With the vitality of the six major factions was greatly injured, the forces of the rivers and lakes collapsed for a long time, but the Mongolian side, also because of the bizarre death of the emperor and the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, fell into the competition for power, it doesn't matter if the emperor died, just set up another one, but the death of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces made the Mongolian high-level suddenly in a power vacuum.

For a time, the land of Shenzhou, the beacon smoke was everywhere, the Mongolian generals of all parties began to conquer in order to obtain the ultimate fruits of power, and the already withered people's livelihood became more miserable, coupled with the silence of the six major factions, at this time, Mingjiao suddenly rose strongly, in less than a month, occupied the land of Sichuan and Shu, and then the footsteps did not stop, Mingjiao commander Xu Daqin led 20,000 Mingjiao elites, from the Yangtze River downstream, straight into the hinterland of Jingxiang, the battleship sailed into the Han River, in the light left envoy Yang Xiao and the green wing bat king under the response, in one fell swoop to break through Xiangyang.

At this time, the Mongolian defenders stationed in the Jingxiang area reacted and hurriedly rushed to the aid of Xiangfan, wanting to take advantage of the fact that Mingjiao had not gained a firm foothold and drove Mingjiao out of Xiangyang.

And this is, Zhang Dingbian, Chang Yuchun, Zhao Pusheng each led a road of soldiers and horses, taking advantage of the Mongolian army to surround Xiangyang, the rear is empty, the three roads out together, with the momentum of sweeping, with the assistance of the Wudang faction, in one fell swoop to break through Changsha, Wuling, Lingling, Guiyang and other 36 county seats, plus Xiangyang, it is actually within ten months, so that the land of Jingxiang lost most of it, after the three-way army broke the city, it did not stay, since someone came to take over the government affairs of these captured counties, out of the list of the people, the three-way army from three directions directly took the Mongolian army near Xiangyang.

When the Mongolian army was in trouble, Xu Da led his men and horses from Xiangyang, and the center blossomed, completely disrupting the Mongolian army's position, and the four-way army killed the Mongolian defenders in Xiangyang, and finally successfully met under the city of Xiangyang.

From the beginning of the Mingjiao uprising to the smooth meeting of the Four Route Army in Xiangyang, in less than five months, Mingjiao has successfully occupied the two richest states in the world.

With the success of the Mingjiao uprising, just like a signal, the entire land of Shenzhou, the people who could not continue to endure the oppression of the Mongols continued to rise up, and the rebel army sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, blooming everywhere in the land of Shenzhou, so that the Mongols who were still in internal strife were suddenly blinded, and they were driven away by a group of Han farmers, and they had the intention to resist, but after a period of suppression, in exchange, it was a more fierce counterattack, and more and more people joined the ranks of the rebels.

"Sect Master, now the situation is very good, my Mingjiao is like the sky, my subordinates think that it is time for my Mingjiao to go further, the ministers are courageous, ask the master to ascend the throne, and command the heroes in the name of my Mingjiao." Xiangyang, the former City Lord's Mansion has now been converted into the meeting hall of the Ming Sect, and under the meeting hall, the white-eyed Eagle King said excitedly.

Even after a year of planning and deployment, I didn't expect things to go so smoothly.

"Eagle King, you're too optimistic." Zhuo Ao shook his head and said, "Have you ever thought about the consequences of becoming emperor?" ”

"Command the world, don't dare to disobey." The white-eyed eagle king is a matter of course, Mingjiao is the first rebel army to rise up against the Yuan, and at the same time has achieved brilliant results, Zhuo Ao is the emperor, it is a matter of course, there are such thoughts, in Mingjiao, there are many.

"Fighting the world is not a fight between the rivers and lakes." Shaking his head, Zhuo Ao looked at Liu Ji below and said, "Berwyn, you come." ”

"Yes, Master." Liu Bowen stood up, looked at the white-eyed Eagle King with a smile and said, "Does the Eagle King know that the wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it?" If the sect leader is proclaimed emperor at this time, I am afraid that what awaits us is not to command the world, but to attack in groups. ”

"They dare!" The Eagle King glared.

"Why don't you dare?" Liu Bowen shook his head and sighed: "This is fighting for the world, not for the rivers and lakes, although my sect is strong, it is far from enough to suppress the heroes, once the sect leader is called the emperor, how can the heroes be convinced?" You must know that there are no two days, there are no two masters in the country, it is a matter of the country, who is willing to give it up? ”

"So what do we do now?" The Eagle King shook his head, although he can be alone, but that refers to the rivers and lakes, put it in the world, the Eagle King's eyes are not so far.

"It's simple." Zhuo Ao smiled and said: "Build high city walls, accumulate grain and grass, recruit displaced people from all over the world, build water conservancy, recuperate, and when they are almost done, we will shoot again and pick the fruit." ”

"This ...... My Mingjiao has always acted above board, is this move inconsistent with the teachings of my Mingjiao......" The White-eyed Eagle King frowned.

"Eagle King, this is fighting the world, not fighting the rivers and lakes, do you have to let my Ming Sect disciples bleed and suffer casualties?" Zhou Diandaoren shook his head.

Zhuo Ao and Liu Bowen glanced at each other, shook their heads, and tacitly did not say more, although the Mingjiao is powerful now, the rivers and lakes are too heavy, and this situation must be improved as soon as possible.

In the next two years, the world was full of smoke, wars were everywhere, and the Bashu and Jingxiang controlled by Mingjiao were quiet and peaceful, as if the world was a paradise.

At the same time, because of the smoke everywhere, a large number of displaced people began to flock to Jingxiang, and Zhuo Ao did not refuse, accepted a large number of displaced people, and even sent people to various places to recruit displaced people.

In the past two years, although the chassis has not improved much, the population under the rule of Mingjiao has almost exploded in the two years of development, and by the end of the second year, the population has more than tripled from two years ago.

Zhuo Ao knew very well that this was because the princes of all sides were fighting and had no time to take care of the population, even if someone realized the importance of the population, there was no surplus grain and grass to feed these populations, and they could only watch the population being taken away by the Ming Sect in a predatory way.

After two years of melee, the Mongols were driven north of the Yellow River, Wang Baobao, Zhao Min two brothers and sisters after the division, stubbornly defended the capital, and then in the chaos, distant and close attack, two years of gradual encroachment on the surrounding forces, and finally drove the rebel forces out of the Yellow River, the north of the Yellow River below the hands of the hand, and at the same time continue to receive the Mongols who fled back from the south, now, if only in terms of territory, it is by no means smaller than the Mingjiao occupied.

In the third year, Mingjiao finally stopped being silent, with the tense situation in Jiangdong, he was a disciple of Mingjiao in the past, but with the chaos in the world, many local rudder masters had different thoughts and chose to stand on their own.

At this time, it was a former Mingjiao helmsman who was at the end of his rope, hoping to return to Mingjiao and save his family.

Of course, picking up people is small, and the most important thing is that Mingjiao has been a neutral for two years, and now he suddenly wants to make a move on the outside world, and he needs a suitable excuse, and this helmsman's request for help is the best time.

In the past two years, Jiangdong has been in turmoil, large and small forces add up to more than a dozen, simply can not effectively use the Yangtze River, Xu Da led the army across the Yangtze River, and then landed, all the way like a bamboo, less than half a year, under the attack of Xu Da, Jiangdong was completely occupied, stationed troops on the riverside, and looked at Zhang Shicheng in the Huainan area.

Occupy the land of Jiangdong, just a beginning, silent for two years of Mingjiao, once again to the world to show the hideous fangs, often Yuchun led the army out of Nanyang, in the middle of Sichuan with the cooperation of Zhang Dingbian, captured Hanzhong, and then the two armies at the same time turned around, encircling Kaifeng, that is, Luoyang, at the same time Zhao Pusheng troops out of Runan, with Xu Da, land and water armies to attack Zhang Shicheng.

In this battle, the princes were shocked to find that the weapons, battle armor and even crossbows used by the Mingjiao soldiers were stronger than those of the other princes, and they were no longer inferior to the equipment of the elite Mongol army.

This is the result of Zhuo Ao's two years of convening the world's skilled craftsmen, science and technology, the complete abuse of the princes, and the princes have been fighting for many years, the life of the people under the rule is not much better than the former Mongolian rule, and Zhuo Ao spared no effort to preach to the surrounding Ming religion how to nourish the people under the rule of Mingjiao, but also made it difficult for the princes to take advantage of the people's hearts, Zhang Shicheng was rushed to Huaibei, since then, the Ming Sect forces occupy half of the rivers and mountains.

However, at this time, the potential contained in the past two years has been exhausted, and at the same time, Zhuoao's territory is also officially bordering Mongolia, and at the same time, in the Central Plains, there is also Zhuoao's competitor - Zhu Yuanzhang.

At the beginning, after Zhu Yuanzhang left with Zhang Wuji, he took advantage of Zhang Wuji's unpreparedness on the way, quietly slipped away, hid in Shandong, and secretly cultivated strength while observing the trend of the world.

At the beginning, Zhu Yuanzhang participated in almost the whole process, and he naturally knew the plan of Mingjiao, and wanted to reveal this plan to the imperial court, so that the court and Mingjiao would be pinched, who knew that Zhuo Ao directly killed the Mongolian emperor and the Manchu Dynasty, which caused chaos in the world, and Mingjiao rose strongly.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang knew Mingjiao's plan, but he did not have the background of Mingjiao, he could only use the prediction, on the occasion of the rise of Mingjiao, take advantage of the trend, with excellent ability, within half a year, successfully took the land of Shandong into the bag, more distant and close attack, after two years of continuous development, now is in addition to Mingjiao and Mongolia, the largest princes all the way, with Chang Yuchun and Zhang Dingbian to capture Luoyang, the two sides also began to border, for this former brother, actually betrayed Mingjiao, Mingjiao, almost all gritted teeth, Zhu Yuanzhang's painstaking connections in the past have long been gone, and all that is left is hatred.

Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of Zhang Shicheng's hasty escape, ambushed Zhang Shicheng, took over Zhang Shicheng's territory in Huaibei, and confronted the Mingjiao troops across the Huai River.