In the second year of De (757 AD), the newly enthroned An Qingxu (son of An Lushan), in order to enter the Jianghuai region, broke the financial resources of Emperor Suzong's court in one fell swoop, and appointed the grand prize Yin Ziqi as the envoy of Henan Jiedu, ordering him to regularly conquer Suiyang. The famous Battle of Suiyang in history began.
After Yin Ziqi arrived at his post, he gathered 130,000 troops as quickly as possible, and pointed directly at Suiyang, the gateway to Jianghuai.
After the war report arrived, Suiyang Shou's general Xu Yuan sent an envoy to Zhang To report to him. A few days later, Zhang Patrol entered Suiyang with only 3,000 men under his command. With Xu Yuan's 3,800 men, Zhang Tour could only mobilize a mere 6,800 troops, but he had to face Yin Ziqi's 130,000 troops.
Obviously, this will be an unprecedented fierce battle, more tragic, more tragic, and more arduous than the Battle of Yongcheng.
The enemy began to besiege the city.
130,000 Yan troops flooded into Suiyang like a flood, as if they were going to devour everything in this heaven and earth, in the words of the poet Li He, this is the real "black cloud pressing down on the city".
However, standing at the head of the city was Zhang Patrol, and with him, 6,800 soldiers were 6,800 copper walls and iron walls, making the Yan army pay a painful price for every step forward.
Under the personal command of Zhang Tour, the Tang army fought hard day and night, repelling the fierce attacks of the Yan army again and again. At most, the Tang army could repel twenty attacks of the Yan army a day, an average of more than once a year. Sixteen days later, the Yan army left more than 20,000 corpses under Suiyang City, and as many as sixty generals were captured by the Tang army, but Suiyang still stood motionless in front of the main general Yin Ziqi.
On the night of the sixteenth day, Yin Ziqi had to quietly withdraw his battalion, because the casualties were too large and his morale was seriously damaged. So, he needed a short break, of course, for the next more violent attack.
Two months later, Yin Ziqi made a comeback. Zhang Zhu said to the generals, "I am waiting to receive the favor of the country, but now I can only repay the country with death!" "The morale of the soldiers is high, and they are willing to fight to the death. Zhang Ordered cattle and sheep to be slaughtered, rewarded the three armies, and then led the army out of the city for a decisive battle. When Yan Jun saw that the Tang army only had a few thousand poor baba people, but they were going out of the city to fight a decisive battle, they immediately held their stomachs and laughed.
And zhang tour wants this effect, because the arrogant soldiers will be defeated, which is an iron law of war that is not easy for eternity.
Zhang Patrol personally adhered to the battle flag and took the lead, and the Tang army was greatly encouraged, and all of them were scattered in one fell swoop, and the Yan army was instantly scattered and retreated. Zhang Patrol seized the fighter and led the Tang army to gallop across the road, and soon defeated the Yan army, killing more than 3,000 people and chasing out dozens of miles in one breath.
Although Yin Ziqi was frustrated, he was not discouraged, because he had an absolute advantage in numbers, and he could afford it.
In the days that followed, Yin Ziqi still attacked Suiyang day and night, and the Tang army could not rest for a moment. Zhang Patrol stood on the wall of the torn city, meditating bitterly.
In the evening of the same day, Inspector Zhang ordered the soldiers to beat drums and shout on the city wall, and assembled a team, looking like they were going to attack the enemy. After the Yan army received the information, from the evening until the early morning of the next day, one by one, they waited for each other, and did not dare to slack off in the slightest. It was not until the early morning of the next day that Zhang Patrol ordered the drumming and shouting to stop and disbanded the team. After Yin Ziqi received the news, he personally climbed to a high place to observe the situation in the city, and found that the Tang army did not move at all, so he ordered the officers and men to go back to the camp to rest, and he also went back to the big tent of the Chinese army to sleep.
At this moment, Zhang Tour and Xiao Generals Nan Jiyun and Lei Wanchun each led dozens of elites and rushed to the Yan army camp like arrows. What's even more fatal is that these sharp arrows all shot at the big tent of the Chinese army, just as the so-called snake hit seven inches, and the thief captured the king first.
The officers and men of the Yan Army had all stayed up all night, and were sleeping in their tents at this time, and they would never have thought that the Tang Army would sneak in at this time. When they walked out of the tent in a panic, they collided head-on with Tang Jun's shining blade. For a time, the Tang army was like entering no man's land, just like cutting vegetables and cutting melons, killing more than 5,000 Yan troops in one go. After a while, Zhang Zhu and the others killed the Chinese army tent, but Yin Ziqi had already run away.
Since there were figures of Yan Jun fleeing in a hurry, Zhang Zhuan and the others could not find Yin Ziqi at all. Zhang Patrol and the others had been looking around anxiously, and time was also passing little by little, and every second that passed, Zhang Patrol's plan to capture the king first would have more possibilities of bankruptcy. When the Yan army stabilized its position, it would counterattack the Tang army and annihilate the few Tang troops.
At this critical juncture, Zhang Tour had a flash of inspiration and asked people to find some sharpened wooden sticks and shoot them at the enemy as arrows. Seeing this scene, the enemy army was overjoyed, thinking that the Tang army had no arrows, so they went to report to Yin Ziqi.
In the distance, Yin Ziqi, who was riding a high-headed horse and commanding the soldiers, was particularly eye-catching.
Zhang Zhu smiled, and then immediately ordered Nan Jiyun to shoot an arrow at Yin Ziqi. An arrow passed, and it hit Yin Ziqi's left eye impartially, Yin Ziqi shouted and fell off his horse, and then Nan Jiyun rode on horseback, ready to stab Yin Ziqi in the neck. However, he had no chance, because Yin Ziqi's relatives had already surrounded Yin Ziqi, helped him onto his horse, and quickly fled around him.
Yin Ziqi, who was lucky not to die, ran far away before he turned his head breathlessly and stared at Suiyang for a long time with one-eyed eyes. "I will definitely come back," Yin Ziqi thought to himself.
At the beginning of July, Yin Ziqi transferred tens of thousands of fresh troops from the rear, and the strength of the army was restored to more than 100,000 people. At this time, the Yan army was not only numerous, but also high morale, and the grain, grass, weight, and ordnance were very abundant. In contrast, Suiyang, who has not been resupplied for a long time, has gradually fallen into the predicament of running out of ammunition and food.
The Yan army began to besiege Suiyang from the first month, and successively besieged for more than half a year, and the grain that was already scarce in Suiyang City became even less. As a result, Zhang Tour had to implement a strict rationing system, stipulating that each soldier could only be divided into two or two meters per day. It is conceivable that this grain is not enough to eat, so the soldiers had to mix with bark, paper, and tea to fill their hunger. After more than half a year of bitter fighting, the Suiyang defenders annihilated tens of thousands of enemies, and they themselves paid more than 5,000 casualties, leaving only more than 1,600 people. At this time, it was impossible for the Tang army to take the initiative to attack as before, and in the face of the Yan army, which was several times larger than their own, they had no possibility of retreating from the enemy except to stick to the city and wait for foreign aid.
The Battle of Suiyang entered the final stage of death.