Chapter 36: The Fall of the Great Shun

When Yu Fei came to King Mu's mansion, Xin Chenzi had already gone to find the red-haired ancestor.

Yu Fei was a little dissatisfied with this, without him, everyone was too stingy and feminine, and lost the grandeur, in fact, according to Cao Chengxuan's strategy, it was very good, and he took the wealth of the southwest to train the army for the Northern Expedition.

Although the strategy is simple, it is actually very good, clarifying the political direction, and letting aspiring people know that there are still people in the southwest who want to go north to restore the rivers and mountains, so that naturally there will be talents to vote, and they can also distinguish between friend and foe.

It's just that Yu Fei didn't bother to say much, just like he said to Li Jingxu, anyone in this world can sit down, as long as it is the emperor of the Han family, Li Zicheng can naturally do it.

Even if Yu Fei has been the master of the Ming Dynasty and has a great impression of the Ming Dynasty, he will not think that the Zhu family must sit in this world, the Ming Dynasty in this life is rotten, and the foundation of the rule has been completely corrupted, and the best way is to grow new shoots from its rotten old body as Mu Tianbo thought.

Putting aside the demon sect factor, in fact, Li Zicheng is not bad, he is just a low-level military family, he can overthrow the Ming Dynasty in more than ten years, subdue the rest of the rebel army leaders, occupy most of the north, and successfully claim the emperor, his ability is not weak.

As long as it is given enough time to sort out its own official system and sort out the contradictions in the north, it will definitely not be its opponent with those wine bags and rice bags in Nanjing.

Less than seven days after Yu Fei came to King Mu's mansion, when Xin Chenzi was still entangled with the red-haired ancestor, Li Zicheng, who had been emperor for less than a hundred days, realized that it was extremely unrealistic to recover by himself in the north alone, and had just raised the mind of the southern expedition, but received the news of the invasion of Houjin in Liaodong.

After Li Zicheng entered the Beijing Division, he made a fortune because he copied his family, and he opened the way with silver, and these wall grasses in Liaodong also surrendered to Li Zicheng, and there was no shortage of silver, and these wall grasses were still a little loyal, at least not like when they were in Chongzhen, when Houjin hit the door of the house before they knew that people were coming.

The first year of Ming Hongguang, the first year of Dashun Yongchang, and the fourth year of Jin Shunzhi in September.

Houjin gathered 100,000 troops to invade the Central Plains in the name of avenging Emperor Chongzhen, and after Li Zicheng received the military report, he also gathered 150,000 elite soldiers to go to Shanhaiguan to rescue.

On September 13, Wu Sangui, the guard of Shanhaiguan, was outnumbered and abandoned Shanhaiguan and retreated to Guannei.

Li Zicheng, who got the news, was shocked, and hurriedly ordered Wu Sangui to be stationed in place, and he hurried to Shanhaiguan non-stop, trying to take advantage of Houjin's unstable foothold and recapture the northern gateway of Beizhili.

The two sides met in a stone, and a big battle broke out immediately, Houjin cavalry was many, firearms were sharp, Li Zicheng fought quite hard, so he ordered Wu Sangui to take the Guanning iron cavalry to cover the flank of the army, and the flank army that was originally used to guard against Azig was transferred into the frontal battlefield.

Wu Sangui, who took over the flank defense line, has been sending a letter for help for less than a day, Guanning Iron Cavalry is known as the first elite of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng thought that Wu Sangui was an old problem, and wanted to ask for money, so he immediately wrote back a letter and scolded him, and promised two million taels of silver, so he devoted himself to the frontal battle.

Before sending out the army, Li Zicheng was full of confidence, not saying anything about the location and people, just with the support of the immortal family in his eyes, Li Zicheng thought that his family would win.

Not to mention whether Houjin is as powerful as he boasts, even if he is powerful, can he stop the immortal family's magical powers?

It was only after the war that Li Zicheng realized that he was wrong, there were also immortals on the other side, and the outfits were obviously from the Han family, Li Zicheng couldn't figure out why these Han family immortals wanted to help this group of barbarians.

Fortunately, although the opposite immortal was more powerful than his own side, he still had a bottom line, and he didn't shoot at ordinary soldiers, so Li Zicheng had the confidence to continue fighting.

The battle was extremely fierce, and on the third day, the Guanning Iron Cavalry, known as the first elite of the Ming Dynasty, couldn't stand it at first, and Wu Sangui waited for reinforcements for a long time, so he gritted his teeth and led the army to Azig.

However, Li Zicheng, who was on the frontal battlefield, did not know anything about this, and as a result, Azig attacked the Chinese army from the flank, and Li Zicheng was defeated, with 150,000 elite troops, and less than 50,000 finally fled back to Beijing.

After Li Zicheng knew that it was Wu Sangui's surrender that killed his 100,000 sons, he was furious, and regardless of dissuasion, he killed all 32 members of Wu Sangui's family.

It was only one day, and the Dolgon army pursued and killed, although Li Zicheng still had more than 100,000 troops at this time, but his morale had been lost, and the nearby troops were all surrendered by the former Ming Dynasty, and there was a precedent of Wu Sangui, Li Zicheng had lost trust in these surrendered troops.

didn't dare to stay in Beijing at all, and he didn't even have time to collect the gold and silver obtained from the raid, so he fled back to Guanzhong with the army.

Dolgon's soldiers took the Beijing division bloodlessly, and Li Zicheng left countless gold and silver, which was immediately rewarded, and sent countless envoys with a large amount of money to the northern state capitals to comfort those former Ming officials, or Dashun officials, all kinds of rewards came casually, and a lot of uncles and lords were sealed.

The former Ming officials, who were extremely dissatisfied with Li Zicheng's loss and salary, immediately defected.

Just sealed some official positions and scattered some money, Dolgon collected hundreds of thousands of surrendered troops in less than half a month, and sat firmly in the capital division.

The situation was slightly settled, and Dol Roll immediately divided his troops into two routes, all the way with his brother Azig as the commander and 100,000 troops to march to Luoyang, cutting off the connection between Li Zicheng's troops and Li Guo's troops.

On the other hand, the eldest brother Haoge was the main commander, leading 200,000 people to attack Guanzhong.

In fact, even if Li Zicheng lost a battle, his strength should not be underestimated, not to mention the more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in Guanzhong, his nephew Li Guochu was originally guarding against the soldiers and horses of the Hongguang Dynasty, and there are still more than 100,000 soldiers, these are veterans who have fought for more than ten years.

It's just that Li Zicheng is used to being a rogue, and he has no intention of sticking to Xi'an Jiancheng at all, no matter how his subordinates persuade him, he decided to flee to the Xiangfan area first, and then slowly try to do it after joining his nephew's army.

As a result, Xi'an, which was originally the base camp, was also taken by Haoge without bloodshed, and after Haoge only left a small part of his soldiers and horses to stay in Xi'an, he began to pursue Li Zicheng again.

In the face of Haoge's pursuit, Li Zicheng couldn't fight at all, so he could only keep fleeing.

The more the fleeing army, the lower the morale, the more they already sat in the world, but in less than a few months they became rogues again, many generals had a strange heart, and when Li Zicheng fled to Xiangyang, more than 100,000 troops had dispersed, and there were less than 10,000 children around him.

And Li Guo's army was also blocked by Azig, and there was no way to join Li Zicheng, and I don't know if those wine bags and rice bags in Nanjing were crazy, but I really believed that Houjin was here to help Emperor Chongzhen avenge and help him suppress bandits.

not only supported Azig and Haoge grain and grass, but also blocked the waterway, helping Houjin trap Li Guo on the front line of Fengyang.

October 28th.

Li Zicheng, the Dashun Emperor who had just become a hundred days old, was killed by his subordinate mastermind Niu Jinxing, and Niu Jinxing surrendered to Haoge with the remaining Dashun officials.

And the more than 10,000 children's army desperately took Li Zicheng's corpse and went out of the encirclement to Fengyang to find Li Guobu.

November 11th.

Li Guo, who knew that his uncle Li Zicheng was dead, chose to surrender to the Hongguang court in the south after careful consideration.

At this point, the peasant uprising led by Li Zicheng was a formal failure, and the Dashun regime had only existed for less than half a year.