Chapter 239 [King Wu]
After the Han Dynasty Emperor Dading landed, he used all kinds of siege equipment from all directions to launch a fierce attack on the main city of Hongdu Road, and the Han and Song Dynasty governors who defended the city: Zhu Wenzheng, fought bloodily and ordered to resolutely defend the gates of Hongdu Road, and miraculously persisted for more than a month.
At this time, the right prime minister of Han and Song had returned to Yingtianfu, but the main force was still led by Han and Song Tongzhi Privy Council: Xu Da, who was besieging Luzhou Road.
This made the right prime minister of Han and Song Dynasty know that the whole army of Emperor Dading of the Han Dynasty sent out to besiege Hongdu Road and did not directly take Yingtianfu, and also found out that the water of the Xijiang River was drying up, which was not conducive to the movement of Chen Han's ships, and that Chen Han's army was short of food and many soldiers died in battle, so he thought that this was the best time to eliminate Emperor Dading of the Han Dynasty.
On the one hand, he ordered the defenders of Hongdu Road to hold on to the tired Chen Han army for another month, so as to gain time, and on the other hand, he ordered Han and Song Tongzhi to withdraw the siege of Luzhou Road, and quickly transferred the troops back to Yingtianfu.
On the 6th of July, Han Song Youcheng led 200,000 Chaohu Water Divisions to rescue Hongdu Road, and arrived in Hukou County on the 16th, first sending troops to defend Jingjiangkou, and sending a road army to Nanhuzui Town to cut off the return route of Emperor Dading of the Han Dynasty, and sent troops to guard Wuyangdu to prevent Chen Han's army from escaping.
When Emperor Dading of the Han Dynasty learned that the Han and Song armies were coming to help, he immediately withdrew from the siege of Hongdu Road and went east to Poyang Lake to prepare for the battle.
On July 20, the two armies met on the surface of Kanglang Mountain Lake, Chen Han's ships combined to form a net and set up a formation, and launched a formation offensive that stretched for dozens of miles, looking at the momentum of the mountain, and the right prime minister of Han and Song Dynasty divided his fleet into 20 teams in view of the unfavorable advance and retreat of the end connection of his ships, each team was equipped with large and small bronze cannons, fire guns, fire bows and arrows, fire thistles, fire door guns, and divine machine arrows, and ordered each team to use firearms and crossbows when approaching the enemy ships, and then use short weapons to fight when approaching the enemy ships.
The next day, the two sides fought fiercely on the ship, and Han and Song Tongzhi Privy Council: Xu Da, who led the army to storm bravely, defeated the advance of Chen Han's army in one fell swoop, killed 1,500 enemies, and captured a warship.
Han Song Deputy Privy Council: Yu Tonghai, with the wind bombarding Chen Han's naval division, and burning more than 20 ships of Chen Han's army, caused Chen Han's army to be killed and drowned a lot, but the casualties of Han Song's army were not small! Especially when the right prime minister of Han and Song took the boat to command the stranded and was surrounded, he was in danger of accidents.
Therefore, the battle was in a stalemate, and from morning to dusk, the two sides withdrew their troops, and the battle came to an end temporarily, and the two sides suffered casualties and no winners.
On July 22, the right prime minister of Han and Song personally led the naval division to battle, but the huge fleet of Chen Han's army forced the Han and Song armies on small ships to make a feint and could only suffer setbacks one after another.
At this time, the marshal of the Han and Song unified armies: Guo Xing, suggested that the right prime minister of Han and Song should use fire to attack the enemy, and at dusk the northeast wind blew on the lake, and the right prime minister of Han and Song chose to drive seven fishing boats, which were filled with gunpowder and dry firewood, and slowly approached the enemy ship and set fire to it downwind.
Soon the wind and fire ships quickly approached, and the flames flew for a while, and the lake was red, and hundreds of ships of the Chen Han army were burned in an instant, and more than half of the Chen Han army was killed or wounded, and the two brothers of the Emperor Dading of the Han Dynasty, the five kings of the Han Dynasty: Chen Youren, the marshal of the Han Dynasty, and the political envoy of the Han Pingzhang: Chen Puluo, were all burned to death by the fire, and the right prime minister of the Han and Song Dynasty also waved his army to launch a fierce attack and killed 2,000 enemies.
The next day, the two sides had another confrontation, and Emperor Dading of the Han Dynasty launched a fierce attack on the ships of the flag of the right prime minister of the Han and Song dynasties for him, and the large and small bronze cannons fired one after another, but fortunately, the right prime minister of the Han and Song dynasties had moved to other ships, and the original commander's ship was smashed by Chen Hanjun.
On July 24th, the deputy privy councillor of the Han and Song dynasties led 6 ships to break into the fleet of the Chen Han army, bravely galloping like a swimming dragon, like entering a no-man's land, the morale of the Han and Song armies was greatly boosted, and a fierce attack was launched.
On the same night, the right prime minister of Han and Song Dynasty took advantage of the victory to march to Zuoli to control the upper reaches of the river, Chen Hanjun immediately retired to Zhuji, the two armies held each other for 3 days, Chen Han's army was repeatedly defeated, and the situation gradually became unfavorable, and the two generals of the Han Dynasty and the Great Ding Emperor saw that the general trend had gone, so they surrendered to the right prime minister of the Han and Song Dynasty, plus the original opposition to the Great Han Emperor and the Great Ding Emperor to kill the Emperor of the Heavenly Completion and the Ping Emperor: Xu Shouhui, the original Tianwan generals also began to plot to illicit the Han and Song armies to rebel against Chen Han.
He was angry and annoyed when he found that someone had betrayed Emperor Dading of the Han Dynasty, and he ordered to kill all the captured prisoners to vent his anger, but the right prime minister of Han and Song did the opposite to return all the prisoners, and mourned the death and medical wounds, and broke the morale of the Chen Han army and won the hearts of the people.
Soon Chen Hanjun fell apart and demoralized, and the right prime minister of Han and Song judged that Chen Hanjun was very likely to break through and retreat into the Yangtze River, moved the army to the Hukou Inspection Division, set up wooden fences on the north and south banks of the Yangtze River, placed large boats and rafts in the middle of the river, and sent troops to seize the Qizhou Road and Xingguo Prefecture to control the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to block the enemy's return road.
After more than one month of confrontation, Emperor Dading of the Han Dynasty was trapped in the lake, and his army was exhausted, so he made a desperate gamble to break through the siege.
On August 26th, it broke through from Nanhuzui Town, tried to enter the Yangtze River and retreated to Wuchang Road, and when it was feasible to reach Hukou, it was attacked by the Han and Song Dynasty troops with boat divisions and rafts from all sides, suppressing the Chen Han army and unable to advance, and had to re-enter the Jingjiang River, and was also attacked by the Han and Song Dynasty Commanders: Fu Youde, the ambush soldiers blocked the left and right rush, and could not open the way out, and the Han Dading Emperor was killed by an arrow in the fierce battle, and the army was defeated and more than 50,000 people surrendered to the Han and Song Dynasty.
Privy Council Envoy of the Han Dynasty: Zhang Dingbian, King of the Han Dynasty: Chen Sui, who protected the five imperial concubines of the Han Dynasty after the defeat: He, with two sons; Chen Boneng, Chen Botong, and a daughter: Chen Bohui, and the Nine Emperor Concubines: Xue, fled to Wuchang Road to support the second son of Emperor Dading of the Han Dynasty: Chen Li, who was enthroned as the emperor's founding year name "Deshou".
After the war, Poyang Lake was commended by King Xiaoming of the Han Song Dynasty, and was named the right prime minister of the Han and Song Dynasties: Zhu Yuanzhang, as the Duke of Wu Guo, and the Duke of Wu of the Han and Song Dynasties: Zhu Yuanzhang, asked what the reward would be? Unexpectedly, he humbly refused not to give a reward, but as a result, Han Song and Wu Guogong really didn't give a reward! It made the governor of Han and Song Dynasty annoyed and ashamed, and colluded with Emperor Tianyou, King Cheng of the Great Zhou.
Then in February 1364, the tenth year of the Han Song Dynasty and the tenth year of Mengyuan to Zheng, in February 1364, the Han Song Dynasty Wu Guogong: Zhu Yuanzhang, the soldiers came to the city of Wuchang Road to lure the Great Han Deshou Emperor with beauty: Chen Li, and surrendered to the Chen Han regime.
After being escorted to Tianfu, Wu Guogong of Han and Song Dynasty named Chen Li as "Guide Hou" and awarded Emperor Dading of the Han Dynasty: Chen Youliang, father: Chen Pu, was named "Cheng'en Hou", and then the goal of Wu Guogong of Han and Song Dynasty was to eliminate Emperor Tianyou of the Great Zhou Cheng Wang: Zhang Shicheng, that is, (Zhang Wu regime) Because Wu Guogong of Han and Song Dynasty was also Wu, in addition to the rebellion of the governor of Han and Song Dynasty, one mountain cannot tolerate two Wu!
It just so happened that at this time, there was also a struggle within the Yuan court, Meng Yuan Huizong to the Zhengpu Emperor: Por Jin Tu Timur, and the Crown Prince of Meng Yuan: Son Zhi Jin Aiyu Zhi Litra, fighting for power and each with foreign aid to try to seize the throne, the crown prince of Meng Yuan united with the Privy Council of Meng Yuan Zhi: Kuo Timur (Wang Baobao) wanted to seize the throne, and Meng Yuan Huizong used the political affairs of Pingzhang of Mengyuan Zhongshu Province: Sanzhi Wu Luo Timur, as the pillar to resist the seizure of power.
In March, the right prime minister of Mengyuan: cowardly and thoughtful, (the crown prince faction) used an edict to relieve the military power of Pingzhang in Mengyuan Zhongshu Province, but was rejected and resisted by Pingzhang in Mengyuan Zhongshu Province.
In April, the right prime minister of Meng Yuan falsely accused the Pingzhang political affairs of Mengyuan Zhongshu Province, who was stationed on Datong Road, on the charge of rebellion? In secret, he ordered the Privy Council of Mengyuan to send troops to attack the Pingzhang political affairs of Mengyuan Zhongshu Province, just when he was about to approach Datong Road.
Relying on the reliance of His Majesty the Emperor, the Pingzhang political affairs of Mengyuan Zhongshu Province directly led the troops to approach Dadu in the name of "Qingjun Side", and asked the imperial court to let Mengyuan Huizong arrest the culprit Meng Yuan's right prime minister: cowardly and Sijian, and the eunuch of Mengyuan and the envoy of the Imperial Court: Fight the flowers, and hand them over to the Pingzhang political affairs of Mengyuan Zhongshu Province to be killed.
In August, Meng Yuan Huizong appointed the political affairs of Pingzhang of Mengyuan Zhongshu Province as the right prime minister of Mengyuan Zhongshu Province, controlling the soldiers and horses of all walks of life in the world, and Wu Guogong of the Southern Han and Song Dynasty successively conquered Huguang Province and Jiangxi Province, so that all parts of the country looked forward to the wind and surrendered, but Chen Han guarded the pro-army and commanded the envoy: Xiong Tianrui, who still refused to defend the Ganzhou Road to fight against the Han and Song Dynasty Pingzhang Political Affairs: Chang Yuchun,
Immediately afterwards, Wu Guogong of the Han Song Dynasty successively sent troops to capture Tongzhou Road, Xinghua County, Yancheng County, Taizhou, Gaoyou County, Huai'an County, Xuzhou Road, Suzhou, and Anfeng County, driving Zhang Wu's forces out of the Jiangbei region.
At the same time as besieging the city, Wu Guogong of Han Song also sent Zuo Cheng of Han Song Huguang Province: Liao Yongzhong to Chuzhou, South Province of Han Song and Song to meet King Han Song Xiaoming: Han Lin'er, to Yingtianfu, but when crossing the river in Guazhou, he quietly chiseled the bottom of the boat, and when King Han Song Xiaoming got on the boat and went to the lake, he sank to the bottom of the river and drowned.
Then Wu Guogong: Zhu Yuanzhang began to be crowned as King Wu, officially announced that he would no longer use the year of the dragon and phoenix, and changed the next year to the first year of King Wu, and ordered a funeral for King Xiaoming of the Han and Song dynasties, but this move also caused dissatisfaction among the generals of the Han and Song dynasties!
In order to divert the hatred of King Wu: Zhu Yuanzhang, published an article to denounce Emperor Tianyou of the Great Zhou Cheng Wang: Zhang Shicheng, sent troops to occupy Hangzhou Road and Huzhou Road to surround Pingjiang County with heavy troops, at the beginning King Wu besieged the city with a wall and built a three-story wooden tower, higher than the city wall, with bows, crossbows, firearms to shoot into the city, and also set up (Xiangyang cannon) and (Huihui cannon) to bombard the city day and night in a panic.
Emperor Tianyou, the king of Great Zhou Cheng in the city, led his army to break through several times, but all failed! In desperation, he was already disappointed and began to indulge his subordinates, his younger brother Da Zhou Pingzhang political affairs: Zhang Shixin, in the city to supervise the war by the Great Zhou Cheng Wang Tianyou Emperor personally set out to fight, with the ability to play with his life to repel the deputy marshal Wu Pingzhang political affairs: often meet spring, the army is dozens of miles.
Seeing that he was about to break through, Da Zhou Pingzhang's political affairs shouted: "The sergeant is tired, you can stop the army!" ”
It was such an inadvertent sentence that caused the courage that the Great Zhou army had finally mustered to dissipate in an instant, and it also made Emperor Tianyou, the king of Great Zhou Cheng, forced to retreat into the city, and was no longer able to stop the army from breaking through!
The political affairs of the Great Zhou Pingzhang continued to sit on the top of the city tower and drink, and the people serving on the left and right handed him peaches, but he was just about to eat but was hit by a cannonball, and his head was shattered together with the peaches.
King Wu has sent people to persuade him to surrender many times, but he was rejected by Emperor Tianyou, King Cheng of the Great Zhou, because the revenge of killing his brother was not for Dai Tian, so he continued to defend Pingjiang County, and after the grain was exhausted, he fed on rats and dry grass, and used roof tiles as bullets when the arrows were exhausted.
Until the first year of King Wu and the twenty-seventh year of Mengyuan Zhizheng on September 8, 1367, King Wu led his army to attack Pingjiang County, and Emperor Tianyou, King Cheng of the Great Zhou, launched a street battle to resist the Wu army.
In the end, Emperor Tianyou, the king of Great Zhou Cheng, was captured and sent to Yingtianfu, and King Wu personally questioned him but ignored him, Wu Xuanguo Gong: Li Shanchang, asked him but was scolded by him, "The sun shines on you, not on me!" ”
In desperation, King Wu had no choice but to order his guards to beat him to death with sticks, ending the Zhang Wu regime and imprisoning the Metropolitan Governor of Han and Song.
Then King Wu took advantage of the victory and ordered the marshal of the Wu Unified Army: Tang He, for (General Wu Zhengnan) to crusade against Zuo Cheng of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province, who had been occupying eastern Zhejiang for many years and repeatedly rebelled against the Yuan court: Fang Guozhen, and also ordered Wu Zhongshu Province Pingzhang Political Affairs: Hu Tingrui, for "General Wu Zhengdong" Wu Jiangxi Province Zuo Cheng: He Wenhui, for the deputy general to attack Fujian Province together, forming a north-south attack to oppress the troops of Zuo Cheng Headquarters in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province, causing Fang Guozhen to write a letter to surrender to King Wu after fleeing to the sea.