Luoyang, the thousand-year-old capital, is already a wreck at this time, and there is the smell of gunpowder everywhere.

The 110,000 soldiers of the Middle Road River Crossing Army, which was gathered by the First Army and the Second Army of Hongtang, were the most powerful of the three river crossing armies in Hongtang, but they were also the most tragic one with the Ming Army.

Shang Kexi, commander of the First Army, was in charge of the operation of crossing the river as the commander of the combined army, while Xiao Xiurong, commander of the Second Army, was the deputy commander of the combined army, and Shang Kexi coordinated the command of this army.

In front of them was the famous commander of the Ming Dynasty, who suppressed Zhang Xiangzhong and Li Zicheng's peasant rebellion, and Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, Inspector Sun Chuanting was already an old man with frosty temples, and there were endless mental calculations in the eastern and western expeditions over the years, which made the hair on his forehead fall out, and his image may not be as good as people want.

But it is undeniable that at this time, he has a murderous aura, as well as the calm temperament that is invisibly revealed, even if their army is forced to evacuate Luoyang, the thousand-year-old capital at this time, the Ming army has not produced too many ups and downs because of his existence.

The Hongtang army still used the unsolvable means of artillery fire to open the way, and fired outside Luoyang City, which has countless thousand-year-old monuments, without any scruples, but the Ming Dynasty army, which had absorbed countless lessons, under the leadership of Sun Chuanting, although the sporadic artillery fire on the city wall could not give the Hongtang army too much trouble, but they also had a bit of the style of positional combat during World War II in later generations in dodging the artillery rain and returning to defense in time after the shelling.

"What a pity!"

The 200,000 Ming Dynasty army, with the tall city wall of Luoyang City as a fortification, was stunned to block the offensive of the two armies of Shang Kexi Hongtang for more than two months.

Especially in the street fighting, the Ming Dynasty army used the gradually improved fortifications, as well as the Ming Dynasty cultivated at any cost, their own Shenji battalion soldiers, stunned to make the Hongtang military pay the price of more than 40,000 people, before the Ming Dynasty army drove out of Luoyang City.

Of course, the losses of the Ming Dynasty army must be much higher than that of the Hongtang army, and the Ming Dynasty troops who were captured by the Hongtang army, scattered and fled by themselves, and finally withdrew from Luoyang City, were only about 1120,000 people.

Fortunately, the superintendent Sun Chuanting was calm enough, and he was not afraid to take the responsibility of losing Luoyang, and the street battles in the city were eroded step by step, and finally he could not gain a foothold, but he made the decision to withdraw from Luoyang without hesitation.

As long as they have enough knowledge of the generals, when they face the powerful and advanced Hongtang army, they can always think of going together, and that is to act against the shortcomings of the Hongtang army.

Being able to consume 40,000 or 50,000 troops of Hongtang's army in Luoyang City was already worth it in the eyes of Governor Sun Chuanting, even if the price paid by the Ming Dynasty army was even heavier.

Sun Chuanting regretted that at the beginning of their Luoyang battle, they still underestimated the strength of Hongtang's army, so now Luoyang City still has the people of the surrounding villages, and more than half of them have not fled, when Sun Chuanting and their army withdrew, it means that these more than hundreds of thousands of people have become the people of Hongmen.

Whether it is the Hongtang army or the Daming army, after this battle that lasted more than two months, there will be no more movements, and they all need to rest and recuperate.

Among them, the Hongtang army needs to clean up and consolidate the strongholds around Luoyang City, and completely control Luoyang City in their own hands.

The Ming Dynasty rout, under the leadership of Sun Chuanting's superintendent, continued to retreat south, in addition to the need to revive the morale of the rout, and at the same time a bad news from Ying Tianfu, forcing Sun Chuanting to quickly rush back to the royal capital.

Emperor Chongzhen was confident that he did not expect that he could become the master of the dragon chair of the Forbidden Imperial City, but the world is impermanent, and joy descends from the sky, who would have thought that the Emperor of the Apocalypse died young and had no heirs left, and in the end, he was cheaper than his imperial brother.

From the time he ascended the throne to the time when he finally died, Emperor Chongzhen has been in power for 26 years, and although he is not ranked in the top three in the reign of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, it can be regarded as a long time.

However, the lucky one is him, but the unfortunate one is the people of the Ming Dynasty, during his reign, the peasant uprisings continued, the invasion of the Jurchen barbarians outside the Guan, and then various natural disasters, but it was the dragon chair under the buttocks of the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen who was particularly awkward.

It cannot be said that Emperor Chongzhen did not work hard and concentrate enough, and during his tenure he got rid of the Wei Zhongxian eunuch party, which was full of complaints among the people and the literati class, and at the same time he paid a heavy price to suppress and eradicate the peasant rebel armies of Daxi and Dashun, the two places that had risen from his tenure.

But after all, the time and place are not in him, in the Xiaoice period, and there are hundreds of years of imperial ills existing, even if Emperor Chongzhen is three heads and six arms, intelligent, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and she is powerless to return to heaven!

Of course, he was even more sad that he met the butterfly that crossed over from the later generations, although he did not bring the advanced technology of the later generations, but Li Tianyang's calm character, as well as the rich wealth brought by this Age of Discovery, made the Hongmen force, as if it was opened, grew up under the nose of the Ming Dynasty, and became a much more powerful and difficult force to deal with than the Jurchens of the Qing Dynasty who only knew the courage of the horseman.

Eventful, this word can only be used to describe everything that Emperor Chongzhen has experienced in the twenty-six years of his reign, but from the day of July 22 in the twenty-sixth year of Chongzhen, the era of Emperor Chongzhen has come to an end.

"Your Majesty is dead!"

Sun Chuanting, who had just returned from the defeat in Luoyang and stopped at Xuzhou Mansion, waited for an urgent secretary who was originally going to Luoyang.

I thought that the court was so well-informed, and it was less than ten years before the fall of Luoyang, and the court not only knew the news of their failure, but even sent people to express their dissatisfaction with themselves!

But seeing the secret envoy who came to deliver the letter, with the sadness on his face, Sun Chuanting's heart suddenly lifted, and he always felt that something big was about to happen.

When the messenger handed over the court documents, Sun Chuanting only read the first few words, and his eyes went dark, and he felt that the sky was falling.

"This is really going to kill me!!"

Other than that, Sun Chuanting had no other ideas.

"Command the three armies, Your Majesty's funeral is full of people!!"

"This official needs to enter Beijing immediately to see His Majesty on his last journey!"

It is not so much to send Emperor Chongzhen on his last journey, but to say that Sun Chuanting must return to Beijing to avoid any problems when there is no backbone in Beijing.