First, Li Zicheng underestimated the appetite of the Liaodong army. The price tag offered by the Great Qing was Wang Jue, and Wu Sangui was obvious to all, and several old men who surrendered first: Hong Chengzuo, Shang Kexi, Zu Dashou (and his family) all took the official position in the Great Qing. You don't care what the true gold content of this official is, the question is the hereditary replacement of the Three Shun Kings.
Li Zicheng gave Wu Sanguikai the title of Marquis. Liu Zongmin was only a marquis with military merit. In fact, for the Yongchang Emperor, the marquis he opened was most likely sincere. Wu Sangui took this marquis and if he did not oppose, there would be no problem in this life to mix with a Liaodong land snake. But people don't have front and back eyes, how do you communicate with Wu Sangui when you return to the end of the Ming Dynasty, telling Wu Brainhead that in the future, the Qing Dynasty will definitely cut the domain? Moreover, with Zhu Dizhuyu in front of him, it was impossible for a situation of Kangxi's irritability and slashing of the domain. (And yet it did)
Second, the more victorious the army, the stronger it becomes. Li Zicheng started to fight in the army not for a year or two, but Chongzhen began to do things in the second year. Almost the first ten years have not done anything, until Hou Jin annihilated two waves of Ming troops, Li Zicheng annihilated one wave of Ming troops, and Sun Chuanting was unable to support himself. At this time, Li Zicheng had the courage to build a base, and after Li Zicheng eliminated Sun Chuanting, he was almost the strongest force in northern China except Wu Sangui. After winning against opponents many times in a row, why did Li Zicheng give you a Wu Sangui King? Just rely on Wu Sangui's tens of thousands of Guan Ning army? It was also seen that Wu Sangui was guarding Shanhaiguan, afraid that he would surrender to the enemy. Otherwise, there is no need to think about it at all, and directly send troops to annihilate, Wu Sangui will not be able to turn over any wind and waves.
Although Li Zicheng annihilated a lot of Ming troops, compared with Hou Jin, the people were old anti-thieves. After the Battle of Salhu, the Ming army was suppressed, except for the Mao Wenlong period, which was confused, the Nuerha period made a huge mistake in internal affairs, and the Later Jin people ate people. In addition, there are basically no major shortcomings, and it has a strong psychological advantage over the Ming Army.
After Li Zicheng fought against jin jun, in fact, no one obeyed anyone. For Li Zicheng, the loss of Beijing and the death of Liu Zongmin are not a matter. Before Li Zicheng tens of thousands of troops were beaten to only eighteen horses to escape, he could still pull out a new army.
Li Zicheng was very confident in passing on the text and recruiting ming dynasty loyalists. In a word: Rice fat civilians, can have today, the destiny of heaven.
Don't say that the loss of Beijing is the loss of Guanzhong, Henan, and Hebei. Li Zicheng could also go down to Hunan, Jiangxi, and burst into Guizhou and Guangdong in an attempt to make a comeback. Local Ming army? In Li Zicheng's eyes, how much difference can he be with air?
Li Zicheng was not careless to die in battle, he could completely take Yuezhou, Changsha, Yongzhou, my hometown, transfer to Jiangxi pension land, and take the spiritual canal down to Liangguang. These places were already overpopulated at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and a large number of displaced people waited for the arrival of the king to fight the local tyrants and divide the land. And there were Portuguese and Dutch in the area, and Li Zicheng could get the artillery faster, and even the Portuguese musket team in Macau.
And Zhang Xianzhong's Sichuan was not something that the Ming Dynasty could casually nibble down. Zhang Xianzhong, who was guarding the pass, had Li Dingguo's grandson under him, and the construction of the castle could block for more than half a year.
The Qing army was to destroy the Southern Ming court, and he could not move Li Zicheng, who owned Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi and Guizhou. Even Li Zicheng only had Hunan and Jiangxi, and it was not something that the Qing army could fight. Because at this time, Dorgon mistakenly issued a shaving order. Historically, the fact that the Southern Ming court did not dare to go north did not mean that Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng did not dare to go north. In Henan, Hubei, Shanxi, shaanxi, as long as the rebels corrected the chaos, Li Zicheng would immediately be able to live and die. At this time, Li Zicheng had been a soldier for three or four years, and he already had his own set of teams.
Plainly. The entry of the Qing army into the customs is inevitable, but the seizure of the world is a complete accident. Li Zicheng was chased and beaten by the Ming army for more than ten years, and at the worst time, there were only a few dozen brothers around him, and he was fine. Opened the seal and shot in the face, only blind (the level of hygienic surgery in the seventeenth century survived, it was not providence, it was the level of immortal possession). However, he fought with the Qing army for a year, and the army lost most of it, and there were more than 20,000 old battalions under his command, and nearly 100,000 family members of miscellaneous soldiers. Then the scouting terrain was killed by the local vigilante group...
Zhang Xianzhong was surrendered by Hong Chengyu, severely beaten by Zuo Liangyu, and besieged by the Ming army in Sichuan. How not to die, throw Hunan, lose Jiangxi, lose Guanzhong, jump around alive. Fighting with the Qing army, going to the front line to inspect himself, he was shot across the river...
Li Chengdong, when the traitors were killed all the way from Jiangnan to Guangdong, were invincible, and quickly lost and died after rectifying the chaos.
Zheng Zhilong, the overlord of the sea; fights with other pirates, fights with the Dutch, no matter how big the scene is, it is safe. As a result, he voluntarily surrendered to the Manchu Qing and was beheaded...
The Manchu Qing Dynasty is comparable to a goldfinger hanging.
You just look at every Han Haojie, they are all famous kinds, how to see it feel that there is a chance to make a career. When he encountered Daqing, he died inexplicably, and the death was very crisp, which was just right. As soon as Li Zicheng died, his nephew Li Guo and his third brother Li Zijing delayed time for whoever became the boss, resulting in the failure to take Jiangxi, Hunan. Once Zhang Xianzhong died, Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang were unable to discharge who should be the leader of the Great Western Army, which eventually led to the two turning against each other. Zheng Zhilong surrendered, and Zhu Successfully could not take away the entire navy, and could only shrink in the coast and wait for development.
Looking at the rise of the Qing Dynasty alone, what would you think as a seventeenth-century person?
The Destiny is clear.
God has an iron heart to make the Manchus emperor...
