By this time, Wagangjun had appeared for five years. In the past five years, the wagang army has rapidly developed from the initial few hundred to nearly 20 thousand. It is a big problem for so many people to eat. Even if one kilogram of grain is given to each soldier every day, it will cost two or three hundred tons a month. The wagang army has no base area, and its food supply depends entirely on looting. Although it's easy to rob, the problem is that after a long time, the source of robbery has gradually dried up and it can't be robbed.

At that time, the army had no belief goal and no program purpose. The purpose of joining the army is to make a living. These 20,000 people are actually stuck together by food adhesives. If there is no food one day, these soldiers with food will immediately scatter. The crock doesn't have a grain storage base, so it's all eaten now. If this situation encounters a large-scale blockade and encirclement by government forces and defeats the enemy without fighting, it will be chaotic immediately.

Zhai Rang was also annoyed with this problem, but there was no better solution, so he had to take it one step at a time, grab a catty and eat twelve ounces.

Shi Biao has an idea. In order to completely change this short-sighted situation, Shi Biao proposed to Zhai Rang to attack the nearby Xingyang County and rob the granary of the Sui Dynasty. Accumulate food and grass, rest the army, and wait for an opportunity to plot the world.

Xingyang County, south of Wagangzhai, is a big city with many business trips and convenient transportation. Tang gaozu used to be the satrap here, and now the satrap is also the prince of Wang Xi, Yang Qing, which shows the importance of this place.

Zhai Rang listened to Shi Biao's advice, led the army to lay the Di Chin Pass in the north of Xingyang first, and then won several nearby counties with the help of the victorious army. Finally the sword refers to Xingyang County.

Wang is here to enjoy Central Plains cuisine and beautiful women. How can he command the charge? The * * * army in Xingyang County was beaten out of the water by Wagangjun.

In order to deal with Wagangjun, Yang Guang threw a trump card and transferred Zhang Xutuo to Xingyang County. Zhang Xutuo used to work in Qixian County (now Linzi, Shandong Province), and he was the ambassador of twelve counties in Henan Province. Qixian is not close to Xingyang, so it is so far from Shandong to plant a radish in Henan. On the one hand, it shows the importance of Zhang Xutuo, and Yang Guang's cards are running out at this time.

Zhang Xutuo is a tough card. If the Sui Dynasty at that time is compared to a deck of playing cards, Yang Guang is the king, the queen is Xiao Wang, and both Zhang Xutuo and Tang gaozu belong to the shape of A .. Zhang Xutuo is a sharp knife, which can't be compared with any peasant army.

Zhai Rang and Zhang Xutuo are old rivals. The Biography of Zhang Xutuo said that he drove the army away from Zhai Rang, a thief in the East County. He fought more than 30 battles back and forth, and every time he broke through.

What's it like to fall 30 times with a person, but not once without being fallen by the other person? Is it repeatedly defeated or repeatedly defeated? Anyway, Zhai was scared by Zhang. In front of Zhang Xutuo, Zhai Rang turned into ZhaiRangqin, and at the sight of Zhang Xutuo, she automatically dodged. Don't blame Zhai Rang for incompetence. It's really Zhang Xutuo, the super soap, that has made many peasant army leaders become duplicate names: when Wang hides, Guo runs, and Pei flees, the worst thing is Zuo Xiaoyou, who is tied to the left-tens of thousands of troops are surrounded by Zhang Xutuo in the mountains, so they have to tie themselves up and surrender.

Zhai Rang heard that Zhang Xutuo had come to Xingyang, and he was conditioned to give way to withdrawing troops.

Shi Biao comforted him and said that Zhang Xutuo had nothing to be afraid of. He is brave and good at fighting, and the army has won many victories. He is arrogant and fierce, and I promise to catch him in the first battle.

Shi Biao really dares to brag (maybe he encouraged Zhai Rang with big talk). Zhang Xutuo is not a lout warrior, but a brave and resourceful man. His combat experience can make a fascinating film with modern techniques. However, this is understandable. Ancient people seemed to like playing when they were fighting. Whether you can fight or not, blow it up first. When the two armies confront each other, the two men in front of the battle will ask: The newcomer signed up, and he won't kill the unknown ghost with his sword! Some people are cut down by the other party when they ask. But this time, Shi Biao really made a name for himself: Zhang Xutuo really became a ghost under his sword!

Under Shi Biao's persuasion and insistence, Zhai Rang had to crustily skin of head and lead the troops to battle. Shi Biao made full preparations before the war. He ambushed more than 1,000 lean soldiers in the forest of Dahai Temple, more than ten miles northeast of Xingyang, looking for opportunities to attack Zhang Xutuo.

Zhang Xutuo always looked down on Zhai Rang, and he pressed more than twenty thousand troops into a square. Before long, Zhai Rang couldn't help it. According to Shi Biao's pre-war deployment, retreat in the direction of Dahai Temple. This situation is too normal for Zhang Xutuo. He had seen Zhai Rang escape too many times, even when he escaped, his back was awkward and crooked. Of course, he didn't want to miss this opportunity and led the soldiers to chase after him.

After crossing the sea temple, the road is getting narrower and narrower, and there are more and more trees. This dangerous terrain didn't arouse Zhang Xutuo's vigilance, because he regarded this stockade leader as a cadre too seriously. He wouldn't have thought that there was another man named Shi Biao lurking ahead. It was that plain black boy who knocked out his A and turned it into an empty V with the knife edge down.

When Zhang Xutuo's troops chased him without formation, Shi Biao, who was hiding in the Woods, commanded the ambush to rush out suddenly, cut off his team's cover and killed him. At the same time, Zhai Rang, Xu Shizhen's enemy surrounded Zhang Xutuo from all directions. Zhang Xutuo didn't expect so many Wagang troops to appear at once, so he quickly organized resistance with the right attitude. He stabbed the left and right with a knife, and soon broke through the encirclement. However, when he found that there were many men around, he immediately jumped on his horse and turned to kill on 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 was determined not to leave the battlefield and eventually died of fatigue.

Zhang Xutuo is a good leader who is people-oriented. He trades his life for the life of a soldier, and he has no regrets. In order to save the lives of soldiers at lower levels, the superior leaders gave their lives, which is rare in the history of China for thousands of years (except in modern times). With this deed, Zhang Xutuo can be elected as one of the top ten people who moved to Sui in 6 16. After his death, his soldiers wailed day and night for several days.

Some people died, but he is still alive. This poem is also applicable to describe Zhang Xutuo in feudal society. Zhang Xutuo's death was equivalent to an earthquake in the military and political circles of the Sui Dynasty. Many people have the same feeling: why do you want to fight an unbeaten star who has been killed by the insurgents for so long?

Spiritual fear and giving up are incurable terminal diseases. The spirit is there, and the dream is there. The popular slogan now is that as long as the spirit does not decline, the solution is always more than the difficulty. That's the reason. However, in front of Hua county wagangjun, what can't you slip away? For Zhang Xutuo, this is his Waterloo, and one slip will make him hate for life.

To be sure, if Zhang Xutuo hadn't died, the Wagang Army in Henan would never have had a chance to grow to the extent of later mobile Altman, and with Zhang Xutuo's key attack, there would probably be many unpredictable results. If so, there will be many unknown changes in the history of the Sui Dynasty. However, history has no ifs, only results.

Many people who read the history of Sui and Tang Dynasties in later generations feel sorry for Zhang Xutuo's death, because he died unexpectedly. Because of his extreme underestimation, the famous victory in Xingyang in the history of Wagang Army was created. Objectively speaking, Shimi won the battle by luck.

Xingyang became famous in World War I and spread through the ages. Just because two talented men fought a life-and-death battle here, the originally unknown Sea Temple became a tourist attraction. In this regard, Zhang Xutuo died a fair death.