"It is not my intention to seal the marquis, but I hope that Hai Boping."
This is Qi Jiguang's exclamation when he witnessed the people being burned and robbed by the Wukou along the coast of Shandong, Qi Jiguang's noble sentiments of indifferent to Mingzhi were obvious, and the compassion of taking the world's life as his duty was even more touching.
As we all know, during the Ming Dynasty, the sea was rampant, the war was continuous, and under the situation of a tense situation, the imperial court officials recommended Qi Jiguang, who had outstanding ability, as a general.
Qi Jiguang
Qi Jiguang lived up to the expectations of the people and formed an army that was invincible and invincible, the Qi Family Army, and in the years of galloping on the battlefield, it beheaded countless enemies at the head of countless ranks, was invincible, and swept across East Asia, known as the "victorious army", and was the strongest army in East Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
But it is also such an army that makes the enemy feel frightened, but after fighting bloodily to defend the country, it was annihilated and slaughtered by the imperial court, and the Qi family army had the intention to kill thieves and was powerless to return to heaven, sad! Alas! This move of the Ming Dynasty is truly abominable! hateful!
Anti-Hero
He won consecutive battles and once sealed the gods
Maxima is often present, but Bole is not. Qi Jiguang's early military achievements were largely appreciated and recommended by Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, and thus had the opportunity to resist the Wukou along the coast of Shandong.
At that time, the Ming Dynasty army's experience in sea warfare was very lacking, and in the face of the familiar water nature of the Wokou vulnerable, in order to make up for this deficiency, Qi Jiguang gathered more than 3,000 peasants to form an army, and combined with the previous anti-Wu experience to carry out strict combat training, the early Qi family army was born, and the myth of victory in battle was opened.
In the forty-first year of Jiajing, that is, in 1562 AD, the Wukou ran rampant in the Fujian area, Qi Jiguang joined forces with Funing, Lianjiang and other places to fight against the Wu, and successively attacked a number of regions in one fell swoop.
The Ming Dynasty invaded our country
In the forty-second year of Jiajing, that is, in 1563, Xinghua City was occupied by Wukou, and Qi Jiguang led the army to support as a vanguard, and on the way to besiege Pinghai and Chen Sheng's pursuit, he killed a total of 5,000 Wukou, and the Qi family army defeated the enemy Kou in the Battle of Xinghua.
In the forty-third year of Jiajing, that is, in 1564, more than 10,000 Wukou besieged Xianyou, Qi Jiguang led the Qi family army to conquer it, beheaded hundreds of ranks in Wang Cangping, and the Wukou who fled to the sea were defeated by the Qi family army, and in the same year, the Wukou who plundered Chaozhou were completely annihilated in one fell swoop, and the Battle of Xianyou was a great victory for the Qi family army.
It is also such a Qi family army, which is known as "the strongest army in East Asia in the 16th and 17th centuries", but with the departure of Qi Jiguang, it gradually declined or even collapsed completely.
Ming Dynasty Water Campaign
Shousuke was killed and implicated
Speaking of Qi Jiajun, the core figure Qi Jiguang first comes to mind, as the soul of the army, Qi Jiguang is not only a military and national hero, but also a calligrapher and a poet, and is a rare all-rounder in the world.
At the same time, Qi Jiguang is also very good at weapons casting and military engineering construction, and has pioneered the construction of a hollow enemy platform on the Great Wall, which can be attacked and defended during combat, which is a major miracle and plays a key role in defending the country.
In the historical evolution of the Ming Dynasty from Jiajing to Wanli, Zhang Juzheng, as the first assistant of the Three Dynasties, had a profound influence on the politics of the Ming Dynasty, whether it was political or military, it played a great role.
Zhang Juzheng in film and television works
Zhang Juzheng devoted his life to serving the people, doing his best to assist the Ming Emperor in governing the country, and making great contributions to the people and society, and Qi Jiguang was able to go from a military prominence to a hundred responses without the recommendation of this first assistant.
However, people's hearts are unpredictable, the sky is unpredictable, during the Wanli years, Zhang Ju is being squeezed and suppressed by people with ulterior motives, and under the calculation of people with hearts, the first assistant of the generation was tragically liquidated and raided.
Qi Jiguang, who did not have Zhang Juzheng's support and protection in the imperial court, was also impeached by hundreds of officials, and in desperation, Qi Jiguang was forced to leave the Qi family army, and after leaving, Qi Jiguang had no source of livelihood because he did not have Qi Lu, and a generation of Ming Dynasty celebrities who heroically killed the enemy on the battlefield and swore to defend national security to the death would end their lives in hunger and cold.
Portrait of the Wanli Emperor
Pre-war commitments, but children's plays
Without Qi Jiguang, the Qi family army can imagine how difficult the situation was, and the heroic troops who had once been enshrined in the ming dynasty were crowded out by other armies everywhere in the Ming Dynasty, and it was difficult to move.
Wood shows in the forest, and the wind will destroy it. The mighty Qi Jiajun made others jealous and even resentful, and gradually became a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh of people with bad intentions.
As early as when the Qi family army was stationed in jizhou in the north, Qi Jiguang mobilized the armies of the north and south for military layout, which directly touched the interests of some people and laid the foundation for the army of the north and south of the Ming Dynasty.
With the passage of time, the contradictions intensified, and the Qi family army even faced the dilemma of being owed military salaries, that is, using legitimate means to ask for military salaries, which was also called "thorn heads" by the northerners and other leaders who were the commanders of Jizhou Town at the time, and the living problems of the Qi family army were not only unresolved, but also the situation became more and more difficult.
Qi Jiajun
In the twentieth year of the Wanli Calendar, that is, in 1592 AD, Japan invaded Korea, and Korea asked the Ming Dynasty for help, so the Ming Dynasty agreed and sent Li Rusong and other generals to help Korea and fight against Japan, including the qi family army with strong combat effectiveness.
On the eve of the war in Korea, the leader of the army promised the generals of the Southern Army to go on a campaign for one year, and they could receive military salaries and generous subsidies totaling 43 taels of silver. The Qi family army, which is already fierce in combat effectiveness, has performed extremely well in the Korean war, and has repeatedly accomplished miraculous feats, which everyone can see for all to see.
In the Second Battle of Pyongyang, the Qi family army fought actively as always, triumphant all the way, the momentum was like a bamboo, and it was the first army to rush to the head of Pyongyang City, and made the first contribution to the Battle of Pyongyang.
However, As the commander of the army, Li Rusong was the core figure of the Northern Army, and blatantly favored the Northern Army in the distribution of battle achievements, and attributed the achievements of the Southern Army to the Northern Army and the "first narrative" of the Qi Family Army in Pyongyang.
The leader Li Rusong's unclear reward and punishment made the Southern Army very angry, but there was nowhere to argue, which brought great negative effects to the Ming Army, because the Southern Army, the first rank of Pyongyang, had not yet obtained any points, and the army's will to fight was much worse than before.
Portrait of Li Rusong
Jizhou mutinied and was slaughtered
In fact, since Zhang Juzheng's death, the financial situation of the Ming Dynasty has been deteriorating, and arrears of military salaries have become the norm, and many soldiers have long adapted and are accustomed to plundering people in Korea.
However, the Qi family army, which could not adapt, became an "outlier", not only strict military discipline, not oppressing the Korean people, but also actively teaching martial arts to the Koreans, which can be called a clear stream, and the Korean people even erected monuments to praise them all the way.
In the late Ming Dynasty, the phenomenon of arrears of military salaries became more and more serious, and in this regard, the Northern Army mainly concentrated resources to support a small number of elite Jiading cavalry, while the Southern Army, which had received preferential treatment in the War of Resistance Against the Wu Dynasty, could not understand it.
The Ming Dynasty army fighting bloodily
The imperial court owed military salaries for too long, resulting in serious problems in the life of the Qi family army, and it was even more difficult to support the family, and in desperation, the hungry Qi family army gathered to ask the chief for a salary, hoping to get the proper military salary and cash in the business money that took the lead in the battle of Pyongyang.
At that time, Wang Bao, the commander-in-chief of Jizhou, was a northerner who had always safeguarded the interests of the Northern Army, and was deeply disgusted by the Qi family army's collective practice of begging for pay, and in anger, he wantonly killed the Qi family army on the ground of rebellion on the grounds of rebellion, and the Jizhou mutiny broke out.
The Jizhou Mutiny discouraged the Qi family army, which had always been loyal, the army was seriously injured, and the defensive line of the Qi family army was also broken, directly allowing the Emperor Taiji to drive straight in the north, and after 49 years of the Jizhou mutiny, the Ming Dynasty collapsed.