Ranking Pass History: Inventory of the Top Ten Great Players in History

Ninth video:
After breaking out of Shangluo Mountain, Li Zicheng, who made a comeback, finally changed the fighting strategy that he had been running around in the past.

After he entered Henan, he decisively uttered the slogan of "equalizing the land and exempting taxes".

Henan has also suffered consecutive severe droughts, and many people are dying.

As soon as they heard that Li Zicheng was recruiting troops on a large scale, all those who joined the army would be fed, clothed and given fields, and all the common people responded in unison.

Teams of strong refugees, carrying crude weapons such as hoes and sticks, automatically joined Li Zicheng's army.

Li Zicheng's army attacked certain small county towns. Even if the magistrates and generals wanted to defend the city, the hungry and dizzy ordinary people would attack them from behind.

"Eat his mother, drink his mother, and don't give food when King Chuang comes."

This easy-to-understand and easy-to-remember slogan quickly spread across the country, and for a while, people all over the country spontaneously raised the banner of marching into the army.

Since then, King Chuang's army has the momentum to sweep the world, and wherever it goes, it is as powerful as a broken bamboo.

Tenth video:
Ningwu Pass.

Facing the 20 elite peasant army of Dashun, which was no longer a bandit, Zhou Yuji led [-] soldiers from the brave battalion to rise up and resist.

Li Zicheng left Xi'an on the second day of February, and when he reached Ningwu Pass, it took only 21 days to break Fenzhou, Taiyuan, Huaizhou and Daizhou.But it took a full [-] days at Ningwuguan, where there are few major generals.

At the end of the resistance, Zhou Yuji's soldiers had no gunpowder, no bows and arrows, and no intact armor.

Seeing that no reinforcements had arrived, Zhou Yuji knew that the city was about to fall, so he broke off the city to fight, and finally died under the city gate.

The 21-day siege battle caused great casualties to the peasant army.

At least [-] veterans of the peasant army died in the city.

Tens of thousands of veterans were also wounded.

Zhou Yuji's wife Liu Shi is also a heroine.

When she learned of her husband's death, she didn't cry or commit suicide. Instead, she led more than [-] female soldiers to guard the general's mansion.

During the attack of the peasant army, nearly a hundred people died.

In the end, Liu Zongmin stopped sending troops to attack, and directly set fire to the General Military Mansion.Both Liu and the female soldiers died in the fire.

The battle of Ningwuguan gave Li Zicheng's army a sign of the end of its strength.

If Li Zicheng hadn't been in a hurry to attack Beijing and rested for a whole month, he might not have been defeated by the coalition forces of the Qing and Guan Ning in the battle of stones.

But once the Ningwu pass was broken, all the guards surrendered without a fight at the next important pass, which made Li Zicheng proud of having the world in his hands.

During the Battle of Shanhaiguan, many veterans who had fought in Ningwuguan still hadn't healed from their injuries, so naturally they didn't have [-]% combat power.

No.11 video:
Li Zicheng entered Beijing and entered the palace of Emperor Chongzhen.

Seeing Princess Changping, whose arm was cut off and passed out due to excessive blood loss, Li Zicheng sighed, "The emperor is too cruel."

Then Li Zicheng saw the suicide note of Emperor Chongzhen.

"Since I ascended to the throne for 17 years, the rebels have been attacking the capital. Although I am virtuous and ruthless, the heavens are angry, and the rebels are directly attacking the capital. However, it is all the mistakes of the ministers. I died, and I saw my ancestors in the ground without a face. Take off your crown, cover your face with hair, let the thieves split my corpse, and don't hurt a single person!"

After reading it, Li Zicheng sighed again,
"Your Majesty, you are really not responsible for putting all the responsibility on your courtiers. But to be honest, your courtiers are indeed too shameless.

I had just entered Beijing, and all the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty ran up to me, persuading me to become the throne.

Only three courtiers died heroically, and no more than ten courtiers committed suicide together.

Sigh, you have a poor eye for using people, and your subordinates are all weak bones, so how can you be undefeated?But don't worry.

I won't let those soft bones have a good time! "

Li Zicheng buried Emperor Chongzhen and Empress Zhou lavishly.

No.12 video:

Shanhaiguan.

A stone!

Li Zicheng's original intention was actually to force Wu Sangui to surrender.

It was precisely because of this consideration that although Li Zicheng only brought an army of [-], he still let Wu Sangui's own father, Wu Xiang, and Emperor Chongzhen's eldest son, Zhu Cihong, go with the army.

It is precisely to impress Wu Sangui with the righteousness of the monarch and his ministers, as well as the affection between father and son.

But Li Zicheng still underestimated the friendship between Wu Sangui and Qing Chief Dorgon.

After thinking about it, Wu Sangui decided to unite with Dorgon to defeat Li Zicheng in one fell swoop.

After the negotiation failed, the two sides set up a position on a stone and started a head-to-head confrontation.

Wu Sangui's Guanning Iron Cavalry has only 3 people.

Facing the attack of the [-] peasant army, they soon fell into trouble.

However, just when Li Zicheng thought he had the chance to win, Dorgon led [-] Manchu cavalry, rushed into a stone battlefield along the closed Shanhaiguan Pass.

When Li Zicheng saw the Eight Banners Army suddenly joining the battle, he knew something was wrong.

But at this time, there was a big whirlwind on the flat ground, and dust was everywhere for a while, completely obscuring the sight of the peasant army.

The Eight Banners Army saw that if there was divine help, their morale was even higher.

Two hours after the bloody battle, the Eight Banners Army broke up the peasant army's formation.

In order to save the defeat, General Quan Liu Zongmin led [-] heavy armored infantry to rush towards Dorgon's central army, trying to kill the general and capture the king.

Azige guessed Liu Zongmin's plan, and also led the [-] White Armored Army to confront Liu Zongmin head-on.

Liu Zongmin brandished an ancient ingot knife weighing more than 30 kilograms, and rushed to the front of the team.

In the past, Liu Zongmin, who had always been able to defeat the Ming army with his own bravery, finally met a stronger opponent this time.

More than a dozen Eight Banners warriors in heavy armor rushed towards Liu Zongmin regardless of their own safety.

Liu Zongmin yelled again and again, beheaded seven or eight Baijia soldiers, and finally exhausted himself.

A White Armored Army saw the opportunity and shot Liu Zongmin in the stomach.

This shot was as fast as lightning and extremely powerful. Even though Liu Zongmin was wearing a good armor, he was still stabbed.

Liu Zongmin staggered back.

The Baijia soldier retracted his spear and stabbed again, and this spear pierced directly into Liu Zongmin's left rib.

Facing these two critical injuries, Liu Zongmin couldn't keep fighting no matter how brave he was.

He withdrew from the battle under the protection of dozens of his own soldiers.

The [-] heavy armored infantry were completely defeated by the [-] white armored soldiers.

The desperate peasant army learned that Liu Zongmin, the number one general of the Dashun Army, was seriously injured and unable to fight, and their morale plummeted immediately.

After persisting for another half an hour, the whole army finally collapsed.

Li Zichang sighed, and could only lead tens of thousands of peasant troops out of the battlefield one after another.

The Eight Banners rank tail to kill.

One peasant army general after another led thousands of peasant army veterans to set up positions on the road, trying to stop the Eight Banners Army and buy time for Li Zicheng to organize his army.

Dorgon, who is well versed in strategy, has long decided that this battle will completely scare the peasant army.

Therefore, during the pursuit, the most elite white armor army was dispatched.

These white armored soldiers wearing three layers of heavy armor are almost invulnerable iron cans.

Facing the large formation hastily formed by the veterans of the Peasant Army, the Baijia Army almost broke it in one go.

When several peasant army generals failed to delay the Eight Banners Army's pursuit, the peasant army that swept across half of Ming Dynasty finally panicked.

In the end, I didn't even want the basic formation, I just wanted to escape to the front of my comrades.

After several days of desperately fleeing, less than 3 of the [-] peasant troops who left Beijing fled back to the capital.