Savior Who Laid Down His Life

During the Yongli period of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the Qing army pressed forward step by step. Sun Kewang, the commander-in-chief of the Great Western Army, asked the imperial court to be named King of Qin in the name of uniting with the imperial court to fight against the Qing Dynasty. The courtiers refused to grant the title, so Sun Kewang sent his generals to kill five ministers and took Emperor Yongli hostage to Anlong, Guizhou. The King of Qin, Sun Ke, who was stationed in Guiyang, was expected to control the government. The treacherous ministers around Emperor Yongli saw that the court was gone and secretly formed an alliance with the King of Qin to seize the throne. Emperor Yongli urgently summoned eighteen ministers to discuss, and wanted to summon Li Dingguo, the deputy commander of the Daxi Army who was fighting against the Qing army in Guangxi, to return to Anlong to escort him. The news leaked, and the King of Qin forced Emperor Yongli to issue an edict to punish the eighteen ministers. A tragic story of collective sacrifice for the savior that has been passed down for hundreds of years happened...