In the fourth year of Jianwen, in May of this year, Zhu Di was ready to march into Sizhou, Sizhou is now Huai'an, Jiangsu Xuyi and Suqian, Jiangsu Sihong area, friends who know geography should know that it is not far from Nanjing, there is a famous river not far from Sizhou--- Huai River, we know that geographers regard the Qinling Mountains and Huai River between the Yangtze River and the Yellow River as a north-south dividing line in eastern China. In other words, as long as the Huai River is crossed, it can basically be said that it has entered Nanjing and completely defeated Zhu Yunwen.

At this time, Emperor Jianwen no longer had the heart to go to Xu Miaojin Qingqing and me, at this time of life and death, he had to do something, since he had already figured out that he could not negotiate peace, he had to fight. Immediately ordered the general Sheng Yong to meet the enemy, Sheng Yong had defeated the king of Yan many times before this, and even Zhu Yunwen gave him the official position of general Pingyan, and now Sheng Yong and Zhu Di are going to meet again, Sheng Yong's approach is to camp the army on the south bank of the Huai River on the edge of Sizhou City, cavalry and infantry add up to tens of thousands, and thousands of warships, just on the south bank of the Huai River waiting for the rabbit, quietly waiting for Zhu Di's arrival, thinking of catching them all.

Zhu Di came to the north bank of the Huai River, and when he saw the posture on the south bank, he immediately realized that he couldn't beat it at all, even if he barely fought it, it was a miserable victory, and he also knew that there were famous generals like Sheng Yong, and it was impossible to attack hard, so he returned to the camp and thought about it and thought of a good way. In the dark, Zhu Di found some small boats and bamboo rafts, raised flags and shouted, made noise and thunder, and pretended to cross the Huai River by force, and in the dark, Zhu Di sent his henchmen Zhu Neng and Qiu Fu to lead light cavalry to the west, quietly cross the Huai River in a place where the army led by Sheng Yong could not see, and then carry out a sneak attack.

Just when Sheng Yong was concentrating on dealing with those small boats and bamboo rafts, a sword suddenly came behind him, an extremely sharp sword, that is, the elite light cavalry of the Yan army led by Zhu Neng Qiufu, which was fiercely inserted into the heart of Sheng Yong's army, and there was no chance to resist, and the officers and soldiers of Sheng Yong's army immediately abandoned their armor and fled in all directions. At this time, Sheng Yong was also stunned, he couldn't think of how this group of people came over, time would not give him too much, and it was impossible for him to figure it out. What does this sentence mean, that is, Sheng Yong's thighs trembled, and he could no longer ride a horse, and his subordinates helped him onto a boat, and then escaped. After Sheng Yong's escape, the army was in chaos, and he had no intention of fighting again, although Sheng Yong escaped with his life, but all his ships were confiscated by Zhu Di, and Zhu Di used these thousands of warships to send his Yan army to the south bank of the Huai River, and in the afternoon, the Yan army had captured Sizhou.

After the capture of Sizhou, taking advantage of the great morale of the army, Zhu Di immediately convened his own military generals to discuss how to attack Nanjing, some people proposed to go from Fengyang, some people proposed to go from Huai'an, all of them were vetoed by Zhu Di, although from the overall situation, Emperor Jianwen seems to have been in a weak position, but the defenders of these two cities are still very powerful, one is the governor of Fengyang Tongzhi Sun Yue, and the other is the horse commander Mei Yin who is sticking to Huai'an. Sun Yue began to defend himself from the time when Zhu Di began to suffer, in order to resist Zhu Di's arrival made sufficient preparations, another Mei Yin, he married Zhu Yuanzhang's second daughter Princess Ningguo, served as the captain of the horse, and was crowned the Duke of Rongguo. received Zhu Yuanzhang's edict and was ordered to protect Zhu Yunwen, to a certain extent, Mei Yin is the real minister, but Zhu Yunwen was unwilling to reuse Mei Yin, until the third year of Jianwen, Zhu Di turned the north upside down, Zhu Yunwen remembered that he also had an uncle Mei Yin who could be reused, and then ordered Mei Yin to guard Huai'an.

When Jianwen was four years old, Zhu Di had been marching south non-stop, but most of the people in the court were not Yan Wang's opponents at all, they were all grass on the wall, and they were in a wait-and-see state, and they didn't dare to take the initiative to write and say how I could defeat Zhu Di, which forced Zhu Yunwen to recruit militia, although it was claimed that there were 400,000, but there should not be so many. Zhu Yunwen's strategy is very smart, because the fastest way to get from Beiping to Nanjing is to take the line of Dezhou, Jinan and Huai'an in Shandong and Jiangsu, so Zhu Yunwen arranged Sheng Yong in Dezhou, Tie Xuan in Jinan, and Mei Yin in Huai'an, and now only Mei Yin has not fought with Zhu Di, and the opportunity has come, Mei Yin is going to start a decisive battle with Zhu Di with an army of 400,000.

In fact, after the Battle of Lingbi, Zhu Di thought about going to Nanjing from Huai'an, so he sent a messenger to Mei Yin, saying that he wanted to give Zhu Yuanzhang incense, but Mei Yin refused, on the grounds that Zhu Yuanzhang himself said that anyone who came to Nanjing to incense was unfilial. Mei Yin used Emperor Gao's edict to expose Zhu Di's lies, and Zhu Di was very angry after receiving the letter, and immediately told the truth. "Today's soldiers eliminate the evil on the king's side, and the destiny of heaven is returned, and no one can stop it." It means that I am on the side of the Qing Jun today, it is the mandate of heaven, and I don't think it can be stopped. When Mei Yin saw this, he cut off the nose and ears of the messenger, and said to the messenger, "I have spared your life for the sake of the righteousness of Your Highness." Zhu Di was very angry when he heard this, but he was helpless.

Back to the main line of the story, it is not appropriate to go to Nanjing by any road, the military posture of Fengyang and Huai'an cannot be as Zhu Di thinks, so he can only choose another road, starting from Sizhou, crossing the Huai River and going straight to Yangzhou; At the same time, he sent his subordinate Wu Yu to Wang Li, the commander of Yangzhou Wei, to send a surrender edict. Yangzhou's Wang Li and Wang Zongben were not a good thing, they heard that the Yan army was coming to Yangzhou, so they murdered Wang Bin, the resolute main battle, and the commander Chonggang, opened the gate of Yangzhou to welcome the Yan army into the city.

On the first day of June in the fourth year of Jianwen, the Yan army attacked the north gate of Nanjing - Puzikou, Puzikou is today's Pukou District, this place is opposite to Xiaguan across the river, as long as it enters Pukou, the gate of Nanjing is opened, at this time Emperor Jianwen is surrounded by Wenchen who talks about it, there is no military general to guard, in desperation, he re-activated Sheng Yong who fled back from the Huai River. This time, Zhu Di did not use any strategy, directly attacked, although Sheng Yong had been on the battlefield for a long time and was extremely brave, but he could not resist the Yan army's madman-like play, and finally Nanjing City was completely exposed to the eyes of the Yan army.

After the defeat of the Battle of Pukou, Emperor Jianwen decided to let Chen Xuan, the governor in charge of the Yangtze River Naval Division, hurry to aid Sheng Yong, Emperor Jianwen thought that the Yangtze River moat and the Yan army confronted, and the Yan army would not win too easily, but what he didn't expect was that Chen Xuan did not carry out Emperor Jianwen's order, but ran to the Yan army and surrendered to Zhu Di. At this time, Zhu Yunwen was already isolated, and on June 13, the fourth year of Jianwen, Zhu Di launched a general attack, and Zhu Lu and Li Jinglong, the king of the valley who guarded the Jinchuan Gate, took advantage of their positions to open the city gate and let the Yan army enter Nanjing.

Since then, Nanjing can no longer be said to be in the hands of Zhu Yunwen.

The Beijing division was broken, the Yan army entered the city of Nanjing, Zhu Yunwen's subordinates struggled to resist, in a scuffle, Nanjing City suddenly caught fire, after the fire was extinguished, several charred wreckage was found, unrecognizable, and at the same time could not find a trace of Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Di looked at these corpses for a long, long time, and never said a word, according to the eunuch, they were the bodies of the emperor, the empress and his eldest son Zhu Wenkui, even if Zhu Di did not believe it, there was no way, and now the question is not whether there is Zhu Yunwen in these unrecognizable wreckage, It is the most important question of how to deal with the throne.