It was the city of Beijing in the third year of Chongzhen, and the Qing soldiers had just retreated, but the pain caused by the war has not been erased. People who lost their loved ones gathered in the street, waiting for the person who brought them pain. Folk rumors say that he brought the Qing soldiers to the city gate.
At this time, the crowd began to stir, and a prison car slowly drove to the execution ground. People cast the most vicious curse on the man in the prison car, although this man named Yuan Chonghuan once shouldered the whole sky of the Ming Dynasty.
By the time the title of Apocalypse was announced, the main force of the Ming army had retreated to Shanhaiguan, and Yuan Chonghuan was still stationed in the isolated city in the distance. He faced the invincible Nurhachi. After a fierce battle, Nurhachi was carried back by soldiers, and soon the news of his death came from Shenyang. "Ningyuan Victory" won the first victory of the Ming Dynasty against the late Jin Dynasty, swept away the low morale of the Ming army and recovered a large area of land in western Liaoning.
Zhu Youxiao's death put Zhu Youjian on the throne. As soon as he took over his brother's yellow robe, he wiped out the Wei Zhongxian Party, and Yuan Chonghuan was naturally reused. Governor Ji Liao, the minister of the Ministry of War, got Yuan Chonghuan's promise to set Liao for five years, but a dynasty on the verge of extinction cannot be saved by one person.
In the following years, Huang Taiji tried his best not to cross the defense line of Yuan Chonghuan, but the Ming army did not recover an inch of lost ground, and the promise of Liao began to become distant in five years. Zhu Youjian in Beijing still dreams of his comeback all day. Seeing that the Ming army had made no progress also bred dissatisfaction with Yuan Chonghuan. It's just that he didn't expect that the stormy Ming Dynasty was far worse than the Qing Dynasty, which changed its title. It is not easy to hold it. If we attack it, we will lose Shanhaiguan just like Tongguan.
There was only one Yuan Chonghuan in the Ming Dynasty, but there were countless talents in the Qing Dynasty. Fan Wencheng's coup made the Qing army break through Tieling, which never belonged to Yuan Chonghuan's defense zone, and matched the capital. Beijing was in danger, and Yuan Chonghuan led the troops to reinforce it. As soon as the troops came up, they defeated the Qing army and eased the pressure on Beijing.
A eunuch fled back to the palace from the Qing army barracks. He overheard the news that Yuan Chonghuan was colluding with foreign enemies. Yuan Chonghuan was jailed because of a clumsy double agent, and the Qing army was losing ground. He faced the most severe criminal law in the Ming Dynasty-the death penalty.
During the execution, Yuan Chonghuan's meat was cut off piece by piece, and the people scrambled to eat it. We saw that the shoulders that supported Daming Mountain were eaten by Daming people.
When a dynasty has become riddled with holes, a hero's shoulder alone can't support it anyway. Instead, he became a martyr of this dynasty. I think this is not just a tragedy in Yuan Chonghuan.