For heroes, forgetting is far more terrible than criticizing.
Jiajing twenty-eight years, April.
Even the grass grows outside Lianzhou, and the people in the city are in panic. At that time, Fan Ziyi, the minister of the country (now Yue State), led his troops to the north and plundered southern Xinjiang in the Ming Dynasty. At this moment, Lianzhou is surrounded by iron drums.
Probably in the evening, several Ming cavalry flying horses came from the east and headed straight for the rebel camp. Even by the standard of messenger, it is a bit too arrogant. "Yu Ming, the Japanese garrison commander of Daming Fujian, ordered you to return as soon as possible, or soldiers will come in a few days and beat you to dust."
Fan Ziyi may not know the name of the Ming general, but looking at the messenger's disdainful expression and aggressive threat, he felt that an army suddenly appeared on the other side of the mountain, and he quit and left.
In fact, at the moment, the water army commanded by the viceroy has not been assembled, and Lianzhou has been in an emergency. In this surrender to buy time. A month later, Fan Ziyi led his troops into Qin Zhou. This water army named Yuqi really appeared behind Annan's soldiers, intercepted warships, pursued for several days, beheaded 1,200 soldiers, captured the coach's younger brother Fan alive, and finally told An Nanguo that "the letter of killing Fan Ziyi will be presented first, and the foreign invasion will be calmed down."
Navy+art of war, this is a typical victory in style.
This military commander from Quanzhou, Fujian, is different from most generals in the empire, and he is mixed with a temperament. When I was a child, my family was very poor. Not only does he rely on the support of his relatives and friends, but his mother also makes a living by editing and distributing the Internet. However, he was lucky enough to receive an education in both literature and martial arts. Yu Zeng studied under Wang Xuan, Zhao Benxue and others, and studied Confucianism, the Book of Changes and the art of war derived from it. In martial arts, he studied sword (stick) and riding and shooting from South Shaolin master Li.
Influenced by this experience, after joining the army, I fought bravely, was good at planning, grasped fighter planes and made surprise attacks, and had a superior vision in strategic layout. In the war with the Japanese pirates, he commanded the once vulnerable imperial army to win in a clever way, and also summed up the strategic characteristics of "Japanese slaves are good at land warfare, and their water warfare is the strength of our soldiers", and thus established the "Yu Jiajun" with the navy as the mainstay.
The sea is Yu's home. Relying on the Fujian ship, Yu's troops created an impressive record, moved to eastern Zhejiang and western Zhejiang, and came back to life. Those desperate people who are arrogant and even threaten the old capital of the empire have tasted the taste of destruction. Hundreds of Japanese warships sank into the sea in the firelight, and thousands of Japanese pirates were buried in the belly of fish ... Surely the battle scene will never be inferior to another war in Northeast Asia a few years later-the Liang Ming naval battle.
However, it didn't.
Compared with, Qi Jiguang may be more energetic.
Qi Jiguang has been on the stage of history, just like a gorgeous tiger, even the spots on his forehead are shining with courage and fighting spirit. In Longshan, tens of thousands of imperial guards with low morale gave up their armor in front of 1000 Japanese pirates. The young general, with his heroic spirit, drew his bow and arrow, and three enemies fell to the ground, but with this precise sniper, he scared off the enemy.
The two armies fought against ten thousand people, and air billow was the only one. Brave and resolute, what scares the enemy most is the general of this empire and the Qi Jiajun who pursues absolute discipline.
Compared with this young man who is 25 years younger than him, Yu, who has been through battle, is more like a hidden dragon. He is thinking about winning half of the army's funds to build a powerful navy, building a multi-level defense depth connecting the sea, coast, inland river and town, thinking about the strategic deployment of defending the enemy from the outside, and even vaguely touching the old military system of reforming the empire.
One sea and one land, one brave and good at fighting, one resourceful and far-sighted, won the support of the people and made the enemy lose his position. Having this pair of "Jade Dragon Qihu" should make the imperial officials feel lucky. As for Yu, he fought longer, participated in more battles, dealt a greater blow to the enemy, and was Qi Jiguang's teacher, so he deserved the same or even higher status and recognition as Qi Jiguang.
But, no.
Self-serious Yu suffered a losing streak in another war within the imperial system, and even collapsed from time to time. This is officialdom.
Under the imperial tradition of valuing literature over martial arts, the military attache's record often depends on the sword and pencil of the temple official. If a warrior wants to be promoted, he has to be attached to the civilian-oriented * * * and commit himself to officialdom and send him to earth. Young Qi Jiguang should know this well, so no matter how helpless and hateful he is, he will always find some human feelings and auspicious feelings after strangling the enemy. With extremely humble letters, he will resign himself to fate and put a red ribbon on the credit book.
This is not the case in Yu. Perhaps because of the influence of Confucian morality, perhaps because of his arrogance, this honest and decent general never refused to compromise and only sought substantive achievements. As a result, it has become a "convention" for civilian groups to give him meritorious service, unfair rewards, and even being impersonated for military service. In order to quell Annan's invasion, Yan Song suppressed meritorious deeds and only gave him 50 taels of silver to recover Xinghua, and another 50 taels of silver. Not only that, but his official career is often criticized. Behind "four generals, six company commanders and two commanders-in-chief" is "seven disgraces"
In this way, in the forty-second year of Jiajing, Qi Jiguang, who can fight and be a man, became Yu's boss, but Yu himself was often in danger of being dismissed.
The most terrible thing is that, in the long history, he is also outstanding and heroic, and is slowly disappearing in the shadow of his student, friend and colleague Qi Jiguang.
"Excuse me, floating clouds are silent, who is east and who is west. The traces of life are similar, and they don't help the people suffer. " In his later years, Yu wrote four "Seven Wonders" for Jinjiang Temple, which is one of them.
An ill-fated life did not make Yu a complete poet. No matter how many times he was punished and demoted, he endured humiliation and was aboveboard. Seven years before his death, he was removed from his post for the last time, was put into use again soon, and finally died of illness.
He is a general. In order to defend the country, he left many military classics, put forward the idea of defending the coast, tried to reform the imperial military system, and even tried to recover Macao occupied by the Portuguese.
He is a scholar, and he has never written in his life. He often held literary meetings with scholars to teach them to learn the Book of Changes and love the people and soldiers like children. "I haven't disturbed people for 30 years, so that people in Jinmen and Hainan call it' Yu Buddha'.
He is an expert in Jianghu. As a master of southern martial arts, he left a martial arts classic "Sword Sutra" and a wonderful story about Shaolin teachings.
He doesn't even lack historical lace. His son was stationed in Fujian and was defeated by Zheng Zhilong, a pirate. One of the pirate's sons became a famous national hero Zheng Chenggong.
But history is forgetting him.
If you don't add the title of "anti-Japanese star", the annotation of "as famous as Qi Jiguang" and the explanation of "as powerful as Qi Jiguang", how many people know this name that sounds full of seafood now?
Yu almost achieved everything that a hero needed under the value standard of that era, made contributions and made a statement, but failed to do what he was required in the undercurrent, which made him ill-fated, suppressed insults for the civil service group, and even left a ghost in the old Nuange.
The enemy has long since disappeared and the empire has ceased to exist. The dirty and huge civil service group of the Ming Empire collapsed in the horn of Saibei. Three hundred years later, another similar civil service system gradually collapsed in the invasion of foreign enemies. This time, the enemy came from the ocean of obsession.
Now it's all over. The ugliness shrouded in that era should also be removed. It is totally meaningless for modern people to compare Qi Jiguang and Yu, who is good and who is bad. Only when we are willing to treat our predecessors more fairly and review history with advanced values and standards can we give the buried hero his due status, even if it is only a thin page in his history textbook, which can crush the vicious curse from the feudal era and comfort the hero's soul in heaven?