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After quelling the rebellion of extravagant Chongming and the rebellion of Zhang Xianzhong, Zhu and Tan began to canonize meritorious heroes.

Yang Sichang, weak in writing, a minister and poet in the late Ming Dynasty, was awarded the title of Shangshu of the Ministry of Soldiers.

Hou Sui, the word is too true, the number is Ruogu, and he was sealed as the head of the Ministry of Households.

Zuo Liangyu, the word Kunshan, was promoted to the general soldier and was named Ning Nanbo.

Wu Sangui, the son of Wu Xiang, the chief soldier of Jinzhou, was awarded the title of chief soldier.

Cao Wenzhao......

Xiong Tingbi......

Sun Chengzong......

Ma Xianglin......

Qin Yiming......

Qin Bangping......

Yuan Chonghuan......

Qin Liangyu, the word Zhensu, her husband Wang Weijun, the Ming Dynasty's concubine, has outstanding military achievements and was named the second-grade lady.

Basically everyone has many rewards, except for Wang Weijun, there are no rewards, and everyone knows that they don't say anything......

At this time, Daming, who was just about to recuperate, had an outbreak-in-civil turmoil!

Li Zicheng, formerly known as Li Hongji, followed Gao Yingxiang and became a general of the eighth team. After Wang Ziyong died of illness, he joined forces with Zhang Xianzhong, after defeating Deng Xi, the general soldier of the Ming Dynasty in Linxian County, after Gao Yingxiang was killed, Li Zicheng was pushed to be the king of Chuang, leading the people to "go to the enemy", and adopted the tactics of attacking the east and attacking the west, avoiding the real and attacking the false, after Zhang Xianzhong was eliminated, after enduring for half a year, after the army from all over the Ming Dynasty returned to the local area, suddenly gathered 150,000 troops, even Xiajiezhou (now Gan-Su-Wu-Du), Longzhou (now Shaanxi-West-Long-County), Ningqiang (now Ning-Qiang).

At the same time, he was killed, in history, in Jiujiang, Zuo Menggeng, who was incorporated into the Yellow Banner of the Han Army, that is, Zuo Liangyu's son, among which Huang Degong, Yang Sichang and others were also killed.

Li Zicheng commanded the army for more than 10 years, attached importance to strict management and training of troops, paid attention to close relations with the people, was good at grasping the initiative on the battlefield, often won by surprise with flexible tactics, and put forward the slogan of "free grain in the field," that is, the folk song "Greet the king, do not pay for food."

Zhu and Tan were furious, and ordered Zuo Liangyu, Cao Wenzhao, Xiong Tingbi, Sun Chengzong, and Qin Bangping to divide into five routes with a total of 200,000 troops to destroy Li Zicheng, while Ma Shiying's character Yaocao led Gao Hongtu and Shi Kefa to coerce the puppet Fu King to make the strategy of the ministers be consolidated and blocked Zuo Liangyu, Sun Chengzong, and Qin Bangping.

This gave Li Zicheng a chance, Cao Wenzhao and Xiong Tingbi were killed, Li Zicheng conquered Luoyang, killed Zhu Changxun, the son of the Wanli Emperor, and got a few deer from the back garden, and cooked them with the meat of the Fu King, called the "Fu Lu Banquet", and shared it with the soldiers.

At the same time, Li Zicheng confiscated the gold and silver goods and a large amount of grain and materials in the Fuwang Mansion, and issued a notice to help the hungry.

The powerful ministers Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng directly took the line of King Fu, and Zhu Yousong, a Ming Dynasty bureaucrat who stayed in Nanjing, was the emperor, with the year name "Hongguang".

Zuo Liangyu was furious, marched into Nanjing in the name of "Qingjun side", went to Jiujiang, and died of serious illness in the army.

Because Zuo Liangyu messed up the rhythm, Sun Chengzong and Qin Bangping died in battle!

Li Zicheng took this opportunity to break Kaifeng and successively killed Fu Zonglong, the governor of Shaanxi, and Wang Qiaonian, and in August of the same year, Sun Chuanting and Qin Bangping's sons Qin Yiming and Qin Gongming jointly defeated Li Zicheng in He-Nan-Jia-County.

In the second year, Li Zicheng captured Chengtian and was promoted to "Fengtian Advocacy and Righteousness and Civil and Military Generalissimo". In March, Li Zicheng changed the name of Xiangyang to Xiangjing, called "King Xinshun", appeased the poor peasants in exile, "gave cattle seeds, helped the poor, gave livestock a living, and engaged in farming", and "recruited people to cultivate fields and harvest their seeds to pay the army". In the same month, he killed Luo Rucai, the peasant leader who joined the army, and He Yilong of the 5th Battalion of the Revolution.

When Zhu and Tan knew that Li Zicheng had killed their undercover agent Yuan, they let Sun Chuanting be the commander-in-chief, and Ma Xianglin, Qin Yiming, and Qin Gongming were the deputy generals, leading an army of 120,000 to snipe Li Zicheng, and at the same time let the Jinzhou general Wu Sangui, Geng Zhongming's grandson, Geng Jimao's sons Geng Jingzhong and Shang Kexi, a total of 400,000 troops destroy Li Zicheng.

When Li Zicheng heard the news, he immediately led the main force north, and the two armies faced each other in Jia [jiá] county. At that time, it was pouring rain, and the Ming army's grain transportation could not continue. Li Zicheng mobilized the people to clear the wilderness, so that the Ming army could not raise food on the spot; On the one hand, he sent the general Liu Zongmin to lead more than 10,000 light horsemen out of Ruzhou to cut off the grain route of the Ming army.

At the same time, Li Zicheng wrote a letter to Wu Sangui, Geng Jingzhong, and Shang Kexi, sharing the world and cutting off the back road of Sun Chuanting's army.

Sun Chuanting was shocked when he heard the news, and had to return to his division Li Zicheng to lead the division to pursue and defeat the Ming army, beheading more than 40,000 people, and at the same time Wu Sangui waved his army west to break through the Tong Pass, killing Sun Chuanting, and joining forces with Li Zicheng to occupy the whole province of Shaanxi and Western China.

At the same time, the bad news struck, the Fu King Zhu Yousong was proclaimed emperor in Nanjing, the year name Hongguang, the Hongguang regime was established, and the Tang King Zhu Yujian was proclaimed emperor in Fuzhou, and the Yuan Longwu was changed; Soon after, Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, served as the supervisor in Shaoxing, and changed the next year to the first year of the eunuch state, and the two regimes were opposed, and Zhu Yulu and Zhu Youlang, the king of Yongming, ascended the throne in Guangzhou and Wuzhou, Guangxi.

At the same time, Li Zicheng successfully entered Xichuan, and the western, southern, and eastern borders of the Ming Dynasty were all independent.

After receiving the news that Sun Chuanting, Qin Yiming, Qin Gongming, Ma Xianglin and others were killed in battle and that troops were raised in various places, Zhu and Tan were so angry that they vomited blood and fainted, and the queen urgently recalled the two-way expeditionary army of Wang Weijun, Yuan Chonghuan, and Qin Liangyu.

Poor Zhu and Tan made the emperor for seven years, and it was too late to set the name of the year, and spent every day in the peace, on December 3 of the seventh year of Zhu and Tan, Li Zicheng was called king in Xi'an, and the capital was Xi'an, and the founding name was "Dashun", and the yuan was changed to "Yongchang".

Li Zicheng, a meritorious hero with a fifth-class knighthood. At the same time, the political power structure was changed, the cabinet was changed to the Tianyou Palace, and the university Shipingzhang military was set up; The six governments added one Shangshu and one Shilang; Provincial-level institutions were added, and festivals were set up. At the same time, the Eastern Expedition to the Ming Jingshi.

At the same time, he was crowned the prince of Wu Sangui Pingxi, and also governed the Guizhou Prefecture. King Geng Jingzhong of Jingnan guarded Fu-Jian, and King Shang Kexi of Pingnan had a fief of Guang-Dong, which simply meant that they were to destroy the Southern Ming court, and he Li Zicheng went to destroy the Northern Ming court.

Li Zicheng built 3,000 ships at Shawukou, crossed the Yellow River, captured Fenzhou (now Fen-Yang), Yangcheng (now Jin-Cheng-City-Yang-Cheng-County), Puzhou (now Yong-Ji), and the next day captured Huaiqing (now He-Nan-Jiao-Zuo), and killed King Zaiyan of Lujiang.

Ten days later, conquered Taiyuan, Niu Yong, Wang Yongkui and other 5,000 overseers went out to fight and died, on the eighth day of the first month, the defender Zhang Xiong made an internal response, shelled the city, Cai Maode hanged himself.

Seventeen days later, Zhou Yuji, the general soldier of Daizhou guarding the pass, held on to the city, the two sides fought for more than ten days, Yuji was exhausted because of the lack of soldiers, and finally ran out of gunpowder to retreat to Ningwu Pass, and died in the battle of opening the door, the whole body was like a hedgehog hair, and Mrs. Liu led more than 20 women to board the house and shoot, all were burned to death.

Li Zicheng killed more than 70,000 soldiers before and after, with heavy casualties. Li Zicheng ordered the slaughter of the city. That night, Jiang Liang, the chief soldier of Datong, surrendered, and Wang Chengyin, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, also arrived, and even went down to Juyongguan and Changping. On the eighth day of the first month of March, the soldiers arrived in Yanghe. The Dashun army marched into Xuanfu, "the whole city was in an uproar, and the incense was burned to welcome".

Zhu and Tan urgently transferred Wang Yongji, the governor of Jiliao, Tang Tong, the general soldier of Changping, and Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Shandong, into the defense of the capital, waiting for Wang Weijun and Yuan Chonghuan's army to return to the division.

History has its own inevitability, it is like a speeding carriage, if you want to change history, you must find that "pivot point".

And this "pivot point" is Wang Weijun, in the early morning of March 19, Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the military department, took the initiative to open the Zhengyang Gate, to welcome Liu Zongmin's troops, at noon, Li Zicheng was guided by the eunuch Wang Dehua, entered from the Desheng Gate, and entered the inner hall through the Chengtian Gate.

Zhu and Tan and the empress, with the young children of the first line of the King of Han and the first line of the King of Zhao, under the protection of a thousand brocade guards, went to the 'Stone Pillar' from the secret road and the other ministers surrendered Li Zicheng, and broke off for Zhu and Tan.

After Li Zicheng stayed in the Forbidden City, he didn't find that the Zhu family couldn't help but be angry, because there were less than 20,000 soldiers, Li Zicheng had to order: "Those who dare to hurt people and plunder people's property and women will not be killed." "The order in the capital is still good, and the shops are open as usual.

However, from the 27th, the peasant army began to torture and plunder the Ming officials, raided the homes everywhere, and stipulated that the amount of subsidy was "100,000 yuan in the middle hall, 70,000 or 530,000 in the Jingtang brocade clothes of the ministry, 530,000 in the Taoist department, 32,100 in the Hanlin, and thousands of subordinates and subordinates." Liu Zongmin made 5,000 clamping sticks, "all the wood is ridged, connected with nails, and all the bones are broken in order to clamp people." "The terrifying atmosphere in the city gradually became solemn, and the people were panicked, "Whoever tortured hundreds of officials, most of them had tens of thousands of dollars, forced 20,000 or 30,000, and the number was slightly dissatisfied, and then they were strictly compared, and they were extremely miserable and vicious, and they never died", "Led Wei Zaode, Fang Yuegong, Qiu Yu, Chen Yan, Li Yuzhi, etc., and 800 people, including Xun Qi Ran Xingrang, Zhang Guoji, Xu Yunzhen, and Zhang Shize, to recover stolen goods and help them. Tan Qian's "Zaolin Miscellaneous" said that there were more than 1,600 people who died. Li Zicheng's subordinates looted, and the generals were arrogant, "killing people in vain, and most of the soldiers plundered the people's property."

After Li Zicheng entered Beijing, in order to disintegrate the remnants of the Ming army, he repeatedly sent the Qin army that surrendered the 'stone pillar' to no avail, and less than three months after Li Zicheng became emperor, Wang Weijun led Qin Liangyu and Qin Minping's army to kill.

The main general Liu Zongmin was injured, Li Zicheng urgently ordered a retreat, crossed the Yellow River and returned to Xi'an, and soon, abandoned Xi'an, passed through Lantian and Shangzhou, and went to Wuguan. Due to the establishment of the court of Emperor Hongguang of the Southern Ming Dynasty and the successive defeats of the Dashun army, Li Zicheng became increasingly suspicious, and finally killed Li Yan and others, causing the hearts of the people to disperse.

Wang Weijun recovered the lost Taiyuan, and then divided his troops to the southeast of Jin, and Liu Zhong, the commander of the Dashun army, could not resist the enemy and was forced to lead his troops to Henan. At this point, Li Zicheng's Shanxi defense line basically collapsed.

At the same time, Yuan Chonghuan and Qin Minping led the army to attack Zhu Yousong, because of the Hongguang court, the party struggle intensified, the rule was corrupt and mediocre, the struggle for power and profit, the tyranny of expropriation, and the intention was to be peaceful, Yuan Chonghuan soon captured Nanjing, the Hongguang Dynasty fell, and Zhu Yousong died in the chaos.

Yuan Chonghuan broke Nanjing and Hangzhou, and Ma Shiying went to the Tang Dynasty to vote, but he didn't accept it. He was in the Guoan Army, Guoan was defeated, and he wanted to vote for the Tang Dynasty, but he was also rejected and killed by Qin Minping, and at the same time rescued Hou Sui, who was framed and imprisoned by traitors.

Ruan Dacheng was beheaded by deserters on the way to take refuge with Wu Sangui, and in January of the following year, Emperor Longwu Zhu Yujian was captured by Qin Minping in Tingzhou, Fujian, and in February of the same year, Yuan Chonghuan attacked Guangzhou when the two regimes of Tang King Zhu Yulu and Yongming King Zhu Youlang were in dispute, Guangzhou fell, the Shaowu regime fell, Shaowu Emperor Zhu Yulu hanged himself, and the Southern Ming regime perished.

After recuperating for a while, Qin Minping stayed behind, and Yuan Chonghuan led 80,000 cavalry to support Wang Wei's army and recover the lost territory of the whole territory.

——To be continued——