Chapter 23
The fiery red sun gradually sinks, and the hot temperature slowly fades away. The burning clouds in the west slowly change in the air, and tomorrow is still a good day.
For some people, can they still be alive after tomorrow?
As long as the war drum sounds, some lives will leave, and those who stay will face the next death. As long as you enter the battlefield, no one can choose life and death. The only choice is to kill the other party and let themselves live.
Being alive is the greatest reward to yourself!
Only the living have the right to enjoy rewards!
Everyone wants to be rewarded, everyone wants to live, because those who pick up swords and guns all want to live, so someone must die.
This is the law of the battlefield. You live and die, I live and die.
On the city tower of Jiangzhou City, Chen Li stood at the highest point and looked into the distance.
The sparse villages, the emerald green trees, the wide and flat dirt road leads to the distance, and in that far away, an army is coming along this road.
Chen Li didn't know how long it would take for them, he was waiting.
A horse galloped from afar, and the horse immediately ran with the horse, and the monotonous and boring sound of horse hooves quickly came.
The horse's hooves are loud and powerful, just like drumsticks hitting the hearts of people standing on the city tower.
The soldiers at the city gate saw the flag waving by the horse, hurriedly opened the city gate completely and left it aside from the distance. The horse rushed into Jiangzhou City without a moment of hesitation.
After a while, the sergeant who reported the news was taken to Chen Li and his group.
The soldiers who reported the news were sweating and panting. Before they could stand firm, they hurriedly took out a letter with a red military flag painted from their bodies, knelt on one knee, raised their hands above their heads, and panted, saying, "Report to the King of Han, this is an urgent news a hundred miles away. Please check it out."
Hua Xiaoyun stepped forward to take the letter and handed it to Chen Li with both hands.
Chen Li took the letter paper, tore open the letter skin, pulled out the letter paper, and looked carefully.
He said to everyone around him: "Zhu Yuanzhang's vanguard of about 80,000 people, led by Fu Youde, came from Leping, less than a hundred miles away from this, and is expected to arrive tomorrow."
"There are two thousand cavalrymen and sixty thousand infantrymen, and the rest are about 15,000 escorts, etc. There are about thirty artillery, about one thousand firearms, countless powerful bows, crossbows, and thousands of siege equipment. It is expected that in two days, the 100,000 elite generals led by Zhu Yuanzhang himself will arrive in Jiangzhou City, and the detailed military situation is still to be investigated."
The generals present looked heavy. The vanguard was nearly three times more than them, and they were not considered to be the follow-up personnel. Zhu Yuanzhang planned to take steps to eliminate all the military forces of the Han Dynasty.
Chen Li breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Fortunately, their brigade of cavalry did not come, otherwise this battle would be difficult to fight."
Zhang Dingbian said: "The vanguard alone may eat us. This battle is difficult to fight. Forget it. I am holding my breath these days. Let's have a good fight with them. Whether it is good or bad will be determined by heaven."
Chen Li looked at Zhang Dingbian's worried look and smiled, "Second uncle, don't worry, we just need to pick up the bargain and run away. When Zhu Yuanzhang's army arrives, maybe we will run away after eating meat."
Zhang Dingbian was stunned and said, "Didn't you say you won't leave?"
Chen Li said: "If you can beat it, fight it, and if you can't beat it, run away. Am I stupidly waiting for Zhu Yuanzhang to come and siege the city?"
Zhang Dingbian breathed a sigh of relief and said, "If the King of Han thinks this way, I will be relieved."
Chen Li looked at Hua Xiaoyun and said, "Guard Hua, once the hour of Hai, you will lead your subordinates to the designated place to ambush. If you see the order, you must not make any mistakes."
Hua Xiaoyun received the order and turned around and went down to prepare.
Chen Li looked at Luo Gang and said, "As General Luo said before, after Hua Weiwei left, you will lead the troops and horses. When leaving, you must hold a cat and wrap your hooves. Remember."
Luo Gang agreed and went down to prepare.
Zhang Dingbian said: "Why let them leave again at night?"
Chen Li said: "Although the defense inside and outside is tight, it is impossible to keep it from being known to the enemy spies. Of course, it is best to hide it."
Zhang Dingbian asked strangely: "Does your master teach you even these?"
Chen Li said: "Is this...what do you think?"
Zhang Dingbian stared at Chen Li's back as he walked away and murmured: "How come this kid knows everything, he is quite familiar with it, it's so strange.
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The Wu army vanguard camp fifty miles away.
As soon as dawn was dawn, Fu Youde ordered the army to prepare to set out in Jiangzhou City.
In recent years, he has followed Li Xixi, Ming Yuzhen and other rebel leaders to fight everywhere, but fighting around is like rushing to the scene, and there is no specific conclusion or reputation.
Later he defected to Chen Youliang. Because Chen Youliang became emperor, Fu Youde was dissatisfied and felt that he had no chance to follow Chen Youliang, so he defected to Zhu Yuanzhang.
During this battle in Poyang Lake, Fu Youde finally made a comeback and was promoted to general by Zhu Yuanzhang.
He was eager to make contributions and asked Zhu Yuanzhang to capture Zhang Dingbian who had escaped alive for 50,000 elite troops. However, Zhu Yuanzhang adopted Liu Bowen's step-by-step strategy, allowing him to attack the city and see the land and not to move forward quickly. Otherwise, based on his ideas, he would have long captured Jiangzhou City and even captured Chen Youliang's stupid son alive.
In less than two hours, he will be able to reach the city of Jiangzhou.
With his spies coming to report that Jiangzhou City had already been arranged and prepared to fight against the King of Wu.
Fu Youde was surprised in his heart. In theory, Zhang Dingbian should have taken Chen Youliang's stupid son to Nanchang. The city defense was strong. Although Zhu Yuanzhang's army was waiting for an opportunity to move, it was much safer than in this place.
Zhang Dingbian is brave and resourceful, and he will never delay this place. Returning to Nanchang early is the best strategy. What exactly does he want to do? This is really strange.
When he arrived at the city of Jiangzhou, he felt even more strange.
According to the way of using troops to defend the city and to attack with strong troops, Zhang Dingbian should be guarding the city closely, but Fu Youde saw the Han army waiting for battle outside the city.
If he hadn't watched the "Zhang" army flag fluttering high, he would have never believed that the sophisticated Zhang Dingbian would have made such an arrangement.
Anything strange must be true. Fu Youde knew that Zhang Dingbian was one of the best famous generals. Since he had such a defense, he would definitely be famous.
Since I am a sure victory, why bother to attack the city? Fu Youde, who has always dared to fight and rush, decided to observe it first. After all, it is not easy to make a name for himself. If you take a wrong step, you will be finished with everything you get.
So he built the elite troops into several battle teams, unsheathed the knife and rolled the arrows, ready to rush to the death at any time. Then he began to let the rest of the people camp, clean up the tent, and bury the pot to make rice.
Suddenly, the eighty thousand troops dispersed, with a huge momentum and began to prepare for garrison.
Chapter completed!