After the Chongzhen Emperor succeeded to the throne, he had a large hand of good cards, but unfortunately he could not control it well, and finally ended up in a chicken feather.
Sun Chengzong, Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, Cao Wenzhao, Yuan Chonghuan, and Hong Chengzuo were the super famous generals in the early days of the Chongzhen Emperor's ascension to the throne, and if Chongzhen could make good use of this group of people, he could completely save the ming dynasty from danger, but the character defects made these people leave him one by one, and finally fell into the fate of hanging martyrdom, which can be described as self-inflicted sins and inability to live.
It can be said that if these six people meet the Ming Emperor, they will definitely be able to show their ambitions, but it is a pity that the Chongzhen Emperor is a self-absorbed and indecisive monarch who makes all this a floating cloud.
Before Lu Xiangsheng's death in battle, the Chongzhen Emperor was defeated by the Emperor Taiji and killed the generals Yuan Chonghuan and Cao Wenzhao in the Battle of Xiangtou Town due to defeat and suicide. Sun Chengzong was captured and hanged himself. The Chongzhen Emperor had four good cards in his hand, and directly abolished two of them, which forced the Chongzhen Emperor to use Lu Xiangsheng.
Lu Xiangsheng was a fierce general, Chongzhen from six years into the campaign to pacify Li Zicheng, repeatedly made military merits, so he was promoted to the right deputy capital Yushi, the premier hebei, Henan, Shandong, Huguang, Sichuan military affairs, and also Huguang inspector, later promoted to bingbu shilang, then moved to the military department left shilang, viceroy Xuanfu, Datong military affairs.
From this point, it can be seen that Lu Xiangsheng started with military merit, which can be described as brave and unusual, but this guy not only knows how to fight, but also his personal quality is extremely high, after all, there is a very combative Tianxiong army in his hands, this army takes the Qi family army as a model, all the soldiers are well-trained, can be described as elite and abnormal, so they basically did not encounter defeat when they fought with Li Zicheng, Gao Yingxiang and other peasant armies.
The Chongzhen Emperor saw that his generals were so outstanding, so he regarded them as the last card in his hand, so that he could be of great use in times of danger.
Chongzhen ten years. Emperor Taiji ordered Dorgon to lead an army to attack, and the Ming army's defensive line was unable to resist, and it was defeated, and the capital Beijing was in crisis. Seeing that the situation was extremely dangerous, the Chongzhen Emperor ordered Lu Xiangsheng to bring Yang Guozhu, Wang Pu, and Hu Dawei, the three generals of Xuan, Da, and Shanxi, into the Weijing Division.
Before Lu Xiangsheng entered Beijing, the Chongzhen Emperor had already planned to negotiate peace with Emperor Taiji and let Chen Xinjia, the head of the bingbu, secretly negotiate peace. Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian discovered Emperor Chongzhen's intentions, so they repeatedly obstructed Lu Xiangsheng, so that Lu Xiangsheng could not move other soldiers and horses except for his own men and horses. Lu Xiangsheng saw that he could not mobilize other soldiers and horses, and he was very depressed about this, after all, he could mobilize soldiers and horses to eat empty salaries, so the strength of the troops in his hands was far from the actual situation, only about 20,000.
Lu Xiangsheng's situation was a bit painful, and his father did not hurt his mother and did not love, so that the army in his hands could not fight with the wolf-like Eight Banner Army. In the end, Lu Xiangsheng led the army to meet the 80,000 Qing troops at the Artemisan Bridge, Lu Xiangsheng immediately set up a position to clash with the Qing army, the two sides fought for several hours, Lu Xiangsheng's army was short of ammunition, so he ordered the soldiers to fight with the Qing army, after some fighting, Lu Xiangsheng's troops suffered heavy losses, Hu Dawei wanted to take him to break through, but Lu Xiangsheng did not want to break through and shouted with his sword, "The general is dead, there is no advance!" ", led his own soldiers to charge the Prancing Horse, with four arrows and three blades in his body, and was martyred heroically. After Lu Xiangsheng's death, he led his subordinate Guan Ning Iron Horse to flee directly with his troops.
After Lu Xiangsheng's death, the world was shaken, and the reason for this situation was that Lu Xiangsheng was not only the last card in the hands of the Chongzhen Emperor, but also the first senior general in the Daming Overseer Division to be killed in the Battle of Houjin. The death of Lu Xiangsheng made the people of the Ming Dynasty feel that the Ming Dynasty was in a state of no general availability.
After Lu Xiangsheng's death, the people of the three counties heard the news, wept bitterly, and the sound shook the world. Yang Sichang, who had persecuted Lu Xiangsheng, was not dead, and would protect him, sending three patrols to investigate the situation, one of whom was Yu Zhenlong, who told Yang Sichang that Lu Xiangsheng was really dead. But for Yang Sichang, he hoped that his subordinates would say that Lu Xiangsheng was not dead, so that he could add the charge of fear of war to him. The prefect of Shunde reported that Lu Xiangsheng's death was extremely tragic, and Yang Sichang and Lu Xiangsheng had a conflict over official affairs, so he buried Lu Xiangsheng eighty-eight days after his death.
Later, Lu Xiangsheng's wife and younger brothers Lu Xiangjin and Lu Xiangguan all asked the imperial court for mercy, but the Chongzhen Emperor did not agree. This situation continued until Yang Sichang besieged and suppressed Zhang Xianzhong and committed suicide in failure, and the Chongzhen Emperor gave Lu Xiangsheng the title of Prince Shaoshi and Bingbu Shangshu, and gave him a sacrifice and burial, and when king Fu of Southern Ming was in power, he posthumously honored Zhonglie and built a shrine to worship.
After Lu Xiangsheng's death, Chongzhen was unscrupulous and available, and eventually the once powerful Ming Dynasty was violently attacked by Li Zicheng and the Qing army, and finally completely perished, and the Chongzhen Emperor had no choice but to hang himself.
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