"The city is broken! The city is broken!" The terrified shouts were like a plague, and it quickly spread throughout the city. The officers and soldiers guarding the city were soon infected by the panic plague, and they threw down their weapons and fled in panic.

The impregnable imperial city is the last barrier of the imperial palace. Although the capital suffered a sharp decline in the population that year, the imperial city could not have been broken in less than one morning. The only explanation is that someone opened the city gate from inside and placed the rebel army into the city. The person who opened the city gate was an eunuch named Wang Xiangyao.

At this time, except for Wang Chengen and a group of loyal eunuchs under him, even most of the eunuchs in the palace were ready to surrender to the rebel army. As a result, in the end, Wang Chengen was the only one who accompanied Chongzhen to sacrifice his country.

"Forget it, forget it, let's run away quickly!" Gao Wencai knelt on one knee and sighed to the sky. He turned to see Zhao Peng standing there motionless, so he looked up and asked, "Person Zhao, everyone is running away. When will you wait until you don't leave?"

"Escape? The whole city is attacked by a thief. Where can we escape?" Zhao Peng said with a wry smile.

"Person Zhao, you are just a small captain. I believe the thief will not make things difficult for you. You should take off your armor and run away!" Gao Wencai smiled bitterly.

"Sir Qianhu, if we all ran away, I don't know where the sir?" Zhao Peng asked in confusion.

"You go quickly, don't bother me, I have my own way!" Gao Wencai laughed heartily, but Zhao Peng saw that his eyes were full of grief and anger, helplessness and nostalgia for the world. As a soldier king from later generations, he still has the ability to observe words and expressions. Often performing disguised reconnaissance missions behind enemy lines, he needs to face various enemies. Observing words and expressions is a basic skill. From Gao Wencai's eyes, Zhao Peng has already seen that he has decided to sacrifice his country for his decisiveness.

"Sir, I am willing to escort the chief out of the capital! We can go south to Nanjing!" Zhao Peng said loudly. In fact, when he said this, he himself did not have much confidence.

Zhao Peng in his previous life was also a fan of historical novels. Among the many historical novels he had read, many time travelers had cheated, and many had invincible big cheats. However, the unlucky time traveler, except for the body he got a little stronger than the ordinary people of the past, seemed to have no other cheats on his body. This can be seen from the fact that he had no strength to draw the bow after shooting twenty arrows in a row. God did not make any cheats on him at all, and he was still an ordinary person.

I have no worries, and I want to escape from the capital from thousands of troops and successfully escape to the south. Is this possible?

"No need!" Gao Wencai said coldly, "It is rare that Captain Zhao is so loyal, you should leave quickly! If you are lucky enough to escape, remember to kill more thieves to repay the emperor's great kindness to us!"

After leaving these words, Gao Wencai explained the Xiuchun Sword and threw it on the ground, walked down the city tower without looking back, leaving only the stunned Zhao Peng standing alone on the top of the city.

Where to go? Zhao Peng felt very slim about his future. He was loyal to the Ming Dynasty and finally died for his country. Zhao Peng could not do such a thing. Since he came to this era, he didn't want to have a one-day trip to the Ming Dynasty. It would be fine if he could return to the 21st century if he died, but he was afraid that he would not be able to return to the 21st century after he died, but to another more unfamiliar place.

As a half-baked Ming fan in his previous life, Zhao Peng had more or less knowledge of the history of the late Ming Dynasty. Next, with the entry of the Qing army, China will fall into a dark era of nearly three hundred years. Since he has come to this era, he must find a way to change all this! It is precisely because China has been the dark era of nearly three hundred years, and the West is the glorious era of great voyage, and then enters the industrial era. Since then, the ancient Eastern countries that have always led the world have begun to lag far behind the West.

Although the East had already lagged behind the West since the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was still catching up in stages, especially the Ming Dynasty's attitude towards Western barbarians was always tough, and Western colonists did not seek any benefits from the Ming Dynasty. On the contrary, when the Qing Dynasty was invaded by the Eight-Nation Alliance, the weapons in the hands of the Qing rulers were not inferior to the West, but they would rather have friendly countries than domestic slaves. The Qing rulers were always better at guarding against the Han people than Western imperialism. There was also the slave idea that the Qing rulers had cultivated since the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, which led to China becoming the only country with a large number of puppet soldiers during World War II, which was simply a shame and humiliation.

However, in this regard, Zhao Peng really blamed the Qing Dynasty. There were many traitors, which laid the root of disaster since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. The civil servants and gentry fooled Zhu Yuanzhang and said that the kings and scholars and officials ruled the world together, which made the status of scholars higher and higher. By the time of the Tumu Fort Incident, the noble group suffered a heavy blow, and the civil servant group took the opportunity to gain military power, and the increasingly inflated scholars became less and less honest. Therefore, the biggest disaster of the Qing government was that it left China with a hundred years of weakness, leading to a century of insult history in modern times.

As a nationalist, Zhao Peng must change all this since he has come to this era.

But how to change? That is what happened later. The most important thing now is to live first! If you can’t live, but talk about change, isn’t that empty talk?

How can we survive? Into the Qing Dynasty? Zhao Peng was the first to deny this idea. He came here to destroy the Qing Dynasty, especially the ugly money rat tail, which made him unwilling to do this even if he pretended to surrender first and then opposed the Qing Dynasty. It would be better to die if he wanted to have such an ugly hairstyle. At this time, he could understand the Han people who would rather have their heads off than shave their hair and braids back then surrender to Li Zicheng? This is a good way. Although Li Chuang was a thief, Dashun was also a Han regime, which was much better than the Qing Dynasty.

Even if some online articles in later generations said that Li Chuang was a Dangxiang person, not the Han people deny that Dashun was a Han regime, Dashun was still much stronger than the Qing Dynasty. At least he did not shave his hair and change his clothes, and did not cultivate slave ideas. Of course, it was even more impossible to guard against Han people than against foreigners.

However, the Li Chuang regime was short-lived. In the near future, Wu Sangui of Shanhaiguan let the Qing army enter the pass. The rebel army was in a slump after a crushing defeat. Li Zicheng was also killed shortly after, and the remaining rebel army also accepted the Southern Ming recruitment and became the Ming army to resist the Qing Dynasty. So if you defect to Li Chuang and then go back to be the Ming army? That's not that you have gone around and come back? Since that's the case, it's better to surrender to the Chuang army, find another opportunity to escape and go to the south to join the Ming army. Thinking of this, Zhao Peng walked down from the city tower.

"Wait for me!" Zhao Peng shouted and chased Gao Wencai's back.

The rebel army had already attacked the imperial city, but the soldiers who entered the city first were all concerned about intercepting the palace maids and eunuchs who fled in all directions, trying to rob the gold, silver and soft materials they carried with them, and making a fortune for themselves. Therefore, no one paid attention to the two Jinyiwei who came down from the city.

Some later books and film and television works said that the Jinyiwei harmed the people, and the people would have to live in poverty. Those are nonsense. What is the Jinyiwei? It is equivalent to the Military Intelligence Bureau in later generations, the National Security Bureau and the anti-corruption department are united. The Jinyiwei does nothing with the people at all. If you want to talk about disaster, the Jinyiwei harms officials and gentry. Ordinary ordinary people are not qualified to let the Jinyiwei harm the Jinyiwei cause disaster.

Zhao Peng followed Gao Wencai from afar, walked out of Xuanwu Gate, and entered an alley.

No one of the thief soldiers who broke into the imperial city paid attention to these two blood-filled Ming soldiers. Anyway, many people came in to grab the money and the girls. Who cares about these two stinky men who are no different from beggars?

In fact, the rebel army first entered the Forbidden City and did not strictly guard the imperial city. This allowed Chongzhen and Wang Chengen to run out of the Xuanwu Gate, which was guarding alone and went to the Coal Mountain. If the rebel army had been more strict, Chongzhen and Wang Chengen would have been blocked by the rebel army and became Li Zicheng's prisoners. Chongzhen killed Princess Zhaoren in the early morning of the 19th, chopped off one of Princess Kunxing's arm, and forced Queen Zhou to commit suicide. On the morning of the 19th, the inner city was broken. It was not until noon on the 19th that Chongzhen and Wang Chengen went to Coal Mountain to commit suicide. Almost at the same time Chongzhen committed suicide, Li Zicheng also entered the Forbidden City.

In fact, Li Zicheng never thought of capturing the capital. His purpose of coming to the capital was originally just for negotiations, asking Emperor Chongzhen to give him a king, and withdrew his troops as long as his conditions were met; he never thought of killing Chongzhen. It was just that it was too easy for this capital, so Li Zicheng himself could not react!

After Li Zicheng reacted, Chongzhen had already gone to Coal Mountain to find the crooked tree.

In fact, Chongzhen's death was not a good thing for Li Zicheng. After breaking through the capital, Li Zicheng thought of capturing Chongzhen alive and coerced Chongzhen to agree to his conditions so that he would not be charged with the crime of regicide.
Chapter completed!