Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Battle of Henan
In 1367 AD, under the order of Zhu Yuanzhang, Xu Da was ordered to be the general of the conquest and Chang Yuchun to be the deputy general, leading an army of 250,000 soldiers and horses to the north into the Central Plains.
Begin the real Northern Expedition.
The political clearance of the Yuan Dynasty has officially begun!
In order to effectively disintegrate the enemy army politically and psychologically, Zhu Yuanzhang formulated a loud slogan before the army set off.
Expelled Hulu, restored China, established Chen Ji, and relieved the people.
Look, it's a slogan that has a profound meaning.
Because Mr. Sun later revised it according to this slogan, he organized his one-vote regime.
In order to completely eradicate the stubborn disease of the Yuan Dynasty, the army formulated a detailed attack plan before setting off.
The specific plan is basically the same as the line of attacking Zhang Shicheng.
Attack Shandong first and remove the protective barrier of the Yuan Dynasty; Then march into Henan, cut off its wings, and seize Tongguan to occupy its threshold; Then they marched into the capital.
This scheme is somewhat similar to the way of playing with the real and the virtual.
It's to pick soft persimmons and pinch them first, and then clean up the powerful characters when the weak ones are cleaned up.
In the face of the strong attack of the Zhu family's army, the government of the Yuan Dynasty finally came back to its senses.
The bald donkey troops, which used to have no hairless heads and light discharges, have now become a pack of wild wolves.
A pack of howling wolves.
Cry wolf!
And it's already on the doorstep!
What to do?
The soldiers finally knew that Emperor Yuan Shun, who was afraid, hurriedly ordered the strongest Wang Baobao to be the left prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty, and named him the king of Henan, asking him to lead his troops to resist the strong Zhu army.
But at this time, Wang Baobao, who had been fighting with Zhang Siqi for more than a year, couldn't stop it at all, and Wang Baobao, who had completely killed the red eye, didn't look at Xu Da and Chang Yuchun, the wild donkey army, at all, he just sent his younger brother Deyin Timur to go through the motions.
Perfunctory court.
And Xu Da and Chang Yuchun, who were the absolute leaders of the army, did not disappoint Zhu Yuanzhang, let alone Timur, and under the leadership of the two, it took only three months to kill the remnants of the enemy in Shandong, and occupied the entire Shandong region.
And Timur was defeated in a battle and fled back to Henan in a hurry with his tail between his legs!
That is, after the complete liberation of the whole territory of Shandong, a great moment came from Yingtian.
On January 23, 1368 (the fourth day of the first lunar month), Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne in Nanjing and proclaimed himself emperor, with the country name Daming.
Era name: Hongwu.
Nickname: Emperor Gao;
Temple No.: Taizu;
Later generations are commonly known as: Emperor Hongwu, also known as Ming Taizu.
The 276-year glorious history of the Ming Dynasty officially began at this moment!
This is a great moment, one that should be remembered by all of us, because from this moment on his impact on the whole of China is unprecedented.
Zhu Yuanzhang used his personal experience to show us an inspirational story of a cattle herding baby from nothing to the pinnacle of life.
He tells us from his own experience:
No matter how inferior and despicable your status is, as long as you are not willing to fall and move forward desperately, you may step on the high point of your life destiny.
No matter how bad and chaotic the social situation is, as long as we do not succumb to oppression and slavery, we can do something extraordinary with our hands.
It also tells us a truth for future generations, not only the rich second generation can create brilliance, but a commoner can also cast a dazzling future in a cloth suit!
In today's impetuous society, many people, whether white-collar or blue-collar, civilians or officials, will have a deep sinking after a period of ups and downs in this mixed society.
In this kind of sinking, they gradually lose themselves, give up their ideals, forget their responsibilities and fall into deep confusion, they don't know where the future road is, whether the road ahead is muddy or spacious is unsolved mystery, they can't find the direction of the future, or secretly depressed or secretly sinking into a drowsy, completely no goal and no hope.
But I think the more times like this, the more you should raise your spirit and start paying attention to your inner self.
Ask yourself a few questions when appropriate:
Who am I?
Where do I come from?
Where are you going in the future?
Give yourself an intuitive and truthful answer in your heart.
Remember, you have to be real, don't be ambitious, and don't be unrealistic.
What I want to be Bill Gates, number one, become Li Ka-shing number two, etc., completely nonsense ideas are directly ignored.
That kind of nonsense that is completely coaxing children to play is simply deceiving oneself, and it doesn't make any sense at all.
Because now that you are working, you have already started the real journey of life, you have left the campus, left the educational community, and started your own brilliant life.
At this time, no matter what kind of environment they are in, everyone has completely entered the society, and even some people have married wives and children and started a family, at this time, we should pay more attention to ourselves, correct our thoughts and life goals, properly correct our dreams at work, and find ways to realize and complete our dreams in reality and hard work.
Don't lose yourself in your busy life, and don't absurd your life in complicated communication.
There is only one life, and one death is only a few years.
Don't let your life come to this world in vain!
Make your life worthwhile and meaningful.
In this way, we are worthy of the greatness of life!
I have no regrets about the value of life!
Okay, that's a bit off, let's continue the story of Zhu Yuanzhang.
In the future, we can finally abandon the title of Zhu Jiajun, and there is a more appropriate title for the current Zhu Jiajun.
The army of the Ming Dynasty.
Abbreviation: Ming Army.
After the complete liberation of Shandong, the government of the Yuan Dynasty, which was already completely anxious, was finally forced to issue an administrative order.
Order Li Siqi to stop the infighting with Wang Baobao, and the two sides reconcile!
At this time, Emperor Yuan Shun was really afraid!
He hoped that his action would work.
But the opposite is true!
When this mediation agreement was sent to Wang Baobao, Wang Baobao made an astonishing move.
Instead of carrying out the order, he killed the messenger with his backhand!
These messengers were completely unlucky.
It was a good deal, a good thing for everyone to be promoted and make a fortune together, but I didn't expect to meet Wang Baobao, a stunned person.
They were unfortunate enough to become Wang Baobao's swordsmen.
After disposing of the envoys, Wang Baobao stepped up his military attack on Li Siqi.
And Li Siqi was not ambiguous, he also made a strategic counterattack against Wang Baobao's increasingly strong military offensive, he recruited the four major warlords in Shaanxi to jointly establish an anti-king alliance, and elected Li Siqi as the leader of the alliance to unanimously resist Wang Baobao's attack.
Faced with the painful experience of the envoy he sent was killed, in order to punish Wang Baobao Yuan Shun Emperor made an extremely stupid decision in my opinion, to remove Wang Baobao from the official position of the crown prince and the prince, cut Wang Baobao from the position of prime minister of the left, and only retain the false position of the king of Henan, waiting for the later processing.
In the face of this punishment decision, Wang Baobao, who had completely torn his face, raised the machete in his hand again.
Again killed the official who delivered the letter.
At this time, Wang Baobao and his subordinates, who found that the boss had completely gone crazy and completely lost their minds, faced the opponent's extremely powerful military blow, in order to survive and save their lives, they decided to defect from the Wang Baobao organization and return to the court of the Yuan Dynasty.
And the defection of his subordinates has a huge impact on Wang Baobao, first of all, Li Siqi, who is facing himself, can't bear it.
So to be on the safe side, he chose to avoid it temporarily.
Evacuate to Jinning, Shanxi (now Pingyang, Shanxi) and wait for a later counterattack.
It was in this situation of constant melee between many warlords that the Zhu army, which had completely liberated Shandong, began the next plan.
According to the pre-war plan of action, the next target was cleared by force.
This location is Henan.
When Xu Da and Chang Yuchun's troops arrived in Henan, they faced their old rival in Luoshui, their younger brother Tayin Timur, who had been defeated by them in Shandong.
Only this time it was different that Timur was accompanied by his maternal grandfather, Aruvin.
Facing the morale of the Zhu family's army, the two of them, as the main generals, fully carried forward their military thinking of running away if they could fight, and after making a few simple defenses while the other party launched an attack, the two people who saw that they couldn't do anything led their troops to evacuate.
The end result was a great defeat for Tayin Timur at Luoshui, and Aruwin was unfortunately captured, and then surrendered.
As a result of the complete defeat of his grandson and grandson, Li Siqi, who was the defender of Henan and had become the only warlord force in Henan after Wang Baobao fled to Shanxi, also made his strategic choice.
In the face of this tiger and wolf army, Li Siqi, who realized the situation, handed over a letter to Wang Baobao.
The general meaning is: Let me tell you the truth, the reason why I want to fight with you in Henan is not my intention. [Tell the teacher not to be the original intention]
It was the government of the Yuan Dynasty that forced me to fight with you, and I actually don't want to fight you at all.
I don't want to have any holiday with you.
The two of us could have been very good friends.
The two of us sat down to eat, drink and drink tea together, discuss life plans, visit cabaret bars, and stay overnight in brothel restaurants!
That's a great thing.
I don't know how to do it, and it ended up being the way it is.
It's really not the result I want to see.
But it's too late to say anything.
In this way, in order to show my sincerity and to ease the tense atmosphere between our two sides, I will first make a statement here!
I took the initiative to evacuate Henan, and I will no longer occupy this part of yours.
Your boss will come back.
Come back to Henan.
Keep up being your king of Henan.
I myself will temporarily retreat to the barren land of Shaanxi!
After the letter was written, Li Siqi, as the sender, did not hope that Wang Baobao would agree to him, let alone wait for Wang Baobao to send troops into Henan, and directly led his soldiers and horses to evacuate to the west and retreat to Shaanxi in order to make a foolish plan.
As a result, the entire Henan was completely reduced to a vacuum zone without warlords, Yuan troops, and Ming troops.
For this kind of good thing, Xu Da and Chang Yuchun must be excited.
I didn't expect Henan to take it so easily.
It is lighter and faster than Shandong.
It can be said that it is taken for nothing!
This business is really profitable.
In the face of this strategic victory, Zhu Yuanzhang, who sat in Yingtian but had already ascended the throne and became emperor, was also happy.
In order to commend the Ming army, also to encourage the unremitting morale of the Ming army to make persistent efforts, and also to observe the environment and landform of Bianliang, the former capital of the Song Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, visited Bianliang in person.
He began to give his first political speech as emperor.
After boasting nonsense that he probably didn't even know what the hell he had said, Zhu Yuanzhang made a clear judgment on the future offensive line.
Next target: Yuan Dadu.
Kill our real enemies and eliminate the scoundrels who left us hungry and clothed, leaking through our crotches.
Kill this group of bastards who grew up drinking wolf milk, and annihilate this group of political deflated people who have broken up our wives and families, and are all over the place, and are ready to die at any time.
In the future, I will be the real boss in this world.
And you barbarians who only know how to slaughter cities and cut off their heads are all fuck me off.
Where did you come from, go back to it!
The territory of the Central Plains will be the world of my Ming Dynasty in the future.
You farmers and herdsmen who make a living by herding cattle and sheep will let me go back to my hometown as soon as possible.
From now on, the land will have a new owner.
That's it: the Ming Army.
And his new boss is called.
Zhu Yuanzhang!