At the end of the apocalypse, famine continued throughout Shaanxi, drought and pests were serious, and withered seedlings and hungry people were everywhere. In the Ming dynasty, the financial situation was further constrained, and the relief became empty talk. Farmers could not live, so they had to take risks. Peasant riots broke out in northern Shaanxi first, which soon formed a prairie fire. At first, Wang Jiayin and Wang Ziyi in Fugu launched riots and occupied Huanglong Mountain. Then Wang Zuogua of Yichuan, Gao Yingxiang of Anzhai, Zhang Cunmeng of Luochuan, Wang Heshang of Yanchuan and Wang Daliang of Hannan responded in succession, and the fire of struggle spread all over Shaanxi. Soon, Li Zicheng joined the mob in Gao Yingxiang after the Mizhi uprising.

In the third year of Chongzhen (1630), Zhang called village farmers in his hometown and organized a team to deal with the riots, calling himself the "Eight Kings". Because he is "long and thin, and his face is yellow, he must be one foot six inches, and the army calls him' Zhang Xianzhong'." At first, this team belonged to Wang Jiayin for personal use, and later it became an army. Because Zhang studied at an early age and received military training, he was resourceful and fearless, and soon showed his command ability. His Ministry became the strongest of the 36 battalions at that time, with Wang himself as the leader. Since then, Zhang has fought with the refugees in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Anhui, Hubei, Sichuan and other places, and has repeatedly made meritorious military service. His team has grown from thousands to tens of thousands, becoming the most powerful force. It played an important role in fighting loyalists. See: Battle of Tongcheng, Zhang.

In the winter of the sixth year of Chongzhen (1633), most of the peasant troops crossed the Yellow River to the south, and Zhang and his men were one of the thirteen families headed by them.

In the seventh year of Chongzhen (1634), Zhang entered Sichuan, captured Kuizhou (now Fengjie, Chongqing) and entered Taiping. Qin Liangyu, the female company commander of Chongqing, arrived with troops and was awed by the fame of Qin Liangyu and his white-pole soldiers. Zhang fled, and Qin Liangyu led his troops to pursue him. He and his son Ma Xianglin, who had just returned to Sichuan, attacked from front to back and defeated Zhang, making him retreat from Huguang.

In the eighth year of Chongzhen (1635), peasant armies of all stripes were besieged by government troops in Henan. In order to break through, the leaders of thirteen peasant armies held a military meeting in Xingyang, Henan Province, and decided to divide their forces to break through and break the encirclement and suppression plan of the loyalist army. After the meeting, Zhang and Li Zicheng marched eastward under the guidance of conquerors. The main force of this East Route Army is Zhang's troops. His troops fought bravely, even breaking through Gushi in Henan and Huoqiu in Anhui, pointing to Fengyang in Zhongdu in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang's troops surrounded Fengyang City on a foggy morning. In less than half a day, 20,000 loyal ministers guarding Fengyang were wiped out, Zhu and others were killed, and Yan Rongxuan, the magistrate of Fengyang, was captured alive. He recounted his crimes in front of the people and was sentenced to death. Zhang distributed the victory products and the grain in the treasury to the local poor farmers, also called farmers and the people in the four townships, cut down hundreds of thousands of pine and cypress trees in the imperial tomb, demolished the surrounding buildings and longxing temple (also known as the temple) where Zhu Yuanzhang became a monk, then dug up the emperor's ancestral grave and killed all the rich people in Fengyang.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard the news, he immediately put on his mourning clothes and ran to the ancestral temple to cry. He also ordered the court officials to wear plain clothes, handle official duties and be vegetarian, expressing their condolences. Emperor Chongzhen dismissed the post of minister of war, beheaded the governor of Fengyang and the governor, and pulled out the governors of five provinces who had been dismissed and lived in seclusion, and sentenced them to death. Despite this severity, the loyalists could not stop Zhang's troops from attacking.

After Zhang captured Fengyang, he moved south and successively conquered Luzhou (now Hefei, Anhui), Anqing, Hezhou and Chuzhou, all the way along the river to Yizheng, Jiangsu. Later, Li Xixing crossed Yingshan and Huoshan and joined forces with Ma Shouying in Macheng, Hubei. Then, from Hubei to Henan, then to Shaanxi, and from Shangluo to Guanzhong. Zhang fought thousands of miles, and things alternated. He chose the weak link of the loyalist army and broke the strategic plan of the loyalist army to encircle the peasant army in the Central Plains. After returning to Guanzhong, Zhang met in Fengxiang. In Shaanxi, he fought several battles with loyalists under the command of Hong Chengchou, the minister of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty. Hong Chengchou's generals Ai Wannian and Cao Wenzhao were all killed by the peasant army, and loyalists suffered heavy losses. The peasant army then went straight into Henan. At the beginning of the ninth year of Chongzhen (1636), the peasant army had grown to hundreds of thousands. When it is in a meeting in Henan, it often runs hundreds of miles. At that time, Zhang had100000 troops. In September of the same year, King Zhuang was captured by an ambush and executed in the same year. Most of Li Zicheng and others moved to the west of Tongguan, and Zhang's troops became the main target of the official attack to the east of Tongguan. When Zhang and his men fought in Hubei, Henan and Anhui, they defeated the government troops many times. He invaded Henan, occupied Xuzhou in one fell swoop, and killed Zuo Liangyu's brother. In March of the following year, the famous Pan Keda was killed in the battle of Jia Dian in Anqing.

However, due to the lack of unified deployment and coordinated action of the various ministries of the refugee army, each department is fighting on its own. By the spring of the eleventh year of Chongzhen (1638), the peasant army was all frustrated.

Especially in April of the tenth year of Chongzhen (1637), Yang Sichang, a scholar of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty and a cabinet scholar, planned the encirclement and suppression strategy of "Siping", "Hexagon" and "netting on all sides". Li Zicheng suffered repeated failures in Shaanxi, and Liu Guoneng and others surrendered to the court in Henan, which brought great difficulties to Zhang's team. When Zhang attacked Nanyang, he was defeated by Zuo Liangyu army and was injured. Fortunately, he was saved by his subordinate Sun Kewang, so he retreated to Gucheng (now Hubei) with his troops. Under the powerful offensive of loyalists, in order to preserve their strength, Zhang of Gucheng and Luo Rucai of Yunyang accepted Xiong Wencan, the minister of war, as "Zhaofu" respectively. After "Zhao 'an", Zhang refused to accept the adaptation and deployment, nor did he accept the official title, thus maintaining his independence. He distributed 40 thousand troops in the suburbs of Gucheng, the headquarters, and divided them into four battalions, each led by a general. During the rest period, collect grass and grain, build weapons, recruit soldiers and train foot soldiers. Zhang also often asked people to tell him about the art of war, and combined with war cases, summed up experiences and lessons, waiting for a chance to make a comeback. Zhang Jian is a diversion.

In May of the 12th year of Chongzhen (1639), Zhang held a banner of righteousness in Gucheng, and soon defeated the garrison in Gucheng, killing the county magistrate Ruan Zhidian and the governor Yu Shilin, tearing down the city wall and robbing the prisoners in the library. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Dajing, Ma Tingbao and Xu were forced to surrender. When Zhang left the ancient city, he wrote down in detail the list, figures and time of bribery of officials at all levels in the imperial court on the walls inside and outside the city, so that the people could see the corruption of Ming Dynasty politics.

When Zhang returned, Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying also responded and went to Gucheng to meet Zhang. Li Zicheng, who was hiding in Shangluo Mountain area, also rallied and entered Henan via Yun Zhi and Jun Jun in Hubei. The bonfire of the peasant uprising once again burned on the land of the Central Plains.

Xiong Wencan learned the news of the peasant army's comeback, and immediately dispatched Zuo Liangyu and Luo Dai to lead the troops in pursuit. Zhang ambushed the army in Luohoushan, west of Fangxian County, and set tight encirclement, and sent a team of troops to feint and retreat to lure loyalists into the mountain. The ambush besieged them, and more than 10 thousand loyal ministers were all dispersed. Luo Dai was captured alive, and Zuo Liangyu fled without armor, even losing his seal. In a rage, Emperor Chongzhen dismissed Xiong Wencan and arrested him. Zuo Liangyu was demoted to the third level and made meritorious service with the army. Then, Yang Sichang, a university student and minister of the Ministry of War, was transferred. Under the governor, he obeyed restraint and launched a large-scale encirclement and suppression campaign against the peasant army again.

As soon as Yang Sichang arrived in Xiangyang, he put forward the strategy of "four rectifications", "six corners" and "casting a net on all sides". Join forces with 100,000 troops, and join forces with generals from Henan, Sichuan, Shaanxi and Yunyang. Their main task is to fully surround Zhang and Li Zicheng. At first, Zhang didn't understand the situation and lost one after another, so he was very passive. Later, through intelligence, I found out the details of the loyalist, and Zhang said that Luo Rucai was convinced, and the two armies joined forces to strengthen the strength of the peasant army. The peasants used the unpredictable tactics of "attacking the enemy by walking", "avoiding the real and attacking the virtual" to deal with the government forces. At the same time, Zhang strengthened his intelligence work and sent many clever sergeants to spy around dressed as businessmen and vendors. People often tell the peasant army about the loyalist movements and often give Zhang's team a guide. Therefore, we can grasp the enemy's situation in time and take military action quickly, so that the loyalist is caught off guard. Then it moved quickly, so that the loyalists could not find the whereabouts of the peasant army and it was difficult to pursue it. The main force of the loyalists was either caught in the air or ambushed and lost their troops. However, it is very unfavorable for the peasant army to be trapped in the encirclement of the loyalist, and it is in danger of being annihilated at any time. Therefore, Zhang believes that it is necessary to completely smash the encirclement and suppression plan of the official army and jump out of the circle to fight against the official army more effectively. In the 13th year of Chongzhen (1640), Zhang was defeated by Zuo Liangyu at Goupingguan and led the army into Sichuan. On the way to Sichuan, Agate Mountain in Taiping County was attacked by Zheng Chongjian and Zuo Liangyu, causing heavy casualties. Later, it was chased and intercepted by Huguang Army, Sichuan Army and Shaanxi Army. The peasant army suffered heavy losses, retreated to Xing 'an Guizhou mountainous area, and was surrounded by Zuo Liangyu and other troops. The peasant army was in trouble. To this end, Zhang took advantage of the contradiction with Zuo Liangyu and sent someone to bribe Zuo Liangyu with heavy treasures, saying, "It is because of my existence that the court reused you and your subordinates killed innocent people. It was seen in North Korea a long time ago. If I am gone, it is not far from your death. " Zuo Liangyu's morale was slack, and Zhang seized the opportunity to gather, disperse and die. With the help of villagers, he walked out of Xing 'an and joined Luo Rucai and other departments. Zhang also used the contradiction between Shao Jiechun and the governor of Sichuan to concentrate his forces and storm Xinning (now Kaijiang, Sichuan) defended by Shao Jiechun. Shao Jiechun didn't expect the peasant army to be so fast, and the loyalist army would collapse at the touch of a button. After the peasant army broke through the Xinning defense line, it successfully entered Sichuan. The peasant army's entry into Sichuan broke Yang Sichang's encirclement and suppression, and the military turned from defense to attack. Stubborn, it is taken for granted that loyalists have surrounded Zhang and Luo Rucai in the border areas of Hubei, Sichuan and Shaanxi, and they are sure to win. But it actually faces military orders, from the governor to the general. Then the soldiers. Few people will carry it out. Zhang tried his best to avoid fighting positional warfare with loyalists, but adopted the strategy of "attacking the enemy by walking". He can travel more than 300 miles day and night, often making his loyalists lose sight of one thing and lose sight of another, being caught between Scylla and Charybdis and being on the run.

In December of the 13th year of Chongzhen (1640), Yang Sichang saw that the peasant army could not be destroyed, and took the way of "appealing" in an attempt to split and disintegrate. Luo Rucai's crime was pardoned, and the defector was granted an official position, but Zhang was not pardoned, and a reward was offered for taking Zhang alive. But the next day, a notice appeared on the wall of Yang Sichang Railway Station, which read: "Anyone who can cut off this inspector will be rewarded with silver and San Qian". Yang Sichang was very frustrated by the tit-for-tat response of the peasant army. He suspected that both left and right factions had contacted the peasant army.

In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen (164 1), Zhang once fought in Sichuan for nearly half a year. At this point, the peasant army was pursued by the loyalist Zuo Liangyu department in Huangling City of Kaixian County, and Liu Shijie and guerrilla Guo Kaili of the left department immediately participated in the war. As the peasant army got earlier and earlier, Zhang took out his elite soldiers and went around to attack the loyalist rear. Zuo Liangyu fled, Liu Shijie and Guo Kaili were killed, loyalist killed more than half, and peasant army won a total victory. See: Zhang Boming's Battle of Xiangyang.

So Zhang sent troops out of Sichuan, marching day and night, and the soldiers pointed at Hubei. When the peasant army arrived in Dangyang, the defenders were still sleeping. Zhang also made a song to laugh at the loyalist: "There was a governor Shao (Shao Jiechun) who used to dance in groups; After that, Liao Shenjun (Liao Daheng) joined the army and surrendered without a fight. What a young pavilion (Yang Sichang), three days away from me! "

In February of the 14th year of Chongzhen (164 1), Zhang led his troops to conquer Xiangyang. Xiangyang was a military town in the Ming Dynasty, and all the munitions and salaries were gathered in the city. Zhang rewarded 100,000 taels of silver to help the hungry, and executed Guiyang. The peasant army won the support of the people and cheered like thunder. At this point, Zhang's completely shattered "four squares and six corners" plan completely destroyed his "ten-sided network". When he heard of Zhang Ruchuan, he fled back to Yichang. In Shashi, he learned that Li Zicheng attacked Luoyang and killed the axe king. He knew that death was inevitable, so he died of fear. Zuo Liangyu was demoted and led the troops with guilt.

The peasant army then crossed the river to capture Fancheng, and then they and Luo Rucai went north. In April, we attacked Yingshan Fukashi and turned to Suizhou to conquer it. In June, Zhang led the army to Nanyang and eastern Xinyang. In July, Zhang was trapped in Yunxi and switched to Xinyang. After Yang Sichang's death, Emperor Chongzhen ordered Ding, the governor of Shaanxi Trilateral, to take over and continue to encircle the peasant army. Zuo Liangyu, who was on the sidelines but didn't fight, came after Zhang. In autumn and August, Zhang was defeated by Zuo Liangyu in Xinyang, leaving the mall with injuries and taking the direction of Yingshan, and was defeated by Wang Yuncheng. Prior to this, Luo Rucai was at odds with Zhang and defected to Li Zicheng. After Xinyang was defeated, Zhang also voted for Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng wanted to reorganize his troops into his own, but Zhang didn't want to. Instead, Li Zicheng wanted to kill him, but Luo Rucai stopped him. Luo Rucai gave a private ride of 500, and Zhang Ziyu went through the southeast of Anhui. At this time, the peasant army in Li Zicheng is besieging Kaifeng. Ding and Zuo Liangyu loyalist main force, all north to rescue Kaifeng. At the end of the same year, Zhang was trapped in Bozhou and entered the area of Britain and Huoshan, where he joined the "Gezuo Wuying" composed of Lao Shouying, Ge Liyan He Yilong, Zuo Jin Wang and Jin, Baijiawang and Luan Wang Lin. Since then, the peasant army has gained momentum again.

In February of the 15th year of Chongzhen (1642), after Zhang led the peasant army to join forces, he captured Shucheng and Lu 'an, entered Kelu Prefecture, and killed the magistrate Zheng Luxiang. It also joined forces with Wuwei and Lujiang to train the water army in Chaohu Lake. Then, he defeated the company commanders Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo's cronies. The victory of Zhang Peasant Army caused a great earthquake in Jiangnan. Fengyang satrap Gao Douguang and Anqing satrap Zheng were arrested and replaced by. In October, Zhang's peasant army was defeated by the army of the official army, and Zhang led his troops to the west. "Ge Zuo Wu Camp" went north to Li Zicheng. In order to avoid Li Zicheng, Zuo Liangyu withdrew his troops from Huguang to the east. Zhang seized Huangmei by chance.

In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen (1643), Zhang led his troops to attack Danzhou at night. In March, the peasant army joined forces in Danshui, Huangzhou and Macheng. In Macheng, Zhang recruited tens of thousands. In May, the peasant army took Hanyang in the west, crossed the river from Yadan Prefecture, and quickly captured Wuchang Fucheng. Wuchang is the residence of Chu Wang Zhu Huakui. Guarding city officials fled at the news, and the soldiers recruited by the king of Chu responded and opened the city gate to meet the peasant army. After Zhang executed the king of Chu, he gave his meat to his men, and at the same time took all the gold, silver and jewels from the king's palace and took hundreds of cars. Send more than $602,000 to collect refugees from all over the country. In Wuchang, Zhang claimed to be the "King of the Great West" and established the peasant regime in the Great West. Set up six and five army governor's offices and appoint local officials. "Change Wuchang into a godsend mansion and Jiangxia into Shangjiang County", and set up a department to recruit talents. * * * 30 scholars and 48 students were admitted, all of whom were awarded state and county posts. At this time, Li Zicheng, also known as the King in Xiangyang, was very dissatisfied with Zhang's occupation of Wuchang. Li Zicheng had the book brought to him to express his dissatisfaction. At this time, Zuo Liangyu's soldiers returned to the west, and many officials of the Daxi regime were captured and killed. Faced with this situation, Zhang was very scared and considered where to go. The two places are connected, forming two parallel peasant army forces. Zhang is too weak to confront Li Zicheng. In August, Zhang led 200,000 troops south and captured Yuezhou. Then they attacked Changsha, and Yin Xianmin and He Yide, the commanders of the Ming Dynasty, surrendered.

After Zhang occupied Changsha, he announced a three-year tax-free and grain-free policy. Then, Hengzhou and its subordinate counties were captured, and wherever they went, the rebels had strict military discipline. Liu Xianting, a Qing Dynasty man, records: "It is true that Zhang Zhongxian came to Hengzhou and didn't kill Lou Gong Sheng."

In September of the 16th year of Chongzhen (1643), the peasant army captured Yongzhou and Enemy at the Gates, making the officers and men in Nanxiong and Shaozhou counties in Guangdong "run away". Wang, the deputy envoy of Mingfen, toured Nanshao and hanged himself in shock. 10, the peasant army occupied Wuling County, Changde District, Yang Sichang's hometown, and liquidated the crimes committed by Yang Sichang and his sons and their families. Zhang Chuanling said, "I've seen the thief Yang Zhu, and in the past year, he has mobilized all the military forces in the world and dared to resist the heavenly soldiers. Fortunately, he died early in my forbearance. " Today, after Wuling, it is his family's clay yard, and the grave is here. It is enough not to submit. Why do you want to tie up fellow villagers and organize groups everywhere? We will kill all nine families, dig all the graves and burn all the houses; Occupy the earth, King Cha. If anyone catches Yang, reward him with twelve taels of silver. Those who catch their descendants and brothers will be rewarded with a thousand dollars. Therefore, I am proud of the government. "It shows that the peasant army has a deep hatred for the officials and bullies.

While the peasant army captured Wuling, Zhang Lingbing attacked Pingxiang, Jiangxi, and was trapped for thousands of years. He divided his forces and captured Yuanzhou. Yuanzhou is the gateway of Jiangyou. If Yuanzhou is lost, then "Jiangyou is bad in the whole province, then the throat of Guangdong and Guangxi is broken and the barrier of Jinling is removed". Under the counterattack of Zuo Liangyu loyalist, zhou yuan was captured by loyalist again. Because Zuo Liangyu was outnumbered, the Ming court was forced to withdraw its soldiers in order to recruit local soldiers. Zhang took advantage of the exchange of loyalists to raid Ji 'an and even occupied Jishui, Yongxin, Anfu, Taihe and other counties, and set up local officials to appease the people and recapture Yuanzhou again. In December of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen (1643), Ji 'an and other counties fell under the counterattack of Lu Daqi, the governor of Jiangxi Province. After Zhang was blocked in Jiangxi, he immediately returned to Yuezhou. The Ming court dispatched Zuo Liangyu to move to Wuchang, and the soldiers were divided into two ways, all the way to Yuezhou and all the way to Yuanzhou, Jiangxi, and the two places were once again occupied by loyalists. So, Zhang decided to go north, set an ambush along the river in Jiayu (now Hubei), and defeated Zuo Liangyu's elite troops. Zhang also incorporated loyalists along the way, making them new camps, which made the army more prosperous than before. At this time, Zhang controlled the whole of Hunan, as well as the vast areas of southern Hubei, Guangdong, Guangxi and northern Guangxi. For the future development, Zhang decided to March into Sichuan. In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), Zhang led his troops into Sichuan. The peasant army conquered Kuizhou, "to Wanxian, the water rises and stays in March". Then Lian Keliang, Zhongzhou and Fucheng defeated the company commander Cao and broke the Buddhist custom. Qin Liangyu, the company commander of Sichuan in the Ming Dynasty, led the troops to fight and was also defeated by the peasant army. After the peasant army conquered Luzhou, it occupied Chongqing, an important town in northern Sichuan, on June 20. Zhu Changhao, Governor Chen Shiqi, Deputy Ambassador Chen Meng and Magistrate Wang Xingjian, who fled Hanzhong, were captured and executed by the peasant army. On the fourth day of July, Zhang ordered Liu Tingju to guard Chongqing. He personally led the peasant army and advanced to Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan, in three ways. States and counties along the way are "watching the wind collapse, a hundred miles of bonfire, and an earthquake in Chengdu." Sichuan Governor Long rushed to Chengdu from Shunqing, and dispatched company commander Liu and nearby soldiers to guard the city. There were "four episodes of Chengdu reinforcements, and they were loyal to make them fake reinforcements and mixed into the city, which was unclear." On the seventh day of August, the peasant army attacked the city from all sides at the same time and broke the city in three days.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), on the ninth day of August, the peasant army conquered Chengdu. Zhu Zhishu, king of Chengdu, and Zhu, king of Taiping, committed suicide. Sichuan Governor Long, Governor Liu Zhibo and Governor Zhang refused to surrender and were all executed by the peasant army. "At first, Li Zicheng let Kyle enter Sichuan and occupied Shunqing." In September, Kyle was ordered to defend Mianzhou, and Zhang sent Ai Nengqi to attack it and personally went to command it. Kyle defeated Hanzhong. In October, Li Dingguo conquered Baoning; Sun Kewang went down to Longan, let the king run and protect it, and led his army to attack Maozhou. Then, Ai Nengqi conquered Asia. At this time, most of Sichuan was controlled by Zhang's peasant army. In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), Zhang proclaimed himself emperor in Chengdu. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, "Daxi" was the title, "Dashun" was the title, and Chengdu was Xijing. After the establishment of the Daxi regime, civil and military officials such as the Prime Minister and Six Ministers were appointed. The king ordered the left prime minister and the right prime minister. " Wang Guolin, Jiang Dingjun and Gong Wanjing were appointed ministers. The Daxi regime promulgated the Tian Tong calendar, and set up a money bureau to cast "Dashun Bao Tong" for use. Open the exam, choose 30 people as Jinshi and serve as county officials. The Daxi regime announced that it would "exempt the people of all ethnic groups in Southwest China from three-year border rent". Zhang strictly forbids "recruiting soldiers without authorization", "accepting people's words" and "marrying local women", and offenders will be prosecuted. Zhang Lisi's adopted sons are kings, namely, King Pingdong, King Funan, King Li Dingguo of Anxi and King Ai Nengqi of Dingbei.

Militarily, the Daxi regime set up five generals' offices: Wang Shangli, the former army, Feng, the left army Ma Yuanli and the right army. Divide the army into 120 battalions, with Hu Weiwei, Tao Bao, Long Tao and Angelababy as guards, and set up a commander to lead them. There are ten big camps and twelve small camps outside the city, and there is an old camp in the middle, named Royal Camp, which offers loyalty. Sun Kewang was appointed as General Pingtung, commanding the 1st19th Battalion. Li Dingguo is General Anxi, in charge of the 16th Battalion; Liu Wenxiu is the general of Fu Nan. He is in charge of the 1st15th battalion. Ai Nengqi is the general of Dingbei, in charge of the 20 th Battalion. Divide the troops and go out four ways. "So I have all the Shu countries."

Soon, Ming generals from all over Sichuan, such as Ceng Ying, Li Zhanchun, Yu Dahai, Wang Xiang, Yang Zhan and Cao Xun, gathered their troops, attacked the peasant army in Daxi and slaughtered local officials of Daxi regime, posing a great threat to Daxi regime. To this, Zhang severely suppressed it.

Zhang ordered Hanzhong to be defeated by He Zhen, the Ministry of Li Zicheng. Zhang came to the rescue from Qiqu Mountain in Zitong. Looking up at the temple, he inscribed a piece and said, "This is my ancestor." "Catch up with adults, saying that ancestors are high and emperors are high. "The temple was ordered to be built and enshrined in stone. Liu Jinzhong will enter Baoning House, and Ma Yuanli will keep Shunqing. After Yiyou's New Year's Day, Zhang said to his subordinates on the third day: "Hanzhong once belonged to Sichuan since the Three Kingdoms. Now that I have designated Sichuan instead of Hanzhong as my capital, it is inevitable that others will get a long visit to Sichuan? I heard that Chu Zhuangwang sent horses to guard Hanzhong, and he was a mediocre man. If you don't get it early, you will be able to use talents one day, but it is difficult to draw a picture. " In order to ensure the safety of Sichuan, he sent two generals, Pingdong and Huwei, to pacify the Hannan area in the north. He also ordered Commander-in-Chief Zhang Guangcai to destroy Zeng Ying as soon as possible, so as to open the road to the East. 16, the peasant army, as the name implies, was launched at the same time with two armies in Zhang Guangcai. I don't know if Li Zicheng replaced Ma Xie with He Zhen. As a result, 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Great Western Army were defeated by He Zhen. In the summer of the second year of Dashun (1645), the regime of Hong Guang, the axe king of Nanming Dynasty, perished. 1 1 month, the Qing government adopted the strategy of suppressing and appeasing at the same time, while suppressing Sichuan as a general of Dingxi, and sent a letter to induce Zhang to surrender and persuade him to submit to the Qing government. The imperial edict said: "The rebellion in front of Zhang was committed by the Ming Dynasty", which showed understanding. "As the judge of the weather, Zhang led many people back. He should be excellent and talk about it. His descendants will always enjoy wealth." And threatened that "if you wait and see, if you don't meet early, the army will come, and it will be too late to regret." However, Zhang ignored this, but strengthened his determination to fight against the Qing Dynasty. At this time, the Qing army led by He was restrained by the peasant army in Shaanxi and never entered Sichuan.

Zhang's Daxi regime and peasant army not only fought against the remnants of the Ming army in Sichuan, but also fought against the landlord armed forces in Sichuan. The former governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, Heng, remained in his original post, and the Nanming regime appointed the former university student Wang as the governor of the Ministry of War, and gave a sword to act cheaply, stationed in Zunyi and presided over the war against Zhang. In March of that year, Ma Gan, the governor of Sichuan in the Ming Dynasty, sent Ceng Ying, deputy commander, to capture Chongqing. And the king of the Cabinet Department was stationed in Zunyi, and his lieutenants, Tu Long, Mo and Jia returned to southern Sichuan. "With Gan as the leader, Hou Tianxi, Tu Long and Yu Chaozong as the deputy, a total of 30,000 people." Xuzhou was captured in March, and the Daxi peasant army lost more than a thousand people. At that time, Liu, the deputy commander-in-chief, Li Zhanchun and Zhang Tian were all under the control of Fan Li, with more than 100,000 soldiers. They kept attacking the peasant army in an attempt to regain lost territory.

When Zhang was stationed in Jinshanpu, he wanted to eliminate those who were not strong in the new attachment relationship. Liu Jinzhong advised him not to kill indiscriminately, but Zhang refused. Liu Jinzhong returned to Jinshanpu to suppress it. Liu Jinzhong became suspicious and went north to the Qing army.

At the beginning of the third year of Dashun (1646), the Qing Dynasty reassigned Prince Haug of Su as General Jingyuan, and Wu Sangui and others commanded the Manchu-Han army to attack the peasant army in Daxi. At that time, Ming Taizu led his troops to recover southern Sichuan, led his troops to the north, and fought fiercely with Zhang's troops at the mouth of Pengshan River. Zhang was defeated and returned to Chengdu. Yang Zhan pushed from the south to Chengdu. Wang sent Zeng Ying as the company commander and Wang Xiang as the stationed, and they joined forces to attack and stop the peasant army from advancing eastward. They made a crazy attack on the peasant army in Daxi, which seriously threatened the peasant regime in Daxi. To this, Zhang gave a firm response. In May, Haug led the Qing army to capture Hanzhong.

In July of the third year of Dashun (1646), Zhang decided to give up Chengdu in order to go north to Shaanxi to fight the Qing army. And "kill all his wives and concubines, even if they are young." He said to Sun Kewang, "I am also a hero. I can't let my little son get caught. You will eventually become a prince. Three hundred years of orthodoxy in the Ming Dynasty may not be sudden, but it is also an act of God. I am dead and eager to return to the light, so I am not unjust. " It shows Zhang Lianming's determination to resist Qing Dynasty. Then, he divided the soldiers into four roads and ordered four generals, each with more than ten soldiers, to March on Shaanxi. In September, Zhang led his troops out of Chengdu and went north to meet the Qing army. In November, our army camped in Fenghuang Mountain in Xichong. After Liu Jinzhong, a former general of the Great Western Cool Army, defected, he first colluded with Zeng Ying of the Ming Army in Hezhou (now Hechuan District, Chongqing), and then went to Baoning (now Langzhong, Sichuan) to surrender to Haug, commander-in-chief of the southern Qing army. Under the guidance of Liu Jinzhong, the Qing army led the Qing army into northern Sichuan. In the third year of Dashun (1646), 1 1 26, the Hogg sent the guards to lead Ao Bai and other generals, and led the Eight Banners guards to advance lightly, and unexpectedly launched a surprise attack on the peasant army. On the morning of the 27th, the Qing army met the peasant army across the Sun Creek. Faced with this sudden attack, Zhang faced an urgent challenge and commanded the peasant army, horses and infantry to attack the Qing army on both sides. At this time, the commander-in-chief of the Qing army, Haug, led the army to follow, sent the leader Gebuku and others to attack the right wing of the peasant army, and everyone unified the tower to attack the left wing of the peasant army. The fighting was fierce, and the Qing general Gebuku was killed by the peasant army, which also suffered heavy losses.

"Zhang was unprepared at first, but when he heard that it was a soldier, he thought it was a bandit. He was wearing a python with half an arm and three arrows at his waist, holding his teeth and looking at the river. Liu Jinzhong pointed out for the generals of the Qing army: "These eight kings are also." Qing shot it with a dark arrow, but Zhang was unfortunately shot with an arrow. He is only forty years old.

After Zhang's death, his followers "hid in hidden places and ran away". The Qing army "seeks to eliminate it, and Chengdu is the first." According to the report of General Jingyuan of the Qing court and Prince Haug of Shuozhou: "On November 26th, the minister and the viceroy went south to spy on treacherous court official Zhang, camped in Xichong County, ordered the guards to lead others, and led the Eight Banners Guards to set out respectively. I unified the army and continued to advance in the starry night, and arrived in Xichong at dawn the next day. Dedicated to loyalty and loyalty, Ao Bai and others tried their best to break it and sacrificed it to the battle. "

After Zhang's death, his Ministry, Li Dingguo, Ai Nengqi and Feng led the peasant army south, which was blocked by Zeng Ying's department of the Ming army in Chongqing. After the peasant army killed Zeng Ying, it continued to move to Guizhou. Later, it joined forces with Nanming to fight against the Qing army. He fought in the vast areas of southwest provinces for nearly 20 years until the early years of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty.