Daming: Brother, there is no future for monks, let's rebel

Chapter 78 Suppressing the Massacre!

From a distance, Zhu Han witnessed with his own eyes the process of quickly conquering the hearts of the surrendered soldiers.

The admiration for his elder brother Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but increase by several percent.

"I just told a heart-to-heart story about Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu. My brother just learned and used it flexibly. Who dares to refuse to accept such courage." Zhu Han thought to himself.

At the beginning of Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, hundreds of thousands of Bronze Horse rebels surrendered after the victory of the First World War. soldier's trust.

The hundreds of thousands of soldiers who were originally panicked were immediately moved by the actions of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu.

This is where the heart-to-heart statement comes from.

The elder brother Zhu Yuanzhang's actions today can be described as a perfect copy of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu.

After solving the problem of the hearts of these soldiers who surrendered, the rebel army immediately embarked on the journey to Chuzhou.

From Qingyuan Town to Chuzhou City, it will take more than three days to march.

The soldiers who surrendered in Chuzhou were basically included in the rear army and undertook the task of transporting luggage. Many defeated soldiers hiding in the mountains and forests also ran out and surrendered after seeing that the rebels did not kill the prisoners.

The strong men who had fled in the previous day also followed the crowd down the mountain and surrendered after eating grass roots in the forest for two days on Saturday and September.

Zhu Han carried out further collection of these captives.

He sent people to select soldiers from among the captives to supplement the lost troops.

Saturday Nine, who had just escaped his life, signed up to join the rebel army without hesitation.

After experiencing life and death twice on Saturday and Nine, she is no longer afraid.

He wants to avenge the Tartars, he wants to find his two sons and daughters, and he wants to comfort the mother-in-law who died tragically under the sword of the Tartars.

On Saturday and September, he clearly remembered that Zhu Han, the young vice-marshal of the rebel army, told him personally.

"Work hard. When Chuzhou is conquered in the future, the rebel army will divide the land according to their merits, and you will be able to leave a rich family property for your sons and daughters!"

With Zhu Han's simple words, many ordinary people at the bottom of the Saturday and Sundays enthusiastically joined the rebel army.

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Chuzhou city.

Alu Hui led [-] soldiers and horses and fled back to Chuzhou City day and night.

When they returned to the city, because they fled desperately all the way, many people's mounts were exhausted and collapsed to death.

In this disastrous defeat, Alu Hui suffered a heavy loss.

Not only did only more than 2 people escape from an army of more than 3000, but his brother Hardy also died tragically on the battlefield.

Therefore, as soon as Alu Hui returned to Chuzhou City, he immediately ordered the mobilization of the whole city, recruiting the soldiers and strong men in the city to prepare to resist the Red Scarf Army.

However, due to the heavy loss of troops and equipment, the force of more than 1 people barely put together could not defend Chuzhou City at all.

General Ahema of the Yuan Army suggested again: "My lord, it is impossible to defend Chuzhou. It is better to fortify the walls and clear the wilderness. Now that the Jiangnan navy is coming soon, we have warships. Why not transport all the supplies and population of Chuzhou away? Then burn down the city of Chuzhou, retreat to Yangzhou or Jiqing, and don't leave a grain of food for the Red Scarf Army. When the time comes, the Red Turbans will have no one and no food, and they will definitely retreat in a short time! "

Alu Hui, who was worrying about how to defend Chuzhou City, immediately felt that it made sense.

Yuan Ting was very tolerant towards some Mongolian and Semu generals, and didn't care much about the gains and losses of a city or a place.

What's more, according to Ahema's suggestion, the red scarf thieves will not be able to gain a long-term foothold in Chuzhou, and they will definitely be able to regain it in the future.

"Good idea! Even if Chuzhou is burned into ruins, I won't leave any grass or tree for the bandit army!" Alu said viciously.

Afterwards, Aluhui summoned a group of generals of the Han army in Chuzhou and told them his plan to fortify the wall and clear the country and retreat to Yangzhou.

After hearing this, many Han generals were all stunned.

Especially when they heard that Alu Hui asked them to force all the people within a [-]-mile radius of Chuzhou City to move out, and those who refused to leave would be massacred and set fire to Chuzhou City, everyone always opposed it.

"My lord, this is absolutely unacceptable! If the rich land of Chuzhou becomes a piece of white land, how can we regain it in the future!" said a yellow-faced and strong Han general.

"Guo Jiang, are you going to disobey Zhongcheng's orders?" Aluhui didn't explain, but just said with a sneer.

The Han general named Guo Jiang stopped talking immediately, but the expression of dissatisfaction still existed on his face.

The rest of the Han generals also dared not speak out.

Since Meng Yuan conquered Huainan and Jiangnan, in order to rule the local people of the original Southern Song Dynasty, a large number of Mongolian Yuan, Semu and northern Han people were sent from the north to garrison the local area.

After decades of living, they have gradually influenced each other and formed a new network of relationships.

Among them, the Semu people hugged the thighs of the Mongolians and acted as the most active dog legs and thugs, while the northern Han people intermarried with the local Han people and had already integrated into the local area.

Regarding the destruction of Chuzhou City, the three forces of the Mongolian and Yuan courts were completely divided.

The rumor that A Luhui, the provincial Zhongcheng, was going to 'kill and burn' Chuzhou city, immediately spread in Chuzhou city, no matter whether it was the poor people or the wealthy businessmen and powerful people, everyone was panic-stricken.

Their foundations are all in Chuzhou. Once they are burned and moved to other places, they will become fat sheep under the fence.

Especially two days later, when the news came that the vanguard cavalry of the Red Turban Army had appeared thirty miles away from Chuzhou, Alu Hui even ordered Semu and the Han generals to step up the implementation of this plan.

These Semu people are from the Western Regions. They all have curly hair and green eyes. They used to oppress the local Han people, and they have a lot of hatred for each other.

The Han generals headed by Guo Jiang have far less power to speak than Ahhema and other Semu generals. They have no choice but to follow orders and prepare firewood, firewood and other things to burn the city.

Many Han villages outside the city of Chuzhou didn't want to burn their homes and move away, so they soon raised the banner of rebellion. Facing these weak Han villages, Ahema led the Semu troops to suppress the massacre mercilessly.

Guo Jiang and others couldn't bear it, so they could only do nothing.

Just as Guo Jiang was leading the soldiers and horses to prepare firewood and kerosene, a person suddenly came to him quietly.

"Uncle, master, please go to the house immediately, and discuss something important!"

Guo Jiang took a look and found out that he was a confidant servant of his father-in-law Lu Wendao.

As a well-known southerner in the local area, he is powerful.

The Guo Jiang family and the Lu family have been married for three generations, and they are already very close.

For his father-in-law's invitation, Guo Jiang naturally did not dare to neglect, and immediately came to Lu's house.

As soon as he entered the Lu family mansion, Guo Jiang immediately noticed something unusual.

In the lobby of the Lu family, there are not only his father-in-law Lu Wendao and other Lu family members, but also the heads of local powerful families such as the Zhuo family, Gu family, and Zhang family from Chuzhou.

(End of this chapter)