The 256th bloody battle in Suiyang

The invincible Taishou Xu Yuan in the scriptures and Zhang Xun with the help of the successful slaughter into Suiyang City, along the way his men and horses after several battles, and finally withdrew into Suiyang City less than 8,000 soldiers, the entire Suiyang City defenders are less than 40,000 people, and outside the city Yin Ziqi and Ling Huchao mobilized a total of 400,000 rebels to surround this Suiyang City, the disparity in strength, Xu Yuan saw that the enemy was outnumbered, so he handed over the military power to General Zhang Xun, and he was responsible for preparing the grain and grass baggage, leading the people to stick to Suiyang City, so Suiyang City is the bloodiest, The toughest battle to defend began.

The rebels are coming to the city, and this Suiyang City, the city wall is strong and extremely difficult to attack, Li Huaixian personally commanded 50,000 vanguard regiments, launched a full-line attack on the front of Suiyang City, Zhang Xun stood at the head of the city, prepared enough crossbows, Mo knives, Tang hooks These weapons once launched to kill the cavalry, many enemies will die under the strong crossbows, and finally climb up to the city tower, and were cut by the Mo knife and Tang Hook heart, so that Li Huaixian suffered heavy casualties after several battles, and suffered defeat for more than ten days in a row, more than half of the troops were lost, and the battle was very tragic. This Li Huaixian could not be broken for a long time, and was finally withdrawn by Yin Ziqi, so that Yang Chaozong continued to lead the army to attack, because this Suiyang City is very important to both the enemy and us, after the rebels conquer Suiyang City, they can drive straight down, cross the Yellow River and kill into the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River, laying the foundation for the future development of the rebels, if so, the counterattack on the Tang Dynasty will increase the greater difficulty, both sides of the enemy and us will focus on Suiyang City, An Lushan ordered to attack Suiyang City at all costs, contain all the officials and troops, reduce the military pressure of the eastern capital Luoyang and let the eldest son An Qingxu personally go to Suiyang City to supervise the battle, just like this, with the arrival of this Anqing continuation, the battle between the two sides is even more tragic。

Zhang Xun was fearless in the face of a strong enemy, and he let Nan Jiyun, Lei Wanchun, Jia Ji, and Yao Yan guard the east, south, west, North four gates, four generals one by one martial arts outstanding, standing on the city tower in the face of the rebels face does not change, even if the body is heavily wounded by arrows is not wavering, the soldiers one by one fight in an orderly manner, without fear, so that the Yang Dynasty Sect marshal main force in a row to attack the four gates, heavy casualties without a record, and finally returned defeated, this An Qingxu saw that the enemy will be so brave and good at fighting, so he took a counter-strategy, ready to start from within the enemy, so let the rebels have enough documents bow and crossbow to persuade the surrender book, shot into the city, the soldiers one by one saw the persuasion book to hate the bones, but there are still people, in the face of death shaken the heart of the army, this person is the general Tian Xiurong, he is very afraid of the rebels into the city, their family members are all in the city, in order to protect them, and finally decided to return to the rebels, so they prepared the arrow slave surrender document, under the cover of night, shot out of the city, and finally this An Qingxu got Tian Xiurong's surrender book, his heart was very happy, according to his agreement, ready to enter Suiyang City from the east gate late the next night, this Tian Xiurong thought that everything was wonderful, he did not expect that when he fired the crossbow arrow, he had already been discovered by the official army, and then told the news to General Zhang Xun, after General Zhang Xun learned about this, he captured this Tian Xiurong overnight, and finally learned all the plans of the rebels from his airThis time, according to the agreement, An Qingxu let the fox tide marshal five thousand elite soldiers quietly approach the east gate, waiting for Tian Xiurong to open the east gate, and the inside and outside should be killed into the city in one fell swoop, and soon the east gate was opened to make the fox tide see the city gate open, so he led the rebel soldiers into the city, as a result, this Zhang Zhi and the Black Dragon Immortal took this opportunity to lead the ambush soldiers on both sides to decisively cut off its way back, so that the fox tide was trapped in the enemy surrounding, Nan Jiyun personally marshal the main force from the city to kill, so that the fox tide knew that he had been tricked, he led the rebel generals to fight to the death, the whole army was annihilated, and finally according to the plan, Nan Jiyun left him a life, let him go back to report the news, which made Fox Chaoyi come back to narrate, An Qingxu was extremely angry, and since then he has received the surrender letter, he no longer believes it, and this Tian Xiurong was finally killed and assassinated by Zhang Xun in accordance with military regulations, because he was more sincere and had a meritorious performance, so he did not continue to pursue his family. Since then, the officers and troops have worked together to unite as one, so that the rebels no longer have any chance to break the city, but with the passage of time, the food in the city began to be in short supply, Xu Yuan's preparation of military food has become a problem, in order to continue to defend the city, can only do everything possible to get food, at this time it is already autumn, the grain outside the city has matured and is waiting to be harvested, this batch of grain is very important to both the enemy and us, because the rebels are stationed outside the city, and the grain can be harvested at any time, so An Qingxu wants to wait until the wheat is ripe to harvest, and this time is too important for the officials and soldiers in the city, Xu Yuan found Zhang Xun to discuss the wheat harvest, Zhang Xun in order to get this batch of grainZhang Zhi led five thousand elite soldiers, under the cover of the fog, quietly out of the city from the west gate, ran into the wheat field, and only used an hour to harvest all the wheat outside the city back to the city, so that after the fog dissipated, the rebels found that all the wheat outside the city was gone, and it had been taken away by the officials and soldiers. Yang Chaozong personally commanded an army of 100,000 to attack the city in an all-round way, the result of this battle was extremely tragic, rolling wood and stones, oil pots were all used, the people in the city and the official army joined hands to fight, and finally the rebels still failed to conquer the city, Anqing continued to see the official army stick to the preparation for war, and the immortal family helped, this Suiyang City could not be broken for a long time, and the morale of the rebels was low, so they had to ask the King of the Beast to send troops to help Suiyang City.

The Beast King knew the importance of the battle of Suiyang City, and in order for the beast demons to develop southward and recover the Central Plains Theater, he sent the Beast King, the Lion Beast King, the Kui Lion Beast King, the Thunder Lion Beast King, and the Yellow Lion Beast King to command 50,000 beast demons to come to help. They have no weapons, bare-handed in the face of the rebels to start a fierce battle, the situation is very serious, in the face of the beast demon army, Zhang Xun let the Black Dragon Saint Immortal and Zhang Zhi form an army of the immortal disciples in the whole army, specifically responsible for dealing with the attack of the beast demon, and at the same time discuss with Xu Yuan to go to the enemy camp, recapture the plan of the weapon, this time, Xu Yuan sent a group of secret agents, after several investigations, got the specific location of the rebels' hidden weapons, and according to the terrain of the col to draw a detailed route map, handed over to Xu Yuan Taishou, this battle is extremely important to the continued persistence of Suiyang City, for which Xu Yuan personally led the team to the mountain col to advance, and this An Qingxu has long known this patrol, Xu Yuan will lead their advance team to steal weapons, so he has already let this Ling Fox Chao and Li Huaixian two generals lead 20,000 soldiers with the help of the Yellow Lion Beast King, ambushed on both sides of the col, this time in order to prevent the rebels from ambushing, Zhang Xun let the Black Dragon Immortal protect him, so the officers and soldiers came to the entrance of the mountain pass, the Black Dragon Immortal carefully checked the terrain, he found the demonic energy, and told the situation to General Xu Yuan, Xu Yuan learned of these situations, the weapon had to be robbed, and finally decided to take the mantis to catch the cicada and the yellow finch in the back of the combat method, he let the Black Dragon Immortal become himself, and used immortal magic to change a group of officers and generals, and launched an attack on the mountain pass, all the ambush soldiers were beaten out, and then Xu Yuan took this opportunity to steal all the weapons, so according to the plan, the Black Dragon Saint Immortal changed a group of officers and soldiers to kill directly to the weapons depot, which made Fox Chao and Li Huaixian find Xu Yuan, without saying a word, in order to build a military merit, they killed Xu Yuan, the Black Dragon Saint Immortal found that the rebels were killed, so he led the soldiers to retreat quickly, but these rebels could not catch up, so he let the Yellow Lion Beast King help, so the Yellow Lion Beast King's beast demon army was also brought out of the mountain col by the Black Dragon Immortal, Xu Yuan saw the fighter, and led the soldiers to take the kitchen knife, quietly killed into the weapons warehouse, and finally successfully took away all the weapons, successfully completed the task, and withdrew to Suiyang Cityto send a bonfire signal to the Black Dragon Immortal. In this way, the Black Dragon Saint Immortal fought several times, and when he saw the bonfire lit, he collected his troops and returned triumphantly.

This made Fox Chao and Li Huaixian fight several times, and finally got the surprising news that the arsenal was stolen, they returned to the rebel camp to report the matter to the rebel general Yin Ziqi, this Yin Ziqi heard about it, his heart was so angry, how to report this battle to Prince An Qingxu, and said angrily: "This broken battle, you yourself report to Prince An Qingxu, I don't care." In this way, Hu Chao and Li Huaixian reported their battle report to Prince An Qingxu, and after An Qingxu learned about this, he was even more angry, and said to this Yin Ziqi: "Look at these generals you lead, a group of waste. Yin Ziqi was angry, did not dare to send, in the face of the cunning officers and generals, An Qingxu finally decided to continue to persuade to surrender, besiege without fighting, trapping them, so began a siege for several months, although the city is harvested a batch of new grain, but there are still 100,000 old and weak women and children in the city, Xu Yuan loves the people like a son, in order to save the people, seventy percent of the grain was given to the people, and soon the soldiers began to starve again, and soon ran out of food, and this time in the face of hundreds of thousands of rebels they have no way to retreat, the battle of Suiyang City has been fought for several months, the rebels attacked Suiyang City casualties of 100,000 people, An Qingxu has already hated Zhang Xun to death, Xu Yuan, he swore that on the day of breaking the city, he must kill all the officers and soldiers to avenge this, but the officials and soldiers ran out of food, because the war in the north was tight, An Qingxu's 300,000 army also began to run out of food, in order to get food, An Qingxu had to continue to divide the army to levy food, and in the city, Xu Yuan in order to get food to continue to prepare for the war, adopted the strategy of digging a mouse hole, as a result, this digging, and actually solved the food for the people of the city for three months, and for a while the mouse became the hero of the people of the city, and the black rat beast king who has been practicing for many years does not think so, his descendants began to starve, how can this breath not come out, he escaped from the city, and went to the yellow lion beast kingAfter the Yellow Lion Beast King learned of these news, he had a plan to let the Black Rat Beast King lead the Rat Beast Demon to respond in the city, and the inside and outside should work together to conquer Suiyang City in one fell swoop, so An Qingxu finally waited for the dawn of victory, and excitedly said good news.

According to the plan, the black rat beast king was delayed for three months, so that the people in the city were out of food for a month, and then began to launch a sneak attack on Zhang Xun and Xu Yuan's corps, this time hundreds of thousands of rat beast demons attacked the people's officials and troops in the city, and the people in order to survive, they shot and killed when they saw the rats, gnawing on the rat meat, making the battle in the city more difficult, and outside the city, Master Huaizhi learned that there was a demon around Suiyang City, so he led the apprentices to come to get rid of the demon. The five generals of the Fierce Lion Beast King, the Kui Lion Beast King, the Thunder Lion Beast King, and the Yellow Lion Beast King commanded 50,000 beast demons to encircle and annihilate the scriptures, this time the White Spirit Great Sage and the Snow Spirit Great Sage personally led the Heavenly General Legion to help, plus the righteous army of the Flying Spirit Mouse Monkey and the beast demon launched a decisive battle to the death, after several battles, this Tricky Lion Beast King, Fierce Lion Beast King, Kui Lion Beast King, Thunder Lion Beast King, Yellow Lion Beast King fought hard for hundreds of rounds, was trapped in the Tianxuan Demon Capture Array, and was accepted into the purple gold bottle by Master Huaizhi. Tens of thousands of beast demons were wiped out in one fell swoop. Then the masters and apprentices marched to Suiyang City, but they were a step late, this An Qingxu in the Black Rat Beast King should cooperate with the outside, open the city gate hundreds of thousands of rebels into the city, at this time the soldiers have eaten up the bark, exhausted, let people slaughter, the people in the city are already hungry and can't move, began to eat human flesh, Zhang Xun, Xu Yuan, Lei Wanchun, Nan Jiyun, Jia Yan, Yao Yan They fought to the death, and finally were captured alive by An Qingxu, beheaded under the city. Master Huaizhi pursued all the way, but met Zhang Zhi and the Black Dragon Immortal halfway They were killed out of the city to find reinforcements, and finally the powerful Tangshan army rushed to Suiyang City, this An Qingxu had no food and grass at this time, and met the strongest official force Tangshan Army, how could he continue to fight, and had no choice but to order the withdrawal of the army, so Master Huaizhi and Tangshan Army Commander Liu Shengkui fought into Suiyang City together, at this time the rebels had been defeated, only the Black Rat Beast King was still resisting stubbornly, and finally after several battles, hundreds of rounds of hard fighting, he was injured by Xuantong Liu's ears, let Master Huaizhi take it away, and the masters and apprentices searched several times, and finally found Zhang Xun, Xu Yuan, Lei Wanchun, Nan Jiyun, Jia Ji, Yao Yan and the corpses of several generals, seeing them sacrifice their lives for the country, 300,000 officers and soldiers screamed in pain, shaking the heavens and the earth.

Master Huaizhi built a huge tomb of loyalty and righteousness for these generals, which read: "The soul of the Tang Dynasty, the invincible god of war" eight big characters, commemorated by all generations. Later, when the Jade Emperor heard about the legendary achievements of these generals, he ordered the Dharma Protector Jiang Ziya to recreate the Book of Gods, and gave Zhang Xun as the Dharma Protector Longwei Heavenly King, Xu Yuan as the Protector Heavenly God Huwei Heavenly King, Lei Wanchun as the Protector Heavenly God Wanshou Heavenly King, and Nan Jiyun as the Protector Heavenly God Zhennan Heavenly King.

Zhang Zhi and the Black Dragon Immortal in order to continue to avenge Zhang Xun and Xu Yuan, they joined the Tangshan Legion of Megatron to assist Liu Shengkui in continuing the campaign and continuing to write their legendary story.