Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, a rice fat person in Shaanxi, as the saying goes, "the mother-in-law of rice fat, the han of Suide". As a result, Mi Zhi's mother-in-law was unable to let Xiao Li fall into their gentle township, but instead grew from an ordinary postman in the Ming Dynasty system to a gravedigger of the Ming Dynasty.
His vigorous life not only affected Li Zicheng himself, but also deeply affected the lives of many people. Li Zicheng's appearance was the end of the Ming Dynasty, which was a natural and man-made disaster, because the mean Chongzhen Emperor, in order to save money, did not hesitate to order the abolition of the station, and dismissed a large number of station employees, including Li Zicheng.
Mi Fat's aunt Suidehan
Good fellow, this rice fat aunt is no matter how good, it is not her turn. Losing his job, Li Zicheng's survival became a problem, especially in this terrible chaotic world, so he could only force Liangshan to re-employ himself, and the ghost sent Shen to join the peasant rebel army of Gao Yingxiang, who broke into Wang Gaoyingxiang.
Li Zicheng, who was originally a well-behaved pawn, broke the shackles of the environment, was forced to jump out of the comfort zone, and completely changed a way of living that was different from the world, which is what people often call "people move the living tree to move to death".
The unexpected gain is that many years of professional anti-Ming career have also tapped the potential of Li Zicheng who is not afraid of death, willing to endure hardships, and can fight, and I don't know whether this is a good thing or a bad thing.
Lee Zi-cheng
The magnificent peasant uprisings at the end of the Ming Dynasty profoundly changed the Chinese society at that time, and irreversibly pushed the once invincible Ming Dynasty into the abyss of eternal disaster.
In 1644, on the first day of the first lunar month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng, the "King of Chuang", had developed into the leader of the peasant rebellion at the end of the Ming Dynasty. He and his team occupied the former han and Tang Dynasty Guanzhong hometown, with Xi'an as the headquarters, and began to look like a decent "feudal state". The name of the country was "Dashun", which was changed to "Yongchang", imitating the Tang Dynasty system, and openly competing with the Ming Chongzhen imperial court.
Li Zicheng, who worked hard to start a business, had a hard time breaking out of the siege, had his own base area, and was still a fertile field, the Guanzhong Plain, which was forced by the king, and the hometown party, the mountains and rivers were victorious, the geographical advantages, and the people were all conducive to the nascent Dashun regime.
Chongzhen
On the contrary, at this time, the Ming court under the leadership of Chongzhen had come to the eve of the collapse of internal and external difficulties and erosion of everything. Therefore, this last day also began to take care of Li Zicheng and his friends.
Such a heaven-given opportunity, the Li Zicheng Group should completely run the Guanzhong base camp well, train elite troops, recuperate and consolidate the rear, wait for the opportunity to move, and then enter the Central Plains in the east to compete with Daming for the world.
However, what puzzled us was that Li Zicheng, who was already in the pre-dawn king, did not stay in Xi'an for long. By February of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, after only a short month, he roared and led the main force and marched to the east, but the goal of this trip was very vague.
Kaifeng Ming Army
Li Zicheng's eastern expedition was divided into two routes. He personally led the main force through Henan-Shanxi, from south to north, from southwest jin to north to Datong Town, then east to Xuanfu Town, and finally through Juyong Pass into The Pass, straight down to Beijing.
There was no obstacle on this road, and after a series of hard battles such as Kaifeng in the fifteen years of Chongzhen, the main force of the Ming army in North China Pass was basically exhausted. Taking this route should be chosen by the Shun army to avoid a hard fight with the Ming army.
However, people are not as good as heavenly calculations, what Li Zicheng did not expect was that in Ningwuguan, he encountered a hard stubble, the Ming army general Zhou Yuji desperately resisted, the battle situation was quite tragic, although the Shun army finally conquered Ningwu, but the casualties reached more than 70,000 people, Zhou Yuji and his subordinates did not surrender, all died in battle, and martyred heroically.
Zhou Yuji
The bloody battle of Ningwuguan almost drove Li Zicheng crazy, especially the people in the city did not hesitate to assist the Ming army and fight to the end, causing Li Zicheng to be angry and ordered the slaughter of the city.
In fact, the peasant army did not have the combat quality of the regular army at all, and if Li Zicheng had encountered such a unit as Zhou Yuji in the past, there would have been no later events.
Therefore, next, the Shun army must avoid fighting such a hard battle again. So what's next? Taking the eastern route, the Taihang Mountain Niangzi Pass, and taking the Right Fixation are bound to be another evil battle.
To the north, the Ming army on the ninth side, Xuanda Army town, Hehe combat strength, after all, the king is not crazy, the best way is to join the other side of the division led by Liu Fangliang, in the north of Jin, Henan and north into the north of the north of the south of the north, and then go north to attack the Daming, Hejian and Baoding provinces, threatening the Beijing Division.
Who knew that at this juncture, the Ming Dynasty could not bear to go crazy first. The datong general actually took the initiative to surrender, and then Xuanfu also descended!
Li Zi's character exploded, all the way to the green light, people are not as good as heaven, an excellent route appeared: take Juyongguan directly to the city of Beijing, at this time the Ming court was actually paralyzed, Chongzhen remembered to call on the four sides of the qin king, it was too late.
Soldiers are under the city
Liu Fangliang's troops, another division of the Shun army, still marched eastward to Handan as planned, and the direction of the north was directly subordinate, but instead played a role in containing the Ming army in the west of the Beijing Division, and finally forced li Jiantai and others from the Shanxi Cabinet University who were "marching on behalf of the emperor".
Therefore, Li Zicheng's route to Beijing was not decided in advance. On the basis of tentative progress in the general direction, according to the changes in the situation encountered, random and continuous adjustments were formed, and the breakthrough of the Great Wall was purely an unexpected surprise, which was completely out of the established policy of Li Zicheng Group.
So here's the problem.
First, what is the purpose of rushing east? Overthrow the Ming Dynasty and change the dynasty? However, until the soldiers approached the city of Beijing, Lao Li was still actively sending representatives into the palace to negotiate with his former superior, Chongzhen: "If you want to cut off the northwestern region, you will be crowned king, and you will treat the army with millions of silver and retreat to Henan..."
What is this commotion operation? Perhaps Old Li's original intention is the same as ours: success is like not being able to return home, just like the pain of night travel.
Combined with Lao Li's later pursuit of the stolen goods of the Ming Dynasty's descendants, as well as the action of transporting a large amount of gold and silver to the old nest in Xi'an, it can be seen that the ideals and values of Li Zicheng, the king of the Chuang Dynasty, are actually the height of a peasant entrepreneur, and starting a business without making a profit is to play a rogue.
Li Zicheng's troops
Second, if you want to destroy Daming in the east, you can send a large general to lead the three armies to carry out the execution. For example, Zhu Yuanzhang's Northern Expedition was led by Xu Da and Chang Yuchun, who were appointed in the Northern Expedition.
Li Zicheng himself, as the core figure, really does not need to be personally out and move. As a result, Old Li could never come back after he went, and after the boss finished playing, the base area immediately collapsed and became scattered.
Third, Li Zicheng's cultural and propaganda team is very professional, and very early on proposed that "eating his mother, wearing his mother, opening the door to meet the king, and not paying grain when the king comes", this kind of easy-to-understand folk song is very inflammatory.
Chongzhen martyrdom
In particular, the idealistic slogan of "equalizing the fields and free grain" was, in the late Ming Dynasty, when the contradiction of land annexation was seriously intensified, and for the vast number of peasant brothers who lost land and went bankrupt, it was nothing less than the atomic bomb explosion, and the huge shock wave generated by it quickly gathered a large number of displaced people under the banner of the king.
But calm down and think: You don't levy taxes, you don't levy grain, what do you eat for hundreds of thousands of horses, drink the northwest wind or eat Guanyin soil? It can only give full play to the characteristics of the peasant army's mobile operations. He wantonly plundered the high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty, the magnates of Fuzhou County, and the merchants and gentry, and the property obtained was used as military funds.
It is conceivable that the yellow nest operation model of Li Zicheng Group has further exacerbated social unrest. In fact, the composition of the peasant army is very complex, and there are not many soldiers who are really competent in combat.
Li Zicheng entered Beijing
Although the edifice of Daming will fall, not all places will respond to Li Zicheng, so the changes in the hearts and minds of the military and civilians in various places will also affect the changes in Li Zicheng's strategic goals.
The analysis of the above three parts of the problem fully shows that Li Zicheng, the king of the intruders, really did not think too much, but changed his fate by relying on a "breaking" force. However, because of the limitation of his own cognitive height, his team was like a flash in the pan, "breaking" out of the life, and finally "breaking" into the dead.
Zhu Yuanzhang
"Its rise is also bold, and its death is also sudden." I don't know how Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty 276 years ago, came from a more low-key beggar than the postman Li Zicheng, how would he evaluate this "king of intruders" who ended his own country?