After the great victory at Hengjian Mountain, Zhu Yuanzhang began to carry out drastic reforms in the army!

From this time on, Zhu Yuanzhang's troops began to undergo fundamental changes.

He changed his previous approach of blindly expanding the number of people, and instead used talents and selected the best.

From the outside to the inside, it is different from the mob of peasant rebels.

From this time on, Zhu Yuanzhang's troops began to gradually break away from the nature of a peasant army and began to transform into a regular army!

After winning the first battle, Zhu Yuanzhang did not give up, and he did not have the grandiose thoughts and feelings of his father-in-law, who thought of turning the grass into a bandit and then turning the mountain into a king.

In addition to stepping up the reorganization and training of the army, he also had his eye on another place.

That place is a battleground for military strategists.

After a period of recuperation, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that the time was right and decided to take action.

And his next goal: conquer Chuyang (now Chuzhou, Anhui) in the south.

The soldiers are well trained and the troops and horses are assembled,

Everything is ready, let's set off together.

Halfway through the attack on Chuyang, an unexpected figure stopped the army from moving forward.

This person's name is: Li Shanchang (the founding prime minister of the Ming Dynasty).

Name: Li Shanchang;

Font size: Baishi;

Population: Han;

Main achievements: Founding father of the Ming Dynasty;

Highest official position: Prime Minister Zuo of Zhongshu;

Date of birth: 1314;

Time of death: 1390;

Birthplace: Dingyuan (now part of Anhui);

Title: Duke Xuan, Duke of Korea;

Li Shanchang was well versed in Legalist theory, very wise and strategic, and most of his plans were in line with the actual situation, so he was hailed as an elder in the village.

Li Shanchang's defection was far beyond Zhu Yuanzhang's expectations. This was also Zhu Yuanzhang's first real contact with scholars, so he was naturally very respectful.

Overjoyed, he appointed Li Shanchang as secretary in charge (equivalent to today's secretary) and asked him for advice on future plans.

Li Shanchang fully demonstrated his outstanding rhetoric skills: In today's world, brave and courageous heroes are rising up, but those who can truly achieve great things must rely on the wise and lofty ideals of the world.

According to my observation, there are only a handful of heroes in today's world who can really treat wise men kindly. Most of the outstanding counselors are ostracized or destroyed by the swords of generals who are like reckless men.

During the political chaos of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, rose up from ordinary people. He was open-minded and generous by nature, knew people well and accepted wise men from all over the world, and did not kill people indiscriminately. It only took him five years to establish himself as an emperor.

Now the Yuan Dynasty has been in chaos, even worse than the Qin Dynasty. The country at this time has already existed in name only.

If you could imitate the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, be virtuous and worthy, and kill with moderation, wouldn't it be easy to pacify the world?

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the person in front of him in surprise. With his ordinary and ordinary appearance, he could actually say such extraordinary truth.

This person is not simple, definitely not simple.

At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the person in front of him again. At this moment, he was no longer the weak scholar. Instead, he became an ambitious wise man who wanted to kill the world.

At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang also began to change his thinking.

Yes, why can't I do what Mr. Liu Tingzhang can do?

From this time on, Zhu Yuanzhang's ambitions expanded rapidly.

At this time, he no longer cared about the gains and losses of a city or a pool.

His goal is to conquer the world.

This is the only belief that he has strengthened after his conversation with Li Shanchang, and it is also his ultimate goal.

Since I could play the game of the emperor killing his ministers when I was a child, why couldn't I take it seriously?

Even if the final goal is not achieved and the body and head are different, it doesn't matter. At least I have struggled once and my life is not in vain.

If that's the case.

Even if you die, you will have no regrets.

Even though I am defeated, I am still proud.

Fight hard to win the world.

To gain the throne, kill the world.

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Now that the goal has been determined, there is no need to hesitate.

The first obstacle before me now is Chuyang.

There's nothing more to say.

Kill him and make the first move to conquer the world.

Same start, different goals, but an absolutely unified slogan.

Only success is allowed, no failure is allowed.

The war was about to begin, and Zhu Yuanzhang's army ordered General Hua Yun to lead the way and lead more than a thousand cavalry to attack Chuyang. The wolf-like Zhu army should have been instructed by Zhu Yuanzhang before the war began, so they were full of strength at the beginning of the war.

In the face of Zhu Jun who was intent on killing, these useless snacks stationed in Chuyang were no match for them. Even the Yuan army, which was surrounded by mountains and had favorable terrain, still could not resist Zhu Jun's almost wild wolf-like crazy attack.

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The Yun army was defeated, and Zhu Yuanzhang captured Chuyang in one fell swoop.

After capturing Chuyang, Zhu Yuanzhang met three unexpected people who came to seek refuge with him.

They are: nephew Zhu Wenzheng, nephew Li Wenzhong and orphan Mu Ying.

Everyone must remember these three names, because in the subsequent war, these three names will resound throughout the earth, be like thunder in the ears during the war, and be like the arrival of hell in the eyes of the enemy.

In order to get closer to each other, Zhu Yuanzhang adopted these three children as his adopted sons and changed their surname to Zhu.

Later, Zhu Yuanzhang adopted more than twenty adopted sons.

They all also made endless contributions to Zhu Yuanzhang's victory in the world.

After these three people, as people from all parties defected, Zhu Yuanzhang's army also expanded to 30,000.

Thirty thousand elite soldiers and warriors will create an extraordinary and prosperous era in the long history.

Its name is: Ming Dynasty.

After capturing Chuyang City, Zhu Yuanzhang began to improve military discipline and recruit heroes from all sides to join him in preparation for his next attack target.

At this time, in Haozhou City, not far from Zhu Yuanzhang in Anhui, Zhu Yuanzhang's father-in-law, Guo Zixing, was in dire straits and could not extricate himself.

Because after Zhu Yuanzhang led his troops out to establish a new branch, Guo Zixing's army was like a piece of scattered sand, lacking real leadership. The Guo family army now exists in name only.

For this army that was like a muscle-struck shrimp, like a skinned pig, with no fighting power at all, the other forces looked down upon it.

If Zhu Yuanzhang was still there, the fighting power of the Guo family army would be like that of bears, jackals and tigers. If any of them wanted to touch him, they would have to weigh their own weight. It is also because of this that in the small city of Haozhou, several forces can barely maintain a rare balance.

, but no one would have thought that Zhu Yuanzhang would lead the crowd to separate, and the reason for Zhu Yuanzhang's escape that worried them the most was that the driving force behind it turned out to be his father-in-law.

This means that the Guo Jiajun's current results were solely caused by their marshal Guo Zixing.

At this time, the Guo family's army was like scattered sand with no fighting power at all, and there was no need to worry about it at all.

Quoting an idiom here is most appropriate.

That is: trapping oneself in a cocoon.

At this moment, Sun Deya, who had always regarded Guo Zixing as his political enemy, saw this opportunity.

This opportunity is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for him.

Guo Zixing, who had always enjoyed glory before, also lost his most important backer because of Zhu Yuanzhang's separation of the family.

In the past, beating a dog had to rely on Zhu Yuanzhang, a deep master.

Now Guo Zixing, a bereaved dog, no longer has the protection of his owner. He can bully him without fear of retaliation.

At this time, another piece of bad news came, and the little hesitation left in their hearts disappeared.

For Guo Zixing, this news was like a bolt from the blue.

In 1359 (from the 17th to the 19th year of the reign of Emperor Shun of the Yuan Dynasty), Peng Erpeng Zaozhu died accidentally because he and Zhao Jun merged with Zhao Jun by fire.

After the news was confirmed, Sun Deya no longer had any worries.

He quickly joined forces with several other marshals to carry out a crazy attack on Guo Zixing.

In the four-to-one struggle between the left and right factions, Guo Zixing fully demonstrated the fine style of a lost dog. He was like a mouse crossing the street. In this situation where the human and financial resources were far inferior to the opponent's, he was bullied and ostracized everywhere.
To be continued...