The six-dimensional pictures of emperors of all dynasties were exposed, and the ancestors panicked

Chapter 641: Battle of Guangning: Burned to ashes

Tang Xuanzong Period
Li Longji stroked his long beard, and a gleam of light flashed in his eyes.

"It seems that the governor of a local government in the Ming Dynasty was higher in rank than the governor!"

Li Mi glanced at him.

Are you serious?

Li Longji looked at Li Mi, who had a solemn face, and laughed awkwardly:
"Just kidding... But theoretically speaking, at least in terms of Liaodong's military deployment, Wang Huazhen should accept Xiong Tingbi's leadership. But looking at this... it's not just a matter of pretending to obey but actually disobeying."

Seeing that Li Longji's attitude had returned to normal, Li Mi also spoke:

"Xiong Tingbi has the emperor standing behind him now."

"Maybe the Donglin Party is behind Wang Huazhen."

A meaningful smile appeared on the emperor's lips.

"If that's the case, it seems that Liaodong...can't be pacified."

Not only will it be impossible to pacify it, but this Liaodong area will become a place specifically for dealing with dissidents in the future.

Whether the emperor likes it or not.

……

Ming Dynasty·Chongzhen period
In the warm room of the Qianqing Palace, memorials were scattered on the floor.

Zhu Youjian, dressed in a white suit and with messy hair, was lying on the ground flipping through various memorials from the Tianqi period.

"That's it! That's it!"

He suddenly raised a memorial, his eyes bloodshot.

"The first year of Tianqi..."

"The chief minister of the cabinet, Ye Xianggao..."

"Minister of War Zhang Heming..."

"Wang Huazhen... Donglin Party... They are all Donglin Party members!"

"They are all biased towards Wang Huazhen! They are all biased!"

Wang Chengen, who was standing aside, looked at the emperor worriedly.

"A bunch of liars! Liars who deceive the world and steal reputation!"

Zhu Youjian looked at the memorials scattered all over the floor and gritted his teeth in hatred.

……

[Xiong Tingbi has always been a strategic defensiveist. He emphasized the need to improve defenses and build castles.]

[The last time he came to Liaodong, he insisted on strengthening the defense and waiting for the opportunity.]

[The plan he told Emperor Tianqi was to construct a buffer zone between Liaoyang and Guangning and establish an early warning system to wait for the enemy to arrive.]

【Wang Huazhen is an out-and-out aggressor.】

[He said that as long as he led an army across the Liao River, he could defeat Nurhaci before the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15.]

[Xiong Tingbi couldn't stand it any longer, so he wrote to the emperor, asking him to restrain Wang Huazhen and make him behave more carefully, at least not to make a fool of himself by the enemy.]

[When Wang Huazhen heard this, he was furious and immediately wrote to the emperor, saying that he was willing to ask for 60,000 troops to wipe out Nurhaci the clown in one fell swoop.]

[In this way, the Liaodong front appeared a situation where everyone "did not fight, did not defend, dared not laugh or cry, and was restrained in everything." ]

……

{Wang Huazhen was stationed in Guangning, leading an army of 130,000, of which more than 120,000 were stationed on the Guangning front line, and Xiong Tingbi was stationed in Shanhaiguan, 500 to 600 miles away from Guangning. Although Xiong Tingbi was nominally the supreme commander of the war zone, he had only 5,000 men under his command and was unable to command Wang Huazhen, who was backed by the cabinet minister and the minister of war.}
{Wang Huazhen's strategy would have been correct if he could defeat the Later Jin army, but it would have been wrong if he just wanted to die.}
{In fact, it is difficult to distinguish the right from the wrong of various strategic deployments, and they must ultimately be verified by facts}

{The fact is, according to the strength of the Ming army at that time, could they really attack after retreating all the way from Sarhu? Did they have the strength to do so? They first lost Sarhu and then Liaoshen. They didn't have the ability to do so.}
{When facing an opponent with strong mobility, combat effectiveness and organizational ability, defense is the best way. Since a strong enemy can attack instead of defend, the defender can also defend instead of attack.}
{In fact, Xiong Tingbi's method is a stupid method. This method is very expensive because it requires constantly building fortresses and cities. The more the better and the stronger the better. At the same time, it is also necessary to train soldiers to garrison. However, the Ming Dynasty now has "no money"}
{Therefore, Wang Huazhen believed that Xiong Tingbi's defensive strategy would not work. The failure of Liaodong's defense was a lesson for him. Therefore, he advocated an offensive and wanted to cross the Liaohe River to recapture Liaodong.}
{This is bullshit. If it weren't for Yuan Yingtai's recklessness, Nurhaci wouldn't have been able to conquer Liaoshen.}
{There is no other way. War is all about who can hold out to the end and win the final victory, which also includes the battles behind the generals' backs.}
……

Great Sui.

Yang Jian was both amused and confused.

"If there are ten of them, then surround them. How can we advance without ten times more troops?"

"Since the Liao Dynasty, I have never seen anyone do anything upright."

"The Ming central government is completely rotten."

Dugu Jialuo patted the child in her arms and whispered:

"The young emperor's attitude is still not clear and strong enough. In this respect, he is not as good as Jiajing and Wanli."

Yang Jian slowly exhaled and sighed:

"Zhu Changluo obviously got the throne for nothing. It's unclear whether Zhu Youxiao has undergone the complete imperial training."

“To be able to do this is considered to be a determined person.”

“Nothing in the world can go as planned.”

"Da Ming..."

Yang Jian shook his head and said nothing more.

Dugu Jialuo had nothing to say.

The roots of the Ming Dynasty are complicated, but the root cause can still be traced back to one question.

A tree without roots.

The roots of the Two Han Dynasties are the Seven Emperors of the Early Han Dynasty.

The foundation of the Tang Dynasty is Li Shimin. The foundation of the Song Dynasty is Zhao Kuangyin's promise.

The descendants of these dynasties all had one goal, which was to return to the virtues of Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing, Emperor Taizong, and Emperor Taizu.

But what are the roots of the Ming Dynasty?

Zhu Yuanzhang could have been the root, but he became a butcher.

Zhu Di could also be that root, but he didn't have enough time and was ultimately inferior.

The reign of Renzong and Xuanzong was the last opportunity to establish roots.

Met Zhu Qizhen...

Further on...

It's been like this all the way.

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[The Ming Dynasty court was full of spitting, with officials praising Wang Huazhen and criticizing Xiong Tingbi.]

[The young emperor was unable to judge who was right and who was wrong, so he called together his ministers in the first month of the second year of the Tianqi reign to discuss whether to use Xiong Tingbi's strategy or adopt Wang Huazhen's opinion.]

[Should the power be concentrated in Xiong Tingbi, or should it be fully handed over to Wang Huazhen? ]

[The final result was to transfer Xiong Tingbi away and concentrate power on Wang Huazhen.]

[But before the order was delivered, new battle reports came from Liaodong.]

……

On the canopy.

In a warm room with a fire burning.

The two generals sat and looked at each other.

A tall man with short beard, thick eyebrows, and bright armor.

A man of medium build, with a long beard and a drooping belly, wearing mottled armor.

"Didn't you say at the time that you would lead 60,000 troops across the Liao River and wipe out the Later Jin in one fell swoop? Why are you in such a mess now?"

General Changxu looked ashamed when he heard this.

"It was me who failed to distinguish right from wrong and wrongly trusted the villain."

"Since the governor is here, do you want to go and defend Guangning again?"

The short-bearded general stopped sneer, remained silent for a moment, and said in a dry voice:
"late."

"One hundred thousand soldiers and horses were wiped out in one day, and all the officials and civilians in the city fled in the middle of the day."

"There is no one left to save."

"And the five thousand soldiers under my command..."

General Changxu closed his eyes and sighed.

The short-bearded general was silent again. After a while, he spoke:

"It's impossible to defend. The whole army has collapsed."

"What we can do now is to evacuate all residents of western Liaoning to Shanhaiguan."

"As for the food and military supplies... they can't be transported away, so we have to destroy them all."

……

[The 1622th day of the first lunar month in the second year of the Tianqi reign of the Ming Dynasty and the seventh year of the Tianming reign of the Later Jin Khanate ().]

[After watching carefully for a long time, Nurhaci was sure that Xiong Tingbi would not do anything else, so he sent troops to approach Guangning.]

【Wang Huazhen believed that the time had come to accomplish extraordinary feats, so he followed Sun Degong's plan and sent all the troops of Guangning out to meet the enemy.】

[Who knew that Sun Degong had already rebelled? As soon as the two sides fought, Sun Degong and others who had already made their arrangements shouted "The Ming army is defeated, the Ming army is defeated" and then ran away.]

[The confused army thought they had been defeated, and they were defeated and scattered across the board.]

[After Sun Degong and others fled into Guangning City, they spread the news that Nurhaci had arrived outside the city, causing chaos among the soldiers and civilians in the city, and they fled in panic.]

[Wang Huazhen, who was waiting for good news, was helped onto a horse by a general and left Guangning.]

[At Luyang Posthouse, Wang Huazhen met Xiong Tingbi who came to help from Shanhaiguan. ]

[After some discussion, the two decided to escort the people of Liaoxi directly into the pass.]

[Afterwards, Xiong Tingbi handed over 5,000 soldiers and horses to Wang Huazhen to guard the rear, and he himself rode to Shanhaiguan to arrange for the entry of soldiers and civilians into the pass.]

[The Ming army slowly retreated, and the Later Jin army did not pursue them.]

[In order to avoid aiding the enemy, the Ming army set fire along the way, burning more than 40 castles including Jinzhou, Tiechang, Dalinghe, Jin'an, Youtunwei, Tuanshan, Xingshan, and Songshan, as well as a total of 10 million taels of food and fodder.]

[The Liaoxi Corridor defense line, which had taken hundreds of years and cost a lot of money to build during the Ming Dynasty, was destroyed overnight, and the Battle of Guangning came to an end. ]

[On the 24th day of the first lunar month, Nurhaci entered Guangning amid the surrender of Ming troops from various places, the yellow earth paving the ground, and the sound of drums and music.]

……

Datang.

Li Shimin looked at the Hu chieftains slowly entering the pass through the sky and sighed:
"I'm afraid Xiong and Wang won't make it."

……

(End of this chapter)