Zhu Yuanzhang Chapter Thirty-Three Three Musketeers

Three musketeers

There is a particularly interesting example in game theory. There are three musketeers, A has the best marksmanship, with an 80 percent hit rate; B is followed by a 60 percent hit rate; C's marksmanship is the worst, with only 40 percent hit rate. Each person shoots at random and asks who has the greatest probability of surviving. The answer is C, is it not very unexpected. Because everyone shoots at the person who threatens them the most. If you open the history of the Yuan Dynasty, you will find that the number one enemy of the Yuan Court at that time was not Zhu Yuanzhang, but the Longfeng regime under the leadership of Han Lin'er and Liu Futong.

From the Yuan Shi Shun Emperor Benji we can frequently see the description of the rebellion of the Red Turban Army. After a series of arduous battles, Liu Futong welcomed Han Lin'er to The Emperor of Mizhou in the fifteenth year of Zhizheng (1355), jianyuan longfeng, and the state name Song. Honoring his mother Yang Shi as empress dowager, Du Zundao and Sheng Wenyu as chancellors, Luo Wensu and Liu Futong as Pingzhang; Liu Liuzhi as privy councillor; after the establishment of the regime, Du Zundao gained favor and dictatorship, Liu Futong was very dissatisfied, and ordered Jia Shi to kill Du Zundao, and then let Han Lin'er make him a chancellor.

At this time, both the Yuan court and the emerging Song dynasty needed to rest, and food, materials, and soldiers needed to be replenished. In the following year, in the sixteenth year of Zhizheng (1356), the year in which Zhu Yuanzhang conquered Jiqing, the Song rested and the Red Turban Army began the Northern Expedition. In September, Liu Futong sent Li Wu and Cui De on the Northern Expedition, targeting Shaanxi. The following year, Bai Xinxin, Li Xixi, and Da Dao Ao were sent as the second batch of troops to reinforce the first troops. He first conquered Shaanzhou, and then launched a tug-of-war with the Yuan army at Tongguan, and Tongguan changed hands many times. Later, because of the great strength of the Yuan army, the Red Turban Army withdrew to rest. In the seventeenth year of Zhizheng, the Red Turban Army divided into three northern expeditions of the East Road, the Middle Road, and the West Road, and prepared to encircle the Yuan Capital, and this war did fight the Yuan Court enough. The Eastern Route Army even hit Tongzhou, which was the gate of the Yuan capital, and The Yuan Shun Emperor panicked in the capital and even prepared to abandon the capital at one point. The Northern Expedition of the Red Turban Army greatly involved the energy of the Yuan Imperial Court, and the last strength of the Yuan Dynasty was also exhausted in the process of suppressing the Northern Expedition of the Red Turban Army. Thus creating opportunities for Zhu Yuanzhang to develop. In the struggle of many parties, it is not the strength of whoever is strong who will be able to win. At that time, the comparison of strength was that the Yuan court was greater than the Red Turban Army; the Red Turban Army was greater than Zhu Yuanzhang. However, the Red Turban Army, which ranked second in strength, was wiped out by the Yuan Imperial Court, which ranked first in strength, and Zhu Yuanzhang, who ranked third in strength, took advantage of this opportunity to develop, and when both sides lost and injured their own development, they were almost done, and then they carried out a large-scale Northern Expedition and drove the Yuan Court out of Beijing in one fell swoop. (The third is not accurate, at that time, Xu Shouhui Zhang Shicheng and later Chen Youyu and other people's strength was not worse than Zhu Yuanzhang, here only the Yuan Imperial Court, the Red Turban Army and Zhu Yuanzhang) It is not uncommon for everyone to turn over the history books. The Yuan History specifically records that "in the month of the month, the Emperor Daming raised an army, crossed the river from Hezhou, and took the Taiping Road." Since the Red Turban Demon Kou initiated the rebellion, many counties in the north and south have fallen, so Daming took it from "From this record, it can be seen that an important reason why Zhu Yuanzhang was able to develop and grow at that time."