The twenty-first spring of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty.

Because of Yu Fei's arrival, Chongzhen lived for four more years, but now he has reached his limit.

Since a great war in the East China Sea, the heavens have been chaotic, and no matter what the divine calculations are, they have lost their effect.

And failed to kill Yu Fei, the source of the catastrophe, after some discussion, the old demons of the Demon Sect decided to strike first, and mixed many demon sons and demon grandsons into the rebel army.

At the beginning, the Ming army was defeated and retreated, and many places in Shanxi, Guanzhong, and Bashu were occupied by the rebel army with the support of the Demon Sect, and the righteous army also shouted the slogan of not paying food for three years, and it was supported by the people in the north for a while.

The rebel army also broke through all the way, and in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, it almost attacked Beizhili.

It's just that there are too many demon cultists in the rebel army, and when they see that they are about to take over the world, they reveal their original nature, plundering the people everywhere, some using living people to refine the Fa, and some simply enjoying the process of adultery and plunder.

The popular support that the rebel army had won quickly lost, and it happened that at this time, Xin Chenzi and others, who had been cultivating overseas for several years, returned to the Central Plains and brought Cao Chengxuan to find Cao Bianjiao.

And Cao Bianjiao is leading the army to resist the rebel army with Lu Xiangsheng.

By the time Xin Chenzi and the three arrived, the two had already lost three games in a row, not only lacked food and grass, but also had extremely low morale.

Cao Chengxuan persuaded Cao Bianjiao to leave with him, and Daming was no longer saved.

But I didn't want Cao Bianjiao to read much, and he was quite brutal when he was about to be, but after listening to his little cousin's words, he smiled:

"I Cao Bianjiao was born in the Ming Dynasty, and my death should also be in the Ming Dynasty, my Cao family has been blessed by the Ming Dynasty since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty is right from the Cao family, I Cao Bianjiao can't be sorry for the Ming Dynasty, and the husband will die if he dies, what is there to be afraid of?"

Cao Chengxuan was stunned in his heart, looking at his cousin's rather vicissitudes of life, but thinking of his father Cao Wenzhao.

"When my father was besieged, did he think the same way?"

Cao Chengxuan thoughtfully found his master Xin Chenzi and said that he wanted to stay and help Cao Bianjiao.

Xin Chenzi knew that Yu Fei valued this apprentice very much, where would he let him stay alone and take risks, but after Zhao Yan discussed, he also decided to stay, at least when it was the most dangerous, he could take this disciple away.

Half a month later, the rebel coalition army approached Baoding, to this place Lu Xiangsheng and Cao Bianjiao have retreated, behind them is the North Zhili, the capital has no soldiers, not here to block the rebel army, after Baoding, behind him is a horse Pingchuan, with less than 30,000 soldiers and horses now, even the capital wall is not satisfied.

In the face of an army ten times larger than themselves, and with the help of demons, Lu Xiangsheng and Cao Bianjiao were ready to repay the country with death.

With the rebel alliance leader Li Zicheng ordered, tens of thousands of rebels carried siege ladders and began to attach ants to attack the city, after tens of thousands of rebels, there were hundreds of demon sect people, under the leadership of the Eastern Demon Sect leader Five Ghost Heavenly King Shang Heyang and the Western Yunnan Demon Sect leader Poison Dragon Venerable.

Skeletons and ghosts, demonic fires in the sky, the Ming soldiers who defended the city, killed everywhere, the military spirit was close to collapse, and a large number of rebels were also killed at the head of the city.

Just when Shang Heyang and Venerable Poison Dragon looked at their masterpieces proudly, Xin Chenzi and Zhao Yan, who had long been hiding among the ordinary soldiers, suddenly burst out, and the two sword lights like heavenly rivers crossed each other, and they wrenched at the two Demon Sect Masters who were close in front of them.

Xin Chenzi and the two were less than a hundred zhang away from them, and the sword light appeared extremely suddenly, and the two of them didn't even have time to react, so they were twisted into two pieces by the sword light, and the two Yuan Shen just wanted to escape, and the sword light exploded into countless water droplets and beat the Yuan Shen of the two into a sieve.

Killing Shang Heyang and Poison Dragon Venerable, the two sect masters with the highest Taoism, the remaining demon disciples, facing the Tianhe Righteous Law created by Yu Fei, were not at all the enemy of Xin Chenzi, who had broken through the Earth Immortal.

Although Zhao Yan is only a scattered immortal cultivator, the mana cultivated by the Tianhe Righteous Law is immense, and with the protection of a Tianshui sword that has been refined, he can also compete with ordinary earth immortals.

The two of them carried a Tianhe sword light with them, and the hundreds of demons they killed cried and cried for their fathers and mothers.

Just when the situation at the head of the city was overturned, the gate of Baoding suddenly opened, and I saw Cao Chengxuan, who was only 14 years old, wearing a battle robe, holding a steel gun left by his father, and taking the Cao family's 800 cavalry to kill Li Zicheng's Chinese army.

Eight hundred people are just like a small insect for Li Zicheng's more than 100,000 Chinese troops, but it is this little insect that kills Li Zicheng's entire Chinese army like a sharp blade.

Cao Chengxuan had a steel gun in his hand, no one was his enemy, these 800 cavalry used it as an arrow, in Li Zicheng's army, rushed left and right, and all the generals who came to intercept were poked to death by one of his shots, and also killed several anti-kings.

With the Chinese army in a mess by Cao Chengxuan, the rebel army's already weak command system completely failed, and the army can now only watch Li Zicheng's Daxu action.

And in the face of Cao Chengxuan, who had been coming towards Daxu, even the most elite children's army could not resist, and his nephew Li Heng was stabbed to death with a single shot, looking at Cao Chengxuan who was like a killing god, Li Zicheng was also a little panicked, and hurriedly commanded the army to intercept it, while he retreated again and again.

As soon as Daxu moved, the entire army followed suit, and the chaos expanded more and more.

Lu Xiangsheng, who had already killed the rebels in the city, couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw the chaos of the army outside the city, and praised Cao Bianjiao:

"Brother Nai, the overlord of the world."

After speaking, he hurriedly gathered his Tianxiong army, and after a stick of incense, Lu Xiangsheng and his five thousand Tianxiong army also committed suicide, and the righteous army, which was already chaotic to the extreme, was rushed by the Tianxiong army, and immediately collapsed.

Li Zicheng, who took off his yellow robe and blended into the crowd, saw that his Daxu was cut by Cao Chengxuan, and the Chinese army was rushed by the Tianxiong army, and the rout was irreversible.

The army was defeated like a mountain, but in the face of the rebel army in the mountains and wilderness, Cao Chengxuan and Lu Xiangsheng had few soldiers after all, and even if they tried their best to intercept them, most of them were run away, and less than 50,000 people were captured.

In this battle, not only did he kill Shang Heyang, the leader of the Demon Sect in the rebel army, and Venerable Poison Dragon, but Cao Chengxuan also killed seven or eight anti-kings and dozens of generals in the chaotic army, and Li Zicheng's momentum of annexing the world was also destroyed in the first battle.

There were also disagreements among the rebels, and after Zhang Xianzhong gathered his men and horses, he turned back to Shuzhong and attacked Yunnan south.

The rest of the small anti-kings also broke away from Li Zicheng and looked for a place to develop.

Originally, this was a good time to take advantage of the victory to pursue, but the army had no logistical supplies, so they could only watch Li Zicheng and the others gather the rout and regain their strength.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty had been corrupted to the extreme, and the southern provinces were paid more than one year after another, and the resentment against the imperial court was great, and it had become the norm for officials to take the lead in resisting taxes.

And the north was already in a great drought, and the people could not survive, so they rebelled, and the more they fought, the poorer they became, and the poorer they became, and they had fallen into a dead circle.

Chongzhen now has to borrow even 100,000 taels of silver from the ministers of the court, and the grain and grass and other materials can only be solved by Lu Xiangsheng and Cao Bianjiao themselves.

The army has no food, so it can only rob the people, but Lu Xiangsheng is not one of those warlords, so he can only grieve his soldiers and receive some grain from some large households in the surrounding prefectures and counties, barely maintaining.

The warlords of Liaodong had money to take, so they went out of the city to make a dozen, but the money was not in place, and they didn't even bother to do it, so they directly let the Jurchens enter the customs.

Now Daming seems to have a lot of troops, but there are not many troops who can obey Chongzhen.

In the face of such a situation, even if Lu Xiangsheng used his troops like a god, and Cao Chengxuan was invincible with a steel gun, it was still more and more difficult to support after all.

On the twenty-first day of Chongzhen, after all, he still couldn't support it, and after seven days of food shortage, he was defeated by Li Zicheng, who was becoming more and more powerful.

And Xin Chenzi and Zhao Yan were also besieged by many people from the Demon Sect, so they could only escape with Cao Chengxuan and a few others.

After losing Lu Xiangsheng, the only loyal army, Li Zicheng marched all the way to the city of Beijing, and the huge capital did not hold for even a day, and the city gate was opened by the courtiers who had already renegade.

And Emperor Chongzhen was also in despair, after killing his concubines and children with his own hands, he hanged himself on the coal mountain like the original history, and there was still only one eunuch Wang Chengen by his side.

And Xin Chenzi and the others who escaped, were also chased and killed by the Demon Sect all the way.