"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom"

In Nanjing City, outside the Zhengyang Gate, more than 400 artillery pieces of Li Zicheng's army repeatedly bombarded the tall Nanjing city wall, and this kind of artillery bombardment has lasted for more than 10 days.

Rao is the city wall of Nanjing City is tall and thick, after more than ten days of repeated bombardment by heavy Furlong machine, it is already full of holes, wind and rain, some parts of the city wall can already see huge cracks, collapse only in the middle of leisure.

Seeing that the city was about to be destroyed, the last gentry and village officials in the south of the Yangtze River, who were still conceited and stubborn on the city wall, were like ashes, while Li Zicheng and others outside the city were beaming.

"King Chuang, now Zhejiang has been pacified, and there is only one lonely city left in Nanjing in the entire south of the Yangtze River, as long as Nanjing is captured by us, start from here, go straight to Beijing, and you can spread it along the way."

Li Guo looked at the widening gap in the city wall of Nanjing, and talked to his uncle with a smile on his face.

"Straight to the Beijing Division," Li Zicheng pondered, and suddenly became a little dazed, "When the Beijing Division is directly smashed, it will be our death period." ”

"What do you mean," Gao Jie warily glanced at Megatron and Shockbreaker who were overseeing the battle in the distance, "the marshal is going to kill us?" ”

When Yu Bin, Bai Guangen and Gu Junen heard this, they all looked concerned.

"The Jingbian army of the marshal is extremely strong, if he wants to rebel, the change of dynasty is just between waiting and idle, why doesn't he do it, it's not about his reputation, you said that those of us who have done such dirty things, if they are still in the world, I am afraid that they will worry after all, so our best ending is nothing more than "

Li Zicheng was silent when he said this.

Li Guo, Gao Jie, Yu Bin, Bai Guangen, and Gu Junen all had gloomy faces and were embarrassed.

"King Chuang, we don't necessarily have to die?" Gu Junen made a different voice.

"Oh!?" Li Zicheng became interested, "Go on." ”

"Now in the Ming Dynasty, the marshal only occupies a corner of Shaanxi, but we can occupy twelve provinces, and our troops can reach one million, while the marshal only has Shaanxi, and the army is 200,000."

"I understand what you mean," Li Zicheng's eyes lit up, "but we have poison in our bodies." ”

"In November this year, we can get the antidote," Gu Junen smiled slyly, "There is still a year to go, let's wave Shaanxi, defeat the big boss in one fell swoop, take him, and ask him for the antidote." There is an antidote, whether you can kill the handsome or not, you have a word for the king. ”

Li Zicheng's eyes became brighter and brighter.

"This matter must be kept secret, don't let those two know."

Li Zicheng pulled his voice very low.

Everyone nodded.

"Boom"

With a loud bang, the city wall of Nanjing, which had been bombarded by artillery, finally collapsed.

An aura of despair spread among the defenders of Nanjing, and a tidal wave of beggars rushed to the city of Nanjing.

Jiangnan fell into the hands of the begging army.

**

In October of the ninth year of Chongzhen, the 600,000 army of the begging army went north along the canal, collected the northern part of the south Zhili River, went down to Shandong, occupied the north part of the Yellow River in Henan Province, seized Shanxi, swallowed the north Zhili, and gradually approached the Beijing division.

There was no reply from Liu Renyu, and there was no military town that could send a rescue army, and when Chongzhen played against the ministers, he could only be silent.

Da Ming's qi was exhausted, and panic spread throughout the Jingshi.

Li Zicheng wanted to kill all the corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and the officials of the Beijing Division, one of them counted as one, and none of them could escape, these people were in a hurry, and they hurriedly paid for the dead soldiers, released the prisoners, and promised them heavy profits.

This time, the monarch and the ministers finally worked together to defend the Jingshi.

However, it was too late!

On November 10 of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's 600,000 troops, more than 600 miles of company camps, covered the sky with flags, and the officers and soldiers covered the sun, surrounding the Beijing division.

Beijing City, since Chengzu Zhu Di built the capital here, it has been nearly 300 years, the city wall is not not high, as long as the city has enough grain and grass, good management of the armor soldiers, with their lives to defend, then even if the beggar army has 600,000 troops, still dare not say that it can easily capture the Beijing division.

The tall city wall of the Beijing division is the reliance of Chongzhen and the senior officials of the court, they thought that as long as there was a city wall and there were dead soldiers who had been bought with a lot of money, the Beijing division would be able to defend it, but unfortunately this was not the case.

The policy of the begging army has long been well-known to the world, and the political offensive of the begging army has been continuously resounding at various city walls of the capital division from the day it was besieged.

"Crack down on corrupt officials and inferior gentry, divide the land, and be the master of the people."

The targets of the beggar army are only corrupt officials and inferior gentry, not ordinary people and officers and soldiers. Moreover, the beggar army also said that those who first open the city gate and welcome the beggar army into Beijing can get a hundred acres of fertile land.

How can such propaganda not make people restless.

In addition to these political propaganda offensives, the beggar army successively transferred artillery from all over the country and bombarded the city wall in the Chaoyang Gate section.

How tall is the city wall of Nanjing, it is not much better than the city wall of the Beijing division, and more than 500 cannons bombard day and night, how long can it last?

Although the defenders of the Beijing division also used red-coated cannons to fight back, and also killed and injured the begging army, but this was just a drop in the bucket, as long as the city wall collapsed, although the Beijing camp still had soldiers and horses, it could not fight at all, so the Beijing division was equivalent to falling.

On November 20 of the ninth year of Chongzhen, the officers and soldiers defending the city opened You'anmen, Zuo'anmen, Yongdingmen, Guangning Gate, Guangqumen, and the outer city fell.

On the 21st, the defending officers and troops opened the Dongzhi Gate and Chaoyang Gate, Li Zicheng's army entered the inner city, and the Beijing Division fell.

Such a city, the main force of the Ming Dynasty was destroyed, the people were panicked, and the first army to attack and failed to break through the Xiongcheng, such a Jurchen capital that failed to shake the Ming Empire when it was extremely strong in the past, fell like this.

At this time, the palace has already been in chaos, and the beggar army is about to enter the palace, although Li Zicheng's army claims not to harm ordinary poor people, but the successful rebellion of the previous dynasties has entered the palace, who is not going to kill.

At this time, it is the best policy to hide if you can, and at this moment, the Royal Forest Army, Dongchang, and Jinyi Guards have already fled without a trace, and everyone just took this opportunity to steal the things in the palace.

The things in the palace, which are not worth a huge amount of money, just steal a few and pawn them, even if you change the dynasty and the generation, you still have to recognize that the silver is not.

There was chaos in the palace, only the Imperial Palace was very quiet, because everyone in the palace knew that the emperor's family was in the Imperial Palace.

After all, the emperor is the master of the palace, even if it is not now, everyone is still thinking about incense, even if they want to grab something, they can't let the emperor see it, this is not good.

So the palace of the emperor's pole, the hall where a grand court meeting was held, was unusually quiet at this time, there were no more military affairs, no more sacrificial ceremonies, only Chongzhen's family, Wang Chengen, and a big companion Zhu Chuncheng who took care of the prince's daily life.

Chongzhen was very moved.

"Big buddy, they're all gone, why don't you leave?"

Da Ming was dead, but Chongzhen felt a sense of relief, and he looked at Wang Chengen with a faint smile.

Wang Chengen also smiled, as if he was looking at a friend who had been friends for many years, and a family member who would never give up.

"Master, you are leaving, how can it be done if you don't have a caring person waiting for you when you go down. Moreover, the ancestors asked, why is the Ming Dynasty gone, and the old slave said to the ancestors, it's not that you are ridiculous in political affairs, but that you can't do it. ”

This sentence stirred up Chongzhen's sorrow.

"The Son of Heaven guards the country, the king dies, and I die in the country, so naturally there is only one death, but I am a family."

Chongzhen looked at Queen Zhou, who was kneeling in front of him, and the six concubines, as well as Zhu Cihong, who was still at a loss, and was only seven years old, four years old Zhu Cijiong, and six years old Zhu Yujiao, her eyes were full of reluctance.

"Master, Li Zicheng is all over the world to kill my Ming clan, and now I am the only one left in your family, the little slave is brave, I implore you to allow the little slave to take the prince, the third prince, the eldest princess, and a few mothers out."

Zhu Chuncheng spoke, and Chongzhen realized that there was still a prince's eldest companion who had not escaped, and he was still here.

"Why haven't you run away yet?"

Chongzhen was puzzled.

"Master, the little slave watched His Royal Highness the Crown Prince grow up, and he was very reluctant, if such a big thing happened, if the little slave was not by his side, the little slave was afraid that he would cry."

Zhu Chuncheng spoke, but Zhu Cihong clenched the hand that was already holding him tighter.