Thinking about it, the real events in human history, have you ever heard of the "smell of meat"?
When I was a child, I read a horror story called "Meat Aroma", in which the plot is strange, tortuous, and people are scared to see it, since it is meat, it is naturally not ordinary meat, since it is a horror story, then it will involve blood and death.
The reason this horror story is not repeated here is because it is based on real historical fragments, just like the war blockbusters I have seen, and the real cruelty often comes from reality. Turning over the yellowed annals of history, in addition to the dusty smell, there is also the viciousness and mystery revealed between the lines.
Zhang Patrol used a trick to trick the rebel general Ling Fox Chao
In 755, Sanzhen Jiedu caused An Lushan to rebel and led 150,000 elite soldiers to replace the Tang Dynasty, and war broke out, Tang Xuanzong fled to Shudi, and countless Li people became victims of this war.
An Lushan planned for many years, the soldiers were strong and strong, for a time the Tang army could not resist at all, and gradually retreated, but in some areas, the Tang army was still carrying out stubborn resistance, including our protagonist Zhang Tour today.
The rebels captured song and Cao prefectures, and Yang Wanshi surrendered, forcing Zhang Tour, who was then the commander of Zhenyuan County, to be the governor of Changshi, but Zhang Tour sternly refused and pulled up a team to resist the rebels.
Historical records:
"The tide cannot return, and the patrol is slaughtering his wife, on the gravel city."
Yongqiu County ordered Fox Chao to surrender to the rebels, single father county lieutenant Jia Ben and Zhang Patrol in Yongqiu Round, the total strength of the troops is not more than two thousand, in order to prevent the surrender of the army from happening again, but also in order to stimulate morale, Zhang Patrol will make Fox Chao's wife killed and crushed the body at the head of the city.
Ling Fox Chao saw the situation, formed a vendetta with Zhang Tour, and immediately led tens of thousands of troops to attack Yongqiu, and a battle for Yongqiu began. Zhang Patrol divided his troops to guard the city, greeted the enemy with bows and arrows and oil and grass, used bows and crossbows when far away, and burned with fire when he was close, and when the enemy army was slack, Zhang Patrol led his troops to sneak attack.
The battle lasted for more than sixty days, and under the reasonable command of Zhang Tour, the city of Yongqiu remained motionless. After a long time, there was not enough grain in Yongqiu City, and it just so happened that fox tide's military grain had just arrived, and Zhang Tour once again sent troops to rob the grain, not only grabbing a lot of grain, but also burning the remaining grain on fire, making Fox Tide embarrassed.
This time there was grain, but the arrows were shot out, in the defensive battle, the role of the bow and arrow is self-evident, condescending, can kill and injure a large number of enemy forces, if there is no arrow, Zhang Patrol can only lead the troops to withdraw.
Zhang Made more than a thousand scarecrows, wrapped them in black cloth, and hung them outside the city with ropes at night. Because Zhang Patrol often engaged in sneak attacks before, Ling Fox Chao was also cautious about this, and when he saw a black shadow shaking on the head of the city, he thought that Zhang Patrol wanted to attack again at night, and for the sake of safety, Ling Fox Chao ordered the release of arrows.
The straw man borrowed arrows to stage again here at Zhang Tour, causing Fox Chao's soldiers to shoot a lot of arrows, only to find that it was not a human at all, it was a scarecrow, which made Fox Tide's nose all distorted, and Zhang Tour also got hundreds of thousands of arrows.
The second time, Zhang Patrol repeated the old technique, so that the fox tide saw that there were many black shadows hanging on the Yongqiu City again, so that the fox tide would certainly not be deceived again, and it was not a thought that this time Zhang Patrol sent out not scarecrows, but five hundred daredevils. Because the fox tide was defenseless, the rebel battalion was stirred up and retreated more than ten miles.
Zhang Patrol was flexible in his use of troops and could always win by surprise, but the enemy army had too many troops, and Yongqiu City was still difficult to defend in the end, and four months later, Zhang Patrol led his troops to Suiyang.
Falling into the realm of death, Suiyang became a purgatory on earth
The war was still going on, at this time Zhang Zhu did not know what was going on in the Tang Dynasty, Tang Xuanzong fled, so did anyone in the imperial court still have someone to decide? These are not zhang tour's most concerned, in his heart, there is only one purpose, that is, to defeat the enemy in front of him and restore the dignity of Datang.
In 756, Li Heng ascended the throne at Lingwu for Emperor Suzong of Tang. In the process of resisting the enemy, Zhang Tour finally received news from the imperial court, and Zhang Tour was also promoted to the post of Deputy Envoy of Henan Province.
Zhang Tour had the courage, but the situation did not improve at that time, the rebel army was still extremely strong, and there were only three thousand troops in Suiyang City. Soon, An Lushan was killed by his son An Qingxu, and An Qingxu sent his general Yin Ziqi to lead more than 100,000 troops to attack Suiyang.
Suiyang Taishou Xuyuan was responsible for heavy grain and grass, Zhang Tour was responsible for military deployment, even if the enemy army had more than 100,000, under the command of Zhang Tour, the enemy army was still defeated many times until a big problem appeared.
Suiyang City originally had 60,000 grain grain, which instinctively supported a year, but Henan Jiedu made Li Ju transfer half of the grain to Puyang and Jiyin. Although Xu Yuan argued according to reason, there was no way, after all, Li Ju's rank was higher than Xu Yuan's, but soon JiYin rebelled, and those grains were also meat buns and dogs, and they could never come back.
Soon, the grain in Suiyang City was finished, the soldiers began to eat horses, the horses were finished, only to nibble on the bark of the trees and cook paper to eat, time passed little by little, the situation in the city did not change in the slightest, the soldiers began to fall one by one, and then there were only more than a thousand people left.
Even if Zhang Patrol led his troops to repel the rebels again, it was only a matter of time before the city was destroyed. One day, Zhang Patrol took out a large bag of meat from his home, from which a trace of blood oozed. The soldiers did not know, so they did not know where this meat came from, and it turned out that Zhang Patrol killed the concubines in order to let the soldiers eat and serve as military food.
"Patrol out the concubines: 'The kings have been starving for many years, and their loyalty and righteousness have declined, and I hate not cutting my muscles to eat the multitude, and I would rather cherish a concubine and sit and watch the soldiers be hungry?' But the slaughter is great, and the seats weep. ”
The soldiers looked at The Patrol and looked again at the bloody flesh in the bag, and hunger made them forget everything, and soon the bag of meat was eaten. Xu Yuan also killed his own servants and gave them to the soldiers to eat, but there were more than a thousand soldiers, how could these few people have enough to eat.
The soldiers who tasted the taste of human flesh were out of control, and there were still thirty thousand old and young women and children in the city, perhaps according to needs, or according to time, in short, these people became the food of the soldiers. In the middle of the night, a few soldiers sat around the campfire, surrounded by white bones, and they undoubtedly held human arms or palms in their hands, where they feasted.
The fire stretched the figure like a ghost, which did not happen in the horror movie, but reality, Zhang Patrol soldiers almost ate the people in the city, and on the day the city was destroyed, only four hundred people were left.
If the call for help fails, repay the country with death
After the failure of the call for help, the soldiers in the city could no longer support it, and in the end, Suiyang City was breached, Zhang Tour and others were all captured, and the rebel general Yin Ziqi said to Zhang Tour:
"I heard that when you were supervising the battle, you shouted loudly, your eyes cracked, and your teeth were broken, as for that?"
Immediately Yin Ziqi ordered the people to open the mouth of the inspector, and saw that there were only three or four teeth left in the mouth, which was shocked and abnormal. Later, Zhang Zhuan and others were killed by the rebels, and they were generous and righteous.
During the Anshi Rebellion, Zhang Played an important role in defending Suiyang City, and he bought valuable time for the Tang court. Because of his sworn resistance, he also saved the Jianghuai region, after all, Jianghuai is the lifeblood of the empire. Suiyang was the barrier of Jianghuai, and three days after Zhang's death, the imperial court sent reinforcements to retake Suiyang again.
Zhang Tour's loyalty and bravery have always been passed down, but at the same time, the fierceness and horror of the war are also chilling.
However, from the current point of view, does it really make sense to eat the common people to maintain the combat strength of the army?
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