Confucius to China's ancient famous thinkers, educators, his culture not only has a great influence on China, and even affected the whole world, he claimed to be a descendant of Kong Shengren, he was also surnamed Kong, named Kong Youde, but what he did was not as virtuous as his name, but did a lot of betrayal of the country, betrayal of his superiors, framing colleagues, it can be said that he was the most influential rebel general at the end of the Ming Dynasty, directly affected the pattern of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Wu Sangui in front of him are small witches.
Kong Youde was born in the 30th year of the Wanli Calendar, he was originally a Tieling miner, he was illiterate who did not recognize a word. In the first year of the Apocalypse, after Hou Jin attacked Liaoshen, he and his brother defected to the ming Dynasty's Zuo Du Governor Mao Wenlong, and he participated in the Zhenjiang victory against Hou Jin with his army, and then the army moved to Phi Dao, Korea, because of his bravery in the battlefield, heroic killing of the enemy, and gradually gained the appreciation of Mao Wenlong and was promoted to general. From the Apocalypse period to the early years of Chongzhen, Mao Wenlong's army was stationed in the coastal area of Liaodong province along Jinzhou and Phi Island in Korea, and Mao Wenlong repeatedly defeated Houjin's attacks, and Houjin was very afraid of Mao Wenlong's army.
Although Mao Wenlong's army made great contributions to the defense of Jin Zhong, his army's military discipline was corrupt, he did not obey the command of the imperial court, ignored the discipline, not only risked the salary of the leader, but also bullied the local people, so that the people were very afraid of them. This also caused concern and dissatisfaction among the imperial court. In the first year of Chongzhen, Yuan Chonghuan inspected Liaodong on the grounds of military parade and came to Shuangdao, so Yuan Chonghuan listed the twelve crimes of Mao Wenlong's killing, and executed Mao Wenlong in this way. After Mao Wenlong's death, Yuan Chonghuan soon absorbed this Mao Wenlong army, and from then on, Yuan Chonghuan's army became stronger after the absorption of Mao Wenlong's army.
Because Mao Wenlong had the grace to promote Kong Youde, Kong Youde was very angry at Yuan Chonghuan's execution of Mao Wenlong, but he did not dare to say it, he believed that Mao Wenlong was innocently killed. So he and Mao Wenlong's old brother Geng Zhongming led his troops to defect to Sun Yuanhua, the defending officer of Deng Lai. At this time, Sun Yuanhua was busy developing cannons in Dengzhou, and he was very happy to hear that Kong Youde led his troops to come to him, because he knew that Mao Wenlong's subordinates were all capable warriors, so he directly used the people who accepted Kong Youde for his own use.
In the fourth year of Chongzhen, the Later Jin Emperor Taiji led 50,000 people to attack the Daling River, besieging the Ming Dynasty general Zu Dashou Tuantuan in the city. Bingbu Shangshu asked Sun Yuanhua to lead troops to rescue Zu Dashou, and Sun Yuanhua thought of Kong Youde, who had fought with Hou Jin for a long time. Kong Youde originally turned to Sun Yuanhua's purpose of promoting officials and getting rich and seeking benefits, but he did not think that he had not yet gained any benefits, but he also had to be sent to the front line by Sun Yuanhua to fight, at this time Kong Youde was very unwilling and dissatisfied in his heart. However, seeing that Sun Yuanhua was his superior, he still had no choice but to lead the troops out on the expedition.
At this time, it was the early winter, when the conditions and environment in the Bohai Sea were very harsh, and the generals and soldiers complained, so Kong Youde simply returned to Dengzhou. However, the military order was like a mountain, and sun Yuanhua could only severely reprimand Kong Youde and then let him detour to Hebei to return to the Daling River. However, Sun Yuanhua did not expect that this decision was hasty, and it had already laid the foundation for the future war situation.
Kong Youde complained on the way to the march. Since Kong Youde left Laizhou, he knew that Kong Youde had been Mao Wenlong's old general, and that this unit had been rumored to have harassed the common people, so all the provinces avoided him, resulting in Kong Youde's army not receiving sufficient supplies on its way. When they reached Wuqiao in Hebei, suddenly the temperature dropped suddenly, there was heavy wind and snow, and because they received the marching notice in a hurry, they were short of food and clothing, hungry and cold, forcing them to change back to their original nature, and they went to the countryside to loot their belongings, which aroused the vigorous resistance of the common people. The local nobles excluded the representatives and asked Kong Youde for justice.
Kong Youde was also afraid of the forces of the local nobles, and he arrested several local soldiers who were making trouble and dragged them to the streets for a parade, which made the soldiers who originally held complaints even more angry. Some people spread rumors everywhere, resulting in a large number of soldiers immediately mutiny, Kong Youde saw that the situation of the army rebellion could not be changed, simply rebelled, history called it the "Wuqiao Mutiny".
In the fifth year of Chongzhen, Kong Youde led his people back to Dengzhou, which was very dangerous in Dengzhou. At this time, Sun Yuanhua felt that things were not good, but Sun Yuanhua still had illusions about Kong Youde at this time, and still wanted to recruit Kong Jun, but Kong Youde did not buy it.
Kong Youde and his good brother Geng Zhongming decided to plot and plot, and at night they raised an army to occupy Dengzhou and capture Sun Yuanhua alive. Zhang Keda, the chief soldier, held out for a few days, but in the end, because he was outnumbered, Dengzhou was still attacked by Kong Youde. Kong Youde also remembered Sun Yuanhua's original acceptance and released Sun Yuanhua. Sun Yuanhua was forced to flee back to Tianjin, and when the imperial court learned of this, he was very angry, so the imperial court ordered Sun Yuanhua to be executed, and the ming dynasty inspector was indirectly killed by Kong Youde.
After capturing Dengzhou, Kong Youde gathered rebels and attacked the surrounding Laizhou with all his might, and Laizhou was eventually captured because the soldiers ran out of ammunition. In order to quell this rebellion, the imperial court mobilized tens of thousands of troops near the capital and ordered various armies to support the suppression of kong youde's rebels. Kong Youde and his men were besieged in the city of Dengzhou, and were repeatedly defeated by the imperial army. However, the imperial court also consumed a lot of manpower and material resources, which weakened the border defense force at that time and aggravated the financial crisis of the imperial court. The Rebellion of Kong Youdeden lai lasted for two years, which had a lot to do with the ming court's decision-making mistakes.
Under the constant suppression of the imperial army, Kong Youde could only begin to look for new patrons. In the sixth year of Chongzhen, Kong Youde and his good brother Geng Zhongming could only cross the sea to surrender to Houjin, and at the same time brought with them the fleet, Hongyi cannons and craftsmen that Houjin urgently needed, and Huang Taiji attached great importance to this. With Kong Youde's advanced weapons and subordinates, Huang Taiji became even more powerful, and since then he has defeated the Ming army many times.
Kong Youde was originally going to reinforce Zu Dashou, the defender of the besieged Daling River. However, Zu Dashou not only did not wait for reinforcements, but Kong Youde launched a mutiny in Wuqiao, and at the same time pinned down a large number of reinforcements. In the end, the battle of Dalinghe resulted in a great victory for Houjin and a great defeat for the Ming army. After the Battle of The Great Ling River, the elite Ming troops outside Guanwai were seriously injured, but Houjin quickly developed and grew.
In the ninth year of Chongzhen, Emperor Taiji was called emperor and changed the name of the country to "Qing". Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming charged the Qing Dynasty, attacked the city and plundered the land, and made great contributions, so Kong Youde was awarded the title of King of Gongshun. Later, he was also named king of the South. In the ninth year of Shunzhi, Kong Youde was ordered to lead his troops into Guilin, and was surrounded by Li Dingguo, a famous general of the Southern Ming Dynasty, in Guilin, and after the defeat of the soldiers, he committed suicide, and the Qing court finally buried him thickly and posthumously sealed him, perhaps this is the final destination of a generation of rebel generals who have done nothing wrong and are full of evil!