Closely following the trail of Emperor Chongzhen along the way, Xu Ping caught a few fleeing soldiers of the Jingjun Army, and some of these eunuchs confessed that Emperor Chongzhen let the last dozen or so of his subordinates escape after the personnel dispersed, and only took Wang Chengen to the coal mountain.

"I've finally caught up with the faint king." A group of brocade guards were all happy, seeing that a great merit was in their pockets, with Xu Ping's loud shout, they hurriedly rushed forward, for fear of being escaped by Emperor Chongzhen.

Xu Ping saw that Emperor Chongzhen didn't make any moves, turned his head to look at himself, and a smile appeared on his face.

"Emperor Gao has appeared."

Xu Ping, who was standing at the front, heard Chongzhen say something inexplicable, he turned around and sat upright, his hands firmly on his knees.

The brocade guards who ran to Xu Ping's side saw Emperor Chongzhen sitting majestically in front of them again, and suddenly stopped all of a sudden, and knelt on the ground in unison: "Emperor, Weichen came to escort the left and right." ”

After Commander Chen involuntarily saluted Emperor Chongzhen, he raised his eyes and saw that the other party only had a shabby single coat, hurriedly untied the thick brocade robe on his body, bowed down and took two steps forward with both hands: "Emperor, be careful of the cold." ”

Seeing that Emperor Chongzhen was just staring at Xu Ping and not even glancing at himself, Commander Chen put the brocade robe in his hand lightly on the ground and whispered: "The villain is rude, the emperor forgives the sin." ”

The brocade guards around him, who were originally excited, showed shame on their faces at this time.

Wang Chengen, who was twisting clothes next to Chongzhen, after Xu Pi rushed up, he was first shocked and jumped three feet high, but now he has also recovered, and screamed behind Emperor Chongzhen: "Long live Lord wants to talk to Xu Ping alone, and the rest retreat." ”

Chongzhen still didn't say a word, and sat still.

"Obey," Commander Chen took the lead, and when he retreated, he whispered again, "The emperor is careful of the wind and cold. ”

After everyone left, Xu Ping glanced at the layout in front of him, looked at the robe that had been thrown by Wang Chengen to the branches, and asked suspiciously, "What does Your Majesty want?" ”

Chongzhen slowly took out a jade pendant from his arms, rubbed his fingers lightly on it, stretched out his arm and handed it to Xu Ping.

Xu Ping hurriedly retrieved his jade pendant, and when the jade pendant left his finger, Emperor Chongzhen spit out the words and said: "This jade pendant was originally given to me by your father when I got married." ”

……

After storming the Forbidden City, Yue Mu felt that the resistance had become much more intense, and instead of fleeing, these eunuchs showed a kind of courage and determination to sacrifice their lives. It's just that they are too lacking in combat skills, so despite the will to fight, it is only a problem for the Guards battalion, and it is not a big one.

Today, Yue Mu always had a premonition in his heart, that is, he could catch the faint monarch with his own hands, and this feeling became stronger and stronger after rushing into the Forbidden City, and he clenched his fists fiercely. Although Shangfeng had already explained that he was absolutely not allowed to kill the faint monarch, Yue Mu still had to punch a few times fiercely:

"Brother Qin, little brother is going to avenge you!" Yue Mu wanted to punch Qin Dedong, his mother-in-law, sister-in-law, as well as Lord Taishan and his two brothers-in-law whom he had never met.

The Forbidden City was like a big labyrinth to Yue Mu, he didn't know where to go at all, he only knew that he was rushing in, and before he knew it, Yue Mu had left those companions who rushed into the Forbidden City with him first without a trace. Yue Mu, who was indiscriminately breaking in the Forbidden City, was full of layers of palaces, he ran through a few doors in one breath, and suddenly three people flashed in front of him, one with a knife and two with a stick, and he pressed towards Yue Mu viciously.

As an old subordinate who joined the guard battalion from Luoyang and began to follow Xu Ping, in the past three years, he has fought all over the world, attacking cities and plundering land, and Yue Mu has experienced more than 30 battles. Although he was outnumbered by one, he met him without fear.

Only one of them looked at the face, and a knife and a stick were put down by Yue Mu with the flagpole in his hand, and then after poking the last person open, Yue Mu suddenly turned around one hundred and eighty degrees on the spot, and at the same time raised his arms and used the flagpole in his hand to hold another steel knife that was sneaking up from behind. The sneak attacker who thought it was inevitable was taken aback, and he didn't expect this Shunjun veteran to have such a reaction, and a flower knife in front of him had been snatched away by the other party, and then there was a sharp pain in his abdomen, and the fourth eunuch who sneaked up screamed and fell to the ground.

Yue Mu pulled out the bloody steel knife, and one of the four enemies, two old and two young, and one of the two eunuchs who was older than the stick fell, and his head hit the sharp angle of the stone steps, and it was already a staircase full of blood. The other stood up and was about to fight again, but was immediately beaten unconscious by Yue Mu.

The last young eunuch was still dancing with a sword flower, staring at Yue Mu tightly, Yue Mu glanced at the gate of the palace guarding behind him, and felt his heart beat rapidly.

"Isn't it faint that the king is hiding here?" Since entering the Forbidden City, every magnificent palace that Yue Mu has seen has made him suspect that it is the hiding place of Emperor Chongzhen, but this one in front of him is obviously more suspicious, and there are several people who are protecting it without fear of death.

The eunuch on the opposite side shouted and pounced, Yue Mu raised the knife in his hand, and cut off the enemy's knife-holding arm in one fell manner, he turned sideways to avoid the enemy who was spinning and fell to the ground, and rushed towards the temple gate. When rushing past the seriously injured eunuch, Yue Mu suddenly felt a sinking under his feet, it turned out that the enemy who fell to the ground wrapped his leg with one arm, and Yue Mu didn't want to stab the enemy to the ground again.

There was no one on the first floor, neither on the second floor, and the door on the third floor was closed and seemed to be locked from the inside.

"Faint King!" Yue Mu shouted, flew up and kicked the door away: "Brother Qin! Brother is going to avenge you! ”

There were a few exclamations from inside the door, and Yue Mu rushed through the door with red eyes, and he didn't see anyone dressed in what looked like a dragon robe—he looked around the room, and there were only four women—two older and two younger.

The four women hugged each other and stared at the man in black who rushed in and was covered in blood.

"Could it be the queen's mother?" Seeing that the four women were covered in silk, Yue Mu had another thought in his heart, and he took a step forward and was about to ask.

Suddenly, an older woman took out a dagger from her bosom and plunged it into her abdomen without thinking, and after the other three screamed, they suddenly turned around together, ran to the window, and jumped out one after another.

Yue Mu was stunned by this change, he walked to the window and looked down, two of the three people who jumped off the building were already motionless, and one was still twitching and struggling on the ground.

"Do they think of me as a soldier who burns and kills and plunders?" It took Yue Mu a long time to come to his senses, and he thought about it so much that the sound of the knife suddenly realized when it reached the back of his head.

Yue Mu instinctively made a sideways avoidance action, but the sword light had already swept onto his back, he fell out with a muffled snort, and after falling to the ground, he only felt as if his body had lost all his strength, and his limbs did not obey the call.

A white-haired old eunuch I had seen just now hugged the old woman who committed suicide with a dagger and cried bitterly, and after crying for a while, the old eunuch jumped up again, picked up Yue Mu's flagpole from the ground, and smashed it towards Yue Mu, who was not able to do anything. Yue Mu barely resisted twice, and he was smashed dizzy, and before he passed out, the last thing he saw was the old eunuch picking up the big knife on the ground again.

……

Xu Ping held his jade pendant in one hand and stood on the top of the coal mountain in a daze, now his brain was confused, and he had not been able to sort out his thoughts for a while.

"Nephew ......" said for more than a quarter of an hour, and Chongzhen felt that he had finally explained the cause and effect clearly.

"Your Majesty, you should not be called that by Your Majesty." Xu Ping suddenly recovered from his confusion, and hurriedly took two steps back to apologize: "Your Majesty must have admitted his mistake!" ”

Hearing Xu Ping's fierce tone, Chongzhen immediately closed his mouth.

Wang Chengen jumped over and shouted beside Xu Ping: "Chitose, this matter is true. Wang Chengen pointed to the jade pendant in Xu Ping's hand and shouted: "This jade was originally the great-ancestor of the Chitose Emperor, and later passed through the hands of the Chitose Emperor's grandfather to the Chitose father's hand, and when the Chitose Lord got married, the Chitose father gave them to the Chitose imperial uncle, and finally Banzai gave it to Chitose's mother." After repeating it again, Wang Chengen said that although more than 20 years have passed, there are not many people who have seen this piece of jade back then, but as long as Xu Ping investigates it carefully, he will definitely be able to find the old people in the palace who have seen it and remember its origin: "...... Chitose can know that what Lord Banzai said is true. ”

Hearing this, Chongzhen smiled slightly, and slowly nodded twice, indicating that Wang Chengen was right.

"Nephew......" Chongzhen said again.

"Your Majesty forgives you for your sins, please don't call your Majesty Wei Chen that." Xu Ping frowned tightly.

Chongzhen didn't seem to have heard the sermon, and continued to say to himself: "I will mask my hair, if you don't believe in your uncle, nephew, then I won't have the face to see our ancestors underground after I die." ”

Chongzhen tore off the piece of cloth with the suicide note and solemnly handed it to Xu Ping: "If you believe in your uncle's words, you can comb the hair on my face, my testament will not be revealed first, and then leave it to your children and grandchildren after my nephew regains the world, so that they can know that it is not easy to guard the emperor in the world." If...... If you don't believe your nephew anyway, then enjoy your wealth under Li Chuang, and you can show him this edict immediately, so that he can kill my courtiers and avenge me. ”

"Your Majesty must have admitted his mistake." Xu Ping took the edict with both hands, and still stubbornly insisted in his mouth.

Emperor Chongzhen ignored him and turned around and walked towards the big tree with strips of cloth.

"Your Majesty," Xu Ping hurriedly took a step forward and hurriedly dissuaded, "Your Majesty, why do you need to do this? ”

"King Wu is the king of Song, with Prince Yin as the king of Song, this is probably what the cow came up with to demean me, right? That is, only the reader can come up with such a bad idea. Chongzhen glanced at Xu Ping coldly: "But King Wu is the king of Song with Prince Yin as the king, and the king of Zhou has martyred Sheji, so it can be seen that if your nephew and your master are really Zhou Wu, your uncle will definitely have to go to martyrdom." ”

Xu Ping was speechless, and at this time, Wang Chengen had already rushed ahead of Emperor Chongzhen, put his neck into another cloth ring, and shouted: "Long live Lord, Weichen will open the way for you." ”

"Princess," Xu Ping sighed again when he saw this: "Why do you have to do this? ”

Chongzhen turned his head to look at Xu Ping and said softly: "Wang Chengen is my Wei Zhongxian, even if everyone in the world abandons me, he will not." ”

Wang Chengen, who was already waiting to die, heard Emperor Chongzhen's evaluation, and suddenly came out of the cloth circle again, and cried loudly: "Long live Lord, Weichen can't afford your praise, Weichen has accepted the silver of those rats, and Weichen deserves death." ”

"Do you think Wei Zhongxian has confiscated the silver?"

Emperor Chongzhen stood on the dangling stone and stretched his neck towards the cloth ring.

"Uncle Huang," Xu Ping suddenly jumped forward and grabbed the corner of Chongzhen's clothes: "If Your Majesty is really the imperial uncle of the minister, then Your Majesty has not convinced the minister, and the minister still doesn't believe it, if Your Majesty goes, who else in this world can convince the minister to believe?" ”

"Nephew," Chongzhen put his head in the cloth circle, closed his eyes and said slowly, "Does my nephew want to see Uncle Wei being pointed out and humiliated by Wei Zaode and others?" ”

……

After hearing Xu Ping's greeting, Commander Chen, who had been waiting impatiently, led his Jinyi guards to run up in a hurry, and they saw Chongzhen lying on the ground, Xu Ping was hugging Wang Chengen, who was hanging in the air, and put this faithful servant beside his master.

"Emperor!" Commander Chen, who understood it, suddenly took a step forward, crouched beside Chongzhen's corpse, looked at it again and again, and shouted: "Emperor! Why can't you think about it? ”

"Go find two coffins." Xu Ping ordered the other stunned brocade guards: "The Ming Emperor's generation is supreme, Wang Chengen is loyal to the lord, they should not be in the wild. ”

……

Now that the Jinluan Palace has changed its owner, the Shun army has broken through the Beijing division this time, and the number of dead soldiers is only three digits, which can be called minimal.

Li Guojiao, who had just surrendered to King Shun, followed Li Zicheng closely, and after failing to find the trace of Emperor Chongzhen in the Forbidden City, Li Guojiao immediately volunteered: "Your Majesty, there are hundreds of sons, all of them have seen the faint monarch, and they are all from Beijing. ”

Li Guojiao suggested that he immediately start an inventory of the whole city, and he took his subordinates to find out Emperor Chongzhen even if they were digging three feet into the ground: "Weichen must capture the faint monarch alive and sacrifice it in front of His Majesty's steps." ”

This kind of credit is naturally Liu Zongmin, Yu Shenhe and others will not rob Li Guojiao, and they can't rob him, Li Zicheng shouted hello, and agreed to Li Guojiao to carry out the search and arrest work.

"Obey the order, if Weichen doesn't get the faint king, he will have no face to come back to see His Majesty." Li Guojiao was overjoyed in his heart, and he wanted to retreat from the Jinluan Treasure Hall to deploy the search and arrest work.

At this time, a guard reported: "The general is asking to see him outside the palace." ”

"Please"

Niu Jinxing coughed beside him.

Li Zicheng hurriedly changed his words to: "Announce quickly." ”

Xu Ping walked up to the main hall, and Li Zicheng happily came down to greet him: "Brother Xu is safe and sound, it's really good, I couldn't find anyone in the edict just now...... The widow is in a hurry. ”

"The last general will go to Emperor Chongzhen for the king."

"Can you hold it?" Niu Jinxing also came to the spirit when he heard it.

"The last general brought back Emperor Chongzhen to the king."

Li Zicheng looked at Xu Ping's indifferent expression, nodded slightly, and Xu Ping asked Chen to command them to carry the coffin to the hall.

The entire Jinluan Hall fell silent, and all the people stared at the coffin carried by a few brocade guards without saying a word, and Chen instructed them to gently place the coffin on the ground, as if they were worried about waking up the people in the coffin.

"How is this faint gentleman possible?" In the distance, Liu Zongmin let out a half-sentence of questioning full of doubts.

Li Zicheng and Niu Jinxing also looked motionlessly at the coffin that was lightly placed on the ground, and the latter swallowed saliva one after another.

After the brocade guards put down the coffin, they tiptoed away, and Commander Chen solemnly knelt on the ground and kowtowed respectfully to the coffin nine times before retreating with the others.

Xu Ping walked over and gently uncovered the coffin, Niu Jinxing kept shaking his head: "How can there be the last king of the dead society?" How is this possible? ”

"King Wu is the king of Song, with Prince Yin as the king of Song," Xu Ping replied softly: "Since the great king is the great cause of Tang Wu's innovation, it can be seen that Emperor Ming must be martyred." ”

"That's just a legend." For a while, there was only Niu Jinxing and Xu Ping's answer in the main hall, and everyone else stared at Chongzhen lying in the coffin, and there was no energy left to participate in their conversation.

"But this is not a legend." After Xu Ping lifted the lid of the coffin, he slowly retreated to the side, leaving Chongzhen's body in the center of the Jinluan Palace: "Zhou, Qin, Han, Tang, Two Song, Mengyuan, more than two thousand years have passed, and there is another martyred son of heaven. ”

Li Zicheng looked at it for a while, then turned his head sideways and asked Li Guojiao beside him: "It's the Ming Emperor, right?" ”

Since Xu Ping lifted the lid of the coffin, Li Guojiao's face became pale and his body began to tremble.

After hearing Li Zicheng's question, Li Guojiao jumped forward and threw himself at Chongzhen's coffin. Li Guojiao crawled on the ground, gently touched the side of the coffin twice, and suddenly cried bitterly: "Your Majesty, why can't you think about it?" ”

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen, who was lying in the coffin, couldn't answer Li Guojiao's question, Li Guojiao asked the question of the corpse two or three times in a row, and suddenly grabbed the ground with his head and howled loudly: "Your Majesty, the minister is sorry for you." ”

"Your Majesty, the ministers deserve death. The minister was blinded by lard, and he rebelled frantically, which was really not enough to atone for his sins. ”

Several of the guards of King Shun stepped forward to pull Li Guojiao, and there was a reprimand in their mouths.

At this time, Li Guojiao had already hit his head on the ground and was bleeding all over his face, and when he was dragged down from the Jinluan Palace by King Shun's guards, Li Guojiao still looked at Chongzhen's coffin and shouted:

"Your Majesty, the minister deserves death, the minister is sorry for you!"

Long after Li Guojiao was dragged out of the main hall, the people in the hall could still hear his shouts coming from afar.

"I can't keep this guy." Niu Jinxing said coldly, turned to look at Xu Ping: "General, what's going on?" ”

Xu Ping said part of the truth, and before he could finish speaking, Niu Jinxing jumped up: "Why don't you hold Emperor Ming?" ”

"Emperor Ming is bent on death, how can I stop him?" Xu Ping retorted loudly: "The king of a small country should be the secretary of a big country, let alone the orthodox son of heaven? ”

"What kind of etiquette are you talking about at this time?" Niu Jinxing reprimanded angrily: "Of course you want to hold him down, you should tie up Emperor Ming, send someone to watch you for twelve hours, and you must not let him kill himself!" ”

"Alright, alright." Li Zicheng drank the two who were arguing, and asked Niu Jinxing with a gloomy face: "What should I do now?" ”

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