If Sun Chuanting had held Tongguan in those days, what changes would history have made?
History is always very interesting. It is like a great artist. At some historical nodes, he always likes to take such a big knife. When he chopped it with one knife, he ruthlessly chopped off the historical process, which made many people feel sorry for the fracture and gave infinite reverie to future generations. Of course, history is not nihilism. What happens is what happens. Facts are facts and cannot be changed. But even so, the assumption is innocent. After all, history is ruthless and people have feelings, and the appropriate assumption is irrelevant. This is one of the reasons why the game with the dynasty as the background, the official and the sparrow flying into the sky, can be popular. There are many historical breakpoints that can be assumed in history, and there are also many topics that can be assumed and discussed. Today Xiaobian will assume and discuss a question, which is what the historical trend of the Ming Dynasty will be like if Sun Chuanting holds Tongguan.
We all know the saying that "the court dies and the Ming dies". This sentence was summed up by later historians, and it does have its truth. This is not to say that Sun Chuanting is so fierce, but mainly about the nature of Sun Chuanting. In the early stage, he had no pressure to fight the vagrants who had not reached the climate with well-trained troops, but later, when Li Chuang became a climate, he would not be able to give strength. Sun Chuanting Fu's platform after his comeback is exactly the same as Yuan Da's bluff in those days, and he made a "five thousand flat rush". This is the same as Yuan Chonghuan's "Five-year Peace of Liao", which was used to fool the emperor. But even so, the real meaning of death in court and death in Ming Dynasty is that the army led by Sun Chuanting is the only one directly loyal to Emperor Daming, that is, the only one that can be adjusted in Chongzhen.
After Sun Bu's downfall, Chongzhen could no longer mobilize any warlord troops. Warlords like Wu Sangui ignored Chongzhen's command. At this time, there were millions of troops in the Ming Dynasty, but they could only wait for the destruction of Beijing. Of course, some people say that Sun Chuanting was forced to death by Chongzhen, but there is nothing wrong with this sentence. Although Sun Chuanting fooled Chongzhen with a letter to the platform, when he faced Li Zicheng, Sun Chuanting knew that he had several catties and two liang, and he was short of troops, and all of them were recruits, so he wanted to stick to Tongguan and wait for an opportunity. However, Emperor Chongzhen sat in the central government and forced Sun Chuanting to fight without knowing anything at all. As a result, the only commanding army was abolished. If Chongzhen didn't engage in micromanipulation, there was still hope for the Ming Dynasty. If Sun Chuanting blocks the peasant army in Li Zicheng from Tongguan, then there will be the following situation.
judging from the overall situation in 1644, the situation of Emperor Chongzhen was not very bad, and it was better than many historical dynasties that survived. First of all, the site, Hubei, with hundreds of thousands of troops guarded by Zuo Liangyu, with his strength, the peasant army wants to make trouble in Hubei, which is basically impossible. This can ensure that Hubei will not be lost. Although he is a little bit of a king in it, as long as the great god Emperor Chongzhen is still there, he won't listen to the order to attack, but the order to protect himself can still be observed, after all, for himself. In the same way, although Wu Sangui is not as ambitious as Zuo Liangyu, his Ning Guan fighters can still hold Shanhaiguan and hold Liaodong.
Li Zicheng, unable to break through Tongguan, is likely to hold peace talks with Emperor Chongzhen for the sake of slowing down his reputation and accumulating grain. After all, Li Zicheng wants to hold peace talks with Emperor Chongzhen even after he has reached Beijing. At this time, as long as Chongzhen agreed to Li Zicheng's peace talks, and strengthened the defense of Datong, it would be good to prevent the Qing army from entering the customs again. It can be said that as long as we persist until around 165, the weather will get warmer and the famine will pass, and the overall form will be fundamentally changed. But Zhu Youjian, the "micro-master", the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen, obviously screwed up. Hey!