In September of the sixteenth year of Yuan Zhizheng (A.D. 1356), Liu Futong, the actual ruler of the Longfeng regime, sent the generals Li Wu and Cui De to lead the army to the west. After the Red Turban Army marched north from Bozhou, it was like a bamboo, and soon broke through Shaanzhou, an important town in western Henan (now Shaanzhou District, Sanmenxia City, Henan). On September 3, the Red Turban Army of the Western Expedition began to attack Tongguan, the Yuan army resisted desperately, but was helpless, the Red Turban Army broke through the pass, the defenders fled, and the Yuan Governor Shu Lujie (Khitan) was captured and beheaded. Tongguan is the gateway of the Central Plains into Shaanxi, after being broken by the Red Turban Army, it is like the door hole open, there is no danger to defend in the pass, and the situation is critical. Since then, the two sides have been fighting endlessly around Tongguan.
On September 5, the Yuan army gathered its forces and launched a fierce counterattack, and soon broke through the pass, repelled the Red Turban Army, and recaptured Tongguan. On the 19th, the Red Turban Army attacked the key points again, thwarted the Yuan Army's Tongguan guard, Henan Province Pingzhang Political Affairs Baijianu (also known as Bojianu), and attacked Tongguan again.
The importance of Tongguan is self-evident, and the Yuan army, which is not willing to lose, must find ways to recapture it. The Yuanyu king Aratna lost the army to attack again, the Red Turban army was unable to fight, and was forced to withdraw, Tongguan changed hands again, and was recaptured by the Yuan army...... The Red Turban Army on the West Road was lone and could only fight a quick battle, unable to afford such a stalemate and a war of attrition, so Li Wu and others changed their plans and supervised the army to attack Shaanzhou and Yuzhou (now Lingbao, Henan), and then introduce the war into the Central Plains.
The commander in charge of the military of Henan Province in the Yuan Dynasty was the Privy Council to answer the loss of Badulu, and all the armies in Henan were under his control, and he learned that the Red Turban Army had turned its horse head and killed back to the Central Plains, and predicted that they wanted to choose another way to attack Shaanxi, and urgently dispatched Han Timur, Li Siqi and other local armed forces to aid northern Henan and Shaanxi, preparing to completely annihilate this lone Red Turban Army.
After the warlord Chakhan Timur and Li Siqi armed to northern Henan, the strength of the Yuan army in Henan and Shaanxi instantly surpassed the Red Turban Army of the Western Expedition, and the victorious Tianfang also began to tilt towards the Yuan Dynasty. Anyi (now Yuncheng area, Shanxi), but Chakhan Timur soon led the army to follow, and immediately launched a fierce siege, the western expeditionary army was caught off guard, with heavy casualties and great losses.
In February of the seventeenth year of Zheng (1357), after a period of rest, the Red Turban Army of the West Road bypassed the main garrison of the Yuan army, and suddenly invaded Shaanxi from Wuguan (now in Danfeng, Shaanxi), and broke through Shangzhou (now Shangluo City) in one fell swoop, and took advantage of the situation to capture Qipan Mountain, and entered Lantian, its forward has approached Bashang, and Xi'an is close at hand.
The Red Turban Army approached the city, and Wang Sicheng, the defender of Xi'an, Yuan Xi'an, led the defenders to resist stubbornly on the one hand, and sent a message to Chahan Timur and Li Siqi Feige on the other hand, urgently asking for help. Although Chakhan Timur is a local warlord, but the department is fierce and good at fighting, combat effectiveness exceeds the regular army of Yuan, he heard the news and led the troops to quickly smash into the pass from Tongguan, with lightning speed to break the west road expeditionary force that is besieging Xi'an, Li Wu, Cui De after the defeat of the army led the remnants of the army south to Xingyuan (now Hanzhong), want to hold here and wait for help. In October of the same year, Liu Futong sent Bai Buxin, Li Xixi, and Dadao Ao to lead reinforcements into Shaanxi, and joined forces to conquer Fengxiang Mansion (now Fengxiang County, Shaanxi) after Xingyuan joined forces to conquer Fengxiang Mansion (now Fengxiang County, Shaanxi) after joining forces to conquer Fengxiang Mansion (now Fengxiang County, Shaanxi) when they heard the news. Not long after, this Red Turban Army made a comeback again and entered Shaanxi......
After Fengxiang was defeated by Chakhan Timur and Li Siqi's Red Turban Army retreated into Sichuan, after a period of respite and recuperation, it once again smashed into Shaanxi. After entering Shaanxi from Sichuan, the Red Turban Army penetrated deep into the northwest direction, connecting Qinzhou (now Tianshui, Gansu) and Longzhou (now Longxian County, Baoji City, Shaanxi), occupying a large area of Gongchang Road (now Dingxi, Gansu), and immediately returned to encircle Fengxiang Mansion.
Chakhan Timur is a famous military general at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, although he is a local warlord, but brave and good at fighting, and resourceful, he saw the revival of the Red Turban Army in the Western Expedition, besieged Fengxiang Mansion again, and then sent people to infiltrate the city of Fengxiang Mansion, and Yuan Shou General set a plan for internal and external attack, and the appointment should be combined with the outside to attack the Red Turban Army.
Under the siege of Chakhan Timur and Fengxiang defenders, the Red Turban Army that was immersed in the siege was defeated and defeated, with tens of thousands of dead in battle, more than 10 generals were beheaded, and the corpses were ambushed for more than 100 miles. Li Xixi, the general of the reinforcement army, led part of the remnants of the army to flee south in panic, and then fled to Wuchang, Huguang, and took refuge with Chen Youliang; Li Wu and Cui De led another part of the remnants of the army to the northwest direction, and turned to the Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ning regions today, and fought with the pursuit of the Yuan army, and fell into a very passive situation, the remnants of the Western Expeditionary Army have been struggling to support until May of the 21st year of Zhizheng (1361), because of repeated defeats, unable to break through the siege and return to the south, they were forced to surrender to Li Siqi, the sworn enemy who was desperately chasing.
So far, the Western Expeditionary Force of the Dragon and Phoenix Red Turban Army, which had been fighting for five years, was completely wiped out.
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