On March 17, 1644, the Dashun peasant army led by Li Zicheng surrounded the city of Beijing, and asked the surrendered officials to bring news to the Chongzhen Emperor: the fortunes of the Daming Kingdom had ended, and it was hoped that Chongzhen could take the initiative to meditate on Li Zicheng, who guaranteed the safety of the Chongzhen Emperor's life and preserved the Zhu family tomb temple.
At this time, Chongzhen was still waiting for Wu Sangui's Guanning Iron Horse, and if Wu Sangui's Guanning Iron Horse could rush back to Beijing within ten days to escort King Qin, plus the troops of Shanxi, Shandong, and Hebei, the imperial court still had hope to wipe Li Zicheng under the city of Beijing, and another Yu Qian's version of the defense of Beijing is still unknown.
At this time, Wu Sangui had already received the holy decree of the Chongzhen Emperor, but the city of Beijing had been besieged, if he rushed to Beijing at this time, although it was possible to rescue the emperor, but his Guanning iron horse would also be lost, and the Eight Flags Army behind him was watching, once the army was opened, he was afraid of being attacked by Dolgon, and if the rescue was unfavorable, he would lose his base, so Wu Sangui chose to be a wall watcher.
On March 18, the Chongzhen Emperor received a secret report from Jinyiwei, and Wu Sangui did not move.
Knowing that the general trend was over, the Chongzhen Emperor immediately summoned all the ministers and his three princes, and told the ministers to escort the three princes to Nanjing, where the crown prince Zhu Ciyi oversaw the country, and he stayed in Beijing to wait for the Qin Wang army in various places.
All the ministers knew that this was just the emperor's rhetoric, Beijing was besieged, and the commanders of the nearby army were holding a wait-and-see attitude, if Li Zicheng destroyed Chongzhen, then these commanders with heavy troops could ask Li Zicheng for a good future, and the collapse of the Zhu dynasty was already inevitable.
After arranging the crown prince's southern crossing, the Chongzhen Emperor took the eunuch Wang Chengen to the Zongmiao Temple for the final sacrifice, and Chongzhen never understood how his conscientious work could have lost the ancestral Jiangshan Society.
It was night, Li Zicheng did not get the Chongzhen Emperor's Zen promise, afraid that the night would grow and dream more, so he launched a general attack, and the Chongzhen Emperor felt speechless to face the ancestors and Liezong, hanging the country on the coal mountain.
After Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he learned that the crown prince Zhu Ciyi was missing, and immediately sent people to search for him.
At the same time, envoys were quickly sent to announce the end of Wu Sangui's Daming Dynasty and the establishment of the Dashun regime, hoping that Wu Sangui would return to Dashun.
Wu Sangui also learned of the Chongzhen Emperor's suicide and martyrdom, and also learned that the civil and military officials in Beijing did not have much reaction to the change of dynasty, so he decided to change the banner and change the banner, annex Dashun, and continue to guard Shanhaiguan.
However, things backfired, and Li Zicheng was lucky for Chen Yuanyuan. You know, Chen Yuanyuan is Wu Sangui's love.
Wu Sangui, who originally wanted to accept Li Zicheng's recruitment, was difficult to accept for a while, but when he learned that the crown prince Zhu Ciyi was traveling south, he decided to cooperate with Dolgon, under the banner of avenging the Chongzhen Emperor, and led the Eight Banners army to kill Li Zicheng all the way.
Li Zicheng also organized a decisive battle with Wu Sangui and Dolgon, but the peasant army was a group of rabble, not at all the opponent of Guan Ning Iron Cavalry and the Eight Banner Army, and in only forty days, Li Zicheng was defeated and withdrew from Beijing.
And Dolgon saw that the Central Plains Dynasty was leaderless, the members of the Zhuming royal family were killed by Li Zicheng, and the whereabouts of the crown prince Zhu Ciyu were unknown, so he announced to the world and avenged the Chongzhen Emperor, and at the same time, the crown prince Zhu Ciyi was dead, and had no choice, inherited the mantle of Daming, established Fu Lin as emperor, and the year name was Shunzhi.
When Nanjing got the news of the martyrdom of the Chongzhen Emperor in Beijing, it was also surprised, a little Li Zicheng actually destroyed the Ming Dynasty, when he learned that Wu Sangui led the Qing army to avenge Chongzhen and defeated Li Zicheng, he also felt that Wu Sangui was a loyal courtier, but when he learned that Dolgon had established Fulin as emperor, everyone found that things had exceeded everyone's imagination.
A foreign race actually established a dynasty on the land of the Central Plains, isn't this the death of the country? If Li Zicheng became emperor, at most he would have changed his family to become emperor, but the emperor is still Han, but now that the Manchus have become emperors, it is absolutely unacceptable to everyone.
However, the current situation is that the Chongzhen Emperor is dead, the whereabouts of the crown prince Zhu Ciyu are unknown, the armies of Daming are in a state of leaderlessness, and the Qing army has occupied the north and began to march south of the Yangtze River.
The country cannot be left without masters for a day, and since the prince has disappeared, he can only choose a successor from among the many kings in Jiangnan to lead everyone to resist the Qing Dynasty.
Shi Kefa, Lu Xiangsheng and other Nanjing officials selected three kings, including King Fu, King Tang, and King Lu, and prepared to choose one of the three kings to inherit the ruler, and then lead everyone to resist the Qing together.
However, these three princes are not descendants of the Chongzhen Emperor, and the three have the same status in the legal system, and whoever is appointed emperor will incur the dissatisfaction of the other two, and around the dispute between orthodoxy and legal system, it has been difficult for Southern Ming to establish a new monarch.
At this time, the crown prince Zhu Ciyi finally arrived in Nanjing after a year of fleeing, and Zhu Ciyi's two younger brothers were killed by the Qing army in order to cover their brother's arrival in Nanjing, Zhu Ciyi disguised himself as a beggar, and with the help of personal eunuchs, did not go directly south from Beijing, but chose to go west to Shaanxi, south to Sichuan, and came to Nanjing along the Yangtze River.
The appearance of the crown prince Zhu Ciyi, coupled with the Chongzhen Emperor's order to oversee the crown prince on his deathbed, Zhu Ciyi successfully ascended the throne, and with the assistance of Shi Kefa, began the great cause of resisting the Qing Dynasty.
The first thing Zhu Ciyi did after ascending the throne was to inform the whole country that Prince Daming had not died and had succeeded to the throne in Nanjing, and at the same time called on the Ming army, which had been scattered by the Dashun army and the Qing army, to annex Nanjing.
Secondly, he felt that the Chongzhen Emperor had no money to fight, resulting in insufficient food and pay for the soldiers, and when Li Zicheng attacked Beijing, he found a large amount of silver from the princes and nobles, and Zhu Ciyu directly ordered to raid the homes of the southern who had surrendered to the Qing officials, and obtained a total of 200 million taels of silver.
With these 200 million taels of silver, Zhu Ciyi reorganized the Shenji Battalion and the Five Military Camps with the help of Shi Kefa, and purchased advanced red-clothed cannons from the Netherlands, which was entrenched in Taiwan.
The Qing army hit the Yangtze River, the Southern Ming regime was in danger, and under the hard work of the Southern Ming generals, they finally blocked the Qing troops on the Yangtze River, and the two sides formed a confrontation.
The victory in the Battle of the Yangtze River stabilized the Southern Ming regime.
Because the Qing Dynasty let the Han people shave their hair, which seriously violated the wishes of the Han people, the remnants of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, who had previously rebelled, also saw the true face of the Qing Dynasty and accepted the adaptation of the Southern Ming Dynasty.
After receiving sufficient rest, Zhu Ciyi began to recruit new troops in Jiangnan, and at the same time built warships in Jiangnan, waiting for the time to ripen and start the Northern Expedition.
At the same time, the Southern Ming recruited Zheng Zhilong's pirate fleet and appointed Zheng Zhilong as the governor of the navy, and his son Zheng Chenggong recruited an envoy to Vietnam and the Philippines to recruit mercenaries.
In the third year of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Zhu Ciyi accepted Shi Kefa's suggestion and sent special envoys to Annan, Luzon, Champa, Malacca, and Korea, and asked to send troops to assist the imperial court in the Northern Expedition, and the Roman Catholic Court also authorized the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain to send troops to help the Ming Dynasty's Northern Expedition.
The Japanese state even promised the Ming Dynasty that 500 warships could be sent to assist in the Northern Expedition, and the Ming Dynasty was very grateful, but politely refused Japan's request.
Internally, the Southern Ming court sent secret envoys to contact the northern Han generals, and they were not blamed for their acts of standing on the sidelines during the martyrdom of the Chongzhen Emperor, as long as they could still guarantee their original status during the Northern Expedition.
After five years of waiting, in the spring of the eighth year of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Zhu Ciyi was twenty-four years old, and the Northern Expedition officially began.
The 600,000 new troops of the Ming Dynasty crossed the Yangtze River, and under the leadership of the guides, the army was divided into three roads, the west road took Sichuan, took Shaanxi, entered Shanxi, and approached Beijing, the central route set off from Wuhan, took Henan, entered Hebei, and forced Beijing, and the eastern route army set off from Anhui, descended from Shandong, and forced Beijing.
At sea, Zheng Chenggong led a huge fleet of 2,000 warships to land from the Liaodong Peninsula along the Yellow River and the Bohai Sea, joining forces with 200,000 Korean troops and horses, and Chen Bing Shenyang, blocking the Qing army's retreat back to their hometown.
The three roads were like a broken bamboo, and the places they passed were all looking down from the wind, just like Xu Da's Northern Expedition, and it took only half a year to hit the city of Beijing.
Dolgon did not expect to return to his hometown after only eight years in the Central Plains, and Dolgon, unwilling to lose, ordered Wu Sangui, Shang Kexi, and Geng Jingzhong to fight to the death with the Ming army, and he quickly fled north with Fu Lin.
Wu Sangui, Shang Kexi, and Geng Jingzhong saw that the general trend had passed, and Dolgon fled again, so he could only order his men to lay down their weapons and surrender.
Dolgon fled all the way along Shanhaiguan back to Guanxi, vainly trying to rely on Shanhaiguan to continue dealing with Daming, but when he entered Guanxi, Zheng Chenggong and his men had been waiting for a long time.
Under the command of Zheng Chenggong, the Sino-Korean coalition forces fought for three days and three nights, and finally beheaded Dolgon. And Catch Bliss.
In the ninth year of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Zhu Ciyi returned to Beijing, held a grand ceremony to worship the heavens at the Temple of Heaven, and reburied the Chongzhen Emperor.
Shi Kefa was appointed Shangshu of the military department, and Zheng Chenggong succeeded his father as the governor of the Daming Water Division.
Wu Sangui, Shang Kexi, and Geng Jingzhong died, and the rest of the personnel were not blamed in the past.
As for the captured Fu Lin, Zhu Ciyu exiled him to Burma, a vassal state of the Daming Domain.
In the following years, with the assistance of Shi Kefa and Zheng Chenggong, the Daming country was strong and the people were prosperous, and the Daming treasure ship sailed east and discovered a beautiful continent, which Zhu Ci Feng named America.