The Ming Dynasty conquered Luchuan three times, which was a large-scale expedition before the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty turned to decline in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.
In order to quell the rebellion of Homesick in the southwest border, nearly one million troops were mobilized.
From the sixth year to the fourteenth year of Zhengtong, three large-scale conquests were carried out over a nine-year period.
Although the homesickness force was basically eliminated in the end, it also greatly increased the burden on the people and drained the national treasury. This led to uprisings by farmers and miners everywhere.
The direct consequence is the consequences of Myanmar's rise. And the legacy lasted until the Qianlong period.
Because of this, most scholars in later generations have a very poor evaluation of the Battle of Luchuan.
It is believed that the Ming Dynasty should not spend such a price to conquer this border chieftain.
But the author believes that the Ming Dynasty's conquest of Luchuan was the same as the Sui Yang Emperor's conquest of Goguryeo. He had no choice but to conquer.
At that time, Goguryeo occupied the three northeastern provinces and northern Korea. It already had 4.5 million troops and became a border threat. If it is not eliminated in time and allowed to continue to grow, it will be dangerous in the future.
This is also the reason why Li Shimin finally destroyed Goguryeo.
At that time, Luchuan had occupied what is today northeastern India, part of Bangladesh, most of Myanmar, one-seventh of Yunnan, and parts of Laos and Thailand. Their family's territory occupies almost half of the Indochina Peninsula.
If we let them go, it will definitely cause border trouble. Just like the Tang Dynasty was exhausted by Nanzhao.
Although Ming Dynasty failed to eliminate them, it also exhausted them. Yunnan and Guangxi have maintained a stable situation for more than a hundred years. In the Qianlong Dynasty, they rose again and began to invade Yunnan and Guangxi.
Qianlong's expedition to Burma resulted in heavy casualties and great losses. The treasury was almost depleted. Qianlong continued to execute generals who were ineffective in fighting, and conquered Burma four times. Finally, it was Fu Heng who stabilized the situation.
The three expeditions to Luchuan were the direct cause of the Tumubao Incident. Because at this time, Ming Dynasty was already strong on the outside and powerful on the inside. All the elites have been consumed.
"I always feel that he was able to defeat more than 200,000 Beijing troops with 30,000 cavalry first, which shows that he knows the situation of the Ming Dynasty very well." Yang Fan said.
Zhang Shize came closer and said mysteriously: "I'll tell you something shocking, there is an inside story here. We all underestimated him. He is a master of using spies, and he is similar to the slave-building thief chief Nurhaci. Between brothers."
"There really is a spy, who is he?" Yang Fan said in surprise.
tnnd It turns out that Ming Dynasty was infiltrated. All the information is in the hands of others. How can we not be defeated?
"Who are they? You should ask how many people there are." Zhang Size took a bite of fried peanuts, then took a sip of white wine and burped.
"What, it's not one person, it's a large group of people. Who are they?" Yang Fan asked in surprise.
"Those who have gone up to the Royal Horse Prison, from the Sixth Department of the Chaotang to the generals from the two towns of Xuanda, have been instigated to rebel first."
"What!" Yang Fan was shocked. It would be terrible if even the people in the Royal Horse Supervisor were instigated to rebel.
This shows that the emperor has some informants around him.
This is true, and physical evidence has been unearthed in later generations. According to the "Illustrated Catalog of Talisman Medals Through the Ages", the waist medal unearthed in Southern Siberia (the territory of the Choros family) belonged to the Royal Horse Supervisor of the Ming Dynasty.
In the Ming Dynasty, the Royal Horse Supervisor was in charge of the imperial army and was an extremely important military position. They were responsible for the emperor's safety.
Because the Royal Horse Prison is very important, his waist card is also very important. Anyone without a waist card will be guilty of a serious crime. Anyone who lends his badge to others without authorization shall be guilty of the same crime as the borrower. So this incident shows that there was a traitor within the Ming Dynasty.
"This man is a great eunuch, called "Cripple Gan". He was the young eunuch of the Royal Horse Prison at the time. He was a Mongolian who surrendered to the previous dynasty. I don't know when he was instigated to rebel first. After the fiasco of Tumubao, Jinyiwei and Dong The factory arrested him, and he finally confessed and was executed."
Yang Fan gasped, it was too scary.
The Royal Horse Superintendent in charge of the imperial army actually collaborated with the enemy, which caused problems for everyone around the emperor. I really have two brushes first. No wonder he could unify Mongolia as a non-golden family with a foreign surname.
"At that time, Ye Xian's army besieged the Tumubao camp on all sides. When the battle between the two sides was in full swing, the Royal Horse Supervisor Shao Ergan led the army to suddenly appear and shot the emissary Li Ding to death with arrows. He also commanded the army to rebel and attack the emperor. Pro-army. At that time, the Ming army killed and trampled each other. Countless people died."
Zhang Shize continued: "The Record of Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty" records, "The defeat of Lai'ergan and Tumu immediately helped the captives to counterattack and shot the enemy Li Ding." "The Records of the Northern Envoy" records: "Ye Xian was surrounded by men and horses, and there was a big battle. The army turned against each other and trampled on each other." "
"These two records clearly show that there was indeed a large-scale rebellion in the Ming army at that time. The former even named Lai'ergan to launch the rebellion. Lai'ergan was a member of the Royal Horse Supervisor, which is why Wala can understand the Ming army every time Where to go, and the Ming army couldn't find the reason why it was first. And the reason why the army collapsed at the first touch. "
Zhang Shize said this, and suddenly thought, Yang Fan just said that the border troops attacked Yu Jia when he was suspicious.
He said: "Nie Zhong, the Jin Yiwei, also reported that "in the fourteenth year of the Zhengtong Emperor's campaign against the Hu invaders, when he returned to Tumu and set up camp, suddenly there were men and horses with Ming helmets and Ming Jia coming to greet them on the south slope. They were suspected to be warriors. Sentries and horses were not used as equipment, so the defeated army was trapped. "
"When the person you mentioned saw this piece of historical data, he took it for granted that those with bright armor must be the Ming army's frontier troops who came to attack the emperor. In fact, these people were the rebels brought by Laergan, that is, the emperor. The soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp controlled and commanded by the horse supervisor. There were several Mongolian troops in the Beijing camp. The army thought that the reinforcements were unprepared, but they took the opportunity to rush over directly. The whole army was in chaos. They did not distinguish between ourselves and the enemy and started fighting in a melee. Also Take the opportunity to attack first. Our army was defeated."
"And those people are spies. Who are the internal agents of the border army?" Yang Fan was shocked today. Couldn't help but ask.
"Wala knew all the true and false information about the Ming Dynasty's border defense through the Wala envoys who lived in the Ming Dynasty and the high, middle and low-level traitors in the Ming court. The time of the attack was chosen very appropriately."
"I don't know much. You can ask Lin Yueru in the future. She has done fine eucalyptus production in Mongolia. She should know more than me. Among them are the family members of Sai Yin Buhua, a high-ranking official, and Guo Jing, a veteran of the Four Dynasties. Bo, Yizhou Guard sergeants Wang Wen, Li Rang, Shi Daier, Xining, Wang Xi, Xiaotianer, Jia Shilingzhen and others."
"The young daughter of Li Rang, the commander of Datong, is the daughter-in-law of your late brother, King Datong. He was first promised to know the palace, and he was secretly rewarded with four horses and two captive women. He reported all the names of the commanders in each city to Ye Xian. "
Yang Fan angrily cursed, these traitors, everything in Ming Dynasty was ruined by their hands. From the palace to the imperial court, from the capital camp to the frontier army, the Ming Dynasty has been penetrated into this state, how can it be undefeated?
Zhang Shize didn't react at all and took a sip of wine. It seems that he has been immune to these bad things for a long time.
"Although these traitors are hateful, two of them are derelict in their duties and one is stupid. They are even more irritating. Without these three people, the Battle of Tumubao would not have been fought. Ming Dynasty will not lose its national destiny."
Yang Fan nodded and said: "Any war has triggers, which are both accidental and inevitable. Who are these three people?
Yang Fan understood Zhang Shize's words very well.
Yang Fan had seen a photo, which was the last gathering of European royal families before World War I. They are all related. Either cousins, cousins, uncles, grandma, grandpa or something.
After finishing the meal, they went to war.
Everyone here wants to fight. There is only one person who keeps trying to persuade everyone not to start a war. He was Archduke Ferdinand.
As a result, he was beaten to death on the streets of Sarajevo. This incident also became the trigger for World War I.
