In the fourth year of Hongwu, that is, in the first month of 1371 AD, Zhu Yuanzhang appointed Marquis Tanghe of Zhongshan as the general of Zhengxi, Zhou Dexing of the Marquis of Jiangxia as the left deputy general, and Liao Yongzhong the Marquis of Deqing as the right deputy general, commanding the Jingxiang Water Division from Qutang Gorge to Chongqing, and at the same time ordering fu Youde, the Marquis of Yingchuan, to lead the deputy general Gu Shi and other soldiers and horses from Henan and Shaanxi to March from Qin and Longzhi to Chengdu, Sichuan, to attack Shudi, and the people of the two roads went together to lead the army to fight against the Ming Xia regime entrenched in the Bashu region.
At that time, the founder of the Ming Xia regime, Ming Yuzhen, had died and was led by his son, who was only a teenager. How could a relatively young man who was still relatively young be able to be a good leader, there were many internal contradictions, and many veteran generals who followed Ming Yuzhen were not able to obey Ming Sheng's leadership.
Therefore, in the face of such a fragile regime, the difficulty of Tang He's conquest of Shu land should not be very great, but in the first three months of Tang He's army conquest of Shu, there were not many good reports, the reason is that the Qutang Gorge is precarious and has always been easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Ming Xia regime has sent people to cross the Qutang Gorge in advance, and at the same time continuously increased troops to the area and strengthened the garrison.
"Shou is equal to the iron rope, the north leans on the Giethoorn Mountain, the south leans on the south wall, the two cliffs are chiseled, the cable is a flying bridge, the three flats are made of wooden planks, and cannon stones, wooden poles, and iron are placed on it, and the cannons on both sides of the bridge are reset to reject our division."
QutangGuan Tianjian has always been the focus of the ming xia regime's defense, when Ming Yuzhen was still alive, when he broke up with Chen Youyu, in order to prevent being attacked by the other side, he also sent heavy troops to defend this place, so that Chen Youyu did not dare to covet Shudi.
In such a situation, it is understandable that Tang He's attack is blocked. Coupled with his bad luck, several attacks encountered a surge in the river, so that he had to retreat repeatedly, and wait until the river had fallen, and then send troops.
But Zhu Yuanzhang was not so patient, and after he learned that Tang he was stationed at the mouth of Daxikou and lingered, he felt that he was missing the fighter, and it was just at this time that Fu Youde had received a good report along the way.
The contrast between the two led zhu Yuanzhang to be very dissatisfied with Tang He's performance and ordered Tang He to march immediately so as not to delay the fighter.
After receiving the edict, Tang He still hesitated, and Liao Yongzhong did not hesitate at all, and immediately raised troops to attack Qutang Pass.
Liao Yongzhong's strong attack was not a hard attack, but a wise attack. Since the Ming Xia army had already crossed the river mouth with iron cables here, resulting in the Ming army's ships being unable to advance, Liao Yongzhong could only secretly send hundreds of brave soldiers, drag some small boats up the mountain, and quietly seize the upstream. They used their green coats as cover, and the fish traveled without being discovered by the enemy.
On the other hand, Liao Yongzhong led the main elite to attack the enemy's water and land villages directly from the downstream. Just when the two sides were fighting fiercely, hundreds of elite soldiers upstream also secretly set up boats down the river and stole the enemy's butt.
Under such a back-and-forth attack, the MingXia army was defeated, and Liao Yongzhong was able to take Qutang Pass and enter Kuizhou.
And what was Yuwa doing during this time? He led his troops from the White Salt Mountain, cut wood all the way, and prepared to go straight to Kuizhou via Paper Mill Creek. By the time he came to Kuizhou, Qu Tangguan had already been defeated by Liao Yongzhong, which meant that Tang He was basically in a state of fishing in such a crucial battle, and failed to make some conspicuous achievements.
As soon as Qutang Pass was lost, the Mingxia regime lost its fighting spirit, and Tang He, Fu Youde, Liao Yongzhong, and others all broke through all the way, forcing the Mingxia regime to surrender quickly, and Shudi was successfully pacified.
In this battle, the better performers were Fu Youde and Liao Yongzhong, while Tang He was more mixed, and Zhu Yuanzhang was very dissatisfied with his performance, and deliberately summoned him to him to count his faults.
"The former ordered Er's commander to cut down Shu, Er Nai stationed troops to return to The Prefecture, staying and not advancing, not Marquis Of Yanchuan crossing the pass, straight into the Sword Pavilion, to Dai Shou to withdraw Qu Tang's troops, and also to aid HanZhou, Deqing Hou Yin had to take advantage of the false attack on Qu Tang, then why could Western Shu go down?" After attacking Boryeong, he did not go bravely. "Records of Ming Taizu"
This means that your Tang He's performance in this battle is really too mixed, all kinds of conservative timidity, if it were not for Fu Youde and Liao Yongzhong's extraordinary play, this Western Shu land would not know when it would be taken down.
In this regard, Tang He could only honestly apologize for his sins, but later Tang He still played as well as before in the next battle, so he was made a duke by the Marquis.