Among the famous Mongols in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, Tsakhan Timur and Wang Baobao's father and son were the most famous, but there was also a Mongolian military family that was also very strong, and they were highly legendary but little known. The three generations of this family can be said to have fought all the masters of the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia in the past hundred years, although they have won fewer and lost more, they are really able to resist, and they are the most resistant families in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties.
The first generation of this family was Taiwei Manzi, whose name was very inconspicuous in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties, but his importance to the Yuan Dynasty exceeded that of Wang Baobao. The ancestor of the Taiwei Barbarian was Muhua Li, the family had three hereditary Mongolian thousand households (the starting capital of the Golden Horde was 4 Mongolian thousand households), and the command of sixteen thousand households under the five throwing army (usually under the jurisdiction of the princes of the various ministries), and the command of the tens of thousands of Tanma Chi army under the five subordinates was also inherited by their families. The so-called five-cast are the five Mongol tribes of Hongjira, Yiqilesi, Wuluwu, Busy Wu, and Zarayi'er, which are the real core forces of the Yuan Dynasty, and Kublai Khan used these five tribes as the core to control the left-wing Mongolia when he established the Yuan Dynasty, thus having the capital to compete with his brother Ali bu brother for hegemony.
The Muhuali family where Taiwei Manzi is located is a famous Sinicization faction of the Yuan Dynasty, the family has 14 high-ranking officials who rank first, probably because the family likes the relationship between Han culture, Taiwei Barbarian zi only got this name (barbarians are common with Han people in the Yuan Dynasty, Taiwei Barbarians and Taibao Ha Lazhang Han culture is good, the Ming Dynasty gave the evaluation of "extending the loyal people of the four sides, thinking that the recovery plan", this "four loyal and righteous people" includes a large number of Han people).
Tai Wei Manzi also has a relative, that is, Naha out, that is, Naha out, who has 200,000 troops in Liaodong Province. Unlike the half-hearted Naha, Taiwei Manzi was loyal to the Yuan Dynasty. When the Red Turban Army invaded Liaodong, it was Tai wei Manzi who led the army to retake the Yizhou Road in Liaoyang Province, which had been captured by the Red Turban Army, and after Emperor Yuan Shun ran to the south of the country, he also took five people and horses to rescue him. After that, Tai wei Manzi began his career as an ace dragon set. In the third year of Hongwu's reign, he encountered Li Wenzhong at the White Camel Mountain, and the result of the PK between the two sides was a great victory for Li Wenzhong, the Northern Yuan Pingzhang Zhuzhen was captured, and the Pingzhang Shangduhan surrendered. Li Wenzhong took the opportunity to capture Yingchang City, but Taiwei Manzi still took the main force of the Northern Yuan Janissaries with him, which was also considered a decent defeat.
In 1372, Li Wenzhong attacked Helin, and Taiwei Manzi and Taibao Ha Lazhang joined forces to stop Li Wenzhong at the Tula River. Behind the Taiwei Barbarian was Wokoutai who had ascended the throne in Helincheng, the battle was extremely fierce, after the Ming army crossed the Tula River, the Taiwei Barbarian commanded the Mongol army to counterattack at the Arukhun River (present-day Orkhon River in Outer Mongolia), and once shot Li Wenzhong's mount, forcing Li Wenzhong to get off his horse and fight before he was defeated and won. Tai wei Manzi and Li Wenzhong's second PK still ended in defeat, Li Wenzhong took Helin, continued to advance, and left after "weighing the sea" to empty the city.
In the ensuing war, Tai Wei Manzi experienced the repeated attacks of almost all the famous generals of the Ming army except Chang Yuchun, which can be said to be devastated. Especially in the first month of 1381, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Xu Da, Tang He, Fu Youde, Mu Ying and others to take turns in the battle, sweeping away the four tribes of Hongjila, Yi Qilesi, Wulu Wu, and Busy Wu on Quanning Road, and the military command of these four tribes happened to be in the hands of Taiwei Manzi, who became the touchstone of the Ming generals. In 1388, Taiwei Manzi again ushered in the challenge of blue jade, in the Battle of Yu'erhai, Taiwei Manzi finally stopped worrying about the Ming army who was looking for him trouble, he was killed by the Ming general Guo Ying on the spot, and the main force of the Northern Yuan Janissaries was also destroyed by the Ming army.
Taiwei Manzi's inheritance in Mongolia was inherited by his nephew Arutai, who also inherited his fate of being repeatedly beaten by the Ming army. Arutai was the head of the Mongol Asokite tribe, a tribe made up of Azov soldiers from the Yuan Dynasty guards, who were originally part of the Yuan Dynasty Janissaries, and Arutai may have mastered this part of the force because of the relationship between the taiwei barbarians. In the vicissitudes of the Mongolian steppe, Arutai continued to support the Golden Family and became the de facto ruler of the Mongolian Tatar forces. Arutai was also Zhu Di's main opponent, and four of Zhu Di's five Northern Expeditions were against him. Arutai is accustomed to the defeat of the elders, and his eyesight and ability to escape are superb. When Arutai encountered Qiu Fu's soldiers, he dared to take the initiative to show his sword, and the Ming army was completely destroyed; Zhu Di sent troops, and he fled quickly, leaving Only Zhu Di with the regret of beheading a thousand Tatars.
The Taiwei Barbarians, Arutai and the Ming generals collectively PK were very powerful, but their relatives served as officials in the Ming Dynasty. Because Zhu Yuanzhang's evaluation of Mu Huali is actually very high, he believes that Mu Huali is also one of the 37 most virtuous courtiers in the past. Too early on, the barbarians' kind of naha surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang, and the two nephews Aqitai (Arutai's brother, who took the Han chinese name Mao Antai) and
Na Hai (who participated in the Battle of Jingnan) was also a hero of Zhu Di's side. Mao Sheng, the nephew of Taiwei Manzi, was also a famous general during the orthodox ming dynasty, and participated in the defense of Beijing under the command of too modesty. Mao Sheng (also known as Mao Fushou) also had a certain affection for the Mongols, and he once gave up his official position in the Ming Dynasty and ran back to the Mongolian steppe.
He and Ye Xian PK but no one doubted his loyalty, because Mao Sheng's uncle Arutai died at the hands of Ye Xian's father, and Mao Sheng and Ye Xian had enough national hatred. Mao Sheng served as Uncle Yu Qian's firefighting captain in the defense of Beijing,
Sun Bo was defended outside Xizhimen by Wa Lai and he led troops to rescue them; Wang Jing and Wu Xing's internal officer cavalry were killed by the Wa Lai army, and after Wu Xing's death, he almost collapsed into an army, and it was also Mao Sheng who led the troops to stop the loss. When Shi Heng pursued and killed him to Zijing Pass first, Mao Sheng also participated in the battle and won a great victory.
Mao Sheng's operations in the north were all defensive counterattack operations, and they were not the main team members, but the strongest substitutes. Mao Sheng's main battle achievements were all in Yunnan, and Mao Sheng followed Wang Ji to participate in the Battle of Luchuan, which can also be regarded as a revenge for the Yuan Dynasty and Zu. The Kingdom of Luchuan, a small hegemonic regime in Yunnan and Southeast Asia, dared to attack the Yuan Dynasty's expeditionary army in Burma in 1301, and the Yuan Dynasty attacked it several times in the next 54 years without success, and Mao Sheng's ancestors also had several people in charge of attacking Luchuan. Mao Sheng fought with Wang Ji, the ming dynasty's most murderous courtier, and the two worked together to achieve a staggering record of decapitating 53,790 Luchuan troops in 1441. After participating in the defense of Beijing, Mao Sheng went to the southwest and repeatedly fought with local armed forces, and finally won the title of Marquis of Nanning.
Taiwei Manzi's family fought for hundreds of years at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, although there was no top master, but it was always able to resist the attack of the top master, and it could also get a good evaluation in the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia.