[Back to the point, the rebel leader Shi Chaoyi heard that the Tang emperor had passed away and thought this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so he immediately decided to send troops to Chang'an.]

[But at this time, the rebels had been severely damaged by several years of continuous fighting, and they could not capture Chang'an City on their own. ]

[What should we do? If we can't defeat them, we can just ask for help. Aren't there Huihe people in the south who will fight you if you pay them? ]

【Shi Chaoyi then wrote a letter to Dengli Khan, who was the former Prince Yehu, and said in the letter, "Let's fight together to attack Chang'an. When the time comes, the land will belong to me, and the gold, silk, and children will belong to the Huihe."】

[Do you know the words? ]

[Faced with Shi Chaoyi's cordial invitation, Dengli Khan agreed, and the Uighurs sent troops to Chang'an City. ]

……

"Damn it! I, Old Cheng, must destroy this Huihe tribe!"

Cheng Yaojin was furious. He had always had a bad impression of the Huihe, and now he had suffered a second defeat. How could he tolerate it? He immediately asked Li Shimin for 50,000 troops.

Li Shimin readily agreed. Even if I can’t travel back in time, can’t I destroy your Uighur ancestors?
Immediately dispatch an army of 100,000, led by Li Jing, Cheng Yaojin and others, to fight the enemy!
……

[After years of fighting, not only the rebels were badly hurt, but also the Tang army. ]

[When the Tang heard that the Huihe were coming, Emperor Daizong Li Yu panicked and tried to find a solution. He sent Pugu Huai'en, the father-in-law of Dengli Khan, to negotiate with the Huihe people.]

[That’s right, one of Pugu Huai’en’s daughters who married far away is now the queen of Dengli Khan.]

[Pugu Huai'en said to Dengli Khan, "Son-in-law, you should help us fight the rebels. After we capture the eastern capital occupied by the rebels, the land will belong to us, and the gold, silk, and children will return to us."]

[Since my father-in-law has said so, Dengli Khan cannot but give him face, so he said, "Okay, let's call it Dongdu."]

[So the Huihe soldiers turned their cars around and drove straight to Luoyang, the eastern capital.]

[With the addition of the Huihe, the morale of the Tang army was greatly boosted, and they marched straight to the eastern capital Luoyang. ]

[After another fierce battle, the rebels were defeated, Shi Chaoyi abandoned the city and fled, and the Tang Dynasty once again recaptured the eastern capital Luoyang. ]

[The rebel leader Shi Chaoyi fled eastward, and Pugu Huai'en ordered a pursuit. Shi Chaoyi retreated and fought, fought and was defeated, and was defeated and retreated. ]

[When the rebel generals saw how badly Shi Chaoyi was beaten, they all surrendered to the Tang Dynasty.]

[In order to further encourage the rebel generals to surrender, Pugu Huai'en announced that all surrendered rebel generals could continue to hold their original positions. ]

[The other generals of the Tang army were not happy with this. They felt that Pugu Huai'en's behavior was inappropriate. They were rebels. Why should they suppress us? We worked so hard, but in the end, all the benefits fell to the rebels?]

[Besides, the emperor hasn't spoken yet, what qualifications do you, Pugu Huai'en, have to interfere in the imperial court? You are forming a clique and pursuing private interests! ]

[What do you want to do, Pugu Huai'en? Moreover, if you continue to let these rebels take charge of the army, it will be equivalent to leaving countless seeds of disaster for the Tang Dynasty! ]

[Tang army generals represented by Xin Yunjing submitted a petition to Emperor Li Yu, saying that Pugu Huai'en might have rebellious intentions. Pugu Huai'en immediately submitted a petition to Li Yu saying that he had no rebellious intentions and asked Li Yu not to listen to their nonsense.]

[At this time, Li Yu also wanted to quell the rebellion quickly, so he chose to stand on the side of Pugu Huai'en and announced that all surrendered rebel generals would not be held accountable. ]

【This is why some people always say that the An-Shi Rebellion cannot be called pacification, but can only be called appeasement. 】

[Four of these rebel commanders in Hebei later became military governors of different regions, and they always had a rift with the imperial court and their cooperation was not very high.]

……

"Ugh……"

Li Shimin sighed.

It was a matter of time and fate. If Li Longji and his son had done less outrageous things, with the Tang Dynasty's foundation, they might have been able to completely quell the rebellion. There would have been no need for appeasement. Otherwise, there would have been no future disasters!

……

[Let's look at the rebel leader Shi Chaoyi. He was defeated all the way and fled to Fanyang, the first place where the An-Shi Rebellion was launched. ]

[The Fanyang garrison refused to open the gate for Shi Chaoyi, so Shi Chaoyi fled east to Guangyang, but the Guangyang garrison also refused to open the gate for him.]

【In this situation, Shi Chaoyi knew that the situation was hopeless, so he went into the forest and hanged himself. 】【Thus, the An-Shi Rebellion, which had lasted for eight years, finally came to an end. 】

The good news that the An-Shi Rebellion had been put down spread quickly throughout the country. The great poet Du Fu burst into tears of joy and immediately recited a poem, "Hearing that the Government Troops Have Recovered Henan and Hebei."

【The news came from the outside that Jibei was taken back. When I heard it, my clothes were soaked with tears. I looked at my wife and saw that she was worried. I unrolled the book of poetry and was overjoyed.】

【Singing and drinking in the daytime, it is good to return home with youth as your companion. Go through Ba Gorge and Wu Gorge, then go down to Xiangyang and head towards Luoyang.】

【Take the boat down in an instant, pass through Xiangyang, and head straight to Luoyang. 】

【Alas, where are you going?】

[After the Huihe troops entered Luoyang, they burned, killed and looted in the Eastern Capital as they wished, killing more than 10,000 people of the Tang Dynasty.]

[The fire burned in the city for more than a month. The people of Dongdu had no clothes to wear and could only wrap themselves in paper to cover themselves and keep warm.]

[The Huihe people felt that this was not enough, so they also seized Zhengzhou, Bianzhou, and Ruzhou before they were willing to give up.]

……

"Damn it! I must destroy the Huihe!"

Cheng Yaojin was furious.

He has already asked His Majesty to send troops, and it won't be long before he will completely wipe out these rat-headed foreign bandits. Let's see how they can harass the people of the Tang Dynasty in the future!

……

[Although the An-Shi Rebellion ended with the victory of the Tang Dynasty, the population of the Tang Dynasty dropped sharply to 3000 million, a decrease of 2/3.]

[Nine out of ten houses in the city are empty.]

[At this time, the Tang Dynasty is like a beast that has just experienced a life-and-death battle and is covered with wounds. It needs to take a good rest and lick its wounds. ]

[But the bloody smell emanating from his body had already made other beasts eye him covetously.]

[The first murderer was the Tibetans in the west. The Tibetans gathered 20 soldiers from various ethnic groups and marched towards Chang'an City.]

[When Li Yu received the news, the Tubo army was only one step away from Chang'an City.]

[Emperor Li Yu was completely panicked, looking at the civil and military officials in the court shouting, "Who can help me stop the Tubo army?"]

[At this critical moment, Li Yu finally thought of Guo Ziyi. ]

[He immediately ordered Guo Ziyi to serve as the deputy marshal of the troops inside the pass and to send troops to fight the enemy as soon as possible.]

[Guo Ziyi has been living in the capital for so many years and has no soldiers at all. This job is really difficult. ]

[He had no choice but to select twenty of his personal soldiers and march westward to meet the enemy.]

[The Tubo had already crossed the Wei River and were about to reach Chang'an. Li Yu immediately made a decision to abandon the city and flee. The Tang Dynasty once again abandoned Chang'an.]

[On the ninth day of the tenth month, the Tubo army entered Chang'an without a fight and looted the city wantonly.]

[A strange scene occurred. The fleeing Tang soldiers and the local scoundrels took advantage of the chaos to loot Chang'an City. This was really out of character.]

[Friends, if you were Guo Ziyi at this moment, and the court asked you to lead 20 personal soldiers to defeat an army of 200,000, what would you do? ]

……

Looking at the question raised by Tianmu, Han Xin pondered over it, and after a long while, he finally sighed helplessly.

Make bricks without straw.

With only twenty personal soldiers, even he was unable to resist the enemy on the front battlefield.

difficult!
Too difficult! (End of this chapter)