Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 640 The Great Battle of the Central Plains (End)
Chapter 638: The Great Battle of the Central Plains (End)
After Lu Bu arrived with reinforcements from Jingzhou, Liu Dai had an absolute advantage in military strength. After all, he had Baiyue mercenaries to help him.

However, success is also a hundred more, and failure is also a hundred more.

Liu Dai relied on Baiyue to persevere until Lu Bu arrived, but also lost the entire Jiaozhou because of Baiyue.

In order to defend Jiaozhou, Liu Dai promised Baiyue a lot of benefits, and with the arrival of the famous general Lu Bu, Liu Dai also gained some confidence.

Liu Dai thought that even if he did not rely on Baiyue, he and Lu Bu could still defeat Hong Xiuquan, so in order to recover some of the losses, he prepared to return the Baiyue mercenaries.

Just go back, after all, Baiyue made a lot of money this trip down the mountain.

Liu Dai complied with the agreement and handed over the promised supplies and money to the Baiyue mercenaries.

But who knew that Liu Dai's subordinates had deducted the property, and the Baiyue mercenaries were furious when they found out that the number was wrong. In addition to Hong Xiuquan's deliberate provocation, the two sides finally fought each other.

Liu Dai beheaded the officer who was deducted from the beginning, but he didn't expect things to evolve to this point, and he regretted it in his heart.

In order to prevent Hong Xiuquan from taking advantage, Liu Dai decided to unite with Lu Bu to suppress the 'rebellion' of the Baiyue mercenaries as quickly as possible.

Of the [-] Yue mercenaries invited by Liu Dai, [-] were killed in confusion, and the rest escaped with the help of Hong Xiuquan's 'unintentional'.

After this battle, Liu Dai could be said to have completely offended the Baiyue ethnic groups, but he had no time to take it into account, because his casualties were also not small, and Hong Xiuquan was still staring at him.

In November, a heavy snow swept the entire Central Plains, and with the sudden drop in temperature, the wars in various places also slowed down. After all, this climate is not suitable for continuing to fight.

Tiangong helped Daming again, so that Daming could continue to linger and kick.

In Jiaozhou, the southernmost point of Dahan, although the weather is cold in winter, it is not enough to hold a gun.

Hong Xiuquan and Liu Dai have reached the most important moment in their fight for Jiaozhou, and of course they will not stop because of the weather.

On November [-]th, Hong Xiuquan divided the army into three divisions. He himself, Yang Xiuqing and Shi Dakai each led an army, which gradually eroded in three ways, and finally joined forces at Jiaozhi, and the decisive battle began.

In that battle, the blood flowed into rivers, and the casualties on both sides were not small, but it ended in Hong Xiuquan's victory.

After the war, Lu Bu realized how important it is to have a good teammate.

In the battle between Liu Dai and Hong Xiuquan, Lu Bu can be said to be the only bright spot.

In the initial battle, Yang Xiuqing, Shi Dakai and Li Xiucheng joined forces, but were defeated by Lu Bu in eighty rounds.

If it wasn't for Li Kaifang and Chen Yucheng to support them, I am afraid that the three of them would have died under the arrows of Lu Bu.

Afterwards, Yang Xiuqing set up an ambush, but was forcibly broken by Lu Bu.

In the battle that followed, Yang Xiuqing, Shi Dakai, Li Xiucheng, Chen Yucheng, Li Kaifang, Lin Fengxiang and Wei Changhui joined forces to defeat Lu Bu.

Lu Bu was indeed defeated in this battle, but not only was he unscathed, he also shot Wei Changhui to death when he retreated.

Later, in a night raid, Lu Bu stole Hong Xuanjiao, the younger sister of Hong Xiuquan, and left with Mei.

In the battle of Jiaozhou, Lü Bu was almost alone in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, while Liu Dai and the five pig teammates of the four major princes of Jingnan were always played by Hong Xiuquan's generals.

It is precisely because Liu Dai and others have been successfully calculated by Hong Xiuquan many times, that Lu Bu's [-] Jingzhou troops were beaten so badly.

Not to mention missing the fighter plane due to teammates' mistakes, and almost falling into the enemy's encirclement because of the mistakes of the pig teammates. There are more than one examples of this.

With these five pig teammates holding back, Lu Bu has been winning the battle, but the situation in Jiaozhou is still deteriorating.

The victory of Lu Bu alone could not reverse the situation in Jiaozhou. The situation in Jiaozhou was completely defeated until Chen Yucheng killed Liu Dai under the command of Hong Xiu.

Out of desperation, Lu Bu could only lead his troops and horses out of Jiaozhou.

Since then, Jiaozhou has been completely occupied by Hong Xiuquan, and he also took advantage of the power of this victory to start preparing for the rectification of Baiyue.

Although Lu Bu lost the battle this time, no one blamed him, because everyone with discernment knew that the blame for the defeat was not his.

With those pig teammates around, let alone Lu Bu, even Qin Hao couldn't bring them along.

In the fourth year of Zhongping, in December, the battle situation in Yangzhou finally made new progress.

Regardless of generals or strength, the Ming army was inferior to the Yangzhou coalition, so Zhu Yuanzhang decisively chose to stick to it, and the Han army would never leave the city by any means.

Sun Wu once offered a plan to lead Zhu Yuanzhang out of the city, but Zhu Yuanzhang was not fooled, and instead planned to put together the Yangzhou coalition.

Wang Lang offered a plan of soil attack, intending to dig tunnels into Shouchun, but was still cracked by Zhu Yuanzhang and led water to drown many Han troops.

Shouchun City has thick walls and abundant food, so Zhu Yuanzhang had no worries. Under his strict order, the Yangzhou coalition forces attacked Shouchun for several months, causing countless casualties, but still unable to break the city.

Zhu Yuanzhang's guarding was for half a year, and the Yangzhou coalition forces had nothing to do with Zhu Yuanzhang's tortoise shell.

At this time, Sun Wu offered another plan and sent someone to contact Tao Qian, who was huddled in Xuzhou, and let him lead the army to attack the rear of the Ming army.

Tao Qian, who has been defeated repeatedly, has long been frightened by the Ming army, so he has been defending the two counties of Xiapi and Pengcheng, and never dared to take the initiative to provoke the Ming army.

In fact, Daming wanted to clean up Tao Qian for a long time. After all, there is such a small threat from the rear, and no one can feel at ease.

After all, Xuzhou was Fang La's territory before, so Daming didn't want to send troops directly. He wanted to capture Tao Qian's Xuzhou counties in one fell swoop after quelling Fang La's rebellion, but Dahan took advantage of this to send troops, and Daming was busy dealing with Dahan. There is no time to deal with Tao Qian.

It is under this strange balance that Tao Qian has persisted tenaciously until now, and is about to become a decisive force. .

Sun Wu's plan was really not poisonous. Now the strength of all the fronts of the Daming Army was so tight that there were not many defenders in the rear.

But Tao Qian was completely frightened. Even though he knew that the strength of Daming's rear was weak, he still did not dare to send troops to this day.

In order to ensure that Tao Qian could be persuaded, Sun Wu decided to go to Xuzhou to lobby in person. After success, he continued to assist Tao Qian and sent troops to attack Zhu Yuanzhang's rear.

(End of this chapter)