Li Zicheng rebelled against the Ming Dynasty in the second year of Chongzhen, and finally destroyed the Ming Dynasty in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, which lasted only 15 years, which was the same as the 15 years it took the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang to fight the world, except that Li Zicheng only unified the north and did not further unify the world, and after the Qing army entered the customs, it was a slump, and it was killed by local villagers in Hubei a year later, and the curtain ended somewhat arbitrarily.
To know that Li Zicheng in the Ming Dynasty period, it is not too much to say that he is a legend, because his experience always reminds people of the four words of "immortal Xiaoqiang", it is repeated defeats and battles, the most depressed only a dozen horses are left hiding in the mountains, there is no stable territory, but again and again after being defeated, he stood up again and again, and finally established the Dashun regime and subverted the Ming Dynasty, but what surprises people is that Li Zicheng was called "Immortal Xiaoqiang" in the Ming Dynasty, and any kind of blow could not knock him down, after the Qing army entered the customs, Although it is still a lot of defeats, but the mess of defeat is not to say, and only 1 year later, it was killed by mistake, and it was not a vigorous battle to die on the battlefield.
The gap among them is also too big, in the Ming Dynasty it can be called "immortal small strong", in the Qing Dynasty it is weak and can't help the wind? Why, today Song Anzhi said.
First, Li Zicheng's own ability is insufficient, although he can take advantage of the momentum to rise, but the momentum is gone
The reason why Li Zicheng was able to rise rapidly was mainly because the situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty had too great advantages and advantages for him, at that time, under the natural disasters and man-made disasters, most of the people in the northern land were displaced, Li Zicheng was keenly aware of this, so he put forward the policy of "exempting the land from the land" and shouted out the slogan of "the king has come and does not pay grain", so that naturally there is a steady stream of troops, so it can quickly extinguish the Ming, which is the biggest potential that Li Zicheng borrowed.
Secondly, at that time, the Ming Dynasty was in an embarrassing situation of two-front combat, if there was no external trouble, Li Zicheng did not have much room to rise, but in the face of the external troubles of the Jin (Great Qing) outside the Guanwai, the Ming Dynasty was not only the elite army was tied down at the border, the suppression of Li Zicheng and other rebel armies was not the main force, but also because when the border war was tense, the army had to be transferred to the border, giving Li Zicheng a chance to breathe.
In this situation, Li Zicheng stood above the wind outlet, naturally riding on the wind, but after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, this gust of wind stopped, and when he really tested his own strength, Li Zicheng was frequently faint.
First of all, militarily, although it attaches great importance to the threat of the Great Qing outside guanwai, but it has not fully taken precautions, such as Shanhaiguan, there is no general of the Concubine clan to defend the town, but only sent the general Tang Tong to lead eight thousand people to defend Wu Sangui, and when Wu Sangui surrendered and reversed, tang Tong's troops were easily defeated.
Moreover, in such a military stronghold as Beijing, Li Zicheng did not concentrate the main army here, part of it was stationed and scattered in the newly occupied land, and some of it was sent to the south, so after facing Wu Sangui's surrender and rebellion, in the case of the Great Qing Tiger outside Guanwai, Li Zicheng could not mobilize too many troops at all, and the result was that when he fought fiercely with Wu Sangui, the Qing regent Dolgun suddenly led his troops to kill, and Li Zicheng's side was a big defeat.
Secondly, in terms of political stability of people's hearts, Li Zicheng was too bad, when he attacked the city and strategically, in order to "break into the king and not pay grain" slogan, it was to raise war with war, and every time he went to a place, he mainly relied on raiding the local clan and the clan of the local clan, as well as the officials and gentry, but after arriving in Beijing, it was still the case, it was a big deal of "chasing after stolen goods and helping the salary", so that the blow was too extensive, completely offended the former Ming gentry, and also meant that it could not quickly accept the political forces left over from the former Ming, could not get the real support of the former Ming gentry, and the rule was not stable. This is also an important reason why after the defeat of Shanhaiguan, Li Zicheng did not stick to Beijing and directly withdrew from Beijing.
After the wind outlet passed, although Li Zicheng reached a peak in the momentum, but after the upward wind could not borrow, after relying on his own hard strength, Li Zicheng was vulnerable, and finally climbed high, fell faster and more miserable.
Second, due to the background of the times, the two opponents of the Ming and Qing dynasties are very different
Li Zicheng rose at the end of the Ming Dynasty, he faced the decaying Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was full of internal contradictions, there were many problems, so he could naturally lose many battles and eventually take advantage of the opportunity to rise, so it can be said that it is "not dead and small".
However, after the Qing army entered the customs, it was different, the Qing Dynasty was a new dynasty, not a decadent dynasty, the external army was strong in combat, and there were no chaotic problems such as party strife at home.
Such an opponent, Li Zichengzhen can not be determined, in the face of the decaying Ming Dynasty, he can only achieve repeated defeats and battles, in the face of the emerging Qing Dynasty, not to say that failure once is death, but a failure means continuous failure, which means that the space for rise is getting smaller and smaller.
Like the Qing army's policy was correct at the beginning, that is, chasing After Li Zicheng, the leader of the Dashun regime, Li Zicheng fought wherever he went, so that Li Zicheng had no respite, there was no time to stop and adjust, there was no time to adjust, and finally under the continuous pursuit, Li Zicheng should have led a small number of pro-soldiers to investigate the situation, and was mistakenly killed by the local villagers, which was simply too sudden, too dramatic, so that every time people read history to this point, they always feel unreal, and they feel even more unreal than the plot of the novel. This is the real history, and people really don't know what to say.
Finally, to sum up, the reason why Li Zicheng can succeed in the early stage, although he has its own shining point, but he is by no means the founding lord of the country, mainly because the environment at that time was too conducive to his rise, so that his success was too simple, so that there was no solid foundation, such as rootless duckweed, seemingly floating high, but in fact it was vulnerable to the real storm, so when the real storm came, it was quickly lost to everyone, and the later stage was a mess of failure, and did not set off any waves.
Therefore, sometimes it is still necessary to recognize their own strength, to be steady and steady, and not to rush to achieve success, otherwise even if there is a temporary achievement, it is often not long-lasting, but it is made for others to make a wedding dress, so why is it bitter?
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