Chapter 640 The Decisive Battle of the Central Plains (End)
Chapter 638: The Decisive Battle of the Central Plains (End)
After Lu Bu arrived in Jingzhou reinforcements, Liu Dai had an absolute advantage in military strength. After all, he still had Baiyue mercenaries to help.
However, success is always a hundred success, and failure is always a hundred success.
Liu Dai relied on Baiyue to persist until Lu Bu arrived, but also lost the entire Jiaozhou because of Baiyue.
In order to defend Jiaozhou, Liu Dai promised a lot of benefits to Baiyue, and with the arrival of the famous general Lu Bu, Liu Dai also gained some confidence.
Liu Dai believed that even if he did not rely on Baiyue, he and Lu Bu could still defeat Hong Xiuquan, so in order to recover some of the losses, he was ready to return to Baiyue mercenaries.
Let’s go back, after all, the trip to Baiyue went down the mountain has indeed made a lot of money.
Liu Dai abides by the agreement and handes the promised materials and money to the Baiyue mercenaries as much as possible.
But who knew that Liu Dai''s subordinates deducted the property from the cheating owner. After Baiyue mercenaries ordered the matter, they were naturally furious. With Hong Xiuquan''s intentional provocation, the two sides finally started fighting.
Liu Dai killed the officer who was deducted from the beginning, but he didn''t expect that the matter would still evolve to this point, and he regretted it very much. However, it was so much useless to regret it.
In order not to give Hong Xiuquan the opportunity to take advantage of it, Liu Dai decided to join forces with Lu Bu to suppress the "rebellion" of Baiyue mercenaries as quickly as possible.
The 20,000 Baiyue mercenaries invited by Liu Dai were killed in a daze, and the rest escaped with the help of Hong Xiuquan''s "unintentional" help.
After this battle, Liu Dai completely offended all the tribes of Baiyue, but he had no time to take care of it because his casualties were also quite large, and Hong Xiuquan was still eyeing him.
In November, a heavy snow swept across the Central Plains, and as the temperature plummeted, wars in various places slowed down. After all, it is not suitable to continue fighting in such a climate.
God helped Daming again so that Daming could continue to persevere.
Although the climate in the southernmost part of the Han Dynasty was cold in winter, it was not as good as not being able to hold the gun.
Hong Xiuquan and Liu Dai have reached the most important moment in order to compete for Jiaozhou, and of course they will not stop because of the weather.
On November 5, Hong Xiuquan divided the army into three divisions. He himself, Yang Xiuqing and Shi Dakai each led one army, gradually eroded in three groups, and finally met in Jiaozhi and the decisive battle began.
In that battle, the battle was bloody, and both sides suffered heavy casualties, but in the end it ended with Hong Xiuquan''s victory.
After the war started, 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 highlight.
In the early battle, Yang Xiuqing, Shi Dakai and Li Xiucheng joined forces, but were defeated by Lu Bu in 80 rounds.
If it weren''t for Li Kaifang and Chen Yucheng''s response, the three of them would have died under Lu Bu''s arrow.
Afterwards, Yang Xiuqing set up an ambush, but was forcibly broken by Lu Bu.
In the subsequent battle, Yang Xiuqing, Shi Dakai, Li Xiucheng, Chen Yucheng, Li Kaifang, Lin Fengxiang and Wei Changhui, the seven generals joined forces to finally defeat Lu Bu.
Lu Bu was indeed defeated in this battle, but not only did he remain unscathed, he also shot Wei Changhui to death when he retreated.
Later, in a night attack, Lu Bu snatched Hong Xiuquan''s sister Hong Xuanjiao and left with Mei calmly. During the Jiaozhou War, Lu Bu was almost alone in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, while Liu Dai and the five teammates of the four princes of Jingnan were always played with by Hong Xiuquan''s generals.
It is precisely because Liu Dai and others were successfully plotted by Hong Xiuquan for many times that Lu Bu''s 30,000 Jingzhou troops were so frustrated.
I won’t say that I missed the fighter’s plane because of my teammate’s mistakes. I almost fell into the enemy’s encirclement because of my teammate’s mistakes. There are more than once such examples.
With these five teammates dragging their legs, although Lu Bu has been winning battles, the situation in Jiaozhou is still deteriorating.
Lu Bu''s victory alone could not reverse the situation in Jiaozhou. It was not until Hong Xiu defeated all the situation and Chen Yucheng killed Liu Dai, and the situation in Jiaozhou was completely defeated.
Forced by helplessness, Lu Bu could only lead his troops to withdraw from Jiaozhou. As for the four princes in Jingnan, they ran away early due to casualties.
Since then, Jiaozhou has been completely occupied by Hong Xiuquan, and he has also taken advantage of the power of this great victory to start preparing to rectify the Baiyue matter.
Although Lu Bu was defeated this time, no one blamed him, because anyone with a discerning eye knew that the blame for the defeat was not on him.
With those pig teammates here, let alone Lu Bu, even Qin Hao still couldn''t help.
In December, in the fourth year of Zhongping, the battle situation in Yangzhou finally made new progress.
Neither the general nor the troops were as strong as the Yangzhou coalition, so Zhu Yuanzhang decided to defend the enemy decisively, and Ren Han army would never leave the city without any means.
Sun Wu once offered a plan to lead Zhu Yuanzhang out of the city, but Zhu Yuanzhang was not deceived, but instead designed to form the Yangzhou coalition forces.
Wang Lang proposed to use a ground attack strategy and planned to dig tunnels into Shouchun, but it was still cracked by Zhu Yuanzhang and drowned many Han troops.
Shouchun City had high walls and sufficient food and grass, so Zhu Yuanzhang had no worries. Under his strict orders, the Yangzhou coalition forces attacked Shouchun for several months, and countless casualties were killed or injured, but they still could not break the city.
Zhu Yuanzhang defended for half a year, and the Yangzhou coalition forces were really helpless in Zhu Yuanzhang''s turtle shell.
At this moment, Sun Wu offered another suggestion and sent someone to contact Tao Qian who was hiding in Xuzhou, so that he could lead the army to attack the rear of the Ming army.
Tao Qian, who was defeated repeatedly, had long been scared by the Ming army, so he had been defending Xia Pi and Pengcheng counties to death, and never dared to provoke the Ming army.
The Ming Dynasty had actually wanted to deal with Tao Qian for a long time. After all, there was such a big and small threat behind him, and no one could feel at ease.
After all, Xuzhou was Fang La''s territory before, so the Ming Dynasty was not good at sending troops directly. It originally wanted to conquer the two counties of Tao Qian''s Xuzhou after quelling Fang La''s rebellion, but the Han Dynasty took advantage of this to send troops. The Ming Dynasty was busy dealing with the Han Dynasty, so naturally there was no time to deal with Tao Qian.
It is precisely under this strange checks and balances that Tao Qian has been tenaciously still to this day and is about to become a decisive force. .
Sun Wu''s plan is really not poisonous. Now all the troops on all fronts of the Ming army have become tense, so there are not many defenders in the rear. If Tao Qian sends troops, he will basically not encounter too many obstacles.
But Tao Qian was completely scared. Even though he knew that the troops in the rear of the Ming Dynasty were weak, he still did not dare to send troops rashly.
In order to ensure that Tao Qian could be convinced, 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.
(This chapter ends)