Chapter 6 6. Missing Haozhou, Guo Zixing’s death

When Zhang Shicheng became king, the five marshals in Haozhou City were fighting each other.Originally, there were some conflicts between Guo Zixing and Sun Deya, because they had no bigger development goals after capturing Haozhou, so they focused their energy on enjoying and fighting.Take a look at Sun Deya, since they occupied Haozhou, they have forced the daughters and goods of the people, and they have no ambitions.Guo Zixing considers himself the most capable leading marshal, and can't understand their actions, and those few marshals also don't like Guo Zixing's self-importance, and they deliberately join forces to make things difficult for Guo Zixing. When discussing matters, they often agree with Guo Zixing .

As a result, Guo Zixing hated the four marshals even more, but he couldn't do anything to them, which was what troubled Guo Zixing the most.The more serious problem is that the center of power has gradually moved away from Guo Zixing. If there is any matter, those marshals will gather at Sun Deya's Marshal's Mansion, and then send someone to inform Guo Zixing to go. disagree.Moreover, since Zhao Junyong and Peng Da were admitted, the forces in Haozhou City became more dispersed. Although Guo Zixing agreed to accept them at the beginning, these two people gradually became dissatisfied with Guo Zixing, and they got closer to Sun Deya. This made Guo Zixing even more angry.

The situation couldn't be dragged on like this. Compared with those peasants, Guo Zixing had more strategy and ambition after all.He wanted to get rid of these people and consolidate his power.Haozhou City cannot be without a head of the family, five people are allowed to quarrel all day long, Guo Zixing is now fighting for the seat of the head of the family. Not long ago, Guo Zixing married his adopted daughter to the monk who had come to seek refuge.Fortunately, this Zhu Chongba was considerate in everything, and Guo Zixing gave him a rather elegant name——Zhu Yuanzhang.He was depressed about how to deal with the current matter, and Zhu Yuanzhang just came to pay his respects.

"Yuanzhang, you have been with me for a long time, look at how angry our mighty Marshal Guo is now! It is really annoying to be teased by those peasant marshals." Guo Zixing said dissatisfied. Zhu Yuanzhang said calmly: "Father-in-law doesn't need to be so sad. With your strength, they are no match for you." Guo Zixing likes to hear this kind of talk the most, as long as he is better than those few people, he will be happy. At the moment, Zhu Yuanzhang suggested that Guo Zixing should clear up the relationship with them. The more rigid the relationship is, the more unfavorable it is to Guo Zixing.

Guo Zixing began to try to visit those marshals' mansions. For Guo Zixing, this was a shameful thing to do.As for those marshals, Guo Zixing was not used to being so enthusiastic all of a sudden. On their own. Guo Zixing was thinking about what strategy to use to get rid of these opponents, but he didn't expect to be punished by Sun Deya first. These days the Marshals were discussing matters again, Guo Zixing was late as before, and had a quarrel with Sun Deya during the discussion, this time Guo Zixing got the upper hand in this quarrel, and returned to the mansion happily.In the evening, I saw Sun Deya sent someone to invite him, saying that he wanted to apologize to Marshal Guo for the incident during the day, and he specially invited him to the banquet.Guo Zixing was even more excited when he heard this, and he left without taking any entourage. Only when he arrived at the Sun's residence did he realize that it was Sun Deya who invited him into the urn.

The news was sent back to the Guo family, and the only one who could save Guo Zixing was his son-in-law Zhu Yuanzhang.Zhu Yuanzhang knew the importance of this matter. If he mobilized troops to fight with Sun Deya, the remaining marshals would definitely help Sun Deya. Not only would the safety of his father-in-law be uncertain, but even the safety of his family would become a problem.How to get Sun Deya to release him obediently? Zhu Yuanzhang pondered for a long time, thinking that Zhao Junyong and Sun Deya are very close now. Both of them are very powerful in military strength and strength in Haozhou City. The design of detaining his father-in-law must be the conspiracy of these two people. Otherwise, none of them would dare to act privately.It seems that the only option is to go to Peng Da. This person is not like Zhao Junyong Fang Kuang.Zhu Yuanzhang went with Mrs. Guo to find Peng Da. It turned out that Peng Da didn't know about it and was furious. One was angry that Zhao Jun used the two of them to do things without telling him, and the other was worried that he would end up like this one day, so he reconciled with Zhu Yuanzhang. Everyone went to the Sun Mansion to ask for someone, and Guo Zixing was rescued.

After going through this toss, Guo Zixing was really hurt, not only physically, but also mentally.In his opinion, it was Zhu Yuanzhang who saved him this time, but he also suspected that Zhu Yuanzhang would rebel against him and act independently.He has long seen that Zhu Yuanzhang has a group of capable brothers gathered around him, and he has not been prepared to take advantage of him. After this incident, he felt that the people around him were a greater threat, so he found some reasons to send Zhu Yuanzhang to attack no one. Chuzhou, who is willing to attack, will undoubtedly embarrass Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang was driven to attack Chuzhou, and Guo Zixing thought he had done a smart thing.Since Guo Zixing was detained by Sun Deya and Zhao Jun with a design last time, he has not had much contact with the marshals, and the marshals lost a main opponent, and they started fighting with each other.Looking at the chaos in the city, Guo Zixing was very helpless. To be on the safe side, he had no choice but to bid farewell to Haozhou, otherwise his life would be in jeopardy. Besides, Zhao Junyong and Sun Deya no longer took him seriously, so he would not be killed if he stayed in Haozhou Will be pissed off too.

Guo Zixing had no choice but to go to Chuzhou to seek refuge with his son-in-law Zhu Yuanzhang. He did not expect that Zhu Yuanzhang would be able to capture Chuzhou.Seeing that he was his father-in-law, Zhu Yuanzhang welcomed him into Chuzhou respectfully and warmly, and handed over the city he conquered so hard to Guo Zixing, and obeyed Guo Zixing's arrangement.In order to make him not suspicious, Zhu Yuanzhang went to attack Hezhou in order to seek development. Guo Zixing was very unhappy at this time. And just after Zhu Yuanzhang captured Hezhou, something happened that made Guo Zixing very dissatisfied.He heard that Sun Deya had lived in Hezhou in the name of borrowing grain, and Guo Zixing was very angry and worried.Sun Deya was his enemy, but Zhu Yuanzhang left him to live in the city. Isn't this clearly bullying him?Besides, what if these two people join forces to deal with him?The more Guo Zixing thought about it, the more angry he became, and immediately led a lot of troops to Hezhou in the name of crusade against Sun Deya, which caught Zhu Yuanzhang by surprise.

Guo Zixing did not wait to settle down, entered Hezhou, and immediately led his people to join forces with Sun Deya.Not to be outdone, Sun Deya immediately gathered his troops to fight, causing chaos in the city. After all, this is Zhu Yuanzhang's territory, and the two marshals who regarded themselves as elders did not really fight.Zhu Yuanzhang had no choice but to "borrow food" to Sun Deya and asked him to leave first. Sun Deya also knew that Guo Zixing was here, and he would not have a good life, so he found a way for himself and decided to leave. The problem was that Guo Zixing was still angry, and he apparently promised Zhu Yuanzhang that he would not make any big fuss about it, but in fact he was still thinking about how to catch this old thief alive before Sun Deya left.

Early this morning, Zhu Yuanzhang personally accompanied Sun Deya to escort the food and sent him back to Haozhou.Before departure, Guo Zixing also politely bid farewell to Sun Deya.Not long after leaving the city gate, Guo Zixing led a large group of people to come, robbed Sun Deya and left.Most of Sun Deya's men and horses were taken away by Zhao Junyong first, leaving only some grain transport soldiers. These weak soldiers had no resistance to the menacing Guo Zixing.After robbing Sun Deya, Guo Zixing immediately led his people back to Hezhou, leaving Zhu Yuanzhang stunned. After Guo Zixing left, Zhu Yuanzhang suffered a lot. Sun Deya's men guessed that Zhu Yuanzhang and Guo Zixing used a strategy together, and immediately dealt with Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang planned to see him off, but few people followed him. When the news left, Zhao Junyong, who had gone ahead, withdrew When he came back, he surrounded Zhu Yuanzhang.Zhu Yuanzhang had no way to defend himself, and he was not the opponent of so many people, so Zhao Jun used them to take him away. Here in Hezhou City, Guo Zixing was yelling at Sun Deya enthusiastically, and as a way of venting his anger, a soldier rushed to report that Zhu Yuanzhang was kidnapped by Zhao Jun with them.Hearing this information, Guo Zixing was stunned. After all, Hezhou City is Zhu Yuanzhang's world. Hearing that Zhu Yuanzhang was kidnapped, all his brothers came to Guo Zixing. Li Shanchang, Tang He, and Xu Da unanimously demanded that Guo Zixing release Sun Deya to redeem Zhu Yuanzhang.Guo Zixing didn't want to, but he had to do it in exchange for Zhu Yuanzhang. Although he didn't want to think that Zhu Yuanzhang was his son-in-law, he just wanted revenge and killed Sun Deya, and then fought back to Haozhou.However, in Hezhou, Guo Zixing's status could not be compared with Zhu Yuanzhang's.Under repeated requests and even persecution by Zhu Yuanzhang's subordinates, Guo Zixing had to release Sun Deya in exchange for Zhu Yuanzhang. As soon as Sun Deya was released, Guo Zixing fell ill.This disease is a heart disease, so the disease is very severe.He thought that he had no chance to live in Haozhou, which he had fought so hard for, and that his brothers who had been in adversity squeezed him out so much, and that Zhu Chongba, whom he personally supported, was stronger than himself, and he tried every means to revive his power, but it ended up like this... The more I thought about it, the more irritable I became, lying on the bed without thinking about tea, no matter how my family tried to persuade me, it was useless.Zhu Yuanzhang came to visit, but he refused to meet him. Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang would only make him angrier.Just like that, a marshal who was once all-powerful died in depression. Guo Zixing's death seemed to have little effect on the Yuan Dynasty and other rebels, but it had a great impact on one person, and that person was Zhu Yuanzhang.After Guo Zixing's death, the civil strife in Haozhou City, coupled with the Yuan Dynasty's attack, it can be said that the power of those marshals and leaders has gradually weakened, and people are panicked.During this period, Zhu Yuanzhang's personal charm and ability to handle affairs quickly conquered the Red Scarf Army in this area.In addition, he is Guo Zixing's son-in-law, Guo Zixing's power and even most of the Red Scarf Army in Haozhou City tend to lean towards Zhu Yuanzhang, because Guo Zixing's son Guo Tianxu can't compare with Zhu Yuanzhang's ability.Therefore, Guo Zixing's death provided a good opportunity for Zhu Yuanzhang's development.