Why did Wu Sangui, who had a million male soldiers, lose in the rebellion of the three feudatories,

Wu Sangui, who had a million male soldiers, was defeated in the rebellion of the three feudatories for two reasons, this is because Wu Sangui's achievements were very great at that time, and he was also very proud and complacent, which eventually led to defeat, and another reason was because he underestimated the strength of his opponent at that time, and he did not make sufficient preparations before the battle.

I think there are three reasons, Wu Sangui will be defeated.

The first is the loss of time, that is, the reason for rebellion is wrong. Wu Sangui's anti-Qing slogan was "anti-Qing and Mingming". This slogan is still very attractive to other Han people, but Wu Sangui can't use this slogan.

In that year, Wu Sangui led the Qing soldiers into the customs and led the troops to destroy the Southern Ming Dynasty, and the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youlang, fled to Burma, and Wu Sangui forced the king of Myanmar to hand over Zhu Youlang, and was hanged by Wu Sangui with a bowstring. Wu Sangui's hands were stained with the blood of the Han people, and he used the anti-Qing Dynasty to call and agitate, who would listen to him?

Second, it does not have geographical advantages. I think it was largely the geographical conditions that limited the development of Wu Sangui, and if you look back at history, you will find that only Zhu Yuanzhang succeeded in the Northern Expedition in ancient China, and the rest could not stand firm and ultimately failed. From the perspective of historical reasons, the north has many plains, developed earlier, and rich population resources, while the south has many mountains and rivers and has a small population, and relatively speaking, it is still easier for the north to unify the south.

The third is that there is no harmony, the three feudatories are scattered, and the rebellion lacks unified command, even the internal unity of Wu Sangui's army is not unified, resulting in the collapse of the rebel army after Wu Sangui's death.

In the history of the Qing Dynasty, there have been many crises, to say which crisis is the most serious, I am afraid it belongs to the rebellion of the three feudatories when the Qing Dynasty was just established, and the leader of this rebellion was the famous person Wu Sangui, at that time Wu Sangui had occupied half of the Yangtze River south of the river, and was far superior to Kangxi in the soldiers, but later Wu Sangui was defeated, so is it really Wu Sangui too incompetent? Actually, the answer is not.

In 1673, Emperor Kangxi ordered the revocation of the three times, in November of the same year, Wu Sangui killed the governor of Yunnan Zhu Guozhi, and proclaimed himself "the king of Zhou all over the world to recruit soldiers and horses marshal" began the war against the Qing **, Wu Sangui united with Pingnan Wang Shang Kexi, Jingnan Wang Geng Jingzhong with strong troops, quickly occupied the whole province of Hunan, and then took the south of the Yangtze River under his command, and formed a north-south confrontation with the Qing Dynasty. At this time, Wu Sangui did not choose to continue to go north to Yanjing, but chose to arrange fortifications along the river, which gave Kangxi the opportunity to adjust his deployment.

Kangxi divided the three forces, appeased the rebels in various places, and militarily focused on attacking Wu Sangui, concentrating the main forces to attack Hunan, and at the same time giving full trust to the Han generals, which greatly increased the morale of the army. Geng Jingzhong and Shang Kexi were subdued by Kangxi successively, and finally the Qing troops broke through Yunnan, and Wu Sangui died of depression.

From the analysis of the troop situation at that time, we can see how puzzling the failure of the Sanban Rebellion was.

According to the data, Wu Sangui's troops were 300,000, Geng Jingzhong had 150,000 soldiers and horses, and Shang Kexi's troops were also 100,000 people, adding up to a total of 750,000 soldiers and horses, and at this time Kangxi, although the Qing Dynasty had 450,000 soldiers and horses, but the 110,000 people who went out to defend the capital, and the soldiers and horses stationed at the border gates distributed throughout the country, only 150,000 could be mobilized to fight. One can imagine how thrilling it was for Kangxi to be able to win at that time. So what mistakes did Wu Sangui make that led to the final failure?

First, Wu Sangui killed a person who should not have been killed, the Yongli Emperor. In 1662, Burma gave Emperor Yongli to Wu Sangui first, and he planned to send it to the capital, but he was worried that the long journey would be robbed by the righteous people who opposed the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty, so the Qing ** decided to let Wu Sangui be strangled on the spot. No matter how much Emperor Yongli is, he is also the emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and no Han Chinese want to do such a dirty thing, but Wu Sangui did it, and after that, Wu Sangui has lost the hearts of anti-Qing people in the world.

Second, when Wu Sangui occupied the peak of Hunan's morale, he did not choose to continue to go north, but crossed the river and ruled a tug-of-war with the Qing court. This gave Kangxi an opportunity, and the Qing court quickly reorganized its troops and horses and divided the three forces.

Third, Wu Sangui is really old, and he can't move anymore. Wu Sangui said that the emperor was already a 66-year-old man, and Kangxi was only 24 years old at this time, which was the time when he was young and vigorous. The rebellion lasted for 8 years, and it was unbearable for an old man to live a long life on horseback.

Wu Sangui's Yunnan region was already in poor economic conditions, and it was all raised by the Qing court before, and after the anti-Qing Dynasty, the military salary was not as good as before, and the tug-of-war was undoubtedly Wu Sangui's biggest failure, and finally consumed himself.

Although Wu Sangui has a lot of soldiers, it can be said that his subordinates are weak-hearted, and he has no combat effectiveness at all, and he himself is also an anti-backbone, and for the people under him, the loyalty is not particularly high. Therefore, the defeat was like a mountain, which was the only result of Wu Sangui.

His failure was inevitable. First of all, if it wasn't for Wu Sangui who led the Qing soldiers into the customs back then, the Ming Dynasty might not have ended so quickly. Therefore, at that time, other people who were interested in opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty would definitely not help Wu Sangui.

And Wu Sangui played the slogan of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty in time, it was useless, who would believe a slave with three surnames.

Why did Wu Sangui, who has a million soldiers, lose in two-thirds of his positions, and what are the reasons? First of all, the main reason for Wu Sangui's defeat was that he didn't know how to merce, and he used one person and six people, which caused his military morale to be weakened, and other warlords were obstructed and bribed people, so he was defeated.

During the rebellion of the three feudatories, the anti-Qing coalition forces on Wu Sangui's side had different intentions and did not achieve unity, resulting in being broken by the Qing Dynasty one by one, and Zheng Chenggong of Taiwan saw the emergence of the rebellion, and also prepared to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty in the rear, which had a negative impact on Wu Sangui's army, so it was finally defeated.

There are two reasons, the first Wu Sangui did not receive the support of the Han Chinese, and the second Wu Sangui died unexpectedly during the battle.

Wu Sangui, who had a million male soldiers, did not have the strength to compete with the Qing Dynasty anyway after the rebellion of the three feudatories, so he failed to play the show.

The people's hearts are back, the army's hearts are shaken, the people's hearts are scattered, and Wu Sangui is ambitious.

There was no defeat, and he won most of the world, but he surrendered and rebelled, and the Han scholars and the people did not support him.

The main reason is that it is not unpopular with the people.

There are many reasons for this, and there are certain reasons for this society at that time, and then his own height and strong opponents.

The main thing is that the general trend is that no one wants to continue to rebel with him.

I think that Wu Sangui didn't have a lot of soldiers and horses at that time, and many times his men and horses were only a few tens of thousands, but he was not afraid at that time, so he won in the end.

At the time of the rebellion of the three feudatories, Wu Sangui should have more than 50,000 soldiers and horses at that time.

There are about 200,000 of them, but only about 70,000 of them are under his direct control, and many of them are other people who respond.

Wu Sangui in this period is indeed very powerful, and his personal strength is very good, and he is also a very brave and resourceful person.

Wu Sangui is particularly powerful, strong in martial arts, and super capable of leading troops, and can be a prince of one party.

The other two feudal kings in the "Rebellion of the Three Feudatories" were Geng Jingzhong and Shang Kexi, the former of whom was executed by Ling Chi, and the latter who died under house arrest at the age of 73.

After the Qing Dynasty successfully entered the customs, because the rule of the Qing court was still unstable, it managed the southern areas that were relatively remote from the capital by rewarding the meritorious Han people to surrender generals. One of them was Wu Sangui, the famous king of Pingxi, who was in charge of Yunnan and Guizhou. Then there is Shang Kexi, who was named the king of Pingnan, whose jurisdiction is Guangdong.

Geng Zhongming was named the king of Jingnan and was responsible for guarding Fujian. In addition to these three vassal kings, in fact, the Qing court also appointed a Ming Dynasty general, this person is Kong Youde, named the king of Dingnan, guarding Guangxi.

The reason why the king of Dingnan is relatively unknown is that this title was not inherited by Kong Youde in 1652 due to the death of Kong Youde. After Kong Youde's death, the four feudatories canonized by the Qing court have only left three feudatories, so there was only the "Rebellion of the Three Feudatories" later.

After entering the customs, the Qing Dynasty gradually stabilized its rule with the successive demise of Li Zicheng's rebel army and the Southern Ming regime. At the same time, the power of the three feudal lords, Pingxi, Pingnan, and Jingnan, who were responsible for guarding the southern region, also grew. After Emperor Kangxi ascended the throne, the emperor wanted to withdraw and sell the three powerful feudatories in order to strengthen the centralization of power.

In the face of this decision of the imperial court, it was impossible for the three feudatories to obediently obey, so Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, took the lead in launching a mutiny in November 1673 under the pretext of "Xingming to seek capture".

In 1673, the king of Pingxi was still Wu Sangui, and the title of king of Jingnan had been passed down to Geng Zhongming's grandson Geng Jingcong Nianzhong. In addition, although the title of King Pingnan is still still gratifying, because of his old age and illness, most of the affairs of the domain have been handed over to his son Shang Zhixin. After Wu Sangui took the lead in raising troops, Geng Jingzhong also raised troops in Fuzhou in March of the following year to respond.

Because Shang Kexi was loyal to the Qing court, he always held Guangdong for the Qing court when many places in the south responded one after another, which made it impossible for the rebels to go north as they wished. <>

Although Shang Kexi was always loyal to the imperial court, his son Shang Zhixin was not. In February 1676, Shang Zhixin led his troops to put Shang Kexi under house arrest, and then joined the rebellion. The "Rebellion of the Three Feudatories" was completely formed.

In October of the year he was under house arrest, Shang Kexi, who was already old, passed away in Guangzhou. Shang Zhixin was later given death by Emperor Kangxi in 1680, but his sin was not as good as that of his family. Wu Sangui, who was the first to launch a rebellion, was proclaimed emperor in 1678, but he died in depression after only five months of becoming emperor.

Geng Jingzhong, the only remaining of the three feudatories, was executed by Emperor Kangxi Ling Chi two years later.

The other two pants don't have any good endings, it should be said that they are all off the spring pants, for example, like Shang Zhixin, this should be recorded in history, you can also go and look at the history books that Hu Sen didn't have at that time.

The knot of the other two vassal kings was not good, and Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan, was placed under house arrest by his son Shang Zhixin because of his insistence on opposing the Qing Dynasty, and then died of illness; Geng Jingzhong, the king of Jingshu Zaonan, surrendered to the Manchus after seeing that the situation was not right, but he was still executed by Kangxi after the rebellion of the three feudatories was completely quelled.

Geng Gao, the king of Jingnan in Fujian, was executed by Ling Chi because of the rebellion, and Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan in Guangdong, died of illness because he did not follow Wu Sangui's rebellion.

One was executed by Ling Chi and the other died under house arrest, and the ending of these two people was also very bad and they were suppressed by the emperor.