"The whole army obeys the order! Immediately attack the city on all sides, and whoever goes down the city first will have a heavy reward for this king! ”

When the horn stopped for a while, Li Zicheng's wolf-like shout immediately attracted a response like a beast roaring in all directions.

Nearly 300,000 soldiers roared in unison, with a scorching momentum and thunder. They were like bloodthirsty beasts that had been stinging for a long time, and each of them had greedy and fanatical eyes on their faces, and they were all bloodshot and ferocious.

Looking from the sky, the four sides are surging like a tide, pushing large and small siege equipment, like a raging and turbulent giant sea, and the huge capital seems to be like a lonely boat, tossed in the surging waves, and may capsize at any time.

Seeing that the rogues were coming to attack with overwhelming force, the remnants of the sparse defenders at the head of the city were all so frightened that their faces were sallow, their strands trembled, and they were almost about to stand unsteadily and plant down the city.

At this moment, among the hundreds of thousands of rogue troops who were surging to attack the city, there was a team of hundreds of cavalry with extremely well-equipped but very low-key rogue banners, quietly ambushing outside Dongzhi Gate.

This team is the Tang King Li Xiao and his 500 escort cavalry.

After landing at Dagukou Port in Hejian Province, Li Xiao led his cavalry troops to march westward, and after entering the boundary of the capital, he was shocked to find that the capital had been surrounded by rogues, like an iron bucket.

At this moment, Li Xiao only felt that his heart was like being pressed against an incomparably huge stone, and it was difficult to breathe.

Okay, I hurried and walked slowly, and I didn't dare to slack off for a moment, but I didn't expect that in the end, I still couldn't reach the capital before the siege of the Liukou, which is really a creation and a trick!

So, isn't Emperor Chongzhen in the city like a turtle in an urn now?

Thinking of this, Li Xiao only felt that his heartbeat was almost several times faster.

When Li Xiao saw that the eunuchs Cao Huachun and Xu Gao, who were walking with him, looked at him with almost helpless eyes, he knew that he must make an urgent decision on how to act now.

Li Xiaoxing's eyes were like a glow, and he said in a deep voice: "If you don't enter the tiger's den, you can get the tiger!" As soon as we come here, we will brave the hardships and dangers and enter the city to rescue the emperor. From the king's point of view, the Liukou army is all in formation, and the equipment is sufficient, and it is estimated that the city will be attacked in a few days. There are so many rogues and soldiers and horses that we use their banners, pretend to be their soldiers and horses, and lurk outside the city to move, but no one will recognize them. As long as the enemy soldiers can break through the city, we will immediately follow them straight into the capital and go straight to the palace. At that time, the king tried his best to save the emperor from escape. ”

Everyone listened to Li Xiao's order, and their faces showed resolute expressions, and they all stated that everything was only obeyed by Li Xiao's military orders.

Li Xiao and the others just stayed outside the city for one night, and the next day the Liukou began to attack the city.

Li Xiao immediately ordered everyone to quickly prepare for battle, and when the city gate was opened, they would rush into the city with the army of rogues.

Under the rampant attack of the rogators, the whole situation quickly showed a one-sided situation, and countless long siege ladders, like densely stretched tentacles, continued to lean towards the city wall, and the dense ants quickly went up the ladder.

In addition, there were countless crashing cars and cars covered with iron sheets, which were shouted and squeaked by a large number of rogue soldiers to slam open the city gates.

In such a battle with a huge disparity in strength, the Liukou was already extremely terrifying with its momentum alone, and the little Ming army defending the city quickly collapsed, many people wailed and turned around and fled to the city, and many more threw down their weapons on the spot and surrendered on their knees.

Then, one after another the city gates were opened, and the defenders inside, who had already completely lost the will to defend the city, waved white flags and surrendered one after another, and a large number of rogues let out deafening cheers, like stormy waves, swept towards the city gate one after another.

"Quick, the city gate has been broken, we have quickly entered the city and gone straight to the palace!" Li Xiao's eyes were like lightning, and he immediately ordered in a deep voice.

Five hundred elite escort cavalry, like a furious rush from the flat ground, rushed straight into it from the Dongzhi Gate.

After entering the city, Li Xiao immediately issued an order, with the eunuchs Cao Huachun and Xu Gao leading the way in front, and the whole army marched quickly, and must rush to the palace as soon as possible to find Emperor Chongzhen.

Li Xiao, who has read the history of his previous life, of course knows what the ending of Emperor Chongzhen is in real history.

In the middle of the night after March 18 of the 17th year of Chongzhen, that is, on the 19th, Emperor Zhu Youzhen, accompanied by the eunuch Wang Chengen, came to Coal Mountain (Jingshan), and hanged himself under a big tree near the Shouxing Pavilion, and Wang Chengen was then also hanged and martyred. The two of them hung each other in the dark and cold night sky, and finally said goodbye to the chaotic world forever.

This is an important moment worth remembering in history, announcing the end of the orthodox dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, and an even more chaotic era has officially arrived.

Chongzhen's death, there were no eyewitnesses, it was extremely secret, and even the palace personnel did not know his whereabouts. After Li Zicheng entered the palace, he sent people to look around, and finally found it three days later, that is, on the 22nd.

Wen Bing said in "Little Knowledge of the Martyrs": On the 22nd, he saw the body of the first emperor in the Houyuan Mountain Pavilion, and hanged himself face-to-face with Wang Chengen. The emperor covered his eyes with his hair, wore a blue robe, a white jacket, and white silk trousers, with shoes and socks falling off on one foot, and silk socks and red double-soled shoes on the other. There is a line of words written on the sleeve: "Because of the loss of the country, I have no face to see my ancestors in the sky, and I dare not finally go to bed." The ministers mistakenly died, and I had no face to see the emperor underground, and I covered my face ......"

Of course, Li Xiao didn't want to, because he was slow to act, which led to Emperor Chongzhen's tragic ending in history.

After the Liukou entered the city, they quickly swept through the entire capital, and a large number of Ming officials and soldiers surrendered. Countless thieves wielding knives and guns immediately showed their hideous faces, burning, killing, plundering, raping and killing people in the capital, and doing all kinds of evil.

A huge capital, more than 200 years since the founding of the country, has never suffered such a catastrophe, but now, it has become a living hell on earth.

Under the leadership of Cao Huachun and Xu Gao, Li Xiao and others rode all the way through the outer city venues such as Qipan Street, Lamp Market, Chenghuang Temple City, and Inner City, and quickly rushed towards the imperial city.

Along the way, I saw that the market was sparse, and large and small groups of thieves were screaming and galloping on the street, and on both sides of the ground and the street, there were dead corpses in disarray, and blood flowed all over the ground, a few of them were the corpses of the Ming army or the rogues, and most of them were the citizens in the city who had no time to escape.

What is striking is that among these corpses, there are even some female corpses, their clothes are peeled off, their shame is exposed, and the expressions on their faces are still very painful and struggling. Obviously, before they died, they were humiliated by the beastly rogue, and they finally died tragically.

Seeing such a tragic scene, Li Xiao frowned, and unconsciously gritted his teeth.

Alas, the dynasty is prosperous, the people are suffering, the dynasty is dead, and the people are suffering!

Li Xiao didn't know that when Li Xiao and others were running for their lives on the streets of the capital, almost staging a life-and-death speed, Emperor Chongzhen, who was already wearing armor and hanging a sword on his waist, was standing at the gate of the palace with a group of eunuchs and remnants of soldiers under his command, looking nervous and resolute waiting for the arrival of the enemy army.

Soon, first of all, there was a large stream of rogues, roaring like wild beasts, waving swords and spears from the noon gate, and heading straight for the main hall of the palace.

This group of Liukou is a subordinate of Liu Zongmin, a general of Liukou, about 2,000 people, led by a captain, from the Xizhi Gate closest to the palace, so they arrived at the palace as soon as possible.

They are like wolves released from the cage, running all the way, killing people when they see them, robbing good things when they see them, Chongzhen and everyone saw this presumptuous and tragic scene from afar, and everyone was full of anger.

"Everyone, listen to my orders, and when the enemy approaches, kill them with me, so that you can kill a few more thieves to fight for your life!"

Seeing that Liukou was getting closer and closer, Chongzhen's face showed a fierce look, he brushed it, pulled out the sword he was wearing, and prepared to meet the enemy.

Seeing that the emperor was an example and wanted to fight for his life against the rogue, the more than 200 eunuchs and remnant soldiers guarding the gate of the Jianji Palace, everyone was excited, and they also drew their knives and held their guns, and their eyes were fixed on the rogue who was rushing towards him shouting loudly.

The captain led his troops closer, and at a glance, he saw that a large number of people at the gate of the Jianji Hall were guarding the gate of the palace, and he couldn't help but show a sneer on his face.

Hmph, this group of things who don't know whether they are alive or dead, now the situation is so dangerous, they don't know how to surrender quickly to save their lives, but they want to rely on these more than 200 people, they want to defend the main hall, they want to fight against our army, isn't it a joke!

Especially among these people, the person wearing precious and dazzling golden armor and holding a sword as cold as water is very likely to be a big fish, maybe he is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty himself.

If this person is really the emperor, then brother, I won't be able to send it......

A greedy cold light flashed through the captain's eyes.

"Decree of the Passing General! Attack and kill all these damn bastards! Especially the main general in the golden armor, be sure to take it down! ”

"Order!"

A large group of rogues were like jackals that smelled blood, they shouted and rushed towards with swords and spears, and instantly attacked and killed Chongzhen and his group.

There are many Liukou people, and they are soldiers who have been fighting for a long time, so it is not too easy to deal with a team like Chongzhen.

Almost instantly, the more than 200 people under Chongzhen's command, who died, were wounded, and fled, and quickly collapsed.

"Don't run, everybody! Let us be here to be loyal to our country! ”

Seeing more and more of his subordinates starting to flee in a hurry, Chongzhen cried out in almost despair.

That captain, seeing that Chongzhen's defeat had been decided, was even more rampant. He wielded a huge ghost-headed broadsword, and successively slashed to death several eunuchs who were guarding Chongzhen's side, and the cold blade went straight to Chongzhen, who was in a panic.

There is a way to be a trapped beast, and Chongzhen, who was forced to be in a hurry, had to grit his teeth and shout to attack the swarming thieves. A pawn rushed over, Chongzhen subconsciously stabbed, and accidentally stabbed this person in the arm, and the person screamed and retreated to the side.

However, before Chongzhen could draw his sword, the lieutenant had already killed fiercely.

This fierce and vicious rogue lieutenant with a greedy and fierce glint in his eyes rushed over with a loud shout. The ghost-headed big knife stabbed straight out, making a muffled sound, hugging his belly through the soft armor, and piercing Chongzhen's abdomen. The tip of the blood-dripping knife, with a gushing blood mist, leaked out of Chongzhen's back.

Chongzhen let out a terrible scream, and the whole person fell backwards softly.

"Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty!"

……

A cry of grief sounded from Chongzhen's left and right, and the remnants of the eunuchs and soldiers, all with mournful faces, desperately squeezed towards Chongzhen, intending to help him resist this fatal attack.

Hearing the shout, he drew a knife from Chongzhen's abdomen, and Du Wei, who was about to swing the knife and cut again, was suddenly subconsciously stunned.

Emperor?

Could it be that this person is the supreme ruler of the Ming Empire, Emperor Chongzhen?!

For a moment, an expression of almost ecstasy appeared on the captain's face.

Damn, it was Chongzhen who fought against Lao Tzu?!

This is really the green smoke of the ancestral tomb, and the fortune can't stop it, our buddies are really going to send it!

This guy is seriously injured, and it is estimated that it is impossible to save him, so cut off his head and dedicate it to King Chuang, and our buddies can also be crowned kings and marquis like dogs!

Du Wei's face instantly turned red with excitement, his face was full of tyranny and ferocity, he roared wildly and brandished the ghost-headed broadsword, and cut down several eunuchs on both sides with a few brushes to the ground. Then he shouted again, raised the ghost-headed big knife high, and slashed towards the neck of Chongzhen, who was half-lying on the ground!

At this moment, Chongzhen, who was already dying, saw the bloody ghost-headed machete, a whistling cold light slashed through the air, and when he was about to slash at his neck, four words suddenly flashed in his mind: My life is over!

Just when everyone thought that Chongzhen was going to die, there was a dense sound of horses' hooves from the direction of the noon gate. At the same time, after a faint arrow roared almost inaudiblely, a thick three-edged steel heavy arrow struck with the momentum of chasing the stars and the moon.

With a muffled sound, the arrow shot into the back of the neck of the commander who was about to slash, and the three-edged steel arrow engraved with a deep blood groove came out from the throat of the captain, with blood splashing like a spring!

At this sharp and ferocious blow, the captain's blood-red eyes widened, and a strange ho-ho sound came out of his mouth, and then with a clang, the ghost's head fell to the ground, and the captain fell face down face down like a rice sack that had been put down.

As soon as the leader of the rogue died, the originally rampant rogue bandits were suddenly terrified. They stopped one after another, and even subconsciously took a few steps back, looking around with wide eyes, as if trying to figure out where this sudden change came from.

It's just that they'll never get a chance to figure it out.

Just as the Liukou retreated slightly, the 500 elite escort cavalry under the command of Li Xiao had already rushed straight over like arrows from the string, and the horses' hooves rumbled like ten thousand drums beating in unison, and the momentum was amazing.

The wedge-shaped assault formation of the five hundred escort cavalry, like a huge and sharp black arrow, like a blazing knife stabbing butter, quickly pierced through the 2,000-strong rogue army formation, piercing a straight and red bloody path.

The Tang Army's fierce blow caused more than 2,000 rogues to quickly collapse.

They wailed and fled in all directions, but they were chased and slashed by the Tang army escort cavalry who were holding their stomachs, the horses' hooves rumbled, the swords were slashed, and the fleeing rogues were almost no one able to escape, and the Tang cavalry was quickly killed.

At this time, Chongzhen, who was already in a semi-comatose state because of excessive blood loss and fright, suddenly felt that he had been gently supported in a strong and powerful arm, and at the same time, he heard a calm and familiar voice.

"Your Majesty, Minister, Li Xiao, it's too late to save ......"