And Shen Xing, who was far away in Sichuan, learned of this, expressed his speechlessness to Chongzhen, and he silently prayed that Chongzhen's bad pen could persist until he returned to the capital, because no matter how incompetent he was, he was also a banner of the Ming Dynasty.

The battle of Songjin ended with the complete victory of the Qing army, and the Ming Dynasty suffered a great loss of vitality after this battle, and Hong Chengchou and Zu Dashou surrendered to the Qing Dynasty one after another. In this battle, the Qing army killed 53,783 soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, captured 7,440 horses, and 9,346 pieces of armor. There are more than 5,000 muskets, three cannons in red, and ten cannons in Franco.

The Ming soldiers went from Xingshan to Tashan in the south, and there were many dead people who went to the sea, and tens of thousands of horses and armor were abandoned. There are many floating corpses floating in the sea, like geese. "The Battle of Songjin marked the complete collapse of the Ming Dynasty's defense system in Liaodong, and the last line of defense of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong was only Wu Sangui's department at Shanhaiguan. History is amazingly acquainted, but because Shen Xing got it several years in advance.

The four cities of Songshan, Jinzhou, Tashan, and Xingshan fell, and Zu Dashou surrendered the city, resulting in "the elite of the nine stops, the grain of China, all of them were thrown, and they could not continue to be royal, and the temple community was in ruins!" Wang Pu was arrested for the crime of "fleeing for the first time", and the court held a trial.

Yu Shi Hao Jin spoke: "The six towns are guilty of the same crime, and they are all suitable for death." "Sangui Shiliao's left general, fled without a fight, but he rebelled against the Admiral." Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the Ministry of War, reconsidered, "But Gu Nianqi (Wu Sangui) has meritorious service in guarding Ningyuan, and he can be demoted with Li Fuming, Tang Tong, etc., and serve as officials." ”

So he beheaded Wang Pu alone. Zhang Ruoqi was sentenced to death, and Ma Shaoyu, the head of the Ministry of War, was given the punishment of having his status reduced. Wu Sangui was demoted and guarded Ningyuan.

Since then, outside the Shanhai Pass of the Ming Dynasty, only a lonely city in Ningyuan remains, and the Guanningjin defense line has been completely destroyed. At this time, the Qing army strengthened the military pressure on the Ming Dynasty, and after Jinzhou fell into the hands of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it replaced Yizhou as the advance base of the Qing army's attack on the Ming Dynasty.

After the fall of Songjin, both sides of the Ming and Qing dynasties paid a huge price, although the Ming Dynasty was defeated, but the Qing Dynasty as the victor also suffered great losses, and neither side was able to launch a large-scale offensive for a while.

Despite this, skirmishes continue to occur. This shows that the Qing army is bound to occupy the whole Liao, and also has the ambition to capture the Central Plains and replace the Ming Dynasty.

Prince Zierharang, Wuying County King Azig led the army to capture Zhonghousuo, Qiantunwei and other places, the purpose of the Qing army was to take Ningyuan, this operation Qing army mobilized red-coated artillery and other firearms, it can be seen that they were prepared. On September 23, a large force of the Qing army arrived at Zhonghou Station, "on the twilight of the 24th, the army moved to the north of the city, and attacked it with ladders and red-coated artillery." On the 25th, the Zhonghou Institute was captured by the Qing army.

The results of the Qing army were very fruitful, the Ming army of the Zhonghou Institute was killed 4,500 people, the Ming army of the former Tunwei was killed more than 4,000 people, and the Ming commanders Li Fuming and Yuan Shangren were killed in the battle, and suffered heavy losses. The Qing army used artillery to capture Zhongqiansu and Qiantunwei one after another, and Shahewei and Zhongqianwei were abandoned by the Ming.

However, the ultimate goal of the Qing army's attack was to capture Ningyuan, but outside the city of Ningyuan, it was finally hit hard by the Ming army Wu Sangui and forced to retreat to the encirclement of Ningyuan. Wu Sangui also regained Chongzhen's reuse, and his fierce life began to fly like waves at this time.

The spread of the epidemic in Hebei and Shandong was out of control, and the troops stationed in various places were also disheartened, Chongzhen's white hair was newly added, and he smoked the cigarettes sold by the Shen family one after another.

There were ministers in the court and the central government successively suggested that the imperial court move south to Nanjing, the capital of the central government, in order to avoid the edge of Li Zicheng's army, but the voices of opponents were also heard for a while, Chongzhen's conceit and a little bit of self-esteem in his heart made him finally embark on the old road of history

Chongzhen was in a dilemma, and at this time, the capital Wen Tiren once again proposed a compromise solution, that is, to ask the prince to move to the capital to preserve the orthodoxy of the Ming royal family. Hearing such an idea, Chongzhen was greatly moved and immediately wanted to implement it, but he never expected that Chen Yan, an important minister in the cabinet, would jump out and strongly oppose it.

And in front of the Manchu Dynasty, he told about the Tang Xuanzong Rebellion in Anshi, and he had been hiding in Sichuan to avoid the scourge of war. On the contrary, the prince at that time did a particularly good job in the rear of the enemy army, he actively mobilized all kinds of military horses, and repeatedly won victories in the process of encircling and suppressing the rebels.

So the prince took advantage of the situation to ascend the throne in Lingwu, for Suzong, and respected Xuanzong in Sichuan as the emperor. In this way, Xuanzong was hollowed out of real power and lost his throne.

After speaking, he asked loudly whether the ministers wanted Chongzhen to follow suit, if the prince successfully escaped to the south and was used by someone with a heart, what would the ministers plan to do, do they plan to follow the story of Suzong? In this way, the matter is very sensitive, and the ministers dare not say anything more.

Chongzhen is a stubborn and self-righteous person, who takes the power in his hands very seriously, but anyone who can threaten him will be ruthlessly eradicated. Ministers who dared to challenge his authority were rebuked and even put to death. There are countless such examples except Yuan Chonghuan, so after he heard about Suzong, he was also afraid that he would be set up like Xuanzong, so he did not allow the prince to be released.

Everyone knows what happened after that, he himself was indeed not put in power in his hands, but ended up hanging himself, and the crown prince and other princes were also killed one by one.

This caused the Nanming in a corner of peace, although it still held a lot of strength, but because there was no legitimate heir, no one could really provoke the orthodox name, which led to the gradual evolution of its internal contradictions, and was gradually expelled and eliminated by the Qing court in the incessant infighting.

Chongzhen, who never thought that he had always been determined to turn the tide, was finally unable to retain even a trace of the orthodox bloodline of the dynasty in the world due to his own selfishness, completely cut off the hope of restoration, and buried the entire dynasty in the long river of history.

In fact, Chongzhen's narrow heart still has another small abacus of his own, he really doesn't believe that Li Zicheng's group of Wuhe people can break through the rock-solid Beijing City, the former Huang Taiji invincible iron cavalry attacked the city several times, and finally did not defeat and left.

Now he uses that little pitiful military common sense to imagine that even if he is besieged in the capital, as long as the army and the people resist together, Lu Xiangsheng in Shanxi, Sun Chuanting in Hubei, Zuo Liangyu in Jiangxi, Shen Xing in Jiangnan, Zheng Zhilong in Fujian, and the Five Route Army can march together to go north to King Qinwang to besiege Li Zicheng, so that not only can Li Zicheng's army be destroyed in one fell swoop, but also more likely to take advantage of the momentum and bring the power of victory out of Shanhaiguan to regain the lost territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and revive the past glory of the Ming Dynasty.

The ideal is really too full and beautiful, after Shen Xing received Chongzhen's holy decree, he also admired this teacher's unbridled military deployment, and did not hesitate to set an example for his ambition, but he turned around and mourned silently for this sad emperor, because he ignored the favorable time, place and people, and whether the five roads can carry out the order without discounting the first two words.