Tang Shengzong was a famous founding general of the Ming Dynasty, born in Haozhou, which is now Fengyang County. When he was eighteen years old, he ran to follow Zhu Yuanzhang on the Eastern Expedition to the West, during which he continuously accumulated military achievements, and in famous battles such as the battle at Poyang Lake and the aid of Anfeng, he had many performances, courage and strategy, and was a rare wise and courageous general.
The most emblematic of his military talent is that after the siege of Changzhou and the siege of Ningguo, in this battle, he defeated Zhang Shicheng's reinforcements according to the dangerous battle, and made an important contribution to the capture of the city.
In the process of the next retinue of the army to recruit Chen Youyi, in order to be able to successfully capture the city of Anqing, which was defended by the enemy, Tang Shengzong showed a superb strategy, deployed suspicious troops, and unexpectedly destroyed his water village.
These two battles fully showed that Tang Shengzong was not only a bastard general who followed a large army to pick up military merits, but also possessed a certain amount of military command wisdom! Because of this, after the founding of the country, he was named the Marquis of Yan'an by Zhu Yuanzhang, and at this point, he came to the peak moment of his life.
With the gradual stabilization of the world, for a hero like Tang Shengzong, his attitude also came to a one hundred and eighty degree change, eager to seize some small mistakes of the other party and suppress them. Tang Shengzong was ordered by Zhu Yuanzhang to be stripped of his knighthood and demoted to commander because he rode the horse of the caravanserai without authorization.
Later, Tang Shengzong successfully arrested a group of rebels in Dai County, so that Zhu Yuanzhang regained his ability and value, and thus restored his title.
After his restoration, Tang Shengzong lived up to the expectations of the people, and successively won the merits of quelling the rebellion of Kou Ye Dingxiang in Dongshan, Zhejiang; taking the Yuan Right Cheng Wubutai; inspecting Shaanxi and supervising Tuntian; Zhen Liaodong; and pacifying Guizhou Man.
However, he never entered the power center of the imperial court, and could not play any influential role in the major affairs of the court. Under Zhu Yuanzhang's severe suppression of the heroes, the huge influence of the Hu Weiyong case was finally born, and Tang Shengzong himself was implicated because of this, and was stripped of his title for the second time and killed!
From beginning to end, Tang Shengzong was only a marginal general who was outside the core of the country, facing Zhu Yuanzhang's big knife to slaughter heroes, even big-man figures such as Hu Weiyong and Lan Yu could not resist, not to mention the little Tang Shengzong.