The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang dared to besiege the city was because he learned through intelligence that the generals guarding the city in Chuzhou and Dingyuan had personal conflicts.
In other words, if Dingyuan is in trouble, only Chuzhou has the strength to rescue it, but the generals defending the city in Chuzhou will not do so.
One was due to personal grudges, and the other was that Zhu Yuanzhang had arranged a lot of backup means for them, making it difficult for them to protect themselves and not even deploying rescue.
Besides, Yuan Ting's world is already in turmoil now. They all have too much time to take care of themselves. How can they still think about others?
However, Zhu Yuanzhang also knew that such an opportunity was very rare. After all, all Yuan Ting's attention was now on Liu Futong and his Red Scarf Army.
Yuan Ting can't take care of the small rebel forces like Zhu Yuanzhang now, because there are too many.
Furthermore, Dingyuan is just a small place and does not have great strategic significance.
For these reasons, Zhu Yuanzhang dared to surround Dingyuan City.
Zhu Yuanzhang was very thoughtful when he led his troops to fight. Although Zhu Yuanzhang surrounded Dingyuan City, he did not completely surround it.
Zhu Yuanzhang also sent troops to constantly harass the guards and soldiers in Dingyuan City.
Zhu Yuanzhang divided his rebel soldiers into groups.
Basically divided into many groups.
Each group consists of four generals, leading 5,000 people, and then they harass each city gate.
Brothers in other groups eat or rest.
Because Zhu Yuanzhang did this, he was waiting for work, so Zhu Yuanzhang and his other soldiers were not tired.
In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang could have captured Dingyuan City if he had allowed these rebel brothers to attack by force. However, Zhu Yuanzhang was afraid of losing too many rebel brothers, so he did not take such an approach.
After all, Zhu Yuanzhang still has a lot of gadgets.
This time, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered people to make a lot of loudspeakers in order to increase the interference to Yuanting's defenders.
These were all made by Zhu Yuanzhang when he was bored, but Zhu Yuanzhang had never used them before. This was the first time for Zhu Yuanzhang to use them.
After all, in Zhu Yuanzhang's opinion, such things are just childish and not worthy of praise.
Or put it this way! Zhu Yuanzhang's behavior seemed a bit unethical.
But Zhu Yuanzhang himself was very open-minded about such things, that is to say, no matter what he did to the enemy, it would not be excessive.
All in all, in one word, victory.
Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know how many people died during the actual attacks on Dingyuan and Chuzhou in history.
But one thing is very certain, that is, many people must have died, otherwise, it would be impossible to take down these cities.
Zhu Yuanzhang also told his generals many new methods this time.
The defenders here in Dingyuan City had cannons, but Zhu Yuanzhang was not afraid at all. He asked these rebel soldiers to dig a lot of trenches.
The trenches are very deep, and the distribution of these rebel soldiers is very scattered. Moreover, these trenches are outside the range of the cannon.
There are also these artillery pieces of Yuan Ting, which are not very powerful artillery. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang's methods really restrained them to death for Yuan Ting.
Zhu Yuanzhang's plan was to capture Dingyuan City within three days.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang said within three days, in fact, Zhu Yuanzhang thought this way, that is to say, Zhu Yuanzhang would launch a sudden general attack in the evening or night of the third day.
In this case, Dingyuan City can be captured in one fell swoop.
Because of Zhu Yuanzhang's arrangement, he also wanted to protect Dingyuan City to the greatest extent. After all, this would be Zhu Yuanzhang's base for a long time in the future.
Zhu Yuanzhang cherished his property very much.
Zhu Yuanzhang already had a lot of experience in military strategy, so Zhu Yuanzhang made so many changes.
Because Zhu Yuanzhang already fully understood the essence of the military strategy, Zhu Yuanzhang could act in different ways according to the specific situation.
Regarding Zhu Yuanzhang's arrangements, it can be said that although many people have doubts in their hearts, they have not spoken out.
After all, Zhu Yuanzhang had just trained them on the details of military discipline, and one of them was about orders and prohibitions.
You must not be picky or disobey the military orders that have been issued. Once an order is issued, it must be implemented to the letter.
In fact, it goes without saying that such a thing goes without saying. After all, this is the fact, but Zhu Yuanzhang must make it clear.
Zhu Yuanzhang knew very well that very few of these rebel brothers could read and digitize, so Zhu Yuanzhang tried his best to explain these things very clearly.
Since then, when everyone implements it, they will remember it very clearly.
Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang had already stated what kind of benefits would be gained if he abided by it, and what kind of punishment would there be if he violated it.
Everything is so organized, so the army under Zhu Yuanzhang's current command is really very powerful in combat effectiveness.
Zhu Yuanzhang led the remaining rebel soldiers to wait at the military camp. After all, Zhu Yuanzhang would let his generals carry out the siege.
Because everyone's strengths are different, for Zhu Yuanzhang, what he has to do is to strategize and coordinate the relationship between these generals. This is what Zhu Yuanzhang should consider.
Since Li Shanchang managed the logistics, Zhu Yuanzhang had a lot less chores, so Zhu Yuanzhang had enough time to consider the most critical things.
Especially when Zhu Yuanzhang asked Li Shanchang to prepare those strange things that he remembered, such as those big speakers, Li Shanchang always provided Zhu Yuanzhang with many good ideas.
After all, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know the specific structure of these things he thought about. If it weren't for Li Shanchang, Zhu Yuanzhang would have spent a long time on many things.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang himself did not attack the city, in Zhu Yuanzhang's opinion, he was more tired than the generals who went to attack the city.
After all, Zhu Yuanzhang had to deduce these things in his mind before these things happened.
Such a process is very complicated, but Zhu Yuanzhang never tires of it.
In this way, under Zhu Yuanzhang's careful arrangements, two days had passed. Zhu Yuanzhang's rebel brothers took turns eating and taking turns to rest, and were always at their peak.
But the Yuan Ting troops guarding the city in Dingyuan City could not eat or rest.
Therefore, the soldiers and generals guarding the city were on the verge of collapse.
Regarding these changes, Zhu Yuanzhang always asked people to inquire about them. After all, Zhu Yuanzhang did not dare to ignore such things.
After all, if the spirits of these guards collapse, then if Zhu Yuanzhang and the others attack again, they will encounter much less resistance.
For such things, everything went according to Zhu Yuanzhang's plan.
Looking at the news sent by Tanma, Zhu Yuanzhang was adjusting his plans at any time.
After all, only by doing this can Zhu Yuanzhang achieve his goal.
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang was really bored in the military camp, so he wanted to see how these generals implemented his military orders.
In fact, some of Zhu Yuanzhang's military orders have room for free expression.
After all, Zhu Yuanzhang also knew very well that the situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly. If Zhu Yuanzhang did not give these generals the space to act independently, something big would happen.
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang was still far away from the trenches where they were attacking the city, but Zhu Yuanzhang heard something that made him laugh and cry.
"Brothers of Yuan Ting, stop resisting and surrender! Look at us eating meat and drinking wine. This meat is so delicious! This wine is so delicious!"
The Yuan Ting soldiers and generals on the city had not slept well for two days and two nights.
After all, the power of these loudspeakers is really too great, and sometimes Zhu Yuanzhang's generals will actually attack the city.
Of course, they were all at night, and they almost attacked several times, but no rebel soldiers were lost, only some were injured, because the rebel brothers who attacked the city really wore too many clothes.
These are all to protect these rebel brothers. After all, this is to implement Zhu Yuanzhang's military orders.
After Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he was really impressed. This man is really talented!
Although Zhu Yuanzhang heard that some of what he said was good, such as having wine to drink, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that this was the so-called war that never tires of deceit.
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang did not need to take it seriously, because Zhu Yuanzhang understood very clearly that this was all about breaking the will of the Yuanting generals and soldiers guarding the city.
After all, at any time, the priority is to attack the heart. If Zhu Yuanzhang did not understand this, Zhu Yuanzhang would have read those military books and strategies in vain.
Zhu Yuanzhang changed another city gate. This Dingyuan City has four gates.
Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to see what happened at the other city gate.
Perhaps it was because of what Zhu Yuanzhang had just heard, so Zhu Yuanzhang was particularly looking forward to the other city gates.
Soon Zhu Yuanzhang arrived behind the trenches near another city gate.
"Don't sleep! If you sleep, we will start attacking right away! Did you hear that?"
"Brothers of Yuanting, don't sleep! It would be really bad if you fall asleep! We will attack immediately!"
They said this many times. At the beginning, the soldiers guarding the city were very attentive and did not dare to fall asleep at all. But as time went by, they completely changed.
After all, there are too many words like this. Think about it, if you keep hearing the same sentence, how would you feel in that situation?
It can be said that the feeling was really unpleasant and gradually became numb.
In the end, no matter how they shouted, those Yuan Ting soldiers had no chance anymore, because they really had no energy and they all fell asleep.
The general in charge of siege at this city gate was Zhang Long, and he was also replaced.
Zhang Long would not miss such an opportunity, so Zhang Long ordered an attack on the city.
Zhu Yuanzhang watched this scene from a distance, and saw that these rebel brothers were skillfully using the flying boats that Zhu Yuanzhang prepared for them.
After crossing the moat, we quickly climbed up the city wall with a rope.
Everything was so skillful, and Zhu Yuanzhang admired him very much for such things.
Because Zhu Yuanzhang felt that if he did such a thing by himself, it might not go so smoothly.
But Zhang Long could achieve this by commanding the rebel brothers he led.
Zhu Yuanzhang only saw this scene. He did not see how hard their rebel brother trained.
In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that it was midnight on the second day, and it would soon be the early morning of the third day.
In just three days, Dingyuan City was captured by Zhu Yuanzhang and his new rebel army.
And Zhu Yuanzhang also created a miracle, that is, basically no rebel brothers died.
And in Zhu Yuanzhang's view, these generals under him are all talents!
Each has his own means and each uses his own strengths, and Zhu Yuanzhang feels that this is like playing a game rather than fighting.
Regarding such an illusion, Zhu Yuanzhang thought that maybe it was because he was too tired!
After all, Zhu Yuanzhang had to think about the overall situation, so Zhu Yuanzhang was very tired. Regarding this, that is a fact.
After taking Dingyuan City, Zhu Yuanzhang led these rebel brothers and stationed in Dingyuan City. Zhu Yuanzhang treated the Yuan Ting garrison and soldiers separately.
As long as they belong to the Han people, as long as they abandon the dark side and turn to the bright side, Zhu Yuanzhang will forget the blame. Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang has already strengthened their ideological education.
After all, such a thing is very natural. If Zhu Yuanzhang didn't do this, it would be abnormal.
At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang received another news, this news was about his wife Ma Xiuying.
His wife has successfully given birth to a son.
Zhu Yuanzhang was really happy when he heard such news. This was a double happiness!
Dingyuan City was captured here, and a child was born over there. Zhu Yuanzhang felt that this stick successfully achieved the set goal, so Zhu Yuanzhang named his first son Zhu Biao.
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang was really too excited. Of course, at this time, his wife and children still could not come to Dingyuan City immediately. After all, the place still needed to be consolidated.
Zhu Yuanzhang found that Li Shanchang was very good at reassuring the people and sorting out these chores in the city.
Zhu Yuanzhang then handed over all these matters to Li Shanchang, who happened to be at ease. .
In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang was eager to return home. He wanted to see his wife Ma Xiuying and child Zhu Biao, so Zhu Yuanzhang set off immediately after making sufficient arrangements.
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang felt really strange. He actually had a child. He had never felt like this before.
