Written by/Zhao Liewen
The TV series "Daming Robbery" revolves around the various redemptions that Sun Chuanting led by Sun Chuanting to save Daming in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and finally ended in tragedy. Through history, what kind of person is the real Sun Chuanting?
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Sun Chuanting, Zi Boya, a native of Daizhou, Shanxi. In the forty-seventh year of the Wanli Calendar, he was admitted to the jinshi and soon went out to zhixian for training. In the early years of the Apocalypse, he was transferred back to the imperial court to serve as a middle-level official at the chief level, and it was during the period when Wei Zhongxian was in control of the imperial government, and he saw the miasma full of smoke and simply resigned and returned to the township on the pretext of returning to his hometown to serve his mother. It was not until Chongzhen had been emperor for eight years that he returned to the mountains and was transferred from the official department to the Shuntianfu. In the face of various crises in the Ming Dynasty, Sun Chuanting made many sober predictions, and he studied military strategy many times, hoping that one day it would be useful. Soon, Chongzhen dispensed with Gan Xuekuo, the notorious Inspector of Shaanxi in the local area, and promoted Sun Chuanting to be the Inspector of Shaanxi, and it was this kind of grace of the emperor's knowledge that made Sun Chuanting determined to repay Chongzhen's friendship.
For Sun Chuanting's good reputation in Shaanxi, Chongzhen Zhu Youjian was very interested and specially recalled him to Beijing for an interview. After the meeting of the monarchs and ministers, Sun Chuanting did not obscurely report on the serious problem of "exile" in Shaanxi. He also explained to Chongzhen around the problem of the shortage of personnel and the problem of military salaries in Shaanxi and hoped to give support. Chongzhen frowned and said, "It is difficult to raise troops, and it is even more difficult to raise military salaries, so I will give you sixty thousand taels of silver this year, and in the future, you will try to raise funds on your own, and the imperial court will not interfere." "Sun Chuanting Collection"
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After Sun Chuanting returned to Shaanxi, he began to restore the army's tuntian with his hands and feet, and every year he began to have a large supply of materials, and the men and horses under his rule had been trained into a strong brigade.
Gao Yingxiang, the king of Shaanxi, became Sun Chuanting's biggest rival.
As early as the ninth year of Chongzhen, Gao Yingxiang, the king of the Chuang Dynasty, was invincible and attacked the city strategically, as if entering a no-man's land. At that time, the military officials reported the situation to Chongzhen and said: "There are dozens of Liukou Canal Kui, and the strongest is no more than the king." So much so that Hong Chengyu and Lu Xiangsheng were afraid of Gao Zhanxiang.
At this time, Sun Chuanting's morale was high, he trained the army, strictly disciplined the army, and the conscription period was all carried out in accordance with military law, and less than a month after taking office, he commanded the deputy general Luo Shangwenqi to attack the neat king gathered in Shangwei and behead the neat king. On June 19, he sent this news to the military headquarters with a tang newspaper, and when Sizong learned of the good news, he immediately issued a commendation: "It is reported that there is a surprise ambush, the annihilation canal is cut down, and it is seen that the dispatch should be dispatched, the soldiers should use their lives, the meritorious service and the casualties of the officers and men, and find out the complaints." Is it true that the Yu Dang begged? Also detailed scrutiny of honesty, camera manipulation, and other stocks both weighing in on the solitary party. It is urgent to drum up sharp annihilation sweeps and achieve results at the bottom." The "other shares" mentioned by Sizong actually have more than a dozen large and small ones, of which Gao Yingxiang is the strongest, and the scorpion block is the most Tuokun centaurs.
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Receiving the emperor's well-dispatched praise, as well as his will to take advantage of the victory drum to annihilate the other shares, Sun Chuanting confidently set up a decisive battle at Heishuiyu, choosing the strongest of the various departments as an opponent, in order to win in one fell swoop, the rest of the departments could surrender without a fight.
Sure enough, everything developed according to Sun Chuanting's layout, and in mid-July, Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, did appear and entered the ambush circle that Sun Chuanting had already laid out, and after four days of fierce fighting, he was captured by Sun Chuanting.
Chongzhen, who received the war report in Beijing, was extremely excited, which was the largest war report of the empire in several years, and he quickly gave instructions to the war situation, demanding that "the thief's situation has collapsed, and the remnants are still there", and that the surrounding area should be comprehensively checked and suppressed while the iron is hot. Finally, it is emphasized that Gao Yingxiang, the king of the chuang, should be escorted to Beijing to ensure that nothing goes wrong. "Sun Zhongjing's Public Relics" Sun Chengzong was thus impressed by Chongzhen, and the performances chongzhen received in these years were nothing more than a comprehensive retreat, as if the Daming army was as vulnerable as clay sculptures, and Sun Chengzong undoubtedly became the key figure in chongzhen Daming's combat effectiveness.
In September of that year, Sun Chuanting escorted Gao Yingxiang to Beijing in accordance with Chongzhen's will, and in order to recognize Sun Chuanting's merits, he issued a special will, and Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengzu were each added one rank. After that, Sun Chuanting's encirclement and suppression in various places suddenly went smoothly, and he used it together, and fought several major victories in Weinan in succession, making Shaanxi one of the few Taiping regions, and Sun Chuanting's reputation almost caught up with the governor Hong Chengyu. However, it seems that the prosperity is bound to decline, and Sun Chuanting is no exception. Although he had won successive victories before, he unexpectedly passed on three fires to the new court, strictly enforced military orders and discipline, and aroused the dissatisfaction of generals and soldiers with the results of the rule of law. On the night of the eighteenth day of the first month of the tenth year of Chongzhen, Xu Zhong and Liu Yingjie, who were fighting in Shangluo Province, mutinied, occupied Lantian County, looted warehouses to release prisoners, and joined forces with the peasant army of 100,000 horses into the Zhongbu department to fight with the officers and soldiers. The generals Zuo Guangxian and Cao Changjiao were pursuing mantianxing to the west, and when they got the news, they hurried back to Xianyang, and Xu Zhong, Liu Yingjie, and Chao 100,000 fled through Weinan. Sun Chuanting had to go to the emperor to examine himself, and worried about the shortage of soldiers. Sizong thought that the soldiers mutinied and did not hold Sun Chuanting responsible, but only instructed the Shaanxi inspector to report it after finding out. In order to make up for the lack of Shaanxi soldiers, Si Zong ordered the Four Thousand Sichuan Soldiers who entered the Guard of the King qin during the martial law period of the Beijing Division to be assigned to Sun Chuanting, and even so, Sun Chuanting's sharpness had already suffered a great setback, "the spirit of three victories, sitting on this depression.".
The rapid appearance of such a result really surprised everyone, as if this was the fate of Sun Chengzong and the number of Daming's qi.
After that, Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengzu fought according to the "ten big nets" laid out by Yang Changsi. This is exactly the case. In recent months, Hong Chengzu and Sun Chuanting have spared no effort to eliminate the "rogues" in Shaanxi and achieved unprecedented results. The peasant army companies of various units suffered setbacks and were almost disintegrating, and Li Zi became free from the heavy pressure, and in June, together with the remaining six teams, Qi Guanguan and other units totaling more than 3,000 horses, retreated from Yangpingguan and Baishui River to Sichuan, and Hong Chengyu flew to Shaanxi Supervisor Dao Fan Yiheng to command the deputy generals Ma Ke and He Renlong to pursue them, and strive to quickly destroy them; At the same time, he also ordered Zhang Zhaozeng, the deputy general of the reserve, to garrison Xixiang Nanshan and prevent blockades day and night. He himself led the generals Cao Changjiao and Wang Hong to Xixiang County in early August, ordering Cao Changjiao to travel back and forth between the mountains and prevent his passage to Taiping and Ziyang. In several fierce battles, Li Zicheng and other troops "fell ill and died of illness and fled a lot", and they were searched and killed by Qin soldiers who entered Sichuan, and had no choice but to go out of Sichuan, and only more than a thousand people broke into the Hanzhong area and entered the deep mountains and dense forests. However, at this critical juncture, due to the emperor Taiji's surprise attack on the capital, Chongzhen rushed to send the troops back to help, missing the last chance to finally capture Li Zicheng.
After sun Chuantingbai's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Persimmon Garden, he retired to Shaanxi to cut armaments and fight new weapons such as "trains" with great fanfare, equipped with firearms and loaded with grain bows and arrows. He drove the craftsmen everywhere to make 20,000 "trains" day and night, which consumed a lot of manpower and material resources, and the people of Shaanxi could not bear it, and tried every means to drive him out of Shaanxi.
Shaanxi's fallen sun chuanting and Chongzhen's ideas coincide. Chongzhen was anxious to pacify the Central Plains, and suffering from the lack of troops to adjust, so he decided to use Sun Chuanting. In May of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Emperor Sizong appointed Sun Chuanting with the title of Bingbu Shangshu and the governor of the seven provinces of Qin, Shu, Jin, Yu, Chu, Jiang, and Anhui, still in charge of the three sides, and the seal of the governor of the seven provinces of Tepe, and gave him the Sword of ShangFang, with full authority to command the central plains war.
Sixteen years after Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty became more and more passive, and had entered a situation of turmoil. And he also offended many interest groups because he had been in Shaanxi for a long time, and in the face of Chongzhen's remote control command, he knew that he would be defeated if he rushed to send troops, but it was difficult to violate his life. Chongzhen wanted to transfer his troops to Henan to fight, although some of his subordinates advised Chongzhen: "Sun Chuanting has all the elite soldiers and good generals in the world, and the emperor only has this one to pay for his family belongings, and he must not move lightly." However, chongzhen, who is self-absorbed, lacks the concept of the overall situation, has an impatient personality, heals his head, and heals his feet, and Sun Chuanting, as the last elite unit of Daming, is also thrown into the abyss like sesame salt. Before leaving Shaanxi, Sun Chuanting confided helpless desolation to the new bingbu Shangshu: "Ya did not want to fight quickly, and when he saw the urgency of the superior intention and the discussion of the dynasty, he had to swear an oath." Although I knew that this trip would be lost, I had to comfort myself and say: "I know that the battle may not be successful, but I am lucky to have a chance."
As a result, Sun Chuanting soon went into the abyss of death in battle, and Daming declared his demise a year later. Sun Chuanting is indeed closely related to the Ming Dynasty, and it is lamentable.