Emperor Chongzhen woke up in the middle of the night after getting drunk, and sat like this until dawn.

In fact, before dawn, Emperor Chongzhen was still fantasizing about a miracle, and even he was still making the final effort to recruit Li Zicheng.

Emperor Chongzhen sent a peace envoy to negotiate with the eunuch Du Xun, who had previously surrendered to the Liukou.

But the negotiations did not achieve any results, and Li Zicheng clearly rejected the appeasement proposed by Emperor Chongzhen, saying that now the Ming Dynasty has perished, and the world is Dashun. He asked Emperor Chongzhen to give up resistance and give up the Forbidden City. If Emperor Chongzhen is willing to do this, he will treat the members of the royal family well, and he will also let Emperor Chongzhen continue to be the prince of Dashun and enjoy glory and wealth until his old age.

Of course, Li Zicheng's request was also unacceptable to Emperor Chongzhen, and the peace talks were shattered, and the final result was that the soldiers met each other.

Just when the sun was rising, Emperor Chongzhen received news that Liukou first captured Guang'anmen in the west of the outer city and entered the outer city. Later, Emperor Chongzhen received bad news that Wang Xiangyao, the eunuch guarding the Xuanwu Gate, Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the military department guarding the Zhengyang Gate, and Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, who guarded the Qihua Gate, had opened the city gate and surrendered to the Liukou.

The army of thieves has entered the inner city of Beijing, and it is only one step away from the Forbidden City.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen had all thoughts gone, and none of the expected troops of King Qin's army had arrived, but what he was looking forward to was the siege of Liukou. What made him even more angry was that few of the ministers he reused were willing to die for the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Chunchen and Zhang Jinyan opened the city gate and surrendered to the Liukou without resistance, and the Liukou almost didn't encounter any resistance and attacked Beijing.

Emperor Chongzhen originally estimated that even if the Liukou attacked the city, they could hold out for at least ten days or even longer by relying on the fortified city of Beijing. Unexpectedly, the current Beijing City turned out to be an undefended city. There are more than 100,000 people in the Daming Jingying, and not many people are willing to resist.

In the second half of the night today, after Emperor Chongzhen woke up, he and his personal eunuch Wang Chengen climbed the coal mountain, looking at the sky-high beacon fire outside the city and in the area of Changyi Gate, and couldn't help but sigh and burst into tears. Wang Chengen advised Emperor Chongzhen to leave the palace as soon as possible while the Liukou had not yet entered the city, and he would personally organize the elite of the Beijing camp. Escorting members of the royal family out of the city, but was refused by Emperor Chongzhen.

As soon as the day dawned, Emperor Chongzhen personally rang the bell in the front hall to convene hundreds of officials to discuss countermeasures, but after ringing a few rounds of bells, no one came to the palace, Emperor Chongzhen fell to the ground in despair, he said to Wang Chengen sadly: "The ministers are mistaken, and the monarch is dead." In the world of two hundred and seventy-seven years, once it is abandoned, it will be mistaken by traitors, so that it is so. It's too late to repent. If you hadn't listened to the words of such a traitorous minister, Cao Yue's Nanjing New Army had already been summoned to Henan and Shaanxi to fight, maybe the Liukou Rebellion would have been put down; If the Nanjing Jingying had been summoned to Beijing to serve as King Qin a month earlier, it would not have been a great enemy. No one resists, it's too late to repent!"

looked at Wang Chengen, who was crying bitterly, and didn't know what words to use to comfort Emperor Chongzhen. He could only stumble on the ground, expressing his willingness to live and die with the emperor, and never turn his back.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen was already mentally prepared for the death of the monarch, but there was still a thorn in his heart, that is, his beautiful concubines and children. The Liukou would soon capture the city of Beijing, and Emperor Chongzhen could not tolerate his concubines and his children becoming puppets of the thieves. Moreover, he didn't want the Ming Dynasty to perish, so he asked Wang Chengen to send someone to send the crown prince Zhu Cihong, Dingwang Zhu Cijiong, Yongwang Zhu Cizhao, and the fifth son Zhu Cihuan to Zhou Kui, hoping that Zhou Kui could protect the safety of these sons.

After Wang Chengen went to arrange, Emperor Chongzhen rushed to Kunning Palace with his sword, but Empress Zhou was not in Kunning Palace.

Empress Zhou remembered the safety of Emperor Chongzhen and took a group of palace people to find Emperor Chongzhen. Emperor Chongzhen, who wanted to force Empress Zhou to commit suicide and then commit suicide himself, did not stay in Kunning Palace for long and came to Chengqian Palace.

Chengqian Palace is the sleeping palace of Emperor Chongzhen's favorite concubine Tian Guifei, seeing Emperor Chongzhen rushing in with a sword in his hand, his cloak exuding a very terrifying look, Tian Guifei's face turned pale and her body was shaky.

Looking at his beautiful favorite concubine, Emperor Chongzhen burst into tears, and he said sadly and angrily, "Ai Concubine, the Ming Dynasty is about to die, I have no shame to face the ancestors and ancestors, and I can only die and die for the country, in order to prevent you from falling into the hands of thieves and being humiliated, just go with me?" ”

Tian Guifei stared at Emperor Chongzhen with tears streaming down her eyes for a long time, and finally nodded gently, knelt down in front of Emperor Chongzhen, and kowtowed three times: "Long live Lord, the concubine is willing to go with you!"

Emperor Chongzhen closed his eyes and let the tears roll down, and finally he gritted his teeth and ruthlessly stabbed the sword in his hand into Tian Guifei's throat.

In a miserable scream, Tian Guifei's body fell limply, and she died.

After Emperor Chongzhen killed Tian Guifei, he was about to go to Empress Zhou again with his sword, and just as he rushed out of the Qianqing Palace, Wang Chengen hurriedly ran back and told Emperor Chongzhen that he had arranged for someone to send several princes out of the palace. Emperor Chongzhen was silent, carrying a sword and continuing to break through the palace, Wang Chengen didn't dare to say anything, and followed silently.

At this moment, the sound of muskets and earth-shattering shouts came from outside the palace.

"Cheng'en, the Liukou has hit outside the palace, I don't want to fall into the hands of the Liukou, I will be humiliated and lose the face of the Ming Emperor, and I don't want the concubines to be humiliated, after I kill them, I will commit suicide to thank the world," Emperor Chongzhen opened his blood-red eyes and stared at the trembling Wang Chengen, "Are you willing to go with me?" ”

Wang Chengen couldn't help but shudder, but finally nodded vigorously: "Long live Lord, the slave and maid have followed you since childhood, and they will always follow you in the future, wherever you go, the slave and maid will go, and they will never dare to turn their backs!" The slave will surely follow you. It's just that the rogues haven't entered the palace yet, so we still try to escape from the city. In the direction of Coal Mountain, the slave and maid arranged a team of men and horses to meet the ......"

Emperor Chongzhen was speechless for a long time, but finally shook his head gently, and then walked away quickly with his sword. Wang Chengen was stunned for a moment, tears rolling down his eyes, but he quickly wiped away his tears and followed Emperor Chongzhen.

At this time, shouts and messy footsteps came from the direction of the Jinshui Bridge in the palace, as if a large group of people rushed into the palace. Emperor Chongzhen didn't care about looking for Empress Zhou again, and with the support of Wang Chengen, he ran in the direction of Coal Mountain. After running to the crooked-necked tree in the coal mountain, Emperor Chongzhen looked back and saw the city of Beijing filled with flames and gunsmoke, and tears couldn't help but fall again.

He also saw that a team of people and horses were rushing from the direction of the Huangji Palace Square, straight to the direction of the palace, Emperor Chongzhen sighed, tore off a large piece of his clothes, bit his fingers, and wrote the snow-white placket: "I have been on the throne for seventeen years, and the traitors have approached the Beijing Division. When I died, I saw my ancestors in the ground without a face, and I took off my crown and covered my face with my hair. Let the thief divide the corpse, and don't hurt a single person. ”

After writing, he put the blood book in his arms, untied his belt, and after a few circles around the crooked neck tree, he tied a dead knot and put his neck in. Wang Chengen, who was accompanying him, also untied his belt and wrapped it around the big tree opposite.

A gust of wind blew, swinging the two bodies hanging from the trees a few times. (To be continued.) )