preface:
As the saying goes, the stronger the ability, the greater the responsibility. But what if a person is very capable, but he is unwilling to fulfill his responsibilities? The more capable such a person is, the more destructive it is! Who should use such a person as a leader? Whoever uses him is unlucky!
Zuo Liangyu at the end of the Ming Dynasty is this kind of person, with outstanding ability, Xiao Yong is good at war, he has defeated the peasant army many times, with the development of the situation, his army is more and more vietnam war (note: not more and more fighting), once developed to more than 800,000 people, the momentum is huge, the vast, can completely affect the situation in the world, if you cooperate well, it is not impossible to save the Ming Dynasty!
However, this Zuo Liangyu, who was completely opposite to the heroic image of saving Daming, saw that Daming was finished, but saw that he could not be saved, and even set up cannons to fight inwards, playing with the successor Small Imperial Court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, playing with applause, and becoming a tyrant, and even some people said that it was he who destroyed Daming's bloodline, which made a certain sense! So, how did Zuo Liangyu change from a loyal servant to a Daming talisman step by step?
One. Born in the end of the world, poor in life
Zuo Liangyu is a native of Linqing, Shandong, his father died since he was a child, he grew up with his uncle, coupled with the chaos in the world at the end of the Ming Dynasty, he has not had the possibility of learning since he was a child! On the contrary, he was interested in Xi Wu, plus he was tall, and he was a good material for being a soldier at first glance, and when the "Xuzhou" mutiny, his uncle and his family were also killed by the rebel army, and he became a homeless tramp!
When he joined the army, Zuo Liangyu started from the big head soldiers, because it really didn't matter, he could only start from the beginning, but he was promoted step by step with his flexible mind, brave in battle, one knife and one shot, and because of this, he could mingle with the soldiers, very grounded, and could also suppress this group of proud soldiers, and this experience also laid a solid foundation for him to fly yellow and tengda later!
At this time, Zuo Liangyu was a young man with lofty ideals and a role model figure who started from scratch!
Two. Promotion magic weapon: specially pick soft persimmon pinch
Zuo Liangyu was originally developed in Liaodong, repeatedly made meritorious achievements, Chongzhen for four years, Zuo Liangyu led the army to engage the Qing army, fought bravely, not afraid of life and death, "battle song mountain, apricot mountain, record merit first" The Ming generation will rise to the stars, and the Chongzhen Emperor is very happy.
However, at this time, the situation in Guannei was not optimistic, the peasant revolt was raging, the Ming Dynasty was crumbling, Chongzhen ordered, Zuo Liangyu led an army into Guanguan to suppress the peasant army. In the years that followed, Zuo Liangyu made many meritorious contributions and defeated the peasant army several times!
So much so that there is a saying: "There is a Cao in the army, and the heart of a thief is cold, and the second left Liangyu and Tang Jiuzhou are cold." That is to say, the three most powerful people in the army, the first is Cao Changjiao, the second is Zuo Liangyu, and the third is Tang Jiuzhou!
Could it be that Zuo Liangyu was really so powerful? No, you are wrong to think so, this Zuo Liangyu is far worse than Cao Changjiao and Sun Chuanting, such a victorious general! He fights for a while to win, a moment to lose, in a word, no score!
He fights a war by picking up soft persimmons, fighting when he is weak, and fleeing when he is strong, although this brushes out his own battle record, the winning rate is extremely high, but it also leads to his own troops, can not fight a hard battle, many times are fleeing without a fight, typical escape general!
A trick to eat all over the sky, specially pick up soft persimmon pinch, just by this little bit of careful thinking, Zuo Liangyuguan is getting bigger and bigger!
Three. Do not listen to the command, pit Yang Sichang to death
You don't look at Zuo Liangyu's fighting well, but his temper, with the promotion of his official position, is getting bigger and bigger, and moreover, arrogant and arrogant, arrogant and rude, no one can say that he is not convinced, first he looks down on governor Xiong Wencan, and then he does not listen to the command of his successor Yang Sichang. No benefit? Don't listen to the command, don't listen to the transfer!
In the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong surrendered and rebelled again, and revolted at Gucheng. Governor Yang Sichang was anxious, and issued nine consecutive orders for Zuo Liangyu to lead his troops to the battle, but this Zuo Liangyu could not come alive or dead, why? Because there is no benefit, and it is not easy to fight Zhang Xianzhong, many people have to die, which is not good for his own development, he is thinking about this, and he does not consider the interests of the country at all.
As a result, due to the success of Zhang Xianzhong's uprising and jumping out of the encirclement, the situation became uncontrollable, and the governor Yang Sichang felt that he could not face the Chongzhen Emperor (even if he went back, Chongzhen would have to kill him), turned his heart sideways, and committed suicide in Shashi.
Zhang Xianzhong's revolt was successful, including Yang Sichang's suicide, and if the responsibility for these two things really had to be investigated, Zuo Liangyu's pot was fixed!
Four. Collapse at a touch and retreat bravely
From the beginning of Zuo Liangyu's entry, he had the problem of retreating privately and ignoring his teammates, and his troops often collapsed at a touch, or even did not touch it, only hearing the sound of the wind and running away!
Especially in the battle to rescue Kaifeng, after Li Zicheng surrounded Kaifeng City, Chongzhen gave Zuo Liangyu a death order, must go all out to rescue Kaifeng, such a rich city can be lost, not to mention his uncle, The Fu King Zhu Changxun is still in Kaifeng City!
There was no way, Zuo Liangyu had to fight with Li Zicheng, and as a result, when he checked the environment at night, he saw the bonfire lit by Li Zicheng's army outside Kaifeng, just like the sky full of galaxies and oceans, and the number was uncountable.
Oops, Mom! Zuo Liangyu was frightened, how to fight this? Isn't that my life? Therefore, he quickly stepped up his horse and whip, quickly returned to the camp, organized people and horses overnight, and prepared to retreat. What teammates are not teammates, who do not care, running away is important.
Lee Zi-cheng
Detective Malay newspaper, Li Zicheng out of the camp to see, good fellow, what is your way? Why haven't you hit yet, not even a face shot, you have to run? Take a closer look, the fire is chaotic, the sound is noisy, there is no formation at all, a look at this is a sign of panic and no way to escape, Li Zicheng immediately ordered, chase!
Originally, Zuo Liangyu's army was in chaos, and when the pursuing soldiers arrived behind this, they were even more desperate, scrambling to save their lives, the wolves rushed and rushed, completely chaotic, routed, and completely routed!
Zuo Liangyu and his relatives were also running away, suddenly a deep and wide ditch appeared in front of them, the soldiers could not pass, many people climbed down, trying to climb up from the other side, Zuo Liangyu was anxious, ordered to step on the soldiers past, a horse whip, the war horse like crazy, stepping on the soldiers who were too late to go up, rushed over!
What's the point of this? It was easy to take a small number of relatives and soldiers, run to Wuchang, re-recruit soldiers and buy horses, and what if they didn't eat or drink? Directly ordered, the arsonists plundered, but also took matters into their own hands, plundered a lot, and flew away!
Is this still not the world of the Ming Dynasty? Is this still not the people of the Ming Dynasty? Zuo Liangyu, are you still not a general of the Ming Dynasty? You're doing personnel, aren't you?
Five. Grinding and chirping is not diligent king, dominating the south tomorrow to die
In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng led an army from Xi'an to the east and approached Beijing, and the Chongzhen Emperor was in a hurry, and he quickly summoned Zuo Liang Yuqin Wang (as well as other Qin Wang's men and horses, such as Wu Sangui and so on)
Zuo Liangyu didn't move, why? He has not yet received benefits, because he understands that Chongzhen is really using him, and without a high price, can he be diligent to the king?
Chongzhen really couldn't help it, so he sealed Zuo Liangyu, Ning Nanbo, and his son Zuo Menggeng, the general of Ping Thief. To satisfy Zuo Liangyu's desire for power, however, the desire is difficult to fill, and this Zuo Liangyu grinding and grinding is not to go to the king of Qin, deliberately delaying time.
Chongzhen martyrdom
The Chongzhen Emperor was looking forward to the stars and the moon, and did not wait for Zuo Liangyu's Army of QinWang until he died, and when Li Zicheng attacked the city of Beijing, the Chongzhen Emperor had no choice but to find a crooked neck tree on the coal mountain and hanged himself and martyred the country!
When this Zuo Liangyu heard the news of Chongzhen's hanging, he symbolically shed a few tears and wanted to lead the soldiers to avenge Chongzhen... Didn't this Chongzhen Emperor just let you pit you? Which door is the enemy of you?
In fact, he didn't move! Because there are more important things to do, control the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty!
The small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty also wanted to let Zuo Liangyu and Li Zicheng fight to the death and reap the benefits of the fisherman themselves, at that time, they could not only revive the Ming Dynasty, but also go to Zuo Liangyu as a powerful minister!
Situation map of the Southern Ming Dynasty
The abacus was well fought, but Zuo Liangyu was not deceived, just when the peasant army and the Qing army were fighting fiercely, Zuo Liangyu was planning to control the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, at this time, Zuo Liangyu, with 800,000 people under his command, cooperated with the brother troops to defend the southern Ming this acre and three points of land, the problem should not be big!
However, in such a bad situation, they still set up cannons to fight inside, causing the Nanming Hongguang regime to quickly disintegrate!
In 1645, preparing to set out to control Nanming, before setting out, zuo Liangyu, who had committed a heinous crime, vomited blood and died, and his son Zuo Menggeng led his troops to surrender to the Qing Dynasty!
Zuo Menggeng surrendered
To sum up, Zuo Liangyu was tyrannical, did not listen to commands, and his military discipline was corrupt, and he fled without a fight at every turn, and he was definitely not a loyal servant of Daming, but a catalyst for Daming!