While discussing the battle plan, there was a dispute. Chang Youchun believed that he should directly attack Pingjiang (now Suzhou), the lair of the Eastern Wu, and Xu Da agreed with him on this point, and both of them believed that once Pingjiang was gained, all of Zhang Shicheng's territories would be surrendered without a fight.
Next target, Zhang Shicheng! (2)
Zhu Yuanzhang disagrees.
Zhu Yuanzhang once again showed his genius strategic vision, he thought that if he attacked Pingjiang directly, Zhang Shicheng's troops in Hangzhou must come to his rescue, then Pingjiang would be extremely difficult to conquer. But by attacking Hangzhou and other areas first, he was able to cut off Zhang Shicheng's wings, and Pingjiang would naturally become a bag.
Zhu Yuanzhang proved to be a talented military man, and he was right again.
Before he set off, Zhu Yuanzhang repeatedly emphasized one thing, that is, after conquering the city, you can't just kill, because after killing the people and getting the empty land, what's the use of it (no more killing in the conquest of the city, and no more killing, if you get the land, what's the use of having no people).
This was not said to Xu Da, but to Chang Yu Chun.
This man, since the Jiuhua Mountain, bad habits have not changed, after the attack on the city must be killed, Zhu Yuanzhang many times seriously warned him before convergence.
The army set out, Zhu Yuanzhang sitting in the tent, with an indescribable sense of excitement.
The world is coming to him!
This time, Zhu Yuanzhang gathered another 200,000 troops and gave them under the command of Xu Da and Chang Youchun, these two famous generals did not let Zhu Yuanzhang down, they met and split their troops to attack Hangzhou and Huzhou, which were quickly captured.
Now only Pingjiang remained.
Pingjiang Attack Battle
Pingjiang is known as the No.1 strongest city. Zhang Shicheng, who has been nestled in his home for the past few years, watching Chen Youliang being defeated and his territory being eaten away by Zhu Yuanzhang little by little, has only done one thing, and that's to repair the city.
Pingjiang Cheng*** had eight gates, namely Turnip Gate, Huqiu Gate, Lou Gate, Xu Gate, Gate of Heaven, Pan Gate, West Gate and North Gate. The walls of each gate are extremely sturdy, made of large blocks of barstones mixed with glutinous rice, and there are fixed bow and crossbow positions set up on the city, so that anyone who comes close to the walls will instantly be shot into a hedgehog. There is also a large amount of food in the city, which is enough for several years.
Though Zhang Shicheng was an unthinking person, he was a strong-willed person. The fact that Yuan summoned a million soldiers to attack the tiny Gaoyou, which lasted three months and could not be conquered, is a good indication of his willpower.
And at this point, Zhang Shicheng understood even more that if Pingjiang was lost, he would have nowhere to go.
He decided to fight to the death
Taking action against such a city requires careful planning, but when Zhu Yuanzhang's men came down to ask which gate to attack, Zhu Yuanzhang shouted at them: hundreds of thousands of troops, but also divided into which gate to attack the main door, all give me to the death!
It seems that hundreds of years later Li Yunlong is not the only user of this trick.
Zhu Yuanzhang made a military deployment, he fully mobilized his famous generals and assigned tasks as follows:
Xu Da attacked Turnip Gate, Chang Youchun attacked Huqiu, Guo Xing attacked Loumen, Hua Yunlong attacked Xumen, Tang He attacked Yanyan Gate, Wang Bi attacked Panmen, Zhang Wen attacked Ximen, and Kang Maocai attacked North Gate
Eyesight, right? There's still more:
He thought that these men were Not enough, another arrangement Geng Bingwen attacked the city northeast, Qiu Cheng attacked the city southwest, He Wenhui attacked the city northwest
Statistically, he set up eleven armies outside the city of Pingjiang, attacking from different angles, not to mention people, the gods can not stand. In fact, there is no need to fight, so many people as long as they squeeze into the city, can also be Zhang Shicheng squeeze to death.
Zhu Yuanzhang still think not enough to do, outside the city to build a long siege, the Pingjiang city surrounded, not only people, rabbits can not run out.
In order to solve the Pingjiang City is too high, the soldiers look up to attack the inconvenience of the problem, he started construction outside the city of a new type of real estate - wooden tower, *** divided into three tiers, standing in the tower can look down on all of the situation in the city, and in each tier is equipped with bows and crossbows, cannons, and Xiangyang guns (new-style artillery). Truly, you can point and shoot wherever you want.
By all accounts, Zhang Shicheng should have surrendered if he knew what he was doing.
But this salt peddler is hard to recognize the reason, must resist to the end.
The attack began in the first month of the 27th year of the Yuan Dynasty
Zhu Yuanzhang's infantry, archers, and artillery worked together to attack the city day and night, with the infantry attacking from the bottom of the city, and the artillery shooting arrows, guns, and cannons from the wooden towers.
Zhang Shicheng's soldiers have to pay attention to air defense while bearing the attack of the soldiers under the city tower, and the wooden tower is sent to hold on to it day and night, and the soldiers on these wooden towers can't go down to the tower once they happen to be on the night duty, and they can't eat, drink, or poop in the tower, and they spit, pee, and other behaviors are rightfully greeted to the Dongwu soldiers on the city tower
It's really bitter.
It is in such a difficult environment, Zhang Shicheng and his soldiers with amazing perseverance insisted on eight months, until to the twenty-seventh year of Zhengzhou (1367) in September, Pingjiang was captured.