How did Zhu Yuanzhang win more with less in the battle of Poyang Lake?

The so-called battle of Poyang Lake is the battle of World War I. This is the case. At the end of the yuan dynasty, the government was lax and the society was in turmoil, and farmers rose up one after another. At this time, there were several major forces in the peasant uprising army, among which Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang were the most powerful. As the saying goes, one mountain can't accommodate two tigers, and Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang are all dead. 1363, Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang launched a strategic decisive battle for the water of Poyang Lake, and Zhu Yuanzhang won the decisive battle completely. This battle is considered to be the biggest water war in the world in the Middle Ages.

Then how did Zhu Yuanzhang win?

It is said that there were 600,000 troops in Chen Youliang at that time, while Zhu Yuanzhang's team was only about 200,000. And Chen Youliang's fleet of ships are newly built, tall and well-equipped. Zhu Jun's warships are mainly confiscated, mostly small boats, but they are very flexible and can move forward freely. Compared with the other two, Chen Junju has an advantage. But as a result of the war, Chen Yuanzhang was defeated with inferior forces. How did Zhu Yuanzhang win more with less? Did Zhu Yuanzhang use any strange tricks? No, no,no. Listen to the following analysis.

An analysis of the reasons for the victory of Poyang Lake War

First, after the war, Zhu Yuanzhang pointed out that "Chen Youliang has many soldiers, single-minded and suspicious. Besides, it has been playing for several years, and it has lost every time. I "learn from the times, I am weak, the soldiers are United, the people are brave, like birds fighting", so I won.

Second, Zhu Yuanzhang deployed properly and commanded correctly. At the beginning of Zhu Yuanzhang's entrance to the lake, at the pass between Wuyang Lake and Poyang Lake, and between the Yangtze River and Poyang Lake, "sending troops to guard, one is to cut off Chen Jun's way home, and the other is to limit Chen Jun's strength, so that he can't give full play to the advantages of many soldiers and big ships." Then, concentrate our forces and defeat Chen one by one. Chen's warship is tall, smooth and full of soldiers, so it can attack Zhu Jun from the commanding heights. But its fatal weakness is poor mobility, which is even more unfavorable. Zhu Jun's ship is small and maneuverable, so it is easy to attack Chen flexibly, but it has some weaknesses, such as it is difficult to attack from behind, it has no ability to resist impact, and it is difficult to penetrate from the front.

In view of this situation, take the tactics of fostering strengths and avoiding weaknesses, first attack by multiple teams, give full play to the role of firearms, continuously assault Chen, and then attack the enemy with fire. In the first battle of Kanglang Mountain waters, there were dozens of Chen ships, and the first battle was successful; In the Battle of Hukou, hundreds of warships of Chen Jun were destroyed, and most of Chen Jun was wiped out. It became a famous battle in the history of China's water war, which laid the foundation for its unification of the south of the Yangtze River and the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, thus having great strategic significance.

Chen Youliang's failure was first caused by a strategic mistake. It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang led the main force to go north to rescue Wang Xiaoming, which caused the sky to be empty. This was a strategic loss. If Chen Youliang uses the main force to go down the river and attack the sky, Zhu Yuanzhang will be caught between Chen and Zhang, and the situation will change in favor of Chen Youliang. However, Chen Youliang did not do this, but targeted the attack at the small and strong Hongducheng, resulting in hundreds of thousands of amphibious troops being placed in a narrow area and difficult to expand; And he doesn't send troops to guard the rivers and lakes, and he doesn't care about the back road. As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang sealed Chen Guangcheng's Wikipedia in Poyang Lake. Coupled with Chen Youliang's headstrong, irritable and suspicious, internal disintegration and low morale; Clumsy command, single tactics, joint deployment of boats and boats, and difficulty in maneuvering. And that's why Chen Youliang failed.

From July 20th to August 26th, the war lasted for 37 days. Its length, scale, strength, number of ships and the intensity of fighting are unprecedented. Zhu Yuanzhang defeated many with less and attacked many with wisdom, creating a famous war example in the history of naval battles in China.