Chapter 258: The First Battle That Determined the Future of the Ming Dynasty

Yumuchuan fought a battle and soon spread back to China.

On the Fujian side, although Mei Yin was no match for the Ming Ping rebels in terms of strength and strategic depth, no one expected that Mei Yin would be so strong that he would always stick to Fujian.

Among them, it also suffered the defeat of Daejeon.

Datian, after Zhu Gaosui was besieged, Xu Huizu single-handedly, with a few servants and Huang Guan, who served as a strategist, found a place from the periphery to kill Datian.

After meeting with Zhu Gaosui, he quickly persuaded Zhu Gaosui.

Do not break through.

And the assault.

In fact, it is the authorities who are obsessed with bystanders.

The strength of the besieged Ming army in Daejeon was about 30,000, and the rebels used by Mei Yin to besiege were actually less than 50,000, but they occupied the terrain so that their advantages could be fully displayed.

And Zhu Gaosui did not choose to assault at the first time because of fear, which led to the exhaustion of grain and grass, and then fell into a desperate situation.

After Xu Huizu arrived, he immediately executed decisively.

All the soldiers and horses made a desperate bet, ate the remaining rations at once, and after being full of wine and food, mobilized all the soldiers, saying that this battle is not for the Ming Dynasty, but for yourself.

Only by killing can you live.

When the soldiers who had been besieged for a long time heard this, they saw hope in their sorrow, and there was a way that the mourning soldiers would win, so under the leadership of Xu Huizu, they stared at one direction and attacked.

Overwhelming.

This surprise attack immediately disrupted the rebels' plans, and the rebels were responsible for besieging Zhu Gaosui Lin Yuan, who followed Mei Yin to Fujian from Beijing, and quickly saw Xu Huizu's intentions with some vision:

It's not just a breakout.

Xu Huizu's meaning was to break the encirclement after the assault, rest for a short time, and then fight to nourish the battle, and go straight to the empty Quanzhou in the rear, so that Mei Yin and Emperor Shuntian would face the front of the army.

Lin Yuan had no choice but to gather all the soldiers and horses, and then block Xu Huizu.

It's a pity that he was defeated by Xu Huizu.

Of course, it can't be said that it was a big defeat, in the assault battle, the soldiers and horses under the command of Xu Huizu and Zhu Gaosui suffered heavy losses, and it can only be said that this time and again, the two sides stood on the same running line in the battle of Daejeon.

At the same time, Zhu Gaoxu entered Fujian from Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Zhu Neng led his soldiers and horses into Fujian.

The reinforced Son of Heaven's personal guards, under the command of Wu'an Hou Zheng Heng, assisted by Anhou Huozhen, soon formed a strategic cooperation with Zhu Neng and established a wide offensive line.

Fujian was suddenly embattled.

It was not until this time that Mei Yin completely showed his ability as a Confucian general, sitting in Quanzhou, not chaotic, military orders were issued, strange schemes were repeated, and thirty-six strategies were used one after another, and in the case of the absolute superiority of the Ming army, the rebels did not lose a city or a place.

Then again, rebels rarely fought in cities.

Most of them adopted guerrilla warfare according to the complex terrain of Fujian, and the rebels, who had favorable geographical advantages and people, actually fell into a tug-of-war with the rebels of the Ming Dynasty with a small number of troops.

This is both good and bad for Mei Yin.

On the positive side, this has given hope to the former ministers of Jianwen in other parts of the country, and if it continues for a while, maybe the former ministers of Jianwen in other places will rise up, and there will be a trend of sparks burning the prairies.

But it is also disadvantageous.

Because Fujian is only so big, and there are only so many grain and grass among the people, if this continues, Mei Yin's soldiers and horses will fall into a logistical crisis, and without grain and grass, what kind of war will they fight.

But Mei Yin is not desperate.

Because he knew that as long as he won another big victory, then the old ministers of Jianwen in other parts of the country would definitely have troops to respond to him, and the situation would be reversed at that time.

Moreover, Mei Yin knew very well that Zhu Di was now in the north, and to resist the Tatar invasion, Zhu Di would definitely not have more troops to quell the rebellion.

However, after the news of Yumuchuan's victory came back to China, Mei Yin couldn't sit still.

He knew he couldn't wait any longer.

There must be a big victory, and only a big victory can change the situation, otherwise dragging it out is death, in such a situation, Mei Yin decided to make a desperate bet.

He wants to swallow a line of the Ming army, and a person on this line.

Zhu Gaoxu!

This was a well-thought-out decision: Zhu Gaoxu's troops on his side were composed of the local guards in Beijing and the garrisons in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and their combat strength was not absolutely elite.

And Zhu Gaoxu is also Zhu Di's second son.

There is a very subtle place here: Zhu Gaoxu is also one of the people who are most likely to win the crown prince.

The other one is Zhu Gaochi.

But Zhu Gaochi is in charge of Yingtian, so if Zhu Gaochu falls into a crisis, will Zhu Gaochi deliberately come out with a moth for the sake of the country, and borrow Mei Yin's knife to kill Zhu Gaochu?

It's entirely possible!

This is the reason why Mei Yin chose Zhu Gaochi.

War is not only fought against soldiers, food, grass and money, but also on people's hearts.

With Mei Yin's deployment of troops, Zhu Neng, Zheng Heng, Xu Huizu and Zhu Gaosui, who had quelled the rebellion, found that the pressure had increased sharply, and Mei Yin seemed to have pressed all the troops - this illusion is not difficult to understand.

Because of the complicated terrain of Fujian, it takes three or five days for the scouts to send back a little news.

There are even times when a scout goes out, and it is generally considered lucky to be able to come back.

The terrain is complex, the mountains and rivers are vicious, and most of the scouts who died did not die under the swords and crossbows of the local scouts, but died in various natural environments.

It was Xu Huizu and others who didn't detect it at all, it wasn't Mei Yin who pressed all the troops up, but Mei Yin who withdrew Zhu Gaoxu's soldiers and horses to their side.

Zhu Gaoxu is a fierce general.

He is invincible when he charges into battle, but in terms of strategy, he still can't compare to Mei Yin, a Confucian general.

Seeing that the comprehensive defense line was empty, he thought that it was Xu Huizu and their great victory, which caused Mei Yin to have to return to the defense, so he was overjoyed and led the soldiers and horses to kill directly to Quanzhou.

It's no wonder that Zhu Gaoxu, at this time, the Ming Dynasty is indeed very slow in message transmission.

When Zhu Gaoxu found that the other offensive routes were not a big success, and his in-depth was Mei Yin's plan to lure the enemy, it was too late, and he had already led the army to go deep into Xinghua Mansion alone.

It is only a few hundred miles away from Quanzhou.

Zhu Gaoxu knew that he had been fooled.

But he was not Zhu Gaosui, and he did not choose to find a good place to garrison troops and wait for Xu Huizu and others to advance, but led people to bypass the route that might be ambushed and go straight to Quanzhou.

He wants to capture the thief and take the head.

Sometimes, a crisis is also an opportunity, if he succeeds in this move, then the balance of the future position of the prince will be greatly tilted in his favor, and Zhu Gaoxu also understands a truth: if he is besieged in Xinghua Mansion again, he will definitely be wiped out if he can't wait for support.

He led his army too deeply.

And he was self-righteous, thinking that in such a situation, the boss Zhu Gaochi would definitely wish that he would die, so once he was besieged, the boss would definitely use various reasons to make Zheng Heng and Xu Huizu, who were closest to him, not come to support him.

So Zhu Gaoxu's choice is very straightforward, simple and crude.

Soldiers are fast.

Break into Quanzhou as fast as possible, and then have a life-and-death fight with Mei Yin.

However, Mei Yin also thinks so.

So in Fengting at the junction of Quanzhou and Xinghua Mansion, the last soldiers and horses of the rebels and Zhu Gaoxu's soldiers and horses faced each other, and a big battle that would determine the future direction of the Ming Dynasty was about to appear.

The world is watching.