At the beginning of Wu Sangui's rebellion, it took only a few months to capture the six provinces, and although the reason for the Eight Banners Army's long-term corruption and incompetence was that the more important reason was that the core figures who followed Wu Sangui's rebellion were all temporary masters. The ability of Xia Guoxiang, Ma Bao, Hu Guozhu and others is needless to say, and a single subordinate of Hu Guozhu alone has the ability to beat the Qing army to the ground and find teeth. And this person was the two defeated Qing commanders Dingyuan Pingkou general Yue Le the Prince of An, and the Wu army General Gao Dajie, who captured all of Jiangxi.
Yue Le was the fourth son of Abatai the seventh son of Nurhaci of the Qing Dynasty, and his ability was first-class among Nurhaci's grandsons. Because of this, the Shunzhi Emperor once wanted to spread the word to him when he was ill, which showed the strength of his ability. The Kangxi Emperor was able to finally defeat Wu Sangui's rebels after eight years, mainly relying on Yue Le, the cousin. And Gao Dajie's ability to defeat the Eight Banners Under the command of Yue Le twice with fewer victories is enough to show that although Gao Dajie was a general of Wu Sangui's main general, his military ability was really no less than That of Yue Le.
However, such an excellent general of the unified army changed generals because of Wu Sangui's son-in-law Hu Guozhu's obedience to rumors, which led to the failure of Wu Sangui's anti-Qing cause, and also forced the death of Yue Le's Nemesis of the Eight Banners Army. At the death of Gao Dajie, the Wu army not only lost the fighter plane of the Yangtze River, but also lost the whole territory of Jiangxi, and from then on, it could only stretch its neck and let Qing knock.
It is said that after Wu Sangui's rebels captured all of Hunan, in order to force the Kangxi Emperor to obey, he promised him the conditions of Yongzhen Yungui for generations, so he instructed Geng Jingzhong, the king of Jingnan, who responded to his rebellion, to run Jiangxi, while he himself led his troops to personally attack Songzi, Hubei, and then achieved the strategic goal of meeting with Gengbu to drink the Yangtze River and force the Qing court to obey.
Wu Sangui's idea was good, but Geng Jingzhong's troops were too intimidated, and a few of them were beaten out of Jiangxi by the Eight Banners Strong Brigade commanded by Yue Le, the Prince of An.
After Yue Le defeated Geng Jingzhong, he quickly led the Qing army from Jiangxi to Changsha, and Wen Xun, the eldest son-in-law of Wu Sangui, who remained in Changsha, immediately sent someone to Songzi to warn Wu Sangui.
Wu Sangui, who heard the news, immediately led his troops to return to Hunan day and night. While ordering Ma Bao and Hu Guozhu to lead people from Changsha to Changsha by land, he himself led his sailors down the river straight down Dongting Lake. Originally, the dangerous places along the river had been captured by the kings of Qingshun Chengjun, Leerjin and Belle Shangshan, but the two of them were afraid of Wu Sangui's prestige, so they led their troops away before they saw Wu Sangui's shadow.
When Wu Sangui entered Changsha City, Xia Guoxiang had already led his troops to Liling to fight. In order to support Xia Guoxiang in fighting the Qing army, Hu Guozhu's subordinate Xiao would take the initiative to ask Miao to go to the front line to support Xia Guoxiang. Wu Sangui, who knew his bravery, saw the great joy and immediately allocated four thousand elite soldiers to the Liling Tomb.
Liling's Xia Guoxiang was worried about how to fight Yue Le, especially how to deal with Yue Le's dozens of Western red-clad cannons. As soon as the Tall Festival arrives, he offers a brilliant plan to break the enemy. He suggested that he lead his troops around the back of the Qing army and then raid Yuan Prefecture, thus cutting off Yue Le's rear road, thus forcing Yue Le to return to the army. Once Yue Le returned to the army, he and Xia Guoxiang attacked Yue Le's army in two ways, so that the Qing army would be defeated.
Yue Le heard the rear rush to help immediately, and Gao Dajie, who had long been ambushed in the mountains, used the suspicious tactics to induce Yue Le to let go of the Western artillery shells, and when the Qing army was busy and tired, the unharmed Wu army, under the leadership of Gao Dajie, pounced on the Qing army like a fierce tiger descending the mountain. The Qing army was defeated, thousands of people were beheaded, and Yue Le died in battle. Gao Dajie took advantage of the situation to capture Ji'an, Jiangxi.
After receiving the good news, Wu Sangui immediately moved from Changsha to Hengzhou to plan the next step against the Qing, and Changsha City left Hu Guozhu to garrison.
Just when Gao Dajie was preparing to attack the Qing army again, there was a villain Han Daren who was jealous of Gao Dajie's merits, so he played all kinds of right and wrong in front of Hu Guoxiang, and Hu Guoxiang, who had a very soft ear, listened to the rumors of this villain, so Han Daren replaced Gao Dajie as the former general of the army.
After Han Daren entered the army, all the generals below Gao Dajie disobeyed him. Han Dajie went into rumors again, and Hu Guozhu simply recalled Gao Dajie to Changsha. This is not the end of it, but also a good humiliation in front of the crowd.
Although Gao Dajie said that he was a good hand at fighting, but his strength was quite small, he was sick after returning home, and he died of depression soon after. Before leaving, he left a suicide note complaining to Xia Guoxiang that Yuan Zhou was wrong.
As soon as Gao Dajie was gone, the villain Han Daren was Yue Le's opponent, and as a result, he was defeated again and again, not only losing the whole of Jiangxi, but also surrendering to the Qing army himself.
The loss of Jiangxi and the death of Gao Dajie due to rumors were a great blow to Wu Sangui's rebels, and it was this blow that played the prelude to Wu Sangui's demise.