Chapter 607 Endless Beacon Fire (2)
Chu Xunyu met Zhu Sheng because of fate. At that time, he naturally didn't know what happened in the future. He said goodbye to his home with the idea of helping the world, and went down the mountain to Jiqing to join Zhu Yuanzhang. At that time, he officially began his life full of thorns.
After coming to Jiqing, Zhu Sheng was also very surprised. Unexpectedly, the young man he met a few years ago was also a cultivator and came to help. The world was in chaos, with heroes separating, and countless heroes quarreling, and they were all trying their best to win over the cultivators. Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of Guo Zixing's illness to gather his subordinates, and finally managed to gain a foothold in Jiqing. It was really difficult. There were only a dozen cultivators under his command, and his cultivation level was not even level. Chu Xunyu's joining as a cultivator naturally made Zhu Yuanzhang very happy. As a veteran of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang could be said to have extremely trust in Chu Xunyu. From the later Xiao Xiao, he could enter the palace without authorization.
When meeting Zhu Yuanzhang, who was at the peak of his life, you can see this. It is important to know that ordinary female relatives cannot do this. However, when they heard that it was Siyi's wife, all the guards were released, Zhu Yuanzhang could see that Chu Xunyu had been with him for many years. Unexpectedly, it turned into an assassination incident, which made Zhu Yuanzhang extremely sad. He wanted to kill Chu Xunyu in anger. Fortunately, the family members of the Yaowang Mansion tried their best to plead. After Zhu Yuanzhang calmed down, he thought of his past feelings and sentenced to exile at the extreme. This was definitely rare in Zhu Yuanzhang's life. Most of the people who wanted to kill Zhu Yuanzhang were definitely executed by Zhu Yuanzhang in the end, which shows his kindness to Chu Xunyu.
At that time, Chu Xunyu joined Zhu Yuanzhang and started his own business and became a military ward. Because of frequent wars and insufficient supply, the injured soldiers were killed in vain because they could not receive timely treatment. Therefore, Chu Xunyu saved the lives of many soldiers and unintentionally established a solid prestige for himself. At that time, Xu Da healed the pain many times, making the two acquainted him.
Later, Zhu Sheng proposed the "Nine Characters to Determine the World" policy that was later famous in later generations, which was: "Build high walls, accumulate grain, and slowly become kings", which allowed Zhu Yuanzhang's power to flourish and make unprecedented progress. Of course, this has to be said to be the fate of heaven, because at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang's power was located in the south, and was behind many warlords. A large number of Yuanmeng elites were fighting against the warlords. The blood flowed into a river. Zhang Shicheng from Xuzhou alone restrained 30 to 40% of the Yuan army elites, and the two sides were killed in the dark. In addition, there were also large warlord forces such as Fang Guozhen and Chen Youliang and the Yuan army, and they often fought, minimizing the pressure of Zhu Yuanzhang to fight against Yuanmeng in the early stage, and successfully stationed troops and accumulated grain, recruited talents, expanded the territory and cracked the land, and grew up healthily.
Zhu Yuanzhang did the best during the long war between the two dynasties to win over the public. Because he was poor, he worked as a beggar and monk, he did not violate the people wherever the army went. The people praised the people at the same time, and they strictly enforced military discipline, adopted many talented people, and had countless capable generals under his command. Xu Da and Chang Yuchun were the best in the three armies. Civil officials planned to see through the secrets of heaven, praised Zhu Sheng and Liu Bowen, and countless other capable people. They gained a great reputation in the world for a time and attracted all the heroes from all over the world to help. On the eve of the Battle of Poyang Lake, more than a hundred cultivators followed him, and Sun Mengqing and Duanmu Zheyue also joined Zhu Yuanzhang's camp at that time.
Among many forces, Chen Youliang was the first to realize Zhu Yuanzhang's power and ambition. Chen Youliang was sinister and cunning, and was good at hiding swords in his laughter. He killed the old master and the deposed emperor. What was even more commendable is that such a trick poisonous man was also good at leading troops to fight. For a moment, the limelight was rising, and the forces he occupied were located in the two lakes and Jiangxi. Among the many forces fighting against the Yuan and Mongolian army, the firefighting line was the shortest and the pressure was the least. He keenly noticed that Zhu Yuanzhang was quietly showing his strength behind him, so he dispatched troops and planned to completely eliminate Zhu Yuanzhang when he was not yet full of wings, and forever eliminated future troubles.
This was the first life-and-death battle that Zhu Yuanzhang faced in his life, and it was also the first life-and-death battle that Chu Xunyu faced. For a long time, most of the towns that Zhu Yuanzhang attacked in the rear were disintegrated and the resistance forces were about to collapse. It was rare to encounter two or three regular Yuan and Mongolia troops, with the help of cultivators, basically it was said that they were playing triumphantly. Now Chen Youliang personally led the most elite navy under his command, with a total of 100 warships, more than 50,000 soldiers, and 200 cultivators. He was in full swing, and he rushed all the way with murderous intent, which made Zhu Yuanzhang's people shake, not knowing whether to fight or surrender.
Fortunately, Liu Bowen, who was a wise man, advised Zhu Yuanzhang and decided to break the enemy, so he stabilized the people's hearts and decided to send Chen Youliang's former subordinate Kang Maocai to surrender, induce Chen Youliang's army to go all out and arrange his troops in advance. When he was walking in the area of Jiangdongqiao, he suddenly came out and formed a siege. The ambush and navy troops were dispatched together. The two sides fought for several hours and finally won.
In that battle, Chu Xunyu followed Xu Da ambushed outside the south gate of Jiankang City. After Chen Youliang encountered a trap at Jiangdong Bridge, he hurriedly wanted to return to the army. As a result, the water bridges were replaced by Zhu Yuanzhang in advance with stone and poured iron juice. Chen Youliang's tall warship was blocked and could not play its role at all. More than 20 cultivators were distributed on the water road to cast spells. The water surface was covered by heavy fog. Zhang Desheng, a powerful general under Zhu Yuanzhang, led the navy to attack while taking the chaos. Chen Youliang's army fled while fighting. It took nearly half a day to find a way out with the help of his cultivators. On the Longjiang generation, tens of thousands of soldiers went to the beach. Sun Mengqing, the first ambush, led his army to block and prevent him from logging in and running away. Then Xu Da, Chang Yuchun and Zhang Desheng, surrounded him. A good fight was easy to kill, and the Bodhisattva closed his eyes and the gods burst into tears.
The first person to block the enemy was Sun Mengqing's troops. There were less than 10,000 people and more than ten cultivators. Chen Youliang's troops did not suffer substantial damage when he came ashore. Tens of thousands of people attacked with the help of more than 200 cultivators. Sun Mengqing was worthy of being a talented general and knew that he could not fight hard. So he defended the pass with the terrain, and then let more than ten cultivators release heavy fog, fire, thick smoke in the air to confuse the enemy and block the sight. His men and horses were divided into ten groups to fill the pass in turn to defend the enemy's breakthrough. Chen Youliang's troops went everywhere, and they were confused. He thought that there were thousands of troops on the shore ambush and did not dare to act rashly. He attacked carefully. As a result, not only did he not break through the defense line, but many of his own troops, including the cultivators, were accidentally injured by their own people. It was ridiculous.
Chapter completed!