Later, Chen Youliang followed the Huang Peng Uprising and joined the Red Scarf Army. At first, he was just a small official who wrote documents. Later, because he studied martial arts and was brave enough to fight, he made several military exploits and was promoted to marshal. Later, Ni Wenjun led down archers to Chen Youliang. He took the opportunity to annex the army and grew stronger himself. Later, it captured Anqing, Nanchang, Ruizhou and Ji 'an in Jiangxi, and occupied the land of Jiangxi and Huguang. The power is getting stronger and stronger.
Chen Youliang felt invincible and wanted to capture Nanking. Zhu Yuanzhang, at the suggestion of Liu Ji, sent Hu Dahai to cut off Chen Youliang's posterior approach in Jiangxi, and asked Kang Maocai, a good friend of Chen Youliang, to write a letter to deceive him. Chen Youliang really fell for it, and then fled. This made Chen Youliang very angry and lost his mind.
Not satisfied, he built hundreds of ships tens of meters high. He wants to avenge his past. He fought against Zhu Yuanzhang in Poyang Lake, just in time to catch up with the east wind. Zhu Yuanzhang fired rockets and burned a large number of ships. The two sides are deadlocked. At this time, Chen Youliang's men, General Sargingo and General You Jinwu, led the troops to surrender to Zhu Yuanzhang, causing Chen Youliang to be hit hard again, but he refused to surrender and decided to break through. But in the process of breaking through, he was shot to death by an arrow while directing the operation.