Wang Xiangyao opened the Xuanwu Gate, and Zhang Jinyan opened the Zhengyang Gate, the two ministers greeted the door to worship Li Zicheng's army, and the thief ascended to the door to worship Wang Jiayan, who was shot to death by random arrows in the city tower, and Meng Zhaoxiang, the waiter of the Criminal Department, led more than 100 soldiers to defend the city gate, but in the end, because he was outnumbered, he still held the spear in his hand after several shots, and became the most bleak martyr of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Zicheng's army invaded Beijing. The eunuch Wang Lian urgently told the emperor, and Chongzhen drank in the palace and sighed: "Bitter for my people!" The eunuch Zhang Yin persuaded the emperor to surrender and was stabbed to death with a sword.

As the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he maintained his dignity before he died, and after drinking the last glass of wine, he walked in front of his concubines with a long sword in his hand.

Zhou Hou smiled slightly, "Your Majesty, after the death of the concubine, please be buried in the same cave!" The rest of the women cried incessantly, and at this time, Cao Huaol walked in with the prince's princes, Princess Changping and Princess Zhaoren, and immediately fell to the ground.

"Your Majesty, Zhenming Hou has long expected today's events, and he begs you to follow the old slave south to Zhongdu! When the time is ripe, we will go on the Northern Expedition! ”

Chongzhen looked at Cao Huachun in disbelief, "What a Shen Zhenming, I didn't expect to be in such a situation today, he still remembers me, I didn't misread him, I thought he was the same as those thieves who had no king and no father!" But I still don't leave, you tell him that the bloodline of the Ming royal family can't be broken, the temple can't be destroyed, let him go for the rest, do Cao Cao, Wang Mang, anyway, I can't be coerced by him, Daming fell into such a field and can't blame others......"

"Your Majesty, the old slave knows that Shen Xing is a human being, and he will definitely not do that great rebellious act, why are you bothering?"

"Let's go, I will entrust these children to you, and Concubine Ling will also go with you, she is pregnant with Liujia, I really can't bear to kill her!" Cao Huachun burst into tears when he heard this, and he couldn't say half a sentence.

Chongzhen walked up to a few of his children and gently stroked each of their foreheads, showing extraordinary love. "Children, remember the words of your father, Ansheng is a son of the Ping family, don't talk about restoring the country, Shen Zhenming is not a vicious person, as long as you deny yourself, he can ensure that our Zhu family is rich and prosperous for generations! Did you hear me? Changping, you are the eldest sister, you have to take care of your younger siblings! ”

The thirteen-year-old Princess Changping nodded desperately in agreement, and the eleven-year-old prince Zhu Cixiong took the hand of his second brother Yongwang Zhu Cijiong and knelt on the ground and cried into tears.

"Let's go! I'm afraid I won't be able to leave any later, you can hear what Cao Hua Chunzhen said, the heirs of the Zhu family can't be broken, and the temple can't be destroyed! Lao Cao swore to the sky and kowtowed repeatedly, leading Concubine Ling and a few children to finally withdraw from the Qinzheng Palace.

Chongzhen watched the children walk away, his eyes widened angrily, and he glanced at the female dependents and sighed, "You don't want to marry the emperor's family in the next life!" Go in peace, I'll come later! The waving sword did not stop at all, and Zhou Hou was the first to fall to the ground with tears in his eyes, and looked at Chongzhen with a smile on his face before he died.

After killing all the women left, Chongzhen rode out of Donghua Gate with a three-eyed gun and dozens of eunuchs, was blocked by random arrows, and then ran to Qihua Gate (Chaoyang Gate), Chengguo Gong Zhu Chunchen closed the door, and then turned to Anding Gate, the defenders here have been scattered, the gate is deeply locked, and the eunuch can not split it with a sharp axe. Until dawn the next day, the flames broke out, and when they returned to the palace, the outside of the city was already full of fire.

At this time, the sky was about to dawn, Chongzhen rang the bell in the front hall to summon hundreds of officials, but no one came, helplessly shouted to the sky: "The ministers are mistaken, the monarch is dead, and the world for two hundred and seventy-two years, once it is abandoned, it will be mistaken by the traitorous ministers, so that it is so." ”

In the end, he hanged himself from a tree with a crooked neck in Jingshan, and when he died, he wore a red shoe on his left foot and his right foot. He was 28 years old, five years before the original history. Only the admiral eunuch Wang Chengen accompanied him.

Before hanging himself, he wrote a big book on his blue robe: "I have been on the throne for 12 years, although I have been despised by Liangde, and I have done the blame of heaven, causing the rebels to go straight to the Jingshi, but all the ministers have mistakenly died." When I died, I saw my ancestors in the ground without a face, and I took off my crown and covered my face with my hair. Let the thief divide the corpse, and don't hurt a single person. ”

Three days later, Chongzhen's body was found, and the Dashun army moved the coffins of Chongzhen and Queen Zhou out of the palace, and showed the public at Donghua Gate, "30 people cried and worshipped, 60 people worshipped but did not cry, and the rest were all ignored", and Zigong temporarily housed in the north of the Forbidden City by the river.

After Chongzhen's death, the suicide officials included Ni Yuanlu, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, Fan Jingwen, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Li Banghua, the imperial history of the left capital, Shi Bangyao, the deputy of the left capital, Ling Yiqu, the secretary of the Dali Temple, Wu Linzheng, the secretary of the Taichang Temple, Liu Lishun of the left Zhongyun, and Meng Zhaoxiang, the right attendant of the criminal department.

More than 300 palace maids committed suicide. More than 700 gentlemen, including students, committed suicide with their families. On April 4, Zhao Yigui, a magistrate of Changping Prefecture, and others buried Chongzhen and the queen in the tomb of Tian Guifei in Changping County. Shen Xing burst into tears after hearing about it afterwards, and he was reluctant to eat for three days to express his condolences!

On the other side, Cao Huaol took the prince and others to flee like Jinyiwei commanded Luo Yangxing's home, and Luo San's brother-in-law, who had been waiting for a long time, hurriedly greeted him, but when he heard that Chongzhen was unwilling to leave with his death, he knelt down and cried to the palace.

The process of hot air balloon was as early as before Cao Huaol returned to the capital, Shen Xing ordered someone to let him carry it with him, and also wrote a letter to explain how his third brother-in-law escaped from the capital at a critical moment, because he had already informed Zheng Zhilong's fleet to order the Tianjin sea area to respond at any time.

Shen Xing got the news of Chongzhen's hanging by Cao Huachun flying pigeons on the vast sea, he was so sad that he couldn't eat for three days, and the red lady saw him like this and completely ended his house arrest, letting him do anything.

Shen Xing tried hard to recall the relationship with Chongzhen, he imagined what it was like for this hot-blooded young emperor to be at the last moment, slaughtering his wife and concubine with his own hands, and taking the old king to Meishan, unwilling to surrender until he died, how strong the resentment should be, helpless and desperate...... Did he blame himself for being a good student when he was temporary?

When Daming was terminally ill, what was wrong with him wanting to turn the tide on his own, the mistake was that he should not have been born in the emperor's family. Shen Xing knelt in front of Chongzhen's tablet and thought about everything he had done in the past three years over and over again.

The red lady and a group of girls knelt next to Shen Xing, holding a bowl of chicken soup in their hands, "Husband, cry if you want to, don't do this again, the slave is wrong, the slave will never force you to do something you don't like in the future!" You can beat me and scold me! ”

With the crying of the red lady, Li Xiangjun and Dong Xiaowan also cried, Shen Xing stroked the long hair that was scattered and said with a smile, "Lady, I don't blame you, this is the teacher's own fate, he is relieved to go, and the husband is thinking about what kind of person he is." Afraid that his wives and concubines would be humiliated, he killed them all with his own hands, and if I hadn't made a move, he might have even killed his son and daughter! He is not a good emperor, a good husband, or a good father, but he is a real man, and it is really remarkable that he is unwilling to surrender because he faces life and death......"

After Shen Xing finished speaking, he took the chicken soup and drank it all, and then walked out of the door with his bare feet and a long shirt and ran wildly on the street. "Emperor Ming has returned to heaven, woo hoo lament...... "A large number of northern people fled south, and the city of Nanjing was already crowded with people at this moment. When they heard Shen Xing shouting so loudly over and over again, they all fell to their knees and wailed.

It was not until this moment that the people of Jiangnan suddenly discovered from the joy of the New Year that His Majesty the Emperor of their country had returned to heaven.

Shen Xing snatched the short knife from the dog's waist and cut off his long hair bit by bit as he ran, because he had wanted to do it for a long time, but when he thought of the terrible public opinion of his parents, he couldn't help it several times. Now that Chongzhen has died, there is no better reason to shave his ambition.

When they ran to the hill in front of the military academy, Wu Xianlu and a cadre of generals had already been waiting for the whole army, counting the 30,000 troops who had previously expeditioned to Sichuan, a total of 80,000 people were full. Shen Xing waved his hand and cut off the last slip of hair, and shouted frantically, "Take off, break your hair, and mourn for your father!" ”

Three minutes later, Shen Xing changed into a military uniform, put on a hat and took the lead in firing into the sky, and the soldiers also raised their guns in unison. "Three days later, the whole army went on a northern expedition to liberate the whole Ming Dynasty! From this moment on, you are the People's Liberation Army of the Ming Dynasty! "Northern Expedition, Northern Expedition............ Liberate the whole Ming Dynasty, liberate the whole Ming Dynasty, ...... "The shouts are higher and higher!"