Among the enlightened heroes, Tang He was a very special person.
He was Zhu Yuanzhang's young man, and he was also the "leader" of Zhu Yuanzhang's participation in the rebellion, and even less so, he was able to die well.
In the process of Zhu Yuanzhang's pacification of the world, Tang He also took the lead in seeking Guozhen and Chen Youding, which can be described as outstanding.
However, in the third year of Hongwu, when Zhu Yuanzhang was a meritorious warrior, Tang He was only given the title of Hou.
In terms of seniority, he is the first founding hero.
In terms of battle merits, he took the lead alone, pingding Fang Guozhen and Chen Youding, and also ranked among the best.
Better than Li Shanchang, Xu Da, and Chang Yuchun, why can even Deng Yu be ranked in front of Tang and Tang?
The battle achievements are not small, and there are many mistakes
Tang He garrisoned Changzhou and repeatedly defeated Zhang Shicheng; he also served as the general of Zhengnan, pacifying Fang Guozhen and Chen Youding; later, he marched north with Xu Da on his western expedition.
As of Hongwu's third year before Zhu Yuanzhang was a great meritorious warrior, Tang He's battle achievements seemed to be very large.
However, There were also many major mistakes by Yuwa.
To pacify Chen Youding, it is the autumn wind that sweeps away the fallen leaves, and it is not difficult to defeat the opponent, the difficulty lies in recruiting rebels, completely pacifying, and withdrawing as soon as possible to participate in the northward battle.
Tang He did achieve a major victory in a very short time.
In November 1367, the army was dispatched, and Chen Youding was captured in the first month, and the efficiency was good.
However, in the disposal of Chen Youding's remnants of troops, there was a mistake, resulting in The return of Chen Youding's remnants to chaos. When Tang He went to the conquest, he was attacked by the Xiushan thieves, and the second command was damaged, and he suffered defeat.
In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang had to let Li Wenzhong wipe his ass for Tang He, and it was not until Leap July of that year that he captured Zhushanzhai and completely ended the Pingmin War.
Subsequently, Tang He was ordered to build ships in Mingzhou and transport grain to Zhigu to support Xu Da and Chang Yuchun's Northern Expedition.
However, due to the impact of the hurricane, Tang He was forced to re-transport grain to Zhenjiang.
Fortunately, Xu Da and Chang Yuchun's Northern Expedition destroyed the decay and did not cause difficulties in grain transportation without the dunbing of the city.
Subsequently, Tang He participated in the Western Expedition.
However, Tang He improperly used his troops, went deep alone, and was defeated by Wang Baobao at Handian in Shanxi, which excited Emperor Yuanshun, who had just fled the capital, and deployed a counterattack.
Fortunately, Xu Da was good at using troops, calculating the plan, and using his strength to fight, so that the Western Expedition achieved a great victory.
That is to say, although Tang He has done a great job and done many great things, he actually did not do a good job.
The "History of Ming" says that Tang He was due to the mistake of quelling Chen You's timing, "so he could not be made a public official".
In fact, Tang He's mistake is not only one, if it were not for the strong teammates, Tang and the above several mistakes would have been bad.
Good wine gaffes
In addition, Tang he is wise, but good wine, and often speaks wildly.
While guarding Changzhou, he had something to ask Zhu Yuanzhang for but did not get approval.
As a result, Tang and drunkenly said: I am now guarding this city, such as sitting on the roof, helping whoever can get profits!
Zhu Yuanzhang was very unhappy when he heard about this.
It can be said that for someone else, Zhu Yuanzhang has already cleaned up.
Fortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang knew the bottom of Tang He and knew the roots, and knew that the brothers were drunk and talked nonsense, so he did not pursue more.
However, not pursuing it does not mean that Zhu Yuanzhang does not remember this matter, and it will definitely have an impact on your reward.
In this matter, it is really not strange that Zhu Yuanzhang is careful with his eyes.
Many people have the problem of drunken nonsense, but on the issue of major issues of right and wrong, nonsense is not what a general should do.
The credit is compared
Among the six founding princes, Li Shanchang is similar to Xiao He, Xu Da and Chang Yuchun are top generals, these three are obviously one grade higher, and Tang He is no match in any way.
In addition, Li Wenzhong, Feng Sheng, and Deng Yu relied on their military achievements to compare the more senior Tang Hesheng.
By the time of the Western Expedition, Li Wenzhong was the left deputy general and Feng Sheng was the right vice general, who was already before Deng Yu and Tang He.
After conquering Shanxi, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an edict clearly stipulating that Feng Sheng was under Chang Yuchun and Tang He was under Feng Sheng.
Deng Yu, who was slightly less senior, was in the position after Tang He for a long time. By the beginning of the Western Expedition, Deng Yu's status was basically equivalent to that of Tang He.
However, in the three years of Hongwu, the first few months before Zhu Yuanzhang was a great meritorious person, Deng Yue brushed a wave of meritorious deeds. He first defeated Wang Baobao in Gansu with Xu Da, capturing more than 80,000 enemies, and then led his army to go thousands of miles alone, defeating the Northern Yuan army in a row, recruiting Tubo, and bringing all the west of Hezhou into the territory of Daming!
Then what else is there to say, Deng Yu's battle achievements have completely thrown off Tang He!
Therefore, the Great Ming Seal of the Six Dukes is not a limited number of places, and the merits of the Six Dukes are indeed significantly higher than a grade!
The ability is really not outstanding
Later facts also showed that Tang He's ability to put in the founding of the country did have a lot of gaps.
The following year, Tang He, as a general of Zhenxi, led Liao Yongzhong and others in a crusade against the Xia regime that had divided Sichuan.
However, Tang He's tight defense of Qu Tang was underestimated and progress was slow.
The old rule is that you have to rely on your teammates to help.
Fu Youde attacked by land from Shaanxi, quickly opened up the situation, and informed Tang He to ask for Tang He and a quick attack.
However, due to the surge in the river, Tang He was stationed in the division and wanted to march after Deng Shui had calmed down a little.
As a result, when Tang He slowly marched slowly, his deputy general Liao Yongzhong had already taken a step ahead and won consecutive battles.
In the Pingxia War, the general Tang Heben of The Expeditionary West was the main general. However, when discussing the merits, "Fu Yi Liao Ii", there was no soup and anything.
The following year, Tang He accompanied Xu Da on the Northern Expedition, but was defeated at Broken Head Mountain and gave another command.
It was not until the eleventh year of Hongwu that Tang he made meritorious contributions to Defending Yan'an that he was able to be promoted to Duke of Jin and became the Duke of Xinguo.
During the Hongwu period, although Tang He had several meritorious achievements in several battles, compared with Xu Da and Li Wenzhong in the Northern Expedition, Feng Sheng in pacifying Liaodong, and Fu Youde who overcame Yungui, and achieved a decisive victory, Tang He's merits were indeed too small.
Tang He is not without a chance, just... Capacity is indeed limited.
Blessed by misfortune, good to the end
After all, Tang He had known Zhu Yuanzhang for many years, and his thoughts about Zhu Yuanzhang could be accurate.
After the deaths of Xu Da and Li Wenzhong, Zhu Yuanzhang "did not want the generals to be soldiers for a long time" and did not want to let the generals lead the troops for a long time.
Before Zhu Yuanzhang spoke, Tang He was already keenly aware of the danger, so he took the initiative to resign: the subject is old, he can no longer shoulder heavy responsibilities, please let me go back to the pension!
Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed, immediately approved, and rewarded him with good life.
After that, Lan Yu, Feng Sheng, Fu Youde and others were killed one after another, and Tang He was able to die well.
The reason why Tang He was able to die well was not just because of the wisdom of the rapids.
During the Hongwu period, due to limited ability, in the middle and late period of warfare, Tang He was given fewer heavy responsibilities, so his influence in the army was also small.
Like Li Shanchang and Feng Sheng, they were all given death after being idle.
The threat is not big, is the key to avoid being killed!
Tang He is senior and has a lot of military achievements.
However, although he had wisdom and courage, in the founding of the country, Tang He's ability was indeed not outstanding.
Therefore, although he was also a general of the Conquest of the South, a general of the Expedition to the West, and a general of the Southern Expedition to the North, his military achievements were not outstanding, and he failed to become one of the "Six Founding Fathers", which was very normal.
Although Tang He was still able to become a duke by the time of Hongwu's eleventh year, he could watch others leap ahead of him by the accumulation of battle merits.
However, because of this, Tang He's threat is not great, and it is a blessing in disguise to be able to die well.