In March of the fifth year of Ganfu (878), Huang Chao army attacked the border (now Kaifeng, Henan Province) and Song (now Shangqiu, Henan Province), and was blocked by Zhang Zimian, and moved to Weinan (now northeast of hua county, Henan Province), Ye (Ye County, Henan Province), Yangzhai (Yuxian County, Henan Province) and other places. The court recruited 3,000 soldiers to guard the east. Huang Chao led the army to cross the river to the south, echoing Wang Chong, the old army, and captured Rao, Xin and other states. In the same year1February, he entered Fuzhou (now Fujian) and transferred to Guangdong. In September of the sixth year of Ganfu (879), he conquered Guangzhou and captured Li Tiao, the envoy of Lingnan East Road in the Tang Dynasty. He also divided his troops to take Guizhou (Guilin, Guangxi) in the west, controlled Lingnan, called himself "Commander in Chief of the Rebel Army", and issued an obituary, denouncing the court for "being incorruptible as an official, doing things dirty and sloppy, and referring to the failure of ministers and middlemen to pay fees and brain drain." Guangzhou is the largest foreign trade port and one of the important wealth supply places in the Tang Dynasty. There are many Muslim businessmen, such as Arabs and Persians. Their followers took advantage of the decline of the Tang Dynasty to openly gather people to revolt, drive away local officials in the Tang Dynasty, wantonly kill innocent people in Guangzhou, rape and plunder local residents, and commit numerous crimes. With the cooperation of local residents in the Tang Dynasty, the Huang Chao Army regained Guangzhou in one fell swoop, and successfully annihilated the insurgents composed of more than 200,000 Arab, Persian and other Muslim businessmen.
Due to the hot and humid climate on the mountain surface, the Huang Chao army suffered from epidemic disease, and the generals "advised the north to return to Italy". The morale of the peasant army was low, and Huang Chao decided to return to the north. In, I made a raft from Guizhou, went down the Xiangjiang River, advanced on Jiangling, and went north to Xiangyang. When he heard that Huang Chao was going north, he sent Prime Minister Wang Duo to surrender the commander-in-chief and station troops in Jiangling for the south camp. He also appointed Li Weiying, deputy governor and Hunan observer, to station hundreds of troops in Tanzhou (now Changsha, Hunan), "taking the road to the north of Xiling and rejecting Huang Chao." At this time, the peasant army stationed in Yongzhou (now Lingling, Hunan) and Hengzhou (now Hengyang, Hunan) and arrived at the gates of Tanzhou. Li got a fright and closed the door. Huang Chao led troops to fight, and one day he went to Tanzhou, where 100,000 people in Tang Jun bloodbath Xiangjiang River. Let's go after them and attack Jiangling with 500 thousand troops. Wang Duo rushed to Xiangyang (now Xiangyang, Hubei), while Huang Chao occupied Jiangling without bloodshed and moved to Xiangyang. Liu Jurong, the host of Shannan Province, and Cao Quanqi, the secretariat of Zizhou, joined hands and suffered a crushing defeat in Jingmen (now Jingmen, Hubei), where 78% of them were captured. Monk Huang Chao told the others to cross the river to the east. At this point, Liu Jurong stopped his offensive with "no letter from the imperial court" and Cao Quanqi was about to cross the river. The court ordered Taining to take Duan instead of Cao Quanqi as a recruit. Duan was appointed as the secretariat of Langya. Huang Chao turned to plunder Jiangxi, Rao (now Boyang, Jiangxi), Xin, Chi (now Guichi, Anhui), Xuan and other fifteen states.
In March of the first year of Guangming (AD 880), Gao Pian sent veteran Zhang Lin to cross the river to attack Huang Chao, and Huang Chao retreated to Raozhou (now Poyang, Jiangxi). In May, Huang Chao retreated to Xinzhou (now Shangrao, Jiangxi). During the spring and summer, there was a great epidemic in Lingnan, and the Huang Chao army suffered heavy losses. "The deceased was thirteen or fourteen years old." Zhang Yi came after him. Huang Chao pretended to surrender and bribed Zhang Yi with a lot of gold, begging him for mercy. Gao Pian went to court, claiming that the Huang Chao army "has been uneven for several days, so please send it back.". Prime Minister Xie Lu dismissed Tang Bing in the name of the imperial court. Huang Chao learned that Tang Dynasty soldiers crossed the Huaihe River in the north, and immediately broke with Gao Pian. In May, he went north again and seized Zhou Mu (now Jiande, Zhejiang) and Wuzhou (now Jinhua, Zhejiang). Zhang Yi died in Xinzhou. In June, Chizhou (now Guichi, Anhui Province), Zhou Mu (now Jiande, Zhejiang Province) and Wuzhou (now Jinhua, Zhejiang Province) were conquered successively.
In August of the first year of Guangming (AD 880), Huang Chao army defeated Cao Quansheng, crossed the Huaihe River, and Huaibei was in an emergency. Gao Pian was awed by his power and stayed in Yangzhou (now Yangzhou, Jiangsu) to preserve his strength. In October, Huang Chao captured Shenzhou (now Xinyang, Henan) and entered Yingzhou (now Fuyang, Anhui), Songzhou (now Shangqiu, Henan), Xuzhou (now Xuzhou, Jiangsu) and Yanzhou (now Yanzhou, Shandong). In November, Huang Chao went to Ruzhou, captured Luoyang, the capital of the East, on 17th, and left Liu to meet him with officials. After more than ten days, he marched west from Luoyang, only fighting for six days. On the third day of December, Tongguan (now northeast of Tongguan, Shaanxi Province) was captured. On the fourth day, Huazhou (hua county, Shaanxi Province) was captured, and then it became a hegemony. On the fifth day (88 1 year 1 year), Tian and other eunuchs fled to Chengdu, Sichuan Province, and Tian was afraid of betraying the Sect and took sole responsibility, so he was demoted to be a guest of honor of the Prince. Lu died of medicine.
In the first year of Zhonghe (AD 88 1 year), Huang Chao's army entered Chang 'an, and General Zhang Zhifang of Jinwu led a crowd to welcome Huang Chao's army into the city. "People go ahead and don't gamble with wealth." After entering the city, the masses reached one million and the military discipline was strict. He told the city people: "It's not like Li doesn't love you Cao. Distribute property to the poor and welcome the people. In November of the first year of Guangming (88 1 year 1 year1year), it was established in Hanyuan Temple, and the Daqi regime was established, with the title of Golden Boy. The former officials kept the following four products, and the rest were dismissed, with Qiu and Zhong Shuling as the auxiliary, Gai Hong as the assistant of Shangshu, and Pi Rixiu as the academician. Soon, his subordinates "killed people all over the street, and nests could not be banned." Few people stayed in Chang 'an in the imperial clan of the Tang Dynasty, and the officials of the Tang Dynasty were in constant fear. "Fu Qin Yin" said: "Huaxuan embroidered hubs are all sold out, without a head and a half"; "The inner library is burned as splendid ash, and the white bones in Tianjie are full." They haven't collected the property of the rich family, so-called "scouring things", and all the palaces walk barefoot. In the second year of Zhonghe (AD 882), Tang Jun once invaded Chang 'an. Huang Chao army "thief camp on the bully, the magistrate troops don't mess, the armies don't follow, lead troops to attack it, from each branch. In the Chang 'an War, Zong Chu and Hongfu died, and the sergeant was too burdened to leave, so he was very defeated, and the deceased was nine times out of ten. "("History as a Mirror "Volume 254), this time, Huang Chao hated the citizens for helping loyalists, so the soldiers slaughtered the city and the blood became a river, which was called" washing the city ". Huang Chao didn't send troops to pursue Tang Xizong, giving Vere a breathing space. In the second year of Zhonghe (AD 882), Tang Xizong, Sichuan Province counterattacked. In September, Zhu Wen, the general of the Qi army, surrendered to Tang Jun in the battle with Wang Chongrong in the same state (now Dali, Shaanxi Province), and was appointed as General You Jinwu, giving him the name Quan Zhong. Li Keyong, a Shatuo clan, led reinforcements to help Tang, and led more than 10,000 troops south. Zhao Zhang, the general of the Qi army, died, while Huazhou and Lantian were successively lost. Huang Chao withdrew from Chang 'an in April of the third year of Zhonghe and fled to Shangshan, discarding gold and jewels along the way, but Tang Jun was in no hurry to catch up. Later, Meng Kai, the general of the State of Qi, took the lead in attacking Cai Zhou (now Runa, Henan). Tang Jun commander-in-chief Qin Zongquan was defeated and surrendered. In June, the siege of Chen Zhou (now Huaiyang, Henan Province) met with stubborn resistance from the secretariat Zhao Gui. After hundreds of battles, he failed to capture and withdraw from his city. On the way to Henan, Meng Kai was captured and sacrificed. Huang Chao was furious when he heard that Meng Jie had been killed. The troops camped in Ganshui, "digging five times and winning every battle", vowing to avenge Meng Jie. In order to cope with the food of the whole army, Huang Chao began to use human flesh as food and hundreds of sledgehammers at the same time, and turned it into a human flesh workshop to supply rations. All the men, women and children were taken to a huge pot, which was called "Mo Dao Zhai". (It is recorded in Biography of Huang Chao in the Old Tang Dynasty, Biography of New Tang Dynasty (volume 150) and History as a Mirror (volume 2 15). Huang Chao surrounded Chen Zhou for hundreds of days and ate hundreds of thousands of people. Tang Jun defeated Huang in Xihua (now Henan) near Chen Zhou, and the Qi army retreated (now Huaiyang North). The siege of Chenzhou has been solved. Huang Chao led the troops to Bianzhou, but still let 5,000 elite troops match the girders (now Kaifeng, Henan).
In the spring of the fourth year of Zhonghe (AD 884), Li Keyong led 50,000 troops to cross the river from south to south, and defeated the Qi army in Taikang, Bianhe and Wangmandu. Huang Chao had to move to Shandong. In March of the same year, Zhu Wen defeated Huang Chao in Wangmandu (now Zhongmou North, Henan Province), and Huang Chao's Shu, Ge, Huo Cun, Zhang Guiba, Zhang Guihou and Zhang Guiyang surrendered to Zhu Wen. The remnants of Huang Chao fled to the northeast, and when Li Keyong sealed the mound (now Henan), it was caught in heavy rain. Nearly a thousand soldiers from Huang Chao arrived in Yanzhou. "Ke Yongbing worked day and night, and the food could not be found, but he returned." (The 150th Biography of the Book of the New Tang Dynasty) On June 15th, Wuning sent 10,000 Li Lingbing to our time and asked the generals to follow closely. On June 17th of that year, "Huang Chao entered Mount Tai, met Pu and was arrested with Jean Shang. Go to the Valley of the Wolf and Tiger, chop off his nest and his second brother Ye and Yan, and send his wife to Xuzhou. " (Biography of Huang Chao in Old Tang Dynasty) Nie Jianguang, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, wrote in Taishan Daoli, "Huang Chao died in Mount Tai ... There is a big tomb in the south of Jiuding Mountain, commonly known as Huang Chao's tomb." According to Huang Chao Biography of the New Tang Dynasty, it is said that Lin Yan said: If you sacrifice me first, you will get rich, not for the benefit of others. Words, nest nephews, can't bear it; The nest is self-defeating ",and according to Shao Bo's" Yu Xiao Hearing Record ","In June of four years, Shipu took Huang Chao as the first leader, which was false. East and West have been handed down from generation to generation, but Huang Chao really didn't die. He was worried about Shang Rang and fell into the Wolf-Tiger Valley of Mount Tai. He decided to become a monk and abandon his son, so he went to Quan Yi, Zhangyin, Henan Province, so he dared not recognize each other, but made a statement as nanzenji. " The pottery history of the Five Dynasties also records that "Huang Chao fled and later wished to be a pagoda with a poetic cloud; Thirty years ago, the grass flew, and all the iron clothes were covered with monk clothes. Nobody asked Tianjin Bridge, who leaned against the dangerous fence to watch the sunset. "
After Huang Chao's death, Huang Chao led the remnants to escape from his son Huang Hao and became a "rogue army". When Zhao Zongtian attacked Hunan in his early years, he was nearly killed by local tyrant Deng in Xiangyin. At this point, the peasant uprising in the late Tang Dynasty ended. In the fourth year of neutralization in Tang Xizong, in autumn and July, Nuozong held a captive ceremony in Daxuan Building. Shipu, the envoy of Wuning, presented Huang Chao's head and twenty or thirty concubines of Huang Chao. Nozong asked, "If you and Cao both honor their children, you owe the country. "What is being a thief?" The woman at the top replied, "Crazy thieves are fierce and rebellious, and the country lost one million people and spread to Bashu; Today, your majesty can't refuse a thief and blame a woman. Where can you put your officials and generals? "Don't ask the world any more, it's a massacre." (History as a Mirror, Volume 256), before the execution, law enforcement officers pitied these women and asked them to be drunk and executed. The girls cried and drank, and soon died in drunken lies. The woman who lived alone first died peacefully without crying or getting drunk. After the failure of the Huang Chao Uprising, the Tang Dynasty managed to maintain its rule for 23 years. For four years (AD 907), Zhu Wen was given meditation by Xuanwu, and the founding name was Liang. The Tang Dynasty perished and entered the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.