In November of the twelfth year of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty (1673 AD), thirty years after the "Yazhong New Dynasty", Wu Sangui raised the banner of "anti-Qing and restoration", killed the crown prince Taibao and Zhu Guozhi, the inspector of Yunnan, ordered "hair growth and change clothes", and accused the Qing Dynasty of "stealing the artifact of my first dynasty and changing my Chinese crown", and began a fierce anti-Qing war, and obtained the corresponding areas of Jiangnan. Under the good situation of "anti-Qing and restoration" at that time, why did Wu Sangui ultimately fail?
The situation is very good
After Kangxi began to fight in November of the twelfth year, Wu Sangui's journey was unusually smooth, and by April of the fifteenth year of Kangxi, Wu Sangui had already fought from the Yunnan-Guizhou region to Changsha, Hunan, while the Qing army at this time was gathered in Wuchang, but did not dare to cross the river. At that time, Guangxi Sun Yanling, Fujian Geng Jingzhong, Guangdong Shangzhixin, Sichuan Luosen, and Ningqiang Wang Fuchen all announced their rebellion against the Qing, and Taiwan's Zheng Jing had already crossed the strait to march into Zhangquan. Fatal error
First, the delay cannot be advanced
Although Wu Sangui had been with him for decades, he had made a very fatal mistake strategically. First of all, he did not "rush across the river, the whole division to the north", you must know that the Kangxi Dynasty at that time was already embattled, in the face of a nationwide uprising, the Qing soldiers on the one hand had already been chaotic, busy with the Eastern Expedition to the West, on the other hand, it was indeed uncertain, after all, the Qing Dynasty was only thirty years old at that time. At this time, Wu Sangui did not unite all the forces that could be united and went north with all his might, but could not advance while sitting on half of the country.
Secondly, if Wu Sangui's ambition was to divide one side and compete with the Qing Dynasty, then he should go west out of Bashu and Guanzhong, occupy Kunshan and Hangu Pass, and add the protection of the Yangtze River, which was completely the situation of Wu shu's joint resistance to Cao Wei, but unfortunately, he did not do so.
Second, anti-Qing restoration?
Is Wu Sangui really "anti-Qing and restoration"? The answer was no, even though he ordered the growth of his hair and claimed to "raise the relics of the Ming Dynasty and return the Qiankun of the Middle Xia", but in November of the thirteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1674 AD), after only one year of military service, Wu Sangui ascended the throne as emperor.
In this way, Wu Sangui really became a "traitor" who was unknown to the teacher. You know, how many immigrants in the north were waiting for "Wang Shi Bei Ding Zhongyuan" at that time, but how did Daming's "Wang Shi" suddenly become "Great Zhou"? Wu Sangui clearly put himself on the fire! Cao Cao didn't call himself emperor at that time, didn't he understand it?
Despite once occupying half of the country and responding to the world's heroes, Wu Sangui passed by success in this way, and the anti-Qing wave that was in full swing at that time, Kangxi, who was in his twenties, only took eight years to calm down.
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