After the court meeting, Emperor Chongzhen sent Yu Linwei to raid Chen Yan, Zhou Yanru, Chen Xinjia, and the homes of those ministers who were hacked to death, and carried all the copied silver to the city wall to boost the morale of the army.

A team of Yu Linwei struggled to carry hundreds of boxes of silver, piled up on the city, the boxes were dumped, and the silver in the white flowers immediately flowed out, forming a small silver mountain.

The defenders at the head of the city suddenly opened their eyes wide, staring straight at the dazzling color, like staring at a naked big girl, and from time to time there was the sound of their throats rolling.

So much silver, it's so tempting!

Wang Zhixin, the eunuch guarding the city, held the holy decree in his hand and said loudly: "Your Majesty's dictation, these silver taels are yours, everyone has a share, and the national disaster is at the head, I hope you can fight bravely to kill the enemy and defend the capital!" ”

All the soldiers looked excited, and shouted: "Swear to kill the thief and guard the Jingshi!" ”

"Kill the thief!"

"Kill the thief!"

The army's heart was greatly boosted, and Wang Zhixin's face was full of relief.

In the middle of the hour, the invading army began to attack the city again, and the tide of the invading army shouted and killed the sky, overwhelmingly flocking to the walls of the capital division, and from time to time there were cloud ladders erected.

The arrows flew like locusts flying in the sky, and the arrows rained down, constantly falling into the city, and the sound of fire guns above and below the city came one after another.

Due to the limited ammunition storage in the city, the sound of artillery at the head of the city gradually thinned out, and Zhang Shize shouted: "Gold juice!" ”

In the boiling iron pot, the stench of arsenic-filled dung juice was overwhelming, and a defender wearing a mask and holding a dung spoon walked over with difficulty, scooped up the dung juice, and poured it under a ladder that had been erected.

"Ahh

The boiling dung juice poured down, shining with golden light, and there was a terrible howl below, and some of the intruders who were about to enter the city were drenched in the golden juice, and the boiling dung juice burned their flesh and skin all over their bodies.

Some of the intruders in front fell from the ladder and rolled on the ground, and a few even covered their faces and howled and threw themselves into the nearby moat.

Zhang Shize hurriedly probed to take a look, and another large group of intruders came to the city, the number was quite large, and he shouted: "Fire oil! 10,000 enemies! Thunder! All set! ”

The defenders of the Beijing division were tenacious, and the offensive of this wave of invading troops was not successful, and the sound of Mingjin retreating was heard from the rear, such as being amnesty, and the siege troops rushed to retreat, and countless pairs of big feet stepped on the corpses of their comrades......

However, it was still a temporary retreat, and soon, after a cannon shot, another wave of hunger offensive began.

Liu Zongmin, the general of the storm, said that he entered the city on the first day of August, but on the sixth day of the first month of August, 500,000 troops attacked for six days in a row, and only the outer city was defeated, and still did not shake the defense of the inner city.

The main force of the defense division is the new army such as the Shenji Battalion, the Shenshu Battalion, and the Yulinwei, plus the other battalions have some combat effectiveness of 40,000 people, but after a few days of bloody battles, the defenders have been reduced very much.

Among the reinforcements, Wang Wannian, the chief soldier of Shanxi, and Wang Tingchen, the general soldier of Miyun, led nearly 10,000 remnants of soldiers to attack and harass the rear of the army in Liangxiang, and Wu Sangui had also reached Yutian, which was more than 200 miles away from the Beijing division, but his speed was no different from that of a turtle.

At Chaoyangmen, Zhenyuan Marquis Gu Zhaoji had just repelled a wave of attacking troops, and before he could take a breath of relief, he only heard countless people in the city galloping back and forth, and someone shouted: "Zhang Butang has opened the door to dedicate the city!" ”

Gu Zhaoji's tiger body was shocked, the cold hair on his body exploded, he was extremely resentful, and let out a heart-rending roar: "Zhang Jinyan! You thief don't die well! ”

Countless intruders poured into Dongcheng, the Ming army defending the city was defeated, the officers and soldiers were scattered, and even the defenders on the side of Dongzhimen ripped off their uniforms and ran down the city.

Even the dignified military department Shangshu surrendered to the enemy, and the army's spirit immediately dissipated, and they ran away.

The invading army landed in the city one after another, Gu Zhaoji carried a sword, howled and rushed in front to slash desperately, and soon, he fell into the siege of the invading army.

The guards of the Hou Mansion beside him fell one by one, and Gu Zhaoji was also scarred on his body, and there were many gaps.

"Death!"

One of the intruders, with a spear in his hand and a hideous face, rushed forward with a loud shout, and the spear instantly broke through his armor and pierced deep into his body.

A large amount of blood clots gushed out of Gu Zhaoji's mouth, and he staggered back, only to feel light and fluttering in an instant, as if his whole body was about to fly.

The strength of his body was drained, Gu Zhaoji slowly closed his eyes, and the life he had spent in Beijing and a group of noble children since he was a child came to mind, and it was not until these few days that he truly realized the difficulty of his ancestors in establishing meritorious deeds.

Xizhi Gate, the gate where the corpses are piled up, a steady stream of soldiers and soldiers climbed up to the head of the city to hunt and kill the British Duke Zhang Shize.

A city gate was broken, panic was everywhere in the city, and the defenders had no intention of fighting, and they ripped off their Ming army uniforms and ran away.

Zhang Shize was still fighting in the streets with a short knife, and there were fewer and fewer guards around him, and they were all killed.

Seeing that the general trend had gone, the British public Zhang Shize burst into tears and carved a desperate poem on the city wall: "God knows the ambition of my life, but I didn't expect that this day is no longer the case, and I will die for the eternal martyrs, and the world will not laugh at me for being stupid." ”

He sorted out his clothes and armor, bowed several times in the direction of the Forbidden City, killed himself with his sword, and the city was destroyed and martyred.

The gates of the Beijing division fell one after another, or the defenders opened automatically, and Xu Yunzhen, the Duke of Dingguo guarding the Desheng Gate, was surrounded by a dense group of intruders.

A group of soldiers roared towards the old camp, a sharp whistle of breaking wind sounded, and several heavy spears were thrown at great speed, piercing Xu Yunzhen's gilded armor.

Xu Yunzhen snorted a few times, his body swayed, barely holding on to the city wall to stand firm, watching the blood on his body, splashing drop by drop, he looked up to the sky and made a final voice: "Your Majesty, minister, be gracious!" ”

In the Imperial Palace of the Forbidden City, Chongzhen plans to hold a noon dynasty.

Han San, the former eunuch of the imperial palace, hurriedly ran to say: "Emperor, the inner city has fallen, and the thieves are about to enter the imperial city!" ”

Chongzhen said in a hurry: "Why did you lose it?" What about my Divine Machine Camp and the Divine Pivot Camp? What about Yu Linwei? What about the nobles who defended the city? ”

Han San cried and replied: "Zhang Jinyan, the head of the household, opened the door to dedicate the city, the Shenshu camp and Yulinwei were wiped out, the Beijing camp was dispersed, the British Duke Zhang Shize was killed in battle, the Duke of Dingguo Xu Yunzhen was killed in battle, and Li Guozhen, the uncle of Xiangcheng, surrendered with the Shenji Battalion!" ”

Chongzhen collapsed on the throne all of a sudden, and in the golden and brilliant Imperial Palace, the blood stains of last night were still there, but there was no more minister.

Chongzhen looked at the blood stains flowing on the Panlong Dan Tree, and his heart was infinitely resentful, last night he killed a cabinet chief, a military secretary, a university scholar, and some officials of the six ministries.

I thought that these heads were enough to deter the ministers and work hard to do a good job in the defense of the Beijing Division, but Zhang Jinyan's dog thing still betrayed himself!

When the bell rang, no one responded, and Chongzhen at this time really regretted not killing them cleanly!

Wang Chengen and several other eunuchs all stood silently behind them, their faces still showing sadness.

Wang Chengen said: "Emperor, the old slave chose dozens of godsons who didn't want to die, you changed your body, and the old slave asked them to escort you out of the city to hide among the people." ”

Chongzhen said hysterically: "I must not live in the people, how can I hide in the people if I am the Son of Heaven?" That kind of humiliation, that kind of shabby, that kind of shrunken head, the days of flies and dogs, even if you live among the people, it is a great humiliation! ”

Wang Chengen cried: "Emperor, hiding in the people is only for a while, let's slowly go south, as long as Your Majesty goes to Nanjing, my Ming orthodoxy is still there!" ”

Chongzhen said abruptly: "The prince is orthodox in Nanjing, if he could tolerate me, he would have come to the rescue a long time ago, he didn't!" ”

In the end, he said in despair: "I don't want to be a lost dog, I want to live and die with this Forbidden City!" ”

Wang Zhixin strode over and said in a panic: "Emperor, hurry up, the thieves have already entered the imperial city!" ”

"Emperor, let's go!" The crowd hurriedly persuaded each other.

Wang Dehua said: "Emperor, you quickly evacuate from the Xuanwu Gate first, and the old slave will lead people to the Noon Gate to block the thieves for your palace!" ”

He ran outside the hall and said to the eunuchs around him: "His grandmother's is a grandfather, so follow our family!" ”

Surrounded by Wang Chengen and Wang Zhixin, Chongzhen went to the Xuanwu Gate at the north gate of the Forbidden City, all the way to Wansui Mountain.

Without the imperial chariot and the ceremonial driver, Chongzhen inspected the land that was about to not belong to him for the first time, from the harem of the Forbidden City to the Long Live Mountain, but the distance of a few hundred meters was the most difficult and longest road he had ever walked in his life.

On Long Live Mountain, he looked down at the entire Forbidden City, and saw the flames and candles in the city, and his thoughts were myriad.

Passing by the Shouhuang Pavilion, Chongzhen stood still, remembering the scene eight years ago, when the crown prince Zhu Cihong asked him to come here to inspect the East Palace guards.

At that time, the prince swore that he would share his worries for the emperor, and one day go into battle to kill the enemy and calm the sky.

Chongzhen seemed to have heard the five hundred East Palace Guards shouting loudly on the school grounds......

Chongzhen's eyes were blurred, and he muttered, "You are stronger than me....."

At this time, there was no resentment in his heart, and it turned out that many things were his own problems, but unfortunately there was no chance for father and son to sit and talk about their hearts.

Chongzhen walked on the Long Live Mountain, his mood was much lighter, he had no idea of escaping, and even though Wang Chengen and several eunuchs persuaded him, he was indifferent.

After walking a hundred steps, he suddenly looked up and saw a stout old locust tree, which was quite peculiar in length, and the trunk was rarely curved.

Chongzhen laughed at himself and said to himself: "This is what the prince said about the crooked neck tree, it's really providential......"

After lingering for a long time, he finally walked over, untied his robe, tore off the placket of his robe, and bit his finger to write the edict on it:

"I reigned for six years out of ten years, (seventeen years in history, half a year ahead of this book) Bo De and bandits, invited the heavens, caused the capture of the mainland three times, the traitors went straight to the capital, the ministers mistakenly me, I have no face to see my ancestors in the ground, and I died with my hair covered with my face, let the thieves split the corpse, don't hurt my people."

Wang Chengen hurriedly dissuaded: "Emperor, what do you want here?" ”

Wang Zhixin and Han San were also desolate, crying with tears in their eyes to dissuade them.

Chongzhen looked at the gradually darkening sky and sighed: "The death of the husband and the monarch is the righteousness of the past and the present, and my will has been decided, so there is no need to say more." ”

At this time, a team of about ten people hurriedly rushed to the Banzai Mountain, hurried to the old locust tree, and the people in it were all wearing dark color suits, with bronzed skin and cold faces.

Suddenly, seeing a few strangers rushing straight over, Chongzhen, Wang Chengen and others were all shocked, and Wang Zhixin shouted: "Who are you?" Is it a thief or not! ”

The young man at the head glanced at the four of them, and finally locked his gaze on Chongzhen, who was dismantled in a cloak, his face was expressionless, and he replied coldly: "No." ”

The other party is not a thief? Wang Zhixin and the others breathed a sigh of relief, and hesitated a little: "Then who are you?" ”

All ten young men were expressionless, neither sad nor joyful, and silent.

The leader glanced at him lightly, then slowly paced over and said to Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, please come with us to Nanjing!" ”

Everyone's hearts are bright, this is the prince's person!

Chongzhen put his mind at ease, and still asked: "The prince asked you to save me?" ”

"Exactly!"

Wang Chengen said: "The prince's brocade guard? ”

The man shook his head.

"Long Xiang doesn't accept it at night?"

Wang Chengen is in charge of the East Factory, and he also has some information in private, and knows the two major intelligence systems of the prince.

The man still shook his head, as if he was too lazy to deal with Wang Chengen, still looked at Chongzhen, and said again: "Please Your Majesty go to Nanjing with me!" ”

The other party has a lot of murderous energy, all of them are like popsicles, and they speak briefly, Wang Chengen is not a good stubble when he sees them, and he doesn't dare to ask at the moment.

Chongzhen said bluntly: "Then who are you?" Tell me and I'll let you go! ”

The man was silent for a few seconds, and finally said in a sonorous voice: "The shadow of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the hidden dragon guard!" ”

Although I don't know when this hidden dragon guard was made up by the prince, but it looks very powerful, Chongzhen nodded and sighed.

Seeing that there were more and more intruders under the mountain, Chongzhen said, "Go back, I won't leave." ”

After saying that, he continued to tinker with the crooked neck tree, preparing to hang the southeast branch by himself.

Just kidding, go to Nanjing! Suffer ridicule, eat and wait for death! I don't want to lose face with Zhu Youzhen?

The Qianlong Wei led by him frowned slightly, waved his hand, and said, "Pack them all and take them away!" ”

"Hey! What do you do? ”

"Bold!"

"Presumptuous!"

"You are so daring, I am ......."

A member of the Hidden Dragon Guard stepped forward and hugged his fists and said, "Your Majesty, I have offended"

After speaking, he patted Chongzhen's neck, and Chongzhen's eyes immediately turned black and unconscious.

Han San, Wang Zhixin, and Wang Chengen were still arguing there, but they were all put into sacks and carried away.

......

Zhengyang Gate of Beijing City, a footstep roared, under the flag, the Dashun army marched in a neat pace, surrounded by Li Zicheng, the emperor of Yongchang of Dashun, into the city of Beijing.

Under a few improvised Huang Luo umbrellas, Li Zicheng was dressed in felt clothes, riding black barge horses, riding hundreds of elite horses, looking down on the people of Beijing who were holding incense to welcome them on both sides of the streets.

"Long live Emperor Dashun!"

"Hooray!"

The first to shout the slogan to greet him was Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the military department who opened the door to dedicate the city.

Zhang Jinyan peeked at it, only to feel that the soldiers and horses of Dashun were very solemn, and hurriedly knelt on the ground and held incense high and shouted: "Long live the Emperor of Dashun!" ”

Li Zicheng didn't even look at him, and led the army to Daming Gate.

Listening to the cheers of the thieves in the city, the overwhelming sound of long live sounded, and Wang Jiayan, the right attendant of the military department, screamed sadly and jumped off the city wall.

However, his life was very hard, jumping from the city wall more than ten meters high did not fall to his death, Wang Jiayan was determined to die, and ran to the empty houses of the surrounding residents to hang himself.

The chasing soldiers found him and burned Wang Jiayan's body with fire, mutilating one of his arms, and finally Wang Jiayan's servants secretly buried the rest of his limbs.

Li Zicheng took his subordinates straight into the West Chang'an Gate and went to the Forbidden City, he was very excited along the way, looking at the Chang'an archway in front of him on a whim, looking up to the sky and laughing: "If the forehead can shoot on the middle word, then the world is peaceful!" ”

Lao Li was very confident in his archery skills of piercing Yang in a hundred steps, and as soon as the words fell, he stepped on the horse, bent his bow and set up the arrow, and with a whoosh, the arrow from the string shot out quickly.

However, at the moment of witnessing the miracle, I saw that the arrow flew into the corrugated on the archway, and the scene was suddenly embarrassing.

Li Zicheng didn't expect this to be the result, he was stunned and didn't know what to say, at this time, the fortune teller Song Xiance stood up and said loudly: "Shoot in the ditch, take Huai as the boundary", and helped Li Zicheng out of the siege in this way.

Hearing this, Li Zicheng's face was only slightly better, the prince of the Ming Dynasty was still in Jiangnan, isn't this just the Huai River as the boundary?

Then he continued to move forward and came to the Chengtian Gate, Li Zicheng thought that his hand slipped and missed the shot just now, and he wanted to save face again, so he repeated the old trick, pointing to the four big characters of "Chengtian Gate" and said to the surrounding generals: "I can be the lord of the world, then I will shoot the center of the four characters with one arrow!" ”

Good guys, here we go again!

Everyone didn't want to ruin his fun, so they had to echo it, and at the same time pray that this time the old brother will not be ashamed, this matter will be recorded in the history books, our Dashun is not easy to shine once, and I can't afford to lose this person on today's big day!

It was another extremely coquettish bow shooting, full of force, and after posing fully, Li Zicheng let out a low shout, and an arrow flew out, with a magnificent momentum.

However, he really didn't seem to be in shape, and the arrow missed again, shooting under the word Tianzi, and almost missed the edge.

There was a dead silence at the scene, and even the horses of the cavalry of the old battalion behind did not dare to snore.

Li Zicheng was speechless, his old face couldn't hold back at all, his glass heart was almost shattered, super embarrassing!

Seeing that the boss couldn't stop yelling, his subordinates hurriedly came out to relieve the siege, this time it was Niu Jinxing, who had a solid cultural foundation, who came out to speak, only to hear him say loudly: "Under it, divide the world in the middle!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the surrounding generals immediately cheered, and Li Zicheng also turned his worries into joy, and silently praised him.

Li Zicheng led the army into the office area of the six yamen of Chengtianmen, and the officials of the university scholar Wei Zaode immediately knelt down to greet him, shouting Long live Emperor Yongchang of Dashun.

Seeing this scene, Meng Zhaoxiang, the right attendant of the Criminal Department, was silent, slowly pulled out the sword at his waist, and killed himself.

The superintendent of the imperial history Wang Zhang also crashed to death on the wall, resolutely not to obey the thief.

Li Zicheng's shelf was very sufficient, and he still ignored these dog officials in his eyes, and continued to move forward without saying a word.

At the noon gate, Li Zicheng looked at the two big characters on the plaque of the noon gate, but this time he didn't dare to pretend to be forced again, and directly led his generals into the Forbidden City.

At this time, Wang Dehua led 300 eunuchs to kneel there to greet him and introduce himself.

Wang Dehua, the celebrant guarding the noon gate, originally planned to commit suicide, he first hung a white silk on the city gate, and felt that it would be ugly to die if he hanged himself, so he jumped off the building instead, and jumped down from the city tower more than 30 meters high at the noon gate and fell to his death.

However, when he stretched out one leg from the battlement, he immediately retracted it again, and stretched his leg many times and did not dare to jump down, saying that he was afraid of heights.

At that time, Wang Dehua cried and comforted himself: "The emperor doesn't know where to go, our family can't die yet, we have to leave this useful body to continue to serve the emperor." ”

Li Zicheng originally had a special hobby for eunuchs, and seeing that Wang Dehua was fair-skinned and lovely, he ordered him to take charge of the ceremonial eunuchs as usual, and the other twenty-four eunuchs were in charge of the eunuchs.

Wang Dehua immediately prostrate on the ground and shouted: "Emperor, the slave and maid will definitely do their duty and repay the emperor's grace!" ”

When Li Zicheng heard this, he left satisfied, and couldn't wait to go to the Imperial Palace.

Hearing that the thieves entered the palace, people everywhere were boiling, and Fan Jingwen, a scholar and secretary of the Ministry of Engineering, sighed: "As a minister, you can't destroy the thief's shame, and you will die with hatred!" ”

After speaking, he knelt three times and bowed nine times in the direction of the Forbidden City, wrote two poems, and finally went to the tomb of the Elephant Theater to worship Cique, jumped into the ancient well next to the Twin Pagoda Temple and died.

Ni Yuanlu, the secretary of the household department, sighed at home: "The country is here, and the ministers are responsible for their deaths." ”

He dressed up and worshipped, thanked the Son of Heaven in the north, thanked his mother in the south, and wrote a few lines of big words in the study: "Thanking the country with death is a matter of duty, don't bury it after death, I will be violently killed outside, and talk about the grief in my heart." ”

In the end, Ni Yuanlu took the silk and hanged himself.

Shi Bang, the left deputy capital, heard that the thieves entered the palace and cried loudly: "Your Majesty, I am ashamed that there is no time to make a decision, and I can only repay the country's kindness!" ”

Immediately, he untied his clothes and hanged himself, at which time several servants hurriedly rescued him.

Shi Bangyao was rescued, and immediately said hatefully: "Wait for me!" ”

He drank arsenic that his servants bought, mixed it with wine, and killed himself.

.......

On that day, there were many officials in Beijing who knelt to greet Li Zicheng, and there were also many martyred ministers, such as Fan Jingwen, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Wang Jiayan, the waiter of the Ministry of War, Meng Zhaoxiang, the waiter of the Criminal Department, Shi Bangyao, the left deputy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Ling Yiqu, the secretary of the Dali Temple, and Wu Linzheng, the secretary of the Taichang Temple, and dozens of other people, all of whom were martyred for the righteousness in their hearts.

In addition to officials, there were also Liu Wenbing, the Marquis of Xinle, Gong Yonggu, the governor of the horses, and other royal relatives committed suicide and martyrdom, but most of the imperial relatives and nobles still chose to surrender to Li Zicheng, hoping to preserve their wealth.

Li Zicheng rushed into the palace, and he urgently asked where was the eunuch and palace maid in the palace, Emperor Chongzhen?

No one in the palace knew, they all shook their heads, Li Zicheng was furious, and ordered to kill a few, but he still couldn't ask where the emperor went.

Li Zicheng was very unhappy in his heart, he hadn't seen what the emperor looked like when he was so big, he wanted to chat with the emperor over a little wine, talk about the experience of working in the post station back then, and say a few cool words and pretend to be forced or something.

Now I can't find anyone, and the plan is all fucking ruined!

The army rummaged through the entire Forbidden City, but did not find the shadow of Emperor Chongzhen, and even the legendary harem beauties were not seen.

After Li Zicheng, Niu Jinxing, Liu Zongmin and others all had complicated expressions, the emperor, empress, concubine and others were all gone, and even the two princes and two princesses were gone, which is a bit bad!

Niu Jinxing spoke: "Your Majesty, please immediately order the city gates to be sealed to prevent them from escaping!" ”

Li Zicheng also knew that this was a major event and should not be taken lightly, so he ordered: "Immediately block all the exits of the Jingshi, set up checkpoints everywhere to patrol, post notices everywhere in the city, and those who offer the emperor, princes, and concubines will be rewarded with ten thousand gold, and those who will be crowned earls, and those who dare to hide will be all Yi clan!" ”

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