Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 642 Zhu Yuanzhang VS Sun Wu

Chapter 640: Zhu Yuanzhang VS Sun Wu

After receiving the news that Tao Qian led nearly [-] troops to the south and had captured Xuzhou, the morale of the Ming army in Shouchun City was inevitably affected.

After all, after it has captured the counties of Jianghuai, how long can an isolated city in Shouchun be defended?

Faced with such a situation, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately stood up to refute the rumor, saying that this was a trick of the Han army to destroy the morale of its own army.

The soldiers of the Ming army were naturally dubious about this, but most people were willing to believe in Zhu Yuanzhang, so the internal turmoil was reluctantly resolved.

"Li Wenzhong, can you stop walking back and forth? I'm almost dizzy." Zhu Wenzheng shouted with dissatisfaction.

"I'm not in a hurry."

The anxious Li Wenzhong kept pacing back and forth, and then said to Zhu Yuanzhang, "My lord, if you stay so indifferent, Tao Qian will really hit Jianghuai?"

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him, and said lightly: "Steady, don't panic, the more the crisis is, the more calm I have to wait."

Zhu Yuanzhang was actually very anxious in his heart, but he knew that he must not panic, because he was the backbone of Shouchun. If even he panicked, the battle would be lost.

Zhu Yuanzhang's calmness also infected the generals, Li Wenzhong suppressed the anxiety in his heart, and said solemnly: "My lord, shall we give up Shouchun and retreat to it? If it goes on like this, even the retreat will be cut off..."

Before Li Wenzhong finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhu Wenzheng.

"Never give up Shouchun."

Zhu Wenzheng glared at Li Wenzhong and said solemnly: "The Yangzhou coalition forces are staring at the outside world. They are waiting for our army to break through. Once they give up Shouchun and lose the protection of the city wall, our army will be wiped out."

"Then what do you say? At this rate, Shouchun will become an isolated city, and it will be a matter of time before it falls."

Zhu Wenzheng was speechless, but still insisted on his point of view.

"In short, you must not give up Shouchun. As long as Shouchun is there, the Yangzhou coalition forces will not be able to enter the Central Plains. Once Shouchun is lost, the southern front will be defeated, and the [-] Yangzhou coalition forces will directly attack the Central Plains and threaten Chen Liu."

"Then do you have a solution?"

"...In short, I can't give up Shouchun."

"What's the difference between you and you didn't say anything?"

"Better than your bad idea."

"Who are you calling a bad idea?"

"you……"

Zhu Yuanzhang was so upset by the quarrel with his generals that he couldn't bear it any longer, and finally shouted angrily: "Shut up for Lao Tzu."

Seeing that the lord was angry, the two generals did not dare to be presumptuous any more. Seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly: "Shouchun must not give up, and Tao Qian must also solve it."

"But what to do?"

"We can only divide our troops in two ways."

A flash of determination flashed in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, and he said solemnly, "Zhu Wenzheng, you will protect Shouchun for this book."

"promise."

Zhu Wenzheng knelt down on one knee and said solemnly: "The last general will live up to the trust of the lord."

"Li Wenzhong, you and Ben will deal with Tao Qian together."

"Okay." Li Wenzhong grinned, and then asked again, "My lord, how many soldiers and horses do we bring to meet the enemy?"

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him and said lightly, "One thousand."

Li Wenzhong's eyes widened, and he even thought he heard it wrong. After asking again, he realized that he did not hear it wrong, so he said with a broken face:

"My lord, Tao Qian has an army of 1000 to [-], and we only bring [-] people. Do you dare to go there and die?"

"Shouchun soldiers and horses should not be moved lightly. Once they are mobilized too much, it will be difficult to keep Shouchun unstable."

"But one thousand is too little, isn't it?"

A sneer flashed across the corner of Zhu Yuanzhang's mouth, and he said lightly: "Although the Xuzhou army has a large number of people, the chief general Tao Qian is not mediocre. Tao Qian defeated our army 37 times in a row. Hercules is enough."

Hearing what the lord said was a thousand yellow turban warriors, Li Wenzhong calmed down a little. After all, they were the most elite yellow turban warriors in Daming. It should not be a problem to deal with the famous Xuzhou army.

Xuzhou originally had Danyang elite soldiers, but as most of the Danyang soldiers in the army died in battle, Danyang was captured by Xiang Yu, and the battle against the Yellow Turbans was repeatedly defeated, the Xuzhou army's combat power has become weaker and weaker, so Li Wenzhong looked down on the Xuzhou Army so much.

Zhu Wenzheng is not as optimistic as Li Wenzhong. Xuzhou is weak, after all, there are thirty or forty thousand people.
Zhu Yuanzhang saw Zhu Wenzheng's concern at a glance, and immediately explained: "Don't worry, I will never fight an uncertain battle. One thousand yellow scarves warriors are indeed not enough to deal with the Xuzhou army, so I will also prepare to fight against Chen Liu and Dong. Deploy troops in two places on the line."

"My lord, Chen Liushou's army is not enough, how can we recruit troops? The east line is nearly a thousand miles away from the Jianghuai, and it is difficult to quench the thirst of the distant waters?"

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled lightly and said softly: "Chen Liushou's army is indeed insufficient, but sending [-] soldiers and horses to support will not affect Chen Liu's defense. The east line is thousands of miles away from Jianghuai, and it is indeed difficult to quench the thirst of near-by waters. , but what if the cavalry came to support?"

Zhu Wenzheng's eyes widened, looking at his lord in disbelief, while Zhu Yuanzhang looked up at the sky, feeling both apprehensive and confused.

Xiang Yu, now is not the time for infighting, you must lend me the Overlord Cavalry!

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Zhongping five years, March [-]st, night.

Taking advantage of the night, Zhu Yuanzhang led a thousand yellow turban warriors away from Shouchun and went north to Jianghuai to face Tao Qian. No, it should be Sun Wu.

Tao Qian didn't know that Zhu Yuanzhang had left Shouchun. He was going all out to attack Jianghuai with the assistance of Sun Wu, but when he discovered Zhu Yuanzhang, it was too late.

On the night of March [-]th, Zhu Yuanzhang personally led a thousand elites to attack the Tao army at night.

There were no loopholes in the camp set up by Sun Wu, but most of the sentries that Zhu Yuanzhang saw through were still discovered when the army reached a thousand meters outside the camp, but it was too late.

After a night attack, Tao Jun suffered thousands of casualties. If Sun Wu hadn't reacted quickly, even the granary would have been burned by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang fled immediately after the attack, lurking in secret, preparing for the next night attack.

On March [-]th, at night, Zhu Yuanzhang again prepared to attack the pottery camp at night.

The moon is black and the wind is high, which is a good time to kill and set fire, but before the action, the strong wind blew the red flag.

Seeing this ominous omen, Zhu Yuanzhang's complexion changed greatly, and he hurriedly ordered a retreat.

Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang hadn't walked into the ambush, Sun Wu could only order the ambush soldiers to go out ahead of time, so that although they could not wipe out all of them, they could still be severely damaged.

After a major battle, more than half of Zhu Yuanzhang's Yellow Turban warriors suffered casualties, while Xuzhou's army suffered even more casualties.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who suffered a great loss, was not taking risks, but harassing the Xuzhou army while waiting for reinforcements to arrive.

On March 26, Chen Liu's three thousand reinforcements arrived on the battlefield.

On March 29th, the three thousand overlords on the eastern front arrived at the battlefield.

On April [-]th, Zhu Yuanzhang and Sun Wujue fought to the death.

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