Since the Anshi Rebellion, the feudal towns were divided, and the Central Government of the Tang Dynasty had always relied on grain transportation in the southeast. Stability in the southeast is the guarantee for the existence of the central government. However, the southeast region cannot be isolated from chaos for a long time. After the 1850s, mutinies broke out one after another in the southeastern theaters, and the most influential mutiny occurred in Guizhou.
The Kingdom of Nanzhao broke with China because it could not stand the harassment of the Tang government's frontier officials, and twice captured Jiaozhou (Hanoi, Vietnam), and the central government ordered all the war zones across the country to send troops to help. Among them, a force of 2,000 men sent by the Wuning Theater (Xuzhou) was stationed in Guizhou in the spring of 863. The Government announced a three-year period of transfer upon expiry. In the winter of 865, at the end of the three-year period, the officials of the war zone issued a paper order from afar, extending it for another period, declaring that it would not be postponed again, and they had to stay in tun for another three years in a wild and foreign country three thousand kilometers away. By 868, when the second period was full and everyone was happily preparing to return home, the war zone officials issued a second order from afar, which lasted for another year. And whether it will continue after a year, no one is sure to answer. Their appeals to the war zone were like hitting a rock.
Homesick soldiers may not be able to return after ten or twenty years except for mutiny. So they decided to go back on their own, and put a negative low-ranking officer Pang Xun as the leader, attacked the armory, obtained weapons, and destroyed all the resistance along the way. The central government was so shaken that it ordered a general amnesty and allowed them to return to their hometowns, while ordering local governments along the way to take care of them. Pang Xun and this group of fighters who were forced to rebel were not fools, they knew that once they returned to Xuzhou and disbanded, they would be followed by arrests and massacres. Therefore, after arriving in Xuzhou, he immediately attacked the city. The walls soon fell, and all the officials who insisted on the extension were caught and cut open.
The government recruited a large army to fight, but could not win, and finally relied on Shatuo's soldiers to defeat Pang Xun.
The rebellion lasted only one year and five months, which was not long, but in one year and five months, there were bloody battles almost every day. The Yangtze River basin and the area south of the Yellow River are mostly in ruins. The Pang Xun mutiny was quelled under high pressure, but the central government's victory was only a prelude to the next bigger defeat. The Empire State Building is in jeopardy...