With a crashing sound.

The students who were about to enter the Imperial Academy took over their swords one after another and handed them to the guards next to them for safekeeping.

Zhao Min had to hand over his family sword.

As a result, Zhao Min was already extremely disappointed.

Without weapons, no matter how close Zhu Han is, there is no way to assassinate him. Not to mention so many tough guards, the battle-hardened Zhu Han will definitely be extremely difficult to deal with.

After all, Zhu Han was the one who killed Emperor Tuohuan Timur of the Yuan Dynasty under the defense of the Imperial Guards of the Yuan Dynasty.

Everyone put down their weapons, and Zhao Min followed the students into the Great Hall of Taixue. The Great Hall of Taixue was the first large-scale building built in Yingtian Mansion after the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

The building materials used in the entire Taixue Hall are all stone.

The height of the Taixue Hall is more than ten steps, and its width is also dozens of steps.

The entire Taixue Hall looks magnificent, like a huge pagoda standing in Yingtian City, Nanjing.

After everyone entered, they found their seats according to the seats on their tickets.

As expected, Zhao Min's seat was very close to the front. Wanhu, who was giving a lecture in front of him, almost spit on the faces of the students in the front row.

The person next to Wanhu is none other than Zhu Han, King of Ying of the Ming Dynasty.

But now Zhao Minzhong does not have a sword, so he can only look at the face of his enemy Wu Wu with hatred, trying to imprint his appearance deeply in his mind.

Until the end of the entire open class, Zhao Min didn't listen to a word of the content of the open class. All he could think about was Zhu Han's somewhat handsome face, which actually lingered in his mind for a long time.

With a deep impression and unforgettable hatred for Zhu Han, Zhao Min left the Taixue University Hall with everyone.

After returning to the inn where he stayed, Zhao Min has been thinking about how to carry out his future assassination revenge plan.

If Zhu Han, the thief, could not be killed, Zhao Min felt that his trip to Nanjing Yingtian Mansion would be a complete failure.

The hatred of the country and the family cannot allow oneself to fail.

When night fell, Zhao Min lay on the bed in the inn, unable to fall asleep for a long time, thinking hard about how to carry out a revenge plan.

Today's experience made Zhao Min know that the possibility of assassinating Zhu Han in a public occasion like Taixue Imperial College is very low. Not to mention so many palace guards, even those students would probably be killed if they saw the assassination.

Will pounce on him and subdue him.

Zhao Min was in the Taixue University Hall today, but he saw that the students admired and even loved King Zhu Han of England.

Hubei, Anzhou.

As the newly established state capital of the Ming Dynasty, this was the frontline base camp for the attack on Chen Youliang.

Outside Anzhou City, more than 100,000 Ming troops were marching forward in order. Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang personally came to the front line and led his soldiers to attack Chen Youliang's remaining forces.

As long as Chen Youliang's remaining forces are driven out of Anzhou, the entire Hubei will fall under the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the Ming army came from afar and was exhausted after a long battle.

Now Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty has personally visited the front line. Although he wants to slightly improve the morale of the soldiers, the war is still at a stalemate for the time being.

Naturally, Chen Youliang was keenly aware of the fatigue of the Ming army.

Taking advantage of the fatigue of the Ming army, Chen Youliang took the opportunity to launch several raids, causing the Ming army in front to panic for a moment.

Especially those soldiers and horses recruited by Huguang, there were even several instances of fleeing from the battlefield.

As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang had to rectify the military law and personally ordered the deserters to be beheaded in public, which stabilized the military morale of these recruits.

Zhu Yuanzhang stood on the top of the city of Anzhou, looking at the warships on the Yangtze River, showing an unhappy expression.

"Now that Chen Youliang occupies the advantageous terrain, which one of you can find a way to break Chen Youliang's defense?" Zhu Yuanzhang said. At this time, he was thinking that if his younger brother Qiwu was here, he would definitely have a way to break Chen Youliang's situation.

"Your Majesty, now that Chen Youliang has the advantage of terrain and has a large number of troops, we can send troops to use wheel warfare to consume his men and food." Hu Dahai, the admiral of the Ming Dynasty, first said.

After the navy led by the Ming Dynasty admiral Hu Dahaiyang entered the Yangtze River, it carried out dimensionality reduction attacks on Chen Youliang's navy. They fought repeatedly and won a complete victory. Chen Youliang's navy was reduced from hundreds of warships to

Only a few dozen damaged warships were defeated and fled to Sichuan in the west.

Therefore, in this Ming Dynasty's Western Expedition, Hu Dahai's contribution can be said to be ranked first. His words are naturally full of weight, and the wheel battle can also fully demonstrate the quality of the Ming army's soldiers and sufficient food.

Advantage.

"This method is good, but now we think we should be more cruel to this guy Chen Youliang. If there is a wheel battle, will he also have a chance to recuperate?" Zhu Yuanzhang said.

When everyone heard that Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang was not very satisfied with Hu Dahai's wheel plan, they immediately put forward their own suggestions to the Ming Emperor.

"Your Majesty, General I have a way. We can send out elite soldiers to get behind Chen Youliang from the mountainous area, and then launch a surprise attack when they are not prepared. As long as they cut off the enemy's retreat and destroy their food and grass supply lines, Chen Youliang's men

This 50,000-strong army will have to retreat if it is not to be completely destroyed." As the infantry commander of the Ming Dynasty's Western Expedition, Zhang Dingbian immediately stepped forward and said.

"Hahaha, yes, yes, this is a good idea." Brother Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Zhang Dingbian, if I leave this matter to you, can you be somewhat sure of winning?"

Upon hearing the inquiry from Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhang Dingbian said without hesitation:

"Your Majesty is willing to personally lead his troops and launch a surprise attack around Chen Youliang's back."

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Suddenly everyone praised Zhang Dingbian's heroic and fearless behavior.

Zhu Yuanzhang was also very happy. He walked up to Zhang Dingbian and patted his shoulder, saying: "Very good. No wonder Qiwu often told me that as long as I fight against Chen Youliang, I must give you a chance. It seems that you are so good

His courage is not inferior to that of Zhao Zilong who was full of courage."

Hearing that Zhu Yuanzhang said that he was Zhao Zilong, Zhang Dingbian was very happy and said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, the general will not disappoint your Majesty and the King of England!"

Zhang Dingbian personally led three thousand elite troops.

From outside Anzhou City, we followed the mountain road to the rear flank of Chen Youliang's army.

At the same time, Chen Youliang's army was not very happy because it had temporarily blocked the attack of the Ming army. Many soldiers were very absent-minded.

Many soldiers even tried to escape and join the Ming army. The reason made Chen Youliang very worried.

"Your Majesty, now the army sergeants are spreading rumors that the army is allocating land to local tyrants in Hubei, and the poor people have been allocated a lot of fertile land. Many soldiers in the army have heard that their families have been allocated fertile land, and now they are not interested in fighting.

, and even many guys secretly want to escape." Zou Pusheng, the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty, said worriedly.

Emperor Chen Youliang of the Han Dynasty also had a sad look on his face.

Not long ago, some Ming soldiers were captured during a battle with the Ming army. They were all natives of Hubei, and many of them were Chen Youliang's old troops.

From these people, we learned that after the Ming Dynasty army entered Hubei, they immediately carried out a campaign to allocate land to local tyrants. The Red Scarf Army soldiers were basically from poor backgrounds, so they were naturally allocated a lot of land and lived a stable life with land and houses.

As a result... Chen Youliang's soldiers can no longer remain calm.

You must know that they joined the Red Turban Army just to kill the Tatars and live a good life.

Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty's army is conquering the local tyrants in Hubei to divide their land, and everyone is living a good life. So what motivation do they have to continue fighting? They might as well put down their weapons and go back to their hometown to live a stable life.

There have even been secret rumors among Chen Youliang's army that if they win the battle against the Ming army, their families in Hubei will lose the land they just received. If they lose, as long as they don't lose their lives, they can return to their hometown to farm in the future.

Live life.

Chen Youliang relied on his military talents to temporarily stabilize the confrontation.

But the morale in the army plummeted, which made him extremely anxious.

"Hmph! He Zhu Chongba can conquer the local tyrants and divide his land, can't I?"

Chen Youliang suddenly felt something in his heart.

Zou Pusheng, the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty, who was standing aside, was also impressed, "Your Majesty, do you mean that you also want to learn from the Ming army's strategy?"

Chen Youliang nodded and said: "Yes, since all the soldiers in the army want farmland, then it should be allocated to them. I heard that Zhu Chongba allocated fifteen acres of farmland to each Hubei people?"

Zou Pusheng said quickly: "Your Majesty is right. The Ming thieves wantonly buy people's hearts. Everyone has fifteen acres of fertile land, regardless of gender, age or child."

Chen Youliang stroked his short beard and said with a smile: "Zhu Chongba is too stingy. If this is better, I will give each of the people in Huguang 30 acres of land, twice as much as Zhu Chongba!"

If Chen Youliang wants to counterattack Huguang, he must boost his morale. Now he is trying to make a bigger pie anyway, so he might as well make it bigger.

After Zou Pusheng heard this, he nodded in agreement, "Your Majesty is right, this will definitely boost the morale of the soldiers!"

Later, Chen Youliang discussed with Zou Pusheng how to use this incident to boost morale!

As Han soldiers, their treatment was naturally higher, with a policy of sixty acres of fertile land per person.

As soon as this news came out, the originally low morale immediately improved a lot.

Everyone in the Han army looked forward to fighting back to Hubei and living a good life as a master.

However, the pie painted by Chen Youliang cannot fool everyone.

Many knowledgeable soldiers made some calculations and immediately realized that something was wrong. With this high land allocation, they would have to kill all the wealthy landowners in Hubei.

However, it is obviously impossible to kill all the wealthy landowners. On the contrary, the fifteen acres of land owned by the Ming army is more reliable.

The discussion among the Han army about "attacking the local tyrants and dividing their fields" became increasingly heated.

Although some people questioned whether it could be achieved, most of the soldiers were very happy.

At this time, a surprise attack interrupted the Han soldiers' beautiful dream of "killing the local tyrants and dividing their fields."

As night fell, in the mountains outside the Han army camp, Zhang Dingbian, the general of the Ming Dynasty who conquered the west, led three thousand elites and was ready.

"General, the enemy's sentry in front has been eliminated by us!" A Ming army member from Qianhu came up to report.

Zhang Dingbian nodded with satisfaction, then waved his hand, "Everyone put on Han military uniforms and approach quietly!"
To be continued...