Chapter 496 Chen Youliang helped greatly

Author: Shun Jun

Chapter 496 Chen Youliang helped greatly

When Zhang Wuji arrived there, Dangdong made up his mind and thought about his specific action plan to annex the southern half of the Yangtze River.

Then go to Hongdu first to reveal your identity in front of hundreds of thousands of troops and expose Chen Youliang's lies. If you can surrender the troops under Chen Youliang's command, that would be great. If not, if you kill Chen Youliang,

Then it is also to your own advantage.

After that, Chen Youliang's troops were integrated, and then Zhu Yuanzhang was asked to settle the general ledger. He wanted to capture the two strongest forces in the east and south of the Yangtze River. Then Zhang Shicheng, Fang Guozhen, Chen Youding and others could be captured alive in less than a month. When the time comes, the foreigners must first be settled.

, led the troops to first pacify Yunnan and Guizhou to unify the entire southern half of the Yangtze River. After recharging their strength, they turned their fists and launched the Northern Expedition to unify the east of the sky.

So Zhang Wuji exchanged a few words with Yang Xiao and asked for some specific information, then immediately set off for Hongdu City.

Zhang Wuji was not in a hurry before, because in his eyes, Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang were "fighting like snipers and clams" and what he wanted to do was wait until they both suffered losses and "the fishermen benefited".

But now he is anxious, maybe because he regards Chen Youliang's 600,000 soldiers and horses as his own property. The battle of Hongdu was extremely brutal. If he arrived one day late, thousands of soldiers would be killed or injured. Is that a huge loss?

Of course, Zhang Wuji was anxious about his "property".

Zhang Wuji never thought before that that fool Chen Youliang also borrowed his reputation. If that was the case, then he would accept everything he had without any courtesy.

Moreover, Zhang Wuji is very grateful to Chen Youliang. If Chen Youliang had not kidnapped Xie Xun before and made him his enemy, Zhang Wuji would not have wanted to kill him. He even wanted to bear him down for the rest of his life and make him a comfortable person.

rich man.

Because Chen Youliang's unintentional move can help him get rid of two big troubles.

It would be easy for Zhang Wuji to kill Song Qingshu, but Song Qingshu was the only son of his great uncle Song Yuanqiao. Song Yuanqiao treated him well, and it would be very difficult for him to kill his only son.

Even if someone else around him is killed, if his uncle and master find him, if he ignores it and refuses to investigate, then he will be left alone. If he does not kill him, Song Qingshu will miss him every day.

Shan Ruo, although that is harmless, but when I think about it, I feel very uncomfortable.

After all, Zhang Wuji could slowly accumulate the land and soldiers on his own. Anyway, sooner or later that day would be denied to him. It would only take a few years.

But if Song Qingshu had the family ties between his uncle and his master, this matter would have been much more difficult for Zhang Wuji than conquering a city.

When Chen Youliang helped him get rid of Song Qingshu, it helped Zhang Wuji tremendously. This can be said to be his greatest contribution.

And Chen You forgives his second credit for helping him eliminate Xu Shouhui. Xu Shouhui is very popular among the rebels. If he doesn't do it himself, he will inevitably be charged with killing the hero.

Eyedong Chen Youliang helped him and helped him integrate Xu Shouhui's forces in the east, allowing him Zhang Wuji to pick the peaches, which was a great achievement.

If Chen Youliang was not allowed to make a big mistake and it would be detrimental to him, he even wanted to use Chen Youliang to kill Zhu Yuanzhang directly. Then he would come out and pretend to be a good guy to recruit Xu Da and others.

Don't be too greedy. You can take the opportunity to recruit Chen Youliang's 600,000 troops. Just focus on the immediate matter first.

After Zhang Wuji left Shouxian County, he rushed to Hongdu at an accelerated speed of 800 miles.

During that period, when Zhang Wuji was passing by the Yangtze River, he also saw the omen notice posted by Zhu Yuanzhang.

What the notice said was that Zhu Yuanzhang asked for the requisition of merchant ships, fishing boats, and even the Qinhuai singer's flower boats outside his jurisdiction. Anyway, he asked for no ships, and Zhu Yuanzhang would requisition them all.

Moreover, it was clearly stated in the letter that Zhu Yuanzhang was willing to pay ten times the ship fare to borrow the ship. If not, the ship would be damaged, and he would be compensated according to the price.

Of course, this does not mean that Zhu Yuanzhang has a good heart. It just does not mean that he has expedient measures.

Zhang Wuji understood this matter very well, because in order to fight Chen Youliang, warships were indispensable. After all, behind Chen Youliang's 600,000 troops, there were countless ships.

Even if Zhu Wenzheng defends Hongdu, Chen Youliang's main force can withdraw by boat and make a comeback later.

If Ming Chen Youliang comes out in full force, although the attack is fierce, it still has no chance of annihilating his main force.

Conscripting ships at a high price to reject Hu Weiyong's idea was essentially a gamble and an adventure because Zhu Yuanzhang had no intention of fulfilling his own promise.

According to Hu Weiyong's idea, if he wins the bet, then the gains from defeating Chen Youliang can pay off the debts of those boatmen, thus maintaining Zhu Yuanzhang's credibility.

But if they fail, then they won't have to pay much.

Although this was a "big gamble" related to fate, Zhu Yuanzhang did not hesitate to enter the "game" and the "gambling table".

If he had not won that battle, he would have annexed Chen Youliang's forces, and then unified most of the south of the Yangtze River, as he did in history, and finally succeeded in the Northern Expedition, becoming the familiar Hongwu Emperor.

But if he had lost the bet in that battle, then he would have become the second Guo Zixing and Liu Futong. Although the gamble was very risky, if he had won the bet, the profit would have been huge.

History tells us that the real Zhu Yuanzhang was lucky. He won the bet. Shortly after defeating Chen Youliang, he sent Liao Yongzhong to drown Han Lin'er and Liu Futong. After removing the initial obstacles, he ascended the throne in Jinling and achieved the three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty.

country.

But that time Zhang Wuji's bias made Zhu Yuanzhang lose so much that he even lost his pants.

Because he will use Donghongdu City as an outpost to attack Jiangdong. And after he takes Donghongdu, he will not go further. Instead of resting on the spot and informing Tiandong, he will not fight Zhu Yuanzhang in history.

The fateful "Battle of Poyang Lake".

If that was the case, then Zhu Yuanzhang's ship would be considered a red loan. He neither got the gains from defeating Chen Youliang, nor could he pay off the ten times the promised reward to the shipowner.

Moreover, he did not defend Hongdu City, nor did he eliminate the main force of the 600,000-strong army. Instead, the 600,000-strong army became a sharp knife in his hinterland.

Zhang Wuji wanted him to know two things.

"He is the real Ming Zun. There is no good outcome if you make mistakes with Ming Zun."

"Gamblers generally don't have a good time."

Two months later, Zhang Wuji arrived near Hongdu City.

Although Ruming had arrived near Hongdu, Zhang Wuji did not get too close because Hongdu Ruming had been completely surrounded by an army of 600,000 soldiers commanded by Chen Youliang.

Moreover, there were no camps for Chen Youliang's army within a radius of dozens of miles around the city.

Zhang Wuji stood among the trees on a hilltop, overlooking the flags and fortresses in front of him. Now Zhang Wuji had thought of a scene, which was the "Burning Camp" in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms was written in the early Ming Dynasty, and many story details were borrowed from the wars in the late Yuan Dynasty.

If Zhang Wuji Yandong had the same position as Chen Youliang, he would really be tempted to set a fire and have a "burning camp" because of his itchy legs.
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