Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Everyone should be familiar with Yuan Chonghuan's personal experience.If you are interested, you can also search for historical materials and Baidu, and there is no irrigation here.Here, the author mainly talks about some of Yuan Chonghuan's main deeds before this, and why Yuan Chonghuan became the minister who resolved the situation in Liaodong in the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen and ministers at that time.

Yuan Chonghuan had just been admitted to Jinshi, and when he was a county magistrate in Fujian, he used his time to go to the capital for assessment to inspect the border, inspect the situation outside the customs, and submitted a detailed investigation report and solution to the imperial court.

This incident made Yuan Chonghuan famous, and he was immediately reused by the court, promoted and transferred to Liaodong.However, we can also see how the Ming court at that time lacked military talents.

However, it can be seen from this incident that Yuan Chonghuan is a person who cares about the country and the people and is brave enough to do things.And it can be said that throughout his life, these two advantages of Yuan Chonghuan have not diminished by more than half.

After Yuan Chonghuan took office in Liaodong, under the grand strategy of the Ningjin defense line of the governor of Liaodong at that time, the abbot of Sun Chengzong, and under the command of Sun Chengzong, he regained a large area of ​​​​the lost ground in Liaodong.As a result, the situation in Liaodong cannot be said to be reversed, but at least it has improved.And it stabilized the situation in Liaodong.

Here we will talk about Sun Chengzong's Ningjin defense line.The Ningjin line of defense is actually a strangling offensive strategy in a defensive state.On the surface, it seems to be building strong fortresses for defense. In fact, its essence is to restrict the mobility of the Houjin army, threaten and remove the strategic locations of the Houjin army one by one, forcing the Houjin army to go Attack these strong fortresses in order to achieve the purpose of mass killing and injuring the vital forces of the Houjin army.

This strategy is somewhat similar to the bunker group strategy in the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign.In the end, the Red Army was forced to abandon the central yang base and embark on a [-]-mile long march.

But this strategy has the following disadvantages: slow effect, long time and costly money.Therefore, under the financial distress of the Ming Dynasty, and because of the political confrontation between Wei Zhongxian and Sun Chengzong, Sun Chengzong had no choice but to resign from office and return to his hometown.And the strategy of Ning Jin's line of defense had to be stopped.

In this way, the Houjin army, which was oppressed by the Ningjin defense line more and more embarrassingly, finally breathed a sigh of relief, and developed greatly in the future.

But in any case, under the command of Sun Chengzong, Yuan Chonghuan did recover a large piece of lost land in Liaodong.His merits are also solid.

Next, we will talk about Yuan Chonghuan's battle at the most glorious moment in his life.After Sun Chengzong resigned, Gao Di took over.Gao Di thought that the outside of the customs could not be defended.On the one hand, his point of view is because Gaodi's military talent is really bad, but the main reason is the financial distress of the Ming Dynasty.

However, when Gaodi's order was promulgated, Yuan Chonghuan refused to accept it, and led his generals to guard the lonely city of Ningyuan alone.In this battle, the cannons defending the city wounded the leader of the Houjin army, Hachi.And it led to the death of ** Hachi (there are historical disputes about this point).The Hou Jin army was also defeated and retreated.

This battle was the only big victory when the Ming Dynasty fought against the Houjin army.After the news came, the government and the public were jubilant, and Yuan Chonghuan's personal reputation reached its peak.

From this point of view, Yuan Chonghuan did have the merits of making a move.It should indeed be expected.However, this is only the opinion of these laymen in the court.What do insiders think of Yuan Chonghuan?Because in Liaodong, all the military officers fought, that is to say, how did those military officers view Yuan Chonghuan, the supervisor, in their eyes?

Do these military officers accept Yuan Chonghuan's leadership?Of course it is accepted.Because they know that they will definitely not become the supervisor of Liaodong.Compared with those civilian supervisors who command blindly, Yuan Chonghuan still understands military affairs better.This can be regarded as picking the eldest son among the dwarfs.

But are they convinced by Yuan Chonghuan's achievements?not necessarily.

Let's take a look at Yuan Chonghuan's first achievement.Under the command of Sun Chengzong, he regained these lost lands in Liaodong.Therefore, no matter how Yuan Chonghuan decides to win thousands of miles away, the main credit is Sun Chengzong who has strategized.

What about Yuan Chonghuan's Ningyuan victory?A blind shell killed the commander-in-chief of the Houjin army, Mr. Hachi.It can only be said that Yuan Chonghuan's luck is simply too good for a blind cat to encounter a dead mouse.This big victory can also be said to be a big victory with great chance.

However, does Yuan Chonghuan know what these military officers think?also know.So how should he respond?He can only take, and there is only one countermeasure: win over the Liaodong Iron Cavalry Group, the largest military attache group among Liaodong military attaches.

From the previous article, we already know that the Liaodong cavalry was created by Li Chengliang.However, after Li Chengliang's eldest son Li Rusong died in battle, the Liaodong Iron Cavalry was leaderless.Some even rebelled.Who is it that rebels?It's **hachi. **Ha Chi can also be said to be a member of the Liaodong cavalry.

These remaining Liaodong iron cavalry military officers formed a strict alliance-like military group.It also became the largest military group of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong.As a result, no matter who is the supervisor in Liaodong, he has to rely on this military group.Even Emperor Chongzhen had to rely on Wu Sangui, a general of this military group, at the end.

Liaodong Iron Cavalry Group's external appeals are basically the same, and they are also joint actions.However, they are also in the form of alliances internally.These military officers own a large amount of land outside the customs, and they drive military households to cultivate these lands.Acquire great wealth.

And the strength in their hands is reflected by the soldiers they raise.Whoever acquires more wealth can raise more soldiers.Whoever has more soldiers has a higher status.Therefore, when Grandmaster Hachi attacked Ningyuan, these military officers had to fight against the Houjin army with Yuan Chonghuan just for the sake of their own land outside the pass.

By the way, at this time, in this military group, there was a younger brother——Wu Xiang.Wu Xiang himself has no great deeds, but he has a famous son-Wu Sangui.

However, if Yuan Chonghuan wants to win over the Liaodong Iron Cavalry Group, he will definitely lean towards this military group in terms of material supply and military pay.Moreover, when Yuan Chonghuan conducts any military operations, the demands of this military group must also be considered.Even a little accommodating.

But in this way, the problem arises.We all know that no matter in any military operation, reconnaissance work must be one of the most important tasks.And we know that reconnaissance work is divided into two parts: reconnaissance and strangulation.We all understand how to do reconnaissance, but what is strangulation?

To strangle is to divide an area around the large army of your own side.In this area, as long as you see the enemy's spies, you will kill them all.The purpose of the strangulation is to prevent the enemy's spies from knowing the location of the enemy's large troops, and let their own spies detect the location of the enemy's large troops.In this way, the effect of the enemy's light and our darkness is achieved.

And the spies of this era are all cavalry.why?If it's infantry, even if you scout something, it's too late to go back and report it!So tall and straight.These spies can't hide at all.

When these spies see the enemy's spies, if both sides are within the strangulation zone, they will immediately pick up their weapons and carry out a life-and-death pk.When we see this, we can understand: In some works, if the hype is so miraculous that the night is not closed, then it is completely nonsense.

This kind of strangulation battle is the cruelest in the entire cavalry battle.Because if the will to fight on both sides is very tenacious, then the battle loss ratio is completely one to one.Why add the attributive "both sides have a tenacious will to fight"?

Because if one of the spies escapes, the god of death will wave to the spies.This shows that the spy left his back to the enemy and completely gave up resistance.

Here, some people may have some doubts: Isn't the cavalry of the Houjin army very good?Didn't they have the upper hand in such a strangling battle?

In fact, this is another misunderstanding.Riding she, riding she, these two words should be pronounced separately.That is to say, in general combat situations, don't ride when riding, and don't ride when riding.Of course, except in special cases.

No matter how superb a person's riding and shooting skills are, the probability that he hits a moving target fifty paces away while riding a galloping horse is about the same as the probability that a person buys a lottery ticket that wins the jackpot .

Do not believe?Then take a look at the modern Olympic shooting and archery event.The world's top group of archery masters, holding the most advanced bows and arrows made of high-tech materials, has received the most rigorous and scientific training.However, even if they stood on the ground and shot a stationary target 70 meters away, they couldn't reach the tenth ring with their arrows.

Therefore, when his spies are sent out, the commander of the army must be mentally prepared for a large number of spies to be killed or injured.However, no matter how huge the loss of the spies is, the commander of the army must insist on dispatching them.Because, an experienced army commander can roughly judge the position of the opponent's large army from the direction and density of his spies' deaths.But all of this is a great test of the psychology of the army commander and those spies.This is completely a contest of willpower between the two sides.

At this time, the Houjin army set up such a strangulation zone. They turned an area about fifty miles wide into a no-man's land.In this no-man's land, as long as they are not their own two-legged creatures, they will kill them indiscriminately.

The military officers of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry Group were unwilling to send their own soldiers into no-man's land to carry out this kind of strangulation battle.Because of the loss of these personal soldiers, their status in the military attache alliance will be reduced.

In order to accommodate these military officers, Yuan Chonghuan had to agree to the demands of these military officers.

In addition, Houjin sent a large number of spies to Liaodong and the pass, mainly Han Chinese who surrendered to Houjin.This caused such a bad result: the Liaodong army of the Ming Dynasty knew nothing about the movements of the Houjin army.Then the Jin army knew the movements of the Liaodong army of the Ming Dynasty well.

Yuan Chonghuan moved to the military officers of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry Group, which also caused such a consequence.The military attaches of other factions in Liaodong were treated like little daughter-in-laws.The materials and military pay they got were very little, but they had to go on dangerous missions.They must be unconvinced in their hearts.Some even got into a fight.Among them, Mao Wenlong, who was stationed in Dongjiang, made the most trouble.

And let's take a look at Yuan Chonghuan's character.It can be seen from the performance summoned by his platform that he is self-centered in doing things.To put it nicely is to be more confident, to put it badly is to be more arrogant.It looks like Lao Tzu is number one in the world.Otherwise, Yuan Chonghuan would never have treated Emperor Chongzhen like a child in such a formal summons.

Another character of Yuan Chonghuan is that he doesn't think much about the consequences when he does things.We just need to put ourselves in the shoes of our boss and think about it: If we have something to say about our boss, will we tell our colleagues what we think?Aren't you afraid that your colleagues will pass this word to the boss's ears?

And Yuan Chonghuan did just that.You know, what he is facing is not the boss who can only copy him, but the emperor of the Ming Dynasty who can kill him!

And as a supervisor with Shang Fang's sword in his hand, he is also a self-centered person who doesn't think much about the consequences of doing things.When the supervisor meets a disobedient subordinate military officer, how will he use this Shangfang sword?

alright.When we basically understood the internal and external situation of the Ming Dynasty at this time, after completing the focus interviews.We still go back to Wu Shigong.