After Yuan Chonghuan won the victory of Ningyuan, he took advantage of the victory and waved his army to the north, conquering Jinzhou and other cities in one fell swoop, and the good news spread to Beijing, and the government and the opposition were jubilant.

In 1627, after Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne, he led the army to Ningyuan and Jinzhou again, Yuan Chonghuan led the army to resist bravely, and the Emperor Taiji was dizzy, suffered heavy casualties, and returned defeated.

Seeing that the situation outside the Guanxi was improving, Wei Zhongxian began to squeeze out Yuan Chonghuan and force him to resign. Yuan Chonghuan was helpless, so he had to resign. Wei Zhongxian immediately arranged for his confidant Wang Zhichen to serve as a supervisor and governor of Liaodong to garrison Ningyuan.

Soon after, Ming Xizong died, and his younger brother Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne, that is, Emperor Chongzhen. As soon as Chongzhen ascended to the throne, he eliminated the eunuch Wei Zhongxian group, and at the suggestion of the ministers, Yuan Chonghuan was reactivated, and he was appointed as the secretary of the military department and the imperial envoy of the right department. Yuan Chonghuan was ordered to enter the ministry, Chongzhen summoned him, he said to Chongzhen: "With the power of the ministers, there is more than enough to control the whole Liao, and the public is insufficient. That is, he does not use power to restrain his ministers, but he can also use rumors to disrupt his ministers. ”

Chongzhen hurriedly stood up and listened, and immediately said: "Don't doubt, I have my own ideas!" And gave Yuan Chonghuan lunch together.

After Chongzhen ascended the throne, Yuan Chonghuan in order to achieve the goal of recovering Liaoning in five years, personally sent an envoy to Houjin, detective Houjin national conditions, Huang Taiji also sent an envoy to negotiate with Yuan Chonghuan, hoping to resolve the dispute peacefully, and talked for three years, because Huang Taiji's conditions were too harsh, and the negotiations ended in failure.

Huang Taiji failed many times in military attacks, and the negotiations failed to achieve the goal, so he wanted to use discord to eradicate Yuan Chonghuan. At this time, because the guard general Mao Wenlong was not satisfied with Yuan Chonghuan's management and had an arrogant personality, he was afraid that he would not be able to deploy at a critical moment, so he wanted to get rid of him. Once, Yuan Chonghuan summoned Mao Wenlong, and after meeting, Mao Wenlong repeatedly used words to rush at him, Yuan Chonghuan was furious and ordered him to be beheaded for public display. When Emperor Chongzhen heard the news, he was shocked.

In October 1629, just three months after Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong, Huang Taiji led an army of 100,000 to bypass Yuan Chonghuan's defense area and raid Beijing by means of Mongolia. The soldiers were divided into two routes, all the way to Hongshan, all the way to Da'ankou, and drove to Beijing. wants to induce Chongzhen to transfer Yuan Chonghuan back, and then design to get rid of him.

Chongzhen was really shocked when he saw the soldiers coming to the imperial capital, and hurriedly summoned Yuan Chonghuan back to Beijing. After Yuan Chonghuan received the alarm, he hurriedly waved his division into the customs, and ordered the leading sect and Zu Dashou to go first, and he led the whole army to respond. Chongzhen saw that the rescuers had arrived, and he was overjoyed and was busy rewarding the three armies.

Yuan Chonghuan was supposed to garrison between Tongzhou and Beijing to block the Qing army's advance to Beijing, but he led his army to You'anmen, and the Qing army followed, and the two armies faced each other. At this time, Huang Taiji spread rumors that Yuan Chonghuan had introduced the Qing army and was preparing to form an "alliance under the city", and for a while, rumors spread inside and outside the court. After Yuan Chonghuan arrived at You'anmen, he asked to go into the city to rest, but Chongzhen was suspicious and refused Yuan Chonghuan's request.

The two armies engaged in a fierce battle outside the city, and Yuan Chonghuan put on armor to supervise the battle, and fought a bloody battle from noon to evening, and finally repelled the Qing army. Yuan Chonghuan expected that the Qing army would attack from afar, and he must have hoped for a quick victory and did not want to fight a protracted war. Therefore, he deliberately held on to the army, planned to raise enough spirit, dragged the energy and grain and grass of the Qing army, and pursued it when the Qing army retreated. Sure enough, the Qing army couldn't afford to consume it, and wanted to hurry up the war, so he challenged it again and again, but Yuan Chonghuan just stuck to the wall, let the soldiers fight back with artillery fire, and refused to go out of the camp for half a step. For days, every day.

On the fifth day, Emperor Chongzhen summoned Yuan Chonghuan to Beijing to meet, Yuan Chonghuan saw Chongzhen, and was about to bow down, but he didn't expect Chongzhen's face to change, and he shouted to take it, and the Imperial Forest Army, which had already been ambushed in the court, rushed up and tied Yuan Chonghuan tightly.

It turned out that when Yuan Chonghuan was fighting bloodily with the Qing army outside the city, Wei Zhongxian's remnants slandered Yuan Chonghuan in front of Chongzhen, saying that he introduced the Qing army into Beijing and tried to use the Qing army to coerce the court to sue for peace, and would form an "alliance under the city" with it. After the news reached the ears of Huang Taiji, Huang Taiji was overjoyed, and then used a second plan, wrote two letters by himself, and sent secret agents to enter the Desheng Gate and Yongding Gate, which happened to be picked up by the eunuch and handed over to Chongzhen, Chongzhen looked at it, and it was written that Yuan Inspector personally opened it, and he opened it and saw that the content was blurred, but the content of the discussion was vaguely recognizable. He was taken aback, but the two armies were in a stalemate, and although they were suspicious, they could not make a hasty decision without more sufficient evidence. At this moment, Eunuch Yang, who had been captured by the Qing army, suddenly came back and reported to Chongzhen that he had overheard important information. It turned out that after Huang Taiji entered the customs, he deliberately captured two eunuchs, and was guarded by the deputy general Gao Mingzhong and Bao Chengxian, who joined the army, and Huang Taiji instructed the two to deliberately discuss "Huang Taiji and Yuan Chonghuan have a secret agreement with Yuan Chonghuan, and will sign a peace treaty soon", and deliberately let the two eunuchs hear it, and then design to let Eunuch Yang escape. After Eunuch Yang fled back to the palace, he immediately told Chongzhen what he heard, and Chongzhen was completely consistent through a comparison between the two, at this time, the eunuch Wang Yongguang took the opportunity to slander again, Chongzhen was convinced, and he said angrily: "No wonder he can't pass through the army, he really wants to negotiate peace with the Qing army!" So he concluded that Yuan Chonghuan was undoubtedly "collaborating with the enemy", and ensnared Yuan Chonghuan in the name of "discussing salary" and put him in prison.

The chief soldier Zu Dashou was shocked when he heard the news of Yuan Chonghuan's arrest, and he was afraid of being affected by Zhulian, so he took his troops out of Beijing and withdrew to Shanhaiguan, Chongzhen was very frightened after he knew, and hurriedly asked Yuan Chonghuan to write a letter to Zu Dashou, Yuan Chonghuan had a very high prestige in the army, although he was unjustly imprisoned, he still focused on the overall situation, and wrote a letter to persuade Zu Dashou to obey the emperor's orders. Zu Dashou read Yuan Chonghuan's letter aloud in the army, and the soldiers all cried bitterly.

Later ancestor Dashou listened to Yuan Chonghuan's dissuasion, returned to the division, attacked the Qing army, and recovered several cities in a row.

After Yuan Chonghuan was imprisoned, Wei Zhongxian and the rest of the party went to the top many times and killed Yuan Chonghuan for the crime of "arguing for peace". On August 16, 1830, Chongzhen dismembered Yuan Chonghuan's body (sentenced to death) for the crime of "plotting treason and deceiving the king", and his body was violently on the street. His wife and brothers were exiled. When raiding the house, the Yuan family went up and down, and there was almost nothing left.

After eliminating Yuan Chonghuan, Huang Taiji successively won great victories in the battles of Dalinghe and Songshan, completely destroying the defense system of the Ming army and clearing the way for the elimination of the Ming army.

After Yuan Chonghuan's death, the people of the Ming Dynasty thought that Yuan Chonghuan was a traitor, and his death was deserved. “

"Only the emperor himself knows that this Yuan Chonghuan is a generation of patriotic famous generals, and he died in the emperor's spy war, which is really a strange injustice for him."

"The emperor's move, the fire and innocence used by Sun Tzu's art of war, the minister is ashamed of himself."

Ingrid finally concluded.