If Chang Yuchun wants to enter Jining, he needs to cross Xuzhou first, and then cross the Yellow River. Xuzhou is now in the hands of Zhang Shicheng, how did he cross the Yellow River from under the nose of the enemy?

He first went north from Jinling to Suzhou,—— which was south of Xuzhou, and now in the hands of the rebels, occupied by Liang Mianzhu; Then, he borrowed part of Liang Mianzhu's troops, made a big fanfare, pretended to be the main force, pretended to be led by him, approached Xuzhou, formed a formation thirty miles outside the city, and pretended to attack the city.

At the same time, he took 5,000 people from his headquarters, bypassed Xuzhou, walked to Xiao County, 50 miles to the west, and crossed the Yellow River at night. The boat to cross the river was secretly prepared for him by Liang Mianzhu. 5,000 people said that it was not too much, but it was a lot less, and it was enough to spend the night in a hurry. Since the Xuzhou garrison was besieged by the fake "Chang Yuchun", it naturally did not dare to act rashly, and when they learned the news, Chang Yuchun had already crossed the river. It's too late to catch up. The task of the Suzhou army was completed, and it was withdrawn to the city.

This plan is called "hiding from the sky and crossing the sea", and it seems to be easy, but in fact, it can only be achieved under certain circumstances. For example, if you change to another school to lead the team, it will definitely not be so easy. The reason why it can be easily successful is because of the prestige of the three words "often meet spring".

Often meet spring, the word Boren, Anhui Huaiyuan people. His ancestral home was Nanyang, Henan, and when the Song Dynasty crossed to the south, in order to avoid the gold turmoil, his ancestors moved to Huaiyuan Jia Village, and he was already the seventh generation.

coincided with the rebellion of the red scarf, he first defected to Liu Ju, who had an incident in Ping'a Mountain near Huaiyuan, and served as the ninth commander. However, Liu Ju was just a "thief", "eager to plunder, not far-sighted", but Chang Yuchun was very ambitious, so in the fifteenth year of Zhizheng, he brought dozens of "private soldiers" and defected to Zhu Yuanzhang who was in Hezhou at the time.

Hezhou is hundreds of miles away from Huai, and there are several other rebels in the meantime, why don't Chang Yuchun switch to others, but go to Zhu Yuanzhang? There are probably several reasons for this:

First of all, Huai is very close to Haozhou, only forty or fifty miles. Zhu Yuanzhang came out of Haozhou, and when he was in Haozhou, he was already quite famous, and he was also Guo Zixing's godson-in-law, and his "roots" were not low. Secondly, sixty or seventy miles southeast of Huaiyuan is Hengjian Mountain, where Zhu Yuanzhang once "single-handedly" collected tens of thousands of Miao tycoons, showing outstanding courage. Again, in that year, in March of the fifteenth year of Zheng, 100,000 yuan of troops attacked Hezhou, and Zhu Yuanzhang guarded it with 10,000 people. 10,000 defeated 100,000 people, and showed outstanding strategy.

Combining many aspects, this is clearly a typical example of a "clear master". Therefore, Chang Yuchun defected to him.

However, at the beginning of his defection, Zhu Yuanzhang did not immediately reuse him for various considerations. Soon after Chang Yuchun defected, he took the initiative to invite him to be a pioneer, and Zhu Yuanzhang said to him: "You are hungry, and there is a late master." "Suspicious of his motives for coming to defect, he is unwilling to give him a high position. Chang Yuchun suddenly cried: "Liu Ju steals his ears and can't do anything." If you have the power of dogs and horses, you will still be alive even if you die. Show loyalty, "insist", insist on being a pioneer. Despite this, Zhu Yuanzhang still refused to give up.

Until crossing the river to take Jinling, the battle of quarrying.

"The Yuan soldiers are placed on the rock, and the boat is more than three zhang away", and all the generals under Zhu Yuanzhang are "Mo Nengden". "When spring flies", a small boat came, Zhu Yuanzhang's life moved forward, "When spring responds, go forward." The enemy took advantage of the situation and jumped up, shouting and jumping, and the Yuan army was invincible. The generals took advantage of it, and then pulled out the quarrying and forged the peace." This is also like "casting a name", and the First World War established his position in the Wu army.

Zhu Yuanzhang was awarded the title of "Pioneer of the Governor's Office" as he had asked earlier. "Nothing, enter as the general manager".

Subsequently, the barbarian son of Meng Yuanzhong, The Hague, "recaptured the quarrying with the boat division", and recaptured the quarrying rock, "the stalk in the road". As a result, the Wu army could not connect with each other, and the road to Hezhou was also blocked.

Zhu Yuanzhang "attacked it by himself" and "sent many suspicious soldiers to divide the enemy's situation". "Together", after the two armies joined forces, "in the spring, don't operate lightly, and rush across the Hague boat with elite troops, divided into two", "attack left and right, break it, and get its elite", "Since the Yuan Division is in decline, and the north and south are connected".

In the first battle of Zhu Yuanzhang, he first captured the quarrying and opened up the way for the army to move forward; Then he defeated the barbarian Hague, saving the fate of the Wu army who was almost defeated because of the "stalk in the road".

"Then take the road from Jiqing, the most meritorious."

After laying Jiqing (i.e., Jinling), he "took Zhenjiang from Xu Da and reverted to the leading pioneer". Subsequently, "Xu Da attacked Changzhou, and surrendered to rebel, and joined forces with Zhang Shicheng to encircle Da", and he was ordered to "help him with his division", "attack together on the outside and inside, and break Shicheng", "revert to the commander-in-chief", and "enter the generalissimo of the unified army".

The following year, "Kechangzhou, moved to the middle wing of the generalissimo". This "generalissimo of the middle wing", that is, one of the "five wings in front of the tent". "The five wings in front of the tent" are Zhu Yuanzhang's elite. Chang Yuchun was appointed to this position, which shows that he has won Zhu Yuanzhang's trust, and thus officially entered the inner circle of Zhu Yuanzhang's high-level generals.

"Looking for the country of Ning, dividing the troops to take the horses and carrying the sand, and then taking Chizhou", the battle of Chizhou, defeated the Zhao Pusheng Department under the command of Chen Youliang, and he was "the most meritorious", "the governor of the province in the middle of the book". Next year, he will be the generalissimo of the Governor of the Ma Bu Water Army. Since the quarrying war, it has only been a few years, and he has achieved the position of "Generalissimo of the Metropolitan Governor Ma Bu Water Army", which is simply a rocket-like promotion speed.

In the next year, Zhu Yuanzhang "took Wuzhou", "restored meritorious service", "entered the town of the general of the country, and served as the Privy Council"; Soon, he "attacked Quzhou with his troops", "went down to Quzhou", and "entered the Privy Council".

In the twentieth year of Zheng, that is, in May last year, Chen Youliang made a large-scale attack.

Chang Yuchun first "went from Dashou Chizhou to break Chen Youliang's people", "beheaded more than 10,000 people, and captured more than 3,000 people". It is true that Chang Yuchun can fight well, but he has a not very good hobby, which is "killing prisoners". After this battle, he won more than 3,000 prisoners, and he said to Xu Da: "This is all the enemy, don't kill it, it will be a trouble." Xu Da was dignified and generous, thinking that he couldn't do this, so he told Zhu Yuanzhang about it. Zhu Yuanzhang "sent an envoy to release the generals" and ordered the generals to release the captives, "and Yuchun first killed them in a night pit to stop 300 people", and killed two or three thousand people in one night. However, Zhu Yuanzhang liked his good fighting, "I was not surprised when I heard it", and after hearing about it, although he was not happy, he did not take responsibility, but only ordered the surviving 300 people to be "released".

After the war of Shouchizhou, the following month, leap May.

Although Chen Youliang was defeated in Chizhou, he was not discouraged and re-attacked Taiping. "The siege of the city for three days, not to enter, but to lead the huge boat to the southwest of the city, the soldiers climbed the tail of the boat and climbed, and the city fell." The Taiping guard Zhu Wenxun was killed in battle, and Huayun died without descending. Vested in peace, has opened the door to Jinling, Chen Youliang then killed Xu Shouhui in Quarry Rock, proclaimed himself emperor, "sent someone to ask Zhang Shicheng to invade Jiankang".

"Shicheng did not report", Zhang Shicheng did not reply to him. So, he went out alone, led a huge ship, led an army of more than 100,000, and "went south from the quarrying and boat division", which was menacing, and "Jiankang earthquake".

If the barbarian Hague "middle terrier" quarry rock is compared to the first crisis after Zhu Yuanzhang crossed the river, then this time is the second crisis, and even among the advisers, there are admonitions to "surrender to the city". Du Liu Ji believes: "The one who lifts after the way of heaven wins." I wait for work with ease, why not fight! If the Ming Duke dumps the treasury to open the anger of the soldiers, the sincerity is to solidify the hearts of the people, ambush the soldiers to attack it, win the victory, and become the king's business, in this move also. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was already "not the generals' opinion", but after listening to Liu Ji's analysis, he decided to face the battle.

first ordered and Chen Youliang to send a letter to him, falsely claiming to surrender and pretending to lead the way; Then in Longwan in the northwest of Jinling, he ordered Feng Guosheng and Chang Yuchun to lead the main force of the five wings of the tent to lay an ambush, and Xu Da and other commanders lined up outside the south gate of the city. Before the war, it rained, and the rain stopped at the beginning of the war, and the enemy was broken in the first battle, "killing and drowning was not counted, more than 20,000 soldiers were captured,......, more than 100 huge ships were captured".

In this battle, "the most successful in the spring" and "the provincial participation in the governor's affairs".

From the fifteenth year of Zhizheng to Zhu Yuanzhang, to the twentieth year of Zhizheng, in just five years, it has been "participating in political affairs". In the battles he has participated in, he has not only turned the tide many times, but also almost never failed.

Wu Jun is a famous general, and he was called "Xu and Chang" for a while.

In the original history, when the Ming army marched north, Zhu Yuanzhang praised Chang Yuchun like this: "When millions of people, they are as good as deputy generals." This comment is really "honest"!

He already has such a big reputation, when the Suzhou army played his banner and pretended to attack the city, the defenders of Xuzhou were of course "panicked", and it was too late to shrink back to defend the palace, where would they have the heart to manage the Yellow River and prevent it from crossing north? Even if someone judges that the siege is fake, the defenders will not dare to take the risk if they are afraid!

In this way, he was easily shot by him and was about to enter Jining.

Chang Yuchun was born in the third year of the Mengyuan Tianli (1330), although he is two years older than Xu Da, but this year, he is only in his early thirties. He was born as a tenant and a long-term worker, and he did not read or write when he was a child, but he was a "natural general" who "used soldiers to work with the ancients".

This time, he crossed the river from him to the north, the deputy general was Feng Guosheng, in addition, there were several fierce partial, namely Cai Qian, Zhou Xian, Chen Wen, and his "second brother" Chang Rong, cousin Chang Ju, and brother-in-law Lan Yu.

Feng Guosheng is the younger brother of the late general Feng Guoyong under Zhu Yuanzhang, a native of Dingyuan.

There are three Feng brothers, Feng Guoyong is the eldest, he is the youngest, and the brothers are "all brave and wise". However, although they are brothers, their appearance is not the same, "the country looks elegant, and behaves in a manner", while Feng Guosheng "has a long body and a great face, and is generous".

When Feng Guosheng was born, "the black gas is full of house, like smoke, it will not disperse for days", "the inside is different". After the red scarf rioted, he and his brother Feng Guoyong gathered "hundreds of evil boys to strengthen themselves".

In the fourteenth year of Zheng, Feng Guoyong invested in Zhu Yuanzhang, offered advice, and gave advice to Jiankang. Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed, "summoning left and right", "being Li Shanchangya", and the degree of importance to Feng Guoyong was second only to Li Shanchang. Although Feng Guoyong was "elegant in appearance" and wore "Confucian clothes" when he saw Zhu Yuanzhang, he was actually very brave, "he captured and fought straight forward", and he was also a hero who was both civil and military.

After Feng Guoyong gained Zhu Yuanzhang's trust, he recommended Feng Guosheng. Zhu Yuanzhang loves the house and Wu, and secondly, he also sees his dignified appearance, so he "loves it very much". "Brothers have a guard".

After crossing the river, the pro-soldiers before the tent were in command of the envoy, and Feng Guoyong was used as the "pro-soldier commander in front of the tent". "The soldiers in front of the tent are in command of the envoys", and their subordinates are the "five wings in front of the tent". In other words, when Chang Yuchun was the "Generalissimo of the Central Wing", the rank was still below Feng Guoyong. Later, "from the expedition to Jinhua, * Shaoxing", Feng Guoyong was "the most meritorious". It's just that God is jealous of talents, and in the eighteenth year of Zheng, Feng Guoyong died of illness when he was only thirty-five years old. Zhu Yuanzhang "came to the sacrifice in person and cried and mourned".

The following year, Feng Guosheng, who had already served as a meritorious servant, took over as the "commander of the capital". In the following year, in the Battle of Longwan, he joined forces with Chang Yuchun to smash the backbone of Chen Youliang's army, breaking it, "drowning tens of thousands of people and capturing 7,000 people". Because of his merits, he "entered the pro-army capital to protect" and "moved to know the affairs of the Privy Council".

In the original history, in the three years of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang was a great hero, Feng Guosheng was the Duke of Song Guo, and Li Shanchang, Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, and Li Wenzhong ranked fifth.

With him as Chang Yuchun's deputy general, it can be seen that Zhu Yuanzhang attaches great importance to going north to Jining this time.

Not only him, but also a few people who are equipped with Chang Yuchun, and they are not unknown.

Cai Qian, who was originally a general of Sesame Li, was defeated by Sesame Li and returned to Zhu Yuanzhang. From crossing the river, quarrying, Ke Taiping, taking Lishui, breaking the barbarian Hague Water Village and Chen Yuxian, all have merit. Set the celebration and grant thousands of households. He also took Guangde and Dingguo from Xu Da, and moved 10,000 households. Attacking Changzhou, and meritorious, he became the vanguard of the capital.

Subsequently, from the expedition to the horse and the sand, Kechi Prefecture, the attack on Zongyang, from the expedition to Qu and Wu Erzhou, awarded the "Left Wing Marshal in front of the tent". And in the Battle of Longwan, he also participated. ——, knows that the "five wings in front of the tent" is Zhu Yuanzhang's elite, so it can be seen that this person is also one of the high-level generals of the Wu army.

Since this person is a general, although he has "never been alone", he has not been alone, and he has always been very brave when he engages in battle, "after dozens of battles, he has been brave and prominent, and the horizontal knife has struck left and right, the enemy is invincible, and he does not dare to approach", "both are returned, the golden sores are full of body, and people regard it as unbearable", but he is "slightly unconcerned", which is loved by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang sent him to participate in the north, in addition to being a confidant and liking his bravery, there is another reason. Back then, the Sesame Li incident was in Xuzhou, so he was very familiar with Xuzhou. This time, he followed the north, which can be regarded as playing the role of a snake in half the land.

Zhou Xian and Chen Wen are both from Hefei, and they are all brave.

Zhou Xian, who crossed the river from Zhu Yuanzhang, made great contributions to "command the same knowledge".

Chen Wen, maybe his military exploits are not very outstanding among the generals of the Wu army, but there is one point, which is unmatched. He lost his father at an early age, "serving his mother to filial piety". In the original history, in the seventeenth year of Hongwu, after his death, he was given the Marquis of the East China Sea, and he was called "filial piety". "Mingchen has to be filial piety, and Wen is only one person."

Ever-honored, ever-gathering.

One is the grandson of Uncle Chang Yuchun's grandfather, and the other is the son of Uncle Chang Yuchun's second uncle. Chang Yuchun brothers, one of whom has a younger brother named Chang Yuxian, did not go north from him this time.

Chang Rong, "gifted and heroic", "the year was not crowned, suffered from the chaos at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and joined the army Anfeng", and later crossed the river to Zhu Yuanzhang. At that time, Chang Yuchun had already voted for Zhu Yuanzhang. Because of Chang Yuchun, Zhu Yuanzhang summoned him, and then transferred him to Chang Yuchun's command.

Chang Ju, not as famous as Chang Rong, is now in charge of Chang Yuchun's pro-soldier team.

Lan Yu is the younger brother of Chang Yuchun's wife. I often meet the spring wife Dingyuan Lan's family. Because of this relationship, he, like Chang Rong and Chang Ju, is under the command of Chang Yuchun. This person is "long and bare-faced, and his speech and movements are of different generations", although he is young, "he is the first to enter the battle in every battle, and he should be unstoppable".

A cadre of elite soldiers crossed the Yellow River, drove straight in, and went straight to Jining.

Before Chang Yuchun crossed the Yellow River, he did not put out the military flags of his generals, but only played his handsome flags; Now after crossing the Yellow River, it is no longer hidden, and all the flags are played. For a time, "Chang", "Feng", "Cai", "Zhou", and "Chen", large and small, colorful military flags rolled in the wind, and the momentum moved the sky.

Soon, for Wang Baobao, and the scouts of Yidu Yanjun's scouts, they were sent to Shanzhou and Yidu respectively.

Wang Baobao and Deng She received the military report at different times, and their reactions to it were also different, but in the different reactions, there was one similarity. Both of them coincidentally showed "surprise", and at the same time, they were "surprised", which caused doubts.

Zhou Xian and Chen Wen are fine; Chang Yuchun, Feng Guosheng, Cai Qian, none of these three people is not famous, Chang Yuchun needless to say, Feng Guosheng does not need to say much, he has been a "commander of the pro-army in front of the tent", even Cai Qian, now he is also a "left-wing marshal in front of the tent", all of them are the right-hand men of the Wu army, and all the troops and horses are the elite of Zhu Yuanzhang's lineage, but all of them went north to Jining.

Is it just because of assisting Yidu and besieging Shanzhou?

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1, when millions of people, they are as strong as deputy generals.

In the first year of Wu (1367), "(Chang Yuchun) returned to the deputy general, and the general Da Shuai marched north. The emperor's relatives said: 'When millions of people, they are as good as deputy generals. Don't worry about not being able to fight, worrying about fighting lightly. As a general, taking care of the corner with the small school is not even expected. ’”

2, Chang Rong, Blue Jade.

It was not until 1362 that Lan Yu was awarded the title of "Guanjun Zhenfu", "Wudewei Thousand Households", and later "changed to a Thousand Households of the Army". And Chang Rong, it was not until 1364 that he was awarded the title of "Thousand Households in the Army", and he was also "Wu Dewei".

This "Wu Dewei" is the descendant of Chang Yuchun.

Chang Rong died early. In 1372, in order to eliminate the Northern Yuan, the Ming army made the second northern expedition, which was divided into three routes. Chang Rong from Li Wenzhong, for the Eastern Route Army, died in the battle of the Aruhun River. He didn't say anything for now.

Lan Yu's starting point was from Wu Dewei. Successively served as the guard's thousand households, commanders, and commanders. And according to the "Record of Rebel Ministers", the main team he relied on for rebellion was also Wu Dewei.

——,It's just that at that time, Wu Dewei was restructured and changed his name to "Fujun Avant-garde".