Let's say that Hezhou originally had a small number of soldiers, but after the previous toss, he sold some accumulated grain and Guo Zixing mourned, and the food was inevitably a little tight, and it was indispensable to open up a new land. Because of Xu Da's previous merits, it is now inconvenient for Ah Xiu to take her fake pregnancy to the barracks, so many things are discussed with Xu Da, and Xu Da sees that Zhu Yuanzhang is worried about this, so it is convenient for Feng Guosheng to build a plan to celebrate together. Jiqing is today's Nanjing, an important producer. Now that Zhu Yuanzhang wants to attack Jiqing, he must first send troops to earn peace, so he went home to discuss with Ah Xiu. asked Zhu Yuanzhang to take his family with him.

When the march was about to reach a mountainous area in Taiping, Hui Lan was about to give birth, so she told Ah Xiu to pretend to be in labor pain, and when she gave birth to a child with the help of Su Xin, Hui Lan asked Ah Xiu to stuff the pillow in her clothes into her clothes, and still pretend to be a pregnant woman before making a plot.

Ah Xiu was about to appease Hui Lan, but Hui Lan first asked Su Xin to wrap the child directly with Ah Xiu's clothes and go out to report the good news.

Ah Xiu knew that Su Lan sincerely repaid herself, and she was afraid that she would be indecisive, so she gave the child the title of concubine first.

Zhu Yuanzhang took the child, it was difficult to hide his joy, and he immediately asked someone to take an axe and chisel, and carved on a mountain stone that read, "Those who come to this mountain will not suffer and have no heirs."

In March of the first year of the dragon and phoenix (1355), in the second month of Liu Futong's respect for Han Lin'er as the king of Xiao Ming and the change of the yuan dragon and phoenix, Zhu Yuanzhang named his eldest son Zhu Biao, and all the soldiers congratulated the deputy marshal in unison, and the whole army smiled. Su Xin told the two ladies in the car about the name engraving, and only Ah Xiu was distressed and Huilan cried in the car. Huilan comforted her and said, "My sister is a very smart person, but she is confused about this trivial matter? The child was born in my name, but he was born as a concubine, and the marshal's future great cause will not be blessed to undertake. Now that he was born in the name of his sister, he is born for his grandson and is the eldest son, is it possible that a mother does not want her son to have a good future? ”

Ah Xiu knew that she was comforting herself, so she had to put away her tears, hugged Hui Lan tightly into her arms and said: "Hui Lan, I know that you are kind-hearted, Ah Xiu promises you that he will make him doubly filial to you one day!" Live up to your love today! ”

3 days later, Huilan pretended to give birth, pretended to give birth to a stillborn child, and did things hastily. －－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－

Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of the joy of his son to march to Taiping, preparing to use Taiping as a foothold for attacking Jiqing.

There was a person who brought his fellow villagers to Zhu Yuanzhang before, this person's name was Tao An, and when he saw Zhu Yuanzhang's army neatly along the way, he asked Zhu Yuanzhang what he wanted to do in the future?

Zhu Yuanzhang said that he hoped that he could rely on the blessing of today's King Xiaoming and calm the world. Tao An listened to the twisting of his beard, and asked Zhu Yuanzhang what will happen if he lays down the peace?

Zhu Yuanzhang replied: "Take the Taiping, and then collect the Qing." ”

Tao An then laughed and said, "Very good! I just don't know if I can hear the next word? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang has always liked to listen to the words of these wise men, so he said: "Sir, it doesn't hurt to say it. Tao An said: "If there is chaos today, the sea is boiling, heroes and fight for the world, but then the world is empty, and it is true to grab money and food, and there is really no heart to calm the world and save the people." ”

Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang was silent, Tao An said again: "Now Marshal Zhu is different from those national thieves, and he actually has the intention of pacifying the world. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang knew that Tao An was talking about himself, so he replied: "If I take this peace, I will definitely restrain the sergeant Qiu to offend the people without offending the people, so as to calm the people's hearts." ”

Tao An heard this and said: "If this is the case, Marshal Zhu can be determined in the world!" In ancient times, people all said, "Those who practice benevolence and righteousness win the world" Marshal Zhu is the person who practices benevolence and righteousness and calms the hearts of the people, if the city obtained by the marshal is treated as his own homeland, why worry about the people's instability, the world is uncertain! ”

Li Shanchang, who was accompanying him on the side, heard this conversation, and also echoed beside him: "My thoughts are just like Tao Gong, the marshal is a generation of handsome talents, and naturally the world can make money!" “

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed when he heard this, and immediately issued a military order, asking his sergeants to enter the city to strictly discipline themselves and not disturb the people. In June of the first year of Longfeng (1355), Zhu Yuanzhang really took the Taiping by the way, and his soldiers also strictly implemented the order and did not disturb the place.

A Xiu also built that Zhu Yuanzhang could send the soldiers to help work in the fields, one was to exercise, and the other was to accumulate the people's hearts, Zhu Yuanzhang praised the clever plan, and he did according to the plan.

Two months later, when Zhu Yuanzhang planned to attack Jiqing, difficulties came.

It turned out that when he arrived at the riverside, Zhu Yuanzhang was worried, it turned out that he had been carefully training the infantry army, and now Jiqing has a water on one side and a mountain on the other, so he has to need a water army to cross the river to attack Jiqing.

At this time, it was February of the second year of Longfeng (1356), and the areas around Jiqing had been controlled by Zhu Yuanzhang.

After setting up a camp under the city, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the soldiers to rest for the time being, and then discuss the siege tomorrow.

An incident happened that night, which allowed Zhu Yuanzhang to take advantage of the opportunity to get rid of the two opponents.

Previously, in Taiping, there was a guy named Chen Yexian who led a small group of Yuan troops to take refuge in Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Yuanzhang always refused to come to surrender and vote, so he accepted him.

Because of this Chen Yexian's eloquence, Zhu Yuanzhang was still married to him, but unexpectedly, only Ah Xiu remembered this person's name, and remembered that this guy seemed to have a story.

Ah Xiu took it to heart, checked his notes in the dead of night, and found that he had been negligent again, and just wrote a faint sentence, first surrendering and rebelling, and drew a question mark next to it.

In Ah Xiu's notes, the official history is written directly, and the wild history is marked with question marks, that is to say, this guy surrenders or does not surrender and mutiny, and there is no score at all? Checking it is equivalent to checking it in vain, Ah Xiu scolded herself in annoyance, you dead woman, are you selectively lost?!

On the second day, Ah Xiu came up with an idea, planning to leave this person alone, directly assume that he rebelled, and try his best to minimize the other damage.

So under the pretext that there were too many bumps in the recent bumps, Zhu Yuanzhang coaxed Chen Yexian's family back to Taiping and let Xu Da take care of it. Ah Xiu privately wrote a note and brought it back to Taiping with carrier pigeons, asking him to guard it strictly.

Since the family members were sent to Taiping as a hostage, the next step is to cut off his henchmen, although this person brought not many people, but he couldn't be careless, so he found an opportunity to leave the generals among these people, but the soldiers were sent to Guo Zixing's wife and brother Zhang Tianyou to serve his life.

Ah Xiu secretly planted a few eyeliners under Chen Yexian, although this Chen Yexian complained a lot along the way, he always pretended to be serious about fighting, and was lazy in private, but there was no change. Unexpectedly, on the first night of being stationed in Jiqing City, the eyeliner heard something valuable.

It turned out that this Chen Yexian, seeing that he had arrived at Jiqing City, was going to attack the city tomorrow, this Jiqing belonged to the Yuan Army's military and political fortress, once he rushed up, even if he couldn't beat it down, it would be impossible to spread it, and it would be impossible to rebel back in the future.

So he summoned a few generals who had surrendered with him overnight and instructed him that no matter where he was sent on the next day, he would hide and not rush up and leave his name missing. Once the war started, he saw the opportunity to recall the old troops to counterattack Zhu Yuanzhang internally, in an attempt to disrupt Zhu Yuanzhang's military formation.

When the eyeliner heard these news, where did he dare to delay, and hurriedly told Tang He, Tang He ran into the handsome tent all the way and sued Zhu Yuanzhang, this Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it in his heart, and had the heart to kill with a knife.

On the second day, the general was promoted.

Zhu Yuanzhang also sent Chen Yexian to Zhang Tianyou's army, expecting that the first confrontation with the city's defender Fushou would fight to the death until dusk, so he simply asked him and Zhang Tianyu and Guo Tianxu's uncle and nephew to attack the rear of Jiqing, and he supervised the army and waited for the change.

Once the siege began, this Chen Yexian naturally watched the two uncles and nephews fight hard, and he took everyone to be lazy, but secretly found someone among his cronies to mix in the siege team and blend into Jiqing.

This battle really lasted as Zhu Yuanzhang expected, and they did not collect their troops until sunset, and Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the siege troops to camp in place and not need to return, and the casualties on both sides in this battle were not small.

Chen Yexian's secret envoy took the opportunity to be caught in the sergeant who was cleaning the battlefield, pretending to be a wounded soldier and being carried back, this person brought back a letter from Fushou, and agreed that once Chen Yexian rebelled in the Red Turban Army, he would definitely go out of the city to respond, and attack Zhu Yuanzhang at night inside and outside.

Chen Ye was overjoyed when he saw the letter, and he didn't care about his family at all, only thinking that his meritorious service would definitely be able to soar, so he invited Guo Tianxu to eat wine in his tent under the pretext of rewarding the soldiers, and when Guo Tianxu was drunk and unconscious, he slashed him with a knife in his hand.

Then he unexpectedly rushed to Zhang Tianyou's big tent, captured Zhang Tianyu alive, and immediately sent it to Fushou in the city. The Yuan army will counterattack, and the Red Turban Army led by the two uncles and nephews has no leader, and has to be defeated, with nearly 20,000 casualties.

Chen Ye first took advantage of the victory to pursue, wanting to completely swallow this remnant army and then destroy Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang expected him to be greedy, and sent people to Pegasus to the defeated Red Turban Army to give an order, ordering the troops to feint and flee to Liyang, causing them to chase after him.

Every time Chen Yexian was about to give up the pursuit, the Red Turban Army threw down some grain and grass baggage, causing him to continue the pursuit, and when the chase reached sunrise, he returned the horse pistol and got rid of Chen Yexian.

At this time, another Red Turban Army cavalry arrived, and the leader of the general was named Cong Zizhao, who was ordered by Zhu Yuanzhang to take over the troops, first collected the remnants, and then was ordered to camp troops in the nearby Fangshan, and The Hague to see the peace.