[Empty City Plan]
Among the various regiments surrounding Chang'an, the Western Route Army was the strongest, the so-called "Kuanxi Corps". Because the Cao Army had been wreaking havoc east of Tongguan and south of the Yellow River, the Guanxi region had not been affected, and its strength was intact. It had just achieved a great victory at Longweipo, and its morale was high.
Faced with this counterattack by the Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao was superior and chose to avoid the enemy's edge.
Contrary to everyone's expectations, Huang Chao actually withdrew from Chang'an and gave up the imperial capital easily.
Cheng Zongchu of Jingyuan entered the city first, followed by Tang Hongfu of Shuofang, and King Chucun of Yiwu entered the city at night. Chang'an was restored without bloodshed and without wasting a single soldier!
How could such a great contribution be allowed to be taken away by others? Cheng Zongchu and others tacitly understood the situation and did not notify Fengxiang, Xia Sui, Fu Yan and other corps, and unanimously blocked the news of Chang'an's recovery.
The people of Chang'an lined the streets to welcome the Tang army as they entered the city, and ate pots of wine to welcome the king's troops. Some people picked up bricks and tiles on the ground and threw them at the Huangchao Army; some people picked up arrows on the ground and gave them to the Tang Army for use.
Unexpectedly, the Guanxi Army brought by Cheng Zongchu and others was in bad military discipline and was incapable of defending against enemies and disturbing the people. Instead of taking advantage of the victory to pursue the fleeing Huang Chao Cao Army, they broke into people's homes and robbed money, food, and women... …The Japanese have entered the village.
They blocked the news, firstly because they were afraid that friendly forces would take the credit, and secondly, they were afraid that friendly forces would take away the spoils of war.
Only King Yiwu Chucun ordered his soldiers to wrap their heads in white cloth to show distinction.
Wang Chucun's "white-headed soldiers" have strict military discipline and do not take advantage of the masses. But the gangsters on Chang'an Street also wrapped their heads with white cloth, pretended to be "white-headed soldiers", and plundered everywhere.
Under the rule of Huang Qi's regime, the people of Chang'an first encountered the "Great Purge", the "Taobao", and then the Literary Prison. After finally coming to the Tang Army, they were personally looted by the Tang Army. The stepmother abused her, and her real mother tortured her. The people of Chang'an tasted what it was like to be slaves of a subjugated country.
The Tang army, who was wreaking havoc in Chang'an City and enjoying the fruits of victory, did not notice that not far away, a pair of vicious eyes were staring at them at all times.
Chang'an is Huang Chao's trap.
Huang Qi's main force retreated to Ba Shang, gathering troops and waiting for the opportunity. Huang Chao sent intelligence personnel to inquire about news inside and outside Chang'an City.
Huang Chao saw everything the officers and soldiers did in Chang'an City.
Huang Chao's confidant Meng Kai led hundreds of special forces, disguised as soldiers from Bing and Jing, and sneaked into the city to act as internal agents.
At Huang Chao's order, the Bashang Cao army surged and roared towards Chang'an City like water bursting from a dike, and killed them all.
The Tang army in Chang'an City had long lost its organizational structure because it was busy raping and looting. The soldiers could not find generals, and the generals could not find soldiers, and they fell into chaos.
Meng Kai responded in the city, cooperating inside and outside.
In the melee, the deputy commander-in-chief of the coalition forces and Jingyuan Jiedushi Cheng Zongchu was killed, and the coalition chief of staff and Shuofang Jiedushi Tang Hongfu was killed... His Kansai Corps was almost completely wiped out. Only the Yiwu army with strict military discipline, under the command of Jiedushi Wang Chucun, fought and retreated, fleeing the battlefield.
At this point, the West Road army that Zheng Tian had just managed disappeared.
It was not until the defeated army fled back to the camp in embarrassment that Zheng Tian, the commander-in-chief, learned that Chang'an City had been recaptured and then fell.
Cheng Zongchu and Tang Hongfu used private interests to abolish public affairs, ruined the army and ruined the country, and their lives and reputations were ruined, which is not a pity!
The Huangchao Group, which returned to Chang'an City, once again showed its terrifying fangs.
Tolerance is a sign of confidence. Some people say that winners are tolerant. Throughout history, this statement is not accurate. To be precise, it should be that those who are confident are tolerant.
The Huangchao Group obviously lacks self-confidence and has a very low self-esteem.
Inferiority, derived from a variety of personality defects, such as narrow-mindedness and paranoia, which leads to vengeance; such as excessive superstition of violence, obsession with killing, and solving all troubles or troublemakers through physical destruction; and lack of compassion, on the contrary, will Get great satisfaction from torturing the weak.
If a person's inferiority exceeds a certain limit and is not corrected, it can ruin his or her life. If a team also suffers from this disease, it will collectively fall into the abyss.
In order to retaliate against the Chang'an people who welcomed Wang Shi, the Huangchao gang formulated a military operation code-named "City Washing", massacring more than 80,000 Chang'an people, and blood flowed into Chang'an City.
The reason why the people of Chang'an "betrayed" Huang Qi's regime was largely due to the huge gap between the buyers' show and the seller's show. The "hunting for things" operation allowed people to see clearly the brutal nature of the Grass Army, and their lies of kindness and fraternity were self-evident.
However, the actions of the Kansai officers and soldiers were worse than those of the Kanto thieves. The two sides in this tug-of-war are really in the same boat.
If Huang Chao can take advantage of the opportunity of the Kansai Corps to disturb the people, change his ways in time, treat the people of Chang'an well, and do a good job in crisis public relations, he may be able to regain his mask of hypocrisy.
But Huangchao Group has no lofty ambitions, let alone generosity and kindness.
The "City Washing" operation washed away people's last illusions about the "rebel army".
Huang Chao seized the gap where the West Route Army was defeated, went north to raid the Xia Sui and Fu Yan North Route Army stationed at Tuqiao, and won again. Tuoba Sigong and Li Xiaochang were forced to retreat.
Zhu Mei, deputy envoy of Xingning Jiedu stationed in Xingping, was also defeated and forced to retreat to Longweipo.
At this point, the threat to the west of Chang'an was temporarily alleviated.
At the same time, an extremely familiar scene began to play out again:
Huainan Jiedushi Gao Pian, in the name of King Beishangqin, conspired to deceive and kill Zhenhai Jiedushi Zhou Bao, and then annexed the Zhenhai theater and separatized the Jiangdong area. Zhou Bao discovered it, but failed. Therefore, the Huainan, Zhenhai and other corps did not reinforce the capital;
The Jiedu Envoy of the Provoking Army (Xuzhou) sent detailed information and sent General Shi Pu and others with five thousand troops to reinforce the capital. When the troops were halfway there, Shi Pu launched a mutiny and sacked Zhengzhou. He also massacred the city in Heyin County and then returned to Xuzhou. After detailed executions and killings, he claimed to be a member of the reforming army and later became the new governor of the reforming army;
Li Keyong, the leader of Shatuo, led his troops to reinforce the capital. When he passed through the Hedong War Zone, he had a friction with Zheng Congyun, the Hedong Jiedushi envoy. After plundering the Hedong War Zone, Li Keyong returned home and no longer fulfilled his obligation to serve the king.
Huainan civil strife, Xuzhou mutiny, Hedong civil strife...
The "anti-pornography alliance" is large in scale but loosely organized, and is in danger of being broken up by the Huang Qi regime one by one.
Huang Qi's regime seemed to have a chance to make a comeback.
However, while clearing the obstacles in the west, Huang Chao also received bad news from the east: Huazhou was captured by Wang Chongrong and Zhaoyi Gaoxun of Hezhong; Dengzhou was captured by Yang Fuguang.
The strategy of "waiting for the opportunity and defeating them one by one" can only be shelved for now.
Huazhou is located to the west of Tongguan and east of Chang'an. The fall of Huazhou means that the east gate of Chang'an has been opened;
In Dengzhou, the guard is Zhu Wen, who has a tight grip on Jingxiang's throat. When Dengzhou fell, Chang'an lost its southeastern barrier.
The Xichuan Expeditionary Force also won many battles and approached Xingping, refilling the gap in the West Route Army's defense line. The main force of the Xichuan Expeditionary Force was the "Yellow Head Army" and the "Marksman Battalion" founded by Cui Anqian.
Coincidentally, the main force that recaptured Dengzhou were also Cui Anqian's old subordinates, former Zhongwu Army officers and soldiers.
From the beginning of their formation, the Cao army circled around Cui Anqian and his Zhongwu army, but they did not expect that they would eventually fall into his hands.
Gao Pian is just a paper tiger, but Cui Anqian is the real nemesis of the Cao Army.
