Tang He, a native of Zhongli (now Fengyang, Anhui Province), named Dingchen, Han nationality, was born in 1326. He learned archery and horsemanship at a young age, and was highly skilled in martial arts. He was the most brave in his hometown. In February 1352, Tang He led his tribe to join the Haozhou rebel army led by Guo Zixing.
He opposed the Yuan Dynasty and recommended his childhood friend Zhu Yuanzhang to join the uprising army. He was a famous founding general of the Ming Dynasty and a hero against the Japanese. Tang He joined the peasant uprising army at the age of 26 and awarded thousands of households with merit. At the age of 63, he returned to his hometown after pacifying the Japanese. He fought for 37 years and made great achievements.
Outstanding. He repeatedly made extraordinary achievements in the battles of Chuzhou, Hezhou (now Hexian, Anhui), Taiping (now Dangtu), Zhenjiang (now Jiangsu), Pingjiang (now Suzhou, Jiangsu), eastern Zhejiang, Fuzhou, Zhangzhou, and Quanzhou.
.In 1368, after Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he continued to fight. In that year, he conquered Yanping (now Nanping) and captured Chen Youding. In August, he crossed the Yellow River from Shanxi and marched westward, entered Tongguan, surrounded Qingyang (now part of Shaanxi), captured and beheaded Yuan general Zhang
A good minister. In 1370, he conquered Mobei and captured the prince of the Northern Yuan Dynasty and more than 86,000 people below the duke. He forced the general of the Yuan Dynasty to expand Timur's Benhe Forest (now Harhe Forest, Mongolia). He took advantage of the victory to pacify Ningxia and pursued the Northern Yuan Dynasty.
The army returned to Chahannao'er (southeast of today's Taipusi Banner in Inner Mongolia) and was granted the title of Marquis of Zhongshan. In 1371, he led the navy up the Yangtze River to attack Sichuan and conquered Chongqing.
Beijing), Shanxi, Yan'an (now part of Shaanxi) and other places trained troops, built cities, and prepared the border. They repeatedly defeated the Northern Yuan soldiers who harassed the border and forced the Northern Yuan general Boyan Timur to beg for peace. In 1378, he wrote a letter to the Duke of Guo. 1381
In the same year, he conquered Mobei and won the title of Beiyuan Pingzhang Beili Ge and Privy Envoy Jiutong. In 1385, he quelled the uprisings in Sizhou (today's Cengong) and Guzhou (today's northwest of Liping) in Guizhou. At the end of 1385, he resigned from his post and returned home.
.In 1387, at the request of Zhu Yuanzhang, he patrolled Shandong and prepared for Japanese pirates along the coast of Zhejiang. He built 59 guard cities and recruited more than 58,000 civilians to guard them. Japanese pirates did not dare to offend lightly. In 1389, he still occupied the new position in Zhongdu (now Fengyang, Anhui).
, distributed the rewards to old friends. He became more cautious in his later years, fell ill in 1390, and died in August 1395 at the age of 70. Zhu Yuanzhang named Tang He "King of Dongou", posthumously named "Xiangwu", and buried him in Anhui
At the southern foot of Caoshan Mountain on the south bank of Long Lake in Bengbu. Tang He's tomb is 3.6 meters high, 3.9 meters wide, covering an area of 40 square meters. The tombstone is 6.25 meters high. There are symmetrical stone wengzhong, stone lions and stone sheep under the steps of the tomb. After Tang He's death, other
The descendants converted the Duke's Mansion into the Tang family's ancestral hall, and Zhu Yuanzhang gave him a couplet saying: "The mansion of the honorable ministers will be immortal for thousands of years, and the ancestral hall of the Confucius will be everlasting."
Military achievements. In the 27th year of Zhengzheng Dynasty, Tang He was appointed as General of the South and attacked Qingyuan (today's Ningbo). Fang Guozhen abandoned the city and fled into the sea. Tang He pursued him and forced Fang Guozhen to surrender, pacified eastern Zhejiang, and continued his army.
Entered Fujian, captured Yanping (today's Nanping City, Fujian), captured Chen Youding alive, and pacified Fujian. In the fourth year of Hongwu (1371 AD), Tang He was awarded the title of General for the Expedition of the West, attacked Chongqing, Sichuan, and destroyed the Xia Kingdom. He was also separated from Hongwu
In the fifth, ninth, fourteenth, and eighteenth years, he campaigned against the remnants of the Wu Dynasty in the northwest. Tang He was granted the title of Governor of the Left. After his death, he was posthumously named King of Dongou, given the posthumous title of Xiangwu, and was buried in Caoshan, Fengyang.