Huang taiji bypassed Shanhaiguan and crossed the Great Wall from the north of the two capitals, threatening Beijing. Yuan Chonghuan returned to Beijing with his troops. Just as Yuan Chonghuan was about to drive to the gates of Beijing, Tiejun came, and the Qing army suddenly appeared, creating an illusion for Chongzhen. Yuan Chonghuan led the Qing army to attack the city. Therefore, the garrison on the city resolutely prohibits troops outside the city from entering the city. Yuan Jun, who has traveled thousands of miles, is exhausted at the moment, but he can't go to the city to rest, and he has to face the powerful Eight Banners army. However, Yuan Jun successfully repelled the attack of the Qing army. That night, Huang Taiji sent a confidant general to preach how to conclude an agreement with Yuan Chonghuan to surrender to the city in front of the Ming army prisoners, and then deliberately let the prisoners escape. How did the prisoner know it was an anti-conspiracy? After returning to the city, he reported to Emperor Chongzhen in detail. This suspicious Chongzhen linked several things and decided that Yuan Chonghuan must be a traitor, so he sent Yuan Chonghuan to the city, put him in prison and executed him a few months later. From then on, the Ming Dynasty lost its only northeast barrier, and the Eight Banners army was able to gallop in the northeast like nobody's business. At the end of the Ming dynasty, there were dog days. First, the Ming regime headed by Emperor Chongzhen of Beijing; Second, the Qing regime headed by Huang taiji in Shenyang; Third, the Dashun regime headed by Li Zicheng in the northwest. Speaking of Li Zicheng, the peasant army turned out to be a general under my uncle Gao Yingxiang. He is an old champion. My uncle was arrested and died. He was chosen as the new champion. The record of the Ming dynasty against the peasant army was far better than that of the Qing army. Hong Chengchou, Chen Qiyu, Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng and Xiong Wencan, the generals of the Ming army, all won brilliant victories against the peasant army. Once forced the peasant army into the gorge, almost trapped Li Zicheng and Zhang; Sun Chuanting defeated the peasant army in Tongguan and captured the old king Gao Yingxiang. Xiong Wencan cornered the peasant army and surrendered with Zhang and Luo Rucai. Chuzhou, Lu Xiangsheng won, and the bodies of peasant troops were everywhere. More Zuo Liangyu, He, Cao and other generals clashed. It's not that we can't put out the sparks of the peasant army, but that the impatience of Emperor Chongzhen helped the peasant army at a critical moment. The generals of the Ming army suffered a slight defeat, or were killed or demoted. Chen Qiyu was demoted, Xiong Wencan was beheaded, Sun Chuanting was imprisoned, and the downfall of the generals doomed the demise of the Ming Dynasty. Li Zicheng was hunted by Xiong Wencan, who had nowhere to hide, and was forced to hide in Shangluo Mountain. When Li Zicheng came out again, Xiong Wencan had become the ghost of wrongful death. Li Zicheng once again formed his own army, absorbed Yan Li, Song Xiance, Niu Jinxing and other intellectuals, washed away the inherent bandit spirit of the peasant army, and gained the momentum of being ordered to board the palace. Occupy Luoyang, behead, break Xiangyang, take Wuchang, fight all the way to Kai, officially proclaimed himself emperor in An, with a big title. After Li Zicheng proclaimed himself emperor, he went all the way eastward, only Ningwu was hit hard, and Xuanda and other important towns were handed down. Finally, in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, after burning the Ming Tombs in Changping, Beijing was surrounded. At the beginning of Emperor Chongzhen's accession to the throne, although Wei Zhongxian Group was once established, his distrust of the ministers in the DPRK led to the downfall of eunuchs around him. The huge eunuch team of more than 10,000 people in the Ming Dynasty did not bring any good luck to Chongzhen, but slowly consumed the essence of this giant in the Ming Dynasty. Until a moment later, the eunuch guarding the city gate rebelled and completely ruined the Ming Dynasty. After the peasants went to Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen entrusted the Prince to his consort Zhou Kui. When Tian Hong saw this, he ordered Empress Zhou and Zhang Taihou to commit suicide, and personally hacked Yuan Guifei to death and wounded her daughter. then
Emperor Chongzhen is neither a dissolute emperor nor a lazy emperor. Anyone who has read his deeds can clearly feel his desire for the revival of the Ming Dynasty. However, history always likes to play jokes on people. Although his grandfather and brother are absurd, they live a stable life, but the bitter fruit of their ancestors has to be tasted by future generations. In the face of such chaos, what can the young Emperor Chongzhen expect?