The Battle of Longjiang has come to an end.

After the Jinling crisis, Zhu Yuanzhang, as the victor, received several major benefits.

First of all, it is psychological. After the Battle of Longjiang, Zhu Yuanzhang repositioned Chen Youliang. In the past, he was extremely jealous and even afraid of Chen Youliang in his heart. He was absolutely unwilling to provoke him unless he had to. In the Battle of Longjiang,

He used to think that Chen Youliang was a wolf cub that he couldn't afford to mess with. He was a super guy who exploded with every touch and was like a god of plague. He was a ruthless guy that he couldn't afford to mess with if he was determined to do it with his current strength.

A hot character, but after this battle he had a new understanding of Chen Youliang.

In my opinion, this scumbag who was taller than the sky and could not be beaten away by snakes turned out to be not the invincible person he had imagined. He also had weaknesses and could be defeated by himself.

The timid thoughts I had in the past have disappeared after this battle.

The second point is the real benefit. After the Battle of Longjiang, Chen Youliang's soldiers and horses suffered heavy losses. Although it did not seriously damage his vitality, it could severely combat his arrogance and gave him a psychological boost.

A fierce blow. As the victor, Zhu Yuanzhang followed the basic principle of surrendering guns and not killing, and recruited generals who had originally submitted to Chen Youliang but were defeated by him, such as Zhang Zhixiong, Liang Xuan, Yu Guoxing, Liu Shiyan, etc.

He took them all under his command and gained a large number of elite soldiers.

What made Zhu Yuanzhang even more delighted was that after the Battle of Longjiang, the situation where he had always been at a disadvantage in the friction with Chen Youliang but still did not dare to provoke him too much no longer exists from today on. With the help of Chen Youliang, the captain of the transportation brigade,

Chen Youliang's soldiers and horses not only received huge reinforcements, but also received rapid improvement in naval forces.

All of this must be attributed to Chen Youliang's contribution.

Without Chen Youliang’s generous help, the earth-shaking changes today would never have happened.

Here I need to briefly talk about Zhang Zhixiong’s resume.

Name: Zhang Zhixiong;

Surname: male;

Character: Renfu;

Address: Born in Liang County, Luzhou;

Age: unknown;

Parents: unknown;

Identity: Former general under Zhao Pusheng.

Everyone should still remember Zhao Pusheng. He was the last general who held great power in Tianwan Kingdom before it went bankrupt. He was also the last general of Tianwan Kingdom who was beaten to death by Chen Youliang.

After the fall of Zhao Pusheng, the Tianwanguo army that once stood in four parts has all fallen into the hands of Chen Youliang, and Zhang Zhixiong is one of them. I believe that based on Chen Youliang's various performances, Zhang Zhixiong has tried to escape from Chen Youliang's clutches.

idea, but in the gloomy environment at that time, wanting to defect would only have one result, and that was: dead end.

In the atmosphere filled with chilling atmosphere at that time, anyone who escaped would only end up with the same fate.

That is to repeat the mistakes of his boss.

In their view, Chen Youliang, a scholar with a hazy smile, is an out-and-out executioner.

A person who dares to kill his own boss will never easily forgive a traitor who betrays him.

It was under this situation that Zhang Zhixiong chose to be patient, temporarily gave up on his idea of ​​defecting, and waited for a suitable time before taking action.

I personally think that under Chen Youliang, there should be many people like Zhang Zhixiong.

At the same time, from my personal point of view, it is definitely not a wise choice for a person to expose too many weaknesses in his character before important matters are mature. This is also the most fundamental difference between Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang.

After Zhu Yuanzhang established the country, he also carried out mass killings of heroes and forcible purges of hostile forces, and the methods and methods of massacre were not inferior to Chen Youliang, but that was only after he had absolute power, and the hostile forces had

He did so without posing any threat to his personal power.

Zhu Yuanzhang did not show any of this habit of killing during his entrepreneurial stage before the founding of the People's Republic of China, which is why he was able to recruit a large number of people to work for him.

But Chen Youliang did exactly the opposite.

Although Chen Youliang's Han regime appears to be relatively stable on the surface, the successive killings of his immediate superiors cannot win over people's hearts, let alone achieve great things.

Under the rule of this kind of personal authoritarianism, when everything is still unknown and the world has not yet formed a certain conclusion, what should be done is to consult the ministers and open up their opinions, rather than blocking the opinions behind closed doors. However, the ministers under Chen Youliang

They dare to be angry but dare not speak, because none of them can guarantee that facing such a tyrant, a guy who dares to kill his own master, what words will hit him. Once they provoke this evil star, they will only end up in the same fate.

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A tragic end of ruined reputation.

In this gloomy situation, a regime with impetuous people, no matter how stable it appears on the surface, is just a facade. Fundamentally, its regime is broken and incomplete.

This is also the fundamental reason why I personally lost the battle against Chen Youliang.

In the Battle of Longjiang, at this rare moment, Zhang Zhixiong and others who had long been unwilling to fight or serve the Lord chose to defect.

From a human perspective, the actions of Zhang Zhixiong and others cannot be said to be absolute traitors. If this fault must be accumulated on a certain person, then Chen Youliang can only take the blame.

It can be said that this situation was completely planted by Chen Youliang himself.

It can also be said that Zhang Shicheng was not defeated by Zhu Yuanzhang in the Battle of Longjiang. To be precise, he was defeated by Chen Youliang himself.

In this battle, Zhu Yuanzhang's troops and horses were basically not wasted, and the shortcomings of ships, which he had always been dissatisfied with, were substantially improved. He captured Chen Youliang's warships like a dragon in the river and blocked the river.

, knocking down hundreds of huge ships such as Shan, Jianghai Ao, etc. This was something Zhu Yuanzhang never expected.

The third point can be said to be an unexpected prize given to Zhu Yuanzhang by Chen Youliang, a grand gift that Zhu Yuanzhang never expected but also made Chen Youliang heartbroken.

After Zhu Yuanzhang defeated Chen Youliang in Longjiang, because of Chen Youliang's perfect hegemonism and patriicide, the generals who had originally submitted to Chen Youliang saw that Chen Youliang was defeated and absconded. They all asked to break away from Chen Youliang's hegemonic control and voluntarily surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang.

As the victor, Zhu Yuanzhang had no intention of sparing Chen Youliang.

Looking across the river at Chen Youliang who was scurrying for his life like a rat, Zhu Yuanzhang stood on the bow of the boat with a burning gaze.

From now on, you Chen Youliang will no longer be my rival, Zhu Yuanzhang. From now on, I, Zhu Yuanzhang, will never be afraid of you Chen Youliang.

Chen Youliang, if I let you go back to the mountain today, you will be troubled by tigers in the future.

I believe that as a soldier and an outstanding strategist, Zhu Yuanzhang must have firmly believed that being kind to the enemy is cruel to oneself.

So after quickly cleaning up the battlefield, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an order for a full-scale pursuit of Chen Youliang.

After the pursuit order was issued, one person first stood up and recommended a strategy to Zhu Yuanzhang: while pursuing Chen Youliang, gather heavy troops to attack Anqing, which had an empty defense.

Reason for recommendation: Chen Youliang led the army to attack Longjiang this time. All the soldiers and horses came from Anqing. The soldiers who surrendered today are also soldiers from Anqing. Now that Chen Youliang has been defeated and fled, Anqing must have no one to defend it. ["Records of the Ming Dynasty"]

"You Liang marched eastward, and all the soldiers from Anqing followed him. The soldiers surrendering now are all soldiers from Anqing. Since Youliang was defeated, Anqing has no defenders."

Recommendation requirements: The only requirement for a recommender is that he must personally participate in the pursuit of Chen Youliang in order to avenge his murder of his boss and his friend.

Recommended person: Zhang Zhixiong.

Faced with this information that could be said to be given to him for free, and faced with the big man who had just surrendered to him but whose hands were bleeding and his eyes were on fire, Zhu Yuanzhang, as the commander-in-chief, seemed to have no choice.

Don't miss the opportunity; it will never come back.

In order to weaken Chen Youliang's strength to the greatest extent, Zhu Yuanzhang agreed to Zhang Zhixiong's request. On the one hand, he directed others to attack Anqing, which was weakly defended. On the other hand, he asked Xu Da and Feng Sheng to cooperate with Zhang Zhixiong with force.

Facing tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in his hands, facing the explosive bandits who had long been dissatisfied but had no choice but to do anything, Zhang Zhixiong, who was completely crazy in his heart, taught us the personality of a madman, an idiot, and a nearly violent person who has completely lost his mind.

Literacy.

If your heart is already dead, why should you fear the dead?

Faced with Chen Youliang, a thug who serially killed his masters and risked the world's inaction, and faced with his old master who had squeezed him and even enslaved him for several years, Zhang Zhixiong, who was already full of anger, with the cooperation of Xu Da and Feng Sheng, dealt with

Chen Youliang, who had already been defeated and fled, launched an almost life-threatening pursuit.

Chen Youliang first fled to Cihu. Facing Chen Youliang's large ships and horses that were intercepted here, Zhang Zhixiong lit the torch in his hand and burned all the opponent's ships in the raging flames.

After the arson, Zhang Zhixiong forcefully broke through the opponent's dilapidated blockade and once again led the pursuit to Chen Youliang's quarrying base.

Facing the Zhu family soldiers who were clinging to him and almost madness, facing Zhang Zhixiong who was once his subordinate but now completely lost his mind and rushed to the front, facing this man who had already become famous.

Zhang Shicheng was furious in his heart and cursed at the young boy from the Zhang family who had no regard for his old friendship.

Zhang Zhixiong, I’m going to punch you in the gut.

You bastard, if you don't have breasts, your father will have breasts, and if you have breasts, you will be your mother.

Uncle, I don't owe you any money and I didn't kill your people. You took the wrong medicine today and are chasing me to the death.

Did I provoke you? You bit me so hard.

You just met that bald donkey today. What kind of rat poison did he feed you to make you work so desperately for him?

In addition to his anger, Chen Youliang, who was filled with anger and embarrassment, ordered his general Zhang Dingbian to lead the Han army to launch an equally fierce counterattack against Zhang Zhixiong's army that had betrayed him.

It was in this almost anxious battle situation that Zhang Zhixiong, who only wanted revenge and simply wanted to die, finally ended his short but almost brilliant life.

During the offensive and crusade, Zhang Zhixiong faced off against his old master and his brothers who had cooked pots together until he died on the battlefield.

After Zhang Zhixiong died in battle, Xu Da and Feng Sheng, who were Zhu Yuanzhang's generals, did not have a truce.

Instead, he led Zhu's army in five groups to beat Zhang Shicheng hard, and successively captured Xinzhou, Chizhou, and Taiping, and pursued them all the way to Anqing, and captured Anqing in one fell swoop.

After Zhu Yuanzhang captured Anqing, facing Zhu Yuanzhang's overwhelming momentum, some of the troops who were originally forced to succumb to Chen Youliang's power saw that the situation was not right and they were completely on the sidelines. They decided to rebel and defect from Chen Youliang's camp.

Rely on the protective umbrella of Zhu Yuanzhang, a bald donkey that at least has not yet exploded.

Among them was Hu Mei, who was born in Mianyang, Hubei Province and was a fellow villager of Chen Youliang and was the prime minister of Jiangxi Province at the time.

Also surrendering with him was a small but geographically important city: Hongdu City (now Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province).

Behind Hongdu City is Chen Youliang's real base camp, the latest city where the Han Dynasty moved and established its capital: Jiangzhou (today's Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province).

Hongdu's unexpected surrender was unexpected by Zhu Yuanzhang. He really didn't expect that his ambush in Longwan would have an unexpected harvest. It was like winning a pie-in-the-sky opportunity and he naturally would not let it go.

In order to express his sincerity, and to resolutely guard the gate of Hongdu City, Zhu Yuanzhang greatly appreciated Hu Mei and at the same time strategically relieved Hu Mei of his military power, and sent his close nephew Zhu Wenzheng to be promoted to the supreme commander of Hongdu City. In order to prevent unexpected events, Zhu Yuanzhang

General Deng Yu and General Zhao Desheng were also sent to assist Zhu Yuanzhang in handling the military affairs of the city.
Chapter completed!