After Zhu Yuanzhang defeated Zhang Shicheng, he focused his main energy on dealing with Xu Shouhui, but he understood that his real opponent was not the superficial Xu Shouhui, but the huge shadow behind him-Chen Youliang.

During this period, Zhu Yuanzhang made two decisions that made him the ultimate winner of the war. The first decision was to build high walls, accumulate grain widely, and slowly become king. It was this decision that allowed him to avoid the world.

People should pay attention to the fact that while other leaders of the peasant uprising had inflated imperial ideas and used a tiger skin as a banner, and dared to feed thousands of people with only a few meters in the pot, Zhu Yuanzhang made full use of his time and continuously developed his own strength.

Another decision was to choose between Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng. At that time, everyone generally believed that Zhang Shicheng was relatively weak, and they hoped to deal with him first and use the land they occupied in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to expand their own power and thus fight Chen Youliang. It should be said that this decision regardless of

It is correct from any angle, but Zhu Yuanzhang showed his genius strategic vision at this time.

In actual decision-making, it is very difficult not to be affected by the opinions of others, especially the majority. When many people agree, many people will follow the crowd and even change their original opinions. Zhu Yuanzhang used his wisdom to tell

People, the truth is often on the side of the few.

Zhu Yuanzhang said to his counselors that your views are reasonable, but you have not seen the key to the problem: Zhang Shicheng is characterized by smallness, and Chen Youliang is characterized by arrogance; smallness has no vision, and arrogance tends to cause trouble. If

If I attack Chen Youliang, Zhang Shicheng will definitely not save him; if I attack Zhang Shicheng, Chen Youliang will definitely mobilize the entire country's troops to rescue him. I will have to fight on two fronts, and it will be difficult to say then.

Wonderful! So wonderful!

With such knowledge, if this person cannot conquer the world, who can?

Prelude to the war

No matter how they avoid it, the day of decisive battle will eventually come. This is the consensus of Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang.

In the nineteenth year of Zhizheng (1359), Chen Youliang had completely controlled Tianwan Kingdom. He had more soldiers than Zhu Yuanzhang, and his training level was higher than Zhu Yuanzhang's soldiers. What's more terrible is that his strength was exactly Zhu Yuanzhang's weakness-water

military.

Chen Youliang occupied Hubei and Jiangxi. In other words, he occupied the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, while Zhu Yuanzhang occupied Yingtian in the lower reaches. He had to fight with his head up. Since they happened to be on the same waterway, water battles became an inevitable method of war.

This is the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang repeatedly avoided decisive battles.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang did not understand physics, he also knew that using fishing boats to fight warships on the water was tantamount to suicide.

Just at this time, something happened that caused the decisive battle to break out in advance. This was something Zhu Yuanzhang never expected.

In November of the 19th year, Chang Yuchun led his troops to capture Chizhou. Chen Youliang was greatly surprised and prepared to arrange for troops to recapture it. However, when the incident was revealed, Zhu Yuanzhang was prepared and ordered Xu Da and Chang Yuchun to fight in an ambush. Chang Yuchun

Chun and Xu Da set up an ambush at the foot of Jiuhua Mountain, defeated Chen Youliang's army, and captured three thousand people.

At this time, Chang Yuchun's old habit broke out. He told Xu Da that I wanted to kill these three thousand people. Xu Da firmly disagreed and said that he would report it to Zhu Yuanzhang, but he did not expect that Chang Yuchun would be so courageous.

He dared to bury all three thousand people alive in one night without asking for permission!

Chang Yuchun had a purpose in killing and surrendering. He left a few people alive and asked them to go back and bring a message to Chen Youliang.

I am Chang Yuchun, and I defeated you!

Big trouble.

Chen Youliang’s anger

Chen Youliang was really angry. Since he joined the army, no one dared to bully him anymore. He always shrank in front of him. Who kind of person, Chang Yuchun, dared to provoke him!

He finally took action. This time it was no longer a small fight, but a fight to Yingtian and drove Zhu Yuanzhang back to farming!

Of course, this is what Zhu Yuanzhang did not want to see.

This time Chang Yuchun really attracted the wolf.

In the 20th year of Zhizheng, Chen Youliang led his most powerful fleet in China to Yingtian. The names of his warships were very majestic. I will talk about them in detail here: Hunjianglong, Blocking the River, Knocking Down the Mountain,

Jiang Hai'ao and others just needed to be named Jingpotian.

The name of the ship is majestic, but what about warships? It should be said that warships are also very powerful. Most of these warships are three stories high and equipped with all kinds of artillery. When using such a ship to fight Zhu Yuanzhang's fishing boats, you don't need to attack. You only need to ram them.

That’s it.

Chen Youliang notified Zhang Shicheng before the attack and asked him to attack Zhu Yuanzhang from both sides. Then he ordered his invincible fleet to set off for Yingtian with lightning speed.

Chen Youliang has a great characteristic in commanding operations. This person never seems to study the battle plan carefully, but acts haphazardly and hits wherever he wants. This characteristic has always made him criticized by military experts, but objectively speaking

, this is exactly his combat characteristics and the essence of his command art.

Even he himself didn't know where he was going to attack. How could the enemy know? Who could withstand this kind of person who doesn't follow common sense? Zhu Yuanzhang suffered his loss.

When Zhu Yuanzhang learned that Chen Youliang had led an army to attack, Chen Youliang's fleet had already captured the important military location to quarry stones. The speed made Zhu Yuanzhang speechless. And the most important barrier in Yingtian, Taiping, now stood alone in front of Chen Youliang's 100,000 troops.

.Because Chen's Han army did not expect to attack so quickly, there were only 3,000 soldiers in the city, with Hua Yun as commander.

Chen Youliang fully demonstrated the terrifying strength of his fleet in the battle to attack Taiping. He did not let the soldiers attack the city. He just asked the soldiers to drive the ships to the wall of Taiping City near the river, and use short ladders to calmly climb up the city.

Head, annihilated three thousand defenders in one fell swoop.

When Chen Youliang's Han army climbed down from the city wall, many defenders had not yet reacted and stared blankly at the Han army. They could not figure out whether these people had flown over with such a high city wall and the natural dangers of the Yangtze River.

?!

Taiping was breached, and Yingtian was like a naked child, exposed to Chen Youliang's sharp sword. Chen Youliang had killed Xu Shouhui and became the emperor. Now his target is only Zhu Yuanzhang, and he only has 10,000 naval troops. He seems to be vulnerable.

Zhu Yuanzhang was attacked.

The world is already in my hands!

It seemed that God was going to abandon Zhu Yuanzhang. No matter from any angle, he had no hope of winning. Every time he went to Xuanwu Lake and saw those broken fishing boats, he always had the urge to burn the garbage with fire.

But things always turn around. Shortly before Chen Youliang's army went south, God sent a great gift to Zhu Yuanzhang. This great gift was a person.

Astronomy is important

In April of the 20th year of Zhizheng, Zhu Yuanzhang's subordinate Hu Dahai captured Chuzhou. Hu Dahai was a general who cherished talents. He heard that there were several hermits nearby who were very talented, so he sent someone to invite them.

The so-called hermit refers to the kind of person who is still washing his face when others have finished lunch. He may not be really capable, but no matter what, it is always good to drag one more person into the water.

The names of these hermits are Ye Chen, Zhang Yi, and Liu Ji.

The first two people came immediately after receiving the invitation, but the last Liu Ji refused to come no matter how much he was invited.

Hu Dahai felt that this person was too arrogant and didn't want to invite him anymore, but someone told him that it didn't matter if Ye Chen and Zhang Yi were invited or not, Liu Ji must be invited because he knew astronomy.

People today have limited interest in astronomy, but at that time, it was an amazing skill that not everyone could learn. It was a kind of imperial science. The monarchs on the earth felt that the vast land could no longer satisfy their needs.

Desire and vanity have linked their destiny to the stars in the sky. When they were born, the stars descended to earth (usually it was windy and rainy), when they ascended the throne, the purple stars shone brightly, when someone took the throne, the alien stars took over the palace, and when they died, the stars took over the palace.

That's when a meteor hits the ground.

All in all, it is all related to the stars. Those who understand this knowledge are not just talents, they are simply geniuses.

So Hu Dahai reported it to Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang was very interested and sent a man named Sun Yan to summon Liu Ji. But Liu Ji refused to give him face. When pressed, he gave Sun Yan a sword in return. This was a

Seeing that the mission could not be completed, Sun Yan became anxious, took off his mask of warmth, and said a meaningful word to Liu Ji: This sword of yours should be dedicated to the emperor. The emperor uses the sword to kill those people.

Disobedient people (the sword should be offered to the emperor, and those who disobey orders should be killed).

Liu Ji understood that he could not afford to suffer at this moment, so he obediently went to work under Zhu Yuanzhang. But at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang did not understand his true ability and regarded him as a fortune teller or something like that.

Gold will always shine.

decision

When news of the fall of Taiping reached Yingtian, Zhu Yuanzhang summoned his counselors to discuss countermeasures. Different opinions emerged at the meeting. Most (note this word) advocated escape, while others advocated retreating to Zijin Mountain. However, these two groups

They are unanimous on one issue, which is to give up Yingtian.

These counselors who usually boasted about their sagacity revealed their true colors at this time. In addition to scolding Chang Yuchun, all they did was brag about the strength of the Han army, discuss how Taiping was lost, and how inferior their own army was.

All in all, all in all, you must not fight, otherwise you will perish.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at these people with disappointment. He believed that most of them had packed their packages, prepared escape vehicles for their wives and children, and were ready to defect to the new boss at any time, and then stepped on him when he fell to the ground.

Adding insult to injury and taking advantage of others' misfortunes have always been the specialty of these people.

At this time, he saw Liu Ji, whose face was gloomy and uncertain. He seemed to have something to say, so he asked: "Liu Ji, do you have something to say? Say it."

Liu Ji's colleagues stopped talking and looked at Liu Ji. Since this man became a counselor under Zhu Yuanzhang, he has been taciturn and has not come up with any ideas. Everyone does not think highly of him, just because this man has a good temper and never comes up with any ideas.

If you get angry, your popularity is not bad.

Liu Ji stood up. The long time of waiting and listening had worn away all his patience. He revealed his true face. He was no longer a good gentleman, but Liu Bowen, who knew astronomy and geography from above, strategized and won the battle thousands of miles away!

He looked down at these so-called talents who usually thought highly of themselves with contempt, and said loudly in an almost hysterical tone:

"Those who say they want to surrender and escape should be killed immediately! Are you so cowardly? Although the enemy is powerful now, he is arrogant. As long as we lure the enemy deep and use ambush attacks, it is easy to defeat Chen Youliang! Just think about it!

Do you think someone who is running away has the nerve to call himself a subject?!"

He reprimanded those cowardly people, analyzed the situation in detail, and told everyone that Chen Youliang was not invincible. The people around him were stunned by him and looked at him blankly.

"If we lose Yingtian, where else can we go? Even though I am weak, I can still fight for my life! If you want to leave, you can leave, but I will never leave!"

"I'm not going anywhere, and I vow to live and die with Yingtian!"

His voice was like a violent storm, sweeping every corner of the hall.

Zhu Yuanzhang was very emotional, seeing so many so-called Conglong ministers who only planned for themselves, but this man who had just come to work under him could use his own courage to say such words as "living with the city". He was not without fear.

He knew very well that if Chen Youliang captured Yingtian, his many years of hard work would be ruined. Like Xu Shouhui, he would become a stepping stone to Chen Youliang's throne. It would be impossible for him to be a monk or a farmer, and the only thing waiting for him would be death.

Of course he wanted to annihilate Chen Youliang in one battle and make this annoying person disappear from the world, but Chen Youliang was so powerful that it seemed impossible to defeat him. The huge warship was like a terrifying monster that would kill him and his weak water.

The army was engulfed.

Then hide, but where can you hide? Chuzhou? Haozhou? Being chased around like a dog, and finally killed like a dog?
To be continued...