[Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang was arrested, he was about to be more auspicious.

At this critical moment, Xu Da stepped forward and asked Guo Zixing to take the initiative to go outside the city to replace Zhu Yuanzhang as a hostage.

Guo Zixing agreed, and Xu Da went to Sun Junzhong to replace Zhu Yuanzhang.

With Xu Da as a stand-in, Zhu Yuanzhang was finally able to get out and return to the city.

After many mediations, Guo Ziyi finally agreed to let Sun Deya go, and a crisis was finally resolved.

At the critical moment, it was Xu Da's sacrifice to save Zhu Yuanzhang that allowed Zhu Yuanzhang to survive, Zhu Yuanzhang was deeply moved in his heart, and he also valued Xu Da more and more.

Zhu Yuanzhang called Xu Da "Brother Buyi" and gave him the most complete trust in the future. 】

[In June, Zhu Yuanzhang led Xu Da and others to cross the river, pull out quarries, go down to Taiping, and further plot to gather Qing (that is, Nanjing City).

In the battle of attacking Quarshiji and Taipingfu, Xu Da and Chang Yuchun charged into battle, bravely crowned the three armies, captured the Yuan general Chen Yexian, and subdued the Qiren Kang Maocai Righteous Army.

In August, Xu Da and others divided their ways to attack Lishui, Liyang, Jurong, and Wuhu, all of which were defeated. 】

[The rebel army led by Zhu Yuanzhang passed all the way and was invincible.

In February of the sixteenth year of Zheng (A.D. 1356), he broke the barbarian Hague sailors, and in March, he captured Jiqing and changed Jiqing to Yingtianfu. 】

[After Zhu Yuanzhang occupied Yingtianfu, there were Yuan troops in the north, Zhang Shicheng in the east, Chen Youliang and Xu Shouhui in the west, and Fang Guozhen and Chen Youding in the south.

Although they jointly set up an anti-Yuan banner, they have their own contradictions, and they are bound to not work together for their own interests.

And Zhu Yuanzhang is surrounded by them, and the situation is even more difficult.

Among this group of rebels, Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng were the strongest.

Zhu Yuanzhang judged the situation and decided to kill Chen Youliang first, and then get rid of Zhang Shicheng. 】

"Chen Youliang is the lifelong enemy of Ming Taizu, and his strength cannot be underestimated."

"Chen Youliang is not an ordinary person, he is the descendant of the most prominent gate valve Xie family in the Eastern Jin Dynasty!"

"That's right, compared to Chen Youliang, Ming Taizu looks a little shabby everywhere."

"So what? Chen Youliang hasn't been given by Ming Taizu yet! ”

[In the nineteenth year of Zhizheng (1359 AD),

Xu Da and Yu Tonghai's sailors attacked Chizhou together with the court's sailors, breaking through its Zhajiang camp, and Zhao Pusheng, who was attacking Taiping, fled by land.

Xu Dake Chizhou, captured his guard general Hong Jun and others, and captured all his warships, because of the merit of the general Fengguo, with the Privy Council.

Then, Xu Da led his corporal to attack Anqing with victory. However, the attack on Anqing did not go well, and Xu Da had to turn to attack Jiangbei.

Xu Da first captured Wuwei Prefecture, and then attacked Fushanzhai at night, broke Zhao Pusheng's troops in Qingshan, and pursued with victory, and captured the dive in one go. After that, Xu Da returned to Zhenchizhou and formed an offensive against Anqing by land and water.

However, Zhao Pusheng is a general in Chen Youliang's army, who is both wise and brave, and as stable as an old dog. Anqing, which was guarded by him, Zhu Yuanzhang's generals could not attack it.

In the end, it was Xu Da who stepped forward, and he used a discordant plan against Chen Youliang and Zhao Pusheng, and successfully made Chen Youliang kill Zhao Pusheng. After Zhao Pusheng's death, no one could defend Zongyang Water Village, so Xu Da took the opportunity to capture Zongyang Water Village. 】

[At the beginning of the twentieth year of Yuan Zhizheng (1360 AD), Chen Youliang led a large army and raided Chizhou!

After Zhu Yuanzhang learned the news, he immediately sent Chang Yuchun to lead troops to reinforce Xu Da, who was guarding Chizhou, and sent an envoy to tell Xu Da: "Chen Youliang is coming." ”

After Xu Da received Chang Yuchun's reinforcements, he decided to lure the enemy deep and ambush him on all sides.

So, he ordered Chang Yuchun to lead 10,000 elite soldiers and set up an ambush at the mouth of Liuquan; On the other hand, more than 10,000 elite soldiers were selected to ambush at the foot of Jiuhua Mountain, cutting off Chen Youliang's back road. 】

[Chen Youliang went to Chizhou and began to storm Chizhou City with all his might.

Xu Da led the defenders to attack the city, often met the spring and ambushed the army behind him, broke Chen Youliang's army, beheaded more than 10,000 people, captured 3,000, and Chen Youliang was defeated and went to Jiangzhou. 】

[Chen Youliang occupies the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, has elite troops, and is ambitious, and is the main threat to Zhu Yuanzhang and others to open up their careers.

In May of the twentieth year of Zhizheng (1360 AD), Chen Youliang once again led hundreds of thousands of naval troops to the east, intending to directly take Ying Tianfu.

Zhu Yuanzhang used the weak to resist the strong, designed an ambush, lured the enemy deep, and ordered Chang Yuchun to be ordered to set up an ambush with Feng Guosheng and Feng Guosheng to lead 30,000 people in front of the Five Wing Army, and these 30,000 people were the main force of the whole army.

After a fierce battle, Chen Youliang's troops who landed in Longwan were rushed and killed by Chang Yuchun and Feng Guosheng's ambush soldiers, suffered heavy casualties, and were unable to form an army.

At that time, the river was ebbing, the water in Longwan was shallow, Chen Youliang's more than 100 giant ships were all stranded, Zhu Yuanzhang waved the water and the army to advance, and Chen Youliang was defeated and fled.

Longwan was victorious, Zhu Yuanzhang turned the corner, and by the way, he also strengthened his strength. 】

[In March of the twenty-second year of Zhizheng (1362), the former Chen Youliang generals Zhu Zong and Kang Tai, who were stationed in Hongdu, raised troops to rebel, and Xu Da led Hanyang's army to judge.

In April, due to Xu Dachi's aid to Anfeng, Chen Youliang took advantage of the situation to invade, captured Ji'an, Wuwei and other places, and concentrated his forces to storm Hongdu.

Hongdu has been besieged for more than two months, and the situation is tense.

Zhu Yuanzhang hurriedly summoned Xu Da from Luzhou to come to the meeting, and used 200,000 boats to cut off Chen Youliang's back road with 200,000 Tunhu River, Jiujiang Estuary and Nanhuzui.

Chen Youliang learned that Zhu Yuanzhang's army was coming, so he retreated from the east of Poyang Lake, and finally the two sides met at Kanglang Mountain.

When the two armies met, Xu Da took the lead and led the army to fight, defeating the vanguard of Chen Youliang's army, killing more than 1,500 people and capturing a large war ship.

Under the command of Xu Da, Zhu Yuanzhang's army fought fiercely with Chen Youliang for several months, and finally Chen Youliang was defeated and moved to Bozhuji, not daring to fight again. 】

[In the third year after the Longwan War, that is, in the twenty-third year of Zhizheng (1363 AD), Chen Youliang saw the opportunity and made a comeback.

He led an army of 600,000 to attack, and fought a water decisive battle with Zhu Yuanzhang's army at Poyang Lake that lasted for 36 days and decided life and death! 】

[At that time, Xu Dazheng crossed the river with Zhu Yuanzhang and led his troops to Anfeng in the north to help Han Lin'er and Liu Futong, who were attacked by Zhang Shicheng.

Chen Youliang saw this opportunity and decisively launched the largest large-scale attack on Zhu Yuanzhang so far. 】

"A great war has begun!"

"The Battle of Poyang Lake seems to be the prototype of the Battle of Chibi in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", right? But I feel that this battle is much more thrilling than in the romance! ”

"This is Zhu Yuanzhang's turnaround! defeated Chen Youliang, Zhu Yuanzhang can be regarded as the real first army of the uprising! ”

[In the face of the menacing Chen Youliang, Zhu Yuanzhang personally led his troops to meet the attack, and the two sides immediately launched a fierce battle at Poyang Lake.

Chen Youliang has an absolute advantage in military strength and financial resources, he has 600,000 troops and dozens of huge ships; But Zhu Yuanzhang only has 200,000 people, and they all use small boats.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang was not afraid, Xu Da, Chang Yuchun and other generals were even more scrappy, and the small universe was burning! 】

[At the beginning of the battle, Xu Da was on the front line first, commanding the soldiers to fight bravely.

Chen Youliang's military ships were large and sturdy, but they were slow; Zhu Yuanzhang's military ship is small, fast, and flexible in operation. The two armies were at loggerheads, and the killing was inextricably linked.

There was also a near miss. Zhu Yuanzhang's ship ran aground, and Chen Youliang's general Zhang Dingbian found this opportunity, so he led the fleet to besiege it, and the situation was very critical.

At this critical moment, Chang Yuchun took the lead, shot Zhang Dingbian, and hit Zhu Yuanzhang's boat with his own warship to get it out of the shallows, which saved Zhu Yuanzhang. 】

[Chen Youliang's army is not a rabble, under their desperate attack, Xu Da's warship was set on fire and burned, and it was besieged by countless Chen troops.

But Xu Da desperately extinguished the raging fire, and still continued to insist on command and fighting.

Thanks to Zhu Yuanzhang's timely dispatch of warships to rescue, coupled with the tenacious defense of Xu Da and others, he finally repelled the enemy army and got rid of the danger. 】

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