At noon on the third day, Liu Liu led his 100,000 Red Turban Army out of Luzhou City, and he wanted to swallow Yang Tongguan's Miao army in one bite. The two armies drew their swords against each other, and a battle of equal strength began.

Yang Tongguan threw his guards into battle, Yang Tongpu, Yang Tongtai, Zhu Yuming and other more than a dozen Yang generals were in high spirits, and they were not afraid in the face of these red turban troops pouring out of the nest, and now it was time to take revenge for the Yang family generals of Huguang Right Cheng Yang Zhengheng.

There were a large number of Red Turban soldiers sent to the door, and firearms were given priority to killing, Zhu Yuming waved the red flag: "Gunners shoot——"

Fifty artillery pieces opened fire on the Red Turban Army that was getting closer and closer, and the shells fell in the crowd and exploded, thick smoke billowed out, and many Red Turban soldiers were blown into the air, and flesh and blood flew everywhere. However, thousands of Red Turban troops rushed to the forward position of the artillery, and were chopped into pulp by the knife and axe men waiting by the artillery.

After the artillery fire, the cavalry charged. 20,000 cavalry and the infantry of the Red Turban Army strangled together, and the well-trained Miao Army slashed at the Red Turban Army with Miao knives in their hands, screaming incessantly, and their arms and heads fell countless times. The Red Turban Army couldn't resist and retreated one after another.

Yang Tongguan slapped his horse and rushed into the enemy formation, the Yang family gun in his hand was whirring, and the Red Turban Army became a mud radish under his gun one by one, and he wanted to wash away the shame of the Miao army on the battlefield in western Guangdong. Vaguely, Yang Tongguan saw his father looking at him in the sky, "Son, my father is unwilling to be killed by a traitor, you have to avenge me, and repay the blood debt——"

Liu Liu saw that Yang Tongguan, Yang Tongpu, Yang Tongtai and others were constantly breaking through their own defense lines, and they were unstoppable, and more than half of his men and horses had already suffered casualties, and it was the first time he had seen such a desperate Central Army. Liu Liuzhen regretted not listening to his eldest brother, and when he met the Yang family, he could only defend to the death, and he would definitely lose when he went out of the city to face the battle. What should I do?

Liu Liu's heart was weak, the 100,000 army collapsed under his clumsy command, and the city of Luzhou could not be defended. Thirty-six plans were taken as the upper plan, and he turned his horse's head and hurriedly retreated north. The rest of the Red Turban Army saw that the commander had left them behind, and that there was no point in fighting to the death, and they also fled.

Yang Tongguan led his troops to take the opportunity to cover up the killing, Liu Liu was an escaped general, and after being chased and killed by the Miao army for a while, he finally picked up a life. Liu Liu counted the people, and there were less than 20,000, so he had to go to the eldest brother in Shandong. The city of Luzhou was recovered by the Yang generals, and the number of Miao troops increased to more than 100,000 after the battle of Luzhou.

Emperor Yuan Shun, who was in Dadu, heard that the Yang family would recover Luzhou, and he was bittersweet. The good thing is that the Yang family generals are invincible, improving the embarrassing situation of the Yuan army's repeated defeats, and the worry is that the Yang family generals are likely to take the opportunity to sit big, do not listen to the dispatch, and rebel against the imperial court. Yu Que, the marshal of Huaidong Capital, was jealous of the military exploits of the Yang generals, so he said: "Miao Man should not let him peep into China, and in the long run, he will definitely be a disaster." ”

Emperor Yuan Shun saw that someone was impeaching Yang Tongguan Group at this time, so he took advantage of the topic and issued an edict to Aslan to return to the army: "The first battle in Luzhou is remarkable, and the thieves in Shandong are rampant, approaching Dadu, and quickly come back to the rescue!" ”

Aslan received the edict and scolded: "Most of them are obviously safe, and the edict ordered me to wait for me to return to the teacher, isn't this talking nonsense with my eyes open!" ”

Yang Tongguan said: "Outside, the king's order will be accepted, and there will be no acceptance!" ”

Aslan said: "If you don't return to resist the order, you have to find a suitable reason to prevaricate the past." ”

Yang Tongguan said: "Lord Pingzhang, you have to settle this." ”

Aslan said: "I immediately wrote a book, saying that the thieves in Luzhou have not been cleared yet, and our army cannot go north......"

Yang Tongguan said: "Okay, there is Lord Lao Pingzhang." ”

So Yang Jiajun still stayed in Luzhou and did not move. Unexpectedly, Yu Que had another plan and fanned the flames in front of Emperor Yuan Shun: "Yang Tong ran through the troops of Luzhou, and constantly incorporated the remnants of Liu Liu's Red Turban Army. ”

Emperor Yuan Shun saw that the situation in Jianghuai had stabilized, and thought that the Yang family army could be used or not, so he said: "Yu Aiqing has full authority to monitor Yang Tongguan, and I can send an edict to Luzhou, and order the Miao army to stop chasing and suppressing, and kill him!" ”

Yu Que set out from Dadu with the holy decree and soon arrived at Yang Tongguan's camp. Yu Que held the imperial sword of Emperor Yuan Shun, and read the holy decree proudly: "...... If the Miao army is violent in the realm, it will be collected and killed, and the dignified will not dare to commit it......" After reading it, a sly smile flashed at the corner of Yu Que's mouth.

After Yu Que left, Yang Tongguan said angrily to Aslan: "My father died for the country, and my brother fought for the country, but he was repeatedly suspicious of the imperial court, where is there a place for my Yang family's army?" ”

Aslan sighed: "Generals, don't be pessimistic, without the Yang generals, those regular troops will not be able to support the overall situation alone." When the crisis of the imperial court is aggravated, it is the day when the Yang family will come back. ”

Emperor Yuan Shun was bewitched by Yu Que and forced the Miao army led by Yang Tongguan to stop military operations.

The peasant army Zhang Shicheng's power developed rapidly, Zhu Yuanzhang's department was also rising rapidly, and the Red Turban Army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang had a great comeback, which made the civil and military officials of the Yuan government panic. Forced by the situation, Emperor Yuan Shun and Aslan overrode public opinion and reactivated more than 100,000 Miao soldiers led by Yang Tongguan.

After more than a year of rest, many Miao soldiers and soldiers have become tired of the capriciousness of the imperial court, and Yang Zaedeng, Yang Zhengren, Yang Zhengde, Yang Tongxing, Yang Tongtai and others are very dissatisfied with the various injustices suffered by Yang Tongguan's father and son. Under the leadership of Yang Zaedeng, a military enlargement meeting was held on whether to continue to work for the imperial court or to join the Red Turban Army, and Zhu Yuming, as the secretary, recorded the minutes of the meeting.

Yang Tongguan sat in the center of the tent, very conflicted in his heart, but he felt that this meeting had to be held: "Generals, this is a military camp, I won't call it by seniority, don't mind." It has been more than three years since my Yang family came out of Chengbu Village, and my father unfortunately stained the battlefield with blood, and I couldn't sleep at night when I recalled the brothers who were martyred in western Guangdong. Whether you are loyal to the imperial court or join the rebels, you can say whatever you want. ”

Yang Zaedeng said: "The emperor treats my Yang family as a watchdog, and when he needs it, he will say all his good words, give us an official and a knight, and kick it away when he is bored, and the promises made to us have not been fulfilled, I really can't swallow this evil breath." ”

Yang Zhengren said: "The reason why the eldest brother died in the battle in western Guangdong, the emperor is the biggest mastermind and bears the main responsibility. After the first battle in Luzhou, Yu Que restrained us, and the emperor was an accomplice, so I didn't think it was necessary to treat my Yang family like this, and I don't think it was necessary to work hard for the Erjin family. ”

Yang Zhengde said: "The traitorous minister is in charge, the emperor is mediocre, and the sky is over!" Heaven wants the Yuan Dynasty to perish, and instead of obeying the mandate of heaven, we will raise a butcher's knife and slash at the peasant army that has no way out, and we will surely become sinners in history. ”

Yang Tongxing said: "What the three of them said is not unreasonable, but we are now riding a tiger, whether the Yuan Court will collapse within ten years, I think it is not impossible to take the opportunity of suppressing the Red Turban Army to secretly develop the strength of our Yang family generals." ”

Yang Tongtai said: "It's not that we can't defeat the Red Turban Army, but the court is not at ease with us at all." I agree with what the Tongxing brothers said, the Yang family will believe in orthodoxy since the Tang Dynasty, if we oppose the imperial court this time, maybe the world of the Yuan Dynasty will be our Yang family. ”

Yang Tongpu said: "Don't do it, on the contrary, you are an enemy of the imperial court, and you are ashamed of the emperor's grace." ”......

Yang Tongzhao finally spoke: "The princes from all walks of life attacked the city, but we became a firefighting army, and the result was not that we were repeatedly suppressed. Whether it is rebellion or service, it all depends on the words of the third brother. ”

Yang Tongguan saw that the family disagreed, he took a sip of tea and thought for a while: "Since everyone is so entangled, I will say two words - first, continue to be loyal to the imperial court, and must not spread the remarks of the Red Turban Army in the army; Second, if Yang Tongguan is killed in the future, you must take refuge in Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming army, and this person will have a lot to do. The meeting was adjourned—"

Who is Zhu Yuanzhang? Anhui Haozhou Zhongli people, nicknamed Zhu Chongba, was a beggar in his youth, a monk, and Guo Zixing's son-in-law. This person is useful and resourceful, witty and flexible, and brave in combat, which is deeply appreciated and reused by Guo Zixing.

Zhu Yuanzhang has Liu Bowen, Li Shanchang, Gao Sheng, Tang He, Xu Da, Zhou Dexing, Guo Ying and other strategists and generals, with 150,000 troops.

The reason why Yang Tongguan instructed his subordinates to ask them to join Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming army in case of an accident is that there is a origin here. After the failure of Yang Liuzong's uprising, more than 100,000 Miao people from Chengbu Village moved to Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown of Haozhou, and the Yang family had a second base in Haozhou. The Yang family, who is from Haozhou, has a good impression of Zhu Yuanzhang, a half-countryman, and it is not surprising that he infected Yang Tongguan.

In September of the fifteenth year of Zheng (1355), Zhu Yuanzhang sent Guo Tianxu, Zhang Tianyou and others to lead tens of thousands of troops to attack Jiqing (now Nanjing), Yuan Xingtai Yushi Fushou asked the imperial court for help, Emperor Yuan Shun's first thought was the nearest Yang family general Yang Tongguan's department, and ordered Yang Tongguan to lead the troops to the rescue, and Aluhui of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province accompanied him as a supervisor.

Guo Tianxu and Zhang Tianyou supervised 20,000 troops from Guantang through Tongshan to attack the east gate of Jiqing City. Chen Ye, the general of the Yuan Dynasty, was the marshal of the militia of the Yuan Dynasty, and led 20,000 troops from Banqiao to Jiqing, attacking the south gate of Jiqing City, and did not advance half a step from Yin to noon.

Chen Ye first learned the news that Yang Tongguan's 100,000-strong army could be killed at any time, and his 20,000 militia forces were bound to suffer from the enemy, which was not enough for Yang Tongguan to plug his teeth, and he had to leave a way back for himself.

Chen Yexian took a break in the army, and Zhu Yuming took the letter written by Yang Tongguan to Chen Yexian's station, and he quickly finished reading the letter. Chen Yexian admired the commander of the Yang family very much, and the reason why he defected to Zhu Yuanzhang was actually an expedient measure.

Zhu Yuming said: "General Chen, it's up to you to eliminate Guo Tianxu." ”