Li Chengliang was a famous general in the late Ming Dynasty, who was heroic and courageous in his youth, and had great talent, and later joined the Ming army in the Liaodong region, and because of his repeated military achievements, he was promoted to the general of the Liaodong Army, so that the Liaodong frontier soldiers, who had always been despised by the Mongol departments, "the military voice began to vibrate". According to the biography of the "History of Ming", Li Chengliang "zhen liao for twenty-two years, successively played ten great victories"
Repeatedly defeated the Mongol cavalry that disturbed the border
At that time, in the autumn of the collapse of border preparations, the Mongol cavalry from time to time crossed the border to invade, Li Chengliang recruited four athletes, built a large army of brave and good war, countless times to the Mongol cavalry on the border to give a strong blow, successfully blocked the Mongol cavalry outside the border wall, "the division will be victorious, the threat is overwhelming", so that there was once a saying that "there is Qi Jiguang in the south and Li Chengliang in the north".
However, what really made Li Chengliang famous was because he cultivated the later founder of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Qing Taizu Nurhaci. In fact, Li Chengliang's main task in garrisoning Liaodong, in addition to preventing the Mongol tribes from entering the border and plundering, was to use force to ensure the effective jurisdiction over the Jurchen tribes, and once it was discovered that a certain Jurchen department was powerful, he did not listen to the constraints of the imperial court, and immediately sent troops to suppress it in order to weaken it.
He once killed the Jurchen leader of Jianzhou
Li Chengliang, as the highest military commander of the town to defend Liaodong, faithfully carried out this strategy of the imperial court. At that time, the Jurchens were divided into three parts: Jianzhou, Haixi and Donghai, and during the Jiajing period, the Jurchen leader of Jianzhou, Wang Gao, was dominant and untamed, "repeatedly stealing the border", killing dozens of Ming generals below the deputy commander-in-chief, and later uniting with Mongolian Tumut and other tribes to plot a large-scale invasion. When Li Chengliang found out, he preemptively attacked his troops, attacked his cottage, and captured and executed him.
The Most Jurchen of Haixi was the strongest of the Hada clan at the beginning, and the leader Wang Tai was loyal to the imperial court, and was given the title of Right Pillar State and Dragon and Tiger General by the imperial court, but he died in the tenth year of the Wanli Calendar (1582 AD), and several sons caused the tribe to fall apart due to the dispute over the family property, and the neighboring Yehebu took the opportunity to expand, and the power quickly became stronger, and the leaders Qingganu and Yang Jinnu brothers wanted to annex the Hada tribe and did not listen to the imperial court's precepts.
Continuous suppression of Yehebu
In the eleventh year of the Wanli Dynasty (1583 AD), Li Chengliang planned to kill the Yehebu Qingganu brothers and others; in the sixteenth year of the Wanli Calendar (1588 AD), Qingganu's son Bucha and Yang Jinu's son Narin Bulu succeeded to the throne, not forgetting to avenge their father, and constantly gathering the enemies. Li Chengliang once again led an army to attack Yehe's fortress, forcing Buzhai and NarinBulu to surrender, vowing never to rebel again.
Although Li Chengliang did his best to control the rise of the Jurchens during his time in defending Liaodong, the decline of the Ming Dynasty was a foregone conclusion, the exploitation of officials at all levels in Liaodong accelerated the centrifugation of the Jurchens, and the general trend of the various ministries moving towards strength and unification was unstoppable, and Li Chengliang's suppression of Wang Gao and Ye He and other departments cleared the obstacles for the rising Nurhaci and objectively accelerated his rise.