Speaking of Zhang Sutuo, everyone may not be familiar with it, but the three subordinates he brought out with him are more famous than him: Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, and Luo Shixin. The reason for his lack of fame was that the first died too early, and the second was loyal to the Sui Emperor, which made everyone unimpressed, but his martial value was by no means inferior to the latter three.
Zhang Sutuo (565 – 616 CE), courtesy name Guo, was a hongnong fuxiang general and general of the late Sui Dynasty, and successively served as the ambassador of Sima of Anzhou, Yi Tongsan division of Kaifu, Qi Juncheng, and Henan Province.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > to feed the people</h1>
Zhang Sutuo has a strong personality, wisdom and courage, and when he was young, he served in front of the army, crawled and fought on the battlefield for decades, was familiar with the military, and loved the soldiers.
In the seventeenth year of the kai emperor, the Kunzhou Assassin Shi and the Qiang chiefTaini rebelled against the Sui, and Zhang Sutuo accompanied the marching commander Shi Wanzai to conquest. After the suppression of the rebellion, Zhang Sutuo was awarded the same ceremony for his merits and gave three hundred paragraphs.
After the Sui Emperor ascended the throne, the Han king Yang Yu rebelled in Hezhou. Zhang Sutuo led an army to quell the rebellion with Yang Su, the governor of the prefecture, and was appointed as the kaifu for his merits.
In the sixth year of Daye, Zhang Sutuo was the commander of Qi County, in charge of the counties of Shandong. At that time, the Sui Dynasty Emperor was recruiting troops to fight Goguryeo, and after repeated battles and years of wars and famines, the price of grain began to soar, and many ordinary people could not eat and became disaster victims.
Zhang Sutuo prepared to open a warehouse to release grain and relieve the difficulties. His subordinates dissuaded: "Without Your Majesty's holy will, it is a capital offense to open a warehouse and release grain at will!" Zhang Sutuo said, "Now Your Majesty is far away in Goguryeo, and it will take more than a year to communicate back and forth, and the people will starve to death." What are the consequences in the future, I will bear it alone. So he ordered the opening of the warehouse to release the grain.
When the Sui Emperor heard about this, he did not blame Zhang Sutuo, but instead ordered a reward.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > pingding Wang Bo</h1>
In the seventh year of Daye, Wang Bo, a Zouping man, seduced the people and launched a peasant uprising in Changbai Mountain, raising the banner of anti-Sui for the first time. The disaster victims of the shandong counties joined him one after another, and soon tens of thousands of people gathered.
Everywhere the rebel army went, the local officials were defeated, and either collapsed in a battle or abandoned the city and fled, rarely resisting Wang Bo's attack. In the whole of Shandong, only Qi Commandery Zhang Sutuo led an army to confront the rebel army.
Zhang Sutuo led his army to first defeat the peasant army in Qi County, and then pursued Wang Bo to Lu County. At that time, Wang Bo gathered his army at the foot of Daishan Mountain, thinking that the officers and soldiers did not dare to pursue them, and relaxed his vigilance.
Zhang Sutuo selected elite generals and marched hundreds of miles to attack Wang Bo, killing thousands of people. Wang Bo gathered his scattered army and prepared to cross the Yellow River north to avoid Zhang Sutuo, but was chased by the official army at Linyi and beheaded by 5,000 people.
In the ninth year of Daye, Wang Bo joined forces with the rebels Sun Xuanya and Shi Zhijian and 100,000 others to besiege Zhangqiu. Zhang Sutuo sent 20,000 water troops from the Yellow River to cut off his grain routes, and personally led 20,000 cavalry to break the rebels. After chasing jinliang, he defeated Wang Bo and beheaded tens of thousands of people, and Wang Bo suffered heavy losses and could not gain a foothold in Shandong from then on.
When the Sui Emperor heard the good news, he was overjoyed, rewarded Zhang Sutuo, and asked people to paint his appearance and send it to various places.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > with fewer enemies and more enemies</h1>
In the ninth year of Daye, just as Zhang Sutuo was quelling the rebellion against Wang Bo, Pei Changcai, Shi Zihe and others led 20,000 rebels to attack Licheng. The city was empty, and the reinforcements would not arrive for a while and a half.
Zhang Sutuo sent people to ask for help, while leading only 5 cavalry and 20,000 rebels. Zhang Sutuo led 5 horses far outside Licheng to attract rebels away from Licheng to harass the people.
Faced with thousands of times the heavy siege of the rebels, Zhang Sutuo was not afraid of danger, rushed left and right, and was wounded in many places on his body, but he still became more and more courageous, killing hundreds of enemies.
Not long after, reinforcements arrived, and the rebels retreated slightly, not away. Zhang Sutuo did not rest, commanded reinforcements into the enemy position, defeated the rebels, Pei Changcai and Shi Zihe fled into the wilderness.
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > firefighter</h1>
In the ninth year of Daye, Guo Fang, a Native of Beihai, gathered 30,000 people to raise an army, besieged the city and fell to the ground, and was invincible. At the same time, Guo Fangqian and Qin Junhong's rebels jointly gathered 100,000 people to besiege Beihai County, and the army was very strong.
Zhang Sutuo led his army to put down the rebellion and encouraged his subordinates: "The enemy forces are proud of their strong strength and will certainly let down their vigilance." I'm surprised to attack, and I will be able to win a big victory! "All the generals did not dare to speak, only the fierce generals Luo Shixin and Qin Shubao asked for battle." Zhang Sutuo led the Sui army to launch a surprise attack, and sure enough, it defeated the rebels and killed tens of thousands of people.
In the ten years of Daye, Zuo Xiaoyou, a qi county man, gathered 100,000 people to occupy the squat dog mountain and rebelled against The Sui. Zhang Sutuo led his army to attack, and divided his troops to guard the various passes of the Crouching Dog Mountain, defeating Zuo Xiaoyou in one fell swoop, and the rest of the people scattered.
Zhang Sutuo temporarily threatened Eastern Xia, and was promoted to the post of Tongshou of Qi Commandery (陳郡通守) for his merits, leading the Twelve Counties of Henan Province to depose the ambassador of capture.
In December of the same year, Lu Mingyue, a native of Zhuo County, raised an army of 100,000 people to garrison Zhu'a and began to rebel against the Sui. Zhang Sutuo led 10,000 people to attack, and Lu Mingyue held the dangerous pass and did not fight, and the two sides were deadlocked for dozens of days.
When the Sui army's grain and grass were about to run out, Zhang Sutuo led his army to sneak attack, and pretended to be defeated when the battle was not long. Lu Mingyue led his army in pursuit and was raided by the Sui army that was ambushed at the intersection. The Sui army took the opportunity to attack the enemy village and killed countless people. Lu Mingyue only led a hundred horses to escape, and Zhang Sutuo returned with a great victory.
After that, Zhang Sutuo led his army to defeat Lü Xingxing, Shuai Rentai, Huo Xiaohan and other rebels, and fought more than thirty battles with the increasingly aggressive Wagang Army, each of which was a big victory.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" died > righteousness</h1>
Just as Zhang Sutuo was fighting against bandits everywhere, the Wagang army developed rapidly, and soon developed into the most powerful of the rebel army. At the same time, after Li Mi, who rebelled with Yang Xuangan, defected to Zhai Rang, the strength of the Wagang army was further enhanced.
Under Li Mi's plan, the Wagang army prepared to capture Xingyang and seize the Sui granary to maintain military supplies and further attempt to take the Central Plains.
The Sui Emperor appointed Zhang Sutuo as the tongshou of Xingyang and led his elite to fight against Zhai Rang. Zhai Rang was defeated by Zhang Sutuo many times, and his heart was very afraid.
Li Mixian said, "Although Zhang Sutuo is brave and fierce, and often wins battles, the soldiers are arrogant and complacent, and we can use them to defeat them." Li Mi divided thousands of cavalry into ambush at the Great Sea Temple, facing the enemy head-on with the main force.
Zhang Sutuo attacked in a phalanx, defeated Zhai Rang and Li Mi, pursued for tens of miles, and was surrounded by rebels at the Great Sea Temple. Zhang Sutuo broke out after the battle, but saw that his subordinates were still trapped, so he entered the encirclement circle again, so four times in and out, his subordinates were defeated and fled.
Zhang Sutuo looked up at the sky and sighed, "The soldiers have been defeated to this point, what face do I have to see the Son of Heaven!" So he rushed into the enemy position again and was killed by Zhai Rang and Li Mi.
The last pillar of the Great Sui fell, and the Sui army could no longer quell the rebellion everywhere. Two years later, the Sui Emperor was killed by his subordinates in Jiangdu, and the Sui Dynasty collapsed.