Chapter 91: The Fall of a Hero
After running out of Taiyuan, Wang Baobao first fled to Xinzhou.
Chang Yuchun, who decided to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, did not want to let him go, and he kept biting him from the beginning of Wang Baobao's runaway, and chased him all the way to Xinzhou.
And Wang Baobao, who has never hesitated on the issue of running away, is indeed unambiguous, and when he found that Chang Yuchun had been chasing after him, he made a wise decision.
Passing through Xinzhou without entering, crossing Xinzhou and running directly in the direction of Datong.
The most test of running is leg kung fu.
Wang Baobao was born into a Mongolian aristocracy, so he had a great advantage.
That is: livestock.
Wang Baobao's livestock is much better than Chang Yuchun's crotch is not much stronger than a donkey's war horse.
So he was lucky to escape from Chang Yuchun's pursuit.
He ran to Datong in one go.
But when he heard that the army had liberated Shanxi and began to attack Shaanxi, he felt that he was weak and would be cleaned up by the enemy sooner or later if he hid in Datong alone, so he decided to retreat again and went straight to Gansu to fight with the friendly forces there.
And Chang Yuchun also seemed to know his own shortcomings, so when he chased to Xinzhou, he found that there was no hope of catching up, let alone killing Wang Baobao, and he decided to give up.
He led his troops back to Taiyuan.
With Wang Baobao's withdrawal, the entire territory of Shanxi was liberated.
After cleaning up the remnants of the enemy in Shanxi, Xu Da began to attack another place.
This place is Shaanxi, which is only one mountain away from Shanxi.
At this time, Shaanxi had a vote to obey the soldiers and horses of the Yuan Dynasty.
Their boss is called: Li Siqi.
He had more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in his hands.
In order to wipe out the only force entrenched in the northern center in one fell swoop, Xu Da sent a large army into Shaanxi.
The first thing he set his sights on was a place in Shaanxi, which was once the capital of a country.
It can be said that it is in a very strategic position.
The name of this place at that time was: Fengyuan Road. (It's a place name, not a street we're talking about now.) )
Xu Da believes that as long as he takes here, there will be no more threats from other places in Shaanxi.
At this time, Li Siqi, who was guarding Shaanxi, faced this army of tigers and wolves, and he only did one thing.
Escape.
I know I can't kill you, but I can get away with you!
Wherever your Ming army hits, then I will give up.
Let me fight you head-on, don't even think about it!
When there is no place to give up in the end, then I will disarm and surrender.
I can still make a lot of money by doing this little business.
Therefore, when the Ming army attacked Fengyuan Road, Li Siqi only let his subordinates make a simple resistance and then led his troops to flee.
And after Xu Da took Fengyuan Road, he did one thing first.
Change the name.
Changed Fengyuan Road to Xi'an Mansion.
It was at this time that our current Xi'an was changed.
After liberating Xi'an, Xu Da began to clean up the remnants of other enemy forces in Shaanxi.
As the power of the Ming army continued to expand, Li Siqi, who was under pressure and felt that he had done enough as a courtier of the Yuan Dynasty, decided to do the last big thing.
Led the troops to surrender.
For Li Siqi's surrender, Zhu Yuanzhang, as the boss, gladly accepted it, and did not treat him badly, and rewarded him with an official position: Jiangxi Pingzhang Political Affairs (equivalent to a province**).
At the same time, in order to fully tap Li Siqi's potential, Zhu Yuanzhang also handed him a task.
A daunting task.
went to Gansu to persuade Wang Baobao to surrender.
It's a truly great mission.
I call it great not because of how important it is, not because of how impactful it will be, but because it is morally impossible to accomplish this mission.
Personally, I think Zhu Yuanzhang is doing this completely with a try-and-see attitude.
If it works out, then it's best, if it can't be done, then there's no need for you to come back alive, just die there!
To put it bluntly, Zhu Yuanzhang did this to let him die.
Anyway, I don't have you many here.
No less of you.
For this task, Li Siqi, who has just been promoted to **, should not want to accept it from the bottom of his heart.
But he couldn't refuse.
Because the new boss in front of him, who has a donkey face and is asymmetrical and discordant, is obviously not a good stubble, nor is he a good person.
Now he can be said to stretch out his head with a knife, and shrink his head with a knife.
Whatever you do is a death.
It's up to you to die!
In this dilemma in Xi'an, it finally chose to accept the order and went to Gansu to persuade Wang Baobao to surrender.
Rather than being killed by Zhu Yuanzhang, it is better to try your luck with Wang Baobao.
Maybe that bastard kid's brain short-circuited for a while, and he accepted his invitation!
Under these circumstances, Li Siqi marched to Gansu.
And at this time, Emperor Yuan Shun, who had been eating weeds and drinking the northwest wind for several months, finally couldn't bear the loneliness, and he originally pinned his hopes of regaining the capital on Li Siqi, but he didn't expect this waste snack to work.
And this bastard, in the end, also surrendered to the enemy.
This traitor.
If I knew that you would betray the revolution today, I should have done you before.
Save me from embarrassing me.
Now if you want to return to Dadu, it seems that there is only one force to rely on.
That is Wang Baobao's army.
Faced with this situation, Emperor Yuan Shun, who had been hiding in Shangdu for several months, did two things.
He first ordered Wang Baobao to be promoted to the right prime minister, and asked Wang Baobao to lead a group of soldiers and horses under his command to leave Gansu and assemble in Shangdu.
Subsequently, when the Ming army led by Xu Da was tossing and turning in this part of Shaanxi, Emperor Yuan Shun, who had been drinking the northwest wind in Shangdu for several months, ordered the right prime minister to also lead his troops and horses to Dadu and take the opportunity to recapture Dadu.
Wait for Wang Baobao's team to arrive and then clean up the rest of the other chaotic parties.
He also quickly took the order to set off under the call of Emperor Yuan Shun.
His first stop was to go straight to the point and go straight to the capital.
But when they had just arrived in Tongzhou, they had not had time to attack the city, and they heard bad news.
Very bad news.
The one that grew two meters away and the bear blind man had a fight, and Chang Yuchun rushed north to save Beiping.
He was accompanied by a guy named Li Wenzhong.
Behind the two of them were 80,000 infantry in full gear and 10,000 cavalry on horseback.
After hearing the news, as the current boss of the Yuan Army, he immediately gave an order.
Give up the siege and run for your life.
How can we, the grazing men, fight with you, who eat meat all day long?
It's impossible to beat.
If you can't beat it, let's get out of the way.
As the saying goes: the rivers and lakes are sinister, and if it doesn't work, you will withdraw.
You are powerful, we admit it,
You cattle break, we admit it!
Apoop, Apoo [Run, Run]!
When the crowd heard this order, I believe that most of them were dizzy.
What do you mean, Boss, that your brain was kicked by a donkey?
I finally got here, why didn't I even move the knife and let the girl slip away?
What do you mean?
What kind of plane?
It's coming all the way, so you have to knock it all the way!
Even if you really can't beat it, you can at least get by by using the knife and running away!
But as pawns, they don't have any say.
So they obeyed the boss's command very wisely, and where they came from they were ready to flee back again.
On the surface, the matter seems to have been completed.
Neither side has a knife to face each other.
Hello, hello me, hello everyone!
It's as if nothing happened, and it's as if nothing happened.
It seems that this matter can be passed like this.
But there is one person who disagrees.
He could have reaped greater benefits in the Guanzhong land of Shaanxi, but it was because of the sudden appearance of this group of bastards that disrupted all his plans.
Now I haven't reaped any benefits, and I'm still tired of chasing this group of bastards around the world like my grandson.
What annoyed him even more was that he finally came as if he had to rush to the cattle, and before he could start the battle and prepare to fight, the other party disappeared!
It's numb, it's too faceless!
It's all the way here, what does it mean to not do it?
What's the difference between this and releasing your own pigeons?
This person is often in the spring.
Chang Yuchun was angry, he was very angry.
He was angry, and no one else could submit to him except the stubborn donkey who stayed in Yingtian and became emperor.
He originally stayed in Shaanxi for a good time, he wanted to eat, drink, and drink, and he had a comfortable life, a happy life, and a happy family, he didn't expect that this group of bastards would dare to take advantage of the fire to rob, and he was resentful, and he had already issued an order to recover according to Chang Yuchun, who couldn't bear the murderous spirit.
In a fit of rage, he decided to get rid of the bastards, and was ready to clean up the mess that upset my uncle.
While cleaning up this group of bastards, he also cleaned up with their boss.
Kill this group of deflated people who dare to offend themselves.
At the same time, kill Emperor Yuan Shun, who was far away in Shangdu.
Under the effect of this revenge, Chang Yuchun led his troops to set off.
What he would never have thought in his life was that this battle of the Northern Expedition was the last battle of his life.
It can be said that it is his final battle.
In the face of this group of reinforcements who ran faster than rabbits and had slipped clean before the arrival of his brigade, Chang Yuchun, as a victorious general, also gave full play to his military style of either not fighting, but fighting to the end.
He led his cavalry to chase all the way from Beiping to Shangdu.
And as the prime minister, Ye Su fully showed his talent here once, and made a real military guide for Chang Yuchun.
brought the Ming army all the way to Shangdu without any detours.
At this time, Emperor Yuan Shun, who was impatient in Shangdu, was still thinking that he would be able to return to Dadu in the near future and re-live the fairy life of asking for wine, wine, women and women.
Run away.
With his daughter-in-law, concubine, son, and daughter, he fled all the way to Yingchang (present-day Dali Norxi, northwest of Keshiketeng Banner, Inner Mongolia).
In this battle, Chang Yuchun, as the main battle, not only recovered Shangdu, but also captured tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.
At the same time, as a political reward from afar, Chang Yuchun captured tens of thousands of military vehicles (carriages), 30,000 war horses, and 50,000 cattle and sheep after the war.
In this completely one-sided battle, Chang Yuchun was the real victor.
It received not only an absolute military victory, but also an absolute material satisfaction.
For this result, Chang Yuchun should be happy.
It should also be satisfying.
In this battle, his military talents were fully affirmed, and his name was also unprecedentedly promoted.
This seems to be a very fortunate thing.
For Chang Yuchun, this seems to be a capital worth showing off.
In his contentment, he did not pursue Yingchang, but led the soldiers and horses back to the court.
In the case of war horses and cattle and sheep, strategic materials and their abundance, God did not disappoint him, and in the last battle, God gave him the opportunity to fully perform.
And he gave full recognition to his military talents.
The heroic spirit of "give me 100,000 soldiers and horses, and I can run rampant in the world" also fully confirms his pinnacle title of "Chang 100,000".
That is, when he was satisfied with his ambition and pride, the sky, which had given him too many gifts and favors and saw too much blood on his hands, seemed to have issued a notice of fate at this moment.
A death notice.
He died in Liuhechuan (now west of Longguan County, Hebei).
He was only forty years old.
Posthumously posthumously: King Kaiping.
Maybe for Chang Yuchun, this is a big joke, but this is also the end of his fate.
Comments:
Moved by history, my personal evaluation of Chang Yuchun:
He is loyal and dares to speak out, he works hard and complains about the southern and northern wars, he has 100,000 soldiers and horses rampant in the world, he slaughters the city and offends the gods, although he has great achievements, but he is bloodthirsty, although he has excellent records, but it is difficult to hide his character flaws, he is a hero, but also a butcher. He regards life as a mustard and living beings as playthings, and his actions are commendable, and his extreme city-slaughtering habits are also worthy of criticism.
Although he died young, he should be glad to have escaped the massacre of the bloodbathed heroes in the later period.
Although his death is a pity, his death is also gratifying.
Because he did not die by the sword of his own people, but died on the way out of the war, he should be glad.
His victory and defeat are half and half, and the title of Chang 100,000 will forever resound in the historical materials of the Ming Dynasty.
Award Speech of Touching People:
You are the benchmark of the military, you are the model of the general, you have used your enthusiasm to compose a triumphant song of "Chang 100,000" unprecedented in military history, but you also used your unrestrained city slaughter habit to wash the blood of the soul, casting a gray light on your original excellent reputation.
You are a hero, more like a butcher.
You are a successful person on the battlefield and a complete loser on humanity.
This is you, often in spring.
Zhu Yuanzhang's evaluation of Chang Yuchun: When millions of people bravely ascended first, destroyed the front, and were invincible, it was better than the deputy general Yuchun Xin.
Figures who moved history: often meet spring.
Touched time: October 11, 2018!