In the seventeenth year of the reign of the Emperor, on the twenty-sixth day of the seventh month.

In the territory of Xichuan Tongchuan Prefecture, a force of 1,000 people could not help but appear on the rugged and difficult path leading to Anyue City on the Chongqing Road, and marched hard under the scorching sun.

In the middle of summer in July, the weather is so hot that it can almost roast people. In such weather, even if Fu Youde asked his soldiers to abandon the heavy plate armor in Shizhao City.

However, marching with food in such weather still made these soldiers sweat hotly.

So much so that after an hour, the army couldn't help but walk more than ten miles.

But even so, Chu Zhong, the deputy brigade general in the army, who was second only to Fu Youde, couldn't help but wipe his sweat and greeted him, "General, this weather is too hot. Why don't you let the soldiers rest for a while and then hurry? ”

"En......" Hearing this, Fu Youde, who had made a lot of meritorious contributions, frowned, and couldn't help but look a little unhappy.

But when he turned his head to see the soldiers marching in the middle of the day, the hot ones seemed to have been fished out of the water, and he was silent for a moment, but he still couldn't help but order: "Okay." Tell me to go down and let the soldiers get to the shade of the tree in front of us, and then we will rest. Wait until the afternoon is cooler before continuing the march. ”

"Okay, my subordinates will go and give orders." The happy Fu Brigade General Chu Zhong hurriedly retreated when he heard this, as if he was afraid that Fu Youde would regret it.

"Hey!" Seeing this, Fu Youde couldn't help but sigh.

I have to say that before this, Fu Youde did underestimate the bad impact of this hot weather on the subordinates.

In order to be able to march in such weather, the soldiers had to give up the plate armor, which was equivalent to their second life. Marching in such hot weather is a great test of the physical fitness of the soldiers themselves.

Look at the soldiers who have become weak just because they are marching.

If he had encountered an enemy ambush at this time, then Fu Youde couldn't have imagined what the consequences would be.

These soldiers, who had lost their safest protection, and could only carry light leather armor on their backs, were physically and mentally exhausted, and were most likely to be scattered by the enemy who were ambushed.

With such worries in his heart, even if he rushed to the shade of a tree where he could enjoy the shade, Fu Youde couldn't help frowning and couldn't stretch.

"General, how. I see you've been frowning, but what's the concern? "Settle down the soldiers, because of the meritorious work is also fortunate to be Cheng Biao, who has become a battalion general. At this time, while fanning himself with the big leaves he had picked, he looked at Fu Youde, who was a little worried, and couldn't help but be a little concerned about it.

Hearing Cheng Biao's concerned question, Fu Youde came back to his senses, looked at Cheng Biao who was fanning himself there, and couldn't help but instruct him: "Ah Biao, you go and call all the people above the general squadron for me now, I will have something to discuss with them." ”

"Yes, Howler." Although Cheng Biao was a little puzzled when he heard this, he still agreed to come down, took the leaf fan he made, and went to gather the generals for Fu Youde.

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"Gentlemen, due to the hot weather, the soldiers are now listless. In this regard, General Ben was short-witted, but he couldn't come up with any good way for a while. And there is a way that one person is short in wisdom and two people in wisdom. Although the princes are not as good as me, they are all old soldiers.

Therefore, I don't know if you have any good ways to get the best of both worlds. A moment later, under the shade of a tree, Fu Youde and all the generals under his tent sat cross-legged. And looking at the dozen generals under his account, he couldn't help but truthfully say what he thought.

"This, General. The weather at night is still cooler than during the day. The soldiers' eyes are fine, and there is no such thing as not being able to see at night, so why don't we just rush at night? ”

Hearing Fu Youde ask this, Zhou Bin, the general of the first battalion under his account, couldn't help scratching his head, and was the first to tell Fu Youde what he thought.

"Night March." Hearing this, Fu Youde subconsciously whispered again, but for a while, he did not show his attitude, but looked at the generals sitting cross-legged around him, and continued to ask with a smile: "Besides, I don't know if you have any other good ways?" ”

"This ......" The generals looked at each other when they heard this, and they couldn't help but have a feeling of staring at each other for a while.

"General, why don't you let the soldiers march in the early morning and late afternoon, to avoid the hottest hours." Chu Zhong, the deputy brigade general, saw that no one answered for a while, so he couldn't help but stand up and offer a plan.

"What do you think of this?"

"This, I think this method is feasible for the deputy brigade general." Cheng Biao, the general of the second battalion, thought for a moment and was the first to stand up and make a statement.

And at this time, with him as an example, the group below couldn't help but echo it for a while, thinking that this method was feasible.

Therefore, in such a situation, Fu Youde, as a brigade general, couldn't help but smile and nodded, "Okay, since that's the case, then from now on, we will only march in the early morning and evening to avoid the hottest period."

But in this way, the time for our daily march is only three hours at most. Therefore, when marching, the speed should also be raised. Ben will not ask for anything else, and a one-day march should have at least fifty miles. Is it possible for you to do this? ”

"But don't worry, general, we will be able to do it!" When the generals heard this, they didn't think about it this time, so they hurriedly agreed.

Under such circumstances, Fu Youde once again assigned and adjusted the tasks of investigating news and patrolling and guarding during the rest, so he couldn't help but wave his hand to let the generals retreat.

And it was at this time that he once again took out the map that he could still unanimate, and tirelessly studied and figured it out.

Therefore, at this time, he didn't know that on this day, thousands of miles away in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, he couldn't help but have a major event that shocked the world.

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"My lord, you see that this is the book that Zhang Shicheng asked people to offer." In Qiantang City, Hangzhou, where the center of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces is located, Zhou Boqi, the newly promoted governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, couldn't help but be full of joy and handed over the letter of surrender from Pingjiang Zhang Shicheng to The Barbarian Hague in the imperial history of Jiangnan Xingtai, and handed it to Zuo Cheng, who also served as a privy councillor in the position of Zuo Cheng and controlled the soldiers and horses of Yuanmeng in Jiangsu, Zhejiang.

"Haha, yes, yes! Even a vicious person like Zhang Shicheng abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, bathed in Wanghua, and the peace of Jiangsu and Zhejiang was not far away. Looking at the extremely cowardly and sincere letter of request, he couldn't help but laugh when he had become the highest authority in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

"Xiangye is right. It all depends on Xiangye's proper scheduling and strategizing, otherwise this Zhang Shicheng would not have abandoned the darkness and turned to the light like this. I think that under the leadership of Xiangye, my Jiangsu and Zhejiang will definitely become a paradise again. ”

As Zhou Boqi, who was single-handedly promoted by Dazhi Ti Muer, he naturally spared no effort in flattering Da Zhi Ti Muer.

Hearing Zhou Boqi's words, the already quite complacent Dazhi Ti Mu Er couldn't help laughing again.

So much so that people have to sigh why these officials are so thick-skinned.

However, Zhou Boqi is also right, the reason why Zhang Shicheng, who was originally arrogant in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, surrendered this time naturally has a certain relationship with Dazhi Tiyi.

But more importantly, it was because Zhang Shicheng died by himself, provoking people he couldn't afford to provoke at all.

And who that person is, everyone can guess without me telling it.

That's right, Zhang Shicheng, who was forced to have almost no opponents in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, had to give up his face to surrender to Yuanmeng, and that was Zhu Taizu, who was famous in our later generations.

And the reason why this is the case is really due to Zhang Shicheng's own death.

Everyone knows that at the beginning, Zhu Yuanzhang clearly pursued the strategy of Zhu Sheng, a strategist in Huizhou - "build a high wall, accumulate grain, and slowly become king".

In the words of later generations, it is to concentrate on farming at home and not to cause trouble outside.

Under such a strategic plan, in the early stage, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had just attacked Jiqing (Nanjingfu), could only be regarded as fledgling, and he was not willing to provoke Zhang Shicheng, who was far more famous than him in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Even for this reason, Zhu Yuanzhang asked his subordinates to write a sincere letter, comparing Zhang Shicheng to the hustle and bustle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, saying that he did not want to contradict him, and just wanted to be a good neighbor to each other quietly.

But at that time, Zhang Shicheng, who was invincible and invincible, would put Zhu Yuanzhang, a rising star who was not well-known, in his eyes.

Therefore, not only did he directly detain the envoy Yang Xian sent by Zhu Yuanzhang, but also arrogantly let his most powerful brother Zhang Shide personally lead the water division to attack Zhenjiang Road, which had been occupied by Zhu Yuanzhang.

But who would have thought that this Zhang Shicheng thought that he was a stable battle, but he was defeated by Xu Da, who was ordered by Zhu Yuanzhang to guard Zhenjiang Road. So much so that even his brother Zhang Shide was captured alive by Xu Dasheng.

In this way, Zhang Shicheng undoubtedly panicked.

You must know that most of the reason why he can have everything today depends on his brother Zhang Shide.

At the beginning, he broke through from Gaoyou, and fled to western Zhejiang with the remnants of his defeated soldiers, all relying on his brother Zhang Shide's expedition to the west, and only in just three months, he captured Huzhou, Songjiang and Changzhou and other places to win the basic plate of western Zhejiang.

And most of the strategic goals he formulated later relied on the planning of his brother Zhang Shide.

For Zhang Shicheng, Zhang Shide is not only his brother, but also the most effective general and military advisor under his command.

The importance to him does not suppress Zhuge Liang to Liu Bei at all.

Therefore, when he knew that his brother was captured, he not only immediately surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang, but was also willing to send Zhu Yuanzhang 200,000 stone of grain, 500 taels of gold, and 300 catties of platinum "every year".

This is completely equivalent to bowing to Zhu Yuanzhang.

But Zhu Yuanzhang is such a wise person, seeing that he captured Zhang Shide alive, Zhang Shicheng was so panicked, naturally it was even more impossible to release Zhang Shide.

Therefore, when he was bored, Zhang Shicheng couldn't help but regret his intestines.

After all, at this time, he was still fighting with Yang Wanzhi, the Miao marshal who guarded Jiangsu and Zhejiang, not to mention that the war was not going well, and he lost his right-hand man because of this, what a mood it is needless to say.

But I have to say that his brother Zhang Shide is really not a simple person.

Under the condition that he was imprisoned by Zhu Yuanzhang, after Zhang Shide learned about his brother's predicament, he was in prison and did not forget to give advice to his brother.

I don't know what kind of method the imprisoned Zhang Shide used, and when he was imprisoned by Zhu Yuanzhang, he miraculously sent a letter to the helpless Zhang Shicheng.

And this letter is also a letter to persuade Zhang Shicheng to surrender to Yuanmeng and break the situation.

If we don't evaluate this matter from the perspective of national righteousness, then we have to say that just by persuading Zhang Shicheng to surrender to the Yuanmeng court to break the situation, Zhang Shide is enough to be called a first-class immortal talent in the world.

You must know that he, Zhang Shicheng, was the culprit who directly killed the right prime minister of the former Yuanmeng Empire.

Based on this alone, even Zhang Shicheng himself couldn't help but think that it would be absolutely impossible for him and the Yuanmeng court to coexist peacefully, and the two sides would either die or die.

But only Zhang Shide doesn't see it that way.

As Zhang Shicheng's most important general and Zhang Shicheng's mastermind, he knows that there are never any permanent enemies and friends in politics.

Interests, only interests are the decisive factor in maintaining the relationship between the two sides, and even this factor goes beyond blood.

Therefore, Zhang Shide, who saw through this, risked his life to write a letter to persuade his brother to give up his face and surrender to Yuanmeng.

Because he knows very well that there have always been people in the officialdom. Totodu has been dead for more than two years, so the grudge between him and Zhang Shicheng has naturally become an insignificant matter for the rulers of the Yuanmeng court.

If you forget this hatred, you can make Zhang Shicheng, a powerful enemy who threatens the southeastern territory of the empire, become a help for the empire to maintain its rule, and these rulers are eager to do this.

Because of this, there is no help but have this scene.

Sure enough, everything was as Zhang Shide expected.

After receiving the letter of surrender from Zhang Shicheng, who occupied western Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Zuo Chengda, was simply ecstatic.

not only sent his deputy Pingzhang political affairs Zhou Boqi as an envoy, but also busily reported such a "good news" to the imperial court.

As for Yuan Dadu, he suddenly received such "good news", and the imperial prime minister, who was bent on coming up with a decent political achievement, couldn't help but feel that he was in the middle of it.

Under such circumstances, the Yuanmeng Imperial Court couldn't help but directly add the title of Taiwei to Zhang Shicheng, making him from the original thief to the feudal official of the Yuanmeng Empire.

The official position is even higher than that of Yang Wanzhi, the marshal of the Miao Army, who was ordered by the Yuanmeng Imperial Court to fight desperately.

I can't help but really respond to the sentence "build bridges and repair roads without corpses, kill people and set fire to the gold belt"!