Ranking Pass History: Inventory of the Top Ten Great Players in History

Dong Huli, who fled back to the grassland, was not convinced, and marched into Jizhou again a few months later, and was defeated by Qi Jiguang in Taolin.

Dong Huli invaded the border many times, not only did not take advantage of it, but suffered heavy losses, he finally changed his course, surrendered to the court, and asked for a reward.

The court gave him many rewards.

But only a year later, Dong Huli's nephew, Dong Chang'ang, and Dong Huli's older brother, Dong Changtu, invaded Jimen again.

This time, they failed even worse.

Qi Jiguang led his army to defeat the Tatar cavalry and captured Dong Changtu alive.

Dong Huli and Dong Chang'ang were completely subdued by Qi Jiguang this time, so they led more than [-] members of their clan, dressed in white, and stood outside Jimen Pass, pleading guilty and begging Qi Jiguang to pardon Dong Changbal.

After discussing with his subordinates, Qi Jiguang decided to accept Dong Huli's surrender, but asked Dong Huli to release all the people who had been looted over the years.

In the end, Dong Huli released tens of thousands of people, and finally rescued his brother Dong Changtu.

Since then Dong Huli has never dared to invade Jimen again.

But the nomads who live by plunder will naturally not put down their weapons.

Unable to offend Qi Jiguang, Dong Huli took the nomads into Liaodong to fight Li Chengliang.

In the fourth year of Wanli, facing the mighty Dong Fox, Li Chengliang asked the imperial court to send troops for reinforcements.In the end, Qi Jiguang led [-] soldiers to Liaodong and beat Dong Huli far away again.

After this battle, the imperial court granted Qi Jiguang the crown prince Taibao, and later the Shaobao.Qi Jiguang led reinforcements to assist Li Chengliang, the defender of Liaodong, to repel him.The imperial court granted Qi Jiguang the crown prince Taibao and then the Shaobao.

In the next six years, Qi Jiguang was stationed in Jimen, and there was no battle at all.

Because the Tatars were completely frightened by him, and they didn't dare to send a single soldier to harass him.

This is "a good fighter has no great achievements."

All the Tatars flocked to Liaodong and became a good target for Li Chengliang to make military exploits over the years.

In the Ming Dynasty, Li Chengliang's reputation gradually surpassed that of Qi Jiguang, becoming the new generation of God of War.

However, no matter how brilliant Li Chengliang's record is, he has never been afraid of the Tatars.

Even for some military merits, he was completely killing the good and pretending to be meritorious.

This is the biggest gap between him and Qi Jiguang.

It's a pity that above the court, those civil servants who have no eyes but no pearls can't see this at all.

In addition, Li Chengliang is a treacherous and slippery man, and he often gives gifts to officials in the court.

In the end, these civil officials, who had always been displeased with military generals, even acquiesced in Li Chengliang's becoming a potential warlord in Liaodong.

Since Li Chengliang's era, Liaodong's family of generals has been completely formed, and eventually became the most critical force for the complete destruction of Ming Dynasty.

In fact, Qi Jiguang lives in Jimen, and his heart is in the world.

He knew very well that the soldiers of the guards everywhere were rotten, and even the frontier soldiers in the Nine Towns of Daming were almost all rotten.Nominally an important frontier defense town with an army of tens of thousands, the real fighters are only a few hundred members of the general.

Therefore, Qi Jiguang gave memorials to the court more than once, and wanted to use the method of training Qi's army to train [-] elite soldiers for the court.

However, all his memorials were muddled. Not only did he not get a response, but he was also attacked by some officials for his disobedience.

In 1582, Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, died of illness.

Zhang Juzheng was Qi Jiguang's only backer in the court.

As soon as the backstage fell, the officials of the imperial court aimed their firepower at Qi Jiguang.

Before Zhang Juzheng's funeral was held, Yushi Zhang Dingsi wrote a letter to Emperor Wanli, saying that Qi Jiguang should not be left in the north.

Wanli issued an imperial decree to demote Qi Jiguang to Lingnan.

Qi Jiguang wrote two military books handed down to later generations during his three years in Lingnan, "Records of Military Training" and "New Book of Ji Xiao".

Compared with books like "Sun Tzu's Art of War" that focus on strategy and tactics, Qi Jiguang's military books focus on how to train elite soldiers.

The operability of these two military books is extremely strong.

As a result, in the decades of the early Qing Dynasty, it once became a banned book.

However, the court officials did not let Qi Jiguang go.

In 1585, Yushi Zhang Xigao impeached Qi Jiguang again.

Qi Jiguang was dismissed from office and returned to his hometown, where he died of illness three years later.

Qi Jiguang left, but the Qi family army was still stationed in Ji Town.

However, this invincible army has become an outcast, and everyone can't wait to get rid of it.

They tried their best to delay the payment of the army, forcing these soldiers to leave the army automatically.

However, veterans who have fought for more than ten years have no other skills except fighting.

Therefore, although some members of the Qi family army could not bear the abuse of the new general Wang Bao and left, most of the veterans stayed in Ji Town.

Eight years after Qi Jiguang's death, Japanese pirate Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded North Korea.

Emperor Wancheng sent troops to support, and the Qi family army, with only more than 3000 people left, was also recruited.

The Qi family army participated in the first battle of the anti-Japanese war, and was rated as "the most meritorious service" by the Koreans in the history books.

Pyongyang was captured by the Qi family army, but the Liaodong army shamelessly took the credit.

However, after returning to Ji Town, not only the rewards promised to them were embezzled by the general soldiers, but even the salaries they should have been owed for several months.

A strong army has its own pride.

They selected some generals as representatives to ask Wang Bao for rewards.

On the surface, Wang Bao received the generals of Qi's army politely, and promised them to line up in the martial arts field the next day, and he would pay them all the arrears of salary.

These generals who were peasants and miners were stubborn, and they didn't hear the murderous intent in Wang Bao's words.

In the early morning of the second day, more than 3000 unarmed Qi family troops lined up in the martial arts field, waiting for Wang Bao to pay the full salary.

However, what they waited for was not salary, but more than 1 sharp butcher knives of the Zhenming Army.

It was a very sad day.

No matter how good Qi's army can fight, they are unarmed, and they can't stop these carefully selected and well-equipped elite soldiers from various towns.

The more than 3000 Qi family troops who made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty and made the southern and northern captives terrified were all killed, and there was not a single one left.

The blood of Qi's army stained the martial arts field in Jizhen red.

This is the so-called Jizhen mutiny mentioned in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, there was no mutiny at all.

If the Qi family army really staged a mutiny, not to mention being able to overthrow the entire Ming Dynasty, they still had the ability to cross several provinces, so how could they be wiped out by Wang Bao, a useless general, in one day.

In fact, the massacre of Qi's army was definitely not Wang Bao's temporary idea, and it was definitely not something Wang Bao dared to do alone.

After the Jizhen mutiny happened, all the censors in the court sided with Wang Bao. They listed to Qi's army that "there are ten great rebels, and thirteen are punishable", and they did their best to splash dirty water.

Wang Bao and several other general soldiers who participated in the massacre of Qi's army were all promoted and made a fortune by quelling the mutiny!
Since becoming an army, the world's powerful army that has not experienced a single defeat in the past 35 years has not fallen under the long swords of the Japanese or the iron hooves of the northern captives, but the Ming court, which was defended by them with blood, used such a most shameful method Killed.

No matter how many reasons the civil and military ministers in the DPRK make up, they also know that what they have done is shameful and cannot be publicized positively.

In the following ten years, they destroyed all the memorials and texts about the mutiny in Jizhen, trying to make this Qi family army completely forgotten.

However, there are always some people who can't bear the fact that these innumerable fighters were forgotten after being baited and killed. They wrote down the shameful baiting and killing in notes.

Among them, the Korean envoys are recorded in the most detailed records in "Mingshilu".