Looking at the history and culture of our country for two thousand years, when the dynasties changed, under the premise of most of them, they attacked from north to south, and after many years of tuzhi, they could succeed. From a historical point of view, this is also a very obvious historical law. However, in the history of the Ming Dynasty, this law was violated, and in the early days of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang and his army attacked from the south to the north to complete the great cause of unification.
Moreover, it should be known that Zhu Yuanzhang was facing a powerful Yuan Dynasty at that time, and it was not so easy to be destroyed, after all, it was the most extensive ancient empire in China's history.
So how did Zhu Yuanzhang's army at that time accomplish the great cause of reunification under the premise of violating the law?
First of all, at that time, the Ming Dynasty's army attacked from south to north on the premise that its own strength had developed to a certain extent, and the south had basically begun to attack the north under the condition that it had basically been pacified! And at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang took the choice of two northern expeditions!
At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang's army had already experienced many years of fighting, whether it was for movement operations or defensive defensive city operations, or even for attacking the enemy's heavily guarded fortified cities, they already had a very rich experience, and there were already a considerable number of firearms in the Ming army at that time! At that time, the Ming army already had a siege artifact, the Xiangyang Cannon, and such weapons were not possessed by the Yuan Army at that time.
When the Ming army attacked the city heavily guarded by the Yuan army, this kind of xiangyang cannon with very advanced firepower could play a very important role and have a great impact on the final outcome of the entire war.
Although the cavalry of the Ming Army at that time, in terms of overall terms, compared with the traditional cavalry of the Yuan Dynasty, there was still a certain gap in combat effectiveness, but Zhu Yuanzhang's cavalry also experienced many major battles, coupled with the cooperation of infantry and the support of firepower, it was not much worse than the cavalry of the Yuan Dynasty in terms of comprehensive combat effectiveness.
In addition to these comparisons in the hard indicators of the army as a whole, Zhu Yuanzhang's army at that time also had a characteristic that the Yuan Dynasty army did not have, that is, strict military discipline, especially the love for the people, which on the one hand may be related to the main strategic thinking of the Ming Jun, and on the other hand, it is also likely to be related to Zhu Yuanzhang's origin.
At the same time of the Northern Expedition, the Ming army was very attentive to the people. And no matter in which era, the people, after being quite loved, will certainly vigorously support and love their own side of the force, we know that in the Yuan Dynasty, the people of the whole country were divided into four kinds of people, the first people were Mongols, the second kind of people were Semu people, the third people were Han people, and the fourth kind of people were southern Han people.
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang's army came, they were equal to the Han people, which should be very warm for most of the people, so naturally the Ming army was also very supportive, and this invisibly made the comprehensive combat ability of the Ming army far higher than the Yuan army that had separated most of the people.
We know that no matter in any dynasty in history, as long as the main forces at that time lost the people's hearts and minds, then this side of the force is not far from the end of defeat, no matter how powerful it was, how brave and good at war, it can not get rid of this historical truth, and the author personally feels that this is precisely the Ming Dynasty army with this kind of relatively advanced historical thinking, in order to attack from the south to the north and complete the great cause of reunification of a core thing.