A Study On The Battle Of Saar

After the Jurchen (Manchu) established Post-jin local authority in1619, it began the first large-scale battle against the central government of Ming Dynasty in Sarhu. Through that battle, the Post-jin regime won decisive victory of the battle by taking advantage of favorable war time, right strategy and chivalrous spirit. Ming army suffered a heavy blow of Post-jin military forces. Facing the increasingly sharp contradiction among the ruling class and the growing political corruption in politics, the Ming regime retreated from one step to another, firstly lost Liao Dong, then Liao Xi, and never recovered. At last, it left just Shanhaiguan by which it stood against the Post-jin regime. After that, the Post-jin regime implemented the strategy of "cutting down the big tree". It bypassed into the Central Plains for five times and finally, with its continuous attacks and by the help of peasant uprising at that time, the post-jin regime replaced the Ming regime as Qing Dynasty.Though launched by Ming regime, Sarhu Battle ended with disastrous failure of Ming army and was regarded as the turning point of military and political situation between Ming and Qing regimes. Since then, the active strategic posture of Ming changed to be passive. The regime gradually lost of its ruling of northeast region. Meanwhile, the failure of that battle also intensified the internal contradictions of the government, with various problems exposed. On the one hand, alien forces attacked wave after wave; on the other hand, peasant uprisings were aroused one after another. Stricken by the double forces, the Ming regime finally collapsed. Then, the Qing (post-jin) regime began to take initiative to expand the invasion into the major ruling territory of Ming regime and also nibbled the borderlands. A quarter of a century later, Qing regime attained the domination of the Central Plains, where it established the last feudal dynasty in Chinese history--Qing Dynasty.This paper consists of eight parts. Part One is the introduction, including research significance, literature review, main content, methodology and innovative points. Part Two discusses political and economic situation of the Ming Dynasty before the Battle of Sarhu, like the ruling order, bureaucracy, class conflict and foreign relations, from which the increasing conservativeness and corruption of the regime can be seen. Part Three focuses on the Nurhaci’s unifying the Jurchen people and establishing Post-jin regime. It suggests the certainty of regime replacement. Part Four part analyzes the foreign policy of Post-jin regime. For example, in order to create favorable political and military environment situation, it took different foreign strategies towards the original sovereign state of Ming, ally of Mongolia and cooperating object of North Korea. Part Five is the key part of this paper. It details the process of the Battle of Sarhu. Part Six gives a comparative analysis of the outcome of the battle from perspectives of political governance, foreign relations and military forces. Part Seven introduces the influence of the battle on both sides, i.e. Ming regime decayed while the Post-jin overwhelmingly moved forward. In the last part, the author applies a new research method of comparing and analyzing the topic with a long time span with reference to related reviews and blogs collected from Internet. In this way, the author successfully reveals the complex and inseparable relationship between unique cultural development clue and fresh social life.