The Twelve Divine Archers repelled the Qing Dynasty troops
In 1644, Li Zicheng led an army to capture the city of Beijing, and the Chongzhen Emperor committed suicide, but the Ming Dynasty's power did not end there, in fact, there were still quite a few elite troops, shanhaiguan alone had Wu Sangui's 100,000 troops stationed, and the combat effectiveness was not blown. But the ending is a pity, Wu Sangui lured the Qing troops into the customs at a critical moment, and the Ming Dynasty was really completely destroyed from then on.
As for why Wu Sangui wanted to lure the Qing army into the customs, there are legends that it is because of Chen Yuanyuan, and this is not discussed, we read Wu Sangui's letter to Dolgun. In the letter, the reason why Wu Sangui attracted troops into the pass was that the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by Li Zicheng, and he was very unwilling as a minister of the Ming Dynasty, and wanted to take revenge on foreign soldiers, "The former emperor was unfortunate, the ashes of the Nine Temples", the first emperor was referring to the Chongzhen Emperor, unfortunately the country committed suicide, the Ming Emperor's temple was also destroyed by the war, that is to say, the Ming Dynasty suffered a catastrophe, you people outside the Guanguan should also sympathize with us, "Our country has been in good communication with the Northern Dynasty for more than two hundred years, and now it has suffered national difficulties for no reason, and the Northern Dynasty should be thought of with compassion", the so-called Northern Dynasty refers to the Qing Dynasty regime, which is listed as the Northern Dynasty here. Has been considered equal status. Wu Sangui also listed the naked conditions of temptation, "the number of children of the golden warriors is innumerable, and the righteous soldiers are all the kings", using gold and silver silk and even Han women as a temptation, which shows that Wu Sangui is already eager to lure the other party into the capital.
When Dorgon received Wu Sangui's letter, he was overjoyed and immediately replied. For Wu Sangui promised, "The world enjoys wealth, such as the eternal of mountains and rivers." Therefore, the Qing army entered the pass and defeated Li Zicheng's rebel army, and the Ming Dynasty minister of culture and military affairs, under the leadership of Wu Sangui, went out of the mountain to meet him, and the Qing soldiers entered the capital from then on.
Although the Ming army fell downwind, there were still people in the north who resisted, not to mention those recorded in the history, and the Qing Dynasty notes "Qing Barnyard Banknotes" more than two hundred years later recorded a magical anti-Qing story, and the process was like this.
At that time, there was a horse thief named Shang Shijing in Hexi, and there were only twelve people under him, and when the Qing army entered the customs, they encountered Shang Shijing's horse team in the Hexi area, that is, a team of twelve people. At that time, there were more than six hundred cavalry in the Qing army, and when they saw only twelve people, they thought it was easy to deal with, so they sent small troops to go first, and as a result, the twelve cavalry bent their bows and shot arrows, and in the blink of an eye, they shot three Qing generals, all of whom hit the eye. The Qing soldiers were very surprised, so they rushed forward and tried to crush them with their numerical superiority. Shang Shijing's twelve men calmly faced the battle, the arrows were not false, and the Qing soldiers fell one after another. Miraculously, the Qing soldiers also shot back with arrows, but they were caught by the horse thieves with their hands, and none of them were injured, "but the cluster of arrows, referring to the twelve horsemen shooting, the twelve horsemen with hands, none of them were injured."
A more magical scene came, after the Qing army's attack was frustrated, these twelve warriors actually launched a counterattack, hundreds of Qing soldiers fled in a daze, and hundreds of people were shot along the way, "twelve horsemen chased and fired, hundreds of dead." According to statistics, the Qing soldiers were killed by these twelve people more than four hundred people. The whole process is basically a second kill, like the super super power in the Avengers.
Later, the Qing soldiers passed through Tongzhou, heard that Shang Shijing was in Tongzhou, and actually took a detour, afraid to reach this point, and the fierceness of his combat effectiveness can be imagined.
What is the whereabouts of Shang Shijing and other warriors, in the vast historical materials, there is actually no explanation, which is indeed a pity. Could it be just a fictional magical story, pinning the wishes of the remnants of the Ming Dynasty at that time?