During the period from the eighth year of Yongle to the twenty-second year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di personally marched five times and won five victories, but died on the battlefield during the sixth expedition, and his courage to conquer was rare among the emperors in history.
Zhu Di stills
It is said that the last king of the Yuan Dynasty, the Yuan Shun Emperor, after the fall of the country, he was defeated in the north of the desert. Hongwu died in the third year of Histaka, the third year of Zhu Yuanzhang's reign as emperor. Later, his eldest son, Aiyi Zhili Dala, ascended the throne as Emperor Shun of the Northern Yuan Dynasty. At this time, Emperor Shun was actually absurd and stupid, but he was obsessed with the lost Great Yuan Jiangshan and was bent on retaking the mountains and rivers. Therefore, he hid in Mongolia to recuperate and wait for the opportunity.
Emperor Yuanshun
After Zhu Di became emperor, the Northern Yuan divided into three branches, Wuliangha, Tatar and Wa thorns, each with its own government, of which tatars were the strongest. It can be seen that the leadership ability of this Shishun Emperor is not worth mentioning. The sorrow of the once Great Yuan Empire is now divided into three parts. However, these three parts still belong to the same big yuan, but they are interdependent and wary of each other.
Wuliangha's location is closest to Daming and has a good relationship with the Ming Dynasty. As early as when Zhu Di launched the Battle of Jingnan, Wuliangha sent his own brave Andyan Three Guards cavalry to make great achievements for Zhu Di to seize imperial power. With this layer of relationship, Zhu Di had a grateful heart for Wu Liangha. Promised to transfer Daning, the former fiefdom of King Zhu Quan of Ning, to the chief of Wuliangha. But later, Zhu Di did not want to stay in Nanjing, wanted to move Kyoto to Beijing, and Daning was too close to Beijing, Zhu Di regretted his promise, so this promise was not fulfilled. The leader of Wuliangha was dissatisfied with Zhu Di and thus laid the foundation of the curse
The divisions of the meta-government have made the contradictions between the three branches more and more intense. The Tatar ruler, Ghost Lichi, established himself as the "Tatar Khan", and the leader of the Wa thorn tribe, Makko Timur, was very unconvinced by this "Tatar Khan", and in order to overwhelm the "Tatar Khan" of Oni Lichi in terms of momentum, he called himself "King of the Tatars". So there is no eternal friend, although Vassei is of the same origin as the Tatars, but after the conflict, he first thinks of a new vendetta, not an old grudge. Zhu Di had the ability to be a capable person, and he had already spied the inside story of his discord, and he had more provocative intentions, so Zhu Di was close to The Watt, and Mengke Timur also wanted to find a powerful patron, so he had a pro-Ming act, paying tribute to Daming every year, and won the title of King of Shunning of Daming. This annoyed the Tartar ghost force. He killed the Ming envoys and launched his troops to attack the Wattle, a battle that the Ming Dynasty obviously could not stand idly by. The two countries are at war and don't kill each other! How dare you, a little Tatar, despise the great man like this?
To put it another way, this is a foolish act of Tatarism. I think that Zhu Di has always been wary of the Mongols, and has long wanted to shovel it quickly, but he is suffering from no reason for war. It just so happens that you Tatar actually gave a reason, I don't hit you to hit whom? Therefore, tatars can only say that this move is harmful to themselves.
In July of the seventh year of Yongle (1409), Zhu Di sent Qiu Fu to lead 100,000 troops to set out for the northern expedition. Before Qiu Fu set off, Zhu Diqian instructed him not to take the enemy lightly, to be cautious in the use of troops, to know how to strategize, and to be triumphant. It is a pity that this Qiu Fu has failed Zhu Di's high expectations. He acted obstinately and arrogantly, and was caught in the enemy's treacherous plan, 100,000 soldiers, and the whole army was destroyed. When the news reached the capital, Zhu Di was heartbroken, 100,000 soldiers, and the whole army was destroyed! It can be said that this is the biggest failure in Zhu Di's life. Thinking bitterly, Zhu Di decided to stand up wherever he fell, but when he went out again, who could rely on each other?
Use no one better than yourself. This was Zhu Di's decision after pondering and pondering. The king of a country he was to lead his troops to march. So after the Battle of Jingnan, Zhu Di once again put on his military uniform and took his mighty army with him, pointing directly at Tatar. Began his first personal conquest in his career as a monarch.
At this time, the Tatars were drinking celebratory wine for their great victory, while plotting how to reclaim the Jiangshan that had been taken by the Ming Dynasty. There was a lot of singing and dancing everywhere, but I didn't expect that the 500,000 troops of the Ming Dynasty had already come to the border. Zhu Di came all the way and was overwhelmed. The Mongol army was powerless. Don't look at the victory of the last great war of tatars, its leader heard that this time it was Zhu Di's personal conquest, and with half a million troops, he did not even have the courage to fight, and took his own men and chose a path to escape.
Unfortunately, Zhu Di was bent on annihilating the Tatars, and if you flee, then I will chase after you and swear to kill them to the end. In the end, the two armies actually met on the banks of the River. Zhu Di didn't say a word about the fight. This battle resolved the remnants of the Yuan, depriving the Ming Dynasty of its main political enemy, and the Mongols had become a "border problem" rather than a remnant of the previous dynasty. After this war, the Tatars began to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, paying tribute to the Ming Dynasty every year. The Ming Dynasty also gave him generous rewards, giving his subordinates Arutai and the title of King of Ning. What made Zhu Di sigh about this incident was that it was really cool to fight!
After the defeat of the Tartars, the tile thorn gradually became stronger. The old accounts of the past can be turned over again, so Wa Thorn can't move to bully The Tartar. The Tatars were aggrieved, so they complained to their new master, the Ming Dynasty, and asked the Ming Dynasty to uphold justice for itself. Zhu Di wanted tatars to be obedient, and he wanted to extinguish the sharpness of the tile thorns, and for the border security of the Ming Dynasty. Thus, in March of the twelfth year of Yongle (1414), Zhu Di began his second conquest. Admittedly, the result was a great victory, a great defeat of the Watts, and for many years thereafter, he did not dare to commit a crime, and apologized to the Ming Dynasty gongma every year.
Zhu Di's third conquest was because after the Tatars helped him defeat the Wattle Thorn after the Ming Dynasty helped him defeat the Wattle Thorn, after several years of recovery, he was relieved again, and seeing that his power was getting stronger and stronger, Arutai twice took advantage of the danger of the Watt thorn department being severely damaged by the Ming army to defeat the Watt Thorn Department. He changed his previous policy of dependence on the Ming Dynasty, rebelled against the Ming Dynasty, insulted or detained Ming envoys, and often came out and harassed and plundered. Zhu Di was annoyed and thought to himself, the boy's wings are hard, Lao Tzu is not fighting for three days, you want to go to the house and uncover the tiles. Zhu Di gave Arutai a chance, and sent someone to hand him a letter to warn him not to be too rampant, but Arutai ignored it.
In February 1422, Zhu Di once again went with his army to clean up the Tartars. Who knew that as soon as Arutai heard that Zhu Di had come, he was so frightened that he ran away with his family overnight. In this battle, Zhu Di did not move a single soldier and won a complete victory. Arutai is a complete villain, and when the army of the people comes, he does not even dare to fight. As soon as the people left, his Lai Pi Jin made another mistake, and he always wanted to come to Daming's territory and complain, and Zhu Di hated Zhu Di to the root of his teeth.
Therefore, the fourth and fifth expeditions were all because Arutai took his small army to the border of Daming to make trouble. Not to mention, Arutai has his own capable human ability, and his ability to escape is pure and pure, which is really beyond the reach of ordinary people. Every time Zhu Di came, he was the first to flee. It is conceivable that each of Zhu Di's personal conquests is a huge consumption of state-owned assets. However, it defended the dignity of the Ming Dynasty and maintained the relative advantage of national defense in the north.
Statue of Zhu Di
During the sixth conquest, Zhu Di, the Ming Dynasty ancestor known as the "Heavenly Son of Heaven on horseback", finally fell ill and died in the military camp of Yumuchuan.