Chapter 74: The same luck as a fan(1/2)
Faced with an absolute dilemma, Zhu Yuanzhang was completely out of ideas.
But he will never give up easily.
In terms of fighting against Chen Youliang, as the absolute leader of the Zhu Jiajun, he would never bow his head in front of Chen Youliang even if he died.
Scholars can be killed, but not humiliated!
This is the most fundamental bottom line and dignity of being a soldier.
For Zhu Yuanzhang, the bottom line and dignity are nonsense. Regarding Chen Youliang's issue, the only thing he can do is: fight to the death on Poyang Lake.
Looking around, when all the officials were at a loss, when all the civil servants and generals were at a loss, a man stood out from the crowd.
He shouted in a low voice that was almost tearing.
Attack with fire!
Set a fire and burn that bastard to death (I made up this sentence myself)!
The name of the person who said this sentence is: Guo Xing.
Name: Guo Xing;
Age: 33 years old;
Ethnicity: Han;
Birthplace: Haozhou, Anhui;
Date of birth: 1330;
Time of death: 1383;
Title: Marquis of Gongchang;
Posthumous title: Duke of Shaanxi;
Main achievements: Poyang Lake Battle Sacrifice Fire Attack Strategy.
Guo Xing is an old subordinate of Zhu Yuanzhang and one of the twenty-four people he brought out when Zhu Yuanzhang established his own business in Haozhou.
It can be said that Zhu Yuanzhang has been following Zhu Yuanzhang since he joined the army, and he is Zhu Yuanzhang's real die-hard subordinate.
I think that at this time, Guo Xing may not be making suggestions to Zhu Yuanzhang, but more like venting his depression and unhappiness. Facing the fierce attack of Chen Youliang, the second artilleryman, he probably didn't have any good suggestions.
The suggestion to attack with fire might just be an unintentional remark he made to vent his anger.
It's a bit like when someone encounters a special problem that needs to be solved but doesn't know how to solve it. At this time, you happen to be passing by and he tells the whole story. You, who has a hot temper, are even angrier than him when you hear it.
Here comes a sentence: There is still such a scumbag in the world, fuck him, fuck him to death!
I think Zhu Yuanzhang and Guo Xing feel a bit like this now.
But many times, just an unintentional sentence may break a dilemma.
Just like Xu Zhu in Demi-Gods and Dragons, a monk who doesn't even understand what Go is and breaks the precepts about sex first and then the precepts about sex, can finally break the Zhenlong chess game, but the masters who know the routines of Go are stuck in the routines.
Just as you can't extricate yourself from the situation, many times a complete outsider's random attack can break the deadlock.
On the other hand, they all rely on the same thing, which is luck.
In other words, it's God's will.
It's an ordained arrangement of fate.
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had completely run out of ideas and was completely stuck in the horns, unable to get out of the circle or pull out his legs, seemed to be inspired by Guo Xing's words.
Yes, why can't we attack with fire?
This is indeed a good suggestion.
Maybe we can really burn that bastard named Chen to death!
One word awakens the dreamer.
Guo Xing, who had always been unremarkable in battles but could not defeat Xu Da under Chang Yuchun's troops, was taken seriously by Zhu Yuanzhang for the first time.
Although he didn't know whether the fire attack could really work, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had no other choice, should maintain the mentality of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor when facing the creativity of fire attack.
If you die, you will die. Instead of sitting and waiting for death, you might as well give it a try.
As the old saying goes: put yourself to death and live again.
His current predicament is no different from his death.
Rather than sit back and wait for death, it's better to give it a try.
If you fight well, you can not only survive, but if you fight poorly, you can make a comeback.
Anyway, before coming to Poyang, I didn't even think about going back alive, and now that I've reached this point, I can't back down.
Dry!
Fight!
The worst possible outcome is death!
Twenty years later, I am still a good man!
Twenty years later, I will still fight with you Chen Youliang!
In this mentality, Zhu Yuanzhang began to deploy firepower to attack Chen Youliang.
He first found seven fishing boats, removed all the useless things on the boats, and then filled the boats with particularly flammable dry reeds.
Zhu Yuanzhang also specially ordered people to put the gunpowder in the reeds to aid combustion.
If these things were stored now, they would be completely flammable and explosive dangerous goods.
It is a red contraband item that is absolutely not allowed to be checked on board the ship.
But there is no limit to Zhu Yuanzhang.
He doesn't care about these nonsense rules.
Here, God is God, and God is the rules.
Anyway, compared to Chen Youliang, these ideas of mine are just childish.
To deal with Chen Youliang, a thug, we must use some strong-flavored methods.
Without some special means, it is impossible to subdue Chen Youliang, a loser!
Fight violence with violence.
Only this trick will be useful to Chen Youliang.
After doing this, Zhu Yuanzhang did not give up.
He began to order people to tie some reeds into human shapes, then put armor on the straw men, and forcefully inserted weapons into the straw men, so that the straw men would assume a fighting posture.
This should be done to confuse Chen Youliang.
Let Chen Youliang know that the boat he is carrying is a boatload of people, not a boatload of firecrackers that will explode at the first touch.
Then, these seven fishing boats, which were completely equivalent to Japanese boats, were handed over to the hands of a few dead soldiers.
The history books do not say how many of these dead soldiers there were in total, but they are simply mentioned.
But I think there are only about twenty at most, and the average number of people on each ship should be no more than three.
The staffing should be such that one chief is responsible for firing the gun, one deputy is responsible for assisting, and the other is used for reserve, that is, backup.
If the main one is killed by the enemy, the other two can take over and complete the work.
The difference from the previous days when Xu Da led his troops to break into the Han camp alone was that these dead soldiers this time were really looking for their own death.
Compared with Xu Da, the risk coefficient and danger level of the work they do are several orders of magnitude higher, and they are not equal at all.
Their tasks are also much heavier than Xu Da's.
Not only do they need to light the cannon at once, but they also have to safely and accurately deliver this warship like a firecracker to the enemy camp, and if they fail to do so, their lives will have to be taken to heaven.
, the difficulty of this can be imagined.
It can even be said that they are going to die.
In this regard, Zhu Yuanzhang should be grateful to these people, because their actions are completely selfless contributions.
Nowadays, these people are all first-class martyrs. After their death, they will wear medals and national flags, and everyone will respect them and face the wall in all directions.
Everything seemed to be ready, but Zhu Yuanzhang still did not send troops.
Because he still lacks something, something that is absolutely fatal to him.
He is waiting.
Wait for a signal.
This signal is called: East Wind!
Just like when he attacked Cao Cao, Zhu Yuanzhang encountered the same difficulties as Zhou Yu.
Everything is ready, all it takes is a gust of wind.
To be continued...