The Yuan Dynasty abolished the Southern Song Dynasty, unified the Central Plains, and established a vast empire of unprecedented scale and scale. The brave and courageous Emperors and nobles of the Yuan Dynasty were geniuses in the use of force. They are truly invincible in the world. The flourishing of martial arts shook the past and the present. However, once it is time to govern the country, their shortcomings and shortcomings are immediately exposed.
The Yuan Dynasty only maintained rule in the Central Plains for more than 90 years. It collapsed under the attack of the peasant rebel army, and the colloquial saying that there is no luck for a hundred years. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, heroes rose and world wars continued. Zhu Yuanzhang, the hero of chaos, rises between the wilderness. With courage and courage, he razed the hero to the ground and expelled him to the north, completely ending the Yuan Dynasty's rule in the Central Plains.
The important battle between Zhu Yuanzhang's group and the Yuan Dynasty was the Battle of Yuan Dadu in 28 years. After sweeping away all separatist forces in the Yangtze and Huai river valleys, Zhu Yuanzhang had a solid rear base and the strength to compete with the Yuan Dynasty. Therefore, he sent the Northern Expeditionary Army led by General Xu Da to the north and the capital of the Yuan Dynasty. This is also a rare case of China unifying the world from the south to the north.
Xu Da commanded more than 200,000 male divisions and divided the army into several routes. He successively captured counties in Henan Province and Shandong Province, and made good progress. Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy to hear the news. He personally arrived at the front line of the city of Bieliang. First, he rewarded the three armies, and second, he negotiated the next battle plan. The Ming History records that Zhu Yuanzhang and Xu Da met at Bianliang and "purchased wine and labor, and sought the Northern Expedition". Xu Da took the opportunity to ask Zhu Yuanzhang a question.
Xu Da said: "The army swept through the Qilu River and Luo, and Wang Baobao and Li Siqi of the Yuan Dynasty were defeated. The general trend of the Yuan Dynasty has passed, and we are now directly attacking Dadu, which is after the conquest of the Yuan Dynasty, the Yuan Shun Emperor inevitably fled. How to deal with him? Zhu Yuanzhang replied: "The national transportation of the Yuan Dynasty has declined and is about to be destroyed. There is no need to use force against them. If they ran to the north of the country and took strict precautions at the border, they would not have been intruded south.
Xu Da was ordered to go. In the ensuing Battle of Yuandu, Emperor Yuanshun escaped early and headed straight for the grasslands outside the northern fortress. Since Zhu Yuanzhang gave the order in advance, Xu Da did not make his remaining strength the main combat task in the next stage after conquering Dadu. As a result, Emperor Yuanshun eventually escaped with a core member of the Yuan Dynasty, including a large number of courtiers and military generals, and returned to the mobei steppe where his ancestors ascended.