The Battle of Songshan began in 1640 AD.

It was not until 1641 AD that the fight was really finished.

In that battle, the Ming army was defeated.

He Xuan fought against Huang Taiji and Dorgon among the thousands of troops, but died on the spot.

This also leads to a consequence.

Duoduo, who had never been able to ascend to the throne, took over the power and organized a subsequent attack on Songshan City.

Duoduo's talents in various aspects are indeed not as good as Huang Taiji, but they are almost the same as Dorgon. He continued to use Huang Taiji's old method, surround him without attacking, and waited for Songshan to lose food. Hong Chengchou of Songshan City was still counting on Emperor Chongzhen to send troops to save him. However, Emperor Chongzhen had soldiers at hand, but they were not elite soldiers. It would be very difficult to save Hong Chengchou.

In Songshan City, there was a serious shortage of food, killing horses to satisfy hunger, and then people ate together.

At this critical moment, Xia Chengde, the general of Songshan City, was unwilling to sit and wait for death. He secretly made an appointment to surrender to the Qing Dynasty and promised to be an internal supporter.

On the night of the 18th day of February 1642, the Qing army attacked the city upon appointment and climbed the ladder from the southern city wall, and Songshan City fell.

The Qing army captured Hong Chengchou, Wang Tingxiang, Cao Bianjiao and others.

After the Qing army captured Songshan City, there was no food in Jinzhou City, and there was no war horse, only killing people and eating each other. Zu Dashou had no choice but to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

At this point, the Ming army was outside Shanhaiguan and had no more cities. The Qing army's forces arrived directly towards Shanhaiguan, and the Qing Dynasty was in full swing.

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Duoduo withdrew his troops and did not attack the Ming Dynasty for the time being. Instead, he began to persuade the generals of the Ming Dynasty to surrender and capture them.

Cao transformed into Jiao, and Wang Ting died generously.

As for Hong Chengchou.

At the beginning, Fan Wencheng persuaded him to surrender, but Hong Chengchou roared heavily. Fan Wencheng was patient and did not mention the surrender. He talked to him about the past and present, and quietly observed his expressions. During the conversation, a piece of dust fell from the beam and fell on Hong Chengchou's clothes. While Hong Chengchou spoke, he wiped it repeatedly. Fan Wencheng did not speak out and replied to Duoduo: "Chengchou is not dead. Chengchou still cherishes his robe as if it were this, let alone his body."

Duoduo took good care of Hong Chengchou and was kind and kind, and eventually Hong Chengchou surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

There are two reasons why Duoduo withdraws his troops and does not attack the Ming Dynasty for the time being.

First, the Qing army fought the Songshan Battle, which was almost two years old, and was really tired. Now it was a tired army and had to rest for a while. Second, the disputes within the Qing court also began.

Dai Shan, the old fox, is old and has no interest in fighting.

So, the main thing is that Dodo and Hauge competed.

Duoduo is Huang Taiji's younger brother. He has been in power for a long time and has strong strength under his command.

Haoge is Huang Taiji's son. He has been in power for a short time and has strong strength under his command, so it is difficult for the two sides to separate Xuan Zi.

In the end, the two sides argued for a long time, and then made an agreement.

The new emperor must be the son of Huang Taiji, and must be underage, so it is Fulin's turn. This Fulin is the so-called Emperor Shunzhi. The emperor was born in 1638, and at this time, in 1642 AD, he was just four years old, and he knew nothing. So to put it bluntly, this agreement between the Qing court was to drag the open struggle to the back.

Of course, it is said that there are some gossip and scandals in it.

For example, Empress Xiaozhuang gave to Duoduo the body of her body, which made Duoduo support Empress Xiaozhuang's son Fulin ascend the throne.

Empress Xiaozhuang Da Yu'er was a famous beauty in the Qing Dynasty, and Duoduo had long been slandering the beauty of his sister-in-law, so this gossip could be true.

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And the other side.

southwest.

At first, Zhang Xianzhong was chased and beaten by Emperor Chongzhen's teacher Yang Sichang, but gradually there were some back and forth. In 1641 AD, he conquered Xiangyang and executed King Xiang Zhu Yiming and King Guiyang Zhu Changfa. At this point, Zhang Xianzhong completely crushed Yang Sichang's "Four Directions and Six Corners" plan and completely destroyed his "Ten-sided Net". Yang Sichang heard that Zhang Xianzhong was leading his army out of Sichuan and hurriedly fled back to Yichang. In Shashi, he learned that Li Zicheng had captured Luoyang and killed King Fu, and knew that he could not escape the death penalty, so he died of fear.

Then, Zhang Xianzhong conquered several cities in a row and called himself the King of the West.

Six ministries and the Governor's Office of the Five Army, and local officials were appointed.

northwest.

After Li Zicheng left Shangluo Mountain, his power became increasingly greater. More importantly, the elites of the Ming court were thrown to the border, and most of them were consumed in the battle of Songshan. The remaining elites were guarding Shanhaiguan to guard against the Qing army and could not move. Therefore, they only sent ordinary troops of the Ming army to deal with Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng could not defeat the elite Ming army, but with the advantage of numbers, he fought the second-line troops of the Ming army with more and less, so he was fighting like fish in water.

In 1640 AD, he captured Luoyang City and saw the old Fu King who was obese to 300 pounds. Li Zicheng laughed and put the old Fu King into a pot. At the same time, he put down the deer and cooked it into a pot of Fuhou Banquet for his soldiers and generals to eat. Then he continued to march.

In the 15th year of Chongzhen (1642), the Yellow River broke its dam and destroyed Kaifeng. Li Zicheng successively killed Shaanxi Governor Fu Zonglong and Wang Qiaonian. In October, he defeated the Ming Dynasty Governor Sun Chuanting in Jia County, Henan.

The elite troops of the Ming army were originally consumed on the border and used to fight against the Qing army.

The Ming army on the second-line could not stop Li Zicheng's fierce offensive.

In the first month of the 16th year of Chongzhen (1643), Li Zicheng captured Chengtian and was elected as the "Magic Marshal of the Civil and Military Affairs of Fengtian and promoted righteousness". In March, Li Zicheng changed Xiangyang to Xiangjing and was called "King Xinshun". He recruited and pacified the exiled poor peasants, "give cattle breeds, provide relief to the poor, livestock, and farm and sericulture", and "raise people to cultivate fields, collect their grains to feed the army."

In January of the 17th year of Chongzhen (1644), Li Zicheng proclaimed himself emperor in Xi'an, and appointed Li Jiqian as Taizu, founded the country and named "Dashun", and changed Xi'an to Xijing.

In January of the 17th year of Chongzhen (1644), Li Zicheng marched eastward to Beijing. On the second day of the second month (March 10), he built 3,000 ships at the vortex outlet and crossed the Yellow River. At first, he just wanted to occupy some places and rob them. However, he did not expect that the Ming army's cities were easily broken one by one. He successfully reached the imperial capital.

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In the 17th year of Chongzhen.

Imperial capital.

In the Forbidden City.

Emperor Chongzhen and his personal eunuch Wang Cheng'en climbed the coal mountain and looked at the fire of the sky outside the city and around the Zhangyimen area, but sighed and wandered speechlessly.

Li Zicheng's army invaded Beijing. The eunuch Wang Lian urgently sued the emperor. Emperor Chongzhen drank in the palace and sighed: "I am so miserable!"

The eunuch Zhang Yin persuaded the emperor to surrender and was stabbed to death by a sword.

Emperor Chongzhen ordered people to send the crown prince, King Yong, King Ding to Xunqi Zhoukui and Tian Hongyu's family. After returning to the palace, he wrote an edict, ordering Duke Cheng Zhu Chunchen to lead the army and assist the crown prince Zhu Cilang. He also ordered Empress Zhou, Concubine Yuan and three sons to enter the palace. He briefly told his sons a few words and ordered the eunuchs to send them to the houses of foreign relatives to hide.

He cried and said to Empress Zhou, "You are a **, and you should die for the country." Empress Zhou also cried and said, "I have followed you for 18 years. Your Majesty has never heard of a word from me, so today. Now Your Majesty ordered me to die, how dare I not die?" After that, he hanged himself and died. Emperor Chongzhen turned around and said to Empress Yuan, "You should go with the Empress too!"

Concubine Yuan cried and bid farewell, and also hanged herself.

Emperor Chongzhen summoned the 15-year-old Princess Changping and said in tears: "Why are you born into the imperial family?"

Princess Changping Zhu Weixiu also knew that Emperor Chongzhen thought: "A woman only wants one thing at this time. Anyway, she is about to ask her father to surrender the emperor's order and marry her daughter to He Xuan and He Shen General."

Emperor Chongzhen was stunned and then sighed: "Crazy, crazy. Well, I will issue an imperial edict to marry you to He Xuan and He Shen General."

After finishing the imperial edict, she covered her face with her left sleeve, drew out a knife with her right hand and hit Princess Changping's left arm, and then injured her right shoulder, and she fainted.

I don't know how long it took, Princess Changping Zhu Weishi woke up. She saw that her sister, Princess Zhaoren, who was only six years old, had not been killed by her father. She was shocked and picked up Xiao Zhaoren and ran away. As a result, she was halfway through and saw a large number of rebels breaking into the palace.

"This person is Princess Changping, the daughter of Emperor Chongzhen." Cao Huachun, the eunuch guarding the city, said flatteringly to a man with a strong beard with a single eye and awesome momentum.

"Is this Princess Changping, the daughter of Emperor Chongzhen?" The one-eyed man was shocked: "I am a pretty person, just be my concubine."

This one-eyed man is the current Dashun King Li Zicheng.

He has occupied the imperial capital and will ascend the throne soon.

Now in the minds of many officials, he is the founding emperor of the new dynasty.

The eunuch guarding the city, Cao Huachun, said sarcastically: "It is your blessing to be the princess of the deceased country who can serve as the concubine of the founding emperor. Princess Changping, I won't thank King Dashun."

Princess Changping Zhu Weishi took out the imperial edict written by Chongzhen: "The father had promised me to He Xuan and He Shen General before his death."

"It was a force of one person to defeat ten thousand people, kill Jirhaci, Prince Zheng of the Qing Dynasty. In the Battle of Songshan, he fought Huang Taiji and Dorgon's general." The one-eyed man Li Zicheng was stunned and carefully read the imperial edict: "Well, then He Shenzong is also a hero of our Han people. His wife, I will not be humiliated. I will let her go respectfully. Prepare some guards."

"yes."

He Xuan's reputation is admired by Han people.

Even King Xinshun Li Zicheng is no exception.
Chapter completed!