The Yuan army attacked Zhang Shicheng's rebel army in Gaoyou, and at the same time divided troops to attack nearby Liuhe and other places, and the Liuhe rebel army went to Chuzhou to ask for help, Guo Zixing had no intention of rescuing, but Zhu Yuanzhang insisted on sending troops despite Guo Zixing's opposition.

The reason for the disagreement between the two was that Guo Zixing was reluctant to rescue him because of personal grievances, but Zhu Yuanzhang had a concept of the overall situation and sent troops out of consideration of cold lips and teeth. In fact, Guo Zixing's opposition to sending troops was based on an accurate judgment of the strength of both the enemy and us, and Zhu Yuanjing insisted on hitting the stone with an egg, but he became ignorant of life and death in order to get rid of Guo Zixing's shackles.

Due to his strength, Zhu Yuanzhang suffered a defeat in Liuhe and returned home. Zhu Yuanzhang's recklessness set himself on fire, and the Yuan soldiers followed and pursued, and went straight to Chuzhou, Zhu Yuanzhang set up an ambush on the way to defeat the pursuing Yuan army, but he knew that he could not match the main force of the Yuan army, and in order to preserve his strength, he had to show weakness to the Yuan army.

In order to escape the blow, Zhu Yuanzhang turned into a pro-Yuan rebel army, and asked the people in Chuzhou City to bring cattle, sheep and wine to the Yuan army camp to reward the army, returned the captured war horses, and begged the Yuan general for mercy: "We are guarding Chuzhou to protect the territory and the people for the imperial court and guard against other thieves, why do you let Gaoyou's giant robbers not fight, but come to beat your own people?"

This battle is Zhu Yuanzhang's first head-to-head confrontation with the Yuan army, the military score is zero, but the political score is full, Zhu Yuanzhang with his wit and flexibility, so that Chuzhou escaped a catastrophe, since then he has avoided conflict with the Yuan army, when other rebels and the Yuan army fought bloody, Zhu Yuanzhang hid in the rear muffled to make a fortune, waiting for the opportunity to annex friendly forces, and sometimes took the initiative to contact the Yuan army, continue to pour it ecstasy soup, until the time was ripe, Zhu Yuanzhang tore off the disguise, launched a fatal blow to the Yuan Dynasty, overthrew the Yuan Dynasty.

In the turbulent times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, many wealthy people recruited troops to form a village to protect themselves, and they either wore green clothes or yellow clothes to distinguish them from the red turban army. A considerable number of them are Semu people, because most of the rich people are Semu people, the original intention of these people to organize the armed forces is to protect themselves, and their political position is pro-Yuan, so they have won the title of marshal issued by the government, in fact, it is common to make the rudder of the wind, like bats in the war of birds and beasts, between the Yuan government and the Red Turban Army, but when the Red Army is strong, they join the Red Turban Army, and when the government army has the advantage, they have changed and become pro-Yuan rebels.

The Yuan army could not ban this kind of armed force, nor could it suppress it, fantasized about using it, so it adopted a policy of leniency, so this kind of armed force emerged in an endless stream and flourished for a long time, which actually supported the Red Turban Army, and later the Red Turban Army was powerful, and the government army lost control in a fairly wide area, and almost all the pro-Yuan rebel troops joined the Red Turban Army. This was an important reason why the people's uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty was difficult to suppress and the Mongols lost their country.

Zhu Yuanzhang led the troubles to Gaoyou, not necessarily his original intention, just to protect himself, but this increased the pressure on Gaoyou. The Gaoyou Righteous Army did not belong to the Red Turban Army system, and the leader Zhang Shicheng did not use Maitreya Buddha or King Ming to bewitch him, nor did he call for the anti-Yuan Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, and he started out of passion.

Zhang Shicheng was originally a salt seller, and his Lianghuai salt factory is the largest in the country, accounting for 40% of the country's output and one-third of the tax revenue. At that time, the salt industry was a government monopoly, and traders needed to obtain permission from the government and hold a valid certificate issued by the government.

Monopoly industry has always had huge profits, huge profits often bring smuggling, smuggling will form a criminal force, in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty government control is increasingly weak, this industry around smuggling has become very corrupt and complex, large and small interest groups struggle endlessly, only the formation of gangs to survive, buddy righteousness is indispensable, and the violation of discipline in this industry makes the practitioners become anarchic. Buddies' righteousness and anarchy can easily develop into a rebellion, and Zhang Shicheng became famous as a bold and generous hooligan when he was in the salt farm.

In the process of trading, Zhang Shicheng's small interest groups were often deceived by larger interest groups, and Zhang Shicheng, who was furious, and 18 people, including his three younger brothers Shiyi, Shide, Shixin, and his friends Li Bosheng, Pan Yuanming, and Lu Zhen, killed the big families who had defrauded them, and then went to the nearby salt field to recruit troops. Yan Ding and the poor people responded one after another, and soon gathered a team of more than 10,000 people, and everyone elected Zhang Shicheng as the co-leader.

Then Zhang Shicheng blew a small whirlwind in Jianghuai, he plundered Taizhou and the surrounding areas, blocking the north-south traffic of the Grand Canal. The Yuan government was highly dependent on Jiangnan's wealth and was anxious to solve the problem, and after the failure of the simple suppression, it held up the carrot and appeased, but Zhang Shicheng was very faceless and teased the court's reward, he pretended to agree to accept the appeasement, but killed the envoy who came to the reward. At the end of the year, Zhang Shicheng captured Gaoyou, and since then he has been riding on both sides of the canal, which can be more convenient for robbery. Zhang Shicheng proclaimed himself king in Gaoyou, established the Great Zhou regime, and established the Yuan Tianyou.

Unlike the leaders of the Red Turban Army, who established power in other regions, Zhang Shicheng generally established power after owning a considerable amount of land and population, but Zhang Shicheng claimed the king on a large territory, which was very unique, and his ambition was reflected in the high requirements for rank, but the requirements for territory were very small, so as to be a frog-like emperor at the bottom of the well. The lack of ambition and ambition to help the world was the main reason for his later failure.

The Yuan government was still counting on a solution to the problem for nothing, and the imperial court again sent envoys with the promise of a larger official position, while Zhang Shicheng once again teased the central government, receiving the envoys and making a look of careful consideration, and finally brutally murdering them. The court was repeatedly teased, could not bear it anymore, and was determined to seek peace by force. Emperor Yuan ordered the right Cheng to lead the army south to Gaoyou, and the scale of the Yuan army was very large.

The Yuan army arrived in Gaoyou, the two sides fought outside Gaoyou City, Zhang Shicheng was defeated, retreated into the city as a turtle, and the Yuan army surrounded him. At this time, the Yuan central government had internal strife, and the commander of the Yuan army was involved in the palace struggle, at the end of the year, the Yuan army changed generals, and the one million army under Gaoyou City dispersed in a hurry, and many pro-Yuan righteous troops turned to the Red Turban Army, and Zhang Shicheng's righteous army took advantage of the situation to attack and defeated the Yuan army.

Encouraged by Gaoyou's victory, the rebel armies that had already entered a state of hibernation throughout the country became active again. Xu Shouhui's Red Army walked out of the mountains, Xiao general Ni Wenjun attacked everywhere, captured a large area of land in Huguang and Jiangxi, Ni Wenjun built the capital of Hanyang, welcomed Xu Shouhui to settle in, appointed himself prime minister, all military and political power in his hands, and in the next two years he continued to send troops to attack and plunder, expanding his jurisdiction.

Liu Futong's performance of the Red Army was even more exciting, Liu Futong and others found Han Lin'er in Dangshan Jiahe, Anhui Province, welcomed him to Bozhou and established him as the emperor, called the king of Xiaoming, the subjects called the lord, the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, and the dragon and phoenix of Jianyuan. Xiao Ming Wang Zun's mother Yang is the queen mother, Du Zundao and Sheng Wenyu are prime ministers, Liu Futong and Luo Wensu are Pingzhang political affairs, and Liu Futong's younger brother Liu Liu is the Privy Council. The mutual dissatisfaction between them due to the leaderlessness of the dragons was also alleviated by Han Lin'er's appearance.

The appeal of the Great Song Dynasty and the identity of Han Lin'er's sect leader made Liu Futong's Red Army strength increase sharply, Liu Futong defeated the Yuan army in Henan many times, but at this time there was internal strife within the rebel army, Liu Futong assassinated Han Lin'er's favored prime minister Du Zundao, appointed himself prime minister, and snatched the military and political power into his hands. At the end of the year, the Yuan army defeated Liu Futong in Taikang and conquered Bozhou, the capital of the Red Army, and Liu Futong fled to Anfeng with Han Lin'er.

Fortunately, the suppression of the Yuan court was weak and weak, and the rebel army quickly regained its strength and attacked everywhere. The difference between Liu Futong's troops and other rebel armies was that the other rebels were mostly busy cutting their possession, while Liu Futong's troops had a strong national and class concept, and from the very beginning they took the overthrow of the Yuan Dynasty as their own responsibility, and never shied away from the main force of the Yuan army. The rebel army attacked the Yuan army in three directions, Li Wu and Cui De led the army to the west to attack Shaanxi, Mao Guibu attacked Shandong to the east, and Liu Futong led the army to attack Henan.

In the following year, the three route armies made progress: the western route army fell into Shangzhou and broke through the Wuguan in an attempt to pass the pass; the eastern route army fell into Jiao, Lai, Yidu, and Binzhou, and Shandong County; and Liu Futong led his troops to storm Kaifeng. Under the city of Kaifeng, Liu Futong divided his troops to the north, and Mr. Guan, Potou Pan, Feng Changshu, Sha Liu Er, and Wang Shicheng attacked Shanxi and Hebei; Bai Buxin, Dadaoao, and Li Xixi attacked Shaanxi; and Mao Gui was also ordered to attack Dadu from Shandong.

Liu Futong conquered Kaifeng and ushered in Han Lin'er, creating a warm atmosphere for the Great Song Dynasty to restore the old capital, and at the same time, the banners of righteousness in Bashu, Jingchu, Jianghuai, Qilu, Liaohai, Gansu and other places were held high and connected with each other, forming the first high point of the people's uprising.

The battle of Gaoyou also brought benefits to Guo Zixing's Red Army, because after the war there was fat everywhere, everyone no longer had to calculate each other for food, and there was no need to snuggle up to each other for warmth, everyone was busy gaining weight and doing their own thing, Guo Zixing got rid of the shackles of Zhao Junyong, and parted ways with his four poor ghost brothers, and was a lone show in Chuzhou City, with neither internal nor external troubles, and lived a very comfortable life.

At this time, Zhao Junyong and Peng Da's son Peng Zaozhu both proclaimed themselves kings, and Guo Zixing also wanted to follow their example and claim the king in Chuzhou, but Zhu Yuanzhang objected on the grounds that Chuzhou was surrounded by mountains and business travel was not accessible, and in order to let Guo Zixing move early, Zhu Yuanzhang instigated him to send people south to attack Hezhou. Guo Zixing sent his brother-in-law Zhang Tianyou to lead the army to attack Hezhou, and Hu Dahai, a native of Hongxian who had been attached not long ago, was strong and brave, and served as the vanguard of the attack on Hezhou.

In order to reduce casualties, the righteous army planned to outwit, the general Zhao Jizu pretended to be the Yuan envoy, Guo Zixing's wife and brother Zhang Tianyou led the newly incorporated Luzhou 3,000 soldiers wearing green clothes, with goods, claiming to escort the Yuan Dynasty envoy to Hezhou to reward the defenders, once the Yuan soldiers of Hezhou opened the city gate, immediately seize the city gate, and set fire to it. Geng Zaicheng led 10,000 horses in red clothes to follow the Tsing Yi army, and after seeing the signal, he took advantage of the situation to enter and take Hezhou.

The plan was perfect, but the execution process was full of twists and turns. Zhang Tianyou's Tsing Yi army arrived at the steep Yang Pass, which was forty miles away from Hezhou, and the local squire mistakenly thought that the real envoy had arrived, and he took wine and meat to treat him, delayed for some time, and then went the wrong way after continuing to set off, and did not arrive at Hezhou at the agreed time.

Geng Zaicheng's Red Army came to Hezhou outside the city before the Qing Army, and at the appointed time, he did not see the Tsing Yi Army raising fire, thinking that Zhang Tianyou's army had something wrong, so he urged the team to rush forward, the Yuan Army found that the Red Army came to attack the city, put down the drawbridge to meet the battle, Geng Zaicheng's troops could not resist, they retreated, the Yuan Army followed and pursued for thirty miles, and when they saw that it was late, they Ming Jin collected the troops.

At this time, it happened that Zhang Tianyou's Tsing Yi army arrived here, launched a surprise attack on the Yuan army, the exhausted Yuan army thought that the enemy was ambushed, turned around and ran back, Zhang Tianyou chased closely, chased until the city, the chief Tang and cut the rope of the drawbridge, the righteous army rushed into the city, the defender also abandoned the city and fled, and the righteous army took Hezhou.

The rebels mistakenly hit and turned the earning gate into a tiger away from the mountain, which received miraculous results. But Geng Zaicheng did not know what happened later, he led the defeated army to flee back to Chuzhou, reported the defeat, and said that Zhang Tianyou's whole army was wiped out, Guo Zixing was very depressed after hearing it, at this time the Yuan army followed the pursuit to Chuzhou City, Guo Zixing ordered Zhu Yuanzhang and others to deploy defense, and soon the Yuan army under the city withdrew, Guo Zixing ordered Zhu Yuanzhang to lead 2,000 men and horses along the road to clean up the defeated soldiers, and the opportunity to attack Hezhou again. Zhu Yuanzhang collected 1,000 defeated soldiers all the way, a total of 3,000 people marched to Hezhou, and when he came to the city, he knew that Hezhou had been in hand, so he led the men and horses into the city.

When the good news came, Guo Zixing turned his worries into joy and appointed Zhu Yuanzhang as the commander-in-chief and the state army. As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang arrived in Hezhou, he immediately rekindled the dream of self-reliance, and if he wanted to establish himself on his own, he first had to catch the army in his hands, but many generals in the army were Guo Zixing's old department, and they did not take Zhu Yuanzhang in their eyes.

He did not show Guo Zixing's appointment letter to the generals, the purpose was to make the generals make mistakes without knowing it, so that he could grab people's pigtails, and if the generals knew his identity, it would be difficult to show the flaws.

Zhu Yuanzhang convened a meeting of the generals, and at that time, the right seat was precious, and the generals who arrived first occupied the right position, and Zhu Yuanzhang came late and sat on the left. When it was time to discuss things, everyone had no plan, but Zhu Yuanzhang came prepared, made a generous statement, and said the Tao, which stunned everyone, and everyone saw that Zhu Yuanzhang's ability was very strong, so they were a little convinced.

At the meeting, Zhu Yuanzhang and the generals agreed on a division of labor to build the city, which was completed within three days. Three days later, Zhu Yuanzhang completed the task, but the other generals did not complete it, so Zhu Yuanzhang convened a meeting of the generals again, he sat on the rostrum, showed Guo Zixing's letter of appointment, and said: "I was ordered to lead you, and now you have not completed the project on time, should you be dealt with according to military law?" The generals were very frightened when they heard this, and expressed their willingness to redeem their merits.

Trying by all means to catch the mistakes of his subordinates and let him make meritorious contributions is a habitual method used by Zhu Yuanzhang to control his subordinates, and this method has been tried and tested repeatedly in the eventful years of war-torn years, which has made Zhu Yuanzhang's army always give strict orders, and if it is recruited, it can win the battle, which is also an important reason for Zhu Yuanzhang's final victory.