Liaodong, one of the nine borders of the Ming Dynasty, has been the border town of the Ming Dynasty since the eighth year of Hongwu.

The Liaodong Army, the leader of the Ming Border Army, was known for its bravery and good fighting, and the most famous battle of the Liaodong Army was the Wanli Korean War.

In the twentieth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty and the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, Bai Fengcheng Hideyoshi of Dongying Pass organized a large army to attack Korea twice, and successively invested more than 300,000 troops, but both times were repelled by the Ming reinforcements dominated by the Liaodong Army.

With the soldiers of a town in Liaodong as the mainstay, supplemented by more than 10,000 other elite soldiers, and twice repelled more than 300,000 Dongying troops, the good fighting of the Liaodong army can be seen.

So, why is it that after only more than ten years, the heroic and warlike Liaodong Army has been defeated one after another, and has been beaten by Houjin, who was less than 50,000 when the army was raised, lost thousands of miles, and has no power to fight back?

All this originated from the Battle of Sarhu in the 47th year of Wanli.

In this battle, the Ming army gathered 200,000 troops, known as 470,000, to conquer the Jianzhou Jurchen Department, which had a total population of less than 470,000, but was defeated and almost wiped out.

In the battle of Salhu, Yang Hao, the main general of the Ming army, and He Xu Ren, he was the only Ming general who was defeated and lost by the Dongying army in the Wanli Korean War.

At that time, he led 50,000 Ming troops to attack Ulsan, Dongying general Mori Hidemoto, Kuroda Nagamasa and other reinforcements suddenly arrived, he even took the lead in riding horses and fleeing from Seoul without giving the order to retreat, as a result, the Ming army was inexplicably defeated by the Dongying army, with more than 20,000 dead and wounded, if it were not for the deputy general Wu Weizhong led the Qi family army to fight to the death, he was afraid that the 50,000 Ming army under his command would be wiped out!

After the war, the generals condemned him for fleeing without a fight, and he even took out a handwritten letter from Shen Yiyi, the leader of the Zhejiang Party of the current dynasty, and boasted about it.

Of course, with such a fiasco, no matter how much the Zhejiang Party defended him, he was finally deposed.

However, soon after the war, he was reinstated by the Zhejiang Party and served as the governor of Liaodong, which led to the subsequent defeat of Sarhu.

In the battle of Salhu, the Ming army had an obvious advantage, but he was inexplicably divided into four ways.

Ming general Liu Ling, brave and good at fighting, was at odds with Yang Hao, was sent to the East Road, went deep alone, was ambushed by Houjin, and the whole army was annihilated;

The Ming general Juniper, who was eager for meritorious service, ventured into the enemy, was ambushed by Houjin, and the whole army was annihilated;

The Ming general Ma Lin, who formed a camp to protect himself, was defeated and fled because the Houjin attack was too fierce and could not be resisted;

Li Rubai, the Ming general, was afraid of the enemy and timid, hesitated, and fled without a fight as soon as he encountered a Houjin ranger;

The main general Yang Hao obviously has tens of thousands of troops in his hands, but when he heard that Liu Ling and Juniper were ambushed but did not go to the rescue, the Ming army inexplicably reaped a fiasco!

However, this is not enough to kill, at this time, the Houjin did not have many troops, and they had not unified the Jurchen tribes, so after taking Fushun and Tieling, they went back to clean up the Yehe department, and the Ming finally got a little respite.

This time, the Ming court did not send another rice bucket general over, and directly sent Xiong Tingbi, who was quite outstanding in strategy and courage.

As soon as Xiong Tingbi came, he rectified military discipline, recruited new soldiers, retrained an army of 200,000, fought steadily, and recovered more than 100 miles of lost territory.

At this time, the situation is very good, and if we continue to work steadily and steadily, it seems that it is only a matter of time.

However, at this time, a good friend of his, Yao Zongwen, appeared.

Xiong Tingbi can be regarded as the backbone of the Chu Party, and Yao Zongwen is just a small minion of the Zhejiang Party, but at that time, the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang joined forces to fight against Donglin, and under Yao Zongwen's deliberate stammering, Xiong Tingbi slowly became friends with him.

During the Wanli period, Yao Zongwen resigned and returned to his hometown due to mourning, and returned to the dynasty in the first year of the Apocalypse, wanting to become an official, but there was no position, so he wrote to his friend Xiong Tingbi and asked Xiong Tingbi to find him an official position, but as a result, Xiong Tingbi did not follow his wishes, and he was jealous and hateful.

Later, he joined Wei Zhongxian, who was recruiting troops everywhere, and finally got a position in the ministry.

After taking office, the first thing he did was to come to Liaodong, but not to catch up, but to ask for bribes, and Xiong Tingbi did not follow his wishes.

After returning to the dynasty, he immediately tried his best to impeach Xiong Tingbi, at that time, Donglin was in power, thinking that Xiong Tingbi was outstanding, so he had been desperately defending, as a result, the eunuchs took action one after another, and kept impeaching, Ming Xizong finally listened to the slander and dismissed Xiong Tingbi.

As soon as Xiong Tingbi left, Liaodong was instantly chaotic, and Governor Yuan Yingtai succeeded him as the post of economic strategy.

Nurhachi heard that Xiong Tingbi was deposed, and immediately raised troops to attack Shenyang, at that time there were two chief military officers in Shenyang, He Shixian, You Shigong, each commanding more than 10,000 troops, and there were many anti-aircraft artillery in the city, and it was difficult for Jin to conquer in the future.

Nurhachi resorted to a plan to light the enemy, sent the old and weak remnants to death, repeated several times, the general soldier He Shixian was in the plan, led the army to attack, but was ambushed by Nurhachi, fled in a hurry, the general soldier You Shili soldiers went out of the city to rescue, the two of them all died outside the city, the Ming army in the city was leaderless, and there should be an inner city to open the city gate, the strong city of Shenyang, less than three days was breached!

Yuan Yingtai, who was far away in Liaoyang, heard that Houjin besieged Shenyang, and ordered the commander-in-chief Chen Ce and Tong Zhonghua to lead the Sichuan and Zhejiang armies to reinforce from Liaoyang to the north, and sent the commander-in-chief Li Bingcheng and Zhu Wanliang to lead the division from Fengjibao to the north to support, but before the reinforcements arrived in Shenyang, Shenyang had been conquered.

Chen Ce, Tong Zhonghua and others led the Sichuan and Zhejiang armies to fight the main army of Nurhachi in the Hunhe River, and the general soldiers Li Bingcheng and Zhu Wanliang were greedy for life and afraid of death, so they did not reinforce them, and the 8,000 Qijia army and the elite of the white pole soldiers were wiped out!

At this point, the soldiers who are good at fighting in Liaodong have suffered all the casualties, and the defenders in Liaoyang City are less than 10,000, Yuan Yingtai recruited Hou Shilu, Li Bingcheng, Liang Zhongshan, Jiang Bi, and Zhu Wanliang to hold Liaoyang, but the five general soldiers insisted on going out of the city to meet the enemy, and they were defeated by Nurhachi.

In less than five days, Liaoyang was lost, Yuan Yingtai committed suicide and martyrdom, and Houjin drove straight in, all the way from Liaoyang to Guangning, in less than three months, Liaodong eighty percent of the territory was occupied by Houjin, and more than two million civilians in Liaodong could not evacuate, all fell into the hands of Houjin.

Due to the brutal oppression of the Later Jin aristocracy, the civilians of Liaodong continued to launch armed riots against the tyranny of the Later Jin.

In the first year of the Apocalypse, Yuan Yingtai committed suicide in defeat, and the Donglin Party tried every means to reactivate Xiong Tingbi through Liaodong, but the eunuch party sent a governor Wang Huazhen, and the result was discordant after appeasement, and the Ming army was defeated again.

Later, the eunuch party was replaced by Wang Zaijin, who was afraid of the enemy and cowardly, and fell out with Yuan Chonghuan and other Liaodong generals.

Seeing the erosion of the situation in Liaodong, the scholar Sun Chengzong asked to go to the side, removed Wang Zaijin, personally supervised the division, built the Guanningjin defense line, recovered more than 400 miles of lost territory, forced Nurhachi to retreat more than 700 miles, and rescued millions of civilians in Liaodong.

However, the situation had just improved, and Sun Chengzong was forced to resign due to the continuous impeachment of the eunuch party.

The eunuch party was replaced by Gao Di, who was afraid of the enemy, Gao Yi took office, and immediately ordered the military and people of Liaodong to abandon the Guanningjin defense line, Nurhachi took advantage of the situation to bring troops over, fortunately, Yuan Chonghuan did not listen to Gao Di's orders, defended Ningyuan, and achieved a great victory in Ningyuan, Nurhachi was also seriously injured in the battle of Ningyuan, and died, and Daming had a chance to breathe.

However, whether it was the Ningyuan victory or the Ningjin victory in the back, it did not mean much to the civilians in the hinterland of Liaodong, because the two victories were passive defense, not active attack, and the more than one million Liaodong civilians who were deep east of the Liaohe River were still in the cruel oppression of the Houjin.

It wasn't until the first year of Chongzhen that the civilians of Liaodong finally ushered in the dawn, because Mao Wenlong, the general of Pingliao, was ordered by Zhang Bin, the governor of Fujian, to start stealing people!

At the beginning of the morning, in the south of the Liaodong Peninsula, outside the Red Mouth Fort west of Jinzhou Wei, the sound of hooves suddenly shook the sky.

The ten Zhushen soldiers guarding the gate saw from a distance that the comers were wearing the orthodox banner uniforms, and did not take any defensive measures, but just stood upright on both sides of the gate, waiting for people to come to negotiate.

Unexpectedly, the dozens of horses were less than a hundred steps away from the gate of the castle, and they did not have the slightest intention of slowing down the speed of the horses.

Seeing this, the captain of the guard squad hurriedly stood out and shouted in Jurchen words: "Who is here, what are you doing?" ”

At a distance of 100 paces, the horse galloped wildly, and the leading knight did not answer, but gave a whip to the outstretched arm of the squad leader, and then scolded: "Blind your dog's eyes, don't you know the flag?" ”

The team leader was pumped, hugged his arm and opened his mouth to scold, but when he saw the flag planted behind the chess and card soldiers, he immediately shut up.

, Zhenghuang Flag, it's a personal soldier under the Great Khan, I can't afford to mess with it!

He was muttering in his heart, "snap" another whip on his arm, and the chess and card soldier scolded: "Die far away, don't stand in the middle of the way." ”

The captain grinned in pain, but he didn't dare to attack, so he could only obediently retreat to the side and let people rush into the castle.

Entering the castle, the dozens of horsemen finally slowed down, but they did not stop, but beat their horses and went straight to the compound in the middle of the castle.

Now the castle structure of the Eight Banners Niulu is almost the same, the periphery is inhabited by their slaves, and the middle compound is inhabited by the real Zhushen.

The slaves outside were all Han Chinese who had been captured in various battles, and they were all scared and killed by these Zhushen, and when they saw the Houjin cavalry rushing over, they all hurriedly hid on both sides of the road, and the road leading to the middle courtyard was empty in an instant.

However, there were still people on the edge of the road who were not hiding, and it turned out that Zhu Shen was holding a Han girl and dragging it to the middle courtyard.

Seeing this, the leading knight went up with a whip and scolded: "What are you doing in the middle, die." ”

Then Zhu Shen was happy in his heart, and finally caught a little girl, and he could be happy later, but he never thought that he would suddenly receive a whip on his back!

Who the hell is this, seeing you riding over, didn't Lao Tzu let him go to the side of the road, and dared to smoke Lao Tzu, he turned around and waited to scold, a chess and card soldier suddenly jumped off the horse, kicked him to the ground, took the braid and jerked it, and scolded while pumping: "Let you die, are you deaf or what's wrong?" ”

That Zhu Shen was pumped and rolled all over the ground, but he didn't dare to fight back, because he could see the flag on the back of the chess and card soldier clearly.

Zhenghuang Banner, the Great Khan's personal soldiers, the anger is extremely great, in the first two years, several big Baylors competed for the Khan position, but the fight for the liver fire, the Yellow Flag and the people with the Yellow Flag and the people under the Five Banners fought that was a common thing, and it was polite to use a whip, and it was possible to use a knife!

He was thinking that it was possible for people to use knives, but the chess and card soldiers glanced around, and saw that there were no other Zhu Shen, so he immediately pulled out a short blade, stepped forward and stepped on Zhu Shen's chest, and slashed at his neck.

"Ah", the Han girl who was hiding on the side screamed in fright when she saw that she had killed someone.

The chess soldier scolded: "What is it called, I haven't seen a fight?" ”

Is there such a fight? Just whip a few whips, just go up and wipe people's necks, this is a fight?

At this time, the cavalry had stopped at the gate of the compound and turned over and dismounted from their horses, and the leader asked directly to the guard at the door, "Where is Bhaktan?" ”

The captain of the Zhushen squad guarding the door hurriedly replied: "Our Lord Jiala has a happy event, and Lord Bactan has drunk the wedding wine. ”

The leading knight asked, "When will you return?" ”

The squad leader replied, "Lord Bhaktan said he would be back tomorrow afternoon." ”

The leading knight continued to ask, "How many men did he take with him, and how many of you have left here?" ”

The squad leader replied honestly: "Because of the long distance, Lord Bucktan was afraid that something would happen, so he brought two hundred people, and we have only one hundred left." ”

When the leader heard this, he frowned and muttered: "A hundred people, it's not enough, forget it, let's talk about it tomorrow, you guys haven't eaten, you're almost starving to death all morning." ”

The squad leader nodded and said, "It's coming, it's coming, or I'll take you over first." ”

The leader nodded, "Okay, help us tie the horse." ”

With that, he threw the reins at the guard, turned and walked in with the captain.

Soon the group followed the leader to a large hall, where the smell of food was already wafting.

The gang was not polite, as if they had returned to their own castle, and went in and began to eat, serve food, and scoop wine, and were very busy.

A few cooks in the hall didn't dare to talk about them, so they could only curse in their hearts: "Damn, if you don't come early, I don't know if this meal will be enough for the people in the castle." ”

None of them noticed that after these people had huddled together and finished filling the wine and food, they sprinkled several packets of powdered things into the wine and the food, and stirred it vigorously a few times after sprinkling.

After a while, the Zhushen in the fort also came to eat, but while eating, someone suddenly covered his stomach and screamed: "Ah, someone poisoned." ”

There were more and more people holding their stomachs and screaming, including the knights from outside, and soon, everyone in the lobby was screaming with their stomachs in their hands, and the few cooks were so frightened that they hurriedly ran to call the guards outside.

By the time the ten guards outside ran in, the hall was already staggering, and there were people lying on the ground, and there was only a humming sound left.

They hurriedly ran over and checked them one by one.

However, as soon as they crouched down, a large group of people immediately jumped on the ground, and the shadow of the knife flashed, and the ten guards and the few who were cooking were all wiped on their necks.

Seeing this, the leader immediately ordered: "Yongkui, you take thirty people to inform the villagers of Shili Eight Villages, and ask them to quickly pack up their things and go with us, and by the way, the ten at the gate will be done." ”

When a strong man heard this, he bowed his hand and obeyed the order, and ran out with the people.

The leader ordered again: "Youlin, you take ten people to do all the people on the ground, and the others search everywhere with me, and we must not miss a single one, if they run to inform the other Niu Lu, the villagers will not be able to run away." ”

It turned out that these were the elites of the Dongjiang Army under Mao Wenlong, and they had already found out that Niu Lu Bactan here would go out today, so they came here to steal people!