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<<——Preamble——>>
In the history of the mainland, there have been countless generals who were good at fighting, and these generals made immortal feats on the battlefield by virtue of their excellent military command skills.
However, despite their extraordinary military achievements, these generals were like "fools" in handling domestic political relations, which led to the tragic end of these famous generals who had achieved outstanding military achievements.
So in Chinese history, which famous generals ended tragically because of political stupidity?
<<·——蓝玉——·>>
Regarding the ranking of the most powerful armies in the ancient world, many people naturally have their own opinions.
However, regardless of people's views on this issue, there is such an army that must be discussed by people, and this army is the Mongol Iron Cavalry, which once swept across Eurasia.
Under the leadership of the Golden Family, the Mongol cavalry of that time conquered many powers in East Asia, Central Asia, West Asia and Eastern Europe in less than 100 years, bringing great shock to the people of the 13th century.
However, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, a Ming general named Lan Yu defeated the Mongol army many times in the Mongolian steppe, and defeated the Mongol army very badly.
Among them, one of Lan Yu's most famous examples is that in the Battle of Yuerhai in 1388, Lan Yu led the Ming army to defeat the army of the Northern Yuan Dynasty and achieved great results. As for the results of this battle, it is recorded in the "History of the Ming Dynasty" as follows:
"In the fourth month of the summer, Lan Yu attacked the heir of the Yuan Dynasty in the fishing sea, and was returned to tens of thousands of people under his son's land and concubines. ”
It can be said that after this war, the Northern Yuan forces, which established a vast feudal regime in East Asia, fell apart from then on.
In addition to his great feats in the war against the Northern Yuan forces, Lan Yu also made great achievements in helping Zhu Yuanzhang defeat Chen Youliang in the war, so Lan Yu can really be called a military genius.
However, like many generals in history, Lan Yu's performance in politics is like a "stupid".
He not only recruited his own forces on a large scale, but also was very arrogant and domineering, in the "History of the Ming Dynasty", there was such a record of Lan Yu:
"(Blue Jade) returned to the northern expedition, detained Xifeng Pass at night, and the customs officials accepted it from time to time, and the soldiers destroyed the pass. The emperor was not happy to hear it. ”
From the content of this history book, it can be seen that Lan Yu's arrogance and arrogance have caused Zhu Yuanzhang's dissatisfaction very early, and after this incident, Zhu Yuanzhang lowered Lan Yu's title and changed Lan Yu's title from Liang Guogong to Liang Guogong.
However, Lan Yu did not understand Zhu Yuanzhang's dissatisfaction because of this, and after that, his style of acting still did not change in the slightest, and this also laid the groundwork for Lan Yu's final ending.
In 1393 AD, this military general with outstanding military achievements was not only executed by Zhu Yuanzhang in the name of rebellion, but also exterminated the three clans.
<<·——“兵仙”韩信——·>>
The troubled times at the end of the Qin Dynasty caused serious harm to the people at that time, but it also gave many heroes and heroes a stage to display their talents, and among these heroes and heroes, Han Xin was one of the best.
Han Shin
Although Han Xin came from a very ordinary background and suffered the "humiliation of his crotch", in the troubled times, every ruler was looking for talents who could lead troops to fight, which made Han Xin finally be reused by Liu Bang under the recommendation of the strategist Xiao He.
After being reused by Liu Bang, Han Xin fully demonstrated his military command skills, and he first used the strategy of "repairing the plank road in the open and Chen Cang in the dark" to help Liu Bang take the Guanzhong area.
Subsequently, Han Xin led the army to defeat a number of forces, among them, in the battle against Zhao Wang Xie, Han Xin led an army of 30,000 to defeat the 200,000 army under Zhao Wang Xie.
After pacifying all forces except Xiang Yu, Han Xin immediately led his army to join Liu Bang and unleashed the final blow on Xiang Yu.
In this war, although Han Xin commanded a large number of troops, he was always able to ensure the normal operation of this huge army, so that the combat effectiveness of this large army was fully reflected.
In the end, Xiang Yu was defeated by Han Xin, which led to the mighty Overlord of Chu finally killing himself by the Wujiang River.
However, despite Han Shin's excellent military talents, Han Shin's "skill tree" seems to be focused only on military talents, and politically, Han Shin's performance is really poor.
When Liu Bang unified the world, Han Xin did not restrain his style, which made Liu Bang's favorability of Han Xin plummet.
It was precisely because he saw Liu Bang's dissatisfaction with Han Xin that Empress Lu joined forces with Xiao He to kill Han Xin in Changle Palace.
Pity a generation of war gods, and finally fell into such a fate.
<<·——“战神”白起——·>>
Bai Qi was a very famous general in the Warring States Period, and many people now will praise Bai Qi for his outstanding achievements in the Warring States Period.
After all, after the name Bai Qi appeared in the history books, as long as it was in the war in which Bai Qi participated, no matter how big or small, the final victor was Bai Qi, and such a prominent record made later generations give Bai Qi the name of "God of War".
However, for the other six countries except the Qin State during the Warring States Period, Bai Qi was a very terrible person, because Bai Qi had another name "Human Slaughter".
In several battles recorded in the history books, it is enough to show Bai Qi's "cruelty":
In the Battle of Yique, Bai Qi's army killed 240,000 Han and Wei allied troops; in the Battle of Yanying, Bai Qi led a large flood to flood the city of Yancheng of Chu State, resulting in the death of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians of Chu State; and in the Battle of Changping, Bai Qi led his army to kill more than 400,000 soldiers of Zhao State.
According to historians' estimates, there were probably more than 2 million people during the entire Warring States period, of which more than 1 million people died in Bai Qi alone.
For an agrarian society with a small population at the time, no country wanted to be a rival to Shiraki.
However, it is precisely because of Bai Qi's outstanding achievements that Bai Qi won the title of "Wu Anjun" in the Qin Dynasty, where he gained fame and status with military merits.
However, although Bai Qi was a great general who commanded everything on the battlefield, his political approach seemed to be somewhat arbitrary.
When Bai Qi won the Battle of Changping, he immediately ordered his troops to attack Handan, the capital of Zhao, but this order was not only rejected by the king of Qin, but he was also asked to return to the court immediately.
This series of orders from the King of Qin made Bai Qi very dissatisfied, and when the King of Qin re-ordered Bai Qi to go on another expedition to attack Zhao, Bai Qi refused to go on the grounds of illness, which made the King of Qin have to send another general to attack Zhao.
Objectively speaking, this matter was caused by the judgment error of the Qin king, but in the ancient society with a strict hierarchy, the authority of the monarch could not be questioned.
Bai Qi refused King Qin's orders many times, and also said such a sentence: "King Qin doesn't listen to advice, what is he doing now!".
Although Bai Qi's words are not unreasonable, the damage to the authority of King Qin is huge, not to mention that King Qin at this time is also in a very bad mood because of the defeat on the front line.
As an ancient "boss" with the power of life and death, the King of Qin, who was very dissatisfied with Bai Qi's approach, immediately deprived Bai Qi of all his positions, demoted him to a small soldier, and exiled him.
After Bai Qi was exiled, the king of Qin and his ministers were worried that Bai Qi would rebel because of this, so the king of Qin ordered the envoy to find Bai Qi with a sword, and ordered Bai Qi to cut himself.
In the end, Bai Qiluo, the once powerful "Wu Anjun", got the end of self-judgment and apology.
<<·——Conclusion——·>>
"The times make heroes. ”
For the ancient rulers, those generals who could fight on horseback were an important asset for him to dominate the world, so in troubled times, these rulers would tolerate some of the generals' behaviors as much as possible.
However, when the troubled times are over, the biggest goal of these ancient rulers is to ensure the stability of their rule, and at this point in time, if a military general still does not put away the arrogant and domineering Xi he has cultivated in the troubled times, then it will inevitably attract the dissatisfaction of the king.
And the king's dissatisfaction is very likely to lead to the end of these highly decorated generals facing a "bad death".