200,000 troops were stripped to pieces. Why did the Battle of Civil Fort lose so badly?

The battle of the civil fort is purely a farce made by the rulers of the Ming Dynasty themselves, and it should be said that it is endless. In July of A.D. 1449, Valla also led an army to attack the Ming Dynasty in four ways. First, it harassed the northern border of the Ming Dynasty in an attempt to lure the main force of the Ming army into battle and destroy the battlefield cameras. Then we will meet in one place and attack Beijing together.

At that time, Zhu Qizhen, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, listened to Wang Zhen, the eunuch he trusted, and decided to make a personal expedition. Wang Zhen's original intention was because his home was in Yuzhou, and he was afraid of being looted by the Walla army. He tried to use the main force of the Ming army to scare off the Walla army and protect his property. So, regardless of the opposition of ministers, Zhu Qizhen decided to personally expedition to meet several runners-up.

However, although the Ming army at that time claimed to be 500 thousand, it was actually poorly trained and equipped. At that time, most of the weapons and equipment that were taken out of the warehouse to equip soldiers had rotted. In this case, I really ran to the Walla army. Even so, under the random command of Wang Zhen, the Ming army was full of loopholes. The Ming army first entered Datong through Juyongguan, but before it reached Datong, the Ming army was already short of food. The secretary of the army asked to return to Li, but refused.

In Datong, the Walla army retreated to lure the enemy. Wang Zhen wants to continue the pursuit. Guo Jing, a confidant, reported that Yang Hekou had suffered a crushing defeat, so he returned to Li. When returning to the division, there are two ways to choose. One road is northbound, and it is relatively short to return to Beijing via Fu Xuan. The other way is south, and it's a long way back to Beijing through Zijingguan. When he returned to the division, Wang Zhen chose the road further south.

Wang Zhen chose this road with the intention that it would pass through his hometown. Wang Zhen wanted the emperor to show off his luck in his home. Although this road is far away, the threat of being attacked by the Walla army is also small. However, when the army marched 40 miles, Wang Zhen remembered that so many troops passed through his hometown. What if his manor was damaged? So he turned his army and headed north. While Wang Zhen was tossing and turning, Walla's runner-up attack came.

I also found that after the main retreat of the Ming army, I pursued all the way. Defeat and destroy the defenders of the Ming army one after another and bite them to death. When the Ming army retreated to the civil fort, it was unable to enter Huailai City because it had to wait for more than 1,000 trench cars in Wang Zhen. At this time, the minister let the emperor advance to Juyongguan, and the army camped in the civil fort. Also followed by the first to arrive, surrounded by the Ming army.

At that time, the terrain of the civil fort was high and there was no water. The Ming army dug two feet without water. The river in the south is controlled by the Walla army, and the Ming army is thirsty. The Walla army pretended to retreat the next day and made peace with the Ming Dynasty. Wang Zhen thought the peace talks would be successful and ordered the troops to be difficult to move. The Ming army was dispatched for the first time in an emergency, and the battle was chaotic. The Walla army took advantage of this situation to kill everywhere. The Ming army was defeated, and hundreds of thousands of people were wiped out. Zhu Qizhen, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was captured, and all 50 ministers accompanying him died in the disorderly army. Wang Zhen was killed by the famous general Fan Zhongyan, who hated his guts.

The defeat of the civil fort was a fiasco of the Ming army, the main reason of which was Wang Zhen's careless command. From the battle to the March, and then to the final decisive battle, under the wrong command of Wang Zhen, the Ming army took a wrong step and was finally wiped out.