Speaking of ancient times, there are many famous generals who can fight wars, but they all have their own characteristics, such as the four famous generals of the Warring States who rose from the Warring States period, Bai Qi, Meng Tian, Lian Po, and Li Mu. But everyone's fate is different, some people have a good ending, and some people have a very tragic ending. But Xiaobian will say who I admire the most famous person, I will not hesitate to say that the name I admire the most will be Qi Jiguang, as to why let Xiaobian come with everyone.
?? Let's start with his early experience, Qi Jiguang was a gentleman and had a lot of personality when he was young. Although his family was poor, he liked to read and was familiar with Confucian classics and historical books. In the twenty-third year of Jiajing (1544), Qi Jiguang succeeded his ancestors to the position and served as the commander of Dengzhou Wei. In the twenty-fifth year of Jiajing (1546), Qi Jiguang was in charge of the Tuntian affairs of the Dengzhou Weishou, when the coastal area of Shandong was burned and looted by the Wukou, Qi Jiguang had the heart to kill the thief and wrote the verse "The marquis is not my intention, but I hope Hai Boping". In the thirty-second year of Jiajing (1553), Qi Jiguang was recommended by Zhang Juzheng to command the post of You Shi and manage the twenty-five guards of the three battalions of Dengzhou, Wenden, and Jimo, and defend against the Wukou along the Shandong coast. In the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing (1555), Qi Jiguang was transferred to the capital of Zhejiang Province, and served as a staff general to defend the three counties of Ningbo, Shaoxing, and Taizhou.
?? Then talk about his experience in fighting, mainly fighting with Wukou, the first thing to say is the Battle of Cen Gang, Jiajing thirty-six years (1557), Wukou invaded Yueqing, Ruian, Linhai and other places, Qi Jiguang led the army to the rescue, but because the road was isolated and did not have time, the imperial court also did not cure Qi Jiguang's crime. Later, Wang Zhiyu's party rebelled in Cen Gang, and Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayu's two armies joined forces and went to besiege. However, it did not take a long time, so the imperial court dismissed Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayu and others and let them kill the enemy with guilt. The Wokou stationed at Cen Harbor could not resist the attack of Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayu, so they planned to flee. In the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing (1558), The Wukou built a large ship and prepared to sail the ship at night, Yu Dayu and Qi Jiguang took the opportunity to launch an attack, sinking the Wukou ship, and Yu Dang fled to southern Fujian. The Wokou who escaped from Cen Gang also burned and looted in Taizhou, impeaching Qi Jiguang and others for deliberately letting go of Cen Gang's Wokou, which was suspected of being a Tongwu. Just as he was about to be punished, Qi Jiguang was reinstated for his merits in pacifying Wang Zhi, and Qi Jiguang was sent to guard the three counties of Shoutai, Jin, and Yan. After Qi Jiguang went to Zhejiang to take up his post, he found that the soldiers of the Weishou were generally capable of fighting, while the people of Jinhua and Yiwu were more fierce, so Qi Jiguang went to recruit three thousand people, and under the guidance and training of Qi Jiguang, he trained them into an elite unit, later called "Qi Family Army". Qi Jiguang formulated the formation according to the geographical characteristics of the swamps in the south, and equipped his troops with firearms, weapons, warships and other equipment, so that the Qi family army became famous all over the world.
?? Later was the Battle of Taizhou, jiajing forty years (1561), Wukou attacked Taozhu and Xitou in a big way, Qi Jiguang led an army to defend Taozhu and Yulongshan, and Qi Jiguang pursued and killed all the way to Yanmenling. After Wu Kou fled, he took advantage of the false attack on Taizhou, Qi Jiguang took the lead in hand-bladed the leader of the Wu Kou, and Yu Dang was cornered and all fell into the Gualing River and drowned. However, Qi Jiguang led an army to Annihilate Taizhou in Xianju. After the great victory in Taizhou, Qi Jiguang was promoted to the third class. Then, the Wukou in the Fujian and Guangdong areas flowed into the Jiangxi area to cause rebellion, and the governor Hu Zongxian could not be pacified, so he asked Qi Jiguang to come to reinforcements, Qi Jiguang led his army to Shangfangchao to break it, Wukou ran to Jianning, and Qi Jiguang led the army back to Zhejiang.
Immediately after the Battle of Fujian, in the forty-first year of Jiajing (1562), the Wokou invaded Fujian, and joined forces with the Wokou in Funing, Lianjiang, and other places to successively attack Shouning, Zhenghe, Ningde, and other places, and the Wukou who invaded from Nan'ao in Guangdong province joined forces with Fuqing and Changle to attack Xuanzhongsuo, and attacked Longyan, Songxi, Datian, Gutian, Putian and other places. The local officials and troops did not dare to attack, so Hu Zongxian issued an order for Qi Jiguang to lead troops to suppress the thieves. After Qi Jiguang took the order, he led his troops to attack Hengyu first, and the waterways on all sides of Hengyu were not easy to pass, and Qi Jiguang ordered his soldiers to each hold a bundle of straw, fill in the trenches, and break through the Hengyu Wokou and behead more than 2,200 people. Then, Qi Jiguang took advantage of the victory to pursue, killed Fuqing, destroyed the cattle field, and took the Nest of the Wokou. The Wukou Yu Party fled to Xinghua in a hurry, and Qi Jiguang did not stop, chasing all the way, and destroyed more than sixty battalions of the Wukou stronghold and beheaded countless people. After Qi Jiguang calmed down the Fujian Wokou, the banshi returned to Zhejiang and traveled to Fuqing, where he encountered a small number of Wokou entering from Dongying Ao, and Qi Jiguang led his troops to attack and beheaded two hundred people. After several battles, the Wukou in the Minguang area were almost killed by Qi Jiguang.
Then in the Battle of Xinghua, after Qi Jiguang returned to Zhejiang, the new Wokou from the Japanese mainland waited for the opportunity to invade, and after their numbers grew, they attacked Xinghua, but the siege did not take down for several months. At this time, Liu Xian sent eight people with letters to Xinghua to convey information, but was stopped and killed by Wu Kou, who changed into the costume of Liu Xian's emissaries to deceive the city gate and took the opportunity to attack Xinghua City. After the Wukou attacked Xinghua, Liu Xian led his troops to approach Xinghua, but because of the small number of soldiers, Liu Xian did not dare to attack the city without authorization, but he was impeached and charged. And Yu Dayu, the commander-in-chief of Fujian, also said that there was a need for a large army to encircle. In the forty-second year of Jiajing (1563), the imperial court made Tan Lun the right governor of Yushi, and the governor of Fujian came to support, but the commander of the capital Ouyang Shen was killed in the ambush of the Wukou, and the Wukou occupied Pinghaiwei. In April, Qi Jiguang led the Zhejiang soldiers to support. After Qi Jiguang arrived, Tan Lun immediately prepared a general attack on Wukou, first setting up a fence on various sea routes to block the return of Wukou, then Tan Lun took Liu Xian as the left army, Yu Dayu as the right army, Tan Lun led the Chinese army, with Qi Jiguang as the vanguard, besieged Pinghaiwei, broke in one fell swoop, beheaded more than 2,000 people, Qi Jiguang and other troops pursued, the Wukou road was impassable, and more than 3,000 people were killed. So Liu Xian and others revived Xinghua. The imperial court used Qi Jiguang's previous Battle of Hengyu to record the battle achievements before and after, with Qi Jiguang as the governor of Tongzhi, shi yu qianhu, replacing Yu Dayu as the chief soldier.
Finally, the Battle of Xianyou, in February of the forty-third year of Jiajing (1564), the Wukou Yu Party entangled more than 10,000 people to besiege Xianyou, fighting for three days, Qi Jiguang led his troops to break the siege, Wukou was defeated, Qi Jiguang led the army to pursue, chased to Wang Cangping, beheaded more than a hundred levels, many people fell on the cliff and fell to their deaths. Thousands of yu dang fled to occupy Zhangpu Cai PiLing. Qi Jiguang divided the five sentries (ancient military formation units) to climb the rocks, and engaged the Short Soldiers of the Wokou, killing more than a hundred people with captives. The remaining Wukou plundered fishing boats to escape to the sea, and then invaded Funing, Qi Jiguang led Li Chao and others to defeat them, and then chased them to Yongning, killing more than 300 people. In the same year, Chaozhou Wukou gathered 20,000 people and plundered Chaozhou with the pirate Wu Ping, Yu Dayu led his troops to kill and defeat Wu Kou, and recruited Wu Ping to surrender, so that Wu Ping was stationed in Meiling. However, soon after, Wu Ping, together with more than 10,000 displaced Wukou who had been defeated by the Ming army, together with Lin Daoqian and Zeng Yiben, landed at Zoumaxi and Popu'ao and looted Nancun Fort and Port Village. Qi Jiguang immediately led an army to encircle and suppress, and when Wu Ping learned of this, he abandoned the Meiling that he had previously held, gathered more than a hundred large ships, fled into Nan'ao, and built the defense of Dazhai. In the forty-fourth year of Jiajing (1565), Yu Dayu led the water army, Qi Jiguang led the infantry, and the two joined forces to encircle and suppress Wu Ping, who was defeated and fled alone to Phoenix Mountain.
The above is all the battle fought by Qi Jiguang and Wu Kou, and after the Wu Kou was destroyed, the imperial court sent Qi Jiguang north to defend against the Tatars, and in the first year of Longqing (1567), Wu Shilai was sent to Ming Muzong to suggest that Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayu and others train soldiers around Jimen. However, after deliberation, it was decided that only Qi Jiguang would be appointed. Therefore, the imperial court appointed Qi Jiguang as the deputy general of the Shenji Battalion. At that time, Tan Lun had just raised 30,000 infantry in the Liao and Ji areas, and recruited 3,000 soldiers in Zhejiang, asking Qi Jiguang to train him, and got Muzong's permission. In the second year of Longqing (1568), Emperor Mingmuzong asked Qi Jiguang to train soldiers in Jizhou, Changping, Baoding and other places, and officials below the rank of general officer were subject to Qi Jiguang's control. After Qi Jiguang's arrival, there was a general guo hu in Jizhou, and Qi Jiguang was the prime minister and could not unify the orders, so the imperial court transferred Guo Hu away, with Qi Jiguang as the chief military officer, and guarded Jizhou, Yongping, Shanhai and other places. He also made Qi Jiguang's former breakthrough of Wu Ping's meritorious service and was made the right governor. When the Northern Barbarians invaded Qingshan Pass, Qi Jiguang led his troops to repel it. In the first year of the Wanli Dynasty (1573), the little prince of northern Man and Dong Fox plotted an invasion, and asked the Ming court for a reward but was refused, so the two burned and looted at Xifengkou, Qi Jiguang learned of this and led his troops to quell the rebellion, almost capturing Dong Fox alive. In the summer of the same year, Dong Fox invaded Taolin and was repelled by Qi Jiguang. Later, Dong Fox's nephew Dong Changang invaded Jieling and was defeated again. Dong Fox repeatedly invaded the border not only did not take advantage, but suffered heavy losses, so he offered customs and asked for rewards, and the imperial court promised him to give rewards every year. In the second year of the Wanli Calendar (1574), Dong Chang'ang invaded the border again but could not enter through the pass, so he forced his uncle Dong Chang Kou to violate the border. Qi Jiguang led his troops to defeat him and capture Dong Chang bald alive. Dong Fox and Dong Chang'ang led three hundred members of the clan to Qi Jiguang Pass to plead guilty, and Dong Fox cried in plain clothes and asked for forgiveness for Dong Chang bald. After consulting with his subordinates, Qi Jiguang decided to accept his surrender, and Dong Fox released the plundered people and vowed not to rebel again. Since then, Dong Fox and Dong Changang have never dared to invade the Jimen again. Soon, Qi Jiguang was promoted to the rank of Left Governor for his merits in guarding the border. Qi Jiguang's Jimen Gate was impregnable, and the Northern Barbarians could not attack it, so they turned to attack Liaodong, and Qi Jiguang led reinforcements to assist Li Chengliang, the defender of Liaodong, to repel it. The imperial court made Qi Jiguang the Crown Prince Taibao and then the Shaobao.
Later, in the tenth year of the Wanli Calendar, Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the cabinet in the imperial court, died of illness, and Zhang Dingsi took the opportunity to say that Qi Jiguang should not be placed in the north, so Qi Jiguang was transferred to Guangdong by the imperial court. In the thirteenth year of the Wanli Calendar, Zhang Xigao impeached Qi Jiguang again, and Qi Jiguang was deposed and died of illness after returning to his hometown. It can be seen that in fact, Qi Jiguang's life is full of legends, military wizards can not escape the trickery of fate, his late period will already be the middle and late Ming Dynasty, Hou Jin began to rise shortly after his death, if the era of Nurhaci's life is put into Qi Jiguang's place, who loses and who wins is not certain!