A few days ago, A pit was opened, planning to talk about the story of the surrender of the "Three Shun Kings" in the early Qing Dynasty and their final ending. As a result, only Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde were written. It is still gratifying that this pit has not been filled. Let's fill in the pit today.
Shang Kexi, like Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde, was Mao Wenlong's subordinate.
Geng Zhongming's ancestral home is Hongdong, Shanxi, but his grandfather migrated to Liaodong, and Shang Kexi was born in Liaodong. At that time, there were frequent wars in the Eastern Liaoning region, and the Shang family migrated to the western Liaoning region in order to escape the war. In the process, Her mother died in the midst of the war.
After becoming an adult, after consulting with his father, the two defected to the Ming army together and sought food in the army. Later, the father and son separated. His father, Shang Xueli, defected to Mao Wenlong and was stationed on Phi Dao. Shang Kexi joined the Ming Dynasty Water Division. In order to find his father, Shang Kexi also came to the tent of Mao Wenlong on Phi Dao, and finally the father and son were reunited. Mao Wenlong recruited a wide range of talents, admired the talent of Shang Ke, and accepted him as a righteous grandson and gave him the name Yongxi.
In Phi Dao, Shang Kexi father and son spent a happy reunion time. However, in the years of war and chaos, after all, it is short-lived. During a battle, Shang Kexi's father, Shang Xueli, was killed by Jin Bing. Shang Kexi was devastated. But the days have to go on, and life goes on. After Shang Xueli's death, Mao Wenlong handed over shang xueli's department to Shang Kexi's command. Since then, Shang Kexi has become the lord of the first army.
As mentioned earlier, Geng Zhongming's younger brother Geng Zhongyu instigated a mutiny and imprisoned Huang Long, the chief soldier stationed on Phi Dao. After hearing the news, Shang Kexi hurriedly led the troops and horses of the headquarters to Phi Dao to rescue. Under his persecution, Geng Zhongyu had to release the Yellow Dragon, and the Yellow Dragon was able to make a comeback. Then kill Geng Zhongyu. In order to thank Shang Kexi for his rescue efforts, Huang Long promoted Shang Kexi to a guerrilla general.
After the Wuqiao Mutiny, Shang Kexi obeyed the orders under the Yellow Dragon tent, and the Yellow Dragon sent him to lead an army to pacify the Jiangdong Islands, and then followed the Yellow Dragon into Lushun. After the defeat of Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, they planned to flee from the sea. Shang Kexi was ordered to lead the fleet to encircle. But because of the hurricane at sea, the fleet could not move forward. Shang Kexi had to lead his troops back to the shore. Huang Longsong asked Shang Kexi to kill the thief for meritorious service, promoted to deputy general, and stationed at Hiroshima Island. Soon after, Geng Zhongming, after the sneak attack, led the Houjin army to attack Lushun and kill Huang Long and his family. Shang Kexi's family members were also all forced to commit suicide by throwing water, and all died.
It is reasonable to say that Shang Kexi and Hou Jin had a feud with each other, his father died at the hands of the Manchus, and his wife and children also died at the hands of the Manchus, and it was impossible to surrender to Hou Jin. However, just as I said in the previous article that Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde are not highly educated, they are from poor backgrounds, and they are not deeply influenced by confucian ideas of loyalty and patriotism. The only principle on which they act is profit.
After Huang Long's death, Shen Shikui took over as the commander-in-chief. At this time, the contradiction between Shen Shikui and Shang Kexi broke out. What are their contradictions? It turned out that when Huang Long was imprisoned by Geng Zhongyu, Shen Shikui came to power and seized military power. However, due to the gratifying intervention, Huang Long was reinstated, and Shen Shikui also stood on the sidelines. In this way, Shen Shikui held a grudge against Shang Kexi, and Liang Zi was married.
At this time, Huang Taiji had already carried out reforms in Houjin, and the national strength gradually became stronger. The Ming Dynasty was corrupt within itself, and there was constant infighting within the Ming Army for power and profit. After Shen Shikui ascended to the throne, it was gratifying to wait for an opportunity to take revenge. In October of the sixth year of Ming Chongzhen (1633), Shen Shikui tricked Shang Kexi into going to Phi Dao, planning to arrest him and kill him for conspiracy. Fortunately, Shang Kexi's subordinates discovered Shen Shikui's purpose in time, and Shang Kexi was spared from slaughter.
Shang Kexi saw that after Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde surrendered to Jin, they were well arranged, so he also wanted to surrender. Shang Kexi and Hou Jin have a feud with each other, but at this time, Shang Kexi has no feelings of home and country in his heart, and even the revenge of killing his father can be forgotten, he only seeks self-preservation. In order to be safe, he sent his men to Shenyang to negotiate surrender with Hou Jin. When Emperor Taiji received the news, he was very happy, excitedly shouted "Heaven help me", and immediately agreed to Shang Kexi's surrender, naming the team he led "Heavenly Helper Soldier".
After Shang Kexi received the permission of the Emperor Taiji, he secretly prepared. On the first day of the first lunar month in the seventh year of Chongzhen (1634), Shang Kexi arrested The deputy generals Yu Liangtai and Qiu Zhentai, who were loyal to the Ming Dynasty, in the name of holding a New Year's Day meeting, and then commanded more than 10,000 people and fled from the sea to Houjin. In April of that year, Shang Kexi arrived in Shengjing. Emperor Taiji treated Shang Kexi with the etiquette of treating Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, and went out of the city for thirty miles to greet him. Emperor Taiji was very appreciative of Shang Kexi, praising him for "reaching the right to change", "knowing the danger, knowing the situation of the times", rewarding him with a large amount of gold and silver treasures, and making him the chief military officer. After Emperor Taiji changed the name of the country to Qing, Shang Kexi was crowned king of Zhishun.
By surrendering, Shang Kexi achieved the purpose of enjoying glory and wealth for a long time, and was grateful to Emperor Taiji. In the future entry operations, Shang Kexi led the troops to the front and made great contributions to the unification of the whole country by the Qing Dynasty.
After the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, it implemented the policy of using Han Chinese to beat han chinese, and sent King Sanshun and Wu Sangui to lead everyone to attack all the way south, all the way to force Li Zicheng's troops to Huguang and Jiangxi. Li Zicheng was killed at Nine Palace Mountain. In the sixth year of Shunzhi, the Qing court changed shang kexi to the king of Pingnan, and Geng Zhongming, the king of Jingnan, led an army of 20,000 to attack Guangdong.
In February of the seventh year of Shunzhi, Shang Kexi's army arrived in Guangzhou, the Southern Ming Yongli Emperor fled in a hurry, and Du Yonghe, the governor of southern Ming and Guangdong, led a lone army to hold Guangzhou. Shang Kexi sent troops to attack, but the city was strong and could not be broken. In this way, the two armies held each other under the city of Guangzhou for 10 months. In the end, Shang Kexi and others besieged the city for 10 months, and finally captured Guangzhou in December. After the city was destroyed, Shang Kexi slaughtered the city in Guangzhou, creating a terrifying "Gengyin Robbery", all of the captured Nanming soldiers were beheaded, and all the young and strong men in Guangzhou were killed. The Qing soldiers also gathered the people in the city and drove them into the water, and countless people died. The cruelty of its slaughter was horrified by all who heard it.
After that, Shang Kexi was stationed in Guangzhou, opened the capital and established a province, and ruled Guangdong for 26 years. Shang Kexi was familiar with the way of advance and retreat, and in his later years, he wrote to the Kangxi Emperor and asked for retirement and retirement in Liaodong. Kangxi did not agree until Shang Kexi wrote the eleventh letter, and Kangxi allowed him to disarm and return to the field. However, before Shang Kexi could set off, Wu Sangui rebelled against the Qing in Yunnan. Kangxi ordered Shang Kexi not to leave Guangdong and to hold out. Shang Kexi's son Shang Zhixin planned to respond to Wu Sangui. However, Shang Kexi insisted on not opposing the Qing.
In February of the fifteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1676), Shang Zhixin placed Shang Kexi under house arrest in his mansion and then led an army in response to Wu Sangui. The 73-year-old Shang Kexi hanged himself in the house, but was saved by his cronies in time and died not long after. Before dying, Shang Kexi also ordered the people to dress the clothes that Emperor Taiji had given him, and to buckle his head to the north, saying that if there was an afterlife, he would still make cattle and horses for Emperor Xian (Emperor Taiji).