Wu Sangui, generally mentioned that his first thought was to let the Qing army enter the customs, mistakenly I huaxia for three hundred years, who thought that this year he was only thirty-two years old, and now many people are still single dogs, and he has enough ability to influence the fate of the empire.
Many people do not understand, what is the background of this Wu Sangui? And how did he become the youngest Shanhaiguan guard at the age of twenty-seven?
In 1612, Wu Sangui was born in suizhong in present-day Liaoning, and the reason why he had later achievements was first of all that he had a good father, called Wu Xiang (a merchant family), who grew five big and three thick arms and a large waist, was most annoyed with reading and writing, and loved to dance with knives and guns. At that time, Nurhaci had just established Houjin, nurhaci had strong ethnic discrimination, hated Han people, saw Han people, and men killed women. This caused Wu Xiang to be very disgusted, and I yangyang Huaxia actually despised the nations and was slighted by foreign races.
So Wu Xiang sold all his family property, recruited rebels, and as long as he saw the Houjin army disturbing the people, he would arrest or kill them, and Wu Xiang was deeply loved by the people and was also praised by the Ming Court. The appointment of Wu Xiangliaodong regiment to train general soldiers was subject to the restraint of the Zhenwu general Li Chengliang, which said that Li Chengliang was not an ordinary person, and there was a characteristic that he led the troops without military discipline, ate, drank, and robbed in peacetime, and was not ambiguous at all on the battlefield, and never flinched, so in the thirty years that he guarded Liaodong in his town, the Jurchens were afraid of death. Even such a great general was particularly fond of Wu Xiang.
Wu Xiang was born into a merchant family, the main business is to sell horses, Wu Xiang is to learn special skills, as long as the finger blows into the mouth, no matter whose horse will run over.
In the Battle of Salhu in 1619, the Ming army was defeated, and all the leaders of the whole army were punished, except for Wu Xiang, who was commended by the general order. The reason was that Wu Xiang was whistling on the battlefield, and three hundred horses from Nurhaci's side ran over.
With the appreciation of the leaders, coupled with Wu Xiang's contention, in the second year of the Apocalypse Examination, Wu Xiang's official position was getting bigger and bigger. When this official was older, he was thinking about how to keep his wealth and wealth, and then Wu Xiang thought about Wu Sangui's education. What made Wu Xiang extremely depressed was that Wu Sangui, like himself, did not love to read and learn words, and Wu Xiang was also helpless, and through his own power, he invited Wu Sangui, a well-known teacher at that time, Dong Qichang, a master of the Ming Dynasty art circle. Wu Sangui was very unhappy after knowing it, when was it, he still wanted to engage in art, could he go to the battlefield by learning to paint, and the eldest husband should take up the sword and make meritorious achievements.
So Wu Sangui found his uncle Zu Dashou, this zu Dashou is not ordinary, five generations are NingYuan shou general, and later when Yuan Chonghuan was ordered to transfer to Beijing, he only took three people, including Zu Dashou. Wu Sangui people are very clever, when they study are also very serious, in just a few years they learned a martial art, just Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, ordered the reopening of the scientific examination, because of the needs of the imperial court, the examination is also a martial arts person, the chief examiner happens to be Wu Xiang to Wu Sangui's teacher Dong Qichang, Dong Qichang literati, and how to take the main examination, so he went to consult Wu Xiang, asked Wu Xiang who has the highest martial arts in the world, and as a result, Wu Xiang did not politely recommend his son Wu Sangui.
As a result, 17-year-old Wu Sangui went to the school field, and after a martial arts competition, he really won the martial arts. In this way, Wu Sangui began his military career, and what really made Wu Sangui famous in the first battle was that in 1630, the situation in the northeast deteriorated, and one day Wu Xiang led hundreds of relatives to scout the enemy, and as a result, he was surrounded and captured alive by tens of thousands of Qing troops. Wu Sangui was in a hurry, and Wu Sangui quickly said to Zu Dashou, "You give me three thousand soldiers and horses, and I have to save my father." Zu Dashou did not agree, and the reason was very simple, even if the three thousand soldiers and horses were hit by pebbles.
Wu Sangui helplessly selected 18 relatives and 2 generals, a total of 21 people, secretly opened the city gate, rushed into tens of thousands of Qing troops, in the blink of an eye Wu Sangui rushed to the leader's eyes, the thief first captured the king to shoot the horse first, Wu Sangui bent the bow and arrow, just shot the top general off the horse, Wu Sangui again wanted to cut off the head of the other general, who knows if he died, the other side's machete was raised, just right on the bridge of Wu Sangui's nose, fortunately, Wu Sangui reacted quickly, and continued to cut off the other party's head with the knife. At this time, tens of thousands of troops were leaderless and chaotic, and Wu Sangui took the opportunity to join his father Wu Xiang and take the opportunity to break out of the siege and return to the city, this year Wu Sangui was only 18 years old.
Wu Sangui's heroic deeds of saving his father appear in our current primary school textbooks, such as "The Name of Loyalty and Filial Piety" and "The Three Armies of Courage", and everyone knows it. Later, another thing directly pushed the 27-year-old Wu Sangui to the position of chief soldier.
In 1631, the Qing army besieged the city of Dalinghe, as the rear of the Ming Dynasty in Shandong, inspector Deng Lai heard about it, and immediately sent the general Kong Youde to lead 800 soldiers and horses to break the siege. As a result, Kong Youde went to Hebei and his subordinates called Li Jiucheng shangmou, decided to rebel against the Ming Dynasty and submit to the Qing Dynasty. Kong Youde immediately returned to Dengzhou with his troops, and at this time the garrison in Dengzhou knew that Kong Youde had mutinied, so Kong Youde quickly occupied Dengzhou.
Shandong is the rear of the Ming Dynasty, Kong Youde's rebellion is to plant a bomb for the Ming Dynasty, so the imperial court mobilized soldiers and horses, must eliminate Kong Youde, the imperial court sent Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui, when they led tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, in Shandong Ye County and Kong Youde a big war. After all, Kong Youde was short of soldiers and horses, this battle was a big defeat, forced to return to Dengzhou, Wu Sangui surrounded Dengzhou, Kong Youde led the army to break through several times but failed, in the battle Kong Youde deputy general was killed, Kong Youde finally secretly escaped from Bohai Bay by small boat to the northeast. After this matter was known to Chongzhen, he was overjoyed and immediately ordered a commendation, and from then on, Wu Sangui was more and more courageous in the Vietnam War, and at the age of 27, he was appointed as the chief soldier of the regiment, becoming the youngest Shanhaiguan guard.
The reason why Wu Sangui has risen so quickly in just a few years, I think there are three aspects: the first is that Wu Sangui is ambitious, the second is very talented, 17 years old in martial arts, and the third is that his father Wu Xiang laid a good foundation for him. Coupled with his uncle's strength, Wu Sangui's promotion is much simpler.
Finally, I would like to add that Wu Sangui also has a dry father, that is, the Great Eunuch Gao Qiqian