(Tumu fort in Germany? + Imaginary Ming Dynasty)
In the battle of Tumubao, the emperor was captured, half a million troops were wiped out, and the fate of the Ming Dynasty hung on a thread?
Everyone thought he was dead.
But Zhu Qizhen did not die. He crawled out from the battlefield of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and wandered on the grassland for three months with only a thousand remaining soldiers. He is not fleeing, but collecting - collecting irrefutable evidence that can overturn the entire court.
Now, he's back.
With evidence to prove his innocence, with veteran generals who would follow him to the death, and even with the cavalry of Grand Master Wala. They went all the way south until they reached the country's gate.
However, what awaited him was not the trumpet of victory, but the closed city gate.
On the city tower, the former loyal minister Guo Deng stood still; behind the city wall, Beijing's new eunuch Pang Gonggong sneered again and again; in the dark night, the elite "Ye Bu Shu" under the Ming Dynasty had received a secret order - the target was the young emperor wearing a dark blue old robe under the city.
There were Tatar cavalry outside, and political enemies inside with swords facing each other. He holds evidence, but no one wants to listen; he bears the name of an emperor, but no one dares to recognize it.
This is more than just a homecoming.
This is an emperor's trial against himself, a lonely minister's counterattack against the times, and a cruel game that tears open the "Iron Curtain" and faces the darkest core of the empire.
When he finally stood under the city, he said to his former ministers: "I'm here, open the city gate."
The only thing that responded to him was deathly silence and a slowly falling gate.
