Huang Chao , a native of Caozhou, Henan Province, was born in a salt merchant family, with a wealthy family. He has been a hero since he was a child and liked to be righteous. He liked to make friends with wealthy men, traveled around the world, and sold private salt .
He failed the imperial examination several times, and he angrily wrote a poem about Chrysanthemum : "When autumn comes, September 8th, I will kill all the flowers after the flowers bloom, soar into the sky and the fragrance array penetrates Chang'an , and the whole city is full of golden armor."
In 875 AD, Wang Xianzhi led 3,000 peasant uprisings, and Huang Chao also led thousands of people to respond. The two armies met and the troops became more powerful.
The vanguard of the rebel army pointed directly at the eastern capital Luoyang, and the Tang army gathered at Luoyang . In order to avoid the main force of the Tang army, the rebel army turned around and headed south and conquered several cities in a row.
Tang Dynasty failed to suppress it with force, and switched to recruitment. Wang Xianzhi was shaken under the temptation of high-ranking officials and generous salaries.
Huang Chao refused to attract peace and had a dispute with him, so Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi divided the troops.
The Tang Dynasty captured and executed Wang Xianzhi's negotiating generals. The morale of the rebel army was in chaos. Huangmei fought fiercely. Wang Xianzhi was killed. The remaining rebel army defected to Huang Chao.
Huang Chao called himself "General Chongtian Taibao Junping" and led 100,000 troops to march towards the wealthy Jiangnan.
Huang Chao first made a fierce attack on Luoyang. After the Tang army was deceived and transferred eastward, he suddenly turned around and went south, broke through Yangtze River and won the battle in succession, and went straight to Lingnan.
After Guangzhou resting, he decided to make a Northern Expedition, adjust the deployment in the middle of the journey along the Yangtze River, cross the Yangtze River and then enter the Central Plains, and the 600,000 army approached Luoyang.
He took advantage of the conflict between the local Jiedu and the central government of the Tang Dynasty to strive for the neutrality of the Jiedu. This move really worked. Dongdu left behind Shi Kaicheng to surrender.
After conquering Luoyang, attacked Chang'an portal Tongguan . The millions of rebels were in great power, and the Shence Army, which was composed of rich children of the Tang Dynasty, was about to collapse. "The white flag is everywhere, and there is no point in it."
Tongguan is lost, Chang'an is in chaos, Dong Xizong fled to Sichuan. Chang'an was broken, and the army entered the city, "the armored cavalry was like a stream, and the baggage was blocked, and thousands of miles away."
Citizens in Chang'an love to be lively and greet each other in the road. Huang Chao is majestic and enters the city to calm the people.
In 880 AD, Huang Chao established a peasant regime, with the country name " Daqi ", and Huang Chao was called "Emperor of Daqi".
In 881 AD, Emperor Xizong organized a counterattack, and Huang Chao sent Shang Rang to meet the enemy, Shang Rang was defeated, losing 20,000 elite troops.
The rebel army was surrounded by Chang'an, and the general Zhu Wen surrendered. The rebel army had no food and grass inside and no rescuers outside. The situation took a sharp turn, and Huang Chao led 150,000 rebels to prominence Chang'an.
Rebel General Meng Kai was killed in Chenzhou. Huang Chao lost his beloved general. He fought hard for revenge and attacked Chenzhou for three hundred days, which violated a military taboo.
A few days later, the rebels were surrounded on all sides, and in the end there were only more than 400 people left. Seeing that the situation was hopeless, Huang Chao drew his sword and committed suicide. A vigorous peasant uprising was finally strangled.
