Chapter 799 The rolling Yangtze River is passing away
"The rolling Yangtze River is passing away, the waves are sweeping away the heroes, the success or failure of right and wrong is empty, the green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red and ...... several times"
Yang Feng sang loudly like Yang Hongji.
And the Yangtze River that meets the Jialing River at his feet is surging away, and with his steps forward, the white ice surface is instantly generated in the river, supporting him as if he is walking in a leisurely garden, and then disintegrating into the surging river behind him in an instant, and on the steep bank of the river that has been cut by the river for thousands of years in front of him, a broken but familiar city wall stands, an equally familiar city tower, standing at the end of the upward road, overlooking the rolling Yangtze River.
"It's been more than 100 years, and it's still the same!"
He said with emotion.
That was the city of Chongqing that he was invited to by Lu Wende after he tore Meng Ge apart.
And this city gate is the smoke wind gate, which is later the Chaotian gate.
This ancient city still retains the appearance of Peng Daya more than 100 years ago, but it has become more dilapidated after more than 100 years of war and wind and rain, and it is clear that the Mongols have ruled this land for more than 80 years, and it has not left any valuable changes to it, and even the population is much smaller than that of Lu Wende. The Mongols were undoubtedly qualified as conquerors, they swept through almost the entire Eurasian continent like a plague, but as rulers, whether in the East or the West, they were complete losers, and the savage and bloody killings, hundreds of millions of bones, only made them majestic in this world for a century.
Then their rule, both in the East and in the West, had begun to be overthrown by the rebels.
Including the city in front of you.
The rulers of the city were no longer Mongols.
"This immortal is in accordance with the decree of Haotian God, the lower realm chooses the lord of the world, and will be given by the mandate of heaven, and the Xia lord is among the candidates, please lead the way!"
Yang Feng, who stepped on the shore, said.
As he spoke, an auspicious light swirled around his body.
In the shocked eyes of the fishermen and merchants around, an officer in charge of the security of the dock looked at him tremblingly, and then his legs were weak and he knelt down and trembled at his feet, and then those fishermen and merchants also reacted, and one by one they knelt down and bowed to the immortals, Yang Feng raised his hand casually, and the officer was immediately supported by an irresistible force to stand up.
"General, please lead the way!"
Yang Feng said pleasantly.
"Immortals, please wait, the villain will go to report to His Majesty to come out to greet you!"
The officer said tremblingly.
Then he turned and got on the nearest horse, and went straight along the upward road to the city gate.
"The people are withering!"
Yang Feng looked around and said with emotion.
This is the territory of Ming Yuzhen, the general of the Red Turban Army, who has just been called the emperor, he is a subordinate of Xu Shouhui, led his troops to attack Sichuan and swept the Yuan army, after Chen Youliang killed Xu Shouhui, Ming Yuzhen said that the emperor blocked Kuimen, cut off relations with him to Chongqing as the capital, and fought for Yunnan with the Yuan army in Yunnan.
However, Ming Yuzhen's strength is very small.
The main reason is that the population of Sichuan is too small, this is the main battlefield of the Song and Yuan wars, after decades of slaughter by the Yuan army, Sichuan, which originally had a population of more than 10 million in the heyday of the Southern Song Dynasty, eventually only a few hundred thousand people remained, and there was almost no growth in the 80 years of the Yuan Dynasty's rule. Chengdu, the original land of abundance, has shrunk into a small marginal city, while the core area of Sichuan has become Chongqing, which has experienced a period of war before, and at this time, even with the hundreds of thousands of subordinates brought by Ming Yuzhen from Hubei, there are not many.
Zhu Yuanzhang counted that the population of the entire Sichuan was less than 100,000 households in the second year after the destruction of the summer, even if those hidden households and the like were added, the entire Sichuan would not exceed one million, and that had already multiplied for 20 years, and the Ming Dynasty basically did not fight much in the process of destroying the summer.
Such strength is just self-preservation.
And Ming Yuzhen is a good person.
Even the ministers of the Ming Dynasty, such as Fang Xiaoru and others, commented on him as frugality, promoting culture and education, refuting heresy, and thinly endowed. After his son Tang He and Liao Yongzhong broke through Kuimen, he surrendered without any resistance, which can be regarded as avoiding the death and injury of the common people to the greatest extent.
Of course, Yang Feng didn't want to choose him......
Well, he's not trying to take away Ming Yuzhen.
In fact, Yang Feng is not going to take away any warlords this time, he just wants to play the role of Haotian God's envoy to choose one of the warlords, after all, being an emperor or something is no longer attractive to him.
It is said that he has a lot of candidates at this time.
Ming Yuzhen occupies Sichuan, Chen Youliang occupies the two lakes, Zhu Yuanzhang occupies the rich land from the west of Taihu Lake to the northwest of Jiangxi to Huai'an, Zhang Shicheng occupies both sides of the Huai River and then Jiangsu south to the east of Taihu Lake to Shaoxing, which borders Zhu Yuanzhang in an inverted L-shape, Chen Youding occupies Fujian, Fang Guozhen occupies the southern coast of Zhejiang including Ningbo, Zhang Liangbi occupies the eastern part of Guanzhong with Chang'an as the core, and Li Siqi occupies Longyou including Fengxiang.
On the side of the anti-Yuan are Zhu Yuanzhang, Chen Youliang, and Ming Yuzhen.
In the name of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youding were borne.
Working with the Yuan Dynasty were Li Siqi and Zhang Liangbi.
It was Fang Guozhen, who was both an official of the Yuan Dynasty and an official of Zhu Yuanzhang, and also provided Zhang Shicheng with ships.
And the Yuan Dynasty was also divided internally.
In fact, the Yuan Dynasty had already collapsed.
Emperor Yuan Shun can really control the estimate is also in the Dadu area, and this area because of the canal transportation cut off famine continues, a few years ago the famine in the Dadu area starved to death hundreds of thousands, and later fortunately Zhang Shicheng transported a batch of grain to him to alleviate the famine. The two divisions of the Red Turban Army, Pan and Mr. Guan, set off from Caozhou to Shanxi and then to Datong, and finally even Shangdu was broken, although it was finally destroyed, but it completely destroyed the rule of the Yuan Dynasty in the north......
Anyway, the Mongolian iron cavalry is really rotten.
The dignified nomadic cavalry was chiseled through four thousand miles by a group of rebellious peasants on their own territory......
What other faces do you have to call yourself nomads?
The two divisions of the broken head Pan first crossed the Taihang Mountain to the Jinzhong Basin, and then killed from the Jinzhong Basin, almost took Baoding, and then turned back to Taihang Shanxi to break through Datong, and then killed the capital from Datong, easily broke through the capital and continued to fight east until Liaoyang, which was like entering a no-man's land, just like opening a hanging. Even if the final defeat is only too far into the lone army, it cannot be said that they have completely failed at this time, because the rest of Mr. Guan's troops are still outside the fortress, and they still come out from time to time to threaten Shangdu.
The Mongolian iron cavalry is rotten like this, and those local officials and Haoqiang are not blind.
At this time, if you don't divide one side, you are brain-dead!
For example, Li Siqi and Zhang Liangbi once killed other generals on the front line, and then carved up their subordinates, and Emperor Yuan Shun didn't even dare to ask.
But even if the world is so erosive, Emperor Yuan Shun and his son Aiyou Zhilitra are still fighting infighting, the former still dominates the throne regardless of the government, and the latter is responsible for working for him and the prince is far away, in this case, there will definitely be infighting. The former allied with Polo Timur, who in turn controlled the army from Shanxi to Datong and allied with Zhang Liangbi, who occupied Guanzhong. Aiyou Zhilitra formed an alliance with Wang Baobao, Wang Baobao controlled the army in Hebei, Shandong, Henan, and Li Siqi, who controlled Longyou, and in the end, there was an endless internal scuffle, and they didn't have the heart to go south to deal with Zhu Yuanzhang and others.
Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang and others were also fighting with each other, and they didn't have time for the Northern Expedition.
I have to say it's all weird!
For the Yuan Dynasty, the wisest thing at this time should be to pack up the rebellion first, whether it is the elite of Polo Timur who went south from Guanzhong to Hanzhong and entered Sichuan to destroy Ming Yuzhen, or Wang Baobao's army took advantage of the battle between Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang, or went down from the Han River to capture Chen Youliang's Wuchang or crossed the Huai River to attack Zhu Yuanzhang's Hefei, or then dragged Zhang Shicheng south along the canal, the final result was the situation of destroying the Southern Song Dynasty that year.
But they don't!
Wang Baobao and Polo Timur were constantly fighting in the north and grabbing each other's territory.
And it's like not sharing the sky.
For the southern heroes, as long as they cooperate, then Zhu Yuanzhang went north along the canal, Chen Youliang went north along the Han River, and Zhang Shicheng attacked the Shandong Peninsula, and finally they all went straight to the capital.
But neither do they.
Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang are desperate.
Zhang Shicheng instead ran to send food to Emperor Yuan Shun, saying that even if he was to deceive Hangzhou, which was controlled by the Yuan army, it was too much, after all, he was also anti-Yuan started, even if it was not the Red Turban Army system, it was also through this shareholder wind, you must know that he belonged to the enemy, and Emperor Yuan Shun relied on his grain to survive the previous famine.
Chen Youding also regarded himself as a loyal minister of the Yuan Dynasty, and ran to stab Chen Youliang in the back with a knife, it must be explained that although their names look like brothers, this is just a coincidence, in fact, there is nothing to do with it, this guy deserves a sense of accomplishment when he is a loyal minister of the Yuan Dynasty, and he travels thousands of miles from Fujian to Emperor Yuan Shun every year to supply across the sea.
During this period, Ming Yuzhen did something serious.
Originally, next year in history, his general Wan Sheng led the army south to seize Kunming, and drove the Liang King of the Yuan Dynasty to the mountains, but the Duan family, who was originally robbed of the ancestral foundation by the Mongols, actually helped the Mongols, and Wan Sheng's lone army went deep into the long distance and had to withdraw from Kunming, until Mu Ying and Lan Yu's southern expedition was recaptured, I have to say that many things in this chaotic era can not be considered with a normal mind, and many people have already been taken out of their feelings when they are conquered.
The good thing is that all of this is about to become history.
"I'm coming, it's dawn!"
Yang Feng muttered to himself reservedly.
In the distance, inside the smoke gate, a big man in a yellow robe who looked to be only thirty or forty years old rode a white horse, surrounded by a large number of generals and officials, and galloped along the downward road, and behind him was a torrent of countless ordinary people......