In the spring of the twenty-eighth year of Daming Jingrun, several major events occurred that shook the world.

The first thing is that the old emperor Ji Zhengde, who has reigned for 28 years, finally fell ill and was dying. At this time, the forces of the two Liukou armies led by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were in full swing across the Central Plains, and the officers and soldiers were defeated and retreated everywhere they went, and countless cities were breached.

Li Zicheng occupied Xi'an Mansion and proclaimed himself the king of Dashun, and then waved his troops eastward, out of Hanzhong, and hit Huguang. After the attack on Xiangyang City, he established himself as the emperor under the proposal of the military advisor Niu Xiance, founded the country of Dashun, proclaimed himself the emperor of Dashun, and the year was the first year of the great victory.

After Xiangyang was proclaimed emperor, Li Zicheng became a hundred officials and announced to the world, which was vigorous and vigorous for a while, and the world was shaken.

Almost at the same time, Zhang Xianzhong led his troops to invade Sichuan, all the way to Chengdu, killing tens of thousands of Chengdu officials and gentry, and shocking the country of abundance by bloody means.

Later, under the advice of the righteous descendants, the more than 30,000 Ming officers and soldiers who were captured were all sentenced to amputation and released, and the name of its brutality was spread in Shuzhong with these routs, and the people were frightened, all of them were afraid of Zhang Xianzhong, and their names could stop the children's night cry in Shu. The child cries at night, as long as the adult says "Yellowbeard is coming to arrest you", the child immediately stops crying in fear, and its fierce reputation can be seen.

After occupying Chengdu, Zhang Xianzhong also learned from Li Zicheng to establish the country and call the emperor, with the whole territory of Sichuan as the entire border, the establishment of the Great Western Kingdom, and called himself the Emperor of the Great West, with the year name Dawei, and the year as the first year of Dawei, which was intended to call the first year of Li Zicheng's great victory.

When the news of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong successively proclaiming themselves emperor reached Beijing, the Ming Emperor Ji Zhengde, who was already dying, was shocked and angry, and did not come up in one breath, so he went directly to see the first emperor.

The death of the emperor made the already crumbling edifice of the Ming Dynasty shake even more violently.

The edict of the first emperor was inherited by the crown prince Ji Siyuan and became the twenty-eighth emperor of the Ming Empire.

The young emperor Ji Siyuan had just finished cooking the funeral of the first emperor, and before he had time to examine the supreme throne under his ass, the news came that the Dashun Emperor Li Zicheng led an army of 300,000 to the north, preparing to besiege the capital.

Ji Siyuan panicked and hurriedly summoned the ministers of civil and military affairs of the imperial court to come to discuss.

Before the result was discussed, there was a strange but sinister news circulating in the court: "Yuan Chonghuan, the former secretary of the military department, the governor of the three sides, and the scholar of Dongge University, colluded with the traitor Li Zicheng and deliberately retreated on the battlefield, so that the court lost its troops and lost its generals, causing the first emperor to fall ill, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong rebelled against the thief, and half of the Ming Dynasty fell into the head of the thief. Now the traitor Li Zicheng issued a decree to crown Yuan Chonghuan as the prime minister, a college student of Longtuge, the general leader of the government, and personally led an army of 300,000 to besiege the capital and rescue Yuan Chonghuan. ”

I don't know where this news came from, but as soon as it came out, it was constantly passed on by countless people with ulterior motives.

Soon the news "reached" the ears of the new emperor Ji Siyuan.

The little emperor was very dissatisfied with Yuan Chonghuan as early as when he was the crown prince. Now that rumors are rampant and the crowd is raging, there have been voices in the court that not killing Yuan Chonghuan is not enough to anger the people and not enough to comfort the emperor, and these voices are converging into an irresistible wave.

Even if there are some voices who think that this matter is false, it is very likely that Li Zicheng is a rebel in order to get rid of Yuan Chonghuan's divisive plan, but these voices were quickly suppressed and submerged in those huge waves of killing Yuan Chonghuan, and there was no wave at all.

Huang Huang Daming, at this time, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military were all fallen into the ground, and no one went to explain the absurdity of this rumor to the emperor, and all of them followed the trend, either writing to demand that Yuan Chonghuan be executed immediately to set the record straight, or they were silent, watching coldly, and staying out of the matter.

At this moment, Yuan Chonghuan, who was determined to be a lonely minister, completely became a real lonely minister, and no one in the Manchu Dynasty spoke for him, and several families were waiting to see when he would die.

The young and vigorous emperor faced the righteousness and strictness of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, and faced the great military might of the 300,000 Dashun army, and finally issued his first majestic but cruel will as an emperor.

"Yuan Chonghuan, as a pillar of the country and an important minister of the court, failed to live up to the love of his father, abandoned the city and abandoned the land, and lost the army, which caused the Daming Society to shake and the people to be miserable.

The little emperor also knows that the rumors are false and untrue, if Yuan Chonghuan is convicted of this, not only will Yuan Chonghuan be unconvinced, but I am afraid it will be difficult to block the mouth of the world.

Therefore, the little emperor who was eager to show his great prestige was inflicted on Yuan Chonghuan with the crime of defeat, so that future generations would not bring him the name of a faint king.

As soon as the decree came out, the world was in an uproar. Unexpectedly, the torture that had disappeared for more than a thousand years would reappear, and it would be used on Yuan Chonghuan, who was relied on by the first emperor as a great pillar stone, everyone was shocked, and they didn't know why the new emperor hated Yuan so much.

Even those civil and military ministers who shouted that Yuan Chonghuan would be beheaded were stunned by the cruelty and cruelty of the new emperor, and the court was silent for a while.

After listening to the edict read by the eunuch in prison, Yuan Chonghuan laughed miserably and said: "There are many defeated soldiers and landless people in the world, and only I, Yuan Chonghuan, have been convicted, and I am fortunate to be tortured, so let's go!" Cease! Cease! The king wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die! ”

All the jailers and the eunuchs who heralded the decree wept, and there were many who were not angry in their hearts.

Three days later, before Yuan Chonghuan was sentenced, he dressed up and respectfully bowed three times and bowed nine times in the direction of the palace, and performed the courtier's salute for the last time, and then calmly went to the execution ground to be punished.

Yuan Chonghuan was cut more than 3,000 times, and it took three days before he finally lost his breath, and all the people watching the torture were shocked and frightened, and many people wept while retching.

After Yuan's death, some righteous people in the capital risked their lives to collect hundreds of pieces of their broken flesh and corpses, and secretly buried them in the suburbs outside the city. In order to avoid people's eyes and ears, he did not dare to erect a monument, and only stood on his grave with a green pine.

On Li Zicheng's way north, he heard that Yuan Chonghuan was tortured by Emperor Ming, so he took a breath and said: "Ji Xiao'er is so vicious, I can't help it." After speaking, he laughed out loud, and feasted the ministers that night to celebrate the disappearance of the last pillar of the Ming Dynasty, and from then on the soldiers will be invincible.

When these news reached the ears of Jiangchuan in Liaodong from the capital, the land of Liaodong was already in full bloom and full of verdant.

After more than half a year of dormancy, the Jiang Jiajun has completed another round of army expansion, reorganization, and training, and the strength of the entire army has reached as much as 70,000.

The 70,000 army was also divided into three armies by Jiangchuan, including 20,000 on the left, and Ran Wu as the main general; The Chinese army is 30,000 people, led by Jiang Chuan himself; The right army is 20,000 people, with Baishan as the main general and Shanjia as the deputy general.

Another 10,000 garrisons guarded the Erlonggu base, led by the military advisor Liu Ji to guard the base.

The three armies are all mixed infantry and cavalry, and can be used as independent combat units. The Chinese army includes military medical battalions, Shenji battalions, engineering battalions and other heavy technical arms.

The army of 70,000 marched out in a mighty way, and the troops were divided into three routes, heading north, and the soldiers pointed directly at Liaoyang City.