Soon after, news came that Zhang Shicheng sent general Lu Zhen to attack and besiege Anfeng. The food in Anfeng city was cut off. The situation was very urgent. King Ming quickly sent someone to ask Zhu Yuanzhang for help.

After receiving the signal for help, Zhu Yuanzhang said, "The Little Ming King is in danger, I need to go to rescue him. After all, I am Duke of Wu under the command of the Ming King!"

Liu Bowen stood up and firmly opposed: "The soldiers should not be dispatched at this time. If the rescue is released, how should they be resettled? Why not let Lu Zhen solve the problem? If someone uses a knife to kill someone, it will save trouble! Besides, we will go to rescue Xiao Ming King, and Chen Youliang sneaked into Yingtian Mansion, what should we do?"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked again: "Entertainment Father, what do you think?"

"save!"

Xiang Yu said: "Although King Xiao Ming and Liu Futong were defeated, they are heroes admired by the world. But Zhang Shicheng is determined to be the dog leg of the Yuan Dynasty. Since that's the case, we will rescue!"

Liu Bowen said: "We went north to compete with Zhang Shicheng, and then fought with Chen Youliang in the west. It was very dangerous to fight on both sides!"

Xiang Yu said: "Attacking Anfeng, isn't it a test of us! If we don't rescue Xiao Ming Wang, Zhang Shicheng will feel that we are afraid of him and will be more and more arrogant. At that time, it will not only attack Anfeng, but also attack western Zhejiang in the south... We are really in danger!"

"Only by going north to Anfeng and fighting, Zhang Shicheng can see our determination and not be more aggressive, and he dares to choose neutrality when our Yu Chen Youliang confronts us!"

Liu Bowen asked, "What if Chen Youliang attacked our hometown while we went north?"

Xiang Yu smiled and said, "He won't!"

As he said that, he looked at Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled.

Many questions are tacitly understood, and smart people understand them.

As for some people, no matter how much they say, they don’t understand.

Afterwards, Zhu Yuanzhang personally led a large army to Anfeng to rescue Xiao Ming King.

When the news came, Chen Youliang also led his troops to fight, advancing on both land and water, with an army of about 300,000, but it was claimed to be an army of 600,000 to the outside world.

"Your Majesty, Zhu Yuanzhang led his troops north to rescue Xiao Ming King. We should lead the navy to attack Jinling!"

A strategist said.

"inappropriate!"

Chen Youliang said: "If the Hongdu defenders seized our retreat when they led their troops to attack Yingtian Prefecture and cut off our food, our entire army might be destroyed!"

"It's better to pull out Hongdu, then remove Anqing, slowly draw it, and keep eating!"

The last failure made Chen Youliang no longer impatient, become sober and calm, and keep steadily without leaving any flaws. With his strong strength, he kept squeezing Zhu Yuanzhang's living space.

Then, he led a large army to besiege Hongdu.

By the way, we will surround the site to help.

…………

Anfeng!

During the fierce battle, Liu Futong died in battle and saved Xiao Ming King.

Zhu Yuanzhang planned to place Xiao Ming King in Chuzhou.

Soon, news of Chen Youliang's besieging Hongdu came.

Looking at the news, Zhu Yuanzhang sighed: "Chen Youliang, I'm not fooled!"

Xiang Yu also said: "What a pity!"

In Zhu Yuanzhang's plan, he led a large army north to rescue Xiao Ming King.

Relying on Chen Youliang, he was aggressive, bold and liked to fight, he would inevitably attack Jinling. At that time, at the Anqing Iron Line Hengjiang and at the Hukou Iron Line Hengjiang, he cut off Chen Youliang's retreat and cut off his food route.

Even if Chen Youliang has a million troops, his entire army will collapse because the food supply is cut off.

As for Chen Youliang, will he take the opportunity to conquer Yingtian Mansion... the result is that there is no possibility.

Relying on Yingtian Prefecture's city defense, it is simply difficult to conquer without a year or two.

Unfortunately, I was not deceived!

…………

Above the lobby, there is a map of the situation of the two armies.

Zhu Yuanzhang was looking at the map and analyzing the situation.

On the situation chart, Chen Youliang led an army of 600,000 and was besieging Hongdu.

It's like Hongdu, it's going to be destroyed at any time.

However, all this is an illusion.

In the Battle of Gaoyou, Tuotuo was known as a million troops, but in fact it was only 300,000.

Most of the so-called claims are very rich.

Chen Youliang claimed that the army of 600,000 was heading east, with a maximum of 300,000. But even 300,000 was extremely difficult to fight.

As for Hongdu, it has a strong city, more than 10,000 troops and enough food. The enemy has a large army of thirty kings, so it cannot be used at all. It can only be a tactic of adding fuel to the oil, and it will be worry-free in a short time, and it will not be a big problem to persist for more than a year.

Zhu Yuanzhang was worried about how to defeat Chen Youliang's 300,000 army.

As the soldiers gathered together, Zhu Yuanzhang set out slowly, but it was the time for Anqing, and stopped and started to "sit in peace and fight".

After waiting for three months, Zhu Yuanzhang slowly went to rescue.

Arriving at Poyang Lake and Hukou, the navy from both sides encountered each other and fought together

Dongdongdongdongdongdong!

The war drums were ringing, and the two sides confronted each other.

Chen Youliang's navy's advantage lies in the fact that the ships are large, condescending, and easy to attack. It just hits, and many small boats capsize.

But Zhu Yuanzhang's naval ship was small, but the firearm attacked sharply, and he lit many large ships in Chen Youliang.

After the war, both sides suffered losses.

I was on land again, and after a few confrontations, there was no difference between the winner and the loss.

During the battle, Zhu Yuanzhang was sunk on a boat, but fortunately, he was rescued by the spring and was able to escape danger.

The two sides were in a stalemate.

...

When we arrived at the shore, we set up camp.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the map with a gloomy face and the situation was in a stalemate.

"For the current plan, we can only attack Wuhan and siege Wei to save Zhao!" Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"Let me do it!"

Xiang Yu said.

"Then please give me your adoptive father!" Zhu Yuanzhang said.

It seems that the surprise attack on Wuhan is the only place to break the deadlock.

Xiang Yu rectified his troops and planned to attack Wuhan in surprise, mainly breaking through Wuhan and alleviating the situation on the front line.

Just then, Liu Bowen appeared.

"Lord, there is internal news! Chen Youliang is dead!" Liu Bowen said, "This is news from internal intelligence personnel, and it was given out at a very high price!"

"Chen Youliang is dead... A few days ago, I looked at him from afar. Chen Youliang is still fine, how could he die of illness suddenly!" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled.

One hundred don't believe it.

"Lord, I don't believe it either, but that's how the information is!" Liu Bowen said.

Zhu Yuanzhang was suspicious.

Not long after, news came that Chen Youliang's navy was retreating, and the army on the land was also retreating. All the 300,000 troops that were originally gathered in Hukou were retreating.

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "It's not a fraud! Chen Youliang pretended to die, then lured us to pursue, and then ambush us!"

Water war requires sufficient understanding of the local hydrological situation.

Where the water is deep, where the water is shallow, where there are reefs, where it is easy to walk, these are all related to the victory of the water battle.

The Battle of Longwan was to use Chen Youliang to correspond to Tianyi's generation. He was unfamiliar with the hydrological situation, and then took them to shallow places. He also used the tide to trick Chen Youliang.

By judging others by oneself, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that Chen Youliang would pretend to die, and then lure him to pursue him, then ambush him, kill him, and then defeated him.

Very likely!

Zhu Yuanzhang rectified the army and issued strict orders that he would not pursue.

Then, news came one after another.

The army kept retreating, retreating to Jiujiang, and then retreating to Wuhan.

Xiang Yu said: "Why don't you try it!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Then let's try it!"

Then he ordered Chang Yuchun to lead a large army of water and land to attack Jiujiang and throw stones to ask for directions.
To be continued...