The Qi family army won hundreds of battles against the Wokou and lost many battles against the Mongol Wallachians, why was the same army so unsatisfied? In fact, it is not that the enemy is too fierce, but that my Ming army is too wasted. What do you mean by that?
[The Mongol army is not a soft persimmon]
In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Mongol Wallachians have long ceased to be the style of Genghis Khan,but the combat effectiveness of the Mongol cavalry cannot be underestimated. In 1449 (the fourteenth year of orthodoxy), Emperor Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen personally invaded the Northern Expedition to Mongolia, and the Mongol Wala cavalry could still capture the Ming Emperor in an elite army of 200,000, and the "change of Tumu Fort" forced the Ming Dynasty to the dilemma of annihilation.
In contrast, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army declined even more severely, and the Ming Army was already corrupt and declining after Zhu Di. The border defense post army is known as "educating soldiers in the peasants", but in fact, after a long period of tun tian, it has become a farmer. The "change of Tumu Fort" was the result of the disappearance of the military forces of the Ming Dynasty and the Mongol Wallachians.
Since then, the offensive and defensive postures of the Mongol Walla and the Ming Dynasty have been exchanged, and the Ming Dynasty is no longer able to take the offensive. However, the Mongol Wallachians ended their aggressive military campaign against the Ming Dynasty due to internal firefights.
By the Jiajing period, there was basically no war between the north and south of the Ming Dynasty. During the 100 years of Chengping, the System of the Beijing Army, which collapsed during the "Tumu Fort Revolution", has never been restored, and the Weisuo Border Army has continued to decay. Not only was the northern border defense in decline, but the south was equally vulnerable.
【What's going on】
In this case, in 1550 (the twenty-ninth year of Jiajing), the Mongol Tatars plundered the Beijing division and the soldiers lincheng. During this period, Emperor Ming Shizong abolished the tributary state of Japan's qualification for "surveying and trade" and increased the sea ban, resulting in the re-emergence of the Wokou that had been extinguished for a hundred years.
However, these "Wokou" are no longer the same thing as the Wokou in the early Ming Dynasty.
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Wokou were the "true Wokou" who plundered the coasts of Korea and the Ming Dynasty, and were samurai and ronin who failed to sneak out as pirates during the Southern and Northern Dynasties of Japan. During the Chu Di period, he established tributary relations with the Japanese Ashikaga Yoshiman, and the two sides worked together to fight against the Wokou, and within a few decades the Wokou were swept away.
During the Jiajing period, the ming dynasty's non-governmental foreign trade had developed greatly, and waves of large maritime merchant groups appeared, and the main objects of their trade were Japan in the east and the Philippines in the west. Jiajing's paper ban on the sea suddenly cut off the entire foreign trade industrial chain of several coastal provinces, and the industrial chain (shipping, handicrafts, fisheries, commerce, etc.) involved more than tens of millions of people.
In this case, some in order to make huge profits in foreign trade, and some in order to make a living, maritime merchants engaged in smuggling and piracy, that is, the new Wokou who "also traded and stole". The Ming Dynasty court insisted on "internal worries" as "external troubles", but in fact it was "officials forcing the people to rebel" (the fact that the "Wukou" in this period was mainly a Chinese pirate maritime group has long been recognized by the Chinese and Japanese historians. ）
Of course, the local officials of the Ming Dynasty also knew the fact that the Wokou were the pirates of their own maritime merchants. But for the sake of their own interests, they either choose to condone the Wokou or choose to be destroyed as the true Wokou.
[Qi Jiajun's military merit is very watery]
The "Jiajing Rebellion" occurred in this situation, 53 Wokou did not rob or injure civilians, wandered 3 provinces and 20 prefectures and counties, killed and injured more than 4,000 officers and soldiers, and finally attacked the city of Nanjing, which was defended by tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians, and then drifted away. Ridiculous? Absurd enough, it can be seen from it that the Ming Dynasty was corrupt to the extent.
The so-called Wokou refers to the fierce struggle between all walks of life in foreign trade and the "sea ban" of the Ming Court. The 53 people of the "Jiajing Rebellion" were released by the people and officials and gentry along the way, and they had the opportunity to swim for more than 80 days to fight in the city of Nanjing, the purpose of which was to ask for the people's lives.
Qi Jiguang's Qi family army was suppressed under such circumstances. The Qi family army claimed to be the elite of the Ming army, but it faced pirates and smugglers. Doesn't Qi Jiguang know who the "Wokou" are? He must have known that many local officials and literati in the Ming Dynasty had such a record: "The so-called Wokou people are covered by 89 out of 100 for the people of the country."
Tang Shu's "Miscellaneous Works of the Imperial Wo" records that the maritime merchants are Kou, the various trades are Kou, the fishermen are Kou, the good people are Kou, and the people work together to be Kou.
Wei Ji Guangming knew that Wokou was a pirate of maritime merchants, but he killed the killer fiercely, for what? Is there still less record of the Ming Dynasty killing Liang and taking risks? The well-equipped regular army strangled the pirates, of course, a hundred battles and victories. The coastal military and people have a slip of the tongue: "It is better to meet the Wokou than to meet the officers and soldiers; to escape when the Wukou can escape, it is difficult to escape when encountering the soldiers", from which we can see the quality of the Ming Dynasty army, and from it we can see how much moisture the Qi family army beheaded 100,000 people?
[Finally] An army that has made a name for itself by slaughtering pirate smugglers from the sea has no record against the Mongol Tatar cavalry, which is not weak at all, and has no record of being able to do so.