In November of the twentieth year of Zhizheng (1360), Zhu Yuanzhang married back the Sun family in Yangzhou, that is, the righteous daughter of Marshal Ma Shixiong, who was happy.

Zhu Yuanzhang found someone to assassinate Lang Zhong of the trumpet vein, because his eyes kept jumping.

Jumping and jumping, Zhu Yuanzhang's feelings became more and more complicated.

Because this woman is very strange, on the day Zhu Yuanzhang married her, Taiping happened to be taken away by Chen Youliang, and when he had a round house with her, it was the day when Ah Xiu had just persuaded himself to come out of the autistic house, and she was now rumored to be happy, counting the days, the day of conception was impartial The day she just returned from a trip to the temple.

It's too evil, Zhu Yuanzhang thought to himself, no, let's ask the military advisor!

So Zhu Yuanzhang privately found Liu Bowen, gave him Sun's eight characters, and summoned the female dependents and a few cronies and generals to dinner in the name of the family banquet, and asked Liu Bowen to secretly show her the image during the banquet.

Liu Bowen didn't say a word during the dinner, just bowed his head to eat. After the banquet, Zhu Yuanzhang dismissed everyone and asked about Liu Bowen, but Liu Bowen just bowed his head and secretly told Zhu Yuanzhang a sentence:

"The one who gives birth will be a boy, but it will take Ah Xiu to survive."

Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked when he heard that Ah Xiu's fake pregnancy was revealed, and when he was about to ask, Liu Bowen said: "Sun's life is too peculiar, if the lord doesn't believe it, let Berwen draw a batch of life charts." ”

"Sun's natal life belongs to fire, and people who belong to fire have more than strong temperament and insufficient flexibility. Moreover, its hangman sits in the palace of life, which is already very dangerous, and has a lot of consumption on the side, plus Mars and a huge darkness into life, this time, the Lord will have a fire. It is not advisable for these stars to associate with close relatives, otherwise, I am afraid that there will be a lot of wear and tear and no gain. When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, his brows furrowed. He remembered that a few days ago, there was indeed a fire in the house, not only the fire was weird, but it also burned half of Ah Xiu's bed, which also affected Ah Xiu to be sick for a long time.

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed: It seems that she can't be kept after all! Let's listen carefully.

Liu Bowen saw this, and said: "This life is also self-restraint, so her parents died early in the war, and she herself is also half a life." Now only the eight characters of the lord and the lord mother can barely restrain her without being harmed, but once the child is born, although he has the blood of the lord, he has little strength, and if he leaves the young son by Sun's side, he may not be raised. “

Sighing, Liu Bowen bowed and said: "All this, Berwyn has already said everything, the lord has his own decision, and Berwyn is inconvenient to make a mistake." Zhu Yuanzhang sighed and said, "That's it, so far, I'm afraid that's the only way." ”

On August 9, the 21st year of Zheng, Zhu Yuanzhang's fifth son Zhu Hu was born, known to the outside world as A Xiu, and three days later said that Sun gave birth to a stillborn child, and the stillborn child was unknown for some reason, and he was given to live in another hospital.

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In this year, Ye Dui, a hermit in Ninghai, sent a secret letter to Zhu Yuanzhang, persuading Zhu Yuanzhang to think of the common people, not to be co-opted by the Yuan Dynasty, and to be self-conscious, and presented a detailed battle strategy.

Ah Xiu lost the chronology and notes, but remembered that this Ye Duixian's strategy was comparable to Zhuge Liang's Longzhong pair, so he naturally asked Zhu Yuanzhang to borrow it, and Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed when he saw the strategy, so he happily agreed.

Ah Xiu didn't look at it, but at first glance, he was also amazed, regretting that such a master had come and gone without a trace, and he couldn't see the real face, which was a pity.

It turned out that in this long letter, Zhu Yuanzhang followed Sun Quan's example and lived firmly in Jiangdong, attacking and retreating, waiting for the world to be cleared.

For the time being, he did not directly attack Zhang Shicheng, but first attacked Hangzhou, Shao, Hu, Xiu and other places, and then relied on this to attack Pingjiang directly. If the Pingjiang city is strong and difficult to attack, it will be trapped by the method of selling the city.

The so-called method of selling the city, that is, the law of besieging the city, to put it bluntly, is to trap the enemy. The method is to build an encirclement outside the city to be attacked, outside the range of the enemy's army, and then distribute the army, set up camps on all sides, and fortify the fields; In addition, they sent people to pacify and subdue the territories on the outskirts of the city, and purchased local taxes and grain to supply the army. In this way, once the Pingjiang River is broken, Hangzhou and Yue will return, and other places are not enough to worry about, which is the best policy.

Another way to fight Zhang Shicheng is slightly worse, because Zhang Shicheng's core strength is located in Shaoxing, which is suspended in the rivers and seas and surrounded by water, so it has always been easy to defend and difficult to attack. Shaoxing's grain road is in Sanjiang Doumen and other places. Conquering Pingjiang is equivalent to cutting off its grain route, and defeating Hangzhou is equivalent to cutting off its reinforcements, so you can send troops to attack Pingjiang and Hangzhou at the same time, and attack the east and west, so that the enemy can take Shaoxing by taking care of one and losing the other. After Shaoxing is captured, it can be slowly attacked Pingjiang and Hangzhou.

The letter also proposed that Fang Guozhen should not be trusted. In the past, when he took Wuzhou, he waged his tail to pay tribute. Later, he was asked to be recruited, but he hesitated to come. Later, he made friends on the one hand, and helped the Yuan army transport money and food on the other. Such a person cannot be trusted. He could go to Zhao'an under the guise of a name, and once he accepted Zhao'an, he would replace his officials, take care of his ships, and secretly control his military power, so that the other cities in his area could be obtained without much effort.

As for the area around Fujian and Guangzhou, there has always been no strong military town, and once the two Zhejiang provinces are accused by us, they only need to send a good lobbyist to appease them, and they will definitely come to join them. If they refuse to come and join them, they only need to send troops to attack from Wenzhou and Chuzhou, and then send some naval troops to outflank them, and Fuzhou will inevitably be broken. After conquering Fuzhou, other counties will not be a problem. And then take advantage of this to forge ahead with the two broads, then the two broads can be determined.

After reading this long letter, Ah Xiu nodded again and again, and couldn't help but think in admiration: This letter, even if it is used in modern times and from a modern military point of view, it is completely a high-end tactical strategy. No wonder people say that the ancient hidden dragon and crouching tiger, the master is in the folk!

Zhu Yuanzhang praised him again and again, and even wanted to send people everywhere to look for him, but Ah Xiu stopped him and said: "Yuanzhang, this person has seen such an extraordinary knowledge, he must be a generation of idle clouds and wild cranes, and he will not have the idea of being born as an official at all, even if he is forcibly trained, it will be of no benefit to others or himself." ”

Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's indecision, Ah Xiu said again: "Since he only asked someone to bring the letter, and he wrote it in such detail, he must not want you to look for him, since he is so dedicated to giving you advice, you will not look for him, and you should reward him to continue to be a hermit, isn't it good?" ”

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he thought it was reasonable, so he no longer wanted to look for this person.

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It is said that since Han Lin'er became emperor, everything has been planned by Liu Futong.

Several generals who led the troops outside turned out to be Liu Futong's peers, and gradually they did not listen to his command and dispatch very much, and later although the number of troops claimed to be hundreds of thousands, they had no choice but to fight separately with different military orders.

Due to the fact that the Northern Expeditionary Army, which had previously attacked from three fronts, was defeated one after another, Chakhan Timur and Polo Timur simply led two Yuan armies to further encircle and suppress the encirclement of the Song regime.

In June of the twenty-first year of Zhizheng (1362), Tian Feng and Wang Shicheng, the generals of the Red Turban Army who had surrendered to Chakhan Timur the previous year, assassinated Chakhan Timur, who had attacked Yidu, and fled into Yidu. Tsakhan Timur's adopted son, Kokor Timur, inherited his title and continued the fierce siege of Yidu.

In November, with the breakthrough of Yidu, Tian Feng and Wang Shicheng were killed, Chen Yutou was captured, and the Red Turban Army in Shandong was basically exhausted.

At this time, only a small army in Shandong was left as a cover for Anfeng.

So in February of the twenty-third year of Zhizheng (1363), Zhang Shicheng, who surrendered to the Yuan army, sent troops to besiege Anfeng. Han Lin'er and Liu Futong had no choice but to ask Zhu Yuanzhang for help.

Since Anfeng was Yingtian's outer barrier at this time, saving Anfeng was also protecting Yingtian in disguise, so Zhu Yuanzhang immediately led his troops to cross the river in March to attack Zhang Shicheng to rescue Anfeng.

In April, Chen Youliang saw that Zhu Yuanzhang personally led the main force to rescue Anfeng, and took the opportunity to occupy Ji'an, Linjiang, Wuwei and other prefectures with a land and water army of 600,000 on the 11th of that month, and besieged Hongdu. Hongdu is a military location, and it is connected to the Yangtze River line of Poyang Lake on the left, so this victory or defeat is particularly important.

Chen Youliang took the nearby states as a foothold and began to launch a fierce attack on Hongdu City.

Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked when he heard the news, but at this time, the main force was fighting with Zhang Shicheng with all his might, and he couldn't divide troops to support for a while, so he urgently summoned the generals in the army to discuss, Li Jie and Tang He both wanted to invite troops to fight and go to support, but Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Bowen did not allow it.

While they were in a state of indecision, Xu Da stood up and wrote lightly in Zhu Yuanzhang's ear: "Madame came in and felt unwell, so I asked my lord why I didn't see Wenzheng recently." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang felt quite confused when he heard this, and after thinking about it carefully, he remembered that his righteous son Zhu Wenzheng was guarding the city in Hongdu at this time, and his heart was much brighter.

So Zhu Yuanzhang gave a death order to Hongdu in front of the generals: "Pass my order, order Zhu Wenzheng to lead the Hongdu garrison, defend Hongdu to the death, seize the opportunity, and wait for me to personally lead the army to help!" ”

As soon as this order came out, the generals were in an uproar, everyone knew that Zhu Wen was Zhu Yuanzhang's own nephew and righteous son, but at the same time, they also knew that although Hongdu was high and deep, there were only 50,000 defenders, and this order was equivalent to a death order.

But an order is an order, and this order, which is urgent for eight hundred miles, was sent to Hongdu.

Ah Xiu suffered from the wind and cold at this time, and learned that Hong was beaten, and he couldn't remind him in person, so he asked Xu Da to speak, he was a woman, and he could no longer interfere in Zhu Yuanzhang's strategic decision-making as before, but he couldn't do anything like watching the fire from the wall, and it also developed like this in history, so instead of saying it to others, it is better to say it yourself!

Xu Da expressed Ah Xiu's meaning very well, and he was also very surprised when he heard it, because he was as smart as him, and he saw Ah Xiu's implicit meaning at that time, but he couldn't say it, because he was a minister.

And Ah Xiu's words are just a common saying that a mother misses her son when she is sick, and she didn't directly ask Zhu Yuanzhang to order Zhu Wenzheng, but she cleverly reminded this person of her cunning, which is really clever.