Last year, in May of the Yiyou year, Li Zicheng, a rebel who had been in the world for many years, killed Li Zicheng, a rebel in the Ming Dynasty, in Tongshan County, Hubei Province, and died under the hoe of an old farmer. The Dashun court, which had just been established, was declared defeat.

Li Zicheng died sarcastically at the hands of the farmer. He walked suddenly and did not point out a direction to the remaining troops of the Shun Army, which had been defeated repeatedly, leaving only a huge mess.

Li Zicheng disrupted the world and allowed foreign races to take advantage of the situation. However, he seized the Ming Dynasty but could not stop the foreign race and made wedding dresses for the foreign race. It can be said that he harmed others and himself, and he had no commendable achievements in his life.

The only thing worth mentioning is that with a person like him, a Zhejiang native in the future has firmly implemented a strategy of "to calm the country before fighting foreign countries."

After Li Zicheng was beaten to death, he once ruled the entire Yellow River Basin and the Dashun Dynasty in northern Huguang completely collapsed. The remaining east-west and west troops flew into Huguang and became bandits again, but they still had strong strength.

At this time, after Li Zicheng's death, the main force of the Qing army in Hubei had already returned to the north with Ajige, and the Ming army in Hunan was not an opponent of the Shun army. The Shun army actually had the opportunity, just like the later Western army, with the Shun army as the main body, to force the Southern Ming court to cooperate and use Huguang's manpower and material resources to restore its strength.

However, after Li Zicheng's death, the Shun Army faced the same problems as the Southern Ming court. No one with high prestige and convincing people came to lead the Shun Army.

The Shun Army failed repeatedly in military affairs, and the pattern in the Dashun Army has changed.

It turned out that the main force of the Dashun Army suffered heavy losses in the process of fighting with the Qing army. Not only did Liu Zongmin, the leader of the military general, were captured and killed. Ze Houtian, who was second only to Liu Zongmin, was beaten to only 7,000 infantry, and his troops were not as good as an ordinary general. He had no prestige at all. Liu Fangliang had only 10,000 people left, Yuan Zongdi, the right camp general, and Wu Ruyi was even beaten to a bare pole.

Compared with the main force of the Dashun Army, the Shun Army's partial division was not the target of the Qing army's focus, but still used strong troops. For example, the general Hao Yaoqi had 40,000 troops, and Wang Jincai had 76,000 troops.

In this case, the original system of the Dashun Army would inevitably collapse and could not form a unified command, and it would not be able to cooperate with the Southern Ming as a whole like the Western Army.

The Southern Ming Dynasty joined forces with the bandits to fight against the Qing Dynasty twice, once with the Shun Army and once with the Western Army. The strength of the Shun Army should be stronger than that of the Western Army, but after the alliance, the strength shown by the Shun Army and the Western Army was completely different.

The key reason for this is that the Western Army took itself as the main body and forced the Ming Dynasty to unite, while the Shun Army did not form a single main body, and they scattered into the Ming Dynasty.

In the joint forces, the Western Army dominated and seized the command of the Qing Dynasty, avoiding being trapped by the Nanming Army. The Shun Army gave up the command of the command and was always trapped, resulting in two peasant armies, with different performances.

Last year, when Zhao Ming suggested that Emperor Longwu surrender to the remaining troops of the Shun Army and join forces to resist the Qing Dynasty, the Dashun West Route Army was also looking for a way out. In August, it arrived in Liuyang and approached Changsha, and demanded a joint venture with He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang, Daming, to fight against the Qing Dynasty.

At that time, He Tengjiao fought a battle with the Shun Army, but was defeated by the Shun Army. Seeing that Changsha was out of protection and was about to escape, he learned that the Shun Army was not going to attack Changsha, but seeking revenge and wanted to jointly fight against the Qing Dynasty.

He Tengjiao had only a few official troops under his command, including Zhang Xianbi and Huang Chaoxuan, and could not compete with the Shun Army. At this moment, Emperor Longwu's order was introduced to Huguang, requiring He Tengjiao and Du Yinxi to recruit Fushun Army.

At this time, Tong Yanghe, the governor of Huguang of the Qing Dynasty, was also recruiting the Fushun Army, intending to use the Shun Army to clear the Ming Army in Hunan.

Tong Yanghe and He Tengjiao were in a somewhat similar situation. After he accepted Wuchang, the main force of the Qing army left Hubei. He only had a few Qing soldiers, and had already reached a part of the Shun army.

Both of them had little force. Whoever fought for the surrender of the Shun Army would have the overall situation in Huguang.

Tong Yanghe tried his best to recruit comfort, but because of the hair shaving, most of the Shun Army chose to go south to Changsha and jointly camp with the Ming army.

This was a rare opportunity for the Ming Dynasty. Emperor Longwu intended to surrender and the Shun army intended to unite, which was a good thing that hit it off.

If the Shun Army is surrendered, the Ming Army in Huguang will be able to crush Tong Yanghe's Qing army in terms of military strength, and it is very likely to recover Jingzhou, Wuchang and Xiangyang.

In this way, Xianghan and Huguang are in place, the Ming army in Chu can threaten Jin Shenghuan, and cooperate with the Ming army in southern Gan to recover Jiangxi, or even go downstream, and it is not impossible to restore Nanjing.

But He Tengjiao is a person like Shi Kefa. He is very loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but he is also loyal.

Because of the will, He Tengjiao reached a "joint venture" agreement with the Shun Army, but he was prejudiced against the Shun Army, who was born into a bandit.

At that time, the army supervisor Wu Jinxi learned that the west line of the army surrendered, and excitedly made suggestions to He Tengjiao, "Du Xian got 200,000 troops and drove them northwards, restored all the land of Chu, and supported Zhejiang and Jiangxi!"

However, He Tengjiao was anxious because the official army was only more than 10,000, but the Shun army had 200,000 people. He did not adopt Wu Jinxi's words and gave up the opportunity to go north. Instead, he followed the advice of the governor Fu Shangrui, started an internal strife, and decided to divide and disintegrate the Shun army.

He Tengjiao, an old bureaucrat who had been a good man for decades, was still a good player. He was very keen to notice the internal discord between the Shun Army, so he took the opportunity to win over Hao Yaoqi, Wang Jincai and others who had low status and large military strength in the Shun Army, and granted officials Xu Jue, gave him generous money and grain, and took them as close friends. He was very discriminatory to the marquis of the Great Shun Dynasty such as Tian Jianxiu, Liu Fangliang, and Yuan Zongdi, and deliberately created estrangements within the Shun Army to achieve the purpose of division and control.

The veterans of Shun Army were naturally dissatisfied with this. In addition, He Tengjiao neither set up a base for them nor provided food and food, which made them unable to gain a foothold in Hunan. So in anger, he led his troops to leave Changsha and met with the Shun Army, who had retreated from Hanzhong to Huguang, and then made plans.

The Shun Army and He Tengjiao jointly fought. Tong Yanghe, the governor of Huguang of Manchu Qing Dynasty, was frightened. He suddenly heard that most of the Shun Army ran away in anger and left Changsha. He was very happy and said happily: "This God helps the Qing Dynasty!"

After Li Zicheng's death, Shunjun had no way to go, either to surrender to Qing or to connect with Ming.

When Tong Yanghe saw that the Shun army left Changsha and entered northern Hunan and western Hubei, he knew that they had no way out and immediately sent an envoy to take the opportunity to recruit Fushun army.

At this time, the main force of the Qing army had already invaded eastern Zhejiang and forced Fujian. After Emperor Longwu received Zhu Yihai's request for help, he immediately summoned Zheng Zhilong to send troops to reinforce him, but was rejected by Zheng Zhilong.

If the Qing army captured Zhejiang, Fujian would not be defended. Emperor Longwu begged Zheng Zhilong, but Zheng Zhilong was still unwilling to send troops. Therefore, the emperor could only pass the orders for southern Gannan and Huguang, ordering the two places to counterattack, restrain the Qing army, and share the pressure for Zhejiang.

The will was passed into Huguang, but He Tengjiao was stunned.

After forcing the main force of the Shun Army on the West Road, He Tengjiao was quite content at first, but he should inform him in detail that Tong Yanghe, the governor of Huguang in the Qing Dynasty, was in contact with the Shun Army that he was forced to leave. He also entrusted him with the local area of ​​Huguang, and also granted him a high-ranking official and generous titles, allowing the Dashun Army to surrender to the Qing court and lead his troops south to take Hunan. He Tengjiao reacted and realized that he had made a big mistake.

At this time, after the east and west troops merged, the troops reached more than 300,000. If these 300,000 people were sent to the Qing Dynasty to the south, the overall situation in Hunan would collapse immediately.

By then, if Zhejiang is defeated and Hunan is defeated again, the Ming Dynasty will be unable to turn things around.

He Tengjiao received the order, but he didn't even say that he went north to restrain the Qing army, whether he could protect himself was a problem.

He Tengjiao, who is very good at dealing with his own people, has no strategy when facing external threats.

At this time, Zhao Ming had mentioned to Emperor Longwu that Du Yinxi, the governor of Hunan, stood up. He was ordered to go to the Shun Army camp in person and persuade the Shun Army to surrender, so as to turn the situation around.

In Changde Prefecture, beside the Lishui River, outside the camp, Du Yinxi took only ten followers and ran to the front of the camp.

In the Shun Army camp, a general immediately led the cavalry out, surrounded Du Yinxi and others, and shouted loudly: "Who dares to break into the Dashun Army camp?"

Du Yinxi held back the horse's reins, glanced at the cavalry of the Shun Army, and said majesticly, "Du Yinxi, the governor of Hunan of the Ming Dynasty!"
Chapter completed!