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Emperor Chongzhen, who was diligent but caught up with the decline of the Ming Dynasty, was faced with internal and external difficulties. Wu Sangui, who was guarding the border in Shanhaiguan, and his 40,000 elite soldiers were recruited. Wu Sangui originally wanted to fight back from Shanhaiguan to the capital to rescue him and achieve great feats. At this time, Beijing had been captured by Li Zicheng. Wu Sangui was furious when he learned that his father in the capital had been imprisoned and his beloved wife had been snatched away. Regardless of the crisis of his family and country, he succumbed to the foreigners and asked Dorgon, the commander of the Qing army, to send troops to destroy Chuang. From then on, the life-and-death battle of wits between Dorgon, Wu Sangui and Li Zicheng began. Dorgon had long been determined to win the Ming Dynasty, and Wu Sangui's request for help was a golden opportunity for him; Li Zicheng had known that Wu Sangui was brave and good at fighting, and often defeated more with less, so he wanted to recruit him into his group; Wu Sangui first wanted to go to the capital to rescue him, and then he wanted to use the Qing troops to destroy Chuang and take back his beloved wife Chen Yuanyuan, but he was afraid that the Qing troops would enter the pass and get involved in the Central Plains, and the consequences would be disastrous. Amid various conflicts, the resourceful strategist Dorgon took advantage of the bloody battle between Wu Sangui and Li Zicheng to send troops to drive away King Chuang. He also sent Wu Sangui to Yunnan to guard the border, and established the Qing Dynasty in the prosperous capital of Beijing that lasted for 300 years.

I won't lose to anyone, and I will take the lonely and domineering path.