The Classic of Mountains and Seas once recorded: "The Heaven of Punishment and the Emperor quarreled with the gods here, and the Emperor severed his head, and buried the mountain of the Evergreen Sheep, but with milk as the eye, with the navel as the mouth, and with the dry qi to dance." "The gist is that after the Yellow Emperor's head was severed, the punishment day was to take the two nipples as the eye and the navel as the mouth, and still fight.
Naturally, this is a myth and legend, after all, after a person has beheaded, how can he continue to fight? However, the "History of Ming" records a case of "headless god of war" - Ding Pulang, and the story begins with the peasant revolt at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the flock of deer.
Xu Shouhui turned against the Yuan and called himself emperor, and Ding Pulang ranked among the "Four Great Kongs"
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, in order to resist the oppression and enslavement of the Han by the Mongol Yuan, the Red Turban Army divided into three routes, the Northern Expedition expedition, victory after victory, defeated countless Yuan troops along the way, and the Northern Expedition Zhonglu Army even broke through the Shangdu during the Yuan Dynasty (located in the territory of the Zhenglan Banner of the Xilin Gol League in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region).
It should be known that in ancient Chinese history, even in the heyday of the Central Plains Dynasty, it was necessary to exert national strength to attack the grasslands, but the Red Turban Army still sang triumphantly in the absence of sufficient logistical supplies, especially the Zhonglu Army led by Guan Duo to take Shangdu, which can be described as a major military feat in ancient times!
After the rise of the Red Turban Army in the north, Xu Shouhui, who had long been dissatisfied with the brutal rule of the Yuan Dynasty, saw that the time had come, so he also launched an uprising in Puzhou (蕲州, in present-day Puchun, Hubei) under the name of the Red Turban Army.
In less than a year, he captured Puchun and Huangzhou, defeated the Weishun king Kuansa Buhua, and established the capital Shuishui (蕲水, in modern Shuishui), with the state name "Heavenly End".
The so-called "end of heaven": "Big" plus "one" is "heaven", "yuan" on the word "宀" is "end", so "end of heaven" means overwhelming "big yuan".
After the establishment of the "Heavenly End" regime, Xu Shouhui put forward the slogan of "destroying the rich and benefiting the poor," coupled with the strict discipline of the Red Turban Army -- everywhere he went, he did not commit adultery with women, did not burn and loot, and did not commit any crime against the people, and for a time won the support of the vast number of peasants.
As a result, the Tianquan Army was rapidly expanded, and in its heyday, it even grew to millions of people.
The Tianquan Army led by Xu Shouhui galloped north and south of the great river, and naturally there were many generals under his command who could recruit good warriors, and they were Xu Shouhui's right-hand men and had made great achievements in battle.
Just like Liu Bei has the "Five Tiger Generals", Xu Shouhui has the "Four Great King Kongs" - Zou Pusheng, Ding Pulang, Zhao Pusheng, and Fu Youde. And Dimplang, known as the "Headless God of War", is among them.
The benefactor Xu Shouhui was killed, and Ding Pulang defected to Zhu Yuanzhang
With the rapid expansion of the power of the "End of Heaven" regime, some of the people who had originally participated in the uprising began to stir.
In the first month of 1356, the capital of Hanyang was moved to The End of Heaven, and Xu Shouhui at this time was manipulated by the chancellor Ni Wenjun, who had the name of the emperor in the air, but was actually elevated. Ni Wenjun not only wanted to set xu Shouhui up, but also planned to kill Xu Shouhui to reduce yuan.
However, the murder failed, and Ni Wenjun fled to Huangzhou (黄州, in modern Huanggang, Hubei) but was killed by his subordinate Chen Youyu, but at this time the real power was not returned to Xu Shouhui's hands, but was controlled by Chen Youyu.
Chen Youyu, like Ni Wenjun, is ambitious and wants to monopolize power and replace Xu Shouhui. On xu Shouhui's way to move the capital to Longxing (present-day Nanchang, Jiangxi), an ambush was set up at Jiangzhou (江州, in modern Jiujiang, Jiangxi), killing all of Xu Shouhui's left and right subordinates and controlling him.
Soon after, Chen Youyu secretly eliminated Xu Shouhui's henchmen and established himself as the King of Han.
The so-called "heart of Sima Zhao is well known to passers-by." As a general of Ni Wenjun's army, Chen Youyu had done something that fell into a well, and at this moment, Chen Youyu, who was full of power, was not satisfied with just being a courtier who controlled the military and political power, and his infinitely inflated ambitions finally pointed to the killing of the lord and the emperor.
In 1360, Chen Youyu lured Xu Shouhui to Taiping (present-day Dangtu, Anhui) on the pretext of observing the terrain, but in fact he had already planned to kill the lord, secretly set up an ambush, and killed Xu Shouhui while the Tianquan army was quarrying, and ascended to the throne himself, with the name of Han.
Although the Tianquan regime was usurped by Chen Youyi, there were many generous and righteous people in the rebel army.
For example, Ming Yuzhen directly cut off contact with Chen Youyu, and for Ding Pulang, Xu Shouhui, who had appreciated and promoted himself as a general in the past, was usurped by Chen Youyi and could not tolerate it, but Chen Youyu had strong military strength and rushed to attack himself, no doubt hitting the stone with a pebble, and could only plot other methods.
Ding Pulang heard that Zhu Yuanzhang treated people with kindness and regarded the generals as brothers and sisters, unlike Chen You, who was suspicious and liked to manipulate his subordinates with power techniques. Therefore, he and Fu Youde led the xiaogushan garrison to surrender to Zhu Yuanzhang.
As the saying goes, "Gold shines wherever it goes." After defecting to Zhu Yuanzhang, Ding Pulang, who was able to recruit good warriors, repeatedly made military achievements, but he did not want to stop here, because he knew in his heart that the most important merit he wanted to make was the hand-bladed traitor Chen Youyu.
Poyang Lake Battle Chen Youyu Ding Pulang's head was broken
"If you want to make it perish, you must first make it crazy", the increasingly arrogant Chen Youyu, who believed that his troops were strong and occupied the land of Jiangxi and Huguang, wanted to lead an army to capture Ying Tianfu (present-day Nanjing, Jiangsu), but credulously believed Kang Maocai's letter that "he was willing to do internal response" and won Zhu Yuanzhang's plan.
When Chen Youyi led the water division east to Jiangdong Bridge, he found that it was not the wooden bridge that the messenger said, but the stone bridge!
It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang had already anticipated that Chen Youyu was planning to join forces with Zhang Shicheng to attack Ying Tianfu, so he ordered Kang Maocai to write a fraudulent surrender letter in advance and send it to Chen Youyu to trick him into easily marching.
In the letter, Kang Maocai told Chen Youyu that he "guarded the wooden bridge in Jiangdong by himself", and when the messenger returned, he immediately changed the wooden bridge to a stone bridge.
Sure enough, the arrogant Chen Youyu was ecstatic and eager to march after seeing this letter, and as a result, he was defeated at Longwan (on the outskirts of present-day Nanjing, Jiangsu), escaping all the way, and finally escaping to Jiangzhou to get rid of the pursuing soldiers.
Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of the victory to pursue, marched all the way to the west, and even descended several cities, and his strength was greatly enhanced. The conceited Chen Youyu looked at his dwindling territory and was very annoyed, so he built hundreds of warships.
Although these warships are boats, they are like buildings, tens of meters high, divided into three floors, and they cannot hear each other upstairs and downstairs.
In addition, its area is so large that it can not only accommodate a large number of troops, but also open a horse barn. Each ship is painted with red paint, and it should be known that the raw materials of ancient red paint are very expensive, which shows that Chen Youyu intends to make a desperate bet and fight to the death!
In 1363, Chen Youyi led 600,000 sailors to attack Hongdu (洪都, in modern Nanchang, Jiangxi). In the face of suffocating pressure, Ding Pulang, a general under Zhu Yuanzhang, did not retreat, because he knew:
This may be the only chance of a lifetime, and it will be the last chance of this life! Without the slightest hesitation, even though he knew that this confrontation was full of dangers and the odds of victory were slim, Ding Pulang still resolutely led his army to aid Hongdu.
On the morning of a certain day in July of the lunar calendar, it was the season of growth of all things in the middle of summer, but the heavens and earth of Kang lang Mountain were filled with not the breath of vitality, but the tension and anxiety of the outbreak of the great war.
After the whole army was assembled, Ding Pulang personally lined up his troops, and in the face of the menacing Chen army, the generals of the whole army, under the command of Ding Pulang, fought hard and shot down dozens of ships of the Chen army, and the Chen army fled in a hurry, and there were countless people who drowned.
However, Chen Jun was far superior to Ding Pulang's troops in terms of the number of troops, ships and equipment. Soon Chen Jun discovered that the mast of the naval ship led by Ding Pulang's subordinate officer Zhang Zhixiong was broken, so he immediately mobilized several ships to attack.
Surrounded by regiments and unable to march, Zhang Zhixiong watched the soldiers around him die one by one, and he understood: At present, this situation cannot change his life against the sky, and if this continues, the enemy army will definitely capture me alive, and the eldest husband would rather die on the battlefield than be captured! So he drew his sword and killed himself.
But the battle at Kang Lang Shan has only just begun. The battle lasted from tatsumi to noon, and the soldiers around Templang fell one by one, blood staining the grass and the river red.
The pioneer Dimplang has been wounded more than ten times, but he is still fighting! Because he knew that as long as he kept fighting, he could delay the pace of Chen Youyi's army's attack;
Only by standing firm can we buy more time for reinforcements. At this moment, he only had one belief: to win this war, defeat Chen Youyu, and avenge the dead benefactors, brothers and soldiers!
I don't know how long it has been, Ding Pulang has gradually become unable to clearly perceive the world, the enemy soldiers have come to fight one by one, and there are few soldiers in the same uniform as himself, and the pain in his body has gradually subsided.
More precisely, it is numbness, the weapons in the hands do not know how many enemy troops have been killed, but the battle has not stopped, and he must continue to fight!
Unfortunately, the number of troops on both sides was very different, and Ding Pulang was finally beheaded, but a shocking scene occurred - although Ding Pulang was beheaded, his body was still standing, still holding a weapon in his hand, and it seemed that he still wanted to fight.
The soldiers who had been on the battlefield for a long time were amazed and so shocking that even the enemy soldiers shouted in awe, "God! ”
This is really unbelievable, for those soldiers whose swords collide, even the bravest general is a person, not a sword is invincible, water and fire are not invaded. But seeing this scene today, it is unbelievable, Ming Ding Pulang has been beheaded, but why does his body seem to be fighting?
Regarding the deeds of Ding Pulang recorded in the history books, we can't help but think of a "person"--the punishment heaven in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas". Tao Yuanming, a great poet of the Jin Dynasty, praised the spirit of intransigence in the punishment of heaven, and there are poems:
"The heavenly dance is dry, and the fierce ambition is always there." And The fierce general Under Zhu Yuanzhang,Din pulang, is like this, never compromise, never back down!
Poyang Lake won a great victory in the water battle and was posthumously awarded to the Duke of Jiyang County
In the ensuing battle, Zhu Yuanzhang led 200,000 sailors to Kanglang Mountain, and Chen Youyu, who had learned the news, no longer besieged Nanchang and went east out of Poyang Lake to meet the battle.
The largest water battle in the Middle Ages began at Poyang Lake. After several days of fighting between the two sides, Zhu Yuanzhang used fire to attack and severely damage the Chen army, and the subsequent Zhu army continued to attack, becoming more and more courageous, and morale was greatly boosted!
On the other hand, Chen Jun, on the contrary, repeatedly lost battles and the situation became more and more unfavorable, and in the end, Chen Youyu was defeated and killed in the breakthrough. At this point, this life-and-death decisive battle ended with Zhu Yuanzhang's complete victory.
The Battle of Poyang Lake is another typical example of a victory with less than more victories in Chinese history since the Battle of Chibi, and there are many reasons behind the victory, one of which is that soldiers like Ding Pulang fought bloodily and never compromised.
After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang posthumously awarded The General of the State of Ding Pulangzhu and posthumously made him the Duke of Jiyang County.
Song Lian, a scholar at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, praised Ding Pulang in "The Ancient Style of Burning Wood Village", "The founding hero Khan Maduo, so far only Ding Gong is counted." ”
The Ming Dynasty also recorded the strange deeds of Ding Pulang's severed head.