Hongdu is the center of waterway transportation in the south, that is, the important place of war between soldiers, especially Chen Youliang, who has a large number of sailors, will not give up seizing this place, and he wants to use Hongdu as a base to gradually devour Zhu Yuanzhang's forces. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info.

The defender of Hongdu was Zhu Wenzheng, and his performance in the two wars of Jiangzhou and Zhuquan satisfied Zhu Yuanzhang, so he rose to the rank of governor like a rocket and was assigned to guard the gate of Hongdu.

This inevitably carries a little selfishness of Zhu Yuanzhang, because the geographical location of Hongdu is extremely superior, the transportation is convenient, and since ancient times, it has been known as the place of "three rivers and five lakes, controlling the barbarian Jing and leading Ouyue". The land of the town is left to those who are close to and trusted, which is a common problem of everyone in high power.

But Zhu Yuanzhang's exceptional promotion will inevitably make others look at Zhu Wenzheng with colored glasses, after all, Zhu Wenzheng is not very old, and the several scandals and turmoil he has been involved in Yingtianfu have made people misunderstand, thinking that he is a gentleman who does not do his job properly and can only follow the rules.

Regarding Zhu Wenzheng's airborne, some veterans were slightly unconvinced, although they were perfunctory and submissive, they inevitably acted in disobedience.

Therefore, Zhu Wenzheng, the governor of the capital, was not happy, and even felt a little constrained, he was full of talent but useless, so he had to get drunk and dream every day, and he was in a state of confusion, and even handed over the military deployment to his subordinates.

In fact, he has long been eager to win a fierce battle and establish his military prestige. Hearing that Chen Youliang was making a big move, he was not only not afraid, but had a kind of excitement that was surging with enthusiasm, and immediately announced that the whole city was preparing for war to give Chen Youliang a head-on blow.

In the end, newborn calves are not afraid of tigers!

If it were replaced by other guards, he would have two choices when he heard that Chen Youliang had devoted all his strength to attack Hongdu: either abandon the city and flee, or send people to Ying Tianfu for help while defending the city. After all, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and although Chen Youliang has been defeated several times, he has not been severely damaged at all, and it is obviously impossible for a mere Hongdu to resist the attack of hundreds of thousands of enemy troops.

Zhu Wenzheng, who was young and vigorous, regarded Chen Youliang, a tiger, as a sick cat, and he only had a total of about 40,000 troops, but he neither abandoned the city and fled nor asked Zhu Yuanzhang for help, he wanted to rely on the strength of the whole city to stick to it and create a brilliant result for everyone to see. He wants to tell the world that he is not a gentleman who only causes trouble, nor does he rely on Zhu Yuanzhang to become the governor of the capital, he wants to show his excellent military command ability, and he wants to prove that he is as good as other generals.

Zhu Wenzheng has a thousand household marquis named Zhang Ziming, who was originally a guard of the Guogong Mansion and can be regarded as Zhu Wenzheng's real confidant. But Zhu Wenzheng will never know that Zhang Ziming has another identity, he is Zhu Wei sent by Ma Xiuying to take care of Zhu Wenzheng.

Zhu Wei's primary duty is to protect his master, Zhang Ziming advised Zhu Wenzheng more than once to write to Zhu Yuanzhang for help, "Chen Youliang is menacing, and the metropolitan governor should report this matter to the Duke of China in time without delay." ”

Zhu Wenzheng didn't think so, and when he got tired of hearing it, he reprimanded: "The two armies haven't fought yet, how can they have cowardice first? Chen Youliang and other villains who usurped the dynasty and seized the throne are also worthy of my righteous father's expedition? Besides, my righteous father is fighting against Zhang Shicheng, so where can I get out of the way." ”

Zhang Ziming persuaded him bitterly, "The metropolitan governor can't be careless, Chen Youliang reorganized the Tianyuan Army this time, re-set the Han number, and there are millions of soldiers under his command, and the whole army is pressing, and then Hong will definitely not be able to resist." ”

Zhu Wenzheng sneered and said: "What million, do you also believe that empty boast? It's just his bluff, if he really has an army of millions, why don't you directly attack Ying Tianfu and take this little Hongdu?"

In fact, Chen Youliang had every chance to wave his army down the river and attack Ying Tianfu directly, but his suspicious personality always made him wonder if Zhu Yuanzhang had set up some trap in Ying Tianfu and waited for him to drill, the more he thought about it, the more likely it was, and the more he thought about it, the more he dared not act rashly. He suffered several big losses at the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang, and he became more and more jealous of the other party's intrigues. This may be what people often say, "Once bitten by a snake, ten years afraid of the well rope".

Repeated failures made him have an extreme hatred for Zhu Yuanzhang, but he didn't want Zhu Yuanzhang to end so happily, he wanted to encroach on Zhu Yuanzhang's territory little by little, torture Zhu Yuanzhang's will little by little, and make Zhu Yuanzhang regret offending him from soul to body.

There is nothing more important than torturing a person than taking his relatives first, so the ruthless Chen Youliang chose the Hongdu guarded by Zhu Wenzheng, in his opinion, it is imperative and easy to take Hongdu. I heard that Zhu Yuanzhang regarded this righteous son as his own, but he wanted to see what Zhu Yuanzhang's expression would be when he saw the head of the righteous son.

Zhang Ziming saw that Zhu Wenzheng couldn't listen to the persuasion, so he had to sigh secretly, without the consent of the commander-in-chief, he couldn't send the news to the military department without permission. He quietly contacted the other hidden Zhu Wei and Zhu Men, and asked them to quickly present the news to Ma Xiuying and let her inform Zhu Yuanzhang of her thoughts. At the same time, he made up his mind that once Hongdu fell, Zhu Wenzheng would be rescued first no matter what.

However, this time, Ma Xiuying's attention was all on Zhu Yuanzhang's trip to Anfeng to rescue Han Lin'er, and she asked Xun Ying to report all the military information about Anfeng first, and the intelligence in other places was temporarily suspended. So when she reviewed Zhang Ziming's information, it was a few days later.

In just a few days, Hongdu has undergone earth-shaking changes.

However, there are several city gates in all prosperous cities, and Hongdu, as the central city of southern waterway transportation, naturally has many city gates. Zhu Wenzheng didn't know which city gate Chen Youliang would attack, and he was afraid that he would lose the other, so he carried out a large-scale reinforcement of the Hongdu city, adjusted the pattern of the city gate, and withdrew the city wall near the river to 30 steps away from the river, so that Chen Youliang's fleet could not directly attack the city.

He also ordered Deng Yu to defend Fuzhou Gate, Zhao Desheng to defend Guanbu, Shibu and Qiaobu three gates, Xue Xian to defend Zhangjiang and Xincheng two gates, Niu Hailong and others to defend Liuli and Tangtai two gates. With two thousand elites, he is ready to support all the sects at any time.

However, Chen Youliang's real strength even Zhu Yuanzhang had a headache, Zhu Wenzheng underestimated the strength of the opponent, under absolute force, even if Hongdu was impregnable, he still couldn't compete with the power of a country.

Being played by Zhu Yuanzhang one after another has made the narrow-minded Chen Youliang unbearable, this time he rebuilt a new fleet, and led hundreds of civil and military officials, family members, and 600,000 soldiers, all to the east.

The new fleet is better than the Yuan Tinglou ships, each ship is more than ten zhang long, seven or eight zhang high, divided into three layers, each floor is equipped with rooms, and horses can also pass in the middle, which is simply the prototype of the aircraft carrier of later generations. Moreover, each floor is also separated by thick wooden planks, so even if the people above are killed and bleeding, it will not affect the normal operation of the people below.

When the "aircraft carrier" carrying 600,000 Han troops arrived at the foot of Hongdu City, Zhu Wenzheng was finally dumbfounded, his tightly bitten lip oozed blood, and he looked at the river without saying a word.