Ma Ke saw the familiar Flying Tiger Banner, personally led hundreds of horsemen to fight, but soon after the battle, he turned around and fled, Li Yu chased him through the mountain naval array, Liu Fangliang's left battalion was exposed under the iron hooves, this is the left battalion rebuilt after being disabled, the combat power is not as good as before, a rain of arrows, guns shot over and into a mess.

"Kill the past, cut down the big Xu, and kill the enemy general!" Li Yu roared loudly and casually picked up a Shunjun officer from his horse.

Ao Bai lifted a Shun army from the ground to block the rain of arrows, slapped his horse and rushed to Daxu, met Liu Fangliang who was furious, and raised the Shun army in his hand to smash it over, Liu Fangliang just dodged sideways, a long lance stabbed again, a personal soldier helped him to hold the long lance, Mo Rige pierced it through the throat with an arrow, and Li Yu immediately swept with a lance as a stick. Liu Fangliang was knocked off the horse, and his own soldiers desperately protected him to escape on his horse, and Wutai and Guitu took the opportunity to cut down the flag guards and capture the Shun army Daxu - the main general Daxu had fallen, and the Shun army's heart was shaken, and they retreated in chaos.

It has been noon, and the city has not responded, Li Yu looked at Deshengmen and sighed, Datong Iron Cavalry has done its best, the emperor does not trust me, so please take care of yourself, and ordered the whole army to retreat in the direction of Changping, at this time, two groups of scouts came to report:

"The thieves have reinforcements coming from the direction of Changyi Gate, all cavalry, about 5,000 people."

"The gate of Desheng was opened, and the prince was just chasing after us, and the town of Kubai went to answer it."

In the distance, the smoke and dust were billowing in the distance, the sound of the hooves of the enemy horsemen was getting closer and closer, and the Shun army, which had been defeated, also made a comeback, Li Yu broke out in a cold sweat on his head, hesitated for a moment and shouted "Flying Tiger Battalion, follow me", waving a long lance and rushing towards the enemy horse.

When the thieves found that the city gate was open, they immediately fired a volley of arrows, and more than 30 brocade guards fell half of them soon after leaving the Desheng Gate. Wang Zhixin was hit by an arrow in the leg, holding Xiao Dingwang desperately urging the horse to escape, and when he saw Kubai, he excitedly shouted: "His Royal Highness King Ding is here, the general is here to escort him!" ”

The thief's random arrows were shot, the king of Xiaoding was frightened and cried, Kubai lifted the king of Xiaoding to his horse, took off his armor and put it on the child, scolded the "dog thief" in his mouth, ran and shot with the bow in his hand, and retreated along the bloody road that Rabudu rushed out, the thief could not stop the heavy cavalry, desperately shot arrows to block, and the iron cavalry also responded with accurate archery, and the arrows in the sky were like shuttles, dense as raindrops.

After the Shun army succeeded in Changyi Gate, Li Guo immediately led the elite cavalry to reinforce Deshengmen, this guy is known as "a tiger", when he saw the enemy, his eyes were red, and he pounced on the flying tiger flag, both sides wanted to defeat each other as soon as possible, and they all chose hand-to-hand combat assault. The cavalry of the Shun army was not as strong as the Datong iron cavalry, and the corpses were everywhere after a few hedges, but the fighting spirit was tenacious, and they did not let go of the Flying Tiger Battalion. Li Yu was able to kill, staring at the Shun army's fierce attack, Li Guo's personal soldiers were almost killed and wounded, and they still fought to the death, and the Shun army's foot soldiers took the opportunity to surround them, and the iron cavalry fell into a melee, and the more they fought, the more passive they became.

"Blow the trumpet, blow the trumpet, and shoot the thieves in a row." Li Yu killed several people in a row and withdrew from the melee, the Flying Tiger Cavalry heard the horn and regrouped under the banner of the Flying Tiger, and sprinkled the arrow rain to the enemy group, and the thieves could not attack the cavalry formation and also responded with the rain of arrows, and the casualties on both sides increased sharply, and the Flying Tiger Battalion gritted its teeth and dragged the enemy cavalry to the death in order to cover the retreat of Kubai.

At this time, there was a military horn sound in the distance, Li Yu listened to it for a while, and excitedly shouted, "You Laoshuai's reinforcements have arrived, follow me to kill through the enemy formation", the Flying Tiger Battalion soldiers were greatly invigorated, and shouted and pounced on the thieves. The thieves shot arrows at the Flying Tiger Banner, Gao Heizi blocked in front of Li Yu and fell off the horse with several arrows, Li Yu hurriedly turned around and came back to the rescue, but it was too late, a gang of thieves pounced, Gao Heizi cut down two, and then fell under the knife, Li Yu's heart was like a knife, and he rushed over to kill the thieves with a shout, and ran away when he mentioned Gao Heizi.

You Renjun and You Renjie led five hundred Changping town cavalry to cover and kill, the Shun army was timid by the enemy before and after, and involuntarily retreated backwards, the Flying Tiger Cavalry took the opportunity to meet with the Changping cavalry, and responded to Kubai and Rabudu hurriedly retreated north, and the Shun army was sleepy and did not dare to fight again, and followed the opponent far away.

Changping, Li Yu stayed by Kubai's side, holding his hand tightly until he smiled and closed his eyes - Kubai was hit by a few arrows when he broke through, although he was not injured in the vital point, but he bled more than he did not stop along the way, and it was not good to hold on to Changping.

Big Brother Kubai is dead, Gao Heizi is dead, and more than 400 good brothers are also dead, and the cost of this battle is too great - Li Yu covered his face for a while, wiped his eyes and looked at King Xiaoding: "Your Highness, this uncle died for you, kowtow to him." ”

"Yes, sir." The little king obediently knelt down and kowtowed to Kubai.

"Who told you to call me sir?" Li Yu asked strangely.

"My father."

Li Yu was still surprised, You Shiwei came over and asked in a low voice: "Zhou Yuji's Busi Town has arrived at Juyong Pass, can we still fight?" ”

"Let's retreat, tell the officials, soldiers, and people in the city that those who want to leave will come with us on the road," Li Yu shook his head, touched the head of the little king and said, "Your Highness, I'll take you home." ”

In the night, Datong Iron Cavalry and thousands of officers and soldiers and people quietly withdrew from Changping City, and it rained lightly, King Xiaoding sat in Li Yu's arms, looked at the direction of Jingshi with tears in his eyes and said, "Uncle, the father and the queen mother are still there, you go and save them!" ”

Li Yu glanced back and shook his head helplessly: "Your Highness, let's go, you will come back in the future." ”

This night of wind and rain, the Ming Dynasty finally came to an end, Desheng Gate, Ping Zemen in Datong Iron Cavalry retreat after opening one after another, the Shun army then attacked the inner city, guarding the Xuanwu Gate of the eunuch Wang Xiangyao, guarding the Zhengyang Gate of the military department Shangshu Zhang Jinyan, guarding the Qihua Gate of Chengguo Gong Zhu Chunchen opened the city and surrendered, the inner city was also lost, into the night, the Beijing division was opened, the sound of guns stopped, the Beijing division completely fell into the hands of thieves.

The palace was dead, the bell to summon the ministers into the palace rang for a while, but no one answered, and then it was silent, in the dark, the emperor was cloak and cried to the sky, stumbling in the palace and running wildly, except for Wang Chengen, who was the celebrant and supervisor, followed behind, everyone ran away - the emperor went crazy, killed Concubine Yuan and Princess Zhaoren with his own hands, cut off the arm of Princess Changping, forced the queen to hang herself, and also sent the palace maid to urge Empress Yi'an to be martyred.

The emperor ran to the Shouxing Pavilion in Coal Mountain, crying enough and running tired, everything should be over, he thought for a while, took off his dragon robe to reveal a white cotton silk underwear, and whispered to Wang Chengen: "Big companion, it's time for me to go on the road, you give me a ride." ”

Wang Chengen nodded, found a big tree nearby and hung white silk, helped the emperor put his head in, and then knelt on the ground and wept as the emperor struggled in pain. The emperor gradually stiffened, and his underwear unfolded to reveal a few lines of handwriting: "I have reigned for ten or seven years, and I have been a thief and a bandit, and I have been trapped in the interior three times, and the traitors have approached the Beijing Division, and the ministers have made a mistake, and I have no face to see my ancestors in the ground, and I will die with my hair covering my face, and let the thieves split the corpse, and do not hurt one of my people." ”

"The ministers are shameless, trapping our emperor to death, although our family is a crippled and lowly person, but we will also die uprightly." Wang Chengen shook his fist and roared angrily at the sky, then untied his clothes and hanged himself under a tree opposite the emperor.

The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was gone, and the only people who followed him to kill and martyr were Fan Jingwen, a scholar of the university, Ni Yuanlu, a scholar of the household department, Wang Jiayan, the right attendant of the Rong Political and Military Department of the Auxiliary Jingying, Li Banghua, the imperial history of the left capital of the Imperial Palace, Gong Yonggu, the commander of the horse, and Liu Wenbing, the Marquis of Xinle, and other 27 civil ministers and nobles, and the vast majority of courtiers and nobles were indifferent.

At noon on March 19, Li Zicheng entered the Desheng Gate surrounded by Niu Jinxing, Song Qijiao and others - the Beijing Division ushered in the new master, the common people avoided the side of the road, and watched coldly, but the courtiers had the heart to drill into the camp, wearing prison clothes to welcome the new master, the first assistant Wei Zaode, and Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the military department, looked flattering, and presented a congratulatory watch on behalf of the ministers of the Ming Dynasty, guiding Li Zicheng to reach Chengtianmen from the West Chang'an Gate.

"Misguided thief, where is the Son of Heaven, why are you here?" Wang Dehua, the celebrant and eunuch, was standing in front of the palace gate with hundreds of chamberlains, seeing the ugliness of the ministers who couldn't bear it, they shouted and punched and hit, and the chamberlains were fed up with the anger of these foreign ministers, and they punched and kicked the courtiers together, beating the courtiers to scream.

"Your Majesty, this is a misuse of national power, and it should be punished heavily!" Wei Zaode covered his face and ran to Li Zicheng's horse and knelt down to complain.

Li Zicheng looked at the farce in front of him with great interest, and said with a faint smile: "You are the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, and you should be the leader of the country, since the Ming Emperor is gone, why don't you go and die martyrdom?" ”

"If you want to be effective, why dare you die." Wei Zaode replied with a blushing face.

Li Zicheng laughed and led the Dashun civil and military officials into Chengtianmen.

Wang Dehua was also tired, rubbed his arm and scolded, "Let's go back to our hometown and wait, see what happens to you", swaggered away after speaking, Datong is his hometown, it's time to go home and see.

The ugly drama is still going on, Jiading Bo Zhou Kui is afraid of getting into trouble, and handed over the prince and Yongwang who hid in his house to Shunjun, Yongwang was born to Concubine Tian, but the prince was the grandson of his daughter Zhou Hou, and the dead emperor definitely couldn't imagine that the old man was so ruthless. Daming Wenchen is even more shameless, Li Zicheng ordered the eunuch to carry the emperor and the empress to the Donghua Gate, allowing the deceased ministers to mourn, but the body was parked for many days, and there were only twenty or thirty people crying.

The ministers of the Ming Dynasty were familiar with the scriptures and history, and knew what to do, and the officials led by the old assistant Chen Yan and Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, expressed their loyalty to Li Zicheng, hoping that he would become emperor as soon as possible. Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance and others have the heart to play another enthronement ceremony, taking the opportunity to add fuel to the fire, and the persuasion of the above table has become a trend of demotion for a while, and Zhou Zhong, who was born in the Fu Society, is brilliant, and praised Li Zicheng in the persuasion table "more martial arts than Tang Wu, and more shameless than Yao Shun", and belittled the Ming Emperor "The only husband gives the head, and the four seas return to the heart", even Li Zi CD felt blushing, but the ecstasy soup was poured too much, and he was also a little confused.

Li Zicheng has suffered for most of his life, and he will never let go of the opportunity to enjoy happiness, and the palace maid Dou Meiyi is the imperial concubine, and she lives a small life in the palace seriously, and the foreign court is tossed by Niu Jinxing and his group. Li Guo came back from Juyong Pass, did not find Li Zicheng in the camp, but dragged Liu Zongmin out of the women's pile, these two people combined, the three Jingshi faced enemies and dangers, and the gang of demoted officials could not be relied on, and they must not stay for a long time, and it was the top priority to make a big profit.

Liu Zongmin and Li Guo were anxious, and immediately summoned the ministers to the palace to ask for a meeting, Li Zicheng was playing in the dark, and it took a long time to get to the main hall.

"I didn't fight, the Datong army has increased its troops, and the brothers don't want to fight, so I'll come back," Li Guo looked calm, took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Li Zicheng, "The Naturalized Hou sent someone to send a letter, please look at it." ”

Li Yu's letter said that he hoped that the two sides would cease war and negotiate peace, and that if Li Zicheng could hand over the Ming prince and Yongwang to him, as a condition, Datong could recognize the status quo of the Shun army's occupation of the Beijing division and help Zhili restore the people's livelihood, and also reminded Li Zicheng not to trap the main force in the Beijing division, but to strengthen the border wall defense, especially to control the Shanhaiguan in hand, if the Dongyu attacked, as long as the Shun army could resist for a month, Datong promised to help. Li Yu finally threatened that if Li Zicheng was unable to restore the people's livelihood and was unable to defend the territory, Datong would definitely intervene in Zhili, and he himself would never have mercy on useless waste.

"Beiyu is so rude, he dares to point fingers at the widow, and he still wants the prince and the Yongwang, don't think about it!" Li Zicheng was furious after reading the letter, and threw several handfuls on the ground.

"This place in Zhili is a famine and a pandemic, my Dashun army does not guard the door for him, the brothers don't want to stay for a long time, the life in the south is better, Bai Wang reported that Sun Kewang has entered Sichuan, we can't let them succeed, we should also send troops into Sichuan." Li Guo hurriedly said.

Li Zicheng frowned and asked, "I have issued an edict ordering Ma Ke to enter Sichuan to eliminate the rebels, why don't you move for a long time?" ”

"There is a shortage of salary in the army, and the minister and Yang Yuming have worked hard to come up with 10,000 taels of silver, and this money is not enough for Ma Ke to go on the road, so it has been delayed so far." The military government Shangshu Yu Shangyou came out of the ranks, and said carefully with a sad face, "Your Majesty, the minister still has a matter that must be clarified, Wu Sangui, the general soldier of Liaodong, entered the customs and traveled to Yutian, and heard that our army had captured the Beijing division, so he quickly retreated to Shanhaiguan, this person's Guanning army is strong, and it is guarded by important places, if it is not dealt with as soon as possible, the minister is afraid that something big will happen!" ”

Zhang Ruoqi, the former staff of the Ministry of War, escaped in the Battle of Songjin and was imprisoned and died, but before he had time to be stabbed, the sky changed, this guy was honorably released from prison and became a government squire of the Dashun Army, and he was grateful to Li Zicheng, and jumped out to grab the merit at this time and said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, although the Guanning army is strong, but it is a loss of ground, the minister has some friendship with Wu Sangui in Jinzhou, if Your Majesty promises to pay for food, the minister is willing to go to Shanhaiguan to persuade Wu Sangui to return to obedience." ”

Niu Jinxing interjected: "This plan is very good, there are many people who are willing to join our dynasty as officials, there are more than 1,000 people, Your Majesty should have decided on the unification as soon as possible, and choose its sages to appoint, and the world can take taxes and money and grain, and there is no need to worry about raising troops and conquests." ”

Li Zicheng nodded, and swept his gaze to Liu Zongmin, this guy controlled Wenchen, and it was his business to collect food and salary, Liu Zongmin said unceremoniously: "We went to Neiku to check, the dog emperor didn't leave a few money, Lao Li, you can't patronize yourself as the emperor, the brothers have endured hardships for so many years, and finally helped you win the Jingshi, what benefits do you plan to give?" I'm talking about the real thing. ”

"Uncle, those readers have a lot of eyes, we can't play with them, you can't just listen to good words and forget about your brother!" Li Guo also said, glancing at Niu Jinxing by the way.

Li Zicheng scratched his head and asked: "After entering Beijing, you will be able to spend time tightly, but there is no money in the inner treasury, what good can you do?" ”

"Torture, the dog emperor has no money, but the dog officials are all rich people, and they have gold and silver treasures at home, so they ask them if they don't have money." Liu Zongmin replied.

"Uncle, how did the dog officer harm us back then, we can't let them go, leave the torture to us, and smash the bones to cut out the oil." Li Guo echoed again.

Li Zicheng was stunned, and after pondering for a moment, he clenched his fists and said: "Okay, the dog officials are all handed over to you, 100,000 in the middle hall, 70,000 or 530,000 in the Jinyi of the Ministry of Jingtang, 530,000 in the Ministry of Science and Dao officials, 321,000 in Hanlin, and thousands of subordinates, and they will be beaten hard if they don't pay for it, and they will beat out all the people's fat and people's ointment that they swallowed into their stomachs." ”

The "Bi Xiang Zhen Fu Division" of the Dashun Dynasty was built on the same day, the ministers of the Ming Dynasty were still busy serving the new dynasty, dreaming of continuing to be powerful, but unexpectedly a bad luck suddenly came - Liu Zongmin was born in poverty, his father hanged himself because of the government's forced taxes, his mother took him to beg for a living, and soon died of hunger and cold, he was fortunate to be adopted by his uncle to survive, since he was a child, he hated the government since he was a child, of course, he did not miss the opportunity to torture the dog official, and specially rushed to make five thousand pairs of clamping sticks, the clamping sticks have edges and thorns, and when they ask for money and do not want to die, they will crush their hands and feet, He also ordered two pillars to be erected at the door for cannon branding.

The court officials were unlucky, except for more than 90 sent to the government to listen to the dispatch, everyone else fell into the hands of Liu Zongmin, and the screams and cries in the Fusi of the town were endless day and night, the first assistant Wei Zaode, Xiangcheng Bo Li Guozhen and others died of heavy punishments, and those who did not want to die honestly paid the money, and a large amount of gold and silver flowed into the pockets of the Shun army, Liu Zongmin was proud, and drank and had fun with Li Guo's beautiful women all day long. The officials enjoy the blessings, and the soldiers are not idle, they even break into private houses and loot on a large scale, and even coerce women to go up to the city wall for sexual pleasure, and when they encounter inspections, they push women off the city wall, regardless of whether they are dead or alive.

Song Xiance couldn't stand it, and bitterly persuaded Li Zicheng to stop torture and rectify military discipline, and not to lose the support of the people, Li Zicheng also felt that he had gone too far, and asked Liu Zongmin and Li Guo to discuss, Liu Zongmin immediately became angry, "Old Li, you are the emperor, we torture the salary, and no one cares about anyone's business", which choked Li Zicheng so much that he didn't dare to say it again.

The Shun army set off a bloody storm in Beijing, and the world was also in chaos - Shi Kefa, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, led the army to King Qin, and went to Pukou to learn that the Beijing division had fallen and the emperor was martyred, and immediately rushed back to Nanjing to discuss the emperor's affairs with the ministers. The thief Sun Kewang entered Sichuan, Lianke Kuizhou, Wanxian, established himself as the emperor of Daxi, and then led a large army along the Yangtze River to the west, Sichuan governor Chen Shiqi has been dismissed, and the successor governor of northern Sichuan Long Wenguang and Sichuan general Qin Yiming are in Baoning, urgently ask for help from Datong. Datong is fighting with the Qing Dynasty - Chang Shu, Busai and a group of Manchus wantonly create public opinion, accusing Dolgon of plotting to kill the first emperor and conspire to usurp power, Dolgon does not show weakness, and the Manchus who attack Datong are all rebellious and everyone should be killed, and the two sides seem to be not far from making a move.