When Kuangkuo and Polo were fighting, Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang were also fighting to the death.

Because Chen Youliang lost to Zhu Yuanzhang several times and lost a large amount of land, he was very resentful in his heart, and what was even more infuriating was that since he was defeated and fled to Wuchang, the generals in Jiangxi who were originally loyal to him defected to Zhu Yuanzhang when he failed, and no one took up arms to serve him.

In order to take revenge, Chen Youliang fought hard and prepared frantically, he built even more huge warships, these giants were several feet high, with three floors, horses could run on the deck, and there were iron-clad towers that could cover archers, and the outer shells of the ship were also wrapped in iron sheets, and the tail of the ship was high enough to climb any city wall, which could be called an aircraft carrier of his time.

Soon, his opportunity came, Chahan's adopted son expanded to conquer Yidu, liberated the whole territory of Shandong, Liu Futong's troops, as the only existing rebel army in the north, were like a lone hare in the wilderness, and everyone got it.

Zhang Shicheng doesn't have the courage to fight tigers in the mountains, but he is still good at catching rabbits in the grass and attacking Anfeng, which can not only expand the territory, but also pull Zhu Yuanzhang's back, why not? Zhang Shicheng sent the general Lu Zhen to attack Anfeng, the former enemy of the Chaohu Water Division Zuo Junbi also brought a group of men and horses to assist Lu Zhen in the battle, Liu Futong's troops tens of thousands of horses were trapped in the city, hungry, the war horses were killed and eaten, and the old and weak women and children were killed to eat, some of the dead bodies buried in the ground had been decomposed, and they were also picked up to satisfy their hunger, and the soil at the bottom of the well was turned into balls, and they were fried and eaten with human oil.

In a hurry, Liu Futong asked Zhu Yuanzhang for help, Zhu Yuanzhang had little interest in aiding Liu Futong, but he didn't want to lose the barrier in the north, and he didn't want to see Zhang Shicheng become bigger, so he decided to send troops. The strategist Liu Ji had always discriminated against the Red Army, and he advised Zhu Yuanzhang not to send troops so as not to fall into the predicament of fighting on the eastern and western fronts, but Zhu Yuanzhang did not adopt his opinion.

Zhu Yuanzhang personally led the main force to rescue Anfeng, but it was too late, Lu Zhen had already broken through Anfeng, killed Liu Futong, Zhu Yuanzhang beat Lu Zhen away, and placed in Chuzhou after rescuing Han Lin'er, the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang then returned to Nanjing, but the war was not over, the generals of Chaohu Water Division insisted on finding Zuo Junbi for revenge, Zhu Yuanzhang had no choice but to agree, and sent Xu Da, Chang Yuchun and others attacked Zuo Junbi's garrison Luzhou, but Luzhou was a difficult bone to gnaw, and the Ming army surrounded it for four months and did not take it, and the Yuan army took the opportunity to capture Anfeng, which was empty in defense.

Chen Youliang saw Zhu Yuanzhang's main force moving eastward and felt that the opportunity was coming, so he sent troops eastward. His goal was to recover Jiangxi and teach the local defenders who surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang when he failed, not to compete with Zhu Yuanzhang for the cities along the Yangtze River as before, let alone to attack Nanjing and eliminate Zhu Yuanzhang, so he did not take advantage of the situation to attack Nanjing, and it was obvious that he had realized Zhu Yuanzhang's strength from the previous defeats, and his ambitions were much more restrained. However, Zhu Yuanzhang did not understand the adjustment of Chen Youliang's strategic goals, and thought that Chen Youliang's strategic vision was short-sighted and missed the fighter, so he laughed at him.

Since this time the opponent was a loose Jiangxi warlord, and he had a super battleship, Chen Youliang was full of ambition, thinking that the victory was in his hands, carrying his family and hundreds of officials, and coming from the empty country, he wanted everyone to share his first victory since becoming emperor to enhance his persuasiveness.

After a long journey, the fleet appeared on the Gan River outside the city of Nanchang, Chen Youliang planned to recreate the scene of the Taiping Campaign, from the stern of the ship to capture the city, but he was dumbfounded as soon as he arrived in Nanchang, because the new city wall of Nanchang shrank inward by a distance, Chen Youliang's scorpion tactics could not be implemented, and a surprise attack turned into a storm.

Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew Zhu Wenzheng, Deng Yu, Marshal Zhao Desheng, Xue Xian and others led the army to hold Hongdu and repelled the attacks of the Han army, and the Han army destroyed a section of the city wall, but Deng Yu led the army to desperately block the gap, and then built a semicircular fortification to replace this section of the city wall.

The Ming army in the city went out of the city to attack and severely damaged the Han army, but the casualties of the Ming army were also very large, Marshal Zhao Desheng and many people were killed, and the defenders of Nanchang pretended to surrender and got the opportunity for a truce, and they used this time to report to Zhu Yuanzhang. While besieging Nanchang, Chen Youliang divided his troops to capture Ji'an, Linjiang, Wuwei and other places, and he hoped that those areas in Jiangxi that had surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang would change their minds and return to his embrace.

When Chen Youliang was in Jiangxi, Nanjing's reaction was a little sluggish, not because of intelligence, but because Zhu Yuanzhang was tied hand and foot by two things: first, Xu Da and others were attacking Luzhou, and it was difficult to divide the troops; second, Xie Zaixing, the defender of Zhuquan Fortress close to the border of the Wu army, defected to Zhang Shicheng, and Zhu Yuanzhang sent Hu Deji to lead troops to quell the rebellion.

Zhu Wenzheng sent Zhang Ziming, a thousand households, to find out the enemy camp in a small boat at night to Nanjing to report to Nanjing, Zhang Ziming traveled day and night, and walked for half a month before arriving in Nanjing, Zhu Yuanzhang heard Zhang Ziming's report, and said to him: "You go back and tell Wenzheng, let him hold on for another month, and I will definitely let Chen Youliang come and go." ”

Zhang Ziming returned to Nanchang with Zhu Yuanzhang's instructions, but was unfortunately caught by Chen Youliang's soldiers at Hukou, and Chen Youliang said to him: "As long as you can lure Zhu Wenzheng down, you will be rich and noble." ”

Zhang Ziming pretended to agree, but when the Han army escorted Zhang Ziming to Nanchang City and asked him to shout to the defenders, Zhang Ziming shouted: "I have seen the lord, the army is about to arrive, please hold on." The Han army was furious and slashed him.

After Zhang Ziming left, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Xu Dahe and Chang Yuchun to relieve the siege of Luzhou, go to Nanjing to meet Zhu Yuanzhang and then go by water to rescue Nanchang, Hu Deji relieved the siege of Zhuquan, and returned to Guangxin to rescue Nanchang by land. After the army was assembled, it went up the river, and after entering Poyang Lake from the Yangtze River, Zhu Yuanzhang sent troops to camp at the mouth of the Jingjiang River and Huzui, blocking Chen Youliang's retreat, and sent people to Xinzhou to occupy Wuyangdu, southeast of Nanchang, to prevent Chen Youliang from fleeing south by land. Judging from the frame, Zhu Yuanzhang seems to really want to finish his work this time.

Chen Youliang heard that Zhu Yuanzhang's rescue troops arrived, and immediately relieved the siege of Hongdu, and led the fleet into Poyang Lake to meet Zhu Yuanzhang. Both men were very confident and underestimated the difficulties, and the two armies met at Kanglang Mountain in the south of Poyang Lake, and the next day they fought a great battle.

Chen Youliang's giant ship was on a rampage, its height was designed for siege, and it had a great advantage when approaching and climbing the enemy's warships, Zhu Yuanzhang used the tactics of wolves, dividing the fleet into eleven teams, with the big ship in the middle, led by him and Xu Da and Chang Yuchun, and the small boats on both sides, led by Chaohu General Yue Haitong and Liao Yongzhong respectively. Zhu Yuanzhang told the generals: "The first firearms are firearmed, the second is the bow, and when they approach the enemy ship, they will be stabbed with short weapons." ”

On the first day of the battle, Xu Da took the lead, killed more than 1,500 enemies, and captured a huge ship, Yu Haitong's fleet destroyed more than 20 warships of the Han army with a gunpowder cartridge fired by Shiyu, Chen Youliang attacked with artillery, and also sank many of Zhu Yuanzhang's warships, Marshal Song Gui, Chen Zhaoxian and others were killed, and Xu Da's warship was also hit by fire.

The main force of the Ming army was forced to retreat to a shallow water area, the Han army giant ship could not pursue, and temporarily got rid of the danger, but the shallow water area was easy to run aground, Zhu Yuanzhang's ship was stuck in the sand and could not get out, Chen Youliang Xiao found Zhang Dingbian and pounced straight over, at this critical moment, commanded Han Cheng to put on Zhu Yuanzhang's clothes and jumped to his death, Zhang Dingbian and others thought that Zhu Yuanzhang had committed suicide, and cheered in unison.

Chang Yuchun took the opportunity to rush and shot Zhang Dingbian with an arrow, and Yu Tonghai, Liao Yongzhong and others also rushed to the rescue, and the boats set off huge waves, so that Zhu Yuanzhang's ship was able to start again. However, Chang Yuchun's boat fell into the mud due to the fierce fighting, and the generals could not get out after being rescued, and at this time a broken ship floated upstream, which happened to hit Chang Yuchun's boat and knocked it out of the shallows.

Xu Da's battleship was badly damaged, and that night, Zhu Yuanzhang asked him to return to Nanjing with all the damaged ships, and after the first day of fighting, he realized that it would be a protracted battle, so he asked Xu Da to go back to Nanjing to prevent Zhang Shicheng from stabbing him in the back.

The next day the battle continued, the Ming army ships were small and short, not conducive to attacking upwards, retreating one after another, the soldiers were afraid of difficulties, unwilling to fight with the Han warships that stood like mountains, Zhu Yuanzhang killed more than ten retreaters in a hurry, and the soldiers fought to the death, the court sentenced Zhang Zhixiong's ship to be broken, it was difficult to mobilize, the Han army rushed up, stabbed with a spear, Zhang Zhixiong did not have the strength to fight back, and killed himself angrily.

After the Privy Council was surrounded, he was stabbed in more than ten places, fought bitterly, and was suddenly cut off by a flying knife, and his body was still standing with a gun, as if fighting with the enemy.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw that the Han army warships were very dense, and decided to use fire attack, Chang Yuchun carried dozens of small boats full of firewood, grass and gunpowder, entered the enemy formation, and burned several large ships of the Han army, Chen Youliang's younger brother Chen Youren and Chen Yougui were also burned to death, Chen Youren is a one-eyed dragon, the number five kings, courageous strategy, is Chen Youliang's right-hand man, his death is a big blow to Chen Youliang.

In the battle that day, Chen Youliang found that the mast of the ship Zhu Yuanzhang was riding on was white, so he agreed with the sergeants to attack the white boat with all his might, but Zhu Yuanzhang had already taken precautions and ordered people to paint all the boats white that night. On the third day, when he fought again, Chen Youliang was dumbfounded when he found that all the ships were white.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang's fire attack tactics did not yield results, because Chen Youliang learned the lesson of the previous day and scattered the formation of the fleet, making it difficult for the Ming army's fireships to succeed. After removing the advantage of fire attack, the Ming army realized that it was difficult to win by hard fighting, and many soldiers asked to get out of the battle and besiege instead. At this time, the siege of Nanchang had been resolved, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to withdraw from the battlefield and drive to the mouth of Poyang Lake on the Yangtze River, and the Ming fleet reached the mouth of the lake, and built fortifications at the mouth of the Jingjiang River and Nanhu, and Jinghou Chen Youliang ran out of ammunition and food.

Chen Youliang convened his subordinates to discuss countermeasures, and General Youjingo said: "It is difficult to get out of the lake, so you should burn the boat and land, and retreat to Hunan in order to raise it again." ”

General Zo Jinwu objected, saying: "This is a sign of weakness, and besides, if they chase us with an army, we will lose our ground and be completely finished." ”

Chen Youliang hesitated, and first said: "Right Jinwu is right. ”

Seeing that Chen Youliang did not listen to his words, Zuo Jinwu surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang with his subordinates, and Zuo Jinwu also followed in his footsteps, Chen Youliang killed all the captured soldiers in a fit of anger, but Zhu Yuanzhang did the opposite, returned all the captured soldiers, treated the wounded, and sacrificed Chen Youliang's generals who died in battle. Zhu Yuanzhang wrote a letter to Chen Youguan, advising him to cancel the imperial title, saying: "Even if you survive, it is better to be the emperor and wait for Allah, otherwise you will lose your family and lose your family name and regret it later." ”

After a few days, Chen Youliang ran out of food, and decided to break through from the mouth of Poyang Lake by water and then withdraw through the Yangtze River, the Ming army occupied the favorable position of the mouth of the lake and the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to block, the Han army fought and walked, the Ming army fought to the death, and clusters of ships bit and fought with each other, fighting from day to night.

Chen Youliang's big ship has rough skin and thick flesh, and those who stop it will be turned over on their backs, and it is difficult for the Ming army boat to intercept, if there is no accident, Chen Youliang's safe retreat is not a big problem, but the accident happened, Chen Youliang poked his head out of the boat to look, at this moment, a sharp arrow flew in, through Chen Youliang's eyes and directly to the skull, Chen Youliang was killed instantly.

After Chen Youliang's death, the Han army was defeated, the prince Shan'er was captured by the Ming army, and Zhang Dingbian fled back to Wuchang with Chen Youliang's body and his young son Chen Li in the night.

Zhu Yuanzhang returned to Nanjing, on the reward of meritorious deeds, for this battle, Zhu Yuanzhang concluded: "I should not go to save Anfeng, if Chen Youliang takes advantage of the false to attack Nanjing, the big thing will go." It's a pity that he stationed troops in Nanchang, so stupid, how can he not die? Chen Youliang perished, and it would not be difficult for the world to be pacified. ”