In the victory of the Kaifeng Defense War, Ren Jun and the soldiers demonstrated their loyalty and fearlessness, and the cohesion and unity of the people demonstrated the aspirations of the people! And one of the most to the Chongzhen Emperor is the Zhou King Zhu Gongfang, he is easy to change the fortune of the king in times of crisis, he donated 500,000 yuan of silver, to the soldiers who were cut off from the salary to encourage, on the day of the city's food shortage, he donated food to satisfy the hunger of the people. "There is little help for the unjust, but there is a lot of help for the righteous! Later, when Huang Shu broke the embankment of the Yellow River and wanted to flood the peasant army of Li Zicheng, the turbid waves in Kaifeng City were surging, and the soldiers worked together to build a boat to rescue the Zhou Wangjia in the case of self-protection. This is enough to prove the preciousness of the Tao and the power of the people's will.

In the first month of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, when Ren Jun ordered the soldiers to bombard Li Zicheng with artillery fire, the soldiers who defended the city did not have the slightest slackness, in addition to renovating the Zengyun Tower, storing gunpowder, erecting forts, and adding flying stones, in addition to the general soldier Chen Yongfu also specially set up a "tour camp" to take turns to be on guard all day long. They know that Li Zicheng will not admit defeat, and one day he will come to the city!

On May 4, the peasant army really rushed to Kaifeng City, the momentum was huge, known as "million", he sent troops to sweep the Ming Dynasty in the Central Plains on the land of the state and county, a total of more than 20 cities, so as to successfully isolate Kaifeng from other states and counties, so as to achieve the goal of isolating Kaifeng, it can be seen that Li Zicheng this time "is bound to win"!

Wang Xie, the magistrate of Xiangfu County in Kaifeng City, was promoted and transferred for reuse, and the supervisor Ding Yuanrui had already left. However, the Ming army saw the peasant army wandering back and forth on the earthen embankment, so they went to investigate, it turned out that the peasant army was harvesting the wheat outside the city, and the wheat near the city was almost harvested by the peasant army. Seeing this, the Ming army was clearly robbing grain, so they also sent troops to harvest wheat, but in the end, the unfinished harvest was ordered by Li Zicheng to set it on fire.

Li Zicheng's soldiers were trapped in Kaifeng for three months, and they hoped that they would surrender naturally without food and grass, but the soldiers and civilians of Kaifeng were single-minded and held on to their death.

In September of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the emperor ordered Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, to command the troops and horses out of Tongguan to relieve the siege of Feng, and Huang Shu, the official Huang Shu, came up with a strategy to retreat the troops, and asked Yan Yunjing, the governor of Hebei on the north bank of the Yellow River, to open the embankment of the Yellow River on the 15th, the Yellow River was surging, Li Zicheng saw this and moved to the west of Hebei, drowned part of the army, and brought a huge disaster to the people nearby, they were displaced, and many lives were lost in the flood!

However, it was said that Ren Jun was seriously injured in the Kaifeng War, and he was recuperating at home for several months, and although he had not recovered by October, his sick leave had arrived, so he returned to Beijing to resume his life. Because of his good command in the battle of Kaifeng, not afraid of sacrifice, putting life and death out of the way, and so on, the emperor appointed him as the right attendant of the military department, in charge of the selection of military attachés and military registration, ordnance, military orders, supervising local military affairs and suppressing bandits.

In December of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen (1643), Ren Jun recurred because the injury had not healed and was unbearable, so he asked the emperor to go back to recuperate from his injury, but the emperor did not allow it, and said: "Kou Xiang Kong, Ren Jun looks at the special simplicity with an inch, and immediately suffers from Xingchi, and strives to prevent and suppress, and must not rely on Chen's longing for illness!" "Ren Jun, the squire of the Rotating Army, concurrently serves as the right deputy of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the governor Yu Chu is in charge of the military and political work of Henan and Hubei provinces, and the king's order is difficult to disobey, Ren Jun disregards the worries of his life, endures the pain and takes Xu Shangzhong and a small number of other entourages, and the light car Jian Cong leads the department to gallop Kaifeng, which is the place where he was born and died. He wants to call on loyal and righteous people to recruit the subordinates of the former guards to tide over the national disaster together. On February 24, 17 years, when he arrived in Changyuan, it was nearly dusk, so he stayed in Changyuan at night, but unexpectedly encountered Li Zicheng's army sneaking into the city, and was helplessly outnumbered, and Ren Jun was arrested.

Seeing that Ren Jun was an official of the imperial court, the peasant army naturally vented their anger on him, tortured him along the way, and forced him to surrender, but he stood awe-inspiring and resolutely refused, and finally soldier B raised his spear and stabbed him in the head, and immediately fainted with blood. Soldier A saw the soldiers abusing Ren Jun so much, seeing Ren Jun so brave, and hearing his fame and awe, now seeing that soldier B stabbed him down, he kicked him to the ground, and said angrily: "King Chuang asked us to escort him to Beijing, and now you stab him to death, see how we deal with each other?" Besides, although the official is said to be an official of the imperial court, he is a good official! It's too much along the way! A squatted down with a crying voice and untied the rope on Ren Jun's body, soldier C came to stop him, and soldier A shouted: "He's all dead, can he run away if he unties?" Let him get on his way! Do you know why King Chuang asked us to take him to Beijing? It's because King Chuang also admires him as a hero! Now that he is dead, we will carry him to Beijing! “

Perhaps it was the roar of soldier A that woke him up, and he listened to his words as if he had an ulterior motive, so he closed his eyes again, and when soldier A untied the rope for him, he immediately felt much lighter, and he lay on the stretcher for a day of rest, but he held back the pain and remained silent, waiting for an opportunity to escape.

Early the next morning, he heard the cheers of the peasant army, and the first soldier shouted: "Beijing has been conquered, you see that everyone has gone to rob the treasure, let's go!" When several soldiers heard this, they rushed to grab the treasure. Ren Jun took advantage of this opportunity to escape, and at the end of March and early April of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Ren Jun returned to his hometown Xiazhuang after thousands of miles of hardships and retreated. When Sun Tingquan and his parents and fellow villagers heard about it, they rushed to visit, and Ren Jun's old injuries and new marks made him bedridden. Later, the scholar Sun Tingquan wrote in the book: "The change of Xijiashen, the prince (Ren Jun) escaped from the thief, and the father and the elder ran to ask the official guard, and Yu Shi obeyed, because of his death. Seeing its scars, he spontaneously hung down at the end of his eyebrows, and his heart was very strong. “

And on Ren Jun's escape, the Forbidden City underwent earth-shaking changes. On the first day of the first month, Li Zicheng called the emperor in Xi'an (the name of the country), his momentum became more and more ferocious, and on the eighth day of the first month, he led the main force from Xi'an to Beijing, along the way he was like a bamboo, and the Ming army was defeated. On February 16, Li Zicheng sent the "Yongchang Edict" on the way to attack Beijing, scolding the imperial court and asking Chongzhen to see the situation clearly and surrender! And the resolute character of the Chongzhen Emperor will never surrender, a once issued a "guilty edict" of the emperor is ashamed of the ancestors, if surrender is not more humiliating to the ancestors, although he tried his best to save the Ming Dynasty, but in the end the general trend has gone, March 18 Emperor Chongzhen hopelessly walked up the coal mountain and hanged himself under a crooked neck tree! It was not until March 22 that his body was found by the peasant army. He has two lines of ink written on his sleeve. One line is: "Because of the loss of the country, I have no face to see my ancestors, and I dare not finally go to bed." The other line reads: "All the officials are going to the East Palace."

A generation of kings died tragically like this, and he left with guilt, humiliation, and resentment. Although he personally left with this mood, but he should not have been, he should have passed away calmly, although he failed to save the Ming Dynasty, it was really not his fault, he was just continuing the death of a "terminally ill" patient, he was working hard every day, he was performing the duties of a doctor, but he never lived the real life of any emperor in history! From the day he ascended the throne, he shouldered a kind of responsibility, never stop until death, although history has always praised and praised success, but the history of Emperor Chongzhen is also worthy of praise, he is a generation of Ming Jun, although he fell, but although he was defeated, he was still glorious!