The terrible siege of Suiyang
757 · Event
For ten months a few thousand Tang loyalists hold the town that blocks the rebels' road to the untouched, tax-rich south — through starvation that descends, the histories record without flinching, into cannibalism. When Suiyang finally falls, the garrison is dead but the south is saved, and with it the dynasty's ability to pay for the war.
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