Zhu Yuanzhang changed Taiping Road to the Marshal's Mansion, and as the deputy marshal of the capital, he co-presided over the affairs of the Marshal's Mansion with Guo Tianxu and Zhang Tianyou. Zhu Yuanzhang concurrently served as the marshal of the Taiping Wing and was responsible for guarding the Taiping.

The Yuan army near Taiping immediately organized a counterattack, and the government army water division converged with the Marshal Kang Maocai of the Pro-Yuan Righteous Army to drive to the river near the quarry to cut off the return route of the Righteous Army, and the army converged with the Marshal of the Pro-Yuan Righteous Army Chen Ye to launch an attack from the road. Zhu Yuanzhang sent Chang Yuchun to lead the sailors to defeat Kang Maocai, and personally led the army to defeat the Yuan army by attacking before and after, capturing Chen Yexian and surrendering his troops.

Guo Tianxu and Zhang Tianyou planned to seize the first merit of capturing Nanjing, in order to establish themselves as a superior position among the allied forces, Zhang Tianyou led the armies to attack Nanjing, Chen Yexian's troops participated in the battle, he himself was left in Taiping as a hostage, this operation was unsuccessful.

Guo Tianxu and Zhang Tianyou led Shao Rong, Zhao Jizu and other descendants to attack the periphery of Nanjing, and attacked the east gate of Nanjing from Lishui and Jurong in the southeast of Nanjing.

During the battle, Chen Yexian suddenly rebelled, booby-trapped Guo Tianxu at the banquet, and raided Zhang Tianyou, so that Zhu Yuanzhang could get rid of internal competitors by the hands of others. Chen Ye first pursued the Red Army to Liyang, the horses were tired and backward, the local militia loyal to the Yuan Dynasty did not know the details, thought that he had surrendered to the Red Army, set up an ambush to kill him, Chen Yexian died, the army was taken over by his nephew Chen Zhaoxian.

After Guo Tianxu's death, Guo Zixing also had a son Guo Tianjue, Han Lin'er named Zhu Yuanzhang as Pingzhang according to history and reality, Guo Tianjue was the right man in the middle book, Guo Tianjue watched Zhu Yuanzhang encroach on his own property, and was very dissatisfied, he tried to murder Zhu Yuanzhang, and was executed, of course, this is just Zhu Yuanzhang's side of the story, it was Zhu Yuanzhang who killed Guo Tianjue in order to remove the stumbling block.

At this point, Zhu Yuanzhang has completely realized the ideal of self-reliance, which is not only a self-reliance, but has embezzled all of Guo Zixing's property.

Zhu Yuanzhang personally led a large army to attack Nanjing, arrived at Banqiao, 30 miles southwest of Nanjing, and surrendered more than 36,000 people from Chen Zhaoxian's troops in the southeast mountain area of Nanjing, due to the previous rebellion, Chen Zhaoxian's generals were worried that the Red Army would kill them, in order to appease the surrendered army, Zhu Yuanzhang selected 500 strong men from it, as his personal guard, led by Feng Guoyong, at night under their escort unarmoured and slept soundly until dawn, the soldiers saw that Zhu Yuanzhang trusted them so much, immediately dispelled their concerns, and threw themselves into the battle of attacking Nanjing with the righteous army。

On the 10th, the city of Nanjing was broken, Yuan Shou General Fushou was killed in battle, and Kang Maocai surrendered. After entering Nanjing, Zhu Yuanzhang personally summoned the officials and gentry representatives of the Yuan Dynasty and said to them: "The political corruption of the Yuan Dynasty has led to wars everywhere, and I have come here just to eliminate chaos for the people and ensure the safety of the party. "Everyone was very happy to hear this, the people's hearts were settled, and order was restored.

After King Xiaoming got the good news, he promoted Zhu Yuanzhang to the Privy Council, and soon he was promoted to Jiangnan and other provinces Pingzhang, Li Shanchang was the left and right Shilangzhong, and the following generals were promoted to marshal.

After the death of Guo Tianxu and Zhang Tianyou, the generals Shao Rong and Zhao Jizu still controlled the rest of their troops, and their strength was not bad.

Zhu Yuanzhang was not satisfied with the reward, and he needed a bigger title to enhance his persuasiveness. Zhu Yuanzhang instructed his subordinates to jointly ask Han Lin'er to make himself the Duke of Wu, and Han Lin'er had no choice but to comply.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang already had nearly 100,000 troops, each front army is called a wing, and the leading generals are called marshals.

After the occupation of Nanjing, the situation around us was as follows: in the east, the Yuan general decided to choke Zhenjiang, and Zhang Mingjian of the Tsing Yi Army took Yangzhou; in the south, Bei Buhua and Yang Zhongying tun Ningguo, Basier Buhua was stationed in Huizhou, Shi Moyi Sun was stationed in Chuzhou, his younger brother Housun was stationed in Wuzhou, and Song Boyan was not spent in Quzhou.

These places are the objects of Zhu Yuanzhang's next meal, but he must eat faster, because Zhang Shicheng and Xu Shouhui's knives and forks are also reaching these areas, and Zhu Yuanzhang is very worried that they will eat these delicacies before himself.

At the same time as Zhu Yuanzhang crossed the river, Zhang Shicheng of northern Jiangsu and Xu Shouhui of Huguang also crossed the Yangtze River to the south, after the battle of Gaoyou, the Yuan court once again offered Zhang Shicheng a banner of appeasement, although they had been teased by Zhang Shicheng twice, two messengers were killed, but they seemed unwilling to set up more opponents outside the Red Turban Army, so they were cheeky to send envoys for the third time to appease Zhang Shicheng, and promised a higher official position, but Zhang Shicheng was convinced that he had won the attention of God after the fate of Gaoyou miraculously escaped the fate of destruction, and looked down on the weak court even more, when the envoy of the Yuan Dynasty arrived, he ruthlessly teased the court again and killed the envoy, doing the same as the previous two times.

In the autumn, the leader of the Jiangyin rebels was forced by the enemy to defect to Zhang Shicheng and asked him to send a large army south to capture the rich southern region of Jiangsu. This incident made Zhang Shicheng, the frog at the bottom of the well, have the desire to expand the territory, Zhang Shicheng sent his capable second brother Zhang Shide to lead troops across the Yangtze River, to explore the possibility of expanding Jiangnan, this temptation went unbelievably smooth, Zhang Shide only led three or four thousand people to cross the river, captured Changshu, took Suzhou, and then took Kunshan, Jiading, Chongming, Songjiang, Changzhou, Huzhou, conquering the city is as easy as picking cabbage on the ground, and the rich area in the southeast has become Zhang Shicheng's bag in less than two months.

Overjoyed by this windfall, Zhang Shicheng moved the capital from Gaoyou to Suzhou, and after that their army continued to attack not only southern Jiangsu, but also northern Zhejiang. Xu Shouhui's troops marched into the southeast very early, and soon after the uprising broke out, their troops reached Jiangxi, and the next year they further advanced to the southeast, expeditioning to Fujian, occupying the coastal counties of Fu'an and Ningde, while Peng Yingyu and his general Xiang Pulio marched eastward from Huizhou and Raozhou to break through Hangzhou. They ate like the long tongues of iguanas, but they had some indigestion, and the Yuan general Dong Chuanxiao organized a counterattack, Peng Yingyu and Xiang Puluo were killed in battle, and the rebels were forced to withdraw from Hangzhou.

The Yuan government organized the five-way army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Henan, Sichuan, and Huguang to focus on encircling and suppressing the Tianwan Red Army.

Zhu Yuanzhang was sandwiched between Zhang Shicheng and Xu Shouhui, and in the process of expanding his territory, Zhu Yuanzhang not only had to face the Yuan army, the landlord army, but also these two rebel armies.

He had three fronts: one was the eastern front, Huaidong, southern Jiangsu, and northern Zhejiang, and the main opponent was Zhang Shicheng; the second was the southern front, western Zhejiang, and southern Anhui, and the opponents were Zhang Shicheng, the Yuan army, and the pro-Yuan Miao army, Yang Wanzhi's department, and the cunning Fang Guozhen department; and the third was the western front, the Yangtze River basin in western Anhui and Jiangxi, and the main opponent was Xu Shouhui and then Chen Youliang. The war continued continuously, lasted for many years, and together formed the whole picture of the war in which Zhu Yuanzhang dominated the Jiangnan start-up Daming Foundation.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Shicheng marched to southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang at the same time, and their mouths were bitten on a bone, and competition was inevitable. Soon after the capture of Nanjing, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Xu Da to capture Zhenjiang, the gateway to the east of Nanjing, and sent Deng Yu to capture Guangde, an important town in the south.

On the one hand, Zhu Yuanzhang actively grabbed food, and on the other hand, he also persuaded Zhang Shicheng to go on a diet, and he sent Yang Xian to Pingjiang to persuade the other party to take it easy. Zhang Shicheng thought that Zhu Yuanzhang compared him to a villain who had no opinions and no backbone, and was very angry, not only did he not reply, but instead suppressed the envoy Yang Xian, and he planned to give Zhu Yuanzhang a little color to see next.

Zhang Shicheng sent troops to attack Zhenjiang as Zhu Yuanzhang ridiculed him in return, but his provocation attracted even greater humiliation. Zhu Yuanzhang instructed Xu Da not to be passively beaten in Zhenjiang, but to take advantage of the victory to attack Changzhou, and at the same time mobilize 30,000 soldiers and horses to assist in the attack.

Xu Da defeated the attack on Zhenjiang, took advantage of the victory and sent a large army to surround Changzhou, Zhang Shicheng urgently sent his second brother Zhang Shide to lead tens of thousands of troops to reinforce, Zhang Shide not long ago crossed the river to the south to attack the city and conquered the direction of the land, full of pride, did not take Zhu Yuanzhang's army in his eyes. Xu Da saw Zhang Shide's arrogance, decided to lure the enemy deep, he laid an ambush at a distance of eighteen miles from the city, and then sent cavalry to attack Zhang Shide's army, Zhang Shide was furious, ordered the brigade to pursue, the ambush was captured, and tens of thousands of reinforcements scattered and fled.

Zhang Shicheng was very frustrated by Zhang Shide's capture, and he had to follow his mother's instructions and send an envoy Sun Junshou to Nanjing to sue for peace, willing to send 200,000 stone of grain, 500 taels of gold, and 300 catties of silver every year. Zhu Yuanzhang knew that Zhang Shicheng was a filial son, and catching Zhang Shide was equivalent to pinching Zhang Shicheng's balls, and he couldn't let go easily, he wanted to use Zhang Shide to blackmail Zhang Shicheng, so the asking price was very high, and he gave back 500,000 stones.

Xu Da continued to attack Changzhou, but could not be attacked for a long time, Zhu Yuanzhang was very anxious, and ordered Xu Da to demote all the following generals to a level, he wrote a letter to criticize Xu Da, Zhu Yuanzhang personally went to Zhenjiang to supervise the division, and transferred 20,000 elite soldiers to reinforce, but Changzhou remained immovable, until Changzhou was besieged for eight months.

However, Zhang Shicheng's territory was not as strong as Changzhou, and during the siege of Changzhou, Zhu Yuanzhang easily captured Changxing, Taixing and Jiangyin. Changxing, Jiangyin is two strategic places, Changxing guards the west entrance of Taihu Lake, is Zhang Shicheng's land road to the west, take it can cut off Zhang Shicheng's road to the west, Jiangyin pillow the river, cover Gusu, is the Yangtze River bank of the traffic artery, take Zhang Shicheng's sailors are difficult to go west from the Yangtze River, in this way, Zhu Yuanzhang trapped Zhang Shicheng's hands and feet, making it difficult for him to pose a threat to Zhu Yuanzhang's area.

Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Xu Da and Chang Yuchun to return from Changzhou to attack Ningguo in the south, guarding Ningguo is the Yuan general Buhua, and the landlords are armed with Zhu Liangzu and Xie Guoxi, Xie Guoxi is subordinate to the pro-Yuan Yi Army Lancer Army, but their legs are longer than their guns, and they fled before the Ming army arrived, but Zhu Liangzu was very brave, and he cooperated with Don't spend desperate resistance, which caused a lot of trouble to the Ming army, Xu Da and others failed to take it for many days, and Chang Yuchun was also injured in the middle of the arrow.

Later, Zhu Yuanzhang personally rushed to the aid from Nanjing, only to take Ningguo in one fell swoop, and captured Zhu Liangzu, Zhu Yuanzhang cherished his talent and gave him another chance, and then Zhu Liangzu ran and drove and served loyally. Zhu Liangzu was captured by Zhu Yuanzhang in the Taiping Campaign, and later rebelled to return to the Yuan court, this is the second time he was captured, although there is a bad record of the last rebellion, but Zhu Liangzu has made great achievements for the great cause of the founding of the country.

Xiao took Deng Yu and Hu Dahai again, and Zhu Yuanzhang handed over Ningguo Road and Huizhou Road to Deng Yu to guard, and he was very optimistic about this capable young man.

When Zhu Yuanzhang's main force went south, Changxing, Jiangyin, and Changzhou in Jiangsu on the eastern front were guarded by generals Geng Bingwen, Wu Liang, and Tang He, all of whom were Zhu Yuanzhang's henchmen, so Zhu Yuanzhang handed over the strategic place to them and asked them to guard the gate. Remember, don't make friends with the outside world, don't accept escapes, don't be greedy for small profits, don't compete with the enemy, protect the territory and the people, and make the city strong, which is your only duty. According to Zhu Yuanzhang's instructions, the three of them hung up the war-free card, and repelled Zhang Shicheng's many attacks, ensuring that the city was not lost, and stabilized the rear for Zhu Yuanzhang.