In April of the 46th year of the Wanli Calendar, Nurhaci raided Fushun, and at the end of July of the 47th year of the Wanli Calendar, Nurhaci captured Tieling. Today we will count how many people the Ming side has lost in more than a year.
First of all, Fushun, some people think that Fushun Li Yongfang directly surrendered, in fact, it is not the same, after all, Fushun City is not only a military general of Li Yongfang, and then the Emperor Taiji Dynasty also mentioned that "in the Battle of Fushun, Meng Tan led the Red Flag Protector to attack and was wounded three times by the knife." Give a horse. "And Tan Tai" Tan Tai was wounded twice, three by a horse's head knife and one by an arrow when he defeated the enemy in Fushun. It can be seen that the Fushun defenders still resisted, the Fushun defenders should be about 900 people, Li Yongfang, Zhao Yihe led 500 of them to surrender to the Jin army.
Li Yongfang became Nurhaci's granddaughter-in-law.
Then say Qinghe, the number of Qinghe is relatively clear, according to the historical data of the Houjin side, it is more than 10,000 people, and the Ming side says that there are tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians, of which there are more than 6,000 regular troops, and the city was slaughtered, so the army lost here is 6,000 people.
Then there is Zhang Chengyin Zhang Da Bing, Zhang Da Bing this battle sent a human head also 6,000, according to Hou Jin's statement, Hou Jin died two in this battle, of course, clear-eyed people can see that this is a serious nonsense.
Zhang Chengyin was almost completely annihilated.
Finally, there was the Battle of Salhu, the number of people killed in this battle was relatively accurate, according to Wang Zaijin' saying that "in addition to the Li soldiers, the main and guest officers and guests came out of the Army with a total of more than 88,550 members, and more than 310 officers were killed in the Battle of Dao, Town, Vice, Xie, Counselor, You, Dusi, Tongju, Garrison, Chinese Army, and Thousand General Officers, and one letter was printed, and the total number of soldiers killed was more than 45,870, and more than 28,600 horses, mules, and camels were lost, heads, and camels. The front returned and recruited more than 42,360 officers and troops. "Of course, the number 45,870 is not Counted as North Koreans, and if North Koreans are counted, it is more than 50,000."
The Emperor Taiji era eliminated more Ming troops.
Then there were the two battles of Kaiyuan Tieling, first of all, Kaiyuan, Kaiyuan's officers killed were "Ma Lin and the guerrilla Yu Shouzhi, Yu Hualong, the general Gao Zhen, the guerrilla Attack Ge Shifeng recruitment, the guerrilla Ren Guozhong, the Anle Prefecture Zhizhou Zhang Wenbing, the experience of Zhang Qice, the thirty thousand guards training Chen Jiamu, the Chinese army Sun Yong, Yu Zonglang Wanshou, the general Wang Yougong, Guo Qiming, Yang Chengzu, the Liaohaiwei commander Yu Chengyin, Li Weiliang, Li Zhongkuan and so on. "The tragic situation of being slaughtered in Kaiyuan City" The western soldiers were unruly, most of them were running around, thieves were burning and plundering, there were no less than 100,000 soldiers and men and women, and only about a thousand people escaped. There are only a thousand survivors, and the more than 10,000 remnants of the defeated soldiers that MaLin pulled back from the battlefield of Salhu should all be hung, and then compare the record of the Strength of the Ming Army in the Kaiyuan Ming Army in the "Four Towns and Three Guanzhi" as "10,520 main soldiers", and it is credible that the Ming army lost more than 10,000 people in the Kaiyuan area.
Eight Banner Army.
Finally, tieling, in fact, the loss of tieling should not be large" So He Shixian Zahupiyi, Li Ruzhen returned to Shenyang, the people scattered, the soldiers saw the thieves and left, our soldiers have abandoned Tieling. Under normal circumstances, the main soldiers of Tieling are only 2,000 people, but the war situation is very complicated, and in addition to the main soldiers, there will be routs in the early battles."
However, it is said that the loss is not large, but only compared to Kaiyuan, tieling guang officer died a large piece of "thieves attacked tieling, and the general Ding Bi opened the door to meet the enemy." Guerrilla Wu Gongqing, Yu Chengming, Shi Fengming, Li Ketai, Bei Yu He Yiguan, Zhang Shilu of the Chinese Army, Qian Zong Xiong Yong. Liu Shen, Wang Yongzhong, Li Rutang, Ma Yu, and Shi En were killed. When Qianzong Lukong was in charge, he killed more than a dozen thieves with an iron rod in his hand. Commanding Shen Shixing to fu'an shoubao, Su Guoguan, Xiao Jinzhong, Zhao Shixun, chu Shangru, meng Daozhong, Wang Zhiping, Pan Gui, Zheng Zhiliang, Zheng Shaokun, and Li Peiyuan, and the supervising judge Tu Bida, all of whom were killed in the city. Qian Zong Chen, Li Tianpei and the thief fought, seriously injured and broke out, when killed. The "loss of the population in the city" was "the abduction of officials, children, old and young, and more than 20,000 people in Kaiyuan and each tun to avoid captivity" was killed and robbed of more than 20,000 soldiers and civilians. Of course, some of the officials killed in the above vote were civilian officials, and not all of them died in the city. It can be seen that the loss of the Ming army here is more reasonable at about 3,000.
This last year of the Wanli calendar also.
Adding up the approximate loss figures of the Ming army in the above several major battles, that is to say, by July of the 47th year of the Wanli Calendar, the number of Ming army losses had reached a staggering 60,000 to 70,000 people. If you add the number of peaceful residents who were killed and plundered, 4,000 people were killed in Qinghe (most of them should be the families of Ming soldiers), 100,000 people were killed in Kaiyuan, more than 20,000 soldiers and civilians were killed and plundered in Tieling, plus all kinds of chaotic Ming army castles (in addition to Ming soldiers, there are also women and children and other family members) The Ming military and civilians who died in the Liaodong war only reached 200,000 in the more than one year from April 46 to July of Wanli forty-seven. This does not take into account the vast majority of the plundered (such as the tens of thousands of plundered residents of Fushun). It should be known that the Ming and Qing Dynasties Liaodong War has lasted for more than twenty years, and the cruelty of this protracted war is absolutely unimaginable to people living in a peaceful environment.
It's incredibly brutal indeed.
After several battles of Salhu, Kaiyuan, and Tieling, Liaoyang, where the soldiers were widowed, and the Shenyang side almost collapsed without a fight. It should be known that the total strength of the Ming Dynasty Liaodong Town in the first year of the Wanli Dynasty was only 80,000 people. Such heavy losses almost caused the situation in Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty to collapse at the end of the Wanli Calendar.