Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 178: Suicide in despair, unwilling to see the day when Dayuan is destroyed!
Shao Rong naturally didn't want to see his brother being dismembered, so he had to order a retreat.

Shao Rong's other younger brother, Shao Cheng, also held his clairvoyance at this time and said:

"I think the second brother's face is burning and his lips are chapped. He must have a fever. If he can be saved, he can use Mr. Zhang's fever-reducing elixir to save his life."

Shao Rong nodded: "I hope Yuan Bing won't kill my brother. Send the order and just follow but don't attack!"

As a result, Aluhui had a chance to breathe, and he escorted Shao Si to the river and boarded the boat.

But after Aruhui boarded the ship, he ordered Shao Si to be thrown hard on the rock on the shore and ordered to shoot arrows.

for a while.

Bang.

Shao Si was thrown up by Yuan Bing and then fell on the hard stone slab in front of Shao's soldiers.

A large number of arrows also hit Shao Si at this time, densely packed.

Shao Rong was also shocked and burst into tears.

"Yes!"

Aluhui directly abandoned the Yuan soldiers like Barbarian Hague and others who were still fighting fiercely on the water with Hua Yun and retreated north.

After Aluhui said this, he started laughing wildly.

"Just kill one of them!"

Shao Rong said: "But the Prime Minister didn't say you can't cross the river. Now anyone with more than a thousand households can do it easily. Let's not say crossing the river, even if we cross the river and attack Dadu, it will not be considered a violation of the order!"

Shao Cheng echoed.

As a result, Shao Rong's Fourth Army came down and actually crossed the river one after another to pursue Aluhui. Even Aluhui himself was greatly surprised. He had no time to prepare for defense and immediately continued to retreat north.

"The Yuan general just withdrew to the north. I guess he must have gone to see their Prime Minister Zuo. The Gongwei Department had already sent back news that Emperor Hu Yuan had sent a Prime Minister Zuo named Dingzhu to mobilize troops to the north and south of the Yangtze River to take charge of the overall situation. Leave it to Hua Yun and Yu Tonghai, let us cross the river to pursue and avenge our second brother!"

A group of people from Shaorong dismounted and came to Shaosi.

Shao Si suddenly became a hedgehog, and his whole body completely died.

"Why are you still chasing me?"

Aruhui was shocked and couldn't help complaining on the way back.

"Is their comradeship really that deep?"

Shao Rong's troops here easily occupied Yuxikou due to their swiftness and speed. After occupying it, they continued to pursue.

Shao Rong personally wiped off his brother's eyelids, then stood up with almost gritted teeth and looked at the river with billowing smoke and clouds of boats.

But what Aluhui didn't know was that he was killing the eldest son of the Shao family, and the entire Shao family would not let him go.

Shao Cheng asked at this time.

"What kind of morality can we talk to you and other thieves?"

"Let's cross the river and return to Jiangbei!"

"You thieves are indeed so stupid that you don't know that soldiers are always willing to deceive!"

Aluhui smiled coldly and shouted: "I know you have Zhang Cheng's secret antipyretic elixir, which can give the seriously injured a chance to come back to life! And this thief general is kind to the people and brave in battle." , so if you survive, you will only have endless troubles, so I won’t stay!”

When Hua Yun came ashore and was about to join forces with Shao Rong, he only saw a large number of heavy armors piled on the river bank, but no Shao Rong and others.

"Brother, what should we do now?"

"How did you know that we would come back to Jiangbei?"

then.

"Second brother!"

Li Shanchang also quickly learned that the rebels had returned to Jiangbei to pursue the Yuan soldiers, so he immediately ordered his subordinates to bring up the prepared dry food and fodder.

Shao Rong thought for a while and said: "Let the army come and row the boat immediately, and we will cross the river and go to the north!"

……

"Brother is right!"

Shao Cheng couldn't help shouting when he saw this.

"Participating in politics, the Prime Minister did not say that we can cross the river."

Shao Rong said: "Then take off all armor so that we can chase the enemy!"

Shao Rong couldn't help but ask after seeing Li Shanchang.

"Take off the armor!"

Aluhui smiled and said: "Retreat directly to the north! Go find Prime Minister Zuo!"

Zhou Zhiliang, who came with Shao Rong, reminded him at this time.

"Dog Tartar! You are unethical."

"Yes!"

"Take off the armor!"

Li Shanchang said: "I just predict that some rebels may return to Jiangbei to fight."

"After all, the Yuan soldiers set up forts along the river in the north of the Yangtze River in an attempt to cut off the rebels' retreat. The rebels might come back and destroy these forts. Therefore, I organized Minzhuang to set up forts along the way to store grain in order to supply the rebels who might come back. , If the general really wants to take out these military strongholds, don’t worry!”

"Each village along the way has prepared dry food and fodder in advance and placed them in various troughs and tanks. The army can feed the horses while walking without stopping. In addition, the ordnance and horses are also prepared and can be replaced at any time."

"Mr. Zhang is right, you are indeed good at controlling the rear!"

"Shao, thank you very much!"

Shao Rong said and handed over to Li Shanchang.

Li Shanchang returned the favor. Later, because Shao Rong's troops were supported by the post station provided by Li Shanchang along the way, they did not have the problem of insufficient food and weapons during the pursuit, so they were able to defeat the 72 soldiers of the Yuan soldiers!

Aluhui's troops had no chance to breathe. When they saw Prime Minister Zuo of Yuan Ting standing still, there were only a few dozen riders left around him.

"Prime Minister, you can no longer go south."

"Because all the military fortresses along the river were conquered by the bandits. They were so humble and incompetent that they couldn't defend any of them!"

Aruhui even knelt down in front of Dingzhu and started talking.

After listening, he stood up with a solemn expression: "How can these thieves be so ferocious?!"

"Especially that Shao family thief, he didn't hesitate to take off his armor to chase him. Later, after he got the armor to supplement him, he still chased him day and night. It must be his humbleness that really angered them."

"But in any case, their military power is indeed at its peak now, and they are advancing by land and water as planned. Our strategy of joining forces with Chen, Kang and others to annihilate Zhu Yuanzhang's demon thieves has failed, and the defeat is certain."

"So, Prime Minister, please make new plans as soon as possible."

Aluhui said.

In Yuan Dynasty, the right is the most respected and the left is the second.

Therefore, as the left prime minister, Dingzhu was not the prime minister in the Yuan Dynasty, but he was also the second prime minister and a heavyweight minister in power.

Therefore, Dingzhu had enough power and prestige to conduct large-scale dispatch of the Yuan army in the south and north of the Yangtze River at this time.

However, Dingzhu was not in a hurry to respond. Instead, he ordered Zhongshu Councilor Wu Junyong: "Let the court know this information immediately!"

Then, Dingzhu told Liu Yixian, Zhongshu's political advisor, "Send someone to Jiangnan to ask Fu Shou what the current situation of the war is."

"Yes!"

Fu Shou also learned about the Taiping war situation through the remnants of Chen's army who returned.

Fushou was naturally disappointed.

But Fushou knew that now was not the time to be depressed, so he immediately told Lu Mengzu, who was participating in the political affairs of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces: "Quickly, immediately send an order to the barbarian Hague and others to withdraw, including Chen Ben and Ren Zhigong of Jiangning! Since there is no hope of suppressing the thieves, then It’s important to protect Jiqing!”

"Go quickly!"

Lu Mengzu hurriedly raised his hands and said yes.

Fu Shou immediately withdrew Yuan Bing at this time, which was actually a wise choice.

But it's still a bit late, more or less.

After Aluhui retreated north early in Hague and was surrounded by Hua Yun, Yu Tonghai, etc., because he knew that there was no hope of retreat, he knelt down on the boat looking north and started crying.

Barbarian Hague is mainly too desperate.

He didn't expect that his side had already held back its last breath, and even used the people as bait, and almost captured the quarry, but in the end they were defeated miserably by the bandit army.

The barbarian Hague knew where his official army was defeated. It was simply because the organized troops were no longer enough for the bandit army.

Because the imperial court could no longer mobilize enough money and food to fight the rebellion, it could only solve the problem by demolishing the east wall to make up for the west wall. As a result, the rebel army suppressed more and more, and the official army suppressed less and less.

Therefore, Barbarian Hague couldn't help but burst into tears, and then pulled out the knife on his body.

Jiya, the son of the barbarian Hague, was shocked when he saw this: "Father, what are you doing?"

“As a father, I don’t want to see the day when our country is overthrown!”

The barbarian Hague cut himself with a spatula as he spoke.

Seeing this, Jiya cried out and gave herself a knife: "I don't want to see that day."

When Hua Yun and others jumped on the warship where Barbarian Hague and others were, they saw that his father and son had committed suicide, so he reported the situation.

After Zhu Yuanzhang ordered all ministries to act expediently, many rebel generals did stand out.

In addition to Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Shao Rong, Hua Yun, and Yu Tonghai, Deng Yu also led three thousand cavalry and directly chose to attack Jiangning Town.

Ren Zhigong, Chen Ben, and Lai Wang, who stayed behind in Jiangning Town to take care of the food and supplies, had no choice but to fight.

Ren Zhigong suggested that Chen Ben urge Lai Wang and let Lai Wang lead the gun battalion into battle.

Lai Wang refused and said: "No, the opponent is all cavalry, and our muskets cannot be fired for a long time. If they are fired for a long time, they will explode!"

"No way!"

"I am the manager, if you don't obey my orders, I will kill you!"

After Chen Ben gave this order, Lai Wang had no choice but to lead the Bird Gun Battalion to fight first.

However, the Yuan Bing Bird Gun Battalion led by Lai Wang did have barrel materials that were not good enough, and the craftsmen were generally forced to produce bird guns, so they were not very motivated, which resulted in poor quality. However, under Deng Yu's leadership, When the cavalry came to attack, they did not fight for a few rounds before they turned around and retreated because of the large number of bombs.

When Lai Wang saw this, he had to run back first, but in the end he was captured alive by Deng Yu's horse army.

Chen Ben and Ren Zhigong withdrew from Jiqing in advance, leaving a large amount of food and baggage in Jiangning with Deng Yu.

Deng Yu was worried that the Yuan soldiers would come back, so he burned all the food and supplies, and then left Jiangning with Lai Wang and other captured Yuan soldiers and returned to Taiping.

On Xu Da's side, shortly after capturing Chen Ye alive, he encountered Chang Yuchun who was catching up.

Chang Yuchun was overjoyed when he saw Xu Da and hurriedly shouted: "Old Xu, where did you come from?"

Hu Dahai, who was following Xu Da, said: "We captured Chen Yexian alive and are about to go to Cihu!"

"You captured Chen Yexian alive?"

Chang Yuchun was shocked after hearing this.

Hu Dahai nodded with a smile and explained the reason to Chang Yuchun.

After Chang Yuchun heard this, he dismounted and patted Xu Da: "We also thought of attacking Chen Yexian's Chinese army while the siege of Cihu was over, but we didn't expect to be intercepted by you. It seems that, You are also good at fighting, let’s work together more in the future!”

Xu Da smiled and nodded.

(End of this chapter)