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Episode 201, Ming won.

Overflowing martial accomplishment.

We last left off in the unraveling of the Yuan World Order with the true sea-changed moment

in the south, the catacasmic battle of Lake Poiang, on the downfall of the self-proclaimed

Emperor of Han, Chen Yoliang, to the rising might of Ju Yuan Jong's Ming state.

And so that's exactly where we'll pick up again today as the fight for China's future barrels

onwards towards its climactic conclusion.

As we'll see today, though the outcome at Poiang wasn't in itself enough to rest control of the empire away from its teetering Mongol overlords in the north.

It certainly put Ju and the Ming in a nearly unassailable position in the south,

and brought their latent imperial ambitions to the forefront.

Much of the two years immediately following Puyang, 1364 and 1365, consisted of Juyuenjiang

shoring up his vast gains over the former Han territories and possessions.

The Siege of Wu Tung, the modern urban core of Wuhan City, for instance, would begin in late

October of 1364 and lasts for almost five months before the enemy

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