In the battle of Ningwu, the Dashun army lost nearly 50,000 soldiers, and the corpses could fill the ravines, and the blood stained the rivers red.

Li Zicheng was heartbroken, and the idea of returning to Shaanxi rose again, or Niu Jinxing and other manpower mastered the Northern Expedition, but this time it didn't work very well, Li Zicheng only wanted to return to his hometown in Shaanxi wholeheartedly, and was ready to order the withdrawal of troops early the next morning.

Even in Li Zicheng's heart, the thought of attaching to Wang Zheng flashed, and it can be imagined how hard this battle hit him.

The god of luck once again favored this Shaanxi man, Li Zichengzhan tossed and turned and just fell asleep, Niu Jinxing rushed into the big tent of King Chuang with joy, and opened his mouth to shout:

"King Chuang, good news!"

"Jiang Liang, the chief soldier of Datong, and Wang Chengyin, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, are willing to open the city to welcome me Dashun, this is a table!"

"What, what did you say!?" Li Zicheng's sleepy eyes were hazy, he heard half clearly, shook his head after getting up, suddenly reacted, and said in surprise:

"The general army of the imperial court of Datong and Xuanfu surrendered to my Dashun?" Seeing Niu Jinxing nodded, Li Zicheng didn't feel sleepy at all, snatched the two letters in his hand, and laughed after reading them:

"God help me, God help me Dashun!"

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Originally, Li Zicheng had asked Niu Jinxing before how far it was to pass through Ningwu Pass and then to Beijing, but what Niu Jinxing said made him fall into deep thought, and he was resolutely ready to retreat to Shaanxi.

To the north of Ningwu Pass, there are only two towns of Datong and Xuanfu in the important town, and it has to pass through the two passes of Yanghe and Juyong, which are not less than Ningwu, which are all important places where soldiers gather.

Li Zicheng was deeply afraid that his only family background would be ruined, and in his subconscious, he still had a soft spot for his hometown Shaanxi, and even ten Beijing cities were not worth one Xi'an, so he was ready to go home.

However, Jiang Hao and Wang Chengyin surrendered one after another, so that Dashun could get two towns without spending a single soldier, adding tens of thousands of soldiers, Li Zicheng was overjoyed, and immediately ordered to continue to go north and kill the Benjing division.

Emperor Chongzhen was shocked when he heard this, and urgently transferred Wu Sangui, the general soldier of Liaodong, Wang Yongji, the governor of Jiliao, and Tang Tong, the general soldier of Changping, to defend the capital, and called on the bureaucrats in Beijing to donate money.

But it's a pity that all the rich Jingshi officials only took out less than 300,000 taels of silver in total, which is not even half of the million, so Emperor Chongzhen immediately planned to move south.

Li Banghua, the imperial historian of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, reported that the road to the south had been cut off, unless it was taken through Shandong.

Emperor Chongzhen sat paralyzed on the dragon chair, and to this day, he still can't believe that Wang Zheng actually occupied the entire Jiangnan, and even the Zheng clan was defeated by him in one fell swoop, how could this be.

The ministers of the court and the central government were silent, and there was a bleak scene.

Emperor Chongzhen laughed nonstop, looking like crazy, pointing to the following ministers, grinning and saying that they were all ministers of the dead country, and they should all be killed.

Emperor Chongzhen's face suddenly changed, announced his retreat from the court, and then issued a holy decree the next day, going out from the Xizhimen of the Beijing Division and going straight to the direction of Nanjing.

This holy decree is very unpredictable, I don't know what the emperor is going to do, but this did not stop Li Zicheng's Northern Expedition, in order to be able to compete with the Shandong army, he is already difficult to ride a tiger.

On April 15, the Dashun army arrived at Juyong Pass.

Tang Tong, the chief soldier of the Guancheng City, was actively preparing for war and preparing to defend Juyong, but Du Zhitie, the eunuch of the prison army, was greedy for life and afraid of death, and opened the city gate without authorization to welcome the Dashun army into the city.

The soldiers and horses of the Dashun army rushed in, Tang Tong sighed, seeing that the general trend had gone, he was helpless, so he responded to the generals' petition and surrendered to Dashun.

Dashun army to Yanghe, defend the city of the Ming army without a fight and surrender, and then march into the Xuanfu, the people in the city on the forehead paste the word "Shunmin", in the home stand on the portrait of the king burn incense and bow down, the road to welcome.

Since the Battle of Ningwu, Dashun has all kinds of troops, the Ming army is in pieces of Kaesong surrender, everywhere is lit up to welcome the king, and even some towns have set off firecrackers to celebrate that Dashun is about to replace the Ming Dynasty.

When the Dashun army conquered Juyong Pass, Liu Fangliang, the vanguard general, led the army east out of Guguan and approached Zhending, Qiu Maohua, the governor of the imperial court at that time, and Xie Sufu, the guerrilla general who defended the city.

At the end of April, Li Zicheng led the Dashun army of one million soldiers to Baoding City, when there were only more than 1,000 soldiers in Baoding City, Li Jiantai, a bachelor who was ordered by the emperor to supervise the army to defend the city, but did not hesitate to open the city and surrender.

At that time, there were many eunuchs who were ordered to supervise the army in the city, and the leader of them was the eunuch Fang Zhenghua, who gritted his teeth with hatred when he heard that the scholar Li Jiantai had surrendered in Kaicheng.

Fang Zhenghua and the palm seal eunuch Gao Shiming, the eunuch Li Fengxiang of the Si Li Bingbi, and the eunuchs Chu Xianzhang and Zhang Guoyuan of the Commandery Bureau, with more than a dozen eunuchs guarding the city gate.

When the Dashun soldiers entered the city in a disorderly manner, Fang Zhenghua had no fear, but took a few steps forward with a waist knife in his hand, and scolded sharply:

"Fang Zhenghua, the head of the Ming Supervision Army, is here, you and other thieves and rats take advantage of the national chaos to set up troops, the world will not tolerate it, and you will be punished by heaven in the future!"

The soldiers and horses of Dashun who entered the city were silent for a while, and then laughed loudly, rushing forward to cut these eunuchs who were guarding the city to death.

On 10 May, the Dashun army crossed Changping from Baoding and arrived at the Shahe River.

On May 12, the Dashun army reached Gaobeidian and arrived at Xizhimen at the foot of Beijing.

Li Zicheng ordered to bombard the city with huge artillery, and at noon waved his army to attack Pingzemen, Changyi Gate, and Xizhi Gate, and in the middle of the night that day, Cao Huachun, the eunuch who defended the city, took the lead in opening the Guangning Gate on the west side of the outer city to welcome the Dashun army into the city.

The Dashun army poured into the southern suburbs of Fuxingmen, and unlike history, this time Li Zicheng did not send eunuchs to Chongzhen to negotiate peace, and in the early morning of the second day after entering the outer city of the southern suburbs, he issued an order to attack the city on all fronts.

This battle was a little large-scale, but in fact it did not last long, the Dashun army rushed to the Beijing division like a tide, and the soldiers of the Beijing battalion defending the city were already frightened and could not move, where did they know how to resist.

Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, who didn't say a word a while ago, took the initiative to open the Zhengyang Gate this time and greeted Liu Fangliang's forward cordially.

Li Zicheng was guided by the eunuch Wang Dehua, entered the imperial city of Beijing from Deshengmen, and entered the inner hall through Chengtianmen, and the first order was to let his subordinates find the whereabouts of Chongzhen and the crown prince.

Behind the Forbidden City, under the tree with a crooked neck.

Emperor Chongzhen wore a cloak and looked at the Forbidden City with thick smoke billowing in front of him, but he was crazy and laughed like a fool.

Yesterday night, Emperor Chongzhen rode out of Donghuamen with dozens of eunuchs with a three-eyed gun, but was blocked by random arrows, and then ran to Qihuamen to find Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, but who would have expected that even the imperial relatives of the Zhu family would close their doors to him.

If Emperor Hongwu has a spirit in the sky, he doesn't know how he will feel when he sees this scene.

Emperor Chongzhen had no choice but to turn to Andingmen with the eunuchs, the defenders had dispersed, and the ministers' mansions of each gate and courtyard were all deeply locked, and the eunuchs could not split with an axe.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the fire reflected in the sky, and Emperor Chongzhen heard the shouts of the Dashun army entering the city, but he couldn't find his place in the Ming Jingshi, so he could only stumble to the inner palace.

In order to prevent the thieves from insulting the queen, the imperial concubine and the royal children, Emperor Chongzhen watched his favorite Empress Zhou and Yuan Guifei hang themselves, and ruthlessly cut the fifteen-year-old Princess Changping unconscious, and stabbed to death the six-year-old young daughter Princess Qiren.

In the end, Emperor Chongzhen was left alone with Wang Chengen.

On this day, the whole city of Beijing was blowing a terrible wind, although these winds were blowing on his face, but Emperor Chongzhen did not feel the slightest pain, his heart was dead.

Wang Chengen, the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor and the chief of the inner house, as usual, quietly accompanied Emperor Chongzhen, looking at Wang Chengen, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly remembered something and asked:

"Cheng'en, did you say that some time ago, I sent the will to Nanjing, did Wang Zheng receive it?"

Wang Chengen forced a smile, stepped forward to support the trembling and dying emperor, and said earnestly:

"The emperor can rest assured, although Wang Zheng, a martial artist, is a little rebellious, but he is loyal to our Ming Dynasty, and he is like a life-and-death enemy to the Qing Dynasty, as long as he is there, then Li Zicheng is a grasshopper after the autumn, and he can't jump for a few days."

Speaking of this, Wang Chengen also looked in the direction of Nanjing and said:

"He must be able to understand the emperor's good intentions, Li Thief and Jiannu Ke were both defeated generals of the Shandong Army, and there is still hope for the world."

Hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen nodded, took a few steps forward and stood on a boulder, and said:

"I believe in Cheng'en's words!"

"Cheng'en, I'm going first."

Wang Chengen couldn't hold back any longer, Dou Da's tears fell to the ground, and he shouted loudly:

"Slave Wang Chengen, send the Ming Emperor !!"