Chapter 15 The Northern Expedition of the Dragon and Phoenix and the Unborn Famous Generals of the Yuan Dynasty (Transitional Chapter, mostly a summary of historical materials)
Jiangnan in the sixteenth and seventeenth years of Zhizheng is very lively.
The relationship between Zhang Shicheng and Zhu Yuanzhang was not very good, one offended the other party by gaffes in the letter, and the other detained the other party's messenger, and the two sides were concluded.
And as the two sides continued to expand their territory from the Yuan court, there was inevitably a conflict between the two forces.
Zhang Shicheng made the first move, he was very confident, after all, he had just defeated the 400,000 army led by the famous minister of the Yuan court under Gaoyou City with inferior troops, and this was the time for confidence to swell.
What he didn't expect was that he would start his Good Friday with his own hands.
In July, not long after Zhu Yuanzhang took the throne of Wu State, Zhang Shicheng sent troops to attack Zhenjiang and was defeated by Xu Da in Longtan.
How can this be? I am a dignified and honest king, how can I not beat a beggar? So Zhang Shicheng sent his younger brother and his most powerful general, Zhang Shide, to lead tens of thousands of troops to make a comeback, but he was defeated by Xu Da again, this time it was even worse, Zhang Shide was directly defeated and captured.
In August, Marshal Zhang Shicheng Jiang Tonghai surrendered.
In November, Zhang Shicheng was broken again in Changzhou and his general was captured.
In February of the seventeenth year of Zheng, Geng Bingwen defeated Zhang Shicheng and beat Zhao Hu to Changxing.
In May, Zhang Shicheng's subordinates Zuo Cheng Pan Yuanming and Marshal Yan Zaixing attacked Changxing. was defeated and retreated by Geng Bingwen.
Poor Zhang Jiusi was beaten by Zhu Chongba, and finally even forced to declare himself a vassal to the Yuan court for asylum.
So Zhu Yuanzhang beat Yuan Ting together.
In April, Xu Da and Chang Yuchun led troops to conquer Ningguo, Marshal Zhu Liangzu was captured, more than 100,000 yuan troops surrendered, more than 2,000 horses were captured, and Taiping, Jingde, Nanling, and Jing counties were broken one after another.
At this time, almost no one in Jiangnan was Zhu Yuanzhang's opponent.
In the Central Plains, a vigorous war has officially kicked off.
The Northern Expedition of the Red Turban Army, also known as the Northern Expedition of the Dragon and Phoenix.
In the seventeenth year of Zheng, Liu Futong took "three thousand tigers, straight to the land of Youyan; Long Fei Ninety-Five, reopen the day of the Great Song Dynasty" as the banner, the soldiers are divided into three roads, and the oath is sworn to ask for the Yuan.
In February, Mao Gui of the Eastern Route Army led his army from Haizhou to the sea, landed on the Shandong Peninsula by sea, and connected Kejiaozhou, Laizhou, Yidu Road, and Banyang Road. Then Keju Prefecture, Binzhou, Jining Road, Dongping Road, Daming Road, Dongchang Road, break Jinan, enter Hebei, all the way to attack the city and kill the generals, and finally break Jizhou, the forward arrived at the Zaolin and Liulin in the territory of Tongxian County, Beijing, only one hundred and twenty miles away from the capital, forcing Emperor Zhizheng to edict the king of the army and the king of the army and start the proposal to move the capital!
In June, Mr. Guan and Potou Pan led the Northern Expedition of the Middle Route Army, starting from Caozhou, Shandong Province to enter Shanxi in the west, Lianke Yanmen Pass and Datongdi, and then broke through Shangdu in one fell swoop, burning the Yuan Court Palace, and the world shook!
Then the army turned to the east, broke the Quanning Road, burned the Yuanlu Palace, and broke through the Liaoyang Road, the capital of the Yuan Liaoyang Province, and killed Lu Zhen, the governor of the Yizhou Road. Then he crossed the Yalu River, conquered Anju, crossed the Mercy Ridge, and attacked the capital of Goryeo, Kaegyong, forcing the king of Goryeo to flee to Andong! The results are brilliant!
In September of the sixteenth year of Zhizheng, Liu Futong had already sent Li Wu and Cui De to lead the West Route Army to attack Shaanxi, first conquer Shaanzhou, defeat the Yuan army, kill the governor Shu Lujie, and then break Tong Pass, and then attack Shaanxi from Wuguan, break Shangzhou, seize Qipan Mountain, enter Lantian, and the forward points directly to Xi'an!
Under the condition that the situation was very good, Liu Futong led his headquarters to send troops from Bozhou, broke Bianliang, occupied Luoyang, and surrounded Huaiqing. Subsequently, the Han and Song dynasties officially moved the capital to Bianliang, and for a while there was a replacement for the Great Yuan!
However, there was one man who appeared and changed all that.
At the end of every dynasty, there will be a famous general who can turn the tide, if at the end of the Qin Dynasty, this person is Zhang Han, at the end of the Han Dynasty, this person is Huangfu Song, then at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, this person is called Chahan Timur.
Chakhan Timur was actually a literati and was admitted to the Jinshi. In the twelfth year of Zheng, the Red Turban Army marched north for the first time, and he and Li Siqi organized militias, first broke the Luoshan Red Turban Army, and then defeated Liu Futong's Red Turban Army with only 10,000 people in Hebei and Henan, and was promoted to the Privy Council of Hebei in one breath.
In November of the fifteenth year of Zheng, Chakhan Timur broke Liu Futong's 300,000 army to the north with inferior troops in Zhongmu and pursued more than ten miles.
In the sixteenth year of Zheng, the Yuan court urgently investigated the entry of Han Timur into Shaanxi to save the erosive situation. Chakhan Timur entered Shaanxi, defeated the Western Route Army three times in a short period of time, and completely defeated Li Wu and Cui De in Fengxiang City.
In the eighteenth year of Zheng, Chakhan Timur broke the middle route army in Taihang Mountain.
In the nineteenth year of Zheng, the firefighting captain Chakhan Timur led the army to attack Bianliang, and the Han and Song regimes, which were unstoppable not long ago, were repeatedly defeated, and in the end they were beaten to the point that only hundreds of horsemen and Liu Futong were left to escort Han Lin'er to break through!
In June of the 21st year, Chakhan Timur marched into Shandong, and successively defeated the Red Turban Army in Donghe, Fenqi, Haoshiqiao and other places, and by September, the Red Turban Army was left in the huge Shandong Province with only a lonely city of Yidu!
As the leader of the rebel army, Han Song almost collapsed in an instant, and for a while, the world was terrified!
Fang Guozhen and Zhang Shicheng, who were already grass on the wall, immediately bowed to the Yuan Court, and even Zhu Yuanzhang, under the advice of Yan Ling and Li Shanchang, began to secretly communicate with the Yuan Court, quietly making peace, and being able to bend and stretch, not ashamed.
Perhaps only the middle-aged man with ambition and ruthlessness in his eyes never had the idea of surrendering from beginning to end.
"My Dahan (Chen Han, Xu Shouhui has been killed at this time, and the end of the Tianwan Kingdom) will never descend to the Yuan!"
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But the Yuan Dynasty was exhausted after all.
Twenty-two years.
Tian Feng and Wang Shicheng, the Red Turban soldiers who had surrendered, were ready to rebel again, and invited Chakhan Timur to watch their camp, and his subordinates advised him not to go, no matter how bad it was, he should bring more men, but Chakhan Timur said: "Since I treat people sincerely, how can everyone be on guard? (I treat others with my heart, and everyone guards against them?) So he took only eleven guards with him.
He was hacked to death with a knife.
Posthumously crowned the king of Zhongxiang and offered martial arts.
The death of Chakhan Timur symbolized the fall of the last optimus pillar of the Yuan court, and since then, no one can be the edge of the righteous army, and the final winner of the righteous army, whether it is Chen Youliang, Zhu Yuanzhang or even Zhang Shicheng, has nothing to do with the Yuan court.
And after learning the news of the death of Chakhan Timur, even Zhu Yuanzhang, who was far away in the south, breathed a sigh of relief and said: "There is no one in the world." ”
He can finally deal with his current number one enemy without any scruples.
At this time, Zhu Wenzheng had been struggling in Hongdu for 70 days.