As we all know, Zhu Yuanzhang subverted the regime through the uprising, and eventually destroyed the Yuan Dynasty and established the Ming Dynasty, but we can't help but have such a question, that is, China during the Yuan Dynasty was the strongest time in terms of military strength, and even far beyond the iron horse has penetrated into Europe, almost half of Europe in that period has become China's territory, in the face of such a powerful Yuan Dynasty army, how can Zhu Yuanzhang easily cope? It can be said that the world that Zhu Yuanzhang seized was really a bit catered to the time, place, and people, and he could not succeed without any of these conditions.
So for Zhu Yuanzhang, what was the reason why he defeated the Yuan Dynasty Iron Horse?
First of all, let's look at the composition of the Yuan Dynasty's army, which was ruled by the ethnic minority Mongols, and the Mongols were sparsely populated, so after seizing the world, the Mongols also began a difficult road of ethnic integration. But the road didn't go well, at least the Mongols never put themselves in the right place. It can be said that one of the reasons why the Mongol army was able to successfully destroy the Southern Song Dynasty was that with the help of the strength of the Han troops, a large part of the forces that defected from the Southern Song Dynasty became the backbone of the overthrow of the Southern Song Dynasty's rule, so the Yuan Dynasty iron horse could drive into everything so easily.
But when the Yuan Dynasty established its own rule, the rulers found that they were indeed difficult to integrate into the culture of the Han people, first of all management became a big problem, coupled with the Mongols have always been proud of themselves, so basically a new generation of Yuan Dynasty aristocrats in front of the Han formed a natural sense of pride in front of the Han, and since the Mongols ruled all of China, they also gradually gave up the attention to the military field, especially the new generation of Yuan Dynasty nobles, basically forgot the culture on horseback, and it can even be said, The Mongols at this time were basically no different from the Han Chinese.
However, for the Yuan Dynasty people, the most difficult thing is to occupy a local force, because there are not enough Yuan Dynasty troops stationed at all, so many places are also lost, zhu Yuanzhang can succeed, to a large extent, is also stepping on the shoulders of predecessors, the north from Liu Futong's red turban army strength, plus Zhang Shicheng also rose up at this time to rebel, so this also greatly weakened the strength of the Yuan army. At that time, the prime minister organized a million troops to surround and suppress Zhang Shicheng, and when the large army approached the city, Zhang Shicheng was about to surrender, and as a result, Emperor Yuan Shun was stunned at this time to relieve the prime minister of military power, and as a result, the millions of troops scattered, so that the Yuan Dynasty could not be destroyed?
The Red Turban Army also laid a solid foundation for Zhu Yuanzhang, the Red Turban Army had already destroyed hundreds of thousands of troops of the Yuan Army, the Red Turban Army fought more and more fiercely, and finally all hit the rear of the Yuan Army, Goryeo, in the face of such a Yuan army that had already been penetrated, was there any reason to be invincible?
In fact, the demise of the Yuan Dynasty can only be blamed on themselves, generations of rulers are always consuming their own side of the troops, although the foreign war is getting more and more fierce, but in the face of harassment from home, it is obvious that the entire Yuan army has no idea. However, as the saying goes, the outside must be inside first, and the contradictions from within gradually dragged down this empire that was not yet solidly rooted, and eventually let Zhu Yuanzhang pick up the advantage.
Still that sentence, the time and place are indispensable, Zhu Yuanzhang obviously grasped all the factors, in the face of the gradual defeat of the Yuan army, at this time Zhu Yuanzhang seized people's minds under the slogan of "expelling foreign nationalities, and finally successfully established his own regime."