After Emperor Suzong of Tang recaptured Chang'an, he posthumously honored those soldiers who died heroically in the process of quelling the Rebellion of An Lushan, and Yan Gaoqing, Zhang Jieran, yuan Luqian, etc. were all posthumously regarded as heroes, and future generations also had endless glory and wealth. However, there was a man who stationed himself in Suiyang with a mere 6,000 soldiers and horses, blocked Yin Ziqi's hundreds of thousands of troops, and saved Jiangnan, the economic hinterland of the Tang Dynasty, but when he was posthumously awarded the title of meritorious man, he was strongly opposed by the ministers of the DPRK, and he was Zhang Tour, and the reason for stopping him from the hero was only two words: cannibalism.
Zhang Patrol
Zhang patrolled the army
Zhang Tour was a native of Yongji, Shanxi, who was admitted to the Jinshi in the last year of the New Century, and became the Commander of Qinghe County in the middle of tianbao, and due to dissatisfaction with the dictatorship of Yang Guozhong, Zhang Tour, who was supposed to remain in Chang'an with outstanding political achievements, was once again released and made the Zhenyuan County Order.
In the fourteenth year of Tianbao, An Lushan raised an army at Fanyang and quickly swept across the Hebei and Henan regions, Zhang Tour's superior, Yang Wanshi, the Taishou of Yu Commandery, surrendered the city, and Zhang Tour angrily left his post, pulled up a team of thousands of people, and spontaneously organized a resistance to An Lushan.
Trapped by the pressure of Yang Wanshi, Zhang Tour had to turn to Henan, Yongqiu County Ling Fox Tide, like Yang Wanshi, also planned to defect to An Lu Mountain, but was blocked by the people of Yongqiu City, the angry Ling Fox Tide started a bloody massacre in Yongqiu, killing more than a hundred people before and after, barely deterred the people in the city who did not want to surrender, and when Ling Fox Tide went out of the city to meet the Yan army, the Yongqiu people closed the city gate, stopped Ling Fox Tide outside the city, and then invited Zhang Patrol near Yongqiu to enter the city and help them defend the city.
After Zhang Zhu entered Yongqiu, he immediately beheaded Ling Huchao's wife and daughter, and with extraordinary courage, he defused the attack of Ling Huchao and the Yan army. Ling Huchao lost Yongqiu, and after a month of extreme anger, he secretly arrived at Yongqiu City with Li Huaixian's 40,000 elite troops, which was a real regular unit compared with the county soldiers at the beginning of Ling Huchao.
Ling Fox Tide besieged Yongqiu
However, Zhang Tour was not frightened, but found a good way to break the enemy in the elite enemy army, he took advantage of the opportunity that made fox tide carelessly despise, decisively led people out of the city to raid, killed a lot, and won the opening victory. However, ling fox tide's troops were numerous after all, although they folded for a while, they still surrounded Yongqiu, using dozens of trebuchets, frantically smashing into the defense facilities of Yongqiu and the buildings in the city, the city defense was broken, the Yan army had climbed the Yongqiu city wall, Zhang Patrol used the artemisia grass prepared earlier, blocked the Yan army in the form of fire attack, and won a defensive victory again.
Ling Fox Chao's 40,000 troops and Zhang Tour's thousands of soldiers and horses confronted each other under Yongqiu City for more than sixty days, and there were more than three hundred battles before and after, so that Fox Tide did not break through a city gate, but was often attacked by Zhang Patrol at night, and the Yan army, which had no intention of fighting, was even killed by Zhang Patrol when it left, losing thousands of people.
The Scarecrow borrows arrows
At that time, Ge Shuhan was defeated at Tongguan, Tang Xuanzong secretly fled, and the Tang generals who were still insisting on defending in the Kanto region did not know whether Tang Xuanzong was dead or alive, and oscillated between holding out and surrendering. Ling Fox Chao seized this opportunity and once again led the troops to come, changed his arrogance in the past, and wrote a letter to persuade Zhang To surrender.
Several of Zhang's generals also urged him to go out of the city and surrender, but Zhang Tour was helpless and gathered all the soldiers in the city to make a final pilgrimage to the portrait of Tang Xuanzong. Just when everyone was complacent about to become the guest of honor of the Yan army, Zhang Tour's face changed and he immediately killed all the generals who persuaded him to surrender.
After this incident, no one in the city dared to mention the word surrender.
Zhang Patrol insisted on Yongqiu
Zhang Tour, who intended to persist to the end, soon encountered the first trouble, the arrows in the city were gone, Yongqiu was only a small city, did not have the ability to make weapons, and the outside of the city was already surrounded by a large army of Ling Fox Chao, and it was difficult to obtain weapons from the hands of reinforcements, not to mention that the defense of Yongqiu for more than three months, not a single reinforcement was seen.
Zhang Patrol thought of an idea, on a dark and windy night in a month, hundreds of black-clad soldiers in Yongqiu City quietly slid down from the city wall, this scene was quickly discovered by the patrols in the Fox Tide Army, countless times by Zhang Patrol Night Attacks Made Fox Tide suddenly overjoyed, secretly gathered a bow and arrow team, and shot at the black-clad people who came to sneak attack.
Tens of thousands of arrows were shot at the men in black, but they did not let them fall, scream and bleed, and at this moment, fox tide understood and was calculated.
When Luo Guanzhong wrote the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the passage where Zhuge Liang's grass boat borrowed arrows was probably borrowed from the scarecrow used by Zhang Tour.
A few days later, Zhang Patrol repeated his old skills, still letting hundreds of people dressed in black quietly go down to the city, so that Fox Tide had the lessons of the last time, how could he not shoot arrows indiscriminately, and as a result, he miscalculated again, Zhang Patrol sent real people this time, the night raid was successful, and the wild pursuit made Fox Tide dozens of miles.
Night Raids make foxes tide
Yin Ziqi besieged Suiyang
After this, Ling Huchao joined forces with the Yan army henan Jiedu to make Li Tingwang attack Zhang Tour together, but still without success, and in desperation, Li Tingwang ordered Yang Chaozong to bypass Yongqiu and attack Zhang Tour's retreat, Ningling, and cut off all contact between Yongqiu and the outside world.
The geographical location of Ningling is obviously much more important than Yongqiu, it is the retreat of Yongqiu, but also the gateway to Suiyang, in order to preserve Ningling, Zhang Tour had to abandon Yongqiu, and at the same time, Suiyang Taishou Xuyuan also brought people to Ningling, under Ningling City, Yang Chaozong's tens of thousands of horses were lost, and Ningling City was saved.
At the same time, An Qingxu killed An Lushan in Luoyang, and in order to cut off the supply of materials for the Tang army, he urgently needed to fight to Jiangnan and occupy the rich land of the Tang Dynasty, and to enter Jiangnan, he first had to attack Suiyang.
Suiyang
The new Yan army of Henan Jiedu made Yin Ziqi besiege Suiyang with 130,000 troops, and Xu Yuan, with only 3,800 men, could not stop Yin Ziqi's attack and invited Zhang Tou to come. Zhang Tour only had 3,000 men, 6,800 people against 130,000, the gap was too big, and the Suiyang defense war was carried out under extremely unequal conditions from the beginning.
Zhang Patrol built these 6,800 people into the iron wall of Suiyang, and in half a month he repelled more than 200 attacks by Yin Ziqi, slashed and killed tens of thousands of Yan troops, and even captured many enemy generals. Unwilling to accept defeat, Yin Ziqi reorganized his troops and horses and returned to Suiyang City again, but was suddenly attacked by Zhang Tour, losing thousands of people.
When Yin Ziqi was under Suiyang City for the third time, he changed his strategy, besieging but not attacking, intending to trap Zhang Zhu and Xu Yuan alive. Zhang Tour's side was not idle, all night long he was beating gongs and drums, making the appearance of attacking Yin Ziqi's army, and the disturbing Yan army could not be peaceful, and when the Yan army that listened to the sound of gongs and drums all night slowly fell asleep, Zhang Tour personally led people out of the city to attack, killed countless people, and Xiao General Nan Jiyun shot Yin Ziqi's left eye blind in the chaotic army and won a great victory.
Grand Admiral Nan Jiyun
Suiyang City eats people
Yin Ziqi was wounded and defeated and withdrew from the battlefield, Zhang Tour was given a short buffer time, but there was no supply to enter Suiyang City, not only that, the original 60,000 stones of grain and grass in Suiyang City were also forcibly divided in half by Li Ju by the Tang army Henan Jiedu, and gave it to Puyang and Jiyin, and Jiyin Taishou had already dedicated the city to the Yan army.
Without the supply of grain and grass, the soldiers in Suiyang City could only eat bark, paper, and grass roots to survive, and in the more than half a year's battle with Yin Ziqi, Zhang Tour lost more than five thousand soldiers, and the remaining more than a thousand people were already sick, Zhang Tour sent people everywhere to ask for help, and pinned his hopes on Pengcheng and Linhuai around Suiyang, but unfortunately, Pengcheng's defender Shang Heng and Linhuai's general Helan Jinming were short-sighted and selfish, and they were completely short-sighted and selfish, and they did not send troops to take over the defense line, nor did they transport grain and grass to Suiyang.
Not long after, Yin Ziqi returned full of blood, in addition to the wound in his left eye, more than a hundred thousand troops were resupplied, both the will to fight and the desire to fight had already prevailed, and more importantly, he brought new siege weapons: ladders and hook cars.
It was only in the face of the resourceful Zhang Tour, the weapons were useless, and the strong attack was hopeless, Yin Ziqi continued his failure under Suiyang City, he could only learn to make the fox tide, from attack to trapped.
Trapped far more than the strong attack made Zhang Patrol uncomfortable, the bark and paper had already been eaten by them, the defenders were already hungry and had no skin, their faces were yellow and thin, and they were simply supported by the belief in defending the city, and once they relaxed, it was difficult to stand up again.
Even at this moment, Zhang Zhu still did not want to leave, giving up Suiyang would certainly save his life, but it would make the Jiangnan region of Taiping suffer from war.
Zhang Zhu thought about killing horses, there were not many horses in the city, and there was simply not enough for these more than a thousand people to eat. After the horses were finished, Zhang Zhu found a sack of meat, which was his concubine, and Xu Yuan also sacrificed the house slave to become the mouth food of the hungry soldier.
Zhang Patrol began to eat people
They had been hungry for too long, they had long forgotten about nausea and vomiting, filling their stomachs was the most important thing, suiyang had become a hell of demons at this moment.
Outside the city, Yin Ziqi continued to harass and besiege the city, and the defenders inside the city began to loot food, first women, then old people and children.
Zhang Patrol held out in Suiyang for two months, and within two months, they ate 30,000 people.
Suiyang City was eventually breached by Yin Ziqi, and the only four hundred soldiers left had no strength to fight, and Zhang Tour, Xu Yuan, Nan Jiyun and others were captured and died under Yin Ziqi's butcher's knife.
Zhang Patrol guarded Suiyang for ten months, blocked Yin Ziqi's hundreds of thousands of troops, and saved Jiangnan from being destroyed, he should have been an outstanding general with outstanding merits and famous history, but he fell into the vortex of cannibalism at the last moment, no matter what kind of evaluation was given to him by later generations, at least he won the moment, and Datang eventually characterized him as a generation of heroes.
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