In May of the year of Yiyou, the Dashun Emperor Li Zicheng died at the hands of the gentry in Tongshan County, Hubei, and the Dashun Dynasty basically collapsed.

The Dashun Dynasty, which once ruled the entire Yellow River valley and part of the Jianghuai region, returned to the situation of Chongzhen for 14 years under the pursuit of the Qing soldiers and the rebellion of the local gentry, and the remnants of hundreds of thousands of Dashun troops on the east and west roads had no foothold.

After Li Zicheng's death, his wife, Empress Gao of the Dashun Dynasty, was still in the Dashun Army on the East Road, but the Gao family was weak and was not a person who could inherit Li Zicheng's legacy and reorganize the endgame at a critical moment.

The Great Shun Dynasty failed one after another, and the pattern of the Great Shun Army on the East Road also changed.

In the Xi'an period, Zehou Tian Jianxiu, who was equal to Liu Zongmin, only had 7,000 foot soldiers left, and suddenly became an ordinary general, with almost no prestige at all, the original right battalion general Yuan Zongdi only had 3,000 foot soldiers, while his old subordinate Liu Tichun had 30,000 troops, and his younger brother Liu Titong also had 20,000 soldiers and horses.

Liu Fangliang, the general of the left battalion system who once stood alone in the Dashun Dynasty, only had 10,000 horses left at this time, while the original general Hao Shaoqi had 40,000 troops, and Wang Jincai had 76,000 troops.

Under such circumstances, the command system of the Eastern Route Army will inevitably be destroyed, and it will not be possible to form a unified command, and naturally it will not be able to elect the leader of the alliance and continue to fight against the Ming and Qing dynasties.

No one in the Shun army could inherit Li Zicheng's will, and he couldn't fight on both sides, so he had to make a choice between the Ming and Qing dynasties.

In June and July of the year of Yiyou, the loose Dashun army on the east road, taking advantage of the fact that Azig waved his army eastward and attacked the Southern Ming Dynasty, crossed the Jiugong Mountain, entered Hunan, and finally assembled in the Pingjiang and Liuyang areas, at that time there were still 210,000 troops.

At this time, He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang in the Ming Dynasty, escaped from the rebels on the left, and took Ningzhou and Pingjiang to Changsha for less than a month.

He Tengjiao didn't know at this time that the rest of the Dashun army had arrived in the Liuyang area, and the Dashun army on the East Road had already intended to unite with He Tengjiao under the situation of the emperor's new funeral and the loss of territory, but He Tengjiao had unknown information, thinking that the Shun army that entered Xiangdong was just some bandits who did not become a climate.

In July, the Donglu Shun army approached Changsha, intending to contact He Tengjiao, but He Tengjiao made a wrong judgment and ordered Changsha Zhixian Zhou Nan and Huang Chaoxuan, the deputy commander-in-chief, to lead 2,000 troops to sweep.

The Dashun army intended to reconcile, and took the initiative to retreat to show sincerity, but on Tuesday Nan mistakenly thought that the thieves were vulnerable, and led his soldiers and horses to chase after him, but the Shun army could not bear it anymore and struck a blow in Liuyang, and Tuesday Nan was killed on the spot, and his soldiers and horses were also killed and wounded.

The defeated army fled back to Changsha, and He Tengjiao knew that the original opponent was the Dashun army, and remembered that as soon as Zuo Liangyu heard that the Dashun army had entered Chu, he fled from the wind, and He Tengjiao was suddenly panicked.

At that time, there were only a few officers and troops such as Zhang Xianbi and Huang Chaoxuan, and they could not meet the enemy at all, but fortunately, the East Road Shun Army just wanted to communicate with the Ming Dynasty through He Tengjiao to achieve a joint resistance to the Qing Dynasty, and there was no intention of defeating He Tengjiao.

At the end of August, according to Wang Yan's intentions, Emperor Longwu wanted to recruit the will of the rest of Dashun and the edict of enthronement, and at the same time introduced it to Hunan.

It's just that He Tengjiao, who was born as an orthodox literati, didn't trust the Dashun army from Liukou very much, he and Fu Shangrui, after seeing the joint camp, the number of soldiers and horses increased sharply by hundreds of thousands, and the official army was only 10,000 people, they were panicked and full of suspicion of the Shun army.

At this time, He Tengjiao should have followed the policy of Longwu's edict, using the whole territory of Hunan to replenish the Dashun army and help it recover its combat strength, and then took advantage of the absence of the main force of the Qing army in Hubei to recover Huguang, but He Tengjiao adopted the strategy of squeezing out and suppressing the Dashun army.

In the East Road Shun Army, Hao Shaoqi and Wang Jincai had the most troops, but their original status was relatively low, and they took advantage of the chaos of the defeat of the Dashun army, each of them mastered a large number of Shun troops, and it was inevitable that there would be an estrangement with the veteran general of the Dashun army.

He Tengjiao made a fuss about the food and salary and the station, and then took advantage of the contradictions within the Shun army to accept Hao Shaoqi and Wang Jincai as cronies, and appointed Hao Shaoqi as the deputy commander-in-chief of the superintendent, and was soon promoted to the commander-in-chief, and Wang Jincai was also awarded the commander-in-chief.

As for Tian Jianxiu, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Tichun and other Hou Bo of the Great Shun Dynasty, they were discriminated against, neither resettled nor provided food, so that they could not gain a foothold in Hunan at all, so they had to lead their troops to leave Hunan, enter Hubei, and fight the Xilu Shun army, which was besieging Jingzhou.

The Xilu Shun army was composed of Li Guo, Gao Yigong and other troops, and they did not go south with Li Zichengyi, but from northern Shaanxi, detoured to Hanzhong and went south, and after resting for a period of time in the mountainous areas of Hubei in April, they led their troops eastward at the end of June to occupy the two cities of Jingmen Prefecture and Dangyang.

At the end of July, Li Guo, Gao Yigong and other nine battalions of men and horses would attack Jingzhou, but Zheng Siwei, the deputy general of Jingzhou in the Qing court, resisted stubbornly according to the city, and the Shun army failed to break the city after besieging it for half a month.

At the end of August, the east and west routes met in Jingzhou, and Li Guo, Gao Yigong and others learned the news of Li Zicheng's death.

At this time, Tong Yanghe, the governor of Huguang in the Qing court, began to send envoys frequently to appease the two Dashun armies, and the Dashun army had no way out at this time.

The Qing court entrusted it with the land of Huguang, and promised the high-ranking officials Houjue, so that the Dashun army would surrender to the Qing court, and the army went south to take Hunan, but because Li Guo, Gao Yigong and others resolutely refused to shave their hair, they never reached a surrender agreement.

At this time, the governor of Hunan blocked Yinxi, and after learning that after He Tengjiao's joint camp, he was expelled from Hunan after the Dashun Army on the East Road and the Dashun Army on the West Road, and was stationed in Jingzhou and Lizhou, so he personally rushed to Jingzhou to discuss the alliance with Li Guo.

He Tengjiao is trying his best to exclude the Dashun army, but he agrees with Wang Yan's point of view, believing that uniting the Dashun army is the key to the imperial court's firm foothold.

At that time, the imperial court had lost almost all the elite field soldiers, and the Qing soldiers had millions of soldiers, and the soldiers and horses of the imperial court in the southwest had long been eroded.

Seeing the importance of the Shun army, he led dozens of horsemen to break into Li Guo's camp, Chen said that he was very powerful, said that he was loyal and righteous, and promised to be an official and give him food and salary, and his tears were excited, and he was moved by Li Guo and others.

Between the Ming Dynasty and the Qing court, the Ming Dynasty with the same kind of text was naturally easier for the Shun army to accept than the Manchu Qing with a shaved money rat tail, and after the army got the guarantee of blocking Yinxi, Li Guo, Gao Yigong, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Fangliang, Wu Ruyi, Tian Jianxiu, Liu Tichun and other generals of the Great Shun Army bowed their heads and obeyed the orders and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.

(The information in this chapter is from Mr. Gu Cheng's History of the Southern Ming Dynasty)

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