At that time, Chen Youliang raised an army of 600,000, and his flags covered the sky and the sun. As the most powerful force in the world, the army under Chen Youliang was undoubtedly the most powerful and largest army on earth at that time.
And what kind of capital did Zhu Wenzheng have at that time? There were only 20,000 soldiers and a dilapidated Hongdu city.
Not to mention that Zhu Yuanzhang's main force was held back by Zhang Shicheng at that time. Even if Lao Zhu personally tried his best to help at that time, he might not be the opponent of Chen Youliang's army. Faced with life and death, Lao Zhu had no choice but to give Zhu Wenzheng an unspoken order: defend Hongdu and wait for rescue!
No one thinks this battle can be fought. Six hundred thousand versus twenty thousand? How to keep it?
Zhu Wenzheng gave the answer: If you can defend, work hard!
Chen Youliang never expected that Hongdu City, which he thought he could conquer in one day, turned out to be a bottomless pit that could not be filled: 600,000 troops attacked Hongdu City continuously for eighty-five days, but were unable to cross even one step of the Hongdu City Wall!
Zhu Wenzheng did not shy away from dangers, risked his own life, and used his bravery and astonishing generals to turn the city of Hongdu into a meat grinder to strangle Chen Youliang's army!
Eighty-five days later, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had been dragged down, had freed his hands. Chen Youliang could only look at the still-standing Hongdu city wall and the mountain of soldier corpses stacked as high as the city wall, sighing in vain!
After the Hongdu Defense War, Zhu Yuanzhang's forces finally escaped the biggest crisis since raising his troops and firmly established a foothold. In the end, he defeated Chen Youliang in the Poyang Lake water battle. It can be said that without Zhu Wenzheng, there would be no Ming Dynasty today. Zhu Wenzheng deserves the greatest credit!
However, such a peerless general had a donkey-like temperament just like his nickname: after the war, Zhu Yuanzhang took his kind words seriously and delayed his reward. He was so angry that he secretly communicated with Zhang Shicheng and secretly communicated about the music!
In the end, when Lao Zhu was thinking about him from Guan to Tongcheng, he couldn't let it go for a while and died of depression!
If it weren't for his donkey-like temper, he probably wouldn't have been able to defeat Chen Youliang's 600,000-strong army under the harsh conditions of Hongdu. But it was also because of his donkey-like temper that this peerless general was so angry that he died of anger.
Lao Zhu originally just wanted to punish Zhu Wenzheng a little and make him think for a while, that's all. Unexpectedly, Zhu Wenzheng died of anger, which became a major worry for Lao Zhu in his life: so he loved Zhu Shouqian (nicknamed Tiezhu), the son left by Zhu Wenzheng, even more, and even unprecedentedly married him with his sons. He was also granted the title of vassal king, and his title was: King Jingjiang. He loved and doted on those he loved more than his own children.
However, Zhu Shouqian didn't appreciate it. Faced with Lao Zhu's love, he became more and more withdrawn. He only felt that Lao Zhu's family was sorry for his father, so he rarely interacted with him on weekdays. He even dismissed Lao Zhu's title of king.
Lao Zhu was a strict father to the Zhu Su brothers, but when faced with this Zhu Tiezhu, he couldn't bring himself to discipline him severely: his father died of suffocation just because he wanted to discipline him. Tie Zhu's stubborn temper was just like his father's. If he also had a stubborn temper, wouldn't Wen Zheng be the last to be empressed?
Regarding this Zhu Tiezhu, Lao Zhu Najie had no choice but to let him go and let him do whatever he pleased. Even the emperor dared not take care of him, and Zhu Tiezhu's temper became increasingly eccentric without any supervision.
His father was so accomplished but died in such a useless manner. He even felt that everyone in the world owed him a debt, so he always acted tyrannically in Yingtian Mansion and made people hate him.
"Bold!" Seeing that the powerful slaves of the Jingjiang Palace were so large in number and were about to push Zhu Su and the others in the inner circle, Li Jinglong suddenly became anxious and pulled out the sword decorated with many gems from his waist: "Don't make a mistake! If you dare to step forward again, don't blame me for doing anything!"
Originally, the two sides were only restraining their hands and feet. Seeing that Li Jinglong drew his sword first, Zhu Tiezhu became anxious and shouted: "You dare to touch this guy, but I don't dare to?"
"Come on! Give them all to the lonely guy!"
The young man's bloody nature and the resentment in his heart for his father's wasted death made him unable to even care about the identities of Zhu Su and others.
Seeing that the situation was about to get out of control, Zhu Su's face suddenly turned pale. Those powerful slaves from the Jingjiang Palace took a bunch of sticks and chair legs from nowhere, and a few of them also had knives. "This... the situation is a little bad! There are many people on the other side. If they are swarmed, how will you resist them?"
"It doesn't matter." Zhu Fan looked calm. "The Jiujiang family has a long history of learning and has always been fond of martial arts. How can we deal with these slaves who are not skilled in martial arts?"
"With him as the vanguard, we can rest easy..."
Before he finished speaking, I saw a powerful slave from the Jingjiang Palace dancing with a water and fire stick and hitting Li Jinglong with his head. Li Jinglong was also brave. He was clearly protected by his own soldiers, but he took a few steps forward and wanted to dance. The sword fights against itself. He made a sword gesture with his left hand and waved the sword with his right hand, making the sword flowers fly lightly.
"What a shameful method, you really deserve to be a disciple of the general..." Zhu Su nodded in praise, feeling reassured.
"Ah! Kill me!"
However, before Zhu Su could finish his words, he only heard a scream. Li Jinglong was hit in the abdomen with a stick by the slave, and he dropped his sword and fell to the ground, screaming in pain.
"..."
As soon as the servants fought, one of the vanguard generals rushed into the street before the soldiers. No one on either side could react for a moment, and the originally tense scene fell into an embarrassing stagnation.
"...Ah this?" Zhu Su almost dropped his eyes.
After a brief stagnation, the soldiers of Li Mansion reacted first. Two soldiers rushed in with knives and snatched the fallen Li Jinglong back to the formation. The powerful slaves of the Jingjiang Palace were furious, and their sticks and chair legs started to fire strangely. They were attacked by a sea of people from all directions, and Li Jinglong's party was immediately defeated.
"Protect the four masters!" Several guards from the Arch Guard Department also shouted. Although all their knives have not yet been unsheathed, more than half have been drawn out. If anyone really dares to collide with the four young princes, they will be killed on the spot.
"In this situation, it's impossible not to reveal your identity!" Zhu Di gritted his teeth and wanted to shout out, but the two groups of people were noisy, and there were countless people shouting and watching the excitement. Zhu Di shouted a few times, but no one was there. Can hear clearly.
"No, we have to attract the crowd's attention..." Zhu Su looked around and found a decorative flag not far behind him, standing by the tent, and he immediately had an idea. He pulled Zhu Di to the flag and waved it together with Zhu Di. While waving the flag, he shouted: "The four princes of the Zhu family are here, please stop!"
Zhu Xi and Zhu Fan and the guards immediately understood and shouted loudly: "The four princes are here, please stop!"
The waving flags and several people shouting together finally calmed down the chaotic crowd.
After hearing what they said clearly, the servants of the Jingjiang Prince's Palace immediately became helpless and looked at each other: What's going on? Why do the four people across from me also call themselves princes?
