The Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) was the last dynasty in Chinese history established by the Han Chinese, which lasted for 276 years. In 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang was proclaimed emperor with the name of Daming, and in 1644 Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, and the Chongzhen Emperor martyred himself. The Ming Dynasty established the Southern Ming dynasty in Jiangnan, and then the Qing Dynasty took advantage of the chaos to enter the Pass and defeated the Dashun, Daxi, and Southern Ming regimes; in 1662, the Yongli Emperor was killed and the Southern Ming was destroyed. In 1683, the Qing army captured Taiwan, and Ming Zheng of Ming Zheng ended. For more than three hundred years, internal and external troubles continued, starting from peasant uprisings and dying from peasant uprisings. In Chinese history, the number of famous generals is only that of the Tang Dynasty.
So today Xiaobian will take stock of the top ten famous military generals in the history of the Ming Dynasty, let's take a look at it!
Note: This ranking is an informal ranking, for reference only, do not like to spray.
10. Lu Xiangsheng (16 April 1600 – 15 January 1639), also spelled Jiandou , also spelled Dou Zhan , Jie Zhan , was a native of Yixing County , Changzhou ( present-day Yixing , Jiangsu ) . Famous generals who resisted the Qing Dynasty at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
In the second year of the Apocalypse (1622), he entered the priesthood and founded the "Tianxiong Army". From the sixth year of Chongzhen (1633), he participated in the suppression of Li Zicheng and other peasant armies, and was promoted to the position of right deputy capital Yushi, the premier of Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Huguang, and Sichuan, and the inspector of Huguang, and later promoted to the post of Bingbu Shilang, then the left Shilang of the Military Department, and the governor of Xuanfu, Datong, and Shanxi.
In the seventh year of Chongzhen (1634), he defeated Zhang Xianzhong's peasant army. In the eighth year of Chongzhen (1635), he defeated gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng's peasant army. In the eleventh year of Chongzhen (1638), he served as shangshu of the military department, vigorously advocating the resistance to the Qing Dynasty, guarding the Beijing division, and winning even battles, but was framed by the eunuch Gao Qiqian, removed from the post of Shangshu, and treated things as a waiter.
In December of the eleventh year of Chongzhen (January 1639), he led his troops to be surrounded by Qing troops in Julujiazhuang, and gao qi sneaked up to support the troops, but finally died in battle because of the exhaustion of artillery, only thirty-nine years old, and posthumously presented the prince Taishi and Bingbu Shangshu. When King Nanmingfu was king, he posthumously honored him as "loyal martyr". In the Qing Dynasty, he posthumously praised "Zhongsu" and wrote "Lu Zhongsu Gongji" and "Lu Xiangsheng Shumu".
Main achievements: resisting the Qing army and suppressing Gao Yingxiang's rebels.
9. Zheng Chenggong (1624.08.28-1662.06.23), real name Sen, also known as Fusong, character Ming Yu, Damu. A native of Nan'an, Quanzhou, Fujian, his ancestral home is Gushi, Henan. Han Chinese, military figures of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, famous generals of the Anti-Qing Dynasty, and national heroes. His father, Zheng Zhilong, and his mother's name was Tagawa. When Hongguang was born, because Emperor Menglongwu gave the Ming Dynasty the surname "Zhu", he gave the name success and was given the title of Zhongxiaobo, and was known as "Zheng Zhi", "Zheng Guo Surname", "Guo Ye", and because the MengyongLi Emperor sealed the King of Yanping, he was called "Zheng Yanping".
In 1645 (the second year of Qing Shunzhi, the first year of Hongguang), the Qing army invaded Jiangnan, and soon Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing and Tian Chuan committed suicide in the rebellion; Zheng Chenggong led his father's old troops to resist the Qing on the southeast coast of China, becoming one of the main military forces in the late Southern Ming Dynasty, once raiding by sea and besieging Qingjiang Ningfu (formerly Nanjing of the Ming Dynasty), but was eventually repelled by the Qing army, and could only rely on the advantage of naval warfare to hold on to the islands of Quanzhou Capital, Xiamen and Kinmen.
In 1661 (the eighteenth year of Qing Shunzhi and the fifteenth year of the Yong calendar), he led an army across the Taiwan Strait, and the following year defeated the dutch East India Company's garrison in Taiwan (present-day Tainan, Taiwan), recovered Taiwan, and began Zheng's rule in Taiwan.
There is the "Collection of Yanping Kings" in the world. After the death of Zheng Chenggong, Taiwanese people successively established temples to worship, of which the Most important was the Wang Ancestral Hall in Yanping County, Tainan.
Major achievements: Resisting the Qing Dynasty in the southeast, expelling Dutch colonists, recovering Taiwan, and creating Ming Zheng.
8. Yu Qian (1398-1457), Zi Tingyi, Jie Jie'an, Akihito and (present-day Hangzhou) people. Born into a family of eunuchs. From an early age, he was brilliant and undertook tutoring. At the age of 6, he entered a private school, and at the age of 15, he was admitted to the county Confucian student, and read a lot of books, especially reading the works of Su Wu, Zhuge Liang, Yue Fei, Wen Tianxiang and others, and admiring their integrity. After failing the township examination at the age of 17, he studied behind closed doors, and by the age of 20, he was admitted to the county school and ranked among the best. At the age of 23, he entered the Beijing Examination the following year and ranked first.
In the nineteenth year of Ming Yongle (1421), he entered the army, but when he was injured during the temple examination, he was only ranked 92nd in the third division. Served as the inspector of Shanxi Province. In 21 years, he was ordered to go out to inspect the merits of officers and soldiers, and then went to the border of Sichuan and Guizhou to recruit Yao, Zhuang and other ethnic minorities. He paid a small private visit, inspected the people's secrets in detail, unjustly imprisoned hundreds of people in Zhaoxue, Jiangxi, and reprimanded 15 officials who had violated the law. At the Sichuan-Guizhou border, he sensed that the border generals were committing misdeeds and "asking for credit and killing in vain," so he truthfully exposed them and punished them, promoting the advantages and eliminating the disadvantages, and had an outstanding political reputation.
In the third year of Xuande (1428), he was recommended by the right capital of the Duchayuan Toshi Guzuo to be the inspector of Jiangxi. Two years later, he was transferred to the Right Attendant of the Military Department and the Capital Imperial History, patrolling Shanxi, Henan and other places. During his 19 years in office, he built water conservancy projects, built roads and paved roads, planted trees and dug wells, borrowed grain to help the poor, and applied medicine to help the poor. He repeatedly wrote to the people to ask for orders, and at that time, the cabinet was three: the bachelors Yang Rong, Yang Pu, Yang Shiqi, zhengqing and zhengzheng, and all the music played by Yu Qian was allowed. Later, the eunuch Wang Zhen controlled the imperial government, and Yu Qian was hated and attacked.
In the eleventh year of orthodoxy (1446), Yu Qian went to The Capital to play an affair, and recommended Sun Yuanzhen and Wang Lai, the suffragists of Henan and Shanxi, to serve as inspectors, and Wang Zhen instigated the impeachment of Li Xishangben, the envoy of tongzheng, and framed Yu Qian for holding a grudge because he had not been promoted for a long time, and arbitrarily recommended people to take his own place, which was not in line with the system, and was imprisoned for three months. Later, at the request of the officials and people of Henan and Shanxi provinces and the palaces of the Zhou and Jin dynasties, Wang Zhen-Qian was released from prison and demoted to the position of Shaoqing of Dali Temple. Later, forced by the people's indignation, he was reinstated as the inspector of Henan and Shanxi provinces (that is, the imperial history of Ducha). In the twelfth year of orthodoxy, he served as the right attendant of the military department, and the following year he was promoted to the left attendant of the military department and assisted in military affairs.
In June of the fourteenth year of orthodoxy (1449), Under the control of Wang Zhen, Emperor Yingzong was undecided about the intrusion of the Wa Thorn Department, and began to retreat step by step, and then made rash moves and led his troops to march in person. In the "Battle of Tumu Fort", Yingzong was captured, and Vala also invaded the south in a large-scale manner, and the capital was in danger. Zhu Qiyu, the king of the Imperial Household who remained in Beijing to supervise the state, urgently summoned his courtiers to discuss countermeasures, and at that time, there was panic throughout the imperial court, and The Hanlin Court attendant Xu Huan and others advocated moving the capital. Yu Qianlin was ordered to be the head of the military department Shangshu, presided over military affairs, resolutely refuted the Qiandu faction, and said sharply: "Those who say that they have moved south can be cut off!" He led 220,000 troops, carefully deployed, lined up at nine gates, swore to die against the enemy, and supported the king to take the throne, and pursued Emperor Yingzong as the Emperor Taishang to reassure the people. After 5 days of fierce fighting, it repelled the attack of the Wallachians and won the victory in the defense of the Beijing Division. Add officials to the rank of junior.
In the first year of Jingtai (1450), Emperor Yingzong Zhu Qizhen returned to Beijing, and the struggle for the throne tended to intensify. At the suggestion of Yu Qian and other ministers who advocated taking into account the overall situation, Emperor Daizong Zhu Qiyu ostensibly welcomed Emperor Taishang back to Beijing, secretly deposed Emperor Yingzong and made his own son crown prince. Soon, Crown Prince Daizong fell ill and died, and Emperor Yingzong was still not allowed to restore the crown prince. Emperor Yingzong was placed under house arrest in the Nangong Palace in an attempt to restore the throne. On the seventeenth day of the first month of the eighth year of Jingtai, when Emperor Yingzong was seriously ill, he gathered his old ministers to rush into the Donghua Gate, ascended the Heavenly Temple and performed the enthronement ceremony, and the restoration was successful, known in history as the "change of the gate".
After Emperor Yingzong was restored, he purged dissidents, imprisoned Yu Qian and other ministers, and killed Emperor Daizong in the Western Palace. Soon, Yu Qian, Wang Wen, and others were executed. Yu Qian's body was buried in SantaiShan, West Lake, Hangzhou, and in the first year of Chenghua (1465), Emperor Xianzong Zhu Jianshen took the throne, and in order to restore Yu Qian's unjust imprisonment and restore his official reputation, he changed his former residence in Beijing to "Jie Zhong Ancestral Hall" and Hangzhou Former Residence to "Mercy Loyalty Ancestral Hall".
In the second year of Hongzhi (1489), he was posthumously awarded the title of Guanglu Dafu, Zhu Guo, and Taifu( 太傅), and was renamed Zhongsu in the Wanli Dynasty. Yu Qianneng is a poet and a good writer, and has authored 8 volumes of "Yu Su Gong Collection" and 10 volumes of "Shao Bao Yu Gong Gong Discussion".
Main achievement: Organizing the defense of Beijing.
7. Wang Shouren (31 October 1472 – 9 January 1529), real name Wang Yun,Zi Bo'an (字伯安), was a native of Yuyao, Zhejiang, and of Han ethnicity. An outstanding thinker, writer, military strategist, and educator of the Ming Dynasty, the son of Wang Hua, the official shangshu of Nanjing.
In the twelfth year of Hongzhi (1499), he was a zhongjinshi (中進士), and in his later years he was appointed to the Nanjing Bingbu Shangshu and the Metropolitan Imperial History of the Metropolitan Temple. In the thirteenth year of Zhengde, Wang Shouren enwei and Shi shi put an end to the civil unrest that had plagued Jiangxi for decades.
In the fourteenth year of Zhengde, Wang Yangming imitated the Battle of Chibi in Poyang Lake to quell the rebellion of Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning in Hongdu. In the seventh year of Jiajing, he quelled the rebellion of Si'en and Tuyao in Tianzhou and the thieves of the Broken Vine Gorge in the southwest. Later, he was awarded the title of Xinbo and became one of the three civil servants of the Ming Dynasty who were knighted by military merit.
Jiajing died in November 1529 at the age of fifty-seven. Emperor Mingmuzong succeeded to the throne and posthumously awarded the title of Marquis of Xinjian (建侯), with the courtesy name "Wencheng". In the twelfth year of the Wanli Calendar (1584), from the Confucius Temple.
The basic course of the development of psychology in the Ming Dynasty can be summarized as: Chen Xianzhang opened, Zhan Ruoshui perfected, and Wang Shouren gathered Great Achievements. Wang Shouren's Yang Mingxin was later introduced to Japan, Korea and other countries. His disciples were extremely numerous, and he was known as the "Yao Jiang School". The article is broad and changda, and there is a handsome atmosphere between the lines and inks. There is the "Wang Wencheng Gongquan" passed down.
Main achievements: Quelling the rebellion of the King of Ning, quelling the rebellion of Sitian and Zhu Yao, and suppressing the thieves of Nangan.
6. Li Wenzhong (1339-1384), male, Han chinese, character Siben, nickname Bao'er, Jiangsu Xuyi, nephew of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, famous general and courtier of the founding of the Ming Dynasty.
When Li Wenzhong was twelve years old, his mother Princess Cao Guochang died, and his father Li Zhen took him through the rebellious army and was on the verge of death many times. Two years later, he met his uncle Zhu Yuanzhang in Chuzhou. Zhu Yuanzhang saw Li Wenzhong and was very fond of him, so he adopted him as an adopted son and followed his surname Zhu.
At the age of nineteen, Li Wenzhong led his pro-army as a sher, accompanied the army to support Chizhou, defeated the Tianquan army, and Made Xiao Yong good at war the head of the generals. Zhu Yuanzhang was very fond of Li Wenzhong and often sent him to supervise the army and accompany the generals on expeditions. Wen Zhong turned to the battlefield, and the official was Ronglu Dafu and Zhejiang Province Ping zhangshi, and his surname was Li.
After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Li Wenzhong repeatedly led troops to conquer the remnants of the Yuan army, and his battle achievements were outstanding, and he was awarded the title of Duke of Cao. In the twelfth year of Hongwu (1379), Emperor Ming ordered Li Wenzhong to preside over the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion (the highest military institution) and also in charge of the Guozijian (the highest academic institution in the country).
In the seventeenth year of Hongwu (1384), Li Wenzhong died of illness, and was posthumously awarded the title of King of Qiyang, "Wujing", worthy of the Taimiao Temple, and the portrait was hung in the Temple of Meritorious Heroes, ranking third. Funeral Bell Hill. After Li Wenzhong's death, Li Wenzhong's son Li Jinglong succeeded to the dukedom of Cao.
Main achievements: Conquer Daning, Gaozhou, and behead the King of Lu.
5. Li Rusong was a famous general of the Ming Dynasty, zi mao, yangcheng, born in 1549 AD, died in 1598 AD, the father was Li Chengliang, the general of Liaodong Province, whose ancestors were internal vassals from Korea, and the Tieling Wei of Liaodong Province. During the Hongwu years, Li Rusong's ancestors crossed the river to the Ming Dynasty, and after the annexation, they were "awarded the general banner", and Li Ying, the ancestor of Gaozu, was given the command of The Iron Ridge. With the development of time, he arrived at the area of Li Rusong's father, because of his hereditary official position and strong clan relatives, he became a famous large household in Tieling since the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Li Rusong's father, Li Chengliang, was also a well-known general of the Ming Dynasty, and he successively captured and beheaded the Jurchen chieftains of Jianzhou, Wang Gao and Zi Ataibu, and several times defeated the Han chieftains Tu Man and the Taining chieftain Su Jianghai; and planned to kill Qing Jiaping and Yang Jiping, the chiefs of the Haixi Yehe clan. Moreover, in the case of the greed and cowardice of the entire Ming Dynasty generals and the abandonment of the border, the town guarded Liaodong for 30 years, and its prestige was great.
Li Rusong followed his father from an early age, and was already familiar with military strategy when he was young, and later after winning the WujinShi, he inherited his father's Yin Commandery Tongzhi and Chongning Yuanbo Xunwei. Later, because of his repeated military achievements, he was transferred to the capital to supervise the affairs and became the right deputy general of the Shenji Battalion.
In the eleventh year of the Wanli Calendar, Li Rusong served as the chief military officer of Shanxi, and was later summoned to the Right House of you to serve as the governor of the capital because he had neglected Huang Daozhan and others in the book. In the fifteenth year of the Wanli Calendar, he resumed his post as chief soldier, guarded Xuanfu, and then summoned you to the Shufu.
In the twentieth year of the Wanli Calendar, Xia Weibai rebelled, and Li Rusong became famous in this battle. The former deputy commander-in-chief of Ningxia Town, Dai Bai (Father and son colluded with the Mongol Hetao tribe to launch a rebellion, and even the cities of Zhongwei, Guangwu, Yuquanying, Lingzhou and other cities, and the armies sent by the imperial court, were finally defeated.
At this critical moment, Li Rusong was ordered to lead Liaodong, Xuanfu, Datong, Shanxi soldiers, Zhejiang soldiers, and Miao soldiers to encircle and suppress them. After defeating the Mongol Loulan first, tearing open a hole, he led the various armies to surround it, and after carefully observing the terrain and the defense of Ningxia City, ordered the Yellow River to be opened and flooded Ningxia City. The city ran out of ammunition, the army was scattered, and the morale was completely lost. When the enemy army was unstable, Li Rusong immediately launched an offensive and defeated the enemy army, achieving the victory of the first march of the "Three Great Marches of Wanli".
At the end of the 16th century, the Japanese ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified the Japanese archipelago by force and firmly took Japan into his own hands. The bold Toyotomi Hideyoshi was not satisfied, and the unification of Japan made his appetite even greater, and he even made a plan to attack Korea first, and then use Korea as a springboard to occupy all of China, and then attack South Asia. At that time, Korea's internal strife was continuous, the military strength was in ruins, and in the face of the Japanese army that had been fighting for many years, there was no resistance, and Japan quickly broke through the eighteen provinces of the three capitals of Korea and advanced all the way to the south bank of the Yalu River.
In the face of Korea's request for help, the Wanli Emperor supported the main war faction and sent reinforcements into Korea. The vanguard unit was the three thousand cavalry led by Zu Chengxun, deputy commander of Liaodong Province, and although the combat effectiveness was extremely strong, in the process of attacking Pyongyang, Zu Chengxun was ambushed, and the deputy general Shi Ru was killed in battle, and the troops suffered heavy damage.
The Ming Dynasty then made Li Rusong, who had just finished the Battle of Ningxia, the viceroy of the Eastern Crusade, commanding the armies of Ji, Liao, Ji, Sichuan, and Zhejiang. Li Rusong led the armies and swore to cross the east, achieving the famous War of Resistance Against The Japanese War and Aid korea in the history of world wars, and was also the second march of the Ming Dynasty's "Three Great Marches of the Wanli Calendar". Through the Battle of Pyongyang and the Battle of Biheguan, the Japanese army was defeated, and in just four months, the three capitals of Pyongyang, Kaesong, and Wangjing were recaptured, and the great prestige of the Chinese Heavenly Dynasty was played.
In the twenty-sixth year of the Wanli Calendar, Li Rusong was promoted to the rank of commander-in-chief of the Liaodong Army. When the Tatar barbarians invaded Liaodong, they led a light horse to pursue, and encountered tens of thousands of Tatar cavalry, Li Rusong led more than 3,000 people to fight in blood, and died in the Area of fushun Hun River, at the age of fifty. Emperor Myeongjin posthumously honored him as Shaobao and Ning Yuanbo, gave him the title of "Loyal Martyr", and set up a shrine to sacrifice him.
Main achievements: Quelling the Ningxia Rebellion and directing the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and Aid Korea.
4. Sapphire (?) –1393), founding general of the Ming Dynasty. Courageous and strategic, brave and good at war, and repeatedly made military achievements. Han Chinese, the brother-in-law of King Chang Yuchun of Kaiping.
Chu Li often encountered the spring tent, had a strategy, fought bravely, and made many military achievements. From Guan Junzhen Fuji to the Governor's Mansion. Hongwu was made marquis of Yongchang in the fourteenth year. Twenty years as a great general, Tun Ji Prefecture.
In the battle of Fishing Erhai (bell lake on the border between Inner Mongolia and Mongolia in present-day China) in the twenty-first year, Hongwu killed the Northern Yuan Taiwei Barbarians and others, surrendered his people, obtained more than 150,000 horses, camels, cattle and sheep, burned his armor and accumulated, and broke the Harazhang camp, and obtained many people and livestock. Zhu Yuanzhang was very favored by him, compared to Wei Qing and Li Jing, and was named the Duke of Liangguo.
Lan Yu was Chang Yuchun's brother-in-law, and Chang Yuchun was the father-in-law of Crown Prince Zhu Biao, so as the uncle of the Crown Princess, Lan Yu vigorously maintained the prince's status as a prince and made enemies with the King of Yan, who had already coveted the throne.
In addition, Blue Jade is proud of its achievements and becomes increasingly arrogant. He enslaved thousands of slaves, took advantage of the tyranny, and invaded and occupied the mintian of Dongchang (東昌, in modern Liaocheng, Shandong). When Goshi asked, he whipped Goshi and drove him away. During the Northern Expedition, it was not calculated to privately occupy a large number of treasure camels and horses. Returning to the division at night through Xifeng Pass, because the guards did not open the door in time, they actually destroyed the pass and entered. What he did caused Zhu Yuanzhang to be dissatisfied. However, Lan Yu still did not relent, and arbitrarily determined the promotion and demotion of the lieutenant general and the advance and stop of the army, which led to Zhu Yuanzhang's several reprimands and even demotion.
Zhu Yuanzhang gave his son Zhu Biao the formation of the ming dynasty's super-first-class martial arts group as a preparation for his son to inherit the unification and completely eliminate the Northern Yuan. However, when the crown prince died, Sun You, the warrior group of Prince Zhu Biao was all slaughtered, and finally fell to the fate of Zhou Yafu.
In the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu (1393), he was killed for treason, peeled the grass, and spread to various places. In the end, more than 15,000 people were implicated in the deaths, which is known as the "Blue Jade Case" in history.
Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang even issued a hand edict to the world, and decreed that the book was "Record of Contrarians". Those listed in the "Record of The Contrarians" are the first duke, the thirteenth marquis, and the second uncle.
Main achievements: Breaking the Northern Yuan in the fishing sea.
3. Qi Jiguang (November 12, 1528 – January 5, 1588), courtesy name Yuanjing, was a native of Dengzhou, Nantang and Mengzhu, whose ancestral home was Dongping, Shandong.) Ming Dynasty anti-Wu famous general, national hero, outstanding military, calligrapher, poet.
Qi Jiguang was a gentleman, loved to read, hereditary Dengzhou Wei commanded the affairs, joined forces with Yu Dayu and others to fight against the Wokou for more than ten years, swept away the troubles that had been a disaster for many years, and ensured the safety of the lives and property of the coastal people; the town guarded the north, resisted the Mongol tribal criminals, ensured the safety of the northern territory, and promoted the peaceful development of the Mongolian and Han nationalities. With his military achievements, he was transferred to the left capital, Shaobao and Prince Taibao.
In the tenth year of the Wanli Dynasty (1582), Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the cabinet, died of illness and was transferred to Guangdong. In the thirteenth year of the Wanli Calendar (1585), Qi Jiguang was impeached and deposed and returned to his hometown. In the sixteenth year of the Wanli Calendar, he died of illness at home at the age of sixty-one, and his nickname was Wuyi.
He is the author of the eighteen-volume book of the New Book of Military Effects and the fourteen-volume edition of the Record of Military Training. There are also the "Collection of The Temple of Stopping" and the omissions and revisions presented to the imperial court at various historical periods.
At the same time, Qi Jiguang was also an outstanding weapons expert and military engineer, who transformed and invented all kinds of fire attack weapons; built large and small warships and chariots to make the Ming army's land and water equipment superior to the enemy; and creatively built hollow enemy platforms on the Great Wall, which can be attacked and retreated.
Major achievements: Creation of the Qi Family Army, Southern PingWukou, Northern Mongolia.
2. Chang Yu Chun, (1330~1369) Zi BoRen, Yan Heng. An outstanding general of the Red Turban Army at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, a native of Yongpinggang, Changjia Tomb Town, Huaiyuan County, Anhui Province, and a famous general who founded the Ming Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, the Nandu Chang clan moved to Huaiyuan, and by Changyuchun it was already the seventh. His father was Chang Liu (常六六), and his mother was Gao Shi (高氏). His wife Lan had three sons and three daughters.
Chang Yu Chun Zi BoRen, born in 1330 AD (Yuan Dynasty to Shun Yuan) a poor peasant family, looks strange and mighty, brave and strong, ape arm good shooting. At the age of 23, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the government was in chaos, and peasants in various places revolted in the depths of the water. Chang Yu chun was heard in this green forest and grass, and later returned to The Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang in Heyang. On the way back to the army, he died of illness in Liuhechuan, Hebei, and his descendants and deployment remained in Beijing.
According to legend, when Chang Yuchun led the army into Jiuhua Mountain, it coincided with drought and no rain, and the soldiers had difficulty drinking water. Therefore, he personally led his soldiers to search for water at the foot of Jiuhua Mountain, and suddenly dug out six streams of spring water on the south side of the Wuxi Bridge, which solved the difficulty of drinking water for the troops. Whether these six springs were discovered by Chang Yuchun is impossible to investigate. However, it is often true that the Spring Junction Village Liuquankou and the Great War of Jiuhua Mountain are absolutely true. Later generations have poems to prove: the side of the mountain, the stream does not whimper. He Nian left Gu Zhao, Yu Fu said Kaiping.
According to historical records, at the beginning of the 20th year of the Yuan Dynasty (1360), Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Chang Yuchun and another general, Xu Da, to lead a heavy army to guard Chizhou. Chen Youyi commanded his troops and deployed to attack Chizhou. Xu Da detected Chen Youyi's actions, and Chang Yuchun led tens of thousands of elite troops to ambush Liuquankou. Chen Youyi's troops arrived, and attacked Chizhou City with all his might, Xu Da led the defenders to attack Kaicheng, and after Chang Chun ambushed him, he broke Chen Youyi's army, beheaded more than 10,000 people, captured 3,000, and Chen Youyi was defeated and left jiangzhou (Jiujiang).
This campaign not only restored Taiping County, a military stronghold in southern Anhui, but also made the Han army shrink in Wuhan and did not dare to make another attack. Rewards often meet the greatest merit in spring. Zhu Yuanzhang praised him: "When there are millions of people, the destruction of the front is like a deputy general." ”
The place where chang yuchun set up an ambush was in the area of Daguling and Fenghuangling in today's Jiuhua Mountain, and there was a poem left in front of Baizhangtan: Red Sweat Through the Robe, How Filial Piety Is High. The side of the tomb is only for the sake of repaying the work.
Unfortunately, Chang Yuchun only lived to the age of 40 and died of illness in Liuhechuan. In his lifetime, he will never be defeated. He said that he could run amok 100,000 troops in the world, and there were "100,000 people in the army" who were called "strange men in the world". After his death, he was posthumously awarded the title of "Kaiping King", so Liuquankou was also known as "Kaiping Village". In order to commemorate the bravery of Chang Yu Chunzhi, the local villagers also built a temple under the Dagu Ridge on the side of Baizhangtan, which was called the General Temple at that time, and the village where the temple site was located was named General Village. The temple is spectacular in scale, with flying angles, and the temple is sculpted with a full-body portrait of General Chang. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, the temple was burned down by the Japanese army, but the villagers still retained the old custom of "worshiping the year of the general".
Often encountered chunchuan physical appearance, calm and courageous, long-arm good shooting, leopard head ring eyes, swallow jaw tiger whiskers. In the fifteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1355), he joined the peasant rebellion army, crossed the Yangtze River with Zhu Yuanzhang, took Taiping (present-day Dangtu, Anhui), and broke Jiqing (present-day Nanjing) and other places.
In the seventeenth year, he attacked the state of Ning (present-day Anhui), and was shot in the middle of the body, wrapped in wounds and fought again. After that, the cities of Keningguo, Chizhou (present-day Guichi, Anhui), and Wuzhou (present-day Jinhua, Zhejiang) were connected. In the autumn of 23 years, in the Battle of Poyang Lake, he bravely took the lead in rescuing Zhu Yuanzhang, who was besieged by Chen Youyi's army, and immediately led his army to Hukou, together with the generals to completely annihilate Chen Youyu, who claimed to be 600,000.
In October 25, led by the deputy general and Xu Da, he attacked Zhang Shicheng, first taking Huaidong and then western Zhejiang, and in September 27, he captured Pingjiang (present-day Suzhou), capturing Zhang Shicheng and his generals 250,000. Because of the meritorious promotion of Zhongshu Pingzhang's important military affairs, he was enfeoffed as the Duke of Eguo.
In October, he led an army of 250,000 north with the deputy general and Xu Da, and turned to the Central Plains, and in August of the following year, he conquered Dadu (present-day Beijing) and destroyed the Yuan Dynasty. In the second year of Ming Hongwu (1369), he led his army to continue the northern expedition, capturing the capital of Yuan Shangdu (northeast of present-day Zhenglan banner in Inner Mongolia) and capturing King Yuanzong and more than 10,000 generals. In July, on the way back to the division, he fell ill and died, and posthumously sealed the King of Kaiping, and gave his descendants the ice iron hammer to beat the emperor and beat the traitors (later, the king of Kaiping, Chang Baotong, beat Yan Song).
Main achievements: with Xu Da leading the army to destroy Chen Youyu and Zhang Shicheng, and to attack the Yuan capital.
1. Xu Da (1332-1385), Han Chinese, character Tiande. A native of Zhongli, Haozhou (present-day northeast of Fengyang, Anhui). A famous general at the end of the Yuan and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the founding father of the Ming Dynasty.
Xu Da came from a farming family. In the last year of the Yuan Dynasty, Xu Da joined the rebel army led by Zhu Yuanzhang and was one of the twenty-four generals of Huaixi. In the 23rd year of Zhizheng (1363), Chen Youyu was defeated in the Battle of Poyang Lake. The following year, he was appointed as Zuo Xiangguo. In the 25th year of Zhizheng (1365), the Qishi division captured Huaidong, and two years later captured Pingjiang and destroyed Zhang Shicheng. He was immediately appointed as a general of the Conquest Army, and together with the deputy general Chang Yuchun, he led the Northern Expedition to overthrow the rule of the Yuan Dynasty.
In the first year of Hongwu (1368), he invaded Dadu and destroyed the Yuan Dynasty. After that, he sent troops to attack the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty for many years, and the officials were taifu, zhongshu right chancellor, joined the army and the prince of the state, and was made the duke of Wei. He is also the father-in-law of Ming Chengzu Zhu Di. He was cautious, good at governing the army, and spent his life fighting horses, establishing immortal merits for the Ming Dynasty.
When Hu Weiyong was a chancellor, he wanted to befriend Xu Da, but Xu Da ignored him, and Hu Weiyong bribed Xu Da's janitor Fushou to make him plot against Xu Da, and Fushou exposed him, and Xu Da did not pursue him, but from time to time he said to Zhu Yuanzhang that Hu Weiyong was not competent for the post of chancellor. Later, Hu Weiyong was indeed executed, and Zhu Yuanzhang paid more attention to Xu Da for this reason.
In the seventeenth year of Hongwu (1384), Taiyin invaded the general, and Zhu Yuanzhang hated it in his heart. Xu Da suffered from back gangrene in Beiping, and when he was slightly better, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Xu Da's eldest son Xu Huizu to carry his handwritten letter to comfort him, and was soon called back to Beijing.
In the eighteenth year of Hongwu (1385), Xu Da died. Zhu Yuanzhang stopped listening to the government of the dynasty for this reason, and mourned when he mourned. Subsequently, Zhu Yuanzhang posthumously made Xu Da the King of Zhongshan, with the courtesy name "Wuning", and gave his descendants three sons and grandsons the title of Prince. The Yin of The Funeral Bell Mountain, the Imperial Shinto Inscription. It is also worthy of the Taimiao Temple, the Temple of Portrait Heroes, the first meritorious hero of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, ranking first among the "Six Kings" of the founding country.
Main achievements: The first hero of the founding of the Ming Dynasty. With Chang Yuchun leading an army to destroy Chen Youyu and Zhang Shicheng, he attacked the Yuan capital; many times the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty in the Northern Expedition.