Chapter 640: The Great Battle of the Central Plains (End)
Chapter 640 The decisive battle in the Central Plains (End)
Chapter 638: The decisive battle in the Central Plains (End)
After Lu Bu arrived with Jingzhou reinforcements, Liu Dai already had an absolute advantage in military strength. After all, he had Baiyue mercenaries to help him.
However, there are hundreds of ways to succeed and hundreds of ways to fail.
Liu Dai relied on Baiyue to persist until Lu Bu arrived, but he also lost the entire Jiaozhou because of Baiyue.
In order to defend Jiaozhou, Liu Dai promised a large amount of benefits to Baiyue, and with the arrival of the famous general Lu Bu, Liu Dai also gained some confidence.
Liu Dai believed that he and Lu Bu could defeat Hong Xiuquan even without relying on Baiyue, so in order to recover some of the losses, he prepared to send back Baiyue mercenaries.
Let's go back when we get back. After all, we made a lot of money on this trip down the mountain from Baiyue.
Liu Dai abided by the agreement and handed over all the promised materials and money to the Baiyue mercenaries.
Unexpectedly, Liu Dai's men deceived the owner and withheld the property. After the Baiyue mercenaries found out that the amount was wrong, they were naturally furious. Coupled with Hong Xiuquan's deliberate provocation, the two sides finally started fighting.
Liu Dai had beheaded the officers who had detained him at the beginning, but he did not expect that things would evolve to this point, and he regretted it in his heart. However, the matter had already come to this, and there was no point in regretting it.
In order to prevent Hong Xiuquan from taking advantage of him, Liu Dai decided to unite with Lu Bu to suppress the "rebellion" of the Baiyue mercenaries as quickly as possible.
Of the 20,000 Vietnamese mercenaries invited by Liu Dai, 15,000 were killed in a daze, and the rest escaped with the help of Hong Xiuquan.
After this battle, Liu Dai completely offended all the Baiyue tribes, but he had no time to care about it, because his casualties were also not small, and Hong Xiuquan was still watching from the sidelines.
In November, a heavy snow swept across the Central Plains, and as the temperature dropped sharply, fighting in various places also slowed down. After all, it was not suitable to continue fighting in this climate.
Tiangong once again helped Ming Dynasty, allowing Ming Dynasty to continue to survive.
Jiaozhou, the southernmost part of the Han Dynasty, although the winter climate is also cold, it is not so cold that it is difficult to hold a gun.
Hong Xiuquan and Liu Dai have reached the most important moment in their fight for Jiaozhou, and of course they will not stop because of the weather.
On November 5, Hong Xiuquan divided the army into three groups. He, Yang Xiuqing and Shi Dakai each led an army. They gradually encroached on the enemy in three directions, and finally met in Jiaozhi, where the decisive battle began.
That battle was **** and both sides suffered heavy casualties, but it ended in Hong Xiuquan's victory.
After the war, Lu Bu realized how important it was to have a good teammate.
In the battle between Liu Dai and Hong Xiuquan, Lu Bu can be said to be the only bright spot.
In the early stage of the battle, Yang Xiuqing, Shi Dakai and Li Xiucheng joined forces, but were defeated by Lu Bu in the 80th round.
Had it not been for Li Kaifang and Chen Yucheng's support, the three of them would have died under Lu Bu's arrows.
Afterwards, Yang Xiuqing set up an ambush, but Lu Bu forcibly broke the ambush.
In the subsequent battle, seven generals, Yang Xiuqing, Shi Dakai, Li Xiucheng, Chen Yucheng, Li Kaifang, Lin Fengxiang and Wei Changhui, joined forces to finally defeat Lu Bu.
Lü Bu was indeed defeated in this battle, but not only was he unscathed, he also shot Wei Changhui to death when he retreated.
Afterwards, Lu Bu kidnapped Hong Xiuquan's sister Hong Xuanjiao in a night raid and left calmly with her beauty. In the Battle of Jiaozhou, Lu Bu fought the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom almost alone, while Liu Dai and the four major princes of Jingnan, their five pig teammates, were constantly manipulated by Hong Xiuquan's generals.
It was precisely because Liu Dai and others were successfully plotted by Hong Xiuquan many times that Lu Bu's 30,000 Jingzhou army was defeated so hard.
Not only did you miss your opportunity due to your teammates’ mistakes, but you also almost fell into an enemy circle because of your teammates’ mistakes. There were more than one such example.
With these five pig teammates holding him back, although Lu Bu has been winning the battle, the situation in Jiaozhou is still deteriorating.
Lü Bu's victory alone could not reverse the entire situation in Jiaozhou. It was not until Chen Yucheng killed Liu Dai that the situation in Jiaozhou was completely defeated.
Founded by desperation, Lu Bu could only lead his troops and horses to withdraw from Jiaozhou. As for the four princes in Jingnan, they also ran away early due to too many casualties.
Since then, Jiaozhou has been completely occupied by Hong Xiuquan, and he also took advantage of the power of this victory to start preparing to rectify Baiyue affairs.
Although Lu Bu was defeated this time, no one blamed him, because everyone with a discerning eye knew that the blame for the defeat did not lie with him.
With those pig teammates around, not to mention Lu Bu, even Qin Hao still couldn't bring him along.
In December, the fourth year of Zhongping, the battle in Yangzhou finally made new progress.
Whether it was generals or military strength, the Ming army could not compare with the Yangzhou coalition, so Zhu Yuanzhang decisively chose to defend and never leave the city no matter what the Han army did.
Sun Wu once offered a plan to lure Zhu Yuanzhang out of the city, but Zhu Yuanzhang did not fall for the trick. Instead, he designed a plan to lure the Yangzhou coalition forces.
Wang Lang proposed a plan to attack Shouchun by digging tunnels, but Zhu Yuanzhang still cracked the idea and diverted water to drown many Han troops.
Shouchun City has thick walls and sufficient food and grass, so Zhu Yuanzhang had no worries. Under his strict orders, the Yangzhou Allied Forces attacked Shouchun for several months and suffered numerous casualties, but they were still unable to break the city.
Zhu Yuanzhang stayed there for half a year, and the Yangzhou coalition forces were really helpless to deal with Zhu Yuanzhang's turtle shell.
At this time, Sun Wu once again proposed a plan and sent someone to contact Tao Qian, who was hiding in Xuzhou, and asked him to lead an attack on the rear of the Ming army.
Tao Qian, who had been repeatedly defeated in battles, had long been frightened by the Ming army, so he had been guarding Xiapi and Pengcheng counties and never dared to provoke the Ming army.
Da Ming had actually wanted to deal with Tao Qian for a long time. After all, there was such a moderate threat in the rear, and no one could feel at ease.
After all, Xuzhou was Fang La's territory before, so it was difficult for the Ming Dynasty to directly send troops. After quelling Fang La's rebellion, he originally wanted to capture Tao Qian's two Xuzhou counties in one fell swoop. However, the Han took advantage of this to send troops, and the Ming Dynasty was busy dealing with the Han Dynasty, so naturally it There was no time to deal with Tao Qian.
It is precisely under this strange check and balance that Tao Qian has survived tenaciously until now, and is about to become a decisive force. .
Sun Wu's plan is indeed not without poison. Now the strength of the Ming army on all fronts has been tightened, so that there are not many defenders in the rear. If Tao Qian sends troops, he will basically not encounter much obstacles.
But Tao Qian was completely frightened. Even though he knew that the Ming Dynasty's rear troops were weak, he still dared not send troops.
In order to ensure that he could convince Tao Qian, Sun Wu decided to go to Xuzhou to lobby in person. After success, he continued to assist Tao Qian and sent troops to attack Zhu Yuanzhang's rear.
(End of this chapter)