On March 19, 1644, the wheel of history of the Ming Dynasty was about to brake, and at this time, the Forbidden City Palace was dead silent, and the peasant army of Li Zicheng, the king of the ming Dynasty, had already captured the outer city. The Chongzhen Emperor listened to the sound of fighting outside the palace, his mood was mixed, and he staggered to the coal mountain and hanged himself on the crooked neck tree, ending his thirty-four-year-old life at the same time, but also ending the 276-year-old Ming Dynasty.
At this time, Pingxi Bo Liaodong was the chief soldier Wu
When Wu Sangui's army arrived in Fengrun, Hebei, the news of the death of the Chongzhen Emperor and the collapse of the Ming Dynasty spread quickly, Li Zicheng and his army had invaded the city of Beijing and became the new master of the Forbidden City, hearing this news, Wu Sangui immediately turned around and returned to Fangshan Customs, Wu Sangui knew that the Daming Dynasty had died, the Chongzhen Emperor had committed suicide, and even his own family had become Li Zicheng's subjects. Wu Sangui's father Wu Xiang threw a letter of persuasion at this time, followed by Li Zicheng's forty-two thousand taels of silver, Wu Sangui knew that his iron horse was simply powerless to return to heaven, and thought: I can't do it, so I will be a filial piety. After Wu Sangui struggled with his heart for a long time, he accepted Li Zicheng's canonization and personally led the 30,000 Guanning Iron Horse to Beijing again.
Wu Sangui himself did not expect to lead this force ten days ago
The Iron Horse went to Beijing to rescue, but a few days later it was surrendered. However, both times did not reach Beijing, Wu Sangui learned that his father was imprisoned, his concubine was occupied, Wu Sangui was completely angry, led the army back to Shanhaiguan, Wu Sangui in a fit of anger to kill all the Shun troops defending the city, at this time Li Zicheng once again swallowed his anger and made peace with Wu Sangui, because he was afraid that Wu Sangui would ally with the Qing Dynasty, and Wu Sangui would send the head to Li Zicheng at this time, and with the head of the envoy and the farewell letter with his father. Wu Sangui's move completely ignited Li Zicheng's fire. Personally leading a 100,000 peasant army to attack Wu Sangui, we must completely solve this hidden danger. So, the anger generated by the humiliation of personal feelings led the two men to a decisive battle, and the later results are known to everyone. Wu Wu Sangui was forced by Li Zicheng to ally with the Qing Dynasty, and was killed by Kang in his later years. In general, this Wu Sangui can be described as a domineering president and a dick counterattack with Li Zicheng, but in the end he did not laugh to the end. Both people have lost their minds and become losers in life because of a momentary impulse. For Wu Sangui, a good hand of cards was rare, and Guanning Iron Horse and Shanhaiguan were once the dreams of Dolgun and Li Zicheng. Who would have thought that Wu Sangui would directly collapse. In the end, he ended up with a doomed end, so it is said that people must not be impulsive when doing things, if we do things according to Wu Sangui's situation at that time, we will find that his biggest problem is to break up with Li Zicheng, so that he has to force himself to surrender to Dolgun qing, lose his concubine, and make Wu Sangui completely angry and reject Li Zicheng's request for peace. It also completely annoyed Li Zicheng. As a result, Wu Sangui, who could have remained neutral, completely lost his balance, and Wu San fell into a dilemma.
So, what is the best choice for Wu Sangui? In fact, wu sangui's best choice is that none of me will turn to anyone, but become a third-party force, in a three-legged trend to weigh the backbone of Li Zicheng and Dolgun, so that Wu Sangui has become an important chip, whether Li Zicheng or Dolgun does not want to see Wu Sangui lead the other camp, so they will show goodwill like Wu Sangui, and both parties will want Wu Sangui to meet their demands as much as possible. But Wu Sangui's most fatal thing is emotional affairs, if it were not for this, Dorgon would not have mentioned how difficult it would be, because the concubines were occupied, so li Zicheng's negotiations were completely broken, plus Li Zicheng's subsequent repeated overtures. Wu Sangui was also unmoved, and as a result, Dorgon took advantage of the loophole.
So, when Li Zicheng's army was suppressed under the city, Wu San
Gui can only ask Dorgon to help send troops to help, and in a letter to Dorgon, he hopes that Dorgon will send troops to help him suppress the traitors and eliminate Li Zicheng, and after the fact, he will set aside the territory as a chip.
In this letter inviting soldiers, it is not difficult to see that Wu Sangui still showed that the last and strictest of the Ming Dynasty will never be lowered, just saying that he would ask for soldiers, rather than letting Nurhaci send troops, he meant that he wanted to ask the Qing dynasty to help restore the rule of the Ming Dynasty, but at this time Wu Sangui had no chips, and in the letter to Wu Sangui, he only wanted Wu Sangui to surrender, and the matter of borrowing soldiers was not mentioned, Wu Sangui saw the surrender of the Great Qing, and did not put this barbaric Jurchen in his eyes at all. Wu Sangui could be regarded as a loyal vassal of the Ming Dynasty, and would not accept the surrender at all. But then again, today is different from the past, the emperor is dead, the Ming Dynasty is gone, his father is still captured, Wu Sangui did not save, later, Li Zicheng launched a full-line attack on Shanhaiguan in the morning of April 21, but the disparity in strength is too great, the Guanning cavalry fighting alone suffered heavy casualties, Shanhaiguan can be said to be in danger, at this time, Wu Sangui was deeply trapped in the desperate situation of the water, and he could not take care of the loyal backbone of his own body. Because Li Zicheng's army will block all his retreats, in desperation, he can only accept Dolgun's surrender and become a pawn installed by the Qing Dynasty in the Central Plains.
On April 22, just after dawn, Dorgon led the Qing army into the Dynasty
After entering Shanhaiguan, Dolgun ordered Wu Sangui to lead his Guanning Iron Horse to take the lead, be a pioneer, go out of the city and fight with Li Zicheng, wu Sangui first rushed into the enemy camp with Guanning Iron Horse, after the battle, the follower he had been annihilated for many years, and Guan Ning, who was the forward, was exhausted. In the end, Wu Sangui was unable to keep the Guan Ning army that he had painstakingly managed for a long time, and let go of the pride of his loyal servant Xiaozi, at this time Wu Sangui had no way to retreat, and on April 23, Li Zicheng killed Wu Xiang Three days later, more than thirty members of Wu Sangui were beheaded in Beijing. At this time, Wu Sangui lost both his army and his family. Or the sentence just now a good hand of cards to play a fine piece.
In the history of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Wu Sangui can be regarded as a pivotal figure, Chongzhen could not have imagined that he bet the wrong treasure, Wu Sangui surrendered to Dolgun, lured the Qing troops into the customs, and personally strangled the Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty who fled to Mandalay, Burma
Later, he cooperated with the Qing army to pursue and kill Li Zicheng. Ran most of China until Li Zicheng died. Serving Wu Sangui was enfeoffed with the title of Yungui. However, at this time, Wu Sangui began to drift, and he could not satisfy his position long ago, he began to expand his army in his own land, expand his land, form a party and private sector, and his ambitions gradually became bigger, and he even wanted to make himself the head of a country. In the end, he and the Qing court turned against each other and began to rebel
Wu Sangui in history was actually sick and died, at that time the San Francisco Rebellion was already doomed to him to end in failure, after which Wu Sangui was called emperor in Hengzhou, Hunan, the national name was Great Zhou, Jianyuan Zhaowu, but unfortunately, he estimated that he was doomed not to have the Ninth Five-Year Dignity, and the emperor died of illness in the same year, after which his grandson Wu Shifan took the throne and retired to Yunnan, Kangxi twenty years Kunming was besieged, Wu Shifan committed suicide, and the remaining soldiers also went out of the city and surrendered, Wu Sangui's family can be said to be quite sad, Wu Sangui's descendants were completely slaughtered, and even the infants, including the swaddled babies, could not escape the fate.