Chapter 630: The Five Route Han Army Destroys Ming

The country of Daming, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, has been in a difficult situation, and there are constant internal and external troubles.

After the governor of Yangzhou, Hong Xiuquan, rebelled against the Ming Dynasty, the governor of Xuzhou, Fang La, also completely fell out with the Ming court for 'slandering' the Ming Emperor Zhang Sheng as a woman.

Due to the deterrence of the Han army outside, both sides were also extremely restrained and did not escalate into war.

But with Liu Yao's withdrawal of the garrison south of the Yangtze River, after Fang La no longer had a threat from the south, his courage naturally became bigger, and the relationship between the two sides became more and more tense.

Fang La didn't want to start a war with the Ming Dynasty, after all, he also knew that there were many fierce generals in the Ming army.

But since he was defined as a traitor, Fang La has been spurned by all the Yellow Turbans, and the cohesion of the group under his command has become worse and worse.

Fang La didn't think that Liu Yao's withdrawal was deliberately inducing him to go to war with the Ming army, but he couldn't drag it out, because he didn't have to fight if it dragged on, his team was about to collapse by itself, so he could only fight for this last hope.

As Fang La's behavior became more and more arrogant, and the war was unavoidable, Zhang Sheng decided to take the initiative to attack, so as to catch Fang La off guard.

Zhang Sheng accepted Zhang Liang's strategy and prepared to take advantage of the fact that Fang La's main forces were in Huainan, on the one hand, he ordered Zhu Yuanzhang to lead an army of 100,000 to confront Fang La, and on the other hand, he appointed Xiang Yu to lead 50,000 troops to attack Xuzhou, where Fang La's strength was weak.

Xuzhou is the starting place of Fang La, if it can be occupied, it is equivalent to cutting off Fang La's arm, and then Xiang Yu will meet Zhu Yuanzhang on the detour, and the two armies will be flanked left and right, and Fang La's rebellion can be quelled in an instant.

Although Xiang Yu was defeated by Qin Hao many times, he still had a very high power in Daming.

Fang La appointed the general stationed in Xuzhou, and when he saw Xiang Yu's army coming, he didn't dare to resist at all, and most of them directly chose to surrender.

A small number of loyal ones were also due to insufficient troops, and as a result, Xiang Yu easily broke the city.

In this way, in just one month, Xiang Yu directly swept away the one county and two kingdoms owned by Fang La in Xuzhou, and then prepared to fight Zhu Yuanzhang on both sides to completely eliminate Fang La's rebellion.

Immediately afterwards, what Zhang Liang was most worried about happened.

Of course, Dahan would not watch Fang La be wiped out by Daming, so he was stuck at the most important juncture, and decisively chose to send troops to attack Ming.

In the fourth year of Zhongping, on May 20, Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty officially issued an edict, and it was directly the Five Route Army.

On the east road, with Lu Zhi as the main general, he and the two princes of Li Yuan and Yang Jian, Li Shimin, Li Yuanba, Li Xiaogong, Yang Guang, Yuwen Chengdu, Wu Yunzhao, Wu Tianci and other generals, led the Han Liang coalition army of 100,000 to directly go east out of the Tiger Prison Pass and attack Yanzhou, the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty.

On the South Road, with Liu Yao as the main general, the four princes of Wujun Taishou Sun Jian, Lujiang Taishou Lu Kang, Huiji Taishou Wang Lang and Jiangxia Taishou Huangzu led the Jingyang coalition army of 100,000 to cross the Yangtze River to threaten Xuzhou.

On the north road, with Huangfu Song as the main general, he and the four princes of Hejian Taishou Han Fu, Bohai Taishou Yuan Shao, Qinghe Taishou Zhang Shicheng, and Changshan Taishou Chen Youliang led the Jizhou coalition army of 100,000 to attack Dou Jiande, who owned the two counties and two countries of Jizhou.

As for the two armies, the Qingyou coalition army and the two counties of Yuan Cao.

The Qingyou coalition army took Liu Yu who went south as the main general, and the three princes of Liaodong Plain, Liu Bei, Liangshan, Song Jiang, and Beihai Kongrong, led the Youqing alliance army of 100,000 to attack Huangchao, which owned one county and three kingdoms in Qingzhou.

As for the Yuan and Cao coalition forces, Yuan Shu was the main general of Runan Taishou, and he and Yingchuan Taishou Cao Cao led an army of 60,000 to attack Li Mi, who still had two counties left in Yuzhou.

The five-way army, the twenty-way princes, a total of 460,000 troops, falsely claimed to be 700,000 troops, as if they were not extinguished and the Ming Dynasty would not give up.

Qin Wen, the pastor of the state, because the Hetao War had just ended, he was already sleepy and lacking horses, so he was powerless.

Liaodong fought Taishou Gongsun Zhan, and because he needed to guard against Wuhuan, he did not fail to participate in the Ming extinguishing operation.

As for Nanyang Taishou Qin Hao, because the territory does not border Daming, he is no longer on the list of this call-up at all.

The civil strife of the Ming Dynasty has not been eliminated, and the foreign enemy is coming, and in the eyes of most people, the day of annihilation is just around the corner.

In the face of the menacing five-way Han army of the Han Dynasty, Daming did not have the slightest fear, but chose to fight bravely.

Although there is a huge disparity in the strength of the enemy and us, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, Daming will never give up.

Originally, Zhang Sheng was going to shake hands with Fang La temporarily, but Zhang Liang persuaded her to buy some time for Xiang Yu and Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhang Liang believed that there were no generals under Fang La's command, and with the strength of the combined forces of Xiang Yu and Zhu Yuanzhang, they would definitely be able to completely defeat Fang La's army in a short time, and then they would have a greater chance of fighting with the Han army with a great victory.

And if Fang La can't be completely solved, keeping him in the rear will be a disaster after all, and now that the Ming Dynasty is surrounded by enemies, he must not keep such a big disaster.

Zhang Sheng also felt that it was very reasonable after hearing this, so he decided to personally lead 80,000 troops to resist Lu Zhi, and ordered Dou Jiande, Huang Chao and Li Mi to hold on to the three roads until Xiang Yu and Zhu Yuanzhang returned to the army, and this battle was naturally won.

Although the troops in the hands of Dou Jiande and Huang Chao are not as good as Huangfu Song and Liu Yu, there is no problem in holding on, while Li Mike is more miserable.

Li Mi fought with Yuan Shu and Cao Cao and was defeated repeatedly, and the land of the Four Kingdoms of Yuzhou, which he originally owned, was also taken away by Yuan Shu, and it was difficult to resist the Yuan Cao coalition army with only the remaining two countries.

Zhang Liang knew that Li Mi could not stop the Yuan and Cao coalition forces, so he urged Zhang Sheng to send reinforcements to Li Mi to prevent the rout of the southwest defense line.

After thinking about it again and again, Zhang Sheng decided to send Li Zicheng to lead 20,000 troops to support Li Mi, not to break the enemy, but to seek no fault.

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Nanyang, Wancheng.

After Qin Hao got the news of the Fifth Route Han Army's attack on Ming, he immediately drew several strategic maps.

There are worries about the rebellion of Fang La inside the daimyo, and there is the danger of the invasion of the Han Five-Way army outside, which is a dead end of almost ten lives.

Even if the army was handed over to a peerless commander like Bai Qi, it would not be possible to break such a difficult situation when the enemy's forces were scattered on all sides.

Of course, it is not impossible at all, and the only hope is for external forces to intervene, because such a situation can no longer be reversed by manpower.

Qin Hao is ready to be this external force to help Da Ming, of course he will not betray Da Han, his help is only to trigger the balance system, so that Da Ming has more talents to fight against Da Han.

Qin Hao is currently only two summons away from triggering the balance, and under Qin Hao's deliberate delay, this time the time has also dragged on for a long time, and once the balance is triggered, there will definitely be a lot of characters.

Qin Hao can only help Da Ming to this point, as for whether he can completely survive this catastrophe, it depends on how Da Ming works internally.