On November 20, the 11th year of Chongzhen, the Forbidden City of Beijing, the regular court meeting was underway.

The current cabinet chief assistant Fu Guan came to the Imperial Palace early with the ministers, and Chongzhen, who was the emperor, came earlier than them, and the ministers were already sitting on the dragon chair when they entered the palace.

Since Emperor Yongle of Chengzu to Emperor Chongzhen today, there have been sixteen emperors sitting on this dragon chair.

It has witnessed the Ming Dynasty from the beginning of the founding of the country, to the prosperity of the "Far Mai Han and Tang Dynasties", and then to today's building will fall, although the majesty of the Imperial Palace is still there, but it is difficult to hide the country's decay and loneliness.

Wang Chengen, the eunuch of the celebrant and the pen, stood respectfully beside the throne, looking at Emperor Chongzhen, who was listening carefully to the report of his courtiers, but sighed secretly.

The ministers of various ministries may have been a little afraid of Emperor Chongzhen at first, and what they said was trivial and innocuous things, although Chongzhen was impatient to hear it, but he still had the patience to deal with it one by one.

Emperor Chongzhen really couldn't listen to it anymore, and when he asked about the military situation and the situation in various places one by one, they were the only whispered reports.

"Your Majesty, it's not good!"

In the engineering department, Liu Xuanzheng said at a glance that Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Datong had been in drought for several years, and before he could say half of it, he heard a panicked voice outside the hall, so the same group of ministers turned their heads to look.

It turned out to be a little eunuch who was a royal horse eunuch and hurriedly ran with small steps, and finally because he was too panicked, he tripped on the big red threshold and knelt in the imperial palace.

"Oh no, Your Majesty, Gao Yang, something happened to Gao Yang!"

Emperor Chongzhen actually heard the footsteps and knew that there would be no good news.

said that he wanted to see it, how could Zhu Youzhen, who was the emperor of national affairs, not ask too much, and he couldn't rest assured if he didn't look at it, and said that he didn't want to see it, that is, he could almost know a rough idea without looking at it.

The news that came every day was that almost a certain city in the towns of the nine sides had been captured, the Ming army was defeated one after another, countless soldiers and officials were killed, more people were displaced, and Jiannu was invincible.

But what can Cong Chongzhen, as the emperor, do with a wave of his hand to send a million soldiers to eliminate Jiannu, Zhongxing Daming, he thinks better than anyone else, this is the idea he has had since the beginning of his ascension, but the situation is so difficult, can it be delayed or delayed.

Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi Province, and Sun Chuanting, the governor of the two provinces, were searching for Li Zicheng's remnants, and they couldn't get out for a while.

Although Chongzhen knew in his heart that the generals everywhere did not want to join the aid like Zuo Ying, he was helpless, having said that, Chongzhen's will was not even bought by the officials and imperial historians in the capital, it was just a violation of the yang and the yin, and he was thinking about what who could know.

At present, these four soldiers and horses can be used to guard the Beijing division is none other than Lu Xiangsheng, but Lu Xiangsheng has been sparse several times in a row, saying that the Jiannu is too strong to fight, and can only stick to each other.

Chongzhen actually understood this truth in his heart, but he didn't know how many people the so-called "Qinwang army" Lu Xiangsheng was carrying, and he thought it was nearly 100,000 troops, but after all, he still couldn't understand Lu Xiangsheng's mood at this moment.

Although Gaoyang is a county seat, there is Chongzhen's teacher living in it, the emperor who is famous for the court and the opposition - Sun Chengzong, Sun Chengzong is now the only one of the three dynasties in the Ming Dynasty, and the humerus is a member.

Chongzhen was immediately shocked when he heard the word Gao Yang, and quickly got up, trembling his hand and asked:

"Gao Yang, how is Gao Yang, could it be that Jiannu has hit Gao Yang?"

The little eunuch cautiously handed over a newspaper of the palace, with a crying voice in his voice, and shouted without daring to raise his head:

"Your Majesty, you want to mourn, Gao Yang... Gaoyang was captured by Jiannu, and the whole city was slaughtered......."

On November 6, the 11th year of Chongzhen, Heshuo Belle Yue Zhi led the Qing army of the Red Banner to besiege Gaoyang City, and the Ming army village fort and city guards who passed along the way saw the Qing army passing under the city, and no one dared to intercept it, resulting in Yue Cheng successfully besieging Gaoyang.

Yue Zhi attacked the city with tens of thousands of people of the Eight Banners Mongolia, the Eight Banners Korea, and the Eight Banners Han Army, and personally led the cavalry of Jianzhou with the Red Banner to line up outside the city.

The iron hooves of the Eight Banners shook the whole city, and none of them survived.

Sun Chengzong, who was in Gaoyang City, scattered his family wealth to recruit volunteers, grew strong when he was old, led his family to the city to fight the Tartars with the defenders of the people in the city, and finally the city broke Sun Chengzong hanged himself, and the whole family of more than 40 died heroically.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard the news, he immediately covered his head and took a few steps back, sat on the dragon chair with his buttocks, and froze for a long time, but then cried bitterly.

Chongzhen only felt that his mind was blank, he thought that it would be bad news, but he didn't expect that it would be such "bad" news, Sun Chengzong actually died in Gaoyang.

Gaoyang fell, the family of Sun Chengzong, the patriarch of the Three Dynasties, died in a national disaster, the capital was shaken, and there was an uproar inside and outside, Emperor Chongzhen sat on the dragon chair for a long time, suddenly made up some determination, got up with a flushed face and waved his sleeves and said:

"Spread my will, so that Lu Xiangsheng immediately fought a decisive battle with Jiannu, and if it is delayed, I will remove his governor of the world's soldiers and horses, and let Gao Qiqian serve as the governor!"

The emperor was furious, and the ministers knelt on the ground in panic, but there was no real sadness on anyone's face, Sun Chengzong's death was just a confirmation of the truth that had been established long ago.

"If there's nothing else to do, let's disperse..."

Wang Chengen saw Chongzhen covering his head and rubbing it uncontrollably, and immediately stepped forward and said sharply, Originally, this court meeting in history would have ended hastily like this, but there was another sound of footsteps.

Fu Guan, the first assistant of the cabinet, and the ministers turned their heads to look at the past, and they were actually a eunuch of the imperial horse eunuch, this little eunuch had an extremely happy expression on his face, and he couldn't close his mouth with a smile along the way.

"Your Majesty, great victory, great victory~!"

Emperor Chongzhen looked exhausted at the moment, and forcibly resisted the idea of waving off the eunuch, as if he hadn't heard it, and he didn't even raise his head at all.

Wang Chengen glanced at the little eunuch, with anger in his voice, and asked:

"And what is the report? Say it quickly, don't ramble. ”

The little eunuch lay on the right side of the eunuch just now, presented a Tang newspaper, and said very happily:

"Your Majesty, a great victory, a great victory in Dengzhou!"

"Denglai deputy commander Wang Zheng led the Dengzhou battalion deep into Jianzhou, captured Hetuala, beheaded 3,000 people, and even captured the daughter and widows of the old slave chief Nurhachi, he, he..."

The little eunuch of the imperial horse eunuch actually stammered as he spoke, he couldn't speak, and finally his face turned red, and Wang Chengen hurriedly slapped him down the jade steps.

Emperor Chongzhen stood up violently, his face was flushed again, and he trembled and pointed at him:

"Are you telling the truth?"

"If there is a lie, I will immediately order your head to be killed!"

The little eunuch clasped his head again and again and shouted:

"If you go back to the emperor, how dare the slave and maid bully the king, Dengzhou Camp won a great victory, and beheaded the slave for 3,000 inches!!"