Chapter 245: Repeating Zhang Shicheng
A unique blind date meeting, a laughing belly of the group wedding has become the most talked about topic of the people of Yingtian, this initiative dare not say that there is no one to come, no one before is sure. www.biquge.info Many people are inquiring about when the next group wedding will be held, and some generals who are out of the country have asked Zhu Yuanzhang to hold another blind date after hearing about it, but they don't have a daughter-in-law yet.
Zhu Yuanzhang was funny and angry, and conveyed the generals' request to Ma Xiuying, "Look at what you have done, now none of you want to fight, you just want to marry a daughter-in-law." ”
Ma Xiuying glanced at him, "People are born and die for you outside, and they can't even care about marrying a daughter-in-law, what's wrong with me worrying about them? I think this is very good, with a daughter-in-law, the hearts of these people have also settled down, and they won't think about it anymore." ”
"You're always justified. Zhu Yuanzhang said that Ma Xiuying would throw the stall to her, "Zheng Yuchun doesn't have a daughter-in-law yet, you can give Zhang Luo." ”
"Okay, I'll pay attention to the right girls for them to look at, and when they come back, I'll arrange to see each other. Ma Xiuying agreed with a smile.
The news spread that this time there were more women willing to marry the generals than last time, and last time many girls and their families felt that it was too embarrassing to show up and pick their husbands, and refused to participate in the blind date meeting. As a result, seeing that people were marrying well and marrying lively, he secretly regretted it, and heard that Ma Xiuying was going to hold a blind date conference, so he hurriedly signed up.
However, this time the blind date event was not successfully held, just when people were elated and discussed, a bad news came, the Yuan court sent Zhang Shicheng to attack the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions controlled by Zhu Yuanzhang.
Speaking of Zhang Shicheng, he is the most capricious of the leaders of the rebel armies. His original name was Zhang Jiusi, a smuggler of salt, and because he could not bear the oppression of the salt officials, he and 17 hot-blooded salt people picked up the salt bearers and killed the salt officials one night to declare an uprising. Not long after the uprising, he was recruited by the Yuan court and made a petty official, but when the Yuan court asked him to send troops to attack the Red Turban Army in Haozhou and other places, he felt that Han Lin'er and Guo Zixing were all difficult characters to deal with, so he couldn't go, found an excuse to sneak to Gaoyou, and simply became the self-styled prince.
How could the Yuan court tolerate being played by Zhang Shicheng like this, and immediately sent the right prime minister to lead an army of one million to attack Gaoyou. At that time, a death order was issued, requiring Tokhtar to slaughter the local soldiers and civilians after capturing Gaoyou, not giving Zhang Shicheng a chance to surrender, and to warn him in Jiangnan.
It's a pity that he didn't attack Gaoyou in one go, but divided his troops into several ways, trying to capture Chuzhou, Haozhou and other places together, but was put on a position by Zhu Yuanzhang, and then was thrown away by Prime Minister Satun in front of Emperor Yuan Shun.
Zhang Shicheng, who was originally on the verge of despair, took advantage of the Yuan army's change of generals and the army's discouragement to launch a counterattack, and actually turned defeat into victory, not only was not destroyed by the Yuan army, but also expanded the army lineup. Later, he heard that Ying Tianfu was richer than Gaoyou, so he wanted to capture Ying Tianfu, but unfortunately Zhu Yuanzhang was one step ahead, so he had to occupy Pingjiang Road first and then make plans. Who knew that before he could breathe, the Yuan court came to attack him again, and Timur of Pingzhang Dazhi in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province sent Yang Wan and Fang Guozhen to attack him together on the left and right. This time, there was no good thing to change the general, he was cornered, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he hurriedly surrendered again.
If it was in the heyday of the Yuan Dynasty, it would inevitably not have left this repeated villain, but at this moment, the Yuan Dynasty is like a cowhide bag eaten by ants and insects, with loopholes in all directions. Someone suggested to Dazhi Timur that he should save Zhang Shicheng's life first, and order him to lead troops to attack Zhu Yuanzhang's troops, so that they could kill each other and consume their troops, and when this person lost his usefulness, it would not be too late to kill him.
After hearing this, Timur readily agreed, canonized Zhang Shicheng as a lieutenant, and asked him to lead the troops to defeat the rebels. So Zhang Shicheng became the vanguard of the Yuan court's suppression of the peasant rebellion in Jiangnan.
Hearing that Zhang Shicheng surrendered to the Yuan court and was preparing to attack Yingtianfu, Zhu Yuanzhang was unwilling to fight him, and sent a letter to hope that the two sides could be good neighbors and defend the country and protect the people.
However, Zhang Shicheng originally looked down on Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born as a cattle herder, and hated him for robbing Ying Tianfu, and now he spared no effort to attack Zhu Yuanzhang on the orders of the Yuan Court. He rejected Zhu Yuanzhang's kindness and led his army to attack Zhenjiang occupied by Zhu Yuanzhang first.
However, Zhang Shicheng can't help but underestimate Zhu Yuanzhang, although Zhu Yuanzhang seems to have no big moves in Yingtianfu on the surface in recent years, in fact, he has not slackened for a moment, recruiting troops, buying horses, hoarding food and training...... In short, he is not a hairless chicken to be slaughtered, in the face of Zhang Shicheng's attack, he rose up to resist and sent Xu Da, Tang He and led troops to guard Zhenjiang Zhudi.
War meant disaster for the people, and no one was in the mood to discuss the pleasures of blind dates and group weddings, so they all closed their doors and hid in their homes to pray and watch.
With the experience of defending Hezhou, this time there was no need for Ma Xiuying to remind, Li Shanchang and other civil officials made proper arrangements for public security and social order in Yingtianfu, regulated the market, curbed turmoil, appeased the people, and actively prepared for war.
Ying Tianfu has been hoarding grain and training troops for so many years, and finally ushered in the moment of review.
With Zhu Wei here, Ma Xiuying knew the world without leaving home, she quietly put aside the portraits of the girls, and began to sort out and analyze all the information about Zhang Shicheng. Knowing that Zhang Shicheng had a repetitive personality and was short-sighted, she hurriedly formulated several plans and ordered Zhu Men, who was beside Zhang Shicheng, to find ways to separate the relationship between Zhang Shicheng and other Yuan army generals.
Zhang Shicheng has a staff member named Xu Wu who is the eyes and ears of Zhu Men who was placed by Zhang Shicheng's side in the early years, a few years have passed, this person has become Zhang Shicheng's confidant from a small role, he received Ma Xiuying's order and suggested to Zhang Shicheng: "I heard that Zhu Yuanzhang has many generals under his command, and the soldiers are strong and strong, why should the lord have a hard fight with Zhu Yuanzhang, and the strength of our army will be compromised in vain." ”
At this time, Zhang Shicheng captured Pingjiang, Songjiang, Huzhou, and Changzhou in a row, and took over the remnants of the Yuan general Hague. ”
Xu Wu persuaded: "The subordinates are worried about you." Obviously, the imperial army is so strong, why do you want to be the vanguard, this is obviously to deplete your troops, so that you and Zhu Yuanzhang will both lose. Once the power of the lord is damaged, it will be easy for the court to deal with you. ”
Zhang Shicheng hesitated: "No, I have now attached myself to the imperial court, why does the imperial court want to deal with me?"
Xu Wu sighed, "Lord, look at the Han people who are officials in the imperial court, even if they have no second thoughts, the imperial court still disdains to reuse, not to mention that you once established yourself as the king, the imperial court will really rest assured of you? ”
"And what do you mean?"
"The subordinates feel that the lord is now under the emperor's order, and it is necessary to go to war with Zhu Yuanzhang, but the lord does not have to devote the strength of the whole army, on the one hand, he attacks Zhu Yuanzhang to show the court, and on the other hand, he secretly hoards troops, no matter whether the lord wants to protect himself or break away from the court again in the future, he has capital to rely on. ”
Zhang Shicheng pondered for a moment, then ordered to gather the strength of the whole army, and only sent a small force to attack various towns, but the army occupied Changzhou and was temporarily in a confrontation situation with Zhu Yuanzhang. Dazhi Timur sent several orders to him to send the whole army to attack Zhu Yuanzhang's territory, but he ignored them.
Just when everyone thought that this battle would not be fought, the situation suddenly changed.