Chapter 638: The Great Battle of the Central Plains (Finale)

After Lu Bu led the Jingzhou reinforcements to arrive, Liu Dai already had an absolute advantage in terms of troops, after all, he still had Baiyue mercenaries to help.

However, success is also a hundred and a hundred failures.

Liu Dai relied on Baiyue to persist until Lu Bu arrived, but he also lost the entire Jiaozhou because of Baiyue.

In order to keep Jiaozhou, Liu Dai promised a lot of benefits to Baiyue, and with the arrival of Lu Bu, a famous general, Liu Dai also had some confidence.

Liu Dai thought that even if he didn't rely on Baiyue, he and Lu Bu could also defeat Hong Xiuquan, so in order to recover some of the losses, he was ready to retract the Baiyue mercenaries.

Let's go back, after all, Baiyue's trip down the mountain has indeed earned a lot.

Liu Dai kept the agreement and handed over all the promised materials and money to the Baiyue mercenaries.

But who knew that Liu Dai's subordinates were deducted from the property, and the Baiyue mercenaries found that the number was not right after being hand-picked, and they were naturally furious, and with Hong Xiuquan's deliberate provocation, the two sides finally fought.

Liu Dai beheaded the detained officer at the beginning, but he didn't expect that things would evolve to this point, and he regretted it in his heart, but the matter had come to this point, and it was useless to regret it.

In order to prevent Hong Xiuquan from taking advantage of the opportunity, Liu Dai decided to unite with Lu Bu to suppress the 'rebellion' of the Baiyue mercenaries as quickly as possible.

Of the 20,000 Baiyue mercenaries invited by Liu Dai, 15,000 were killed in a daze, and the rest escaped with Hong Xiuquan's 'unintentional' help.

After this battle, Liu Dai can be said to have completely offended the Baiyue tribes, but he has no time to take care of it, because his casualties are also not small, and Hong Xiuquan is still watching from the sidelines.

In November, a heavy snowfall swept across the Central Plains, and the sudden drop in temperature slowed down the fighting in various places, after all, such a climate was not suitable for further fighting.

Tiangong helped Da Ming again, so that Da Ming could continue to survive.

Jiaozhou, the southernmost part of the Han Dynasty, has a cold climate in winter, but it has not yet reached the point where it can't hold a 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, and himself, Yang Xiuqing, and Shi Dakai each led an army, which gradually encroached on them in three ways, and finally met at Jiaozhi, and the decisive battle began.

In that battle, the blood was flowing, and the casualties on both sides were not small, but in the end it ended with Hong Xiuquan's victory.

After the war, 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 bright spot.

In the early stage of the big battle, Yang Xiuqing, Shi Dakai and Li Xiucheng joined forces, but they were defeated by Lu Bu in 80 rounds.

If it weren't for Li Kaifang and Chen Yucheng to respond, I'm afraid that the three of them would have died under Lu Bu's arrows.

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 did lose this battle, but not only was he unscathed, but he also shot Wei Changhui dead when he was defeated.

After that, Lu Bu snatched Hong Xiuquan's sister Hong Xuanjiao in a night raid, and left calmly with Mei.

In the Jiaozhou War, Lu Bu was almost alone in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the five pig teammates of Liu Dai and the four princes of Jingnan have been played by the generals under Hong Xiuquan.

It was precisely because Liu Dai and others were repeatedly calculated and succeeded by Hong Xiuquan that Lu Bu's 30,000 Jingzhou troops were beaten to a grievance.

Not to mention missing the fighter plane due to the mistakes of teammates, but also because of the mistakes of pig teammates, they almost fell into the encirclement of the enemy, and there are more than one such examples.

There are these five pig teammates dragging their feet, which means that although Lu Bu has been winning, the situation in Jiaozhou is still deteriorating.

The victory of Lu Bu alone could not reverse the situation in the entire Jiaozhou, and it was not until the situation was completely defeated after Chen Yucheng killed Liu Dai under the situation that the situation in Jiaozhou was completely defeated.

In desperation, Lu Bu could only lead his troops and horses to withdraw from Jiaozhou, and the princes of Jingnan Fourth Road also ran away early due to too many casualties.

Since then, Jiaozhou has been completely occupied by Hong Xiuquan, and he also took advantage of the power of this victory to begin to prepare for the rectification of Baiyue.

Although Lu Bu lost the battle this time, no one blamed him, because everyone with a discerning eye knew that he was not to blame for the defeat.

With those pig teammates here, let alone Lu Bu, even Qin Hao still can't take it.

In the fourth year of Zhongping, in December, the battle situation in Yangzhou finally made new progress.

Whether it is a general or a soldier, the Ming army is not as good as the Yangzhou coalition army, so Zhu Yuanzhang decisively chose to defend to the death, and the Han army will never leave the city by any means.

Sun Wu once offered a plan to lure Zhu Yuanzhang out of the city, but Zhu Yuanzhang was not fooled, but designed to set up the Yangzhou coalition army.

Wang Lang proposed to use the strategy of soil attack, intending to dig tunnels to dig into Shouchun, but he was still cracked by Zhu Yuanzhang and drowned many Han soldiers with water.

Shouchun City has thick walls and plenty of grain and grass, so Zhu Yuanzhang has no worries, and under his strict orders, the Yangzhou coalition army attacked Shouchun for several months, with countless casualties, but it still couldn't break the city.

Zhu Yuanzhang's defense was half a year, and the Yangzhou coalition army was really helpless against Zhu Yuanzhang's turtle shell.

At this time, Sun Wu once again offered a plan and sent someone to contact Tao Qian, who was cowering in Xuzhou, and asked him to lead the army to attack the rear of the Ming army.

Tao Qian, who had been defeated repeatedly, had long been frightened by the Ming army, so he had been stubbornly defending the two counties of Xiapi and Pengcheng, and never dared to take the initiative to provoke the Ming army.

Da Ming actually wanted to clean up Tao Qian for a long time, after all, there was such a big threat in the rear, and no one could feel at ease.

After all, Xuzhou was Fang La's territory before, so it was not good for the Ming Dynasty to send troops directly, and he wanted to capture Tao Qian's two counties of Xuzhou in one fell swoop after quelling the Fang La rebellion, but the Han took advantage of this to send troops, and the Ming was busy dealing with the Han, so naturally he had no effort to solve Tao Qian.

It is under this strange check and balance that Tao Qian has survived tenaciously until now, and is about to become a decisive force.

Sun Wu's plan is really not poisonous, and now the strength of all fronts of the Ming army is tightened, so that there are not too many defenders in the rear at all, and if Tao Qian sends troops, he will basically not encounter too many obstacles.

But Tao Qian was completely frightened, even if he knew that the rear forces 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, and after success, he continued to assist Tao Qian and sent troops to attack Zhu Yuanzhang's rear.