Since we talked about Hongdu City, let's first get to know this ancient city.

Hongdu, which is today's Nanchang.

The provincial capital city of Jiangxi.

It is also the political, economic, cultural and technological center of Jiangxi Province today, and is the frontier and administrative representative of Jiangxi Province.

Hongdu City is located in the central north of Jiangxi Province, it is the only city in China adjacent to the Yangtze River, the Pearl River (Pearl River Delta), the Min River (Southern Fujian Golden Triangle), it is located in the center of the three rivers, because of its unique geographical location and almost located in the center of the strategic terrain, since ancient times it has been a strategic point for soldiers.

Because it is close to the three major rivers, Hongdu is also known as the "Water City".

Because its location is located at the confluence of Poyang Lake and Ganjiang River in Jiangxi, and close to the three rivers, Hongdu can be said to be the throat of the Yangtze River.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Hongdu built a total of eight gates.

These eight gates are: Fuzhou, Gongbu, Tubu, Qiaobu, Zhangjiang, Xincheng, Liuli, and Shantai eight gates. (From "Ming Shilu")

Faced with so many gates and limited troops, Zhu Wenzheng, as the supreme commander of Hongdu City and had already stated his political position, began to arrange a strategic defense formation.

Here's how he made it:

As a humiliating battle, in the Taiping Battle by Chen Youliang jumped ship and slaughtered Hua Yun in the battle of the scene is still fresh in the memory, Zhu Wenzheng, who has fully learned the combat experience, first ordered people to push the outermost city wall inward parallel 30 meters, its purpose is only one, that is, to distance the city wall from the river.

Then a military order was issued:

Ordered Deng Yu, as the deputy commander, to guard the most important and the biggest, and the most difficult to hold the city gate: Fuzhou Gate.

Because the difficulty of guarding the Fuzhou Gate was too arduous, Zhu Wenzheng, as the supreme commander, ordered someone to hand over the artifact that he had treasured for a long time to Deng Yu.

It was an iron tool with a black glow and a gloomy and chilly body, and next to the iron tool were strange things with round shapes, which were not black or yellow, but were not big or small, but they were like pills.

When he saw these strange things, Zhu Wenzheng, who had always been cold and silent, had a few traces of cold light on his face, and the corners of his mouth were a little curvature.

This is an artifact that it has treasured for a long time, and if it is not for the last resort, he will definitely be reluctant to take it out.

And when Deng Yu, as a subordinate, saw these things, he was relieved that he was worried about losing.

If you put these things like broken copper and iron, you wouldn't have looked at them before, but at this time, Deng Yu found that sometimes these broken things can play an unexpected role when they are important.

The two glanced at each other, and a strange smile appeared at the same time.

With these things, it was enough for him Chen Youliang to drink a pot.

With them, it is much easier for Fuzhou Gate to hold on.

After issuing the first military order, Zhu Wenzheng continued to announce his military order.

Ordered Zhao Desheng to guard the three gates of Gongbu, Tubu, and Qiaobu.

If Deng Yu's Fuzhou Gate is the most difficult to hold, then the three gates of Gongbu, Tubu, and Qiaobu are the three gates with the heaviest tasks.

Fuzhou Gate is the largest gate in Hongdu City, wide and huge.

The city gate caught fire, affecting the fish in the pond.

As the three city gates of Gongbu, Tubu and Qiaobu are close to Fuzhou, if Chen Youliang really chooses Fuzhou Gate as the first target, then the three gates of Gongbu, Tubu and Qiaobu closest to Fuzhou Gate will inevitably be taken care of by Chen Youliang.

So Zhu Wenzheng threw this most difficult task to Zhao Desheng.

In this series of arrangements, I think that Zhao Desheng, the benevolent brother, has the heaviest burden, because I really can't imagine how a person should hold the three city gates, and how he should make correct command and personnel scheduling while ensuring that his city gates are not breached.

What also puzzled me was why Zhu Wenzheng put the task of guarding the three city gates in the hands of one person, I think that with Zhu Wenzheng's eloquence and abduction ability, he could find out a few talents similar to Zhao Desheng from the 40,000 soldiers and horses either by coaxing or deception.

But the fact is that Zhao Desheng unconditionally accepted Zhu Wenzheng's military order, and even carried this almost arduous banner of guarding.

And letting one person guard the three city gates is indeed a bit huge in terms of difficulty and the amount of tasks.

Zhu Wenzheng also seemed to see this, so while dispatching the mission, Zhu Wenzheng, who now has absolute appeal and control in the army, came up with another set of killer features.

In this tense situation, Zhu Wenzheng showed his almost treacherous personality traits, and he did not say the kind of nonsense similar to the general mobilization of war, but in fact, it was to brainwash people, but in a whisper he taught several plans that were absolutely important to Zhao Desheng but had never thought of and implemented them.

After whispering, Zhao Desheng looked at the coach in front of him with an almost weird gaze, he never thought that the gentleman in front of him would have such a surprising creativity in defending against the enemy.

Talent needs to be cultivated, and genius focuses on creation.

Zhao Desheng finally realized the true meaning of this sentence today.

After the explanation, Zhao Desheng willingly went to prepare.

After Zhao Desheng left, Zhu Wenzheng ordered Xue Xian to guard the second gate of Zhangjiang and Xincheng.

Marshal Niu Hailong and others guarded the two gates of Liuli and Lantai.

Compared with Deng Yu and Zhao Desheng, Xue Xian and Niu Hailong's tasks are relatively easy.

However, this is also from a relative point of view, in front of Chen Youliang, a thug, no one knows what shameless tricks he will play in the face of Hongdu, a firmly fortified city.

After everything was arranged, Zhu Wenzheng, as the commander-in-chief, pulled out the elite of 2,000 people from the already extremely tense team, as an emergency rescue force, their task was not to fight Chen Youliang head-on, but as an emergency team, where there was a loophole, they would go to supplement and support.

I think these 2,000 people should belong to the same class as our current special forces, because the strength of each of them should be one of the top 1 in the 40,000 soldiers and horses, otherwise they will not be able to bear such a large amount of tasks.

And these 2,000 people have a popular name in today's society, called: Mobile Force.

If Deng Yu and Zhao Desheng are the most difficult to defend, then I think that in this military arrangement, Zhu Wenzheng's work should be the busiest and most tiring.

At that time, in the era when transportation was basically on walking, public security was basically on dogs, communication was basically on roaring, and entertainment was basically on hand, a person was constantly dealing with the military priorities gathered from all directions, and at the same time, he had to go back and forth between nine city gates of different sizes and directions.

This is also the fundamental reason why I think Zhu Wenzheng is the most tired.

Well, now that the military order has been given and everyone's defensive goals have been determined, there is no need to talk nonsense.

Victory or defeat is all in this battle.

Everything is arranged, and it's time for the real protagonist to appear.

And with this person's slow entry into the field, the battle to defend Hongdu officially began.

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In the twenty-third year of the Yuan Dynasty, that is, on April 23, 1363 AD, Chen Youliang took a big ship to the front of Hongdu City.

He was accompanied by 600,000 Han troops and thousands of giant warships.

In the face of Chen Youliang's grand scene, Deng Yue, as the deputy commander, was dumbfounded, and Zhao Desheng, as the third commander, was also dumbfounded, and at the same time, there were 40,000 soldiers and horses guarding the city wall with knives and guns in hand but in a cold sweat.

They had never seen such a grand spectacle since the rebellion.

I have never faced such a life-and-death battle that is almost disparity in strength, and it seems that the victory or defeat has been determined before the war has started.

In the eye, the entire lake was black and pressed, and the giant battleship wrapped in iron sheets was like a high-rise building with a chilling gray light, and the battleship that was only higher than the city wall was full of human heads, and the black pressure was one after another.

Under the cold momentum, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses were neatly arranged, and the soldiers, horses, food, grass and livestock were full of people across the deck, and the gloomy atmosphere under the dark moonlight exuded a chilling and trembling atmosphere.

This kind of almost grand scene may not be able to be brought out even by the Yuan army, which is still orthodox today.

Shicheng is the richest, and the friendship is the most forgiving.

Sure enough.

In the face of this trembling scene, I personally think that the people standing on the city wall should be afraid, even if they are still calm on the surface, but they should also be timid in their hearts.

It's not like it's fear.

If you have to talk about it from a psychological point of view, I think it's an instinctive reaction to death.

If I had to sum it up in one word, I think one word would be the most appropriate.

That is: conditioning.

This conditioning is based on the most basic instinctive reactions of human beings, or of flesh and blood animals.

After the performance of instinct, the psychological factor can be added.

But I think there's one person here who should be laughing, laughing.

At this time, this person's thoughts are absolutely different from ordinary people, under the cold appearance, his heart is already fanatical, and his blood is boiling.

At this time, he should be thinking in his heart: it is enough to have a big battle in his life, even if he dies, he has no regrets.

This person is: Zhu Wenzheng.

In the face of a genius, no difficulties and setbacks can be brought to his knees.

In the face of the talent of becoming more and more courageous, no matter how big the difficulty is, no matter how big the scene is, it will not make him frightened.

In this case, Chen Youliang, who was already in the city, ordered everyone to surround Hongdu City, and when he was absolutely sure that the other party had no way to escape, and even a king and eight rats would not want to escape from the heavens, and at the same time could ensure that the other party had no backup support, Chen Youliang did not directly launch the order to launch a military attack, but ordered everyone to recuperate and cook on the fire to replenish the physical strength that was quickly lost due to the long-distance attack.

I think Chen Youliang at this time should really have a playful mentality.

A kind of entertainment mentality that plays with the other party's life and 40,000 soldiers and horses.

In his eyes, the broken place in front of him where the big fart bird doesn't poop and the chicken doesn't lay eggs is like scum in front of his 600,000 powerful soldiers and horses, and he can't resist a round of fierce attacks at all, and he will quickly collapse.

And with its downfall, Chen Youliang, as the absolute victorious side, not only lost his shame, but also went straight down the river to capture Yingtian.

At this time, you might as well think of the scene at that time.

One is Zhu Wenzheng, who is standing on the high city wall, standing with his hands behind his back, smiling, full of spring breeze, and not timid, relaxed and moderate.

The other is Chen Youliang, who is standing at the bow of the boat, bubbling up and down with the rippling water of the lake, but with an excited face full of joy, as if the odds are in hand.

The distance between the two was only thirty meters.

Thirty meters seemed to be within reach for the two of them.

But even this scorching distance, no one has crossed the thunder pool.

Instead, they look at each other across the river from an absolutely opposing position.

Same smile, different mood; Unwavering faith, a position that never gets along.

The moon is in the sky, and the breeze is blowing;

A jug of wine for two people.

In this kind of scene, if it is placed now, I think the two can become friends and confidants.

But at that time, under the haze of war that was either you die or I die, the two of them will never get to this point.

If they are enemies for one day, they will be enemies for life.

From the moment you were born, God seemed to have predestined their political stance with each other.

It is even more certain of their political fate that either you die or I die.