How did Guo Ziyi quell the Anshi Rebellion?

In the fourteenth year of Tianbao, after the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, Guo Ziyi was appointed as the envoy of Shuofang Jiedu, he was ordered to lead the army to crusade against An Lushan, and successively defeated Zhou Wanqing, Gao Xiuyan and other subordinates of An Lushan, recovered Yunzhong, Mayi and other places, and opened up the Dongcheng Pass, but the other Tang Dynasty's rebellion struggles were defeated. Guo Ziyi was ordered by the imperial court to go to Hebei to rescue. He took a fancy to Li Guangbi's military talent and asked Li Guangbi to go to the most intense place in Hebei.

The two fought side by side and made great achievements on the battlefield of quelling the Anshi Rebellion. After the victory of Jiashan, An Lushan's main force was holding off with Geshuhan's troops at Tongguan. Tongguan is the gateway to Chang'an, which is relatively easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Guo Ziyi believed that the defenders of Tongguan were weak and not suitable for a decisive battle, so they should only hold on, and planned to use their victorious division to take advantage of the empty reserve of the enemy to attack Fan Yang and fundamentally shake the position of An Lushan. Unexpectedly, Tang Xuanzong fell for the enemy's plan. Tongguan was lost, Xuanzong fled in a hurry, and the crown prince Li Heng ascended the throne in Lingwu, known as Tang Suzong in history.

After Suzong ascended the throne, An Lushan soldiers surrounded Xuanzong, in order to get rid of the threat of An Lushan, Xuanzong urgently ordered Guo Ziyi to rescue him, and appointed Guo Ziyi as the prime minister, Guo Ziyi first led his troops to conquer Luoyang, and successively recovered Hedong, Hexi, and Henan. This won confidence in quelling the Anshi Rebellion.

When the Tang army returned to Chang'an, Su Zong personally greeted the army led by Guo Ziyi and told him: The country can be reborn because of Aiqing's assistance. Guo Ziyi then kowtowed and thanked him, the two capitals took it back, Guo Ziyi took the first credit, he was promoted to Situ, and was named the acting prince of the country, and the Zhongshu order.

Then the imperial court gathered the army of the nine towns to discuss An Qingxu. Suzong was afraid that their power would be difficult to control, so he supervised the envoys with the eunuch Yu Chaoen, supervised the envoys of all sections, and later Yu Chaoen slandered Suzong to frame Guo Ziyi. Tang Suzong listened to the slander, removed Guo Ziyi from all positions, replaced him with Li Guangbi, and let Guo Ziyi return to the court.

Later, due to the rebellion of the garrison in Hedong, the imperial court had to re-enable Guo Ziyi as the envoy of Shuofang and Hezhong Jiedu, and was named Fen by Jin.

The king of Yangjun, out of the town of Jiangzhou. Before going to work, Guo Ziyi asked to meet Suzong, and Tang Suzong summoned him and entrusted him with the matter of Hedong. Guo Ziyi led the army to finally pacify Hedong, on the way Tang Suzong died of illness, Tang Dynasty Zong inherited the throne, and the eunuch Cheng Yuanzhen monopolized the government at that time.

Because Cheng Yuanzhen was jealous of Guo Ziyi's talent, he repeatedly slandered and framed him. Guo Ziyi wrote to Daizong to request that he be relieved of his post as a Jiedu envoy, and the Tang Dynasty Sect deprived Guo Ziyi of his military power. Soon after, Tang Dynasty Zong launched a general attack on Shi Chaoyi, and Guo Ziyi set out as a deputy marshal.

In the second year of Baoying, the Anshi Rebellion, which lasted for seven years, was finally put down. In July of the first year of Zong Guangde in the Tang Dynasty, Tubo invaded Guanzhong, and fell into several states in a row. After Guo Ziyi quelled the Anshi Rebellion, she was suspicious of her high merit and power, and was forced to rest at home.

As soon as he heard that the country was in trouble, he immediately led more than 20 followers to the battlefield. The Tubo army approached Chang'an, Daizong fled in a hurry, Chang'an fell, Guo Ziyi led the army to Shangzhou, recruited the fleeing soldiers, Guo Ziyi used a plan to enter Chang'an, and the capital was stabilized.

It was Guo Ziyi who quelled the Anshi Rebellion; At that time, Zhou Han of the Tang Dynasty gave him an iron coupon to avoid death, and he also painted a Xunna portrait for Guo Ziyi in the Lingyan Pavilion, and let Guo Ziyi's son go to Princess Shengping as his wife.

The credit is relatively large, this battle made him the secretary of the military department, obtained very high rights, pacified the two capitals and became the acting prince.

There are many historical events related to Guo Ziyi, so let's briefly introduce them below:

Guo Ziyi, a general and military strategist in the middle of the Tang Dynasty. He was named the King of Fenyang for his military exploits.

Guo Ziyi's most important military exploit was the pacification of the "Anshi Rebellion" (755 763). At that time, Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi were the main generals of the counterinsurgency. Afterwards, Guo Ziyi was a low-key person and an official, although her achievements were high-level, but she did not arouse criticism from top to bottom, which is also a typical example of a low-key person in history.

When Guo Ziyi fought An Lushan, it was during the reign of Li Heng of Tang Suzong.

The crown prince Li Heng ascended the throne in 756 A.D. in Lingzhou (present-day Lingwu City, Ningxia) as Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty, and later historians believe that the "Ma Wei Rebellion" was a "planned mutiny". Guo Ziyi was named the envoy of Shuofang Festival and was edicted to crusade. In the following year, Guo Ziyi recommended Li Guangbi as the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, and united Li Guangbi to divide his troops into Hebei, join Changshan (Zhengding, Hebei), defeat Shi Siming, the general of An Lushan, and recover the Hebei area.

In the first year of the Qianyuan Dynasty (758), An Qingxu was besieged by more than 200,000 troops such as Guo Ziyi, and later increased to 600,000, but due to the weakness and suspicion of Suzong, the armies did not have a commander, so that the war could not drag on for a long time, and in the spring of the following year, the rebels were helped by Shi Siming and defeated the 600,000 army of Tang Jiujiedu, and its siege was lifted. The eunuch Yu Chaoen was slandered, Ziyi was recalled to Chang'an, relieved of military power, and was in an idle position. Soon An Qingxu was killed by Shi Siming, who took over An Qingxu's troops and returned to Fanyang, called "Emperor Dayan".

In October of the first year of Baoying (762), Emperor Tang Dynasty succeeded to the throne, and regained Luoyang by means of Wei Hui soldiers, and Shi Chaoyi went to Mozhou (now Renqiubei, Hebei). Fugu Huaien led the Shuo Fang army to pursue Shi Chaoyi. In the spring of the second year of Baoying (763), Tian Chenghei surrendered to Mozhou and sent Shi Chaoyi's mother and wife to the Tang army.

Shi Chaoyi led 5,000 horsemen to flee to Fanyang, and Shi Chaoyi's subordinate Li Huaixian offered Fan Yang to surrender. Shi Chaoyi had no way out, so he hanged himself in the forest, and the Anshi Rebellion, which lasted seven years and two months, ended. Hope to adopt.

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