Ning Wuguan supported it for five days - in the past few days, Li Zicheng has been launching crowd tactics, hundreds of thousands of horses one after another, non-stop attacking. The gunpowder, projectiles, arrows, and even earth and stones in the Ningwu Pass were all exhausted, and the city wall was broken open by the artillery of the Shun army and collapsed...... The sergeants fought with the Shun army in the city, and Zhou Yuji's generals and subordinates fought bravely hand-to-hand, resisting for nearly three hours and then all of them were killed.

Zhou Yuji slashed and killed dozens of people in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, and he did not stop after being hit by several arrows in his body, and after the arrow fell to the ground in his mount, he fought the enemy with his body. However, Zhou Yuji is flesh and blood after all, and after being seriously injured, he can only fight until his strength is exhausted in the face of thousands of people who surround him...... After being captured, Zhou Yuji not only refused to surrender, but also scolded endlessly, so Li Zicheng, who was annoyed and angry, sent people to tie him to a wooden stake and killed him with heavy artillery bombardment.

Zhou Yuji's wife, Liu, led the maid to climb onto the roof and shoot arrows from the house during a street fight. These dozens of well-trained maids had excellent archery skills, and each arrow killed one of the thieves, so that the Shun army did not dare to force forward. In the end, more than a dozen Fran cannons were brought in, and the cannons fired in unison, and then they began to set fire to a nearby house, burning them and their houses to ashes.

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On the eighth day of the fourth month of the ninth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, hundreds of thousands of Dashun troops arrived at the city of Beijing. Before that, tens of thousands of people had been converted into civilians and blatantly infiltrated the capital, and they were all connected with the military generals, officials, and eunuchs who had been bought.

The reason why Li Zicheng did not immediately launch a large-scale offensive was that he was just waiting for the outcome of the negotiations—he sent Gao Qiqian, the eunuch of the prison army who had surrendered at Xuanfu, to Beijing first, and proposed to Emperor Chongzhen on his behalf that he would voluntarily abdicate.

Gao Qiqian was originally a eunuch valued and trusted by Emperor Chongzhen, and was specially sent to Xuanfu to supervise the army. Now Gao Qiqian in turn came to persuade Li Zicheng to surrender on behalf of Li Zicheng. It was really a slap in the face, and Emperor Chongzhen was beaten with a blue nose and swollen face.

A feeling of betrayal stimulated Chongzhen's whole body. Facing Gao Qidive standing in front of him with a clear smile on his face. Chongzhen's anger reached its extreme. Moreover, the unknown inferiority complex in his private heart also rose, making his emotions even full of shame and indignation, and the two emotions collided with each other in his heart.

Looking at the arrogant Gao Qiqian, Emperor Chongzhen's heart was dripping blood, and he muttered to himself in a very low voice: "This dog slave has been by my side for many years, and I have vigorously favored and promoted him, I don't want him to be a thief, and I turned my head to negotiate conditions for the thief...... He must have told the thieves a lot of things in the palace. Let them ignore me more and more...... How dare you come to ask me to abdicate! ”

As soon as his thoughts turned to "don't take me in his eyes", Emperor Chongzhen's self-esteem was seriously damaged, and after mixing with his inferiority complex, a huge rebound force was born.

Chongzhen slapped his palm on the armrest of the dragon chair vigorously, but the actual force emitted by his body was not large, and he didn't make any sound at all. His spirit became even more angry, and he simply stood up with a swish, pushed down the dragon chair, and shouted sharply: "I will not abdicate - never——! ”

Chongzhen's body was shaking, and the two rows of teeth were hitting each other with a terrible sound. The words in the voice were not clear, but they were repeated several times. However, after all, there was a sense of fear in his heart in addition to anger, and the atmosphere in his chest rose and fell several degrees. In the end, there was still no order to execute Gao Qiqian......

Back in the Qianqing Palace, Chongzhen's temper became even bigger, and he simply overturned the table. Then he kept jumping and scolding. All the eunuchs and palace maids guessed that the emperor was about to fall ill again, and they shrank far away in the corner one by one and did not dare to step forward. Only Wang Chengen is not afraid, and he is not at ease. Stay by his side and stay with him.

Unexpectedly, Chongzhen's mind was clear this time, and after scolding angrily for a while, he suddenly raised his throat and shouted to Wang Chengen: "Give me a decree and summon tension...... I want him to withdraw his troops from Korea and bring all his men and horses into the capital to kill the thieves! ”

Wang Chengen was stunned for a moment, then sighed slowly, and persuaded with his temperament: "Long live Lord, that tension has long since stopped listening to the dispatch of the imperial court...... His name is Ming General, but he is really a thief! ”

Emperor Chongzhen shouted at him angrily, and said hysterically: "I am a flower and a country, I would rather have tension than a thief!" ”

After a pause, the tears in Chongzhen's eyes flowed, and he said slowly: "Zhang Li is my protégé of the Son of Heaven after all, he has an army of more than 100,000 people, but he does not pull the flag to rebel - I heard that in Liaodong under his rule, everyone has food to eat, and everyone has clothes to wear......"

Wang Chengen's face was surprised, he couldn't imagine that Emperor Chongzhen would actually inquire about the affairs of Liaodong, and in this situation in front of him, he also praised a so-called "chaotic minister and thief"...... Wang Chengen didn't dare to answer, so he only responded vaguely and dealt with the past twice.

However, even if you want to summon Zhang Zhang into Beijing immediately, even if you want to give way to him, it is already too late!

Only two days later, on the 10th day of the first month of April, the Shun army marched all the way down from Juyongguan, Changping, Shahe, and Qinghe. The guards and supervisors of Juyong Pass had agreed to surrender and sacrifice the pass before the arrival of the Shun army, while the guards of Changping hung up their seals and fled.

When the news came to the palace, Emperor Chongzhen was expressionless for a long time, and then he hid his face and cried, muttering sadly: "The descendants are not good...... The Imperial Mausoleum has been repeatedly vandalized......"

The previous time the Tartars entered the Kou, only destroyed the temple of Dingling. And Li Zicheng was even more thorough, he burned down all the temples of the imperial tombs in Changping, and cut down the pines and cypresses that protected the tombs - the worse is still to come, that is, Changping is less than a day's trip from Beijing!

Wang Chengen finally persuaded Emperor Chongzhen to stop crying and cheer up to face the reality.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong, Yongwang Zhu Cijiong, and Dingwang Zhu Cijiong were called to him, Chongzhen finally put on a kind face, and said to his son: "Recently, the Beijing division has been unstable, and the thieves may come to attack the city, you are still young, and it is inconvenient to stay in the palace, so it is better to transform into civilians and go out of the palace to the people's house to hide--my father sent someone to send you to your grandfather's house, and I will pick you up when the chaos is over!" ”

Chongzhen said as he waved his hand to order the eunuch to come over and change the clothes for the three of them, and then ordered: "You hide in your grandfather's house, if you meet someone you don't know, don't tell your identity!" ”

After a pause, Chongzhen said to the crown prince Zhu Cihong: "You are the prince, you have to be especially careful - after this catastrophe, my father sent someone to send you to Nanjing to supervise the country!" ”

Chongzhen said a word, and the three children responded with a "yes", and after changing their clothes, they came to kowtow to him and say goodbye, and Chongzhen pulled them up one by one...... (To be continued.) )