"Xu Cheng."

"The minister is here."

"Although it is a rainy day, you have to cheer up with your brothers, go to Bailuoji as soon as possible, rest for two days, and after building the camp, start laying the boat bridge, I want this boat bridge, at least three hundred steps wide."

"Minister, Commander." Xu Cheng hurriedly agreed.

Zhu Di instructed the generals to do the tasks one by one, and after each finished speaking, he had to look at the expressions of the generals.

But these generals are not fuel-efficient lamps, and there is almost no joy or anger to be seen, most of them are respectful and respectful, and nothing can be found.

Tong Xin's cavalry now has more than 2,000 people, and Zhu Di asked him to cooperate with the sentry cavalry, mainly to investigate the surroundings, whether there are rebel reinforcements swimming outside, because Zhu Gaochu is also good at using cavalry, Zhu Di is afraid that Zhu Gaochu will ambush with cavalry.

At noon the next day, Zhu Di followed a battalion of the Chinese army, and had arrived at the east wing of Taibai Lake, and the rain suddenly stopped for a day and a night, and the sun slowly appeared, Zhu Di's mood suddenly improved a lot, it seems that I am the true son of heaven, and I know that I don't want to fight in the rain.

This time, he brought more than 200 Hongwu cannons from Beijing and all over the country, and the Hongwu cannons that appeared in the entire Jingjing disaster did not add up, and most of them were newly cast in the last six months.

However, the Hongwu cannon was cast by the splicing method, and in the first few confrontations with the rebel army, it was completely at a disadvantage, especially not durable.

If you hit about six or seven cannons in a row, you may explode, and you have to rest after three or four cannons.

The officers and soldiers on the battlefield did not dare to stop before, so that a lot of artillery exploded.

But Zhu Di didn't know about the artillery of the rebel army, and thought that the artillery of the rebel army was similar to them, but it was just more than the artillery.

So he hoped it wouldn't rain.

If he had known that the rebels' cannons were built from all over the body and were more durable than theirs, he would have wished it rained every day.

A few days later, the official army approached Linxiang County, about a hundred miles away from Baling, and the sentinels of the two sides had been in constant contact.

And because of the rain recently, Zhu Gaoxu knew that the artillery was not easy to walk, so he made up his mind to defend the city first, so the sentry cavalry did not desperately stop the officers and soldiers, but kept shrinking back.

This made Zhu Di get the news, and he felt that the rebel sentry cavalry was not powerful, why did it be said that the rebel sentry cavalry was powerful before? It turned out that they were all making excuses for losing.

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Late April.

Zhu Gaoxu stood at the head of Baling City, looking at the riverside in the north.

The north side is the water post road leading to Wuchang in Yuezhou, and it is also a section of the Yangtze River, judging from the news that the sentinel cavalry has probed, the official army is coming along the Yangtze River to Baling County under the leadership of Zhu Di, and the war is inevitable, and their father and son are finally going to meet.

Will Zhu Di come to the front line? Will you talk to Zhu Gaoxu? Will someone send a letter of persuasion?

With Zhu Gaoxu's understanding of Zhu Di, Zhu Di will definitely not come forward and will not talk to Zhu Gaoxu.

Because he was afraid that Zhu Gaoxu would use a cannon to kill him directly.

But it is possible to send a letter of persuasion.

For some reason, Zhu Gaoxu was suddenly looking forward to meeting Zhu Di, and even wanted to see Zhu Di's current expression.

He also recalled in his mind that during the Jing Martyrdom, Zhu Di held his shoulders with both hands again and again, and said slowly in his father's loving voice: "Gao Xu--"

Tui, the Oscar Lifetime Acting Award should be given to Zhu Di, Zhu Gaoxu spat on the wall fiercely.

"Report." Suddenly, the sentinel in front came back to report to him that the banner of Huozhen had just swept past Baling and was heading south of Baling, about five or six thousand horsemen.

What does the fire really want to do? Thousands of horsemen attacking Changsha? Zhu Gaoxu is inexplicably wonderful.

Zhu Gaoxu will have nearly 300,000 troops in the entire Huguang and stationed heavy troops in Changsha, although troops have recently been assigned in Longyang, Yuanjiang, Huarong and other counties, but there are still more than 100,000 troops in Changsha City.

He shrank hundreds of thousands of troops in Changsha, it will be of great use in the future, Huo Zhen thousands of horsemen, he will definitely not dare to fight Changsha, or he will come in as a-stirring stick, thinking that I can't catch him? Of course, I don't want to pay attention to him.

All the prefectures and counties in Huguang are garrisoned by Zhu Gaoxu's soldiers and horses, and there are quite a few, and there are really 5,000 horsemen, and even any county town cannot be captured.

"Ignore him, he probably wants to disturb and destroy." Zhu Gaoxu didn't want to pay attention to Huo Zhen.

Not long after, the sentry cavalry came to report the news, Huo Zhen ran to the vicinity of Qiaokousi, and shot rockets at the boat passing by the water post road, Sheng Jian, who was in charge of garrisoning Changsha, was not used to him, and immediately sent the Jurchen Li Xian to rush out with 10,000 horsemen.

Huo Zhen turned his head and ran, and Li Xian followed closely behind. Most of Huo Zhen's subordinates are Mongols, Li Xian's subordinates have Mongols, Jurchens, and Han troops, both sides are good at cavalry and archery, Huo Zhen ran to the vicinity of Yiyang County and wanted to fight with Li Xian, but after shooting, he found that he was invincible, and continued to run.

The two parties chased and fled, scurrying everywhere in Huguangli.

After hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu ordered Li Xian to come back, don't care about the fire first, each boat goes out of the river, if the important materials go to the middle of the river, covered with a wet quilt, and prepare a bucket on the side of the boat, you can also send someone to bring a shield, or use a bow to reflect.

See how many arrows he shoots.

Zhu Gaoxu decided to ignore Huo Zhen first, not wanting to be led by his nose, and more than 10,000 people rode around Huguang, affecting the people.

Let Huo Zhen be happy for a few days, wait for him to shoot and throw the arrows, and then teach him a lesson.

The day after this order was transmitted, Huo Zhen took more than 4,000 horsemen (before shooting at Li Xian, and suffered a lot of losses. Come to the waterway between Changde and Longyang County.

Li Xian didn't chase him, and he became more and more bold.

After arriving at the water post road, I saw that from the direction of Changde, a long fleet was heading to Longyang County.

There were about thirty ships in this fleet, basically all of them under 400 materials, and they were full of them, and I don't know what they were.

Seeing a large group of cavalry appear, the people on the ship panicked, and after a while, people appeared with shields one after another.

"Dogs, light a fire, shoot them." Huo Zhen laughed and waved his hand.

The subordinates took arrows, put on oil, lit fires, and shots.

Whoosh, a rain of arrows shot at the front ship.

Huo Zhen also knew that the arrows would run out, so they all shot in batches, and this salvo was only about a hundred people.

While they were shooting arrows, about seven or eight men in the boat raised their shields side by side and crouched.

The shield fire has really seen, unique to the rebel army, rectangular, after the opposite person squats, there is no one in sight on the front, and the frontal defense is very good.

Sure enough, most of their arrows were on their shields.

A few arrows hit the hull, and with a bang, someone on the ship immediately watered it, and the fire was quickly extinguished.

Huo Zhen was furious, and the other party had about a dozen people on the boat, seven or eight people took shields, and the other few people specially extinguished the fire.

"Shoot again." Huo Zhen said angrily.

Whoosh, several rounds of fire were fired from the shore, and in the middle of which a scream was heard, someone on board was hit by an arrow, and someone fell into the river.

But the rebels still extinguished the fire, and at this time the fire really saw that the layer of things laid on the ship should be wet and could not be lit.

They shot several rounds, consuming hundreds of arrows, but only hit a few people, and one of them fell into the river and was quickly rescued by the people behind.

Huo Zhen was not reconciled, turned around and led the cavalry to change places.

Around noon, they came to the rivers of Lizhou and Anxiang counties, and caught a longer fleet, about 40 ships.

Huo Zhen had just ordered to go to the river to prepare to shoot arrows, but unexpectedly, a row of archers suddenly appeared on the other side, swishing, and shot a wave at them.

There were archers on these dozens of ships, and there were about three or four hundred people in total.

A rain of arrows shot into the Huozhen cavalry, and suddenly the people in the crowd turned on their backs and screamed.

Huo Zhen was so angry that he ordered to reflect back.

Their arrows must be clothed with cloth and oil, and they must be slower.

After shooting two rounds in a row, the opponents threw away their bows and arrows and picked up the tall and long shields again.

The fire was really angry, and after a few rounds of shooting, it felt that the effect was not very good, and it was difficult to light up the boat on the opposite side.

Shooting like this is nothing more than shooting and injuring a few more rebels, to no avail, and it has no impact on the entire battle situation.

At this time, Huo Zhen already knew that the rebel army was prepared, and it was difficult to get the effect, and staying here would be a waste of arrows.

He took five thousand horsemen out for two days, and shot more than a dozen waves of ships, but the ships did not burn a few ships, and hundreds of people were wounded, but more than half of the arrows were consumed.

Huo Zhen didn't want to shoot the boat anymore at this time, he wanted to destroy the fertile fields in Huguang and grab some grain by the way.

At this time, the summer grain is long, and in a few days, the autumn sowing will be ready to open.

Unexpectedly, at this time, in the direction of Changde and Changsha, there were rebel cavalry coming out one after another.

Huo Zhen ran here for two or three days, the food was about the same, and the arrows were almost the same, Changsha Qu Tao led the troops out to intercept, and Huo Zhen hurriedly ran away.

At the end of April, Qu Tao led the rebel army to catch up with the Huozhen cavalry near Huarong County, and the two sides fired at each other again.

At the beginning of May, Zhu Di's Chinese army camp had entered Linxiang County, northeast of Baling.

The mighty officers and troops also camped along Linxiang County and both sides of the Yangtze River.

By 6 May, more than 600,000 officers and troops had all arrived, and the wharf in Linxiang County was densely packed with boats, a large amount of baggage, and artillery grain and grass were unloaded.

On the 10th, most of the officers and troops pulled out their camps and continued southward, rounding the southern part of Baling, and assigned a small number of soldiers and horses to guard the eastern part of Baling.

On the 11th, Wu Da led a battalion of 20,000 infantry to attack Jianli County, the momentum was huge, but the offensive was not fierce, and he rested for a day or two for half a day, which was obviously used to block Linli to support Baling, and Wu Da also brought two artillery pieces and erected them on the bank, which could hit Jianli County and hit the river, and if there were rebel ships passing by, they would be bombarded.

Zhao Gui was responsible for defending Jianli and Anxiang, but he didn't expect the official army to attack, Zhao Gui himself was stationed in Anxiang, and Jianli was garrisoned by his subordinates Ma Fei.

Ma Fei was born in the Han Dynasty's own soldiers, and he commanded Ruoding, and slowly consumed the officials and troops at the head of the city.

Zhu Di didn't want Jianli to support Baling, and Ma Fei didn't seem to want to support Baling, both sides were fishing and killing time.

Wu Da thought that the Jianli rebels only had this ability, and they didn't dare to come out to save Baling, but Ma Fei knew that the King of Han had other arrangements, as long as he tried his best to ensure that Jianli was not lost.

On the 12th, more than 600,000 officers and troops surrounded the small city of Baling County.

In the middle, Zhu Gaochu went to the city many times to attract attention, and Zhu Di also confirmed that Zhu Gaoxu was in the city.

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(End of chapter)