In March of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the Juyong Pass was broken, the intruder Li Zicheng marched towards Beijing, and the glazed tiles of the Forbidden City trembled in the beacon fire. On Meishan Mountain, Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian looked at the chaos in the city and crushed the poison that would kill him - he did not want to be the king of subjugation, and he wanted to continue the Ming Dynasty with the blood of the emperor.
He swore an oath from his cut sleeves and gave up his thoughts of defending. He sent Zhou Yuji to organize the capital camp and Wu Xiang to gather the remaining soldiers in Jizhen. He also ordered Wang Chengen to go to the grassland in the snow, and persuaded Duoyan's three guards of five thousand cavalry to surrender with the promise of mutual exchange and sincerity. Facing Liu Zeqing, who was waiting with his troops, he used thunderous means to capture the thieves and recruited more than ten thousand elites. When the 50,000 "Fu Ming Army" was first formed, he set up a substitute to confuse the enemy, and personally led the main force to break through the encirclement through Xifengkou and escape from Li Zicheng's encirclement.
The land of Shanxi became a battlefield that turned things around: he cut the "leeks" of the eight imperial merchants to relieve the financial and food difficulties, trained new soldiers, organized cavalry, and used the "hit and run" guerrilla strategy to repeatedly harass Li Zi Cheng Liang Road; burning grain trucks outside Shuozhou City, ambushing grain guard soldiers in front of Shiling Pass, and cutting off the enemy's retreat in a bloody battle on the Fenhe River Bridge. Li Zicheng's 100,000-strong army was forced to abandon Beijing and flee to Shaanxi.
After that, he ordered Zhou Yuji to point his sword at Bashu and use the squires to kill Zhang Xianzhong; he ordered Wu Sangui to defend Shanhaiguan and join forces with the Mongolian cavalry to resist Hou Jin's surveillance; after returning to the capital, he rectified the dynasty, abolished the "three rates", and settled the refugees. From the desperate situation of Meishan to the raising of the dragon flag, Zhu Youjian used his iron-clad resistance to rewrite the ending of Meishan's suicide, and finally propped up the clear sky of "Chongzhen ZTE" in the devastated land of Ming Dynasty.
