"General Zhang, quickly gather all the guards of the Imperial Forest Army in the East Palace and come here to obey orders." The time was gradually approaching the early hours of the morning, and it was very close to the time of the city break in Zhu Cihong's memory, and Zhu Cihong couldn't help but be a little nervous.

"The last will obey."

Zhang Kuishan received the order, and after a while, he summoned all the guards.

Wee hours of the morning.

"Quick, open the gates of the city, and welcome the king into the city." In front of the Zhengyang Gate, Zhang Xuanyan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, ordered his henchmen to open the Zhengyang Gate, the gate of the capital.

"Hahahaha, kill! Enter the palace and capture the Chongzhen Dog Emperor! Li Zicheng was ecstatic, his blood was boiling, he drew his sword and swung his troops into Beijing, from today on, this world is his Li Zicheng's.

"Kill ----"

As Li Zicheng's thieves entered the city, the city of Beijing shouted for a while, and all the people, soldiers and civilians were in chaos.

In the Jinluan Palace, only Emperor Chongzhen and a few eunuchs are here.

"Report ---! Your Majesty, Zhang Xuanyan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, rebelled and opened the city gate, and the thieves have broken the city and are now killing in the direction of the palace! A guard covered in blood came to report it.

"Your Majesty, the thieves have broken the city, please move quickly." Wang Chengen persuaded Emperor Chongzhen.

"The tide is over---" Emperor Chongzhen muttered.

"Spread my will, let all the young princes and princesses and all the harem concubines come here to see me." Emperor Chongzhen said in despair, things have finally come to this moment.

"Slave --- obey!" Wang Chengen's heart trembled, and he didn't say anything more.

After a while, nearly ten young princes and princesses and harem concubines were all summoned here. Some people seemed to have predicted their fate, and they couldn't help crying when they saw Emperor Chongzhen.

"What about the Queen, why didn't you see her here? Didn't you hear my will? Emperor Chongzhen saw that he didn't see Empress Zhou, and stared at Wang Chengen and asked.

"Back to Your Majesty, I heard from the people in Kunning Palace that two hours ago, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince personally went to Kunning Palace to take the queen mother away, saying that you agreed." Wang Chengen replied.

Emperor Chongzhen was silent.

"That's it, the crown prince may have expected this moment a long time ago, and he was able to take away the queen out of filial piety, I don't blame him." Emperor Chongzhen sighed, although he regretted that he could not go to Huangquan with the queen, but he was not angry, he and the queen had been married for nearly 20 years, the couple had a deep relationship, and did not necessarily want the queen to die, if the queen could really escape to Nanjing with the prince, he was also pleased.

"Wang Chengen, give wine!" Emperor Chongzhen's eyes were blood-red, like a beast on the verge of death.

Wang Chengen immediately brought out the poisonous wine that had been prepared a long time ago.

"Your Majesty, don't!" The princes and princesses are still young and don't know why, but the concubines don't kill them, how can they not see that Chongzhen wants to kill them. One by one, they wept.

"The general trend has gone, in order to avoid thieves and insult the reputation of the royal family, wait for the road!" Emperor Chongzhen's face was expressionless.

"Your Majesty, the concubine will go first." Yuan Guifei was calm, and first took the poisonous wine and drank it all, which was extremely tragic.

With the fall of Yuan Guifei, some concubines drank poisonous wine one after another, but some people were afraid of death and did not dare to quote it.

"Come on, send all the concubines on the road." Chongzhen was furious and yelled at several eunuchs.

Immediately, several eunuchs picked up the poisonous wine and forcibly sent the concubines who were afraid of death on the road.

Looking at the remaining young princes and princesses, Emperor Chongzhen looked up to the sky and shed tears: "You guys should also go on the road, it's only to blame why you were born in my imperial family!" ”

"Father, father!" Seeing the concubines fall one by one, these children were already paralyzed to the ground in fright, and they didn't dare to hold up the poisonous wine wherever they still had the strength to pick it up.

"Hahahaha, since that's the case, then I'll personally send you on your way." Emperor Chongzhen smiled wildly, pulled out the sword of the Son of Heaven in his hand and stepped forward to slash and kill, and several young princes and princesses fell in a pool of blood one by one, losing their young lives.

Emperor Chongzhen was like crazy.

At this moment, Chongzhen's eldest daughter, Princess Changping, rushed here, and when she saw the tragic situation in front of her, her face turned pale with fright.

"Father, what's going on, what's going on?" Princess Changping didn't know that the danger was approaching, and Emperor Chongzhen had gone crazy.

Hearing Princess Changping's shout, Emperor Chongzhen briefly regained his composure, and said to Princess Changping with tears: "Changping, you are the same, why do you want to descend to this emperor's house." ”

For this favorite daughter who is usually his favorite, Emperor Chongzhen finally couldn't watch her die in his own hands, only to see that after Emperor Chongzhen finished speaking, his left sleeve covered his face, and without looking at it, he faced Princess Changping is sword, directly cut off Princess Changping's left arm, and then cut off Princess Changping's right arm with a sword.

Immediately, Princess Changping screamed a few times and then fainted to the ground, and the scene was extremely tragic.

After doing all this, Emperor Chongzhen, accompanied by Wang Chengen, climbed the coal mountain again.

At this time, Li Zicheng had already attacked the edge of the palace, and the deafening shouts of thieves could be heard on the coal mountain, and Emperor Chongzhen was already desperate.

"It's been seventeen years, I'm tired!"

Finally, after taking a look at this great country, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly took off his dragon robe, bit his index finger, and wrote on the placket: "I despise Liangde, and I am to blame the heavens, causing the traitors to approach the Beijing Division, and all the ministers are mistaken." When I die, I have no face to see my ancestors, and I take off my crown and cover my face with hair. Let the thieves be divided, and not one of the people will be harmed. ”

Pressing this under the stone, Emperor Chongzhen shouted, "I am not the king of the dead country, and the ministers are all the ministers of the dead country", and then hanged himself.

Wang Chengen cried and watched Emperor Chongzhen die.

"Your Majesty, slave maid go to accompany Your Majesty!" After that, Wang Chengen also hanged himself.

Zhu Cihong had expected all this, and he couldn't manage so much at the moment.

Although Zhu Chunchen received a holy decree from Emperor Chongzhen, asking him to lead a large army to escort Zhu Cihong to break through to the south, Zhu Chunchen did not do so.

As soon as the Zhengyang Gate was broken, the Chaoyang Gate was also broken under Zhu Chunchen's rebellion, and hundreds of thousands of thieves poured into Beijing City from the two gates, killing in the direction of the palace, Zhu Cihong got the news, and immediately gathered the guards of the East Palace, and took Queen Zhou together to escape from the palace before the thieves surrounded the palace, and then, the palace was in chaos.

In a corner of Chang'an City, Zhu Cihong and 1,500 guards gathered here, and Li Zicheng's men and horses were busy capturing the palace, but they didn't find it.

"Your Highness, there are thieves everywhere here, where should we break out of the city?" Eunuch Wang Dequan asked.

"Go out of the city from the direction of Zhengyangmen." Zhu Cihong said.

"No, Your Royal Highness the Prince, Zhengyangmen has been broken by the thief army, wouldn't it be self-defeating to break through from there? The last general thought that it was necessary to break through from Guanghua Gate, which had not yet been broken by the thief army, and His Highness could just unite the defenders there to fight out of the city. Zhang Kuishan objected.

Zhu Cihong shook his head: "General Zhang doesn't know, although Guanghua Gate has not been broken by the thief army, there are also many thief soldiers there, so it is too risky to break through there." Zhengyangmen is different, because Zhengyangmen was the first to be broken, all the thieves there will inevitably enter the city and kill the palace, which is just right for us to quietly go out of the city. ”

Zhu Cihong remembered that it was from there that many officials in history fled, and it was said that there was not even a single thief stationed at the city gate, and if you go out from there, you will definitely not be discovered.

"Then please ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to get in the car, and the last general will escort His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Queen Mother to Zhengyangmen." Zhang Kuishan doesn't talk nonsense, after a month of getting along, he knows that Zhu Cihong will not talk empty, and he also thinks it makes sense.

Fifteen hundred East Palace guards, in addition to a convoy carrying thunderbolts, there are only two carriages, the first carriage in which two little palace maids of Lanxiang and Begonia accompany Queen Zhou, and there is another teenage beautiful girl, a total of four female dependents.

Originally, the fewer female dependents the better, but Lanxiang Begonia served Zhu Cihong for a month, Zhu Cihong couldn't bear to abandon them here, and Queen Zhou also needed someone to serve along the way, so Zhu Cihong brought them along. As for the other little girl, it is the only granddaughter of the director of the Firearms Manufacturing Bureau, named Chen Xiuxiu.

Director Chen and his apprentice, but baby, one has been in charge of the Firearms Manufacturing Bureau for so many years, and he is very familiar with the manufacture of all kinds of firearms, and the other has actually made the most advanced tunnel pistol in the current era, and he is a firearms genius, and talents are rare, especially the talents who manufacture advanced equipment such as firearms are even more difficult to find in this era, and Zhu Cihong just has to bring the two of them without anyone.