The will of the Qing people to go south exceeded their expectations of Hong Chengchou, the governor of Xuliao, and since the beginning of the siege, they showed the strength of the most powerful cold weapon of this era to the Ming army Jiang Si in Shanhaiguan.

Even with the assistance of the towering city wall, and the powerful artillery arranged by the Ming court over the years, it is still difficult to hide the courage and strength of the Qing Dynasty soldiers.

Fortunately, the stronger cavalry strength of the children of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty was completely useless when attacking the city, and their cavalry became infantry, and their strength was somewhat reduced.

However, the Qing people really played with the Ming Dynasty this time, and launched a fierce attack on the Daming city defense on the first line of Shanhaiguan, vowing to control the important castles inside and outside the pass in their own hands, so as to achieve the point of more than enough to advance and retreat, from the late autumn and October of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, to attack the first line of the Great Wall defense line of Shanhaiguan until the end of December.

The more time dragged on, the more anxious they were in Dongjiang Town, and the Qing people continued to fight the Ming Dynasty border passes, and the heavy losses were still unrelenting, which made Shang Kexi feel a different atmosphere.

Hong Chengchou's insistence on defense also gave Li Tianyang, the base camp of the reds, and the central cabinet of the Daming Shuntianfu Mansion, which is only hundreds of miles away from Shanhaiguan, to react, but Hongmen could influence the war in Liaodong by conveying instructions to Dongjiang Town, but at this time, the center of the Ming Dynasty did not have much way to affect the situation in Liaodong.

The army that can be sent out to support has already been sent out by Emperor Chongzhen, and even the materials and salaries raised by the treasury and the inner treasury have been sent to Liaodong.

Hongmen gave Shang Kexi their order, but they were told to do their best to harass and destroy the territory of the Qing Dynasty and attract the attention of the Qing people's southward army, which was originally the most important task for the four of them to come to Dongjiang Town to gain a foothold.

In fact, even without Hongmen's order, Shang Kexi and they have not been idle in the past few months, and the fleet in their hands has not stopped in one place for more than a week in these days, and has been cruising along the coastal area of Daqing.

It's just that this time the Qing people were resolute, gave up the coastline early, shrunk their forces and deployed them inland, and gathered the 50,000 iron cavalry who stayed at the border into a fist and held China in their hands, always guarding against the attack of Dongjiang Town.

In the past, the Qing people felt that their territory was too small for the tribe to thrive, but now it seems that it also has great benefits, after giving up the weak links along the coastline, concentrating on defending the inland important land, but it has brought great obstacles to Dongjiang Town.

In order to contain the Qing people and carry out the trick of encircling Wei and saving Zhao, Shang Kexi and their 30,000 infantry and more than 2,000 cavalry were all mobilized.

However, sometimes will and determination alone are not enough, and with the strength of Dongjiang Town, it is a matter of hitting a stone with an egg to attack a Qing Dynasty that is vying for hegemony and destroying its territory.

In the end, the soldiers of Dongjiang Town paid nearly 20,000 casualties, but in exchange for the loss of a few unimportant towns in the Qing Kingdom, they were driven out by the Qing garrison army.

Chongzhen seventeenth year of the twentieth month, destined to be a day to remember history, on this day, the Ming Dynasty Shanhaiguan in the three months of perseverance, finally fell into the hands of the Qing people.

In three months, hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Ming garrison led by Hong Chengchou lost more than half of their troops, and the city defense of each important town almost collapsed.

Man Gui, Yang Guozhu, Li Fuming and other six or seven Ming generals were martyred, Wu Sangui, Yuan Shangren and other generals with the remnants of the Ming soldiers escorted the superintendent Hong Chengchou to retreat to Zunhua and other rear defense lines, establishing a second, I am afraid it will also be the last line of defense of the Gongwei Beijing Division.

Just when the Qing army opened the gate of the Ming Dynasty with joy and cheers under the leadership of the auxiliary prince Dorgon, the people in the Forbidden Imperial City of the Ming Dynasty, which was hundreds of miles away, were also panicked, and all the ministers of the ruling cabinet gathered together to discuss a major event with His Majesty Chongzhen of the current dynasty.

"Your Majesty, there is an ancient folk proverb: stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood, at this time the Qing army knocked on the border pass in eastern Liaodong, and the army pointed directly at Shuntianfu, and please Your Majesty Jin Gui's body do not stand in danger, and go south early to accompany the capital!!"

When Li Banghua, the imperial history of the left capital of the dynasty, expressed his opinion to Chongzhen with an anxious and urgent attitude.

"Ridiculous, my Ming Dynasty has been established for hundreds of years since Emperor Taizu, and no enemy soldiers have come to the city, and Your Majesty's refuge, Li Banghua is shameless, this evil plan is to abandon my Ming Dynasty foundation in disregard, and should be beheaded!!"

Xu Zhi, a member of the ministry, immediately had an angry look on his cheeks, and scolded Li Banghua, the imperial history of the left capital, as if he were an enemy.

On the other hand, Wei Zaode, the head of the dynasty, looked at his nose with his eyes and nose and did not say a word, although his face was full of sadness, but he never participated in this heated discussion.

"What an old fox!!"

The rest of the ministers in the court seemed to be standing with their heads down, each with their own words, but they were all observing the actions of the head of the court, and even the emperor Zhu Youzhen, who was no longer young in the Jinluan Palace, was actually sighing at the other party's suggestion.

It's a pity that it is disappointing that this first auxiliary minister, who was supposed to be the mainstay, was silent on this matter related to the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, and was not willing to take on the involvement and infamy at all, so that Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but be angry, but he had to suppress himself.

For more than 200 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, he has adhered to the last words of His Majesty Hongwu: the Son of Heaven has made Chongzhen retreat at this time, but he urgently needs a respected person to comfort him.

Different from the original history, although the Ming Jingshi was not broken by the enemy at this time, with the opening of the Ming Dynasty by the Qing people in the north, it is almost certain that the Jingshi will fall into the hands of the enemy, because almost all the real people who can fight in the Ming Dynasty have been dispatched to the Liaodong war situation, as well as the two-line defense line on the north bank of the Yellow River to prevent peasants and thieves.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen certainly wanted to be the emperor of that country, but everything was up to him, and the rolling tide of history condensed his blood into frost and made him feel the biting chill.

Merging into the anointed Ming Dynasty, it is not possible to save it with the strength of his Chongzhen alone, and at this moment of life and death, what ancestral law and the last words of the emperor are not as important as the imperial chair under his seat, and it is not as important as his own unique life.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen, who was able to die generously in the original history, wanted to continue to live in the context of great changes in the history of this era.