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【Who says it’s not? 】

【History seems like a cycle.】

【This moment is just like that moment.】

[Five years have passed since An Lushan started his rebellion in Fanyang. During this time, the Tang Dynasty had more than one chance to end the rebellion, but each time the court would make a rogue move and ruin the good opportunity.]

……

"Don't meddle in other people's business if you are not in their position. This is the result of an amateur guiding an expert."

Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Che, said domineeringly: "The ruler of the Tang Dynasty has been at peace for too long and is cowardly and afraid of death. If I were here, I would never allow the rebels to grow so powerful."

How could Emperor Wu of Han, who was able to cultivate a famous general like Huo Qubing and personally led an expedition against the Huns, not know about military affairs?
In Liu Che's view, no matter how terrible the evil wind was, it was not as serious as the emperor not knowing that the army was coming.

It was precisely because the emperor had no knowledge of military affairs and insisted on interfering in the military operations of generals that irreversible disastrous consequences occurred.

Anyone who knows the art of war will understand its profound meaning and will not make such stupid decisions.

Besides, as an emperor ruling over the world, how could he not know the art of war?

Even if he cannot lead the army in person to quell the rebellion, at the very least he should at least have the emperor guard the country's borders like the Ming Dynasty did!

But what did Li Longji do?

Just abandon the city and flee!
It was his cowardly behavior that made it extremely difficult to recover the two capitals later on, and he was so frustrated that he had to borrow troops from the foreign Huihe tribe!

……

This scene made the later Zhu Yuanzhang feel deeply moved.

If it weren't for a good boy like Qi Yu, if it weren't for a loyal minister like Yu Qian who was able to turn the tide in times of crisis and defend the capital at the risk of his life, who knows what would have become of the Ming Dynasty!
There is a high probability that half of the northern part of the country will be lost, and the shame of the Song Dynasty will be repeated. I don't know how many soldiers will be killed outside the border, and I don't know how many years it will take to pacify the foreign invaders and regain the lost territory.

Whenever he thought of this, Lao Zhu couldn't help but feel a little scared.

Fortunately, God bless the Ming Dynasty.

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[The banner of suppressing the rebellion in the Tang Dynasty is now carried by Li Guangbi. Li Guangbi decisively judged that the Eastern Capital Luoyang could not be defended, so he abandoned it and the entire army retreated to Heyang.]

[How can I put it? Li Guangbi's judgment was correct, but it was hard for the people of Dongdu to be displaced again.]

[Li Guangbi was indeed a famous general. He successfully stopped Shi Siming's army in Heyang and held the city for a whole year.]

[A strikingly similar scene in history appeared. Yu Chaoen, the envoy who inspected the military appearance and comforted the emperor, reported to Emperor Li Heng and scolded Li Guangbi for being afraid of fighting.]

[It just so happened that Li Heng was also very dissatisfied with Li Guangbi's state of holding out. How could he put down the rebellion just by defending the city? In desperation, Li Guangbi was forced to go to war.]

[Everyone remembers the defeat of the Tang army at the beginning of the An-Shi Rebellion. At that time, Li Longji forced Geshu Han to fight under the advice of Yang Guozhong. Two hundred thousand troops were lost, and Tongguan was also lost. That was the first time that the Tang Dynasty missed the opportunity to quell the An-Shi Rebellion. ]

[This time, the Tang army was defeated again and lost Heyang. ]

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"Ugh……"

Li Shimin held his forehead with his hand. Faced with this situation, he didn't know what to say.

Li Longji was indeed a good hand at politics. He created the Kaiyuan Prosperity, which was indeed good, but he was really shameful in commanding the military.

If you don't have the skills, don't take on this job!
This Li Heng is no worse than his father. Both father and son are fools. Now that the Tang Dynasty has fallen into the hands of these two people, it is inevitable that it will suffer such a disaster.

"It seems that I will have to set up ancestral teachings in the future so that they can learn the art of war!"

For no reason, Li Shimin thought of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

After Zhu Qizhen, the Ming Dynasty produced two enlightened monarchs, one of whom was Zhu Houzhao, who was particularly criticized by scholars. Although he was a little naughty, he really knew how to use troops!
We defended against Mongolia and achieved a great victory in Yingzhou.

Internal rebellion was also easily quelled.

Unlike his Tang Dynasty, what this father and son did is simply unbearable to watch.

Li Shimin wished he could travel back in time and lead the troops to suppress the bandits himself!
Let these disappointing descendants have a good look at what the art of warfare is and what the mighty army of the Tang Dynasty is!
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[After conquering Heyang, Shi Siming led the rebels westward and sent his son Shi Chaoyi to attack Shanzhou. ]

[The generals defending Shanzhou fought desperately, but Shanzhou could not be taken after a long siege. Shi Siming, like all overbearing fathers, expressed his dissatisfaction with his son Shi Chaoyi's defeat without hiding it, and even threatened to punish Shi Chaoyi by military law! ]...

The angry Tang officials were slightly stunned by this scene, and many of them had strange looks on their faces. Could it be that this guy had forgotten the lesson of his good buddy An Lushan?
Even if you have forgotten, you should at least know about the Xuanwu Gate Incident, right?
Saying this about your own son, aren't you afraid that your eldest son might have ulterior motives?

Not only were they speechless about Shi Siming's outrageous behavior, Tianmu also complained about the matter.

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[Shi Siming must have never read the history of the Tang Dynasty. What was the most important thing for a leader in the Tang Dynasty? ]

【Be careful of your son! 】

[The founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan, was forced to abdicate by his son, Li Shimin’s wife was taken away by his son, Wu Zetian was forced to step down by her son, Li Longji was coaxed into retirement by Li Heng, and the rebel leader An Lushan was disemboweled by his son...]

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Li Shimin: "..."

I didn’t expect the impact of the Xuanwu Gate Incident would be so great. Wait... my wife was taken away by my son?

Li Shimin's eyes widened.

Which unfilial son would dare to do such an immoral thing!

……

[Shi Siming obviously did not learn his lesson. Shi Chaoyi did not want to be killed by his father, so he simply launched a mutiny and killed his father, becoming the new leader of the rebellion.]

【The An-Shi Rebellion entered the Shi Chaoyi phase.】

[Coincidentally, a few months after Shi Siming was killed, the Tang Dynasty's Emperor Li Longji and Emperor Li Heng died within ten days of each other.]

……

"Ugh……"

Seeing that both were dead, Li Shimin's anger towards the father and son finally subsided a little.

He, the man who created the prosperous Tang Dynasty, ultimately suffered a tragic end in his old age and dragged the Tang Dynasty into the abyss with his own hands. Let future generations judge his merits and demerits.

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【Li Heng's son Li Yu succeeded to the throne and later became Emperor Daizong of Tang.】

[Li Yu was the name changed from Li Chu, who had begged the Huihe prince not to rob the people of Chang'an.]

[During this An-Shi Rebellion, the first generation leaders of both sides died, but the An-Shi Rebellion was not over yet. ]

[At this time, the Tang Dynasty's banner of suppressing the rebellion was taken off Li Guangbi and moved to the shoulders of Pugu Huai'en, another general who had once served under Guo Ziyi.]

【Let us briefly introduce Pugu Huai'en. 】

[Pugu Huai'en was a foreign general from the Tiele tribe. He had followed Guo Ziyi for a long time. It was he who led the Uighur ambush troops to capture the Xiangji Temple match point.]

[In order to facilitate the Uighurs to borrow troops, Pugu Huai'en married his three daughters to the Uighurs.]

[During the entire process of suppressing the An-Shi Rebellion, forty-six members of Pugu Huai'en's family sacrificed their lives for the Tang Dynasty.]

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"Although they are foreigners, they are so loyal and brave. This shows how open-minded the Tang Dynasty is."

Zhuge Liang was deeply moved.

Most scholars at that time held the hostile thought that "those who are not from my race must have different hearts", and very few dared to use foreigners as generals.

Of course, Zhuge Liang is not among them.

A prime minister who can make the southern tribes obey him will naturally not look at the many foreign tribes with tinted glasses. Moreover, after a thousand years, everyone is one family, so there is no distinction between high and low.

The fact that the Tang Dynasty had so many foreign generals commanding large armies showed its open-mindedness, and it also made him understand more clearly why people in later generations admired the prosperous Tang Dynasty so much.

It’s a pity that the Anshi Rebellion turned everything into nothing.

...(End of chapter)