Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

The setting sun dyed the sky red, and from a high altitude, it seemed as if the earth was covered with a strange carpet.

It's very much like this world.

Everywhere you look, there is a sea of ​​red...

All the elites of Li Zicheng's peasant army were dressed in red clothes and red trousers, and even their bamboo bamboo hats were painted with a layer of red paint.

Even cattle and horses working together (newly transported refugees), as well as women and children in the old camp, have to wrap their heads with red scarves.

……

"Your Majesty, after leaving the capital, we have entered enemy territory!"

Fan Jingwen looked bitter: "We don't carry much food, we can only last three to five days at most."

“I’m afraid the county and government offices along the way may not be willing to subsidize us with food and grass...”

Now that the matter has come to an end, there is no need to deceive the emperor anymore. Fan Jingwen feels that he needs to explain clearly that all the land in Jiangbei belongs to Li Zicheng.

Zhu Youjian chuckled: "Fan Qing is very knowledgeable. I wonder if he can remember "Sun Tzu's Art of War"?"

Fan Jingwen thought for a moment, his eyes suddenly brightened, and he said in surprise:

"What your Majesty said is - 'Therefore, if you are wise, you will feed the enemy. If you eat one bell of the enemy, you will count me twenty bells; if you eat one stone of stalk, I will count twenty stones. Therefore, those who kill the enemy will be angry; those who take advantage of the enemy will be angry. Goods.'"

He clapped his hands and beamed with joy.

"Your Majesty's clever plan, I already know it!"

His eyes were bright, and under the light of the lamp, he looked like a lone wolf in the prairie, green and fearful.

All the land in Jiangbei belongs to Li Zicheng, so no wonder he is cruel!

If you don’t give him food, you’ll be robbing him of nothing!

If you don’t give me money, I’ll rob him of his grandma’s property!

There is no pack horse, so I will rob him of his stupid son!

……

The Ming Dynasty in 1644 was in turmoil.

In just 40 days since Li Zicheng issued the "Teaching for Mingjiao" on the first day of the first lunar month of this year, almost all areas north of the Yangtze River have been owned by Dashun, and even parts of Hunan in Huguang Province have been owned by the peasant army. all.

Li Zicheng's speed is unique in the entire history!

As the saying goes, a loyal minister will be found in a stalemate.

The Dashun established by Li Zicheng expanded rapidly like a balloon. In this critical situation, countless courtiers changed their faces and joined the army camp.

And there are also many loyal ministers.

In October of the previous year, Sun Chuanting, the last supporter of the Ming Dynasty, died in battle.

On the 22nd of the first lunar month, Ningwu Commander-in-Chief Zhou Yuji fought to the death and shed his last drop of blood for the Ming Dynasty.

On the fifth day of February, Li Shouxuan, the commander-in-chief of Changping, died in battle.

……

Zhu Youjian spent the night of February [-]th on a hot air balloon.

Millions of invaders gathered in the capital, and the camp stretched for dozens of miles. The momentum was so huge!

However, as the golden dragon passed by, the millions of invading troops were silent.

The ancients were relatively superstitious. The baptism of "God's right to kings" in 2000 made people full of respect for the emperor.

This respect is like showing respect to the gods on the altar during festivals. It is a kind of psychology that cannot be explained.

If I had to use words to explain it, it would be both respect and fear!

Seeing that the Ming Emperor was about to die, but with the help of the "dragon", the entire army was trembling...

Not to mention ordinary intruders, even Li Zicheng, who was determined to rebel against the Ming Dynasty, was so frightened that he hid in the house and did not dare to come out.

Otherwise, it only takes hundreds or thousands of muskets, fired at Zhu Youjian at the same time, to beat him into a honeycomb...

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"Your Majesty, where are we going?"

Fan Jingwen asked when he saw that there was no longer a stretch of military barracks on the ground.

Zhu Youjian pointed to the south: "Go to Baoding!"

Everyone thinks that Wang Chengen was the last eunuch who died for the Ming Dynasty, but this is not the case.

Chongzhen committed suicide on March [-]th (the tenth day of the second lunar month). On the [-]th, everyone in the capital gave up resistance, and almost all the northern land fell silent.

There is only one place that still persists.

That is Baoding!

Since the death of Sun Chuanting, the situation in the Ming Dynasty has been drastically reversed. The peasant army was chased by the official army as if they had lost their dogs, and was instantly overturned by Li Zicheng.

The distance between them is only half a year.

After Li Zicheng proclaimed himself emperor in Xi'an on the first day of the first lunar month of this year, the situation has become increasingly out of control in the past forty days.

In this situation, Chongzhen sent out all the trustworthy eunuchs around him.

The former eunuch Fang Zhenghua came to Baoding.

This man was the last general who died in the Chongzhen Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty.

After the city of Beijing fell, Fang Zhenghua still persisted until six days later, on March 24, he was chopped into pieces by the intruders...

Only a few hundred people from the Ming army of the Fangzheng Hua Ministry survived, and more than tens of thousands of people were killed in Baoding City!

Wang Chengen frowned, a look of worry filling his cheeks: "Your Majesty, Eunuch Fang was ordered to block the invading army from Henan across the Yellow River and headed north. He has already lost contact with the capital. At this time, we still don't know what is happening in Baoding. !”

Your Majesty wants to go to Baoding. Although Fang Zhenghua is indeed a fierce general and has outstanding military achievements, times have changed!

If Baoding falls, wouldn't His Majesty throw himself into a trap?

When Wang Chengen said this, Fan Jingwen and Liu Wenbing also frowned.

Place all your hopes on Fang Zheng's incarnation...

Although this person is indeed capable, he is just afraid of what might happen!

"Baoding is still here." Zhu Youjian chuckled.

He stretched out his hand and pointed at the eastern sky, which turned fish-belly white and had faint red clouds, and smiled at the corner of his mouth:

"The night is over and the day is dawning!"

Everyone looked up, and sure enough, there were more and more red clouds in the east.

……

The hot air balloon descended slowly, and Zhu Youjian ordered the person to lower the flame, which was enough to keep the hot air balloon in the air.

The little eunuch led the hot air balloon forward, just like flying a kite.

Although the red clouds in the east have covered half of the sky, the darkness on the ground still lingers.

Everyone couldn't see the ground clearly, so they could only walk with one foot in the dark and one foot in the shallows.

"Crack!"

Zhu Youjian didn't know what he stepped on, which made his feet hurt.

He held the torch and looked down, and his expression suddenly changed.

I saw a skeleton on the bottom of my feet.

The bones are piled with bones that have already rotted away all the flesh and blood!

He crushed the skull with his foot...

The skeleton at his feet was curled up and lying on its side. It was obviously starved to death!

Zhu Youjian shuddered——

Severe droughts, locust plagues, famines, corpses littering the fields, great epidemics, a mixture of humans and ghosts, a plague in the capital, death everywhere, ten houses and nine empty houses, even all households are wiped out, and no one can restrain them...

This is a picture of the game Red Dead Redemption. Don’t take it seriously.

Endless words in history books came to Zhu Youjian's mind.

Fan Jingwen was also frightened, and the skeleton at his feet was even worse.

It was a skeleton missing both arms and legs. Judging from the size of the bones, it was clearly that of a young child...

As for where the hands and feet went...it's obvious!

"Your Majesty, this..."

Liu Wenbing was stunned.

Although the Liu family is only a small family, since his grandfather married the girl to Emperor Guangzong, the Liu family has become rich and wealthy. During the late emperor's time, he was granted the title of uncle, and now he is promoted to the title of Xinlehou.

Even though Liu Wenbing did not have the airs of an ordinary nobleman, he had always been friendly to the people, and he was still aware of the sufferings of the people.