What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
Some people actually thought that Zuo Liangyu was a loyal servant of Daming, and I was really powerless to laugh!
If Zuo Liangyu can be called a loyal subject, then Wu Sangui can be evaluated as loyal to the country, loyal to the bold, and wearing liver and bladder.
Many people say that Wu Sangui is a traitor to Daming, a traitor, a national sinner, and should be spurned forever.
In fact, I want to say that in the late Ming years, there were really few people who were as loyal to Daming as Wu Sangui, who was also the most brilliant general in his early years on the battlefield of the Anti-Qing Dynasty, and the Emperor Taiji had written many handwritten letters to invite Wu Sangui to surrender wu Sangui with a thick position, and Wu Sangui did not agree.
When Li Zicheng's army marched to Beijing, Chongzhen ordered Wu Sangui to go to Beijing to qinwang, and when Wu Sangui reached the Tangshan area, Li Zicheng attacked Beijing and Chongzhen hanged himself.
Li Zicheng arrived in Beijing on March 17, 1644, and on the eighteenth he was opened by eunuchs, but Fan Chongzhen was able to organize a few days of resistance in Beijing, and Wu Sangui could also rush to Beijing, and the situation would not be like this, saying that Wu Sangui was unfavorable to King Qin, and it was purely a good pot to throw.
The main reason for Wu Sangui's scolding was to surrender to the Qing court, the remnants of the Ming Dynasty scolded him, and later Wu Sangui rebelled against the Qing, and as a result, the Qing Dynasty also scolded him, and was also written by Qianlong into the "Biography of the Second Minister", firmly nailing him to the column of shame in history.
In fact, when Wu Sangui surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Chongzhen had already committed suicide, the ming Dynasty in the true sense had perished, if Wu Sangui surrendered to Li Zicheng, that would be the greatest insult to Chongzhen, after all, Chongzhen died at the hands of Li Zicheng.
Therefore, no matter who Wu Sangui surrendered to, he was not a traitor to the Ming Dynasty, and in the last moments of the Ming Dynasty, he could also do his last part.
Compared with Wu Sangui, Zuo Liangyu did not do personnel!
Unlike the famous generals such as Yuan Chonghuan, Sun Chuanting, and Hong Chengzu, who were well-known in the late Ming Dynasty, who were all born in the Imperial Examination, Zuo Liangyu was from a poor mass background, had never read a book since childhood, and was completely a big head soldier, and it was not easy to improve from the lowest level, each one was not easy.
In the first year of Chongzhen, there was a mutiny in Ningyuanwei, when Zuo Liangyu served as the capital of the right camp of Liaodong Che, and was implicated and lost his official position, it was precisely during the Chongzhen period that he was promoted, Chongzhen was reinstated in three years, and when he fought against the Qing army, he was valued for his merits.
In the fifth year of Chongzhen, the Shaanxi peasant army developed and grew, and the imperial court ordered Zuo Liangyu to go to the Central Plains to resist the peasant army, during which time Zuo Liangyu fought in the southern expedition to the north and fought with the peasant army for ten years, and gradually developed and grew.
Of course, Zuo Liangyu and Sun Chuanting, who also suppressed the peasant army, are two different things, Sun Chuanting is repeatedly victorious, Li Zicheng is a fart and urine stream, Zuo Liangyu is like a loach, just rolling there, sometimes winning big victories, sometimes losing badly.
Generally speaking, the rogues who could not get into the stream were still the executioners, but when they encountered a professional peasant army like Li Zicheng, they could only desperately escape.
Of course, in the chaotic world, it is also a theorem that loach can survive, and such tough and upright generals as Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng cannot withstand Chongzhen's blind toss, and the whole thing is finely broken, and the tragic deaths of Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng are evidence.
On the contrary, Zuo Liangyu's loach survival law can be easily navigated, left and right, and constantly develop itself in the chaotic world, which can also be regarded as a strange scene at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
By the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, when Li Zicheng led his army to Beijing, there were three main armies that could be seen on the books, one was the Wu Sangui department of Liaodong mentioned above, and the other was the four towns of Jiangbei and zuoliangyu.
To tell the truth, Wu Sangui's responsibility was even greater, because after the defeat of the Songjin War, the Ming Court's defense line in the Liaodong battlefield basically collapsed, if it were not for the violent death of Emperor Taiji, the Qing army would have hit Shanhaiguan long ago, and after Dolgun stabilized the regime, he also began to sharpen his knife Huo Huo to march towards Ningyuan, at this time Wu Sangui withdrew, it is estimated that the Ming Dynasty only has one Shanhaiguan defense line left, and it is actually vulnerable.
At that time, the four towns in Jiangbei said that they did not have the ability to go north, and only Zuo Liangyubu in hubei province went north to help Chongzhen the most, and it was also chongzhen's master who hoped for the stars and hoped for the moon, but after receiving Chongzhen's order from the qin king, Zuo Liangyu was grinding and chattering, that is, he was unwilling to send troops.
The main reason why Zuo Liangyu could not be like Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng as the "father of the king" Chongzhen was defeated, or Zuo Liangyu had no culture, the Ming Dynasty official system depended on academic qualifications, not the birth of a soldier, it was more difficult to worship the general, even after Wu Sangui, such a Liaodong general, it was also a martial arts birth.
It is precisely because there is no culture and is suppressed everywhere, but he also encounters an unreliable emperor Chongzhen, who hates Zuo Liangyu with itchy teeth.
Chongzhen did not trust Zuo Liangyu at all, and when Zuo Liangyu had military merits, Chongzhen suspected that Zuo Liangyu falsely reported his military achievements, and when Zuo Liangyu lost the battle, he was directly demoted to the third rank, and by the time Chongzhen was seventeen years old, Zuo Liangyu had more than 300,000 troops, but his official position was only a general soldier.
Of course, Chongzhen not only did not trust Zuo Liangyu, he did not trust anyone, before the Qing army came to the city, Yuan Chonghuan went to Qin Wang, and as a result, when the Qing army retreated, Chongzhen put Yuan Chonghuan to Ling Chi to death.
After that, the Qing army came to Beijing every three to five to surround it, and Chongzhen also let Zuo Liangyu be the king, and as a result, Zuo Liangyu was just halfway through, and the Qing army retreated, and Chongzhen just let Zuo Liangyu return to the garrison, without mentioning the reward at all.
Since ancient times, the army qinwang does not say large-scale rewards, how to give everyone a treat, eat a full meal, but Chongzhen is an iron rooster plucking hair, a dime.
This time, when Li Zicheng marched into Beijing, Chongzhen was frightened, and one after another he hurried zuo Liangyu to send troops, in order to "bribe" Zuo Liangyu, let him lead his troops to the north, seal him as Nanning Bo, and hand over the seal letter to his son, and repeatedly said that as long as the army was sent, everything could be discussed, and even Wuchang could be sealed to their father and son, and the generations would be in charge, not only was it a legal recognition of their separated side, which was equivalent to the treatment of the king of the opposite sex.
However, Zuo Liangyu was still unmoved, but only reported a plan to send troops, a drag trick, and waited until the imperial court replied, this time, Zuo Liangyu had not waited for mobilization, and Beijing had already fallen.
Probably Zuo Liangyu's greatest kindness to Chongzhen was that he cried bitterly, and then did not send troops north to clean up the mess.
If Zuo Liangyu was a loyal subject, at the very least he should bluff and march to the Central Plains to see if he could control the development of the situation, the fact is that Zuo Liangyu did nothing and wanted to continue to divide wuchang.
After Chongzhen hanged himself, Zhu Yousong, the Prince of Fu, was proclaimed emperor for the Hongguang Emperor, when Zuo Liangyu was known as a million male lions, and was once regarded as the savior of the Southern Ming regime, able to defend the northwest of the Southern Ming.
What Zuo Liangyu did not expect was that Zuo Liangyu did not avenge Chongzhen and go north to fight Li Zicheng to the death, nor was he prepared to prevent the Qing army from going south, but instead led the army to the south when the peasant army and the Qing army were fighting a decisive battle, under the name of "Qing Jun's side", to use the sword against the Southern Ming regime, and under Zuo Liangyu's offensive, the Hongguang regime quickly collapsed.
In fact, Zuo Liangyu led his army to the south, not on the side of the Qing Dynasty, mainly to avoid Li Zicheng's Dashun army, Li Zicheng began to retreat south after the defeat of the Battle of Shanhaiguan, in the face of this remnant army, Zuo Liangyu, who claimed to have an army of 800,000, did not dare to fight, but was not as good as the first-order peasants of Jiugong Mountain in Hubei Province, and took Li Zicheng's life with a fork.
At that time, Zuo Liangyu was old and worried, and when he went south, he cried out for his life, and when his son came to power, the Qing army had already killed him, and as a result, Zuo Menggeng led an army of 200,000 people to surrender directly, it can be said that the style of Zuo Liangyu's father and son was really not as good as Wu Sangui's loyalty and fierceness.
Zuo Liangyu, this person, is actually "the courage to abuse the people, cowardly in the big war", bluff has a set, really to move the real time, a horse of water.