The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 253 The Death of Yuan Chonghuan

In the spring of Daming Jingrun's 28th year, several major events that shook the world took place.

The first thing is that the old emperor Ji Zhengde, who has been in power for 28 years, finally fell ill and was dying.At this time, the two rogue armies headed by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong swept across the Central Plains like a raging fire. Wherever they went, the officers and soldiers retreated steadily, and countless cities were breached.

Li Zicheng occupied Xi'an Mansion and claimed to be the King of Dashun. Later, he sent troops eastward, left Hanzhong, and attacked Huguang.After attacking and destroying Xiangyang City, under the suggestion of the military adviser Niu Xiance, he established himself as emperor, founded the country of Dashun, and called himself Emperor Dashun.

After proclaiming himself emperor in Xiangyang, Li Zicheng conferred all the officials and announced it to the world. It was so vigorous and unparalleled that the world was shaken.

Almost at the same time, Zhang Xianzhong led his troops to attack Sichuan. He invaded Chengdu with great force all the way, killed tens of thousands of officials, gentry and people in Chengdu, and frightened the land of abundance with bloody means.

Later, at the suggestion of his adopted son Kewang, all the captive 3 officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were sentenced to amputation and then released. Fear, its name can stop children crying at night in Sichuan.When a child cries at night, as long as the adult says "yellow beard is here to catch you", the child will immediately stop crying in fright, which shows its fierce reputation.

After occupying Chengdu, Zhang Xianzhong also imitated Li Zicheng's founding of the country and proclaimed himself emperor. Taking the whole of Sichuan as the entire border, he established the Daxi Kingdom. He called himself the Emperor of Daxi, and his reign name was Dawei. Challenging.

The news that Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong proclaimed emperor one after another spread to Beijing. The already dying Emperor Ji Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty was shocked and angry.

The death of the emperor caused the already crumbling building of Daming to shake even more violently.

According to the edict of the first emperor, Ji Siyuan, the crown prince, will inherit the Datong and become the No. 20 eighth emperor of the Ming Empire.

The young emperor Ji Siyuan had just finished the funeral of the late emperor, and before he had time to look at the supreme throne under his buttocks, news came that Dashun Emperor Li Zicheng led an army of 30 to march northward, preparing to besiege the capital.

Ji Siyuan panicked, and hurriedly summoned the court's civil and military ministers to discuss.

Before the discussion came to a conclusion, there was another strange but serious-sounding news circulating in the court: "The former Shangshu of the Ministry of War, the governor of the three sides, and the Dongge University scholar Yuan Chonghuan colluded with the traitor Li Zicheng and deliberately retreated on the battlefield. , let the court lose troops and lose generals, which caused the late emperor to fall ill. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were rebels, and half of the Ming Dynasty fell to the head of the rebels. Now the rebel Li Zicheng has ordered Yuan Chonghuan to be the prime minister. Siege the capital and rescue Yuan Chonghuan."

I don't know where this news came from, but once it came out, it was passed on by countless people with ulterior motives.

Soon the news "reached" the ears of the new emperor Ji Siyuan.

The little emperor was very dissatisfied with Yuan Chonghuan when he was the prince.Now the rumors are raging and the crowd is raging. There have been voices in the court saying that not killing Yuan Chonghuan is not enough to anger the people, and it is not enough to comfort the late emperor, and these voices are converging into an irresistible wave.

Even though there are some voices who believe that this matter is not true, it is very likely that Li Zicheng's rebels set up a divorce plan to get rid of Yuan Chonghuan, but these voices were quickly suppressed and drowned in the huge wave of killing Yuan Chonghuan, and there was no wave None turned up.

In the brilliant Ming Dynasty, all the civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty were the ones who fell into trouble. No one explained to the emperor the absurdity and untruth of the rumors. They all followed the trend and either wrote a letter requesting the immediate execution of Yuan Chonghuan to set the record straight, or kept silent and watched with cold eyes. , stay out of it.

At this moment, Yuan Chonghuan, who was determined to be a lone minister, has completely become a real lone minister. No one in the court, civil and military, speaks for him, and several households are waiting to see when he will die.

Facing the civil and military integrity of the Manchu Dynasty and the mighty 30 soldiers of the Dashun Army, the young and energetic emperor finally issued his first majestic but cruel will as an emperor.

"Yuan Chonghuan, as a pillar of the country and an important minister of the court, failed to live up to the love of his father, abandoned the city and land, damaged the army and lost the general, causing the Ming Dynasty to shake, and the people to suffer. It is a heinous crime. Three days later, he was executed at Caishikou."

The little emperor also knew that the rumors were false, and if Yuan Chonghuan was convicted based on this, not only would Yuan Chonghuan be dissatisfied, but it would also be difficult to block the mouths of the world.

Therefore, the little emperor, who was eager to show his majesty, imposed the crime of defeat on Yuan Chonghuan, so that future generations would not give himself the name of a faint king.

As soon as the imperial decree came out, the world was in an uproar.Unexpectedly, the death sentence that had disappeared for more than 1000 years would appear again, and it would be used on Yuan Chonghuan, who was relied on by the former emperor as the pillar of the Great Ming Dynasty. Everyone was shocked. I don't know why the new emperor hated Yuan so much.

Even those civil and military ministers who shouted to execute Yuan Chonghuan were stunned by the new emperor's cruelty, and the court fell silent for a while.

After Yuan Chonghuan listened to the imperial decree read out by the eunuch Xuanzhi in prison, he laughed miserably and said three times: "All the defeated soldiers and lost ground in the world, I, Yuan Chonghuan, was the only one who was convicted, and I was lucky enough to be sentenced to death. Come on! Come on! Come on! Your lord wants The minister dies, the minister has no choice but to die!"

All the jailers and eunuchs who passed the decree were weeping sadly, and there were many who were upset.

Three days later, before Yuan Chonghuan's execution, he straightened his clothes and bowed respectfully in the direction of the palace, bowed three times and kowtowed nine times, performed the courtier's ceremony for the last time, and then calmly went to the execution ground to be tortured.

Yuan Chonghuan was cut more than 3000 knives, and it took three days to finally die. The people watching the torture were all terrified and terrified, and many of them retched and cried.

After Yuan's death, righteous men in the capital risked their lives to collect hundreds of his minced meat and corpses, and secretly buried them in the countryside outside the city.In order to avoid people's eyes and ears, he did not dare to erect a monument, but only erected a green pine on the head of his grave.

On the way to the north, Li Zicheng heard that Yuan Chonghuan was tortured by the emperor of Ming Dynasty. He took a breath and said, "Ji Xiaoer is so vicious, I can't do it." , From then on, what Bingfeng points to will be invincible.

By the time these news spread from the capital to Jiangchuan in Liaodong, the land of Liaodong was already in full bloom and green everywhere.

After more than half a year of dormancy, Jiang's army has completed another round of military expansion, reorganization and training, and the strength of the entire army has reached as many as [-].

The 2 army was also divided by Jiang Chuan into the left, middle and right armies, of which the left army was 3, led by Ran Wu; the middle army was 2, led by Jiang Chuan;

There are another [-] garrison troops guarding the Erlonggu base, led by military adviser Liu Ji to guard the base.

The three armies are all mixed on foot and cavalry, and can fight as independent combat units.The Chinese army includes military medical battalion, Shenji battalion, engineering battalion and other heavy technical arms.

The [-]-strong army came out in a mighty way, divided into three groups, and headed north, with the front of the soldiers pointing directly at Liaoyang City.

　The second one arrives.Ask for a few referral tickets.Starting tomorrow, it will resume at least three shifts a day, and the time will be adjusted to daytime as much as possible.

　　


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