In June of the second year of Ganfu (875), Huang Chao and his brothers and nephews responded to Wang Xianzhi. In February (877), in the fourth year of Ganfu, Huang Chao led an army to capture Yunzhou and killed Xue Chong, our time. After five years of blessing (878), Wang Xianzhi died, and many people gave priority to Huang Chao, the so-called "soaring general". Old Tang Book records that he committed suicide and died. There are also rumors that he became hateful and secluded, but no matter what the result is, it is obviously very different from the image of a great man in the era who gave him a positive evaluation in our childhood history textbooks.
Character events
Huang Chao likes turmoil by nature, and it coincides with the "Wang Xianzhi Uprising", so he and his sons and nephews gathered more than a thousand people to join the "Wang Xianzhi Uprising" team. Then in July of Ganfu three years, he went to the Central Plains with the team; After Wang Xianzhi was captured and killed by the Tang court in the fourth year of Ganfu, Huang Chao became king on his own until 88 1 AD, when Huang Chao led the rebel army to capture Chang 'an and established the Daqi regime.
The people in Chang 'an thought that the savior was coming, but what they didn't know was that this was the beginning of their real nightmare. After Huang Chao's army entered the city, it began to search for people's money and food everywhere, and the true face of the robbers was undoubtedly exposed.
But the most terrible thing is far more than that, but the "Huang Chao cannibalism" incident that is still passed down from mouth to mouth. It is said that Huang Chao and his army arrested the exiles, put them in stone mortar, and then ground them into paste with rice-like huge cymbals to fill the soldiers' stomachs. These things are spread by people who survived by luck, and they have been passed down to this day, making people shudder.