After Sun Chuanting had to go out of the customs, with Niu Chenghu and Lu Guangzu as the forwards, Lingbao entered Luoyang, Gao Jie was the Chinese army, and Bai Guangen was sent to join the division from Xin'an, Henan general Chen Yongfu guarded Xintan, and Sichuan general Qin Yiming went out of Shangxian and Luonan, and each other was horns. The vanguard defeated the Dashun army in Mianchi, went to Baofeng, then pulled out its city, and entered Jiaxian to station, Li Zicheng led 10,000 cavalry to turn back and fight, and was defeated again.

At this time, it was catching up with heavy rain, the roads were muddy, and the grain carts could not move forward, so Li Zicheng sent a light horse out of Ruzhou to cut off the grain road. Sun Chuanting then divided his troops into three, ordered Bai Guangen to take the avenue, ordered Gao Jie to follow him to the road to meet the grain cart, and ordered Chen Yongfu to guard the camp. After Sun Chuanting left, Chen Yongfu's troops also fought to leave, and they could not be forbidden, so they were tracked down by the Dashun army. When he arrived in Nanyang, Sun Chuanting returned to his division to fight. The thieves set up a five-fold camp, the officers and soldiers conquered the threefold, soon the officers and troops retreated slightly, the train fled first, the cavalry also fled, the Dashun army trampled on the iron cavalry, Sun Chuanting was defeated, Li Zicheng sent all the troops to chase, chased more than 400 miles in a day and night, more than 40,000 officers and soldiers died, hundreds of thousands of weapons and baggage were lost, Sun Chuanting fled to the north bank of the Yellow River, turned to Tongguan, the momentum was defeated and depressed, and he could not be revived.

In October of the winter of that year, Li Zicheng captured Tongguan, Sun Chuanting was killed in battle, the Dashun army then broke Huayin, Weinan, Huazhou and Lintong, and then attacked Xi'an, Xi'an defender Wang Genzi opened the east gate to dedicate the city, more than ten people such as the governor Feng Shikong died, and the political envoy Lu Zhiqi and others all surrendered, Li Zicheng then changed Xi'an to Chang'an, called Xijing; Give Gu Junen a piece of female music, as a reward for the strategy he proposed to enter the customs, and a large number of migrant workers, build Chang'an City, open the gallop road, Bai Guangen, Gao Ruli, Zuo Guangxian, Liang Fu and others will lead and surrender, Chen Yongfu because of the previous shot in the eye of Zicheng, he did not dare to go down on the top of the mountain to protect himself, Zicheng broke the arrow shaft as an oath, appeased him, he also surrendered, only Gao Jie fled to Yan'an for stealing Zicheng's wife, was chased by Li Guo, and then turned east, crossed the Yellow River from Yichuan, and cut off Pujin to hold on.

Li Zicheng's army was invincible, and all the state capitals were looking at the wind and surrendering, Li Zicheng changed Yan'an Mansion to Tianbao Mansion, Mizhi called Tianbao County, and Qingjian was called Tianbo Mansion. Because Li Zicheng announced that he would not levy taxes for three years, and decided that Sergeant Guan despised him, he was just a hypocrisy and a snake, so he searched for various gentry, tortured them, and demanded gold and silver. He sent a large army to cross the Yellow River, captured Pingyang, killed more than 300 people in the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming court ordered Yu Yinggui to be the governor of the three sides, collect border guards to suppress the thieves, but the whole Shaanxi has fallen, Yu Yinggui went to Shanxi, lingered, and was dismissed.

On the first day of the first month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng officially ascended the altar in Xi'an to worship the heavens and called the king, the founding name was called Dashun, changed to Yongchang, and posthumously honored his great-grandfather below, and gave him the nickname, and Li Jiqian was the ancestor. Set up the Tianyoudian University Scholar, with Niu Jinxing to serve, add six government books, set up Hongwen Hall, Wenyuan Yuan, Counseling, Direct Command, Politics, Unification Council, Shang Qi Division, Horse Inspection Temple, Governor Political Envoy, Writing Room and other officials. With Qianzhou Song Qijiao as the official political book, Pinghu Lu Zhiqi as the household political book, Zhenning Gonghuoyu as the ceremonial political book, Gui'an Zhang Lingran as the military political book. Restore the fifth-class lord system, the great meritorious hero, Liu Zongmin and other nine people were crowned marquis, Liu Tichun and other seventy-two people were crowned uncles, there were thirty people named sons, and fifty-five people were named men. Establish a military system, and behead anyone who has a horse standing in an uneven queue, and behead anyone who leaps into the crops. There are 400,000 infantry, 600,000 cavalry, Yang Wangxiu, a soldier and a political servant, from Hengmen to Weiqiao, Jin agitation, and Li Zicheng ordered Li Hualan, a scholar of Hongwen Pavilion, and others to draft a letter to all over the country, accusing Emperor Chongzhen of being immoral, saying that the Ming Dynasty had run out of gas and was about to conquer on behalf of the sky.

On the evening of the fifth day of the first month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, about the time of the first shift, although it was the Spring Festival, but in the city of Beijing, which has a population of millions of households, has been curfew, and the emptiness looks particularly gloomy and desolate, occasionally there are patrolling sentinels walking by, lonely and lonely, red paper lanterns are hung outside the doors of every house, and under the faint light, you can see a large sheet of the New Year printed on the walls of each street, which shows that everyone is still a Spring Festival, on the deserted street, The husband carried a small lantern and knocked on the bang, and the slow, listless sound of the bangzi was so indifferent.

There are soldiers and horses patrolling in the city, and it is forbidden to go on supper, but the court officials, generations of nobles still live a life of spending days and drinking in the courtyard, the courtesans gently point the board eyes with red sandalwood or ivory clappers, and sing tactfully, the singing seems to be there and nothing, and the curls are continuous, the host and the guests stop the cup in their hands, and the toes are gently lit on the ground, in the face of such a moving singing voice, they also frequently nod their heads and applaud, happily persuade the wine to let the dishes, guess the boxing, the internal and external difficulties, and the state affairs are difficult, so what, no one thinks about what strategy should be offered to the courtto save the already precarious Daming country.

Whether it is Da Ming or Da Shun, what does it have to do with them, no matter who sits on the dragon chair on the Jinluan Palace, they can still be prosperous and rich, many of them are looking forward to Li Zicheng coming over earlier, today's emperor is mean and suspicious, and they have to be careful all the time when dealing with such a king, like walking on thin ice, they are also fed up.

In the Qianqing Palace, after a palace maid lifted the yellow satin curtain, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen bent down slightly, walked out of the palace gate with solemn steps, came to the outside of the hall, sighed, stared at the dark starless night sky, the Northeast Manchu cavalry frequently violated the border, the country's military resources have long been exhausted, can not cope, Li Zicheng in the northwest has become a climate, with millions of soldiers, even his last hope Sun Chuanting is also a bloody field, betraying his trust, and the courtiers in the court are venting and vain, empty words, not pragmatic, when it comes to an emergency, can't worry about you, Zhu Youzhen really doesn't know how to deal with it, will this be his last New Year?

On the first day of the first lunar month, the capital was windy and sandy, and he thought he could happily hold a big court meeting, but he didn't expect to die in the wind and sand, and then he received the news of the earthquake in Fengyang.

Zhu Youzhen didn't want to think about it, and he didn't want to think about it anymore, he didn't know what depression was in his heart, seventeen years of hard work, Zhu Youzhen thought that since he was in power, he had always been conscientious and exhausted, and there was no day of slackness, but in exchange for the building was about to fall, the Ming Dynasty had experienced more than 270 years of ups and downs, did it really have to be buried in his hands?

Zhu Youzhen tilted his head and slowly closed his eyes, two lines of tears overflowed from the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, dripping to the ground, leaving not only blood, but also endless despair, loneliness and tiredness.