"Bird in a Cage" Xu Shouhui
Xu Shouhui, the emperor of the regime . He was originally a down-and-out cloth dealer, but because of his outstanding appearance, he was elected king by Peng Yingyu . Peng Yingyu was the most active rioter in the late Yuan Dynasty, but he never became king and emperor. Therefore, after repeated uprisings failed, Peng Yingyu was able to escape successfully.
1351, after Han Shantong and Liu Futong rose up in Yingzhou, Peng Yingyu joined hands with his apprentice Zou Pusheng to support Xu Shouhui in uprising, seized Qishui and Huangzhou Road, and proclaimed himself emperor. When the Tianwan regime was first established, it was defeated in every attack and defeated in every battle. Yuan Dynasty general Kuan Chebuhua repeatedly defeated and repeatedly lost Raozhou, Xinzhou and other places. Zhao Pusheng went north to Anhui and seized the Taiping Circles. It was of great significance, and it was no different from Liu Futong's Northern Red Turban Army.
However, the Tianwan regime lacks strategic vision. It imitates the Green Forest and Red Eyebrow Uprising in the late Han Dynasty, fighting wherever it goes, and has not established a solid "base". Therefore, after more than a year of struggle, the cities occupied by the Tianwan Army were lost one after another, and even the Qishui where Xu Shouhui was located became the "slaughterhouse" of the Yuan army.
At that time, Peng Yingyu died in Ruizhou . Zou Pusheng went deep into famous mountains and rivers in the name of practicing Taoism, visiting immortals and visiting friends. Therefore, the important task of reorganizing the army fell on the shrewd and capable Ni Wenjun . Ni Wenjun had outstanding abilities and quickly built a large territory for Xu Shouhui, but he was extremely ambitious. When he was proud, he wanted to replace Xu Shouhui as the emperor of the Tianwan regime. However, Xu Shouhui had already seen Ni Wenjun's unjust intentions and ordered the arrest and killing before Ni Wenjun advised him. Although Ni Wenjun escaped successfully, she died at the hands of her former subordinate Chen Youliang .
1357, Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang broke out in Chizhou . In order to expand his territory, Zhu Yuanzhang continued to fight outside annexation. During the internal strife of Tianwan's army, Chang Yuchun and Liao Yong'an took the lead in attacking Chizhou, killing Tianwan's defender Marshal Hong and conquering Chizhou. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. After Chen Youliang annexed Ni Wenjun's troops, he immediately sent Zhao Pusheng to attack Chizhou. Zhao Pusheng was brave and good at fighting, and was very good at fighting in the water. He not only regained Chizhou, but also stole Zhu Yuanzhang from controlling peace, which made Zhu Yuanzhang extremely distressed.
After Xu Da and Chang Yuchun were unable to win one after another, Zhu Yuanzhang cleverly used the plan of divisiveness and used Chen Youliang's suspicion to design and kill Zhao Pusheng. After Zhao Pusheng's death, Zhu Yuanzhang was able to successfully capture Chizhou and looked down at Chen Youliang's troops from a high place. Chen Youliang also got rid of Xu Shouhui's supporters and eliminated the threat for him to become emperor in the future.
Therefore, when Chen Youliang captured Longxing, Xu Shouhui became a "cage bird" trapped in Jiangzhou . After seizing the power of Tianwan, Chen Youliang's ambitions expanded rapidly. He was originally a vengeful person, and he was eager to make new achievements and reshape his prestige, so Zhu Yuanzhang, who was far away in Jinling, became Chen Youliang's primary goal.
Zhu Yuanzhang's mortal enemy
1360, the river water surged, Chen Youliang arrived at the city of Taiping by a giant ship, and used the "water rise and ship rise" to successfully conquer Taiping and chopped Zhu Yuanzhang's adopted son Huayun . Shortly after Hua Yun's death, Chen Youliang felt that his strength was strong and his desire to proclaim himself emperor was getting higher and higher, so he beat Xu Shouhui to death, changed his reign to "Great Righteousness" and established the "Great Han Kingdom".
At that time, the news of Hua Yun's death reached Jinling, and everyone was shocked. The general who had followed Zhu Yuanzhang for many years either advised him to surrender to Chen Youliang, or advised him to hide in Zhongshan , and temporarily avoid Chen Youliang's edge. Only the strategist Liu Ji looked down on Chen Youliang's army. In his opinion,
"Those who are promoted later will win, our army will wait for work, so why not defeat it!"
Liu Ji's words woke up the dreamer. Zhu Yuanzhang, who had been tossing and turning for many days, made up his mind to fight to the death with Chen Youliang. Zhu Yuanzhang was originally a natural military strategist. Although he read less, he had a strong sense of battlefield smell.He first sent Hu Dahai plagiarized Chen Youliang's retreat and guided Shangrao, Jiangxi. Later, Chen Youliang's friend Kang Maocai was sent to surrender, luring Chen Youliang's giant ship into the narrow waterway, making Chen Youliang's ship unable to turn around.
Not long after, Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, and Zhang Desheng, who were ambushing on both sides, all out of the water. Chen Youliang threw away his armor and fled in a panic. When Chen Youliang ran away, Zhu Yuanzhang did not stop the attack. He turned against the common sense of "not chasing the poor enemy", followed Chen Youliang and chased and fought fiercely, successively capturing Taiping, Xinzhou and other places, with great reputation.
When Chen Youliang hid in Jiangzhou and "licked" his own wounds, Zhu Yuanzhang also launched a large army and took the initiative to attack Chen Youliang's nest. This battle not only conquered the capital of the "Han" but also conquered Chen Youliang's two generals, Fu Youde and Ding Pulang and . The towns north of Jiangxi also defected to Zhu Yuanzhang one after another.
In just one year, the positions of Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang have undergone earth-shaking changes. Chen Youliang, who was aggressive a year ago, has now become a rat crossing the street, while Zhu Yuanzhang, who was put to death, has become the overlord of the Southern Red Turban Army.
In addition to resentment, Chen Youliang started to do everything he wanted. He devoted all his strength to the "national" to build thousands of warships, carrying 600,000 troops, and besieged Hongdu, where Zhu Wenzheng is located. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang led his troops to Anfeng to rescue Han Liner . Chen Youliang did not take this opportunity to go down the river and attack Jinling, but instead lingered in the small Hongdu, which shows his short-sightedness.
However, under Hongdu City, Chen Youliang did not achieve the results he wanted. The deputy general stationed in Hongdu, Deng Yu, has a flexible mind. He used the rare " musket " on the battlefield to defensive operations, making Chen Youliang's soldiers flirt with. As more and more people joined the siege, Zhu Wenzheng used a trick of surrendering to lure Chen Youliang and alleviate Chen Youliang's offensive.
In the 85-day offensive and defensive battle, although Zhu Wenzheng died in battle of 14 generals and countless soldiers, Chen Youliang still did not step into Hongdu City. By the time Zhu Yuanzhang's rescue troops arrived, Chen Youliang's morale was already drained and his fatigue was revealed. It was not far from the day of his defeat.
said before that Zhu Yuanzhang had a natural sense of battlefield smell. After he met Chen Youliang's soldiers and horses in Kanglang Mountain , he briefly observed that he said to Xu Da, Chang Yuchun and others:
"Chen Youliang's giant boat is connected to the head and tail, which is not conducive to advance and retreat, and can be broken."
Not long afterwards, Zhu Yuanzhang sent a troops to the mouth of Jingjiang River, and another troops stationed at Nanhuzui to curb Chen Youliang's retreat. Then he warned the generals:
"After approaching Chen Youliang's ship, he first fired his weapon, then used crossbow , and finally fought in close combat, and he would definitely defeat the enemy."
Chen Youliang was killed
Xu Da, Liao Yongzhong and others followed Zhu Yuanzhang's instructions and rushed into the enemy's formation first, killing thousands of enemies, capturing a giant ship of the "Han Army" and taking the first prize. Then, Yu Tonghai used artillery as a weapon to bomb more than 20 ships of Chen Youliang, drowned more than 10,000 "Han Army", and won the first victory of Battle of Poyang Lake. Despite this, the counterattack of the "Han Army" is also quite dangerous. At that time, Chen Youliang's general Zhang Dingbian saw Zhu Yuanzhang's command ship from a distance, and immediately attacked the navy. While fleeing in a hurry, Zhu Yuanzhang's ship unfortunately ran aground and was surrounded by several warships led by Zhang Dingbian. Cheng Guosheng and Chen Zhaoxian fought to protect Zhu Yuanzhang's safety, and Han Cheng even put on Zhu Yuanzhang's crown and committed suicide by throwing himself into the water.
"Han Army" came for Zhu Yuanzhang. Seeing that "Zhu Yuanzhang" was dead, they went into the water to salvage his body, but they forgot to eliminate the remnants, giving Zhu Yuanzhang a chance to breathe.During this short rest moment, Chang Yuchun's rescue ship had already arrived. He shot Zhang Dingbian in the shoulder with an arrow, forcing Zhang Dingbian to retreat. Then Yu Tonghai and Liao Yongzhong also rushed over and saved Zhu Yuanzhang's life.
During the second battle, Chen Youliang was red in his eyes. He used an iron lock to connect the battleships together and scattered across the lake, which was extremely spectacular. In contrast, Zhu Yuanzhang's ship was short and simple, and he was inevitably afraid of the giant "Han Army" ship that looked like a iron wall. When Zhu Yuanzhang's troops were acting as deserters, Guo Xing made a statement that he would definitely win a complete victory.
1,000 years ago, Zhou Yu burned the Red Cliff and defeated Cao Cao 's 800,000 troops. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty when the Three Kingdoms novels were formed, Chen Youliang actually put on a similar formation as Cao Cao. Zhu Yuanzhang adopted Guo Xing's opinion and when the northeast wind blew, he recruited suicide squad members and took seven fishing boats to burn Chen Youliang's giant ship. Both sides suffered huge losses in this battle. Chen Youliang's younger brothers Chen Youren and Chen Yougui died in the fire, and Zhu Yuanzhang's general Ding Pulang also died in the battlefield.
Of course, Chen Youliang's morale is getting weaker and weaker. They no longer take the initiative to fight, but instead huddled together and dared not move. Zhu Yuanzhang took this opportunity to enter the left worm, control the throat of Poyang Lake, and completely suppress Chen Youliang on one side of the waterway. Not long after, Chen Youliang's most powerful Jinwu general led his troops to surrender, and Chen Youliang's defeat was unstoppable.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who has always been a little scrupulous, did not forget to humiliate Chen Youliang. In his letter to Chen Youliang, he said bluntly:
"With your usual rape, you should fight to the death with me. Why are you repeatedly controlled by me? Like my subordinates? This is not what a real man does."
After reading the letter, Chen Youliang became angry and ordered the thousands of captured soldiers to be strangled in public. However, Zhu Yuanzhang did the opposite. He not only released all the "Han army", but also treated their injuries and won a lot of favor.
As Chen Youliang was trapped for a longer time, his cities outside Poyang Lake were successively captured by Zhu Yuanzhang. He was so tired that he ignored everyone's dissuasion and insisted on breaking through the Jiangkou area from Zhu Yuanzhang, but when he stretched his head to observe the situation, he was pierced through his eyes by a crossbow and died on the spot at the age of 43.
After Chen Youliang's death, his eldest son Chen Shanjian became a prisoner of Zhu Yuanzhang, and his most trusted general Chen Rong led a 50,000 navy army to surrender to Zhu Yuanzhang. As for his youngest son, Chen Li, he was sent to Goryeo by Zhu Yuanzhang after surrendering and handed over to Goryeo King for strict care.
After the Battle of Poyang Lake, Zhu Yuanzhang once told Liu Ji:
"I shouldn't have gone to save Han Lin'er personally. If Chen Youliang took advantage of my absence in Jinling and went down the river and rushed straight to the nest, then I would have nothing to achieve and retreat without going back. The big thing will be gone! Fortunately, Chen Youliang did not attack Jinling and surrounded Hongdu. He came up with this plan and did not wait for the time being!"
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