Zhang Zongyu (? ~? ), the date of birth and death is unknown, nicknamed "Little Rebecca". He was born in Jiaqing and Daoguang years of Qing Dynasty. He is the nephew of Zhang Le Xingjia and has lived in Wotian for more than 1000 mu. Father Zhang Fuxin always used feudal ethics to control Zhang Zongyu, expecting him to study and be an official. Although Zhang Zongyu likes reading, he disdains exams. A little longer is to interact with the people. Once I went to see Zhang Lexing because of family chores. Zhang Lexing, who was ready to raise the flag and promote righteousness, was very happy. He just accepted Zhang Zongyu's advice and gave Mo Wen a hand.

In the sixth year of Xianfeng (1856), at the beginning of the first month, after the Nian army joined forces in Luohe, Zhang Zongyu led Huang Qi and Huang Qi, the guards of Zhang Lexing, to join Zhang Lexing in the Huai River and Huai River.

In the first month of the tenth year of Xianfeng, the Nian army launched a large-scale mobile war against the Qing army. Zhang Zongyu led more than 30,000 people in Huaibei Nianjun, and unexpectedly attacked northern Jiangsu. On the first day of February, he occupied Taoyuan in the south of Sizhou, defeated 300 Qing troops in Dexing, crossed Qingshun River and arrived in Wang Jiaying. He captured Qingjiangpu (now Huaiyin), an important town in northern Jiangsu, killed Wu, a Taoist priest in Huaihai, and sentenced Shen Ru and his lieutenant Shu Xiang. This is a great victory for the Nian Army in Huaibei. Zhang Zongyu stood out in this battle and was named Shi Tianyan by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

In the spring of the first year of Tongzhi (1862), Lai, a general of Taiping Army, was ordered by King Chen Yucheng of England to lead an expedition to the northwest and enter southern Shaanxi. Zhang Zongyu, who was active in western Henan at that time, led the Nian Army into Shaanxi to fight side by side with the Taiping Army. Muslims in Shaanxi responded in succession. Later, in order to rescue the captured Chen Yucheng, Taiping Army and Nian Army of the Western Expedition returned to Henan to prepare for the rescue of Chen Yucheng. After learning that Chen Yucheng was killed, he led the Nian army eastward and occupied Xiaogan, Hubei. Because the Qing army tried to stop it, Zhang Zongyu led his troops back to Bozhou, Anhui Province, to meet Zhang Lexing Nianjun. In the second year of Tongzhi, Sengqin besieged the Luohe River. In order to disperse the main force of the Qing army, Zhang Zongyu was ordered to March into Henan, and jointly attacked the Qing army with Chen Daxi's Nien Army. Soon, Luohe set fell and Zhang Lexing was martyred. Zhang Zongyu led the troops back to Anhui and attacked Taihu Lake, Buried Hill and Tongcheng. In June, he captured Luohe set and executed traitors Yang Ruiying and Wang Huaiyi. In Xiyang, Blast Furnace, Shigong Mountain and Yimenji, Nian Army resumed, followed Zhang Zongyu, robbed and burned stores platforms. That autumn, the Qing army went south, and Zhang Zongyu led an army to re-enter Henan, and joined forces with Chen Daxi and Ren Huabang to fight against the Qing army.

In the spring of the third year of Tongzhi, the northwest Taiping Army returned from Shaanxi East to seek a solution to the siege of Tianjing. In late March, Zhang Zongyu led the army to join forces with the Northwest Taiping Army, and then moved eastward to save Tianjing. The Qing court ordered the Mongolian cavalry led by Senggelinqin, the Hubei army of Governor Hu Guang, the Henan army of Governor Zhang of Henan and the Anhui army of Governor Qiao Songnian of Anhui to stop attacking. The two armies fought in eastern Hubei, and the east was blocked. In summer, Tianjing fell, and Taiping Army, Lai, Ma Rong and others surrounded Macheng, Hubei. They were defeated by Chen Guorui and the monk Qin Qing army of Ji Chengbu, and fell between Susong, Wangjiang, Buried Hill and Taihu Lake. Monk Qin chased from Yingshan to Dengzhou in western Henan. At that time, the Nian Army in Zhang Zongyu was easy to ride and moved quickly.

According to the needs of the war, the generals of the Nian Army begged Lai to be the leader and lead the Nian Army and the rest of the Taiping Army in a unified way. /kloc-in October/February, it was reorganized in western Henan, and the Nian Army merged with the rest of the Taiping Army to form a centralized and unified new Nian Army, still using the title and title of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Zhang Zongyu is called the King of Liang. Subsequently, Zhang Zongyu led an army to wage a fierce battle with Sanglinqin in Dengzhou (now Dengxian), Henan Province, and defeated the Sanglinqin army. Then he defeated the monk army in Lushan. In the spring of Tongzhi four years, Zhang Zongyu adopted "encirclement tactics" and led the Nian army to Weishi to lure the enemy into the Qing army. The monk followed him, and Zhang Zongyu went to Linying in the southwest, Yancheng in the east, Xiping and Suiping in the south, and Runing in the east, south and north. In order to defeat the Qing army of Sengqin, in March, Zhang Zongyu led an army northward, travelling day and night 100 kilometers, crossing the Yellow River by Li Baji and entering Shandong. Within a few days, Cao Yue County, Heze, Dingtao, Chengwu, Yuncheng, Juye, Jinxiang, Jining and other places, around, approaching the Zhili border. The Qing court reprimanded the monk for twisting the north, and the monk went on the rampage and led the army for dozens of days. "You can't lift the reins when your hands are tired. You can only tie your wrists with cloth and control the horse on your shoulders." Hundreds of soldiers died and the army complained more. At the end of April, he entered Heze County, Shandong Province. For about three and a half months, Zhang Zongyu lured Qin Sang's army to gallop across thousands of miles of plains without a day's pause. On 23rd, Zhang Zongyu saw that the time was ripe, and led his troops to take shelter from the wind in liu lin cun, Jianmi Village, Cao Zhou City, Shandong Province, and set an ambush in the north, west and east, and attacked Yuanji with a small amount of troops to lure the enemy into the urn. The Qing army ambushed and retreated to Gaolou Village. Zhang Zongyu chased him and fought until dusk, digging trenches and surrounding villages. The next day, the Sanglin Qinma cavalry was completely annihilated 1. 1 1,000 people, killing many civil and military officials such as Sanglin Qinma, Quanshun, Bachelor of Cabinet, He Jian 'ao and Erjinge. This is the biggest victory in the history of the Nian Army. Panicked, the Qing court urgently appointed Zeng Guofan as an imperial envoy and ordered him to lead the Xiang army and the Huai army to attack and twist in the north.

After Cao Zhou's triumph, Zhang Zongyu led his troops south from Shuitao, Shandong Province, through the border region of Jiangsu and Henan, and reached northern Anhui. In May, Lai led the troops into the newly-built Guoyang County, captured Longshan, and fought with the Qing army in the North Prince Temple. Ying Han led the Taoist Ren Lansheng and Shi Nianzu's 17 Battalion to resist tenaciously and fought fiercely for 3 hours, annihilating more than 2,000 elite Qing troops. Han Ying led the rest of the troops to surrender, and established a new tucheng in Yang Guo, surrounded by the Nian army layer by layer. On the night of 24th, the Nian army captured the blast furnace set, cut off the Luohe set to clear up the stores, and launched an attack on the Luohe set. Han Ying fled to Xiyang overnight and asked Xiang and Huai for help. On the 29th, Liu Mingchuan and Zhou Shengbo's Huai Army joined forces with Henan Army and Zhang Desheng's Anhui Army to rescue them. On June 3rd, Zhang Zongyu withdrew westward, passed through Henan to Zaoyang and Xiangyang in Hubei, and then returned to Henan.

In September of the fifth year of Tongzhi, the Nian Army formally divided its troops in Xuzhou (now Xuchang), Henan Province, and followed Wang Laiwenguang and Lu Wang as Huabang to the northeast, becoming the Dongnian Army; Zhang Zongyu, the king of Liang, and Zhang Yujue, the young king of our country, entered Shaanxi, intending to twist the army in the west. Zhang Zongyu led more than 50,000 people of the West Twist Army to March to the northwest, passing through Huazhou and Weinan, and approaching xi 'an. /kloc-in October/February, on the cross slope of Baqiao in the east of An, the 30 th battalion of Xiang, the governor of Shaanxi Province, was annihilated, and Xiang prefect, the company commander of Hanzhong Town, Xiao Deyang, the registered magistrate, Xiao Jishan and Xiao Changqing were killed and attacked An in the north. The Qing court ordered Zuo to supervise the military affairs in Shaanxi and Gansu, and Xiang, Huai army Liu Songshan, Zhang Xirong were ordered to help, but Xi Nian army could not attack An. In February of the sixth year of Tongzhi, Nian Army marched westward along the south bank of Wei River, arrived in Weibei, and entered the activity area of Shaanxi Hui Uprising Army to cooperate with the Hui Uprising Army to fight against the Qing Dynasty, which made Zuo difficult to parry. They moved to northern Shaanxi and even occupied Ansai, Qianchuan and Suide counties. 1 1 month, Zhang Zongyu received an urgent official document from Dongnian Army, and immediately came to the rescue with a great army at starry night. Zhang Zongyu plans to lead an army into both capital city, forcing the Qing army to retreat to the defense, so as to solve the siege of Dongchang army. He led the Xi Nian Army across the frozen Yellow River in Shaanxi, avoiding the frontal defense of the Qing army in Shanxi, passing through Quwo, Yuanqu and other counties in the south of Shanxi, bypassing Wuwangshan, entering the north of Henan, then entering the south of Hebei from Huaiqing and Xinxiang, the economic source, and then rushing northward to get rid of the tail chase of the Qing army, and then crossing the Hutuo River by Shu Road. In the first month of the seventh year of Tongzhi, Zhang Zongyu led the troops to Dingzhou in the north, and in April he turned to Nanpi, taking Guinness directly, which shocked the capital. The Qing emperor (Zai Chun and Mu Zong) issued martial law, saying, "Soldiers from Hunan, Chu, Shandong, Henan, Zhi, Anhui and Anhui will enter the garrison at night." The Qing army gathered in Beijing suburbs from all directions, and Xi Nian Army attracted almost all the Qing troops around Beijing suburbs. At this point, Zhang Zongyu learned that the Dongnian army had been defeated, so he had to quickly avoid the encirclement, turn south to Shandong, enter the Lu Zhi border region, and was surrounded by the Qing Canal, the Yellow River and the long-wall fortifications at sea, and repeatedly tried to cross the river. In May, Xi Nianjun was repeatedly attacked by the Qing army in Zhidong battlefield, and Lien Chan was defeated with heavy casualties. In June, the Yu army joined the Qing army and attacked the Xi Nian army in Shanghe, Shandong and Jiyang. West twist army main casualties, Zhang Zongyu wounded came to rout. Because the Qing army is determined to clear the field, it is very difficult to supply food to Xi Nian Army. In addition, the water level of the Yellow River and the canal has skyrocketed for several days, making it difficult for the Nianjun cavalry to move, and the Qing navy was assembled. On 28th (August 16), the remnants of Xi Nian Army fought the last battle in Nanzhen Town, chiping, Shandong Province, and Zhang Zongyu brothers Zhang Zongdao, Zhang Zongxian, Zhang Kuier, nephew Zhang Zhenjiang, Cheng Dalaokan and other Nian Army generals died heroically. Zhang Zongyu rode alone 10 out of the tight encirclement, crossed the sea to Tuhai River, lived in seclusion in Kongzhuang, Huanghua County (now the third branch of Nandagang State Farm), and died more than 20 years later.