Speaking of the Southern Ming Dynasty general Liting Hou Wu Dading, it was really a bitter tear, this old man raised troops to respond to the return to the Ming Dynasty when He Hongqi was against the Qing Dynasty, and he did not win a single victory against the Qing army after that. From the northern part of Shaanxi to the Guanzhong Plain and then to the southern part of Shaanxi, and finally fled to Sichuan, where it was mixed until Liu Wenxiu entered Sichuan, and the Wuda Ding Department was absorbed by Liu Wenxiu's armed forces.
The Ming Dynasty army in film and television dramas.
When I look through the historical materials of the Ming and Qing dynasties, I often see records about Wu Dading being violently beaten by the Qing army, so I say that this brother really does not seem to have won a battle against the Qing army, for example, in the historical materials of the middle of the Qing Dynasty, "The Eight Banners of the King James Tongzhi" recorded that "the pseudo-deputy general Wu Dading was located in the Sanzhai Mountain of Qinzhou, and the commander of the defense army, Han Ning, and others, with 600 soldiers, climbed the mountain from a remote path to seize the thief's base, and the rank was not counted", but in fact, it is also very understandable that there is no stable supply of ordnance and food in mobile operations, and the combat effectiveness of the army is of course not guaranteed. On the seventh day of the fourth month of the fourth year of Shunzhi, Huang Erxing, the governor of Shaanxi Province of the Qing Dynasty, sent a Tang newspaper reporting the military situation in detail, recording in detail a battle in which the Qing army defeated the Ming army under Wu Dading at the junction of Shaanxi and Sichuan.
Cavalry units in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.
According to a report from Zhang Dejun, a general of the rear battalion under the command of Chen De, the commander of the Han and Qiang army, Wu Dading set up his camp at Dashaba (in today's Hanzhong) on the border between Shaanxi and Sichuan, and prepared to withdraw to Sichuan and other joint camps of the anti-Qingming army. But in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, especially in the Southern Ming Dynasty, grain was very expensive, after all, it was a period of war. Therefore, Wu Dading is ready to grab a little more food here in Hanzhong to prepare for military supplies, "The old camp is stationed in Dashaba, at the junction of Sichuan, and wants to go to Sichuan to join forces with thieves." Because the rice grain over there was very expensive, the thief Deputy General Zhang guarded the old camp "He himself selected a thousand elite soldiers to grab the grain, but he didn't expect that because of a bag of grain, a big war would be triggered, and the 1,000 elite soldiers he led were also surrounded and annihilated by the Qing army." Of course, the Qing army did not succeed in the end, and the time was in mid-October of that year.
The rebel army in the late Ming Dynasty in film and television dramas.
Seeing the more than 1,000 people in Wu Dading, General Zhang Dejun thought: Didn't you Wu Dading come to grab food? I might as well just give you a preemptive strike. So Zhang Dejun began to mobilize the army, quietly went around the back of the Ming army in the middle of the night, ready to suddenly rush into the Ming army camp, but the Ming army found out the enemy situation in advance, so the two sides broke out fierce battles, until dawn, the defeat of the Ming army has been decided, Wu Dading, more than 1,000 people have been completely dispersed, and the Ming army of the camp collapsed into Sichuan together.
The Ming Dynasty army in film and television dramas.
In the Tang newspaper of the Qing army, it was written: "The lowly rank is to discuss with the leaders, since the thieves are waiting for the battle tomorrow, they must be prepared, and our soldiers might as well be killed at night, and they can win." It was agreed that the lowly post would lead the officers and men to bypass the thieves from the mountain path and then rush into the thieves' camp at the third watch that evening. The thief is aware of it, shouting and fighting, and my troops are in a hurry. The lowly rank ordered the soldiers to move forward bravely, and when the thieves were killed and defeated, our soldiers took advantage of the situation to pursue and suppress to Ming. As for Xiaoba, the Hujiawan thieves have fled far away from Sichuan, and they are also in the mountains and deep forests, so it is difficult to enter the army, so they return to the camp with the collected troops", but the Qing army has very few captures.
The main force of the Ming army in pursuit of Wu Dading was the green battalion soldiers.
A total of 38 Ming soldiers were killed, 13 people were captured alive, 17 pairs of cotton armor were captured, 21 waist knives, 13 pairs of bows and arrows, 32 spears and 4 "tickets" and "tickets", six of the thirteen people captured had been seriously injured, the Qing army beheaded these six people on the spot, and the remaining seven people were "escorted to the public office, together with the Hanzhong Provincial Government, the hall and the major people in Han Manchuria" and finally found that these seven people were not the good people who were captured by Wu Dading, but the so-called "hair thief", so these seven people were also beheaded, Fifty-one Ming soldiers were killed, including a general named Li Shifen, while a guerrilla general named Zhang Guowei was wounded on the Qing side, and the number of Qing soldiers' losses is not recorded.
General of the Ming Army.
The number of enemies destroyed by the Qing army in this battle was not much, and the Qing officials themselves admitted that "the lowly will see that the rebel thief Wu Dading fled to ambush the junction of Qin and Shu, and after taking the army of King Su, he heard that the four sons of Qin rushed to join the Sichuan thieves, and led the party to enter the country and rob it." Fortunately, thanks to my great Qing Dynasty Dewei Yuanzhen, the various ministries and institutes are usually instructed to be appropriate, and they were humiliated with the Han Qiang Provincial Government, the Department and the major people in Han Manchuria will send officers and soldiers to go forward, although there are not many ranks, but check the fake notes, fake tickets, kill a leader, and capture seven thieves alive, and seize their cotton armor bow and knife and other pieces. It can be seen that the Qing side did not succeed in encircling and annihilating Wu Dading, and most of the soldiers and generals of the Ming army of Wu Dading still successfully withdrew into Sichuan.
Manchurian Eight Banners Cavalry.
Wu Dading, who retreated into Sichuan, also launched a counteroffensive against Hanzhong from time to time with the cooperation of the local rebels (that is, the thieves in the Qing army Tangbao), but on the second day of the first month of May, it was besieged by 4,000 Qing troops commanded by Ren Zhen, the Chinese army in Xing'an Town, the guerrilla Wang Zhiding, and Bai Shourong, and the Ming army was killed 274 people on the spot, although after that the Ming army launched a counterattack on the Qing army with the help of the mountain and then made the Qing army have dozens of people fall off the cliff and die, losing more than 50 horses, but the Ming army was finally defeated in hand-to-hand combat, because Wu Dading's subordinates were mostly infantry, the infantry in the last years of the Ming Dynasty was mainly cotton armor, and the Qing Dynasty Green Camp Army in Xing'an Town was mostly cavalry, and most of the cavalry were wearing iron armor. After Wu Dading was defeated, most of the earthen villages that responded to Wu Dading were also broken by the Qing army, and in the battle with the Ming army, the Qing army lost only 132 people.
Ming infantry.
By the second year, Wu Dading began to counterattack the Hanzhong region again, and by February had advanced to the Bamiao River in the Ningqiang region, the Qing Han Qiang general soldier Chen De (actually the Han Qiang General Military Affairs of the Central Military Administration) sent the rear battalion guerrilla Zhang Dejun, the middle battalion garrison Li Shihua led 500 troops to meet the battle, the Qing army saw that the Ming army was busy attacking the local village and robbing grain, so it sent a small number of elite soldiers from the steep and rugged path to outflank the Ming army. Immediately led the troops to the Sichuan boundary Huaziling mountain recess, the soldiers were sent down, and the town mark was distributed to lead the flag to listen to the use of the capital division Wang Guodong, Ren Shouchuan and other road signs to listen to the use of the capital Yang Hui, each with soldiers, and the night to pull the forest to find the road forward, cut off the thief to go to the road "At the end of February, the Qing army everywhere condescended to attack and kill the Ming army, killing 780 Ming troops in one breath, and capturing 367 people alive on the spot, Wu Dading's counterattack on Hanzhong was thwarted by the local Qing army.
Ming cavalry.
However, we all know that the war reports of the Ming and Qing dynasties are always written in exaggerated terms, such as nonsense such as "cutting the level is not counted", according to the performance of Wu Dading and Yuan Tao who were still able to join forces with Yuan Tao to break through the Jiading Mansion City guarded by Yang Zhan's son Yang Jingxin, who was also a general of the Ming Dynasty, Wu Dading's main force did not lose too much in mobile battles and failed counteroffensive battles.
Ming cavalry.
It was the Great Western Army commanded by Liu Wenxiu, the king of Funan, who really overthrew it. Qing historical records record that in August 1651, Liu Wenxiu "led the thief to the Dadu River, there was Yang Zhan's puppet general soldier Cao Xun to guide the way, dozens of elephants, to the Yazhou River, the thief personally commanded Miao, Zhang, Jin, Li, Liu and other six puppet general soldiers, could not resist the enemy, all were killed by the Sun thief, the thief was defeated, returned to Jiading, crossed the river with Yuan Tao and Li Gande's old camp, and set up the Great Buddha Temple" The so-called "Sun thief" here refers to Sun Kewang, but the actual leader should be Liu Wenxiu. Wu Dading's six puppet general soldiers, including Miao, Zhang, Jin, Li, and Liu, could not resist the enemy, and were all killed by Sun Thief" The six general soldiers under his command were all killed by the Great Western Army, while Liu Wenxiu continued to pursue, and when Wu Dading and his new friend Yuan Tao ran to Maozhou to defect to Zhu Hualong, "there were only forty or fifty people and seventy or eighty horses", which shows that its main force has been completely destroyed by the Great Western Army.
Engravings from the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty depict the army at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, after all, Yuan and Wu are not the Qing army at this time, and there is no need for the Great Western Army to respect the Yongli Imperial Court to kill these two defeated generals, Sun Kewang learned that the main forces of Yuan and Wu were completely annihilated and sent a surrender envoy, so that these two people came to ask for guilt, Wu Dading Yuan Tao then took refuge in Sun Kewang, Sun Kewang left the two under the mark to listen to the use, Wu Dading until the eve of the curse water still has activity records.