In 1640, Li Zicheng went to Henan and got the support of Li Yan, Niu Jinxing, and Song Xiance, and his prestige was greatly boosted and he entered Luoyang. The whole in Henan Henghuang, after occupying Luoyang, the focus is on preparing to attack Kaifeng, at that time, the second largest city in Henan is Kaifeng, he opened the seal three times, no.
Do you know that Kaifeng, after so many years of building the Yellow River, the Yellow River embankment is getting higher and higher, and the silt is piled higher and higher? In fact, Kaifeng became a city below the water level of the Yellow River. Li Zicheng dug up the Yellow River, flooded Kaifeng, and took Kaifeng like this.
After Li Zicheng occupied Henan, he began to expand steadily, taking Jingzhou and Xiangyang. Change Xiangyang to "Xiangjing".
Li Zicheng is no longer called King Chuang, he is called "King Xinshun". This established the regime, and as soon as the regime on his side was established, the imperial court would definitely not do it, so he sent Sun Chuanting out of the customs to exterminate Li Zicheng.
Sun Chuanting had no choice but to come out of Shaanxi. The result was a big defeat, and it really couldn't be beaten. After the defeat, he began to run westward, ran into Tongguan and held out. He can't hold on, and Li Zicheng is definitely unwilling.
Shaanxi is Li Zicheng's hometown. So, Li Zicheng sent his nephew Li Guo to lead his troops to take a small road and go around to the back of Tongguan to attack Sun Chuanting. Sun Chuanting died in battle.
In this way, Tongguan was opened, and as soon as Tongguan was opened, Shaanxi was in no danger to defend. Li Zicheng soon captured Xi'an. At that time, the commanders of Xi'an were called Bai Guangen and Chen Yongfu, and they all surrendered.
In fact, in the 12 years since Li Zicheng and their rebel army started, this is the first time that a major member has surrendered. Before Zhang Xianzhong surrendered to others, Luo Rucai surrendered to others. The Ming army was killed or fled in battle, and did not surrender. Therefore, it was in this year that the "Great Shun Kingdom" was officially established in Xi'an.
This time was 1644. At that time, Li Zicheng reached a small peak of his career.
Let's talk about it, why is Li Zicheng so capable of fighting?
Think of the troops he himself led, all of them were peasants, residents, and rogues. Turning to the whole half of China, all kinds of horizontal jumps, he must have something extraordinary. While he was marching, Li Zicheng's troops marched without logistics.
He is not like the government sending troops, the army needs to arrange logistics and baggage before it can send troops. Li Zicheng did not have no logistics, he grabbed it at any time, and grabbed it wherever he went. This is also a distinctive feature of the rogues. And since he was a native of the Northwest, he attached great importance to the use of war horses.
Each soldier was armed with several horses. Have you read the previous villain books, Li Zicheng wears a small felt hat, right? He also wears a little red rope.
When marching, Li Zicheng often rode alone in front, followed by hundreds of thousands of cavalry behind, and followed from a distance, hey, he was alone. Imagine the scene, it's cool.
Then when it comes to the battle, when it comes to the field battle, 30,000 cavalry are sent in three rows, known as the "three walls".
If the front row retreats for no reason, the back row has the right**, like the Inspector team. Sometimes, according to the situation on the battlefield, the three platoons of cavalry were defeated, giving way to retreat, and when the enemy was chasing them, the infantry in the rear blocked the enemy's rear road and outflanked the past. Then the cavalry went back and shot back with a rifle. Isn't this the right thing to do now?
Therefore, Li Zicheng's tactics of foot and horse coordination are very slippery.
What to do with the siege? Li Zicheng likes to ponder, generally in a variety of ways to attack in three dimensions, there are ladders to climb up, he also made a lot of cloud cars and building cars, as high as the city wall, soldiers jump down. There were also people who slammed large logs against the city gates.
Moreover, he has a special trick. During the siege, a hole was cut in the wall, and then a large wooden stick was stuffed into it, and then hundreds of people pulled the wood together and dragged the wall down. Of course, this is for the small city walls. It's definitely not okay to hit a big city.
The most important thing is that during the siege of the city, he also issued an order similar to that of Genghis Khan - surrender and avoid death, resist for more than three days, and destroy the city. It's brutal.
Li Zi** lives a very luxurious life, has many wives, but has no son, and only one adopted son named Li Shuangxi.
After more than ten years of fighting, Li Zicheng occupied Xi'an. What's next?
Expedition to the north, surprise attack on Beijing!
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