For Zhang Shicheng, Xu Da's attack was absolutely fierce.

Because since Xu Da began to attack violently, the defensive weapons he had strategically stored were quickly depleted.

The most scarce of them are stones and bows and arrows that are used to smash people.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was far away in Jinling, also seemed to know Zhang Shicheng's current situation, so he wrote two letters in the peculiar calligraphy unique to him as a monk.

A letter was addressed to Xu Da.

The general meaning should be to say: If you are not subject to foreign military orders, you can play boldly with an open heart, I am 100% assured that you are 100%, and I will give you credit when you take Pingjiang City.

The other letter was addressed to Zhang Shicheng.

It was hoped that he would surrender, and in the letters he was given sufficient benefits.

You want to be an official, you want to be a king, you want to be a king.

As long as you surrender, I can give you anything but my throne!

In the face of such a dilemma, Zhang Shicheng was not ambiguous.

He used his own practical actions to reply to Zhu Jiajun outside the city and Zhu Yuanzhang who was far away in Yingtian.

There is only one meaning.

If you want me to surrender, dream about it!

Death is my last word.

Die, and I won't surrender.

After the attitude was clear, Zhang Shicheng came up with a set of effective solutions in the face of the dilemma.

Demolition of houses, breaking of walls.

He ordered his soldiers to carry out extensive destruction of the houses in the city, and then used the wood removed from the houses as arrows and the bricks and tiles left over from the broken walls as guns.

Shoot these arrows to death to become these bastards, and use the bricks and tiles made out of the broken walls to smash the group of deflated people outside the city who have driven themselves to a dead end!

For Zhang Shicheng's decision, as a soldier under him, he must be happy.

Boss, I can't play if you let me build a house, but if you let me sabotage, I'm definitely a good hand!

You're all on the sidelines, and I'll do the sabotage alone!

To be precise, Zhang Shicheng's method is feasible in a short period of time.

But it can't be too long.

After all, there are a number of houses in the city.

After all, there is a limit to what can be dismantled.

When even the final resistance game of breaking the wall and demolishing the house was completely played, Zhang Shicheng, who seemed to have expected that the city wall was about to be breached, made a bold decision, he ordered Xu Yi and Pan Yuan, who were guarding the west gate, to organize a commando to charge the morale of the Zhu family's army.

This is a death squad in the truest sense of the word.

Zhang Shicheng believes that as long as he tears a hole, he can escape.

And as long as he can escape, there will be a comeback one day.

When the time comes, I can fight to the death with you Zhu Yuanzhang.

Among the eight city gates, Zhang Shicheng finally chose one of them.

I don't know why Zhang Shicheng chose the city gate of Changmen.

In my personal opinion, if Zhang Shicheng chooses to attack several other city gates, such as Loumen, Xumen, Ximen or North Gate, there is at least a five-five chance of winning.

Because the guards of these city gates are weaker in terms of combat effectiveness and merit, Zhang Shicheng will at least have a better chance of winning if he chooses these city gates.

But he didn't choose these gates.

Instead, I chose the gate.

Perhaps in Zhang Shicheng's view, the gate is the most difficult to defend and the weakest gate of the opponent's troops!

Anyway, no matter what the reason, Zhang Shicheng finally chose Changmen.

Perhaps his strategy was correct at the time.

But he chose the wrong opponent.

Because the general guarding the gate is often in spring.

It is known as a tiger general who can run rampant in the world if I give me 100,000 soldiers and horses, and often meet spring.

In the face of such an army, Chang Yuchun also told Zhang Shicheng a truth.

If you want to make a breakthrough from me, you're blind!

When Xu Yi and Pan Yuan led his soldiers and horses as Zhang Shicheng's advance troops, opened the city gate and swarmed out, Chang Yuchun made his fierce style in the face of this sudden group of assault troops.

He did not flinch at all, but urgently dispatched a thousand soldiers and horses to launch a counter-charge against tens of thousands of enemy troops.

The final result was that both the two commanders were killed, and the rest of the soldiers and horses rushed back to the city after their boss was killed.

The plan for the raid was also completely shattered by the death of the two.

In this kind of military game in which you attack and I carry it to the death, Pingjiang City has fully resisted the eight months of repeated attacks by the Zhu family's army.

Eight months later, Pingjiang Castle, where even the houses had been demolished, finally reached its final destination.

In September of the twenty-seventh year of Zhizheng (1367 AD), Pingjiang City was completely captured.

When the city gate was breached, the already lost Pingjiang defenders defected.

Regarding this cruel fact, Zhang Shicheng, as the absolute boss of Pingjiang City, did not make a decision similar to Chen Youliang's direct strangulation of the rebels.

He is not Chen Youliang, he does not have Chen Youliang's unscrupulous bloodthirsty personality!

Instead of stopping the deserters, he ordered countless boxes to be removed from the warehouse.

Inside these boxes are the savings he has worked hard to save over the past few years.

It's gold and silver, it's all jewelry!

But he doesn't need it anymore.

As long as the city is broken, these things will no longer belong to you.

In that case, let's be a good person first.

He distributed all the money to everyone.

Faced with the absolute temptation of a huge amount, Zhang Shicheng let everyone take it casually!

As long as your pockets are big enough, as long as your necks are thick enough, then take as much as you want!

Hold them and accompany me on this last journey!

Then he ordered everyone to abandon the city.

Switch to street fighting.

And when Xu Da led his soldiers and horses into Pingjiang, when he was completely scattered but dug trenches in the streets to prepare for a desperate battle, Xu Da, as the main general, was completely dumbfounded.

He didn't expect that Zhang Shicheng, who was born as a smuggler of salt, would be so difficult.

This Zhang Shicheng, who can't be killed and can't be gnawed, is completely a cockroach Xiaoqiang who doesn't cry when he doesn't see the coffin.

Faced with this situation, Xu Da, who was already in sight of victory, had to organize soldiers and horses again to clear it.

Personally, I think Xu Da, who has been attacking and beating for eight months, must be angry at this time, he didn't expect that Zhang Shicheng would be such a stalker scoundrel.

So I think Xu Da must have the heart to kill Zhang Shicheng at this time.

At this time, in the face of Zhang Shicheng, who was bent on carrying it, Xu Da, who was already murderous as the main general, received another letter from Yingtian.

This letter is also from Yingtian.

The writer of the letter is still Zhu Yuanzhang.

There are two main points in the letter.

The first point: it is forbidden to slaughter the people, and those who violate the order will be beheaded!

The second point: For Zhang Shicheng, no slashing is allowed, and those who violate the order will be killed!

The last point, and the most important point, is to strategically persuade Zhang Shicheng to surrender.

As long as you can persuade him to surrender, all the treatment will be preferential and the form will be simple!

Looking at the envelope in his hand, Xu Da gradually regained his senses.

The boss has already spoken, and Xu Da, as a general, can only obey.

He began to organize forces for a strategic contraction.

Wipe out the remaining enemies in the city one by one.

At the same time, Zhang Shicheng was persuaded to surrender by distributing leaflets or shouting.

In the case that the city wall has been broken and the soldiers have been basically cleared, Zhang Shicheng, who is a smuggler of salt, told Xu Da a truth.

A soldier can be killed, but not humiliated.

You want me to surrender unless you step over my corpse!

Otherwise, wishful thinking!

Come on, Zhu Jiajun, at this last moment, I will let you see my last dignity as a smuggler of salt!

A white line is the best reply to declare my political attitude.

Don't you want me to surrender, don't you want to persuade us to surrender, then I'll die for you.

Even if I die, I will never surrender to you, who were born in grass.

Rest assured, I won't be alone on this road of no return.

Because I had already said hello, I had already conveyed it to my backyard, my home.

As long as the city is broken, everyone will commit suicide.

No one will be a prisoner!

Violators, family law engaged!

You can also rest assured that I will accompany you all on the Huangquan Road.

We were born as a Zhang family,

We are dead ghosts of the Zhang family!

Our whole family is a companion,

Our whole family is dead!

And the descendants of the Zhang family in the backyard did not disappoint Zhang Shicheng.

From the moment Pingjiang City was broken, Zhang Shicheng's wife, Liu, who was the head of the backyard, ordered all the members of the Zhang family to gather in the lobby.

Faced with the end of defeat, everyone has no choice.

Because since the moment they got married or were born in the Zhang family, they have already made a choice!

You are my Zhang family in life, and you have to be my Zhang family ghost in death!

After everyone arrived, when the city gate had been completely breached and there was no hope for any more, the Liu family, as the queen, set the house on fire!

All the descendants of the Zhang family were all buried in the fire.

They told Zhu Yuanzhang with their actual actions.

I'd rather die than be a slave to the country!

Even if he dies, he will never be allowed to surrender to the Zhu family's army!

A white ridge, a beam, Zhang Shicheng declares his political attitude in his unique way.

Die, I also die with dignity!

He hangs from the beam, and in this way he protects his dignity from being trampled on.

He committed suicide, and he used this form to declare that he would always be a victor.

This may be the best relief for Zhang Shicheng.

As long as he hangs a white rope around his neck, he can be freed.

He has no worries from then on, and my Great Zhou Dynasty has always been high.

He wanted to die, but Xu Da wouldn't let him succeed!

Just let you die like this, that's too cheap for you!

When Zhang Shicheng wanted to make a decision through self-determination, Zhu Jiajun rescued him.

After being rescued, he was escorted to Yingtian by Xu Da.

According to the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War, during the escort, Zhu Jiajun did not neglect him, but served him with delicious food and drink, dressed him and provided him with food!

I don't know if these meals are delicious for Zhang Shicheng, who was born as a rich man, but I think that Zhu Yuanzhang's arrangement for him is definitely of the highest grade, and it can be regarded as a five-star standard no matter what.

But in the face of this temptation of food, Zhang Shicheng also made his own choice.

I'm not a gentleman, but I don't eat what I bring!

He closed his eyes and didn't say a word the whole time!

Silence is my best answer!

At this time, Zhang Shicheng, who was imprisoned, would definitely say: If you want to torture me with anything, come on, just go to the tiger chair with chili water, if I say something, then I am not a man standing and peeing! In the same way, you want me to compromise, and to daydream about your blue sky, even if I die, I will never surrender!

Jiangsu, Yingtianfu.

When Zhang Shicheng was escorted into the city, Zhu Yuanzhang first sent Li Shanchang, the prime minister of the head of Wenchen, to persuade him to surrender.

In the same way, the more abundant temptation has only one purpose.

As long as you can surrender, the conditions are mentioned,

As long as you can surrender, the price is arbitrary.

As long as you can surrender, I will satisfy you all!

As long as you can surrender, then I am the real political victor!

But Zhang Shicheng looked at Li Shanchang with contemptuous eyes, and the seemingly innocent smile on the corner of his mouth was full of mockery.

He replied to Zhang Shicheng in a contemptuous tone: You are not qualified to talk to me in terms of official rank and position, if you have anything to say, let that bald donkey come and talk to me!

Yes, Li Shanchang is indeed not qualified, because the two are not at the same level at all.

There is no way, but to let Zhu Yuanzhang play!

When the two actually met, when the two completely hostile protagonists met for the first time, Zhang Shicheng declared the dissatisfaction in his heart with his same contemptuous language: You won, but God takes care of you, not me! [The sun doesn't shine on me! 】

Your victory today is nothing more than God taking care of you.

I don't have a good life like you, and God didn't follow my wishes.

All this is fate, and it is all predestined by God.

Today, I'm defeated!

Let it be at your disposal!

But I'll tell you the same thing.

Don't be too happy, God will take care of you for a while, but definitely not for a lifetime!

Wait, God will punish you one day!

Then will be the end of your life!

That's it, I hope you are doing it yourself!

Come on, kill me!

For this Zhang Shicheng, who is bent on death, Zhu Yuanzhang knows that he will never be able to persuade him to surrender, since this is the case, then it will be fulfilled for you!

Someone, send him on his way!

On October 9, 1367, a generation of local tyrant Zhang Shicheng died in Tianfu.

He was 47 years old.

With the death of Zhang Shicheng, the Great Zhou Dynasty also completely collapsed

Comments:

Moved by history, my personal evaluation of Zhang Shicheng:

He is an absolutely successful businessman, but he is by no means a qualified politician, he preaches morality and commitment, he has no lofty political goals, and he does not have huge political ambitions, in the era of fire and strife, he is content with pleasure but does not want to forge ahead, two tigers fight but deaf ears, his death is not so much predestined, but his own forged!

Money has made him brilliant;

Money, too, forged his demise.

His death is self-inflicted,

He deserved his death.

Award Speech of Touching People:

He was born as a salt seller, he fought bravely in the face of power, he bravely killed bullies and broke into power alone, he was a real chaebol and a real hero, he was greedy and unwilling to make progress in the face of huge profits, and he was depraved and inactive in the face of opportunities.

His death is not unjust.

His death is self-contained!

Ming History's evaluation of Chen Youliang: Shicheng is a person, he is slow and silent, he seems to have a measure, but there is no long-term plan.

Touching historical figures: Zhang Shicheng.

Touched time: September 21, 2018!