People say that the snow is a good year, but the snow falls early, which is not a good thing.

Normally, September is the time of harvest, but at the end of September this year, it has already snowed heavily on the front line of the Great Wall.

At the beginning of October, along the Jizhen of the Ming Empire, snowflakes were swept by the north wind and flew all over the sky, and the sky was gray.

On the beacon tower along the Great Wall, the old soldier of Jizhen wore a shabby cotton jacket and held a red tassel gun in his hand, standing in the cold wind, shivering constantly.

In the first battle of Songshan, the elite officers and troops along the Great Wall lost seven, seven or eighty-eight, and only some old, weak, sick and disabled remained, and the treasury of the Ming Dynasty was full of treasures, the treasury was empty, and there was no money and food to recruit troops to replenish, so the defense was extremely weak.

The two soldiers guarding the beacon tower, one was a lame old man in his forties and looked like a thin one, and the other was only a teenager, a half-old child, his face was red from the cold, his hands and feet were full of chilblains, and he was swollen like a braised pig's hand.

"Sanwazi, it's cold, I'll just come and watch, you go down and hide." The old pawn put his hands into his sleeves, hugged the spear, and shivered as he said to the pawn next to him who was freezing his nose.

"Uncle Liu, I'm not cold, I'm here to accompany you." The pawn trembled, with a hint of stubbornness on his childish face.

The old pawn waved his hand, "It's useless for you to stand, go down to rest first, and wait for you to change your Uncle Liu~"

At this time, the little pawn didn't move, his face suddenly showed a face full of horror, pointed to the outside of the pass, and said in a trembling voice: "Liu~Uncle Liu~Back~"

The old pawn was stunned when he heard this, turned around, and saw that outside the pass, a large group of people and horses suddenly appeared in the wind and snow, and there was a figure of people and horses.

The old pawn saw a big curtain appear on the horizon, followed by an overwhelming iron horse rolling in, and the earth trembled, and his face was suddenly full of horror, "Three boys, you run quickly, the Tartar has no humanity, and it will not be able to go any later." ”

After the old pawn finished speaking, he picked up a piece of wood from the fire, limped to light the wolf smoke, he saw that the little pawn was sluggish, and suddenly roared again, "Broken slave, you fool, what are you doing in a daze, don't run quickly, and avenge your uncle in the future." ”

"Uncle Liu, what about you?" The little pawn is a native of Beizhi, when the Qing army entered the fifth time, the family was taken away by the Qing army, he changed his name to a broken slave, and voted for the border army of Jizhen Town, the old pawn surnamed Liu is a native of Xiongxian County, the family died in Chongzhen nine years of the Qing army into the Kou, after his son was killed by the Qing army, he knew the little pawn who had just joined the army to do miscellaneous service, and treated him as a son.

On the wilderness outside the Great Wall, a large force of Manchurian cavalry appeared in the wind and snow, exuding a fierce murderous aura.

Under the banner of Daxu, the Manchurian general Abatai, wearing heavy armor, rode on a healthy horse, casually pulled out the clairtelescope imported from Portugal, glanced at the Yellow Cliff Pass in front, and saw the wolf smoke rolling up one after another on the Great Wall, the scene was very spectacular, but he was not anxious at all, ignoring the alarm of the Ming army.

"The Guanning army is nested in Shanhaiguan and does not dare to fight, along the entire Great Wall, who else can stop my Daqing Iron Cavalry?" Abatai shook a few times on the horseback, snorted, and said with a presumptuous smile: "The herald Tong Tulai led the Wuzhen Chaoha, quickly broke through the pass, and after the army entered, it will be under the city of Jizhou." ”

The combat power of the Eight Banners Army at this time can be said to be the best in the world, and it is difficult to find opponents in the whole world, and the last elite Guanning Iron Cavalry of the Ming Dynasty can only be relegated to second.

Outside the wall, tens of thousands of Qing troops according to the flags, lined up into several phalanxes, front and back, left, center and right, the formation is clear, the flag is unfurled, in the cold wind, there is silence, only the war horse beats the nose and the hunting sound of the wind sweeping the flag, and the people and horses are not moving.

At the sound of Abatai's order, the cavalry beside him took off the horns from their waists, raised their heads and blew them into the sky, and their low horns pierced the sky.

Among the many people and horses, a group of blue-armored Han soldiers raised the flag, indicating that they had heard the order, and then turned over and dismounted, each holding a weapon, carrying a simple long ladder, and pressed towards the city violently.

These blue armors were all Han Chinese, and the armor still maintained many of the characteristics of the Ming army, but these people had become completely loyal to the Manchu Qing and became a member of the Eight Banners Army.

The Eight Banners system is a very peculiar military system, but in essence, it is nothing more than a bandit group tied up by interests.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty wanted to maintain this system, relying on the combination of grace and power, giving sufficient benefits, and entering the customs and plundering was undoubtedly the happiest thing for the Qiding, and it was also the best way to obtain benefits.

These blue-armored Han soldiers, no matter how many old and weak women and children there are in the pass, and how many people are going to die under the butcher's knife, in their opinion, the people in the pass are lambs to be slaughtered.

On the pier platform of the Great Wall, the wolf smoke was lit by the old soldiers, and the alarm bell of "Dangdang" was also sounded by the soldiers.

A hundred household officials with a broken arm hurriedly led a hundred and ten old and weak to rush up to the wall, he looked at the Tartars outside, his footsteps suddenly slowed down, but he still resolutely walked to the edge of the wall, with the only remaining hand on the cold wall battlements, looked at the Tartars for a moment, and finally calmly said to the soldiers behind him: "Arm!" ”

On the other side, the old pawn glanced at the approaching Tartar, and said to the pawn: "Uncle's leg, if you can't run far, you have to be caught up by the Tartar, you don't care about your uncle, you live well, avenge your uncle in the future, leave a thought for your uncle, we can't die a fine light~"

Li Ponu couldn't help himself with grief, the grief in his heart was stuck in his throat, and he burst into tears in an instant, he took several steps backwards, until he hit the side wall, and then suddenly turned around and fled off the beacon.

"Kill the Tartars!"

Li Ponu ran down the city, and the desperate roar of the old pawn came from behind, and he fled south with more than a dozen pawns with tears.

Not long after, there were cheers from the city, and Li Ponu turned his head with red eyes to see that the figure of a blue armored soldier had appeared at the head of the city.

Several old soldiers who had just escaped from the city were shot down by a rain of arrows from these blue-armored soldiers, and the gate was pushed open by the Qing army, and a large number of Qing cavalry poured out of the door.

Li Ponu looked back at a Mingzi flag, and the Qing army that was attacked on the pass dropped the wall and smashed it on the ground, enduring grief with red eyes, so that a few companions could continue to run south~

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, in October, under the leadership of Belle Abatai, the Manchurian, Mongolian, and Han armies totaled 12 banners, about 60,000 Qing troops, plus tens of thousands of Mongolian soldiers from the outer domains, with a total strength of nearly 100,000 people.

The Qing army immediately divided into two routes, all the way to Tongzhou, all the way to Tianjin, wantonly plundered the north, and the officers and soldiers did not dare to fight.

The city of Beijing had to be under martial law, and the ministers of the Ming Dynasty guarded the nine gates, trapped in the city of Beijing, and waited for the support of soldiers and horses.

For a time, on the North China Plain, groups of Manchurian Eight Banner cavalry galloped across the sky, raising smoke and dust in the sky.

The villages and cities in Beizhi were trampled by the Eight Banners, the cities were slaughtered, the villages were destroyed, and the people had no choice but to flee for their lives, being slaughtered and captured.

In Beijing, in the Bauhinia City Palace, Emperor Chongzhen, who was just in his early thirties, angrily threw the song to the ground, his chest rising and falling violently.

"In one day, sixteen cities fell, what about the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty? What about Sun Chuanting? He hasn't been out of the customs yet, waiting for Jiannu to break Beijing? Chongzhen's eyes were red and he was furious.

This Ming Emperor ascended the throne at the age of sixteen or seventeen, and worked hard for more than ten years, Keke industry, more conscientious than the Ming Dynasty emperors before him.

He wants to make some achievements more than anyone else, but sometimes, limited by his own ability, he makes more mistakes.

When Chongzhen ascended the throne, the situation in the Ming Dynasty was acceptable, but he worked hard for more than ten years, and the situation became more and more erosive, but he didn't know what to say.

There are many external factors, such as natural disasters, but climate change is global in nature, and the Ottomans, Spain, and France also faced the same problem at the same time, and they did not collapse, so the main reason for the collapse of the Ming Empire was its own internal problems.

In addition to the disadvantages of the empire, Emperor Chongzhen ascended to the throne at a young age and did not receive a good imperial education, which is also one of the reasons.

A teenager should not have borne these responsibilities, but since he is in the position of emperor and is keen to grasp the military and political affairs himself, he will be directly responsible for the rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, letting a person with insufficient ability ascend to the throne and grasp and exercise the supreme power is itself a flaw in the system, and it is also one of the understandings of the ten masters in the late Ming Dynasty, "Since Qin has come, emperors are all thieves".

Later generations gave Chongzhen the king, too many other emotions, watching him work hard, diligent and thrifty, and finally martyred the country, so in order to restore his political position, he was not overly harsh, but stripped of these additional things, Chongzhen himself was suspicious and not responsible, and there were indeed many problems.

In the main hall, several officials lowered their heads and did not dare to speak, and Wu Fu, a scholar, said: "Your Majesty, the court is out of Tongguan, and I am afraid that I will not be able to serve the king at this time." ”

When Sun Chuanting was released from prison, he made the same mistake as Yuan Chonghuan, literati like to brag, and most people know that they will not be too serious, but Emperor Chongzhen is different, he hates others to deceive him the most, so he said to Sun Chuanting that 5,000 elite soldiers are enough to wipe out the thieves, and he believed it.

Now he saw that after Sun Chuanting arrived in Shaanxi, he did not send troops to suppress the thieves, and he also wrote to complain from time to time, asking for money, food, and soldiers, which made Chongzhen a little suspicious.

"Heng, I have already given him enough soldiers and horses, he has actually delayed until now, and the military department will give another order, let him destroy the thief as soon as possible, and then go north to King Qin." At this time, Chongzhen had no other way, the Qing army had already entered the pass, he couldn't let the Qing army wreak havoc in the pass, and he had to drive the Qing army out.

Chongzhen waved his sleeves and added: "Didn't Huang Degong defeat Zhang Thief, the military department immediately ordered to transfer him too~"

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