We all know that in China's thousands of years of feudal dynastic system, many emperors were born, many of whom had great talent and great strategy, such as Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancestor of Ming Chengzu, who not only knew how to understand and employ people, but also had a very strong ability, so they also contributed a relatively large ability for the reunification and development of the country.
Zhu Yuanzhang is very familiar to everyone, whether in literary works or film and television dramas, there are many works adapted from his stories. But when we look at these works about Zhu Yuanzhang, we often ignore his military talents and focus only on his political achievements
The reason why we ignore his military ability is because during the Zhu Yuanzhang period, there were many military experts with strong abilities, such as Xu Da and Chang Yuchun.
In the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, during the peasant revolt, Chang Yuchun, Zhang Dingbian, and Wang Baobao, these three fierce generals really played their own skills, so they helped Zhu Yuanzhang to lay down the Ming Dynasty.
Moreover, Chang Yuchun and Zhu Yuanzhang were both from Huaixi, and their hometowns were also very close, only 30 kilometers apart. However, Chang Yuchun did not follow Zhu Yuanzhang at the beginning of the uprising, but only defected to Zhu Yuanzhang after the uprising began.
Although Chang Yuchun was born in an ordinary family and his family was relatively poor, many people said that he was born with divine power and good looks, and Zhu Yuanzhang's ability to meet Chang Yuchun was equivalent to sitting on half of the country.
We all know that in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, due to the tyranny of the rulers and the differential treatment of the Han people, the lives of the common people were miserable, so Chang Yuchun was forced to go up the mountain and become a mountain thief in order to be able to support his family. But for the ambitious and ambitious Chang Yuchun, the mountain thief is not the life he craves. By chance, he heard that Zhu Yuanzhang was attacking Heyang, so he decided to go down the mountain to defect to Zhu Yuanzhang.
Chang Yu Chun said goodbye to his friends on the mountain and hurried on the road, but after walking on the road for a while, he felt very sleepy and wanted to squint in the field for a while, but after falling asleep, he had a very strange dream, and heard a voice in the dream.
The voice is "Say hurry up, your monarch is coming". So Chang Yuchun woke up from his sleep, at this time he saw Zhu Yuanzhang passing by from here, after seeing Zhu Yuanzhang, Chang Yuchun also felt that Zhu Yuanzhang had the appearance of an emperor, so he resolutely decided to follow Zhu Yuanzhang and him to carry out a peasant uprising.
And Zhu Yuanzhang also saw that Chang Yuchun's body was very strong, and he was a good hand at fighting and killing the enemy, but after hearing Chang Yuchun's words, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that he only wanted to come to him because he was desperate at that time, and he was a mountain thief before, so he told Chang Yuchun not to worry, and then recruit him to join the army after he crossed the river and took Taiping Town.
The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang said this was actually because he didn't know much about Chang Yuchun's ability, so he wanted to see how Chang Yuchun's ability would decide whether to recruit him when attacking Taiping Town. What Zhu Yuanzhang did not expect was that this was the person he did not pay special attention to, but in the end it played a very important role in the establishment of the Ming Dynasty.
Especially when Zhu Yuanzhang decided to attack Quzhou, Chang Yuchun was the first to raise his hand to register, and volunteered to ask for the first to fight.
You know, Quzhou was a position guarded by the Yuan army at that time, even if Zhu Yuanzhang personally led the troops to go out, there was no complete certainty, and it may take a lot of manpower and material resources, and the time consumed will be relatively long.
But since Chang Yuchun had already taken the initiative to ask for help, Zhu Yuanzhang agreed to let him try, but what everyone did not expect was that in just three days, Chang Yuchun not only personally went into battle to kill the enemy, but also skillfully used the water army and the army to easily take down the city.
In the years of conquest, Zhu Yuanzhang also had a very powerful opponent, that is, Chen Youliang. Chen Yongliang was much stronger than Zhu Yuanzhang in terms of both troop strength and general reserves, but Chang Yuchun had no fear of Chen Youliang, especially in the Battle of Poyang Lake, which showed Chang Yuchun's outstanding ability.
Who can win the Battle of Poyang Lake means who will dominate in the Central Plains, which means that they are one step closer to ascending the throne and becoming emperor. In the course of the battle, one of Chen Youliang's generals was named Zhang Dingyuan, who rode alone on a horse and rushed directly to Zhu Yuanzhang, who was forced into a desperate situation and was about to be hit by Zhang Dingyuan.
He also led many generals to besiege Chen Youliang, who was unprotected at this time, and won the Battle of Poyang Lake, and since then the power in the Central Plains has been changed again. Through this battle, Zhu Yuanzhang almost lost his life, but fortunately had the protection of Chang Yuchun.
After capturing the Central Plains, Zhu Yuanzhang began to fight against Mongolia in the north, and Zhu Yuanzhang sent two fierce generals, Chang Yuchun and Xu Da, to attack mongolia in two ways.
This attack, Chang Yuchun, was still brave and invincible, so he quickly captured the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, clearing all obstacles for Zhu Yuanzhang's ascension to the throne.
In the History of Ming, there is also an evaluation of Chang Yuchun, saying that when he fought, he was pushing gula to attack invincible, and that he was both wise and courageous, and xu da was no different, so he also called Chang Yuchun a general who won.
However, it was such a great general who had made great achievements in battle, who died of illness in the second year of Hongwu, but after his death, Zhu Yuanzhang also posthumously sealed him, which was also a consolation for the Kaiping King for his life's achievements.
Not only that, Zhu Yuanzhang also named Chang Yuchun's son the Duke of Zhengguo, and the two families even married a family, Zhu Biao, Zhu Yuanzhang's son, married Chang Yuchun's daughter, which was a supreme honor for Chang Yuchun's family.
Let's go back and look at the encounter between Chang Yuchun and Zhu Yuanzhang, I am afraid that Zhu Yuanzhang did not expect to be old, and he could not imagine that a strong man he met in the field had actually become a fierce general who assisted him in establishing the country and becoming emperor.
In fact, in China's feudal dynasty, there are many talented generals, they have contributed their own intelligence and force to the development and progress of the country, but also worthy of our memory and worship, you also know which famous generals, welcome to leave a message in the comment area to discuss.
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