Chapter 462: The Soldier-Slaying Demon Dong Yuanba
Since being appointed as a pioneer officer by Zhang Jiao, Zhu Yuanzhang's life trajectory seems to have started cheating.
From Luoyang to Hangu, with a series of victories, Zhu Yuanzhang not only set the record for the fastest promotion in the Yellow Turbans, but also became the youngest Qu Commander in the Yellow Turbans.
Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely moved by Zhang Jiao's regard, and vowed to conquer Chang'an and destroy the Han Dynasty to repay Zhang Jiao's kindness.
Everything went extremely smoothly, but since the arrival of Dong Zhuo's Liangzhou reinforcements, Zhu Yuanzhang's good luck seemed to have ended here.
"Qu Shuai, that Dong Yuanba is simply not a human being. He will use all his methods, but he really can't stop him."
As he stood, the Yellow Turban general burst into tears, as if he had been wronged a lot.
This started a month and a half ago.
Dong Zhuo's Liangzhou army arrived in Hangu. After Qin and Dong's two armies joined the army, the 400,000 Han army relied on the favorable geographical location and no longer feared the 800,000 Yellow Turbans.
Zhu Yuanzhang saw that the casualties in the storm were too high, so he naturally would not continue to fight Qin Wen in Hangu. Instead, he led an army to find another way, preparing to cross the Yellow River and bypass Hangu, break Puban and directly attack Guanzhong.
As a result, the main forces of the two sides still faced each other in Hangu, but in Puban County, east and west of the river, they conducted an offensive and defensive battle for more than a month.
In more than a month, the two sides fought more than ten battles, but Zhu Yuanzhang not only failed to capture Banpu, but also lost 40,000 troops.
Of course, these are not the key points. The key point is that in these more than ten battles, Zhu Yuanzhang was defeated by one person. He was Dong Zhuo's adopted son, Dong Yuanba.
The most outrageous thing is that among the more than 40,000 casualties of the Yellow Turbans, at least 10,000 died at the hands of Dong Yuanba alone.
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but shudder every time he thought of this. Although he tried hard to eliminate the fear in his heart, he still had a lot of cold sweat on his forehead.
Dao Dong Yuanba, all the Yellow Turban soldiers have only one thought in their hearts, and that is: monster.
In the first battle, Li Shimin led 3,000 flying bear troops against Zhu Yuanzhang's 10,000 troops, only to see such a scene.
No one in the Han army made any move, but Dong Yuanba was sent to charge into the formation alone. Li Yuanba, among the thousands of soldiers, rode alone to kill Zhu Yuanzhang.
Dong Yuanba's pair of sledge hammers will kill him if he touches them, and he will die if he touches them. The sea of people, arrow rain, gun formations, and car formations... are all ineffective against him.
Under Dong Yuanba's pair of sledgehammers, there seems to be nothing that cannot be broken. If there is, then two hammers will be used.
The defense line composed of 20,000 troops was as fragile as tissue paper in front of Dong Yuanba. Wherever the sledgehammer hit, there were corpses everywhere. The state of death was simply horrible. They were either directly smashed into flesh or had all the bones in their bodies shattered. .
In short, no one who has ever seen Dong Yuanba is intact.
After experiencing the excitement before the war, the consternation during the war, and the fear during the war, how could the Yellow Turban soldiers still have the courage to face Dong Yuanba directly?
Seeing that Dong Yuanba alone had disrupted the entire army, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to use his body as bait to lure him away, but his departure caused chaos in the Yellow Turban command.
Seeing this opportunity, Li Shimin immediately commanded the Flying Bear Army to attack. As a result, the Yellow Turbans were defeated.
That battle was like a nightmare to everyone in the Yellow Turbans. They still can't believe that there is such a powerful person in the world.
According to later statistics, nearly 7,000 people died in the first battle alone, and nearly 1,000 of them died at the hands of Dong Yuanba alone.
The next ten battles were all launched by Zhu Yuanzhang against Dong Yuanba alone, because he knew that it would be impossible to capture Puban unless this stumbling block was removed.
Zhu Yuanzhang adopted different tactics every time, trying to kill Dong Yuanba with his strategy, but he really paid too much attention to Dong Yuanba, and ended up ignoring Li Shimin.
Although Dong Yuanba's intelligence was not online, how could Li Shimin let his younger brother fall into Zhu Yuanzhang's trap?
With the cooperation of the two brothers, Zhu Yuanzhang was defeated repeatedly in battles. He had no choice but to give up the attack on Puban and return to Hangu.
Before leaving, Zhu Yuanzhang left ten thousand people to garrison on the spot to prevent the Han army from sneaking into the navy's stronghold.
But he still failed to guard against it. As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang left, Li Shimin led Dong Yuanba to defeat the defenders and attacked the Yellow Turban navy stronghold.
Today, the Yellow Turbans' Yellow River navy has been basically crippled and can no longer be reused.
In the Battle of Banpu, Dong Yuanba became famous for his record of killing 40 and over 10,000 Yellow Turban generals, and he had a tendency to aspire to be the No. 1 general.
Before Dong Yuanba was born, Xiang Yu was recognized as the number one general, because no one could shake his position.
Xiang Yu was so strong that all the warriors could only look up at his back and live with the sorrow of being from the same era as him.
But it's different now.
The record of killing a thousand people in one battle was too unfavorable, even if Xiang Yu wanted to do it, it was extremely difficult, but Dong Yuanba accomplished it easily, so many people thought that Dong Yuanba's strength was still higher than Xiang Yu's.
Xiang Yu has been at the top for too long, and all the warriors hope that someone can stand up and break Xiang Yu's myth in a one-on-one situation, and Dong Yuanba is the only one who can do it.
Of course, some people think that Dong Yuanba is only powerful but Xiang Yu has both strength and skill.
Xiang Yu is strong because he has no weaknesses, so even if he is slightly inferior in strength, as long as he doesn't fight Li Yuanba head-on, he will definitely win in terms of skills.
There are many people who agree with this view, but it is difficult to form a unified view among the many people.
Of course, these are just outsiders' words, and those in the game won't care.
But everyone is sure of one thing, that is, Xiang Yu and Dong Yuanba will have a battle, and once they meet, it will be a life and death battle.
Although Dong Yuanba changed his surname to Dong, he was originally the fourth son of Li Yuan, and the three sons of Li Yuan's eldest son all died at the hands of Xiang Yu, so can Dong Yuanba not avenge his two brothers?
Everyone is looking forward to the battle between these two people, because the real number one will be one of these two.
People also believe that this will not be too far away, because with the defeat of the northern and southern armies, the final decisive battle between Han and Huang is about to take place. By then, a battle between Xiang Yu and Dong Yuanba will be inevitable.
Just when Zhu Yuanzhang had a headache because of Dong Yuanba, a messenger ran into the camp anxiously and said: "Report... to Commander Qu, a secret message came from Luoyang."
Zhu Yuanzhang frowned slightly. After taking the letter and reading it, he was trembling with anger.
"Xiang Yu, you are a common man, fuck me..."
Zhu Yuanzhang started to curse loudly. When the generals and commanders in the camp were still wondering about the reason, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered: "Send the order and the whole army retreats and returns to Luoyang."
All the generals and commanders were immediately shocked, and they all asked why.
Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes were full of anger and he said coldly: "Xiang Yu didn't listen to others. Qin Hao dug up the Han River and flooded the seven armies. The 400,000 troops on the south road have been wiped out."
"What?"
Everyone was stunned, but the real test of their heart's endurance was the news that followed.
