Yes, Chen Youliang did it.

When Zhu Yuanzhang was busy dealing with the siege of Anfeng, and when the stubborn donkey was busy rescuing his so-called top boss, the titular Dragon and Phoenix Emperor Han Lin'er, Chen Youliang, who had been quietly watching the development of the situation but had already been ready to wait for the opportunity at any time, keenly smelled the excellent military opportunity.

When he heard that Zhu Yuanzhang, who was the commander of the First Army at this important point in time, did not sit in the central government, but went to Anfeng to serve his boss with nothing to do, Chen Youliang, who had been silent for a long time, and had already been unable to bear the excitement and excitement, decided to do it.

Before deciding to make a move, Chen Youliang seemed to have been mentally prepared, and he had determined the target of the attack in advance.

So he didn't hesitate to set off for his destination.

His first goal was not Zhu Yuanzhang's most important strategic base, Yingtianfu, but chose to gather heavy troops to attack the almost tightly defended Hongdu City.

I still can't imagine how determined and courageous Chen Youliang must have been to make such an almost crazy decision in the situation of warlord chaos at that time.

Because in the face of such an excellent opportunity that can be said to be given by the white, if Chen Youliang leads his troops to attack Yingtian, whose defense is almost weak, and the army is almost empty, leaving only an empty shell, and only some shrimp soldiers and crabs will be guarded, then Chen Youliang's army will definitely be able to smash Huanglong and take Zhu Yuanzhang's rear headquarters in one fell swoop.

Not only that, if Zhu Yuanzhang's strategic headquarters is wiped out, then the several security barriers set up in front of Yingtianfu, such as Taiping, Longwan, and Maozhou, which have been captured several times and three times, will inevitably be cleared by Chen Youliang one by one.

If that were the case, Zhu Yuanzhang's only strategic advantage in the Battle of Longwan would be gone.

At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang's remaining soldiers and horses are estimated to be able to forget the dust and sigh, and he is powerless to return to the sky, waiting for destruction.

It would have been a great business.

It can be said that it is a profitable deal.

Personally, I think that if this excellent political interest is placed in front of Zhang Shicheng, a businessman, then Zhang Shicheng's approach will inevitably directly choose to attack Yingtian.

But it's a pity that Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng are different, the two of them are two completely different types of people.

Both of them are completely different beings, both psychologically and ideologically.

There are also different ways of dealing with problems.

In fact, this choice is not difficult to understand.

Now that I've talked about this, I think it's necessary to talk about the personality traits of the two characters that I personally think.

And after these two character traits are fully explained, Chen Youliang makes such a choice.

First of all, the first point is directly related to his personal character.

Zhang Shicheng, who has been dealing with money since he was a child, and he can be said to be an out-and-out businessman who was born as a smuggler and a mercenary who combines treachery and greed, and wants to maximize his own interests and does everything he can endlessly.

The original intention of this kind of person to do everything is to maximize the cost and squeeze low-cost or even free labor, and to maximize their own profits.

Let's put it simply, Zhang Shicheng's mountain cannon only cares about profits.

That is, money.

It's silver that smashes a pit and throws away a life.

Before the silver they leapt faster than anyone else.

In front of the ticket, they are better than anyone else.

This type of person has a popular belief, that is: profit.

In their eyes, all transactions that are not for the purpose of obtaining profits are all nonsense.

Chen Youliang is completely different.

Chen Youliang has been involved in politics from the very beginning, and can be said to be a politician through and through, but also a treacherous and ruthless conspirator.

In the eyes of conspirators, what they often value is not real interests, but something that cannot be seen through and explained.

This kind of thing is called: rights.

What they value most of this kind of person is often political interests, although they are both interests, but there is an essential difference between the two.

Chen Youliang's important political interests are absolute rights, and in his view, as long as absolute rights exist, economic benefits can be easily obtained.

The way to obtain economic benefits here can be forcib, can also be grabbed, in the last resort, you can go to some extremes, choose some white and despicable underworld but often do extortion business, anyway, I have a gun in my hand, I am the boss, I want to play how I want to play by the master, the big deal is that after the final benefit is obtained, all the people who know will be killed, and no one will know that these things are done by me.

This type of person has a basically consistent approach, which is:

Whoever dares to disobey my commands, I will strike him;

Whoever dares to disobey my command will be killed.

This is a strategy that people like them have always carried out, and it is also their personal ideological guideline.

In their eyes, only guns and soldiers and horses are their spiritual pillars, and absolute power in their hands is their personal belief.

In their view, all means must be built on the premise that they have absolutely huge military strength as the fundamental basis and can absolutely control the military appeal and military deterrence as the basic guarantee.

Such people also have their basic beliefs, that is: unscrupulous means.

In the eyes of such people, as long as they can reach the pinnacle of power, they can use any means for themselves.

They tend to focus only on the outcome, but never on the process.

It seems to me that such people have no real friends, and some are just political ambitions that are constantly acquired and infinitely magnified.

To put it in layman's terms, they have no friends, they only have interests.

In the face of absolute political interests, anything emotional can be ruthlessly abandoned.

If in the chaotic environment at that time, whether it was Zhang Shicheng or Zhu Yuanzhang, their way of doing things for others was still in line with the most fundamental character characteristics of human nature, then Chen Youliang was an outlier among them.

Even some of Chen Youliang's peculiar ideas can be said to be the outliers of the other.

In the face of aliens, ordinary people's way of thinking will not work for them.

In heterogeneous brains, they are different from organizational structure, growth mode, and logical thinking.

It can be said that Chen Youliang is absolutely lacking a string in his mind, and lacks an emotional bridge that human beings should have and should have.

The ways in which they obtain benefits are often extreme, and they will not give up by any means.

This is also the fundamental reason why he was able to start as a weak scholar who was powerless, and then quickly familiarize himself with and understand the political rules and military methods, and then he could easily and happily put his political enemies to death one by one with the help of others, and then unload the grinding and killing the donkey to hammer his master Xu Shouhui in a stormy night.

This kind of person behaves like playing chess, playing the unfathomable and extremely brain-draining game of Go, in a duel with the opponent they will never make any meaningless moves, every move is a pure routine, and every move is under their complete control.

Their series of practices can be said to be an inch of trap and kill every step.

And each of them is a pawn in their hands.

As long as these pieces are still useful, then they can continue to survive.

Once one day they lose their use value, they will only face one outcome.

That is: perdition.

Although the way of behavior of such people is somewhat extreme, they often have a fatal character flaw.

That is, only I am allowed to bear the people of the world, and I will never be allowed to bear the people of the world.

It can also be said that they have an extreme revenge mentality.

In the eyes of such people, they have always held a point of view, that is:

People don't live up to me, I can bear people;

If anyone sins against me, cut down the grass and root it.

This is also the real reason why Chen Youliang would rather give up Ying Tianfu and besiege Hongdu on a large scale, he came this time for only one purpose, that is: revenge.

Avenge Hu Mei's betrayal.

At the same time as revenge, it is also a shame, the shame of being betrayed.

At the same time, I warned those soldiers who still harbored the idea of betrayal in their hearts, if any of you dare to do anything unfaithful to me, then Hu Mei is your example, and Hu Mei today will be your fate in the future.

Chen Youliang's purpose in doing so can be said to be to establish his authority and establish his absolute prestige as a dictator.

Don't miss the opportunity, and never miss it.

A few years ago, when I was just in control of the Tianwan Kingdom, I was so beautiful at that time, I ate and drank spicy food and had a good sleep, I never dared to let my lord stand when I wanted to lie down, and no one dared to make irresponsible remarks, shouting behind my back.

But after the Battle of Longwan, his original arrogant and domineering life is gone forever.

Not only did his soldiers, horses, money and food continue to be lost, but even the prime minister who had urinated on the kang with his former fellow countrymen and former comrades-in-arms ruthlessly betrayed him, and the person who could hand over the position of prime minister of a country to him must be a brother who had exchanged his heart for his life, but it was such a brother who was the most important to himself who stabbed him in the back when he was most in danger.

What's even more odious is that Prime Minister Hu Mei's rebellion obviously did not play a good role, and after Hu Mei's rebellion, the rest of the forces were ready to move, and it seemed that they were out of the control of their own rights.

In this case, Zhu Yuanzhang's trip to Anfeng is tantamount to giving himself a chance to show his strength.

It's tolerable, it's unbearable.

Today, I can only bear the people of the world, and I must not bear the people of the world.

Isn't you Hu Mei rebelling against my lord's revolution, that's good, then I'll take you Hongdu first to vent the anger that has been buried in my heart for a long time, and even announce a fact to the people of the world: Whoever dares to have a revolutionary who betrays me, no one can think of a good end.

It was under the psychological effect of this extreme revenge that Chen Youliang mobilized the strength of the whole country to strategically besiege Hongdu.

launched the most aggressive military attack since he took office.