Although Wang Dou tried his best, Liu Zeqing's generals did not dare to carry it hard, and the firearms battalion only retracted into the gun formation behind after the guns were released, and in the face of the impact of the cavalry, the pikemen did not try their best to resist, giving way to a few passages and piercing from both sides.

The rushing army who were in a hurry to escape could only sprint from these passages at this time, although although the influx of cavalry, the width of the passage became wider and wider, and the lethality of the Ming troops on both sides was not strong, but the greatest threat was the bird guns that sounded from time to time.

Li Zicheng was a little disappointed when he saw that the Ming army that was attacked in front of him had not completely collapsed. However, he didn't dare to fight, but ran to a passage in the middle that could be passed side by side by more than ten horsemen under the escort of his own soldiers, but what he didn't expect was that there were still many firecrackers hidden in the gun arrays on both sides of the Ming army, and they ran out of ammunition one after another, retracted into the gun array and reloaded, and so on.

When Li Zicheng rode his horse and charged through, there happened to be a group of firearms that had been loaded, and then a salvo was fired at the cavalry that passed in front.

The pro-soldiers surrounding Li Zicheng suddenly fell, and Li Shuangxi, who was guarding Li Zicheng's side, was majestic and unscathed at this time, and he found that Li Zicheng's horse suddenly slowed down, and he didn't dare to delay, so he pulled the reins of Li Zicheng's war horse and continued to escape.

Both sides are in a battle now, and this is not the time for a love war.

Li Shuangxi didn't find out that Li Zicheng was already crumbling on horseback at this time, Li Zicheng was shot, his luck was not good, although he was wearing iron armor and inner armor, but there were still bird guns shot into the gap of the armor!

Li Zicheng, the "King of Chuang" who raised troops to overthrow the Ming Dynasty and finally became a failure, is no longer the kind of rogue who killed people like hemp and did all kinds of evil in the early days.

Now, it is not that after entering the Ming Dynasty, the monarchs and ministers quickly became corrupt and degenerate, only caring about chasing joy and pleasure, not thinking about state affairs, and being an out-and-out "negative teaching material" of the feudal period.

Today, Li Zicheng's regime has the understanding of "sitting in the world," has begun to focus on the building of local political power, and has begun to set up jiedu envoys and defense envoys to manage local military and political affairs, and is also working hard to stabilize social order, and has not relaxed its training of the army.

The reason for Li Zicheng's current defeat can be roughly attributed to the fact that a large number of his troops were stationed in various places, and after a slight loss of the main force, he was forced to withdraw his troops from the capital, which led to serious consequences.

In fact, this also just shows that the most fatal flaw of Li Zicheng's successes such as Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang who changed from the leaders of the righteous army to the founding emperor is the lack of strategic vision.

At the same time, the Dongnu regime, after decades of painstaking management by Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, father and son, was already a stable regime that had been established for nearly 30 years and had a complete system, and through the strong mobilization force of "three dings and one extract", it had the ability to invest more than 100,000 mobile troops in North China at one time, and it was also a large corps of infantry, cavalry, and artillery carrying multiple Hongyi cannons.

In the decisive Battle of Songshan, Huang Taiji gave his full strength, and the army of more than 100,000 Eight Banners fought hard for many years, defeating more than 100,000 elites of the Ming army in one fell swoop, and recruiting Hong Chengchou, the commander of the Ming army, which also led to the serious consequences of the unsustainable Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty, which had suffered a serious loss of elite, made it difficult to suppress the uprising of the displaced people in Guannei, and finally allowed Li Zicheng to gather hundreds of thousands of troops, incorporate the Ming army on the nine sides, and come under the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

However, Li Zicheng's regime, the biggest strategic mistake it made, is not to understand that in the struggle for the world, sometimes the biggest opponent is himself, his own countless surrendered troops, not stable at all, simply unable to withstand defeat, if Li Zicheng can seize several important towns in the Ming Dynasty, stable for a year or two, then there will be no suspense.

At this time, Li Zicheng recklessly wanted to capture the Ming Jing Division, and Li Zicheng also sent a large number of troops to various places to attack Shaanxi, Gansu, Henan, Shandong and other regions, which also made his main force unstable in the department.

Although Li Zicheng did make all kinds of efforts to consolidate political power and local construction in the occupied areas, because compared with the rule of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, Li Zicheng's rise was too fast to be called a consolidated political base, so he had to hastily carry out a decisive battle that would determine the fate of the future.

Under the capital, Li Zicheng's army suffered heavy losses, the number one fierce general Liu Zongmin died in Jizhen, the first person in the clan Li Guo died in the capital, the middle-level generals suffered countless losses, and the repeated Ming army made it difficult for Li Zicheng to gain a foothold in Gyeonggi, Shanxi, and Hebei, and was forced to retreat south in a hurry.

He should have continued to retreat south, even if he withdrew to the south of the Yellow River, sat in Luoyi, guarded the Yellow River in the north and Xiangfan in the south, and could also recruit troops and grain from Guanzhong, and strive to hold the two major base areas of the Central Plains and Guanzhong, at this time there is still hope for the world.

Because when attacking northern Henan, because the Ming army of Xuanda Town led by Jiang Pincheng surrendered too quickly, it also made Li Zicheng, who was overjoyed, completely unreorganized the Ming Dynasty's surrender army, therefore, when Li Zicheng's strategy in the capital failed and the people's hearts were floating, Jiang Pincheng and others easily rebelled in Datong, and the entire Shanxi defense line, under the strategy of Wang Dou, the general of the Ming army, quickly collapsed, almost depending on the rumor.

For Li Zicheng, if he lost Shanxi, it would be difficult to defend Guanzhong, and if he went south in a hurry, Huguang would naturally collapse, which led to this series of military consequences, on the contrary, the Ming army used flexible and appropriate military and political measures to recruit rebellions, and won the re-allegiance of a large number of Ming officials and generals.

Then, the Ming army's peak was almost overwhelming, the so-called "heaven and earth are all the same force", in the superior forces and cavalry groups of the division and joint attack, the pursuit of fierce fighting, Li Zicheng in the decisive battle of Zezhou, although he tried his best, a light victory, but it was difficult to hide the defeat, it seemed to sit on hundreds of thousands of troops but all the way to abandon the city and abandon the land, had to flee to the south, it is "to transport the hero is not free".

At this time, Li Chuang has lost all his strength, if he can't go back to Guanzhong, then he will return to the true nature of the exile army that has no fundamental place to rely on, even if Li Zicheng does not die, it will be difficult to do anything.

At this time, Li Zicheng died, although Li Chuangjun seemed to have hundreds of thousands of mixed troops, but the dragons were leaderless, and the generals of each department had their own thoughts.

Therefore, at the end of the Battle of Zezhou, when he led his troops to break out of the Ming army blockade, Li Zicheng was hit by a lead bullet and died, which can be regarded as a break for this vigorous war.

Of course, no one cares about this now, this is just a fragment taken from the slow river of time, and this fragment is about to dissipate, although no one knows at this time.

Li Zicheng's body was already crawling on horseback at this time, and the cavalry rushed out of the blockade line of the Ming army with the tide, although the number of Ming troops under Liu Zeqing was quite large, but the combat power was worrying, and the battle line they wanted to block was too long, and they were thieves who wanted to run desperately, and there were many cavalry.

And there are more than 5,000 cavalry of the Ming army here, and in the face of more than 10,000 crazy cavalry, what can only half of the enemy do? Although they also launched a pursuit, and attacked the intruding cavalry from the side, they could not stop the torrent of cavalry from escaping.

Therefore, most of the more than 15,000 cavalry on the battlefield of Zezhou who ran away on horseback escaped, including Li Shuangxi, who was guarding Li Zicheng.

At this time, what people on the entire battlefield saw was that Li Zicheng ran away with part of the cavalry, leaving behind more than 20,000 infantry!

Therefore, after Li Zicheng "successfully" escaped with the cavalry, the battle to besiege the infantry of the Chuang Army continued for quite a long time.

Because not all the intruding infantry were willing to surrender happily, some of them were "old battalions", although the number of these people was not large, but they controlled many infantry, but because they had no horses, they could not leave the troops and run away, so they did not follow Li Zicheng.

And the army has been propagating the brutality of the Ming army, it is said that those who do not surrender will be buried alive, so the stubborn resistance of these people is also the main reason why Wang Dou is unable to pursue.

It was difficult for these diehards to escape, but they restrained Liu Zeqing's troops under Wang Dou's control, Zhang Shize's troops who had just pursued from Zezhou, and those Qin Wang's troops of the Ming army.

The soldiers and horses of the Ming army, there is no unified command now, Wang Dou is in a hurry, Li Zicheng is in a hurry to escape, Wang Dou is not arranged at all, how can he command so many troops at this time?

As a result, the more chaotic it became, and the time dragged on a little longer, until the sun went down that day, it was basically over.

Including Liu Fangliang, Gu Junen, Hao Shaoqi, and Li Yan, these big figures of Li Chuangjun's army are all in Fangyuan of Zezhou and have become Li Chuang's loyal martyrs; In addition, more than 20,000 intruders were captured!

And after Li Shuangxi led the team to run for fifty or sixty miles, he didn't know where he had arrived at all, and there were about 1,000 people in the remnants.

The number is small, and the combat effectiveness is not strong, but after escaping the pursuit, he can also take a breath and discuss the matter behind Li Zicheng's death.

If it weren't for Li Zicheng being killed by a single blow when he broke through, this battle of Zezhou could be regarded as a strategic shift to break into the army!

After all, when Li Zicheng fled from the capital, he thought that if he escaped, he would win, but when he arrived in Zezhou, he gathered a lot of people along the way, and Li Yan gathered a lot of people here.

And this delusion has also come to naught, and the losses in this battle alone have reached more than 30,000 people, but what is more serious is that Xiangfan, Central Plains and other places, because they have been transferred troops, are no longer the sphere of influence of the intruding army.

The other is the essence of the army, those generals, in this era, the role of generals is very important!

is also because of Liu Fangliang, Li Shuangxi, Hao Shaoqi, Li Yan, Red Lady and other generals, Li Zicheng gave birth to delusions in Zezhou, and he will eventually suffer the consequences.

In fact, Li Yan had arranged it before, and he had collected as many boats as possible at the Yellow River crossing, and had prepared hundreds of wooden boats to retreat south, but Liu Fangliang's strategy had won Li Zicheng's heart, so Li Zicheng's suggestion to retreat south was not adopted by Li Zicheng.

You must know that at that time, as long as Li Zicheng was willing to go, a general left behind in Zezhou watched and blocked the pursuing Ming army, and Li Zicheng could calmly garrison in the Central Plains.

Zuo Liangyu was originally beaten down by Li Zicheng, and the invasion of troops in Xiangfan and other places was enough to deter the surrounding Ming army, as long as Li Zicheng didn't think about the Ming Jingshi, it was absolutely no problem to hold the Central Plains steadily.

And the Ming Dynasty, although Shanxi recovered, but if you want to fight from Shanxi to Guanzhong, it is not a while, not to mention, the Ming army and the Liaodong Dongnu people are contained, and they can't spare much hands at all, Zezhou is lost, and the Yellow River is dangerous.

And now, with Li Laiheng's child and Niu Jinxing's assistance, this army may be difficult to maintain, at this time, next to Li Shuangxi, a group of people surrounded Li Zicheng's corpse, one by one with red eyes, sighing there.

Li Shuangxi's face was pale, but he couldn't help but shed a few tears, he had no idea at all now, he was not a military advisor in the first place, although he had delusions, but there were people to support him, but now, looking at these people around him, which one can succeed?

The red lady died of her husband, and she was clamoring to cut herself just now, Liu Fangliang and the others didn't run out, or they ran out, but they didn't know where they went, just like when they were in the capital, I heard that Song Xiance also ran out, but they didn't know where they went.

Dashun's ship is about to capsize, at this time, it is not strange that this kind of person appears, but other people can surrender, but Li Shuangxi can't, he is Li Zicheng's righteous son, according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible to be pardoned, especially when the Ming Dynasty won the battle.

Li Chuang's flag has not surrendered, but later it rebelled, and now I am afraid that no one dares to surrender the flag of Chuang, looking at the dim sky, Li Shuangxi is very embarrassed, where should this go?

Wang Dou has moved to Zezhou at this time, and is training the whole army, busy in the dark, and also sprinkled cavalry to pursue those fleeing thieves, at this time the atmosphere of all departments of the Ming army is good, after all, this is a big victory, one by one the thieves have been sorted out, Liu Fangliang, Li Yan, Gu Junen and other thieves, this is a great achievement, but Li Zicheng is not among them.

However, it's not bad, this is already a rare achievement, and I have to give my colleagues a little meat to eat, Wang Dou also paid attention to it at this time, and began to share the credit, after all, the merit is high, this is not a good word, those lessons from the past, Wang Douke has heard of it and remembered it.

He doesn't want to be Yue Fei, he just wants to be Guo Ziyi.