After Zhuge Liang "died" in battle, Li Mu had fully taken over the war in the northern and southern fronts of Jing, and successively set up defense lines in Hanjin, Dangyang, Linju, and Yicheng.
The Nanyang Central Plains princes began to mobilize their troops, giving Yue Fei, Xie An, and Xian Zhen a breath of relief. Yue Fei even took the opportunity to launch a counterattack.
These battles on the southern front of Jingbei were bloody and deadly battles. Both sides went all out in every battle. Even high-level god-level generals like Lu Er were injured in the siege battles. It can be seen that these few battles have been bloody and deadly. The battle is so intense!
However, Liu Xiu, Zhu Yuanzhang, and Xu Shiji had many powerful generals under their command. Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang attacked the weak enemy and did not confront Li Mu head-on. Taking advantage of his own strength, he sent a general to take an optimistic view of Li Mu in Hanjin, and the remaining troops attacked Dangyang and Linju.
No matter how strong Li Mu is, there is not much room for him to show off at this time. After all, Xu Da's skills may not be worse than Li Mu's, but if Xu Da just keeps an eye on Li Mu, how much room does Li Mu have to play tricks?
Dangyang and Linju were lost, and Li Mu of Hanjin had to leave at this time. If the defense line completely collapsed, if he didn't leave, he would be made dumplings by the enemy!
It wasn't until they reached Yicheng, the second line of defense, that Zhu Yuanzhang and Li Mu finally had another head-on confrontation.
In order to break Li Mu's turtle shell, Zhu Yuanzhang was even forced to charge personally. Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang was forced by Li Mu to use any despicable means, and even ordered Lu Ya to secretly attack the generals of the Jin army.
After Zhu Yuanzhang played this trick, it can be said that almost every Jin general was defending the city with his life, and faced the risk of losing his life at every moment. Nine generals including She Zhong, Zheng Hong, Sui Sheng, and Qiu Qi died in Lu Ya's hands.
Even Li Mu would have been killed by Lu Ya's flying knife if Shi Gandang hadn't rescued him in time.
Zhu Yuanzhang left a total of 20,000 soldiers and horses under such a small city, and finally broke this turtle shell.
After Yicheng, it is the second of the five strongest cities in Jingbei. Under the deliberate construction of the Jin army, Wancheng in Nanyang, Jiangling in Nanjun, Xiakou in Jiangxia, and Xiangyang and Fancheng in Xiangyang County were the five strongest cities in northern Jingbei.
What Zhu Yuanzhang faced next was two of them, Xiangyang and Fancheng. These two cities faced each other across the river. Attacking this place was the most vulnerable to water attack. Especially when the rainy season is coming, once someone makes a move on the river, even if the whole army is not directly wiped out, it will definitely be almost!
Therefore, after Zhu Yuanzhang arrived at this place, the first thing he did was not attack the city, but sent generals to check the situation in the upper reaches of Xiangshui River. Moreover, out of caution, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Qian Jian to check it every three days, without any possibility of anyone tampering with the river!
However, Zhu Yuanzhang probably would never have expected at that time that he was already so careful, but still suffered a loss in terms of water!
The next thing that faced Zhu Yuanzhang was the problem of attacking the city. Twenty thousand lives were lost in the small city before. If it were replaced by these two fortified cities, if that method was used to attack, what would happen behind the scenes? The loss that may be required is too great!
However, Zhu Yuanzhang was indeed impatient at this time. The news in Shuzhong was not good. First, Yang Su rebelled, and Liu Che's news of the loss of Baishui Pass came out. After that, Bajun was opened up, and Wu Qi's troops were completely destroyed. It was so easy that the Jin army could even directly avoid the four passes in northern Shu.
None of this is good news, and Zhu Yuanzhang and the others can only be forced to speed up their progress. We can't wait until the Jin army has defeated Yizhou, and they are still lingering here in Xiangyang!
If a person is really not in a hurry, he will naturally be less likely to make mistakes! Only when he is impatient can he reveal his flaws unconsciously! No matter how powerful a person is, the more anxious he is, the more likely he is to make mistakes!
That is to say, when Zhu Yuanzhang was most anxious, Yu Wenxian took action!
Within Fancheng, Yu Wengui is one of the guards. Moreover, Yu Wengui could not have been temporarily deployed. This clumsy method could easily arouse suspicion. As early as two years ago, Yu Wengui had been transferred to Fancheng.
And this is why Zhuge Liang believes that Yu Wenxian is the most suitable person for his plan. In addition to Yu Wenxian being suitable in terms of software, he is also absolutely suitable in terms of hardware!
Yu Wenxian personally asked for orders to persuade Yu Wengui to surrender.
As for Yu Wenxian, it is impossible for him to reach the level of Zhu Yuanzhang's confidant when he first arrived. However, Zhu Yuanzhang never doubted Yu Wenxian's position. At this time, there was no possibility of Yu Wenxian returning to the Jin army.
Not to mention that Yu Wenxian really helped them open the gate of Jiangling City, and during this period of time, Yu Wenxian had the blood of many important people who invaded! People from the Li family, people from the Wang family, and even Zhuge Liang, one of the best people in the first imperial examination.
Moreover, during this period of time, Fushuifang had organized several assassinations against Yu Wenxian. The most serious one almost allowed Fushuifang to succeed. Such drastic measures seemed to have issued the highest level of death order to Yu Wenxian.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang must have a considerable degree of trust in Yu Wenxian at this time. Moreover, even if it is to serve as a public figure, Zhu Yuanzhang must have high-ranking officials and high salaries for Yu Wenxian, and various rewards will be sent to him every day.
Zhu Yuanzhang was quite happy that Yu Wenxian could give Zhu Yuanzhang such an effective suggestion at this time. Regardless of whether it can succeed or not, at least let Yu Wenxian give it a try!
Yu Wenxian finally lived up to Zhu Yuanzhang's expectations and successfully persuaded Yu Wengui to surrender to Wu! But on the night of the action, Yu Wenxian seemed to suddenly realize that something was wrong with Yu Wengui! At the last moment, Yu Wenxian proposed to Zhu Yuanzhang his conjecture that Yu Wengui was faking surrender!
Zhu Yuanzhang had a certain degree of preparedness for this matter, and he was already on guard against the other party pretending to surrender! Now that Yu Wenxian is suspicious again, he is even more defensive!
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang decisively engaged in a game of trickery. In this battle, due to Li Mu's timely response and the deadly battles of Shi Gandang, Yue Lun and other generals, although Zhu Yuanzhang was ultimately defeated, it also caused heavy losses to the Fancheng defenders.
Moreover, after experiencing this incident, Zhu Yuanzhang's trust in Yu Wenxian has obviously been further improved!
(End of chapter)
