As mentioned last time, Nurhachi led an army to attack Shenyang and Liaoyang, and Yuan Yingtai, the commander of Liaodong, ordered 7,000 white pole soldiers of the Sichuan army, 3,000 Qijia troops of the Zhejiang army, and 30,000 Liaodong iron cavalry to respond to the battle.
Who expected that the three teams of the Ming army were each other's battalions, and they were defeated by the Eight Banners, the Sichuan army was completely wiped out, and the Qi army withdrew from the historical stage.
In the same year (1621), in order to consolidate his rule over Liaodong, Nurhachi decided to move the capital to Liaoyang and began to build the city of Tokyo.
At the same time, on the side of the Ming court, Xizong re-enabled Xiong Tingbi as the right attendant of the military department, and within a few months, he was promoted to the secretary of the military department and the right deputy capital of the Imperial History of the Imperial Palace.
However, Xiong Tingbi, who returned to Liaodong, felt powerless, on the one hand, the Ming Dynasty had no defense line in Liaodong, and on the other hand, Wang Huazhen, the governor of Liaodong, was still against him everywhere.
Wang Huazhen, a member of the Donglin Party, a Jinshi in the 41st year of Wanli, successively served as the head of the household department, turned to the right senator, and was stationed in Guangning.
In the bloody battle of the Hunhe River, Shenyang and Liaoyang were lost one after another, Wang Huazhen led a thousand soldiers to defend Guangning, gathered tens of thousands of scattered soldiers, appeased the panic of the people, inspired the soldiers' fighting spirit, and kept Guangning not lost.
The imperial court recognized his ability and promoted him to the title of Imperial Governor of Liaodong.
For example, Wang Huazhen believed that he could use the 400,000-strong army of the Mongol Lin Dan Khan to resist the Houjin forces, while Xiong Tingbi felt that the Mongols were unreliable and should cultivate the strength of the Ming army; Wang Huazhen believed that Li Yongfang could be developed as an internal response and invited 60,000 troops to wipe out the Houjin in one fell swoop; Xiong Tingbi said that if the imperial court agreed with Wang Huazhen's proposition, he would resign immediately, and so on.
The two people were at loggerheads, and the defense of the Houjin in Liaodong was not effectively implemented, and the supporters of both sides also insisted on their own opinions in the imperial court.
In the first month of the second year of the Apocalypse (1622), Xizong ordered Jiuqing Kedao to hold a meeting to discuss the issue of "Jingfu Dispute", and as a result, 27 people supported Wang Huazhen, a disciple of Shoufu Ye Xianggao, 52 people were neutral, and only 2 people supported Xiong Tingbi. Xizong then gave Wang Huazhen a Shangfang sword and let him specialize in managing Guangning affairs, while Xiong Tingbi used it for other purposes.
Unexpectedly, before the will could be implemented, Nurhachi led an army of 60,000 in the first month, shouting the slogan of "having a house to live in, food to eat, and land to plough", and launched an attack on Quang Ninh.
At this time, the Ming army deployed three lines of defense in Guangning: the first was the Liaohe defense line, the second was the defense line of Xiping Fort and Zhenwu Fort on the periphery of Guangning City, and the third was the defense of Guangning City.
On the twentieth day of the first lunar month, the Houjin army broke through the defense line of the Liaohe River. Wang Huazhen listened to the strategy of Sun Degong of the Chinese army, mobilized all the troops of Guangning to support Xiping Fort, and Xiong Tingbi also sent a support army, led by Liu Qu to join Zu Dashou and Qi Bingzhong.
However, as soon as the reinforcements and the Houjin army clashed, Sun Degong ran away, Liu Qu and Qi Bingzhong died in battle, Zu Dashou fled to his hometown Juehua Island with hundreds of remnants, and Xiping Fort and Zhenwu Fort were lost one after another.
Xiong Tingbi was stationed in Luyang (now under the jurisdiction of Beizhen, Jinzhou) at that time, and could have sent reinforcements to Guangning to rescue Wang Huazhen, but he did not do so.
Sun Degong of the Chinese army had secretly surrendered to Houjin at this time, and seeing that the Houjin army had broken through the second line of defense, he spread the rumor that the enemy had approached Quang Ninh City, causing panic among the people in the city.
Wang Huazhen pinned his hopes on the 400,000 iron cavalry of the Mongols, but in fact Lin Dan Khan only sent more than 10,000 people; he bet on Li Yongfang, who surrendered to Nurhachi, but he was turned against his henchmen, and seeing that he was unable to recover the decline, he had to abandon the city and flee. met Xiong Tingbi in Daling River, and was sneered at by him: "Don't you want to invite 60,000 soldiers and wipe out Houjin in one fell swoop, why are you so embarrassed?"
Wang Huazhen was speechless, and Xiong Tingbi escorted the surrounding refugees into the customs, and on the 26th of the first month, Xiong Tingbi entered the Shanhaiguan Pass, and the western Liaoning region was abandoned.
Sun Degong blocked the treasury ordnance in Quang Ninh City and respectfully invited Nurhachi to enter the city. Compared with the desperate battles of Sarhu, Shenyang, and Liaoyang, the city of Guangning was too easy to obtain, so that Nurhachi was very suspicious of fraud.
Sun Dequan led the rebels to invite him into the city several times, but Nurhachi finally sent an advance force to check on it, and only after confirming that there was no ambush did he officially enter the city and take over Quang Ninh.
After the Later Jin occupied Guangning, they successively captured more than 40 castles such as Yizhou, Jinzhou, and Xiaolinghe, and drove the people west of the Liao River to Liaodong, so that the Liaoshen region formed a relatively concentrated area with a population, so as to strengthen its own power and compete with the Ming Dynasty regime.
After the Battle of Guangning, the connection between the Mongolian tribes adjacent to Liaoxi and the Ming Dynasty was cut off by the Later Jin, and the Mongolian Erut, Khalkha and other tribes surrendered to Nurhachi one after another. Later Jin extended its sphere of influence to western Liao, and the threat to the Ming Dynasty was further increased.
After entering the customs, Xiong and Wang returned to the court. Xiong Tingbi was beheaded for the "crime of losing Guangning", and Wang Huazhen knew that he could not be protected, so he defected to Wei Zhongxian, and allowed him to use himself to spread the evil deeds of the Donglin Party "embezzlement of Liaodong military salaries" to attack the power of the Donglin Party, but after all, he could not shirk the responsibility for the fall of Guangning, and later Wei Zhongxian committed suicide in fear of crime, Wang Huazhen was finally executed in the fifth year of Chongzhen (1632).
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