At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng's peasant rebel army was huge, and in the peasant army, there were several powerful figures who were killed by Li Zicheng, such as Luo Rucai and Li Yan, both of whom were not simple.
The history books record that Luo Rucai was known as "Cao Cao", very good at war, his hundreds of thousands of people, is a very powerful peasant army force, listening to his name cao Cao, you know that he is very not simple, as much wisdom as Cao Cao, not only that, Luo Rucai is also very long-term vision, once privately released Zhang Xianzhong, in order to let Zhang Xianzhong contain the Ming army, such a person with a brain, concerned about the overall situation, Li Zicheng killed him.
Li Yan was a far-sighted person, who once advised Li Zicheng not to kill people indiscriminately in order to win the hearts and minds of the people, and he formulated a series of strategic plans for Li Zicheng, such as "welcoming the king and not paying grain", which quickly won the hearts of the people of the world.
However, Li Zicheng killed both Luo Rucai and Li Yan, which was tantamount to cutting off his arm and destroying the Great Wall.
In addition to Luo Rucai and Li Yan, Li Zicheng also killed three very powerful figures in the peasant rebel army, and these three people were not much worse than Luo Rucai and Li Yan.
The first, He Yilong.
He Yilong was the leader of the early stages of the peasant revolt in the late Ming Dynasty, nicknamed "Geli Eye". In the eleventh year of Chongzhen (1638), the peasant rebel army was at a low ebb, and He Yilong and He Jin entered the Ying and Huoshan districts on the border of Hubei and Anhui to form the "Five Battalions of zuo ge".
Ma Shou should be called "Lao Hui Hui", He Yilong is called "Ge Li Eye", He Jin is called "Zuo Jin Wang", Liu Xiyao is called "King of the Struggle for the World", and Lin Yang is called "King of the Troubled World", all of which are attached to Li Zicheng, then known as the "Five Battalions of gezuo".
After the formation of the fifth battalion of Gezuo, its strength increased greatly, becoming the head of many rebel armies at that time, and then turned to fight in the Yu'e area, and its prestige grew.
When Li Zicheng swept through Henan, He Yilong and He Jin were equal to Li Zicheng. In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zi became the unified leader and killed Luo Rucai and He Yilong.
Second, Lin Yang.
Lin Yangyang, a native of Yan'an, Shaanxi, was one of the leaders of the five battalions of the rebel army.
In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen (1642), Lin Yangcheng, He Yilong and others defected to Li Zicheng. The following year, Li Zicheng killed He Yilong, ordered his people to be divided, and served as the general of Wei Zuo Weiwu in the Dashun army, but was later attacked and killed by Li Zicheng.
The third place, Yuan Shizhong.
Yuan Shizhong, Chongzhen thirteen years (1640), Shandong, Henan, Hebei and other places of drought, flying locusts cover the sun, to winter famine, Yuan Shizhong led a hunger people to revolt, gathered tens of thousands of horses. In November, he led more than 10,000 men to attack Kaizhou (開州, in modern Puyang County) and killed the prefecture Tongzhi Xizhi. The following year, Yuan Shizhong, together with Liu Yuzhi and Zhu Chengqiu, entered the Kaifeng and Shangqiu regions, and was active in southeastern Henan and northern Anhui, known as the "Little Yuan Camp".
In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen (1642), because he was chased by the Ming army and was in a hurry, Yuan Shizhong joined forces with Li Zicheng. Soon, Yuan Shizhong wanted to submit to the Ming Dynasty, but he was shaken and jealous of Li Zicheng. In April of the following year, Yuan Shizhong was killed by Li Zicheng's subordinate Li Guo.
The above three people were killed, see the "Biography of Li Zicheng of the Ming Dynasty", which records that Zicheng not only killed RuCai and Yilong, but also attacked and killed Yang, captured the guards, and killed Yuan Shizhong in Yuqi County.
Li Zicheng not only killed these people and seized Ma Shouying's military power, but also threatened Zhang Xianzhong that Ma Shouying had surrendered, Luo Rucai and others were killed, and the next one was you. At this time, Li Zicheng's strength became the strongest of the rebel army, and no one could compete with him.
The Biography of Li Zicheng of the Ming Dynasty records that according to Wuchang, The Loyal Party sent an envoy to He, and threatened to say: "The old Hui has surrendered, and Cao Cao's generations have died. "Sacrifice loyalty and great fear, and enter Changsha in the south." When it was then, the great thieves of the thirteen families and seventy-two battalions were all killed, but they became self-made and loyal, and they became independent, so they called themselves the king of Xinshun.
However, Li Zicheng killed Luo Rucai and five others successively, and also lost several strong generals, otherwise, he would not have fought against the Qing army later, and would have been vulnerable and defeated all the way. Especially Luo Rucai and Li Yan, each of them can be independent.