? The Tragedy of History: How did Wu Sangui, whose family died, walk into a dead end?

After reading History of the Ming Dynasty, I felt a lot of emotion and sighed! Especially when Chongzhen, the general trend of the Ming Empire, hanged himself in jingshan park, the life choices of Liaodong company commanders, the solitary minister of national subjugation, and the life experiences brought to him by these choices made me sigh and sigh ... > In the early morning of March 19, 1644, the Ming empire came to the last moment when the oil dried up and the lights went out. At this time, the Daming Palace was silent, and the hungry and angry peasant army had successively captured the outer city, and the soaring flames reflected the Forbidden City more resplendent. Emperor Chongzhen listened to the faint sound of fighting outside the palace, and stumbled to jingshan park in the light of the fire, ending his 34-year-old life and ending a huge empire that lasted for 276 years. > As Chongzhen left this world with desperate eyes, the company commanders in Liaodong, Pingxibo, were advancing Ning Guan fighters to run at night, ready to enter Beijing for him. By the time our army arrived in Hebei, the news that Emperor Chongzhen was physically destroyed had spread. Li Zicheng and his million-strong army had already invaded the capital of the Ming Empire and become the new owners of this imperial city. > Hearing this news, Wu Sangui quickly turned his horse's head and returned to Shanhaiguan. Following Wu Sangui's heel to Shanhaiguan, there were forty-two thousand silver from Li Zicheng and a letter of surrender from his father Wu Xiang. At this time, Wu Sangui had no country to follow and was homeless. The Ming Dynasty was dead, and the emperor was dead, including his family in Beijing, which had become subjects under the Dashun regime in Li Zicheng. In the face of Li Zicheng's millions of soldiers, Wu Sangui's 3, Guanning fighters are powerless at all. Since you can't be a loyal minister, be a dutiful son. After a difficult moral struggle, Wu Sangui accepted the conferment of Li Zicheng and personally led 3, Guan Ning fighters to Beijing again. > Ten days ago, Wu Sangui also led the army to Beijing on a starry night. Ten days later, Wu Sangui also led the army to Beijing. The difference is that ten days later, Wu Sangui led the army to prepare for a life-and-death struggle with Li Zicheng, and ten days later, Wu Sangui led the army to surrender to Li Zicheng. However, history is always so strange. Ten days ago, the March finally failed; Ten days later, the March still fell by the wayside-Wu Sangui will never reach Beijing, his former home. > After learning that his father was detained and his concubine was occupied, Wu Sangui was carried away by anger, led the army back to Shanhaiguan and killed all Dashun troops guarding the city. In order to avoid Wu Sangui falling to the Commissioner, Li Zicheng temporarily suppressed his anger and sent an envoy to Shanhaiguan again. A few days later, the head of the emissary and Wu Sangui's farewell letter to his father were presented to Li Zicheng's desk together. > Wu Sangui's unappreciative behavior completely angered Li Zicheng, who thought he was invincible in the world. The leader of the peasant army who was about to ascend to the throne decided to head hundreds of troops to annihilate Wu Sangui and completely solve the hidden trouble in the northeast corner of this emerging empire. As a result, the angry Wu Sangui and the angry Li Zicheng were finally dragged into the same historical whirlpool. The anger caused by personal emotional humiliation made the two middle-aged men start a peak confrontation, which also ruined the two originally infinitely beautiful futures. > Everyone knows the result later. Wu Sangui was forced to clear the Qing Dynasty under the threat of Li Zicheng's army, and finally he was slain by Kangxi in the year of sixty-six. The descendants of Wu were all killed, including the infant behavior. Li Zicheng suffered a crushing defeat in Shanhaiguan, not only losing his precious throne, but also ruining his precious life. > At this point in reading history, I sigh! Gao Fushuai's Wu Sangui and * * * silk counter-attack Li Zicheng failed to be the final winners. Two men who were carried away by anger eventually lost everything because they lost their minds and became complete loser in life. > For Wu Sangui, he had an excellent trump card in his hand, whether it was Ning Guan fighters or Shanhaiguan, it was something that Dourgen and Li Zicheng dreamed of. Unfortunately, this good card was smashed because of his temporary anger, and eventually he ended up dead. > If we look back at Wu Sangui's life, we will find that his biggest mistake is that he completely fell out with Li Zicheng, so that he had to force himself to accept Dourgen's condition-shaving his hair and lowering his salary. The anger of losing my concubine made Wu Sangui repeatedly refuse the olive branch offered by Li Zicheng, and completely angered Li Zicheng, which led to the result of Li Zicheng's army crusade, which completely lost the balance of Ning Guan fighters who could have remained neutral between Qing Dynasty and Dashun. Since then, Wu Sangui has either fought a bloody battle with Li Zicheng to the end, or completely settled down, but no matter which choice, it is not the best choice for Wu Sangui. > So, what is the best choice for Wu Sangui? Does he have a chance to seize this best choice? > In fact, Wu Sangui's best choice is neither to submit to Qing Dynasty nor to Dashun, but to become a third-party force between Dourgen and Li Zicheng and an intermediate force to balance the whole war. In this way, Wu Sangui has become a vital weight. Whether it is Dourgen or Li Zicheng, if they want to win the world, they don't want to see Wu Sangui fall to the other side's camp, so they will definitely woo them and try their best to meet their demands. In those days, Yuan Shikai used this strategy to intimidate the Revolutionary Party and Qing Dynasty, and finally forced them to accept their own conditions and become the biggest winner of this revolution. > Wu Sangui's passion lies in his own feelings. Because his concubine was occupied, he completely closed the door to negotiations with Li Zicheng, even though Li Zicheng was unmoved by his overtures again and again. As a result, he forcefully pushed himself to more vicious and cunning Dourgen. > Because of the break with Li Zicheng, Wu Sangui was reduced from the object of being wooed to the target of being attacked. So, when Li Zicheng's army arrived at the gates of Shanhaiguan, Wu Sangui had to turn to Dourgen again and again. In a letter to Dourgen personally asking for soldiers, Wu Sangui sent a request to his old enemy, hoping that Dourgen would read his loyalty to the country and send troops to help him, wipe out the rebels and destroy Li Zicheng, and when the job is done, he will be rewarded. > In this letter asking for soldiers, Wu Sangui also retained his last self-esteem as a general of Daming-he was by no means a soldier, asking for troops to help him take revenge and restore the rule of Ming Dynasty. But at this time, Wu Sangui had no bargaining chip. In the reply, Dourgen proposed to surrender Wu Sangui, but said nothing about borrowing soldiers. > In Wu Sangui's previous military career, he didn't give a damn about the surrender of books in the Qing Dynasty. How can the savage Jurchen people be mentioned in the same breath as me? Wu Sangui is a famous loyal minister and dutiful son of the Ming Empire, and how can he accept the dirty word "surrender"? But this time is different. The emperor died and his father was arrested. No matter whether he is a loyal minister or a dutiful son, Wu Sangui can't save him. > On the morning of April 21st, Li Zicheng launched a full-scale attack on Shanhaiguan with a great army. Due to the disparity in strength, Ning Guan fighters who fought alone suffered heavy casualties, and Shanhaiguan was in danger! In the face of a critical crisis, desperate situation, Wu Sangui has no room for that Chinese general's backbone, because the next day, the flood of Li Zicheng's army will drown all his retreat. In desperation, he can only accept Dourgen's surrender and become a pawn for the Jurchen people to sweep away and occupy the Central Plains. > On April 22, the horizon just dawned, and the Qing army led by Dourgen finally entered the Shanhaiguan that my father and brother dreamed of. From then on, the rich hinterland of the Central Plains was like a woman who laid down her resistance and was always the prey of Jurchen. After entering the customs, Dourgen, acting as commander in chief, ordered Wu Sangui to lead his Ning Guan fighters as a pioneer and go out of the city to fight the Li Zicheng army. In desperation, Wu Sangui with Ning Guan fighters first rushed into the uneven. After the battle, Ning Guan soldiers who followed him for many years were almost wiped out. As a striker, Ning Guan fighters were exhausted, and Wu Sangui finally failed to keep this army that he had painstakingly managed for many years. Having passed the moral threshold of being a loyal minister and dutiful son, he failed to save his own army in the end. At this time, Wu Sangui was alone, and there was no way out. > On April 23rd, on the way back to the capital, Li Zicheng killed Wu Xiang. Three days later, more than 3 members of the Wu family were beheaded in Beijing. Lost the army, lost the family, Wu Sangui has nothing. If Wu Sangui can control the balance of history when he is in charge of Shanhaiguan, then when he cuts off the head of Li Zicheng's envoy, history has become a foregone conclusion-he Wu Sangui can't be a loyal minister or a dutiful son.