Li Zicheng is dead!

At the end of the battle of Tangjiashan, when he led his troops to rush out of the Ming army blockade line, he was hit in the heart by a lead bullet and died!

But this incident was not recorded in history later. And at that time, at least no one on the Ming side knew. Wu Guoyong and Sun Fugui didn't know that they had made such a great contribution - how could killing Li Zicheng be worth a national duke!

It's a pity that no one knows...... Because Li Zicheng's body lay on horseback, the cavalry of the old battalion of Dashun rushed out of the blockade line of the right division of the new army of the Ming army - the number of Ming troops was too small, only sixteen battalions, a total of 8,000 people, and the front they wanted to block was too long. So there was still a gap of twenty paces between the battalions. When you shrink it again, the gap becomes even bigger.

And behind the three Ming infantry battalions that were attacked, there were only three cavalry companies. In the face of more than 10,000 crazy Dashun cavalry, what can less than 300 ironclad cavalry do? Although they also launched an attack, attacking the cavalry of the Dashun Army who fled from the side, they could not stop this torrent of cavalry after all.

Therefore, most of the elite of the Dashun old battalion of more than 15,000 people who ran away on horseback on the battlefield of Tangjiashan that day, 12,000 or hundreds of people, all escaped. Among them is also the guy who held the Daxu flag for Li Zicheng.

Therefore, what the people on the entire battlefield saw was that Li Zicheng ran away with the cavalry, leaving behind more than 20,000 dumbfounded infantry!

And after Li Zicheng "led" the cavalry away, the battle to besiege the infantry of the Dashun army continued for some time. Because not all the Dashun infantry are willing to surrender happily, some of them are "old camp warriors", and they can't forget the little industry in Xiangyang and Nanyang! There are also Li Guoying, Lu Zuguang, and Xu Yong, the "three ministers" (Zuo Liangyu and Zuo Mengeng are also regarded as the No. 1 independent forces) and their henchmen. Although these men were not numerous, they controlled many infantry. Moreover, some of them also had horses, but they only served in the infantry army, and they couldn't leave the troops and run away, so they didn't follow Li Zicheng.

Now that they see Li Zicheng standing out, they are a little more lucky, and they feel that they can also break through. And they also knew that there was no good fruit to eat when they ran to Zhu Cihong, because they not only betrayed Daming and followed Zuo Mengeng to Dashun, but also escorted Zuo Mengeng's family to hang themselves under the pressure of Li Zicheng - so treacherous, how could Zhu Cihong spare them and give it to the official again?

Therefore, they drove the troops to rush up, and it was difficult to rush out, but they restrained Wu Guoyong, Sun Fugui, and Daniel Zhang, who had just rushed down from Tangjia Mountain, and Yan Yingyuan, who learned that reinforcements had arrived and drove out from the county town of Gong'an.

The soldiers and horses of the Ming army have no unified command now - now Wu Sanfu and Li Yan are not by Zhu Cihong's side, where can Prince Zhu command so many troops? As a result, it became more and more chaotic, and the time dragged on a little longer. It wasn't until the sun set that day that it was basically over.

Most of the generals from the Zuo Family Army, including Lu Zuguang, Li Guoying, Zhang Yingxiang, Xu Ensheng, Chang Deng, Xu Yong, Wu Xueli, Zhang Yingyuan, Xu Yuxian, and Ma Jiaolin, have all become Dashun loyal martyrs!

In addition, more than 20,000 people were captured, and thousands of Ming troops who had been captured in previous battles were rescued. There were also more than 1,000 Dashun generals who slipped through the net and caused chaos for a while on the territory of Jingzhou Mansion and Yuezhou Mansion before they were wiped out by Prince Zhu's army.

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Zhu Cihong is not afraid of chaos at all, but the Dashun army is now the most afraid of chaos...... Because their boss is gone!

After Tian Jianxiu, Gu Junen and others led the team to run for fifty or sixty miles, they finally joined Liu Zongmin, who had gone to hunt down Jin Shenghuan and Qiu Lei's subordinates. After the two armies met, there were about 23,000 men.

There are a lot of them, and their combat effectiveness is not weak, so they can finally take a breath and discuss the matter behind Li Zicheng's death.

If it weren't for Li Zicheng being killed by someone when he broke through, this battle of Tangjiashan could be regarded as a strategic victory for the Dashun army!

Although the book losses of the Dashun army also reached more than 20,000 people, most of them were newly attached soldiers or the retinue of old battalion soldiers. Moreover, Liu Zongmin also captured tens of thousands of prisoners when he pursued Jin Shenghuan and Qiu Lei, and these people could be added to the Dashun army, and after entering and leaving, they lost more than 10,000 people.

As for the essence of the Dashun army, it is generally preserved - this is the advantage of four legs, and it is also the basis for Li Zicheng to dare to venture deep behind enemy lines!

By the way, it was just a pretense or something, and by the way, it left a good name in history.

Because the southern part of Jingzhou Mansion is also a flat river to the east, although there are many rivers, it is still impossible to block Li Zicheng's army from passing.

Moreover, as long as Li Zicheng's strategic goal of advancing eastward is achieved - that is, to mobilize Wu Guoyong's troops to aid the east, then the western part of Jingzhou Mansion will be completely under the control of Li Guo and Li Laiheng's department!

In order to transfer supplies into Sichuan, Li Zicheng also ordered Li Guo to collect as many ships on the Yangtze River as possible. So on the Yilingzhou River, west of Huya Mountain, hundreds of wooden boats are now concentrated.

As long as Li Zicheng's army captures Yidu County, which is not guarded by anyone, he can cross the river and return to the Huya Mountain camp, and then calmly enter Sichuan.

And Zhu Cihong's side, although the loss on the books is similar to Li Zicheng (if Li Zicheng is not counted), and the loss is not a descendant. However, on the battlefield of Jingzhou Mansion, Zhu Cihong's descendants were not many, if they did not count the guards division that had just been formed and was not very reliable, there was only one division of Wu Guoyong and one regiment of Sun Fugui.

It was impossible for him to rely on these men to control the vast Jingzhou Mansion and at the same time drive Li Zicheng's army away—in fact, Zhu Cihong's enemies in northern Huguang were not the only ones in Dashun. The local gentry and landlords in Huguang were also the enemies of Zhu Cihong, the big leader of the Beifu Army.

Therefore, Zhu Cihong could not count on the help of the Huguang gentry to restore the rule of the Ming Dynasty in Jingzhou Mansion, Chengtian Mansion, Xiangyang Mansion, De'an Mansion, Hanyang Mansion and other places...... Therefore, the troops of Jin Shenghuan, Daniel Zhang, and Qiu Lei, the three warlords of the Northland, were very useful to Zhu Cixun.

At least it is much more useful than He Tengjiao and Chang Yanling's Hunan regimental training, and the combat effectiveness is not of the same level.

And now, Wu Guoyong's right division has been running back and forth for hundreds of miles for hundreds of miles because of running back and forth, and it is already exhausted, and it is simply impossible to rest for ten days and half a month. Jin Shenghuan, Daniel Zhang, and Qiu Lei suffered heavy losses, and they also needed to be replenished and rectified.

Therefore, in a short period of time, Zhu Cihong was also unable to launch a new offensive in the western part of Jingzhou Prefecture. And if Li Zicheng hadn't died, he would have been a strategic winner.

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In a Taoist temple called Jiugongguan guarded by the Imperial Battalion Corps, Tian Jianxiu, Liu Zongmin, Gu Junen and several other important ministers of Dashun who followed Li Zicheng were surrounding Li Zicheng, who had progressed to become the first emperor, with red eyes one by one, sighing there.

"Okay, how did you become the first emperor?" Liu Zongmin looked at Li Zicheng, who was lying on a desk, his face was pale and he couldn't move, and couldn't help but shed a few more tears, "After suffering all my life, I finally became the emperor, and before I had time to enjoy it, I didn't even have a son, so I died...... What can I do in the future? Who is the new emperor for? ”

The new emperor...... This is a very sensitive question!

Tian Jianxiu and Gu Junen glanced at each other, and Gu Junen said tentatively: "Although the first emperor has no children, he has nephews. ”

"You say Bo Hou?" Liu Zongmin's brows furrowed slightly, as if he was thinking about something, and he could see that Tian Jianxiu and Gu Junen both had their hearts raised.

Liu Zongmin has always been the number two person in Li Zicheng's faction, so don't ask for progress at this time...... Now that half of the Dashun Dynasty is dead, if there is another split, it will be completely cool.