Zhang Shicheng heard that Changzhou was in danger, so he hurriedly sent Lu Zhen to support, and ordered Zhao Dahu to rescue Changxing. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Geng Bingwen galloped to the foot of Changxing City, and met the arrival of Zhao Dahu.

Before Zhao Dahu could breathe, he was hit head-on by Geng Bingwen, so he had to retreat, and the guard Li Fuan and others immediately went out of the city and surrendered.

Geng Bingwen surrendered a few people, obtained more than 300 warships, and immediately reported the victory.

Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the establishment of the Yongxing Wing Marshal Mansion, and appointed Geng Bingwen as the marshal and commanded the troops.

Zhang Shicheng sent Zuo Prime Minister Pan Yuanming and Marshal Yan Zaixing to attack Changxing. Before he reached the city, he was attacked by Geng Bingwen's ambush and fled in all directions. At this time, only Changzhou could not hold each other, and often encountered the spring equinox soldiers on four roads, cutting off their grain routes.

There was no food in the city, so Lu Zhen couldn't help but panic. He repeatedly went out of the city to break through, but was repelled by Xu Da. Later, all the food in the city was eaten, thousands of soldiers starved to death, Lu Zhen didn't care about defending the city, and took advantage of the darkness of the night to open the city gate and slip away. Changzhou immediately fell, and Xu Da led troops into the city.

Zhang Shicheng lost his troops and lost his troops in Changzhou, Changxing, Jiangyin, Changshu and other places, and resent troops to counterattack Changzhou and Changshu, all of which failed and returned. He was so angry that he didn't think about tea and dinner for several days, and he was extremely annoyed.

Suddenly, the bad news came, Zhang Shide died of hunger strike in Zhu Yuanzhang's camp, and Zhu Yuanzhang sent someone to warn him that if he did not return his generals quickly, he would not dare to guarantee Zhang Shixin's safety.

Zhang Shicheng was filled with grief and indignation, he had already lost a younger brother, and he couldn't lose another younger brother, so he gritted his teeth and ordered the release of Gu Shi, Zhang Long, and Yang Xian in exchange for Zhang Shixin, while gathering the whole army to avenge Zhang Shide.

At this time, Xu Wu suggested to him: "The lord might as well go to the court and ask to join forces with Yang Wanzhi and Fang Guozhen to attack Zhu Yuanzhang, so that we can not only reduce the loss of our own people, but also take the opportunity to export evil anger to avenge the revenge of these two people who attacked the lord in the first place!" ”

Yang Wanzhi was originally a descendant of Yang Zaisi, the leader of the Miao people in Shitong Feishan, and the Yuan court summoned this minority army from Huguang in order to quell the Jiangnan rebellion. However, the combat discipline of this Miao army was very poor, burning, killing and looting, and it was extremely vicious. Anyway, they didn't kill the Yuan people, and the court turned a blind eye to this, and only asked to contribute to the suppression of the rebels.

Fang Guozhen, like Zhang Shicheng, is also a smuggler of salt, but he is different from Zhang Shicheng in that one takes the land route and the other takes the sea route. Fang Guozhen once annihilated the Yuanjiang and Zhejiang Provincial Sailors in Daluyang, and later after being recruited by the Yuan court, he shipped grain for the Yuan court, and also did some pirate trading to rob passing ships.

All three of them have one thing in common, they are all rebel troops recruited by the Yuan court. However, the three of them have been grudges for a long time, and even if they are officials in the same dynasty, they are not in harmony with each other.

After listening to Xu Wu's suggestion, Zhang Shicheng suddenly realized that the court sent him alone to send troops to deal with Zhu Yuanzhang, obviously using him as a gunman, and attacking Zhu Yuanzhang actually weakened his power, which showed that the court did not trust him at all, and he had been fighting stupidly for so long. No, Yang Wanzhi and Fang Guozhen have to be dragged into the water, it is best to let them rush to the front, no matter which side is defeated, it is something he is happy to see. So he immediately repaired the book to Timur, saying that his strength was not good, and he had repeatedly defeated Zhu Yuanzhang, fearing that military discipline would be delayed, and he hoped that the imperial court would send two additional troops of Yang Wanzhi and Fang Guozhen to assist.

Dazhi Timur thought about it, as long as it was not our Yuan people who suffered losses, whether you Han people or Miao people, it didn't matter if you were killed or disabled, so he agreed to Zhang Shicheng's request and sent someone to inform Yang Wanzhi and Fang Guozhen to assist Zhang Shicheng in attacking Zhu Yuanzhang.

Who knew that Yang Wanzhi did not sell Timur's account at all and refused to go on the expedition.

It turned out that these Miao people originally lived in an environment of poor mountains and bad waters, and only after being summoned to Jiangsu and Zhejiang did they know how wonderful the outside world is and how rich the outside world is. They did not know Chinese characters, did not learn to educate, but they were extremely powerful, and had a brute spirit, often defeated the rebels with a fierce force that was not afraid of death, and after each victory, they could get considerable booty, and they gradually became dissatisfied with marching and fighting, and began to slaughter and plunder the people.

This is an arrogant and indiscriminate army, which is unpopular with the people, contrary to the strict discipline of Zhang Shicheng's troops, so that there is a saying in Suzhou, Xiuzhou, Hangzhou and other places: "You don't thank Baoqing Yang in life, and you don't complain about Zhang in Taizhou when you die."

Originally, Yang Wanzhi was ordered by the Yuan court to attack Zhang Shicheng and didn't think much about it, but after the Yuan court recruited Zhang Shicheng, a subordinate named Huang San told him, "Zhang Shicheng started by selling salt, and he has been a prince for so long, he is already rich and rivals the country, and the court still does not let the general kill him, and even gives him the richest territory, this kind of good thing The court has never thought of the general, and now he has called the general to assist him in attacking Zhu Yuanzhang, it seems that the court still values the Han people more than our Miao people." ”

Yang Wanzhi was immediately furious, because if according to the practice set by him and the Yuan court, as long as he killed someone, all the valuable things of that person belonged to his troops, then killing Zhang Shicheng could get all the wealth of Zhang Shicheng, but the Yuan court just recruited Zhang Shicheng and did not let Zhang Shicheng die, and he could not get Zhang Shicheng's wealth. This is simply naked snatching a huge fortune from him, even if the uncle can bear it, the aunt can't bear it!

Therefore, Yang Wanzhi did not cooperate at all when he heard the order of Dazhi Timur, he wished that Zhang Shicheng would die, how could he still join forces with Zhang Shicheng to attack Zhu Yuanzhang?

In this way, Timur became angry and was very dissatisfied with Yang Wanzhi's arrogance. Yang Wanzhi dared to make a stall in front of so many people, obviously he didn't take the court in his eyes, did he also want to rebel? Once they rebelled, these Miao people were more troublesome than the Han people, and they came out to plunder every once in a while, and if they couldn't win, they hid in the mountains, which made people have a headache. No way! Since Yang Wanzhi already has two hearts, then he can't let the tiger return to the mountain this time!

Dazhi Timur immediately sent someone to secretly send a letter to Zhang Shicheng, secretly agreeing to join forces to kill this Miao leader who disobeyed orders.

Zhang Shicheng is very happy, it's not bad if he can't kill Zhu Yuanzhang and kill Yang Wanzhi, if it weren't for Yang Wanzhi's bad thing, maybe he would be a prince in Gaoyou, how could he use his compromise to be a little lieutenant in the Yuan Court.

Dazhi Timur personally rushed to Hangzhou and ordered Yang Wanzhi to send troops to eastern Zhejiang, and Zhang Shicheng to send troops to Huainan.

Yang Wanzhi didn't want to fall out directly with the imperial court, so he asked the generals Yang Tongtai, Yang Notice, Li Caifu, and Xiao Yu to go to eastern Zhejiang for a walk, and he himself was still in Hangzhou to spend all his days drinking.

Zhang Shicheng pretended to lead 100,000 troops to fight against Zhu Yuanzhang, but secretly stationed troops near Hangzhou City, when he found out that the Miao army had sent troops on an expedition, he quickly mobilized troops to attack Hangzhou, and besieged Yang Wanzhi with Timur as the internal response.

Only then did Yang Wanzhi know that he had fallen for the poisonous plan of Timur and Zhang Shicheng, but his army was not around, and he had no power to return to heaven at this time. He was self-aware, knowing that Zhang Shicheng would not treat him well, so he simply hanged himself with his brother Boyan.

When Yang Wanzhi's subordinates got the news and led the army back to Hangzhou to conquer Zhang Shicheng, Zhang Shicheng had already fled when he heard the news.

In order to quell the "Hangzhou Change" and appease the Miao army, the Yuan Court gave Yang Wanzhi as the Duke of Tan Guo, and gave Boyan as the Duke of Hengguo, and he was loyal to the martyrs.

But this did not calm the anger of the Miao army, who raised the anti-Yuan banner and joined Zhu Yuanzhang's army.

Zhu Yuanzhang never dreamed that there would be a Miao army that took the initiative to take refuge in him, and after investigating the reason, he realized that he had inadvertently picked up a big bargain. However, he was troubled by the poor discipline of this Miao army, and was afraid of having a negative impact on his benevolent and righteous army, so he hurriedly convened a meeting to discuss the placement of the Miao army, and finally decided to break up this Miao army and distribute it to each team, and at the same time send people to restrain their military discipline.

In the backyard of the Guogong Mansion, Xun Ying walked slowly with Zhu Zhang, and said with a smile: "Master's trick is really powerful. Dazhi Timur wanted to use Zhang Shicheng to deal with Guogong, but the master told him that he could not be satisfied. Xu Wu and Huang San only needed a few words to call Zhang Shicheng and Yang Wanzhi to fight and lose both, and finally the national government benefited. ”

Ma Xiuying was teaching Zhu the marker, and when she heard this, she didn't raise her head, and said lightly: "If it weren't for the fact that these two people didn't work together, how could they be instigated to kill each other?" It's a pity that Zhang Shicheng escaped. Tell Xu Wu to continue to follow Zhang Shicheng and pay attention to his movements. As for Huang San, there is no big problem on Yang Wanzhi's side, so transfer him to another place. ”

Zhu Biao raised his head and asked curiously, "Mother, what is cannibalism?" ”

"It's what it means to kill each other." Ma Xiuying touched his head, "Good boy, after writing these words, my mother will tell you a story about river mussels fighting and fishermen profiting......"