In the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, due to the long-term tyranny of the Mongol rulers, the anger of the common people was raging, and eventually the peasants in various parts of the Central Plains revolted and formed a rebel army vowing to overthrow the Yuan Dynasty.
At that time, the various forces will occupy the king' land and fight with each other to try to develop.
On the other hand, Chen Youyu's side stood out among the heroes, and Zhu Yuanzhang and his gang were far inferior to Chen Youyu in terms of military strength, but in the end, why did Chen Youyi lose to Zhu Yuanzhang in the Battle of Poyang Lake?
Zhu Yuanzhang was a very shrewd and cruel person, a bit like Cao Cao, preferring him to bear the world's people, not the world's people to bear his family, which can be seen from his establishment of the Ming Dynasty, ordering Liu Bowen to search the dragon vein of the world to cut it off, so as to avoid other surnames from being born out of Tianzi.
And when Zhu Yuanzhang sat on the throne, he was still worried, afraid that after his death, the veteran generals of the heroes would take the opportunity to seize the throne and rob his descendants of the Jiangshan, so he preemptively attacked when he was alive, creating a crime that did not need to be committed to eliminate all the threatening generals.
Such a person can be seen to be careful in his mind and will stop at nothing to achieve his goals.
In the later years of the Yuan Dynasty, when the masses were vying for supremacy, Zhu Yuanzhang's INTELLIGENCE and means were indeed superior to those of other rebel armies.
At that time, Chen Youyi's rebel army was the most powerful force, and it had conquered Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, and other regions all the way, and the local peasants everywhere they went had turned to him, and there were many fierce generals under his command.
Zhu Yuanzhang fought to the death to fight for zhejiang, southern Anhui and other parts of the country, and the population and territory he ruled were several times lower than Chen Youyu.
However, the two sides advocated different strategies, Chen Youyu had the strongest support ability, advocated vigorous expansion, fought everywhere, did not care about the length of the front, and declared war on almost all forces, establishing many opponents.
Zhu Yuanzhang was very low-key, advocating recuperation, pretending to be pitiful in front of many forces, and saying that he did not want to compete for any fame and fortune, so the other rebels ignored Zhu Yuanzhang, believing that he was not enough to pose a threat, and turned their attention to Chen Youyu and concentrated on dealing with him.
I didn't think that Zhu Yuanzhang would rise rapidly and eventually fight with Chen Youyu in Poyang Lake, but this battle was really strange, why could Zhu Yuanzhang, who only had 200,000 troops, defeat Chen Youyu with 600,000 troops?
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Originally, Chen Youyu could "sit firmly on the Diaoyutai" and did not know that he himself made a random operation, resulting in a good card to stink.
Not only did the victory turn to a disadvantage, but it lost the hearts and minds of the people.
At the time of the uprising boom, Chen Youyu first joined Ni Wenjun's troops and mixed under his command, and then Chen Youyu killed his own big man Xu Shouhui, and once he accumulated enough capital to make a fortune, he went out on his own.
Therefore, in the face of this kind of "perfidious behavior", Chen Youyu was unpopular from the beginning.
Later, Ni Wenjun was defeated in battle, dragging a remnant of the army to defeat the general there was no way to go, heard that Chen Youyu was mixed in Huangzhou, originally thought that he had the grace of knowing Chen Youyu, so he ran to Chen Youyu, but he did not know that Chen Youyu did not do two things, simply got rid of his former eldest brother Ni Wenjun, and then took over the other side's rebel troops.
Therefore, Chen Youyi's consecutive killing of his own two big men has been complained about by others.
But after his power grew, he used various means to suppress it, mainly the two eldest brothers who sang the decline and died, and assigned villains to gossip everywhere that Ni Wenjun was a bad person, with bad behavior and extremely bad eyes, and Chen Youyu killed him simply for the Heavenly Path, so the military heart gradually settled down.
And the people also began to think that Chen Youyu was not an "anti-bone boy".
Originally, public opinion was reversed, and the people's hearts were returned, but they did not know that Chen You's nature was difficult to move, and he soon attacked Zhao Pusheng, who was his right-hand man.
Originally, Zhao Pusheng was very capable of fighting, and even Zhu Yuanzhang was jealous of him, seeing him as a serious problem for his confidants, and was the soul god of war of Chen Youyi's army.
After all, Zhao Pusheng was fighting for Chen Youyu at that time and made great achievements, but unexpectedly these feats threatened the lord Chen Youyu, making him think that his subordinate Zhao Pusheng was highly praised by the lord, and he became more and more arrogant to himself.
For this reason, in order to prevent Zhao Pusheng from inserting a knife in turn, Chen Youyu took the initiative and decided to get rid of Zhao Pusheng.
On this day, the war eased slightly, and Chen Youyu, in the name of the lord, invited the general Zhao Pusheng to come to his warship for a banquet, eating roast lamb.
However, Zhao Pusheng did not know at all that this was a "Hongmen Banquet" specially set up for him, and he boarded the ship with a few personal guards without any defense, ready to eat a big meal, but he did not know that just after the front foot was on the ship, he was killed by the soldiers under Chen Youyu's ambush.
Therefore, in the later stages of the Qunxiong Melee, although Chen Youyu was in charge of 600,000 troops, which was the strongest force in the whole world, most of these troops were combined by him using cruel means, and many of the generals who submitted to Chen Youyu were forced by his obscenity, which eventually led to the army being uneven, everyone was in danger, and he was afraid that if he was not careful, he would become the next Zhao Pusheng, so Chen Youyu had almost no confidants and loyal subjects.
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Until later, Chen Youyu made a series of mistakes in strategic command, perhaps because his own leadership ability was not good, or the generals below Yang Fengyin violated, in short, after the fiasco of the "Battle of Yingtian", Chen Youyu finally found out that he had won Zhu Yuanzhang's move, so he hated Zhu Yuanzhang very much, and he was eager for the whole army to attack Zhu Yuanzhang and strip Zhu Yuanzhang alive.
However, it was this act of losing his mind due to anger that caused Chen Youyi to take a wrong step and step wrong, and since then he has walked off the altar.
In 1343, Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest brother Han Lin'er, the Xiaoming king, was suddenly surrounded and suppressed by Zhang Shicheng's army, for which Zhu Yuanzhang was forced to lead troops to rescue him.
At this time, the hongdu city pool, which was known as the granary of the Zhu family's army, was empty, and Chen Youyu realized that it was the best time to take revenge, so he personally led 600,000 troops to attack Hongdu, frightening the defender Zhu Wenzheng and trembling, but Zhu Yuanzhang, who was far away, quickly issued an order to comfort Zhu Wenzheng, telling him to absolutely hold on, and he quickly brought a large army to the rescue.
At this time, Zhu Wenzheng was using a procrastination strategy, pretending to surrender to Chen Youyou, and Chen Youyi forgave the letter, and this time and place talked about the conditions for recruitment and security while fighting, and it took almost a month.
In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang saved the eldest brother Banshi and returned to the dynasty, forcing Chen Youyu to give up attacking Hongdu.
From this aspect, it can be seen that Chen Youyu is not only a vicious and desperate person, but also has a very indecisive personality, failing to make a correct decision at a critical moment, and also arrogant and contemptuous in the Battle of Poyang Lake.
In this regard, Zhu Yuanzhang was much stronger than him, and his failure was not without reason.