Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes lit up and said, "The military advisor's words are reasonable. From the military advisor's perspective, what should we do now?"

Liu Bowen's eyes were deep and he hadn't spoken for a long time.

After many days of understanding, Zhu Yuanzhang knew his character and knew that he was thinking, so he did not disturb him.

The hills calmed down for a moment, but the whistling wind and the tumbling waves on the riverside occasionally slapped the river bank and made a roaring sound.

After a long time, Liu Bowen turned around and sorted out his long beards that were blown by the wind before speaking: "Jiangkou, Hukou, Nanhuzu, Wuyang Ferry surrounded Poyang Lake on all sides. Chen Youliang is known as a 600,000 army, but most of them are naval forces. If you want to win in one battle, you can only destroy Chen Youliang's huge naval forces so that you can do your best!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "What the military advisor said is exactly what the general thought. Although Chen Youliang has many soldiers and horses, he is the strongest navy. Chen Youliang is not worth worrying about if he wiped out his navy! It's not easy to just destroy Chen Youliang's huge navy?"

Liu Bowen smiled strangely and said, "In the past, when the battle of Red Cliffs and Zhou Yu fired Cao Cao's 800,000 troops, and from then on, the world will be divided into three parts. Why don't you use this fire today?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was slightly stunned, and his eyes lit up.

After dinner, 200,000 troops set off. Before leaving, Zhu Yuanzhang followed Liu Bowen's suggestion and divided the 200,000 troops into three groups to defend Jingjiangkou (now south of Susong, Anhui), and sent another army to station at Nanhuzui (now northwest of Hukou, Jiangxi), cutting off Chen Youliang's way back; and sent troops to guard Wuyang Ferry (now east of Nanchang County, Jiangxi) to prevent Chen's army from escaping; Zhu Yuanzhang personally led the navy from Songmen (now south of Duchang, Jiangxi) to enter Poyang Lake, forming a closed door and fighting dogs. With such a division of troops, the original large 200,000 troops were immediately divided into four groups, with fewer soldiers, and the speed of the team also became much faster. Soon, they passed through Hukou and rushed to Hongdu City.

After Zhang Ziming's death, Chen Youliang was angry and attacked several times. Helplessly, after witnessing Zhang Ziming's tragic death, everyone hated the Han army and Chen Youliang to the core. Everyone had no life to fight. Although there were less than 20,000 soldiers, the momentum of the killing was like thousands of troops, which scared many Han soldiers so much that they did not dare to approach Hongdu City.

At this moment, Chen Youliang was sitting on the dragon throne in anger. Hongdu's battle has now gone through eighty-five days. Although the siege of 600,000 troops and more than a dozen generals of Zhu Wenzheng's, the seemingly easy Hongdu city was unbreakable. This made him feel a little depressed. After many days of continuous battles, the soldiers are exhausted. If it weren't for listening to Brother Zhang's advice and taking the opportunity to capture Linjiang, Ji'an, as the rear base, just the 600,000 troops' food, drink, defecation, and sleep, would be enough for Chen Youliang to be overwhelmed. Although he has not been able to successfully capture Hongdu city, after 85 days of siege, he believes that Hongdu has reached the last moment. As long as he drags on it, Hongdu will be his own sooner or later?

Chen Youliang was thinking, and suddenly heard a burst of rapid footsteps on the dragon boat. Chen Youliang opened his half-open eyes and glanced at him. Seeing Zhang Dingbian hurriedly coming over. His expression was in a hurry, and an ominous premonition arose in Chen Youliang's heart.

"I, Zhang Dingbian has seen Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty!" Zhang Dingbian knelt on the ground, bowed his fists and said.

Chen Youliang said: "Brother Zhang doesn't have to be polite?"

Zhang Dingbian was not polite, and stood up and fisted and said, "Your Majesty, something is wrong! Zhu Yuanzhang has withdrawn the 100,000 troops from Luzhou, and joined forces from Jinling City to lead Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Liu Bowen, and Feng Sheng's 200,000 troops from Hongdu!"

"What?" Chen Youliang was shocked and looked at Zhang Dingbian in a panic and said, "Where are you now?"

Zhang Dingbian said: "According to the spies, 200,000 troops arrived overnight and have now arrived at Hukou!"

"Didn't it mean that Zhu Yuanzhang was fighting with Zhang Shicheng in Luzhou, why did he arrive at Hukou so soon?" Chen Youliang frowned. The panic just now had returned to his usual normal state in a while. He whispered: "Now that Hongdu City has not been captured yet. According to Brother Zhang, what should I do?"

Zhang Dingbian frowned slightly after hearing this, glanced at Chen Youliang, lowered his voice and said, "From the eyes of me, Hongdu City is solid, and now Zhu Yuanzhang's rescue army is also very difficult to capture Hongdu City in one fell swoop, but...?"

Chen Youliang said: "But what?"

Zhang Dingbian narrowed his eyes and said, "But in this way, Jinling will definitely be empty. Your Majesty only needs to pass through Poyang Lake with a powerful naval army...?"

"Poyang Lake...?" Chen Youliang squinted his eyes and muttered, saying, "Since that's the case, the army immediately withdrew from Hongdu and headed straight to Poyang Lake!"

"yes!"

In Hongdu City, Zhu Wenzheng was sitting upright on his handsome seat, his face looked a little ugly. Sitting on his left and right were civil and military ministers from Hongdu City, everyone's faces looked extremely ugly.

After a silence, Zhu Wenzheng sighed and said, "The Han army has been sieging the city for nearly three months, and many soldiers guarding the city have suffered casualties. Now there is not much food in the city, so it is difficult to stick to it for a long time. Half a month ago, the soldiers in the city have only eaten two meals, and they are all porridge, coarse grains, and they are not full, and they have no physical strength. There are fewer and fewer soldiers who can defend the city. If this continues, I am afraid that they will follow Zhang Xun Suiyang's footsteps...?"

Xiao Yun knew a little about Zhang Xun's story of guarding Suiyang to the death of his life. It is said that when An Qingxu sent his general Yin Ziqi to lead a 130,000 elite army south to attack Suiyang, the barrier of Jianghuai, and was besieged until July. At this time, the soldiers could only get a spoonful of rice every day. When they were hungry, they had to eat tree bark and paper. There were only more than a thousand remaining defenders, so they were too thin to pull the bow, and there were no reinforcements outside.

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Chapter completed!