In the twenty-second year of Zhengzheng (1362), Chen Youyu, who had already established the Han Dynasty as emperor, took advantage of Zhu Yuanzhang's dispatch of troops to Anfeng, and when Yingtian's troops were empty, he rode on hundreds of newly built large ships, and in the record, "the ship was several inches high, decorated with Dan lacquer, three levels up and down, the class was placed in a horse shed, and there were dozens of slab houses under it, and dozens of them were placed", carrying a small hundred officials of the family, pouring out of the country, claiming that the army was 600,000, wanting to take Ying Tian, cutting off Zhu Yuanzhang's return route, letting him go in and out of the way, and taking advantage of himself.
If you want to calculate the strength, Zhu Yuanzhang is already on par with Chen Youyu at this time, but it is indeed a dangerous move for him to rescue An Feng, where King Xiaoming is located. Liu Bowen tried his best to stop it, the reason was precisely because he was afraid that Chen Youyu would send troops behind his back, and once Youyu came to attack, Ying Tian would almost be broken, and the risk was indeed extremely great.
Zhu Yuanzhang decided to give it a try, he thought that Anfeng was YingTian's shield, saving Anfeng was to save Yingtian, and there was also King Xiaoming, so he had to save it.
As for Chen Youyu, it could only be a bet that he would miss the opportunity and not attack YingTian.
However, Chen Youyu was not easy to live with, and even if he could not see this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, he not only sent troops, but also brought out almost all the troops, the purpose of which was to completely break Zhu Yuanzhang in the first battle.
The situation can be called dangerous, the Han army successfully occupied Ji'an, Linjiang, wuwei, and besieged Hongdu in groups, and when Hongdu was taken into the pocket, the army could go down the river and reach Yingtian.
Taking down Hong Du seemed logical to Chen Youyu. Hongdu is near the water, just last time, the Han army took advantage of the rising water, directly from the ship to climb the city, easily attacked the city.
After that, Zhu Yuanzhang recovered Hongdu, learned a lesson, and ordered the city wall to be rebuilt and changed to thirty steps to the riverbank. In this way, it was impossible to board the city from the ship, but this did not hinder Chen Youyi's mood, and there was no suspense in hundreds of thousands of troops to take a Hongdu.
It was in Hongdu that Chen Youyu was so bloodied that it affected his strategic plan and directly led to his demise.
At this time, the commander of the Hongdu garrison was Zhu Wenzheng, and there were also generals such as Deng Yu, marshal Zhao Desheng, Niu Hailong, and commander Xue Xian, with a total of about 20,000 horses.
Chen Youyi came from the empty country, claiming that the army was 600,000, even if there was moisture, there were three or four hundred thousand soldiers.
The ratio of troops between the two sides is around 1:20.
Deng Yu and Zhao Desheng were Zhu Yuanzhang's old subordinates, and they all had great general talents, even Niu Hailong and Xue Xian, who were later called by Zhu Yuanzhang and Fu Youde, it can be seen that they are not generalists.
The main backbone of Hongdu is the commander Zhu Wenzheng.
Zhu Wen was Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew, only a few years younger than him, and they grew up together when they were young, and their relationship was extremely close. After more than ten years of separation, the two were able to re-recognize each other, after which Zhu Wenzheng made outstanding contributions and was also promoted rapidly, and by the twenty-first year of Zhizheng (1361), Zhu Wenzheng had become the governor of the capital, controlled the armies, and became the highest military commander in Zhu Yuanzhang's army. It is not surprising that Li Wenzhong is still young, Zhu Yuanzhang does not have many available relatives, and zhu Wenzheng's close relatives are reused, which is also caused by trust.
Most of the long-circulated theories that Zhu Wen was spending his days drinking wine and not doing the right thing are mostly from wild history and are not enough to be accepted. On the contrary, Zhu Wenzheng had already shown outstanding military ability before, and he had many military achievements in fighting against Taiping and Jiankang, otherwise he would be considered Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew and would be difficult to convince the public by forcibly assigning him to this post.
Zhu Wen was facing the pressure of the Han army, and only by sticking to the road, only by dragging the main force of the Han army and hoping that Zhu Yuanzhang's return to help was the only way to survive, otherwise the Hong capital would be broken, and the sky would be in danger.
Hongdu has a total of eight doors, Zhu Wenzheng arranged for the generals to defend, and he personally led 2,000 elites as a reserve team, and dispatched in the center.
On April 23, the Battle of Hongdu began.
The Han army first chose fuzhou gate to attack, the soldiers who disembarked and landed on the shore pushed the siege hammer and other broken door equipment to rush straight into the city wall, and there were trebuchets on the water surface to help, and the city wall was quickly opened.
Defending the Fuzhou Gate was Deng Yu, and the founding general saw that the situation was urgent, and quickly dispatched a team of fire reinforcements to suppress the Han army with powerful firepower and rush to repair the city wall. Zhu Wenzheng received the report, immediately dispatched Niu Hailong and others to reinforcements, and personally led the reserve team to Fuzhou Gate to supervise the battle.
The fierce battle lasted all day, and the Han army was finally unable to capture fuzhou gate. The next day, at dawn, there were many bones under the city wall, but the gap had been blocked. The defenders also paid a huge price, and the commander-in-chief Li Jixian, marshal Niu Hailong, Zhao Guowang, Xu Jue, and Wanhu Cheng Guosheng were all killed.