court many times, he was only a Jiuyuan Taishou.
After the deaths of Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing, Tang Xuanzong asked the imperial Chinese who could be used by the hundred officials of the military force, and the ministers remembered that there was also a Guo Ziyi who had won every battle in the court. At this time, Guo Ziyi was guarding filial piety at home, and he was not allowed to enter the dynasty as an official until the expiration of the period of filial piety, but where did Tang Xuanzong still wait? Therefore, he urgently issued an order, on the grounds that the situation was difficult, to "seize the affection" to use Guo Ziyi, and also gave him a lot of titles such as Wei Weiqing, Shan Yu'anBei Deputy Dadu Protector, Lingwu County Taishou, concurrently regent Yushi Zhongcheng, Quan Chong Shuo Fang Jiedu deputy ambassador, and so on.
Guo Ziyi's comeback did not live up to expectations, and soon led an army to retake the Jingbian army, and then defeated the rebel generals Zhou Wanqing and Gao Xiuyan in succession, and recovered Yunzhong, Mayi and other places. In the case of repeated defeats of the imperial army in the early stage of the Anshi Rebellion, Guo Ziyi's victory gave the imperial court hope, but at that time, Tang Xuanzong was no longer as wise and divine as when he was young, and Tang Suzong, who succeeded to the throne, also had doubts about Guo Ziyi, afraid that he would become the second An Lushan, so Guo Ziyi's situation was not very good.
Since Tang Suzong succeeded to the throne, on the one hand, he reused Guo Ziyi, and on the other hand, he was wary of Guo Ziyi everywhere, so that Guo Ziyi's situation was very passive, and he often could not open his hands and feet when fighting against the rebels of An Lushan. Moreover, although Guo Ziyi had successively conquered the two capitals and fought several beautiful victories in succession, forcing the AnShi rebels to take a defensive position, Tang Suzong became more and more concerned about Guo Ziyi, and even sent the eunuch Yu Zhao'en to Guo Ziyi's army as a supervisor. Because Guo Ziyi was constrained at every turn, resulting in the defeat of the Tang army Xiangzhou, he was also relieved of his military power and forced to disarm and return to the field.
In the second year of the First Century, Li Guangbi's army defeated Mount Yao, Luoyang was once again lost, and the war situation north of the Yellow River was once again unfavorable to the imperial court. Tang Suzong was very ashamed of this, believing that his distrust of Guo Ziyi had caused such a situation, so Tang Suzong sincerely wrote an edict to Guo Ziyi and reviewed himself, hoping that Guo Ziyi could go out of the mountain again regardless of his previous suspicions. This time, Guo Ziyi was ordered to be in danger, and soon calmed the situation, and successively recovered Mozhou, Heyang and other places.
However, soon after, with the successive deaths of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang and Emperor Suzong of Tang, Guo Ziyi's situation became precarious again, and the newly succeeded Emperor Tang of Tang, at the instigation of eunuchs, became suspicious of Guo Ziyi and once again relieved Guo Ziyi of his military powers. Guo Ziyi then took out the edict that Tang Suzong had left for him in front of Emperor Tang, pointed to the text on it and read it to Emperor Tang, who was very ashamed to hear it, and made a vow on the spot that "I will never doubt Guo Aiqing in my life".
With the defeat and killing of shi dynasty's righteous soldiers, the Anshi rebellion was finally put down by the imperial court, and Guo Ziyi, as the number one meritorious person, naturally also received a reward from the imperial court. But as the saying goes, the companion is like a companion tiger, there have been several experiences in the past, Guo Ziyi has a premonition of the fate of the lord of the high shock, coupled with so many lessons from the past in history, so even a ZTE celebrity like Guo Ziyi has to defile himself to save his life.
Guo Ziyi was the King of Fenyang, and later he was honored as "Shang Father", and he was made a lieutenant, and could be said to be an extremely popular subject. However, under the appearance of this scenery, there are actually great risks hidden, and several famous Tang Dynasty generals such as Ge Shuhan and Gao Xianzhi before him have not ended well. Moreover, after experiencing the Anshi Rebellion, the imperial court's jealousy of military generals became increasingly serious. In view of this, Guo Ziyi had to indulge herself in wine, and at the age of 80, she still indulged in wine, and carefully lived to the age of 85.
There are too many examples in history of birds hiding their bows, and it can be said that there are very few ZTE celebrities like Guo Ziyi who can get a good death. This is the wisdom of the life of a generation of famous generals Guo Ziyi, if it were not for his self-defilement to save his life, I am afraid that the final outcome would not be much better.