Chapter 971 : The Way to Win
The vast night of Poyang Lake has returned to calm.
In the dragon boat in the Han army camp, Chen Youliang sat upright on the dragon boat's throne. What happened today was enough to make him feel overwhelmed. Zhu Yuanzhang used the east wind to divide his troops into three groups and a fire, burning Poyang Lake and his dragon boat. His 600,000 troops were too powerful. In just a lifetime, hundreds of thousands of troops were burned to death and tens of thousands of dragon boats were burned. This fact was like a sharp sword inserted into his heart, causing him to feel an inexplicable pain.
Tens of thousands of dragon ships were few and hundreds of thousands of soldiers were killed. For him, Poyang Lake lost its advantage in the battle, and Hong was guarded by Zhu Wenzheng, so it was impossible to retreat. In this way, the current situation was that it was impossible to advance or retreat. The only way out was to fight Zhu Yuanzhang to fight to the death and fight a bloody path from Poyang Lake. Otherwise, he could only retreat back to Jiangzhou. The wish to capture Jinling could only be a spring dream. Moreover, the entire Jiangnan and the whole world were not under his control. This was something he could not tolerate, so he must fight, and he must fight out of Poyang Lake, occupy Jinling, destroy Zhu Yuanzhang, destroy Zhang Shicheng, Fang Guozhen, and let me Chen Youliang become the lord of the world.
Chen Youliang clenched his fists excitedly. Now his fists have not been completely defeated. He has a large army and a dragon boat. Zhu Yuanzhang just relied on God to help him, so he won by chance. Yes, God helped him, not me, Chen Youliang, was not as good as him!
"Your Majesty..." There was a sound of footsteps outside the dragon boat, and Han Sehun's voice sounded outside.
Chen Youliang came back from his anger, breathed a long sigh of relief, lowered his head and tidied up his yellow robe, and then said in a low and steady voice: "Come in?"
"Yes!" After responding outside the door, Han Shixun walked in, followed by Zhang Dingbian, Zhang Bixian, Chen Youren, Chen Yougui, and Liu Tao, and the group was speechless. They followed Han Shixun into a dragon boat, kneeling on the ground with one leg, and was about to salute, Chen Youliang glanced at everyone, waved his hand impatiently and said, "Forgive, Forgive!"
Everyone thanked him and sat down. Several eunuchs accompanied him quickly gave everyone a cup of tea and hurriedly left.
Chen Youliang picked up the teacup and blew it gently, then lowered his head and took a sip of tea. Regarding drinking tea, Chen Youliang fought in the south and north for many years, but he only liked the "Lushan Yunwu" tea in Jiangxi, which has a strong taste and a spicy nature. If you drink it for a long time, you will prolong your life. It has always been famous for its "melt taste, beautiful color, fragrant fragrance, and clear soup". The tea soup is light, like jade, and the taste is like Longjing and more mellow. "It is recorded that the famous monk Huiyuan at that time lived on the mountain for more than 30 years, gathered monks, taught Buddhism, and developed tea planting in the mountains. Lushan tea was already very famous during the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty.
, He once dug medicine to Lushan Peak to plant tea, and wrote a poem: "The head of a stream under the long pine trees, the spotted deer fetus scarf, the medicine garden is an industry, and the wild elk forest storks are friends." From Lushan to the Song Dynasty, there were famous teas such as Hongzhou Heling Tea, Hongzhou Shuangjing Tea, Bailu, and Eagle Claws. At this point, Kuanglu is the best in the world, and the clouds and mist are mellow and fragrant for a long life." The beautiful reputation is everywhere, but at this time, Chen Youliang's tea in his mouth has no fragrance. He only took a sip, put down the tea cup, glanced at the five people present, sighed softly, and said, "What do you think of the current situation?"
As soon as these words came out, the five people's hearts sank. In the battle in the daytime, only half of the dragon ship was left. The soldiers lost hundreds of thousands. Can they continue to fight with Zhu Yuanzhang? Without the dragon ship, the morale of the soldiers was depressed, and now they do not occupy the right time, place, and people. How can they fight against the Zhu army? This is a question hovering in the hearts of the six people.
Seeing that no one was talking, Chen Youliang looked a little angry, and his sinister eyes swept across the faces of the six people one by one, and finally fell on Zhang Dingbian's face, and pondered: "Brother Zhang...?"
Zhang Dingbian stood up and clasped his fists at Chen Youliang, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the current situation is that our soldiers are depressed. Most of the dragon ships have been destroyed. There are not many food and grass in the army. According to the opinions of the empress, we might as well retreat from Poyang Lake and return to Hongdu. Taking advantage of the lack of strict defense of Hongdu, we will take advantage of the situation and take down Hongdu City in one fell swoop. As long as we capture Hongdu City, your Majesty can use the Hongdu City to be strong and strictly guarded and wait for labor. Secondly, the soldiers fought for several months. The Hongdu City is strong and the soldiers can also take the opportunity to repair it. Thirdly, Jiangzhou and Wuchang are on the side. Your Majesty can echo the troops stationed in Wuchang to strengthen their strength. Then we plan for the Jinling City. What does Your Majesty think?"
As soon as Zhang Dingbian finished speaking, Chen Youliang saw Han Shixun in the corner of his eyes. Zhang Bixian and the other two nodded in agreement. It was obvious that this idea was indeed good. Withdrawing from Poyang Lake to fight against Hongdu, Hongdu had few soldiers and few generals. After more than 80 heavenly siege, it had long been a frightened bird. It was not impossible to capture Hongdu. However, Chen Youliang had no idea of doing so. Poyang Lake was his bet. Since he entered here, he had never thought of withdrawing from this bet. Although he lost a lot, he had an intuition that told him that if he continued to fight, he would definitely survive, eliminate Zhu Yuanzhang, and seize Jinling City! If Zhu Yuanzhang was destroyed and Jinling City was captured at all costs, then Zhang Shicheng would be in his hands directly! So he could not retreat!
Thinking of this, Chen Youliang swept away the decadent aura just now, with a bright look on his face. He looked at the six people who had been confidant of him in a deep voice: "Although the current situation is not good for me, the final victory will definitely belong to us. As long as you follow me, kill Zhu Yuanzhang, and seize Jinling City, it will be no difficult for the whole world?"
Six people looked at me, I looked at you, and finally looked at the heroic and arrogant emperor in front of them with strange eyes. The situation has reached this point. No one expected that Chen Youliang would have such aura. They looked at Chen Youliang silently, and no one could bear to eat the emperor. What's wrong with this?
After a while, Zhang Dingbian stood up and clasped his fists and said, "Your Majesty... Is it because he insisted on staying in Poyang Lake? Is it because he has a way to win?"
These six people followed Chen Youliang for many years and were very familiar with the nature of this emperor who was dedicated to assisting. He never seemed to have made a long-term plan and made a decision. When doing things, he often followed his feelings and did things first. But sometimes there were some wonderful methods, so at this moment, when the six people saw Chen Youliang like this, they couldn't bear to eat what wonderful methods did he have? "
Just as the six people were thinking about it, Chen Youliang laughed at the sky, and looked indescribable joy, and said to the six people loudly: "I have a way!"
Chapter completed!