chang yuchun

chang yuchun

Chang Yuchun (1330-1369) was born in Huaiyuan County, Fengyang Prefecture, Anhui Province. He was an outstanding general of the red scarf army at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and a famous general of the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

In 1355, Emperor Shun of the Yuan Dynasty attached himself to Zhu Yuanzhang. He invited himself as a vanguard to fight against the enemy. He said that he was able to conquer 100000 people in the world. He was known as Chang 100000 in the army. He was an official in the middle of the book. He was also the prince Shaobao and granted the title of Duke of Hubei. In the second year of Hongwu's northern expedition to the Central Plains, he was killed in the army. He was only 40 years old. He used the story of Emperor Taizong's death to King Zhaopu of Han Dynasty to pursue Yiyun, Xuande, Jingyuan, Kaifu, Yitong, Shangzhu, Taibao and zhongshuyou prime ministers. He was granted the title of Kaiping king, Zhongwu, and was worthy of Taimiao.

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Life of the characters

Early life

Chang Yuchun came from a poor peasant family. In his youth, he was not willing to die in the field, so he practiced martial arts with others. Poor family, unable to pay tuition, to do more hard work in exchange for learning opportunities. When he grows up, Chang Yuchun has a marvelous body, a long arm, a great strength, a great success in learning martial arts, a good command of riding and shooting, and can use all kinds of weapons.

It's good to give up stealing

Chang Yuchun grew up at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when class contradictions had intensified, and bandits and uprisings were springing up. Chang Yuchun, dissatisfied with the current situation of life and unable to endure the torture of hunger, defected to Liu Ju, a bandit in Huaiyuan and Dingyuan. When Liu Ju saw that Chang Yuchun was brave, he made him the chief Shi Fu and became his confidant. Chang Yuchun followed Liu Ju to block the road and plunder his house. At first I felt fresh. I could eat meat in a big bowl and get silver. A few months later, Chang Yuchun found out that Liu Ju only knew how to rob his family and house, and he didn't have any plans or long-term plans. He had the idea of breaking away from the robbers and finding another way out.

In the April of 1355, Chang Yuchun and Liu gathered in Hezhou to plunder. He happened to meet Zhu Yuanzhang who led the army to attack Hezhou. Chang Yuchun has long heard that Zhu Yuanzhang was a chivalrous man of righteousness and great achievements. He took advantage of the opportunity to meet in Hezhou and pretended to be a common people to observe Zhu Yuanzhang's travel. He witnessed with his own eyes Zhu Yuanzhang's approachable style and his manner of treating soldiers as brothers. He also saw Zhu Yuanzhang's strict discipline in the army and his behavior of not harming the people. By comparison, he knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was a great man, and Liu Ju was only a bandit, which could not be compared with Zhu Yuanzhang. He made a quick decision and decided to go to Zhu Yuanzhang in Hezhou.

When Chang Yuchun went to join Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude was very cold. Zhu Yuanzhang asked Chang Yuchun, "are you hungry? Do you want to find food in my team?" Chang Yuchun replied, "I'm not worried about food and clothing, but Liu Ju only knows how to rob and steal. I've heard that the general is a wise man, so I've come to join him and will do my best for the future. " Zhu Yuanzhang asked, "can you fight across the river with me?" Chang Yuchun replied: "where the general points out, where I am willing to fight. On the day of crossing the river, I am willing to be a pioneer." When Zhu Yuanzhang saw that Chang Yuchun was big, strong and loyal, he kept him. From then on, Chang Yuchun gave up stealing.

Fight in Quzhou

In July of 1359, Zhu Yuanzhang captured Jinhua and sent General Chang Yuchun to attack Quzhou. Chang Yuchun led his troops to kill the generals and captured Longyou city first. During the rush of his army and horse, he wrote a poem named "long you Dao Zhong" to record his journey: "when the Dragon travels in the road, the west wind is jealous of his robe. Red add autumn tree blood, green long dry pool hair. It's more luxurious than the house, and more murderous than the plain. When you look back, you must scratch your temples. " Between the lines, showing the heroic spirit.

When Chang Yuchun led the three armies of horse, infantry and water to the foot of Quzhou City, he saw that the city wall was tight and solid. Chang Yuchun led his troops to set up a fence under the city and built a Fengtian banner to encircle the six gates of Quzhou from land and water. Chang Yuchun also built LV bus, Xianren bridge, long wooden ladder, lazy dragon claw and other siege weapons to "rush to the bottom of the city, keep up with the clouds, and hope to climb the city". He also "attacked it through the cave" under the daximen city. In the face of the fierce attack of Chang Yuchun, Boyan Buhua's Jin, relying on the strong city wall, "burn the LV bus with a bunch of reeds and oil, drive the lazy dragon's claws with a thousand jin scale hook, cut down the wooden ladder with a long axe, and build the city defense cave". The two sides fought fiercely, and Chang Yuchun could not attack for a long time.

At the beginning, when Chang Yuchun sent out troops, Zhu Yuanzhang warned Chang Yuchun: "to conquer the enemy is courage, to win is strategy. In the past, Guan Yu was an enemy of ten thousand people, but he was defeated by Lu Meng because Guan Yu had no plan. You should take a deep warning. "

Now, Chang Yuchun breaks into the area by surprise, destroys his guns and makes an urgent attack. Yuan army couldn't support it, so they sent envoys to surrender. Quzhou road court ordered Zhang Bin to leave xiaoximen at night to welcome Chang Yuchun's army into the city. In this way, the yuan army, with 10000 soldiers, collapsed rapidly.

After Chang Yuchun conquered Quzhou City, he established "Jin Douyi Marshal's office" and set up marshals and privy branch judges, so the ruling power of Yuan Dynasty in Quzhou City disappeared.

Fighting Jiuhua Mountain

When Chang Yuchun led his troops to Jiuhua Mountain, it happened that there was drought and no rain, and the soldiers had difficulty drinking water. So he personally led the soldiers to search for water at the foot of Jiuhua Mountain, and suddenly dug out six springs in the south of Wuxi bridge, which solved the difficulty of drinking water for the troops. Whether these six springs were discovered by Chang Yuchun is unknown. However, it's true that the battle between liuquankou village and Jiuhuashan Mountain is frequent. Later generations have a poem to prove: the mountain side, streams do not sob. When he left Guzhai, he still said Kaiping.

Promoted to marshal

Bravery and daring to fight is the greatest characteristic of Chang Yuchun's military career, which runs through all major battles. In June of 1355, Chang Yuchun defected to Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang led his army to the south of the Yangtze River. In the famous battle of Caishiji (in the south of Ma'anshan City and the East Bank of the Yangtze River), Chang Yuchun braved a small boat in the torrent, braved random arrows and stormed into the enemy's line. There was no conflict between the left and the right In the realm of human beings, Zhu Yuanzhang sent his troops to the shore, and the yuan troops retreated one after another, and the fortresses along the Yuanjiang river came back one after another. Zhu Yuanzhang led the army to capture Taiping.

In March of the next year, Jiqing was captured and changed to yingtianfu. The occupation of Jiqing and its surrounding areas made Zhu Yuanzhang obtain a wealth area, which laid the foundation for further development and expansion in Jiangnan. In this stage of the battle, Chang Yuchun showed his strength and made the first contribution. He began to be trusted by Zhu Yuanzhang and rose from vanguard to marshal when he crossed the river.

Breaking Chen Youliang

According to historical records, at the beginning of 1360, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Chang Yuchun and another general Xu Da to guard Chizhou. Chen Youliang unified his troops and deployed to attack Chizhou. When Xu Da learned of Chen Youliang's action, Chang Yuchun led ten thousand troops to the liuquankou. When Chen Youliang arrived, he attacked Chizhou City with all his strength. Xu Da led the garrison to attack Chizhou City. Chang Yuchun ambushed his troops and overthrew Chen Youliang's troops. He beheaded more than 10000 people and captured 3000 people. Chen Youliang lost Jiangzhou (Jiujiang).

Chen Youliang made great achievements in the western expedition. Chen Youliang occupied the upper reaches of the river. He had excellent troops and big ships. He was ambitious, which was the main threat to Zhu Yuanzhang's pioneering career.

In May 1360, Chen Youliang led hundreds of thousands of Navy troops to fight against Zhu Yuanzhang in Longwan, northwest of Nanjing city. Zhu Yuanzhang used the weak to resist the strong, so he designed the ambush to lure the enemy into depth. Chang Yuchun was ordered to win with the state of Feng. The first five wing army of 30000 people set up an ambush as the main force of the whole army. After a fierce battle, Chen Youliang's soldiers who landed in Longwan were ambushed by Chang Yuchun and Feng Guosheng. They were seriously wounded and defeated. When the tide of the river was falling and the water of Longwan was shallow, all of Chen Youliang's more than 100 ships ran aground. Zhu Yuanzhang waved the water and entered the army side by side. Chen Youliang was defeated and fled. After the great victory in Longwan, Zhu Yuanzhang turned the corner and strengthened his strength. Chang Yuchun defeated the enemy and made outstanding achievements. Soon, he was promoted to the provincial government.

In the third year after the Longwan war, the 23rd year of Zhizheng (1363), Chen Youliang launched a decisive battle with Zhu Yuanzhang's army in Poyang Lake for 36 days. Zhu Yuanzhang first sent troops to block the enemy's way back. In the war, Chen Youliang's warship was large and strong, but slow. Zhu Yuanzhang's warship was small, fast and flexible. The two armies were locked in a stalemate.

When Zhu Yuanzhang's boat ran aground, Chen Youliang's general Zhang Dingbian led his fleet to besiege him. Chang Yuchun took the lead, shot Zhang Dingbian, and then hit Zhu Yuanzhang's ship with his own warship to make it out of the shoal. In the battle, Chang Yuchun was ordered to actively organize fire attack, and took advantage of small boats to set fire by the wind. Chen Youliang's fleet was burned to the sky, and the soldiers would lose more than half of their troops, and the lake was completely red. Chen Youliang led the wrecked ship to hukou, and was pursued by Zhu Yuanzhang's generals and intercepted by Chang Yuchun. Chen Youliang was shot dead in the scuffle. The decisive battle reversed the balance of power between the two sides. Chen Youliang was defeated and Zhu Yuanzhang became the strongest among the heroes. Chang Yuchun was rewarded for his work and got a lot of gold and silk fields. Before long, he was promoted to Pingzhang.

This campaign not only restored Taiping County, a military important place in southern Anhui, but also made the Han Army shrink in Wuhan and dare not commit any more crimes. On merit, Chang Yuchun deserves the most. Zhu Yuanzhang praised him and said, "when there are millions of people, it's like a deputy general."

Chang Yuchun set up his ambush at daguling and Fenghuangling in today's Jiuhua Mountain, and left a poem in front of baizhangtan: how is chihan's robe like xiaoyingao. Jielu Pro tomb side, only for the newspaper work.

Capture Yuandadu

In July of 1364, Chang Yuchun led his army to capture Luzhou. Then he joined Deng Yu and conquered the counties of Xingan, Ji'an, Ganzhou and Nan'an in Jiangxi, and Shaozhou and Nanxiong in Lingnan.

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