Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Disaster of the Lost Country Comes
Chongzhen had high hopes for the three battalions, so Chongzhen never expected that the three battalions were useless, and they would be defeated if they were defeated, and the entire Beijing city was surrounded by the Dashun army, and the people in Beijing were disheartened, and people didn't want to defend the city at all.
The military and civilians think that no matter who is the emperor, it is the same, why should they work for Chongzhen, thus giving away a life in vain? If you don't resist Li Zicheng, you can still save your life! Beijing can't hold it anymore! Chongzhen is only facing the disaster of destroying the country and dying!
Now Li Zicheng is bent on arranging which door to go in from after entering Beijing, and how to guard against Chongzhen's escape from Beijing. Li Zicheng issued a strict order to the whole army, not allowing Chongzhen to escape from Lu!
Regarding this situation, Li Yan constantly explained to Zhang Biwu that he would never let Chongzhen escape from Lu, and Zhang Biwu had better not plan to help Chongzhen escape from Lu.
Zhang Biwu naturally knew that he wouldn't think about helping Chongzhen escape from Lu, he just faced Beijing City and felt a burst of sentimentality!
In order to show loyalty to Li Zicheng, the eunuch Du Xun, who surrendered, wanted to enter the city to persuade Chongzhen Chanrang. Li Zicheng thinks that he might as well let Du Xun try, no matter whether he succeeds or fails, he has no loss.
In such a situation, Du Xun went to the city to shout, let him into the city, the eunuch in the city recognized Du Xun, and Du Xun had a friendship, especially Wang Dehua let Du Xun use a basket to hang Du Xun into the city and went to meet Chongzhen, and really persuaded Chongzhen to let it! Of course Chongzhen will not agree! Chongzhen has a strong temperament and would rather die than give in!
Du Xun used the excuse that he was late out of the city, and the two kings of Qin and Jin in the Ming Dynasty would die, so he quickly left the city. If he hadn't gone fast, Chongzhen would have changed his mind and wanted to kill Du Xun! Du Xun is well aware of this. If you don't run away, when will you stay?
What no one expected was that Zhang Biwu entered Beijing at night. also pulled Zhang Biwu up by hanging a basket from the city.
Because Du Xun came to the city. He also said to the eunuchs of the inner palace: "Even if the Ming Dynasty is destroyed and King Li comes, our wealth will still be the same as before!" For this reason, the eunuchs of the inner palace made up their minds to surrender Li Zicheng.
Sure enough, at night, the city was opened, and Li Zicheng's men and horses poured into the city like a tide. None of the defenders in the city fought against the Dashun army, and it can almost be said that the Dashun army entered Beijing without bloodshed.
[Note]: There are many historical books that say that the city of Beijing was opened by Cao Huachun, but Cao Huachun had resigned and returned home in the twelfth year of Chongzhen. He is not in Beijing, so how can he open Beijing? This is mostly framed by literati, thinking that he is a traitor like Wei Zhongxian. At the time of Wei Zhongxian's downfall, Cao Huachun was still in charge of redressing unjust cases.
Therefore, in my novel, when the city of Beijing is opened, I will not use the theory that Cao Huachun opened it.
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Li Yan's troops were the Qing palace mission as the imperial palace, mainly to capture Chongzhen, and could not let the emperor and queen escape.
Li Yan thought to himself: "Brother Guoxiong, you can't save Chongzhen!" Although you said that Chongzhen would hang himself, we think that Chongzhen is very likely to burn down the palace, but now Chongzhen has not burned the palace! Is it really as you say hanging? I hope you don't want to rescue Chongzhen! If you really want to rescue Chongzhen. In order to be loyal to Dashun, I can only kill my relatives with righteousness! ”
Arguably. Li Yan is a loyal monarch, after all, he is a literati, and he has read a lot of the ways of Confucius and Mencius, so his thoughts are deeply rooted. It is precisely like this that has laid the root of the scourge of killing him, knowing that he will die, and he has to be foolish and loyal.
Zhang Biwu didn't rescue Chongzhen, because he knew that he couldn't save him! As for Princess Kunxing, he still has to save it!
Zhang Biwu has someone in the palace, and he knows that Lu Xiangsheng and Yao Dongzhao had infiltrated Beijing City before, so it is not difficult for Zhang Biwu to enter Beijing City.
Zhang Biwu also met with Lu Xiangsheng and Yao Dongzhao, Lu Xiangsheng wanted to enter the palace to see Chongzhen more than anyone else, he wanted to rescue Chongzhen, after all, he had worked for Chongzhen, and there was still a distinction between monarchs and ministers. No matter how you say it, Lu Xiangsheng is loyal to the monarch and filial piety to his father The idea is also profound.
Although it is said that it is a great chaos now, it is not easy to enter the palace.
It was relatively easy for Zhang Biwu to enter the palace, so Lu Xiangsheng asked Zhang Biwu to go first, and he would also enter the palace later. Zhang Biwu was waiting, he looked at the Forbidden City, took a deep breath, and he began to enter.
The Praetorian Guards had already fled into a group, and as soon as they heard that the outer city of Beijing had been breached, the Dashun army had entered the city of Beijing, and most of the Janissaries had already fled for their lives, and the Forbidden City was no longer a heavily guarded place, and it became easy to enter.
After Chongzhen had dinner, he began to do things, and in his mind he didn't understand what he was doing with his hard work, conscientious, and finally became the king of the country!
Chongzhen looked up at the heavens, his eyes were full of tears, and he wanted to question God: "Oh my God! You're so unfair! Oh my God, open your eyes and see! Why do you want to be the king of the dead country! ”
The matter has come to this point, no matter how much you are annoyed, it will not help, you have to get down to business first.
Chongzhen first let Zhou Hou commit suicide, Zhou Hou knew that as a queen, suicide and martyrdom are also his duties, and Chongzhen wants to save face, if she survives, she will be tainted by thieves, it is detrimental to Chongzhen, Chongzhen will never allow this kind of situation! Death is inevitable! So she committed suicide cleanly, but she still couldn't let go of her children before she died.
The crown prince, King Yong, and King Ding were all sent out of the palace. The next thing Chongzhen wanted to kill was Concubine Yuan, and some of the concubines who had been pampered by him, he blindly slaughtered them, thinking that they could not fall into the hands of thieves and be insulted by thieves.
Chongzhen was able to do it after drinking, and he couldn't help but be afraid when he looked at the people who died in his hands. These concubines are all loved by him, and when the concubines were a little angry in the past, he would coax them! This concubine is unhappy, that concubine is unhappy again, Chongzhen will be busy with this, this coaxing, that pet.
Chongzhen had never blamed them much, but now that he saw them lying in a pool of blood, he was still poisoned by himself, and his mood couldn't calm down for a long time, and sadness hit his heart in waves.
Oh, my God! For what? Will the misfortune of the country of sin befall you? And let yourself do such cruel things! There is no heavenly reason yet! Could it be that the absurd things done by the previous emperors should now be repaid on their own heads?
After a long time, Chongzhen seemed to be crazy and said, "Okay! Well dead! At this point, two strings of tears rolled down his face. He thought of his favorite princess Kunxing, and now it was time to deal with her! She is the one I love the most, and I can't leave her as an enemy! Only in this way is the expression of love for her! Chongzhen picked up his sword and went to find Princess Kunxing.
One of Chongzhen's concubines was able to escape the catastrophe and was not hurt at all, this person is Concubine Liu! Because Concubine Liu knew Chongzhen's personality very well, she would definitely kill people when the country was about to die, and she had already hidden, so it was difficult for Chongzhen to kill Concubine Liu if she wanted to.
Concubine Liu only waited for Chongzhen to kill Princess Kunxing, she would appear, and she would see how Princess Kunxing died, in the hands of her dearest and most respected father! Presumably Princess Kunxing must have been uncomfortable to death at that time, she was killed by her most respected and beloved father, that look is really exciting!
As soon as Concubine Liu thought of this, her whole body was occupied by the pleasure of revenge, and she couldn't wait to follow closely, and at the same time, she was careful not to be discovered by Chongzhen. Chongzhen only wants to kill Princess Kunxing is a manifestation of love for her, and not let her be humiliated, this is love! So Chongzhen didn't notice Concubine Liu and followed closely.
Chongzhen also went to Princess Kunxing's palace in a frenzy, the drastic changes in the palace, Princess Kunxing knew that she was scared, her sister Princess Zhaoren ran to her sister and hugged her tightly, both of them were crying bitterly, both of them were scared.
Princess Kunxing was scared in her heart, she knew that there was a sister in the Dao, she was a sister, and she wanted to protect her sister! Princess Kunxing is such a person, obviously she has no ability to protect others, and she slaps her swollen face and becomes fat, so she has to pretend to be very strong to protect others.
At this moment, there was a shout outside, and Princess Zhaoren was shocked, and she ran away first.
"Sister!" Princess Kunxing followed closely behind. "Father!" Princess Zhaoren was very happy to see that it was her father Chongzhen who appeared, and felt that she had a backer, so she didn't need to be afraid anymore, but she didn't notice that the sword in Chongzhen's hand was covered with blood, and her eyes were bloodshot, and she was murderous. Even if it's in front of the little daughter!
"Father!" Princess Zhaoren didn't think of it so much, after all, she was still young and couldn't think of that. She rushed to Chongzhen, Chongzhen watched his little daughter run towards him, there were tears in his eyes, the hand holding the sword was shaking, his heart was struggling, dripping blood. "The sword doesn't stab down? To kill or not to kill? Thoughts kept shifting in my head.
Chongzhen kept saying to himself in his heart: "I'm doing this for my daughter's good!" You can't let your daughter be humiliated! Protect chastity in death and protect the dignity of my royal family! That's the best! ”
Driven by such thoughts, Chongzhen's heart was ruthless, and a sword stabbed straight into Princess Zhaoren's chest.
"Ah", Princess Zhaoren shouted, she looked at Chongzhen, and didn't understand why her father would kill her ruthlessly? Didn't her father want to protect her? She looked at Chongzhen with straight eyes.
Chongzhen's body was shaking, looking at Princess Zhaoren who was slowly falling in a pool of blood, he suddenly felt that his mind was blank, and he didn't even understand how he pulled the sword out of Princess Zhaoren's chest.
Chongzhen's eyes were wet with tears, all blurred, and the whole person seemed to have been struck by lightning, and he also stood stupidly like a wooden man as if he was suffering from a frightened heart disease. (To be continued......)