【Wang Huang branched off】
"Brother Xianzhi, let me take a look at the edict." Huang Chao's face was as dark as water, showing no anger or authority.
Wang Xianzhi was so happy that she didn't notice anything was wrong with the atmosphere. She held the letter of appointment in both hands and carefully handed it to Huang Chao, "Be careful, don't give it to me..."
Huang Chao grabbed the edict, shook it in front of Wang Xianzhi's nose, and shouted angrily: "You got the fucking official, what about me?"
"The first ones jointly made a great oath to run rampant in the world, but now they have taken an official to go to the left army alone, so that these more than 5,000 people can return home in peace!" - "Zi Zhi Tong Jian"
"The king surrenders and only gets the official position. What can the five thousand people do?" - "New Book of Tang·Huang Chao Biography"
Many people in later generations have beautified Huang Chao on this key sentence, packaging him as a strong-willed and unswerving revolutionary.
The Buddha and the Demon are in one thought, and the Hero and the Bear are in one sentence.
Some people made a fuss out of this sentence in "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" and glossed it over a little, translating "The founders jointly made a great oath to spread the world" as "In the beginning, we jointly made an oath to eradicate violence and bring order to the good, punish evil and promote evil." Be kind, do justice for heaven, and seek happiness for the people of the world..."
This guy wearing a tall hat is telling lies with his eyes wide open. You might as well say that they want to fight for communism.
"To dominate the world" is their oath. Combined with Huang Chao's actual performance later, you will find that these four words do not need to be over-interpreted. Its true meaning is the literal meaning, to separate one side and dominate the world. If we have to interpret it further, it should be understood that Huang Chao believed that he could compete with the Tang Dynasty or even replace it.
In short, no matter how clean they are, Wang Huang and others will never rise to the level of revolutionaries. At best, they are still large-scale organized criminal gangs.
Whether it is "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" or "New Book of Tang", no matter how much it is beautified and modified, the second half of the sentence can never be avoided. It is also a thorn in the side of all those who try to whitewash the likes of Wang Huang - "Five "Thousands of people", if you accept the imperial court's invitation and become an official, what will happen to the five thousand of us?
In a word, the spoils are unevenly distributed.
Wang Xianzhi betrayed the interests of his teammates, especially Huang Chao, which caused Huang Chao's dissatisfaction.
"Let's... take a long-term view..." Wang Xianzhi finally woke up halfway from the ecstasy, and was choked by Huang Chao's aura.
"Discuss your mother's size!"
The words come true. Huang Chao punched Wang Xianzhi in the face. Wang Xianzhi fell to the ground with blood on his face.
The soldiers around the two bosses also fought with each other, and the situation instantly got out of control and became chaos.
Subsequently, this group of "rebels" who "swore to save the people of the world" started beating, smashing, looting and burning in the city of Qizhou. The city was a sea of fire and was almost razed to the ground. Nearly half of the people of Li were massacred and the other half were carried away. He left and was forced to join the grass army.
Pei Xie and the imperial eunuch took advantage of the chaos to escape, but Wang Luo, a prisoner with a special status, was still detained.
The Cao army was divided into two: 3,000 people followed Wang Xianzhi, and 2,000 people followed Huang Chao.
This also indirectly proves that the real main force of the Cao Army is only these more than 5,000 people. The remaining "tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people" are really just a bunch of grass bandits. The two bosses didn't even bother to break down their families when they separated. They followed whoever they liked. Anyway, these 5,000 people had to be divided carefully.
After Wang and Huang separated, Wang Xianzhi led his troops southward and invaded Hubei; Huang Chao led his troops back to his hometown in Shandong.
Two peaches killed three soldiers, and the grass army's power was successfully disintegrated. However, a blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise.
Wang Xianzhi ravaged Hubei and captured Ezhou and Anzhou successively; Huang Chao first captured Yunzhou and then Yizhou in Shandong, averting his previous shame. He was a sentimental person. Later, Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi's general Shang Rang (the younger brother of Shang Junchang) met at Chaya Mountain and made Chacha Mountain the base of the grass thieves.
Immediately afterwards, the two big guys settled their differences, joined forces and fought against each other, and actually besieged the commander-in-chief Song Wei in Songzhou City.
The imperial court urgently dispatched Zhang Zimian, the general of Zuoweiwei of the Central Forbidden Army, to lead his troops to aid Songzhou, repel the besieging grass army, and relieve Songzhou's crisis.
Wang Xianzhi led his troops to capture Suizhou again and captured the governor alive. Li Fu, the governor of Shannan East Road, sent his son to lead an army for reinforcements. Unexpectedly, the eldest son Li died for the country and died heroically.
The officers and soldiers counterattacked again, and Wang Xianzhi turned to Fuzhou and Yingzhou and retreated calmly, hiding his merit and fame.
The sentimental Huang Chao once again ravaged Qizhou, the place where he broke up with Wang Xianzhi and the place where he was sad. It's just that he was a little unlucky. He was chased and intercepted by Zeng Yuanyu, the deputy commander-in-chief of the bandit suppression, and suffered heavy casualties. Fortunately, Huang Chao and his important party members managed to escape.
I don't know whether Deputy Commander-in-Chief Zeng Yuanyu was really unable to do what he wanted, or whether he was taught by Commander-in-Chief Song Wei, who allowed Huang Chao to escape from under his nose again.
Huang Chao, who escaped, did not languish as before, but was like a wildfire that could not be extinguished, a weed that could not be burned out.
Huang Chao made a comeback and captured Kuangcheng, and then Puzhou.
Kuangcheng, in the southwest of Changyuan County, is considered the "first good area" of the grassroots army, where the first shot of the revolution was fired. Puzhou was also the first city captured by the Cao Army.
Huang Chao is really a sentimental person, and in the near future, Huang Chao will also be defeated by his sentiments.
Important towns such as Yunzhou, Yizhou, Qizhou, and Ruzhou were repeatedly captured. This also reflects from the side the tactical characteristics of the Grass Army, which is a strategy very close to guerrilla warfare.
To this day, many people still refer to Wang Huangcao's tactics as "guerrilla warfare". This is a misunderstanding of "guerrilla warfare".
"When the enemy advances, we retreat; when the enemy is stationed, we harass; when the enemy is tired, we attack; when the enemy retreats, we pursue" is the "Sixteen-Character Policy" of guerrilla warfare summarized by the great leader and has become an internationally accepted model.
Not all "the enemy advances and we retreat" can be called guerrilla warfare.
Guerrilla warfare is an important strategic guiding ideology. It trades space for time, regardless of the gains and losses of a city or a place, but to annihilate the enemy's effective forces and accumulate small victories into big victories. "Wandering" is its appearance, while "strike" is its soul.
The vast majority of peasant rebels are just superficial and are very good at wandering (this is an important reason why they are often mistaken for "guerrilla warfare"), but they fail to understand the essence of guerrilla warfare. This is one of the reasons why uprisings often end in an anticlimactic manner.
After the defeat of Yizhou, Wang and Huang's generation also knew that their two brushes were far from enough to fight against the army. "The enemy advances and we retreat" is completely a forced and helpless move, rather than a proactive strategy to retreat from the enemy.
The title of "Grass Army" is not because they are all composed of grassroots people. As grassroots, their lives are like grass. Calling them "grass" will weaken their ambitions.
"Grass Army" was Wang Xianzhi's self-titled name at the beginning of the rebellion. It is also in line with their image metaphor of "wild fire cannot be burned out, but spring breeze blows and it can be regenerated".
The Qizhou Recruitment disintegrated the Cao Army to a certain extent and weakened the power of the Cao Army; at the same time, through this contact, the lifeblood of the Cao Army was accurately detected - the infinite desire for high-ranking officials and generous salaries, and the infinite expectation for peaceful recruitment... …In short, there is a lack of thorough and firm revolutionary belief.
That'll be easy, let's prescribe the right medicine.
Yang Fuguang, the eunuch and commander-in-chief of the army stationed in Dengzhou, extended an olive branch to Wang Xianzhi. Previously, it was Huang Chao who hindered our good deeds, but now it's fine, you two are going solo, what do you think, let's talk about it?
Faced with the sugar-coated bombs from the court, Wang Xianzhi once again showed his true colors, revealing his servile appearance. He gladly accepted the court's offer and eagerly dispatched a "surrender mission", headed by his number one confidant and the second-ranking figure in his direct army - - Shang Junchang took charge personally and selected several other important leaders to show his sincerity.
Shang Junchang, a native of Changyuan County, the leader of the Salt Gang, is Wang Xianzhi's close friend. At first, Wang Xianzhi's goods were confiscated by the government, so she hid in the home of Shang Junchang in Changyuan County to avoid the limelight.
The number two figure, Shang Junchang, personally led the delegation, which shows Wang Xianzhi's urgency to surrender and seek office, and his sincerity in negotiating peace.
On the way, they were greeted by officers and soldiers, and the "surrender delegation" was very moved. They did not expect that the officers and soldiers were so courteous and virtuous, greeted Gao Ying from afar, and were escorted by neatly dressed guards.
Heavily armed guards escorted them all the way to Chang'an.
Didn't you go to Dengzhou? Why did you come to Chang'an?
The person who picked them up was Song Wei, the commander-in-chief of the bandit suppression.
Song Wei tied Shang Junchang and others with ropes and escorted them to Chang'an. He reported that they were prisoners captured alive during the battle with the Cao army in Yingzhou.
Yang Fuguang hurriedly submitted a memorial to defend himself, saying that Wang Xianzhi, Shang Junchang and others all surrendered. Shang Junchang and other leaders were deceived and intercepted by Song Wei on the way, and were not captured in front of Song Wei's formation.
The imperial court sent people to investigate the truth, but they couldn't find out the reason.
Since the truth cannot be found, Shang Junchang and others will be escorted to Gouji Ridge and beheaded.
Beheading in Goujiling is the final insult to the personality of the condemned prisoner. If it were Qianlongyuan, even if it were Zhanlongya, Fuhupo, Yingchou Stream... Gouji Ridge, you'd be cruel.
More than thirty years ago (844), Yang Bian, who rebelled in Taiyuan, and his members were sent to Gouji Ridge to be beheaded. Now, Shang Junchang and others, veterans of the Changyuan Civil Revolution, have also received this honor.
However, this time the "Dengzhou surrender case" was far from simple. A few words in the history books conceal a dark and dirty truth.
