Zhu Yuanzhang, from a small boy who was everywhere, to the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Along the way, he could not do without his brothers who fought with him in the east and the west, draught and did not forget to dig wells, Zhu Yuanzhang was a famous general in Hongwu for three years, Li Wenzhong was one of the most honored six dukes, for the Duke of Cao.
Among these founding feats, Li Wenzhong is the only one who is related to Zhu Yuanzhang, of course, if you think that Li Wenzhong can only have this honor by nepotism, you are wrong. Li Wenzhong fought in battles, has always been brave, and has followed Zhu Yuanzhang since he was a child, and his military talents have shown himself at the age of nineteen, and he has made many achievements since then. After Li Wenzhong died of illness, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the death of Taiyi's entire family, what was the reason?
(Portrait of Li Wenzhong)
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Zhu Yuanzhang came from a peasant family, the family was too poor to eat, and his sister married a woman named Li Zhen. Li Zhen's family was also a well-off family in that era, and her sister was distressed by Zhu Yuanzhang, often giving him food and helping him. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang defected to Guo Zixing, embarked on the road of joining the army, and slowly gained his own side of the force.
There was no egg under the nest, and when the war came, Li Zhen's family could not withstand turmoil. In 1350, Zhu Yuanzhang's sister died of illness, and this year Li Wenzhong was only twelve years old. Later, the rebel army came, like locusts crossing the border, the people were miserable, Li Zhen scattered the family wealth to his father and fellow villagers, and then took his son Li Wenzhong to the east and west to escape the war.
In 1352, Li Zhen was cornered and took his son to Zhu Yuanzhang. It is said that as soon as Li Wenzhong saw Zhu Yuanzhang, who looked like a mother, he threw himself into Zhu Yuanzhang's arms and cried loudly, so much so that Zhu Yuanzhang also shed tears. After that, Li Wenzhong lived with Zhu Yuanzhang, who was very dedicated to cultivating this nephew, finding a famous teacher to teach him to read and write, and finding a famous general to teach him to dance with a gun and get a stick.
(Zhu Yuanzhang stills)
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Li Wenzhong did not live up to his uncle's high hopes and grew up to be a young talent who was both literate and martial. In 1357, Li Wenzhong showed his skills on the battlefield for the first time. In Chizhou, Li Wenzhong led his army to beat Zhao Pusheng to the ground, and then the Vietnam War became more and more courageous, and he captured four counties in succession, and made great achievements in the first expedition.
In 1358, Li Wenzhong, Deng Yu and Hu Dahai joined forces with the Yuan army, and although the Yuan army defended Jiande and occupied all the geographical advantages, it was still attacked by Li Wenzhong. Li Wenzhong, in addition to the city, they harvested more than 30,000 troops.
(Li Wenzhong stills)
Zhu Yuanzhang had a capable general named Xie Zaixing, who followed Zhu Yuanzhang to fight the world very early, and during the capture of southern Anhui and western Zhejiang, Xie Zaixing was even more indispensable, but later Xie Zaixing betrayed Zhu Yuanzhang and defected to Zhang Shicheng.
In 1363, Xie Zaixing led Zhang Shicheng's troops and captured Dongyang. After Li Wenzhong knew about this, he took the case and led his army to go on a crusade, and the rising star fought against the veteran general who had been in the battlefield for a long time, and Li Wenzhong won a great victory.
In 1365, Zhang Shicheng sent his general Li Bosheng to attack Zhuji New City, Li Bosheng was Zhang Shicheng's founding general, the old man was fierce and courageous, leading an army of 200,000 people, straight to the new city, determined to win. Li Wenzhong rushed to the rescue with a small group of people and stationed himself about ten miles away from the new city, intending to stop Li Bosheng here.
At that time, the defender of the new city was Hu Deji, and Hu Deji saw that there were not many people brought by Li Wenzhong, and Li Bosheng had an army of 200,000, and the enemy was outnumbered, so he advised Li Wenzhong to temporarily avoid the front and wait for the large troops to come and make claims. Li Wenzhong refused, saying: In the past, Xie Xuan only brought eight thousand people, and he defeated Jian Jian's million-strong army, and the number of soldiers was not how much it was whether it was strong or not.
Li Wenzhong's subordinates: Li Bosheng has a large number of soldiers, and he does not know that the arrogant soldiers will be defeated, we are not many in number, but the sharpness is unstoppable, and the elite division will win against the proud soldiers. Their grain and grass are piled up like mountains, and this is the god who sent them to deliver us, and I have to say that Li Wenzhong's pre-war mobilization has done a really good job.
Li Bosheng's army arrived as scheduled, and Li Wenzhong gathered his troops and shouted: The national affairs are here, brothers, rush! Then he held an iron mallet in his hand, rushed into the enemy army first, galloped across the line, invincible, and killed dozens of enemy generals. Li Wenzhong was so loyal and courageous, his men were naturally greatly encouraged, their morale was greatly boosted, the war drums were drummed up, the generals rose up to charge, and Li Bosheng's army was shocked and scattered in all directions, and it was defeated.
Li Bosheng could not resist and retreated north with the remnants, Li Wenzhong led his army to take advantage of the victory to pursue, directly chased out of tens of miles, killed tens of thousands of enemy troops, and the river was stained red with blood. The more than three thousand enemy troops who had survived by chance all surrendered, and only Li Bosheng was able to escape.
In 1366, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Shicheng had a great decisive battle, and in order to contain Zhang Shicheng's forces in Hangzhou, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Li Wenzhong to attack Hangzhou. Li Wenzhong led his army all the way flat, and soon took Tonglu, Xindi, and Fuyang, and then surrounded Hangzhou. Li Wenzhong sent people to negotiate with Xie Wu, the defender of Hangzhou at the time, and promised not to kill him. This Xie Wu was Xie Zaixing's younger brother, and when he heard that he would not kill the defender, he surrendered the city.
Li Wenzhong occupied Hangzhou, collecting 30,000 soldiers and 200,000 grain and grass. Li Wenzhong's subordinates requested xie wu's execution, but Li Wenzhong believed that he must keep his promise and did not agree. After the capture of Hangzhou, Li Wenzhong strictly enforced military discipline, required soldiers not to enter the city, and himself refused female music, and the city of Hangzhou was orderly and smoothly transitioned. Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy to hear this and praised Li Wenzhong.
After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty and Zhu Yuanzhang's claim to the throne, in 1369, Li Wenzhong was ordered to follow Chang Yuchun north to cut down the Yuan, and soon conquered the Yuan Shangdu and drove the Yuan Shun Emperor to the north of the desert to eat sand. Soon Chang Yuchun died of illness, so Li Wenzhong led the army. In 1370, Li Wenzhong and Xu Da marched into Chahannao'er, when Emperor Yuan shun had already returned to the west, and Emperor Yuan Zhaozong, who succeeded him, saw that Li Wenzhong was fierce, went to the top plan, and directly slipped away.
In this great victory, Li Wenzhong surrendered more than 50,000 people, and many high-ranking officials and female relatives of the Yuan Dynasty were captured, along with some cultural relics that were occupied by the Yuan Dynasty at that time. Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy and gave Li Wenzhong a large reward. Li Wenzhong was great in his meritorious service, but he was not proud of his merits and still guarded the frontier for the country and the people as always.
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After Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming Dynasty became more and more stable, in order to clear the way for future generations, he began to kill the founding heroes on a large scale. Li Wenzhong was loyal and blunt, and repeatedly wrote to advise, and Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and dismissed Li Wenzhong from his post. Not long after, Li Wenzhong fell seriously ill, and Zhu Yuanzhang, regardless of his previous suspicions, personally went to visit him and sent Huazhong and Tai Doctor to see him.
The following year, Li Wenzhong died of illness. Zhu Yuanzhang was distraught and angry with Taiyi, believing that Hua had poisoned Li Wenzhong, exiled Huazhong and his family, and killed more than a hundred other Taiyi and his family members who had treated Li Wenzhong. In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang had a series of other operations: personally writing sacrifice texts, posthumous sealing, etc., which fully demonstrated Zhu Yuanzhang's love and reluctance for Li Wenzhong.
But there is another different voice that believes that in fact, Li Wenzhong was killed by Zhu Yuanzhang, only because Li Wenzhong's merits were too great and his sharp edge was exposed, Zhu Yuanzhang was afraid that his descendants would not be able to stop him, so he designed to kill him. And Zhu Yuanzhang's killing of Taiyi and a series of other operations are just acts of killing people to eliminate their mouths or cover their eyes and ears.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="42" > Summary:</h1>
Li Wenzhong is known as the Ming Dynasty god of war, well-deserved, but the merit is sometimes not a good thing, especially when the parties do not know how to retire and Taoguang is obscure, others will regard him as a threat. Of course, it is good to be a courtier, but it is also necessary to learn to judge the hour and size up the situation, and when necessary, the rapids retreat bravely, in order to retreat from the whole body.