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The Battle of Jingnan was an important turning point in the Ming Dynasty, which completely changed zhu Yuanzhang's preset trajectory of imperial succession. Zhu Di ascended to the throne with the Battle of Jingnan, becoming the only king of the clan in ancient times who successfully rebelled, rewriting history and creating history, which can be called a miracle of eternity.
Looking back at the outcome of the Battle of Jingnan, Zhu Di's success, and Zhu Yunjiao's failure, there must be chance, and there is necessity in chance, for many reasons, summed up in four words is "uncle strong nephew weak" is. So, where is Zhu Di strong? Where is Zhu Yunjiao weak?
(Stills of Zhu Yunjiao and Zhu Di)
In ancient times, under the premise that the time and place did not play a decisive role, the comparison was nothing more than the comprehensive strength of the army. Fighting the number of soldiers and horses, Zhu Yunjiao was far ahead, fighting logistics and military supplies, Zhu Di could not reach the dust. Just as the so-called "a thousand troops are easy to get, one will be difficult to find", in the final analysis, Zhu Di did not win in the number of soldiers, but in the generals, Zhu Yunjiao did not lose in the number of soldiers, but lost in the general weakness.
Speak with data. In the Battle of Jingnan, Zhu Di's total Yan army was about 300,000, while Zhu Yunjiao's southern army was 1 million, and Zhu Di only had the land of Yanjing as a logistical support place, while Zhu Yunjiao sat on the world's wealth and could continuously supply military supplies on the front line.
(Stills of Zhu Di in the Battle of Jingnan)
The gap between the two sides in terms of the number of soldiers and horses and the supply of military supplies is clear at a glance, and our focus is on the situation of the commander-in-chief. In addition to Zhu Di himself, the commanders of the Yan army were mainly Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng, and the commanders of the Southern Army were Geng Bingwen and Li Jinglong.
Even readers who are familiar with the history of the Ming Dynasty may not have heard of the names of Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng, which is not surprising, because in the early Ming Dynasty, where famous generals gathered, these two are really not worth mentioning, Mo said that Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, even Fu Youde and Lan Yu also dumped them eighteen streets.
But the question is, where is Fu Youde? Where is sapphire? Where are the hundreds of thousands of battles stronger than Geng Bingwen and Li Jinglong, who are also stronger than Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng? The answer is that they were all killed by Zhu Yuanzhang.
(Zhu Yuanzhang stills)
Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was a very controversial emperor, and one of the most criticized points of his life was the indiscriminate killing of heroes. How many people did Zhu Yuanzhang kill? Other than that, in the four major Hongwu cases alone (the Kongyin case, the Hu Weiyong case, the Guo Huan case, and the Lan yu case), the total number of people killed and implicated exceeded 100,000. Among them, there are naturally many corrupt officials who have more than enough to die, but there is also no shortage of meritorious heroes who have been wrongfully killed.
The founding heroes of the Ming Dynasty, except for Tang He and Guo Ying, there are few good deaths. Li Shanchang was beheaded by the door, Hu Weiyong was exterminated of the Nine Tribes, Feng Sheng was given death, Blue Jade was skinned, and Fu Youde, who was "the first in battle merit", carried his son's head and killed himself in front of Zhu Yuanzhang... Whether it is a civilian minister or a military general, it is difficult to get rid of the fate of rabbit dead dog cooking in the end. Of course, all this was Zhu Yuanzhang's planning and design, and it was the result he wanted, and the king wanted the subject to die and the subject had to die.
(Stills of the heroes of the early Ming Dynasty, led by Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen)
Zhu Yuanzhang's original intention in killing the heroes was to plan for his descendants and ensure that the country and mountains were not easy to lord, and the dynasty did not change its surname. The result is that the cleverness is mistaken by the clever, do not know that "foreign thieves are easy to block, family thieves are difficult to prevent", Zhu Yuanzhang left the throne to his grandson after all, or was usurped by his son.
The direct result of Zhu Yuanzhang's massacre of heroes was that Zhu Yunjiao had no one to use. Zhu Yunjiao was originally young and unscrupulous, and he was surrounded by such mediocre ministers as Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng, who were loyal and learnable, but they were just a group of useless students who talked on paper. The situation was even worse for the military generals, but almost all the generals with some actual combat experience were dead, and the rest were either stupid or vain, and they could not command a million troops to compete with Zhu Di.
Looking at the situation on Zhu Di's side, he himself was a rare talent of Wen Tao's martial strategy, and his three sons could all be on their own, plus there was Yao Guangxiao, the first conspirator of the Ming Dynasty and the main planner of the Battle of Jingnan, who was around him, and although there were not many soldiers, it was not surprising that they won the final victory.
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History of the Ming Dynasty