Ming Dynasty: Guo Jia's Battle of Sarhu

Very well written, creative and great

The aspects of resourcefulness and battlefield planning are well written👍

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To be honest, the Battle of Sarhu was useless to anyone except a few modern military gods. Guo Jia, a man in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, had far less vision and ability than the famous local generals of the Ming Dynasty. In the background of the Battle of Sarhu, Nurhaci had unified at least two-thirds of the Jurchens. The number of Jurchens in Houjin was about 300,000, including more than 100,000 adult men and 60,000 regular soldiers, and at least half of them were armored. Moreover, Houjin's elite red-armored soldiers and white-armored soldiers were all heavy infantry wearing two or three layers of armor. In the Battle of Sarhu, the Ming Dynasty had a total of 110,000 people. The real Ming army was less than 90,000, and the remaining 20,000 were Ye He and Korean soldiers. Not all of the 90,000 Ming army were elites. The more than 20,000 people commanded by Li Rubai on the South Road had very poor combat effectiveness, and the East Road were not particularly strong elites. The main force of the Ming army is the northwest two groups. Theoretically, the northwest two groups have close to 60,000 troops and are the main force in the battle. However, Jun Song's 30,000 main force was almost completely wiped out by Nurhachi in less than two days. The Hou Jin were not barbarians in the traditional sense. Apart from the fact that they did not have firearms and their armor coverage was not as good as that of the Ming army, their tactics and weapons were no worse than that of the Ming army, or even stronger. Even if Saarhu's 90,000 Ming army were to fight Houjin head-on, they could barely protect themselves at best. The gap in combat power was so huge that even if Li Jing and Han Xin were to replace him, they wouldn't be able to win.

There are many mountains in Jianzhou, so it is difficult for a large army of more than 100,000 people to march. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty initially thought that Hou Jin only had 20,000 to 30,000 barbarians, but it turned out that they had 60,000 elites. There were nearly 50,000 Ming troops in the two northwest armies, and almost all of them were wiped out in three days. With such a gap in combat power, confronting them would be a recipe for death. The best way is not to engage in large-scale battles. The army's combat effectiveness was very poor in the late Ming Dynasty. During the Jiajing period, the Mongols invaded Beijing, and dozens of Japanese pirates invaded Nanjing. In the second year of Chongzhen, the Hou Jin invaded Beijing and plundered them for more than half a year before leaving. In the later period of the Ming Dynasty, the army relied on a small number of servants to support its combat strength, and most of them made up the numbers. The battles involving hundreds of people, one to two thousand people, and Houjin went back and forth. Once the number of people reaches tens of thousands, they will be beaten immediately. In the famous Battle of Hunhe, Huang Taiji's few hundred cavalry defeated 20,000 Ming troops. The Battle of Sarhu was defeated in the court. The entire court thought that Hou Jin was the dish, but it turned out that he was the dish. An empire cannot even support a war involving hundreds of thousands of people. Even if Li Chengliang were to command, he would not be able to defeat Nurhachi.

It feels a bit awkward to think of Guo Jia as the protagonist of the Three Kingdoms. How should I put it? Some of the living systems and weapons of the Three Kingdoms are very different from those of the Ming Dynasty. You can't understand it. It's like you have gone to the future and watched such a protagonist for the first time.