Speaking of Li Zicheng, everyone is no stranger. This is a reckless hero who, during the reign of Chongzhen at the end of the Ming Dynasty, pulled up a team to rebel against the tyranny of the Ming Dynasty because he really could not survive. Li Zicheng was, in the final analysis, an honest low-level peasant, and although he had a small position in the Ming Dynasty, he was also the lowest level. Li Zicheng was a kind, generous and prestigious man, and with his unveiling, many people gradually gathered under his subordinates.
In the process of the uprising, Li Zicheng did not go well. In the early days of the uprising, he was defeated many times by the generals of the Ming Army. After following Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng was defeated by Cao Wenzhao's army of more than a thousand Guanning and had to flee. After fleeing to Henan, he was besieged by Zuo Liangyu. After the breakthrough, he mistakenly entered the Chebox Gorge, and was blocked by the Ming army in the valley and had to surrender falsely. After killing officials and rebelling, Li Zicheng revolted again, and was once again surrounded and suppressed by the Ming army.
Gao Yingxiang was first defeated by Lu Xiangsheng, and then by Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, and he himself was killed on the battlefield. Li Zicheng accepted Gao Yingxiang's remnants and officially called him "King Chuang" and actively fought in Sichuan, Gansu, and Shaanxi. In the tenth year of Chongzhen, under Yang Sichang's attack strategy of "four positive and six corners, ten faces and open nets", a zhang xianzhong army of the rebel army was defeated and surrendered to Ming, and Li Zicheng was also slaughtered by Hong Chengyu and Sun Chuanting, and only a dozen of his henchmen fled to Shangluoshan.
It can be said that Li Zicheng's uprising was very bumpy, and if he had not met Song Xiance and Niu Jinxing, it might have been difficult to become a climate until death. As the situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty changed, the war situation in Liaodong became more and more critical, and Chongzhen had to dispatch famous generals from Guannei to defend against Emperor Taiji outside Guanxi. King Chuang took advantage of this opportunity to grow rapidly, and grew rapidly under the slogan of "the king of Chuang came without grain" and became the first rebel force in strength. Li Zicheng's son-in-law also came at this time and defected to Li Zicheng.
This person's name was Yuan Shizhong, who was active in Henan and Anhui, and was also the leader of the party, although young, he was very talented. After hearing of Li Zicheng's great name, Yuan Shizhong led his troops to defect to Li Zicheng. For Yuan Shizhong's coming and going, Li Zicheng was very enthusiastic. After all, if you want to achieve great things, you still need the world to return to your heart. The arrival of Yuan Shizhong not only strengthened his own strength, but also greater in this appeal.
At this time, Li Zicheng already had the desire to reorganize the mountains and rivers, and he was bent on wooing Yuan Shizhong, and he also wanted to show his thirst for merit in front of the good men in the world. As a result, King Chuang married Hui Mei, a righteous daughter who had been raised by his side since childhood, to Yuan Shizhong. Although the king of Chuang knew very well that this righteous daughter already had a sweetheart, he decisively sacrificed his daughter's happiness for the sake of the overall situation. Hui Mei has been following the king for many years, and there is also a "Girl Scout Army" unit, which is also famous. For this marriage, Yuan Shizhong was satisfied.
However, Yuan Shizhong was the leader of the party after all, the so-called "rather for the chicken mouth, not for the cow queen", before independence, he was calling the orders himself, and did not have to be constrained by others. Now that he has cast for the king, and has become the son-in-law of the king, he looks more powerful, but he has never been close to the king. For Yuan Shizhong, king Chuang was not completely at ease, and he also intended to gradually encroach on Yuan Shizhong's barracks. Originally, since Yuan Shizhong had already defected to the king, this kind of thing was naturally inevitable.
Unfortunately, Yuan Shizhong was not content with ease and could listen to the Lord of people calling for peace at will. Liu Zongmin, a general under King Chuang, was short-tempered and would not have the patience and enthusiasm to face such a young leader as Yuan Shizhong. In the long period of repression, Yuan Shizhong finally decided to defect and become the lord of his own side again. After careful planning, Yuan Shizhong successfully escaped from Li Zicheng's camp, and not only took his own troops, but also abducted Hui Mei's female soldiers.
Knowing that his daughter and troops had been abducted by his son-in-law, the anger of the king could not be suppressed. Although Yuan Shizhong's forces were weak, they did not pose any threat to Li Zicheng. However, Li Zicheng, who already felt that he had a head and a face, could not tolerate the betrayal of his son-in-law at this time. Under the fury of the thunder of the king, Liu Zongmin soon pursued Yuan Shizhong successfully and captured Yuan Shizhong alive. Hui Mei was already a wife, and although she pleaded bitterly, she could not stop the fate of Yuan Shizhong's murder.
In desperation, Hui Mei also went away in martyrdom and ended up in a tragedy. Faced with the betrayal of his son-in-law, the king was angry, and at the same time, he killed chickens and monkeys. And his daughter has become a victim, and it doesn't matter. The li zicheng who was once loved and treated generously was gone, and now there is only the king who is high above. In the pyramid of power, Li Zicheng has completely fallen. Reality is often so cruel, and the final decline of the king may be seen from this.