Shiyan: False Surrender And Pretend Attack? How did Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong rebels conquer Yunyang?

From the seventh year of Chongzhen (1634 AD) to the thirteenth year of Chongzhen (1640 AD), the leaders of the peasant rebellion army operating in the vast area of Yunyang were Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Ma Shouying and others. The center of the activity is In Hanzhong and Ankang in Shaanxi and Yunyang, Gucheng, Yunxi, Zhuxi and other places in Hubei. In the first year of Ming Chongzhen (1628), Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others organized a peasant army to hold an uprising in Yan'an, Shaanxi Province, and occupied the counties in the Yan'an area. In the sixth year of Chongzhen (1633), the rebel army grew to hundreds of thousands of people, divided into nine large armies, and attacked Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Hubei, Henan and other provinces. In the seventh year of Chongzhen (1634), Zhang Xianzhong led a rebel army from An Kangdong to Pingli, crossed the Guanya, and conquered the county seat of Zhuxi and killed Wang Shaozheng of Zhuxi. The rebels took advantage of the victory to move east and occupied Yunyang Province and its counties. In the spring of the eleventh year of Chongzhen (1638), Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai expanded their nine battalions, marched east to yunxi, and after their defeat, they surrendered to Xiong Yican (Xiong was the shangshu of the imperial court military department, stationed in Xiangyang, and the military affairs of Yu, Hubei, and Shaanxi). Zhang and Luo led the rebels to Gucheng, Fangxian and Zhuxi respectively.

In May of the twelfth year of Chongzhen (1639), Zhang Xianzhong rebelled again at Gucheng, killing Ruan Zhixiao of Gucheng Zhixian and Yushi LinMingqiu. He then moved west into Fang County and defeated the Ming Dynasty Yuan Zuo Liangyu at Luo Monkey Mountain in Fang County. Enter zhuxi in the west and kill Li Kongxiao of Zhi County.

In the same year, Li Zicheng led an army into Kunhan, Henan, but was outnumbered, defeated by the Ming soldiers, and forced to retreat. Enter the Shangluo region of Shaanxi, break through from Wuguan, enter Yunyang, Hubei, and recuperate in the mountains. From the seventh year of the Forbidden Mountain Qing Shunzhi (1650) to the twelfth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1673), more than 15,000 people of Yang Mingqi and Hao Weiqi, the remnants of Li and Zhang Yijun, operated in Zhushan and Fangxian for more than 20 years, occupying the county seat and killing the four Zhi counties appointed by the Qing Dynasty.

On May 13, the twelfth year of Ming Chongzhen (1639), Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, the leaders of the peasant rebellion at the end of the Ming Dynasty, jointly attacked the county seat of FangXian and suppressed Hao Jingchun and other county officials in Zhixian County. On July 25, Zhang Xianzhong set up an ambush at Luo Monkey Mountain in the southwest of the county, annihilated more than 10,000 Ming troops, captured countless military funds, and the Ming general Luo Dai was killed by random arrows, and the commander Zuo Liangyu escaped alone.

After li and zhang were defeated in the war, they had different opinions and went their separate ways. In the sixteenth year of Dian Chongzhen (1643), Zhang Xianzhong's rebel army marched east to Xiangyang, advanced into Wuguan, and then moved to Sichuan and occupied Chengdu. Created a national name and called the emperor king. In 1646, the Qing army entered the customs and the Ming Dynasty collapsed. (The peasant rebel army was heavily frustrated and forced to retreat from Beijing to Huguang.) Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were killed in battle, and the rest were led by Li Jin and Li Dingguo, who insisted on resisting the Qing and continued to fight. By 1649, all the rebels were killed in battle, and the rebels were captured and killed. This war of unity and resistance to the Qing Dynasty ended in failure, but it planted the revolutionary flame of democracy and freedom in the hearts of the people and always shook the rule of the feudal dynasty.