After the Jiajing period, the Ming Dynasty's finances tended to collapse, which coincided with wars in all directions, and the Ming army was exhausted to deal with them.
In the northeast, Liao Town was at odds with the imperial court, and the emergence of Li Chengliang only accelerated this process.
Since the empire's rule on the border was unsustainable, even without a disastrous defeat like Saarhu, it was only a matter of time before Liaodong became independent.
Before Sarhu, Liaodong had already shown a trend of independence.
The so-called "Gaohuai Rebellion of Liao Dynasty" and the "Yang Rong Rebellion of Yunnan" occurred in the Wanli period. To paraphrase the classic narrative of civil servants: the emperor pampered the eunuchs, the eunuchs harmed the local area, provoked civil uprisings or mutinies, and finally the situation on the border was very bad. ,unstoppable.
Unfortunately, the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty did not have much say. After the death of even a peak eunuch like Zheng He, the treasure ship was destroyed and there are no historical records. One can imagine what happened to other eunuchs. In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, eunuchs were more likely to take the blame, such as Wang Zhen...
Otherwise, the story of Liao Zhen and Jian Nu may be a different version.
Take the "mutiny" triggered by Gao Huai's collection of mineral taxes in Liaodong as an example. Rather than being the trigger for the outbreak of border affairs, it is better to say that it is an excuse for centrifugal forces to break away from the central government.
Of course, later in the Tianqi and Chongzhen dynasties, Liao Zhen simply did not need to find any excuses. The imperial court would never dare to send Jin Yiwei into Liaodong again, which was regarded as acquiescence to the separatist status of the military leaders.
Liu Zhaosun's thoughts were racing. He looked up at the approaching Baoyi Aha in the distance and couldn't help but admire the two Tatars for their fearless spirit.
As a time traveler, he can well understand the determination and courage of these wrapped Aha to fight for survival.
Of course, understanding doesn't mean it's acceptable.
Thinking of these slaves who were dressed up just for their own glory and wealth, they led the slaves to kill from Sarhu to Shanhaiguan, from Jinzhou to Yunnan, killing the Han people with mountains of corpses and blood, and killing Emperor Yongli until he had nowhere to escape, and finally killed After three hundred years of literary prison, Kangxi and Qianlong flourished. This is a bit unreasonable.
"Zi Zhong Zhi" records: Because of the chaos in the Liao Dynasty at Gaohuai, a young and brave man died in Jianzhou on the 14th and 5th.
If being a slave in clothing is the mainstream of Liaodong Han people in this era, and it is also the so-called destiny in Nurhachi's mouth, then Liu Zhaosun will change his destiny against heaven!
There were only thirty steps away from the pikemen. The coated Aha men stood up and threw the axes and hammers in their hands. A shower of blood suddenly splashed in front of the Ming army. Many pikemen in the front row were hit, and they groaned. Fall to the ground.
The spearmen in the back row filled the empty seats, and the flag captains of each row shouted:
"Tiger!"
The pikemen also threw a wave of throwing axes and hammers, and all the coated Aha on the opposite side fell to the ground. The pike line had advanced to twenty steps, and the bamboo spears measuring one foot and seven feet were erected high, like a sparkling bamboo forest. .
"kill!"
The drumbeat of the pikemen became more and more urgent. Thanks to the strict training of the Zhejiang soldiers, the pikemen all maintained an orderly pace and made a neat sound.
The trumpeters of each battalion blew the suona, and the pikemen began to accelerate forward. The silver duckbill spearheads reflected the cold sunshine of Liaodong like a bright star river.
After several rounds of attacks, the wrapped Ahabs who survived finally had decent weapons and armor in their hands.
They held shields in one hand and swords and spears in the other, charging towards the spearmen with blood-red eyes.
These coated Aha also looked down upon the Ming army. Based on their experience, as long as they rushed closer, the Ming army would drop their weapons and flee.
Cao Zhongqing was holding his sword, but the bow and arrows on his back had been discarded. He was not prepared to use bows and arrows to fight the Ming army within the attack range of the pikemen.
He possessed a certain amount of force, staring at the spearmen in the distance. While protecting his body with his shield, he tried to get closer and slashed the spearmen's calves with his machete.
The spearman did not evade, and the seven-foot-long spear flew out like a poisonous snake, passed over the shield in Cao Zhongqing's left hand, and stabbed his eyes diagonally. Cao Zhongqing quickly lowered his head to dodge, and the spear stabbed the lock on his body. A, there is an unsettling scraping sound from metal hitting metal.
Cao Zhongqing remembered what Master Zhenyi had said. To cut off the heads of these bamboo spears, one had to adjust the balance of the body, take advantage of the opportunity for the spear heads to contract and accumulate force, and stand up suddenly in a posture to attack. At this time, another spear stabbed his throat. Cao Zhongqing tilted his body and barely escaped the fatal blow. A reckless Bao Yi behind him was stabbed. The spearhead easily pierced his armor and broke into his chest with the inertia of the pikemen's impact.
The short coated Aha, before he could figure out what was going on, was pushed back with a spear.
He looked at the head of the duck-billed gun that had pierced his chest in astonishment, with a look of horror in his eyes, and spit out streams of blood from his mouth. Before the spearman on the opposite side could pull out his spear, Bao Yi had already stopped breathing.
Cao Zhongqing was frightened by the sight in front of him, and subconsciously took two steps back. The fierce coatman raised his right hand, lowered his left hand, and pressed the edge of the sword against the shield. This was the defensive action of a sword and shield soldier.
Looking around, he could only see densely packed spears piercing, and there were constant sounds of metal collisions, and the screams of the wrapped Aha could be heard endlessly. Only then did Cao Zhongqing realize that there was nothing around him, and there were only a few wrappings left. Aha.
Just now, when they were shooting with bows and arrows, these coats were still able to fight with their opponents. Now that they were fighting hand to hand, the role of the battle formation was highlighted.
As the shield-wielding coats fell one after another, irreparable gaps appeared in the coats' line. Those coats without shields and armors in the back row looked at the bloody battle in front of them in horror. Most of them held their hands in their hands. There is only a sword or a big stick. Such weapons have no advantage when facing a seven-foot-long spear.
"kill!"
The pikemen in front of them screamed hysterically, like wild beasts, attacking any enemy that appeared in front of them.
Cao Zhongqing was shocked by this indomitable momentum. Although he was fighting and killing, compared with fighting in the military formation, it could only be regarded as a small skill.
The wrappers around him turned around and retreated, the wrapper array became uneven, and some pikemen even caught up to Cao Zhongqing.
The idea of raising the flag finally disappeared. Now Cao Zhongqing only had one thought in his mind, to escape to the back and save his life.
At this time, Cao Zhongqing suddenly felt the rumble of footsteps coming from ahead, as if the earth was shaking slightly.
He looked at the blue flag-lined position in front of him with confusion. Two hundred steps away, a black line came towards him like a tide, with some small blue flags flying in the middle.
Cao Zhongqing recognized at a glance that this was Zhenyi's master. The master was here and he could be saved.
He was about to shout loudly when he caught a glimpse of a bagman running in front of him. His head flew high into the air, and the rat tail on the back of his head circled in the air before falling limply to the ground.
"Wang San'er?"
A white-armored soldier supervising the battle was carrying a bloody human head and screamed hysterically:
"Those who retreat will die!"
The Bao Yi who rushed to the front and was killed was a fellow villager of Cao Zhongqing, named Wang Saner.
Wang San'er was also the master who killed the Ming army's heads and surrendered to him. He was usually very submissive to his master, but he didn't expect that he would end up like this in the end.
Cao Zhongqing didn't have time to be sentimental. He was in the middle of two rounds. Seeing that the two sides were about to collide, he tilted his body and pretended to be hit by an arrow and fell to the ground. He smeared a handful of human blood on his face and pulled an already stiff man over. Wrap the body and press it on yourself.
The leading spearmen collided with the Zhenyi armored soldiers. The two sides had already fought a battle on Dong'e Road. There was no winner or loser. Now the enemies were extremely jealous when they met, and both sides immediately attacked each other.
When the spears are out of the array, they lose their assault advantage. The spearmen are so good at killing that they forget about the danger behind them.
Several reckless spearmen were surrounded and were quickly killed by the Zhenyi armor soldiers. The Ming army running behind saw the black Zhenyi rushing toward them. The spearmen began to clear their minds and quickly retreated, hoping to regroup. Form a formation to block Zhenyi's attack.
Of course, the soldiers with blue flags rushing forward would not give the pikemen a chance to regroup.
These veterans of many battles looked around, took off their bows and arrows, and calmly used heavy arrows to kill the pikemen who had lost the protection of their sword and shield bearers one by one.
The two thousand Zhenyi took a short rest, formed a hasty wall array, and slammed into the chaotic spearmen as quickly as possible.
