On the fourth day of November in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng led the army back to his hometown to pay tribute to his ancestral grave and visit his hometown.

Ordered his nephew Li Guo to rebuild the original Zhenwu Ancestor Temple into a palace, and Li Zicheng led the brothers to worship heaven and earth in the palace and the holy building.

At the end of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng led his army to effortlessly seize various important towns on the three sides of Shaanxi. The rear has been stabilized, and the vast areas of Hubei, Henan, and northwestern provinces have been controlled, and the time is ripe for the establishment of the country.

On the first day of the first month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng officially named the country Dashun in Xi'an and changed it to Yongchang. Li Zicheng changed his name from the generalissimo to King Shun, made a Shen calendar, set the year as the first year of Yongchang, and minted Yongchang coins.

In January of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), Li Zicheng, the king of Dashun, swore to go east to conquer Beijing and began the final preparations for war.

On the second day of the second month of February, the preparations for the construction of 3,000 ships at Shawukou were all completed, and the whole army began to cross the Yellow River eastward, and captured Fenzhou (now Fenyang), Yangcheng (now Yangcheng County, Jincheng City), Puzhou (now Yongji) without bloodshed, and captured Huaiqing (now Jiaozuo, Henan) the next day.

On the fifth day of the first month of February, Taiyuan was conquered, Niu Yong, Wang Yongkui and other overseers of 5,000 people went out to die in battle, and on the eighth day of the first month, Zhang Xiong was the defender of the internal response, and the city was broken by shelling, and Cai Maode hanged himself.

On the 16th, Kexin Prefecture (now Xinzhou, Shanxi), the officials and the people surrendered, Daizhou (now belonging to Xinzhou) guarded the general soldier Zhou Yuji with the city to hold on, the two sides fought for more than ten days, Yuji because of the lack of soldiers, retreated to Ningwu Pass (now Ningwu Realm, Shanxi).

Zhou Yuji tried his best to refuse, and finally the gunpowder was exhausted, and he opened the door and died, and his whole body was like a hedgehog hair, and his wife Liu led more than 20 women to the house and shot, all of whom were burned to death.

On the first day of the first month of March, Li Zicheng, the king of Dashun, conquered Ningwu Pass.

In this battle, the Dashun army killed more than 70,000 elite soldiers before and after, which can be described as heavy casualties, and Li Zicheng slaughtered the city in anger.

That night, Jiang Xuan, the general soldier of Datong, and Wang Chengyin, the general soldier of Xuanfu, surrendered, and the Dashun army took advantage of the situation to threaten Juyongguan and Changping.

On the 8th day of the first month of March, Li Zicheng's forward troops had already reached Yanghe.

On March 11, the Dashun army marched into Xuanfu, "the whole city was in an uproar, and the incense was burned to welcome it."

Chongzhen urgently transferred Wu Sangui, the general soldier of Liaodong, Wang Yongji, the governor of Jiliao, Tang Tong, the general soldier of Changping, and Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Shandong, to defend the capital, and called on the bureaucrats in Beijing to donate money.

On March 15, the main force of the Dashun Army arrived at Juyong Pass, and the eunuch Du Zhizhi and the chief soldier Tang Tong surrendered without a fight.

At the same time, Liu Fangliang led the South Route Army to the east to Guguan, Zhending Taishou Qiu Maohua and guerrilla Xie Sufu surrendered, and Li Jiantai, a scholar, surrendered in Baoding.

On 16 March, Li Zicheng's troops crossed Changping and arrived at the line of the Shahe River.

On the 17th, he conquered Gaobeidian, arrived at Xizhimen and camped five miles away, and then bombarded the city with artillery. At noon, the troops attacked Pingzemen, Changyi Gate, and Xizhi Gate.

On the morning of 18 March, Li Zicheng sent Du Xun, a eunuch who had surrendered in Changping, into the city to meet with Zhu Youzhen, the Chongzhen Emperor, to seek secret negotiations and a peaceful settlement of the dispute.

Li Zicheng, the king of Dashun, put forward the conditions: "Break into the people and strengthen the people, negotiate to divide the king in the northwest and reward millions of troops, and retreat to Henan...... Chuang was entitled, and he was willing to curb the group of Kou in the imperial court, especially to help suppress the Liao Domain with strong soldiers, but he did not obey the edict and worship the ear. ”

Emperor Zhu Youzhen of Chongzhen did not like a compromise, and did not consider Li Zicheng's condition of ceding land and listening to the mediation or not listening to the announcement at all, and as a result, the negotiations between the two sides broke down before they even began.

On the evening of 18 March, Li Zicheng learned that Zhu Youzhen had refused to negotiate, and in a fit of rage, he decided to break the ship, finish his work in one battle, and issued an order to attack the four gates of the capital at the same time.

Hearing the sound of siege artillery, Zhu Youzhen personally rang the big bell outside the noon gate, which was the bell for urgently summoning the ministers of civil and military affairs, but no one came.

The upright men and gentlemen of the Donglin Party civil official group, who are usually hoarse and self-proclaimed to be "loyal to the emperor and desperate for the court", are now gone.

No, those members of the Donglin Party civilian clique are actually still there, but now they have flocked out of the city to welcome the new monarch.

The Donglin Party civil official group is chanting the Four Books and Five Classics in their mouths, and their hearts are full of male thieves and female prostitutes. Power is what they are after, and the word "allegiance" is impossible for anyone to remember.

The members of the Donglin Party and other civilian bureaucratic groups know a lot of things because they read a lot.

For example, they know three words: know the destiny of heaven. Or seven words: those who know the times are Junjie.

Because they know the mandate of heaven and have always regarded themselves as handsome, of course they understand that the current Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen can only let them pay for their deaths, and it is impossible to give them any rights to the Donglin Party, such an emperor is not what they want.

The Donglin Party, who was in charge of the imperial court, rebelled, which made Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen even more annoyed and angry when he panicked.

The angry Zhu Youzhen was like a mad lion, carrying a sword to kill in the palace, and even killed the eldest daughter Princess Anle and Princess Zhaoren with his own hands.

On the evening of the 18th, Zhu Youzhen and the eunuch Wang Chengen climbed the coal mountain (also known as Wanshou Mountain, now Jingshan in the inner city of Jingshi), looking at the sky-high beacon fire outside the city and in the area of Changyi Gate, just sighing and wandering speechlessly.

Shortly thereafter, all the defenders of the city gate surrendered, and Li Zicheng's Dashun army attacked the inner city of Jingshi.

The eunuch Wang Lian urgently told the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen, and the eunuch Zhang Yin persuaded the emperor to surrender and was stabbed to death with a sword.

Zhu was ordered by the inspector to send the crown prince, Yongwang, and Dingwang to the family of Xun Qi Zhou Kui and Tian Hong. After returning to the palace, he wrote an edict and ordered Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, to lead the armies and assist the crown prince Zhu Cihong. He also ordered Empress Zhou, Yuan Guifei and three sons to enter the palace, briefly told his sons a few words, and ordered the eunuchs to send them to their relatives' houses to avoid hiding.

It was impossible for Zhu Youzhen to let his concubine fall into the hands of thieves, so he found Queen Zhou: "You are the mother of the country, and you should be martyred." ”

Empress Zhou also cried and said: "The concubine has followed you for eighteen years, and Your Majesty has never heard a word of the concubine, so that there is today." Now that His Majesty has ordered the concubine to die, how dare the concubine not die?"

After Yuan Guifei waited for the queen to go on the road, she looked at Emperor Chongzhen and said coldly: "Don't worry about it, the concubines will not be humiliated by thieves, and they should follow the queen underground!" Yuan Guifei cried goodbye and hanged herself.

Zhu Youzhen summoned the fifteen-year-old Princess Changping again, and looked at it with tears for a long time before sighing: "Qing Ben is not guilty, but he was born into the emperor's family!"

Zhu Youzhen covered his face with his left sleeve, pulled out a knife with his right hand and slashed Princess Changping's left arm, and then slashed her right shoulder, and she passed out.

Once the red eyes are killed, Zhu Youzhen has no scruples. Princess Zhaoren, who was only six years old, was called in front of her and stabbed to death with the same sword.

There were countless traitors when the country was broken, but there were also loyal martyrs among the eunuchs.

The close attendant Wang Chengen never gave up, and after nine kowtows, he hanged himself opposite Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen.

Before Zhu Youzhen hanged himself, he bit his index finger and wrote blood on the placket of his clothes: "I am cool and despise, and I am to blame, but all the ministers are mistaken." I died without a face to see my ancestors, and I took off my crown and covered my face with hair. Let the thieves be divided, and not one of the people will be harmed. ”

In the early morning of 19 March, Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the military department, took the initiative to open the Zhengyang Gate to welcome Liu Zongmin's Dashun army into the city.

From the refusal of Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen to negotiate to the complete defeat of the Beijing Division, the whole process took less than four hours.

Li Zicheng, the king of Dashun, marched eastward from Tongguan to Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen, who hanged himself on the coal mountain, and there were only three months in total. There was only one bloody battle where the army passed, and the rest of the place was simply devastating.

In ordinary times, those literati who shouted "loyalty to the monarch and patriotism" did not see them do any earth-shattering feats at all, let alone help the emperor and the court to make any decent resistance, and all surrendered.

At the beginning of the Dashun army's entry into Beijing, there were less than 20,000 soldiers.

Because he was worried about triggering a popular uprising, when Li Zicheng rode into the city, he shot an arrow at Chengtianmen, hitting the word "Cheng", and at the same time ordered: "Those who dare to hurt people and plunder people's property and women will be killed!"

So "two thieves plundered the satin shop and set up on the chessboard street." The people are happy, and they are as safe as ever. "Because of this, the order in the capital is still good, and the store is open as usual.

The Ming Dynasty has come to this day, and there is no need to explain what kind of Cheng dù the people's hearts have been backed.

At noon, Li Zicheng, accompanied by Liu Zongmin, Niu Jinxing and other civil and military officials, dressed in the same costume as the soldiers, in the cheers of the crowd in the middle of the road, was guided by the eunuch Wang Dehua to enter the city from the Desheng Gate, and entered the inner hall through the Chengtian Gate, announcing the fall of the Chongzhen Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Zicheng did not exterminate Emperor Chongzhen's people, but ordered to appease the young crown prince and the people in the palace.

Two days later, the body of Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen was found in Coal Mountain.

Faced with the body of the deceased monarch, Li Zicheng ordered a "ceremonial funeral" and sent someone to transport his body to the Ming Tombs in Changping County. And set up a factory public sacrifice outside the Donghua Gate, and then moved into the Buddhist temple. On the 27th, he was buried in the tomb of Tian Guifei.

After briefly explaining the bloody battle in the Central Plains, Miao Sanguan finally emphasized: "Starting from the occupation of Datong, Xuanfu, and Changping, Li Zicheng, the king of Dashun, Niu Jinxing, the military advisers, Song Xiance, and the general Li Yan have all felt the real threat of the Jianzhou Jurchen Tartars, and at the same time know that the main enemy of the Ming Dynasty is the Jianzhou Jurchen. ”

"This is a battle for the survival of the nation, and no one dares to be a sinner in history, and neither does Li Zicheng. Because of this, Li Zicheng decided to make peace with the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen, and then formed an elite army to go north to fight against the Jianzhou Jurchens. ”

However, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen was unwilling to fail and pinned all his hopes on Wu Sangui. As everyone knows, this Wu Sangui is the two ends of the first rat at all. ”

As Miao Sanguan told what happened in the north, Xiong Chu was shocked at the beginning, and then he was completely depressed: "At present, Zhang Xianzhong has entered Sichuan, Li Zicheng has occupied Henan and Hebei, and even Zhu Youzhen hanged himself, and now is the time for chaos in the world." ”

"I'm concerned about what's going on in the north. The Jurchen Tartars have always been eyeing the hinterland of the Central Plains, and now that the imperial court has collapsed, will they turn a blind eye?

Peng Wuying said: "Lord Mingjian, Li Zicheng, the king of Dashun, has broken through the Jingshi, and Emperor Chongzhen has hanged himself in the coal mountain, and the Ming Dynasty now has no emperor. As the saying goes: a country cannot be left without an owner for a day. The lord is the lineage of Emperor Jianwen, and now he should take advantage of the situation to ascend the throne and become the emperor and inherit the national system of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Miao Sanguan shook his head and said categorically: "It's not proper, the lord must not be the emperor now." Emperor Taizu's teachings back then are still in my ears: build high walls, accumulate grain, and slow down the king. ”

Wan Lian looked at Xiong Chu, and for the first time he said like gold: "Weichen agrees with Miao Sanguan's opinion. ”

"Wei Chen opposes Miao Sanguan and Wan Lian's opinions!" Hou Mingde's voice was not loud, but the goal of his words was more clear: "Now that the situation is critical, the lord should take the initiative and immediately announce the succession to the unification." Otherwise, the military and civilians of the Ming Dynasty would definitely be chaotic. ”

Zhang Yuxiu only said four words: "Weichen seconded the proposal." ”

Five people have two opinions, and they are one and the other, and their attitudes are completely opposite.

Everyone showed their attitude, and finally set their eyes on Xiong Chu, and they all looked very nervous.

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