Wang Yangming's Military Affairs Research

Wang Yangming was a Confucian in the Ming Dynasty. His philosophy about heart influenced the generations greatly. Wang Yangming experienced three wars. In the twelfth year of the Ming Dynasty Zhengde, he commanded South Jiangxi army and fought with Hengshui ,Tonggang; In fourteenth year of the Ming Dynasty Zhengde, he governed Jiangxi province and fought with Zhu Chenghao. In sixth year of the Ming Dynasty Jiajing,he governed Guangdong and Guangxi, attacked Si Tian,Ba zhai. Wang Yangming worked miracles in manoeuvring troops and defeat one's opponent by a surprise move. He won the three battle and was honoured with Xingjian Marquis.The three battles of Wang Yangming experience, resulted in a large number of military documents. These documents contained requestion documents; consultation documents; instruction documents; review documents; notice documents; deployment documents. Anxing and Pai of the instruction documents were used frequencly. Pai is used in military field with special instruments and distinctive characteristics of the times. The theme of Wang Yangming military documents were the construction of command, personnel organization, local military society.Wang Yangming used force and negotiation at the same time. In his opinion,before attack, internal governance must be carried out. Wang Yangming in the war, used a variety of tactics, such as the use of psychological, fast attack.In the management of army, He used strict discipline, guarantee pay, reward and punishment.Because of Wang Yangming's strategy and tactics , He got the final victory in the battle. Wang Yangming was greatly influenced by the Sun Zi Bing Fa, inherited the cautious view of war, the fraud strategy and governance as the control of a few of the hierarchical military thought.Wang Yangming military documents plain natural, from the outset, he opposed gorgeous. Expression of his instruments often use a combination of narrative and discussion. In the discussion process, He used emotion and the rationality ,adding much more authority. He wrote military documents for event. According to local problems, he propose solutions, urging local governments. Wang Yangming will use Confucian philosophy to practice action.