On July 6, Zhu Yuanzhang led an army of 200,000 along the west of the Yangtze River, claiming to be 400,000.

On July 16, they entered the mouth of the lake, and Chen Bing confronted the Han army across the lake on the east bank.

It was late at night, and Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't sleep after discussing the military with his generals and strategists, lying on the bed tossing and turning, "Sleeping on a ship is not practical." He lifted the tent, went into the foretangle, and saw that there was still half a jug of residual wine on the table, and took it in his hand to the deck.

"Guogong!" The guards on the deck immediately saluted on one knee.

"Do your business, my father is breathable, what about Han Cheng?" Han Cheng is the head of Zhu Yuanzhang's personal soldiers, serving as the chief of the account, and the left deputy commander of the personal soldiers, he usually follows him and rarely leaves his body, seeing that Han Cheng is not there, he asked casually.

"General Han was called away by Xu Youcheng's personal soldiers!" Xu Youcheng refers to Xu Da naturally, the year before last, he was promoted from the Privy Council to Zhongshu Youcheng, and many of the generals under Zhu Yuanzhang were civilian leaders, and the higher the status, the more so.

"Do you want your subordinates to get President Han back?"

"No, busy with you." Zhu Yuanzhang carried the wine jug to the top of the cabin, looked up, the bright moon was in the sky, reflected in the lake like a round of jade, charming and moving. The night breeze blew the surface of the lake, and the round of jade turned into sparkling waves.

Zhu Yuanzhang subconsciously looked up to the west, and couldn't see anything in the vast night. But he knew that there was his most formidable enemy there.

For the upcoming war, it would be false to say that he was not worried, after all, Chen Youliang's troops were almost twice as large as his, and he had hundreds of huge ships, and then he looked at the boats under his command were really shabby, and the few dozen giant ships were captured by Chen Youliang during the Battle of Longwan.

Thinking of the Battle of Longwan, Lao Zhu couldn't help but feel a little more proud, it was a rare and beautiful battle for him, and Chen Youliang shouldn't be easily fooled after suffering such a big loss.

Lao Zhu's eyebrows twisted, and he took a sip into the spout. "Heh......" He let out a long breath of wine, and the depression in his heart only subsided slightly.

"Wen Zheng, Wen Ying, Deng Yu should be able to escape, right? There is also the kid who doesn't know where he came from, I heard Zhang Ziming say that he has made a lot of efforts, I hope he won't be caught by Chen Youliang, otherwise Xiuying doesn't know how sad he is. ”

The last time I saw Zhang Ziming sent by Hongdu in Yingtian, according to him, Chen Youliang suffered one after another setbacks under Hongdu City, morale was low, and food and grass were scarce, which prompted him to send troops to help. However, the gathering of soldiers and horses to prepare grain and grass has been delayed for too long, and I am afraid that Zhu Wenzheng will not be able to withstand Chen Youliang's onslaught.

Zhu Wenzheng's ability to drag Chen Youliang and not attack Ying Tian was already greatly beyond his expectations, and as for whether Hong Can could be saved, he didn't care much. As soon as he entered the lake, he sent an inspector to investigate the situation in Hongdu, but there was no news back yet, which made him worried.

He looked at the spout and drank the rest of the wine in one go, and was about to go down with the flask when he heard a familiar footstep on the deck, it was Han Cheng's.

"Ben Gong is on the roof of the cabin!"

"I thought my grandfather was asleep!" Han Cheng stood under the warehouse, seeing that his figure and appearance were somewhat similar to Lao Zhu, and he didn't know and thought it was the two brothers.

"I can't sleep, it's always unsound to sleep on a boat. What is Tiande looking for you? ”

Han Chengyi arched his hand, "I was about to report to the Guogong that Xu Youcheng's corporal caught four ......scouts while patrolling."

"Oh. Hehe, Chen Youliang is more anxious than me. ”

"Grandpa, it's not Chen Youliang's scout, it's the scout of Metropolitan Governor Zhu Wenzheng!"

"Where's Wenzheng!"

"The governor of Dadu is still in Hongdu, and Chen Youliang has not broken through Hongdu! Just ......"

"Hahaha...... I knew that the donkey was capable, so I called the four scouts and asked them myself. ”

"Guogong is not in a hurry, it's just that the identities of these four people are suspicious, and the news doesn't know whether it's true or not."

"Isn't there a waist plate or a seal letter from the Metropolitan Governor's Palace?"

"Yes, yes, but ...... How to say it, you can see for yourself! ”

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Lao Zhu changed into a purple robe that he usually wears, sat behind the handsome case, two rows of personal soldiers with knives stood on both sides, and Han Cheng stood beside the handsome case, and the scene looked very serious.

"One-two-one, one-two-one......" With a sonorous and powerful trumpet, neat footsteps sounded on the deck.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw a person walking towards the cabin with his chest up, no! It's four! When he got closer, he found that it was four people coming in a column, but they were all doing the same action, and the line was neatly arranged, so he thought it was one person, and he couldn't help but be a little surprised.

The four of them walked to a place seven or eight steps away from Lao Zhu, went around for half a circle, and immediately became a horizontal column, and they didn't hear what the leader shouted, and as soon as the four people turned around, they became face to face with him, and Lao Zhu was dazzled for a while.

"Stand upright!"

"Salute!"

I only heard a snapping sound, and the four people put their hands on the brim of their hats violently, the action was too sudden, and the soldiers on both sides nervously pulled out half of the knives.

The four of them raised their heads like this, staring blankly at Lao Zhu behind the handsome case, waiting for Lao Zhu to give them a salute in return. And Lao Zhu was also looking at them curiously, waiting for them to salute him, and after waiting awkwardly for a while, Han Chengcai smiled bitterly, walked to the front of the handsome case and put his hand on the side of his head, "Finish the ceremony!" ”

The four of them snapped their hands on the seams of their trousers, and the pro-soldiers on both sides drew their knives nervously, Han Cheng signaled again and again, and those pro-soldiers put down their knives.

"Han Cheng, what were you doing just now?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked with a frown.

"It's a return salute to them on behalf of the Duke of the Kingdom."

"My father saluted them? They haven't saluted me yet, have they? Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes widened and he roared.

"That's it!" Han Cheng gestured his hand on his head again, and said with a wry smile: "They say that this is the new rule of Hongdu. ”

"New rules? Donkeys just love to be blind and do a few things! Lao Zhu couldn't help but burst into foul language, but after looking at the straight soldiers standing on the four stations, he couldn't hold back the liking in his heart, "Forget it, you are Hongdu's soldiers?" ”

"Report!" The dog stepped forward, "We're not soldiers, we're patrolmen!" Patrol, Logic, Team, Member! As he spoke, he pointed at the four words in front of him one by one, Lao Zhu just drank the tea in his mouth and almost didn't squirt out, his eyes were good, and the clothes clearly said public security patrol. It doesn't matter if you can't read, there are many illiterate people, but it's rare to see people who are so showy.

"What does a patrol do?"

"Report! The patrol members are mainly responsible for patrolling and catching demons, and they usually train and go up to fight when the city is tight. ”

"Demons?" Lao Zhu was confused.

Han Cheng explained in a low voice, "The demon is Chen Youliang's person." ”

"Oh, Hong hasn't been attacked by Chen Youliang, right?"

"Report! Chen Demon didn't break through Hongdu, he couldn't beat us, so he let mosquitoes bite people in the city, but his own people were also bitten by mosquitoes, and more died than us, so he burned five or six boats in the lake. ”

Lao Zhu was about to go crazy, "What kind of mess, who told you this?" ”

"Report! It was Zhang Wuliu who told us. ”

(Thank you Sun Shituan, on the day of forgetting, I was the ticket of Bai Kaiming Enlightened Dongjin Yi Xuanyuan Jiuli.) If you don't have a name, please leave a message to tell me)