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Red Turban Movement Regime Network

Type Object Region China Time 1361–1368

The Red Turban armies were anti-Yuan armed forces and regime coalitions in the late Yuan dynasty, bound by White Lotus faith and identified by red tu…

Timeline

  1. 1363Poyang Lake · JiangxiZhu Yuanzhang fought Chen Youliang at Poyang Lake; Chen was defeated and killed, Han Lin'er's Song regime became a shell, and the strongest force in the Red Turban network shifted to Zhu Yuanzhang's group, marking a major turning point in the pattern of rival regimes.
  2. c. 1366–1367Pingjiang (Suzhou) · JiangnanZhu Yuanzhang's army destroyed Zhang Shicheng's Zhou regime at Pingjiang, and successively pacified Fang Guozhen, Chen Youding, and other forces in Fujian and Guangdong; the Red Turban separatist regimes south of the Yangtze were basically integrated.
  3. 1368Dadu · North ChinaZhu Yuanzhang declared himself emperor at Yingtian and founded the Ming, dispatching Xu Da and Chang Yuchun on a northern expedition; Emperor Shun of Yuan fled north and the Yuan dynasty fell. The Red Turban-era regime network was replaced by the unified Ming regime, bringing the late Yuan peasant war to a close.

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