Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2283 Zhu Yuanzhang's cruelty, turning every inch of the mountains and rivers into flesh and blood

Xu Da also knew Zhu Di's difficulties, but after his remnants of troops evacuated from Jiangxia, not all of them went to help Zhu Di who was about to be besieged on all sides.

Only a small number of troops were led by General Li Wenzhong into Jianghuai, while Xu Da led the rest of the troops into Jingnan.

Even if their navy is still powerful, if Bai Qi directly attacks Jingnan, the navy will have the opportunity to threaten the enemy's food supply from the Yangtze River. Logically speaking, an excellent or even qualified general will not take such a risk before taking over the Jianghuai region.

But there was no other way; Xu Da couldn't afford the gamble.

There is no other reason, I just don’t have the capital to gamble.

You must know that at this time Zhu Yuanzhang was in Jingnan fighting against Yang Su in the south.

If an enemy army really enters the Jingnan area, it would not be a joke.

Moreover, even if attacking them could threaten the enemy's food supply, to be frank, the Jin army was qualified to sacrifice tens of thousands of soldiers and horses and take the risk.

With more capital, you naturally have more options.

Therefore, he was not qualified to gamble and could only return to Jingnan and build the Jingnan defense line.

In particular, although Wang Jian led an army to attack the Jianghuai area from the Jiangxia area as he expected, Bai Qi acted as if he was ready to cross the river at any time, which made Xu Da even more nervous and he dared not leave.

At the same time, Wu Zixu sent out countless patrol boats of all sizes every day in order to keep track of the movements of Bai Qi's army at any time and prevent the other side from crossing the river at any time.

On the other hand, when Zhu Yuanzhang in Jingnan received the news of Yao Guangxiao's death, he fell to the ground and almost fainted.

Yao Guangxiao may not be his earliest adviser, but he is definitely his most important adviser and the undisputed number one adviser under him.

Although Jing Xiang was also resourceful and decisive, he was more of a comprehensive talent with stable development. During previous wars, Zhu Yuanzhang could safely and boldly entrust him to assist Zhu Biao to stabilize the rear, but the first choice who could actually go to war with the army was still Yao Guangxiao.

In this war, if it weren't for the fact that there were leaks from all directions, the entire southern war opened up several battlefields, and Xu Da was under great pressure, Zhu Yuanzhang would never let Yao Guangxiao go easily, but would transfer Jing Xiang from the rear to his side to assist him in military affairs.

But all of this eventually triggered a series of chain reactions.

Zhu Yuanzhang sometimes often wondered, if he had not transferred Jing Xiang, who had been in the rear, to his side, but instead asked him to help Zhu Biao stabilize the base camp like he did in the previous times, would the outcome be different after Chen Qianzhi's mere 7,000 troops entered Yangzhou?

However, there is no way to regret this matter!

However, this only shows that although Zhu Yuanzhang, as the overlord of the south, was surrounded by millions of soldiers and thousands of generals, and his advisers were even more numerous, the only ones who could truly reach the top at that time were Yao Guangxiao and Jing Xiang.

Around Zhu Yuanzhang, apart from Yao Guangxiao, the god-level strategist, and Jing Xiang, the peerless strategist, the others, such as Hu Weiyong, Zhu Sheng and others, were still a step behind.

Moreover, they did not have the prestige like Jing Xiang, who had been in charge of the rear for many years and could not exert enough pressure on Zhu Biao.

However, in the defeat at Jiangxia, although Xu Da, who was originally the target, luckily survived, Zhu Yuanzhang still lost an arm!
The death of Yao Guangxiao was a huge blow to the entire Yangzhou Group.

It was in this context that Zhu Yuanzhang adopted Yao Guangxiao's plan to mobilize all the people in the Jianghuai region. Yao Guangxiao had already proposed the strategy of mobilizing all the people in some areas to cope with the current tense and difficult situation on the battlefields of various ethnic groups.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang had never made up his mind to actually implement this strategy.

The words "everyone becomes a soldier" sound very simple, but when they are actually realized, what they may mean is probably millions of floating corpses and thousands of miles of blood.

In the Jianghuai region, after this battle, I am afraid that the ground will be covered with blood and corpses.

After Zhu Yuanzhang made up his mind, the entire Yangzhou area began to operate at a high speed. Soon, with the full efforts of the Jinyiwei, this order was conveyed to Zhu Di in the Jianghuai area within a few days.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di were of the same lineage, both of them were extremely ruthless people, but even after seeing this order, he couldn't help but hesitate for a long time before he began to issue orders little by little.

First of all, military control was imposed on all food and fodder in the Jianghuai region.

Like Zhao Kuangyin in the Central Plains, he implemented comprehensive military control over food and fodder from the very beginning of the war, collecting all the food from the people and distributing it in a centralized manner.

It was said to be distributed centrally, but in fact it was basically used mainly to support military affairs. Every time the people received food distribution, the amount was almost as clear as a mirror. There were less than ten grains of rice in a large pot of rice soup.

Anyway, we are just barely keeping the people alive. Are they going to starve to death? But not necessarily. Anyway, there is still a chance for them to survive.

But, I definitely don’t have the strength to move!

However, Zhu Yuanzhang's food and grass situation was much better than Zhao Kuangyin's. Therefore, food and grass were always under semi-military control.

Only now has the Jianghuai region entered into a state of comprehensive military control.

It was only after a few days that they began to recruit some able-bodied men who were a bit older but could still be considered strong to join the army.

Moreover, they are basically not provided with any equipment, and are required to bring their own equipment when joining the army, such as sickles, kitchen knives or hoes at home.

After that, it was basically a series of battles that resulted in deaths.

It was clearly an ambush, but the ambush was very crude, and the ambushing party was beaten to pieces and killed in pieces.

After the fire attack was discovered, they were the ones who were burned and their entire army was wiped out.

There is a lot of water in the south, and the water attack also caused unexpected events, which also brought suffering to ourselves.

After all this trouble, most of these people were dead.

Especially, those battles that cost lives, but basically they were those that did not give the Jin army any chance to capture prisoners, and many of them were very crude fire attack strategies. After all, if they were burned by the enemy, wouldn't the whole army be wiped out?
However, as a large number of "soldiers" died in battle, the anger of the remaining people began to be aroused little by little.

(End of this chapter)