Chapter 413: Chongzhen was martyred
Towering Wanshou Mountain,
Densely connected with smoke trees.
The soul of the emperor is hopeful,
I don't know where to go!
Like history, Emperor Chongzhen did not commit suicide in Wuying Palace, but took the great eunuch Wang Chengen to the coal mountain, the difference is that because it was the prince who raised the army, the palace maids and concubines in the harem did not commit suicide by edict, only the queen Zhou Yufeng followed the emperor to the crooked neck tree.
The Son of Heaven guards the country, the king dies, and although Chongzhen is unbearable, he is one of the few kings of the dead country in ancient and modern times.
According to the edict he left, Chongzhen took off the crown on his head with his own hands, untied his belt, hung it on the crooked neck tree, looked at the Forbidden City at his feet for the last time, and slowly put his head into the tied buckle.
Queen Zhou Yufeng also took out a three-foot white silk, learned from her husband, tied the white silk, and stared at her husband with a resolute face.
"Congratulations to the great tomorrow!"
The great eunuch Wang Chengen wailed like a cuckoo crying blood, hung on the treetops like a lily in the wind, and took out a white silk several feet long and hanged himself on the coal mountain.
"Your Majesty is martyred, how can you have no loyal ministers to serve you, and this official swears to die and will not obey the traitorous party."
Outside the Wuying Palace, the news of the emperor's martyrdom came, and the Jinyi Wei served Wang Guoquan, and looked indignantly at Huang Wenchang and Zhu Youshu, the king of De, who were kneeling outside the hall, and Li Xingyi, who rushed to the outside of the Wuying Palace, and suddenly raised the long knife in his hand and cut his neck.
"Hahaha, Your Majesty is dead, you traitorous ministers are satisfied with the rebellion against the party, Your Majesty is here."
Gong Yongchang, the commander of the horses, also raised his knife angrily.
"Traitor, Ben Bo fought with you."
Li Guozhen, the uncle of Xiangcheng who rushed to Wuyingdian from Houzaimun, was also indignant, and when he saw Wang Guoquan and Gong Yongchang committing suicide, he also raised his sword and roared, and rushed to the defense line of the Jingbei Army with a few family members and Liu Wenshan, the Marquis of Xinle.
"Dare to question His Majesty's holy decree and release crossbow arrows."
Huang Wenchang gave the order to attack with an expressionless face, he didn't expect that Li Guozhen, who was usually timid as a mouse, would still have such courage.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......!"
After a dense rain of arrows, Liu Wenshan and Li Guozhen fell to the ground.
"Your Majesty...... I'm sorry for you...... It is the ministers who deduct the salaries of the army...... The Beijing battalion is under-armed...... The city was broken by the rebels in one fell swoop...... The minister can only atone for his sins with death. ”
Li Guozhen, who fell to the ground, struggled to raise his head, but he couldn't climb at all, and the pain from his body made him feel that his strength was drained, and he said two sentences intermittently, but he still didn't raise his head, his neck was crooked, and he finally died unwillingly on the spot, but his eyes were still staring at the Jingbei Army in front of him.
"Gong Horse ...... Xiangcheng Bo...... Xinlehou ......! ”
Chen Daquan, the eunuch of the celebrant and the eunuch Bingbi, wanted to emulate the ministers who had been martyred and fight to the death with the rebels in front of him, but when he thought of the emperor's edict and the seven-year-old Dingwang Zhu Cijiong, he never lifted the long knife in his hand, and only sat on the ground and kept wailing.
"Hurry up and follow Ben Shuai to King Qin's escort!"
The generals of the Wuying Hall of Su launched a death-defying counterattack with decisive courage, and Li Xingzhi also estimated that Chongzhen had been martyred, so he raised his long knife and ordered the left and right sergeants to attack the Wuying Palace.
"Your Majesty, mother...... The minister is late, the minister is late! The ministers are just to get rid of the traitorous party, so why should Your Majesty and Niangniang be like this...... This is the injustice of the vassals and the German vassals and the soldiers of the world! ”
On Wanshou Mountain, Li Xingzhi, the left governor of the Ming Dynasty's Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, Zhu Youshu, the king of Germany, Huang Wenchang, the chief soldier of Baoding, and Zhang Sizhi, the former deputy assistant of the Ming Cabinet, knelt dead under the crooked neck tree hanged by the emperor, crying to death.
"The minister didn't expect His Majesty to be so strong, although the ministers had no malice, but after all, they forced the monarch's father to death, and only one death can atone for the sins of the ministers."
Li Xingzhi howled, Huo Ran got up, suddenly pulled out the long sword at his waist, and was about to cut his neck.
"Dashuai, Dashuai...... His Majesty's edict is written clearly, he committed suicide and martyrdom because the princes in the court are all untrustworthy and unrighteous people, not the king and the ministers, the ministers are wrong, you bear the weight of more than 100,000 soldiers of the Jingbei Army, why bother to say the word death, the most important thing for us at the moment is to mourn for Your Majesty, announce Your Majesty's edict to the world, support the establishment of the king to ascend the throne, and then properly rectify those ungrateful courtiers, and eliminate Li Zicheng and Dongyu, the two henchmen, Zhongxing I Daming Jiangshan Sheji! ”
Zhang Shaoqian and Huang Wenchang hurriedly got up and hugged Li Xingzhi, snatched the long sword in his hand, and kept comforting in their mouths, but they were full of slander in their hearts, is it necessary to do this? , obviously you raised troops and forced the emperor to death, and now you are fucking pretending to be loyal here.
Zhu Youshu knelt in front of Chongzhen's corpse, looking at Li Xingzhi, who was killing himself, and he was also disgusted, you are so damn that you are cut, you have been crying for a long time, just waiting for your subordinates to save you.
"What you are saying is that this sword is still given by His Majesty when he broke through Shenyang and returned to Shandong, when His Majesty's holy voice is still in his ears, that is, he wants to hold the sword of the Son of Heaven for the country, and eliminate the thieves and traitors in the court for the country, the clinker is not more than a month, His Majesty will be separated from the ministers forever, the marshal is really heartbroken, and now the marshal only feels that the world is spinning, and he is powerless, Mr. Xu is responsible for the funeral of His Majesty, and there are many traitors against the party in Beijing, you can pass the book to Lyden, and the ambassador of the martial arts hall, Lu Qinghou, took two thousand thousand students into Beijing, Let them take charge of the affairs of the Jingshi, and as for the officials who greeted the king of De, let them rest at home, and then dispose of them after the new emperor ascended the throne and the emperor Daxing was put to rest. ”
"Don't worry, my subordinates will arrange these things properly."
Xu Yixian's heart moved, and he raised his eyes to look at Li Xing, could it be that this dog marshal thought of entering Beijing when he was teaching martial arts, otherwise why spend so much money to raise tens of thousands of military children to study the military culture courses of the Jingbei Army.
"Also, Wang Chengen, Zhou Yuji, Wang Guoquan, Gong Yongchang and other soldiers who died for the emperor in this Jingyan battle, you have to bury them well, and bury them in front of the mausoleum of Emperor Daxing, as for their families, they must also be appeased. Just use the money and food from these two people's families to compensate, and when Chen Yan and others send the silver, you will send someone to take down some people according to Ben Shuai's previous list, and Ben Shuai will chop the thieves alive in front of the tomb of Emperor Daxing. ”
"Don't worry, my subordinates will do it."
Xu Yixian hurriedly agreed, but he didn't know much about everything in the palace, but fortunately, Zhang Sizhi, the cabinet assistant of the former Chongzhen Dynasty, was checking and filling in the gaps on the side, and he didn't mess up.