Zhu Han witnessed with his own eyes the process of quickly conquering the hearts of the surrendered soldiers from a distance.
My admiration for my elder brother Zhu Yuanzhang could not help but increase by a few percent.
"I just told a story that Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu told him from the bottom of his heart. I just learned it and put it into practice. With this courage, who dares to disapprove?" Zhu Han thought secretly in his heart.
When Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty Liu Xiu started his army, hundreds of thousands of Bronze Horse rebels surrendered after a great victory in the First World War. In order to quickly conquer these surrendered soldiers, Liu Xiu disregarded his own safety and ate, clothed and lived in the surrendered barracks to show his support for the surrendered troops.
Soldier's trust.
Hundreds of thousands of troops who had originally surrendered in panic were immediately moved by Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu's actions.
This is where the saying of speaking from the heart comes from.
What elder brother Zhu Yuanzhang did today can be said to be a perfect copy of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu.
After solving the problem of popular support for surrendering troops, the rebel army immediately embarked on the journey to Chuzhou.
It takes about three days to march from Qingyuan Town to Chuzhou City.
The surrendered troops in Chuzhou were basically included in the rear army and were tasked with transporting baggage. Many of the defeated troops hiding in the mountains and forests also took the initiative to surrender after seeing that the rebels did not kill the prisoners.
On Saturday and September, the young man who had fled for one day ate grass roots for two days in the mountains and forests, and then followed the crowd down the mountain and surrendered.
Zhu Han further integrated these prisoners.
He sent people to select soldiers from among the prisoners to supplement the lost troops.
Saturday Nine, who had just escaped with his life, signed up to join the rebel army without hesitation.
Saturday Nine has experienced life and death twice and is no longer afraid.
He wanted to take revenge on the Tatars, he wanted to find his own children, and he wanted to comfort his wife who died tragically at the hands of the Tatars.
Saturday Jiu clearly remembered that the young deputy marshal of the rebel army, Zhu Han, told him personally.
"Work hard. When Chuzhou is captured in the future and the rebels divide the land according to their merits, you will be able to leave a rich family fortune to your children!"
With Zhu Han's simple words, many low-level people like Saturday and Sunday enthusiastically joined the rebel army.
Chuzhou City.
Alu Hui led three thousand troops and fled back to Chuzhou City day and night.
When they returned to the city, many of their mounts fell dead from exhaustion because they fled all the way.
In this disastrous defeat, Alu Hui suffered heavy losses.
Not only did only more than 3,000 of the 20,000-strong army escape, but his brother Hardy also died tragically on the battlefield.
Therefore, as soon as Aruhui returned to Chuzhou City, he immediately ordered mobilization throughout the city and recruited the soldiers and strong men in the city to prepare to resist the Red Turban Army.
However, due to heavy losses in troops and equipment, the barely cobbled-together combat strength of more than 10,000 people was unable to defend Chuzhou City.
Ahema, the general of the Yuan Army, suggested again: "Sir, it is impossible to defend Chuzhou. It is better to fortify the walls and clear the country. Now that the Jiangnan navy is coming soon, and we have warships, it is better to transport all Chuzhou's materials and population away.
Then burn down Chuzhou City and retreat to Yangzhou or Jiqing without leaving a grain or a hole for the Red Turban Army. By then, the Red Turban Thieves will have no men and no food, and they will definitely retreat in a short time!
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Aru Hui, who was worrying about how to defend Chuzhou City, immediately felt that it made sense.
The Yuan Dynasty was very tolerant towards some Mongolian and Semu generals, and did not care much about the gains and losses of a city or a place.
What's more, according to Ahema's suggestion, the red scarf thieves will not be able to gain a foothold in Chuzhou for a long time, and they will definitely be able to take it back in the future.
"What a great idea! Even if Chuzhou is burned to ruins, I won't leave a single plant or tree behind for the rebels!" Alu Hui said viciously.
Afterwards, Aruhui summoned a group of Han generals in Chuzhou and told them his plan to clear the country and retreat to Yangzhou.
After hearing this, many Han generals were stunned.
Especially when they heard that Alu Hui asked them to force all the people within a thirty-mile radius of Chuzhou City to move away, and those who refused to leave would be massacred, and Chuzhou City would be set on fire, everyone was always opposed.
"Sir, this is absolutely impossible! If the rich land of Chuzhou turns into a piece of white land, how can we get it back in the future?" said a sturdy Han general with a yellow face.
"Guo Jiang, are you going to disobey this Zhongcheng's order?" Aru Hui did not explain, but just said with a sneer.
The Han general named Guo Jiang stopped talking immediately, but the dissatisfied expression on his face remained.
The other Han generals also dared to be angry but dare not speak out.
Since the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty conquered Huainan and Jiangnan, in order to rule the local people of the original Southern Song Dynasty, a large number of Mongolian Yuan, Semu and northern Han people were sent from the north to garrison the area.
After decades of living together, they gradually influenced each other and formed a new relationship network.
Among them, the Semu people hugged the Mongols tightly and acted as the most active lackeys and thugs, while the northern Han people intermarried and interacted with the local Han people and have integrated into the local area.
In the matter of destroying Chuzhou City, the three forces of the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties were completely divided.
Rumors that the Provincial Prime Minister Alu Hui was going to 'kill and burn all of Chuzhou City' immediately spread in Chuzhou City. No matter whether it was the poor people or the rich businessmen and powerful people, everyone was panic-stricken.
Their roots are all in Chuzhou. Once they are burned out and moved elsewhere, they will become fat sheep relying on others.
Especially two days later, when the news came that the vanguard cavalry of the Red Turban Army had appeared thirty miles away in Chuzhou, Aruhui even ordered Semu and the Han generals to step up the implementation of this plan.
These se-eyed people are all from the Western Regions. They all have curly hair and green eyes. They originally oppressed the local Han people and had a lot of hatred between them. Now they are taking this opportunity to plunder and plunder.
The Han generals headed by Guo Jiang had far less say than Ahema and other Semu generals, so they had no choice but to follow orders and prepare firewood, firewood and other things to burn the city.
Many Han villages outside Chuzhou City did not want to burn their homes and move away, so they soon raised a rebellion. Facing these weak Han villages, Ahema led the semen soldiers to suppress and massacre them mercilessly.
Guo Jiang and others couldn't bear it, so they could only do nothing.
Just as Guo Jiang was leading his troops to prepare firewood, grass and oil, a man suddenly came to him quietly.
"Uncle, please go home immediately to discuss important matters!"
Guo Jiang took a look and found out that he was a close servant of his father-in-law, Lu Wendao.
As a well-known local powerful southerner.
The Guo Jiang family and the Lu family have been married for three generations, and they are already extremely close.
Naturally, Guo Jiang did not dare to neglect his father-in-law's invitation and immediately came to the Lu family's residence.
As soon as he entered the Lu family mansion, Guo Jiang immediately noticed something unusual.
In the lobby of the Lu family, there are not only the Lu family members such as his father-in-law Lu Wendao, but also the heads of powerful local families such as the Zhuo family, the Gu family and the Zhang family in Chuzhou.