Chapter 57 10. An Indelible Mark

After Han Lin'er's death, the Dragon and Phoenix regime was considered to have perished, and the signboard of "Return to the Song Dynasty" was no longer mentioned, and the name of the red scarf was gradually forgotten. The name "Red Turban Army" originated from the end of the Northern Song Dynasty.When the Jin army invaded the Central Plains, the Heshuo and Shandong rebels swarmed up, and they all wrapped their heads in red scarves to fight, so they were called the "Red Scarf Army".After the Song, Jin, and Shaoxing peace talks, the southern border and the northern border were determined, but they ignored the people of the old country, and made countless righteous people on and off the river become people from other lands.Countless old survivors endured death and looked south, but they could not wait for Wang Shi to set the Central Plains in the north.Lu You, a great poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, experienced the pain of crossing the south, and wrote a poem to show his children when he was dying: "Wang Shibei set the Central Plains Day in the north, and the family sacrifices will never forget to tell Nai Weng!" But see the Kyushu Tong, how can the family sacrifice be sued to Nai Weng!" Although the divided world soon reunited, it is not the Han family after all.Lu Xiufu, Zhang Shijie and others crossed the sea and overwhelmed the boat on the cliff, and more than a hundred thousand people died on the same day, singing the sad and tragic elegy of this dynasty.The experience of veteran Chen Mou is just a microcosm of the life history of millions of people at that time.

Although the great turmoil in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty was initiated by religion, the root cause was the arousal of national sentiments. The turmoil in the world is still going on, although the Great Song Dynasty is no longer used as the call, and the red scarf is the name.The heroes of the troubled times proclaimed themselves kings and emperors one after another, but they couldn't erase the more or less red scarf marks on their bodies.Chen Youliang, who claimed to be the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, Ming Yuzhen, who called himself the Emperor of the Great Xia, Zhang Shicheng, who called himself the Emperor of the Great Zhou, and Zhu Yuanzhang, who called himself the Duke of Wu and the King of Wu, were all generals from the Red Turban Army.

When Zhu Yuanzhang fought Lu Zhen in Anfeng, as Liu Bowen expected, Chen Youliang really fell to the east.However, in view of the defeat of Jiangdong Bridge in the 20th year of Zhizheng, he was too cautious. Instead of going straight to Yingtianfu, Zhu Yuanzhang's stronghold, he besieged Hongdu with the whole army for 85 days-this gave Zhu Yuanzhang, who made a strategic mistake in the early stage Take the rare opportunity to tweak your deployment.In July, Zhu Yuanzhang, who came from Anfengteng, personally led the main force of 200,000 people to aid Hongdu, and the two sides fought in Poyang Lake.The two great heroes of the time fought hard here for thirty-six days, and the Battle of Poyang Lake finally ended with Chen Youliang's defeat and death.The outcome of this battle determines the future ownership of the world.

Next, Zhu Yuanzhang conquered Zhang Shicheng and won a complete victory. Zhang Shicheng was defeated and captured.Zhu Yuanzhang went to see him in person, but he closed his eyes and said nothing; Li Shanchang, Zhu Yuanzhang's number one adviser, went to see him, and was scolded by him.Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that he beat him to death with sticks, and even his body was burned to ashes.During this expedition, Zhu Yuanzhang's Western Wu regime issued some rather interesting proclamations.At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was nominally the Prime Minister of the Central Committee of the Dragon and Phoenix regime, even said bluntly: "As a result, the people are fooled, they fall into the sorcery, they don't understand the absurdity of the verse, and they believe in the true existence of Maitreya. , Gathered into a party of burning incense, according to Ru and Ying, spread to Hehe and Luo. As soon as the monster's words were done, the murderous plan was carried out, burning the city, killing the scholars, and poisoning the living. Art", which indicates that the existence of King Xiaoming has become a stumbling block for Zhu Yuanzhang to establish a new dynasty, so the Guabu murder happened.

From then on, Zhu Yuanzhang never mentioned the past of the Dragon and Phoenix era. Even the stele of his achievements in defeating Zhang Shicheng of the Eastern Wu in Zhenjiang Xicheng was smashed because of the Dragon and Phoenix reign title. The official history even cleared his relationship with the Dragon and Phoenix regime. clean.Since then, the theme of fighting for the world has changed from illusory religious superstition to real national revolution and stability and unity.At this time, there were many internal strife in the Yuan Dynasty. Outside, the two main forces of Kuo Kuo Timur and Polo Timur fought against each other, and inside, Emperor Shun and his son fought endlessly for power.Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of this opportunity to attack both the north and the south. Xu Da and Chang Yuchun led an army of 250,000 in the northern expedition, and Hu Tingrui, He Wenhui, Yang Jing, Zhou Dexing and others led the southern expedition.

At the beginning of 1368 AD, the Northern Expeditionary Army sent by Zhu Yuanzhang had captured Shandong, and the Southern Expeditionary Army also surrendered Fang Guozhen and captured Fujian.Amidst the sound of victory, Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor in Yingtianfu on the fourth day of the first lunar month.Although he ordered the banning of so-called "evil religions" including Maitreya Sect, White Lotus Sect, Ming Sect, etc., he still failed to bypass the word "Ming". Great Song Dynasty?That is already a distant story, let it drift away with the wind of the years!