The reason why history is history is because it is something that has really happened, and no one can change it, but this still does not affect our discussion from the direction of what if and what if, there is no reason for it, just to diverge thinking and exchange ideas!
Returning to the truth, we may as well boldly imagine that if it was Zhu Di who was defeated in the Battle of Jingnan in the Ming Dynasty, then what kind of end would Zhu Di usher in?
In my personal opinion, if Zhu Dijing is difficult to defeat, there will be no more than two ends, one is to die in battle, and the other is to be captured and escorted to the capital, imprisoned for a lifetime, and die.
But personally, I prefer the second ending.
The Battle of Jing
In the first year of Jianwen (1399), Zhu Di, the King of Yan, under the pressure of his nephew Zhu Yunjiao's policy of cutting the domain, angrily rose up to fight, and since then, a life-and-death battle between the two uncles and nephews has lasted for 4 years, and finally ended with the mysterious disappearance of the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao after his complete defeat, and his uncle Zhu Di completely won the victory and ascended the throne as desired, which is known in history as the "Battle of Jingnan".
The reason for Zhu Yunjiao's defeat at the Battle of Jingnan
In the Battle of Jingnan, Zhu Yunjiao initially occupied an absolute advantage, after all, he was the king of a country, the whole country except Beiping was his territory, the strength of the troops did not have to be said, on the contrary, the fourth uncle Zhu Di, the territory was only the land of Beiping, and his soldiers, although they could generally fight good battles, were only 100,000 troops.
However, it was under such circumstances that the final fact was that Zhu Yunjiao still lost to the fourth uncle Zhu Di, and lost so thoroughly that he did not even leave his specific and exact whereabouts for posterity.
As the saying goes, if there is a cause, there must be an effect, and conversely, there must be a cause, and the reason why the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao lost so badly in the Battle of Jingnan must be his reason. And the reasons for this, I think are nothing more than the following points:
First: Emperor Jianwen was too impatient. After the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao ascended the throne, he was too impatient to start his move to cut the domain under the advice of Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng when he first arrived and his foundation was stable. Since ancient times, being too impatient has been a taboo for soldiers, and it is absolutely a mistake.
Second: the disparity in human resources between the two sides is too large. In this regard, Zhu Yunjiao's grandfather, Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, should be fully responsible. In the middle and late Hongwu period, in order to leave a stable ruling environment for his successor Zhu Yunjiao, Zhu Yuanzhang wantonly slaughtered the founding heroes, and the founding heroes were almost slaughtered, which directly led to the fact that the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao was almost useless in the Battle of Jingnan. On the other hand, Zhu Di, although his troops were small, Wen had Yao Guangxiao, who could be called the first strategist in the world, and Zhu Neng, Zhang Yu, Zhu Gaoxu, and Zhu Di himself... Although the number of talents is not large, they are all good talents in the world, which directly lays a solid foundation for his success.
Third: Emperor Jianwen improperly employed people, entrusted non-people, and missed good opportunities. After the war broke out in full swing, Zhu Yunxiong first handed over the military power to geng bingwen, the founding general and marquis of Changxing, geng bingwen, as the founding marquis of the country, experienced hundreds of battles, his ability was indeed good, but shoucheng had more than enough progress, and several times he fought with Zhu Di, although he did not suffer much losses, but achieved little results, which made Zhu Yunxiu deeply disappointed, so he made the most wrong decision in the whole battle, starting with the young general Li Jinglong.
To say that Li Jinglong, that is really big, he is one of the founding six dukes of Li Wenzhong's son, after the death of his father, he also inherited the title, at a young age he was high in the position of duke, the status is prominent, the limelight is indistinguishable. However, that's all, compared with his father Li Wenzhong, Li Jinglong can be said to be a perfect interpretation of what is called tiger father dog. Because since Li Jinglong took office, he has led hundreds of thousands of troops, but he has not fought a victorious battle, and he has been chased and beaten by Zhu Di, who is far less than his troops, all day long, and he has not forgotten to leave a large number of materials for Zhu Di, so that Zhu Di's strength has continued to grow. It was only when Zhu Yunxiong reacted that he once again correctly handed over the military power to Sheng Yong,But unfortunately, at this time, Zhu Di's wings were complete, and he missed the opportunity to annihilate in vain.
Fourth: The psychological gap between the two sides leads to very different performances in the war. In the whole war, although Zhu Di was under the banner of "the side of the Qing Dynasty and the difficulty of the Jing Dynasty", since the day he started fighting the army, both Zhu Di himself and his soldiers knew very well that from then on they would be deeply branded with the mark of anti-thief, and they would become, and if they achieved fame and fame, guangzong and glory would be honored, and if they failed, they would be defeated and discredited, and for the sake of a glimmer of vitality, they would only be brave enough to kill the enemy. On the other hand, Zhu Yunjiao's side is completely different, they have no burden in this regard at all, except for a very few, for most people, success is nothing more than adding officials to the knighthood, failure is nothing, nothing more than disarming and returning to the field, it is really impossible to surrender (in fact, in the end, there are indeed many people who surrender), and they can't go to the end. Under the influence of these two completely different psychological activities, the effect of war can be imagined!
Fifth, Zhu Yunjiao is too kind and soft-hearted. Compared with the domineering personality of his grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang and the fourth uncle Zhu Di, Zhu Yunjiao can be described as much gentler in personality, this kind of personality is usually fine, but it can be put into the war, it is often fatal, and sure enough, the war is only at the beginning, his personality made him make a trick, that is, he issued an extremely confused order, to some extent, it was this order that led to his final failure.
It turned out that after the outbreak of the Battle of Jingnan, Zhu Yunjiao, who had always been generous and benevolent, seemed to be undead to his rebellious uncle, and he still had a fluke mentality, and also tried to emotionalize Zhu Di with affection, so before the general went out on the expedition, he had to repeatedly explain to the leading general: Don't let him kill his uncle in the name of death! The meaning of this sentence is to tell the generals, you fight back, but don't let me be accused of killing my uncle. The generals were stunned, and they wanted us to beat people's homes, but they also did not allow us to hurt them. From this order, they saw the possibility of reconciliation between their uncle and nephew in the future, and in each battle with the Yan army, they were a bit of a rat trap, which made Zhu Di escape from death many times in the whole war, until everything was irreparable.
So, what if Zhu Di was defeated?
The above five points are the analysis of the reasons for Zhu Yunjiao's final defeat in the entire Battle of Jingnan, and the result of the defeat is that Zhu Yunjiao mysteriously disappeared and Zhu Di ascended to the throne as he wished.
So, in this war, if it is Zhu Di who is finally defeated, what will be his end? Let's analyze and speculate one by one.
Before we did the analysis, there were some facts that already existed objectively, that is, the five points we analyzed above caused Zhu Yunjiao's defeat already existed, but Zhu Yunjiao still overcame the difficulties caused by those reasons and finally defeated Zhu Di, so what will happen to Zhu Di?
The first possibility: that is, Zhu Di died in battle, but this is unlikely, because of Zhu Yunjiao's words: Don't let Zhu Die in the name of killing your uncle! That is to say, under the constraint of this sentence, the generals of the Southern Army will have some reservations about Zhu Di in the battle with Zhu Di's Northern Army, so the probability of Zhu Di directly dying in battle is not large, unless it is shot by random arrows in the rebel army, or Zhu Di committed suicide because he did not want to be a prisoner after the defeat. The second possibility: Zhu Di was defeated and captured in the capital, imprisoned, and died, which is very likely, as for the reason, it is still Zhu Yunjiao's words: Do not make zhu Yunjiao kill his uncle in the name of death! As we said earlier, Zhu Yunjiao is a generous and benevolent king, even if he is in a life-and-death confrontation with his uncle Zhu Di, he will still make an account of "not killing his uncle in the name of the emperor", once Zhu Di is defeated and captured, when he is brought to him, it is even more impossible to make a move of killing and then quickly, so we can boldly make the assumption that if Zhu Di is really defeated and captured, although he will lose a certain amount of personal freedom, he will no longer have the scenery of holding heavy troops during the period of the king of the domain. But he should still be able to continue to enjoy the life and treatment of the prince and die. Of course, if it really came to that point, whether Zhu Di would suddenly die one day under the operation of the loyal subjects under the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao, this is not easy to say, this is the last word.
To sum up: If the Battle of Jingnan ended in Zhu Di's defeat, then about his end, it is very likely that as a prince whose personal freedom was limited to a certain extent, but still able to enjoy glory and wealth, the rest of his life, in general, compared with other rebels in the past and the present, the ending should not be too bad, after all, the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao is such a character. As for the fact that in this case, no one knows what the direction of the Ming Dynasty is, and it can only be said that it may not be worse than Zhu Di's rule.
Of course, this is purely a family statement, there are different views, welcome to discuss each other! The article comes from Chongqing God Drunk Happy! #Today's Headlines #Number One Weekly #