In the movie, as the king of the iron hat in the Qing Dynasty, Gelinqin, a monk, finally became a low-level beggar. Compared with the real history, from the perspective of the world, this ending is undoubtedly good. After all, life is worse than death. But as a real soldier, being wrapped in a corpse may be the best destination.
What kind of person is the real monk Qin?
From Maya Taiji to the Heir of the County King
In the late Qing Dynasty, the class solidified seriously, and it was extremely difficult to become an iron hat king. Among many reference factors, birth is one of the important parameters. Sanklingqin has a good background. He was born in a family named polking, a Mongolian golden family and a great descendant of Genghis Khan. This is a family that has been married to the Aisingiorro family for generations, and the famous sourdrang queen comes from this family.
That's great. Glory! Wild nobles!
However, Sangorrin Xing is far from all this. Although the blood of the polking family runs through him, it is already a branch of the branch line, and it no longer shines with glory.
His childhood was dark. After being sensible, his main job is to help a large family herd sheep with his father. The descendants of the golden family, assisted by endless folk wisdom, were creatively nicknamed "Maya Taiji", which translated into Chinese is the prince who herded sheep for people.
It's a joke and an insult, but there's nothing I can do. I can't fill my stomach, so I'm afraid of being insulted. Why do you want these fake names that don't eat or drink? Only putting the sheep well is the first task.
Without the magical arrangement of fate, the nickname of Maya Tai Chi is estimated to have been called to the end of life. If you are lucky enough to get married and have children, I am afraid this nickname will be perfectly inherited.
The first step to change the fate of Sengqin is to study. Although a noble shepherd is still a shepherd, he can study according to clan rules, so 12-year-old SengGelinqin was arranged to study in Wenchang Palace in Changtu Old Town.
At that time, Sotnamudubje, the king of Sacdoro County, had no queen, so he recognized his adopted son for the sake of successors or "attracting eggs". As a branch of the clan, Sang Linqin was recognized as an adopted son when he was studying, which was the second step of his fate change.
Judging from the situation at that time, it is estimated that there are many adopted sons of the old county king, but no matter what happens in the future, the old county king died. As an adopted son, Sang Gelinqin can at least inherit some incense, which is better than being a shepherd.
The king of the old county is getting old day by day, and many adopted sons have been recognized, but none of them have been "introduced".
This is a problem. The king of Sacramento County was very important to the Qing court. We can't wait any longer. The Qing emperor must personally appoint an heir.
Faced with a lot of adopted sons of the old county king, Daoguang Emperor appeared to make multiple-choice questions. According to historical records, the monk was chosen by the emperor at first sight because of his "extraordinary appearance". Perhaps this is a halo imposed on it by historians, but countless cases of the ancients show that in officialdom, good looks can sometimes make you one step ahead, and Liao Yaoxiang, a general of the national army, almost suffered a big loss.
With blood, culture, looks and luck, Sang Linqin took it. This "four haves" can be used in officialdom in any era.
Towards the power center of Qing dynasty
Sange Kinchin, who inherited the king of Sacramento, began to enter the vision of the Qing court. Besides being Daoguang's designated heir, his adoptive mother, the wife of the old king Sotnamudubjai, also helped him a lot. The adoptive mother is more prominent. She is Daoguang's sister. Judging from the blood relationship, Daoguang is Sango Jinqin's uncle.
The identity of this heir makes the shepherd a standard relative.
The young eagle is about to take off!
From 14 years old to 39 years old, the promotion speed of Sangrinqin is amazing. From his first visit to Beijing, he took Huang Qi to the Mongolian capital. In history, he was "forbidden to go in and out, the most beloved". This kind of luck is rare in the world. After the death of Daoguang Emperor Yulong, he naturally became one of the ministers concerned about life, standing on the second floor of the pyramid of rights.
Sang Linqin's career has two points to pay attention to.
First of all, Daoguang was ordered to run the firearms business for nine years (1829) and began his military career. Moreover, in the thirty years of Daoguang (1850), Sengqin was appointed as the left-wing overseer and went to Miyun County, a suburb of Beijing, to command the battle alone for the first time. He made a plan in front of the station, personally led the charge with arrows in wartime, and soon put down the bandits. Since then, he has been regarded as a soldier and an excellent fighter.
Sangolin Qin had his own position in the military circles of the Qing Dynasty. If you want to gain a thorough foothold in the army, only the backstage is almost not ready, and you have to do military service well.
Gu Ming, the minister of life left by the old emperor of Qing Dynasty, usually ended badly, either suddenly died or became a decoration. After all, no one wants to put a few iron rings on his head, let alone the person in charge of the army in the last power, but monk Qin is an exception. He is still in the dragon as soon as possible. You know, at the beginning of the reign of Emperor Xin Xianfeng, he was determined to make progress and was quite cheerful, which temporarily changed the gloomy state affairs. Such a new boss really exceeds the service ability of ordinary people.
In the fourth year of Xianfeng (1854), Sengqin was promoted to be a prince and replaced by a hereditary king, commonly known as the "iron hat king". Since then, the name of the monk king has spread all over the world.
From herding sheep to the iron hat king, from Maya Taiji to the monk king, the monks only spent more than 30 years, and no one can match.
Destroy the Northern Expeditionary Army of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
SengGelinqin's promotion to the Iron Hat King was really made by himself with one knife and one shot. At this point, his personal background is useless, and he must have amazing exploits.
Amazing feats can be met but not sought. First of all, you must have a strong opponent, strong enough to shake the country. Such an opponent is really hard to find; Moreover, when the boss panics and sends you to fight with this opponent, you should turn the tide and win by a wide margin. This is really too difficult. An careless move will lead to destruction and death on the battlefield.
Such an opponent was indeed met by monk Qin, that is, the Taiping Northern Expeditionary Army led by Li. In fact, the number of people who can really fight this Taiping Army is not much, only more than 20,000, but the fighting capacity is extremely strong, and it is all composed of old Guangxi soldiers. Judging from the present situation, these veterans have excellent military level, tenacious fighting spirit and firm political consciousness. Compared with any army in the Qing Dynasty, the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom,
More than 20,000 special forces set off from Yangzhou in May and arrived near Tianjin at the end of 10. In the middle, they had to attack the city. With the mobility of only two legs or four legs at that time, this marching speed is shocking even now. Including the attack on Qinyang, Henan, which was held back by the local Qing army for two months.
The Northern Expeditionary Army of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom went deep into Zhili, which shocked the Qing court. It made a plan to chase the south and block the north, and monk Qin was responsible for the plan to block the north. In terms of personnel, the Qing court transferred a large number of elite troops from Northeast China and Mongolia, all of which were the most powerful veteran troops in the Qing Dynasty.
Well, both sides are old, middle-aged and young, and the elite is against the elite. Don't say anything, let's go to the ring.
As soon as they met, the powerful Eight Banners Army, like tofu, was immediately beaten to pieces by the Taiping Army. Some Eight Banners thought they were running too slowly, threw away all their weapons and equipment, and finally returned to Beijing alive by begging. What's more, they organized a group of beggars to return to Beijing. At that time, beggars were everywhere in Beijing, and the scene was very lively.
From elite to beggar, it only took more than two centuries.
The news came that the Qing court was shocked this time. It is said that at the daily court meeting, the monarch and ministers have to howl and cry without saying a few words, and they can be heard in the sky. Emperor Xianfeng even lamented that once the city was broken, it was estimated that he would hang his neck.
Howling and hanging won't solve the problem. The only way to solve the problem is to fight. As a parent, Emperor Xianfeng personally hung the fighting knife of Taizu Nurhachi on the Mongolian prince, who was regarded as the most effective in the Eight Banners Army at this time.
Go, monk Qin, fight, win, * * * enjoy glory, lose, and die together for Qing.
Sengqin is really extraordinary. At this time, he has seen clearly that this Taiping Army front is too long, plundering and not occupying, and it is difficult to supply. The strategy has also changed from the previous savage play to siege and wheel consumption.
In the following more than a year, the encirclement narrowed day by day, which oppressed the living space of Taiping Army day by day. Taiping Army lost its tactical advantage in mobile operations and was mentally exhausted, which led to the inevitable end of the collapse of the whole army. And Li were captured and sent to Beijing to be killed.
The Taiping Army's vigorous Northern Expedition lit the history books like fireworks, but it soon cooled down.
There is no higher achievement than saving the driver, which is equivalent to saving the country. Sanggelinqin continued his life for the Qing Dynasty, and was famous at home and abroad for a while. The iron hat king was naturally available.
However, at this time, there were wars in the territory of the Qing Dynasty, including the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Nian Army, the Bailian Sect and other internal and external troubles, and the western powers were pressing hard. The prince who can fight the most in the Eight Banners Army is doomed not to lie on his current military achievements and enjoy the fruits of victory. At this time, he has become the pillar of the Qing Dynasty and the fire fighting captain of the Qing Dynasty.
Fire at those in power.
In the sixth year of Xianfeng (1856), the second opium war broke out without accident. After the defeat of the Qing court, Dagukou fell and was forced to sign another treaty humiliating Tianjin.
As a bloody soldier, Monk Qin strongly opposed to signing such a treaty that humiliated the country. In his view, the Qing Dynasty should gather the strength of the whole country to drive the western powers out of China, but at this time, Emperor Xianfeng had been scared to lose the momentum at the beginning of his reign and decided to cede territory to the western powers for reparations, so that he could free his hands to destroy the balanced heaven. After all, the latter was the real grave digger in the Qing dynasty, and the national strength of the Qing dynasty at that time was really not good.
However, in order to guard against insatiable westerners, Xianfeng sent SengGelinqin to Tianjin to supervise the defense of Dagukou and JD.COM. Drawing on the lessons of Dagukou's defeat in the first battle, the monks boosted morale, purged the army, built fortifications and swept away the haze of previous defeat. Seeing this, Emperor Xianfeng was emboldened and straightened up. When the British-French allied forces reappeared in Dagukou, the hot-tempered monk ordered the attack, which was of course inseparable from the support of Emperor Xianfeng.
Humiliation and hatred turned into sharp weapons and killed the arrogant British and French allied forces. They paid a fatal price for underestimating the enemy. According to records, this campaign sank and injured more than 0/0 enemy ships/KLOC-and killed more than 0/000 enemy ships/KLOC-. The news came that this was the first victory of the Qing court against foreign aggression in the past twenty years, and Mr. Marx, the father of the proletariat, also expressed concern about this battle.
However, the devastated Qing Dynasty was too weak. Once the British-French Coalition forces took it seriously, Sang Linqin could not bear it, the enemy was greatly weakened, and Dagukou fell again.
Beat Bali bridge
Since I can't keep it, let's have a field battle and let the barbarians in the west know that I am a great soldier.
In Tongzhou, the gateway of Beijing, Senggelinqin reorganized his troops, put the battlefield on Baliqiao, and decided to use cavalry, the foundation of the Qing Dynasty, to deal with western powers and foreign guns.
It is difficult to understand this decision made by monk Qin. You know, at the beginning of his military career, he was in charge of the gun camp and was absolutely aware of the power and performance of guns. Moreover, when the Taiping Army fought against the Taiping Army, it had already equipped a considerable number of advanced western firearms, and had just fought against the British and French allied forces. Therefore, it is difficult to justify the blind and arrogant firearms theory of monk Qin.
Maybe it's the powerful gene of the gold family in the body, maybe it's luck, maybe it's people, not weapons, and it plays a decisive role in the war. Maybe he already knows the result of the war. Only by hacking can he serve the family of Essien Joro who trusts him. The most decent way for a military commander to die is to die in battle. Maybe there are many possibilities. Anyway, he made this decision.
The battle of Baliqiao, which attracted worldwide attention, began. It was a completely unequal war, a war between two eras, a war in which hot weapons buried cold weapons. Sanggelinqin's cavalry braved the bullets to kill, fell a batch, rushed up to a batch, and repeated. At one time, it was only forty or fifty meters away from the enemy's artillery array, but it was already a spent force. In the face of the dense projectiles of the British and French allied forces, the flesh and blood are so vulnerable, but Monk Qin always directs the battle indifferently and never flinches.
This kind of indomitable, not afraid of death suicide charge, let westerners admire, but also find it difficult to understand. In the later western literature records about this war, the invaders described the details of the death of the Qing army in pen and ink, which was unsightly to read.
If Monk Qin and his Mongolian cavalry all generously went to Baliqiao to die, it would surely resound through the sky. This is the eastern philosophy of war. Unfortunately, frequent gunshots and howls, like a sledgehammer, hit his nerves again and again. With the progress of the war, his hard nerve finally broke down until it collapsed.
The monk gave in. He turned his horse's head in confusion and ran away. The tragic death of tens of thousands of tribes is meaningless, but it only increases the shame that future generations overreached him.
His escape had a chain reaction, and Xianfeng in the palace was forced to flee to chengde mountain resort with his wife and children. As we all know, the British and French allied forces plundered and robbed in Beijing and burned the Yuanmingyuan Garden, the garden of ten thousand gardens. Xianfeng had to sign many unequal treaties with the two robbers.
The humiliation of land compensation, the loss of royal face and the destruction of royal gardens must be borne by someone, all of which are directed at the monks.
You can't blame anyone else. Prior to this, under the favor of two generations of emperors, Monk Qin's vision was alarmingly high. Except the emperor, it is difficult for others to enter his eyes. His arrogance bored his colleagues. How many people silently look forward to his unlucky day. Now, his long-cherished wish has finally come true, and they won't miss this opportunity to beat up Reservoir Dogs. The popularity is so bad that no one is there.
Impeachment, countless impeachments flew to the desk of Emperor Xianfeng. Finally, under the order of the emperor, the monk was deprived of all his posts except the imperial envoys. The shepherd boy basically returned to the original point.
Repeated flat twist
The Qing court restored Sengqin after he didn't have a long rest at home. Thunder, rain and dew are all because of your kindness.
There was nothing the Qing court could do. At this time, the national form is even worse. It is difficult to calm the anger of western powers and concentrate on dealing with Taiping rebels. But by the time we disembarked, the Nian army in the north had become the general trend. Looking around the ministers, except for those who destroyed the Taiping rebels, the rest could not be suppressed. These people are good at quarreling and fighting, but when it comes to doing practical things, they all hide behind.
Emperor Xianfeng, who was terminally ill, knew that the only general who could fight against the Manchu Dynasty was Monk Qin. Although Baliqiao World War I destroyed all the elites of the Eight Banners Army, as long as the banner of Sengqin still exists, there will be no worries about forging elite soldiers.
Monk Qin returned to the center of the power stage. Compared with before, the new emperor Daoguang or Empress Dowager Cixi gave him more this time, controlling the deployment of military forces in the five provinces of Zhilu, Henan, Hubei and Anhui. Almost half of the troops in the Qing army were dispatched by him, and the rest of the troops in the south were dispatched by Zeng Guofan. The northern monk Nan tried to drag the wrecked ship of Qing Dynasty forward.
With the trust of the Qing court again, Sengqin became more and more arrogant at this time. For example, he boasted that Zeng Guofan's Xiang army was a fourth-class soldier, and this arrogance also laid the groundwork for his death.
Suppress one's life through distortion
The Nian Army is not good at total annihilation, and they have taken the mobile warfare to the extreme. Monk Qin mobilized the military forces in five provinces, but he was still unable to do so. The embarrassing thing is that more and more people are suppressed.
The most fatal blow to Sengqin occurred in July of the third year of Tongzhi (1864). Zeng Guofan Xiang, whom he despised, broke Beijing for the first time and completely wiped out the Taiping Army. Senggerinchin's self-esteem was severely hit. After all, as far as the peasant rebels at that time were concerned, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was the first stubborn enemy and fierce enemy of the Qing court, and the Nian Army ranked second at best, and the fourth eliminated the first. According to the current words, its face was smashed into powder.
He decided not to wait, but to finish his work in a battle.
After years of fighting with monk Qin, we are already familiar with it, and the people who know you best are often your enemies. Read the army, of course, understand the meaning of monk qin, so with the simplest trick to bring the enemy in.
At this time, monk Qin is an angry bull. Seeing the red cloth thrown by the Nian army, he rushed up without hesitation.
Sang Linqin left the infantry behind and pursued all the way with Qingqi.
In Gaojiao Village, Heze, Shandong Province, Nian Jun's pocket array was stuck, and Sengqin and his Qingqi were surrounded. After holding on to the reinforcements failed, he commanded his men to break through, but there were too many women troops. When Sanggelinqin broke through, he was injured and fell off his horse. He was killed in the wheat field by women soldiers soldier Zhang Bibi at the age of 55.
The last batch of loyal Eight Banners in Qing Dynasty finally died in battle.
The news reached the Qing court, and Manchu lamented that they had all lost the pillars of the country. The Empress Dowager of the two palaces personally paid homage to the Zhao Zhong Temple, built a special temple at the merit place, shared the ancestral temple, praised loyalty and righteousness, and pre-painted the statue of Ziguangge.
follow-up action
Ironically, it was Zeng Guofan who finally avenged the monk Qin. Old Zeng Guofan was based on his own Xiang Army and his disciple Li Hongzhang's Huai Army, and eventually eliminated the Nian Army and became the first minister in Yixian.
After the death of Sengqin, there were many comments from later generations. This article is excerpted from Liang Qichao's comments on Biography of Li Hongzhang: Wang Weiren, a monk, is brave and good at fighting, but he has no knowledge and skills, and his military orders are too sloppy and cruel.
/kloc-in the summer of 0/948, Sanglinqin's tomb, which had been sleeping for 83 years at the foot of Hu Ba, was destroyed by local people with ulterior motives. According to Bai Mingru, the tomb keeper of Sang Renqin's mausoleum, the body of Sang Renqin, who died nearly a hundred years ago, was not rotted, with a full head, thick face and elastic skin, but after exposure, blowing in the wind.
Bo Yan Namohou, the son who returned to his hometown in Horqin with him, and Naersu, the grandson, were also destroyed. It's embarrassing that a generation of heroes were brilliant before their death, but there were no bones left after their death.