Wang Zhi was a famous founding general of the Ming Dynasty, who was born in Linhuai, which is now a native of Fengyang, Anhui, because he spent most of his life as a partial general, fighting with the army, and lacking the experience of independent leadership, so even if he won many battles and almost no defeats, at best he was only a second-rate famous general, one level lower than Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Feng Sheng, Fu Youde, and so on.
At the beginning of Zhu Yuanzhang's participation in the rebel army, due to the lack of soldiers and horses, his immediate superior Marshal Guo Zixing instructed him to go to his hometown of Haozhou to recruit troops and buy horses, Xu Da, Feng Sheng, Gu Shi and other famous generals all chose to join in this period, and the protagonist of this article, Wang Zhi, was also in the same situation, and he was strong and strong, and he also wanted to take advantage of the chaos to establish a career, so he also followed Zhu Yuanzhang.
At that time, although Wang Zhi was not tall, his skin was dark, so he left a deep impression on Zhu Yuanzhang. Wang Zhi, who had just joined the army, performed well, fought bravely, and took Chuzhou and Hezhou with the army, and after crossing the Yangtze River in the south, the battle was even more reckless with his life, always braving arrows and rushing to the front with all his might! In the conquest of Quarry Rock, Taiping, Jiankang and other places, his performance is so outstanding, remarkable!
Especially in the Battle of the River Crossing, Wang Zhi's performance was particularly outstanding, when Zhu Yuanzhang fought fiercely with the Water Army of the Yuan Dynasty, it was Wang Zhi and other people who made great contributions. In the later Battle of Longwan, Wang Zhi gave full play to his ability to be good at water warfare, driving a light boat all the way to chase chen Youyi's remnants of the army until Taiping did not return.
In the battle of Poyang Lake, Wang Zhi did the same, repeatedly defeating Chen Youyu's big boat with a small boat, improving morale and making Zhu Yuanzhang impressed!
With these many military achievements, in the third year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang was a great meritorious warrior, and Wang Zhi was made the Marquis of Liu'an, eating nine hundred stones. As soon as he was enthroned, he immediately stepped into the journey again, followed Xu Da on the Northern Expedition, and followed Fu Youde to conquer Yunnan.
However, with the gradual peace of the world, Wang Zhi's mentality also changed quietly, and during his time at the border, he often drank and had fun with Hou Gu of Jining, ignoring military affairs, and was reprimanded by Zhu Yuanzhang and deprived of his fenglu.
Later, he followed Fu Youde on a campaign to the southwest, and made a little contribution to enable him to die well, and after his death in the nineteenth year of Hongwu's illness, Zhu Yuanzhang still paid tribute to his strike and posthumously honored him as the Duke of Xu.
Four years later, the Hu Weiyong case broke out, and after some investigation, it was finally identified as Hu Weiyong's friends, and after considering that he himself had long since died, he did not investigate deeply!