When mao Wenlong is mentioned, there are actually many different views in history. Some people felt that he deserved it, and some people said that he died unjustly. So which statement is more accurate? Let's first look at what Mao Wenlong did.
Mao Wenlong's life should be divided into two stages, the first stage is before Mao Wenlong town guards Dongjiang Town, and the second stage is after Mao Wenlong Town guards Dongjiang Town. It can be said that Mao Wenlong in the two stages is almost like two people.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="71" >, the rise of Mao Wenlong, can not be separated from the four nobles. </h1>
Mao Wenlong is from Zhejiang, the family is doing business, his father died early, this guy does not produce, and he does not like to read. It is reasonable to say that such a person will be a street wanderer in the future, and there will be no problem.
However, he was very interested in the art of war, which reminded me of several masters at the head of the village, who had just finished playing potions in the field and talked about the future of continents such as Asia, Africa and Europe at the mouth of the village.
Mao Wenlong is the same, although he is a typical street wanderer, he has the ambition to be a marquis. You don't have to say, God is really good to Mao Wenlong, because his uncle Mao Dechun has no son, and his aunt has pity Mao Wenlong for thirty years, but he has achieved nothing. Therefore, they let Mao Wenlong inherit Mao Dechun's position and become Haizhou Weibaihu.
In the blink of an eye, Zhejiang Street Slipper became an officer in Liaodong, and no one would adapt to it. But Mao Wenlong was a natural official. After he arrived at the official field, he began to make all kinds of friends, and he did not feel sorry for money at all, so his popularity was very good. Since then, the influence of the four nobles on Mao Wenlong has been very great.
The first nobleman, uncle Shen Guangzuo.
Mao Wenlong's uncle Shen Guangzuo was the chief of the military department at that time, and there were people in the court who were good officials! Regardless of whether this person's official position is high or not, as long as he can say a word, it is good! On the recommendation of his uncle, Mao Wenlong became the Qianzong under Li Chengliang, and after three years of work as the Qianzong, he was promoted to garrison.
The second nobleman, Liaodong Jing slightly Yang Ho.
When Yang Hao passed through Liaodong, Mao Wenlong made a military achievement in the fight against the Later Jin army, so he was given the rank of Dusi.
The third nobleman, Liaodong Jing slightly Xiong Tingbi.
After Xiong Tingbi came, the naked eye could see that Mao Wenlong had made a battle achievement, he once defeated his opponent at Xingxing Mountain, and personally killed an opponent. There was another fundraiser, and it cost money to make a bunch of very practical weapons.
Therefore, Xiong Tingbi admired Mao Wenlong very much, and once wrote to the emperor, saying that Mao Wenlong was a very powerful person, not only had seen people, but also had great courage, and should be given the position of Dusi.
The fourth nobleman, Wang Huazhen, the Inspector of Liaodong Province.
After Yuan Yingtai became the Liaodong Jingluo, he actually looked down on Mao Wenlong, and although he was given a guerrilla title, he still refused to reuse him. However, Wang Huazhen, the governor of Liaodong, was very interested in Mao Wenlong, because Mao Wenlong's uncle Shen Guangzuo once again recommended Mao Wenlong to him.
Under wang Huazhen's appointment, Mao Wenlong was finally awarded the post of Dusi. Since then, Mao Wenlong has been deeply valued by Wang Huazhen, and he has also regarded Wang Huazhen as the most important benefactor in his life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="70" >2, before the town guarded Dongjiang Town, Mao Wenlong was a man with an iron backbone. </h1>
The Great Victory in Zhenjiang should be said to be an important event that changed Mao Wenlong's life. After conquering Liaoyang and Shenyang, Houjin began to attack other small cities, and almost all of Liaodong fell into Houjin's sphere of influence.
At this time, Houjin was arrogant, and a large number of generals of the Ming army group surrendered to Jin, and local armed forces everywhere also shaved their hair and changed their clothes. Winning a battle at this time was too important for the Ming Dynasty, at least it was of great help to morale.
When Mao Wenlong learned of this, he immediately took the initiative to ask for help and rushed toward Zhenjiang with 197 officers and men.
This road was the most heroic moment of Mao Wenlong's life, at the mouth of the Sancha River, Mao Wenlong recruited rebellion and appeased people's hearts. Near Hiroshima, many people defected to Mao Wenlong. Arriving at Hadian Island, Mao Wenlong destroyed the island official Ren Guangxian and recruited more than 300 people again.
The next day Mao Wenlong went to Shicheng Island again, captured the island official He Guoyong, and appeased thousands of local residents. More than 100 people were appeased when they arrived at Kashima. These island officials originally worked with the Ming Dynasty, and later surrendered to Houjin, and now that Mao Wenlong has come, most of them have begun to fall to the Ming Dynasty again. Mao Wenlong did have a lot of merit in recovering a number of islands along the way, but unfortunately the results of the battle were too small to affect the overall situation.
If we want to change the overall situation, we must capture Zhenjiang City. According to the Ming Dynasty, Zhenjiang City was the only way for Korea to pay tribute, and it was also the throat of Deng Lai. If Zhenjiang is lost, the peninsula will not want to be controlled by the Ming Dynasty anymore.
When Mao Wenlong arrived at Zhenjiang City, he did not rush to attack Zhenjiang City, but first found Chen Liangce in Zhenjiang City as an internal response. When it was time for the chickens to crow, the inside should merge with the outside and attack Zhenjiang City together.
The locals captured Tong Yangzhen and his son gave it to Mao Wenlong, making Mao Wenlong a great achievement. The Zhenjiang victory almost changed the situation in liaodong as a whole, because the surrounding cliques all believed that the main force of the Ming Dynasty was coming, so they began to secretly contact Mao Wenlong to discuss the matter of submission.
It's a beautiful thing to do! Mao Wenlong was not a blindly confident person, and he took a variety of measures to keep the fruits of victory. On the one hand, he reported success to the inspector Wang Huazhen, hoping that the imperial court would send 20,000 troops to Zhenjiang. On the other hand, he also asked north Korea for help, hoping that north Korea would send troops to support.
At that time, Mao Wenlong almost became the most beautiful boy in the Ming Dynasty. Some people even called Mao Wenlong a strange man, because he led 200 people to take Zhenjiang City, while more than 100,000 regular troops were beaten by Nurhaci and lost their armor.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="69" > three, too soon to be happy? It took only 7 days to gain and lose. </h1>
The Ming Dynasty immediately began to groan, and some people cheered that with Mao Wenlong there, Liaodong could be restored and Nurhaci could be eliminated. Therefore, Mao Wenlong became a deputy commander-in-chief in the blink of an eye, and the imperial court hoped that he could continue to work hard and achieve good results.
So has Mao Wenlong achieved good results again? Sorry, when the Ming Dynasty was still cheering, Nurhaci had already laid out the layout to retake Zhenjiang. Emperor Taiji led 3,000 troops, and Amin led 2,000 troops to besiege Zhenjiang City with all his might. Mao Wenlong had not yet waited for reinforcements, and in just 7 days, he lost Zhenjiang.
After losing Zhenjiang, Mao Wenlong did not have the face to return to the Ming Dynasty at all, so he simply ran to North Korea to take refuge. At this time, if you are Mao Wenlong, how can you continue to mix in the Ming Dynasty? There may be only two ways.
The first way was to lead the army to the end with Hou Jin's army, but it was bound to fail miserably. The second method is to lie about the achievements of the battle. Anyway, Mao Wenlong's army was a combat unit that rushed to the front line, and he could write about this battle achievement as much as he wanted. As long as he had military merits, the Ming Dynasty would not be embarrassed to blame him for losing Zhenjiang, and even reward him!
After figuring this out, a brand new Mao Wenlong turned out! Because this Mao Wenlong is no longer the man who dared to be bold in the past, but a person who lied about military merits.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="68" >4, the town guarded Dongjiang Town, Mao Wenlong completely blackened. </h1>
After Mao Wenlong lost Zhenjiang, he thought of the practice of lying about military information. However, I have to say that Mao Wenlong's means of lying about military information are really a bit clumsy.
Because his bragging level is too excessive, if it is really according to Mao Wenlong's military merits, then his hundreds of people are heavenly soldiers and generals, and their strength is far better than that of Houjin, and there is no need to run to North Korea.
The sound of the cannon shook the sky, the head and tail rushed to kill, the people responded internally, killing about 2,000 tiger people, and the thieves abandoned the wide and slowly fled. Ding Xu Chenggong, Wang Shangxian, Sun Chengchuan, etc., who died in the two battles, and more than 300 people such as Yang Jiguang, shunmin. --- Mao Wen Longtang Newspaper.
Killing thousands of opponents without a word is actually a fake that everyone knows is fake. Moreover, in other sources of Korea, the Later Jin Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty, these data are not mentioned at all.
Mao Wenlong alone led a few of his followers to flee, beheading Chen Liangce and capturing his wife Ji. A total of fifteen hundred men were beheaded, and those who crossed the river were all rewarded. --- this is the record of Hou Jin.
At this time, North Korea was a bit uncertain and did not help protect Mao Wenlong, which led to the continuation of the Later Jin soldiers. Mao Wenlong had no choice but to choose Phi Dao as his place to live. Since then, Mao Wenlong has completely blackened.
In Phi Dao, Mao Wenlong gradually had the feeling of being the emperor of the earth, this place was originally the pasture of the king of Korea, and now after he occupied it, it became his private kingdom.
For the Ming Dynasty, Mao Wenlong continued to consistently carry out his military feats of lying, sending troops to deal with Houjin and destroying thousands of houjin people. If it were really according to Mao Wenlong's speed, the Eight Banner Soldiers would have been wiped out by him long ago.
There were less than a thousand soldiers, and more than twenty thousand thieves died. The thief's bowed horse, more than 30,000 dead on this horse, is the thief to the brothers and sisters, all go to half of it, the thief's borrowing power, five lose three. --- Apocalypse In August of the third year of the Mao Wen Longtang Newspaper.
This was exaggerated to his grandmother's house, Mao Wenlong used less than 1,000 horses, and destroyed more than 20,000 Jin Eight Banner soldiers. You can't write a novel like that, can you? At that time, after the Golden Eight Banners were full of soldiers, there were 80,000 horses? Good fellow, a quarter of what you killed in one go.
A few days later, Mao Wenlong's good news came again:
Twenty-one slashes, sixty-seven damas, seventy-two caps, ninety-one collars, and more than two hundred and thirty-five bows and arrows. --- The Apocalypse Of the Third Year of the Mao Wen Longtang Newspaper.
This data is reliable, not too exaggerated. However, the problem is that there is no record of this war on the Korean side, and the Manchu Old Archives record that Mao Wenlong was defeated in this battle.
That is to say, the small victory in Mao Wenlong's mouth has become a big victory, and the defeat in Mao Wenlong's mouth is likely to become a small victory, which may be the way to survive outside!
Mao Wenlong won a big victory almost every month in the three years of the Apocalypse, accumulatively killing opponents, and estimating that he could exceed the total number of Eight Banner Soldiers, which reminded me of the story of Lafite in 82.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="51" > summary: the complexity of human nature cannot be summed up in a word. </h1>
Mao Wenlong was indeed a man before he guarded Dongjiang Town. With less than 200 men, they successively captured various small islands and also took the crucial Zhenjiang.
However, after the town guarded Dongjiang Town, Mao Wenlong's style of conduct changed. In order to survive, he began to lie about military information. After tasting the sweetness, he began to eat empty food again.
Mao Wenlong originally had only 28,000 men under him, but when he reported to the imperial court, he said that he had recruited 200,000 troops and eaten more than 170,000 empty salaries.
Yuan Chonghuan was a man of great integrity, and he repeatedly stressed to the imperial court that he wanted the court to send someone to supervise Mao Wenlong. However, after Mao Wenlong learned about it, he immediately cried and shouted that his mother would not allow anyone to come, nor did he give a suitable reason.
In addition, Yuan Chonghuan took a step back and hoped that the grain and grass issued to Mao Wenlong would first pass through Ningyuan and then be sent to Phi Dao. This time Mao Wenlong began to cry again and shouted that his mother would not allow it.
Yuan Chonghuan, as the governor of Jiliao, shouldered the great cause of five years of Pingliao, and he did not want to be dragged down by Mao Wenlong. Therefore, he took the initiative to find Mao Wenlong and hoped that Mao Wenlong would return to his hometown. So at this time, how did Mao Wenlong answer Yuan Chonghuan?
Mao Wenlong said: I have had this intention for a long time, but the governor is in the East, and after the success of one fell swoop, The DPRK is weak and can be attacked.
What does it mean? He said that he did have the idea of returning to his hometown, but he felt that no matter how badly he mixed, he could also destroy the weak peninsula and become a soil emperor on the peninsula!
Does this have to be done? Yuan Chonghuan, who was straight, knew that after hearing this, it was almost impossible for him to get out of Mao Wenlong's big tent again. Therefore, Yuan Chonghuan resolutely killed Mao Wenlong. As for the consequences, Yuan Chonghuan didn't seem to think about it that much.
Yuan Chonghuan's ability is limited, and he can't manage the soldiers on Phi Island who are accustomed to empty pay. As a result, the Phi Dao army was distracted. But this was not a reason why Mao Wenlong could not be killed.
References: "History of Ming", "Ming Shilu", "Manchu Old Archive", "Chongzhen Long Edition", etc.