The battle of Zhuxian Town broke the king, dug ditches and defeated the Ming Dynasty.

King Li Zicheng commanded hundreds of thousands of troops and set out for Kaifeng in the Central Plains. The brilliant red sun shines on the handsome flag embroidered with the word "Chuang" and hunts and hunts. It was May 1st, the 15th year of Chongzhen. When the army arrived in Zhuxian Town, southwest of Kaifeng City, it was already dusk, and Li Zicheng ordered the troops to camp in the suburbs of the town. Zuo Liangyu, Ding and Yang were sent to the north to rescue Wang Chuang, Kaifeng Prefecture, and they said with a smile, "It's just the right time." The next day, Wang Chuang moved the old camp to Yanjiazhai, surrounded by other people from all walks of life, and allocated a large number of manpower guns to cut the landlord's wheat, prepare rations and help the poor. Peter said Zuo Liangyu led the troops more than 100,000, and Ding and Yang led the troops 50,000. Although it was an imperial edict, they knew that Li Zicheng was tough, so they didn't act quickly. After traveling for more than ten days, they are close to Zhuxian Town. In the middle of the night, Zuo Liangyu rode with a knife to the south gate of Zhuxian Town, and Ding and Yang guarded the east gate. As there were not many defenders in the town, Zuo Liangyu easily occupied the Wangyue Temple in the town. At this point, the 3000 cavalry sent just entered Zhuxian town from Ximen, and they met Ding and Yang's troops on the narrow path in the town, and the two armies scuffled. Ding and Yang's troops had many firearms, so the cavalry could not gallop in the hutongs, and gradually they could not support themselves. At the critical moment, Zuo Liangyu's army surrounded Lee Guo from all directions, but he couldn't get out of trouble. Lee Guo was shot in the face. Listening to the cries of the Ming army, Li Guoxin panicked, but still resisted to the death. The Ming army did not dare to approach, and only used bows and arrows and firearms to shoot at a long distance. Lee Guo's soldiers crouched on the ruins to resist. At dawn, Chu Zhuangwang general Liu Zongmin's 5000 cavalry were killed, Ming army was killed, and Lee Guo was saved. Liu Zongmin saw that Lee Guo had a wound on his face, and Lee Guo was Li Zicheng's nephew, so it was not convenient to blame him. Lee Guo himself said, "I underestimated the enemy and didn't listen to the general. Please ask the general to punish me. " Liu Zongmin said with a smile, "The spirit of this young man is commendable. Be careful not to advance blindly in the future. " At dawn, King Li Zicheng entered Zhuxian Town. At this point, the Ming army has retreated to the Shuipo base more than ten miles southeast of Zhuxian Town. Hao, a brave general, waved his flag and asked, "Retreating to the Shuipo base can annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop." Wang Chuang said, "Wait a minute. Don't bother General Tiger yet, I have my own clever plan. General, please come to the Moon Temple this afternoon to discuss. " After lunch, Li Zicheng called his generals Liu Zongmin, Hao Yiqi, Yan Li, Yuan Zongdi, Lee Guo, Liu Fangliang, Song Xiance, Niu Jinxing, Tian Jianxiu, Luo Rucai and others to discuss in Yuewang Temple. Li Zicheng let everyone express their opinions for a long time, and finally said, "Is your idea summed up like this, that is, cut off the water in Jia Luhe to cut off the enemy's water source?" Alienate Zuo Liangyu from Ding and Yang; And stop the fleeing enemy. "The plenary session unanimously said" yes ",so Li Zicheng suited his duties. Explain that after Zheng Jun retreated to Shuipoji, Zuo Liangyu camped in the east and Ding and Yang were stationed in the west. Zuo Liangyu looked down on officials such as Ding and Yang. In Zuo Liangyu's place, they hated mercenaries. This morning, Ding and Yang's camp was suddenly bombarded by Li Zicheng's artillery, causing a lot of casualties, while Zuo Liangyu's camp was not attacked. Ding He became suspicious, so they discussed it together. Yang said to him, "Inspector, the thieves didn't bomb Zuo Liangyu barracks, but only us. Why? Ding said to him, "I came to supervise Zuo Liangyu on the orders of the emperor." . When Li Zicheng attacked Shangqiu, he gave Zuo Fu extra protection. In addition, Zuo Liangyu's adopted daughter was adopted by Li Chuang and his wife in the concentration camp. Don't let him betray the enemy! "Yang said," It is better to ask him to kill him. " Ding quickly shook his head and said, "no, don't make a move. He has more than100,000 mercenaries, and

The doorman quickly picked up the red envelope and felt heavy. When he opened it, he found a hundred gold bars and a letter. The guards didn't dare to share it, so they came to see Yang with their luggage. Yang told the guards to come to Ding with their luggage and explain the situation. Ding opened the letter and scolded, "Wrong!" So I showed the letter to Yang. It turned out that the letter said, "I am willing to serve General Zuo with 120 gold. Keep your promise and wait for good news. Self-contained. " Ding immediately drafted a document and sent someone to listen to the story of Emperor Chongzhen, saying that Zuo Liangyu opposed it. Only to find that the courier was captured by Li Zicheng's army. After reading the document, Li Zicheng kindly comforted the book delivery person and told him that as long as the document was delivered to Zuo Liangyu, it would be a great achievement. Li Zicheng sent five warriors, and the guards sent Ding's Zuo Liangyu Introspection Document to the guards in front of Zuo Liangyu camp, and then returned. Besides, there are hundreds of people in Zuo Liangyu. Because Jia Luhe was cut off, the weather has been hot and dry for several months, and it is very difficult to carry drinking water. Soldiers are complaining. When Zuo Liangyu was discussing countermeasures with Ding and Yang, Ding sent by the guards asked him to engrave on the book. He was surprised and thought, "It is better for me to kill him than others." But then I thought, "Let Li Zicheng kill him instead of killing him!" So, without consulting Ding and Yang, Zuo Liangyu pulled out the village that night. At dawn, Ding and Yang found that Zuo Liangyu's troops had been evacuated. They were terrified. They are busy evacuating villagers from the south. Thousands of people are in chaos. At this point, Li Zicheng has already set multiple ambushes, waiting for an opportunity. Lee Guo and Yuan Zongdi led twenty thousand cavalry to chase Zuo Liangyu, but they didn't fight. He said that he led fifteen thousand troops to Shuipoji and collected more officers and men. Luo Rucai led the troops to kill Ding and Yang. Hao waved the flag and shouted, leading the troops to pursue the majestic and vigorous Ming Dynasty. The Ming army was stunned by the pursuers from all walks of life. Ding and Yang, regardless of his subordinates, have come a long way if they are worried about losing their homes. Regardless of whether Zuo Liangyu is a general or not, although the troops retreat randomly, they generally return to the army. Looking back at the pursuer, Zuo Liangyu saw a flag with the word "Yuan" and a flag with the word "Li" three or four miles away, and did not dare to stop and rest. However, if you go back to the army to fight, you are afraid that the king's follow-up troops will not be able to keep up, which is not good for you, so you have to lead the tired army to continue walking. After noon, Zuo Liangyu's troops were hungry and tired, and some teams gradually failed to keep up with the big troops. They were easily caught by the pursuers of Lee Guo and Yuan Zong Emperor. Zuo Liangyu urged the troops to advance quickly, but the troops ahead stopped. Zuo Liangyu was furious and rode from Zhong Jun to the front. Suddenly he reported, "There's a deep ditch ahead, so I'm going down the road. There is a flag on the tree beyond the ditch, and there is a big wooden sign in front of the tree, which reads "Zuo Liangyu shouted, what does it say?" The general dared not say anything, but muttered, "I don't remember anything unpleasant." I'm afraid of being caught! "Zuo Liangyu, standing in Ma Xiangqian, looked into the ditch, and the big board opposite was black and white. He said: "I want to inform General Kunshan that you are wandering at the bottom of the kettle and tell everyone to come down quickly and not to be captured by soldiers." Zuo Liangyu was furious and was about to send his troops to the left. Suddenly, he saw the flag on the left like a forest, with yellow dust rolling. Then I want to go to the right, and then I see the uneven right, and the flying dust goes straight into the sky. The pursuer at the back is still three or five miles away from himself, shouting while playing. So he called on the moat to enter the customs, and immediately hordes of troops fell into the moat seven or eight feet deep and one foot wide. People call it Ma Si. Water suddenly flows from both ends of the moat, and people are clamoring to climb down in the mud. It turned out that this was a trench dug in advance by Tian Jianxiu's army under the leadership of Li Zicheng. Zuo Liangyu was so angry that he whipped twice and ran away.

Seeing the tide was gone, Zuo Liangyu led three thousand elite cavalry to the southwest, fought our way out, and rushed out of more than ten miles in one breath. At this time, it was near dusk, and Zuo Liangyu thought, "If you can escape to Xuchang, you don't have to worry about regrouping!" Two or three thousand cavalry from Zuo Liangyu came to a small village and were about to cross the bridge when they saw two banners erected in the firelight over there, one with a big white word "Liu" and the other with two big gold words "General of the Post Station". Knowing that Zuo Liangyu was Liu Zongmin, known as "Liu Ye", Zuo Liangyu was frightened and was busy blowing up the bridge with explosives. Then two or three thousand cavalry galloped along the river, regardless of each other. Liu Zongmin invaded and shot arrows along the river, and Zuo Liangyu cavalry suffered heavy casualties. It was getting dark, and a gust of wind blew, and suddenly there was lightning and thunder, and then it rained cats and dogs, and the hail was as big as eggs. Dozens of miles of bloody battles on the battlefield have not stopped. Zuo Liangyu thought, "If you don't run now, when will you stay?" Well, his horse is a bloody horse in Dawan. He is hard-working, hungry, able to carry heavy burdens and bear hardships. Zuo Liangyu is covered in armor, even if there is hail, it won't hurt him. So, one man and one horse fled to the southwest under the wind and rain. In the battle of Zhuxian Town, the king won a great victory, annihilated more than 100,000 enemy troops and seized countless military forces and weapons.