Chapter 57 Chapter 57: Yin Ziqi's Soldiers Are Trapped in Suiyang, South Jiyun and Several People Move to Rescue the Soldiers

a month later... Yin Ziqi brought in more troops and surrounded Suiyang tightly. And Zhang Xun in the city is also busy with his work.He let the soldiers take turns to rest, and day and night they beat the drums and chanted (something like "Slow down, stand at attention, look forward, get out of town in the afternoon!").Of course, it was Zhang Xun who frightened the bandit army, so that the bandit army could not sleep well.The thieves waited innocently and humorously for Zhang Xun to come out in the afternoon. For many days, they did not see Zhang Xun leading anyone out.Early in the morning, Zhang Xun suddenly ordered to stop beating the drums, and everything became quiet.

The thieves were curious, climbed up the flying tower, and looked into the city, only to find that in Suiyang city, there were only a few old and weak here and there, squatting there dying to guard, and the rest of the soldiers and horses seemed to be gone.To be honest, these days are really hard for the thieves, fighting with Zhang Xun, they have never had a safe life, the main problem is that they can't sleep well.Everyone is tired, and now Zhang Xun is tired too. Since both of us are exhausted, let's take off our armor and get a good night's sleep! In the city, Zhang Xun looked coldly at the disarmed Hu Bing who was resting.

Afterwards, general Nan Jiyun, Lang Jiang Lei Wanchun and other ten fierce generals, under the arrangement of Zhang Xun, led fifty cavalry each, opened the city gate, divided into several groups, and rushed towards the bandit camp like a thunderbolt.The task given by Zhang Xun was very simple. This time, everyone didn't care about the number of beheadings. There was only one request, to shoot Yin Ziqi to death.However, there is a very technical problem that cannot be solved, that is, among the thousands of people guarding the city, no one has seen what this guy looks like. Zhang Xun sneered, and led his fifty men to gallop across the chaotic enemy camp.

How can we find Yin Ziqi? Zhang Xun was very clever. After riding and shooting for a while, he suddenly put away his arrows, picked up the wormwood pole on the ground, and deliberately shot at the bandit soldiers.The bandit fell to the ground in response. He thought he was going to die, but he didn't feel any pain.Seeing that what shot at him was a grass and wood stick without an iron head, he couldn't help laughing, got on his horse immediately, and ran to report to Yin Ziqi.Zhang Xun asked Nan Jiyun to carefully observe where the bandit soldier had gone, and watched from a distance to see who was the leader.

Yin Ziqi and Nan Jiyun were extremely pleasantly surprised by the bandit soldier's report.He galloped forward on his horse, drew his bow and shot, which hit Yin Ziqi's left eyeball.It's a pity that Yin Ziqi was the key protection target. After the first arrow was shot, he was protected by the bandits and fled away, and soon escaped Zhang Xun's control. a month later... Yin Ziqi came again and led an army of tens of thousands to besiege Suiyang. Sui Yang also breathed a sigh of relief temporarily, because Xu Yuan got 60,000 shi of grain from other places, which was enough for Zhang Xun to cope with for a while.However, Guo Wang Li Ju issued an order, insisting that Xu Yuan take out 30,000 shi of the 60,000 shi of grain and distribute it to the two counties of Puyang and Jiyin.Although Xu Yuan doesn't know how to fight, he still understands that if there is enough food to eat enough, the 30,000 shi will be reserved for Suiyang, and the 30,000 shi will be distributed to the other two places.

Suiyang is the guarantee of JAC, Suiyang must not be lost! However, Li Ju didn't know the importance of Sui Yang. Faced with Xu Yuan's bitter tears, his expression was indifferent. He just said that he would treat all places equally, and besides, what this king believes will not change.So, Jiyin got the food and then surrendered.But Suiyang City has already eaten up the 30,000 shi of military rations, and started to eat bark and tea paper (the tea industry was developed at that time, and Suiyang was a distribution center for Jianghuai products, so there were a lot of wrapping paper).Most of the soldiers in Suiyang died of starvation, Zhang Xun waited for Li Ju's reinforcements, but the reinforcements did not come, those who starved to death and those who died in battle, now, there are only 1,600 people left.

The rest were all skinny and skinny, and the bandit army came up to besiege the city. Zhang Xun went into battle hungry and built tools for defending the city.Yin Ziqi, the one-eyed dragon, used the most advanced siege equipment - a ladder.This kind of ladder is different from the past. It is shaped like half a rainbow. After being pushed over, it can be buckled on the city wall, allowing people to rush directly to the city.There is a large platform at the top of the ladder, which can hold two hundred people, and Yin Ziqi put the elite here. He knew that the defenders of the city were no longer able to do it, and whether the matter was successful or not, it was all in one fell swoop!

Zhang Xun, what else can you do? Zhang Xun kept silent, led his soldiers, and made three big holes in the city wall.The first hole is used to protrude the long log, and a big iron hook is hung on the long log. The iron hook is hooked to the ladder, and the ladder cannot retreat; to support the head of the ladder, and the ladder must not be approached; the third hole is used to protrude the long log, and there is an iron cage on the long log, and the iron cage is filled with oil and firewood, which is lit before the log is released. It can reach the middle of the ladder, and the fire can burn the ladder, causing the "elites" on it to fall from a height of more than ten meters and fall to death alive.

Zhang Xun won again, but Yin Ziqi hooked the hook car to the attic on the city again, and the attics collapsed one after another. Zhang Xun invited out the big wood again, put a chain at the end of the wood, put a big shovel at the end of the lock, hooked the head of the hook, and then pulled it hard with a cart to tear off the head of the hook cart of the thief army.The bandits immediately changed their strategy and attacked the city with wooden donkeys.The so-called wooden donkey is actually a kind of military vehicle that looks like a donkey, which is a commonly used siege tool.Zhang Xun lit a fire with charcoal, boiled molten iron, and watered it. In an instant, the wooden donkey disappeared.

The rebel army refused to accept it, and carried soil and collected firewood in the northwest of the city, trying to build a slope.During the nightly truce, Zhang Xun did something that broke Yin Ziqi. He asked people to throw some rosin (rosin) and dried wormwood on the firewood road made by the bandit soldiers for more than ten days.The bandit army was only rushing to build the mountain, and they were very happy when they saw that the slope was about to be healed.On the day of Zhang Xunxuan, the southeast wind was blowing. Early in the morning, he personally led the troops, opened the city gate and charged towards the bandits.When the rebel army came to fight, Zhang Xun immediately changed direction, held a torch and rushed to the firewood mountain built by the rebel army, and lit the firewood as high as the mountain.

The fire was raging, and the thieves were shocked and came to rescue. Zhang Xun killed a few times, then immediately withdrew to the city. The thieves began to fight the fire, but there was a problem before the thieves-no water.The fire burned more and more vigorously, and the bandits could only watch the fire burn.The fire lasted for more than twenty days.The thieves were frightened and did not dare to go forward, because they were afraid that Zhang Xun would do something wrong again.In order to confront each other, the rebel army built triple trenches and erected wooden fences outside the city. a month later... Suiyang City, Zhang Xun, Xu Yuan, Nan Jiyun... six hundred soldiers. Zhang Xun led three hundred soldiers and guarded the northeast. Xu Yuan led three hundred soldiers to guard the southwest. Facing tens of thousands of thieves, how could Zhang Xun continue to persevere?Zhang Xun and Xu Yuan ate tea paper with the soldiers, stayed in the city together, slept in the city, and ate in the city.Seeing someone attacking the city, if it was a group of Han Chinese, Zhang Xun would use his hoarse voice to understand the reason and affirm the righteousness.And these soldiers, those who were captured by the bandits, often abandoned the bandits and came here, followed Zhang Xun around, and more than 200 people died in battle alone. However, relying on this is not enough to continue to persist. Xu Shuji was in Qiaojun, Shangheng was in Pengcheng, and He Lanjinming was in Linhuai. All three of them had large armies, but they watched Zhang Xun get trapped.Zhang Xun asked Nan Jiyun to lead thirty cavalry to kill them and go to other places to move reinforcements.Seeing these few people coming out, tens of thousands of bandits gathered together and besieged Nan Jiyun.Nan Jiyun's more than 30 people remained calm in front of the battle, galloping to shoot and kill, the bandit army disturbed them, and when they broke out of the encirclement, only two people were lost.Nan Jiyun finally arrived at Linhuai, and met He Lan Jinming who was holding a large army. "Suiyang is in danger, please send troops to rescue!" "Now that Suiyang doesn't know whether to live or die, what's the use of saving the soldiers?" "If Suiyang falls, Jiyun, please thank the doctor with death! Besides, Suiyang is broken and Linhuai is in danger. For example, fur and fur depend on each other. Can they be saved?" "Stop talking, I have my own reasons." He Lanjin waved his hands clearly, unwilling to listen to him continue talking. He knew that Nan Jiyun was a good man, so He Lanjin Ming forced Nan Jiyun to drink and eat, and had someone prepare wine and meat.Nan Jiyun's complexion was terribly pale. When he saw someone setting up a banquet, he shed tears and said, "When Jiyun came, the brothers in Suiyang hadn't eaten a meal for more than a month! They used tea paper to satisfy their hunger. Although Jiyun was very hungry, It’s hard to swallow. The doctor is sitting on a strong army, but watching Suiyang fall, and refuses to help at all. Is this what a loyal minister and righteous man did?” Nan Jiyun couldn’t understand He Lan Jinming, but He Lan Jinming only cared about it. Shake your head. Everyone sighed endlessly, Nan Jiyun stretched out his finger, stuffed it into his mouth, became angry, and bit off one of his fingers in a frenzy, "Since Jiyun can't do what the general wants, please leave a finger as a token of return! "The people in the seat wept for it.Nan Jiyun was really a difficult person to dismiss. He bit off his finger, but he still didn't leave, because he knew that now was not the time to get angry. Dr. Helan, please, please? He Lan Jinming's face was ugly, he took a sip of wine and shook his head... He Lan Jinming did have difficulties because of Fang Guan. When Fang Guan was the prime minister, he hated him quite a lot, so he was appointed as the governor of Henan Province, and Xu Shuji (who was extremely cunning) was his own soldier and horse envoy, as well as the royal doctor.Xu Shuji relied on himself as an elite soldier and horse, and was of the same rank as He Lan Jinming, so he was not under his jurisdiction.He Lan Jinming was afraid that Fang Guan would frame him, so he did not dare to divide his troops.However, there is another point that seems to be the key point. You must know that He Lan Jinming is not an open-minded person. Apart from Fang Guan, he is also afraid that Zhang Xun and Xu Yuan will make contributions. Others are desperate to die, but he doesn't fight, wouldn't it be blamed?Just keep doing nothing and let Suiyang fall, so that everyone is guilty and the law does not blame everyone, so those who do not work will not be guilty. Nan Jiyun understood, he understood what He Lan Jinming meant, and it was useless to send reinforcements here! Nan Jiyun ran to Ningling, and the city envoy Lian Tan was willing to take his own step and ride three thousand to join Nan Jiyun's team.That night, three thousand soldiers and horses killed the rear of the bandit army.They knew that there was nothing to eat in the city, so they stabbed into the heart of the bandit army, trying to snatch the bandit army's ox cart.However, there are no ox carts, only oxen, no grain carts.The cattle were put together, so Nan Jiyun immediately decided to drive only the cattle into the city. The barracks of the bandit army was in chaos, but the 3,000 newly arrived soldiers died one by one under the swords and guns of the bandit soldiers under the attention of the people in the city.Nan Jiyun went berserk and fought desperately. When he reached the bottom of the city, there were only a thousand people left.The people on the city wall watched their comrades die one by one, choked up and cried with tears streaming down their faces. Hundreds of cows were also driven in, and the bandit army lost a lot, but Yin Ziqi was very happy, because he knew one thing, the reinforcements Zhang Xun was looking for never came.So he ordered to step up the siege.The more than 1,000 defenders in Suiyang received supplies and their combat effectiveness began to recover. The two sides had another earth-shattering contest. During such a long period of time, the defense of Suiyang attracted everyone's attention. The defense of Suiyang was a life-and-death battle of the Tang Dynasty! It is estimated that Li Lin had never heard of the name Zhang Xun until his death. When others killed the enemy, he was very active in plotting rebellion. After starting the east tour from Hubei, he felt that his strength was getting stronger and stronger, so he looked down on Li Chengshi and Hebei recruiter Li Xian (there were only 10,000 people in total) sent by Li Heng.When Li Lin stood on the city wall next to Jiangjin and saw the officers and soldiers, things changed.His face was livid, because the general who followed Li Lin in the rebellion knew that it would be difficult to achieve great things with Li Lin, so he held a meeting in private, and everyone said that when things have reached this point, don't follow him foolishly, you should leave early, otherwise you will die In the hands of the officers and soldiers, you are also a traitor if you don't like it, and you will be the second worst traitor in the world. All the generals nodded in agreement, so under the leadership of Guang Chen, all the subordinates rushed to Guangling, Hun Weiming to Jiangning, Feng Jikang to Baisha. All the men and horses ran away, and Li Lin was alone with very few men, so he was a little sad.This sadness lasted till night.Thousands of officers and soldiers in Jiangbei held a torch, and Li Lin's soldiers also held a torch. Seeing the torches of the officers and soldiers swaying by the river, Li Lin's army responded, staggeringly raised the torch, and shouted Long live Li Heng , and explained as much as possible that everyone actually didn't want to rebel, and it was Li Lin who forced everyone to rebel. Li Lin had no idea at all. Seeing fires on both sides of the river, he thought it was the officers and soldiers crossing the river. He rushed home immediately, took his family and cronies, and ran out of the city at high speed. When he ran outside the city, it was dawn. .He is a very old man, early in the morning, he turned his head to observe, and found that the officers and soldiers did not come at all, so he went into the city to withdraw the troops. In this way, Li Lin was almost captured. He went south to Poyang, took in the Kuwu armored soldiers (this guy is the Sandao Jiedushi), and wanted to run to Lingnan or Vietnam. Then, he died. This is the story of King Yong's East Tour.