"Daming Robbery" is an excellent historical war theme film, although the box office was dismal after its release, but it relied on its intentions to arrange the scene, the costumes of the actors and the elegance of the weapons, and the respect for historical facts, which won the recognition of many history lovers. The film portrays two different protagonist lines, Wu Youke, a doctor who needs to rescue the disaster victims in the context of the plague, and Sun Chuanting, the overseer who needs to turn the tide of kuangfu sheji in the background of the great Ming Beacon smoke. The film focuses on the similarities and differences between the use of soldiers and medicines, and through the different choices between the two, it reflects a profound truth: human diseases can be cured, and national diseases can be saved by not one person.
The most eye-catching thing in the film is Sun Chuanting, a character full of contradictions and conflicts who can always grasp the heartstrings of the viewers, in the film, he is ordered to serve his war through a series of means, he leads the cool and kills, using force to eliminate those Daming moths, but he has to be ordered to go out, and he dies before he can get out of the school. So, what is the difference between the character image created in "Daming Robbery" and Sun Chuanting in actual history?
First of all, at the beginning of the film, Sun Chuanting pretended to deceive He Renlong, saying that he had worked hard and that the emperor rewarded him, and then passed on the holy will to kill He Renlong and behead his subordinates. However, according to the historical records: "The emperor was furious, wanted to curse him, worried about his change, took away his post, and regarded the matter as a crime." and Sun Chuanting's overseer of Shaanxi, the emperor gave it his will", which shows that there is no mention of letting Sun Chuanting cut the grass and remove the roots.
In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the internal peasant army and the external Houjin army plunged the Ming army into a two-front battle, and the strength of the troops was stretched, so after the officers and soldiers accepted the surrender of the peasant army, they would directly integrate into their own ranks to continue fighting, and the peasant army was the same. In addition, He Renlong brought most of the Shaanxi army from Mi Fat, which was fierce and fierce, and had strong combat effectiveness, and out of the consideration of consolidating his own strength, Sun Chuanting could not kill He Renlong's subordinates to weaken himself. In fact, in the real history, Sun Chuanting only killed He Renlong, did not surrender to his subordinates, and assigned his subordinates to Gao Jie's rule.
Secondly, about the retreat of Tun Tian. In order to win the battle against Li Zicheng, Sun Chuanting had to ensure the supply of grain and grass for the troops, and in order to obtain grain and grass, Sun Chuanting tried to collect military food by clearing the army's tun tian. Since the fields were occupied by the landlords and gentry, Sun Chuanting initially persuaded the landlords to hand over the grain, but the landlords colluded with Sun Chuanting's men to destroy the evidence, and he killed all the landlords in a fit of rage.
In the real history, Sun Chuanting did have a move to clear tun tian, and this move also laid the foundation for him to ensure the logistics of the army and create meritorious achievements in the future, but Sun Chuanting did not kill the gentry. In the wartime, the gentry only tried to save their lives, and secondly to protect their property, Sun Chuanting's forced retreat of Tuntian did harm their interests, but they did not dare to act recklessly to the point of destroying evidence. And Sun Chuanting also knew that privately occupying Tuntian was also a long-term accumulation of ills, and did not investigate too deeply.
However, Sun Chuanting's strong measures in Shaanxi also aroused the resentment of the squires, and later when Sun Chuanting was supervising Shaanxi, the impeachment of the squires made the Chongzhen Emperor jealous and suspicious of him, and he always urged him to go out to meet Li Zicheng, resulting in a major defeat later.
Under the condition that the enemy was strong and we were weak, Chongzhen repeatedly urged Sun Chuanting to go to war, and Sun Chuanting had no choice but to command 100,000 horses out of Tongguan to attack Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng knew that the officers and soldiers were short of food and was ready to lure the enemy deeper, and the Shaanxi officers and troops quickly occupied Luoyang. Under such victories, Sun Chuanting was overwhelmed and ignored the strength of the peasant army, shangquan Chongzhen said:
"Thieves hear the names of their subjects, and the subjects swear to be clear and hesitant, and not to worry about the father of a thief"
Overly optimistic about the situation made the Shaanxi Army make a surprise attack and venture forward, getting farther and farther away from the Tongguan supply base. Sun Chuanting originally planned to capture YuXian to feed the war, but Yuxian had already sat on the mountain and the sky, and Li Zixian, seeing that the situation had changed, ordered his general Liu Zongmin to lead 10,000 cavalry from the trail to the rear of the official army and cut off the grain route of the officers. The sky did not follow people's wishes, at this time henan rained heavily, the soldiers rained less grain, Sun Chuanting ordered a retreat but it was too late, the war turned into a one-sided massacre, this battle Daming Shaanxi elite died and wounded, Guanzhong lost, and Later Sun Chuanting died in battle. The History of the Ming Dynasty records that "the court died, and the Ming died".
Although Sun Chuanting in "The Great Ming Robbery" tried his best to get closer to the historical facts, there was still a certain gap. Sun Chuanting is not a ruthless and ruthless person, and he will not hesitate to export to the old forces for his own merits. Although he made certain achievements in eliminating ills and improving the localities of the Ming Dynasty, he defeated the peasant army and continued the life of the decaying and weakened Ming Dynasty. However, he still had a certain character weakness, and he was so happy that the enemy ventured forward, resulting in the great defeat of Yuxian and the loss of the last elite of the Ming Dynasty.
Sun Chuanting was a tragic hero, and as a traditional scholar, he was powerless to return to heaven and could only be buried with this decadent dynasty. As it is said in "The Great Ming Robbery": "The corruption of Daming can be eradicated without a single dose of strong medicine", "Grain is the will of the people, which is why he Li Zicheng can lose ten times and eight times, and my Sun Chuanting can't afford to lose once." Sun Chuanting is a man who understands, but the trend of history is not something that everyone can resist, and those who go along with it prosper and those who go against it die.