In September of Ganfu's third year, Wang Xianzhi was ready to accept the favor of the imperial court, but he gave up because of Huang Chao's fierce opposition. However, the peasant army broke up because of this. Huang Chao led more than 2,000 people to leave Wang Xianzhi and then went north to fight independently.
In the past five years, under the cruel encirclement and suppression of Tang Jun, Wang Xianzhi was defeated and killed, and Huang Chao, which fought in the north, followed suit and became stronger and stronger. Since then, the world has been in chaos.
Huang Chao called himself "the average general of Tian Chong Pacific Insurance" and put forward the requirement of average tax corvee burden. After Wang Xianzhi's defeat, Huang Chao's peasant army became the number one enemy of the loyalist, was besieged and blocked everywhere, and was forced to flee all over the country.
History shows that wherever Huang Chao's army went, from north to south, it always set off waves of blood shed. Because the poor people who had no choice but to join were always defeated by repeated wars, the effective force of the Tang Dynasty was wiped out by its large-scale killing and annihilation, and the ruling foundation became weaker and weaker in the fierce confrontation with the agricultural army.
In the first year of Guangming (880), Huang Chao led a million troops into Chang 'an, Tang Dou, and Tang Xizong fled to Shannan in panic, and then fled to Chengdu, Sichuan. After Huang Chao entered Chang 'an, he established the peasant regime of Daqi, named Golden Boy.
In the long-term battle with Tang Jun, Huang Chao became braver and stronger. However, it would be a big mistake to think that the violence of the peasant uprising army in China is just, rational and praiseworthy, because their swords, spears and halberds are also stained with the blood of a large number of innocent people. According to the Book of the Tang Dynasty, in the second year of Zhonghe in Tang Xizong (AD 882), government troops led by general Tang Hong in the Tang Dynasty suddenly attacked Chang 'an, which had been occupied by peasant troops for two years. Some Chang 'an residents spontaneously took to the streets to warmly welcome the Tang government troops into the city.
Unexpectedly, the next day, the peasant army who retired from the city took advantage of the opportunity of loyalists to relax their vigilance and recaptured Chang' an again. Huang Chao hated Chang 'an residents rushing out to meet Tang Jun, so he ransacked 70,000 or 80,000 young people in the city, all of whom were hacked to death with knives and axes. The blood in the city became rivers and corpses were everywhere.
Huang Chao is famous for killing innocent people. According to historical documents, in the sixth year of Tang Xizong (879), Huang Chao's army conquered Guangzhou south, killing 6,543,800 local residents and Arab and Jewish businessmen engaged in trade activities here (there are still 200,000 people).
After Huang Chao rebelled, people were killed like hemp. There is a popular saying: "Huang Chao killed 8 million people and killed half the people on the earth by mistake". Although this statement is somewhat exaggerated, it also reflects from one side that the Huang Chao Uprising is the inevitable product of the intensification of class contradictions to irreconcilable levels.
After the establishment of Daqi in Huang Chao, Chang 'an was its capital, and there was no push for 56 attacks. It seemed that there was no grand plan to unify the world, so that Tang Xizong, who fled to Sichuan, had enough time to integrate forces from all over the country and launch a massive counterattack.
At this time, the war-torn Guanzhong Plain was already devastated and bare, because the grain transportation from Jianghuai had already been blocked by the war, and the Huang Chao agricultural army was forced to withdraw from Chang 'an. Our special envoy, Tang Fengxiang, assembled the remnants of the imperial court and the buffer region in Guanzhong and followed Huang Chao all the way. Tang Xizong sent a message in Shu to intercept Huang Chao, and borrowed the military forces of Li Keyong, the leader of Shatuo, and TaBaSiGong, the Tangut tycoon, to help the Tang encirclement and suppression.
On the way to Huang Chao's withdrawal, General Zhu Wen surrendered to Tang Jun, and the peasant army was defeated one after another, so it had no choice but to move eastward. Tang Jun gave chase, and the cavalry of Shatuo warlord Li Keyong was particularly brave and good at fighting, and defeated Huang Chao one after another. The peasant army was beaten around and then retreated to Shandong.
In June, 884, Huang Chao's troops were defeated by Tang Jun and Shatuo troops in Shandong, and Huang Chao, who had no choice, committed suicide in Tiger and Wolf Valley in Taishan.
After Huang Chao rose up, he persisted in the struggle of 10, and fought almost half of China. The killing was extremely tragic, which greatly weakened the strength of the Tang Dynasty and led to its rapid collapse. Twenty years after Huang Chao's death, Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty (later renamed Zhu Quanzhong), and the history of China entered the period of "Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms".