Li Zicheng fled to Shangluo Mountain for several years, and then spent several years overthrowing the Ming Dynasty.

1637 (the tenth year of Chongzhen), Yang Sichang mobilized 654.38 million soldiers, increased the pay by 2.8 million, and put forward the strategy of "four corners and six corners, surrounded by a net" to limit the mobility of the peasant army, split it in two and finally annihilated it. This measure has achieved considerable results in two years. Zhang was defeated. Li Zicheng was ambushed and defeated by Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting in Nanyuan and Tongguan in Weinan, and took the remnants 17 people to hide in Shangluo Mountain in the southeast of Shaanxi.

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1629 (the second year of Chongzhen) In February, he joined the army in Ganzhou, Gansu (now Ganzhou District, Zhangye City). At that time, Yang was appointed as the company commander of Ganzhou, and Wang Guodong was appointed as a participant. Li Zicheng was quickly promoted by the kingdom to the general manager of the army. In the same year, in Yuzhong (now Yuzhong County, Lanzhou, Gansu Province), due to the problem of arrears of military pay, the warring vassal States and local county magistrate were killed and a mutiny was launched.

1644 (the seventeenth year of Chongzhen) broke into the background in March, and the Ming Dynasty fell!