Chapter 577: The Night Lady Meditates on Liaodong (Part II)

In the past, most officials in the DPRK and China were afraid of Xiong Tingbi, but Zhang Heming was the only one who didn't buy his account, why? Zhang Heming made outstanding contributions in quelling the Qiangui rebellion, and because Zhang Heming took the lead, the courtiers also openly rebelled. To be honest, with Xiong Tingbi's character, he did offend many people. This person's personality is a bit like PDH in later generations, too upright and emotional.

Governor Wang Huazhen had 140,000 troops, but Xiong Tingbi only had 5,000 soldiers and horses, and he was overshadowed by the officials of the DPRK and China. Things have been brought to such a point by Xiong Tingbi, no matter how high your military genius is, there is nothing you can do. However, Xiong Tingbi still went his own way, and he had no intention of correcting it at all.

Some people may say that Xiong Tingbi was excluded because of the emergence of traitors in the court, and the emergence of Wei Zhongxian, the first nineteen-thousand-year-old of the ages. Xiong Tingbi's tragedy was completely caused by Wei Zhongxian. If there were no traitors, Xiong Tingbi's fate would definitely not be so miserable.

In fact, in all dynasties, there are loyal and traitorous people, loyalty and adultery are relative, the question is how do you manage this situation. In terms of exterminating the Jurchen forces, the purpose of all officials in the DPRK and China is the same, and Wei Zhongxian is no exception. Wei Zhongxian also didn't want to see the Tartar sit big. He received nothing from the Tartars. For example, when Yuan Chonghuan was in power, Wei Zhongxian was still very active in supporting the war in Liaodong.

Xiong Tingbi should make good use of this unanimity, seek common ground while reserving differences in a complex political environment, and not get caught on fire, let alone hurt others. If a politician cannot control the weaknesses in his character, the end will be very sad.

Just when the two of them were arguing over the issue of battle and defense, and when Wang Huazhen was preparing to launch a battle to cross the river in one fell swoop, in the second year of the Apocalypse, that is, on the eighteenth day of the first month of the sixth year of the Tartar Mandate of Heaven, Nurhachi led 100,000 eight banner iron horsemen, stepped through the ice river, and swept towards the land of Liaoxi like a hurricane, and a battle that decided the survival of Liaoxi finally began.

Wang Huazhen's troops on the banks of the Liao River were solved by Nurhachi without much effort. Immediately afterwards, an army of 100,000 surrounded the small city of Xipingbao, which had only 3,000 troops. Luo, the defender of Xiping Fort, has always faced a hundred times stronger enemies, without fear, he used the advantage of firearms to repel the attacks of the Eight Banners many times, the battle was extremely tragic, and the city was full of corpses of the Eight Banners. The battle lasted a whole day, and Fort Xiping still stood majestically. Nurhachi was furious but helpless, so he had to leave a small number of troops to continue the siege, and led a large army to meet the battle and turned to attack Zhenwu Fort.

Wang Huazhen in Guangning City learned that Xiping Fort was besieged, and immediately lost his mind. Xiong Tingbi issued an order from the right guard, ordering Wang Huazhen to immediately send troops to relieve the siege of Xipingbao. In the face of the Jurchen soldiers, Wang Huazhen, who had not been in the battle array, was completely confused, and was very obedient to Xiong Tingbi's order at the moment, and he ordered Sun Degong to be the vanguard, leading the Guangning defenders, and the Zhenwu garrison and Luyang garrison to quickly reinforce Xiping Fort. At the Binh Duong Bridge, he encountered the Tartars who attacked Zhenwu. Sun Degong is a pioneer, a pioneer and a pioneer, and should be at the forefront, but he encouraged the general soldier Liu Qu to take the lead and wait and see from behind.

For many days, the Ming army, encouraged by Wang Huazhen's strategy of swinging squares in one fell swoop, had unprecedentedly high morale, and was unstoppable, and killed the Tartar soldiers one after another as soon as they made contact. At that time, the Ming army in western Liaoning was all elite transferred from all over the country. At that time, the rebel army in Shaanxi had not yet broken out, and the Ming army could concentrate all its efforts in western Liaoning. Therefore, as soon as the war began, the wild boar skin suffered a big loss. Finding that the battle was unfavorable, Nurhachi and the Beylers hurriedly readjusted their men and horses, pulled the new force up, and the two sides continued to fight together.

Field battles were the advantage of the Tatars, and the combat effectiveness of the Tatar cavalry in China at that time should be said to be invincible. Not long after the battle, the Ming army gradually fell out, and Sun Degong took the opportunity to shout: defeated, defeated, shouting and fleeing. As soon as this shout ran, the Ming army immediately became chaotic, and the general Liu Qu, Qi Bingzhong, and deputy general Liu Zheng were killed one after another. The Ming army was defeated on a large scale. A considerable number of Ming troops were killed by the Tartars, and the remaining Ming troops scrambled to flee to Quang Ninh with Sun Degong.

The defenders of Quang Ninh Zhenwu and Luyang have been defeated, Nurhachi turned around and attacked Xiping Fort again, before the attack, Li Yongfang persuaded him to surrender, and let people hold a flag and shout under the city: "General Zhishou Chengluo is a good man, descend quickly, and be rich and noble." Luo always responded at the head of the city: "Why is the court responsible for you, don't you know that Luo has always been a righteous man." At the same time, he also ordered people to raise a banner of surrender and persuade Li Yongfang to surrender.

Seeing that there was no persuasion to surrender, Nurhachi reorganized the attack. This time the fight was more intense. The Tartars attacked three times, but they were not captured, and the corpses of the Tartars were on the same level as the city walls, and more than a thousand people were killed. After the gunpowder in the city was exhausted, and there was no reinforcement from the Ming army, Luo always committed suicide by drawing his sword in despair, and all 3,000 soldiers were killed in battle, and none of them surrendered.

The Battle of Xipingbao was the most tragic battle since the Battle of the Ming and Jin, with only 3,000 troops against tens of thousands of Tartars, and inflicted heavy losses on more than 1,000 of them, making the enemy fearful. Luo has always composed a hymn to resist foreign invasion with a heroic spirit that regards death as home. Luo has always been admired as a national hero, and traitors like Sun Degong and Li Yongfang should always be nailed to the pillar of national shame.

As soon as Sun Degong, who fled back to Guangning, entered the city, he sent troops to seize the city gate, blocked the treasury, and preached in the city that the front was defeated, and the people in the city should quickly shave their hair to welcome the king of Khan into the city, so as not to suffer the disaster of slaughtering the city, and mobilized soldiers to capture Wang Huazhen alive. This big traitor is very positive about welcoming the arrival of the wild boar skin.

Wang Huazhen was handling official documents at the governor's yamen at this time, and she had no idea about the situation outside. And Sun Degong's subordinates were rushing to the governor's yamen, and the situation was extremely critical. Wang Huazhen's subordinate Jiang Chaodong broke into the door, and Wang Huazhen scolded him for being rude. Jiang Chaodong told him that Sun Degong had defected to the enemy, and that the city of Guangning had been occupied by Sun Degong's rebels, and that the lord should immediately rush out of the city with the last general, in order to move later.

Wang Huazhen was at a loss at that time, and came to the stable under the escort of Jiang Chaodong. The horses had already been stolen by their men and fled for their lives, and only two camels remained in the stable. Jiang Chaodong gave up his mount to the governor, and then put some important documents and seals on his hunchback and went out of the city.

Xiong Tingbi received the news of the loss of Xiping Fort, and hurriedly led the only 5,000 soldiers to reinforce Guangning, and met Wang Huazhen, who fled for his life in a hurry. There are only a few dozen people left around Wang Huazhen at this time, and his appearance is quite embarrassing, after meeting Master Jingluo, if he meets a savior, he cries loudly, and he can't cry.

Xiong Tingbi saw that the arrogant governor had now become so virtuous, and he couldn't help but sarcastically say, "Where did you want to mention 60,000 male soldiers to wipe out the Nu chieftain in one fell swoop?" What is this? ”

Wang Huazhen was ashamed. At that time, some people said that Quang Ninh was still in chaos and quickly marched to recapture Quang Ninh. It was also suggested that the avant-garde should be relied upon. Xiong Tingbi saw the refugees who had escaped from Quang Ninh, and sighed and said, "It's late, now I have to go to the Shanhaiguan Pass and guard the customs." ”

Wang Huazhen was already the general of the defeated army at this time, where did he dare to refute, and Xiong Tingbi gave this order, the defenders and people outside the gate abandoned the city and fled, and the thousands of miles of fertile fields outside the gate became a ruin in an instant. In fact, Xiong Tingbi had the possibility of counterattacking Guangning City at that time. However, he voluntarily gave up. From then on, it became the territory of the Tartars.

The Mongol soldiers on whom Wang Huazhen relied in history took the opportunity to kill and plunder, and the fleeing soldiers also looted, and the fleeing people were even worse, only one in ten remained, and the abandoned old and young wailed by the roadside, and the corpses that were trampled and trampled to death were everywhere. The people of Liaoxi did not die under the iron hooves of foreign races, but became ghosts under the swords of the officials and the Mongols.

The governor fled, Sun Degong occupied Quang Ninh, he immediately reported the news to Nurhachi, Nurhachi was overjoyed, he led the army to Guangning, and when he reached a place not far from Guangning, he saw Sun De leading the soldiers and civilians in the city who had shaved their hair and surrendered, burning incense, beating gongs and drums, and blowing trumpets to welcome Nurhachi into the city.

When I entered the city, I saw that every house was decorated with lights, and the people in the city had shaved their hair, kneeling on both sides of the street, cheering to welcome the new owner of Quang Ninh City. Sun Degong was ingenious, he spread a yellow cloth at the city gate, and Nurhachi stepped on the yellow cloth symbolizing the Son of Heaven to enter the city of Quang Ninh.

[Author's note: You must remember Sun Degong, the big traitor! ] His son is Sun Sike who appeared in "The Story of Deer and Ding"! 】

The city of Guangning changed hands, and the generals in western Liaoning who did not follow Xiong Tingbi into the pass successively led the soldiers and people to Shun Tatars, they were: Liu Shixun, the general of Zhenjing Fort. Daqing Fort guerrilla Yan Yin, Dalinghe guerrilla He Shiyan, Xixing Fort Beiyu Zhu Shixun, Right Guard Tunbei Yu Huang Zonglu, Jinzhou Dusi Chen Shangzhi, Zhenfu Fort Dusi Jin Li, Liu Shizhang, Li Weilong, Wang Yougong, Pingyang Bridge Fort, Min Yunlong, Tiechang Fort Yu Hongchuan, Jin'an Fort Zheng Deng. Cui Jinzhong guarded the fort in Tuanshan, Liu Shi and Zangtuzuo guarded the fort in Zhenning, Xu Zhenjing guarded the fort in Zhenyuan, Zheng Weihan guarded the fort in Zhen'an, Zhou Yuanxun guarded the fort in the town, and Wang Guotai guarded the fort in Dakang...... There are many people who are willing to be traitors.

Nurhachi was overjoyed, and held a banquet in the city to celebrate, rewarding the soldiers of the Eight Banners. In recognition of Sun Degong's exploits, Nurhachi appointed him as a guerrilla to guard Quang Ninh. On February 11, 1622, an unimaginable thing happened, Nurhachi actually sent the great fortune of Liaoyang City, Abahai, the concubines, and the blessings of the Beyler to Guangning, and the ministers of the army and his party went out of the city to knock on them.

Outside the yamen, the road is paved with red felt. At that time, "Da Fu Jin led the people to knock on the Khan and said: 'The Khan is favored by heaven, but it is the city of Guangning.'" The wives of Belle bowed three times outside the temple and withdrew. Subsequently, a big feast was set up to welcome the blessing of Jin. "The atmosphere of celebration of the victory over Quang Ninh was reached by the arrival of these women.

The loss of Quang Ninh was undoubtedly a blow to the ministers who strongly supported Wang Huazhen in the DPRK, and the ministers who opposed Wang Huazhen immediately wrote a letter demanding that Wang Huazhen be severely punished. Of course, the Emperor of the Apocalypse was very angry, and after the meeting, Wang Huazhen was arrested and imprisoned, and Xiong Tingbi was dismissed and returned to his hometown, waiting to be dealt with. Later, Xiong Tingbi felt that he was a reason, and if he stayed in his hometown, he was afraid of being framed by the political enemies of the DPRK and China, so he returned to the capital from his hometown, and with twelve points of self-confidence, he asked to punish himself.

Perhaps he thought at the time that the loss of Quang Ninh had nothing to do with him, and he just verified the correctness of his original claim. What he didn't expect in any case was that some ministers and eunuchs who opposed him echoed each other, and they actually punished him and Wang Huazhen for the same crime, arrested and imprisoned, and Yushi Liang Menghuan falsely accused him of embezzling 170,000 in silver, and Yushi Liu Hui reported that Xiong Tingbi's family had millions of assets, but where was there 170,000 after the raid, of course, it was not a million.

The eunuch Wei Zhongxian ordered a strict pursuit, and the officials in charge of the case actually raided the home of his in-laws. Wang Eryu, the magistrate of Jiangxia, insisted that Xiong Tingbi had a mink Qiu Zhen to play with at home, and then searched the house, but still found nothing, so he wanted to arrest and torture Xiong Ting's eldest son Xiong Zhaogui, Xiong Zhaogui was humiliated and killed himself. The mother cried out for him, and Wang Eryu, the county magistrate, tied his two maid rings in front of the county office, took off his clothes, and was whipped for forty years.

People are resentful of Wang Eryu's retrograde behavior, and they have infinite sympathy for Xiong Tingbi. And Xiong Tingbi was executed for betrayal before Wang Huazhen, and his head was passed on nine sides, and the end was very tragic. Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, and some ministers complained about Xiong Tingbi and asked for Zhaoxue for him, but he did not get Chongzhen's consent, and it was not until the third year of Chongzhen that Chongzhen allowed his son to accept Xiong Tingbi's skull for burial, but there was no Zhaoxue.

Actually, seriously speaking, Xiong Tingbi's death was not unjust. Guangning City fell, and he did have a great responsibility. He is a strategy in Liaodong, lost his teacher and lost his land, and he definitely has leadership responsibility. Moreover, when Quang Ninh was lost, the Tartar army only won the battles of Xiping Fort and Binh Duong Bridge, and they were still more than 200 miles away from Quang Ninh. The Battle of Xipingbao inflicted heavy losses on the Tartars, and at the beginning of the Battle of Pingyang Bridge, the Ming army defeated the Tartars, and it was impossible for the morale of the Tartars not to be defeated.

Where is Xiong Tingbi at this time? In Luyang Station. It is more than 100 miles away from Quang Ninh. Xiong Tingbi still had 5,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, and if Xiong Tingbi could collect exiles and inspire the people as he did when he first took office as the Liaodong Economic Strategy, he would soon gather 20,000 or 30,000 people. Although Guangning City fell into the hands of Sun Degong, if Xiong Tingbi led the generals to kill Guangning, and in the name of the imperial court strategy and governor, he declared the righteousness to the soldiers and civilians in the city, and he could completely take Guangning back.

At that time, several officials around Xiong Tingbi also suggested that he march into Quang Ninh quickly, but he did not accept it. Obviously, Xiong Tingbi deliberately abandoned Guangning City. Taking a step back, even if he didn't take Guangning, there were still Xu Ling castles around to defend, and Xiong Tingbi's right guard (i.e., Dalinghe City) was one of them.

If he could motivate his soldiers as Luo always did, and order them to defend to the death, every city would inflict heavy losses on the enemy's soldiers, and perhaps the tide of the battle would change. It is unbelievable that Xiong Tingbi actually made the absurd decision to abandon the castles outside the pass and retreat to the pass. It was a shameful escape, and it was absolutely very bad in nature. This order caused a large area of territory to fall and millions of lives to be destroyed.

What is admirable is that the prison army Gao Bangzuo escaped with Xiong Tingbi, but disobeyed the order and entered the empty Songshan City with Gao Yong and Gao Hou. At this time, the Tartar soldiers were coming to Songshan, and he said to his two servants, "I have received the kindness of the state, and I will not steal my life, and I will die in retribution, and you will collect my bones and return to my hometown to see my mother, and you will bury me by my father's grave, and let my father know that his son died for the danger of the country." After speaking, he was about to hang himself, and the two of them ran on the ground to persuade each other, but Gao Bangzuo did not listen. After bathing, he put on official clothes, bowed in the direction of the capital, and hanged himself.

The servant Gao Yong said to Gao Hou: "The master treats me well, I can't bear to see the master die, I want to serve the master in the ground." After saying that, he followed the master. Gao Hou knelt down and wept: "If I die again, who will bury my master?" So he cremated the bodies of his master and Gao Yong, and then returned to Guangling (present-day Yangzhou) with their bones on his back.

When Xiong Tingbi heard Gao Bangzuo's deeds of seeing death as home, he didn't know what to think? Is it ashamed, or dismissive? If Xiong Tingbi can organize the defeated army to recapture Quang Ninh, or hold on to the right guard, and dozens of other towns and forts can fight to the death like Luo Zheng, then the Tartar soldiers may have to pay a heavy price for the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers. At this critical juncture, Xiong Tingbi was completely confused and chose to escape, which was really different from Yuan Chonghuan, who later defended himself in the infant city.

The Ming Dynasty has always punished officials who lost battles very harshly, and Li Weihan, who lost Fushun, was killed and later executed. Yang Ho of the Battle of Salhu was dismissed and executed. Xiong Tingbi fled without a fight this time, and took the initiative to abandon a large area of territory and more than 40 castles in western Liaoning, leaving behind a large amount of heavy grain and grass, causing serious consequences of the loss of the entire territory of Liaodong, and was sentenced to death, which should be regarded as a proper sentence.

The officials who tried Xiong Tingbi wrote very brilliantly and fairly about the trial of Xiong Wang and Xiong, and cited the following: "The emperor plucked his chastity from the prison army, and he raised his court from the field, which can be described as a very favored encounter." The husband died as a confidant, and the two were quite conceited, so they should be grateful and work together, and if they are not good, they will be followed by death. Regardless of its encouragement, he raised the west of the river to let people, and he ended up escaping. ”

"Hua Zhen doesn't know all the soldiers, but he wants the enemy to take advantage of the enemy, and he uses it for the occasion. Sun Degong's servants were left and right, and only boasted of crossing the river for a decisive battle. And as soon as the drum sounded, the enemy rode a hundred miles away and abandoned Guangning like a cover, alas. Huazhen has a patriotic heart and has no wisdom to seek the country, and the matter has come to this point. If Tingbi is talented and courageous, he will look at the first life, in previous years, the town of Liao and Liao survived, and went to Liao and died, the relationship seems to be not small. ”

"Starting again, Tingbi actually promised to defend Huo, and no one can help protect Huo. When it first came out of the Chunming Gate, it had the purpose of tripartite control, and those who knew it knew that it had no intention of Guangning. After arriving at the customs, it was said that our soldiers should not fight in vains, and the western captives were not enough to be trusted, and the words were left, and the wisdom of the matter was far more than that of Huazhen. Alone and stubborn, unbreakable. In order to fight for the crime of Wenlonggong, the provocation turned chastity, the shape of water and fire was divided, and the battle of Xuanhuang was successful. ”

"And the horses are fierce, and they are all out of the way. Coming agitatedly, stunned and not knowing what to do, hurriedly flying to supervise the battle, if the day wins, it can become my name. I don't know the inconsistencies, the battle and the defense are lost, although I want to lead the saying that I don't fight the main war on weekdays in order to reduce the end, can I get it? ”

"On the day of the crisis in Guangning, Tingbi rolled his armor and rushed to raise a sword to fight the chaos, or stick to the right tun, collect the embers in order to recover, turn defeat into success, and die and be immortal. If you can't think of this, you can go to the mountains and seas first, even if you have the merit of conquering the world, it is not enough to atone for the sin of losing your master's land. ”

"On the day of the meeting, Tingbi is still stabbing and stabbing is not ambushed, and Hu Bu is not leading to the past and a glimpse of it. More than Yang Hao escaped, compared to Yuan Yingtai, he owed a death. If the punishment is thick and chaste and less lenient, the punishment is different from the crime, and it is not a punishment, and it should be included in the heavy code to set an example for the future. ”

In fact, Xiong Tingbi is not a timid person. He obviously didn't run for his life. But why did he finally make the choice to escape? Most likely, of course, to look at jokes, the psychology of schadenfreude.

Xiong Tingbi was full of troops and tactics to make Wang Huazhen stir up, Wang Huazhen relied on the power of the DPRK and China, excluded him, and ignored him, Xiong Tingbi couldn't stand this, and he hated Wang Huazhen to the extreme. The sky has eyes, the present world is reported, Wang Huazhen, you finally have today. When Wang Huazhen fled to him in embarrassment and had a runny nose, he did not ask about the specific situation of the war, but "Gu Xiao". Gu smiled, that is, looked at the people around him and smiled.

This smile laughed out of Xiong Tingbi's narrow-mindedness. At the moment of national crisis, when the affairs of the world are the most important, he is calculating the gains and losses between the two, which is really not the work of the big husband. As a dignified Liaodong Economic Strategy, at this time, he actually had the psychology of schadenfreude, and it was not an exaggeration to give up the opportunity to turn the tide in vain.

Secondly, Xiong Tingbi has always advocated perseverance, he is very familiar with the tactics of the Tartars, without strong fortifications, there is no way to resist the Tartars, and Guangning and the surrounding castles under the guidance of Wang Huazhen's offensive strategy, there is no construction of city fortifications at all, so he can't resist at all, the battle will be defeated, and the defeat will be severely punished. So he chose to flee. He thought that this escape would put all the blame on Wang Huazhen.

Due to the fall of Guangning City, the Ming army no longer had the possibility of recovering Liaodong. The situation in Liaodong has been rotten ever since. Wang Zaijin, who succeeded Wang Huazhen as the strategy of Liaodong, was saddened by the fall of Guangning, saying: "The first thing in the east is bad for Qingfu, the second is bad for Kaitie, the third is bad for Liaoshen, and the fourth is bad for Guangning. The initial bad is a crisis, the second bad is a defeat, the three bad is the endgame, and the four bad are abandoned. Retreat from the mountains and seas, and there is no way back. ”

The Ming Dynasty has always compared Liaodong to the left arm of the Beijing Division, Guangning lost, the left arm was completely cut off, the Ming rule in Liaodong basically ended, and the Ming Dynasty was no longer a complete body. The Tatar regime pushed the scope of its strength to western Liaoning, cut off the illusions of the restoration of most Han people in southern Liaoning, and played a very important role in stabilizing the Tatar regime.

Due to the fall of Quang Ninh City, the Tartars obtained a large amount of supplies, which greatly enriched their strength. And the increase in strength has made them produce a higher **. On the contrary, the strength of the Ming State was further weakened, and the morale of the Ming army also fell to the bottom.

What's even worse is that the fall of Guangning City made most of the Mongols fall into the arms of Jianguo. "The seventeenth Belle of the Mongolian Erut Department has returned. The banquet was laborious, the appointment was poor, and the five Khalkha departments came and went together. "With the Mongols as a helper, Jianyu's combat effectiveness is even stronger.

The First Battle of Quang Ninh, the blow to the Ming State, no matter what kind of words are used to evaluate it, is not an exaggeration. The Ming Kingdom is no longer likely to pose a big threat to the Tartars. After this battle, the Ming Kingdom only had the ability to parry, and had no power to fight back. The task of destroying the Tartars can only be undertaken by the Tiger Army.