The last year of the Yuan Dynasty. The uprising continued, and Guo Zixing, who was Zhu Yuanzhang's benefactor and a big trouble, finally died in his own palace with hatred. Guo Zixing, as Zhu Yuanzhang's benefactor, would be difficult for Zhu Yuanzhang to survive in this turbulent society without his help. In this process, Zhu Yuanzhang also encountered a lot of trouble. Zhu Yuanzhang's ability is still relatively outstanding, but over time, Guo Zixing has estrangement from him. Thinking that he would replace him one day, Zhu Yuanzhang had a more calm personality and did not do impulsive things because of this. After Guo Zixing's death, Zhu Yuanzhang, who controlled the army, did not get carried away by this. It is still a steady and steady fight, not like those ordinary upstarts who do not understand human feelings.
After Guo Zixing passed away, this Red Turban Army had more competitors. If you look at the personal ability of this force alone, this Zhu Yuanzhang is undoubtedly the most outstanding. But Zhang Tianyou and Guo Tianxu did not care much about Zhu Yuanzhang, after all, the prestige of these two people was not lower than that of Guo Zixing. Zhu Yuanzhang, on the other hand, retreated into the future, and tolerated Guo Tianxu and Zhang Tianyou everywhere. However, the two are not very appreciative, and always exclude Zhu Yuanzhang like an outsider. At this stage, King Youming wanted to make the rebel army submit to his forces, and Zhang Tianyou and Guo Tianxu knew that their ability was inferior to Zhu Yuanzhang's, so they were especially willing to find a patron.
Hoping to suppress Zhu Yuanzhang through this patron, Zhu Yuanzhang knew at this time that his position would be greatly affected after joining, but he agreed to join for the sake of being famous. The two did not relax their guard against Zhu Yuanzhang, but instead joined forces with their patrons to suppress Zhu Yuanzhang and empty his forces. The two wanted Zhu Yuanzhang to go there to show their sincerity, in fact, they took the opportunity to occupy his sphere of influence. But Zhu Yuanzhang did not counterattack in a particularly direct way, but only asked his men to bring a word to the two. If the two of you can resist the Yuan Army alone, then I will go, otherwise it will be up to you two to go.
These two people really did not have the ability to be bold, and when they heard such words, they surrendered themselves, and after returning from Xiaoming Wang, this Zhang Tianyou was made a marshal, Guo Tianxu was the right marshal, and Zhu Yuanzhang was only after the two of them. Such a canonization is obviously unreasonable, and these two people are extremely incompetent. But Zhu Yuanzhang did not complain about injustice, but only suffered silently. At this moment, he encountered two generals, Chang Yuchun and Deng Yu, and before launching the attack, he encountered the emissaries of the leader Li Guosheng, who was a rebel army that had hoarded a large number of soldiers around Chaohu Lake. Prepare to join Zhu Yuanzhang. Just in line with Zhu Yuanzhang's wishes, strengthen the strength.
At this time, there was big trouble again. The Red Turban Army has long been surrounded by the Yuan army in Hezhou for a long time lack of grain, just captured the quarry there is a lot of grain, at this time if the soldiers carry grain and grass back will inevitably be scattered, so they ordered the issuance of a larger city with more grain and grass, if the attack will not be used up, so the soldiers will struggle forward, to the Taiping City. These battles the Chaohu Water Army made great contributions, but at this time Zhu Yuanzhang's heart flashed a fierce light, these people can help me and he will definitely help others because of his interests, and cannot stay. Therefore, he used the name of qinggong to remove this Li Guosheng.
Later, a strange thing happened, Zhang Tianyou and Guo Tianshu launched an attack on Jiqing together according to the time agreed with Zhu Yuanzhang, but when fighting against the Jiqing army, Chen Wei, who was originally Zhu Yuanzhang's brother, suddenly launched an attack on the two, that is, together with the Jiqing defenders, they eliminated the two. This Zhu Yuanzhang's temporary change of mind caused the two of them to be difficult to attack the enemy, and it was a good trick to kill people with a knife.
After Zhang Tianyou and Guo Tianxu lost the battle, Chen Xi chased after him, but was unable to catch up, and came to an area where the local rebel army thought that he surrendered to the Yuan army and killed him. Zhu Yuanzhang finally borrowed the hands of others to complete the internal cleanup plan. After this, this Guo Zixing also had a young son named Guo Tianjue, who could not easily forgive him, and when people slowly forgot about Guo Zixing, they casually found an excuse to get rid of him. Zhu Yuanzhang was not a day of mercy and softness in the face of these people, and he did not move his hands, but he did not have time, and when the time was ripe, he would naturally deal with them all.