Chapter 593: Wei Liangqing with a headache
Please enter the text At the end of September, after the battle of Qinglong River, the news reached the imperial court, and the whole country was in an uproar, and the whole country was a sensation. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
It has been fifteen years since the Houjin raised the banner! The Ming Dynasty has never won such a great victory in the war against the Houjin! Even though Mao Wenlong of Dongjiang Town formed a powerful influence on the Houjin, even if Yuan Chonghuan of Ningyuan repelled Nurhachi with the Hongyi cannon, even if Sun Chengzong was in Liaodong step by step, and even if Yuan Keli was in Denglai to run a naval division and conquer the 400 miles of coastal territory, no one could form a great victory against the Houjin in the field of wave warfare that killed and injured thousands or tens of thousands of people!
Now Chang Wei has done it!
After the First World War, more than 20,000 people of the Mongolian and Han Eight Banners of the Jin Dynasty were killed and wounded, and 5,000 real Jurchen cavalrymen were killed and wounded!
This is simply unheard of, and more importantly, Chang Wei did not use a single soldier of the imperial court, almost with the strength of one person, with the cavalry of his subordinates and the court of Ezhe Khan!
If you want to talk about the Later Jin, you have to start with the Jurchens, who have always lived in eastern Liaodong and are divided into three parts, the most powerful one is the Jianzhou Jurchens, who thrive in the western foothills of Changbai Mountain, the Songhua River and the Liaohe River basin.
During the reign of Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, in order to outflank the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, he set up a Liaodong command envoy in this place to control the various tribes of the Jurchens. The Jianzhou Jurchens were successively divided into three guards, collectively known as the "Jianzhou Three Guards", and most of their officers were Jurchen tribal leaders.
Jianzhou Jurchen Mengge Timur (Nurhachi VI ancestor), when he was the governor of Jianzhou Weizuo, the northern tribe Wudiha was powerful, and went south to oppress the Jianzhou Jurchen, and Meng's brother Timur was killed. The Jianzhou Department was forced to move south, and eventually settled in Xingjing and merged into Jianzhouwei. After moving south, the Jianzhou Jurchens were supported by the Ming court and developed rapidly.
In the fourth year of Longqing (1570), Wang Gao, the right guard of Jianzhou, rebelled along the border and was beheaded, and his son Atai continued to confront the Ming army. Li Chengliang, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, launched an attack and disintegrated the three guards of Jianzhou, and since then the tribes have been scattered and independent.
In this battle, Takshi of the left guard of Jianzhou was the guide of the Ming army, and was mistakenly killed by the Ming army in the war. Liaodong Dusi casually gave a little compensation, which is quite unauthentic, but Li Chengliang is the emperor of Liaodong, and his ability and power are greater than that of Qi Jiguang, a famous general of the same era, and Nurhachi, the son of Takshi, can only accept this compensation in shame.
Twenty-five-year-old Nurhachi returned to his tribe, gathered his people, killed a cow, held a ritual to worship the heavens, took out thirteen pairs of armor handed down from his ancestors, and announced the start of the army.
After receiving the compensation, he raised troops again? This is too bold and heroic, right? You must know that with the power of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong at that time, as long as you move your little finger, you can kill Nurhachi, no, it is Li Chengliang who can crush Nurhachi with your little finger!
The reason why Nurhachi dared to do this was because Li Chengliang was his godfather!
Nurhachi transliterates as "wild boar skin", and his brother Shulhaqi means "little wild boar skin", and in the eyes of the Jurchens, "wild boar skin" is not a derogatory meaning. The Jurchens hoped that their children would be as tough as wild boar skin, not afraid of rain, snow, wind and frost, resistant to wear and tear, and resistant to beatings.
Nurhachi's grandfather, Jue Chang'an, was the chief of Hetuala, a small Jurchen tribe in Jianzhou, and his father, Takshi, was the fourth son of Jue Chang'an. Nurhachi lost his mother when he was a teenager and couldn't stay at home anymore, so the stubborn Nurhachi took his half-brother Shulhaqi and went to his maternal grandfather Wang Gao.
Wang Gao often led troops to break into the Ming territory, and in July of the second year of Wanli, the imperial court ordered Li Chengliang to send troops to conscript. Wang Gao was defeated and captured, and was escorted to the Beijing division and beheaded.
After Li Chengliang captured Wang Gao's cottage, he burned and looted. Li Chengliang, like many Ming border troops, was very cruel to the Jurchens, often implemented a policy of extermination, and it was common for the young Nurhachi to see that the situation was not good, so he led his younger brother and hugged Li Chengliang's legs and begged for mercy.
After Li Chengliang inquired, he learned that these two Jurchen teenagers turned out to be the grandsons of Jue Chang'an, and Li Chengliang was very familiar with Jue Chang'an and Takshi, and had been friends for many years. As a descendant of an old friend, Li Chengliang brought Nurhachi back to the Liaodong General Military Mansion in Quang Ninh. He also gave him a new name, Xiao Han, a name that Nurhachi loved so much that when he was later crowned emperor, he was called King Han by everyone.
Nurhachi became the family member of General Li's soldiers, a scholar, a servant, and a guard. In addition to serving Li Chengliang, he is also responsible for serving Li Chengliang's concubine Li Xilan. This period in the General Military Mansion became an important turning point in Nurhachi's life. At that time, there were frequent wars in Liaodong, and whenever there was a war, Nurhachi went out with Li Chengliang, and he must be the first to climb in every battle, and he made many meritorious contributions, and Chengliang treated him favorably.
Even Li Chengliang took him with him when he went in and out of Beijing. In the years that he followed Li Chengliang, Nurhachi saw the world and broadened his horizons. Witness how the mighty Ming army charged into battle and captured the city. I have a real understanding of strategy and tactics and troop arrangement.
Because of his curry favor with Xilan, Nurhachi read a lot of military books and war strategies. In his later war career, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" almost became Nurhachi's "treasure book for soldiers".
In the General Military Mansion, Nurhachi not only studied, but also often caused trouble, and was arrested by Li Chengliang and almost killed, but the concubine named Li Xilan let him go, therefore, some people said that Nurhachi and Li Xilan had a leg. But it doesn't matter, what is a concubine? A concubine is just a tool and property, and giving away and having fun with concubines is simply a common thing in the eyes of dignitaries and nobles!
In addition, Nurhachi's younger brother Shulhaqi had a daughter who married Li Chengliang's son Li Rubai as a concubine.
And all indications show that the brave and grieving Nurhachi is not only good at fighting, but also very good at getting things done. often gives gifts to Li Chengliang, and things are pulled by cars, patted on the back, and does everything.
This is evidenced, in February of the 11th year of Wanli (1583), Nurhachi's grandfather and father were killed by mistake, and Nurhachi accepted the commission to govern the tribe. In December, Nurhachi's sworn enemy, the most powerful Yehebu in the Haixi Jurchens, was defeated, and more than 2,000 people were killed, and his power was greatly reduced.
After that, Nurhachi led his troops to attack Nikan Wailan, and Nikan Wailan defected to Li Chengliang, but Li Chengliang handed him over to Nurhachi.
In the fifteenth year of Wanli (1587), the Haixi Jurchen Hada Division, Mengge Bulu, and Ye He were discovered by Li Chengliang, who immediately attacked and killed more than 500 people.
In the sixteenth year of Wanli (1588), Yehebu was strong again, and Li Chengliang attacked again, killing Qing Jianu's son Nalin Neckluo, killing more than 600 people, Yehebu's strength was greatly damaged, and he had to recuperate.
In the twenty-first year of Wanli (1593), Nurhachi finally unified the Jurchens and became the most powerful tribe of the Jurchens. In September, in the face of the increasingly powerful Nurhachi, the Haixi Jurchen Yehe tribe united with the Hada tribe, the Mongolian Horqin tribe and other nine major tribes to form a coalition army, launched the Battle of Gule Mountain, attacked Nurhachi, failed, and killed more than 4,000 people.
After the war, Nurhachi divided the bodies of the leaders of the Yeh tribe, half of them were kept, and half of them were handed over to the Yeh tribe. Since then, the Yehebu and the Aixin Jueluo have not shared the sky. Therefore, the last leader of the Yehe tribe, Su Tai's father, Bel Jintaishi, said: There is only one woman left in the Yehe tribe, and she will also be overthrown!
Li Chengliang and Qi Jiguang were the famous generals at that time, and his son Li Rusong was the main general of the Wanli Dynasty, and his name was passed down through the ages. Li Chengliang's strategic vision is very clever, and he has the habit of attacking whoever shows his head, and destroying whoever is strong, such as the Tatars, the Yehe Ministry, and the Hada Ministry. The Haixi Jurchens were torn apart, and most of Yeheha had just bubbled up before he was beaten and suppressed.
However, this habit, in Nurhachi, did not work. For ten years, Nurhachi gradually grew stronger from a weak tribe and unified the Jianzhou Jurchens, but Li Chengliang turned a blind eye to such a behemoth.
In the twentieth year of Wanli (1592), the war broke out, and Li Rusong was ordered to go on the expedition.
Therefore, what Li Chengliang gave to Nurhachi was not a little compensation silver, but friendship, apology, shelter and selfless help, as well as striking at potential opponents and giving him room for development, and the response he got was obedience.
Li Chengliang sheltered Nurhachi, and it had nothing to do with the situation, he decided that this was an obedient cronie, a good dog, who could bite people, kill people, plunder wealth, cultivate power for himself, and make the Li family an unrivaled existence in Liaodong! Nurhachi did exactly this, he took the initiative to ask for war, and it had nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty, just because he decided that the Li family was an ally, a backer, and a good master!
What Li Chengliang did was not wrong, he raised Nurhachi and cultivated the enemies of the Ming Dynasty, but he did not do it on purpose, let alone a traitor. Because in his opinion, Nurhachi is nothing, just an obedient and good dog, feeding and closing, making him grow, and finally becoming his own minions.
Supporting the obedient and suppressing the disobedient is the national policy of the Ming Dynasty in border affairs, and everyone does it. Chang Wei is also doing this kind of thing - supporting people who can be controlled, such as Ezhe Khan, Su Tai, Ma Lie, and Zhuo Qizhen, and killing those who are disobedient in Chahan Buhua, Ordos, Tumochuan, Chahar, and Horqin.
But Nurhachi's dog grew up quickly, it was strong, with sharp teeth and a sharp mouth, and finally it showed its fangs, and finally, it was no longer a wild dog, it became a tiger, it was not a pet, but a beast, but Li Chengliang was unaware of this or didn't take it seriously at all!
Because, Li Chengliang has this capital, he has the talent of a general, in the case of the greed and cowardice of the generals of the entire Ming court, and the situation of the abandonment of the border preparation, he guarded Liaodong for 30 years, and led the Liaodong Iron Cavalry to play ten great victories, and the prosperity of the border marshal's martial arts has been unprecedented in 200 years.
But he was in a good position, extravagant, and falsely reported his military exploits, and was impeached by the officials. In the 19th year of Wanli (1591), Li Chengliang was dismissed, and before that, he had defeated the Tatars, Yehe, Hada, and all the powerful tribes, except Nurhachi.
Ten years later, Li Chengliang took office again, at this time Nurhachi had unified the Jianzhou Jurchens and was extremely strong, but in Li Chengliang's view, Nurhachi seemed to be the obedient good dog, so he made a wrong choice - to give up Liubao.
Liubao is the military base of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong, an important fortress to contain the Jurchens, and the only barrier to Fushun and Qinghe, which are important towns in Liaodong.
At this time, the six forts, there were no soldiers to press the border, there was no food famine, no matter what, it should not and could not be given up, but Li Chengliang gave up. In the thirty-fourth year of Wanli (1606), Li Chengliang officially gave up Liubao and moved away more than 100,000 residents here, giving up this place to Nurhachi.
This is a wrong choice, it is a shameless choice, Li Chengliang not only lost the strategic land, destroyed the homes of more than 100,000 people, but also used this to repay the imperial court: to appease more than 100,000 border people, I really don't know how to be ashamed!
Nurhachi effortlessly occupied the Six Forts, and the prosperity and weakness of the Ming Dynasty were all exposed in front of him, and at that moment, he finally bred unquenchable ambition and the possibility of realizing it.
In the forty-third year of Wanli (1615), Li Chengliang died at the age of ninety. Meritorious service, thousands of disasters, ten thousand deaths are not enough to forgive their sins!
A year after Li Chengliang's death, Nurhachi completely showed his fangs, and in the forty-fourth year of Wanli (1616), Nurhachi was called "the wise Khan of the overlying countries" in Hetuala, and the country name was "Dajin", known as Houjin, and became the Great Khan of Houjin, and changed the Mandate of Heaven!
In the forty-sixth year of Wanli (1618, the third year of the Mandate of Heaven), Nurhachi thought that the Ming court favored the Jurchen Yehebu and was resentful, and angrily promulgated the "Seven Great Hatreds" and raised troops against the Ming.
In the forty-seventh year of Wanli (1619, the fourth year of the Mandate of Heaven), the first key battle between the Later Jin and Ming Dynasty - the Battle of Sarhu broke out. Yang Hao led the four-way Ming army to attack the Houjin army, preparing to attack the Houjin base camp Hetuala.
The commanders of the Fourth Route Army were Du Song, the commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan, Li Rubai, the second son of Li Chengliang, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, Ma Lin, the son of Ma Fang, the famous general of Kaiyuan, and Liu Ling, the commander-in-chief of Liaoyang. However, the intelligence of the Ming army was leaked to the Houjin army, so that the Houjin army had already prepared.
Nurhachi adopted the method of concentrating forces and breaking them individually, that is, the so-called "I will only go all the way depending on how many ways I come", concentrating superior forces and breaking them individually. Nurhachi defeated the Ming army with fewer victories and more victories, thus changing the strategic pattern of Liaodong and making a fundamental turning point in the balance of forces between the two sides.
Since then, Jin has taken the initiative to attack, while Daming is in a passive situation. In the forty-seventh year of Wanli (the fourth year of the Later Jin Mandate, 1619), Nurhachi was called the emperor of the Great Jin Kingdom.
In the first year of the Apocalypse (the sixth year of the Mandate of Heaven, 1621), taking advantage of the fact that the two emperors of Wanli and Taichang had just died, and the sixteen-year-old Zhu Youxiao had just ascended the throne, the party struggle within the court was fierce, and the government was unstable, Nurhachi led a heavy army to besiege Shenyang.
The city of Shenyang is strong and powerful, easy to defend and difficult to attack. However, the troops in the city rebelled and were conquered by the Houjin. In the same year, the Later Jin army captured Liaoyang, and in the fifth year of the Apocalypse (the tenth year of the Mandate of Heaven, 1625), the Later Jin moved the capital to Shenyang, and changed Shenyang to Shengjing.
In the sixth year of the Apocalypse (the eleventh year of the Mandate of Heaven, 1626), Nurhachi attacked Ningyuan, and Yuan Chonghuan used Hongyi cannons to repel the Houjin attack. The eighth prince of the emperor, Huang Taiji, succeeded to the throne after winning the power struggle.
After Huang Taiji inherited the foundation, he saw the maladministration, so he consolidated the foundation and reformed. The organizational structure of the imperial court was basically improved, and the relationship between Manchu, Mongolian, and Han was coordinated. The eight banners of Mongolia and Han Dynasty, the defeat of Lin Dan Khan, the incorporation of Horqin, Chahar and other Tatar tribes, and the success of imitating Hongyi cannons are a prosperous and upward trend!
Now, this momentum has been broken by Chang Wei in two months!
But Huang Taiji is not the most troublesome person, he believes that in the prairie, the Han people can't beat the Jurchens, besides, that battle has the intention of cleaning up the forces of political enemies, and the backhand is to fight back!
The biggest headache is Wei Liangqing!
Since hearing the news during the Chinese New Year last year, Wei Liangqing has begun to have a headache, and now, Chang Wei has established an immortal achievement, and Wei Liangqing can't stand it anymore! )