Chapter 862: Mutation
"Recently, my ministers received news that Zhang Shicheng lost the position of Taiwei awarded by the Tartar court. (In August of the 17th year of Zhizheng, Zhang Shicheng surrendered to the Yuan court through the left prime minister of Jiangsu and Zhejiang of the Yuan Dynasty, and abolished the title of King Cheng and the title of Great Zhou. In order to reduce the strong enemy, the Yuan court also appointed Shicheng as Taiwei, and established the Privy Council of Zhejiang Branch of the Jianghuai Branch in Pingjiang to grant his official position.) The banner of anti-Tartar was re-erected and the title of King Wu was restored.
"This kind of repeated villain..." Chen Youliang muttered in contempt.
Chen Li rarely saw the arrogance of his father, and couldn't help but smile and continued: "Son-member, the land occupied by Zhang Shicheng is centered on Pingjiang (Suzhou), with Taizhou, Gaoyou, Huai'an, Haozhou, Sizhou (now Xuyi, Jiangsu) to the north, to Jining (now Jining, Shandong), Huzhou in the south, Hangzhou, Shaoxing in the west, and to the east to the sea. The entire sphere of influence is a rectangular area along the northern coast of the East China Sea and the southern coast of the Yellow Sea, with a total of more than 2,000 miles. If you want to develop again, you will inevitably open the door to the west? Once this is the case, the battle between Zhang Shicheng and Zhu Yuanzhang will inevitably be inevitable. Why should the father wait for this good opportunity? If the two tigers fight, they will be injured. When the two fight each other, they will suffer the loss. Isn't it better to send troops to conquer Jinling City in one fell swoop?"
"No, not bad... should it be like this..." After listening to Chen Li's analysis, Chen Youliang nodded continuously, "Zhu Yuanzhang, please wait, I, Chen Youliang, will definitely defeat you next time!"
Chen Li, who was beside him, breathed heavily and murmured in his heart: "I won't give it to Taiwei Zhang at last!" It turned out that all this was done by Zhang Dingbian. He was afraid that Chen Youliang would be depressed by the battle in Longwan, and was worried that Chen Youliang would be too impatient. He rushed to send troops without waiting for the soldiers to recover. He wanted to persuade him, but he knew that Chen Youliang was arrogant and might not be able to listen to his words, so he had to find Chen Li, who Chen Youliang loved very much. Seeing that he was worried and the current situation, he told Chen Li one by one. Chen Li was cautious and apologized. After understanding Zhang Dingbian's efforts, he came to persuade him with courage. Now that he has lived up to Zhang Dingbian's entrusted, how can he not breathe a sigh of relief?
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Since Zhu Yuanzhang won a complete victory in Longwan, the good news has not stopped. First, he took the opportunity to send Hu Dahai to lead 50,000 elite troops, and from Quzhou, Zhejiang, he sent troops to attack Xinzhou. Zhao Cong, who was guarding Xinzhou, was exhausted and was attacked by Hu Dahai's cavalry and captured Xinzhou. After that, Zhu Yuanzhang sent his generals, Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Deng Yu and Li Wenzhong, to defeat the Han army and took back the four cities of Taiping, Wuhu, Tongling and Chizhou in one fell swoop. "The successive good news made Zhu Yuanzhang so happy that he couldn't close his mouth, and he was really happy.
This morning when Liu Bowen was discussing affairs, he advised him to take advantage of the battle in Longwan. Chen Youliang lost a large number of troops, warships, supplies, and morale of the army. He took the initiative to follow the trend and pursued the victory in one go, and captured Anqing in one fell swoop!
Zhu Yuanzhang also felt that Anqing was located on the north bank of the Yangtze River. He captured this place and overflowed Jinling. So after listening to Liu Bowen's analysis, he immediately ordered Xu Da to be the deputy commander, and Kang Mao also commanded the navy. He led a total of 250,000 naval and land armies. He set out on Yingtian and fought all the way towards Anqing.
The general guarding Anqing was Zhu Zongyuan. He was a veteran general. He was originally the leader of the rebel army in Raozhou (now Boyang, Jiangxi). In October of the 17th year of Zhizheng, he was appreciated by Zhao Pusheng and was appointed as a navy general. He was always grateful for Zhao Pusheng's kindness. Two years ago, Chen Youliang pretended to join the army and invited Zhao Pusheng to Anqing. Then Chen Youliang killed Zhao Pusheng in the name of a ill-conspiracy. Zhu Zongyuan was firmly remembered in his heart and was waiting for the opportunity to take revenge.
Since yesterday, Chen Youliang was defeated in the battle of Longwan and lost Taiping, Wuhu, Tongling and Chizhou one after another. He couldn't help but feel a little angry, but instead felt a little joy. He couldn't take revenge, and it would be nice if others could kill him!
"Report...? Zhu Yuanzhang attacked Anqing at night, and Beiyi came on the order of Taiwei Zhang. The Taiwei asked Beiyi to inform the general that Anqing was the important military location of the Han Dynasty. He hoped that the general would fight against the enemy and not allow the enemy to capture this city?"
Zhu Zongyuan was dressed in military uniform and seemed to have known the news for a long time. After hearing the personal soldiers' words, there was no trace of turmoil on his face. He looked at the young general and said lightly: "I know? I'll bother these brothers to tell the Grand Marshal, and I said that I, Zhu Zongyuan, will make good arrangements and will never let the enemy step into Anqing City!"
"Yes!" the young general responded, clasped his fists and bowed, turned around and ran away.
Anqing City was first built in the Southern Song Dynasty. In the tenth year of Jiading, the Jin people defeated Guangshan (now Huangchuan County, Henan Province), and there were many police officers along the border. The prefect Huang Gan built the "City Anqing City to prepare for war" at the former site of Shuzhou; later, due to war, Anqing Prefecture moved to Luoshazhou and Yangchazhou in the second year of Duanping; and in the first year of Jingding, the ambassador Ma Guangzu established the ambassador along the river to prevent the Mongolian army from attacking from water, in order to prevent the Mongolian army from attacking from the water, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, and "used the bricks and stones of the original Shuzhou Prefecture to rebuilt Yicheng (the Yin of Yichengdu, Shengtang Bay) into Xin'an" (the site is in today's Anqing City), and moved to Huaining County's capital. This place is close to the Yangtze River, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Since then, the government has remained stable, and "Anqing" has become the name of the town, which is consistent with the name of the administrative region (officials, roads, special areas, etc.), and has been used to this day.
At this moment, Zhu Zongyuan sat upright in the commander's position, and each side was sitting with a group of soldiers from Anqing City.
After a moment of silence, General Zhu Zongyuan had just received the news and said it in front of everyone from beginning to end.
After learning of the great defeat of Longwan and the capture of Ping, Wuhu, Tongling and Chizhou by Zhu Yuanzhang, the originally silent soldiers began to speak out.
Deputy General Zhang Yi vaguely said, "You didn't see that Zhu Yuanzhang's soldiers last night were so powerful. The general named Xiao Yun, my goodness, waved a knife directly, like a chasing the emperor among thousands of soldiers. If God hadn't helped and put on a gun, wouldn't the King of Han be killed by him? The knife in his hand killed dozens of brothers with one knife. That majesty was worse than Zhao Zilong back then...?"
Qianhu Qian Feng also said, "Yes, I heard that it is really amazing. Originally, I thought that the 300,000 troops of the King of Han attacked Zhu Yuanzhang would not have been a battle to determine the world. Oh... I know that this is the result. Hundreds of thousands of troops were killed by Zhu Yuanzhang, and even the King of Han's dragon ship was seized... I can't tell this ability...?"
"Hmph, what's so amazing about this? If the King of Han had killed Marshal Zhao... Zhu Yuanzhang could have won so easily!"
Most of the people were Zhao Pusheng's subordinates. After following Zhao Pusheng for many years, they naturally had a different feeling about Zhao Pusheng. At this moment, I couldn't help but sigh when I heard someone mention it.
After a while, Zhang Yi said, "Who said it was not? I remember that Marshal Zhao had two single swords and brought his brothers to Yu Tingyu and his son (Yu Tonghai, Yu Tongyuan, Yu Tongyuan, and Yu Tongyuan), and Liao Yongan's brothers (Little Brother Liao Yongzhong), used Chaohu as a nest to develop a navy. There were thousands of naval troops and tens of thousands of soldiers. What could the Tartars do to me? How might they be? "
"Yes!" Qian Feng sighed and his face was filled with the glory of following Zhao Pusheng in the past. "Although he followed Emperor Xu later, he captured the Taiping routes, Wuwei, Tongling, Chizhou, Anqing and other places, and occupied the Hukou and Pengze areas in Jiangxi, how happy it was, it seemed like this...?"
"Hmph, all this was caused by Chen Youliang. Marshal Zhao was dissatisfied with his wolf ambition, so he was killed on false charges. Poor Marshal Zhao's reputation for his lifetime, but ended up like this?" Qianhu Qianfeng looked angry.
Zhu Zongyuan couldn't see any expression on his face. He looked around everyone, sighed faintly, and said, "You should tell me what should I do when the enemy is attacking, right? Don't say something useless?"
"Hmph, what else can it be? The King of Han is cruel and ruthless. He even dares to kill Marshal Zhao and Emperor Xu. We have followed Marshal Zhao for many years, and maybe he will be... that day..." Zhang Yi stretched out his right hand and placed it on his neck, and made a cut-down action to everyone's hands.
Everyone was shocked. Even Zhu Zongyuan, who had no expression on his face, changed his expression after seeing this action. He had long heard of Chen Youliang's methods over the years. He killed his mentor Ni Wenjun for power, and then killed Marshal Zhao, killed the king and bullied the heavens, and did something that both man and gods were angry. He was the old minister of the country of Heaven and Marshal Zhao. How could Chen Youliang let me go in the future?
While thinking, Qian Feng suddenly heard Qian Feng say, "General, the King of Han is a man of no trust and cruelty. We are the former subordinates of the Marshal and the old minister of the Heavenly Become Old Master. In the future, can the King of Han become bigger, and can we have a good life?"
"Yes, now he is defeated, and he can't make any move. When the overall situation is stable, he will just take charge of our old ministers in Tianwan. It may not be necessary to assassinate them? And the last general heard that the reason for his defeat this time was that the King of Han was stubborn and did not listen to the advice of Taiwei Zhang. He was defeated by Kang Maocai's trick and defeated Longwan. If he continues to work with such a person, what else can he have?"
Chapter completed!