Zhou Yuji was a famous general of the Ming Dynasty against the Qing Dynasty, and fought with the Qing army for three days and three nights in Yangliuqing in November 1642.

At that time, more than 70,000 Qing soldiers plundered a large number of materials and young and middle-aged people from Shandong and returned to the customs through Yangliuqingbei, and the Ming troops in the entire Shandong and Hebei provinces either fled in despair or withdrew their troops to make way.

At that time, Zhou Yuji, who had received the holy decree and was transferred from Yang Liuqing to Shanxi as the chief soldier, had already led his troops to advance, but he heard that the Qing soldiers were going to cross Yangliuqing, so he led the cavalry back to Yang Liuqing, and used the terrain to attack the Qing army, and the Qing army suffered thousands of casualties, creating a rare example in the history of Ming and Qing wars in which the Ming army won more with less.

Later, Zhou Yuji also made many military exploits in Shanxi, and the classical Kunqu opera "Ningwuguan" and the Peking opera "Ningwuguan" showed Zhou Yuji's life as a horse, and the lyrics of the drama have repeatedly mentioned Zhou Yuji's glorious achievements in defeating the Qing army in Yangliuqing.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen (1636), the Manchurian army attacked Beijing. Zhou Yuji made meritorious contributions to the bloody battle from Shangshu Zhang Fengyi, and even advanced to the second rank, and was the deputy general of the forward battalion.

In the winter of next year, from Sun Yingyuan and others to Henan Province, Zhanguangshan and Gushi, all of them will be victorious. Eleven years of class teacher, into the rank of acceptance.

In the autumn of next year, he will come back to beg for thieves, and he will be subject to Xichuan and drop all of them. Yang Sichang went to Xiangyang, and Zhou Yuji went to the meeting from Zhongguan Liu Yuanbin.

Zhang Xianzhong will go to Fang County, Yang Si Changce will peep across the Yuntan, send Zhou Yuji to guard the Huaishu Pass, Zhang Yilongtun Guanghua, and the thief will not dare to commit it.

In December, Xianzhong was defeated in Xing'an, and he will go to Zhushan and Zhuxi, and Zhou Yujifu took Yang Sichang's order to Shihua Street and Caodian to choke its key points, and the thieves were all in Shu.

Zhou Yuji was stationed in Jingmen from Yuanbin and dedicated to protecting the mausoleum. Next year, he and Sun Yingyuan and others will break Luo Rucai in Fengyiping.

Next year, he and Huang Degong chased down the thief Fengyang. has been the rotation of the division, defeated his thief Li Qingshan Yu Shouzhang, chased to Dongping, annihilated a few times, Qingshan surrendered.

Repeatedly added the prince and the young guard, and the governor of the left. In the winter of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen (1642), Zhou Yuji replaced Xu Dingguo, who had just been executed by the Ming court, as the chief military officer of Shanxi.

After that, the Ming army suffered repeated crushing defeats in several key battles with the peasant army, and the main force was completely lost, losing the initiative in the battle against the peasant army.

In the winter of the second year, Li Zicheng captured Shaanxi, preparing to attack Beijing through Shanxi, Zhou Yuji and Shanxi governor Cai Maode respectively arranged river defense, and asked for help from Beijing, but at that time Beijing had no troops to adjust, only symbolically sent the deputy general Xiong Tong to lead 2,000 soldiers to help the battle, Zhou Yuji left Xiong Tong to defend the Yellow River, rushed to Daizhou to establish a blocking line for Beijing.

In the first month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), Chen Shangzhi, the general of Pingyang, surrendered to Li Zicheng, persuaded Xiong Tong to surrender, and asked him to persuade Zhou Yuji to surrender.

After Zhou Yuji saw Xiong Tong, he angrily reprimanded: "I am favored by the country, how can I follow you to rebel against you and lead two thousand troops, and I don't kill thieves, why do I want to be a lobbyist instead?!" Zhou Yuji angrily beheaded Xiong Tong and sent his head to Beijing to show his determination to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

On February 7, Taiyuan fell, and Cai Maode, the former governor of Shanxi, committed suicide. After Li Zicheng rested in Taiyuan for eight days, he captured Xinzhou and then attacked Daizhou.

After Zhou Yuji held out in Daizhou for several days, he ran out of food and led the army to break through and retreat to Baoning Wuguan. Ningwuguan is located in the middle of Shanxi, and is said to be made by the phoenix