As we all know, although Zhu Yuanzhang killed many generals through Hu Weiyong case , Lan Yu case , etc., there were still many generals in the early Ming Dynasty. At the same time, Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen occupied 99% of the land in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di only Peiping .
What’s ridiculous is that Zhu Yunwen finally lost to his uncle, and the most important reason is that he can’t use people. Looking back at the Jianwen period, there were still four generals in the Ming Dynasty who had the talent that was not inferior to Zhu Di. If Zhu Yunwen could use one person, he would not have been defeated so badly.
The most afflicting general Geng Bingwen
In 1399 AD, Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng led 800 warriors lurking in the Yanwang Mansion. Soon after, Zhu Yunwen asked someone to lead troops to surround the Yanwang Mansion. Zhu Di first pretended to surrender, and then took the opportunity to kill Zhu Yunwen's men and control Beiping City . Jingnan Campaign kicked off.
Zhu Yunwen, who learned of this news, immediately decided to go north to attack Yan. At that time, the famous generals of the Ming Dynasty were basically slaughtered by Zhu Yuanzhang, and not many people could use it. Zhu Yunwen picked Geng Bingwen out of a bunch of generals.
What kind of general is Geng Bingwen? Without the resourcefulness of Xu Da and Chang Yuchun , he has a good fight beyond ordinary generals. Defensive warfare is a good player, and organizing large-scale corps attacks is a weakness.
Perhaps in Geng Bingwen's planning, he was preparing to use the comprehensive advantages of the Ming army to confront Zhu Di and gradually drag down the weak Yan army. However, Zhu Yunwen believed in slander and was eager for quick success and instant benefits, which made Geng Bingwen fight quickly and decided so quickly that Zhu Di took advantage of the loophole.
Yan army used their advantage of familiarity with the terrain to raid Geng Bingwen many times, and the Ming army had to retreat to Zhending City. It was here that Zhu Di had no choice but to return to his army for three days. It is not difficult to see from the Battle of Zhending that Zhu Di hopes to fight and decide quickly with the Ming army, because the Yan army only has a small position in a corner of Peking.
Geng Bingwen retreated to Zhending City without fighting and defeated the troops. However, Zhu Yunwen no longer believed in Geng Bingwen's ability. He changed the generals in the last battle and led 500,000 Ming troops to attack Zhu Di.
Li Jinglong is a second-generation ancestor and a playboy. The 500,000 army was not fully utilized in his hands. In the end, it was all defeated in the battle of Zhengcunba. While the Ming army retreated, the Yan army was constantly recruiting troops and increasing its strength.
Geng Bingwen's strategy is to use the strong supply capacity of the court, and then use time to compress Zhu Di's living space to waste the Yan army. If he continues to use him as the commander, he will definitely waste Zhu Di. After all, the "drag technique" of fighting a state with the power of a country is very useful.
Unfortunately, Zhu Yunwen did not have strategic vision, and the civil officials around him did not have military vision, so he missed the best and greatest advantage in the early stage. Therefore, Geng Bingwen was the "burden" of the Jingnan Campaign and the most depressed general.
Quneng and Shengyong
Let’s first look at Quneng. He was one of the famous generals during the Hongwu period and was under the command of Lan Yu . Later, he was sent by Zhu Yuanzhang to Xifan to suppress the rebellion, and thus escaped the Lan Yu case to save his life. This person can be called a man who can fight and fight.
As the saying goes, "Birds of a feather flock together to divide people." Qu Neng had the combat style of Lan Yu. After Li Jinglong replaced Geng Bingwen, he was responsible for attacking the city of Beiping. Historical books record this way, "The momentum is very sharp and the city is broken."
means that Qu Neng almost captured Beiping City, Zhu Gaochi and Empress Xu are about to be captured alive, and Zhu Di's final base camp is facing loss. If this is true, the Jingnan battle will end at this time.
At this critical period, Li Jinglong let him retreat. The military strategy said that "one move will bring one moment, and the decline will decline again, and three times will be exhausted". He lost the opportunity to break through the city this time, and the Ming army could never go further in Peiping.
The luck of Baigouhe in the late stage turned to Zhu Di's side. The strong wind and sand swept through Qu Neng's army. The Yan army took the opportunity to kill Qu Neng and died. A generation of war generals died cowardly at the hands of his incompetent commander.
Another person who is similar to Qu Neng is Sheng Yong, who is a general who is optimistic about Zhu Yuanzhang and later served under Geng Bingwen. After the Battle of Zhengjiaba, the Ming army was defeated by 500,000 troops. Sheng Yong stood up at a critical moment and refused to defend Shandong for three months.
Shandong is the main throat from Peiping to Nanjing. In order to capture this place, Zhu Di led his army to attack many times. During this period, Sheng Yong not only repelled Zhu Di, but also took the opportunity to attack many times, causing heavy losses to the Yan army, and Zhu Di had to retreat.
In the following months, Sheng Yong took advantage of the Ming munitions to defeat the Yan cavalry troops, and even once put Zhu Di in crisis. If Zhang Yu and others had not tried to save Zhu Di, they would have died.
In addition to killing Zhang Yu, Sheng Yong also killed the general Tan Yuan on the battlefield in Shandong (not directly killed, died after serious injury). It can be said that although Sheng Yong's ability is not as good as Tang, and Xu Da, it is comparable to Zhu Di.
Unfortunately, he encountered an incompetent general on the battlefield, and the result was that the Yan army could only take action. Sheng Yong led the few troops of the Ming army to retreat continuously, so that Zhu Di invaded Nanjing City and ascended the throne and became emperor.
Fortunately, Zhu Di attaches great importance to Sheng Yong's talent. After becoming emperor, he wrote to his condolences to surrender to Sheng Yong: "In the past, we were hostile, but now the world is peaceful, you should think about the people..."
The suspicious general Song Sheng
Song Sheng was a person in the era of Zhu Yuanzhang. He was ordered by the emperor of Hongwu to quell the rebellion of Guangxi, and later he was sent north to fight against the nomadic peoples in the north with Zhu Di. His combat experience and military literacy were far higher than those of Geng Bingwen, Zhu Di and others.
But such a powerful person was ignored by Zhu Yunwen because of suspicion. Although Song Sheng rose to the age of Zhu Yuanzhang, he worked with Zhu Di in the middle, which made Zhu Yunwen eat eggs.
Shortly after Emperor Jianwen became emperor, he transferred him to Gansu on the grounds of "prestige for a long time and gaining popularity in Liangzhou". When the Jingnan Campaign was in full swing, Zhu Yunwen had no intention of using it at all, but was afraid that he would have a private relationship with Zhu Di.
From a certain perspective, Zhu Di was forced to launch the Jingnan Campaign. There was no sign of becoming the emperor before. Just imagine who would like to serve such a prince without a future? So Song Sheng and Zhu Di are purely colleagues.
Half of the Ming Dynasty's country is related to Song Sheng. Wherever there is war, he will be there. If Zhu Yunwen could reuse this person after the outbreak of the Jingnan Campaign, he would definitely win with his deterrent power that was not inferior to Zhu Di in Peking.
However, just because of suspicion, Zhu Yunwen abandoned him throughout the whole process in Gansu and missed the best general's talent. After the Jingnan Campaign, Song Sheng was re-activated by Zhu Di and became one of the famous generals in the Ming Dynasty to defend their country.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang killed many generals, there were many rising stars during the Hongwu period, and Zhu Yunwen was also a lot of people. Why was he unwilling to use these people? You may understand one thing by looking at his life trajectory.
Zhu Yunwen under the Jingnan Campaign
We all know that Zhu Biao was Zhu Yuanzhang's legitimate son and eldest son. He witnessed his father's establishment of the Ming Dynasty and was named the crown prince when the founding of the country.
It can be said that although Zhu Biao is not the emperor, he is the "second emperor" in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart and he is not worried about his son's expansion of power.
In 1392, Zhu Biao returned from the inspection of Chang'an and suffered from illness. In the end, the medicine was useless and passed away. After thinking about it, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to make Zhu Biao's second son Zhu Yunwen the crown prince, which triggered various events in the later period.
The ancient emperor inherited his post as the eldest son. Zhu Biao's death should be inherited by his "legitimate son". Even if the eldest son of the emperor Zhu Xiongying died young, the second son of the emperor Zhu Yunying is qualified than Zhu Yunwen.
Zhu Biao's first queen was Chang Yuchun's daughter. Chang Yuchun was also related to Lan Yu. In order to ensure that Zhu Yunwen could successfully inherit the throne, the Lan Yu case broke out in Hongwu and many generals died because of this.
has said so much to convey a thought to everyone. Although Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to create a civil and military team like Zhu Biao in his later years, it was not achieved because the time was too short, which led to Zhu Yunwen's team not being deep.
does not have the prestige of his father, the prince's team is not very mature, and strength is a source of emperor's confidence. This leads to Zhu Yunwen's suspicion. There are only two civil officials who are completely trusting, one is minister Huang Zicheng The other is minister Qi Tai .
Huang Zicheng is his teacher, and Qi Tai was also promoted by Zhu Yunwen himself. He believes that the three are people on the same boat. Many uncles were powerful vassal kings. The vassal kings rebelled one after another in history, and the three of them began a policy of reducing the vassal kings in one plan.
There is no problem with reducing the vassals. The problem is that Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai were civil officials, without any military vision, so the process of reducing the vassals was too fast. The prince was directly demoted to common people and even exiled to the remote people, which led to Zhu Yunwen's betrayal of his relatives and others. Zhu Di and others felt deeply in crisis that they would not fight or take up weapons to fight back.
His domineering power cuts the vassals directly forced the prince to rebel. Since ancient times, he has succeeded and lost. He did not weigh the pros and cons of military affairs and could not lead troops to fight. He naturally lost a mess.
Emperor Jianwen may have read too much, and he thought that valuing civil servants was the right way for the country, which was just enough to cater to the knowledge read in Emperor Jianwen .
A group of scholars who study hard, admit their own truths and are useless, can not develop and strengthen their own country. If you read too much, you will become sloppy and will become less scrupulous, and you will be prone to being stubborn and unable to "appoint people based on their merits."
During the reign of Emperor Jianwen, the Ming Dynasty was basically in a state of peace. In this context, civil officials in power could only talk about war on paper and make a bunch of truths. How could they have real skills without passing or seeing life and death!
is the first sentence. If Zhu Yunwen could definitely believe that Geng Bingwen would win in the later stage, but unfortunately, he changed his coach and changed Li Jinglong, a playboy, to the end of the battle, how could he not fail?
Since ancient times, it is rare for the vassal kings to successfully overthrow the emperor with a state, and it seems that there is only Zhu Di's case. The success of his rebellion was coincidental in many ways. The most important point is that Zhu Yunwen valued the suggestions of his confidants and civil officials too much.
Use people to be suspicious, choose a general, and do not look at the skills, and only talk about military affairs on paper. Such people are destined to fail. Zhu Yunwen's court is very similar to the court of Chongzhen Emperor.
The Ming Dynasty was actually very fortunate to have Yongle Emperor . If Emperor Jianwen won by chance, he would lose great rivers and mountains . After all, there were still powerful nomadic peoples in the north at that time.
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