It wasn't until the three children went far away that Emperor Chongzhen's hallucination still felt that his hands were warm, but his heart seemed to be hollowed out entirely, and unconsciously, his tears fell again. After a long time, the tears stopped, and he began to cry as if he had realized it later.

However, in his own howl, Chongzhen suddenly remembered the controversial habit of the ministers-he thought about it, and couldn't help but scold: "If it weren't for the old love of the ministers to discuss this and that, I would have sent the prince south to Jiangnan a long time ago, where would there be today's situation?!" ”

So, in Chongzhen's heart, all the mistakes were caused by the ministers...... Emperor Chongzhen scolded incessantly: "The ministers have misled the country!" That's it! ”

His life was once again lonely and desolate, distracted and emotionally abnormal. Anger and resentment poured out of his mouth, but not only could he not vent the resentment in his heart, but also returned to his body after a cycle, each time getting a little worse. Again and again, again and again, it was so heavy that he couldn't bear it, but he was scurrying around in every part of his body, and Chongzhen scolded more and more viciously: "The ministers have misled the country...... All of them are damned...... Damn ...... Ah, I'm going to cut them one by one with a thousand knives, crush their bones and scatter ashes! ”

It's a pity that these voices are just calling to himself, his mind is completely isolated, he can't face the reality of failure in front of him, he can only use his voice to drive away the fear of the end in his heart.

The eunuchs and palace maids of the Qianqing Palace had long been accustomed to this abnormal state of the emperor, and they had also adopted a habitual attitude of silent evasion. Only Wang Chengen accompanied him every step of the way, but he couldn't help but leave his eyes full of sympathy and compassion......

Symbolizing supremacy, the atmosphere of the Ming Palace, the entire power center of the Ming Dynasty, is getting worse and worse, and it is getting worse and worse, and it is more and more cold and isolated. Several ministers who were waiting outside the palace, sweating profusely, to report on the situation of the enemy army were not summoned. , more and more jumping, helpless and helpless...... There are also some people who "make other plans" to carry out other actions, and more people who have already secretly communicated with the Shun army, they have secretly controlled everything, just waiting for Li Zicheng's order.

……

In the nightmare, Emperor Chongzhen returned to the same year of immaturity. Curled up alone in the quilt and crying, his whole body was covered with sweat, his body couldn't help twitching, and his heart was full of palpitations. When I woke up, my ears were filled with all kinds of cries, but I didn't know when my underwear was soaked with cold sweat.

It didn't take long for the rumbling cannon to startle him, and when he came to his senses, he felt the dragon bed he was in was shaking.

Emperor Chongzhen raised his head. saw Wang Chengen who secretly wiped his tears. Seeing the emperor looking at him, Wang Chengen sobbed quietly: "Long live the lord, the thief army has begun to attack the outer city of the capital division......

Emperor Chongzhen nodded expressionlessly, and suddenly a memory came to his mind - he remembered that four years ago, the same enemy army pressed the border, the sound of artillery shook the sky, the doors, windows, tables and chairs in the palace shook together, and the tense Tuanshan army led the army to fight hard outside the city across the wall. In the end, he repelled the incoming Huang Taiji......

I still remember that it was the trilateral governor Lu Xiangsheng who fought hard in Shijingshan, and the entire Tianxiong army of Lu Xiangsheng was annihilated. And Zhang Zhang led the Tuanshan army to the rescue and won a hearty victory.

"Lu Xiangsheng......" Chongzhen shook his head, and muttered to himself: "I heard that he threw tension after his injury, and now he is the governor of Shandong......"

Subconsciously, Emperor Chongzhen didn't want to think about such "chaotic ministers and thieves", but he couldn't help but wonder if he had done something wrong behind all this?

After a long time. Emperor Chongzhen sighed, his expression returned to normal, and he sighed a little in his heart:

What's the use of thinking about it again? Zhang Zhang is talented, but he is a figure like Cao Mengde and Sima Zhongda. Will you use it for yourself? Now, there is no one who can lead an army against the enemy for himself......

Emperor Chongzhen clearly remembered that just yesterday, Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, mobilized the three major battalions of the Beijing camp to defend the Beijing division out of the city to defend the enemy. As soon as the seventy or eighty thousand people left the city, the vanguard team and the thieves fought a defeated battle, and then all the soldiers were scattered, and Chengguo Gong also surrendered to Li Zicheng.

"Ahh

Wang Chengen, who was on the side, saw that his liver and intestines were broken, and he persuaded with tears: "Long live Lord, go to the court, and then discuss with the adults in the court——"

Emperor Chongzhen nodded reluctantly, so Wang Chengen personally changed his clothes, cleaned his face, and combed his hair. Chongzhen's hair has fallen out more than half, and when he combs it, it falls out from time to time, and he can barely pull it into a bun. And there were no muscles left on his face, only skin and bones, like a skeleton. A pair of eyes trapped in a black hole were red, as if there was a fire inside. Wang Chengen didn't dare to let him see himself in the mirror, so he quickly sorted out his appearance for him, and took the little eunuchs to surround him and go to the Taihe Palace.

However, when Chongzhen sat on the Jinluan Palace, the situation was even worse.

There are very few ministers who come to the court, and they are whispering in the corners in twos and threes. Emperor Chongzhen went to the early dynasty, and he just looked at his ministers with tears and speechlessness.

Emperor Chongzhen opened a pair of empty and blank eyes, first looked down at his dragon chair, and then looked at the courtiers below, tears flowed unconsciously.

The Taihe Palace, which is still resplendent and splendid, is now like hell, so Chongzhen doesn't want to stay for a moment.

When noon was approaching, after the surrender of Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, Li Guozhen, who was ordered to be guarded by the commander of the Jingshi, entered the palace to see him, and he brought the latest bad news-

The outer city is about to be lost!

Li Guozhen's beard was scattered, his face was red and panting, and as soon as he knelt in front of Emperor Chongzhen, he cried loudly: "Your Majesty, all the soldiers are unwilling to use their lives, more than half of them have surrendered to thieves, and the remaining few are mostly old and weak, and they are unable to fight again...... The thief army will break through the outer city, and the ministers and overseers are not effective, please long live the guilt! ”

Emperor Chongzhen shuddered for a while and then stammered, "This-how can I blame you? ”

Li Guozhen cried again: "The inner city is strong, please send more people to defend it!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen sighed with tears in his eyes, shook his head and said, "All the thieves in the capital camp have surrendered, where are the manpower?" ”

Indeed, as he said, there were only a few brocade guards and eunuchs around the emperor, and now there was no way but to send them all.

After Li Guozhen left, Emperor Chongzhen glanced at the sparse ministers in the main hall, and two words popped out of his mouth coldly: "Scatter the dynasty!" (To be continued.) )