On the 22nd day of the first month of the fifth year of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty officially sent troops to attack the Northern Yuan, which was stirring up trouble on the border.
Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Xu Da to be the general of the conquest, Li Wenzhong to be the left deputy general, and Feng Sheng to be the right deputy general, each leading 50,000 people and marching in three ways.
Xu Da, who fought the most with northern Yuan, was on the middle road, attacking Helin at Yanmen Gate, and along the way publicizing the "military plan" of driving Wang Baobao and Emperor Yuan out of Helin.
Of course, with Zhu Yuanzhang and Xu Da's intentions, if it was the real purpose, how could it be so easy for the enemy army to be known?
Therefore, Xu Da came with a menacing momentum and seemed to take the initiative to attack, but in fact, the real purpose was to attract the Yuan army to battle and annihilate the enemy in the field battle.
It can be seen from this that the strength of the Ming army at this time can already be said to be quite powerful. In the past dynasties, the Ming Dynasty was definitely one who dared to fight with the Mongols who claimed to be born on horseback, or took the initiative to lure the field.
Li Wenzhong was on the right side, leaving Yongguan to approach Helin via Yingchang, and unexpectedly launched an attack during Xu Da's decisive battle with the Yuan army, cutting off the rear road of the Yuan army.
In our current words, Li Wenzhong is the assistant. However, later Zhu Yuanzhang's plan was not fully implemented for various reasons, but Wang Baobao used a similar plan against Xu Da.
Xu Da and Li Wenzhong had already worked together in the Battle of Dingxi before, and the combined lineup of the two was perfect. In this way, it seems that dividing the soldiers into three roads seems to be a bit redundant.
And the last road Feng Shengwei West Road, attacked Gansu.
What did Feng Sheng do along the way? What plays a suspicious role is to make the other side not attack painfully and happily when attacking, and when fighting, it is always afraid whether there will be a surprise attack.
Of course, Feng Sheng also had an important role, Xu Da and Li Wenzhong concentrated on fighting and had no time to take care of others, he had to go and collect the booty.
In short, no matter how you look at it, this team seems to be going to make up a number.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang was such a shrewd person that he could achieve a task with ten thousand military strength and would never use more than one soldier and one pawn, and arranging for Feng Sheng to cooperate with Xu Da and Li Wenzhong must have its deep meaning.
Facts have proved that the leader who created the great unification is indeed powerful, and no one would have thought that Feng Sheng, who seemed to be a few, played a decisive role in this war against the Northern Yuan.
However, this is not our focus today, there will be a special article to introduce this legend later, today we will first talk about Xu Da and Li Wenzhong.
Xu Da's luck has always been very good, this time Xu Dajun pioneer just out of the Yanmen Pass, met Xu Da's old rival - Wang Baobao, the actual ruler of the Northern Yuan.
Xu Da and Wang Baobao are really immortal, and it seems that every time Xu Da leads an army to resist the Yuan, it is Wang Baobao who is on the right side.
Anyway, let's fight first!
The fledgling sapphire fought bravely and defeated Wang Baobao at the Wild Tame (present-day Krullen River in Mongolia) and the Tuzhi River (present-day Ulaanbaatarsi, Mongolia).
Of course, this was not because Wang Baobao had already retreated to this point with his troops, wang Baobao had already joined forces with the Yuan general He Zongzhe to set a plan to lure the enemy deeper and annihilate him in one fell swoop, preparing for the humiliation of Yixue's previous defeat to Xu Da many times.
Xu Da saw that Lan Yu had won the first battle and the second world war, so he led his troops deep into the Lingbei region.
I don't know whether the truce was too long or whether the experience of defeating Wang Baobao many times before gave Xu Da's confidence, Xu Da had already swelled up to the point of losing his basic judgment ability at this time, completely forgetting that he still had the life of fifty thousand troops in his hands.
The predecessors once knew: Arrogant soldiers will be defeated.
In short, Xu Da, who was eager to make a contribution, did not even think much about it, and went deep alone.
Wang Baobao waited for this opportunity, and seeing that Xu Da was in control of everything, Wang Baobao and He Zongzhe began to encircle and suppress the Ming army. The Ming army was unexpected, and tens of thousands of casualties were killed and wounded at one time.
The proud soldiers will not be defeated, but no one before them has said whether this defeat is temporary or long-term.
At this time, Xu Da fully demonstrated the quality of an excellent general. With unimaginable reason and composure, he stabilized the situation, safely withdrew his troops from Wang Baobao's encirclement and suppression, and even built a fortress to block dozens of fierce attacks after Wang Baobao.
To tell the truth, if this excellent opportunity had been placed in Xu Da's hands, the encircled and suppressed army would have been completely annihilated long ago, but Wang Bao's insurance premium had created such good conditions for himself wholeheartedly, but in the end he found that he was not capable of being this net collector, but the enemy's struggle made him lose a lot invisibly.
In short, in the end, Wang Baobao watched Xu Da lead the Ming army to leave easily, but he did not have the courage to catch up, the perfect opportunity, but he did not have the ability to grasp it.
Not only was the misfortune alone, just when Xu Da was surrounded and suppressed by Wang Baobao, Li Wenzhong also seemed to be infected by Xu Da's light enemy's adventurous advance, and before he could understand the terrain, he led a large army to start pursuing the Yuan army.
Good fellow, Xu Da also knew that sending Lan Yu to go out to explore the enemy first, Li Wenzhong directly led the main force to pursue the Yuan army.
Li Wenzhong's enemy was the Yuan general Ha Lazhang, and it just so happened that he adopted the same strategy as Wang Baobao.
Li Wenzhong pursued to the Aruhun River, where the Yuan army had been waiting for a long time. The ming army, which had been running all the way and was exhausted, encountered a well-prepared Yuan army, and the result should be no suspense, right?
Guess what, Li Wenzhong personally led the troops to fight, fought fiercely for several days, and actually crushed the Yuan army, the Yuan army suffered heavy casualties, and even when the Yuan army fled, Li Wenzhong chased all the way to the sea and took advantage of the advantages before collecting the troops.
The Yuan army that can recruit good wars cannot annihilate the enemy when it takes full advantage of the time and place, and occasionally encounters a strong enemy but does not say, but every time it is "killed back" by the enemy when there is a perfect opportunity, how can this be said?
The reason is that the Northern Yuan, which has suffered many heavy losses, has completely lost anyone, and the Ming Dynasty can easily find a general to reverse the situation, but the most powerful general of the Northern Yuan has no strategy and no strength?
I think this is the real reason for the decline of the Northern Yuan!
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Text source: Moon Ran Rihua
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