National hero Li Dingguo

Li Dingguo was one of the outstanding anti-Qing generals in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. After the Qing army entered the customs , he led his troops into Yunnan and fought in the southwest and other places. As the leader of the peasant uprising army, seeing that Nanming was in jeopardy, he resolutely abandoned his suspicions and cooperated with the Nanming court, and he was determined to do so. In the face of multiple provocations from , Sun Kewang, and others in the same camp, he took the overall situation into consideration and repeatedly avoided it. He once "made a famous king in two ways, and the world shook", which made the Qing court prepare to give up the seven southwestern provinces. If it weren't for the traitor's leaking of secrets, he would have almost wiped out the entire army of Wu Sangui . He won the hearts and minds of the people in the southwest area, and his famous name has been passed down through the ages.

The uprising with the army, known as "Little Chai King"

Li Dingguo (1620-1662), was a leader of the Daxi Peasant Army in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and was also an excellent military strategist and national hero. He is from Yulin, Shaanxi Province, born in a peasant family, the word Ningyu.

1630, Li Dingguo, who was only ten years old at the time, joined Zhang Xianzhong's uprising army, and was deeply loved by Zhang Xian. He was regarded by Zhang Xianzhong as his adopted son together with Sun Kewang, Liu Wenxiu , Ainengqi . In 1637, Li Dingguo, who was seventeen years old, was eight feet tall, with superb skills and respectful treatment. He was called "Little Chai King" by people, and "Little Weichi" in the army. He once led 20,000 soldiers and horses to follow Zhang Xianzhong to raid Anqing , directly to Nanjing. Li Dingguo followed Zhang Xianzhong's uprising army to fight in Qin, Jin, Henan and Chu, always brave and strong, resolute and mighty. In addition, Li Dingguo also likes to read books such as the Art of War and " Zizhitongjian " Known for his generosity and kindness in the barracks.In 1644, Zhang Xianzhong led the insurgent army into Sichuan and declared himself emperor, established the Great Western Kingdom, established government offices, and assigned their respective positions. Ai Nengqi was named General Dingbei and commanded each battalion.

At that time, Qing Dynasty had established the capital in Beijing, and dispatched troops to attack the peasant army.

1646, the Qing Dynasty dispatched troops to attack Sichuan, Zhang Xianzhong died in Phoenix Mountain in Xichong, and hundreds of thousands of Daxi troops were defeated. Sun Kewang and other four generals gathered thousands of remaining troops and marched southwards, capturing Zunyi and Guiyang one after another. When the Qing soldiers attacked the peasant army in Dashun and Daxi, they also successively eliminated the two regimes of Hongguang and Longwu in Nanming. Every time the Qing soldiers went, they brutally burned, killed and looted, arousing the people at all levels. The resistance aggravated the ethnic contradictions, and the struggle against the Qing Dynasty rose across the country.
So the Daxi Army decided to "join the Ming Dynasty to fight the Qing Dynasty", and marched into Yunnan, using Yunnan as a base to fight against the Qing Dynasty. At that time, Ai Nengqi was dead, Sun Kewang was called "the lord of the country", Li Dingguo was the king of Anxi, and Liu Wenxiu was the king of Funan.

Sun Kewang wrote to the Nanming Yongli court in 1649, expressing his willingness to "jointly restore and suppress". Later, Sun Kewang sent troops into Guizhou and Sichuan, and brought back the rest of the Nanming army, which enhanced the strength of the Daxi army. In desperation, Emperor Yongli had to officially name Sun Kewang the king of Qin. Sun Kewang transferred Emperor Yongli to Anlong, Guizhou, and arranged for soldiers to protect him.

1652, the Daxi Army set off in two directions to fight against the Qing army. Liu Wenxiu led a battle with Wu Sangui's troops in Baoning, northern Sichuan, was defeated, and retreated to Guizhou. Li Dingguo led the army from Sichuan East into Hunan and won one after another. The capital army led by Li Dingguo was enthusiastic and disciplined.They attacked from Yunnan and Guizhou to Hunan, and they won many times, recovered several important towns, and then attacked Guilin in three separate ways. At that time, the general of the Qing Dynasty's southern expedition, King Dingnan, Kong Youde, guarded Guilin, and the city was captured. After the breach, he set himself on fire. Li Dingguo continued to attack, except for Wuzhou , the entire Guangsi was recovered.
Li Dingguo sent troops and then killed the remaining enemy troops, while settling the people, he took Nanming officials who hid in the mountains back to the city. One day, Li Dingguo set up a banquet next to Qixingyan to entertain the officials. He said: "The current situation is like the last years of the Southern Song Dynasty. You all respect and admire such heroes as Wen Tianxiang, Lu Xiufu, Zhang Shijie, etc. , their loyalty and righteousness will last forever, but we are loyal to the country, and we don't want to get the ending of changing the dynasty." After hearing this, everyone greatly admired Li Dingguo's unrestrained and unrestrained bearing.

Li Dingguo's army then advanced into Hunan and Jiangxi. The army set out for seven months, opened up a territory of 3,000 miles, and became famous. Emperor Yongli therefore named Li Dingguo the king of Xining. After the Qing Dynasty learned about it, he ordered Prince Jingjin to be the head coach, and he led hundreds of thousands of banner soldiers to the south to support him. He fought fiercely with Li Dingguo in the north of the city of Hengzhou. When Li Dingguo saw the fierceness of the Qing army, he pretended to be defeated in order to lure the enemy. fooled. Nikan didn't know that the enemy was defeated by fraud, so he rashly led his troops to hunt down, but was killed by the soldiers under Li Dingguo's ambush.

Li Dingguo was famous all over the world for his outstanding military exploits, but unexpectedly, he aroused the jealousy of King Qin and Sun Kewang.

Sun Kewang pretended to invite Li Dingguo to discuss state affairs, but in fact planned to kill him secretly; Li Dingguo saw through Sun Kewang's conspiracy and had to lead his troops out of Hunan and back to Yunnan. Sun Kewang hoped to improve his reputation and fame, so he personally led his troops to Hunan to attack the Qing troops, but he returned after a disastrous defeat.Sun Kewang also wanted to force Emperor Yongli to give up the throne to himself. At the same time, he knew that to realize this wish, Li Dingguo must be eradicated first, so Sun Kewang led an army of 140,000 to attack Yunnan.

Unexpectedly, his subordinates had long hated his splitting behavior. When the two armies clashed, they suddenly defected to Li Dingguo's side, and the entire Sun Army collapsed and disintegrated. Sun Kewang fled to Guiyang in embarrassment, but was resisted by the defenders of Guiyang Sun Kewang could not find a way out, so he had to abscond to Changsha and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

After Sun Kewang's rebellion and Liu Wenxiu's death, the strength of the Nanming regime has been greatly weakened. Li Dingguo became the head coach of the Great Western Army, and took charge of the Nanming Yongli Dynasty's political power by virtue of his position as the King of Jin. After Li Dingguo decided on the strategy, he wrote to Zheng Chenggong and Sichuan-Hubei Dashun Army Li Laiheng , etc., and made an appointment to join forces to fight against the Qing Dynasty.
However, after Li Dingguo took power, he made mistakes in appointing talents. He suspected that many of the guarding generals were arranged by Sun Kewang, so he transferred them all to Yunnan to review their respective merits and demerits; most of Nanming's former generals were no longer employed, causing instability in the military. After Sun Kewang's betrayal, the Qing army knew all about the internal situation of Yungui. Coupled with the confrontation between Sun and Li, the Daxi army was severely damaged. A Nanming official once admonished Li Dingguo with the words "Although internal difficulties are eliminated, external worries are great", but Li Dingguo did not care.

1658 Under the leadership of Ming generals Wu Sangui and Hong Chengchou who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the Qing army attacked Yunnan and Guizhou in three ways. Li Dingguo's army also fought in three ways, but they were all defeated and had to retreat to Kunming. Emperor Yongli and several confidants were panicked and panicked and fled to Burma . After Emperor Yongli fled to Burma, Li Dingguo was still gathering troops and horses on the border of Yunnan to attack Qing soldiers, intending to restore and Ming Dynasty . He sent people thirteen times in a row to pick up Emperor Yongli to return, but Emperor Yongli did not dare to return to China.

In the winter of 1661, Wu Sangui led 100,000 Qing troops into Burma, forcing Burma to return Emperor Yongli and escort him back to Kunming. As soon as he returned to Kunming, Wu Sangui strangled Emperor Yongli to death. The Nanming regime was completely destroyed so far. Li Dingguo, who had struggled against the Qing Dynasty for more than ten years, failed to achieve the goal of restoring the Ming Dynasty, and was very worried. In 1662, Li Dingguo died of illness. Before he died, he said to his son and his subordinates: "Even if he died in the wilderness, he could not surrender to the Qing army!

Li Dingguo had a very friendly relationship with Dai and other ethnic minorities when he was alive, and was very much loved by compatriots from ethnic minorities. Therefore, after his death, he was regarded as a god by mengla people, and he was called "the king of calling the law". As long as the Mengla people who passed by Li Dingguo's tomb would bow and worship, they were very pious