Chapter 635: The Great Battle of the Central Plains (I)

Although both the Yuanmeng and Manchu dynasties had been successfully established, there were too many potential obstacles, so they were not internally stable.

And if you want to completely consolidate the interior, it will not happen overnight.

Temujin and Nurhachi apparently knew this, and all the queens chose to recuperate in agreement.

Whether it is the Yuanmeng or the Manchu Qing, their strength has expanded too fast, and it is impossible to completely indigest it without several years of repair.

Therefore, both sides are preparing for a years-long overhaul, first twisting themselves into a rope, trying to tap the internal potential, and then continuing to fight in all directions, which is the safest way.

Yuan Meng chose to rest his troops to recuperate, which gave the Jin army a valuable respite, and took advantage of this gap to build Zhenbei Pass in one fell swoop.

Zhenbei Pass and Yanmen Pass have since become the two optimus pillars of northern Xinjiang, and if Yuanmeng wants to go south to the Central Plains, he must capture one of them, and neither of them is so easy to capture.

And the Manchu Qing's cultivation and recuperation also allowed the Youzhou army to go south with confidence until the Yellow Nest was completely wiped out.

In the fourth year of Zhongping (187), July 10.

Just more than a month after the establishment of the Yuanmeng Dynasty and ten days after the establishment of the Manchu Dynasty, Xiang Yu and Zhu Yuanzhang finally completely defeated Fang La's rebels under the attack of two sides.

Fang La's failure to break through and was captured by Xiang Yusheng, except for a small number of soldiers killed in battle, most of his troops expressed their willingness to surrender, and then they were assigned to the front line of resisting the Han Dynasty.

As for Fang La himself, on the way to be escorted to Mingdu Chenliu, he left a thousand-word confession and then committed suicide by biting his tongue.

The princes of the side who once dominated Jianghuai ended up regretting and committing suicide, which is really embarrassing.

At this time, Liu Xuan's Yangzhou coalition army had already invaded Jianghuai, and Sun Jian had even taken the lead in capturing the important town of Hefei.

In order to block the enemy army in the south, Zhu Yuanzhang and Xiang Yu's soldiers split into two routes, with Zhu Yuanzhang going to resist Liu Yao's Yangzhou coalition army, while Xiang Yu led the main force to support Emperor Zhang Sheng of the Ming Dynasty.

The momentum of the Sizhou coalition army is too strong, in addition to Li Yuanba, the 'first fierce general in the world', there are also Yuwen Chengdu and Wu Yunzhao, the top ten fierce generals on the list of military generals, in addition to the elite of the world such as Xiliang Iron Cavalry.

Although Zhang Sheng was not weaker than the Sizhou coalition army in terms of troops, the combat power of the generals and soldiers on both sides was very different, so Zhang Sheng could only defend passively, and it was extremely difficult to defend.

Therefore, Xiang Yu must also go to support, because if he doesn't go, the Eastern Route Army led by Zhang Sheng will really not be able to hold on.

In the fourth year of Zhongping, on July 28, Xiang Yu and Zhang Sheng met.

When the Ming army saw Xiang Yu returning, their morale was greatly boosted, and they were not afraid to avoid war.

Early the next morning, Xiang Yu went out to fight, the first battle against Wu Tianci, and in three rounds he was killed and fled, and after joining his brother Wu Yunzhao to join forces against the enemy, he was still defeated by Xiang Yu in fifteen rounds.

Lu Zhi originally wanted Yu Wencheng to cooperate with the Wu brothers, and the three of them joined forces to defeat Xiang Yu, but Yu Wencheng directly refused.

After the defeat of the Wu brothers, Yuwencheng fought alone against Xiang Yu, and tried his best to fight with him for more than 200 rounds, but unfortunately he was defeated in the end.

After the defeat of Yuwencheng-Du, the Han army could only send Li Yuanba.

On August 1, under the watchful eyes of everyone, Xiang Yu and Li Yuanba fought again, and this battle was dark.

The two sides fought for a day and a night, and it ended in a draw.

After more than a year, Xiang Yu re-ascended to the top with his own strength after being shot down by Li Yuanba, and almost single-handedly reversed the battle situation on the east road of the Ming army, and the name of the god of war is well deserved.

On the night of August 7, Xiang Yu once again led a hundred horsemen to rob the camp.

Although this operation was discovered by Li Shimin, Xiang Yu still relied on his excellent cavalry command ability to disrupt the Han camp and kill the Han general Yuwen Zhiji, and only Xiang Yu finally broke through.

After a series of setbacks, Lu Zhi, the commander of the Han army, eventually fell ill due to overwork.

At this time, Dong Zhuo, who was far away in Liangzhou, saw the opportunity and directly crossed the imperial court to appoint Li Shimin as the commander.

At such a critical juncture, the imperial court did not dare to tear its face with the Liangzhou army, and could only acquiesce to Li Shimin as the chief general, preparing to say after the elimination of the Yellow Turban.

But the imperial court never expected that Li Shimin really completely controlled the Sizhou coalition army, and then Sizhou was also completely controlled by the Liang army.

After Li Shimin took over as coach, he not only changed Lu Zhi's previous tactics, but instead adopted a conservative strategy of switching to offense and defense.

Li Shimin, who was bent on seeking stability, wanted to hold back the main force of the Ming army and wait for the appearance of fighters.

Now the Ming army seems to have the upper hand, but in fact it is like walking on a tightrope, as long as one front goes wrong, it is the whole line is defeated.

August 20.

Dou Jiande, who was stubbornly defending the two counties and two kingdoms in the south of Jizhou, was lured out by Han Xin's design, and was forced to engage in a small battle with the Jizhou coalition army.

In this battle, the 30,000 Ming army fought against the 40,000 Han army, and the result was naturally ended by the victory of the Han army.

Liu Heimin, under Dou Jiande, fought several Han generals in this battle, and was finally stabbed under the horse by Zhang He under the lack of strength.

Even Dou Jiande himself was seriously injured by Yan Liang and almost died in battle.

Of course, it was not easy for the Han army to win, Chen Youliang's brother Chen Yougui was killed by Liu Heimin, so far among Chen Youliang's three younger brothers, only one Chen Youren remained.

Dou Jiande, who escaped with his life, finally gave up Anping County and came down to defend it.

However, due to the previous defeat, it had a great impact on the morale of the Ming army in Jizhou, and even if Dou Jiande was determined to defend it, it would be difficult to prevent the fall of a large part of the country.

Seeing that the situation was getting more and more difficult day by day, Dou Jiande was anxious, which also caused his already seriously injured body to finally deteriorate, and he fell ill and fell unconscious.

Dou Jiande's life hung by a thread, and the Ming army in Jizhou lost its commander, so he could only ask the Ming court for help.

After Zhang Sheng discussed with the strategists, considering that Jizhou was related to the safety of the northern front, he decided to order Xiang Yu to stay in Yanzhou, and sent Fan Zeng to assist him in resisting Li Shimin, while he personally led the army to stabilize the battle situation in Jizhou.

With the arrival of Zhang Sheng and Zhang Liang, the Ming army in Jizhou finally had a backbone, and with the addition of Yanzhou reinforcements and fierce generals, the situation in Jizhou once again reached a stalemate.

In order to break the deadlock, Han Xin once again designed to calculate the Ming army, but Zhang Liang saw through it.

August 28.

Huang Chao personally led the army, set up an ambush on the way of Kong Rong's march, and defeated the 20,000 troops of Beihai.

And the only fly in the ointment in this battle is that the Beihai generals Tai Shici and Wu Anguo arrived in time and saved Kong Rong at the last moment, otherwise Beihai Taishou Kong Rong would have died.