As for Bian Huan, who was the protagonist of this matter, his face turned red because he had a rough understanding of Sun Jian's strength through the previous confrontation.
If he tried with all his strength, he wouldn't be able to hold on for long, so he immediately looked at Sun Jian to thank him.
After this episode, Qian Daoji became more confident in reusing Sun Jian, so he publicly consecrated Sun Jian as an assistant army commander and wrote a memorial to the court.
The official position of Commander-in-Chief of the Army is an official subordinate to the general of the Han Zhonglang. It is not too big to say it is big, but it is not too small to say that it is small. It all depends on whether the general of the Zhonglang trusts him.
But even so, Sun Jian was deeply moved by it. After all, he was a Sima, and he was already the largest officer under the captain. He was much larger than the normal military Sima in the army!
With the addition of Sun Jian, Qian Daoji was in a good mood, because he discovered that Sun Jian was not only highly skilled in martial arts, but his talent in the art of war was no less than his.
Because of this, out of love for talents, Qian Daoji taught Sun Jian some military tactics to help him grow faster and help him resist the Yellow Turbans in the future.
Yangzhou has a total of six counties and ninety-two counties under its jurisdiction, and Zhang Shicheng has already captured one and a half counties, totaling twenty-four counties, which is already a quarter of Yangzhou's land.
It's not that the Han army is too incompetent, but that Zhang Shicheng's men can fight too much. Zhang Shide, Lu Ju, and Zhang Shicheng himself naturally make the Han army look unbearable.
However, it is not easy for Zhang Shicheng to continue to expand his victory, because Yangzhou is really too big, and with Zhang Shicheng's current manpower, he simply cannot control too many places.
This is also the reason why Su Zhe did not focus on Yangzhou. He could win it, but he might not be able to hold it. After all, the power of the Jiangdong gentry was not that great.
However, now that the war has been fought, it is no longer possible to just stop at this point.
He could also see that as long as Qian Daoji, the leader of the Yangzhou Han Army, was defeated by his Yellow Turban army, the morale of the Yangzhou Han Army would be greatly affected.
Therefore, Zhang Shicheng summoned the generals to discuss strategies to defeat the enemy.
After some discussion, his military advisor Zhang Bianhe gave him a strategy, which was to lead the army directly to Shouchun. As long as Qian Daoji's flag fell, the backbone of the Han army in Yangzhou would completely collapse.
Moreover, attacking Shouchun can also attract the governors from various places to send troops to rescue them. When the time comes, they can take the opportunity to eliminate these reinforcements and further disintegrate the strength of the Han army in Yangzhou.
After hearing Zhang Bianhe's plan, Zhang Shicheng laughed immediately and publicly praised Zhang Bianhe for keeping Zhang Liang alive, which made the latter immediately overjoyed.
After arranging everything, Zhang Shicheng held a swearing-in meeting the next day and ordered General Zhang Shide to be the leading general, Jin Boring's invincible general Lu Gu to be the vanguard general, Lu Yong, Lu Meng, Lu Xiang and others to be the subordinate generals, commanding an army of 150,000 people.
, the place where troops are sent to live in spring.
The war is about to break out.
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Not only Yangzhou, but also the nearby Yuzhou area was also in flames of war at this time.
As the most populous state in the Central Plains of the Han Dynasty, from the Yellow Turban Uprising to this time, only one Yingchuan County in Yuzhou is still in the hands of the Han army.
However, as the Yellow Turban Army has more and more soldiers, and they have famous generals like Zhu Yuanzhang and Yun Ji, in these few months, the remaining soldiers are enough to be called soldiers from hundreds of battles.
The Han army was also uncomfortable. Although Liu Hong continued to recruit troops from various places to supplement the bandit-killing armies, they still seemed a bit unbearable in front of the massive Yellow Turban Army.
Yingchuan County has a total of seventeen counties, and now only nine counties are actually in the hands of the Han army, namely: Changshe, Yangzhai, Kunyang, Wuyang, Yingyin, Xuxian, Yangcheng, Yingyang, and Xiangcheng.
The distance between these cities is not very far. Once changes occur, the Han army can immediately mobilize troops to support them, so they have remained.
However, with the appearance of a person, this deadlock completely changed.
This person is Xu Da.
Xu Da, a native of Zhongli County, Haozhou, was from the same hometown as Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty. He was born in a peasant family. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when the world was in complete chaos, he joined the uprising army led by Zhu Yuanzhang and became one of the twenty-four generals of Huaixi.
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He was brave and resourceful throughout his life, and made outstanding achievements in military exploits and border construction. He was praised as the "Great Wall" by Zhu Yuanzhang.
He spoke less and thought deeply. In the army, military orders would not be changed once they were issued. The generals who obeyed Xu Da's military orders were awe-inspiring, but he was respectful and cautious in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, as if he did not dare to speak.
Because of this, Zhu Yuanzhang trusted Xu Da very much.
What Xu Da is best at is appeasing his soldiers and sharing the joys and sorrows with his subordinates. Because of this, the soldiers are all grateful for his kindness and are willing to do their best to repay him.
Therefore, wherever the front of Xu Da's army points, it can defeat the enemy and win.
Not only that, he could also strictly control his troops and conquered two major cities, three provincial capitals, and more than a hundred prefectures and counties. The markets were safe and the people were not suffering from the war.
During the peasant uprising, Xu Da, as Zhu Yuanzhang's number one general, fought in the south of the Yangtze River many times. First, he followed Zhu Yuanzhang in his southern expedition, taking Chuzhou, Hezhou and other places.
In the 16th year of the Yuan Dynasty (1356), Zhu Yuanzhang captured Jiqing (today's Nanjing), was appointed as a general, and led his army to Zhenjiang.
The following year (1357), he conquered Changzhou, Changshu, Jiangyin and other places.
In May of the 20th year of Zhizheng (1360), he and Chang Yuchun set up an ambush at the foot of Jiuhua Mountain and defeated Chen Youliang's army.
The following year, he took Jiangzhou and pursued Chen Youliang to Hanyang.
In the 23rd year of Zhizheng (1363), Zhu Yuanzhang assisted Anfeng (now Shouxian County, Anhui) and defeated Zhang Shicheng's general Lu Zhen.
Soon after, he helped Zhu Yuanzhang win the battle of Poyang Lake and killed Chen Youliang.
In the twenty-fourth year of Zhizheng (1364), he and Chang Yuchun and others eliminated Chen Youliang's remaining troops and occupied all the land in Huxiang.
In the twenty-seventh year of Zhengzheng (1367), he led his generals to defeat Zhang Shicheng completely.
After unifying Jiangnan, Xu Da began to lead the Northern Expedition. In the first year of Hongwu, he marched from Shandong to Henan and captured Bianliang.
After that, it took just over four months to defeat the 50,000 Yuan army led by Tuo Yintemur in one fell swoop at Ta'er Bay, forcing Yuan Liang King Alu Wen to surrender in Luoyang.
Later, Xu Da and his troops captured the Song, Xu, Chen, and Ru prefectures during the Spring Division, and asked Tongguan guards Li Siqi and Zhang Sidao to flee upon hearing the news. Xu Da and other generals sent troops to Tongguan and marched westward to occupy Huazhou.
In this way, the Northern Expedition army marched forward with great success, winning every battle wherever they went. Finally, in August of the same year, they conquered most of the capital and overthrew the Yuan Dynasty, which had ruled the Han people for nearly a hundred years.
After that, Xu Da still carried out several Northern Expeditions. First, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty of Hongwu, Xu Da used the strategy of criticizing the strong and suppressing the weak to defeat the Yuan general Timur, and took advantage of the victory to capture Shanxi and Qinlong.
In the second year of Hongwu (1369), Shaanxi was pacified again.
In the spring of the third year of Hongwu (1370), he was appointed as a general and defeated Timur again in Dingxi.
The following year (1371), he went to Peking to train troops and farm.
In the fifth year of Hongwu (1372), General Li Wenzhong, Feng Sheng and other generals led by General Li Wenzhong were sent to conquer the Northern Yuan army. Later, because they underestimated the enemy and advanced rashly, they were ambushed by the Northern Yuan general Wang Baobao and suffered heavy losses.
This was the only defeat in Xu Da's military career.
But even so, it cannot conceal his military brilliance.
Even Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, praised Xu Da in this way: "The general's courage is unparalleled, so he can curb chaos and defeat the heroes."
"He goes out after orders, succeeds and spins, is neither jealous nor aggressive, loves no women, takes no treasure, is upright and flawless, is as bright as the sun and moon, and is just a general."
"He defeated the barbarians and suppressed the barbarians. He was the first person in history and modern times to achieve great achievements. He became a general and became a prime minister. His talents in both civil and military affairs were unparalleled in the world."
It can be said that Xu Da not only completed the Northern Expedition that Yue Fei failed to complete, but he was also an all-round talent with both civil and military skills.
Some people may ask how Xu Da came out.
In fact, the truth is very simple, he is the character brought out by Zhu Yuanzhang.
When Wang Yu first came to the Eastern Han Dynasty, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a big wave of checks and balances in the system. A total of 100 people came out to check and balance, and Xu Da was one of them.
However, precisely because Xu Da is a carrying figure, his five-dimensional attributes have not reached their peak yet, but even so, they are not comparable to the current Yingchuan Han Army.
Xu Da is still an unknown person and is not famous among the Yellow Turban Army. This was specially arranged by Zhu Yuanzhang, just to defeat this king at the critical moment.
Not to mention, the effect is really good.
The generals in the Han army did not know Xu Da very well, so naturally they could not see the depth of his plan.
You know, in order to complete this seemingly flawed plan, Yun Ji, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Yuanzhang's counselor Zhu Sheng were all involved.
Especially Zhu Sheng, this is a silver level counselor.
Zhu Sheng, courtesy name Yun Sheng, was born in Xiuning, Anhui Province. He was a strategist, writer, calligrapher, politician, Taoist, counselor in the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and a scholar in the Imperial Academy.
Since childhood, Zhu Sheng was extremely intelligent and studied hard. He studied under Chen Yue, Huang Ze and other famous Confucian scholars at that time.
He even ranked second in the provincial tribute scholarships of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. He did not serve in the official position because of a family bereavement and filial piety.
Later, he was awarded the post of Chizhou Lu, the Confucian scholar, by the Yuan Dynasty, and he took up the post two years later.
Later, due to civil strife in the Yuan Dynasty, the people were displaced, so he chose to live in seclusion and give lectures. It was not until he was fifty-nine years old that he met Deng Yu, a general under Zhu Yuanzhang's command, through Zhang Si, who was guarding Xiuning. After his recommendation, he was summoned by Zhu Yuanzhang.
Therefore, Zhu Sheng went to Yingtian Mansion, which is today's Nanjing, and began to develop the nine-character strategy of building high walls, accumulating grain, and slowly becoming king. This became famous.
When Zhu Yuanzhang was proclaimed King of Wu, Zhu was promoted to a bachelor of Hanlin and published "Ode to He Ping Zhejiang". He relied on the Confucian theory of expelling barbarians to defend Zhu Yuanzhang's military action against the two Zhejiang provinces, calling it "driving out the barbarians and restoring the saints."
In the domain, the left gusset was transformed into clothing, and the merit of reinvention was great. Since the creation of the empire, the rise of emperors has never been more prosperous!"
It was precisely because of this theory that the Wu army officers and soldiers were united and determined to fight against the outside world and must first settle down at home, and then carry out the Northern Expedition.
However, Zhu Sheng understood the principle of retiring after success. In the second year of Hongwu, he chose to resign and retire. He died of illness at home the next year, and he could be regarded as enjoying his old age.
There is no doubt about Zhu Sheng's ability, and his basic intelligence reached 98 points. Under the planning of him, Zhu Yuanzhang, and Yun Ji, he successfully crossed the sea and attracted reinforcements from the Han army.
Xu Da's strategy this time was naturally to besiege Wei and rescue Zhao, and the place he besieged was the Changshe area, because the man stationed there was the Han army general Zhu Jun.
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Yingchuan County, Wuyang County!
Due to Xu Da's strategy, there were only more than a thousand troops left in the city, and most of the troops were taken away by the garrison to support Changshe.
Precisely because most of the people in the city were taken away by the defenders, the Yellow Turban Army was given a rare opportunity. The Taiping Guard spies in the city immediately opened the city gate at night.
The city gate opened by the Taiping Guard spies was the south gate, and the man stationed here was the Han general Zhao Zhi. This man was a retainer of the Yuan family and was quite skilled in martial arts.
Seeing that the south gate suddenly opened and a large number of Yellow Turban troops entered the city, causing some chaos to Wuyang City, Zhao Zhi immediately led his army of guards to block the gate and vowed to drive out the Yellow Turban troops who entered the city.
However, facing the long-planned Yellow Turban army, it was obviously not that easy for him to complete this operation.
"Quickly, drive out the Yellow Turbans. Once these moth thieves enter the city, all our officers and soldiers will die without a burial place!" Zhao Zhi shouted anxiously.
"Haha, I am self-aware, but since I have already come in, it is impossible to let me out again."
Just when Zhao Zhi made a speech to boost the morale of the Han army, there was a sound of ridicule. The person who came was none other than the Yellow Turban General Tang He.
After saying this, Tang He immediately drew his gun and shot towards Zhao Zhi, but before he could get up to kill him, he was stopped by a young man halfway up the road.
"Uncle Tang, there is no need for such a nobody to take action personally. Just leave it to my nephew, keep a few hammers and then send him back to the west." The young man said confidently.
When Tang He heard this, the corners of his mouth twitched involuntarily, and he smiled helplessly and cursed: "You brat, you are trying to take the credit from your uncle here, so that's fine, I'll leave it to you."
"Thank you very much, uncle."
After receiving Tang He's promise, the young man was overjoyed. Then he raised his head to the sky and let out a long roar, saying: "I am the adopted son of Deputy Governor Zhu of Yuzhou, and I am also the Golden Hammer General Zhu Muying. The enemy general...suffer death."
After Zhu Muying let out a long roar to cheer himself up, he immediately urged the war horse under his crotch to run towards Zhao Zhi. At the same time, he held a drum-beating golden hammer in each hand, and the two hammers kept dancing in his hands.
If you touch it, you will be disabled; if you touch it, you will die.
Under Zhao Zhi's order, many Han soldiers came to stop him along the way, but with their strength, as soon as they got close to Zhu Muying's horse, they would be smashed away immediately.
Under this huge force, even the people behind them were injured and suffered immeasurable disasters. With such a performance of combat power, it was impossible to stop Zhu Muying, even if it was only for a quarter of an hour. Like The Summoning of the End of Han Dynasty: Invincible World
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