Chapter Ninety-One: The Fight Begins
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In the spring of 1351, in the face of this large order dropped by the Yuan Dynasty, Cheng Pan did not hesitate to ship, and Cheng Pan and the decision-makers in the republic analyzed that at least half of this batch of iron tools would flow to the workers of Huang Zhihuang according to various intelligence, which would greatly improve the combat effectiveness of Liu Futong's department in the future. You must know that in the original time and space, Liu Futong and they used sharpened bamboo to resist the Yuan army at the beginning, and in this way, their great uprising also spread to half of China.
Cheng Pan just beat the people from the Yuan Dynasty on this day, and Cheng Pan was very bad at acting, in order to perform the appearance of lust and inwardness, not only made the envoys of the Yuan Dynasty think that he was not sure to fight, but also tried to attract the attention of the Yuan army. Cheng Pan specially asked Wang Tianzhu to find someone from their foreign trade group who specializes in intelligence to teach him. I don't know what the effect is, anyway, it made the envoy's aura of court righteousness explode one by one, and Cheng Pan felt like he wanted a villain who was against the entire justice and was about to be exterminated.
After showing off the prestige of the court, the envoy of the Yuan Dynasty threw away the rewards of the court and left with a high temperament. When this arrogant messenger left, Cheng Pan went to the side and pretended to be a waiter Wang Tianzhu and asked, "Tianzhu." What am I pretending to be" Wang Tianzhu gave a thumbs up and said: "Sir, if you just watch your performance, I think we are embattled and waiting for Zhao'an." Cheng Pan said: "Don't talk nonsense, this messenger is too stupid, and a shrewd person would have seen the flaw a long time ago." Cheng Pan chatted with Wang Tianzhu for a few words. At this time, the news came, and a man was outside asking to see him.
Cheng Pan took a closer look, and it turned out to be Zhang Wuji standing outside. Cheng Pan felt interesting, he didn't mix with the plot anymore, and finally the plot came over by himself. After Zhang Wuji came in, Cheng Pan said: "Wuji hasn't seen you for a long time." Zhang Wuji and Cheng Pan exchanged pleasantries for a while and then said what they meant. "Brother Cheng, Meng Yuan Wudao is the ...... I am waiting for at this time" Zhang Wuji organized the language and said it to Cheng Pan, Cheng Pan nodded all the time, and after Zhang Wuji finished speaking, he asked: "Mingjiao is going to oppose Yuan?" Zhang Wuji said: "Yes" Cheng Pan stared at Zhang Wuji's glasses and said: "What do you want" Zhang Wuji said sincerely: "We hope that you can give the capital of the Yuan Dynasty a blow through the sea." Cheng Pan said: "This is impossible" Zhang Wuji said: "This." Cheng Pan said: "This idea was mentioned by Yang Xiao." Zhang Wuji didn't say it, but Cheng Pan knew the answer from his expression. Cheng Pan felt that the negotiation was not suitable for him. So Cheng Pan threw out his plan: "Jingxiang Land, we are responsible for solving the Yuan army here" Zhang Wuji said with some hesitation: "There are already our people there." Cheng Pan said with a hint of mockery in his tone: "Is Mingjiao qualified to command us against Yuan?" Zhang Wuji said: "No, it's just that our people have been preparing there for a long time" Cheng Pan sighed and said: "Wuji, you are not suitable to be the leader of a force, it is impossible for me to change the policy of the entire force for personal friendship in my position, I am responsible for the people of the entire republic, and it is impossible for us to fight a war that consumes our own strength and has no gain" Zhang Wuji said with some anxiety: "But the anti-Yuan is the righteousness of my Han family." Cheng Pan said: "That's right, it is the righteousness of the Han family to oppose the Yuan, but the seven million people of the Republic sacrificed the financial and human resources of the Republic in vain according to the anti-Yuan policy provided by your Mingjiao, and finally supported you." Zhang Wuji was speechless. Cheng Pan continued: "We are all anti-yuan collaborators, let's do it in the form of a transaction." Zhang Wuji nodded and agreed.
According to the agreement reached between the two sides, the republic provided 50,000 tons of grain in the early days of the Ming rebellion against the Yuan Dynasty (which Cheng Pan was very distressed about), and provided weapons cheaply, including 20 smoothbore guns that fired six catties of solid bullets. On top of that, there are 800 kilograms of fierce explosives. For the tactics of drilling holes to bomb the city, Mingjiao has been studying for a long time, in the past, black powder was used, and now it is replaced with picric acid, which will burst out with great power in siege warfare. The Mingjiao, on the other hand, were not allowed to cross the Huai River and were not allowed to hinder the republican army from seizing Jingzhou. After reaching an agreement, Cheng Pan asked Zhang Wuji: "Wuji, Zhao Min and Zhou Zhiruo, have you chosen to be with that of these two girls?" Zhang Wuji said a little crampedly: "I'm going to marry Zhiruo soon." Cheng Pan said with a playful expression: "I haven't made a big gift yet, but I'm not sure yet" Zhang Wuji said a little strangely: "Brother Cheng, what are you talking about" Cheng Pan decided that he was nosy today, and he couldn't help but talk in the face of the plot characters: "I mean, before the end, you have to carefully determine that marriage is a lifelong thing, men can fall in other aspects, it's a big deal to get up, but marriage must not go wrong, this is a matter of two people." Zhang Wuji understood a little and said, "Brother Cheng, don't worry, I won't have anything to do with Zhao Min anymore." Cheng Pan kept a smile and said: "You didn't understand what I meant, I didn't say that Zhao Min was bad, I reminded you to have a deep understanding of the character of the person next to you in the future." "There are only a few sides to Zhou Zhiruo and Cheng Pan, but Cheng Pan is obviously that this girl is far from being as simple as her pure appearance. The first time was when Cheng Pan just crossed over, when Zhou Zhiruo had just lost his father, according to the character of ordinary children, he would experience a blank period of thinking generated by great grief, and his parents should be like vegetative people who don't eat or drink, and just want to be quiet, but although Zhou Zhiruo was sad, she soon began to deliberately show favor to Zhang Sanfeng and Zhang Wuji who saved her, and took the initiative to serve Zhang Wuji. Although this can't say that Zhou Zhiruo is bad, but from this point we can know that Zhou Zhiruo is definitely a person who can be comparable to Zhao Min in scheming, and there is one point of the biggest difference between Zhao Min and Zhou Zhiruo, that is, where Zhou Zhiruo failed, that is, although Zhao Min is scheming, he will not hide his loved ones in the end, but Zhou Zhiruo is responsible for the pressure she bears by herself whether she is forced by her master to swear a poisonous oath, although she has her own helplessness, but in some things that should have allowed her lover to share the pressure, But he secretly did it according to his own ideas. So Cheng Pan wanted to remind Zhang Wuji to get to know Zhou Zhiruo. Zhang Wuji seemed to understand a little, and he said in an inquiring tone: "Brother Cheng, do you mean Zhiruo?" Cheng Pan waved his hand with an unfathomable smile and said, "Don't say, don't say."
Zhang Wuji left Cheng Pan's residence and went back with a hint of doubt. And Cheng Pan has some introspective self-enlightenment: "I still can't change the bad habit of liking spoilers." ”
The Yuan Dynasty was very wary of Cheng Pan's appearance, and there were often signs of a large number of communist troops gathering in Huaibei, and the communist army had a bad record of sudden outbreaks in the previous rebellions, and the Yuan army used several large cities as bases to closely monitor the situation in the south. By attaching too much importance to the Communist Army, they neglected the resistance of the Han peasant army, their old rival, whom they had been focusing on ten years earlier.
The movement of the Huaibei uprising became more and more obvious, but the local government did not prepare too much for this, but relaxed about the increasingly calm situation. In April, a one-eyed Buddha was excavated in the old road of the Yellow River, and the slogan of the stone man with one eye and the anti-Yellow River suddenly spread all over the four fields.
Han and Liu took the opportunity to revolt in Yingzhou. Han claimed to be the eighth grandson of Huizong of the Song Dynasty (recognized his relatives directly to the Northern Song Dynasty). The local county ordered the urgent dispatch of troops to encircle and suppress it. Han Shantong was unfortunately captured and immediately killed. But the uprising was not extinguished, and this was no longer something that a local force could handle. This required the intervention and support of the central forces of the Yuan Dynasty. But the Northern Yuan army seemed to be a little slow to react to this scene. In fact, the central government of the Yuan Dynasty thought so, the uprising was born in Huaibei, the buffer zone between the republic and the Yuan Dynasty, and now at the beginning of the uprising, the Yuan army still focused on the republic, believing that this peasant uprising was a bargaining chip provoked by the republic, as long as the republic has not yet had a showdown, these are the problems of ringworm. Unfortunately, the Yuan Dynasty far underestimated how well it could resist this risk. After being defeated by the republic, the powerful army built up could have extinguished it at the beginning of the uprising, but it sat and watched the exhibition of the uprising. The peasant army began to spread rapidly.
In June, the Yuan Dynasty had already reflected that this was already a little wrong, the power of the peasant army was getting stronger and stronger, and it was not possible to make it another Fang family army. However, at this time, the power of the peasant army had swelled, and the peasant army used excavation and blasting tactics to conquer several large cities in a row, and completely gained a foothold in the north. It began to spread to the Central Plains.
The more out of control the form, the Yuan Dynasty finally began to act, and the army of Badulu was the first to start the war with the Red Turban Army, not to mention the battle in the north. The Red Turban Army revolted on the Yingshang of Huaibei. The republic also went into action. Because at this time, Mingjiao only had the right to call on the peasant rebels all over China, but not the right to command. Hubei Xu Shouhui also started an uprising at the same time, this is the farming place that Cheng Pan is about to get, and he killed everyone to find someone to show industry in Hubei. The original time and space is the end of the Yuan Dynasty war is too cruel to the Central Plains are disabled lack of population before the Shanxi Huaibei locust tree immigration incident, Hubei is the top priority of the future of the republic, the population must not be reduced too much because of the peasant war, in this Cheng Pan ordered the campaign against Hubei, in July 1351, a force of 40,000 along the Yangtze River to the heart of Hubei Wuhan advance, on this route there are Xu Shouhui and Yuan army near Huangshi and Qizhou. The attitude of the Communist Army in this regard is to fight together. The Republican Army, which relied on the supply of the Yangtze River, launched powerful firepower, like a hammer in this hot summer, directly smashed the chaotic situation, and the low-equipped Red Turban Army was quickly wiped out, and the biggest credit was not the Republican guns, but the capture policy of the Republican Army. The Yangtze River supply line has to bear the consumption of more than 100,000 mouths. In the face of the communist army, which was also Han Chinese, the Red Turban Army, which did not have racial hatred as the driving force for fighting, surrendered without any pressure, and even asked to take the initiative to join the communist army to fight the Mongols. As for the White Lotus Sect, it was quickly replaced by the propaganda of the Orthodox Dao. Since the Red Turban Army considered itself to be a Han Chinese, in the face of the inheritance of the torch and exploring the mysteries of heaven and earth under the banner of Yan and Huang as the highest banner, their thinking changed very quickly. Chinese are very practical, if they are not unable to live, they will not hang their brains on a virtual statue, relatively speaking, Chinese attach great importance to their ancestors, full of food and the Han ancestor Yan Huang, the republic is fighting smoothly. Moreover, the establishment of the grassroots level has been very smooth. The Yuan army retreated step by step in Jingzhou, and it was another army that really caused the rout of the Yuan army in Jingzhou.
When the communist army of the Yangtze River offensive line overwhelmed the Yuan army. The other army of the republic was lightly armed, except for twenty mortars, two divisions without any heavy weapons crossed the Dabie Mountains and appeared behind the Yuan army's defensive line, cutting off the support from the north to Hubei. The Yuan army in Hubei was nailed in the back. The entire defense line collapsed and retreated, and there were scenes of dedication to the city everywhere, a large number of Yuan troops were busy fleeing to the vicinity of Sichuan, and of course, some Yuan troops directly tied up the whole family of the Mongolian nobles who occupied a large amount of land as a letter of surrender. Now the world knows that the Communists kill the rich, not the prisoners. There is no need to work for those fat-headed and big-eared nobles.
The entire Hubei campaign was simply a farce that led the way for Wang Shi.