The video takes us to ancient times; Li Er transforms into the Tongtian Emperor of Shu Han.

Li Zicheng was well aware of the decisions made by Emperor Chongzhen, Zhu Youjian, when the capital fell.

They had the opportunity to go south, but instead of escaping, they perished along with the Forbidden City.

If Emperor Chongzhen was like this when facing this rebel army, how could Li Zicheng have cowardly fled when facing the Manchu Tartars?

I wonder how future generations will view him; at least he himself must have looked down on himself.

"But Your Majesty..."

Some people tried to persuade him further, but Li Zicheng had already charged out again.

As he said, he greatly admired the saying that a monarch dies for his country.

Even if it was only for a short time, he was still the emperor, the emperor of the Great Shun Dynasty.

Even if we are truly doomed to defeat, we will never be a homeless dog wagging its tail and begging for mercy.

The emperor should have the dignity of an emperor!

"May the dead follow me to fight the enemy!"

His near-mad roar seemed to be Li Zicheng's swan song.

Unlike the original historical records, he did not flee after being defeated by the Qing army.

"Although the difference in strength between the two sides is quite obvious, I must say, he's a real man."

"If he had fled in cowardice, I might have called him a coward, but to die for one's country..."

"Such courage alone is enough to make up for his incompetence."

It's like if Zhu Youjian had chosen to move south to avoid disaster at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and then the country was destroyed after he had established a precarious peace, then he would have been a completely incompetent ruler.

But the hanging at Coal Hill perfectly embodies the saying "The emperor guards the nation's gate, and the monarch dies for the country."

Everyone knows that Emperor Chongzhen was incompetent, suspicious, and distrustful of everyone.

He killed all the officials in the court, both those who were capable and those who were not, until only those officials who dared not act were left. In the end, he said, "You officials have misled me."

"I am not a ruler who brought about the downfall of the country; you are all ministers who brought about the downfall of the country." Is he right to say that?

Everyone knows perfectly well that it's a complete lie.

Zhu Youjian was a ruler who brought about the downfall of his country, and he bears the vast majority of the responsibility for the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.

But that very death completely absolved him of most of his sins.

And the current situation is similar in many ways.

Although Dorgon's rise to power was entirely due to Li Zicheng himself inviting trouble.

He blindly trusted the words of those incompetent advisors, leaving the entire population around the capital under the Qing army's clutches and slaughter at their mercy.

A series of wrong decisions gave Dorgon the opportunity to grow stronger.

Even now, after this raid on the camp, the Shun army has had no chance to turn the tide.

All of this is his own fault.

But his death did indeed give him a considerable amount of embellishment.

At least Li Er and the others couldn't bring themselves to curse anymore.

"It is indeed clear that there is a significant gap in strength between the two sides."

"Even Li Zicheng's most elite personal guards were no match for the Manchu cavalry."

"There is no harm without comparison. It is hard to imagine how brave Xiang Ji was, who could come and go freely in the face of more than 100,000 Qing troops and take the enemy's head as easily as taking something out of a bag."

Many times, when they saw Xiang Yu charging wildly through the sky, seemingly unstoppable, they would wonder if the enemy was too weak.

But in this battle, they saw it very clearly.

It wasn't that the enemy was weak; it was that Xiang Yu was so strong that he was inhuman.

It seems that no matter who it is, anyone who stands in his way will only face certain death.

With such a commander leading the charge, helping his soldiers sweep away all the powerful enemies and break through the gap, how could the soldiers not fight bravely?

"It's not just Xiang Ji, didn't you see the performance of his Jiangdong soldiers?"

"Faced with an enemy force that far outnumbered their own, no one was afraid. In the face of direct confrontation and surprise attacks, everyone displayed their full fighting prowess."

"Those thousand or so men, I suspect they were a thousand Zhao Zilongs galloping across the battlefield."

Boss Cao couldn't help but complain as well.

What would happen if Li Zicheng's elite personal guards encountered the Manchu cavalry?

Almost all of them were at a disadvantage from the very first encounter and were completely suppressed.

In contrast, at the very beginning of the challenge, when Xiang Yu led his Jiangdong troops to attack and kill the Qing camp.

In the same encounter, in the same charge, Dorgon didn't even have the courage to face them head-on.

"How could it not be strong?"

"Could Xiang Ji lead eighteen Jiangdong soldiers to break through an encirclement of tens of thousands of men?"

"If he hadn't been too ashamed to face the elders of Jiangdong, even an army of 600,000 wouldn't have been able to surround him!"

Were the Jiangdong soldiers who were surrounded and killed really just ordinary soldiers?

No, those were all Xiang Yu's relatives and brothers!

They came from the same clan. Xiang Yu was exceptionally brave and skilled. How much worse could the others be?

Without those brothers and sisters, I doubt anyone would have had the courage to cross the Yangtze River.

Well……

Liu Heng thought for a moment, and it seemed that his father was an exception.

After all, the defeat at Pengcheng meant that Liu Bang had squandered all his wealth.

Even at that time, when he should have gone back to reorganize his troops, he still went back.

No wonder my father was able to conquer the world!

"Leading eighteen horsemen to break through the encirclement of tens of thousands of men, we used to think it was a mistake by Emperor Gaozu and Han Xin, but now it seems..."

"That truly shows how lucky Emperor Gaozu was!"

Old Zhu was also deeply moved.

With a stark contrast, a clearer understanding emerges.

They used to think that Xiang Yu was just lucky, that he could repeatedly enter and exit the midst of a massive army unscathed.

But now, most people are relieved for Liu Bang.

Even when facing such a monster, one can still escape from its grasp multiple times.

What incredible luck!

"It wasn't just luck; our ancestor was also a capable man. If it were just luck, how many times do you think he could have escaped from that kind of monster?"

Li Er expressed a different opinion.

What a joke! Scenes from beyond the Great Wall could have been shown in front of this canopy.

Those who remained in the Qing court, while not exactly elite, were certainly no less capable in terms of individual strength.

How did those men react when Xiang Yu led his troops to charge?

Those who don't completely collapse after just one encounter are extremely rare.

The majority of the troops were on the verge of collapse after Xiang Yu charged ahead and killed more than ten people with his halberd.

How different are those people from the Qing cavalrymen who are currently rampaging and slaughtering in the Da Shun army camp?

There shouldn't be any; not only are there none, but there might even be more in number.

After all, Dorgon currently only has about a thousand Qing soldiers by his side, and the majority of the rest are surrendered soldiers.

Some say that those who survived around Dorgon were absolutely elite, far ahead of other Qing troops.

But he was quickly shut down by a single sentence.

These elite troops, who had a precipitous lead over other Qing forces, were also psychologically traumatized by Xiang Yu's defeat.

They fought to the point that they would rather surrender to Li Zicheng than face Xiang Yu again.

"But now, Emperor Gaozu is probably too late."

"After re-incorporating the surrendered soldiers, and with Li Zicheng already dead."

"The Central Plains will truly be ruled by the Manchus."