Chongzhen held a memorial, which was submitted by a minister. In the memorial, it described in detail the battle between Dazhong Army and Jiannu and the recent war outside Shanhaiguan. After reading it, Chongzhen gently placed the memorial on the Dragon Case.

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

By now, Chongzhen had already lost all his thoughts. The Ming Dynasty was passed down to him. He originally wanted to revitalize the majesty of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, since he became this emperor, he has been diligent in government affairs. It can be said that he has been doing it for more than ten years. Even when he was sick, he never stopped morning court and handled complicated government affairs personally. He even often reviewed memorials until the third update to rest.

His long-term hard work made his temples turn white early and his body day by day, but what was the result of his diligence?

The situation outside the pass was in a state of decay. Tens of millions of taels of silver were invested in the Guanliao area, but it was unable to recover Liaodong. To this day, the entire Liaodong was thrown to the Jiannu Tartars.

Even as he had no choice but to sign a shameful peace treaty with Jiannu two years ago, Jinzhou, the most critical barrier outside the pass, was ceded to the Jiannu Tartars. The price he paid was that his prestige dropped sharply and he became the target of secretly cursed by the people in the pass.

And what about the country? Over the past decade, the refugee army has become more and more suppressed. First, it has made trouble in Shaanxi, and then Shanxi has also begun to decay. Later, the refugee army swept across Henan and Nanzhili. Even Fengyang City, the land of Longxing, their ancestors, was set on fire by the thief leader Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other thieves.

Then Xing Tian's army emerged from nowhere, first rising in southern Shanxi and then captured the entire Henan. He tried every means to wipe it out, but Xing Tian's army grew stronger and stronger under the strong suppression and pacification of him and his ministers. First, it occupied the entire Henan and then Huguang. In the past two years, it successively captured Nanzhili, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Sichuan, and annexed a large number of refugee troops, becoming an invincible opponent.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has been seized by Xiao Xingtian, the king of Ming Dynasty. Now, he has even led his troops north, first occupying Funan from Northern Zhili, and then controlling the banks of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, almost taking Shandong into his pocket.

Now the Ming Dynasty has become the fat meat that has been fought for between Xiao Tianjian and Jiannu. Jiannu tore up the peace agreement and went south, trying to invade the pass and seize his capital, but he was unable to resist Jiannu. Instead, Xiao Xingtian led his army north and blocked Jiannu outside the pass for the Ming people. Now he has defeated Jiannu in Tongzhou and Shanhaiguan, annihilated nearly 100,000 Jiannu's army.

What a martial arts! Since he ascended the throne for more than ten years, he has consumed countless national strength. In order to deal with the Jiannu Tartars, he even caused civil rebellion in the entire Ming Dynasty. However, the result of the Ming army has never made such a contribution outside the pass. However, Xingtian's army went north with a light army. With less than 100,000 troops, he defeated Jiannu who had been rampant inside and outside the pass for decades.

Could it be that Zhu Youjian is really an incompetent tyrant? He asked himself now, thinking that it is not like this. He is not a tyrant. He has done what he should do, but why has he reached such a point? What did he do wrong? How did that Xiao Tianjian do this?

Look at his current Ming Dynasty. Although it is rumored that the Dazhong Army has not yet captured Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi provinces, with the fierceness of the Dazhong Army, it will not be a big problem to clean up those provinces once it is freed. And the only thing he can manage is the capital of Beijing. If he goes out ten miles away, he will no longer be able to control it.

The officials and generals who ate and drank him, and saw that the situation in the Ming Dynasty was not good, they immediately turned against each other and surrendered to the Dazhong Army. Even Wu Xiang, who finally held his hopes, after reading this memorial, even if he was stupid, Chongzhen knew that Wu Xiang had already surrendered to the Dazhong Army. Otherwise, the Dazhong Army would not allow him to stay in Shanhaiguan with the last elite of the Ming army, but he dared to go out to pursue the Jiannu army?

Chongzhen was very angry about Wu Xiang's betrayal. In the afternoon, he sent someone to raid Wu Xiang's home, trying to capture all the families left by Wu Xiang in the capital, and pushed them out and chopped their heads. However, the people who did not expect to send them came back and told him that Wu Xiang's family suddenly fled two days ago, and even the people sent to monitor them were missing. In short, the dozens of families left by Wu Xiang in the capital actually evaporated and could not be found!

Chongzhen was angry, very angry. There must be a big problem in the capital. Otherwise, under the surveillance of many Jinyiwei, how could Wu Xiang’s dozens of family members suddenly escape?

At this time, the eunuch Wang Chengen came over and knelt down carefully and said to Chongzhen: "I will report to Your Majesty, and several ministers asked to see Your Majesty. They asked Your Majesty if you have made up your mind and will you move the capital?"

Chongzhen was in a state of confusion at this moment. After hearing Wang Chengen's words, he suddenly became very angry and waved his hand and said, "Go and tell them that the former emperor moved the capital to Beijing to guard the country's gates. As the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, I should stick to this place. Although the Ming Dynasty is already swaying in the wind and rain, how can I be worse than that Xiao Xingtian?

The rebel Xiao Tianjian could even go north and pass by the capital without entering. Shang Zhixian led his troops to Shanhaiguan to resist the Jiannu and the Tartars breaking the pass. As the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, how could I be inferior to him?

Tell those ministers that I will not go anywhere! I will issue an edict to inform the soldiers and civilians in the city to make all preparations. I will stay here with them and wait for Xiao Tianjian to come to the capital. I will lead the troops to fight to the death with him!..."

After hearing this, Wang Chengen suddenly burst into tears. He wanted to persuade Chongzhen to abandon the capital. He quickly took advantage of the opportunity that the capital was not surrounded by the Dazhong army and fled to Dengzhou by boat. After all, there were Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou in the south, and had not been captured by the Dazhong army. With those territories, as long as Chongzhen could move the capital there, it might not be impossible to revive the Ming Dynasty.

As for the mess in the north, I will give it to the Dazhong Army, so that they can also taste the feeling of being attacked from both sides. After all, not only is there Jiannu in the north, but Li Chuangzhe from Shaanxi also has not stopped. In this world, if his surname is Xiao, he will sit and see if he can do better than the current emperor!

But today their thoughts were still flatly rejected by Chongzhen. Chongzhen seemed to have already been determined to die and wanted to stay in this capital and die together. What can he, an old eunuch who has been with Chongzhen for more than ten years, say now? Seeing that Chongzhen had made up his mind, Wang Chengen couldn't help but cry...

Although many ministers clamored to move the capital, Chongzhen finally refused. He gave up taking advantage of this last opportunity to leave the capital where he had lived for more than 30 years. However, on the seventh day of the seventh month, Chongzhen issued a secret order to order Fang Zhenghua, the eunuch of the Lijian, to bring the prince, Ding and Yong out of the capital after putting on makeup.

On the morning of July 15th, when the sun had just spread to this Ming Dynasty capital, outside the city gates of Deshengmen, Andingmen, Dongzhimen and other cities 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 sight.

So the city of Beijing, which was already in a panic, suddenly panicked, and people everywhere shouted in surprise: "The Dazhong Army is here! The Dazhong Army is here!"

These shouts were quickly conveying to the city. Beijing City, which was originally relatively quiet, was completely like a silence at this moment. Teams of officials and soldiers began to climb the city wall under the scolding of the generals.

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

At this time, the Ming Dynasty finally ushered in his last day. Compared to the time when Li Zicheng attacked Beijing in history, the Ming Dynasty was that in history, at least Chongzhen could still count on Wu Sangui outside the pass to help the capital, but today, except for the three camps of the capital, they looked around and had no more rescue soldiers to count on.

At this time, the entire Beijing city completely turned into an isolated island, and almost all the surrounding cities fell into the hands of the Dazhong Army.

After Xiao Tianjian led his army back from Ningyuan to the pass, he did not delay any further. He immediately led his army to rush towards Beijing City. After Tongzhou provided a large-scale supply to the troops, he immediately divided his troops to surround Beijing City.

Although there were three camps in name only at this time, with more than 30,000 government troops, these 30,000 government troops had been cut off for several consecutive months and had no combat effectiveness. In the past few months, many officers and soldiers had taken off their clothes and secretly fled from their camp.

When the Dazhong Army really appeared outside the city of Beijing, the three battalions stationed outside the capital had almost no decent resistance and quickly collapsed and collapsed. Nearly half of the official army surrendered to the Dazhong Army's soldiers and generals on the spot without any resistance. Only a few of the Ming Dynasty's loyalists made a weak resistance to the Dazhong Army that appeared around them. However, this resistance was like a small stone thrown into the sea, almost without even arousing any waves, and was instantly submerged by the Dazhong Army like a torrent.

The entire battle to clear the three camps outside Beijing was over in just one day and it was declared over, making the generals of the Dazhong Army who were sharpening their knives and preparing to start a massacre.

In their eyes, these three camps were at least the imperial guards of the Ming Dynasty, and there were at least 30,000 troops. Even if they lined up and let them cut, they would probably not finish cutting in a day! What's more, among the Beijing camp, the Shenji camp is the most powerful, equipped with a large number of bird guns and cannons. The generals thought that when they faced them, they would at least have to fight a good fight.

But unexpectedly, after the three camps were ordered to go to war, the Dazhong Army only fired a few guns, and the Ming imperial guards collapsed immediately. A large number of officers and soldiers hurriedly dropped their weapons, knelt on the ground, and announced their surrender. The first thing when these surrendered soldiers were collected was to find the Dazhong Army who captured them to eat.

Looking at these pale and thin Ming army, the soldiers and generals on the Dazhong Army didn't know what to say.
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