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Li Zicheng won the victory again and established a political power, but it was only a flash in the pan.

Before the Qing Dynasty, Li Zicheng was an outstanding leader of the peasant uprising army. He led the largest peasant uprising in feudal history and was a great figure in the history of peasant revolution.

It should be said that he has succeeded in countless peasant uprisings in history.

However, due to the limitations of the peasant uprising, it is easy to be intoxicated by the victory, ignore the great enemy outside the pass, and finally be defeated by the Manchurians.

Therefore, Li Zicheng not only has the advantages of Chinese farmers who are hard-working and creative, but also has the disadvantages of weak farmers' awareness, small wealth and short-sightedness.

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So what are Li Zicheng's political achievements?

On this basis, he adopted the advice of counselor Li Yan and put forward the slogan of "equalizing the land and exempting taxes", which was in line with the wishes of the people at that time. The number of people and the scale were unprecedented.

Specific taxation policies, one is to adopt the method of the head of the household to recognize the land, take back the land and return it to the peasants, and resume production.

The second is to improve farming techniques and distribute labor tools such as cattle, and the third is to adopt the policy of "transferring money to help the tax" to enrich the landlords, relieve the poor, and at the same time ensure the expenditure of the rebel army.

This is the main idea of ​​"equalizing land and exempting taxes".

Fourth, open warehouses to help the people and save the common people. As a result, a large number of victims in Beijing, Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong and other places survived.

Therefore, generally speaking, Li Zicheng's uprising was in line with the wishes of the people all over the world at that time, and also in line with the wishes of the people at that time.

Therefore, Li Zicheng is a great leader. At the same time, because of his limited awareness of small farmers and lack of long-term vision, it is a pity that he was defeated in the end and his life and death were uncertain.

The fact that Li Zicheng was quickly defeated by the Qing army after entering Beijing as emperor is indeed a bit difficult for people to understand.

You must know that the Qing army and the Ming Dynasty have been competing for decades. Although they have continued to grow and develop, they still cannot break into the Central Plains on the whole.

The Ming Dynasty basically had an advantage over the Qing army.

The Ming Dynasty was finally destroyed by Li Zicheng.

In this way, the Qing army could not defeat the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty could not defeat Li Zicheng.

It stands to reason that the Qing army should not be able to defeat Li Zicheng.

However, as soon as Li Zicheng and the Qing army fought, they were quickly defeated, and they were all wiped out by the Qing army before long. Basically, they had no power to fight back. What is going on?

Some people said that it was because of Wu Sangui's help.

But you must know that Wu Sangui only has tens of thousands of horses, and the real elite troops are only more than 1, which is completely incomparable with Li Zicheng's huge army of hundreds of thousands.

Besides, Li Zicheng was able to enter the capital, destroy the Ming Dynasty, and defeat Wu Sangui's Ming army, which is actually not a problem.

So, why did Li Zicheng fail so quickly?

At that time, when Yang Sichang, a general of the Ming Dynasty, gathered 10 troops to encircle and suppress Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng with "four positives and six corners, and a net on ten sides".

Li Zicheng was under the joint attack of Yang Sichang, Hong Chengchou, and Sun Chuanting, and only 18 riders escaped in the end.

It can be seen from this that if the Ming army and Li Zicheng's peasant army were to fight head-on, Li Zicheng would definitely not be an opponent of the Ming army.

It was only because after the Ming army dealt a heavy blow to Li Zicheng's army, Emperor Chongzhen did not listen to Yang Sichang's proposition that "only when the inside is safe can we fight against the outside", and transferred the main force of the Ming army to Liaodong to guard against the Qing army.

In this way, Li Zicheng got a chance to breathe, and finally revived and developed stronger.

And when Li Zicheng came out of Shangluo, because he adopted the slogan of "equalizing the land and exempting taxes", the people quickly gathered, and his reputation was great for a while.

Li Zicheng made his way to the capital in such a powerful and prestigious manner.

Li Zicheng went very smoothly in the process of attacking the city of Beijing, and basically encountered no obstacles.

State capitals along the way opened their doors and surrendered.

Even when they reached the city of Beijing, the defenses of the city were relatively strong, but the ministers and eunuchs in the city also opened the door to the peasant army one after another and let Li Zicheng in.

It can be seen from this that Li Zicheng's destruction of the Ming Dynasty was basically a victory without a fight.

At that time, when Li Zicheng called to Beijing, Chongzhen hurriedly mobilized Wu Sangui, the general soldier of Liaodong, Wang Yongji, the governor of Jiliao, Tang Tong, the general soldier of Changping, and Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Shandong, to King Qin.

However, on the one hand, Emperor Chongzhen could not mobilize these troops at that time, on the other hand, it was too late in time.

In short, Li Zicheng destroyed the Ming Dynasty in a very lucky situation.

Li Zicheng took advantage of the time when the main force of the Ming army was transferred to Liaodong. At the same time, through the promotion of slogans such as "equalizing the land and exempting taxes", the personnel quickly gathered, reaching 50 million at one time.

But to be honest, although this peasant army has a large number of people, it has not received much actual combat training, and most of them belong to the mob.

Although the Qing army had only [-] and eight banners at that time, and Wu Sangui's number was more than [-], they had been fighting for a long time, and their combat effectiveness was quite strong.

Li Zicheng used mobs to deal with the powerful Eight Banners army of the Qing army, and he fought resolutely on the frontal battlefield, so it was obviously very difficult to fight.

Li Zicheng's battle with the Qing army and Wu Sangui on a piece of rock in Shanhaiguan was a frontal battle between the two sides.

Therefore, Li Zicheng failed to defeat the Qing army in the end.

After Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he was greedy for pleasure and did not conduct further research on the situation in the world.

He also didn't follow the advice of Li Yan and other clear-headed counselors, thinking that the world was at peace and he could be the emperor with peace of mind.

Therefore, the country has not been strategically deployed.

In this way, when Li Zicheng fought against the Qing army, he had no strategic depth at all.

When he was defeated in Shanhaiguan, because he had no echelon combat and no strategic buffer, he suffered a crushing defeat, so he could only retreat blindly and escape instead of finding room to survive and grow during the strategic shift.

Li Zicheng belonged to the rogues and did not establish a solid base.

According to the characteristics of ancient warfare, city defense must be an important base for Li Zicheng.

Using one city after another to deal with the enemy, the enemy may not be able to advance so fast.

But Li Zicheng did not have a solid base.

Even if the defense of the city is insufficient, you can still rely on the mountains as your base.

In the past, Li Zicheng relied on Shangluo Mountain to revive, why not now?

But Li Zicheng didn't even have a base in the mountains.

Li Zicheng was able to grow rapidly at the beginning because of good publicity.

Taking advantage of the common people's grievances against the imperial court, many common people were attracted to join.

In fact, after he was defeated by the Qing army, he could still vigorously strengthen his propaganda.