In the face of the aggressive Li Zicheng's army, Emperor Chongzhen ordered 12 gold medals and urgently summoned Lin Yi to defend Gyeonggi.

After the 12 gold medal orders went down, Cao Huachun, the chief eunuch of the Admiral Dongchang, knelt on the ground, "Emperor, Lin Yi has been fighting abroad for many years, and every time he wins, he has been taken prisoner and adopted as his own, it is said that his men and horses have now exceeded 100,000, and this person is dissolute, has opposed the imperial court, and asked him to guard the Jingshi, what if he has a heart of disobedience?" ”

Cao Huachun's words are in the heart of Emperor Chongzhen. Emperor Chongzhen's biggest heart problem is that he wants to use people and is suspicious of people.

Cao Huachun is so right, what if Lin Yi turns against him again, what should he do? He already had such a shadow in his heart, and this was a last resort. Because no one is up to the task.

As soon as Cao Huachun said this, Emperor Chongzhen nodded thoughtfully, "Then what do you say I should do?" ”

"Emperor Shengming, according to the opinion of the slave maid, there should be another will, Lin Yi's men and horses can guard Gyeonggi, but they must not go deep into the capital of the city. In addition, another team of men and horses can be transferred to guard Gyeonggi to balance Lin Yi. ”

"Where are the soldiers and horses to be adjusted, who is up to the task?"

"Emperor, why did you forget? That is Wu Sangui stationed at Shanhaiguan. Wu Sangui now has 50,000 soldiers, and I heard that he is not on good terms with Lin Yi in private, and he is loyal to the emperor. ”

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, the knots in his heart were unraveled. By the way, how did I forget him?

From the general army of Ningyuan to the general army of Shanhaiguan, in the battle of Songjin that year, the general soldiers of all walks of life were defeated, and he was the only one who stood proudly. His uncle Zu Dashou, although he surrendered to the Tartars, but his father was still an official in Beijing, saying that he was loyal, and Emperor Chongzhen was convinced.

Emperor Chongzhen immediately drafted two wills, one for Lin Yi, and the other for Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, to crown him as Ping Xibo, and urgently ordered him to lead troops into Jinggi.

These two wills were sent out, and Emperor Chongzhen felt much more comfortable in his heart.

But such a comfortable day, within five days, Emperor Chongzhen was sad again. The reason is that Li Zicheng's two groups of men and horses have approached the Beijing Division.

Under the leadership of Liu Zongmin, the Northern Route Army took Juyong Pass and Changping, which was the northern gate of Yanjing.

Under the personal leadership of Li Zicheng, the Southern Route Army had already taken Baoding. At this time, Lin Yi's men and Wu Sangui's men and horses were nowhere to be seen.

Emperor Chongzhen was as anxious as ants on a hot pot.

The Ming Dynasty was shaken, and the people were panicked. In the prefectures and counties outside Beijing, the common people began to flee, and the officials began to flee, and of course these soldiers also followed, whether they were ordinary people as officials or soldiers, most of them ran to Li Zicheng's team.

Two days later, Li Zicheng's two armies met outside Beijing, and more than 300,000 men and horses surrounded Beijing.

When Li Zicheng came, he only brought more than 200,000 horses, and he attacked the fortified villages along the way, and the casualties were not small, but after he went north to Beijing, his men and horses not only did not decrease, but increased sharply.

When he went north to Beijing, Li Zicheng immediately made a horizontal knife and let Chongzhen talk to the head of the city.

Li Zicheng put forward a condition, that is, you are your Ming Emperor in Yanjing, and I am the Emperor of Dashun in Xi'an.

On this one condition, as long as you Emperor Chongzhen agrees, I, Li Zicheng, will immediately withdraw from the army.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard it, what? You want to be a country within a state, how is this possible? I have been a great country for nearly 300 years, and I am the king of a country, how can I bargain with you as a thief? Forbid!

Emperor Chongzhen categorically refused.

"Attack the city with artillery!" Li Zicheng gave a brazen order.

The cannon roared, and hundreds of thousands of troops swarmed in the ladder.

Emperor Chongzhen took hundreds of civil and military officials, including eunuchs, to defend the city in person, and he also picked up the three-eyed fire gun and vowed to live and die with Beishangjing.

But aside from the common people who went to Beijing in the north, the civil and military officials under his command, the eunuchs and palace maids, don't think so.

On the same day, many civil and military officials secretly communicated to Li Zicheng's men in different ways. They are willing to welcome the king, and they are not very demanding, whether they are officials or not, as long as they can save their property and lives.

What's more, at night, one of Li Zicheng's eunuchs directly opened the city gate.

Li Zicheng's men and horses are like a flood that bursts the gate, but they are pouring into the city.

Emperor Chongzhen was really fierce enough, holding a three-eyed fire gun, and charging with the eunuch soldiers in person. But there are fewer and fewer people around him.

There was fire everywhere, and Emperor Chongzhen saw that he couldn't hold it, so he hurriedly ran back and personally transferred troops. But at this time, the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies was closed. When he arrived at the minister's house, no one opened the door for him.

"The ministers have misled the country!" Emperor Chongzhen threw the musket, cursed, ran into his palace, and killed several concubines such as Zhou Niangniang and Tian Guifei in the main palace.

He ordered someone to summon Princess Changping, and said with tears in her eyes: "Why did you want to be born in the emperor's family?" Saying that, a sword broke off his left arm, and a sword broke his right arm, and Princess Changping, who was only 15 years old, fainted on the spot.

At this time, he heard the cry of the little girl, and Emperor Chongzhen, who was covered in blood, carried a sword and followed the sound.

It was his six-year-old daughter, Princess Zhaoping, who was crying, and Emperor Chongzhen gritted his teeth and pierced her chest with a sword, and Princess Zhaoping fell in a pool of blood.

Emperor Chongzhen was like an angry beast, swinging his sword and slashing several palace maids, and ran to the East Palace Prince's Mansion, where the prince Zhu Cihong had long since disappeared.

Emperor Chongzhen rushed out of the palace like crazy, and at this time, the palace and the palace shouted murder, and the fire was everywhere.

Emperor Chongzhen ran to the back mountain, up to the coal mountain, next to a crooked-necked tree, and there was only one eunuch Wang Chengen by his side at this time.

Emperor Chongzhen gritted his teeth and hung himself up. Wang Chengen couldn't persuade him, so he knelt there and cried......

In this way, Li Zicheng occupied Beishangjing.

Li Zicheng issued an order to strictly enforce military discipline. But the word seriousness did not last for a few days, and the men and horses began to smoke and miasma.

First of all, Liu Zongmin robbed Wu Sangui's little wife Chen Yuanyuan, and then he made 5,000 pairs of clamps and began to roast official salaries......

At this time, Li Zicheng was busy collecting Wu Sangui and Lin Yi.

At this time, Wu Sangui's men and horses had already returned to Shanhaiguan.

Wu Sangui received a letter from Emperor Chongzhen, leaving 10,000 elite soldiers to garrison Shanhaiguan, and the remaining 40,000 horses, including more than 5,000 Guanning iron horsemen, came to Beijing.

But halfway through, I got the news that Li Zicheng had attacked Yanjing.

Wu Sangui ordered the team to stop, thought for a moment, and then ordered the whole army to turn around and return to Shanhaiguan.

The lieutenant general was puzzled, "Uncle, are we just leaving?" ”

At this time, Wu Sangui had been named Ping Xibo by Emperor Chongzhen, and now their troops were less than 300 meters away from Shangjing, that is, they could arrive in a day's journey. Beishang Jing, Long Live Lord, he can not save it, doesn't he even care about his father Wu Xiang and his wife and concubine?

But Wu Sangui has his own plans, at this time, if the two sides meet each other, even if they can take the north to Beijing, I am afraid that his family will not be able to save their lives, it is better to take a step back and open the sky, and garrison Shanhaiguan with heavy handkerchiefs, so that with the help of the Guancheng can be attacked, retreated can be defended, Li Zicheng will definitely have to negotiate conditions with him, and at that time he will definitely be able to save the lives of his family.

Therefore, Wu Sangui said to his subordinates: "What else can I do, the city of Beijing is broken, the emperor is martyred, and the Ming Dynasty is over." After saying that, he urged his horse away......

Lin Yi's 100,000 army received twelve gold medals from Emperor Chongzhen at the junction of Henan and Shanxi, and Lin Yi was ordered to move north.

Not for Emperor Chongzhen, but for the Ming Dynasty's Jiangshan Sheji.

Now the entire Beizhili has basically become Li Zicheng's people, and a large part of these people are the old officers of the old Ming army, who have changed into the military uniform of the Dashun army and responded to Li Zicheng's call.

Li Zicheng was like a bamboo, winning seven battles and seven victories in one day at most, and soon took Baoding Mansion, and going north to Beijing was already in sight.

However, at this time, Lin Yi received an order from Emperor Chongzhen, and his army was only allowed to fight near Gyeonggi, but not deep into the capital of Beijing.

After Lin Yi received the order, he secretly said, I am still dying, I'm afraid the gods can't save you!

Lin Yi didn't make a sound on the surface, but as soon as the herald left, all the generals under the other hand blew up, and some even scolded the faint monarch directly.

Lin Yi stopped them and ordered them to continue marching.

Xiao Ying said angrily: "Brother Lin, why does the court buy his life for us like this?"

"Not for the court, but for the thousands of people of the Ming Dynasty. As a military general, it is the responsibility to defend the territory, and it is the duty to defend Sangzi. ”

At this time, a soldier brought two people, a young man of fourteen or fifteen years old, and an elderly man, each of whom was wearing the clothes of ordinary people, and their faces were gray, as if they had not washed their faces for a long time.

"My lord, they claim to be the crown prince."

"What kind of bullshit crown prince, it's clearly impersonated, dragged out and beheaded!" Zhang Hua was now indignant at this imperial court, so when he heard this, he said angrily.

A few soldiers came over and dragged these two people out.

"Wronged! We have proof......"

"Stop!" Lin Yi stopped them.

The elder took out the waist card in the palace, and the young man took out the jade belt and a brocade box, which looked like the royal things in the palace.

handed it over to Lin Yi to take a closer look, the older waist card was the prince's East Palace attendant Li Shichun, and the jade belt and brocade box also had the East Palace logo, and when the brocade box was opened, there was a handprint inside, and the seal was engraved with "Zhu Cihong Seal".

It seems that this is indeed the crown prince, Lin Yi bowed and saluted: "I don't know if His Royal Highness has arrived, Lin Mou is offended."

Lin Yi's generals also saluted reluctantly.

The prince was a little muna, Li Shichun hurriedly said: "The situation is special, don't blame those who don't know," he said, he said to the prince, "Your Highness, this is the prince and the prince who was personally sealed by the emperor, the secretary of the military department, the sword of Shang Fang, and the governor of the world."

Li Shichun pulled the prince to salute Lin Yi, although the prince was noble, but according to the group training, he was not yet sixteen years old when he met for the first time to worship the teacher.

The crown prince fell to his knees in front of Lin Yi, "Please teach the palace and save the Ming Dynasty." Saying that, kowtow respectfully to Lin Yi.

It's okay, there is a prince here, although Chongzhen is dead, my Ming is not destroyed. Nanming's clowns who jumped off the beam should stop tossing on stage, like a flash in the pan, history has proved that they have no ability, they can only eat, drink and have fun, fight for power and profit, and don't care about the life or death of the people, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are all people who have brought disaster to the country and the people. The teenage prince in front of him, I don't know if he is a plastic talent, let's see in the future.

Lin Yi thought of this and said to the prince: "Prince, please get up, don't worry, how did Li Zicheng get into Yanjing, how did the prince let him get out!"