Returning to the topic, we must also talk about the journey to the unification of the Qing Dynasty.
In the eighth year of Chongde, Huang Taiji suddenly died suddenly, and Daishan was in his sixties and did not care about government affairs. Huang Taiji's various efforts to centralize power during his lifetime and the increasing feudalization of the Manchus naturally passed into the hands of the next monarch. However, Fulin was young and Hauge was suppressed. Dorgon relied on his actual power in the first year of Shunzhi (the tenth year of Chongzhen). In April of the seventh year), he was named a general. Emperor Shunzhi bestowed the imperial seal of the general in the Dugong Hall.
Dorgon led his army south, in fact, it was more due to the timing, rather than planning in advance. In March of the first year of Shunzhi, Dorgon heard that Li Zicheng had captured Beijing and that Emperor Chongzhen had hanged himself, so he prepared to take advantage of the situation and seize the Ming Dynasty. On the seventh day of April, Dorgon went to Nurhaci to In order to show the legitimacy and orthodoxy of this expedition, the troops set off from Shengjing and went straight to Wenghou Town.
At this time, a Han general suddenly sent a representative to ask for help from him. At this time, he had no intention of surrendering to the Qing Dynasty. This person was Wu Sangui. Wu Sangui was originally the guard of Shanhaiguan in the Ming Dynasty. Li Zicheng asked Wu Sangui to surrender many times. Wu Sangui hesitated for a long time and gradually began to surrender. He could not defeat Li Zicheng internally and Dorgon externally.
At this time, Chen Yuanyuan and Wu family members were captured by Li Zicheng and became hostages. In order to save the lives of the whole family, Wu Sangui negotiated peace with Li Zicheng, but he was afraid that Li Zicheng would betray his promise, so he sent a representative to ask Dorgon for help.
Dorgon seized the opportunity and spent six days rushing to Shanhaiguan. He happened to meet Li Zicheng's general Tang Tong. This Tang Tong himself was Dorgon's defeated general. When they met again, he would definitely be defeated in one blow. The next day, Dorgon entered the city of Shanhaiguan. Wu Sangui was very happy. He and Dorgon worshiped God and made an oath. Afterwards, all the Wu troops were dressed in white and white armor (to wear mourning for Emperor Chongzhen) and fought together with the Qing army.
Li Zicheng's main force, totaling more than 200,000 people, was lined up to the west of Shanhaiguan. It was so dark that it was frightening to see it. But who is Dorgon? He has never shown any intention of standing timidly. On April 22nd, the two sides fought, with flying sand and rocks, and strong winds. Li Zicheng's soldiers had previously faced off against those bureaucrats and dirty officials from the Ming Dynasty who had been thinking about perfunctory things all day long, as well as those who could not receive pay or food. The Hanako soldiers, who were full and unable to hold swords and guns, were secretly afraid when they saw the Qing army's burly figures, neat clothes and armor, long spears and big knives, and fat horses sitting down. As a result, after the battle, the whole army Overturned.
Seeing this situation, Li Zicheng immediately asked Wu Sangui for peace. Wu Sangui's condition was to hand over the crown prince Zhu Cixiang (lang three times) of Emperor Chongzhen, the third prince Zhu Cijiong (jiong three times), and the fourth prince Zhu Cican. After Li Zicheng complied, Wu Sangui set up an ambush, and Li Zicheng suffered a big loss.
Li Zicheng fled back to Beijing, burned the palace, and fled south. Wu Sangui was preparing to send the crown prince of Chongzhen to ascend the throne in Beijing, but Dorgon refused and asked Wu Sangui to pursue Li Zicheng south. After Wu Sangui left, Dorgon sent the Qing army into Beijing and occupied it.
Wu Sangui pursued Li Zicheng and won every battle. Li Zicheng had no choice but to escape to Shanxi. After Wu Sangui returned to Beijing, he was shocked to see Dorgon and the officials who had surrendered the Ming Dynasty and established a new court. , and soon named Wu Sangui as "King of Pingxi", and he had nothing more to say.
Li Zicheng fled into Shanxi, and Dorgon ordered Xianghongqi to pursue him. At this time, Li Zicheng actually made a fatal mistake. He listened to the slander of the Prime Minister Niu Jinxing around him and killed his own think tank Li Yan. From then on, Li Zicheng's group disappeared invisibly and became vulnerable. Shanxi also fell into the hands of Ma Guozhu, the governor who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and Li Zicheng escaped from Shanxi again.
Dorgon then sent Duduo and Azig to pursue and attack Tongguan in separate directions. Tongguan could not be defended. Li Zicheng came to rescue, but was still defeated. Tongguan fell into the hands of Duduo, and Azig's army also approached, directly threatening Li Zicheng's capital Xi'an.
Zuo Liangyu, who was originally in Wuchang at this time, was a general of the Ming Dynasty. After leading his army south, he insisted on going to Nanjing to "Qingjun's side". When Li Zicheng saw that Wuchang had become an empty city, he was overjoyed and took Wuchang.
When Azige's army arrived, Li Zicheng went to Jiujiang and set up camp in Jiugong Mountain. On May 17, Li Zicheng had a sudden idea and had to go to Xuandi Temple to burn incense, probably to ask for a fortune. When the people saw that he was blind in one eye, they thought he was a bandit or a robber. They killed him indiscriminately with knives, sticks and hoes, leaving him bloody and bloody.
The "King of Chuang" who established Dashun back then died in such ridiculous circumstances.
Since Li Zicheng died, Zhang Xianzhong was left. Dorgon was not prepared to send anyone else to fight, so he went to Hauge instead. Hauge, who was originally deposed as a commoner, was named Prince Su in October of the first year of Shunzhi, with the word "Heshuo" added. It means "big".
In the first month of the third year of Shunzhi, Dorgon named Hauge "General Jingyuan" and asked him to eliminate Zhang Xianzhong in Sichuan.
At this time, Zhang Xianzhong was very powerful, commanding the whole of Sichuan. Hauge was very smart. He first eliminated all the "robbers" in Shaanxi and Gansu, or recruited them. In November, he entered Sichuan to start a fight with Zhang Xianzhong.
At this time, there happened to be Zhang Jinzhong, who turned out to be the leader of the Sichuan Army Zhang Xianzhong. When he heard that Zhang Xianzhong wanted to hunt him and his Sichuan Army together, he panicked and ran to surrender to Hauge. Hauge regarded his Sichuan army as a vanguard, paving the way for the "Manchurian soldiers". Liu Jinzhong led the Qing army in, and drove all the way to the south of Jiange (the one in the Three Kingdoms period). As if entering an uninhabited land, he met Zhang Xianzhong at Fenghuang Po. As a result, Zhang Xianzhong was shot by an arrow from a Qing soldier named Yabulan. Head, run to a haystack to hide. The Qing army dragged him out and cut him to death with one knife.
Hauge returned to the court in February of the fifth year of Shunzhi. Soon after, he was imprisoned by Dorgon on the charge of indulging his subordinates to take credit. He was imprisoned for about a month and died in prison. His flag was also accepted by Dorgon. For the side room.
