Li Chengliang, the character Ruqi, was a Korean refugee attached from Korea in the early Ming Dynasty, joined the army in Daming, and commanded the Affairs of Tieling Wei with military merit, so the Li family settled in Tieling again. However, it was passed down to Li Chengliang's generation, the family road fell in the middle and late ming dynasty, the small generals in the middle and back of the Ming Dynasty declined, and the Qi Dashuai family was a hereditary Dengzhou Wei commander, the same family road fell in the middle, which is also a portrayal of the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and the decline of military strength at the end of the Ming Dynasty was inevitable.
At the age of forty, Li Chengliang was still living in the name of ZhuSheng, because he had no money to bribe the officials of the military department, and the corruption of the Ming Dynasty system was already very serious, and the Ming Dynasty could only be said to be the blessing of Old Zhu for so many years. Later, a inspector could not bear to see it, so he funded him a sum of money to go to Beijing to carry out activities before inheriting his hereditary work.
Like Qi Dashuai, Li Chengliang was a natural goalkeeper, born good at cutting people, and after taking office in Tieling, he carried out reforms, Qi Dashuai started a new stove, Li Chengliang found another way, he screened these military households under his command, selected and compiled Li Chengliang's private family members who could still go into battle, and then distributed the military fields sent by the state to military households.
At that time, the Liaodong military was already very corrupt, and after the Jiajing Emperor came to power, the Ming Empire was already in turmoil, the Southern Wokou were in turmoil, the Northern Lida was rising, the central Yan Song dictatorship, and the emperor was busy refining Dan. At that time, Liaodong was invaded by the Mongolian Han Ministry, the Taining Ministry, and the Jurchen Jianzhou Ministry of Mongolia, and they came to Liaodong to generate income and organize groups to rob. At that time, Liaodong was like a bird in the northeast at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and bandits ran rampant and chaotic.
However, after Li Chengliang's reorganization, the soldiers of Tielingwei became the landlord's armed security team, and when the Mongolian and Jurchen bandit gangs who were accustomed to robbing the habit visited Tielingwei again, they were greeted by security guards led by Li Chengliang, who was well-equipped and bloodied, and rushed up without saying a word and took a machete to play for their lives. After several experiences, the bandits all walked around Tieling, they came to get rich, not to send death, to Tieling not only could not grab the finances, but also to play with Li Chengliang's life, the loss of the business no one did, so Li Chengliang's reputation is getting bigger and bigger. Soon after, he was promoted to the rank of General of Dangerous Mountain.
Two years later, in the first year of Longqing, in 1567 AD, the head of the Mongol Han Dynasty, organized a large-scale cross-border robbery and entered Yongping. Li Chengliang was also ordered to assist Yongping, because of his bravery in battle, he fought several victorious battles fiercely, promoted to deputy commander-in-chief, and the defense area was still in the dangerous mountains, and soon added another duty to assist in the defense of Liaoyang.
In the summer of 1569 (April of the third year of Ming Longqing), the Jurchen leaders Zhang Zhang and Ai Wanha and other heavily defended troops outside the border, claiming to attack the alkali field, Gushan and other forts. Li Chengliang led his younger brothers out to meet this group of Jurchen bandits who were preparing to make a fortune in Liaodong Province. The two sides encountered each other at Jiahe Mountain City, and Li Chengliang and his younger brother rushed into the jurchen team, and the bandit Zhang Zhang was killed, beheading 164 people and capturing more than 100 military horses. Then Li Chengliang and his brother burned and plundered Zhang's lost territory, resulting in Zhang's loss of territory until it was empty. He was not killed by Li Chengliang and fled on his own. At this time, Li Chengliang's team began to become another gang of bandits, the Mongols and Jurchens robbed the people of Liaodong, and the Li Chengliang bandit gang robbed the Mongols and Jurchens, and history has a better name for Li Chengliang's bandit gang - Liaodong Iron Horse.
Some people may ask, the Mongols and Jurchens are poor and robbed, what do they have to rob? In the hands of the Mongols and Jurchens, the worthless cattle, sheep, horses, and animal skins were all finances that could be sold at a high price as long as they got the territory of the Han people, so Li Chengliang's bandit gang made a fortune by robbing Mongolia and Jurchen bandits, so Li Chengliang's bandits dreamed of getting rich and stronger.
In the fourth year of Longqing, in 1570, Li Chengliang's direct superior, Wang Zhidao, the commander-in-chief of the Liaodong Army, was hacked to death when Xin Ai, the leader of the Mongolian right wing Tumut, went to Liaodong to rob him. Li Chengliang, who was able to fight, took advantage of the situation to become the governor of Liaodong and the chief military officer of Liaodong.
At that time, Liaodong was surrounded by several major bandits, such as the Mongol Han Dynasty and the Taining Ministry, the Jurchen Jianzhou Wang Gao, the Jurchen Dong Ebu Wang Wutang, and the Jurchen Yehe Department's Qing Jia Ling and Yang Ji Ling. These bandits were all extremely vicious people, and within ten years, the three chief officers of Liaodong, Yin Shangqian, Yang Zhao, and Wang Zhidao, were all hacked to death by them. In the face of such a mess, Li Chengliang's fierce nature broke out, so he selected fierce generals to guard the cities and pools in Liaodong, and he sent his own money to recruit four-party athletes to enrich his bandits. Whenever the Mongol and Jurchen bandits came to rob, Li Chengliang took his own gang to follow these Mongols and Jurchens and gave them to a guy coldly. From time to time, he also crossed the border to run to the opponent's lair to grab it, and slowly, the offensive and defensive posture of Daming and the bandits around him slowly changed, li Chengliang was bigger and stronger, and the other bandits were getting weaker and weaker.
In the fifth year of Longqing, in 1571 AD, the Mongol Han Dynasty Tuman Khan once again poured out of the nest to rob Liaodong, Li Chengliang took his younger brother to meet the battle, the two sides encountered at Zhuoshan, was defeated by Li Chengliang, chased by Li Chengliang and slashed and killed, and even chased all the way to the old lair of Tu man, burned and plundered, beheaded more than 580 heads, grabbed a bowl full of pots. In the next two years, Li Chengliang and the two bandit gangs of Tu Man repeatedly hardened, Li Chengliang fought harder and stronger, and Tu Man fought weaker and weaker.
In the first year of the Wanli Calendar, in 1573 AD, Duoyan Wulu sihan also came to fight the autumn wind, ran to Liaodong with four thousand horses to rob, and was pressed to the ground by Li Chengliang and rubbed by Li Chengliang, and fled north in a hurry.
In the same year, Li Chengliang extended the magic grasp into the territory of the Jurchens, pushed Daming's defense line eastward, and built the Six Forts of Kuandian west of the Yalu River to expand the "Eight Hundred Mile Xinjiang" for Daming, which was a mature land that the Jurchens in Jianzhou had long developed and matured, and Li Chengliang used six fortresses to get this land in his hands, which was a piece of fat meat. Here are all the mature land and fertile land developed by the Jurchens, and here it is also divided up by the Liaodong Represented by Li Chengliang, who also engages in foreign trade with the Jurchens here, monopolizes the trade with the Jurchens, and incorporates huge financial resources into their hands.
This also annoyed the two fierce bandits of Jurchen, Wang Gao of Jianzhou and Wang Wutang of Dong'ebu, who rose up and fought Li Chengliang to death. Wang Gao was Nurhaci's maternal grandfather, who is also known as the grandfather in the Northeast dialect. Wang Gao first booby-trapped and killed Fushun Bei Yu Pei Chengzu. So Li Chengliang took the Liaodong general gate and his Liaodong iron horse, rushed into Jianzhou Wei to burn and plunder, the remnants of all tribes ran to Wang Gao's cottage, Wang Gao defended himself, Li Chengliang and his generals attacked, Wang Gao fled to Ahana Village, was chased by Li Chengliang's generals, and finally Wang Gao was captured alive by the governor Wang Tai and sacrificed to Li Chengliang, who was cut down by Li Chengliang. The first wave of resistance from Jianzhouwei was suppressed.
Jianzhou Zuowei ai Xinjue Luo Jue Chang'an looked at it, really could not afford to provoke Li Chengliang, the demon king, in order to show his obedience, he gave his two grandsons Nurhaci and Shulhaqi to Li Chengliang as hostages, and Li Chengliang also incorporated the brothers into his own family team and shed blood and sweat for his cause.
After ten years of recuperation, Wang Gao's sons, Ah Tai, Ah Hai and others held a grudge and vowed to avenge their father. The three Atai brothers gathered together their former people and rebuilt the city of Gule and Shaji, training the people, ready to avenge their father. After gathering a group of outlaws to kill and rob Liaodong again, which was still tolerable, Li Chengliang decided to cut the grass and remove the roots. After several ambushes, Atai was crippled, so he surrounded the city of Gule with a large army. Nurhaci's grandfather and father Jue Chang'an and his son TakShi persuaded Atai to surrender, and before the persuasion was successful, Li Chengliang's army broke through the city of Gule, and with the tone of the Liaodong Iron Horse, they launched an indiscriminate slaughter of the city. The main force of the Jianzhou Sanwei was lost in this massacre, and Kyaw Chang An and his sons Tak Shi father and son were also regarded as meat paste.
At this time, the biggest force in Jianzhou Wei became a powerful leader in Li Chengliang's battle to suppress Atai, Nikan Wailan, who thought he had made a great contribution, and every day he hoped for the stars and the moon waiting for Li Chengliang to reward him with a bone. But Li Chengliang released the nurhaci and Shulhaqi brothers back to Jianzhou, and said to this brother that it was this Nikan Wailan king who killed your grandfather and father, you go to avenge, I will help you, so Nurhaci raised an army with thirteen pairs of armor to attack Nikan Wailan, and with The assistance of Li Chengliang, it took three years for Nurhaci to kill Nikan Wailan. However, at this time, Nurhaci did not dare to target Li Chengliang, he obediently knelt on the ground and called Li Chengliang's father, and Nurhaci instead began to attack the other unruly Jurchen departments.
In the seventh year of the Wanli Calendar, Dong'ebu was bullied when trading at Kuandian Fort, so Wang Wutang carried out some robbery activities sporadically in Liaozuo Liubao, and the next year, that is, in 1580 AD, Wang Wutang rushed into Huanggangling with six hundred cavalry and hacked the commander Wang Zongyi to death, wang Wutang, who tasted the sweetness, rushed to Yongdian with more than a thousand cavalry to prepare to grab another one, without Li Chengliang to face the head attack, Wang Wutang was Li Chengliang's opponent, he could only retreat, he was chased by Li Chengliang and cut more than two hundred miles, and the old camp was robbed by Li Chengliang. Li Chengliang returned with a full load. In the autumn, Wang Wutang gathered the remnants of the party and ran to Kuandian to rob him, but was defeated by Li Chengliang's deputy general Yao Dajie, and Wang Wutang completely declined, and could only run to the mountains to recuperate, and was later merged into the Eight Banners by Nurhaci.
At that time, the most powerful tribe in the Jurchens was the Yehebu, which was very powerful under the leadership of Qing Jiaping and his younger brother Yang Jiping, and retreated the once-powerful Hada tribe, plundered a large amount of hada's finances and population, and arrogantly rushed into Guangshun Pass, captured Shada Gaozhai, captured three hundred people, and used troops to blackmail Daming into obtaining the qualification to trade with Daming. This was tolerable, so Li Chengliang summoned the Qing Jia Ping brothers to the "city circle", pretending to "give the edict to reward the bribe", but in fact set up an ambush. The Qing Jia Ping brothers did not know what the plan was, and only took more than three hundred riders into the circle. At the order of Li Chengliang, the circle gate was closed, the letter cannon roared, and the ambush troops were all slaughtered, and Qing Jiaping, Yang Jiping, Bai Huchi, Qing Jiaping's son Wusun Boluo, Yang Jiping's son Hal Hama, and all three hundred and eleven of his subordinates were killed. Later generations called this the "city circle meter". Ye Hebu was also honest.
Under the cruel suppression of Li Chengliang, the Jurchens' strength was greatly weakened and they all stopped.
From the third year of the Wanli Dynasty to the tenth year of the Wanli Calendar, the Tu barbarians united with the Suo Gong Hai of the Taining Ministry and other Mongolian departments in the northeast region, and you came and went to fight repeatedly, and Li Chengliang won more and lost less. Wanli Ten Years Quickly hacked Hai to death. Su Zhihai, who had been robbing Li Chengliang for twenty years in Liaodong, was a famous bandit who was killed by Li Chengliang, and the Wanli Emperor was overjoyed, and gave Li Chengliang a set of courtyards in Beijing, and hereditary Jinyi commanded the envoys. After that, Li Chengliang continued to fight with the Mongol tribes led by the barbarians, and the Mongol bandits slowly declined in Li Chengliang's crazy slashing, although they came to rob every year, but the harm was getting smaller and smaller, and the climate was getting worse and worse.
As the situation in Liaodong gradually stabilized, and Li Chengliang's backstage also went to work, Li Chengliang's slowly became a thorn in the eye of some people, and under the leadership of Li Chengliang, Li Chengliang's Liaodong Iron Horse became a strong soldier in the world, and his sons and nephews served as local military leaders, Li Chengliang's younger brother Li Chengcai, the official worship general, the son Li Rusong, Li Rubai, Li Ruzhen, Li Ruzhang, and Li Rumei all paid homage to the chief military officer; his sons Li Ruzi, Li Ruwu, Li Rugui, and Li Runan all paid homage to the general officer. Li Pinghu, Li Ning, Li Xing, Qin Deyi, and Sun Shoulian all became the military commanders of a city. The most important thing is that Li Chengliang almost monopolized the financial resources of Liaodong, and Liaodong's military supplies, horses, salt, and border trade were all under the control of the Liaodong army. With a strong army in hand and enough money to support this army, when the foreign enemy disappeared, Li Chengliang became a confidant of the imperial court.
In the nineteenth year of the Wanli Calendar, under the impeachment of Yushi Zhang Heming, Li Chengliang requested retirement on the grounds of illness, which was approved by the Wanli Emperor. Sixty-six-year-old Li Chengliang went to Beijing to retire as a distant uncle.
At that time, Daming relied on warlords of all sizes to fight wars, and the central government hardly paid salaries to the army, and the maintenance of the army depended on the officers themselves. The military expenses of the imperial court were used for various emergency military conflicts.
Since the Beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Central Plains have been able to maintain basic peace, but in places where there are frequent military conflicts in the border areas, generals can only be selected by raising clams, and whoever can get money to raise soldiers can use who can fight the imperial court, and once this army is powerful, it will find a way to kill it, and then find a substitute from other small warlords. It goes on and on and on.
Qi Dashuai's Qi Jiajun was played to death in this way, and Li Chengliang's Liaodong Iron Horse was also played to death in this way.
After Li Chengliang retired, Daming changed eight general soldiers in Liaodong for ten years, and none of them could effectively organize military forces, and Liaodong, which had been gradually stabilized by Li Chengliang, was once again chaotic. In the past ten years, it is easier to be eight handsome, and the side is prepared to relax. In the years when Li Chengliang retired, Nurhaci also began the war to unify the Jurchens, when Daming was in internal and external difficulties, Nurhaci did not mess with Daming, and they did not notice the danger of Nurhaci at all.
After Li Chengliang retired, the Wanli Emperor frequently recruited Li Rusong, the Ningxia Rebellion in the 20th year of the Wanli Calendar, the Wanli Korean War from the 20th year of the Wanli to the 26th year of the Wanli Calendar, all of which were Li Rusong charging with the Liaodong Iron Horse, and although he made great military achievements, the Li family's daring warriors gradually withered away in the war. In the twenty-sixth year of the Wanli Calendar (1598), Li Rusong, who had just returned from Korea, was appointed as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong Province, in order to prove that he was not worse than his father, so he pressed the old ben and gambled, and took three thousand family members to sneak attack the old lair of the tu man, but the bad luck, the main force of the tu man had just been robbed, and they were all entrenched in the old lair of the tu man to hold a stolen meeting, and li Rusong bumped into the face, the enemy met with great red eyes, both sides killed the red eye, Li Rusong and the last three thousand warriors of the Liaodong Iron Horse were all killed. The Liaodong Iron Horse, as a military group, disappeared into the smoke and dust of history.
In the continuous fighting, Li Chengliang's gang slowly changed from a state-controlled army defending the country to an armed landlord bandit. At first, they defended their homeland, and slowly transformed into robbing the Mongols and Jurchens, and it didn't take long to form a positive feedback. The Li Chengliang clique used the looted finances to buy more land and accumulate more industries, and they had a more sophisticated armed force, so an armed bandit group of landlords with extremely strong combat effectiveness gathered around Li Chengliang. Li Chengliang took out a large amount of finances to bribe Shangguan, and the famous power minister Zhang Juzheng, Shen Shixing, Xu Guo, Wang Xijue, and others in the cabinet also became Li Chengliang's backers.
In the twenty-ninth year of the Wanli Calendar, in 1601, under the recommendation of the university scholar Shen Cheng, in 1601, the seventy-six-year-old Li Chengliang was once again invited to come out to see the scene and serve as the commander-in-chief of the Liaodong Army.
At this time, several giant komen who had died with Li Chengliang had withered away, and the most capable of tossing the barbarians had also died, and Daming asked Li Chengliang's giant kon to come back to see the scene, and those little thieves did not dare to come to the door to find no pain. They could only kneel at the feet of Li Chengliang and ask for business with Daming.
But at this time, Nurhaci had grown into a bloodthirsty lion, and he organized his army into four banners, each with 7500 military households, which was a complete giant. Li Chengliang, who was too old to face the challenge of the young and powerful Nurhaci, he was afraid, the carefully cultivated successor Li Rusong and the Liaodong Iron Horse that he had spent his life carefully building had been buried, Li Chengliang did not know how to suppress Nurhaci, in 1606, Li Chengliang abandoned the Liaozuo Six Forts he personally built, gave this fertile land to Nurhaci, and expressed goodwill to Nurhaci.
Li Chengliang spent 8 years in peace and security, seeing that Liaodong had stabilized again, the Qingliu of the Central Committee of Daming once again launched an impeachment of Li Chengliang, and in 1609, the eighty-four-year-old Li Chengliang resigned again. In 1615, in the forty-third year of the Wanli Calendar, Li Chengliang, who was 90 years old, passed away. The last male lion of Daming that made Nurhaci feared died, and Nurhaci had no fear, so the following year, in 1616, Nurhaci called Khan anti-Ming. Liaodong and even the entire Ming Dynasty were taken by Nurhaci and his sons.
Li Chengliang town Liao twenty-two years, successively played the great victory of the ten, the emperor sacrificed to the suburban temple, by the court of congratulations, python clothes golden age to give thick stacks. The grandeur of Bian Shuai's martial arts has not been seen in two hundred years. Its beginnings were determined to worship, the division was victorious, and the prestige was absolute. He has already looked to Yilong, his sons and daughters have been listed in the lofty ranks, and all the servants are honored.
Remarks: Xin Ai was the eldest son of Uttar Khan, known for his bravery, and was known as one of the Five Warriors of the Mongolian Right Wing. Later, he married his stepmother, the third lady, and became "Chechen Khan".