Why did 7,000 Ming troops kill only 200 Qing soldiers, which was the most disparity in casualties in the Ming and Qing Dynasties?

When it comes to the battle of Juehua Island, many people don't know it, but when it comes to the battle of Ningyuan in the late Ming Dynasty, everyone will think of it. The battle of Juehua Island was actually a battle that happened at the same time as the battle of Ningyuan, and it was the battle of the late Jin dynasty, Nurhachi, who raided Juehua Island after capturing Ningyuan.

This battle can be regarded as a sub-battlefield of the battle of Ningyuan, but the scale of the battle is not inferior to that of Ningyuan. Everyone is familiar with the battle of Ningyuan, so I don't want to introduce it more. However, the battle of Juehua Island in the same period has been ignored for a long time. 1626 On the night of the 25th day of the first month, after many days of attacking Ningyuan, Nurhachi began to shift his main force to Longgong Temple, which is close to Juehua Island. In order to land on the island, Juehua Island is located in the sea area south of Ningyuan, with a distance of 18 nautical mile from the mainland. Many years ago, after the establishment of Guanningjin defense line in Ming Dynasty, Juehua Island became a logistics base for storing strategic materials in Liaodong in Ming Dynasty. Under normal circumstances, it can only travel with the mainland outside the customs by boat. Because there was no water army in Houjin, the island was always beyond the reach of the Ming army grain depot, but Nurhachi attacked in the dead of winter. In order to strengthen the defense, the Ming defenders on Juehua Island once dug an ice castle in 15 along the island to stop the invasion of the late Jin cavalry. However, the weather was cold and the ice city was quickly frozen again. After that, 8 jin j directly crossed the ice and rushed into the island. In just one day, 7,000 Ming troops on the island were wiped out and more than 7,000 innocent people on the island were slaughtered. In the whole bloody battle, Ningyuan, the nearest defender to Juehua Island, did not take any rescue action and let the soldiers and civilians on the island perish.

The result of this battle is far greater than the earlier battle of Ningyuan. The battle of Juehua Island ended in the complete defeat of the Ming army. According to historical records, in addition to the destroyed 15000 Ming soldiers and civilians, more than 2000 ships and 80000 stones and grain on the island were also burned and looted by the late Jin Dynasty, so far the material reserves of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong area were almost completely destroyed.

The Ming Dynasty, out of the need of * * * propaganda, emphasized Ningyuan's triumph, but deliberately did not cover up the fiasco of Juehua Island in the same period, and the rules of propaganda were understandable. However, in this war, the loss ratio of both sides is extremely alarming. There were 7,000 officers and men killed in the Ming army. According to research, only 269 people died in the later period, and the battle was completely one-sided. Is Guan Ningjun, who is supported by millions of silver every year, so vulnerable?

But after careful calculation, this result is not impossible. To be exact, it is excusable. After Sun Chengzong established the Guanning-Tianjin defense line, Juehua Island, as a maritime transit hub, became an important traffic transit station leading to Guannei in the Ming Dynasty and a logistics base for the Ming army in Liaodong. Being far away from the mainland, and there was no water army in Houjin, Sun Chengzong made a long-term misjudgment and thought that this was the last place to fight. Therefore, since Juehua Island became the supply base of the Ming Dynasty, there has never been any troops stationed, only.

Now Juehua Island has become a tourist attraction, and even the situation on the island, few people remember the bloody resistance 400 years ago.

The so-called 7,000-Ming navy division is also a fleet formed to cope with the supply from inside Shanhaiguan Pass to outside Shanhaiguan Pass. On the surface, this fleet belongs to the military power of the Ming Dynasty, but in fact it belongs to the fleet organization of soldiers, businessmen and people. This navy is not only a sailor in the fleet, but also does logistics work such as transportation, handling and warehousing. It is not the military power of the Ming dynasty that can compete with the late Jin dynasty. According to historical records, this unit has neither armor nor people. On the other hand, it is not surprising that there are tens of thousands of late Jin cavalry armed to the teeth, and finally they are one-sided. This war is not so much the battle of Juehua Island as the massacre of Juehua Island!

But even so, there are still15,000 soldiers and civilians on the island fighting back. According to the historical records of the late Jin Dynasty, this water army of the Ming Dynasty, which had no fighting capacity, rushed out of Juehua Island and fought hand-to-hand with the army of the late Jin Dynasty on the sea ice, hitting the hill on the island from the sea, killing 269 officers and men of the late Jin Dynasty. Considering that the number of injured people in the war is often several times more than the number of dead people, the battle of Juehua Island. The casualties of Houjin may be as high as more than 1000 people. It is not ruled out that the latter Jin covered up the casualties, even no less than the Ningyuan Defence War that happened nearby a few days ago (the latter Jin recorded 500 casualties). The soldiers and civilians on the island can still achieve such casualties without reinforcements and military equipment, which still shows the courage and bloodiness of the Ming Dynasty soldiers and civilians!

Unfortunately, after the battle, the defenders of Ningyuan were greatly praised, and Yuan Chonghuan, who was guarding Guancheng, became a national hero, while tens of thousands of Ming soldiers and civilians who died heroically on Juehua Island were lost in the long river of history.