Is Wu Sangui a strategist?

Although Wu Sangui is a well-known historical figure, if we compare him in the long history of Chinese civilization, he is obviously an unknown role. He is not a politician and lacks the foresight to take the overall situation into consideration. He is not an outstanding strategist. During that long military career, his personal martial arts skills were certainly high, and he won many victories, big and small, but he was brave and had no outstanding military achievements. In the later anti-Qing war, he even made a command mistake and lost all the capital he had accumulated in his life. In terms of moral ethics, he was disloyal to the Ming Dynasty, rebellious and willful, and was regarded as a shameless villain, which was spurned by the public. He has nothing to do with cultural creation. How can a "villain" who doesn't even have moral beliefs have a unique ideological system? ..... However, such a seemingly insignificant figure played a very important role in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. At that critical moment, Wu Sangui was suddenly pushed to the foreground of history by fate, becoming a decisive weight and affecting the balance of history. Wu Sangui, a military commander, was born in a military commander's family in Liaodong in the thirty-ninth year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (A.D.161year). At that time, it was the decline of the Ming Dynasty, the rise of the Manchu Dynasty and the frequent wars in Liaodong. Wu Sangui's father, Wu Xiang, was Wu Jinshi of the Ming Dynasty. He was named the company commander for his meritorious service in defending Liaodong. My uncles Zu Dashou, Zu Dale and Zu Dabi are famous three-member generals, and their "home soldiers" are the elite anti-Qing troops relied on by the Ming court. As a soldier, his father Wu Xiang is tired of bloody, cruel, uncertain and unpredictable military life. He hoped that his son could live a stable and peaceful life and let him worship the famous painter Dong Qichang at that time. However, Wu Sangui, who was attracted by his parents' vigorous posture and excited by the sword and shadow, could never sit quietly in the cupboard and consume his youth and passion in the narrow pages and cramped scope. Wu Xiang had to let him abandon the text and go, and he was born to practice martial arts. Maybe he inherited his father's genes. Wu Sangui seems to have an extraordinary understanding and talent for martial arts. Coupled with his hard work, a few years later, he developed a perfect martial arts: he knew everything about 18 martial arts, especially riding and shooting. Even the man who thinks highly of himself and lives by riding and shooting has to pay homage to him and sit up and take notice.

"Honor" or "insult" Wu Sangui's superb martial arts is his proudest individual capital, and it is also a prerequisite for him to become a "weight" in the future. Besides, he has a natural advantage that he can be proud of ── handsome, rich and charming. A handsome man naturally wins the favor and admiration of romantic women, not to mention a rich, talented and authoritative court military commander, who will inevitably engage in some hot events and provoke a vigorous romantic relationship. It can be seen that when the history of Ming and Qing Dynasties reached a decisive turning point, Wu Sangui's "weight" tilt was also related to his handsome appearance. However, it is such a handsome man who is praised by the poet Wu Meicun as "the youngest with fair skin", but his appearance has an undeniable defect-there is a deep knife mark in the middle of the bridge of the nose, and there is a filiform black line in the middle of the knife mark somehow. Wu Sangui's heart was filled with a strange feeling about this conspicuous knife mark: love and hate, pride and worry. Scar is not born, but a witness to a fierce war. It happened during the apocalypse of the Ming Dynasty. Commander-in-Chief Wu Xiang was patrolling the city with 500 soldiers when he was suddenly surrounded by 48,000 banners led by the Qing emperor Huang Taiji. Wu Sangui was naturally worried when he saw his father besieged from a distance on the Jinzhou rostrum. He quickly asked his uncle, Company Commander Zu Dashou, to send troops to rescue him. There were only 3000 soldiers in the city at that time. If we go out to meet the enemy, it is tantamount to self-destruction Wu Sangui knelt on the ground and begged, "I can't watch my father being chopped to pieces and ruined by the enemy. Please allow me to take my family and fight the enemy to the death." Wu Sangui say that finish, don't wait for my uncle to answer, then led more than 20 assume galloped out of the city on horseback, like a whirlwind into the uneven. Wu Sangui brandished a broadsword, rushed to the right and roared forward, followed by more than twenty soldiers. At that time, like nobody's business, he even fought his way out to surround the center. Suddenly, a general was assassinated diagonally across the street with a group of soldiers holding red flags. Wu Sangui quickly pulled open the bowstring, shot an arrow, and the other party fell to the ground. However, just as he flew forward to cut off the head of the enemy general, unexpectedly, General Man tried his last strength and slashed at him with a knife. Wu Sangui didn't guard against, dodge, a knife on the bridge of the nose. In an extremely critical situation, he didn't care about dressing at all, just wiped it conveniently. As a result, his face turned red, his face was ferocious, and he was even more brave in fighting. He finally killed his father and couldn't help shouting, "Come with me!" Then he turned and led the remnants of the Ming army and killed them all the way back. More than 20 people's Qingqi plunged into 40,000 enemy lines, which was tantamount to taking the initiative to send a piece of fat meat to the wolf's mouth. But it was this sudden attack of unconventional war that made the wily Huang Taiji suspicious, worried that the Ming army had set a plan to lure soldiers, but did not pursue it, and let Wu Sangui and his son escape. Although he left a scar, Wu Sangui saved his father in the spirit of mutual destruction, and the name of filial piety immediately spread all over the country. The appearance of Wu Sangui was naturally more important to the Ming Dynasty, where the national situation was shrinking. First, let him inherit his father's position and be commanded by a formal commander; Then he served as a guerrilla and lieutenant; Since then, Wu Sangui has been bullish and promoted frequently. At the age of 28, he was named the company commander of Ningyuan, guarding the party and taking charge of it. It is this indelible scar that brought Wu Sangui flowers and fame. It is a symbol of loyalty, courage and filial piety, and it is also the beginning of his success. Therefore, he cherishes this scar and is proud of this honor scar. At the same time, this is another scar that makes him worry or even hate. A fortune teller, after studying his "respect", secretly said that his nose scar was a "failure". He said that Wu Sangui's life was too expensive to say, but this scar was born suddenly, which ruined the "Feng Shui" for the "broken beam". Broken beams, that is, the collapse of building beams and columns, will be what kind of happy ending and ending? Hearing this, Wu Sangui didn't have much reaction. He just smiled coldly. Obviously, this is a scar of prosperity and glory. How can you ruin your "Feng Shui"? He doesn't believe it. But deep down, there are hidden worries from time to time. Therefore, whenever Wu Sangui encounters major decisions and problems, he always subconsciously moves his hand to his face to cover the scar on his nose.