But all night long the sound of the golden drums from Suiyang City Tower was heard, and no movement was seen from the Tang army. The general beside Yin Ziqi said: "General, I'm afraid this is the Tang army's strategy to disturb the enemy. Don't fall into the trap."
Sure enough, the rooster crowed, the sky was bright, the Suiyang city tower ceased its flags and drums, and there was no more movement.
Yin Ziqi cursed loudly, and his body and mind, which had been tense all night, finally relaxed. The Yan army officers and soldiers stayed up all night, and they were tired and exhausted. They were ordered to return to the camp to disarm and rest.
Yin Ziqi's eyes were bloodshot. He returned to the central army tent, took off his armor, and fell into a deep sleep as soon as his head touched the pillow.
Zhang Xun met the generals of each camp of the Yan army on the city tower and led the troops back to the camp. The soldiers' steps were sluggish, their troops and horses were trapped, and their spirits were listless.
Tang Jun has been waiting for this moment!
Zhang Xun and his generals Nan Jiyun, Lei Wanchun, Bai Fu and more than a dozen generals, each with fifty elite cavalry, rushed out from the Suiyang city gate, like tigers descending the mountain, passing through the forest and jumping over the stream, charging towards the Yan army with murderous intent.
Camp.
Nan Jiyun, Bai Fu and other sharp archers took the lead in charging. The galloping cavalry fired several arrows in succession, killing the hanging bucket and the patrolling sentries on the archery tower.
Bai Fu took out a new weapon specially designed to break roadblocks - the Star Chain Double Hammer. This weapon was made based on the Tang Sect's drawings. The two ends were fist-sized copper hammers, and the two hammers were connected by an iron chain.
Bai Fu shook the star chain hammers above his head and threw them forward with all his strength. The star chain hammers rotated and flew out, sweeping away the iron caltrops, antlers and other roadblocks posted at the entrance of the general camp.
Bai Fu threw out seven or eight star-chain double hammers in succession, sweeping out a foot-wide road at the entrance of the military camp, and it was a smooth river.
Bai Fu's horse was fast and he rushed to the gate of the military camp first. He reined in his horse and stopped suddenly before leaping into the air.
Xuantie's thick-backed sword "clanged" and soared into the sky.
Bai Fu seemed to be in the eye of a hurricane. The ups and downs and Xun Qi traveled throughout his body, with the spine as the axis, spinning like a tornado. An awe-inspiring and powerful Qi came up from the spring point in the soles of the feet, penetrated the spine, and went straight to the top of the head.
Hui point.
Bai Fu stirred his legs, holding knives in both hands, and the tornado whirled, like a huge boulder blasted by a trebuchet, and hit the gate of the Yan army camp.
The gate of the Yanjun camp was made of thick Metasequoia wood, with copper bolts and iron gates. It was hard and heavy, but it could not withstand the devastating blow of Bai Fu and his men with swords.
With a "click", the camp gate and fence were shattered into pieces.
Once the camp gate was broken, there was no obstacle. Hundreds of Tang army's cavalry roared and charged, breaking into the Yan army's camp.
The soldiers of Yan Army were on duty all night and were in a daze. How could they have expected that the Tang Army would come and kill them at this time? Hearing the noise outside the tent, they did not react. They poked their heads out of the tent with sleepy eyes one by one, and were killed by the saber wielded by the Tang Army.
Down.
According to the established strategy, capture the thief first and capture the king first!
Hundreds of cavalrymen of the Tang army gave up chasing the fleeing soldiers, rushed straight to Yin Ziqi's Chinese army camp, and easily reached Yin Ziqi's sleeping tent.
Lei Wanchun picked up the tent curtain with his gun and found that the tent was messy and empty.
It turned out that when the Tang army arrived, Yin Ziqi woke up and had already escaped from the tent and hid in a corner of the camp, trying to reorganize his army and counterattack the enemy.
Smoke billowed from the Yan army's camp, people screamed and horses neighed, and soldiers ran around in disorder. Nan Jiyun, Lei Wanchun and Bai Fu and other generals chased and killed them back and forth in the camp, but they could not find the Yan army's general Yin Ziqi.
Yan's army was numerous and powerful, and as time went by, dangers gradually grew.
Zhang Xun asked Lei Wanchun and Bai Fu to lead the generals to retreat in an orderly manner. He and Nan Jiyun and others separated from the rear to cover the evacuation of the elite Tang army from the barracks.
Seeing that the Tang army was withdrawing, the Yan army slowly gathered together. Yin Ziqi was worried about fraud, so he only sent a few soldiers to attack.
Zhang Xun had an idea and came up with a plan. He recruited the soldiers of the Tang army, sharpened the mugwort sticks, and used them as arrows to shoot at the Yan army soldiers who were sneaking up on them.
The Yan army soldier who was hit by an arrow was stunned when he saw that the arrow could not penetrate the leather armor. He picked up the arrow from the ground and saw that it was actually made of mugwort sticks.
The soldiers were overjoyed, thinking that the Tang army had no more arrows, so they ran towards Yin Ziqi one after another, asking the general to send troops to pursue and kill the dozens of Tang army soldiers who had not yet evacuated, and intercepted and killed them in the military camp.
Zhang Xun raised his eyes and saw that in a corner of the military camp, a junior colonel got on his horse and was surrounded by generals, heading towards him to cover him up.
Governor Zhang smiled, and the general beside him, Nan Jiyun, understood.
Nan Jiyun drew his bow and set up an arrow. With one punch, he pulled the string across his chest. He pushed Mount Tai with his front hand, and held the tiger's tail with his back hand. He fully opened the bow and released the arrow in a hurry. He was as powerful as chasing the wind and as fast as lightning.
"Whoosh"
The carved feather arrow drew a beautiful arc in the air, passed over the heads of the generals, fell rapidly, and hit Yin Ziqi's left eye.
"Oh!"
Yin Ziqi screamed and fell off his horse.
Nan Jiyun slapped his horse, holding a rhinoceros horn sword, and rushed towards Yin Ziqi, trying to seize the enemy general's head among thousands of people.
Yin Ziqi's soldiers formed a spear formation with long contradiction cards to firmly protect the general and block Nan Jiyun in front of the formation. The other generals of the Yan army rushed over and strangled Nan Jiyun together.
Nan Jiyun swung his sword like an oar, flying up and down. Wherever the light of the sword struck, there were colorful falling stars. After three or five rounds, he killed the surrounding enemy generals.
When Nan Jiyun raised his eyes to look for the enemy general, Yin Ziqi could no longer be seen.
The general suffered heavy losses, and the Yan army had no intention of fighting and withdrew from Suiyang again.
In this battle, the Tang army killed more than 50 enemy generals and killed more than 5,000 Yan soldiers.
Zhang Xun then ordered the slaughter of cattle and sheep to comfort the three armies, and then all the troops went out to fight.
The city gate opened, and the Tang army came out in full force. Seeing that the Tang army had only a few thousand steps and cavalry, the generals of the Yan army dared to leave the city rashly and engage in a field battle with the prairie cavalry. They couldn't help laughing at the Tang army's overestimation of its capabilities.
Zhang Xun personally held the battle flag, rushed out of the city gate, took the lead, and rushed straight to the puppet Yan army formation. Bai Fu and Nan Jiyun were on the left and right, guarding Zhang Xun.
The soldiers of the Tang army roared like a tsunami from the mountain, like arrows leaving the string, and thousands of arrows were fired at the Yan army's formation. The soldiers picked up spears and swords to attack, and all of them were equal to ten. The soldiers pointed at them, and they were invincible.
Before the Yan army had time to react, the front camp's positions were instantly disrupted by the Tang army's forwards. The Yan army was so frightened that they had no time to reorganize their defensive formations and retreated one after another.
The Tang army took advantage of the situation to cover up the killing. Bai Fu and Nan Jiyun led the elite Tang army to fight with spears and horses in the Yan army formation, clashing freely and galloping...
The Tang army immediately defeated the Yan army, killing more than 30 generals and killing more than 3,000 enemy soldiers. Taking advantage of the victory, they pursued the Yan army and routed it for more than ten miles.
The next day, the Yan army gathered the remaining soldiers and horses, and the entire army counterattacked Suiyang.
Zhang Xun once again led his troops out of the city to fight. The two armies fought fiercely for dozens of rounds day and night, and the Tang army repeatedly defeated his front.
The Yan army relied on its large number of soldiers and generals, and its number of soldiers was several times that of the Tang army. They suffered repeated defeats and continued to besiege.
The Yan army besieged the city and refused to withdraw, and the Tang army became increasingly trapped. Keeping things like this was not the solution.
On this day, Zhang Xun summoned Nan Jiyun, Lei Wanchun, Bai Fu and other core generals to conspire and decide on a plan.
At dusk that day, Zhang Xun ordered his soldiers to beat drums and gold coins at the head of Suiyang City, wave flags and shout, and there were loud shouts of killing, as if they were about to leave the city to attack the camp.
Yin Zi heard the news and personally climbed up to the flying tower to observe the situation of the Tang army and the enemy.
The officers and soldiers of the Yan army, all wearing helmets and carrying armor, were on alert and on alert. From the evening to the early morning of the next day, they did not dare to relax at all.
On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, Jiannan Army's Tang sergeant Jia Xiu and five thousand other people gathered and raised an army. General Xi Yuanqing and Linqiong County Governor Liu Yi killed him for unknown reasons.
After An Qingxu came to the throne in the first month of the second year of Zide, Yan Zhuang took control of the military and political power of the puppet Yan State. He quickly adjusted a series of military deployments during An Lushan's reign.
One of them is to march into Jianghuai and open the door to the important wealth town in Jiangnan.
If the Yan army can march south, it will not only be able to continuously provide food and supplies for the two capitals, but also open up another territory for the Yan Dynasty. If the war in the Central Plains goes unfavorably, the Yan court can make Jinling the capital, separate Jiangdong, and divide the river with the Li Tang Dynasty.
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Yan Zhuang then ordered General Yin Ziqi to be the military governor of Henan, and ordered him to conquer Suiyang as soon as possible and send his troops south.
Yin Ziqi is An Lushan's favorite general. He is highly skilled in martial arts and proficient in the art of war.
On the twenty-fifth day of the first lunar month, Yin Ziqi took the order and mobilized soldiers from Guizhou, Tanzhou, Tongluo and Xi tribes, and quickly assembled an army of 130,000, aiming directly at Suiyang.
The battle report came and Suiyang was in a hurry.
Xu Yuan, the prefect of Suiyang, immediately sent an envoy to Zhang Xun for help, hoping that Zhang Xun's troops would reinforce Suiyang.
At the end of the first month, Zhang Xun led 3,000 soldiers under his command to station in Suiyang. In Suiyang City, the prefect Xu Yuan had only 3,800 troops. The total strength of the two generals was only about 6,800, and they faced Yin Ziqi.
An army of 130,000 is no different than hitting an egg against a stone!
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Yin Ziqi didn't take the Tang army seriously at all. He planned to conquer Suiyang within five days.
Then the troops were divided into two groups, one group went south to seize Xiangyang and cut off the Tang army's food, fodder and military pay transfer line; the other group rushed southeast to capture Jinling.
The two armies were like an iron pliers, tightly locking the rich and fertile fields of Jiangnan in the palm of their hands.
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As soon as the siege began, Yin Ziqi attacked with all his strength.
The 130,000 Yan troops surged up to the top of Suiyang City like a great tide in Qiantang.
Zhang Xun's heart was as solid as a rock, he was tenacious and calm, and remained unmoved. He constantly changed his defense methods according to the battlefield situation. The Tang army's morale was like a rainbow, and the sound of killing was loud, repelling Yan's fierce attacks again and again.
After sixteen days of fierce fighting, Suiyang City stood firm. The Tang army annihilated more than 20,000 Yan soldiers and captured more than 60 Yan army generals.
Only then did Yin Ziqi realize how powerful Zhang Xun was. The Yan army suffered too many casualties and had to break camp and retreat at night.
After defeating Yin Ziqi, Xu Yuan, the prefect of Suiyang, and Zhang Xun cherished each other. Xu Yuan respected Zhang Xun even more and said to Zhang Xun: "A coward from far away is not trained in military affairs, but a man who is wise and brave is both wise and brave. Please protect me from afar, and fight from afar."
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From then on, Xu Yuan handed over all the command of defending the city against enemies to Zhang Xun, and he was responsible for recruiting grain and fodder, repairing weapons and equipment, and ensuring military supplies and logistics.
Two months later, Yin Ziqi made a comeback and besieged Suiyang again.
Zhang Xun encouraged the soldiers and said: "I have been favored by the country, and I am guarding it. I hope you will sacrifice your lives.