Zhu Han witnessed from a distance this time to quickly subdue the hearts of the surrendered troops.

For the admiration of the elder brother Zhu Yuanzhang, I can't help but increase it by a few percent.

"I just told a story about Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu's heart, and my brother just learned and used it like this, who would dare to disagree with this guts." Zhu Han thought secretly in his heart.

At the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu's army, after the victory of the First World War, hundreds of thousands of Tongma rebels surrendered, in order to quickly subdue these surrendered troops, Liu Xiu disregarded his safety in the surrender camp to eat, wear and live together, in order to show his trust in the surrendered troops.

The hundreds of thousands of soldiers who were originally panicked were immediately moved by the actions of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu.

This is where the statement comes from.

Brother Zhu Yuanzhang's practice today can be said to be a perfect copy of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu.

After solving the problem of the hearts of these surrendered troops, the rebels immediately embarked on the journey to Chuzhou.

From Qingyuan Town to Chuzhou City, it takes more than three days to march.

The surrendered troops in Chuzhou were basically included in the rear army, and undertook the task of transporting the baggage, and many of the defeated soldiers hiding in the mountains and forests also took the initiative to run out and surrender after seeing that the rebels did not kill the prisoners.

The strong man who fled the day earlier on Saturday 9, after eating grass roots in the mountains and forests for two days, also surrendered with the crowd down the mountain.

Zhu Han further co-opted these captives.

He sent men to select soldiers from among the captives to replenish the lost forces.

Saturday Nine, who had just escaped with his life, signed up for the rebel army without hesitation.

Liuliujiu has experienced two lives and deaths, and he is no longer afraid.

He wants to take revenge on the Tartars, he wants to find his children, and he wants to comfort his mother-in-law who died tragically under the Tartars' knife.

Liuliujiu clearly remembered that the young deputy marshal of the rebel army, Zhu Han, told him personally.

"Work hard, when Chuzhou is conquered in the future, the righteous army will divide the fields according to merit, and you can leave a rich family property for a pair of children!"

Zhu Han's simple sentence made many low-level people enthusiastically join the rebel army.

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Chuzhou City.

Aru Ash led 3,000 soldiers and horses to flee back to Chuzhou City day and night.

When they returned to the city, many of their mounts were exhausted and died because they had fled for their lives.

In this fiasco, Aru Ash can be described as a heavy loss.

Not only did more than 3,000 of the more than 20,000 troops flee back, but his younger brother Hardy also died tragically on the battlefield.

Therefore, as soon as Alu Ash returned to Chuzhou City, he immediately ordered the mobilization of the whole city, recruited the reserve soldiers and strong men in the city, and prepared to resist the Red Turban Army.

However, due to the heavy losses of troops and equipment, the barely scraped together combat strength of more than 10,000 people could not defend Chuzhou City at all.

The general of the Yuan army, Ahma, suggested again: "My lord, Chuzhou is no longer possible to hold, it is better to clear the wilderness, now the Jiangnan Navy is about to arrive, we have warships, it is better to transport all the materials and population of Chuzhou, and then burn down Chuzhou City, retreat to Yangzhou or Jiqing, and do not leave a grain of grain and a ding mouth for the Red Turban Army. ”

Aru Gray, who was worrying about how to guard Chuzhou City, immediately felt very reasonable when he heard it.

The Yuan court was very tolerant of some Mongol and Semu generals, and did not care much about the gains and losses of one city and one place.

What's more, according to Ahma's suggestion, the red turban thief will not be able to gain a foothold in Chuzhou for a long time, and he will definitely be able to recapture it in the future.

"Great idea! Even if Chuzhou is burned to ruins, I will not leave a single grass or tree for the thief army! Aru said viciously.

Subsequently, Aru Ash summoned a group of Han generals in Chuzhou and told them his plan to prepare to clear the wilderness and retreat to Yangzhou.

When many Han generals heard this, they were all stunned.

Especially when they heard that Aru Ash asked them to force all the people within a radius of 30 miles from Chuzhou City to move away, and those who did not leave were slaughtered, and they would also set fire to Chuzhou City, everyone was always opposed.

"My lord, this is absolutely unacceptable! If the rich land of Chuzhou becomes a white land, how can it be recaptured in the future! A yellow-faced Han Chinese general said.

"Guo Jiang, Ben Zhongcheng's order, do you want to disobey?" Aru Ash didn't explain, just said with a sneer.

The Han general, Guo Jiang, stopped talking for a while, but the unconvinced expression on his face still existed.

The rest of the Han generals were equally angry.

Since the Mengyuan conquered the Huainan Jiangnan, in order to rule the local people of the original Southern Song Dynasty, a large number of Mengyuan, Semu and northern Han garrisons were sent from the north.

After decades of living, they have slowly influenced each other and developed a new network of relationships.

Among them, the Semu people hugged the Mongols' thighs and acted as the most active dogs and thugs, while the northern Han people intermarried with the local Han people and had been integrated into the local area.

In the matter of destroying Chuzhou City, the three forces of the Mengyuan court were completely divided.

The rumor that Aru Ash in the province was going to 'kill and burn down' Chuzhou City suddenly spread in Chuzhou City, whether it was the poor people or the rich businessmen, they were all panicked.

Their roots are all in Chuzhou, and once they are burned and moved elsewhere, they will become fat sheep under the fence.

Especially two days later, when the information came that the vanguard cavalry of the Red Turban Army appeared thirty miles away from Chuzhou, Aru Gray strictly ordered Semu and the Han generals to step up the implementation of this plan.

These people are all of the Western Regions Hu species, all of them have curly hair and green eyes, they have been specifically oppressing the local Han people, and they have a lot of grudges against each other, and now they are taking this opportunity to take advantage of them by force.

The Han generals led by Guo Jiang had far less power to speak than the generals of Ahma and other colored eyes, and they had no choice but to follow the order to prepare fire, oil, firewood, grass and other things to burn the city.

Many Han villages outside Chuzhou did not want to burn their homes and move away, and soon raised a counter-flag, and in the face of these weak Han villages, Ahma led the soldiers and horses of the color eyes to ruthlessly suppress and slaughter.

Guo Jiang and others couldn't bear it, and they could only cry out in vain.

Just as Guo Jiang was leading the soldiers and horses to prepare firewood, grass, fire and oil, suddenly a person quietly came to his side.

"Uncle, my lord, please go to the house immediately, there is something important to discuss!"

Guo Jiang saw that he was a henchman of his father-in-law Lu Wendao.

As a famous local southerner, Haoqiang.

The Guo Jiang family and the Lu family have been married for three generations, and they are already close and extraordinary.

Regarding his father-in-law's invitation, Guo Jiang naturally did not dare to slack off, and immediately came to the Lu family's house.

As soon as he entered the Lu family's mansion, Guo Jiang immediately discovered the abnormality.

In the lobby of the Lu family, there are not only Lu family members such as their own father-in-law, Lu Wendao, but also the heads of local powerful families such as the Zhuo family, the Gu family and the Zhang family.