At the beginning of the founding of each great unified dynasty, there will inevitably be a large number of famous generals who will be divided, but among the founding famous generals of the Ming Dynasty, there are many similar names, so that future generations are always easy to recognize stupidly when they study. For example, Zheng Yuchun and Chang Yuchun, Guo Xing and Guo Zixing, the two founding generals, their names are only one word apart, often confusing!
First of all, Zheng Yuchun was the younger brother of Zheng Yulin, Zhu Yuanzhang's right-hand man, but Zheng Yulin died in battle during the Battle of Crossing the River in the fifteenth year of Zhizheng, and his younger brother Zheng Yuchun succeeded his army and continued to work for Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zheng Yuchun showed bravery and fierceness when he fought with the army, and many military achievements, and when he reached the third year of Hongwu and Zhu Yuanzhang was a prince, he was awarded the title of Marquis of Xingyang for his merits, and ate nine hundred stones!
For Chang Yuchun, many people are more familiar with him, he is a first-class celebrity of the same level as Xu Da and Fu Youde. In his early years, he was a thief who robbed his family and robbed his house, but he soon found that there was no future in this line of work, and in the fifteenth year of Zhizheng, he officially broke away from the bandit group and joined Zhu Yuanzhang's command.
Chang Yuchun not only fought a fierce battle, he was also a very personality, in the process of attacking Quzhou, Chang Yuchun was invincible, and between the horses and horses, there was also a poem "In the Dragon Journey", which revealed his heroism between the lines.
Chang Yuchun is a man who fights with a strange strategy, often surprises the enemy, wins the enemy in an unexpected way, and when it is necessary to charge, he often behaves more courageously than anyone.
For example, in the Battle of the River Crossing, Chang Yuchun drove a small boat, bravely advanced in the rapids, landed on the shore, killed the enemy army in a defeated position, and finally took the key Yuanjiang Fort and won the battle, and he was also successfully promoted to marshal because of his outstanding performance in this battle.
Later, in the battle against Chen Youyu, he also won successive victories, and in the Battle of Poyang Lake, Chang Yuchun's performance was also the most remarkable, and he was praised by Zhu Yuanzhang as "when there are millions of people, the destruction of the front is strong, like a deputy general!" ”
However, it was such a famous general who died young, and soon after following Xu Da's northern expedition to the Central Plains, he fell ill and died, which is really regrettable!
As for the pair of Guo Xing and Guo Zixing, there are also many people who are easily confused. Guo Xing was one of the twenty-four generals of Huaixi, and he and his younger brother Guo Ying were both right-hand men under Zhu Yuanzhang, and in the battle of Poyang Lake, it was he who suggested that Zhu Yuanzhang use fire to attack, which led to Chen Youyi's great defeat! Later, he ran to garrison Tong Pass, which repeatedly defeated the enemy's attacks.
Originally, he could have received a higher reward, but because he was repeatedly unstemed by military discipline and was discovered by Zhu Yuanzhang, he only barely got a Gongchang Marquis, eating fifteen hundred stones! After Yu Hongwu's death in the seventeenth year, he was posthumously awarded the title of Duke of Shaanxi! Later, because he was involved in the Hu Weiyong case, the knighthood was removed!
As for Guo Zixing, he is not strictly speaking, the founding general of the Ming Dynasty, he was zhu Yuanzhang's superior in his early years, and he was one of the heroes at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.
In the context of the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Guo Zixing quickly gathered thousands of heroes to seize Haozhou with the wealth of his family, and Zhu Yuanzhang also came to help at this time, and Zhu Yuanzhang gradually gained Guo Zixing's weight because of his good performance.
However, due to the fact that later, the senior leaders within Guo Zixing's camp, such as Sun Deya, Zhao Junyong, and Peng Da, disagreed, and internal strife continued, and they fell in love with each other, and even Guo Zixing himself was almost killed, so Guo Zixing continued to move closer to Zhu Yuanzhang, and separated from Sun Deya and Zhao Junyong, moved to Chuzhou, and married his adopted daughter Ma Shi to Zhu Yuanzhang.
After Guo Zixing died of a serious illness, his troops were thus inherited by Zhu Yuanzhang!