Chapter 41: The Tough Bones
After Zhang Shide was captured, the first person to be angry was the Great Zhou Emperor Zhang Shicheng.
If other people are captured, Zhang Shicheng can ignore them and let them live and die, and he has nothing to do with himself.
But his younger brother is absolutely different.
He has played a great role in the development of his career, whether it is military or political, his younger brother is an absolute good hand, and it can be said that he can have today's achievements at least half of his credit.
In the case of Zhang Shide's arrest, Zhang Shicheng, as the emperor, should have sent someone to warn Zhu Yuanzhang.
The meaning is also very simple, one is to talk about peace, and more is to warn.
Warn this deflated three who will only discharge on his head and will not grow hair, if he knows each other, he will quickly release my brother, if not, beware that I will lead my army of millions to level you.
But on the issue of release and retention, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't seem to care about Zhang Shicheng's warning at all.
As a return gift to Zhang Shicheng for threatening himself, Zhu Yuanzhang also fully discovered his personal extreme character, he ignored Zhang Shicheng's warning, but humiliated Zhang Shide fiercely, and threatened Zhang Shide's life to force Zhang Shicheng to compromise with himself.
As Zhu Yuanzhang's subordinate prisoner, after receiving oppression and insults one after another, Zhang Shide, who has always been arrogant, felt humiliated, so after being humiliated and tortured, he was ready to secretly let people tell his brother: Don't compromise with Zhu Yuanzhang, you should surrender to the Yuan army, and the two sides will join forces to kill Zhu Yuanzhang, a bald donkey.
It is not written in the history books whether this news has really spread, but from this alone, it can be seen that there are still some problems within Zhu Yuanzhang's army, otherwise how could the leader of a rebel army deliver this kind of news that can almost determine the life and death of his own army.
And when Zhang Shide put forward the theory of this kind of joint operation, it was Zhu Yuanzhang who first got this information.
Faced with this kind of intelligence, which can almost turn himself from active to passive, from strong to weak in an instant, Zhu Yuanzhang is very unhappy in his heart.
He originally planned to keep Zhang Shide's life, because Zhang Shide was pressed in his hands, which was equivalent to having an extra trump card in his hand that could control Zhang Shicheng, although he could not completely control Zhang Shicheng through Zhang Jiuliu, but at least he could threaten his life as a bargaining chip at an important time.
But when Zhu Yuanzhang found out about Zhang Jiuliu's suggestion to his brother, Zhu Yuanzhang overturned his original plan.
Looking at the man in front of him who had suffered humiliation but still gritted his teeth, Zhu Yuanzhang felt a trace of murderous energy in his heart.
Today, I was the first to learn this information, and at least I had a certain amount of precautions, but in this chaotic environment, no one dared to guarantee that this kind of transmission of information would not happen again, after all, no one could guarantee that others would always be loyal to them.
At this point, there is only one way to put an end to this problem.
Since we can't be friends, let's tear our faces completely.
So after Zhu Yuanzhang learned that Zhang Shide was going to deliver the news to his brother that the United Yuan Army was coming to attack him, he made a decision.
A decision that could not have been more reasonable in the circumstances of the time.
After this decision was made, there were two people who supported at the same time, one was Xu Da, and the other was Tang He.
At the same time, there is a person who is strongly opposed, and this person is: Zhang Shicheng.
The dedication of this decision is the result that Zhang Shicheng is most unwilling to see.
But at this time, Zhang Shicheng, who was hundreds of miles away, could not play any role at all, and at the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang also took action for his decision.
In order to prevent future troubles, and to avoid being burned, Zhu Yuanzhang raised the snow-white scimitar in his hand.
Under the cold and resolute gaze, Zhang Shide's head was chopped alive.
At the same time that Zhu Yuanzhang made this move, it also brought his relationship with Zhang Shicheng to the bottom.
This is destined for Zhang Shicheng's final fate in the final war.
After dealing with Zhang Shide's matter, a thorny problem was placed in front of Zhu Yuanzhang.
Because of Zhang Shide's killing, in order to avoid repeating the fate of his second brother, the defenders who were sticking to Changzhou refused to surrender and fell into a stumbling with Zhu Yuanzhang's army.
At the same time, in order to vent the anger in his heart, and in order to avenge the murder of his brother, Zhang Shicheng sent Zhang and Tang to lead the army to rescue Changzhou urgently.
But what Zhang Shicheng didn't expect was that instead of relieving Zhang Shide's siege, the two of them were beaten by Xu Da's ambushed ambush army halfway through, not only did they not relieve Changzhou's predicament, but both of them were trapped in this quagmire.
In the face of the fall of Zhang Tang and the others, Zhang Shicheng, as the emperor of the first dynasty, was helpless and helpless, in his own opinion, these two people were used as reinforcements, even if they couldn't help, they would definitely not help, but in the face of Zhang Shicheng, who was also in the quagmire, Zhang Shicheng was extremely resentful.
These two useless Sven scum originally wanted to let you relieve some worries for my uncle, but I didn't expect that not only did the sorrow not be relieved, but it added a lot of troubles.
You useless things, what use do I want you scum.
A bunch of useless stuff.
Don't let me see you again, or you will cut you once you see you.
But things have happened, and in this case, Zhang Shicheng, as the commander of the First Army, is also helpless.
He also thought about sending some more people to deal with Zhu Yuanzhang, but the two best generals under him were subdued by Zhu Yuanzhang, and in this embarrassing situation where there were no generals to adjust, as the commander-in-chief, he could only choose to give up.
You're a deflated three, a bald donkey, let you go this time, and wait for the next time you have the opportunity, see if I don't fight you, northeast and southwest.
In this self-comforting situation, Zhang Shicheng gave up the idea of rescuing Changzhou.
This approach is tantamount to one-sided abandonment of the strategic place of Changzhou, but as the Changzhou garrison Zhang Jiajun did not know his commander's thoughts at all, in their opinion, since another wave of reinforcements failed, there will inevitably be a second and third wave of reinforcements to reinforce here, and they belong to a strategic place and material reserves are abundant, their own boss will not be willing to give up.
As a result, in this situation of full of blood and high morale, the Changzhou defenders, who were Zhang Shicheng's descendants, actually withstood Zhu Jiajun's three consecutive large-scale attacks.
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang, as the supreme commander, faced Xu Da's war report of three consecutive siege failures, he first published his battlefield style as the supreme commander, he immediately issued a battle briefing, verbally reprimanded Xu Da and other generals, and began to suppress power, all the soldiers who participated in the attack on Changzhou were demoted by one level, and verbally reprimanded.
The general meaning is: I know your hard work in the front line, and I also know your desperate effectiveness in the battle with Zhang Shicheng, but you also have to know that Changzhou is a strategic place that we must take, if we don't take Changzhou today, then we can't lay out the next chess game, so I advise everyone to take Changzhou Everyone is good for each other, if you can't take Changzhou, hum, this responsibility lies first of all with the commander-in-chief's general, I advise you to make up for your mistakes, otherwise you will be punished.
In the face of this war briefing, Xu Da, as the supreme commander of the army at this time, first muttered, he did contribute in this war, but in the face of the defenders who resisted Changzhou to the death, he was indeed difficult.
Since following Zhu Yuanzhang, he has never encountered such a difficult city in Changzhou, such a hard bone is like a fish bone stuck in his throat, facing the reprimand of his own boss, he is in a dilemma at this time.
In this case, Xu Da has only one way to choose, and the meaning of his own boss is very clear, if he can't fight, he must fight if he can't create conditions.
Under this command, which can be said to be absolute, he can only choose to attack.
At this time, something that made Xu Da slightly happy appeared in front of him. Perhaps knowing that there was a difficult predicament in Changzhou, or perhaps because of the protection of the military status of Xu Da, the general, Zhu Yuanzhang, as the absolute boss of the Zhu family's army, sent 20,000 elite soldiers to assist Xu Da to capture Changzhou after issuing the reprimand.
There were several other people who came with the soldiers and horses for these two nights, they were: Chang Yuchun, Liao Yongan and Hu Dahai.
Faced with the arrival of these three generals who were enough to defeat one hundred by one, Xu Da, as a general, finally mustered up the courage and ordered the three of them to defend one side in the east, west, north and south, and launched a final onslaught on Changzhou, a broken place where birds don't.
That is, in 1357, the army led by Xu Da broke through the city of Changzhou, which had not been attacked for a long time.
But when Xu Da entered Changzhou City, a terrible thing was in front of him.
This thing that made him terrible and even more incomprehensible was that the originally small defenders of Changzhou City were only a few thousand people.
Facing Changzhou City, which he had worked hard to capture but could not capture for a long time, and facing this broken place that was just a big fart in front of him, but it was enough to resist his repeated attacks for several months, Xu Da couldn't help but start to reflect on the reason for this situation.
In the end, the result he got was: although Changzhou was a place with few soldiers and horses, it had sufficient grain storage, and he was eager to attack the city, and he was impetuous and impetuous, while the other party was well guarded and had plenty of grain and grass.
After Xu Da led the army to finally take Changzhou and learned from his own inadequate experience, in order to boost his morale and to carry forward the band style of one of the theories of war, Xu Da, as a high commander, launched a strategic offensive against Ma Dasha (now Jingjiang City, Jiangsu Province) again after fully repairing the army, and quickly took Jingjiang.
After two battles and two victories, Xu Da launched an order to attack Ning Guo non-stop.