Zhu Youzhen hacked several concubines to death, and ordered the left and right to urge Empress Yi'an Zhang to commit suicide, and Empress Yi'an Zhang bowed to Zhu Youzhen a few times through the curtain and hanged herself. Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but cry of grief, and he ordered the three princes to quickly change into civilian clothes and escape from the palace, write an edict, and order Zhu Chunchen, the prince of Chengguo, to lead the army and assist the crown prince Zhu Cihong.

In the early morning of the 19th, Li Zicheng's rebel army entered Beijing from Changyi Gate. Then Emperor Chongzhen held a three-eyed gun and dozens of eunuchs rode out of Donghua Gate, was blocked by random arrows, and then ran to Qihua Gate, Chengguo Duke Zhu Chunchen closed the door, and then turned to Anding Gate, the defenders here have been scattered, the gate is deeply locked, the eunuch can not split it with a sharp axe, at dawn on March 19, the fire is everywhere, Zhu Youzhen who is at the end of the road returns to the palace, looking far away, the outside of the city is already a firelight, at this time the sky will be bright, Zhu Youzhen Emperor rings the bell in the front hall to convene a hundred officials, still no one comes, Zhu Youzhen lamented: "The ministers are mistaken, The monarch died, and in the world for two hundred and seventy-seven years, once he abandoned it, it was all mistaken by traitors, so that it was so. ”

Pavilion Tao, a cavalry of 5,000 people is galloping on the official road, headed by Cao Bianjiao, at this moment Cao Bianjiao is full of smoke and dust, very tired, March 11, Cao Bianjiao just captured Chengtianfu, got the imperial court's 800 miles of urgency, Zhu Youzhen personally edicted, ordered Cao Bianjiao to lead the army to the north to rescue, and crowned him as the general soldier of Huguang, Ning Guobo, in the edict of deep affection, Cao Bianjiao's indelible feelings or the north moved, so he feinted to attack Xiangyang, bluffed in Yicheng, I took all the horses to the north to rescue, five days, more than a thousand miles, even if it was one person and two horses, but such a non-stop forced march was also very hard.

"Dashuai, we have reached the realm of Guantao, but there are still eight hundred miles, the soldiers are very hard, if you continue to force the march, the people can't stand it, and the horses can't stand it, so let's take a rest!" Zu Dale wiped the sweat on his face, and he was also tired.

"Da Le, you said that if Beijing City was broken by Li Zicheng and the emperor was martyred, would the Ming Dynasty also perish?"

Faced with Cao Bianjiao's sudden question, Zu Dale was also stunned, he didn't know how to answer, he was very idiotic about political things, almost didn't understand, he only knew about war, and as far as he was concerned, the idea of loyalty was not strong, and he talked more about affection and righteousness, Cao Bianjiao was affectionate and righteous, so he would follow Cao Bianjiao with all his heart, and he had never thought about the question asked by Cao Bianjiao.

"The last general doesn't know!" Zu Dale also shook his head.

Cao Bianjiao looked at Kang Shide on the side again, and also asked the same question, Kang Shide was also silent, not knowing how to answer, they didn't think about this question at all.

"It's not dead, Beijing is gone, we still have Nanjing, Nanjing is gone, we still have thousands of capitals, our Ming Dynasty's integrity still exists, the Ming Dynasty is not finished, do you know, when I received the emperor's edict, I saw not the majesty of an emperor, but miserable, desperate and helpless, although our Ming Dynasty is full of holes, the building will fall, but we can't do the wall down and everyone pushes the thing, we have to stick to the integrity, so I sent troops to rescue, and I also know, Even if we go to Beijing to rescue without stopping, it is still not of much use, Beijing City can not hold out for a few days, along the way, all we hear is the news that Xuanfu, Datong, and Juyong surrendered without a fight, will Beijing City not? I'm afraid that by the time we arrive, Beijing City will be finished! ”

"Then why are we marching so eagerly?" Zu Dale was puzzled.

"Because as long as there is a glimmer of hope, we must not give up, the soldiers are tired, let everyone rest for three hours, only three hours, after three hours, continue to hurry."

Li Zicheng almost stayed up all night, after dinner, because the inner city of Beijing will be broken, and the city is about to enter, he will Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance and Li Yanzhao to the palace, to discuss the important urgent matters after entering Beijing, since the uprising in the second year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng after 16 years of hard fighting, several setbacks, blood flowed like a river, and finally has today: into Beijing, destroyed the Ming Dynasty, and seized the country. The whole army of the Dashun army, all the civil ministers and military generals, are excited, thinking that it is a great success, Jiangnan can be passed on to the decided, Li Ziben himself of course also thinks that the eternal business of the Dashun Dynasty has been decided, just wait for the grand ceremony to be held in Beijing, and then return to Chang'an, while unifying Jiangnan, while building the Dashun Palace, restoring the scale of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial meeting until late at night.

At ten o'clock at noon, Li Zicheng as the emperor of Dashun, guided by the eunuch Wang Dehua, walked slowly from outside the city, turned the northwest corner to the east, and arrived outside the Desheng Gate, and the soldiers of the Dashun army guarding the city gate knelt on both sides of the avenue to greet them. Starting from the street outside the gate of the urn city to the street along the way after entering the city, it has been hurriedly cleaned by the soldiers and civilians, and the incense cases on both sides of the street have also been put out.

Li Zicheng rode on the tall oolong horse, his demeanor* reminded him in his heart that he was the emperor of Dashun, which was different from the past. He lightly lifted the apricot yellow silk reins in his left hand, lowered his right hand, sat up straight, his eyes were blazing forward, and he refused to look casually, but under the cover of this calm appearance, his heart was very excited, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he recalled many difficult past events after the uprising.

Li Zicheng crossed the Jinshui Bridge, still couldn't help but look up at the sturdy beauty of Chengtianmen, and suddenly thought that after the great ceremony was held, he needed to order the ministers to draw a couplet for Chengtianmen, and write it into a two-foot square black lacquer script, lined with a golden cloud dragon bottom, and hung on both sides of the Zhongque Gate...... As soon as he thought of this, Song Xiance came to his horse's head and bowed down to remind: "Your Majesty, please shoot the 'Gate of Chengtian' with arrows to remove the ominous aura of the Ming Dynasty." ”

Li Zicheng nodded, took off the bow and crossbow arrows, made the oolong horse take a few steps back, raised the bow and arrows, only to hear the bowstring sound, and an arrow hit the middle space on the "Gate of Chengtian" card, that is, the bottom of the word "big" and the top of the word "zhi".

The civil and military ministers and the escort pro-soldiers immediately cheered: "Long live! Hooray! ”

But Li Zicheng seemed very dissatisfied, originally he was going to shoot the word "sky", but he didn't, is the meaning ominous, just when Li Zicheng frowned, Niu Jinxing persuaded the world to divide the world, Li Zicheng released his heart and entered the city calmly. His ideals are not big, he was born recklessly, and before he met Sending Advice, Niu Jinxing and others, he had no political acumen at all, and it was under their persuasion that he had the ambition to seize the world, and to divide the world, in his opinion, it was also very good.

In the early morning of March 19, Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the military department, took the initiative to open the Zhengyang Gate to welcome Liu Zongmin's troops, and at noon, Li Zicheng was guided by the eunuch Wang Dehua to enter from the Desheng Gate and enter the inner hall through the Chengtian Gate. At this time, Chongzhen took the eunuch Wang Chengen to the coal mountain to lookout, and returned to the Qianqing Palace, the ministers have fled, and finally Chongzhen went to Jingshan to hang himself, tragic and died, known as the change of Jiashen.