Köke Temür

Köke Temür (d. 1375), also called Wang Baobao, was the foremost commander of the late Yuan and pillar of the Northern Yuan. In 1362 he inherited the army of his adoptive father Chaghan Temür after his assassination, storming Yidu to avenge him.

In the struggle at the Yuan court he supported the crown prince against the general Bolad Temür, and was made Prince of Henan in 1365. He resisted the Ming, but Xu Da defeated him at Taiyuan in 1368 and Shen'er Gorge in 1370, driving him north.

In 1372 he crushed Xu Da's army near Karakorum, halting the Ming conquest of the steppe. He spurned every Ming surrender offer; Zhu Yuanzhang called him the extraordinary man of his age.