Li Chixin was very distressed, he found that he had a tendency to degenerate, he had always relied on IQ to win with people before, but now his interests and hobbies seem to be biased towards action, and after returning home from Daming, his hands-on ability has obviously increased geometrically.

"This trend is very distressing!" Li Chixin sighed.

Huang Daozhou was scolded by the cane, Hong actually doesn't know the details, different from Li Chixin's thoughts, Hong's concern is to kill people, as for the person who was beaten half to death by the emperor, Hong has always held the attitude of a bystander, in fact, she is just a looker, her shot is for her husband, there is almost no element of revenge for Huang Daozhou and others, so when talking to her husband about Huang Daozhou, it is naturally a passing by.

Li Chixin scratched his head, since he didn't know it, don't boast of being troubled, his wife and children flipped through other people's furniture, but he continued to flip through the book, it didn't matter, the content in it surprised him......

"Li Zicheng was defeated in Taozhou. In March of the 11th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng and Li Guo's uncle and nephew led their troops from Sichuan to Shaanxi, and went out from Taozhou, and the governor Hong Chengchou ordered Cao Bianjiao and He Renlong to chase and annihilate. Zicheng led the army and Cao's army to fight hard for days, and the people were scarce and lacked food in thousands of places, and the peasant army had no food, and the strength was exhausted, and many people died of starvation in battle. After the defeat of Zicheng and 'a tiger' in Taozhou, he led the remnants of the army to re-enter the fortress and went to Minzhou and the mountains of Xihe and Lixian. Cao Bianjiao chased after him, Li Zicheng and Li Guo were ambushed in Tongguan, and they failed miserably and lurked in the mountains without ......" This text made Li Chixin break out in a cold sweat, because the words before Tongguan met the ambush were almost exactly the same as the memories he inherited, how could this not make him break out in a cold sweat?

saw the text of Li Zicheng and Li Guo's uncle and nephew Tongguan Yufu, and then looked at the following "Zhang Xianzhong's peasant army was defeated by Zuo Liangyu, Chen Hongfan and other troops in the Yunxiang area. Zuo Liangyu shot Luo Dai's arrow to the denomination of loyalty, Liangyu chased after him, and the knife whisked to offer the loyal face. The loyal army was defeated, suffered heavy losses, and was transferred to Gucheng. When Xiong Wencan was the prime minister, he commanded the Ming army, decided to take charge of the plan, and published a surrender. In the spring of that year, Xianzhong bribed Xiong Wencan and the general soldier Chen Hongfan with heavy treasures, and sent people to Beijing to bribe Xue Guoguan, the first assistant. On the eighth day of the fourth month of the same year, when Zhang Xianzhong descended on Xiong Wencan in Gucheng, he felt like chewing wax.

He didn't want to look any further, until when the Hong family dragged Laiheng to the room to rest, Li Chixin was still in deep thought like a wooden clay sculpture.

After roughly flipping through the four volumes of the addendum to the "Huangming Jingshiwen Compilation", Li Chixin also understood one thing, since Chongzhen ascended the throne, he had a dream in his heart, he dreamed of relying on his own strength to reverse the Ming Dynasty, completely solve the galloping Central Plains Li Zicheng and the rampant Qing Dynasty Huang Taiji, permanently eliminate the internal and external troubles of the Ming Dynasty, and save the fate of the Ming Dynasty to the downfall.

What is ridiculous is that it backfired, more than ten years of hard work and perseverance day and night, in exchange for only getting worse and worse, day by day, but in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, all this seems to have taken a major turn.

It was this year, in fact, it was also the young Emperor Chongzhen, the closest to his goal, and he seemed to have touched the ceiling of the Lord of Zhongxing. It is recorded in the book that around the ninth year of Chongzhen, Chongzhen successively appointed Hong Chengchou as the governor of the three sides, and Sun Chuanting as the governor of Shaanxi, presiding over the encirclement and suppression of Li Zicheng and other peasant armies in the northwest.

Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting were both among the best generals in the late Ming Dynasty, and their military talents stood out among the generals in the late Ming Dynasty. The two of them served the court wholeheartedly, had both courage and bravery, and were strict in rewards and punishments, and won the hearts of the army. Under their joint encirclement and suppression, the Ming army swept away the twilight and decline for many years, moving like wind and fire and not moving like a mountain, and the blow to the northwest peasant army finally saw results, and the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which was once raging like a wildfire, fell into a trough in the eleventh year of Chongzhen.

The Ming army completely took the initiative on the battlefield, and Li Zicheng, Li Guo, and other righteous troops from all walks of life did not even have a chance to breathe under the endless blows of the Ming army's stormy rain; their infantry suffered heavy casualties, and their soldiers and grain could not be effectively replenished, so in order to avoid the pursuit of the Ming army, they could only run for their lives and hide in Tibet.

At that time, the people of the 13 families and 72 battalions of all walks of life, who died at this time, were as brutal as Zhang Xianzhong, as cunning as Luo Rucai and other bandit leaders, all of them accepted Zhao'an, and the vast majority of the people who rebelled surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.

Even the ambitious Li Zicheng has reached the point of exhaustion. He suffered heavy defeats one after another under the key blows of the Ming army, successively fought in Hanzhong and Guanzhong, and once broke into Sichuan, trying his best to get rid of the pursuit of the Ming army and get out of the predicament.

However, his biggest misfortune is that the opponent is too strong, either of Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou is a god, not to mention that in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the two giants actually joined forces to suppress the thief, and he Li Zicheng, who has no formal military education, can't cope with it no matter what.

In the end, Li Zicheng ran into walls everywhere under the encirclement and suppression of the Ming army, and even his old base in the northwest could not gain a foothold, so he left Shaanxi in March of the 11th year of Chongzhen and entered the area of Lintao and Gongchang in Gansu. At this time, there were only a few thousand men and horses left under his command, many of them were women and children from the old camp, and they were poor and short of horses, and there was no food.

At this time, the strategist Hong Chengchou saw the fighter, he led the superior forces to chase after him, and Mr. sent the general soldiers Cao Bianjiao and Zuo Guangxian, each leading 3,500 elite cavalry, all the way in hot pursuit, be sure to chase and fight, destroy this ditch. On the eighth day of the first month of March, Li Zicheng was blocked by the Tao River due to his unfamiliar geography, and the Ming army followed closely behind, and fought a fierce battle on the bank of the Tao River.

Li Zicheng took the soldiers, women and children of the old battalion who were only 300 or so left around him, forcibly crossed the Tao River and escaped disaster. But he didn't notice that there was a Sun Chuanting in front of him who didn't make a move, and just as Li Zicheng was about to flee back to northern Shaanxi, Sun Chuanting, who was ambushed outside Tongguan, gave Li Zicheng a fatal blow......

On the tenth day of March in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng experienced the most thrilling moment in his uprising career. According to the "Ming and Qing Historical Materials Part B", Li Zicheng and Li Guo's uncle and nephew took a small team of remnants, and eyewitnesses claimed that "the number of men and women was only 300, and the women were fifty or sixty", and they came to Mawu Village in Tianshuili County, Gansu Province. It was late at night, and Li Zicheng's team was sleepy. But he wisely chose to avoid the village lodging, and instead walked twenty miles south of the village of Mawu, and spent the night camping in the wilderness.