The Anshi Rebellion was the key point of the Tang Dynasty's transformation from prosperity to decline, by the generals An Lushan and Shi Siming rebelled, after eight years of civil war, the Tang Dynasty's national strength was greatly reduced, the population was sharply reduced, and what is more frightening is that this war not only had a huge impact on the current dynasty, in the future, the Tang Dynasty appeared in the situation of the division of feudal towns, which was an unprecedented great catastrophe for the entire Chinese civilization, before which the Tang Dynasty was open, and the Central Plains Dynasty after that was conservative.
In the middle of the civil war, the rebel forces were flourishing, they went all the way south, attacked Luoyang, straight to Tongguan, the Tang Dynasty army was stubbornly resisting, the surrender ordered Fox Chao to attack Yongqiu with an army of 40,000, in this vicinity of Zhenyuan County, the county commander Zhang Tour with more than a thousand people he recruited occupied Yongqiu, and when the rebels came to attack, he took all his troops to defend the city and repelled the enemy, the disparity in strength was so large that Zhang Tour was able to defend the city for more than two months, which was related to his wisdom and bravery.
Although the enemy army had more than a hundred cannons, tens of thousands of soldiers, and also set up a ladder to climb the city wall, he ordered people to pour oil on the wild artemisia, and then throw it along the city wall, so as to prevent the enemy's climbing, when the enemy army rested outside the city, he took the army out of the city to meet the battle, no matter whether morning or evening, hit the enemy by surprise, so he repelled the enemy's more than three hundred attacks, tens of thousands of troops were killed by them, and the fierce fox tide could only retreat with the remaining troops.
However, two months later, the rebels attacked again, at this time the emperor had been defeated and fled, the Tang army was shaken, several generals in Yongqiu did not want to hold out any longer, persuaded Zhang Tour to surrender, and the next day when the meeting was held, Zhang Tour put out the portrait of the emperor and beheaded these 6 generals on the spot to show punishment and inspire the army. The soldiers in the city shot arrows on the city wall to kill the enemy, but they could not hold too many enemies, and soon their arrows were gone, and Zhang Tour came up with a way to use the straw man to pretend to be a soldier to go down to the city wall at night, so that the enemy would shoot with arrows when he found out, and then they pulled the straw man up and got hundreds of thousands of bows and arrows.
The next night, he sent 500 dead soldiers to sneak up on the enemy camp, and these hundreds of people alone stirred up the chaos of tens of thousands of people, and the enemy troops fled in all directions, which made Fox Tide angry when he learned of it, and invited reinforcements to besiege Yongqiu. Zhang Patrol was still unable to defend the city, and repeatedly sneaked up on the enemy army, so it was a miracle to hold out for a year. Determined to capture Suiyang, the enemy sent the general Yin Ziqi with an army of 130,000 men, and the news was sent to Zhang Tour by Suiyang Taishou Xu Yuan, hoping to get their assistance.
After the two men turned, the army gathered was only more than 6,000 people, because of Zhang Tour's experience in defending the city, Xu Yuan, who had a higher official position, let him be mainly responsible for command, and the two sides launched a fierce battle, under such a large disparity in strength, Zhang Tour won, annihilating more than 20,000 enemies, and the enemy army had to retreat. But two months later, they made a comeback again, bringing more troops and besieging Suiyang, zhang patrol still closed the door, calmly coping, waiting for the right time.
One night, he ordered the soldiers to beat the war drums, the rebels heard such a momentum, ready to go, but until dawn, they did not wait for the other side to go out of the city, Yin Ziqi sent people to look at the city, found that there was no movement in the city, so he let the soldiers rest, did not expect that after they rested, Zhang Patrol led the soldiers out of the city gate, the enemy did not react at all, this battle, the enemy lost more than five thousand people.
Every time Yin Ziqi went to war, there were several people dressed like him, which made it impossible for Zhang Tour's bow and arrow to shoot him, so Zhang Tour came up with a way to shoot it with a wild artemisia arrow, so that the other party would report to Yin Ziqi and tell them that there were no arrows on this side, taking advantage of this opportunity, Nan Jiyun beside Zhang Tour had already observed the situation, an arrow accurately hit Yin Ziqi's left eye, and for a while the army was in chaos, and then Zhang Tour took the army out of the city to meet the battle and win again.
However, the rebel reinforcements were endless, but suiyang city was only the first six thousand people, after repeated wars, only more than 1,600 people were left, there was no food supply, all of them were desperately resisting. Zhang Patrol sent Nan Jiyun to rush out of the siege with thirty generals, hoping to borrow troops from Linhuai, but the defending general Helan Jinming was greedy and afraid of death, did not want to borrow troops, and wanted to use Nan Jiyun for his own use, but Nan Jiyun read Suiyang, did not participate in the banquet held for him, bit off one of his fingers, and stayed here as a witness to his coming. After Nan Jiyun left, he borrowed three thousand soldiers from somewhere else, and after returning to Suiyang, he was discovered by the rebels, and it was another bloody battle, and he entered the city.
After several people discussed, until now the situation was critical, Suiyang was a barrier to Jianghuai, and after the rebels captured this place, they could continue to go south, so they needed to stick to Suiyang. The people and soldiers in the city also knew the end, but they did not betray, and endured hunger every day, nibbling on tree bark, eating tea and paper, and the soldiers starved one by one, until finally the soldiers did not even have the strength to shoot arrows.
The rebels outside the city continued to attack, and soon they captured Suiyang City, and all 36 defenders in the city were killed, and Zhang Zhu, Xu Yuan, Nan Jiyun and others preferred to die. Three days later, Henan Jiedu sent Zhang Haocai to arrive here with his troops to repel the rebels, and after another seven years, Guo Ziyi recaptured Luoyang, all thanks to the dead defense between Zhang Tour, so that the Jianghuai region would not be captured.