In the last years of the Sui Dynasty, Wagangzhai grew from a few hundred to nearly 20,000 people. The meal of so many people is a big problem, even according to one pound of grain per soldier per day, it will take two or three hundred tons a month. The Wagang Army had no base area, and all the food supply depended on robbery. Although it is easy to grab, the problem is that after a long time, the source of grabbing is gradually exhausted, and there is no way to grab it.
In order to completely change this short-sighted situation of drinking in this dynasty and drunk in this dynasty, Li Mi proposed to Zhai Rang to attack the nearby Xingyang County and seize the Sui Dynasty granary. Accumulate grain and grass, rest the army, and wait for opportunities to plot the world.
Xingyang County, south of Wagang Village, is a large city with many businesses and convenient transportation. Li Yuan once served as a Taishou here, and the current Taishou is also the Prince of Yang---- Yang Qing, the Prince of Guo, which shows the importance of this place.
Yang Qing, the king of Hao, had come to enjoy the food and beauty of the Central Plains, so where would he command the charge? The government army in Xingyang County was beaten by the Wagang army.
In order to deal with the Wagang army, Yang Guang threw a trump card and transferred Zhang Sutuo to xingyang County.
Zhang Sutuo originally served in Qi Commandery (陳郡, in present-day Linzi, Shandong) and was the ambassador of the Twelve Counties of Henan Province. Qi County is not close to Xingyang, and pulling out a radish from so far away in Shandong and planting it in Henan shows the importance of Zhang Sutuo on the one hand, and on the other hand, it also shows that Yang Guang has not many cards in his hand at this time.
Zhang Sutuo is a fierce card. If the Sui Dynasty at that time is compared to a deck of playing cards, Yang Guang is the big king, the empress is the little king, and Zhang Sutuo and Li Yuan both belong to a. Like A's appearance, Zhang Sutuo is a sharp knife, and any peasant army is difficult to defeat.
Zhai Rang and Zhang Sutuo were old rivals who were too old to pinch. The Biography of Zhang Sutuo says that he "repelled the eastern county thief Zhai Rang, and fought more than thirty battles before and after, and each one broke away." ”
What is it like to wrestle with a person thirty times and not once not to be knocked down by the other person? Is it a matter of repeated defeats or repeated defeats? Anyway, the person with the surname Zhai was scared by the surname Zhang.
In front of Zhang Sutuo, Zhai Rang became "Zhai Rang Rang", and as soon as he saw Zhang Sutuo, he automatically gave way.
Don't blame Zhai for being incompetent, it is indeed Zhang Sutuo's "super energy soap" that is too powerful, he has beaten many peasant army leaders into "overlapping names": Wang Bo has become "Wang Dodge", Guo Fangqian has become "Guo Run", Pei Changcai has become "Pei Run", the most powerful one is Zuo Xiaoyou, he was beaten into "Left Binding"------ tens of thousands of troops were surrounded by Zhang Sutuo in the mountains, so they had to tie themselves up and ask for surrender.
Zhai Rang heard that Zhang Sutuo had come to Xingyang, and at that time, he reflexively reacted and was so frightened that he would have to withdraw his troops and avoid it.
Li Mi comforted him, "Zhang Sutuo has nothing to be afraid of. He was brave and resourceful, and his army had won many victories, both proud and fierce, and I promised to capture him in one battle. ”
Li Mi also really dared to blow (it may be to use big words to give Zhai Jean courage). Zhang Sutuo is not a big old and rough warrior, but a brave and strategic, and his combat experience can be made with modern methods to make a fascinating movie.
However, there are excuses. Ancient people seemed to like to blow when they fought. No matter how much you can beat it, come up and blow it up first. When the two armies are facing each other, the two people who single out in front of the battle will ask: If the person who comes to report the name comes, ben will not kill the nameless ghost under the knife! Some people just finished asking, and they were cut off by the other party. But this time, Li Mi did blow out the famous hall: Zhang Sutuo really became a famous ghost under his sword!
Under the persuasion and insistence of Li Mi, Zhai Rang had to lead the troops to fight. Li Mi made sufficient pre-war preparations. He ambushed more than a thousand elite soldiers in the woods of the Great Sea Temple, more than a dozen miles northeast of Xingyang, and sought an opportunity to sneak up on Zhang Sutuo.
Zhang Sutuo always looked down on Zhai Rang, and he lined up more than 20,000 troops in a phalanx to crush the mountains and the sea. Before long, Zhai Rang could not bear it, and he was defeated in the direction of the Great Sea Temple according to Li Mi's pre-war deployment.
This kind of scene was too normal for Zhang Sutuo, he had seen Zhai Rang's figure running away too many times, and even when he ran away, his back was not straight, and his ass was not crooked. Of course, he did not want to miss this opportunity and lead the soldiers in pursuit.
After passing through the Great Sea Temple, the road became narrower and narrower, and there were more and more trees. Such dangerous terrain did not alarm Zhang Sutuo, because he was too careless with the owner of the village. He wouldn't have thought that there was another man named Li Mi who was secretly lurking in front of him. It was the unsurprising black boy who beat his "a" into a knife-point-down, empty "v".
When Zhang Sutuo's troops chased after him in formation, Li Mi, who was hiding in the woods, commanded the ambush troops to suddenly rush out and cut off his team to cover up. At the same time, Zhai Rang returned to fight with his army, and Xu Shixun and Wang Bodang also came from different directions and surrounded Zhang Sutuo.
Zhang Sutuo did not expect that so many Wagang troops would appear at once, and he hurriedly corrected his attitude and organized resistance. He slashed left and right with his knife, and soon broke through the siege. However, when he found that there were still many of his subordinates surrounded inside, he immediately jumped on horseback and turned around and went into the battlefield to carry out rescue.
In this way, he went in and out of the crowd with extraordinary courage and rescued many soldiers, but he resolutely did not go to the battlefield, and finally died of exhaustion.
Zhang Sutuo was a good leader, and he had no complaints or regrets about exchanging his life for the life of a soldier. Higher-level leaders have voluntarily sacrificed their lives purely to save the lives of lower-level soldiers, which is really rare in China's thousands of years of history.
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