It can be said that this elite person alone has cut half a battalion of Ming army chickens and dogs!

Next, the second elite climbed the city wall, followed by the third, the fourth, and the fifth......

When the thousandth elite of the back was on the city wall, the tens of thousands of Ming troops on this section of the city wall were already on the verge of collapse!

Just as Yue Yun was about to give the last touch, the Changyi Gate of the palace was suddenly opened!

A middle-aged eunuch in a bright red inner service robe ran out of the Changyi Gate sweating profusely, knelt on the ground with a plop, and shouted loudly: "Our Cao Huachun, surrender to the Changyi Gate!"

Su Ming and Yue Fei glanced at each other, and they both saw a lot of surprise in each other's eyes.

In the original history, it was this Ming eunuch Cao Huachun who surrendered to Li Zicheng in Changyimen, which caused the palace to not hold out for even half a day, and it was directly captured by the Dashun army!

Su Ming also thought that history had changed, and under the effect of the butterfly effect, this eunuch would not surrender again this time.

Unexpectedly, in the end, it was this guy who took the lead in surrendering!

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In the center of the Daming Palace, in the Qinzheng Hall where the emperor's daily work is located, Chongzhen, who is haggard, sits gloomily on the dragon chair, and the jade wine jug carved with the dragon and phoenix in his hand continues to pour into his mouth.

"Goo-goo-"

Huanglong's fine wine flowed through his throat and entered Chongzhen's stomach.

"Ahem—"

It seemed that he hadn't drunk like this before, Chongzhen's face suddenly turned red for a while, and he couldn't help coughing heavily, almost coughing up tears.

After a while, Chongzhen regained his strength.

However, after relieving himself, Chongzhen still kept pouring wine into his mouth!

He drank and coughed and laughed.

It seems that only in this way can the boundless grief in the heart be relieved.

"Holy Lord, you must take care of your body, if you fall here, what will you do in this world?"

Standing anxiously beside Chongzhen, Wang Chengen kept persuading Chongzhen, as if he wanted to make him put down the liquor in his hand.

Although even he didn't believe some words, seeing Chongzhen's deeply stricken and sad appearance, Wang Chengen still persuaded him distressedly.

If you rank who is the most loyal to Chongzhen in the entire Beijing city, then, as Chongzhen's personal eunuch, Wang Chengen can definitely be ranked among the top three!

In fact, when Chongzhen committed suicide and hanged himself in the coal mountain, the only person who accompanied Chongzhen to commit suicide was Wang Chengen!

Hearing Wang Chengen's words, Chongzhen said with a self-deprecating wry smile:

"The world is alive? If I still had the face to face the world, would I still be where I am today-"

Now, about the situation outside the palace, that is, Beijing City, Chongzhen knew last night.

Just yesterday evening, an army of unknown origin defeated Li Zicheng's 500,000 Dashun army, captured Li Zicheng alive, and occupied the entire outer city of Beijing!

For this information, Chongzhen didn't believe it at first.

Li Zicheng is the biggest enemy of the Ming Dynasty, and the entire Ming Dynasty has been chasing and intercepting him for more than ten years, but he is still alive and well!

Even when Li Zicheng was at his weakest, Da Ming did not eliminate him, not to mention, now he has hundreds of thousands of troops, which can be called the peak of more than ten years, and he is almost invincible in the world.

How could such Li Zicheng and such a Dashun army be wiped out by an army of unknown origin?

However, the truth cannot be changed, when the facts are naked in front of Chongzhen's eyes, Chongzhen can't believe it or not.

When he was convinced that the Dashun army was defeated and Li Zicheng was also captured alive, Chongzhen was ecstatic.

However, it didn't take long for Chongzhen to soon be lost again.

Because, Chongzhen soon learned that this army that defeated the Dashun army was not any Ming army that came to King Qin!

This army is really an army of unknown origin!

It's just that the source is unknown, as long as he can use it for himself, Chongzhen is not qualified to care so much.

However, this army, without his Chongzhen's permission, directly occupied the outer city of Beijing!

Now, Sima Zhao's heart is known to passers-by!

So, Chongzhen, who had just escaped from the wolf's den and entered the tiger's mouth, became worried again.

Especially after learning that the army had besieged the palace, Chongzhen could only use wine to kill his sorrows.

In other words, Chongzhen knew that the palace would be destroyed, so he chose to wait silently in the Qinzheng Palace, waiting to see the leader of the army.

Perhaps because he had seen hope, Chongzhen did not order all the ladies in the palace to commit suicide in desperation in desperation, as in history, in order not to let his concubine and daughter be humiliated.

Moreover, on the day the palace was breached, he himself committed suicide and hanged himself on a coal mountain.

This time, Chongzhen chose to let his personal guards and the most loyal eunuchs escape from the palace through the secret passage with his wife and children.

He was left alone, silently staying in the palace of diligence, accompanied by the survival of the Ming Empire.

(PS: The following is illustrative information and does not count as word count.) ）

On the fourth day of the first month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youzhen, the emperor of Chongzhen, who was already exhausted, asked the sky for divination, but got such a hexagram: "The stars go in the moon, and the country is broken and the king dies." ”

Sure enough, he soon got the news that Li Zicheng proclaimed himself Emperor Dashun, and at the same time, he also heard about the ominous omen that happened in the filial piety tomb of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang in Nanjing: in the middle of the night, there was always a terrible cry coming from the depths of the filial piety tomb, and the soldiers guarding the tomb were so frightened that they fled.

In the first month, Fengyang earthquake; In the same month, the Nanjing earthquake; In Beijing, there was a celestial phenomenon of "stars entering the moon".

The ancestral hometown of the Zhu family, the origin of the Ming Dynasty, and the abnormal celestial phenomena that appeared in the capital one after another made Chongzhen exhausted.

At this time, the treasury had bottomed out, and in order to resist the overwhelming Dashun Army, Chongzhen turned his fortune to the ministers and asked them to donate their wealth and silver for military expenses.

As a result, those officials who relied on the talents of the Ming Dynasty to get rich and oily, all shouted poverty and bitterness, even if they were relatives like Tian Hongyu, they only reluctantly took out 10,000 taels of silver under the repeated requests of the emperor. All the ministers combined, it was less than 200,000 taels. (Later, Li Zicheng tortured sixty or seventy million taels of silver from them, which was equivalent to two or three hundred times the amount this time.) ）

On 16 March, Li Zicheng's army captured Changping, the last natural barrier in the city. Just two days later, on March 18, the city of Beijing was broken.

Chongzhen and Empress Zhou barely supported themselves, called their three sons to the front, changed them into coarse old clothes, and asked the eunuch to send them out of the palace to escape.

Parents who are crying will not know what kind of future awaits the fifteen-year-old prince, the twelve-year-old Yongwang, and the eleven-year-old Dingwang.

When the three brothers escaped from the palace, the first thing they thought of was to defect to their maternal grandfathers: Zhou Kuijia, the maternal grandfather of the crown prince and King Ding, and Tian Hongyu, the maternal grandfather of King Yong.

However, both the Zhou and Tian families closed their doors and refused to allow their grandsons to take refuge.

The three brothers, who had never tasted the taste of the world, didn't know who else to trust, and had nowhere to escape. A few days later (March 20) it was captured by the Dashun army.

Only two months later, Wu Sangui led the Qing troops into the customs, and Li Zicheng led his troops to flee westward.

No one knows what kind of torture these three brothers endured, and where their bones are buried.

The younger brothers were able to escape from the palace, but Princess Kunxing, a little princess, could not escape and sent her three younger brothers away, she knew what her fate would be.

On March 18, Chongzhen passed his last will to the concubines, asking them to cut themselves all.

That night, Emperor Zhang of the Apocalypse hanged herself, Empress Chongzhen Zhou hanged herself, and most of the rest of the concubines also committed suicide, and a few who refused to commit suicide were also killed by their attendants.

Emperor Chongzhen, who got the news of his family's suicide, wandered around the chaotic Forbidden City in a daze and came to Shouning Palace, where his daughter Princess Kunxing lived.

Princess Kunxing was only sixteen years old, and she pulled her father's clothes and was speechless in tears.

Chongzhen shook his head and cried, "Child, why were you born in my family? ”

As soon as he finished speaking, his sword swung at the unprepared Princess Kunxing.

She lay in a pool of blood, unconscious.

Chongzhen, who lost his soul, thought that his daughter was dead and did not split the second sword.

He turned around and came to the Zhaoren Hall where his third daughter lived, and ended his daughter's ten-year-old life with a sword.

The next day, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen committed suicide on a tree in the coal mountain outside the Shouhuang Palace. The eunuch Wang Chengen was martyred from death.

On March 19, the 17th year of Chongzhen, Chongzhen collapsed and the Ming Empire collapsed.