Li Chuang, whose real name was Li Zicheng, proclaimed himself emperor in Xi 'an in January in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), and was renamed "Dashun" after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Soon after he proclaimed himself emperor, he conquered Beijing and overthrew the Ming Dynasty.

In the second year of Shunzhi (1645), in March, Dashun army forced Zuo Liangyu, the general of Nanming, to occupy Wuchang, and Li Zicheng planned to take a boat eastward and seize the southeast as an anti-Qing base. However, the Dashun army was not fully prepared, and the Qing army suddenly attacked by land and water. Li Zicheng hastily abandoned Wuchang and left for the southeast. In the second year of Shunzhi (1645), 17 May, he was killed by villagers in Jiugongshan, Tongcheng County, Hubei Province. ?

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Li Zicheng's ideological proposition:

1, all fields have no food.

"Farmland without food" is not only the uprising slogan of the peasant army, but also the political program. This policy objectively satisfied the people's desire for land, so the rebels won the support of the people.

Although the Li Zicheng Uprising failed in the end, the tax strategy defended by the insurgents and the desire to establish a reasonable social system still had a far-reaching impact on the tax thought.

2. Military thinking.

Li Zicheng fought for more than ten years and attached importance to the strict management and training of troops. Pay attention to close public relations; Being good at grasping the initiative in the battlefield, he often made a surprise victory with flexible tactics and wrote an important chapter in the history of China peasant war. Li Zicheng fought in 10 for more than 0 years, overthrew the Ming Dynasty, established Dashun regime, and accumulated rich military experience. Although he didn't leave a military strategy, the relevant accounts in the history books reflect some of his military thoughts:

(1) Li Zicheng announced that "to save the people, soldiers should rise", so he put forward the slogan of "restraining soldiers and protecting the people", determined to take "benevolence" as the teacher, resist the loyalist and seize the world.

(2) Reward bravery, punish timidity, and cultivate the fighting style of the insurgents. Attach importance to military discipline and require soldiers to strictly abide by the constraints and act according to orders.

(3) the use of soldiers is flexible and changeable, "there is no need for ancient methods."

(4) He is good at avoiding the real and attacking the virtual, winning by surprise, and defeating the enemy with tactics such as long-range attack, luring the enemy into ambush, diverting troops from the east to the west and attacking the city to help the enemy.

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