Chapter 6 Chapter Two Red Army Marshal I and Nine Commanders

On the first day of March in the twelfth year of Yuanzhizheng, Zhu Yuanzhang arrived at the city of Haozhou.At this time, Haozhou was still surrounded by the Yuan army.Although the Yuan army did not dare to attack the city, they camped far away to face each other, the Red Army in the city still did not dare to be careless. The knife is out of its sheath.The patrols and sentries are constantly flowing.At dawn, the guards at the city gate stopped a monk dressed in shabby clothes and questioned him. He only said that he had joined the army, let alone anything else.Can't help but arouse suspicion, thinking it is a spy of the Yuan army.After a few words and two words, he fell out, tied up the monk, and sent someone to report to Marshal Guo, asking for the flag to be killed.Guo Zixing heard the reason, and thought about it carefully, it was very strange, if it was a spy, how could he be so calm?Maybe he is really a good man who came to surrender, don't kill a good man in vain.Riding a fast horse to the gate of the city, I saw twenty or thirty soldiers and ordinary people forming a circle from a distance.There were crowds of people, gesticulating and cursing.He hurriedly shouted back all the soldiers, only to see a tall, weird-looking ugly monk tied up on a horse stake.Although the clothes are ragged, the exposed muscles are very strong, the eyes are full of fire, and the expression is calm and not afraid.Zixing liked it a little in his heart, so he got off his horse and asked for details. He found out that he was from Guzhuang Village, had been a teacher, Tang He had sent him a letter, and had contacts with many brothers in the Red Army. Received as a pawn. 【01】

Yuanzhang joined the army, met the captain, and practiced with his brothers every day.Practice martial arts.He is in good shape.With a strong memory, he has already become the top player in the team in only ten days.A few times out of the city to spy, he is cunning, decisive, calm and responsive, and his teammates are willing to listen to the dispatch.Every time I go out, I always make a contribution.It doesn't hurt anyone, and I like it so much that even the captain discusses it with him when something happens.Before I knew it, more than two months had passed.One day Marshal Guo came out with his own soldiers to inspect. Passing Yuanzhang's barracks, the whole team lined up to salute the commander. Yuanzhang was tall and at the head of the line.Zixing saw it and remembered what happened that day.Call the captain to ask about his heart and ability to serve. The captain praised him, saying that he is one of a thousand talents. 【02】

Yuanzhang was careful and diligent in his work, but also dared to act.Got orders, executed quickly, done well.When fighting, take the lead and get the spoils, whether it is gold, silver, clothes, or livestock food, all are dedicated to the marshal.After receiving the reward, he said that the credit belongs to everyone, and it will be distributed fairly and equally to the comrades who went out together.I usually don't talk much.But every sentence weighs a lot.He could read some words again, whenever there was an issue in the team, the orders of the marshal, the proclamations of Du Zundao and Liu Futong, and even the family letters of comrades-in-arms, all the comrades asked him to explain.A few months later, not only did he gain a good reputation in the army: brave, capable, generous, knowledgeable, loyal, and popular, even Marshal Guo also regarded him as his confidant, discussed things with him from time to time, and obeyed.

Marshal Guo's second wife, Mrs. Zhang, raised an orphan girl who was originally entrusted by Zixing's old friend Ma Gong.Ma Gong was from Suzhou. When Zi Xing raised his troops, Ma Gong returned to Suzhou and planned to raise troops to respond. Unexpectedly, he died not long after returning.Zixing is very grateful and treats the orphan very well.Zixing loves Yuanzhang very much, and asked him to do his best, and discussed with Mrs. Zhang about recruiting a son-in-law. Mrs. Zhang also heard that Yuanzhang was outstanding, but Zixing had a bad temper, and he couldn't get along with the four marshals, so he had to be careful. With the help of capable people around me, I tried my best to choose a day to marry the couple.Yuanzhang has become a marshal's guest for no reason, and has a backing for his future, not to mention the marshal officiates the marriage, so he naturally agrees.From then on, the army changed its name to Yuanzhang as Zhu Gongzi, and when he had an identity, an official was named Yuanzhang with the word Guorui. 【03】

The four marshals of Sun Deya's group were all from poor peasants, with straightforward temperaments, and what to say, apart from growing crops and being strong, they knew little about other things and couldn't say anything.Sun Deya and his team advocated that more landlords should be sent to distribute military rations. The poor peasants couldn't even eat enough to eat, and the distribution of rations was not to kill them.Guo Zixing has another idea. The landlords should send less. There are only a few dozen landlords on the ground. If there are too many, the landlords will run away. , adding up to a large number.The two families fought back and forth, but Zixing couldn't quarrel with four people with one mouth, and he was very unconvinced.He also thinks that they are a group of people who are rough and rude, and they don't have a proper way of speaking and doing things, and they don't have a proper style.Although they are all above Zixing, they look down on him. After getting along for a long time, they will quarrel when things happen, and they will become more and more disgusted.There was a disagreement between the two. During the discussion, the four of Sun Deya had their own opinions, and Zixing always shook his head, refuted with words, and sometimes said some stinging words to hurt people, which made people feel uncomfortable.The four of Sun Deya also hated Guo Zixing's quarrel and awkwardness, they simply discussed everything first, and you have to follow if you don't agree.Every meeting.The four of Sun Deya came on time, but Zixing was unhappy and was always late. When they couldn't reach an agreement, Zixing walked away angrily, and the four of them settled things down, and Zixing became more and more impatient.Sometimes only once in a few days, when Zixing came, all four of them stared at him.Zixing felt that something was wrong, felt uneasy, and couldn't think of an idea, so he simply stayed at home and didn't care about things.None of the five marshals can control the other, and none of them obeys the other, giving orders to each other.

It has occupied Haozhou for more than half a year.Apart from asking the four townships for food, fodder and livestock, they couldn't even leave Haozhou.Zixing knew that the four marshals were going to deal with him together, and that he would suffer a loss. He had to have a plan to deal with him, so he discussed with Yuanzhang, who advised him to cheer up and discuss things with the four marshals' guild as usual, with one heart , the greater the strength, the better the situation will be.If you don't care about things all the time, you can't blame others for doing things.Someone has to take care of everything!Because things are not aligned, things go wrong, and everyone has to suffer, but at that time, we can't tell you from me.After hearing this, Zixing went out to the guild the next day, and within a few days, they broke up again.The relationship between the two parties is getting worse and worse, and they are both afraid of the other party's poisonous hands, and they are suspicious and wary of each other.Yuanzhang persuaded Zixing not to move, and secretly apologized to Sun Deya to be careful, said good things, and deliberately contacted him, so as not to really fall out. 【04】

In September, the Prime Minister of the Yuan Dynasty broke away from the reunification, and hundreds of thousands of Han soldiers attacked Xuzhou.He recruited 30,000 local Yanding and brave athletes, wearing yellow clothes and hats, and called them Huang Jun.To be a pioneer.Using huge stones as cannons, they stormed day and night, destroyed the city, ordered the massacre of the city, killed everyone they saw, and burned houses when they saw it.Zhima Li fought and escaped, but was caught and killed by Yuan soldiers. [05] Peng Da and Zhao Junyong led the remnant soldiers to Haozhou, escaped and Jia Lu led the troops in pursuit. [06] Peng Da and Zhao Jun used powerful troops. After arriving in Haozhou, the five commanders of Haozhou were under their restraint.Peng Dayong is brave, courageous, intelligent, daring to act, and has the same aura as Guo Zixing.Zhao Junyong was born as the president of the company, and Sun Deya and his gang were all against him, and the two sides fought openly and secretly, and had a lot of trouble for a long time.Sun Deya thought of a way to borrow a knife to kill people, and used words to provoke Zhao Junyong, saying that Guo Zixing had shallow eyesight, only knew General Peng, and worshiped him in every possible way, but he looked down on the general and looked down on him.Zhao Junyong was furious, so he immediately sent Sun Deya to lead his own soldiers to fight against him, captured Zixing in the street, beat him severely, and locked him in a cold room.At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang happened to be on a business trip and rushed back when he got the letter. The Guo family was in a hurry and didn't know what to do.Yuanzhang reckoned that this disaster must be because Guo Zixing was thicker than Peng and weaker than Zhao.The next day, he accompanied Mrs. Xiao Zhang and Zixing's two sons, Tianxu and Tianjue, all the way to sue Peng Da. After hearing this, Peng Da was furious and said, "They are messing around too much. With me here, who dares to harm your marshal!"Immediately called for troops from the left and right, Yuanzhang was also in full armor, and led his troops to surround Sun's house, lifted the roof tiles, and rescued Zixing.I saw that Zixing was wearing a wooden shackle at his neck and iron rests at his feet, and his whole body was beaten to pieces.At that time, he opened the shackles and returned to his private house to rest.Zhao Junyong knew that Peng Da was in the limelight, so he was afraid of hurting his friendship.I had no choice but to bear with it. 【07】

When Jia Lu entered the siege of Haozhou, the leaders of the Red Army panicked when the enemy was approaching.From the winter of this year to the spring of the next year, Haozhou was besieged for seven months. Fortunately, the city was high and deep.There was enough food, and the Yuan army didn't know what was going on in the city, thinking that it would be completely surrounded.Cut off the food roads and save the soldiers, the Red Army will naturally be trapped to death, and they can win without losing soldiers. Therefore, there is no big battle between the two stalemates.One day, Yuan general Jia Lu died of illness. The Yuan army garrisoned troops under the strong city. They were exhausted for a long time and had no fighting spirit.Although Haozhou was relieved, it also lost a lot of people and suffered a big loss.

Yuan Zhang was ordered to lead troops to attack Wuhe and take Dingyuan.Before the encirclement of Yuan soldiers, troops were sent to attack Huaiyuan and Anfeng.Recruit young men.After closing the siege, they led a surprise army to break out of the siege and conquered Hanshan, Lingbi and Hong counties. Yuan soldiers left him, Peng Da and Zhao Junyong were elated, Peng Da called himself King Luhuai, Zhao Junyong called himself King Yongyi, Guo Zixing and Sun Deya were still Marshals of Temperance. 【08】 Notes from the original book: 01: "Yu Zhi Ji Meng", "Records of Emperor Taizu of Ming Dynasty", "Monument of the Imperial Tomb", "Monument of Chuyang King's Temple" written by Zhang Laiyi, "Tian Huang Jade Book".

02: "Records of Imperial Dreams", Volume 1 of "Records of Emperor Taizu of Ming Dynasty", "Benji of the Dynasty". 03: Volume 1 of "Records of Emperor Taizu of Ming Dynasty", Tan Qian's "Guoyan". 04: Volume 1 of "Records of Emperor Taizu of Ming Dynasty", "Records of the Imperial Dynasty". 05: "Geng Shen Wai Shi", "Yuan Shi", "Tuo Tuo Zhuan", "Ye Su Zhuan". 06: Volume 1 of "Records of Ming Taizu". 07: "The Chronicle of the Dynasty", Volume 1 of "Records of Ming Taizu".

08: "Yuan History", "Jia Lu Biography", "A Brief Introduction to the Heroes of the Early Kingdom", Volume 2, King Chuyang.