After Xiangcheng Fell, I Stole the Governor's Seal

The fourteenth year of Chongzhen was the true historical deadlock of the late Ming dynasty.

In the eighth month, Hong Chengchou was trapped at Songshan and left to die. In the ninth month, Fu Zonglong, governor-general of the Three Border Regions, led 20,000 Shaanxi soldiers through Tongguan, only to be surrounded at Xiangcheng by Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai. General He Renlong abandoned his commander and fled under cover of night. Fu Zonglong was defeated and killed. From that moment on, the Ming's last mobile field army was wiped out, and the Central Plains fell into utter ruin.