1644 Nanshun Dynasty

644, The Jiashen year of the lunar calendar, April 26th. Beijing city nominally belongs to a new dynasty - Dashun. Just a month ago, its emperor Li Zicheng had just sat on the dragon's throne in the Forbidden City. At this moment, in the dim light of Wuying Palace, he heard a cold fact: Beijing can no longer be defended. Return to Shaanxi. In the battle of Shanhaiguan, the Manchu cavalry crushed the elite Dashun army like a collapse of the sky. The 70,000 soldiers who went on the expedition were now like turbid currents from a broken embankment, seeping back from Deshengmen to the imperial capital they had just conquered. Jiangnan, is it really impossible to go? Three days later, on April 29, Li Zicheng will hastily complete the enthronement ceremony in front of Wuying Palace, then burn the palace and evacuate Beijing. Starting from the morning of April 26, which was full of bloodshed, defeat, quarrels and conspiracies, two completely different fateful trajectories have been quietly delineated. The last days of the Dashun Dynasty are passing quickly in the dusk in Beijing.