Why did Wu Sangui choose to join the Qing court instead of Li Zicheng?

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, chose to switch to Huang Taiji after surrendering to Li Zicheng, why did Wu Sangui choose to defect to the Qing court instead of Li Zicheng? Here's why:

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1. Chong Guan is angry and red-faced. After Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he indulged his subordinates to burn and loot, and devoted himself to the former Ming Dynasty's ** "stolen goods recovery operation", unfortunately, Wu Sangui's home was also raided, his father Wu Xiang was arrested and imprisoned, and put on death row, and his favorite concubine Chen Yuanyuan was also occupied by Li Zicheng's deputy general Hu Zongmin.

At that time, Wu Sangui was not much shocked when he heard the news of his father and family, but when he heard the person who came to report to him say that his favorite concubine Chen Yuanyuan was occupied by Hu Zongmin, he couldn't bear it anymore, "Hearing that his concubine Chen Weizi Cheng plundered Liu Zongmin, he was angry, and he also broke the guard general sent by Zicheng", so he raised troops to resist Li Zicheng's peasant army, but Wu Sangui's troops were too small, so he chose to use the power of the Qing court to fight against Li Zicheng, and the Qing court refused to cooperate with Wu Sangui and only allowed him to surrenderAt this time, Wu Sangui was angry and chose to surrender to the Qing court.

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2. Persuasion from relatives and friends. Since Zu Dashou, Hong Chengchou and other Ming generals surrendered to the Qing Dynasty one after another, they have been reused by Huang Taiji, who cherishes talents. Huang Taiji really wanted to recruit Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, and it happened that Zu Dashou was Wu Sangui's uncle, and Hong Chengchou was also a good friend of Wu Sangui, <>

Huang Taiji sent them to recruit Wu Sangui (Sangui, ancestor Dashou nephew, Dashou both surrendered, Taizong ordered Zhang Cunren to write to recruit Sangui), in the uncle's persuasion and the persuasion of his close friend Hong Chengchou,Wu Sangui finally made a ruthless decision and decided to completely break with the Ming, Dashun and other forces and return to the Qing court.

Scooping up political capital for himself, and having a family feud with Li Zicheng Wu Sangui's own father was imprisoned by the peasant army, and his concubine Chen Yuanyuan was snatched away by Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin. So he chose to take refuge in the Qing court.

No, this is because Wu Sangui was originally going to surrender, but after he learned that Li Zicheng had detained his father and concubine Chen Yuanyuan's family, he surrendered to the Qing court in a fit of anger.

Because Li Zicheng did not set his sights farther at that time, but killed Wu Sangui's family after entering Beijing, it was impossible for Wu Sangui to seek refuge in him.

At that time, Li Zicheng also connived at his subordinates to occupy Chen Yuanyuan, this kind of behavior, how could Wu Sangui still take refuge in him, so Wu Sangui would take refuge in the Qing court.

Wu Sangui was a person with a serious official position in the Ming Dynasty, and Li Zicheng was just a thief in Wu Sangui's eyes, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty was very good to Wu Sangui at that time, so he took refuge in the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Wu Sangui went all the way south, and finally killed in Yunnan, on the way of Wu Sangui's attack, the Manchu Qing Dynasty continued to add officials to him, and when he arrived in Yunnan, Wu Sangui was already the king of Pingnan, Wu Sangui simply had a heart, and threw himself into the arms of the Manchu Qing.

Because Li Zicheng killed Wu Sangui's family when they entered Beijing, and the strength of the Qing court was stronger than Li Zicheng's strength at that time.

In fact, it was because after Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he killed Wu Sangui's family, which made Wu Sangui very angry, so he decided to follow the story of the Tang Dynasty borrowing troops to collect Chang'an, and decided to discuss this matter with the Manchu Qing Dynasty and borrow troops to restore the country.

After entering Beijing, he killed Wu Sangui's family, and it was impossible for Wu Sangui to take refuge in him, so he chose to take refuge in the Qing court.

Wu Sangui took refuge in Li Zicheng, whether the Qing army still has a chance of winning, the answer is naturally there, because in history, Wu Sangui originally took refuge in Li Zicheng, but later the famous Chong Guan was angry and became a red face, Wu Sangui rebelled again and took refuge in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which made Li Zicheng completely collapse, and only retired from Beijing after only being the emperor for dozens of days.

Wu Sangui has betrayed the Ming Dynasty in history, Li Zicheng and the Qing Dynasty, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is also a slave with three surnames, so even if Wu Sangui takes refuge in Li Zicheng, it does not mean that Wu Sangui will not rebel again, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty naturally has a chance to win.

Of course, if Wu Sangui really surrendered Li Zicheng wholeheartedly, would the Manchus have no chance? The answer is still no, even if there is no anger at the crown, Wu Sangui sincerely takes refuge in Li Zicheng, and the Manchu Qing still has a chance to enter the customs, which is actually directly related to Li Zicheng's short-sightedness.

Li Zicheng was born in the righteous army, and the process of his rebellion was to wander around, which was not a little worse than the founder of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, who "built high walls, accumulated grain, and slowly became kings" at that time, which made Li Zicheng never establish a base camp and base that had solid support for him. This is also the fundamental reason why after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, Li Zicheng was quickly defeated, Li Zicheng lacked a stable rear, which made Li Zicheng incapable of fighting a stalemate war and a war of attrition.

In fact, this also illustrates the fact that Li Zicheng lacks a sufficiently stable logistics system, and his income mainly depends on looting, which can be seen from entering Beijing to torture and pay. At that time, the situation of the Ming Dynasty, the rich Jiangnan was still in the hands of the Southern Ming, and the country of abundance in Sichuan was in the hands of Zhang Xianzhong. In the north occupied by Li Zicheng, because of the drought and war for many years, it can be said that the people of ten rooms and nine empty houses are not living.

In this case, it is difficult for Li Zicheng to obtain sufficient materials and money in the short term, Nanming and Zhang Xianzhong are also opponents he has to face, although Chongzhen is forced to death, Li Zicheng is far from pacifying the entire territory of the Ming Dynasty, at most he can only occupy half of the country.

And the Guanning Iron Cavalry led by Wu Sangui, although it has strong combat effectiveness, it is also a gold-swallowing monster, and of course, there is no strong army in history that was not built with a lot of money. At that time, in order to maintain the Guanning Iron Cavalry, most of the military expenditure of the Ming Dynasty was smashed inside, and that was still under the condition of relatively stable Jiangnan support. In the absence of Jiangnan support, how much money can Li Zicheng have to support Wu Sangui's Guanning Iron Cavalry, Li Zicheng can't afford to raise this army, the final result is either that Wu Sangui, who is not satisfied, defects to the Manchu Qing as in history, or reduces **, thereby reducing the number of Guanning Iron Cavalry and reducing its combat capability, no matter what it is, the Manchus actually still have a chance.

Of course, there is no chance of winning. Because the Qing army's army was completely poisoned by opium at that time, it had already collapsed, and with the combination of two strong people, the Qing army was not an opponent at all.

There is a chance of victory, because after Li Zicheng entered the city of Beijing, he burned, killed and looted, and he did not have the practice and consciousness of a monarch at all, and he did not do anything.

There is no chance of victory, because Wu Sangui's combat ability is very strong, he is the main force of the Qing army, and without his leadership, the Qing army would not have won so quickly.

The Qing army has no chance of winning, because Wu Sangui and Li Zicheng are two strong together, and their strength is very strong.

In the final analysis, it is not the right and quick disadvantage is caused by Li Zicheng, the key is Wu Sangui's personal subjective reasons, at that time the Ming Dynasty has fallen, when Wu Sangui sent troops to aid the Ming Dynasty, he already knew the news halfway, so he withdrew his troops, rather than helping a court that has perished, it is better to sit on one side and become the emperor of the soil. Another reason is that Li Zicheng's subordinates occupied his concubine Chen Yuanyuan, and he has always been haunted by it. Wu Sangui himself has a changeable personality, and is an obvious role of a traitor seeking glory, and he has not been loyal to anyone in his life, but he will pay more attention to his actual interests.

1. Introduction of Wu Sangui.

Wu Sangui, the word Changbo, the word Yuesuo, a native of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, a famous political and military figure in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. When Ming Chongzhen was the general soldier of Liaodong, he sealed Xibo and guarded the Shanhaiguan. Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, opened the martial arts department, and Wu Sangui won the martial arts department.

2. Follow-up to the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

When the Ming Dynasty fell, the old general Wu Sangui still led 30,000 heavy troops to guard the Shanhaiguan fortress, the Ming Dynasty hoped that Wu Sangui galloped to the aid of the Beijing Division, but who knew that Wu Sangui later returned to Shanhaiguan with illness, Li Zicheng at that time entered the capital to establish a peasant regime, Li Zicheng became a consolidation of his own power for Wu Sangui to adopt a strategy of appeasement, Li Zicheng had sent his subordinates to Shanhaiguan with 10,000 taels ** to the Shanhaiguan Division, but Wu Sangui did not appreciate it, and the two had a military conflict after that.

3. Three surnames are domestic slaves.

After the battle between the two sides, the Qing army had the idea of surrendering to Wu Sangui before, but Wu Sangui had been moving his chess and not making a decision, after he and Li Zicheng had a battle, he was worried about the loss of Shanhaiguan, so he sent someone to contact Dolgon secretly, and Chang Pin borrowed troops from him to deal with Li Zicheng, and also expressed his willingness to belong to the Qing Dynasty. After the agreement was reached, under the attack of Dolgon and Wu Sangui, Li Zicheng was defeated. The reason why Wu Sangui is a slave with three surnames is entirely because this person has no loyalty to the king, and once it comes to his own interests, he will immediately betray his master to seek glory.

Of course, Li Zicheng single-handedly made it, if he hadn't taken away Wu Sangui's most beloved woman, Wu Sangui would not have done this to him.

Yes, Wu Sangui at the beginning originally wanted to take refuge in Li Zicheng, but Li Zicheng dominated the woman who occupied his empty size, so he chose to defect to the Qing Dynasty for a while.

It's not like that, and it's a very wise choice for him to take refuge in the other party, and then he also saved himself, and at that time, Wu Sangui was laughing at it for Yihong to accept a woman, so he was very angry.

Li Zicheng ordered the generals to send a letter to recruit Wu Sangui, ordered Wu Xiang to write a letter to persuade his son to surrender, and sent someone to bring **40,000 vehicles to reward Wu officers and soldiers. Wu Sangui and the generals discussed and decided to return to Dashun.

On the fifth day of the first month of April, Wu Sangui traveled to Yongping Xishaheyi, saw his family who had escaped from Beijing, and learned that his father Wu Xiang plundered for the king's subordinates, Wu Sangui was furious, considering that he had a deep enmity with the Qing army, and it was difficult to return to the north.

Then he heard that the capital was plundered by Li Zicheng's subordinates, and his concubine Chen Yuanyuan was seized by Liu Zongmin, and found that he could not surrender Li Zicheng, so he changed his original intention of surrendering Li Zicheng and looked for a new master.

Wu Sangui's surrender to the Qing Dynasty was not necessarily entirely due to "rushing to the crown and becoming angry", but on the other hand, the reason was that Li Zicheng's Dashun Dynasty severely tortured the landlord class who surrendered.

Although it has occupied most of China, it completely opposes the landlord class and resolutely eliminates the landlord class, which conflicts with Wu Sangui's existing interests, Wu Sangui's family's interests, and Wu Sangui's support. At this time, Wu Sangui clearly knew that he and his class could not coexist with Li Zicheng's Dashun Dynasty.

If Wu Sangui took refuge in Li Zicheng, then it would be very difficult for the Qing army to enter the customs. Once Li Zicheng sat down in Beijing and provided Wu Sangui with a supply of troops to replenish the army, Wu Sangui defended it with danger, and although the Qing army was brave and good at fighting, it was estimated that it would be difficult to enter the customs for a while. On the 22nd, Wu Sangui was already difficult to support, so he surrendered to Dolgon, the Qing army quickly passed through the Shanhai Pass, under the cover of the wind and sand, launched an attack on Li Zicheng, the Dashun army fought with Wu Sangui for a day and night, in the face of the impact of the elite of the Qing army, the whole line was defeated, and the army suffered tens of thousands of casualties.

Basically, it is an offensive and encircled state for the Ming Dynasty, so the position of Shanhaiguan is basically not particularly important to the Qing Dynasty, but if Dolgon goes to Shanhaiguan, it will be more efficient to invade the Ming Dynasty, and it can save more grain, grass and time. When the Manchu Qing Dynasty was in the northeast, their banner was "Hou Jin", that is, the incense heirs of the "Jin Dynasty"; Jin, in the history books compiled by the Yuan Dynasty, has the same status as the Song Dynasty, and is "Zhengshuo".

Li Zicheng's defeat was due to the military, but the root cause did not lie in the military, because he had been fighting guerrilla warfare for a long time and had no rear, so he had no experience in managing the people and governing the country. So after entering the city of Beijing, he got carried away and quickly corrupted, and the combat effectiveness of the army plummeted. There is basically no chance to enter the Central Plains in the short term, and the army will help Wu Sangui strengthen the defense of Shanhaiguan and the Great Wall defense line, but it is difficult to say how long it will take.

At that time, the banner of the Southern Ming Dynasty was still there, and it still had a strong appeal, and Zhang Xianzhong in the southwest was divided, and he also had hidden thoughts about the unification of the Central Plains, and the long-term struggle between the three separatist forces would still give the Qing Dynasty a great opportunity to enter the Central Plains. The Qing Dynasty was a union, the Mongolian tribe + Guanning Iron Cavalry + Shanxi merchants, Henan and Shaanxi were disabled by Li Zicheng, and the north was successfully obtained. Met with resistance in Jiangnan, he soon united the literati of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and then used the three feudatories to pacify the minority areas.

There is not much certainty that he will be able to win the Central Plains, because if Wu Sangui really takes refuge in Li Zicheng, it will be impossible to enter the Central Plains.

There will be a lot of certainty, because the strength of the Qing army is quite strong, and it can defeat a lot of people.

The grasp is still very large, after all, Li Zicheng has not done much after entering Beijing, and his reputation is also very poor, even if Wu Sangui takes refuge in Li Zicheng, the impact should not be much.

How sure will the Qing soldiers be? I think in fact, they are still quite sure, because they feel that their strength and strength are relatively strong.