Chapter 31: The Courage to Break the Boat
Zhu Yuanzhang, who had been in Heyang for a while, after everything was dealt with, he shifted his gaze to another city.
In terms of political influence and strategic location, this city far surpasses Heyang by several levels.
What's more, there is a dragon vein foundation here.
Zhu Yuanzhang took a fancy to this, so he would give up other cities and not fight, and pointed straight here.
This is Jiqing (present-day Nanjing).
Didn't Han Lin'er, the king of Xiao Ming, who didn't understand any bullshit, rely on Bianliang to have a dragon vein, so he dared to ascend the throne and be the emperor, and he dared to be so arrogant and proud!
He is a puppet and can still take Bianliang, why can't this general, a general, take down Jiqing?
A tree lives a skin, and a man lives a breath;
For this breath, uncle, I work hard!
In order to get out of this evil breath, the gentlemen have to fight the celebration at the cost of their lives.
I also want you Han Lin'er to see, the Bianliang you laid is just a broken place where birds don't and sheep don't dung, and the place you laid down is the real rich place.
There are countless glories, endless riches, and endless women who can't sleep here.
There are high walls to be used for defense, here there are dense peasants and people to rely on, here there is a steady stream of grain and grass to supply military supplies, and here there are several dragon veins circling to call the wind and rain.
Compared with this celebration of the masters, that bullshit Bianliang of yours is not worth mentioning at all.
When you lay down Bianliang, I also want you to understand that in my eyes, you Han Lin Ermao is not one, and your dragon and phoenix regime is even more nonsense.
You're just a bunch of rabble who drank Wang Ba soup and ate shit luck.
This is the real orthodoxy here.
The master is the real unification of the world.
The goal is already there, but there is a big problem in front of Zhu Yuanzhang before the attack.
If you don't solve this problem, let alone fight the festival.
Even crossing the river is a problem.
Because there is also a Yangtze River in front of Jiqing, there is no way to cross the river if you don't find some boats to cross the river.
On this issue, Zhu Yuanzhang did make a difficulty.
In this era of war and chaos, the common people who fish should not dare to come out of the ground, let alone fishing, I am afraid that the boat has already been split and burned as firewood.
If you cut wood and chop firewood to make a boat, all of your subordinates are reckless men who kill people without blinking, and let them build ships, isn't it better than forcing Zhang Fei to embroider!
Isn't that even more!
What's more, even if they are forced to build ships, they have to have material and time!
That bullshit Han Lin'er has already taken the lead and became the emperor first, if he doesn't hurry up, the daylily will be cold!
Looking back at the people standing behind him, Zhu Yuanzhang sighed secretly in his heart.
Swimming is also a technical job!
The group of people under his command are all complete landlubbers, not to mention swimming, even if they get wet, they will probably get dizzy!
If such an army goes down the river, let alone the difficulty and danger of forcibly crossing the Yangtze River, I am afraid that if it swims halfway, it will have leg cramps, weak hands and feet, and will not be able to swim, and then there will really be a good show to watch.
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses floated in groups on the sea, floating like floating pigs all over the river.
Think of what a spectacular scene it must be!
Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang's hair stood on end in a cold sweat.
Even if you don't want this celebration, you can't joke with the lives of your brothers!
This joke can't be played and can't afford to play!
But if you don't win the celebration, you are unwilling!
What to do?
Looking across the river, looking at the bustling lights of Jiqing, this Yangtze River moat is in front of Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, but it is like a bone in the throat, stuck Zhu Yuanzhang can't advance or retreat.
When he scratched his ears and cheeks, and couldn't come up with an idea, a person stood in front of him.
This person's name is: Yu Tonghai.
His identity is: the young master of the water village.
The purpose of his trip is to marry Zhu Yuanzhang with a cadre of people.
Dowry: more than 10,000 people and more than 1,000 ships.
The water village is called the water army on the road, and the officialdom is called the water bandits.
In layman's terms, it is piracy, which belongs to the same profession as the current Somali pirates, and their main job is to rob passing ships.
The business that I often do is to make a fortune by passing through the road, and buy and sell all of it.
When this group of people came to Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang should not have taken it to heart, compared with his regular army, these water ducks who only know how to rob houses are not much different from those rabble on the shore.
It's just that one swims in the water, and the other walks on the road.
The places of mixing are different, and the division of labor is also different.
Since he came, Zhu Yuanzhang naturally couldn't let them go easily, since people came to take refuge in themselves sincerely, he had absolutely no reason to refuse, and besides, the guys in their hands were looking forward to it day and night!
finally caught a wronged leader, how could they let them escape from the palm of their hands again.
After more than 10,000 people came, Zhu Yuanzhang accepted all the orders as usual, even with people and boats.
The ship is there.
All the people are together.
The biggest problem has been solved, and the soldiers, horses, money, and food have long been prepared, so there is no need to hesitate about anything.
Get on board and send troops.
Let's go straight to Jinling (Jiqing)!
I have been in Heyang long enough, and the generals who are about to cover the smelly moldy and long hair have long heard that there are beautiful women in Jinling, and the story of the thirteen hairpins in Jinling seems to be lingering in their ears, think about the scene of the girls standing in front of everyone, and the flower girls who are bright and bright like flowers when they show their snow-white and slender thighs and bloom with a bright smile like flowers, in the military camp except for men are gentlemen, even fleas are public, women with both talent and beauty seem to be waving to them, Like hungry wolves, they have already made enough efforts and can't wait to take Jinling.
Jinling, uncle, am I here?
Beauty, wait for Yeha!
When everyone with blue eyes and red faces was eager to try, Zhu Yuanzhang stood up and raised his objections.
If you want to take Jinling, you must go through quarrying (now Ma'an, Anhui). If we do not fight and take Jinling, Jinling will inevitably be heavily guarded, and it will be absolutely impossible for us to take it in a short time. At this time, if the quarrying army shoots from behind, it will attack our rear and copy our rear road, and when the time comes, we will be attacked from both sides and will inevitably suffer heavy losses.
Therefore, if you want to successfully take Jinling, you must first take the quarry.
I don't know why, quarrying can be regarded as the first big battle after Guo Zixing's death, it stands to reason that Guo Tianxu and Zhang Tianyou, as the commander-in-chief and right general, should express their position, at least express their opinions.
But when this paragraph was mentioned in the history books, Guo Tianxu and Zhang Tianyou were directly excluded, as if there were no two people at all.
When the military order to attack the quarrying was issued, I didn't see any voice from Guo and Zhang at all, nor did I see anything to say about the two of them.
You must know that although Guo Zixing is dead, according to the statement that the son inherits his father's business, Guo Tianxu, as Guo Zixing's son, should become the commander of the whole army, although Zhang Tianyou is not his son, but he is also the second in the army, second only to Guo Tianxu, but these two characters do not seem to make any sound, as if the world has evaporated.
At this point, I can't help but guess.
I estimate that these two people should have been placed under house arrest by Zhu Yuanzhang at this time, at least they were deprived of military power, after all, since Guo Zixing died, his son and brother-in-law can no longer become any climate, since Guo Zixing braided, the command of this army has returned to Zhu Yuanzhang's hands again, and he has firmly controlled it.
At this time, Guo Zixing's experience is still in front of him, Zhu Yuanzhang will definitely not repeat the mistakes of the past, and re-establish Guo Tianxu or Zhang Tianyou as puppets, he will definitely not let others ride on his head to and pee.
There was no way for him to have another boss-like figure in his head.
This kind of stupidity, like planting a sword of Damocles, is enough once, and there will never be a second time.
From now on, this army will be surnamed Zhu.
will only be surnamed Zhu.
In this army, Zhu Yuanzhang became the real de facto controller.
Others, wait, don't want to get involved!
As the commander in chief of the army and the absolute leader in the army, Zhu Yuanzhang's speech means that the combat mission has been determined.
Now that the mission is clear, there is nothing to say.
Let's go.
Capture of quarrying.
In mid-June, after everything was ready, Zhu Yuanzhang gave the order to set off.
Order: Xu Da, Feng Guoyong, Shao Rong, Tang He, Li Shanchang, Chang Yuchun, Deng Yu, Geng Junyong, Mao Guang, Liao Yongan and others each led the army to cross the river by boat, with Zhu Yuanzhang as the main ship, Xu Da, Feng Guoyong, Tang He second, and others waiting for the queen to march to quarry.
Anyone who is trying to survive on the sea knows that this God's weather is like a woman's face, which changes from time to time, and you can't feel its old man's pulse at all.
That is, when Zhu Yuanzhang led the army to drift on the sea, the weather suddenly changed and dark clouds rolled.
The history books say that it is: dozens of miles of black clouds cover the sky, thunder and lightning wind and rain.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born as a landlubber, tasted the taste of sea water for the first time and understood the importance of astronomy for the first time.
After the heavy rain, the northwest storm broke out, and at this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang asked the whole army to set sail and quickly approach the quarrying with the help of the wind.
And at this moment, the Yuan army stationed in the quarry has just experienced a wandering heavy rain, and they all went back to the house to take shelter from the rain, perhaps in their opinion, under such ghost weather, no one will drift on the sea like a stupid hat, and no one dares to attack the city.
So when Zhu Yuanzhang's army relied on the wind to quickly come to the quarry, the defenders of the quarrying were shocked.
Where did this group of deflated mistresses come from? The sea was empty just now, why did so many people come in a blink of an eye?
Faced with an army that seemed to have fallen from the sky, the defenders of the quarrying began to play their habitual game of routines.
Although the goal is already in place, the basic process still has to be walked.
Therefore, the guard will send a few shrimp soldiers and crabs out of the city to defend against the enemy, as if playing a family out of the city to transfer a circle, and Zhu Yuanzhang's army symbolic short soldier contact, after going through the necessary procedures, the general defending the city quickly issued an order to retreat.
Master, not an opponent, or go fast.
In this way, Zhu Yuanzhang captured the quarrying in one fell swoop.
After capturing the quarry, Zhu Yuanzhang made a move that surprised everyone.
He personally gave the order and personally supervised the sinking of all the warships crossing the river and went east with the current.
Faced with this move, everyone was shocked.
These boats are their only way back, and if they break them all, it means cutting off their own way of retreat.
At this time, someone must have come out to stop it, but it didn't help.
Under the circumstance that it can be said that Zhu Yuanzhang insisted on going his own way, after all the warships were abandoned, Zhu Yuanzhang said a word, a sentence that made me creepy.
"Those who achieve great things do not make small profits. This is very close, if you don't take this, will you be ridiculed? ”
It's so close to Taiping, what else can we do if we don't take it?
Yes, the purpose of this trip is to take the Taiping, and then cross the Taiping to Jinling, the quarrying is such a broken place is worse than Heyang, what is there to be nostalgic for?
This sentence seems to have made a choice.
Take the peace, live,
Defeat the peace, die!
Great cities are waiting for us to take them, so why don't we take them?
Anyway, if you take it, you will take it for nothing, if you don't take it for nothing, you will take it for nothing, why not take it!
It was in this situation, which can be said to be broken, that Zhu Yuanzhang asked the whole army to bury the pot and cook.
After eating and drinking, he finally gave the order to cross the Taiping Bridge and attack Taiping.