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At the end of the Ming Dynasty, natural and man-made disasters continued, class contradictions became increasingly acute, and peasant uprisings broke out. Li Zicheng joined the Gao Yingxiang team. 1643, Li Zicheng changed Xiangyang to Xiang Jing, called Xinshun King.

/kloc-in the first month of 0/644, Li Zicheng proclaimed himself emperor, with the title of Dashun, and changed Xi to Chang 'an, called Xijing; In February, Li Zicheng led an army to crusade against the Ming Dynasty; When Beijing was occupied in March, Daming's rule as a country ended. In April, Shunjun was defeated by the Qing army in Shanhaiguan and returned to Beijing. Li Zicheng proclaimed himself emperor in a hurry in Wuying Hall of the Forbidden City, and led the troops to leave Beijing the next day.

In the first month of the second year of Yongchang (1645), Duoduo was defeated by Shunjun in Tongguan, and Li Zicheng was forced to give up Xi 'an and enter Xiangyang via Wuguan. In March, Li Zicheng abandoned Wuchang and headed for the southeast; In April, the Qing army defeated Shunjun in Yangxin, Hubei and Jiujiang, Jiangxi. In May, Li Zicheng was killed by the landlord Ying Yong in Nanjiugong Mountain, Tongshan County, Hubei Province. The remaining Shunjun troops were recruited as loyal subjects by Nanming Longwu regime.

Dashun territory starts from Shandong in the east, reaches Ganning in the west, the Great Wall in the north and Jianghuai in the south. The scope includes the five provinces of Beizhi, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan, a part of Gansu, Qinghai and Ningxia in the northwest, several counties in Baoning area in northern Sichuan, and the Huaihe River basin in Jiangsu and Anhui today. The Yangtze River basin has four places in Huguang, namely Jingzhou, Xiangyang, Chengtian and De 'an.

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The demise of Dashun

In order to reverse the decline of Dashun in Shanxi and Henan, Li Zicheng began to counterattack Huaiqing (now Qinyang, Henan) in Henan on 10/2, and even defeated the Qing army in Baixiang Town. The prefect Jin, the lieutenant Chang Ding, and the stationed Chen attacked Qinyang, and Zuke, the company commander of Qing Weihui, led the troops to meet.

When Dourgen heard the news, he made the prince of Henan turn to the west, first to solve the siege of Huaiqing, and then to cross the Yellow River from Henan, forming a north-south attack with King Azige of England, and attacking Dashun. Li Zicheng was advancing general Liu Zongmin, Liu Fangliang and other elite troops to the north to prepare for a decisive battle with the Qing army in northern Shaanxi. 1February 15, Duoduo marched to Shanzhou (now the west of Sanmenxia City, Henan Province), and after defeating the defenders of Dashun in Lingbao County, he went west to Tongguan.

After Li Zicheng occupied Xi 'an, the Qing court ordered Duoduo to go eastward to Nanjing to destroy the Hong Guang regime, and ordered Azig to continue to pursue Dashun Army. At this time, 500,000 Dashun troops have been distracted, lax in discipline and chaotic in command. Under the pursuit of the Qing army, they lost in successive 13 battles in Xiangyang and Jiujiang, and lost all their jurisdictions.

In May, when Li Zicheng led his troops back to Jiugongshan, Tongshan County, Hubei Province, he was attacked by local landlords, died unfortunately, and the Dashun regime collapsed. The remaining 300,000 troops later joined the Nanming regime led by Lee Guo and Li Laiheng and continued to resist the Qing Dynasty. Finally, he failed in Kangxi three years (1664).

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Baidu encyclopedia-Dashun