Battle of Guangning The 140,000 Ming army was defeated without a fight, and Liaoxi was lost.

After the Later Jin seized Liaoyang, the Ming Dynasty decided to reactivate Xiong Tingbi, appointed him as the secretary of the military department, and promoted Wang Huazhen to the governor of Liaodong to help him defend Liao.

However, since Xiong Tingbi came to Liaodong, the contradiction with Wang Huazhen has been very serious, and the two are not on the same channel at all, regardless of strategic planning or deployment of the Ming army.

Xiong Tingbi believed that the elite of the Ming army would be placed on Guangning, and the rest of the fortresses would only leave early warning troops, and once the Houjin raid could be reported directly, and when the enemy's main force came from Liaoyang, the Ming army could be deployed near Guangning after receiving the early warning.

Ming Army. Xiong Tingbi's move actually turned Guangning into Shenyang, and other areas were used as buffers, once the Houjin attacked, as long as the defense in Guangning was in place, the Houjin would not be able to take a substantial advantage, but there was also a problem, that is, other places would be looted by the Houjin at will, these were just small losses necessary for Xiong Tingbi, but for Wang Huazhen, this was different.

He is the governor of Liaodong and the person directly responsible for Guangning, and he can't sit back and watch the loss of a city and a place, even if he can't repel Houjin now, he can't let Houjin come in and plunder, so he thinks that all the fortresses will be fortified separately to block Houjin's attack, and the two sides will break up unhappily.

For Wang Huazhen, now he needs to win a battle to be exciting, it is best to fight with Houjin, and he also got a lot of information, thinking that many people in southern Liaoning are oriented to the Ming Dynasty, and there is also progress in contacting the generals, and the number one rebel Li Yongfang said that he would assist the Ming army at the right time, not to mention that Wang Huazhen got the promise of Lin Dan Khan, with the Mongolian iron cavalry, Wang Huazhen thought that it would not be a problem to deal with Houjin.

However, these are disdainful in Xiong Tingbi's eyes, with the current combat strength of the Ming army, it is impossible to stop the attack of the Houjin army, and the dispersion of troops makes the Houjin see the truth and the truth, besides, Lin Dan Khan is so reliable? Li Yongfang can believe it like that? So the best way now is to do a good job of defense in a down-to-earth manner, and when the troops are trained and the logistics are ready, they are recovering the territory.

Moreover, on this basis, Xiong Tingbi proposed a three-way defense strategy, that is, Wang Huazhen defended on the front line of Guangning, he sat in the rear of Shanhaiguan, and the Shandong Deng, Laishui armies attacked Houjin according to the situation, and when the time came, they went all out to recover southern Liaoning.

The situation in Liaodong at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

In this way, in the constant dispute between Xiong Tingbi and Wang Huazhen, he got the news that Houjin might attack, Wang Huazhen arranged the Ming army according to his own ideas, hoping that Xiong Tingbi would sit in Guangning, but Xiong Tingbi just refused to go, no matter what Wang Huazhen said, he just didn't go.

To tell the truth, the reason why he didn't go was actually very simple, that is, none of Wang Huazhen's current arrangements were in line with his own ideas, even if he went to Guangning, how could he command it, and his grievances were monstrous, and the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military almost all supported Wang Huazhen, Xiong Tingbi Niu said in a temper, just dismiss me.

Zhang Heming, the secretary of the Ministry of War, who had long seen Xiong Tingbi's displeasure, also played the apocalypse, asking for the removal of Xiong Tingbi and letting Wang Huazhen be fully responsible, at the critical moment, the apocalypse prevented Zhang Heming and others from agreeing to the opinions of Zhang Heming and others, and retained Xiong Tingbi, this move is probably to hold Xiong Tingbi to the bottom, after all, in his eyes, Wang Huazhen is good at attacking, Xiong Tingbi is good at defending, and the cooperation of the two can ensure that there will not be too much loss on the front line.

As a result, the Battle of Guangning gave the Ming court a super shock, if the Battle of Sarhu was a tragedy, then the Battle of Guangning was a farce, and the 140,000 Ming army was completely defeated in almost any decent battle.

At the beginning of the war, when the Houjin was cleaning the various fortresses on the periphery of Guangning, Wang Huazhen sent a three-way army to the rescue, and the Houjin cavalry fought head-on, the outcome can be imagined, and Sun Degong was bent on surrendering to the Houjin, which made a hindrance, and the rescue army was defeated.

And Sun Degong returned to Guangning to spread rumors, completely shaken the morale of the army, for a time Guangning was in chaos, at this time Wang Huazhen did not know that the front line had been so defeated, and was directly helped by the general Jiang Chaodong to flee, Wang Huazhen left, Guangning was completely leaderless, and was occupied by Sun Degong and surrendered to Houjin.

Nurhachi easily got Quang Ninh.

At first, Nurhachi was suspicious that he could get Guangning so easily, and even felt that Sun Degong was a fraudulent surrender, and only after entering the city did he know that Guangning had to come so easily, Guangning had it, and the rest of the surrounding more than 40 cities also surrendered.

Wang Huazhen, who fled in a hurry, met Xiong Tingbi who came to answer halfway, Wang Huazhen cried bitterly, but Xiong Tingbi sneered and asked Wang Huazhen what happened to Jin after the 60,000 army was leveled?

And before Wang Huazhen had always claimed that the 60,000 army could wipe out Houjin, but now he fled in a hurry, and could only cry and ask Xiong Tingbi if he could continue to defend, for Xiong Tingbi, it was too late, and he could only retreat to Shanhaiguan with the fleeing people and the remnants of the army, and clear the wilderness along the way.

And in Guangning rest for ten days, Nurhachi wanted to lead his troops all the way to Shanhaiguan, but along the way were cleared by the wall, and could only return to Liaoyang after arranging defense, so far the battle of Guangning was completely over, and Houjin almost didn't spend much to get the entire Liaoxi, and the Ming Dynasty defense line guarded Shanhaiguan.

Guangning is lost, naturally someone needs to be responsible, Wang Huazhen and Xiong Tingbi were naturally convicted and imprisoned, but is Guangning's loss really simply blamed on the two of them?

Xiong Tingbi. Let's talk about Wang Huazhen first, it is true that Wang Huazhen's layout is the primary reason for the defeat, many people say that Wang Huazhen is stupid, this statement does have some truth, since he served as the governor of Liaodong, Wang Huazhen has been full of confidence, for Lin Dan Khan, Mao Wenlong and even Li Yongfang said are firmly convinced, but also lack of understanding of the strength of Houjin, thinking that the 60,000 army is the easiest to wipe out in one fell swoop.

Previously, the Later Jin and the Ming Dynasty had fought two large-scale battles, and the Ming army ended in a fiasco, if Wang Huazhen despised the Later Jin before the Battle of Salhu, it is understandable, and now in the case of successive defeats, he is still so confident, it is not too much to say that he is stupid.

But the problem is that in addition to Wang Huazhen, the Manchu Dynasty also thinks so, Wang Huazhen's also represents the mainstream understanding of the Ming Dynasty, after all, before the war, the Ming Dynasty all supported Wang Huazhen without exception, from the Apocalypse, the first auxiliary Ye Xianggao, the military department Shangshu Zhang Heming to the Jiliao Governor Wang Xiangqian, these core makers of the Ming Dynasty policy all supported Wang Huazhen's strategy, not to mention other large and small **.

In addition, the officialdom of the late Ming Dynasty likes to throw the blame on those who fail to solve the problem, Yang Hao, Li Rubai, and Yuan Yingtai have all been dumped without exception, it can be said that the successive defeats of the late Ming Dynasty, the problem of combat effectiveness is just a trivial matter, and the biggest problem is the moral problem of these policymakers, and they will throw the pot when they encounter problems.

Wang Huazhen's cognition is actually a microcosm of the Ming Dynasty.

Having said that, the reason why Wang Huazhen is so confident is **? Previously, Wang Xiangqian, the governor of Jiliao, planned to contact the Mongols to attack Houjin together, but they were all looking for the Mongols, so why not find Lin Dan Khan? Of course, Wang Huazhen didn't know that Lin Dan Khan at this time was just a grassland Zhou Tianzi, but he firmly believed that the 400,000 iron horses that Lin Dan Khan boasted of, even if it was only 40,000, was enough.

The second is to see that Houjin continues to send people to steal the secrets of the Ming Dynasty, and he is also ready to send people to Houjin, cultivating secret agents is nothing more than money, and he spends a lot of money, so he spends money to the end, and actually contacts Li Yongfang, as for Li Yongfang really wants to respond to him, he doesn't know, but he thinks that as long as Li Yongfang makes some small moves at that time, maybe he can replicate the Battle of Weishui.

As for the people's hearts, Mao Wenlong actually raised his arms in Zhenjiang Sanbao to attract many people to vote, it can be seen that the people of southern Liaoning are still oriented to the Ming Dynasty, as long as they drag Houjin in front, the people behind Houjin will inevitably rise up everywhere, and eat pot pulp to welcome the king.

The advantage is all in Daming, how can you lose? In this way, Wang Huazhen confidently put forward the bold words of 60,000 troops to wipe out Houjin.

It's just that intelligence is provided by people after all, and there is a lot of subjectivity, as a strategist, you need to obtain the most valuable information from true and false intelligence, but Wang Huazhen has fallen into a strange circle, and has established the view that Houjin is not good, and Daming will win, so in the massive intelligence, I believe in the intelligence that supports my own point of view.

Wang Huazhen has fallen into a strange circle, and has established the view that Houjin is not good, and Daming will win, so in the massive amount of information, he believes in the information that supports his own views.

For example, the Mongolian tribes did have constant contradictions with the Later Jin, and the two sides fought for a long time, but Lin Dan Khan never dared to fight with the Later Jin, for example, although the people of southern Liaoning were dissatisfied with the rule of the Later Jin, they did not think that the Ming Dynasty would shed blood, after all, how long has it been since the Gaohuai Rebellion in Liao?These things are still vividly remembered, and for example, there are indeed many generals who were forced to surrender and planned to do it anyway, but if the Ming Dynasty did not give enough benefits, they would not take risks.

In this way, Wang Huazhen formulated his own policy under the condition of not being objective enough, of course, Wang Huazhen will not be objective, after all, the main core of the Ming Dynasty thinks so, once replaced by a steady governor like Xiong Tingbi, the Ming Dynasty will definitely not be able to stand his forbearance and replace it with a more radical governor, it is not as good as Wang Huazhen's, after all, Wang Huazhen's sense of responsibility is a little stronger.

To tell the truth, Wang Huazhen doesn't have much to blame morally, and as the first assistant Ye Xianggao's **, he could have stayed away from Liaodong, a place of right and wrong, but he took the initiative to come to Liaodong, with the intention of pacifying Liaodong and letting the people live and work in peace and contentment, so that the people will never be exempted from Liaodong, which can be called a model of worrying about the country and the people.

I am willing to ask for 60,000 soldiers and wipe it out in one fell swoop. The minister did not dare to be greedy for heavenly merit, but he was willing to serve as a soldier, and the Liao people gave him ten years, and the sea was exempt from being sent, and the minister's wish was sufficient. Even if there is no proportion, it will kill and injure considerably, the enemy will not recover, and he will not worry about Hexi - "History of the Ming Dynasty".

This is also a problem that Xiong Tingbi tries to avoid, but it is the problem that the Manchu Dynasty civil and military care about the most, to be honest, Xiong Tingbi himself doesn't know, but he knows that the most important thing for Daming now is to stick to it, drag it down, and if he can't fight, he can only defend, and try to let Houjin return in vain.

After all, the volume of Daming is much higher than that of Houjin, and if it goes on for a long time, although both sides will lose, Houjin must be the first to fall, but when it will be consumed, or when, Xiong Tingbi can't give time, and he can't give it, but at least the general direction is no problem.

Xiong Tingbi is no problem in the general direction.

It's just that no one inside and outside the court has such patience as him, even if Xiong Tingbi said to fight back in the future, but everyone didn't know when to fight back, but Wang Huazhen attacked directly, this way is far better than shrinking, and the ending is much faster, which is also the reason why Xiong Tingbi's views lack supporters in the court, even if there are supporters, they are also imprisoned.

In addition, Wang Huazhen did not take into account the mood of the front-line soldiers in the Battle of Guangning, and the Houjin has been fighting for so many years, and everyone also knows the strength of the Houjin.

In this case, Wang Huazhen's blind optimism will only make the morale of the front-line soldiers even lower, and the performance is even far worse than before, after all, everyone knows that this is a battle that must be lost, so there are signs of defeat, and everyone directly chooses to surrender or flee in all directions, without any fighting spirit.

Moreover, in the battle of Guangning, there was also a large number of Ming troops surrendered after the Jin, which was not before the Ming Dynasty, the previous surrender was either trapped in a Jedi and could not escape, or the family was captured to save the family, everyone chose to surrender in a desperate situation, but this time there were many people like Sun Degong who planned to surrender at the beginning, which was unexpected by the Ming Dynasty.

Let's talk about the treatment of Wang Huazhen and Xiong Tingbi, in line with the habit of throwing the pot, Wang Huazhen and Xiong Tingbi were all imprisoned, considering that they will be used again in the future, the two were not convicted, but they were not released, so they were locked up, but soon Xiong Tingbi was killed.

Although Xiong Tingbi was killed, although there was a reason for the dispute between Wei Zhongxian and the Donglin Party, the biggest reason was actually the Apocalypse, yes, the Apocalypse wanted Xiong Tingbi's life, after all, although Wei Zhongxian was powerful, it was only a balanced force of the Apocalypse, and it was just the idea of implementing the Apocalypse, if the Apocalypse left Xiong Tingbi's life, Wei Zhongxian would never dare to harm him.

Apocalypse. Then why did Apocalypse kill Xiong Tingbi? The essential reason is that Xiong Tingbi's behavior is not tolerated by the apocalypse, especially Xiong Tingbi's schadenfreude afterwards, of course, Xiong Tingbi may not be gloating, but it is just a manifestation that a reasonable plan cannot be realized if it does not experience the pain of a fiasco in the war, and it may also be a manifestation of grief greater than heart death.

But it is precisely this attitude that makes Tianqi think that Xiong Tingbi despises his authority, in the eyes of the emperor, attitude is far more important than ability, and Wang Huazhen is different from the image of a loyal minister from beginning to end, Xiong Tingbi complains whenever it doesn't go well, blames everywhere, gloates when something goes wrong, and looks like you deserve it if you don't listen to me.

For Tianqi, he can accept the mediocrity of his courtiers, but he does not accept the courtiers' contempt for his imperial power, and he also supports Wang Huazhen, does Xiong Tingbi also gloat about himself? The less capable people are, the more they care about their authority, and the same is true for Tianqi, but he will not admit his mistakes, and the only one who is wrong can only be Xiong Tingbi.

On August 25, the fifth year of the Apocalypse (1625), Tianqi ordered the execution of Xiong Tingbi, and passed the head of the nine sides, until the second year of Chongzhen (1629), no one avenged him, but Chongzhen refused to rehabilitate him, and only allowed Xiong Tingbi's body to be buried, that's all.

It was not until the Qianlong period that Zhaoxue was completely rehabilitated, and he spoke highly of him, after all, Xiong Tingbi may be the last person in the Ming Dynasty who had the opportunity to destroy Houjin.

As for Wang Huazhen, he was imprisoned until the fifth year of Chongzhen (1632), at this time, Emperor Chongzhen, who was tormented by internal and external difficulties, turned over the old accounts and ordered Wang Huazhen to be beheaded, continuing the people who failed to solve the problem if they could not solve the problem in the late Ming Dynasty.

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