I often hear some history lovers say that "there are more than 10,000 people in the world, and there are invincible people in the world", why is there such a saying?
At that time, the Manchurian Eight Banners had a set of almost harsh and impersonal system of rewarding and punishing military merits, and in the end, this system became a fine tradition of the Manchurian Eight Banners. For the generals of the Eight Banners, it doesn't matter how many victories you fight in your life, as long as you lose a battle, you will either be beheaded all over the house, or the whole family will be assigned to Ningguta. In the Qing Dynasty, the better you had a relationship with the emperor, the more you were a relative of the emperor, the more you had to go into battle to kill the enemy, and take the lead, without exception. Either died in front of the battle, or died in military law, lost the city and beheaded, feared the enemy and did not move forward, escaped from the battle, avoided the heavy and lightly beheaded, retreated without order, the main general was killed, and the generals were all beheaded, and a series of harsh terms, no one can say.
In 1629 AD, the Manchu Qing army came to the city of Beijing and fought a decisive battle with the Ming army at Guangqumen. Huang Taiji's eldest son, Hao Ge, saw that the left flank of the Ming army was the main force, and rushed forward with the Eight Banners. The Mongol generals behind him attacked the right flank of the Ming army, which resulted in Hauge being surrounded. After the war, all these Mongolian generals were punished, and even Huang Taiji's son, Da Ge Haoge, had to fight the battlefield, not to mention other Manchu nobles.
Qianlong's brother-in-law, Le Qin, the grandson of the chief military minister, was ineffective in commanding the battle to pacify Jinchuan, so Qianlong sent his grandfather's golden knife to the front line. There was a famous minister named Ortai in the Yongzhong Dynasty, but in the Qianlong Dynasty, Ortai's eldest son E Rongan and third son E Shi were all killed on the front line.
The children of the Eight Banners of the Manchu Dynasty, even if your father is an important minister, it is not easy to do it, you still have to go to the battlefield, and there is a high probability of dying on the battlefield, which was rare in previous dynasties. Therefore, the Manchus at that time, their titles were equal to their responsibilities. In the concept of the Manchus at that time, death in battle belonged to joy and mourning, and it was a good death, even in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, although the combat effectiveness of the Qing army plummeted, but this tradition was not lost. Cixi's most trusted minister, Rong Lu, his grandfather, his father, and his brother all died on the battlefields in the northwest and south of the Yangtze River.
Therefore, in all dynasties, the Qing Dynasty was the dynasty where generals committed the most suicides in battle. Needless to say, you committed suicide because you lost the battle, and when you go back, you will not only be punished, but also your family, so it is better to commit suicide and martyrdom before the battle, and leave a peace for your family.