There are many people and things in this world that are interesting and unexpected, some people obviously look bright and have a lot of things that others envy, but in reality, this person is a tragic character, and even from the beginning, he is a tragic character.
Li Jinglong, a great general during the Ming Dynasty, grew up with a golden key from birth, and both emperors Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Yunjiao favored him, making him the premier favorite at that time, but when Zhu Di launched the Battle of Jingnan, he took the initiative to open the door to greet Zhu Di. How did he end up?
Li Jinglong was born
Li Jinglong was a typical rich second generation official, his father Li Wenzhong was Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew (the biological son of Zhu Yuanzhang's second sister's family), Li Wenzhong after defecting to Zhu Yuanzhang, relying on good military talent, repeatedly established Qigong, after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne as emperor, he was named six dukes, Li Wenzhong became one of them, zhu yuanzhang was named the duke of Cao, and at the same time posthumously named Li Wenzhong's father Li Zhen as a generation of cao guogong.
After Li Wenzhong's death, the title of Duke of Cao was naturally passed on to Li Wenzhong's eldest son Li Jinglong, Li Jinglong became the third generation of Cao Guogong, with the hope of his father, Li Jinglong also planned to show his skills, he grew up reading military books, proficient in various strategies in the book, the analysis is the head is the Tao, whenever Zhu Yuanzhang finds him to talk about military issues, Li Jinglong can talk endlessly, Zhu Yuanzhang is very fond of this grandson, and feels that he should have received Li Wenzhong's true transmission.
In addition to being familiar with military books, Li Jinglong also has an advantage in appearance and temperament, as a third-generation Cao Guogong, relying on the accumulation of his father's generation, Li Jinglong was born with a unique advantageous position, so he can grow up without fear, born tall and mighty, dignified appearance, coupled with excellent family conditions, Li Jinglong and now many handsome rich second generation, can be described as loved by everyone.
It was precisely because Zhu Yuanzhang was enough to favor Li Jinglong, so when Li Jinglong was young, Zhu Yuanzhang sent him to various places to train the army, and later, relying on these grassroots experiences, Zhu Yuanzhang promoted Li Jinglong to the position of governor of the left army and added prince Taifu, such a position, at that time, can be said to be second to none.
After Zhu Biao's death, Zhu Yuanzhang planned to open the way for his grandson Zhu Yunjiao, so he eliminated those founding heroes who accompanied him to fight in the world, and finally left a geng bingwen and a young Li Jinglong, two military generals who could get their hands on it, Zhu Yuanzhang planned to leave them to his grandson Zhu Yunzhang to help Zhu Yunzhang protect Jiangshan, and it was clear that Zhu Yuanzhang had high hopes for Li Jinglong at that time.
Zhu Yunxiong also saw his grandfather's meaning, after he ascended the throne, he reused his cousin Li Jinglong, after the Battle of Jingnan, Zhu Yunxiong first used Geng Bingwen to deal with Zhu Di, but failed to return, Zhu Yunxiu instantly no longer trusted Geng Bingwen, but handed over all half a million troops to Li Jinglong, telling him that he could act cheaply when necessary.
Li Jinglong suffered defeats one after another
Li Jinglong, who took over the heavy responsibility, did not think about it, and directly led the army to clean up his cousin Zhu Di, at this moment, he estimated that his heart was full of the idea of making meritorious achievements, after all, he used the strength of the whole country to clean up a local prince, it was simply too easy, but when Li Jinglong arrived on the battlefield, he found that the real war was too different from the paper soldiers, and all of a sudden he was beaten by Zhu Di a little confused.
Zhu Di was relieved to hear that Zhu Yunzhang had replaced Geng Bingwen with Li Jinglong, and he handed Over Peiping to his sons Zhu Gaozi and Yao Guangxiao and others to guard the town, and he planned to go to Zhu Quan, the King of Ning, to discuss the matter of jointly cleaning up Zhu Yunxiong, of course, later Zhu Quan did not agree to Zhu Di, and was used by Zhu Di to deal with the divisive scheme.
With the support of Zhu Quan's 80,000 troops and Duoyan Sanwei, Zhu Di's military strength soared instantly, which laid a solid foundation for the subsequent war. During the time when Zhu Di left Beiping, even if it was the best time for Li Jinglong to clean up Zhu Di's attack on Beiping, if Li Jinglong had seized the opportunity to take Zhu Di's old nest in one fell swoop, it was estimated that Zhu Di would be in danger.
At that time, Li Jinglong led 500,000 troops to the city, and there were only tens of thousands of horses in Zhu Gaozi City, and in addition to defending the city pool, Zhu Gaozi could only hold the city pool. Li Jinglong first sent Qu Neng with more than a thousand people to test the situation in the city, and as a result, Qu Neng broke through the Zhangye Gate with more than a thousand people and waited there for the support of Li Jinglong's army.
After Li Jinglong arrived there, when he saw that the siege was so simple, he instantly had his own careful thoughts, how could such a credit be possessed by Qu? It is better to collect the troops and go home, and come back the next day to clean up Zhu Gaozi, anyway, the siege is so simple, you can pick up a bargain by hand.
No one thought that at that time, the weather in Beiping was cold, the temperature was suddenly lowered that night, the city tower was frozen everywhere, and the city wall was directly thickened, and when Li Jinglong led the army to go, he was momentarily confused, and the thick ice cubes caused Li Jinglong's army to want to climb the city tower, and it was completely impossible, and the siege was even more difficult, after fighting with Zhu Di (at this time Zhu Di had borrowed troops to return, Li Jinglong missed the best fighter), Li Jinglong soon suffered heavy losses and was forced to withdraw his troops to flee in the direction of Zhengcunba.
Zhu Di led a large army to take advantage of the victory to pursue, and Zhu Gaoxu, Zhang Yu, Zhu Neng and other soldiers divided into five roads, and fought a bloody battle with Li Jinglong to the end, under the stubborn resistance of Zhu Di's gang, Li Jinglong suffered heavy losses, after the loss of more than 100,000 soldiers, Li Jinglong began to panic, and if he continued like this, he was afraid that the whole army would be destroyed, and it was better to withdraw in time and retain the strength to fight again on another day.
Li Jinglong was impeached by hundreds of officials
Li Jinglong suffered one defeat after another, and Zhu Yunjue carefully analyzed the reasons for Li Jinglong's failure and came to the best conclusion: Li Jinglong's failure stemmed from insufficient prestige. In order to make Li Jinglong more authoritative, Zhu Yunxiong continued to add 100,000 troops to Li Jinglong and let Li Jinglong go to the Beigou River to fight Zhu Di.
Li Jinglong endured two defeats, and also summed up the lessons learned, put away those small nines and nines in his heart, and planned to fight with Zhu Di hard, the Battle of Beigou River, under Li Jinglong's correct arrangement, at the beginning with an absolute military superiority, Zhu Di had no ability to fight back, and Zhu Di's son Zhu Gaoxu and the general Zhu Neng were almost killed.
At the crucial moment, the heavens helped Zhu Di, and then Zhu Di used the strategy of suspicious soldiers to skillfully divert Li Jinglong's attention, and finally turned defeat into victory, so that Li Jinglong was caught off guard, and he could only rush to lead his troops to flee in the direction of Dezhou.
After collecting the soldiers, Zhu Di continued to go to Texas to collect Li Jinglong, Li Jinglong had no way to escape again, and left Zhu Di with more than 100,000 troops, Zhu Di after two successive expansions of troops, now can also be regarded as a team with hundreds of thousands of troops, the war behind, Zhu Yunjiao will return to heaven powerless, can only watch Zhu Di attack the city, his own people are defeated one after another, it seems that Providence wants Zhu Yunjiao to abdicate.
Suffering so many defeats, Li Jinglong no longer had an excuse to say anything, after going back, hundreds of officials impeached Li Jinglong, only Huang Zicheng, Fang Xiaoru and others were originally wrong, and now they can only make mistakes again and again, and continue to support Li Jinglong, of course, Zhu Yunlong is still firmly convinced that Li Jinglong will wear guilt and make meritorious deeds to prove himself, so Zhu Yunxiong not only did not punish Li Jinglong, but also handed over the Jinchuan Gate to Li Jinglong to defend, hoping that he would wear the crime and make meritorious deeds.
To tell the truth, Li Jinglong has been impeached by hundreds of officials at this time, and he must also know that if he continues to stay here with Zhu Yunjiao, he has no way to retreat, instead of this, it is better to join Zhu Di's team, maybe the situation will be better, Zhu Di obviously also saw Li Jinglong's hesitation, and he knew it and moved it to reason.
Lee King Lung ending
When Zhu Di planned to attack the Jinchuan Gate, the heavens wanted to help Zhu Di, the river surface was thick with ice, Li Jinglong watched Zhu Di successfully cross the river to the front of the Jinchuan Gate, at this moment Li Jinglong, it is estimated that he can only admit his fate, since the heavens must help Zhu Di, what reason do he have to continue to disobey Providence?
Li Jinglong directly opened the gate to welcome Zhu Di in, Zhu Di knife did not see the blood blade, won the most critical battle victory, in the face of this nephew Li Jinglong who continuously gave himself assists and finally personally opened the city gate for himself, Zhu Di did not say anything, directly sealed him a great achievement.
After Zhu Di's victory in the Battle of Jingnan and his successful ascension to the throne, he made Li Jinglong the head of the Hundred Officials and the head of the Duke of Guo, and let him continue to inherit the title of Duke of Cao Guo, granting Li Jinglong the title of Grand Master of Guanglu, Zuo Zhuguo, increasing the number of years lu by 1,000 stones, and adding the title of Prince Taishi, and for a time Li Jinglong changed from a favorite of the Jianwen Dynasty to a favorite of the Zhu Di Dynasty.
However, Li Jinglong did not live happily in the Zhu Di Dynasty for a long time, offended various figures, and began to encounter large-scale impeachment, according to the strength and scale of impeachment at that time, many historians believe that it was actually Zhu Di who instructed everyone behind his back, why did Zhu Di do this?
Obviously, in the course of Zhu Di's Battle of Jingnan, although Li Jinglong continued to send himself assists, But Li Jinglong led a large army to fight against himself, and did not let himself suffer less, he reused Li Jinglong in order to make a virtuous appearance, in order to appease those old ministers of the Jianwen Dynasty, even Li Jinglong, a minister with a bad deed, Zhu Di entrusted him with a heavy responsibility, and the rest of the people, Zhu Di will certainly not clean up.
When the residual heat that Li Jinglong can play disappears, Zhu Di will naturally clean up Li Jinglong, but he himself can't personally do it, he can only borrow a knife to kill people, relying on the impeachment of hundreds of officials, Zhu Di successfully took Li Jinglong, and since then Li Jinglong has lived a walking corpse-like life, no longer has freedom and real power, and lives until the end of Yongle.
epilogue
Zhu Di was able to win the Battle of Jingnan, in addition to good luck, the most important thing is Li Jinglong's repeated god assists, with these god assists, plus Li Jinglong is still Zhu Di's nephew, so Zhu Di will of course not clean up Li Jinglong after he ascends the throne, but Li Jinglong himself does not know how to keep a low profile, offended too many people, was impeached by others, caused Zhu Di to remember the past, and finally concluded: Li Jinglong, this person, do not clean up at all!
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