Chongzhen pinched a notebook, this notebook was presented by a minister, in the notebook detailed the battle of Tongzhou between the Dazhong Army and Jiannu and the recent battle outside Shanhaiguan to describe it, Chongzhen read it, and gently put this notebook on the dragon case.

Chongzhen stood up, slowly walked to the door of the Qianqing Palace, slowly walked into the garden, and stared at the northern sky for a long time.

By now, Chongzhen has long been discouraged, the Ming Dynasty passed to his hands, originally he wanted to revive the majesty of the Ming Dynasty, for which he has been diligent in government affairs since he became the emperor, it can almost be said that more than ten years as a day, even when he is sick, he has never stopped the morning dynasty, and he must personally deal with the complicated government affairs, and even at night he often reviews the chapter until the third watch to rest.

After a long period of hard work, he dyed his sideburns white early, and his body was not getting day by day, but what was the result of his diligence?

The situation outside the Guanxi was rotten, and tens of millions of taels of silver were invested in the land of Guanliao, but they failed to recover Liaodong, and to this day they have lost the entire Liaodong to the Jiannu Tartars.

Even the year before last, he was forced to sign a humiliating peace treaty with Jiannu, and even Jinzhou, the most critical barrier outside the Guan, was ceded to the Jiannu Tartars, for which he paid the price of a sharp drop in prestige and became the object of secret scolding from the people in Guannei.

And what about domestic? In the past ten years, the exile army has been more and more suppressed, first in Shaanxi, and then Shanxi also began to erode, and then the exile army swept through Henan, South Zhili, and even their ancestor Longxing Fengyang City was also set on fire by Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other thieves.

Then the Xingtian Army was born, first rose in the land of southern Jin, and then captured the entire Henan, he tried his best to exterminate it, but the Xingtian Army grew stronger and stronger under the vigorous suppression of him and his ministers, first occupied the entire Henan, and then captured Huguang, and in the past two years, it has successively captured Nanzhili, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Sichuan, and annexed a large number of displaced people's army, becoming an invincible opponent.

Now the Ming Dynasty has been taken by Xiao Xingtian, and now he is waving his army to the north, first seizing the Funan of Beizhili, and then controlling the banks of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, and almost taking Shandong into his pocket.

Now the Ming Dynasty has become the fat meat of the competition between Xiao Tianjian and Jiannu, Jiannu tore up the peace treaty and went south, trying to attack the Jingshi who captured him in the pass, but he was powerless to resist Jiannu, but it was Xiao Xingtian who led the army to the north, and blocked Jiannu outside the pass for the people of Daming, and now he defeated Jiannu in Tongzhou and Shanhaiguan, annihilating nearly 100,000 Jiannu army.

What a martial deity! Since he ascended the throne to the present, he has spent countless national strength, and even in order to deal with the Jiannu Tartars, he has caused the entire Ming Dynasty to cause the people to revolt in all directions, but the result in exchange has not allowed the Ming army to establish such a feat outside the pass, but the Xingtian Army has gone north with a light division, and with only less than 100,000 troops, it will be rampant inside and outside the pass for decades.

Could it be that he, Zhu Youzhen, is really an incompetent faint king? He is still asking himself, thinking that this is not the case, he is not a faint king, he has done what he should do, but why has he come to such a point? What did he do wrong? How did Xiao Tianjian do this?

Look at his Ming Dynasty now, although it is rumored that the Dazhong Army has not yet taken Fujian Liangguang and other provinces, but with the ferocity of the Dazhong Army, once you free your hands, it is not a big problem to clean up those provinces, and his dignified Ming Emperor, now only the capital of Beijing is left, ten miles out of the city, it is no longer within the scope of his control.

Those officials and generals who ate him and drank him, and now saw that the situation in his Ming Dynasty was not good, they immediately turned against each other and surrendered to the Dazhong Army, even Wu Xiang, who finally pinned his hopes, now after reading this note, even if he Chongzhen is stupid, he also knows that Wu Xiang has already surrendered to the Dazhong Army, otherwise, how can the Dazhong Army allow him to take the last elite of the 20,000 Ming Army to stay in Shanhaiguan, but still dare to go out of the customs to pursue the Jiannu army?

Chongzhen was very angry about Wu Xiang's betrayal, he sent someone to raid Wu Xiang's house in the afternoon, and wanted to capture all the family members left in Wu Xiang's Beijing Division, and pushed them out to cut off their heads, but the person who didn't want to send them came back and told him that Wu Xiang's family suddenly fled two days ago, and even the people who were sent to monitor them were nowhere to be found.

Chongzhen was angry, very angry, there must be a big problem in this capital, otherwise, under the surveillance of many Jinyi guards, how could Wu Xiang's dozens of family members suddenly escape cleanly?

At this time, Wang Chengen, an attendant, came over, knelt down carefully and said to Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, several ministers asked to see Your Majesty, and they asked Your Majesty if you have made up your mind, whether to move the capital?" ”

Chongzhen's heart was in turmoil at this time, after hearing this Wang Chengen's words, he was suddenly very angry, waved his hand and said: "You go and tell them that the first emperor moved the capital to Beijing, that is, to guard the country in person, as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, I should stick to this place, although the Ming Dynasty has been swaying in the wind and rain, but how can I not even be as good as that Xiao Xingtian?"

The traitor Xiao Tianjian was able to go north and pass through the Beijing division without entering, Shang Zhi first led his troops to Shanhaiguan to resist the Jiannu Tartars to break through, and as the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, how could I not even be as good as him?

Tell the ministers that I'm not going anywhere! The edict told the soldiers and civilians in the city to make all preparations, I want to stay here with them, waiting for Xiao Tianjian to come to the capital, and I will personally lead the troops to fight to the death! ……”

After Wang Chengen listened, he immediately burst into tears, he originally wanted to persuade Chongzhen to abandon the Beijing Division, and quickly took advantage of this moment when the traitor Xiao Tianjian was leading the elite of the Great Chinese Army to the decisive battle with Jiannu in Shanhaiguan, taking advantage of the opportunity that the capital had not yet been surrounded by the Great Chinese Army, escaping from the capital, and running to Dengzhou to take a boat south, after all, there are still places in the south, such as Fujian Liangguang and Yungui have not yet been captured by the Great Chinese Army, with those territories, as long as Chongzhen can move the capital there, it may not be possible to revive the Ming Dynasty.

As for this mess in the north, it will be left to the Dazhong Army, let them also taste what it is like to be attacked by the enemy, after all, not only are there Jiannu murderers in the north at the moment, but also Li Chuang thief in Shaanxi has not stopped, and his surname Xiao has the ability in this world, so let him sit and watch and see if he can do better than today's saint!

But today's idea was categorically rejected by Chongzhen, Chongzhen seems to have made up his mind to die now, and he wants to stay in this Beijing and die in the country, and he, an old eunuch who has followed Chongzhen for more than ten years, what can he say now? Seeing that Chongzhen had made up his mind, Wang Chengen couldn't help but fall to the ground and cry......

Although many ministers clamored to move the capital, but in the end Chongzhen still refused, he gave up taking advantage of this last opportunity, leaving the capital where he had lived for more than 30 years, only on the seventh day of the seventh month, Chongzhen issued a secret decree, so that the chief eunuch Fang Zhenghua, the prince and the king of Ding, the king of Yong, after the three people put on makeup, took out of the capital.

On the morning of July 15, when the sun had just spread to this Ming Jingshi, outside the Desheng Gate, Anding Gate, Dongzhi Gate and other city gates in Beijing, some Ming troops suddenly saw scarlet flags jumping out of the ground from the horizon, and then countless armies began to appear in their field of vision.

As a result, the whole city of Beijing, which had already been in a state of rumors, immediately panicked, and people everywhere shouted in surprise: "The Great Chinese Army is here!" The Great Chinese Army is coming! ”

These shouts were quickly transmitted to the city, and the city of Beijing, which was originally relatively quiet, was completely like a nest when it arrived at this point, and a group of officers and soldiers began to climb the city wall in horror under the scolding of the generals.

In the eyes of these Ming troops, at this time, the soldiers and horses of the large Chinese army slowly began to enter outside Beijing, and quickly surrounded the city.

At this time, Daming finally ushered in his last days, compared to the history when Li Zicheng attacked Beijing City, Daming was even more desperate that in history at that time, Chongzhen could still count on Wu Sangui outside the pass to help the Beijing Division, but today, in addition to the three major battalions of the Beijing Division, they looked around, and there was no rescue that they could count on.

At this time, the entire city of Beijing completely became an isolated island, and almost all the surrounding cities fell into the hands of the Great Chinese Army at this time.

After Xiao Tianjian led the army from Ningyuan to return to Guannei, he did not make any delay, and immediately led the army to attack the city of Beijing, and after a large-scale supply of the troops in Tongzhou, he immediately divided his troops to surround the city of Beijing.

Although at this time there were still three battalions in Beijing City nominally guarded by more than 30,000 officers and soldiers, these 30,000 officers and soldiers had already been cut off for several months without pay and food, and they had long lost any combat effectiveness.

When the Dazhong Army really appeared outside Beijing, the three major battalions stationed outside the capital almost did not do any decent resistance, and they quickly collapsed and collapsed, nearly half of the officers and soldiers did not make any resistance, and surrendered to the generals of the Dazhong Army on the spot, only a very small number of Dazhong diehards of the Ming Dynasty, and the Dazhong Army that appeared around them made a weak resistance that could almost be counted, but this resistance was like a pebble thrown into the sea, almost not even a little wave stirred, was instantly overwhelmed by the torrent-like Great Chinese Army.

The entire battle to purge the three battalions outside Beijing lasted only one day before it came to an end, which made the generals of the Dazhong Army, who were sharpening their knives and preparing to kill, very bored.

In their eyes, no matter how bad these three battalions are, they are also the forbidden army of the Ming Dynasty, at least there are 30,000 horses, even if they line up for them to cut down, they are afraid that they will not be able to cut it all in a day! What's more, among the Beijing camp, the Shenji Battalion is the most powerful, equipped with a large number of bird guns and artillery, and the generals thought that when they faced them, they would at least have a good fight.

But I didn't think that after the three battalions were ordered to fight, the Dazhong army only fired a few cannons on this side, and these Ming forbidden troops collapsed immediately, and a large number of officers and soldiers hurriedly dropped the weapons in their hands, knelt on the ground with hula la, and announced their surrender, and the first thing these surrendered troops were gathered up was to reach out to find what the Dazhong soldiers who captured them were going to eat.

Looking at these yellow-faced and thin-skinned Ming troops, the generals on the side of the Dazhong Army didn't know what to say.