Li Zicheng, known as the leader of the peasant revolt in the late Ming Dynasty, a man who forced the Chongzhen Emperor to hang himself, destroyed the last Han dynasty. The historical record of him does not stand up to scrutiny, and a person who is called a "hero" in the history books is actually just a reckless man. He was selfish and cruel, and his eyes were blind, so that the Manchu Qing easily entered the Central Plains.
Li Zicheng's seemingly glorious deeds were short-sighted, and in 1644, Li Zicheng led a powerful army to besiege the city of Beijing. At that time, the Ming Dynasty had already lost its momentum, like a trapped beast in the water, and had no ability to resist at all. Logically, at this time, Li Zicheng could have captured the city of Beijing and unified the world. However, Li Zicheng did not, he only demanded military salaries from the Chongzhen Emperor and the title and fiefdom of a northwestern king. In this context, it is indeed short-sighted to make such a request.
After Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he began to burn and loot, and in the eyes of the people, Li Zicheng was a complete bandit. Wherever Li Zicheng had any ambitions in his heart, all he had in mind was to seize the money and then return to his northwest to claim the throne. Compared with Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, who was also known as the leader of the peasant army, Li Zicheng simply could not see it. When Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, entered the guanzhong, he won the support and love of many people. Those who win the hearts and minds of the people win the world, and Li Zicheng does not know this.
In April of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng did one of the most wrong things - he allowed his subordinate Liu Zongmin to rob Chen Yuanyuan, the concubine of Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, and also captured his father Wu Xiang as a hostage, and even executed him. Wu Sangui is not an ordinary person, and this person's strength cannot be underestimated. But Li Zicheng did not understand anything, blindly felt that Wu Sangui was not enough to make himself afraid, Li Zicheng never took Wu Sangui in his eyes, leading hundreds of thousands of peasant troops to attack Shanhaiguan. Originally, if Li Zicheng could learn more about Wu Sangui's strength and deeds, and then let Chen Yuanyuan and Wu Sangui's father go and apologize, then this battle would be avoided. The battle between Li Zicheng and Wu Sangui gave the Manchu Qing, who had long been eyeing the Central Plains, and then the Manchu Qing swept into the pass. Can a "hero" like Li Zicheng still be recognized?