Chapter 60: Avoiding Disaster (2)

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(Updated May 17, 2009!) Keep one update every day, and finish the book at the end of the month. )

Shang Yu finished making thousands of firearms and ammunition a few months later, and Zhao Qing led hundreds of secret soldiers from the new training site to escort them on the road, and it took two days to rush to Yingtianfu by water, and Shang Mei and Xiang Lan'er also set off with the team at the same time.

After handing over the firearms and ammunition to Zhu Yuanzhang, Shang Yu returned the official seal of Lai'an County to Zhu Yuanzhang at this time.

"Big brother, I have handed over the county administration to General Tang He for temporary management, I hope you will send officials to Lai'an County as soon as possible, I want to recuperate for a while and plan domestic business routes for you, after all, that is the junior brother's specialty." Shang Yu saw a passage in the book left by Liu Xingbao that told him to resign from his official position, although he didn't know why, but Shang Yu was a person who respected his master, and his age was not very old, and he was indeed very tired in the past few years, especially when his father died in the north, his mother was swept to Dali by a waterspout, and Lu Wan left with him for some reason, all of which filled his heart with sadness.

And Liu Xingbao finally asked him to establish a powerful sailor to defend against the attack of pirates in the east after the unification of the world, that would be his historical fate, Liu Xingbao is like this, and Shang Yu needs to be most vigilant is Zhu Yuanzhang's fourth son, Liu Xingbao said that Shang Yu should be careful that this child will be unfavorable to him in the future, but he did not explain much about the details.

"You don't want to be an official anymore? How can it be done, you are the most trusted person for your brother, how can you leave the army, so that your brother will give you a title of official in Tianfu Governor, ranking in the fourth grade, and after your brother kills Chen Youliang, you can build Yingtian New City for me. "How could Zhu Yuanzhang let Shang Yu really leave his side, he insisted on giving Shang Yu an official position, but supervising the construction of the new city was also Zhu Yuanzhang who had long wanted Shang Yu to carry out land matters.

"Big brother, I really want to be able to join the navy, and I want to supervise the construction of large warships for my brother's future use, do you think it's okay?" Shang Yu made another request. ”

"Hmmm! It's not bad to be in the navy, and you can do that. But you still have to accept the position of overseer. Zhu Yuanzhang first agreed to Shang Yu's previous request, but still insisted that he accept the official position of superintendent.

Shang Yu had no choice but to accept it, and two years later, Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang, who had already proclaimed the emperor, began to fight a decisive battle in the area around Poyang Lake.

Chen Youliang was rash, and the army came out, but he went straight to Nanchang and wanted to capture the city. At that time, the Nanchang guard was Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew Zhu Wenzheng and his henchman Deng Yu. Zhu Wenzheng sent all the generals to guard the gates of Nanchang, and raised 2,000 elite soldiers to command and respond to each other.

Chen Youliang set his sights on the Fuzhou Gate, which seemed to be easy to attack, personally commanded the soldiers to attack, and stood on the ship to supervise the battle. Guarding the Fuzhou Gate was the fierce general Deng Yu. The Han army was very well prepared this time, each holding a basket-shaped bamboo shield, the arrow and stone could not be injured, plus the threat of a huge wall machine, at once crashed into the city wall more than 20 zhang, the Han soldiers shouted and poured up. At the critical moment, a platoon of Deng Yu's defenders suddenly stood up from behind the wall, all holding strange firearms, and at the sound of gunfire, all the Han soldiers who rushed in the front row were knocked down. If it is an arrow crossbow, even if it is more powerful than a fire gun, it will not be able to scare the Han soldiers. Seeing the enemy holding a strange guy who breathed fire and smoke, the sound was deafening, and few Han soldiers had ever seen this thing.

Shang Yu was supervising the battle in the rear army at this time, and the soldiers who used firearms this time were all secretly trained, which naturally caused great damage and shock to Chen Youliang's army.

After a wild bombardment, Chen Youliang's team killed several Han soldiers, and the remaining living people gritted their teeth and rushed to the edge of the city again. The soldiers defending the city have been fighting for the wooden fence at the city gate and the collapsed city wall, the Han soldiers rushed to attack, Zhu Wenzheng supervised the generals to fight to the death, and fought and built, and the city wall that was destroyed was repaired again overnight.

In the fierce battle, several generals such as Li Jixian and Niu Hailong in Nanchang City were killed.

Zhu Wenzheng sent soldiers armed with long lances to assassinate Han soldiers across the fence. The Han soldiers were prepared this time, several people held the tip of the lance, and pulled it back, and after seizing the lance, the Han soldiers launched a new round of onslaught, so that the Nanchang defenders were killed a lot in close combat. Fortunately, Zhu Wenzheng's temporary arsenal was set up behind the fence, and he ordered the soldiers to put the tip of the long lance into the wrought iron fire bank to burn red, and then stick out of the fence to stab the enemy. The Han soldiers seized the lance, and for a time the skin was scorched and rotten, and the wailing was all over the ground, and they were not allowed to enter. Chen Youliang exhausted his attacking skills, but the city was prepared in all directions, and the Han army was seriously killed.

Seeing that Nanchang could not be captured, Chen Youliang divided his troops to trap Ji'an and Linjiang, and martyred several captured guards under the city of Nanchang, but Zhu Wenzheng and others were unmoved. Chen Youliang was annoyed, and waved his troops to attack the two gates of Guanbu and Shibu, and Zhu Yuanzhang's brave general Zhao Desheng was killed in an ambush.

At this point, Chen Youliang besieged Nanchang for 85 days, and although he killed Zhu Yuanzhang's 14 generals, he still failed to conquer the city.

Hearing that Zhu Yuanzhang was coming to fight in person, he immediately lifted the siege, turned around and killed Poyang Lake, and came to meet him.

Zhu Yuanzhang was confident, he led the navy from Songmen into Poyang Lake, sailed over, and met Chen Youliang's army near Kanglang Mountain.

At that time, at first glance, the lineup of the navy army seemed to have a clear advantage, its giant ships were tall and mighty, and the iron sheets flashed with black light, and the tigers were overwhelming.

After Zhu Yuanzhang observed carefully, he said to the generals: "Their giant boat is connected from end to end, which is not conducive to advance and retreat, and it can be broken by breaking a few points!" In such a state, he ordered the ships of the navy division to be divided into twenty teams, during which small boats were loaded with firearms and crossbows, and admonished the generals: "When approaching the enemy ships, first fire firearms, then bows and crossbows, and after the boats and ships meet, strike them with short arms!" ”

This time, thousands of secret soldiers have all joined the army, and the crossbows and bows they carry are all those categories developed by Shang Yu, and Zhu Yuanzhang even reactivated the ballistas that had been sealed in the warehouse, which shows that Zhu Yuanzhang is not absolutely sure of this battle.

Thus, the Battle of Poyang Lake kicked off. Easy to read on your phone: àp. The text version was first released

Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Liao Yongzhong and others took the lead and drove the ship straight to the enemy's giant ship. Xu Da's performance was still the best, he took the lead, defeated the Han army's forward, killed more than 1,500 enemies, and captured a Han army's giant ship, which greatly boosted the morale of the army.

The victory in the first battle played a real encouraging role in the psychology of Zhu Yuanzhang's sergeants. Shang Yu led several warships to fire ballistas, and burned 20 Han giant ships in one fell swoop, and more than 10,000 Han soldiers were killed and drowned, and many people were on fire and fluttering in the water. Of course, the Han army did not show weakness, approached with a giant boat, and fired arrows and crossbows in unison, and the two deputy marshals under Zhu Yuanzhang were killed immediately. Moreover, the Han soldiers were high, so they attacked first, condescendingly threw torches, and even Xu Da's forward command ship was burned. Xu Da was not afraid of danger, commanded the soldiers to fight the fire while directing the battle with the enemy, and only after the battle did he have to take the boat and survive.

Chen Youliang's subordinate Zhang Dingbian was brave and strategic, and when he saw Zhu Yuanzhang's command ship in the center, he immediately led several huge ships to rush in. Zhu Yuanzhang panicked, turned around and fled in a panic, and ran aground near the shore. The Han army surrounded it, and several huge ships and thousands of soldiers surrounded it.

Zhu Yuanzhang's fierce generals Cheng Guosheng and Chen Zhaoxian risked their lives to resist and fought in four leaps. In a hurry, the tooth general Han Cheng knelt down and told Zhu Yuanzhang that "the ancients said that killing is benevolent, and the minister does not dare to love him to death", after speaking, he put on Zhu Yuanzhang's own crown uniform, and shouted in the face of the densely attacking Han army, and threw himself into the water to die.

When the Han army saw "Zhu Yuanzhang" committing suicide by throwing himself into the water, he shouted with joy. When the news came out, the siege slowed down a little, and many soldiers began to pay attention to salvaging the body of "Zhu Yuanzhang", preparing to chop it into several pieces and ask Chen Youliang for credit. In the melee, Zhu Yuanzhang commanded the ship's admirals Chen Zhaoxian and Song Gui to be killed.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang, under the maintenance of Shang Yu and the generals, took advantage of the chaos to retreat to the rear to re-stabilize Chen's foot, and ordered the whole army, announcing that Zhu Yuanzhang was safe and sound, and the first general's heart stabilized for more than two hours.

In the evening, seven fishing boats took advantage of the chaos to sail in front of the Han giant ship under the fierce wind. The Shangmi soldiers took advantage of the wind to set fire, the wind was fierce, and in a moment they had already crashed into the Han fleet and burned violently. The fire was swift, and hundreds of ships were on fire at once.

This fire burned Chen Youliang's two younger brothers, Chen Youren, Chen Yougui and the general Chen Puluo. Especially Chen Youren, known as the "Five Kings", this person is a one-eyed dragon. His death had a great psychological blow to Chen Youliangjun. Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang's army also suffered a lot of losses, and more than a dozen generals were also killed in the war.

On the third day, the two sides gathered their own elite troops to fight.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang's army was like a rainbow, and Chen Youliang was demoralized by Zhu Jun's fierce firearms and soldiers. Zhu Yuanzhang's army fought big with small and large, and countless small boats with steel horns surrounded the giant ships of the Han army, and flew on the enemy ships one after another. Zhu Yuanzhang's soldiers tried to save trouble, and after throwing fire to the boat, they jumped back to their boats, and all the Han soldiers were burned to death.

After more than a month of back-and-forth, Chen Youliang gradually failed to receive food and grass in the army, and the morale of the army was even more low, and many generals began to privately lead ships to surrender to Zhu Yuanzhang.

In such a situation, Zhu Yuanzhang's army set up a camp by land and water to besiege Chen Youliang in the army, and Chen Youliang finally had to risk his life to break through the siege, go around the river downstream, and prepare to escape back to his nest from the forbidden river. Zhu Yuanzhang had already prepared, commanded all the troops to attack with all their might, and attacked the enemy ships with arson rafts. The Han army's boats and boats dispersed, and Zhu Yuanzhang's army chased for dozens of miles.

Shang Yu's eyes were sharp, and on the front deck of the handsome ship, Shang Yu had been watching Chen Youliang's sailor flee two hundred feet ahead.

"Mu Thirteen, hand me the five-stringed divine bow behind your back." Shang Yu said anxiously to Di Mu Thirteen, who was standing beside him, at this time.

"Yes, sir!" Hearing Shang Yu's call, Mu Shisan hurriedly handed the five-stringed bow behind his back to Shang Yu, and handed out a ground arrow made of steel.

"Brother, what do you mean? Do you want to shoot Chen Youliang to death? Zhu Yuanzhang was dressed in a generalissimo uniform at this time, and turned his face to Shang Yu and asked.

At this time, Chen Youliang's defeat was a foregone conclusion, and Zhu Yuanzhang saw that Shang Yu was actually going to shoot an arrow at this time, so he couldn't help but ask Shang Yu with some curiosity.

Shang Yu smiled slightly at this time: "Big brother! I just want to try my accuracy in archery, how can it be so easy to shoot people? ”

As he spoke, Shang Yu had already pulled the five-string divine bow that no second person could pull open, and the arrow in his hand immediately shot out like lightning and disappeared without a trace.

"Brother, can you look at a figure two hundred feet away so closely?" Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but slowly shook his head and laughed.

But at this moment, I only heard a miserable scream from the handsome boat where Chen Youliang's army fled for his life in front of me, and then I heard a female voice exclaiming: "Oh no! Long live was shot through the head by an arrow and has died! Then the speed slowed down, and countless women's desperate cries came from ahead, and it seemed that Chen Youliang was still carrying some concubines on the ship.

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but be stunned, turned his face to Shang Yu and said with some surprise: "Brother, such a coincidence!" You actually lay down this puppet emperor with one arrow? ”

Shang Yu blushed and said, "Big brother, to be honest, I originally wanted to shoot the soldiers on the back deck of the ship, but Wenjiao happened to see a head exposed in a porthole, so he shot over, but I didn't expect to shoot Chen Youliang so coincidentally." ”

"Haha, brother, if it is true to shoot Chen Youliang, the puppet emperor, you can be regarded as making a great contribution to our army in this battle, and since then, Jiangnan has been settled, and Zhang Shicheng is no longer afraid." Zhu Yuanzhang immediately patted Shang Yu on the shoulder with a smile and said.

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