Mentioning the famous generals of the Ming Dynasty is definitely a big catch, such as:
King Xu Da of Zhongshan
The Kaiping King often encounters spring
Dongou King Tanghe
Ninghe King Deng Yu
Feng Sheng, Duke of Song
Yue Guo Gong Hu Dahai
Gongding Pulang of Jiyang County
These founding generals of the Ming Dynasty were all first-class fierce men, who were all masters who chased after the Mongols, especially Chang Yuchun, who claimed to have 100,000 soldiers who could run amok in the world, known as "Chang 100,000", who never suffered defeat in their lives, and finally died of illness on the way to pursue the remnants.
In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, there were also such cruel people as Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayu, and Li Chengliang. If nothing else, but whenever Li Chengliang was alive, Nurhaci absolutely did not dare to rebel.
However, if you want to select the first god of war of Daming, none of the above battlefield generals are as good as one, that is, Li Jinglong, the Duke of Daming Cao.
Li Jinglong was a second-generation official, and his father was the founding general of the Ming Dynasty, and he was also Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew Li Wenzhong.
(Portrait of Li Wenzhong)
Li Wenzhong's father was named Li Zhen, and his mother was Zhu Fonu, the second sister of Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Fonu died after giving birth to Li Wenzhong, but the relationship between the Li family and the Zhu family has always been good, and Li Zhen often receives Zhu Yuanzhang.
Later, Zhu Yuanzhang rebelled against the Yuan and made small achievements, and Li Zhen came with his son Li Wenzhong to defect. Zhu Yuanzhang took Li Wenzhong in love with his uncle and nephew, and also asked him to change his surname to Zhu for a time and adopt him as an adopted son.
Li Wenzhong was quite handsome, and had many military achievements in the Southern Expedition to the North, and accompanied Xu Da and Chang Yuchun to conquer the Northern Yuan several times, so Zhu Yuanzhang ordered him to restore his original surname and make him the Duke of Cao.
In 1384, Li Wenzhong died, Zhu Yuanzhang personally wrote a tribute, posthumously named Li Wenzhong the King of Qiyang, with the title of Wujing, and was entitled to the Taimiao Temple, and the portrait hung in the Temple of Meritorious Heroes, ranking third, these glories were enough to show Li Wenzhong's merits and abilities.
Li Wenzhong had three sons, Li Jinglong was the eldest son, so he inherited the title of Duke of Cao.
(Li Jinglong)
It is reasonable to say that Li Wenzhong is so brave, Li Jinglong should also have some ability. But Li Jinglong seems to have failed to inherit the advantages of his father, and he is completely a stupid boy.
However, Li Jinglong's fate was good, because Zhu Yuanzhang's crown prince Zhu Biao died prematurely, in order to pave the way for his grandson Zhu Yunjiao, Zhu Yuanzhang killed the meritorious generals, and almost all the famous generals during the founding period were killed, so that after Zhu Yunzhang ascended the throne, his nameless generals were available.
As the son of King Qiyang, Li Jinglong was a famous general and a relative of the emperor, so he was promoted by Zhu Yunjiao. Later, because Li Jinglong supported Zhu Yunjiao's cutting of the domain, he personally led troops to arrest Zhu Xu, the king of Zhou, and returned to Beijing, which was further reused.
In 1399, the Battle of Jingnan broke out, and the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao appointed Li Jinglong as a general to fight against Zhu Di, and Li Jinglong mobilized 500,000 heavy troops in Henan, Hebei, and Shandong to besiege Zhu Di's stronghold of Beiping.
When Zhu Di heard that Li Jinglong had arrived, he actually left only his son Zhu Gaozi to guard Beiping, while he took the main force to rescue Daning and deal with the imperial army attacking from the direction of Liaodong.
(Zhu Di's set of operations obviously looked down on Li Jinglong and did not take the son of this famous general seriously!) In this regard, Li Jinglong did not disappoint Zhu Di, and sure enough, he failed to capture Peiping)
After Zhu Di rescued Daning, he immediately rushed back to Beiping with his troops and defeated Li Jinglong at Zhengcunba outside Beiping.
In fact, Li Jinglong was not defeated by Zhu Di, Li Jinglong escaped on his own, and even his own front-line troops ran away without having time to notify.
After the defeat of Zhengcunba, Li Jinglong originally wanted to slow down and wait until the spring to fight again, after all, this duke grew up in Nanjing and could not stand the cold in the north.
However, Zhu Di took the opportunity to attack the important towns around Beiping and also made an expedition to Datong.
When Li Jinglong heard that Datong was besieged by the Yan army, he had to suspend his vacation and rush to save Datong.
As a result, hundreds of thousands of troops of the imperial court had just walked out of Bauhinia Pass and heard that the Yan army had returned to Beiping, and hundreds of thousands of people were played in the ice and snow, and Li Jinglong had to return in a daze.
Li Jinglong then wrote to Zhu Di, hoping for a truce. Zhu Di replied to the letter and maneuvered around, while strengthening preparations for war. In early spring, Zhu Di led his army to take the initiative to attack Li Jinglong, and the two sides broke out again in the Baigou River in Hebei.
In this battle, the imperial army was suddenly attacked by a storm in a good situation, and the main general broke the flagpole, and the army was frustrated, while Li Jinglong once again fled alone.
In both major wars, Li Jinglong fled in fear of battle, resulting in the annihilation and capture of more than 500,000 troops of the imperial court, which made the imperial court very angry, and the government and the public demanded that Emperor Jianwen execute Li Jinglong. However, Zhu Yunjiao spared Li Jinglong and only removed him from his post.
In 1402, Zhu Di crossed the Yangtze River to Nanjing, and Fang Xiaoru went up again and asked Li Jinglong to be killed. However, Emperor Jianwen did not allow it, but instead ordered Li Jinglong, along with Shangshu Ruyao of the Military Department, and Wang Zuo, the Governor of the Capital, to go to the Yan camp to ask for peace, expressing his willingness to rule by crossing the river, but Zhu Di refused.
(Zhu Yunjiao does not know what he thinks, and has always trusted Li Jinglong very much)
Shortly after the failure of the peace talks, the Yan army reached the Jinchuan Gate, but due to the thickness of the high walls of Nanjing, the Yan army was also unable to overcome for a while.
However, just when Zhu Di had a headache, Li Jinglong's eldest brother actually joined forces with Zhu Qi, the king of Gu, to open the Jinchuan Gate and surrender, and the Yan army immediately invaded Nanjing, and Emperor Jianwen disappeared.
Looking at the entire Battle of Jingnan, Li Jinglong's performance can make Li Wenzhong angry again, he will be defeated in every battle, he will run if he loses, he will not say anything, he will not care about anything, he will rely on his own strength to toss the 500,000 troops of the imperial court, and this record is also no one.
Of course, Li Jinglong may be Zhu Di's undercover, and as for his image of the "God of War", I don't think anyone can shake it.