Zhu Cihong spent half a month in such an irritable mood, during which he almost lived outside the palace, inspecting the defense of the nine gates of the capital every day. More time was spent between the Brave Guard Battalion and the Warfare Bureau, supervising army training and urging firearms production.

Recently, Zhu Cihong received some very bad news, Zhu Chunchen's idiot has not yet reached Juyong Pass, and the Qing soldiers have already taken Juyong Pass. And on July 17, the Qing soldiers suddenly appeared under Changping City from behind Tianshou Mountain and attacked Changping City.

Jiannu is good at meticulous work, there are 2,000 Yan Mongol soldiers in Changping City who were carefully rebelled by Jiannu, as the inner should open the city gate, the Qing soldiers captured Changping, and the general soldier Chao Pichang surrendered.

The surrender of a general soldier shocked the Ming Dynasty and the opposition, and Chongzhen was angry to kill the nine clans of Chao Pichang. Of course, Chao Pichang would not be stupid waiting there to be punished by the Nine Clans, and when he surrendered, he shrank like a dog by Azig's side.

However, what saved the face of the Ming Dynasty was that there were many officials in Changping City who resolutely refused to surrender and finally died in battle, they were: Wang Yigui, the head of the household department, Wang Yuzuo, the general judge of Baoding, Wang Xizhong, the eunuch Wang Xizhong, the judge Hu Weizhong, the official Guo Yong, Xuezheng Xie Huailiang, the instructor Changshi, the garrison Xianzhenji and others.

Since the Qing soldiers captured Juyong Pass, Zhu Cihong asked for orders many times and led troops to Changping to resist the Qing soldiers, but Emperor Chongzhen did not allow it.

Zhu Cihong did not give up, and came to the Qianqing Palace again, but the eunuch on duty did not let Zhu Cihong enter, saying that Emperor Chongzhen had a decree and did not allow the prince Zhu Cihong to enter.

Zhu Cihong was helpless, knelt down on his knees in front of the Qianqing Palace, and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty Father, the slave thief is a tiger and wolf, you must not let him in, the son is willing to lead the army, resist the enemy in Changping, in order to protect the people of the Ming Dynasty, please ask His Majesty Father for permission." ”

But in the main hall, there was no voice to respond to Zhu Cihong, and Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen were both persuading Zhu Cihong.

"Your Royal Highness, the emperor also cherishes you and doesn't want you to get into danger, you are the prince of the Ming Dynasty, you must not be lost."

"Yes, the emperor is also having trouble sleeping these days, so don't let him worry any more."

Zhu Cihong was indifferent, but shouted that every time the Qing soldiers entered the customs and plundered, it would cause a major disaster to the Ming Dynasty, and it would be difficult to recover for several years. He wanted to stop it, with these 5,000 brave guard battalion soldiers, although they could not drive away these 100,000 Qing soldiers, it was enough to cause them great damage and trouble.

The Qing army traveled a long way, and if there was a threatening army around them, they would definitely send troops to guard against it, and they would not dare to plunder. After all, what the Qing army was most afraid of was being cut off from the back road and being surrounded by all the armies of the Ming army.

Zhu Cihong knelt for a long time and shouted for a long time, and his voice was hoarse. July is the height of summer, the weather is very hot, and there are many palaces in the Forbidden City, the ventilation is very poor, and the temperature is higher and hotter than outside.

Zhu Cihong only felt that his chest was stuffy, his throat and eyes were salty, his eyes were dark, and he fainted to the ground.

He lay on the ground, more neat than those uncles who touched porcelain in later generations, which frightened Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen, only to see Wang Chengen shouting loudly: "Oh no, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has fainted, go and ask the imperial doctor to carry His Royal Highness in." ”

Chongzhen knew that the Qing soldiers had broken through Changping and would attack Beijing City at any time, and his mood was very chaotic, and the prince had recently made a fuss about leading troops to fight, which made him even more irritable. At this time, he suddenly heard a big chaos outside, and he was irritable and wanted to kill.

Emperor Chongzhen walked out angrily, but he saw several eunuchs carrying the unconscious Zhu Cihong, and Emperor Chongzhen's heart was immediately in turmoil, this is his most important prince.

Emperor Chongzhen immediately shouted: "Quickly pass on the imperial doctor!" Emperor, why are you so troubled, why is my father willing to let you go to the front line, those slaves and thieves are very fierce. ”

Not long after, several imperial doctors hurriedly dared to come and did diagnosis and treatment, and one of the imperial doctors said: "Your Majesty, please rest assured, because the weather is very hot, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has not eaten rice water for a long time, so he has a heat stroke (heat stroke), as long as you rest in a cool place for a while, you will be fine." ”

After Emperor Chongzhen listened, as soon as he put his mind at ease, he saw several ministers hurriedly walking outside. After these ministers saw Emperor Chongzhen, they knelt on the ground and cried with tears: "Your Majesty, something is wrong, the slaves and thieves wantonly looted property and grain in Changping, and also burned the Emperor's Deling, and the army of slaves and thieves has now gone south to Xizhimen!" ”

After Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he sat on the chair next to him, Deling was the imperial tomb of his elder brother Emperor Zhu Youxiao. Emperor Apocalypse has always treated him very well during his lifetime, and the Xinwang Mansion given to him is twice as large as other palaces, so the Emperor of the Apocalypse still thinks that he has treated this fifth brother badly.

"Your Majesty, Brother Emperor, my brother can't stand you......." Emperor Chongzhen had tears in the corners of his eyes, wailing in pain, and before he finished speaking, he only felt that his eyes were dark, and he fell down on the chair.

"Your Majesty!" Seeing this scene, all the ministers straightened their eyes and shouted one after another, the emperor and the crown prince had fallen in one day, which made the ministers extremely panicked.

Empress Zhou of Kunning Palace came immediately after getting the news and guarded the two most important people in her life.

Hearing that the Qing army was approaching the city of Beijing, the emperor and the crown prince were in a coma, and Zhu Chunchen, who went to inspect the border passes, did not know whether he was dead or not.

Zhu Cihong woke up after sleeping for a long time, but at the moment his eyes were blank and his mind was in chaos.

Zhu Cihong was in Kunning Palace at this time, accompanied by his second sister Princess Kunxing and his third brother Zhu Cijiong, and two palace maids, one left and one right, holding sandalwood fans and fanning him hard.

"Brother Emperor, you're awake!" Princess Zhu Yujiao, who was only six years old, looked at Zhu Cihong with wide eyes and said excitedly.

Zhu Cijiong, who was slurred, also said word by word on the side: "Brother ...... Emperor"

Zhu Cihong sat up, looked at the imperial sisters Zhu Yujiao and Zhu Cijiong beside him, and asked suspiciously: "Imperial sister, why am I here with the queen mother, what about the queen mother?" ”

Zhu Yujiao said: "The imperial doctor said that you fainted, so the queen mother sent you to Kunning Palace to take care of you, let me guard you, and she went to Qianqing Palace to take care of her father." ”

Zhu Cihong frowned and said, "What's wrong with my father?" ”

"My father also fainted, I don't know why." Zhu Yujiao is still young and doesn't know these things.

Zhu Cihong rubbed Zhu Yujiao's head and said, "You and the third brother go to play, and the imperial brother will sit and rest for a while." ”

"Good! Thank you, Brother Emperor! ”

Zhu Yujiao was ordered to stay for a long time, and she was already extremely bored, and when she heard the words of the eldest brother, she responded happily, and then ran out with Zhu Cijiong to play.

Zhu Cihong sat on the edge of the bed and saw that the two fan palace maids who were already sweating were still fanning hard, so he waved his hand and asked the two of them to step back and rest for a while, thinking about those fucked things alone.