Tiger Fall, Pingyang Wei is still there
Heaven and earth pondered to themselves
Circumstances will be imprinted on the hand
Historical and humanistic self-verification
Zhang Xianzhong
Zhang Xianzhong (1606-1647), courtesy name Bingzhong, nicknamed Jingxuan, nicknamed Huanghu. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the corrupt society of the imperial court withered and the people had no livelihood, and peasant uprisings surged everywhere. In the third year of Chongzhen (1630), Zhang Xianzhong organized a team in his hometown of Shaanxi to respond to the uprising, and later defected to the peasant army led by Wang Ziyong, transferred to various places and gradually grew and developed.
Tiger Shuai Zhong Seal (Six Stacks Seal)
In April of the tenth year of Chongzhen (1637), Yang Sichang, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty's military department and a cabinet scholar, planned the strategy of encircling and suppressing the "four zheng", "six corners", and "ten faces and open nets" in response to peasant uprisings in various places, Li Zicheng suffered several defeats in Shaanxi, Liu Guoneng and others also returned to the Shun court in Henan, and Zhang Xianzhong's team also encountered great difficulties. Defeated by Zuo Liangyu's army during the attack on Nanyang, Zhang himself was wounded, but fortunately was rescued by his subordinate Sun Kewang, and retreated with his troops to Gucheng (present-day Hubei).
Tiger Shuai Zhong Seal (Six Stacks Seal)
Under the strong offensive of the Ming official army, in order to preserve strength, Zhang Xianzhong in Gucheng and Luo Rucai in Yunyang respectively accepted the "appeasement" of Shangshu Xiong Wencan of the military department. Although Zhang Xianzhong accepted the "appeasement", he refused to accept the adaptation and transfer, nor did he accept the official rank, maintaining the independence of the rebel army. The 40,000-strong troops were distributed in the four suburbs of the headquarters Gucheng, divided into four battalions, each led by a general. During the rest period, he gathered grass and grain, built military weapons, recruited soldiers, and trained soldiers. He also often asked people to tell him "Sun Tzu's Art of War", and combined with war examples, summed up experience and lessons, and waited for the opportunity to make a comeback.
In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen (1643), Zhang Xianzhong conquered Wuchang and proclaimed himself the King of Daxi. Later, he led troops back to Sichuan and established the Daxi regime, with the name Dashun and proclaimed himself emperor. In the third year of Dashun (1647), Zhang Xianzhong led his army north to resist the Qing army, and was shot to death by Haoge, the Prince of Qing and Shuosu, at the age of 40 at the Phoenix Mountain of Xichong.
The peasant uprising led by Zhang Xianzhong began with the Mizhi Eighteen-Village Uprising in the third year of Chongzhen (1630) and ended with Li Dingguo's death in Yunnan in the first year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1662), and in the oppression and exploitation of the feudal ruling regime of the Ming Dynasty and the invasion of the Qing army, he moved to 16 provinces, and after a heroic struggle thirty-two years ago. This peasant uprising played an important role in history and is of great significance for the study of the history of China's peasant war.