Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 177 Zhu Yuanzhang definitely acted cheaply and achieved great success!
After Zhang Cheng said this, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and smiled: "Mr. Zhang's words are exactly what we want. Not only do brothers need more experience in battle, but we ourselves also need to do the same."

So, next, generals with more than a thousand households in the rebel army also received instructions to let them fight cheaply.

"Great!"

After receiving this order, Chang Yuchun happily geared up and immediately shouted to his subordinates Lan Yu and others: "Gather the troops and go directly to Cihu! I have been waiting here for the Tatars to come. When people are panicked, I simply give up." Take the initiative to find them!”

"General! Several troops are gathering in Cihu now. We will undoubtedly hit the stone with an egg."

Lan Yu admonished at this time.

Chang Yuchun had put on his stirrups and mounted his horse first, saying: "It doesn't matter which way he comes, I will keep an eye on him all the way. If I can take a bite, I will save him! If Cihu can be saved, I will save him. If I can't, I will kill him as many times as possible."

Finished.

Chang Yuchun took the lead and rushed out first, abandoning the military camp he was guarding and heading towards Cihu.

Unlike many generals who prefer to stay in the town to command the Chinese army, Chang Yuchun has always liked to take the lead in history, and this is naturally the case now.

Seeing this, a row of firearmsmen of Yuan soldiers immediately fired their guns, but only a few bullets were fired sporadically, and one bullet hit Zhao Zhongbai's right chest, causing him to fall to the ground.

He has been doing physical work all year round, so he is already strong and physically strong, otherwise he would not have survived in these troubled times. After joining the rebel army, he received an adequate supply of food and became stronger. They actually tore these spears and the people to the ground.

As the encirclement became smaller and smaller, Zhao Zhongbai and others had no place to hide, so they had to take the initiative to attack the Yuan soldiers.

Chen Zhaoxian's third brother, Chen Zhaoling, relied on his bravery and came to fight in person with a long spear. However, as soon as Chang Yuchun approached, Chang Yuchun showed no respect for martial arts. He put away his gun and took out his bow and arrow, and immediately shot Chen Zhaoxian with an arrow.

Meng Sanzi and other rebels who were following behind were lucky enough not to be shot. However, when they saw Zhao Zhongbai was shot, his eyes turned red. Regardless of the fact that there were far more Yuan soldiers in front of him than him, he angrily chopped down these Yuan soldiers with a waist knife.

At that time, Chang Yuchun happened to arrive and saw the killing of Zhao Zhongbai. He was stunned for a moment and rushed directly to Chen Zhaoxian's army. When he saw the Yuan soldiers, he stabbed them with an iron spear.

"Kill!"

Mencius and other officers and soldiers also noticed this scene when they were slashing with swords, and couldn't help but burst into tears. However, before he could shout, he had to dodge immediately because several spears were stabbed in front of him, and he hugged him easily. These spears, pull back.

When Chang Yuchun came to Cihu, although Zhao Zhongbai's tribe in Cihu had been surrounded, Zhao Zhongbai gathered more than 200 remaining soldiers before the Yuan soldiers attacked, and relied on the ruins to deal with the Yuan soldiers again.

Chen Zhaoling was shocked. Before he could react, he was hit by an arrow in the chest and rolled off his horse.

The Yuan soldiers were so frightened that they did not dare to stab him again and only retreated step by step.

Seeing this, Chen Zhaoxian had no choice but to let the archers step forward in an attempt to shoot at these brave remnants of the rebel army.

These Yuan soldiers retreated one after another, not daring to fight with them.

Zhao Zhongbai not only vomited blood, but also had blood pouring from his chest.

Zhao Zhongbai was bleeding from his chest and breathing a little quickly. Looking at Chen Zhaohe who was approaching him step by step, he just gritted his teeth and cursed: "Han traitor!"

Seeing this, the general Chen Zhaoxian ordered the spearmen to come forward. At the same time, he separated the armored sword and shield soldiers and ordered his younger brother Chen Zhaohe to lead them back to Zhao Zhongbai.

"Long live the Rebels!"

For a time, no one could stop the Yuan soldiers.

Zhao Zhongbai rushed towards Yuan Bing first.

Because of the poor quality of their firearms, the Yuan soldiers did not dare to divide them into small groups and use them. In addition, the pension after death was not high, so they did not dare to advance rashly. Moreover, the current situation was a must-win situation for them. , so they adopted a steady and steady approach, narrowing the encirclement step by step. They would rather spend a lot of energy burning down houses and filling cellars than advance easily.

After hearing this, Chen Zhaohe couldn't help but grit his teeth and stabbed Zhao Zhongbai's chest with a sharp knife. Then he drew the knife and cut off Zhao Zhongbai's head with a sneer on his face.

Chang Yuchun smiled coldly, drew his bow and gun and charged towards Chen Zhaoxian, as if he was in a deserted place.

"Brother! He's a bandit with thousands of households!"

Chen Zhaohe was happily picking up Zhao Zhongbai's head with a knife and shouting at Chen Zhaoxian. However, when he saw Chang Yuchun and other reinforcements appearing, he looked horrified and ran out.

Chen Zhaoxian also suppressed his smile here and hurriedly retreated with his servants.

Chang Yuchun ignored Chen Zhaoxian and chased him. Not long after, he knocked Chen Zhaoxian off his horse with the big iron gun in his hand and stabbed Chen Zhaoxian through the chest.

Chen Zhaoxian couldn't help vomiting blood, and after Chang Yuchun drew his gun, he fell to the ground.

As the leader, Chang Yuchun likes to charge first and kill first. The officers and generals under his command were also like this. Lan Yu didn't give any instructions here. When he saw Chang Yuchun rushing over first, he rushed over first.

However, he also used his brains. When he saw Chang Yuchun chasing Chen Zhaoxian's defeated soldiers, he went to chase Chen Zhaohe, leaving most of the Yuan soldiers who only had firearms and spears, Yu Yong, in Cihu Town.

Soon, Lan Yu also caught up with Chen Zhaohe, chopped him to the ground, and had his head cut off, and held it in his hand to see Chang Yuchun.

Coach Chen Yexian did not know that the vanguard force of his sons had failed in the attack on Cihu, but he still led the main force to advance along the river, keeping pace with Kang Maocai's navy.

But when Chen Yexian passed through Fangshan Mountain and needed to camp around the mountain, Xu Da ordered Hu Dahai to lead his infantry to rush down from the mountain, like a tiger descending the mountain, and directly attack Chen Yexian's army. Chen Yexian's army was immediately routed.

The main reason is that the infantry led by Xu Da are all armored infantry, and they are armed with heavy axes or new heavy-duty big bird muskets that are about to catch up with the size of later Xiaofolang machine cannons. Anyone encountered along the way will be killed, even if there are Yuan soldiers who claim to be brave. The heavy armored soldiers could not stop the heavy lead bullets fired by the big guns, even the Yuan soldiers holding shields could not stop them.

"How can it be!"

"Why are the thieves here? They are attacking our army!"

At this time, Chen Yexian also saw a large number of heavily armored infantrymen coming toward him with big guns and heavy axes, and he couldn't help but feel chills running down his spine.

Not long after he said that, Hu Dahai rushed forward, chopped down many of Chen Yexian's servants with a heavy ax, and knocked Chen Yexian to the ground. Then he lifted Chen Yexian up, kicked him violently, and took out the fire to light it. A flare.

It turned out that Xu Dayin and Hu Dahai were both direct descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang and had known each other for a long time. They agreed to sneak into Fangshan and set up an ambush together. When Chen Yexian was temporarily unable to contact Kang Maocai in time, Hu Dahai led the elite infantry to attack the center of Chen Yexian's army. , and he was responsible for supporting and achieving the purpose of beheading.

Xu Da here, after seeing the signal flares raised at the center of Chen Yexian's army, immediately led the cavalry troops to rush out with the force of wind and clouds. He did not go in to kill anyone, but only threw bunches of grass along the camp to light fires. For a while, Chen Yexian's army was everywhere When the fire started, all the battalions collapsed, and they had no time to take care of the central army.

Hu Dahai and others took advantage of the chaos and hijacked Chen Ye to leave the Chinese army first, came outside, and returned to Fangshan with Xu Da and others.

At dawn, Kang Maocai heard that Chen Yexian's troops were attacked, and when Qian sent troops ashore to investigate, he saw that the entire camp of Chen Yexian was filled with fireworks, and everyone was in a state of panic. More importantly, the coach was missing!
"There is General Han Xin, the pharmacist in the bandit army. We are no match for him. We should return to Jiqing immediately!"

After Kang Maocai learned about this, he chose to run away decisively and ignored the tens of thousands of Chen's troops who still remained.

"I don't agree!"

"You sneak attacked our central army and didn't properly prepare for a fight!"

After Chen Yexian was captured by Xu Da, he spoke rather unconvincingly.

Because Chen Yexian had always regarded himself as a hero, and he intended to use this opportunity of personally commanding the army to prove himself by having a good fight with the rebels.

But Chen Yexian didn't expect that he would be captured so quickly, that he didn't even see the top of Taiping City, and even lost to people like Zhu Yuanzhang or Zhang Cheng who were not the leaders of the thieves.

However, if Chen Yexian knew the history of the Ming Dynasty, he would not feel ashamed of losing to Xu Da.

It's just that now he doesn't know the subsequent history, so he doesn't take Xu Da seriously, and feels that Xu Da is just cunning and took advantage of his carelessness to capture him alive. If he does it again, he will definitely not lose.

Let's say that the barbarians Hague and Aruhui who were in Caishi did not know the news of Chen's army's defeat. After they captured Caishi, they began to land and came to Taiping in large numbers.

But Shao Rong had already led his troops to quarry stones at this time.

Hua Yun also led his troops to quarry stones.

Seeing this, Shao Rong took the initiative to contact Hua Yun and said: "Instead of fighting alone, it is better to follow my command. Let's go to Yu Tonghai who is closest to here and let him get out of the boat. We will also fight on land and water."

"Row!"

Hua Yun readily agreed.

And Yu Tonghai also agreed to sail out of the ship and was willing to listen to Shao Rong's command.

The three of them gathered together to discuss strategy.

"Hua Yun, you have the Divine Fire Flying Crow and the Three-Eyed Gun equipped by Mr. Zhang. You follow Lao Yu's boat and attack by water. When the time comes, burn his boat first, then jump on board and kill him without leaving a trace."

"I will lead my troops along the river to kill the Tatars who land on the river!"

Shao Rong ordered.

Hua Yun and Yu Tonghai both agreed.

At dawn on July 25th, Yu Tonghai took Hua Yunbu to quarry stones, and flew a large number of sacred fire crows towards the Yuan Bing's warships and the camp on the shore. For a moment, the Yuan Bing There was chaos and fires were burning everywhere.

Then, when Yu Tonghai's tribe drove a boat to meet the Yuan Bing's giant boat, they climbed on board and took advantage of the chaos to fight with the Yuan Bing.

When the barbarian Hague heard about the quarry chaos, he hurriedly withdrew his troops to rescue them, leaving Alhui to lead his troops to Taiping alone.

But at this time, Shao Rong personally led the Fourth Army and arrived.

The Fourth Army was all Shao Rong's descendants, and they were naturally very brave. Moreover, because the rebels' iron ore resources and iron production had increased greatly, and there was no shortage of armor, their troops also wore heavy armor, and the Yuan soldiers were defeated one after another. .

"It's scary, there are so many armored soldiers in the bandit army now!"

"How much strength have they accumulated?!"

When Aruhui saw this, he couldn't help but sigh. When Shao Rong was less than a hundred steps away from him, he blocked Shao Rong, who was captured and suffering from a high fever, through a forest of armor and guns. Si Ti stood on his horse, drew his sword and pointed it at Shao Si's face, shouting:
"Tell you, general, I have one of your commanders in my hands now. If you don't withdraw your troops, I will dismember him immediately!"

Aruhui sneered after shouting.

(End of this chapter)