The Eight Banner Army swept the world in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, almost invincible, whether it was the former Ming Dynasty officials or the peasant rebel army, it failed to stop the advance of the Eight Banner Army.
However, just when the Eight Banners Army was victorious and unstoppable, a general led a new army to appear on the battlefield, and he killed two Manchu Qing princes in a row, defeating the invincible Eight Banners elite and shaking the world.
This man was Li Dingguo, and the two battles he commanded were the Battle of Guilin and the Battle of Hengzhou.
What kind of achievements did Li Dingguo achieve in these two battles, and how did he do what other Ming troops could not do?
After the Eight Banners Army entered the pass, it chased after the north, killing all the ming armies and rebel armies, and the main anti-Qing forces such as Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Shi Kefa, and Longwu Emperor failed to stop the Eight Banners Army from moving south.
However, the invincible Eight Banner Army suffered unprecedented defeats in Guangxi and Hunan, and the person who led these two battles was Li Dingguo.
In the sixth year of the Yong Calendar, Li Dingguo first surrounded Kong Youde, the southern king of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in Guilin, and annihilated all his troops, forcing him to commit suicide with his family.
Kong Youde was originally a general of Mao Wenlong in the Ming Army, who later surrendered to the Manchu Qing, and he was the first of the Manchu "Three Shun Kings" and one of the most famous figures in the Han traitors.
Because of his arrogance, Kong Youde was surrounded by Li Dingguo and killed in defeat, and his death caused the Manchu Qing to lose Guangxi and shake the southwest. This is the Guilin Victory.
The news of Kong Youde's defeat and death reached Beijing, and the Qing court was shaken. Two months later, the Shunzhi Emperor dispatched
Prince Nikan of Jingjin led the real Eight Banners elite troops to Hunan to suppress Li Dingguo.
If Kong Youde is a miscellaneous eight banners, then Nikan and the troops he leads are the real "Manchurian Eight Banners", "True Women and True Soldiers", which are the victorious troops that swept the world ten years ago.
You must know that the Ming Dynasty's million-strong army has no way to take the Eight Banner Army, and now Li Dingguo is fighting against the elite of the Eight Banners with Yunnan soldiers, can he win?
The two armies engaged in battle in Hengzhou, Li Dingguo lured the enemy deeper, Nikan was arrogant, and personally led a small number of Eight Banners to pursue. As a result, Li Dingguo suddenly killed a Hui horse gun, ambushed the troops, surrounded Nikan, and in the melee, Nikan and the Eight Banners Escort army led by him were all killed, and the rest fled in a hurry.
Nikan was a true Manchu Qing prince, and the Eight Banners Protector was an invincible elite army since Nurhaci, and tens of thousands of Eight Banners under his command were all Beijing Camp Eight Banners, which can be said to be the most core armed forces of the Qing Dynasty at that time.
However, he was defeated by Li Dingguo in the First World War in Hengzhou and suffered heavy losses.
The Battle of Hengzhou not only shook the Qing Dynasty, but also revived hope for the anti-Qing war that was at a low ebb, and Li Dingguo was known as the "two famous kings" all over the world.
Behind Li Dingguo's brilliant achievements is a strong administrative and mobilization ability, and the internal affairs and economic work presided over by Sun Kewang in Yunnan is one of the fundamental factors in ensuring the combat effectiveness of the front.
It is precisely through "fighting the local tyrants to divide the land" that the land occupied by Sha Dingzhou, the Muguo Gongfu, and the military tun occupied by the haoqiang is distributed to the poor peasants, so that the people can have their own land, which greatly mobilizes the enthusiasm of the people to join the army and fight.
In order to defend their newly allocated land, Yunnan soldiers enthusiastically joined the army, and Sun Kewang recruited 100,000 Yunnan athletes to participate in the Anti-Qing War, of which Li Dingguo's 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers were the main force.
This is also why Li Dingguo's Yunnan soldiers were able to defeat the invincible Eight Banners Strong Brigade, while in the former Ming Dynasty, because the warlords drank the blood of soldiers and ate empty pay, ordinary soldiers did not have enough to eat and did not cover their bodies, so the former Ming Dynasty army had low combat effectiveness and could not stop the Eight Banners Army.
From The matter of Li Dingguo, it can be seen that it is not that the Eight Banner Army is too strong, but that the Ming Dynasty is too corrupt, so corrupt that its own soldiers have abandoned him.