Zhongzhen Camp is the name given by the rulers of the Ming Dynasty after li Zicheng's remnants returned to the Ming Dynasty during the Longwu period. After Li Zicheng's death at Jiugong Mountain, the Dashun army still had a huge force of more than 200,000 people, but this huge army fell apart within a short period of Li Zicheng's death, and many of the original low-ranking generals pulled up the team and fled (such as Wang Jincai), and a small number of generals defected to qing (such as Zheng Siwei, the general of the Dashun army in Jingzhou). In the second year of Longwu, gao yigong (Li Zicheng's brother-in-law), the remnants of the Dashun army led by Li Guo (Li Zicheng's nephew) and the Southern Ming regime reached an agreement, and li Guo was given the title of Marquis of Xingguo, Gao Yigong was given the title of Marquis of Yunyang, and even Li Zicheng's widow Gao Shi was given the title of "Lady Zhenyi Yipin".
Li Zicheng invaded Beijing.
In the sequence of the Southern Ming army, the Zhongzhen Battalion was also a strong fighting force, but in the two years after it accepted the title of Emperor Longwu, it was often pit by its teammates and even attacked by other Ming troops. For example, in 1646, the Zhongzhen battalion besieged Jingzhou, at this time the governor of NanmingHuguang, He Tengjiao, should have set out from Yuezhou to attack the Wuchang area, but the result was that He Tengjiao not only broke the agreement, but did not go north when the Jingzhou Campaign was launched, resulting in the Qing Dynasty army driving straight in two long ways (one to meet He Tengjiao, the other way to meet the Zhongzhen camp, to relieve the siege of Jingzhou), and its restrained Ma Jinzhong, Wang Yuncheng, Wang Jincai (former general of the fifth battalion of ge zuo) and others actually collapsed without a fight in Yuezhou, at this time the Zhongzhen battalion was still besieging Jingzhou, and was suddenly attacked by the Qing army , was beaten "elite several times".
Qing army shotgun.
This is still relatively light, the "Liu Guochang conspiracy rebellion" incident in the fourth year of the Yong calendar, that is called a must, that is called a fierce. In 1650, Shang Kexi, Geng Zhongming, and Kong Youde, three false kings, led troops south, Kong Youde attacked Guangxi, shang and Geng prepared to attack Guangdong, at this time Li Guo, Gao Yigong, Li Yuanyin, Chen Bangbo, Ma Bao and others rescued Du Yonghe, the governor of Liangguang, among which Li Guo and Gao Yigong's forward Liu Guochang the Marquis of Huaihou had more than 10,000 people marching to the Zhaoqing area, they were suddenly declared rebellious, besieged by Ma Bao, Chen Bangbo and others, and three months later they were besieged by Ma Bao, Chen Bangbo, and Ma Yinglong, and Liu Guochang had lost nearly one-third of his troops.
Liu Guochang's Ming army lost one-third.
This matter looks very outrageous at first glance, in fact, it is also a very normal thing, whether it is Li Yuanyin, ma Bao, or Chen Bangbo, these people are either originally Li Chengdong's generals, after Li Chengdong anyway, these people quickly became "Dongxun", in fact, they are the warlords patrolling the Guangdong area, or some of the original local Ming Dynasty government forces, in the process of the gradual collapse of the Ming Dynasty regime, also formed a warlord force. Therefore, entering the Zhongzhen camp in Guangdong is to break into someone else's territory, no matter what you are here to do, even if you are Li Guo and Gao Yigong and run away, who can guarantee that you will not turn around and beat us "Dongxun" who cut off the land and self-esteem?
Warlords everywhere are divided into their own territories.
In fact, the generals of the Zhongzhen battalion were also very dissatisfied with the warlords in various places who cut off the land and committed their own sins, and in the fourth year of the Yong calendar, before the summer troops were dispatched, Gao Yigong met with the Yongli Emperor in Wuzhou, Guangxi, and said to the emperor, "Returning to the army with soldiers, assigning them to the household department, jian ji is weak, dividing the general battles and defending, comparing the crimes of merit, then things are still acceptable; if it is still separated, although the soldiers are numerous, although they are respected, the emperor cannot use them for a pawn, and there are only lords and subjects who have fallen." This passage can be said to tell the reasons for the eventual demise of the Southern Ming, and there are more soldiers, more will not be done" Returning to the army with soldiers. Return to the household department", when the Heavenly Son you encounter danger and want to find an army to protect yourself, there is not a single soldier, and in the end you can only "the lord and the subject are trapped".
The Manchu Qing's ability to centralize power was stronger than that of the Ming Dynasty.
This is to emphasize the importance of collecting military power and financial power in the imperial court. It can be seen from this that these generals of the former DaShun Army were still quite upright compared to the Southern Ming warlords who had cut off the land and committed themselves, and Chen Bangbo had provoked Gao Yigong to attack Li Yuanyin and kidnap the emperor, but these words infuriated Gao Yigong. So he sent troops to beat Chen Bangbo violently.
Chen Bangbo finally surrendered to the Qing side.
In fact, in the fourth year of the Yong calendar, the most tragic operation to rescue Guangdong was Liu Guochang and others, because of the attack of the Guangdong warlords, they lost contact with the large troops of the Zhongzhen battalion and could only fight guerrillas in the mountains of northwest Guangdong. In the ninth year of Shunzhi (1652 AD), Liu Guochang's troops retreated to Longxi, more than 70 miles away from The Milk Source, and on November 13, Jia LazhangJing Xu Youcai, Zhang Wensheng and others led the troops to set out, crossed the mountains and mountains on the fifteenth day, suddenly appeared in Longxi, defeated Liu Guochang, hundreds of Ming troops were killed, many officers and soldiers and more than a thousand old and weak women and children were captured by the Qing army, and then about 121 officers and soldiers surrendered to the Qing army, and the Qing army captured two cannons, thirty pairs of armor, helmets, spears, knives, and bows. After the remnants of Liu Guochang were defeated at the Battle of Longxi, they had to continue to retreat to the mountains, and the Qing army gave up the pursuit because of the steep road.
Liu Guochang suffered defeat and retreated towards the mountains.
The Zhongzhen battalion was not only pursued by the Qing army, but also attacked by the Ming army, and some literati who danced with ink and ink colluded with the Qing side to smear this original rebel army in their own writings, and the troops of Liu Guochang and others had an alias called "white felt thieves", which was originally a description of the original Dashun army's attire, and ordinary soldiers probably wore red and white felt hats and blue military uniforms (this was mentioned by some literati when describing Li Zicheng's troops). As a result, the white felt thief was maliciously interpreted as because this former rebel army unit did nothing evil, and every white bone was everywhere, so it was scolded by the common people as "white felt".
The rebel troops were probably dressed in this outfit.
Of course, do you want to say that Liu Guochang's gang is really Qiu Wuxian? I do not believe that military discipline must first be guaranteed by material conditions; in the deep mountains, the material conditions are extremely scarce, and it is impossible not to have a situation of plundering, but in the past, the literati deliberately pestered them to make a big fuss about these behaviors, and ignored the virtues of Li Chengdong and the like on whom they relied, which was very disgusting. The reason why the loyal camp was attacked by forces from all sides was actually not much related to his peasant army origin, and no matter how much those twittering literati were beeping, there was not a single soldier under them. The most important thing is that the Zhongzhen battalion insisted on its own position of supporting the Ming and resisting the Qing Dynasty, did not have its own territory, and was close to the imperial court, so it naturally aroused the hostility of other warlords.