Prelude to the Peasants' War of the Tang Dynasty

From the beginning of the Eastern Zhejiang Uprising in 859 AD to the failure of the Huangchao Uprising in 884 AD, the rebel army swept through 12 provinces such as Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Liangjiang, Fujian, Liangguang, Lianghu, and Shaanxi, hitting the Tang Dynasty's rule and defeating the Tang Dynasty.

background

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the emperor did his best to do tyrannical things, the feudal towns arose, and there was a long-term struggle for power with the court, while eunuchs monopolized power, political corruption, the whole society was in a mess, and the people were not happy. In the 13th year of Dazhong (859 (859, 9 years of Xiantong) pang Xun led a garrison rebellion in Guizhou (present-day Guilin, Guangxi). Historically known as the "Pang Xun Rebellion". These two upheavals were quickly suppressed by the Tang Dynasty, but they were the first to trigger larger events. Song Qi's "New Book of Tang" summed up the lesson: "The Tang Dynasty died in the Yellow Nest, and the disaster was based on Guilin! “”

Zhu Fu revolted

The Zhufu Rebellion began in December of the thirteenth year of Tang Dynasty (859) to June of the following year. A peasant revolt led by Zhu Fu took place in the eastern zhejiang area of Jiangnan Province, which opened the prelude to the Peasants' War of the Tang Dynasty (see Peasants' War at the end of the Tang Dynasty). In December 13, Qiu Fu, a native of eastern Zhejiang, gathered to revolt and captured Xiangshan (present-day Zhejiang). In the first month of the following year, he repeatedly defeated the officers and soldiers of Mingzhou City (present-day Ningbo) and entered The county of Lai County in present-day Lao County, Zhejiang), with thousands of people. In February, after defeating the Eastern Zhejiang Tang army and killing Sanxi (三溪, in present-day southwestern Lai County, Zhejiang), three officers and men, the people flocked to surrender, and the ranks increased to 30,000. Zhu Fu claimed to be the world's zhi warriors and horses, and Jianyuan Luoping (cast seal called Tianping) collected materials, purchased good work, and treated instruments, shocking the Central Plains. In March, the rebels divided their forces to attack the prefectures of Yuan, Jing, Ming, and Tai (in present-day Quzhou, Jinhua, Ningbo, and Linhai, Zhejiang), capturing Tangxing and Shangyu (present-day Tiantai, Zhejiang, and the area southeast of Shangyu), which later developed into a southeastern coastal area. The eastern Zhejiang generals were defeated many times, but Tang Ting hurriedly adjusted the former Annam Capital Protector style to be an observer of eastern Zhejiang, leading the Various Dao soldiers to suppress it. The rebels then moved north to Yuyao City (present-day Zhejiang Province), killed the county lieutenant of Chenghe County, and from the east to destroy Cixi City, Fenghua, and entered Ninghai City), occupying the county order. Faced with the favorable situation of the prosperity of the rebel army, Fu Fu did not adopt the Yuezhou offensive proposed by the deputy general (in present-day Shaoxing, Zhejiang), but built a defensive position along Zhejiang (present-day Fuchun River and Qiantang River), waiting for the correct strategy of expanding outward, hesitating and missing the opportunity. In April, Wang Shi led his army into Tunyue Prefecture and divided into two roads to the east and south. The rebel army was defeated in successive battles, losing the city of Ninghai, and more than 10,000 people at Nanchenguan in the southwest of Ninghai, and fled to the northwest along the Huanghagen forest of Tiantai Mountain. In June, the rebel army retreated to the village. Wang Shi led his officers and troops to concentrate their forces to surround them, and did not hesitate to use the herding horses of Longpijian to assist hundreds of cavalry from Tubo and Uighurs to attack in turn, and engaged 83 times in three days. Qiu Fu, Liu? Soon outnumbered, captured and beheaded. After the rebel general Liu made a slight breakthrough of 500 men, he was defeated and killed at Dalan Mountain (in present-day Yuyaonan, Zhejiang), and by this time, All of Zhu Fu's rebel army had been defeated. The anti-Tang rebellion led by Fu was a prelude to the civil revolt at the end of the Tang Dynasty, which opened the prelude to the peasant war that overthrew the Tang Dynasty.