Chapter 61: Decline and Decline
Just after the victory of the Battle of Luliang in Korea, North Korea also entered a period of rebuilding the country, but at this moment, the Ming Dynasty gradually entered the end of decay.
Due to the three major expeditions during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the comprehensive national strength of the Ming Dynasty and the military strength of Liaodong gradually fell into a situation of collapse.
In the Liaodong region during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, its military strength was weakened in a large area.
The gradually weakening strength of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong was accompanied by the development of the Jurchen tribes in the Liaodong region.
And the Jurchen forces gradually gained the upper hand, and the Liaodong troops at this moment were counted by the military department.
Only 8,000 soldiers could be used for battle, which was almost ten times different from the original 80,000 soldiers in Liaodong.
Nine-tenths of the Liaodong troops were reduced, and the Liaodong region could no longer control the development of the Liaodong region.
At this moment, there are 30,000 Jurchen tribesmen in the Liaodong region, and the strength of these 30,000 Jurchen tribes is enough to entrench themselves in the Liaodong region.
And the Jianzhou Jurchens, with the efforts of Nurhachi, gradually annexed the Haixi Jurchens.
This remarkable event gave Nurhachi a sufficient base for development, and Nurhachi also carried out a comprehensive reform of the Jurchen army at this time.
The strength of the previous four banners was divided into eight banners by Nurhachi, and the strength of the flags was divided from the main banner, and the strength of each banner was more than 6,000.
Then Nurhachi at this moment has enough troops of about 60,000 troops, and these 60,000 troops are adapted according to the structure of the Jurchen tribe.
At this moment, it has reached the forty-third year of Wanli, and it is at this time that Nurhachi's reform of the military system has strengthened the military strength of the Jurchen people.
In the eighteenth year of Wanli in 1590 and the twentieth year of Wanli in 1592, in these two years, Nurhachi was still very obedient and went to Beizhili to ask for an official and a half-position.
But when Nurhachi finally broke away from the Ming Dynasty in 1616, the forty-fourth year of Wanli.
In the eastern Liaodong region, he established a regime belonging to the Jurchen people, changed the name of the country to the Jin State, and set the capital to develop the sphere of influence after Hetuala.
And Nurhachi also became the later Qing Taizu, and after the forty-sixth year of Wanli, he began to swear to crusade against the Ming Dynasty.
The target location of the first attack was Fushun in the Liaodong region of the Ming Dynasty, and Nurhachi was very cunning and commanded his troops to attack Fushun.
Before attacking Fushun, Nurhachi sent a letter saying that he would trade with the Fushun people.
And the next day, after the merchants left the city, the Jurchens drew their swords and rushed into the city of Fushun.
During this period, the adjutant general had to resolutely resist but most of the soldiers were killed by the Jurchens.
However, Li Yongfang, the general of the Ming Dynasty, was good friends with Nurhachi, so he ordered to give up resistance and surrender.
And Wu Sangui in the later period is actually a good friend of the Nurhachi family.
At this moment, Nurhachi took and destroyed the city of Fushun with a very small number of troops.
And the rout of Fushun made the Ming Wanli Emperor and the Ming court really realize that the Ming Dynasty was no longer a big country at this moment.
At this moment, the Wanli Emperor sent Yang Hao, who had retired, to the Liaodong region of the Ming Dynasty to serve as a military commander in the military theater of the Liaodong region.
At this moment, the weakening of the Ming Liaodong army, the Ming Dynasty issued a national war mobilization order.
The troops mobilized by the military department are all soldiers from the south, and these officers and soldiers cannot withstand the cold winter in Liaodong.
And the Ministry of Household also coordinated with the Ministry of War to issue another mobilization order, which was to make a fuss on the land all over the country.
The levy of high taxes eventually led to violent social contradictions within the Ming Dynasty.
After the additional salary of 8 million, it prompted the two rebel forces of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in the later period to attack.
In the end, it gradually came to the brink of extinction, and in the later period, as many as 100,000 troops were given to Yang Hao.
But those who supported the troops could not withstand the cold winter months.
Therefore, at the beginning of February of the 47th year of Wanli, the army began to swear to march, and then on the 21st, the Ming official army was dispatched under the leadership of Yang Hao.
Later, on March 2, he arrived at Erdaoguan and fought with the Jurchens.
The first route Marin rushed to Nurhachi's location from Kaiyuan, while the second route Juniper attacked from west to east from Fushun.
The Third Army marched from west to east from Li Rubai out of the Qinghe, and the Fourth Army marched from south to north from Kuandian by Liu Ting, commonly known as Liu Dadao.
The news of the Fourth Route Army's march to Erdaoguan was gradually known by the Jurchens, and there was also Jurchen help when they were in Gule Village before.
But at this moment, there was no help from the Jurchens, and Nurhachi decided to only attack the Ming official army along the way.
So on the 29th day of February in the 47th year of Wanli, Juniper first launched an attack and entered Salhu.
The north side of Salhu has the natural barrier of the Hun River, and the east side of the river is called the Suzi River, and when Juniper's army reaches Salhu.
And Nurhachi's Jurchen forces built a city in Jiefan Mountain, and Juniper sent 10,000 troops to harass the Jurchen forces at this moment.
At this moment, there are more than 10,000 Ming officers and soldiers on the Salhu Mountain, and the strength of the Jurchen tribe at this moment is under the command of Nurhachi.
On the first day of the first month of March, tens of thousands of Eight Banners troops were dispatched by Nurhachi's Jurchen troops to defeat Juniper's 20,000 troops.
After destroying Juniper's 20,000 troops, Nurhachi had to move his forces north to attack Marin's troops.
Therefore, on the second day of the first month of March, when the Ming official army was meeting, Marin's 20,000 troops were also defeated by Nurhachi.
As a result, Marin led the remnants of the army to escape, and the two teams of the Ming Dynasty were wiped out.
When Yang Hao heard the news, he asked Liu Ting and Li Rubai's team to retreat immediately, but Liu Ting's army had already penetrated three hundred miles into the Jurchen region.
Liu Ting, who was really unable to be withdrawn, was blocked here by Jurchen forces on the fourth day of the third month of the 47th year of Wanli in Abrida Gang.
At this moment, the Jurchen forces were mobilized from the north, and Huang Taiji's forces also launched an attack.
At this moment, the Great Belle Daishan pretended to be Juniper's Ming troops to encircle and suppress Liu Ting's army, and Liu Ting's army was completely strangled by Nurhachi's army.
Now only Li Rubai's unrevocable Ming army remains, but at this moment, Li Rubai's troops are killing each other under the strategy of the Jurchens.
More than a thousand people were lost in an instant, and the Ming Dynasty prepared for a year's war.
It was thwarted by Nurhachi's active counterattack, and it was completely over in five days.
And Yang Hao's poor use of soldiers has also been said by later generations, and according to Yang Hao's troop distribution,
Splitting into two fronts would make the whole front look different.
Maybe history will be rewritten directly, then the Ming Dynasty may have a longer period of peace and stability.
And under the influence of morale during the cold weapon period, Nurhachi's strategy and tactics are still worthy of recognition.
And the war fought by the whole country of the Ming Dynasty also ended with the defeat of the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
And at this moment, it was not Nurhachi who sounded the death knell for the Ming Dynasty,
It is His Majesty the Wanli Emperor himself, Zheng Guifei, the Ming civil and military officials, and all those with vested interests.
It was they who sounded the death knell of the Ming Dynasty together, and Concubine Zheng Guifei brought joy to the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty at the same time.
also set up the crown prince in the twenty-ninth year of Wanli, and then Zheng Guifei's son was established as the king of Fu to go to Luoyang, the land of the feud.
But when King Fu was twenty-eight years old, he had not yet gone to his fiefdom.
And at this moment, King Fu's property can indeed be more than the Wanli Emperor's inner mansion.
And the Ming Dynasty, which is gradually declining, is also moving towards the grave like the dying and struggling Wanli Emperor.
At this moment, the decline of the Ming Dynasty has also moved away from the trend of history, and the Ming Dynasty, which has gradually been abandoned by history, has also come to the last step.
And with the decline of the Ming Dynasty, there is another good news.
And this news came from the vassal state of Korea, and after the arrival of this news, it also brought a hint of joy to the Ming Dynasty.
After the news of North Korea arrived, the Ming Dynasty began to celebrate intensively.
The arrival of this news will bring good news to the Ming Dynasty at the same time, and will bring a period of change to the Ming Dynasty.
And in this period of change, whether the Ming Dynasty can recover to Wanli Zhongxing depends on the choice of the Wanli Emperor and the ministers.