Great Ming: Bombarding Zhu Qizhen's Funeral and Taking the Throne from the Start

Great Ming: From the Start as Zhu Qiyu, Bombarding the Tumu Fortress Warlord

In the fourteenth year of the Zhengtong era of Great Ming,

Emperor Yingzong, Zhu Qizhen, led five hundred thousand elite Great Ming troops to Tumu Fortress, where they were wiped out by Esen Khan, leader of the Oirats.

All five hundred thousand elite Ming soldiers fell in battle!

Emperor Zhu Qizhen was defeated and captured. The Oirats dragged him to the gates of the capital, stripped him naked, and humiliated him.

The Oirats ordered Zhu Qizhen to tell the defenders to open the city gates.

To everyone's surprise, the cowardly, death-fearing Zhu Qizhen actually ran to the gates and knelt, begging the defenders to open them!

Meanwhile, the court was in an uproar, its officials panicking like ants on a hot pan.

Empress Dowager Sun watched the chaotic court and could only rub her temples in helpless frustration.

Just then, a figure clad in imperial robes embroidered with nine dragons strode into the Hall of Heavenly Manifestation!