After the defeat at Shanhaiguan Jiaoshan, Li Zicheng had only one thought: "run", which was his strength.
He just relied on the words "run" and "hide" to conquer this entire country.
Mobile warfare and guerrilla warfare in modern military doctrine also have the elements of "run" and "hide", but they are essentially different from his rogue bandit strategy.
The former is centered around strategic goals and base areas, while the latter is purely Brownian motion and has no basis.
Having been a thief for many years and "traveling" to various provinces and places, he has accumulated a reputation in the thief world.
The foundation was laid for his sudden rise more than three years ago.
And being good at "hiding" prevented him from dying prematurely like other early thieves.
Only then did the Ming Dynasty have the opportunity to collapse on its own.
In fact, Li Zicheng suffered heavy losses in the defeat of Shanhaiguan, but it was not a serious loss of vitality.
There were still about 50,000 elites from the old battalion that he brought out of 60,000 to 70,000 people.
Among the tens of thousands of battlefield corpses buried in the cemetery in front of Shanhaiguan, half were villagers "recruited" by the Shun Army nearby to serve as cannon fodder.
This is the common fighting method used by the Chuang Army in the past and the Shun Army today.
Fleeed from Shanhaiguan to Yongping and then to Beijing.
Wu Sangui chased him all the way, almost without stopping.
When they arrived at the outskirts of Beijing, Li Zicheng counted the number of people and found that there were only less than 40,000.
He was not surprised by this figure, which already made him very satisfied.
If these soldiers and generals were not the elite of the old battalion, and if I did not bring all the generals with me, I am afraid that there would be less than 10,000 people left now.
The majestic outer city outline of Beijing can already be seen with the naked eye.
Li Zicheng thought to himself: Finally, he can take a breath.
After entering the city, I would first take a hot bath, then have a good meal and drink, then have a good time with Concubine Dou, and finally have a good sleep.
As for what to do tomorrow, I’ll think about it when I wake up tomorrow.
Thinking of this, he suddenly felt relaxed and hummed a tune in Qin opera.
Suddenly, he saw a horse galloping towards him.
It turned out to be his own soldier.
Before anyone arrived, he shouted from a distance: "Long live the report.
The city of Beijing has been captured by the remnants of the previous dynasty.
The four gates are now tightly closed and cannot be left.
There is no answer."
After hearing this, Li Zicheng's heart suddenly tightened, just like a person who suddenly fell into the water.
After a moment, he shouted sternly: "What does Niu Jinxing do?
I gave him 30,000 soldiers and horses.
He didn't help me to defend Beijing.
There are no big enemies around.
Where are the soldiers?
Follow me to the city to check."
The generals behind Li Zicheng quickly stopped him and shouted: "Long live this, this is too dangerous, the Ming army has powerful firearms.", "Your Majesty, this is not possible.", "Brother does not need to go there in person, I will go and investigate for you."
At Li Zicheng's insistence, Gu Junen came up with an idea to ask Li Zicheng to change into civilian clothes and conduct an investigation in plain clothes, so as to avoid being attacked first by the Ming army's crossbowmen and musketrymen at the top of the city.
Li Zicheng wore the uniform of an ordinary soldier and rode his horse to the foot of the Beijing city wall surrounded by his own soldiers.
Although there were not many uniformed defenders at the top of the city, there were very many civilians who assisted the Ming army in defending the city.
These civilians were temporarily recruited by Xia Hua with one tael of silver a week.
They had various weapons, most of which were swords and spears abandoned by the fleeing army in the city and three-eyed blunderbuss from the government arsenal.
A very small number of people knew how to shoot arrows and had bows and crossbows to use.
These people participated in the defense of the city not only for the one or two days of silver, but also to prevent the thieves from entering the city again and ravaging the city.
There are also various Franco cannons and mortars arranged on the city head.
In addition to those brought by the city guard's right battalion when they attacked the city, there are also those newly made and brought from Star City in the past ten days.
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In order to have enough manpower to use these cannons, Xia Hua asked the gunners from the Tianjin City Guards Right Battalion to conduct emergency training for some civilians.
The four Hongyi cannons were also dragged up to the city.
Although Hongyi cannons are used for siege and are not suitable for defending the city, and even long-term use on the city wall will damage the structure of the city wall, they cannot be left idle.
Li Zicheng rode his horse slowly around the city.
The more he looked, the angrier he became, and he said bitterly: "When these people break the city, they will be slaughtered."
Li Zicheng suddenly heard a strange noise, and a soldier next to Li Zicheng fell from his horse.
Then he heard a gunshot in the distance.
Li Zicheng thought the soldier had some illness, but found a pool of blood on the sand spreading from under the soldier's head.
I felt something warm on my face, and when I touched it with my hand, I found that it was a mixture of blood and brain plasma.
Terrified, Li Zicheng galloped back on his horse.
After returning to the formation, Gu Junen said to Li Zicheng: "Your Majesty, a blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise.
Since the remnants of the previous dynasty have taken over the city of Beijing, let them deal with the Tartars and Wu Sangui.
Let's continue to retreat south."
Li Zicheng nodded and said: "The military advisor is right."
He led the army around Beijing and continued to Dingzhou in the south.
Both Li Zicheng and Gu Junen miscalculated.
Wu Sangui ignored Beijing City and also bypassed Beijing City and continued to pursue Li Zicheng.
Although he, like Li Zicheng, was very surprised that the Ming army reoccupied Beijing.
But the real reason why he ignored Beijing was that Dorgon had not allowed him to enter the city beforehand.
Even if Beijing was an empty city, he was not allowed to enter.
Of course Wu Sangui could guess that the troops that captured Beijing could only be the small group of troops stationed in Tianjin with unknown origins as Wang Chengen said.
He was surprised at how they could capture this huge and fortified city which was heavily garrisoned by the Shun army.
But he doesn't need to worry about any of this.
The city of Beijing can be left to Dorgon and his Eight Banners Army.
What he has to do now is to bite Li Zicheng to death in order to avenge his death by killing his father and seizing his wife.
Li Zicheng had already killed his old father Wu Xiang on the road and carried his head on a bamboo pole with the army.
Li Zicheng, who arrived in Dingzhou, learned from the scouts that Wu Sangui had not stopped at the gates of Beijing and was about to cry.
Li Guo admonished: "Your Majesty, it is not a problem for us to run like this.
If we run all the way, Wu Sangui, and the Tatars chase us all the way, all the territory will be lost.
There is no need for us to run anymore.
We have also deployed deployments around Dingzhou.
There are hundreds of thousands of troops.
These troops must be gathered urgently to fight Wu Sangui. " Li Zicheng believed that what Li Guo said was reasonable, and immediately issued military orders one after another, gathering troops to prepare for a decisive battle with Wu Sangui in Dingzhou.
Even if you can't defeat the opponent, you must at least force him back so that he won't cling to you.
Under the urging and coercion of Li Zicheng's repeated military orders, he finally summoned 100,000 troops, including more than 10,000 troops that Song Xiance withdrew from Beijing.
He asked Song Xiance about Niu Jinxing, but Song Xiance didn't know where Niu Jinxing was.
Li Zicheng immediately took these 150,000 infantry to Zhending in Dingzhou for a decisive battle with Wu Sangui's Qing army.
After fighting for half a day, his subordinate army was defeated again.
More than 30,000 people were killed in front and back.
Except for the old camp, the rest were defeated.
At this moment, he completely gave up.
He felt that he was back to the situation he was in thirteen years before Chongzhen, and it was even worse than that.
After all, at that time, he could win two or three out of ten battles against the second and third line troops of the Ming Army. battle.
Li Zicheng ran for two days and found that Wu Sangui suddenly disappeared.
Of course he didn't know that Wu Sangui was doing something more important
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