He was born into a poor peasant family, and in 1630, Zhang Xianzhong launched a hunger revolt in northern Shaanxi, and was adopted as an adopted son by Zhang Xianzhong at the age of ten. From then on, he followed Zhang Xianzhong to fight in the north and south, and after the Qing army entered the customs, he resolutely abandoned his former suspicions. Become daming's last military god. He is the national hero and famous anti-Qing general Li Dingguo!
Li Dingguo, Zi Ningyu, a famous general of the Southern Ming Yongli regime who resisted the Qing Dynasty, a native of Yulin, Shaanxi, resisted the Qing Dynasty for nine years, and a total of two famous kings shook the world. Five more Baylors were beheaded. At one point, he was ready to abandon the seven southwestern provinces. If it were not for the traitors leaking secrets, he would have almost destroyed the entire army of the traitor Wu Sangui. He won the hearts of the people in the southwest, and his english name has been passed down through the generations. But the reason for his failure was because of another national hero, Zheng Chenggong, what was going on?
Since Li Dingguo followed Zhang Xianzhong in the southern expedition to the north, he made a Han horse contribution to Zhang Xianzhong, and the seventeen-year-old Li Dingguo led his 20,000 men to follow Zhang Xianzhong to attack Henan and Hubei, first disguised as an official of the Ming army, and with twenty light horses rushed to xiangyang city overnight, and then captured Xiangyang, and the xiangyang victory was the turning point at which Zhang Xianzhong's rebel army began to march toward victory.
The Ming Dynasty army was restored
Shortly thereafter, the Manchu Qing Iron Rode into Shanhaiguan, Zhang Xianzhong was killed in battle with the Qing army, and before Zhang Xianzhong died, he told Li Dingguo to let him put aside his previous grievances and cooperate with Daming to support the Han people. Therefore, Li Dingguo was strong enough to defy the public opinion and led his army to the Southern Ming Dynasty to cooperate with the Shu King's Palace.
Shortly thereafter, the Governor of Guangxi, Qu Shiyun, proclaimed zhu Youluo the Prince of Gui at Zhaoqing, with the era name Yongli, and established the last regime of the Southern Ming Dynasty. When Li Dingguo learned of this, he was overjoyed, and on the one hand, he sent people to contact the Southern Ming regime, and on the other hand, he sent a northern expedition.
In 1652, Li Dingguo officially went out on the Northern Expedition, and before leaving, he contracted five articles: no murder, no adultery, no robbery, no slaughter of cattle, and no arson. Strict military discipline and extremely strong combat strength quickly captured Hunan and other places, and then the soldiers attacked Guilin in three ways, using elephant troops to break through Kong Youde, and only Kong Youde fled back to Guilin City. Then taking advantage of the victory to pursue, in one fell swoop to attack Guilin, Kong Youde personally killed his beloved wives, and finally self-immolated and died, only one daughter Kong Sizhen escaped. This was the first prince to die in battle after the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
The Western painting of Zheng Chenggong's ironclad army
Li Dingguo once recovered the three southern provinces for the Southern Ming. The Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty personally made Li Dingguo the King of Xining, and the Qing army immediately sent Prince Jin Nikan as the commander to lead the Three Belles. With 150,000 bannermen to the south to support, he fought a fierce battle with Li Dingguo north of Hengzhou City, and in the fierce battle, Nikan was beheaded by Li Dingguo's army.
Less than a year after Li Dingguo's expedition, he crossed several provinces, recaptured Xiang and Gui, defeated hundreds of thousands of Qing troops, and set off the second anti-Qing climax after the first anti-Qing climax in 1647. Huang Zongxi praised: "The battle of Guilin and Hengyang, the capture of Li Dingguo, the two famous kings, the world was shaken. This is something that cannot be found in the world since the dawn of the Wanli Dynasty. It can be called the military god of Daming! But why did Li Dingguo fail because of Zheng Chenggong?
The reason is that during the Battle of Guangzhou, Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong agreed to attack together, seeing that they were about to attack Guangzhou, and the Manchu Qing defenders in Guangzhou actually let the people go out of the city to make meat shields, Li Dingguo could have taken Guangzhou in one fell swoop, but Li Dingguo could not bear to shoot the people, and at this time the pain was deep.
Only hope could be pinned on Zheng Chenggong, but at this time Zheng Chenggong's reinforcements were delayed, and coupled with the arrival of Manchu reinforcements, Li Dingguo was attacked from both sides, and then defeated. In desperation, Li Dingguo had no choice but to retreat in all directions, and 600,000 to 700,000 people along the way retreated with him, and the sound of crying and howling shook the heavens. Later generations said that the reason for this failure was that he was the benevolence of the woman, but! Li Dingguo's move is definitely not the benevolence of a woman, but what a great hero who stands tall in the sky should do! A hero should care for the people! And Li Dingguo would rather lose this opportunity than hurt the people, so Li Dingguo is a veritable hero!
In 1661, Wu Sangui strangled the Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Li Dingguo was distraught, weeping and weeping, and the war wounds were excessive, and in 1662 AD, the national hero Li Dingguo unfortunately died of illness.