"Smack." The gorgeous wine glass fell to the ground, and a middle-aged man with a sturdy figure and a long beard, like a rich squire, sat on the luxurious dragon chair.

There were delicacies in front of him, and a group of beautiful women dressed in light veils, shivering on the side, and it could be seen that he was enjoying the song and dance, but at this time, his attention was all on the kneeling attendant in front of him.

This place is Gusu City, Wu Wangfu.

"Impossible, didn't Zhu Wenzheng surrender...... How could it be...... Zhu Yuanzhang, can he endure such behavior? That's an army of 100,000! No way! Zhang Shicheng shook his head, with a little disbelief in his voice:

"Say! Where did you get this news from? If hearsay disturbs Lone's military heart, Lone wants your head! He stood up, drew his sword from his waist with a brush, and took a few steps around the neck of his attendant, cutting off his head if the other man did not agree with him.

The attendant was so frightened that tears came out, and he hurriedly said, "Your Highness, this matter is true! It was said by the sergeant who fled back from Quzhou. According to him, our army fell into the tricks of the thieves, most of the soldiers were burned to death in the city, and the rest were defeated by the thieves' cavalry and infantry, and almost no one escaped! ”

Seeing Zhang Shicheng staring at a pair of red eyes with a suspicious expression, the attendant hurriedly said: "Your Highness, that person is outside the palace, you can summon him to inquire in person." ”

Zhang Shicheng closed his eyes, as if he was forcing himself to accept this reality.

"Xuan!"

This person looked very embarrassed, and the leather armor on his body had long been thrown away, but there was still a broken hood on his head. I don't know where the quiver on the back has gone, but the bow is still lying crookedly on the body, which is more and more disobedient.

But this is also normal, after all, the heavy armor and weapons are simply a burden for the soldiers who flee. From his appearance, Zhang Shicheng could already imagine how miserable his army was defeated in the big war at that time.

At the beginning of the rout, due to the obstruction of night, nearly 100 Eastern Wu soldiers successfully escaped from the encirclement, but there were not even ten soldiers who fled all the way from Quzhou to Zhuquan, and most of the soldiers were basically directly hidden in the countryside.

Zhang Shicheng asked a few words, and saw that he answered fluently and logically, so he knew that the other party was not lying, and the reason that he had comforted himself that "it was the enemy army spreading rumors" was refuted, and he suddenly felt that the sky was spinning, and the whole person fell directly to the ground, and the attendants around him hurriedly rushed over, shouting "Your Highness, Your Highness", and helped him up.

However, he still stared at a certain part of the hall in a daze, looking incredulous, and seemed to have lost the ability to think for a while.

This can't blame Zhang Shicheng for his huge reaction, after all, with 100,000 soldiers and horses, Dongwu has not suffered such a big loss.

Eastern Wu has indeed been beaten by Western Wu over the years, and it has indeed lost quite a lot of military horses, but more, it is "defeated", and after retreating, it can collect the rout, in fact, it can recover some strength, after all, Eastern Wu is fighting an offensive war, and the main force of Western Wu is not there, even if he wins, he can not continue to expand the results of the battle with limited troops and his own responsibility to defend the city.

However, this time it was different, according to the soldier's description, the result of the battle of Quzhou was "total annihilation", which means that he could not recover any of the 100,000 troops, and the whereabouts of the powerful general are still unknown.

The serious consequence of this is that there is now a clear vacuum in Soochow's military strength in the south.

In the southern region of Dongwu Kingdom, that is, in the north of Zhejiang, from the ancient city of Hangzhou upwards, there are even less than 10,000 troops left, this army, not to mention Zhu Yuanzhang, is that Fang Guozhen wants to make a profit, it is also an easy matter.

"Fortunately, all of them are still there. I remember that Lu Zhen didn't leave five thousand soldiers there? In the past, our army of 600,000 was still unable to conquer, and now Zhu Yuanzhang only has more than 70,000 people, so he must not be able to conquer it. When I transfer the troops of Gusu, I can threaten Jiangxi again! Zhang Shicheng suddenly seemed to remember something, as if he had grasped a life-saving straw.

Yes, Quzhou itself is not a strategic point that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, compared to Zhuquan was repaired extremely strong by Western Wu, although Quzhou is an ancient city, its city defense is actually like that, as long as the troops of Gusu go south, it can still pose a great threat to Quzhou and Zhu Yuanzhang's abdomen.

However, the squire's words shattered his illusions.

"Your Highness, just after the defeat of our army, the thief army put on the armor of our army and raised the banner to ...... With General Lu as the vanguard, he deceived the city gate...... All the cities have been lost......"

Zhang Shicheng only felt that a basin of cold water was poured on his head, and the hope that had just been ignited was once again extinguished, and this contrast was extremely uncomfortable.

"Lu Zhen! This puff! He dared to betray me," Zhang Shicheng at this time could only use anger to cover up his fear.

"Lu Zhen, where are his relatives? Jail me all! He roared as he swept the contents of the desk to the ground.

After venting for a while, he collapsed back on his throne.

Finished.

Zhu Yuanzhang will not let go of this opportunity.

Northern Zhejiang, lost.

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Zhang Shicheng guessed correctly, Zhu Yuanzhang would not let go of this good opportunity.

It's just that his ambition is greater than Zhang Shicheng thinks.

The annihilation of the 100,000 army of Eastern Wu opened the last step of Zhu Yuanzhang's pacification of the southeast, and before that, he had defeated Zhang Shicheng again, more than 500 warships were almost all gone, and countless people were drowned, and then captured Taizhou, Tongzhou, Gaoyou, Huai'an, and Huaibei fell into the hands of Western Wu.

In the twenty-sixth year of Zheng, Zhu Yuanzhang sacrificed to the god of Jiang, with Xu Da as the general, Chang Yuchun as the deputy general, and 200,000 soldiers to attack Zhang Shicheng for the north road.

Zhu Wenzhong commanded an army of 50,000 troops, attacked Hangzhou from Quzhou, and went north to destroy Wu, which was the southern road.

From August to November, the battle of Huzhou, the Eastern Wu army was defeated, Sikong Li Bosheng and 60,000 elite soldiers, more than ten generals, and even Zhang Shicheng's fifth son were all captured, in the same month, Zhu Wenzhong led his troops to approach Yuhang, and the guard general Xie Wu (Xie Zaixing's younger brother) surrendered in Kaicheng, and then in less than half a month, the entire northern Zhejiang surrendered.

In September, in the water battle of Dongqian Town, the Eastern Wu army was defeated again, and more than 2,000 people were captured.

In the same month, the Eastern Wu army was often burned in the spring, and it was defeated, and "the military equipment was exhausted at one time".

In November, Xu Da defeated the Eastern Wu army under the city of Gusu, burned more than 1,000 of its warships, and a large number of Eastern Wu troops either died or surrendered, and at this time, Zhang Shicheng was desperate to find that his capital Gusu had become a complete lonely city, and there was no longer a "Zhang" banner within a radius of thousands of miles.

And just when Zhang Shicheng relied on Gusu to carry out the last trapped beast fight, Zhu Yuanzhang set his sights on another prince of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and he was already planning to recover the entire Jiangnan.

This person is an old acquaintance of Yan Ling, who is entrenched in eastern Zhejiang, with Qingyuan as his base camp, and Yan Ling.

At this time, it has been ten years since he seized eastern Zhejiang.

Now he has tens of thousands of troops, occupying the land of Qingyuan, Wenzhou, and Taizhou, although he is not a big prince, but he should not be underestimated.

However, Fang Guozhen is not honest, he has actually paid tribute to Zhu Yuanzhang with gold and silver to express his submission, but when Zhu Yuanzhang really sent officials over, this guy turned his face and refused to admit it.

Zhu Yuanzhang's patience with him reached the limit, and he decided to solve it by force.

But before that, he decided to ask someone who knew him well.