Recaps

Ming launched simultaneous campaigns against the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, Myanmar, and the Timurid Empire, using overwhelming forces and devastating violence. Mu Ying rejected a peace envoy as his army advanced on Hameri, while Feng Sheng’s fleet began its attack on the Persian Gulf coast.

• Mu Ying led 200,000 troops into the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, while the Great Khan ordered the Khanate to mobilize and fight.
• Xu Huizu’s troops captured a Myanmar border city and massacred its civilians; Lan Yu and Chang Mao defeated Myanmar reinforcements, prompting Myanmar’s court to prepare for full resistance.
• Feng Sheng sailed with 100,000 naval troops and the Pterosaur Army toward the Timurid Empire, later resuming the journey after receiving news of the victory in Myanmar.
• Zhu Biao reported the campaigns to Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Ying, who praised the forceful advance and expressed confidence in the navy.
• After ten days of defeats and losing 100,000 soldiers, the Eastern Chagatai Khanate’s Great Khan sent an envoy to negotiate, but Mu Ying’s soldiers killed the envoy and continued toward Hameri.
• Feng Sheng’s fleet reached the Persian Gulf and fired hundreds of cannons at the Timurid Empire’s coastal defenses, reducing them to ruins.

Timur’s Persian Gulf Fleet was destroyed by Feng Sheng’s Ming navy, which landed and advanced inland, while Ming forces continued their campaigns in Myanmar and the Eastern Chagatai Khanate. Lan Yu’s cavalry and the Dinosaur Legion routed Myanmar’s Elephant Legion, and Zhu Ying arrived as Mu Ying’s troops stormed the Eastern Chagatai Khanate’s capital.

• Timur sent the Persian Gulf Fleet to confront Feng Sheng, but the Ming navy annihilated it with cannon fire and landed after Timurid coastal troops retreated.
• Feng Sheng led one hundred thousand Ming naval soldiers inland while Lan Yu, Xu Huizu, and Chang Mao’s army captured Myanmar’s capital and pursued King of Myanmar into the mountains.
• Lan Yu’s cavalry encountered Myanmar’s Elephant Legion, but the Dinosaur Legion’s arrival panicked the elephants and helped the Ming Army rout the Myanmar forces.
• Mu Ying’s troops bombarded and stormed the Eastern Chagatai Khanate’s capital, and Zhu Ying arrived with Wang Wei’s Pterosaur Army.

Mu Ying’s forces destroyed the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, while the Grand Ming Empire’s campaigns against Myanmar and the Timurid Empire continued to advance. The chapter ends with the Ming army arriving at Samarkand, where Timur prepared to defend his capital.

• Mu Ying captured the Eastern Chagatai Khanate’s capital, and Zhu Ying ordered the royal family, including the Great Khan, executed.
• After Myanmar’s Elephant Legion was destroyed by the Dinosaur Legion, the King of Myanmar chose to surrender, but Lan Yu rejected the envoy’s terms and continued the invasion.
• Feng Sheng’s Ming naval force bombarded and captured Kesh City, wiping out its 150,000-strong garrison in a day.
• Timur refused to retreat after hearing of Kesh City’s fall and ordered the Timurid Empire to mobilize for a decisive battle.
• The Ming army occupied half the Timurid Empire and reached Samarkand, where Timur personally prepared to defend the capital.

Feng Sheng's army conquered Samarkand, completing the destruction of the Timurid Empire, while Ming forces also reported victories over the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and Myanmar. At court, Zhu Ying and Zhu Yuanzhang rewarded the armies, planned to govern and connect the conquered territories, and responded to foreign countries seeking closer ties with Grand Ming.

• Feng Sheng's army breached Samarkand's walls, defeated Timur's defenders, and used Pterosaurs to overwhelm the city as Timur was badly wounded.
• Several months later, trains carried Timurid captives and former palace maids to the imperial capital, where citizens discussed the empire's defeat and the Lifespan Fruit Tree showed signs of increased nourishment.
• Mu Ying reported that the Eastern Chagatai Khanate had been destroyed, and Lan Yu reported that Ming forces had conquered Myanmar after massacring cities where its people attacked them.
• Feng Sheng reported that the Timurid Empire had been occupied and Timur dealt with, and Zhu Yuanzhang ordered heavy rewards for the returning soldiers.
• Zhu Ying endorsed governors for the conquered territories and ordered fifty thousand troops stationed in each, while Zhu Ying and Qin Da planned railways built with captives and slaves.
• Liu Jing reported that foreign countries feared Grand Ming and sought alliances, tribute, and cannons, and Zhu Ying approved sales of obsolete cannons while rejecting requests for tributary status.

After Ming’s conquests, Zhu Ying reviewed his rewards, ordered the capture of more dinosaurs, and focused on consolidating the empire. In the West, frightened rulers gathered in Paris to discuss Ming’s power but struggled to find a way to oppose it.

• Zhu Ying opened six Tier 2 and six Tier 3 treasure chests, receiving Spirit Stones, martial skills, and the Oil and Gas Conversion Technology blueprint.
• Zhu Ying postponed opening a new Spatial Portal and directed Ming to focus on domestic consolidation while he cultivated and attended to state affairs.
• Zhu Ying ordered Guo Zhen to intensify dinosaur captures in the Prehistoric World, and Guo Zhen reported that the Imperial Guards had captured tens of thousands of dinosaurs.
• Zhu Ying visited the Lifespan Fruit Tree, which had grown larger after Ming’s expansion.
• Charles VI, Bayezid I, Richard II, and other Western rulers met at the Louvre Palace to discuss Ming’s threat, then learned of its Pterosaur Army.

Western monarchs formed an alliance against the Grand Ming Empire and decided to seek a non-aggression pact, which Zhu Yuanzhang refused. In Wenyuan Pavilion, Zhu Ying guided Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao to draw on Ming’s national fortune and break through into the Grandmaster Realm.

• Charles VI, Bayezid I, and the other Western monarchs agreed to form an alliance and support any member attacked by Ming.
• Bayezid I proposed that the Western nations seek non-aggression pacts with Ming, and the monarchs agreed to send envoys.
• The Imperial Guard told Zhu Yuanzhang that more than a dozen Western nations had sent envoys to seek a pact, and Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Ying said Ming would refuse and humiliate them.
• Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao told Zhu Ying that they felt power surging within them, and Zhu Ying explained that Ming’s flourishing national fortune was accelerating their cultivation.
• Zhu Ying guided Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao as they drew upon Ming’s national fortune and successfully broke through into the Grandmaster Realm.
• Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao saw the Black Dragon and Golden Dragon behind them, while Zhu Ying congratulated them on their breakthroughs.

After Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao reached martial grandmaster level, they rejected Western envoys’ demands to halt Ming expansion and ordered their arrest. Zhu Ying then brought them to the Imperial Guards’ camp, where they saw the growing Dinosaur Legion being prepared for future expeditions.

• Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao celebrated their breakthrough and learned that their cultivation would benefit from the Ming Dynasty’s continued expansion.
• Western envoys urged Zhu Yuanzhang to stop conquering nations, but he and Zhu Biao rejected their accusations and Zhu Ying recognized that the envoys feared Ming’s advance toward the West.
• The Western envoys threatened to unite against the Ming Dynasty, so Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the Imperial Guards to seize them and declared that the Ming would eventually defeat their nations.
• Zhu Yuanzhang asked Zhu Ying what to do next, and Zhu Ying took him and Zhu Biao to the Imperial Guards’ military camp.
• Zhu Ying showed them the camp’s trained Velociraptors, Tyrannosaurus Rexes, and more than twenty thousand Pterosaurs, and explained that more dinosaurs were being captured in the Prehistoric World.

Zhu Ying sent the Grand Ming navy and twenty thousand Pterosaur Army troops to conquer the western nations, and the navy launched a surprise attack on England. After devastating England’s coastal defenses, Feng Sheng faced the arriving Royal Fleet and prepared to demonstrate the Ming navy’s strength.

• Zhu Ying ordered Feng Sheng to lead the navy and Guo Zhen to lead twenty thousand Pterosaur Army troops in a swift campaign against the western nations.
• Charles VI, Richard II, and Bayezid gathered the western rulers and agreed to recruit troops, build warships, and support any nation attacked by Grand Ming.
• Feng Sheng’s fleet entered the Mediterranean and attacked England, bombarding its coast and killing tens of thousands of defenders.
• Richard II ordered England’s Royal Fleet to engage the invaders and called on the western allies for help.
• Feng Sheng landed Ming soldiers in England and saw the Royal Fleet arrive with fifty warships, then prepared to show it the Ming navy’s strength.

Feng Sheng’s fleet destroyed England’s navy and captured Richard II with help from Guo Zhen’s Pterosaur Army, bringing England under Ming control. France mobilized its forces and sought Western allies as the Ming commanders set sail to invade, leaving the war poised to begin.

• Feng Sheng’s fleet annihilated the English fleet, landed troops, and advanced rapidly toward London.
• Guo Zhen led twenty thousand Pterosaur soldiers into London, overwhelmed the defenders, and captured Richard II and the English royal family.
• Richard II ordered England’s forces to surrender, and England became a Ming colony.
• Charles VI learned of England’s defeat, prepared France for war, and called on other Western nations for support.
• Feng Sheng and Guo Zhen sailed toward France with the Ming navy and Pterosaur Army, while France and its neighboring allies assembled troops along the coast.

Feng Sheng’s navy destroyed France’s fleet while Guo Zhen’s Pterosaur Army overwhelmed Paris and captured Charles VI. France’s forces were annihilated, leaving the kingdom defeated and its king in Ming hands.

• Feng Sheng pursued France’s retreating fleet and destroyed more than a hundred French warships, ending France’s naval power.
• Guo Zhen led twenty thousand Pterosaur Army soldiers against Paris, routing its defenders and attacking the Louvre.
• Charles VI ordered ten cannons brought into the palace while Guo Zhen directed the assault from above.
• Feng Sheng landed fifty thousand Ming soldiers, who defeated a hundred thousand French reinforcements with minimal losses.
• Guo Zhen’s Pterosaur Army stormed the Louvre, overcame its defenders, and found Charles VI had fled with his family.
• Guo Zhen tracked down Charles VI and captured him alive as France’s forces and palace were left in ruins.

Three months later, Zhu Ying faced the captured kings and nobles of France and England in Fengtian Hall after the Ming Dynasty conquered their nations. He spared them and let them keep their thrones, but forced them to take Heart-devouring Pills to ensure their loyalty before returning to rule as Ming puppets.

• Triceratops had become common across the Ming Dynasty, serving as livestock and hauling goods, while citizens celebrated the empire’s victories over Western nations.
• Charles VI and Richard II begged Zhu Yuanzhang for mercy, and Zhu Ying agreed to spare them and let them continue ruling France and England if they submitted to the Ming Dynasty.
• Zhu Ying ordered the French and English royals and nobles to swallow Heart-devouring Pills or be executed, and they all complied.
• The pills took effect, leaving the rulers and nobles under Zhu Ying’s control and pledging loyalty to him.
• Zhu Ying reassured Zhu Biao and Zhu Yuanzhang that the pills would make the rulers loyal and cause them unbearable pain if they acted against the Ming Dynasty.

At the Hongwu twenty-ninth-year court assembly, Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao, and Zhu Ying reviewed the Ming Dynasty’s rapid conquests and saw that it controlled seventy percent of the world. They ordered the empire to keep expanding while imposing military, cultural, and economic control over its new territories.

• Tang Duo reported that Ming armies had subdued countries across Asia, the Middle East, and the West, and Zhu Yuanzhang ordered them to continue advancing.
• Zhu Ying had a world map unfolded, revealing that Ming territory covered seventy percent of the world, and promised rewards for officials and generals after unification.
• Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Ying ordered colonial kings and powerful foreign officials to take the Heart-devouring Pill and demanded that colonial resources be sent to the Ming Dynasty.
• Zhu Biao proposed spreading Han culture and standardizing customs, while Zhu Ying assigned Liu Jing and Tang Duo to promote Sinicization and abandon local religions.
• Zhu Biao volunteered to appoint governors, and Zhu Ying ordered the Ministry of Revenue to expand trade and the Ministry of Works to extend railways into tributary states.
• Zhu Ying called for improving the lives of submissive subjects while threatening to conquer by force anyone who resisted Ming rule.

After Ming Dynasty’s conquests brought the current world and two portal worlds under its control, Zhu Ying opened a portal to the Late Ming World and saw the Qing Army’s invasion and massacres. He told Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao how the other Ming Dynasty fell, leaving them shaken by the fate of a world without his reforms.

• Zhu Ying opened nine Tier 3 and fifteen Tier 2 treasure chests, then decided to open another Spatial Portal.
• Zhu Ying opened a portal to the Late Ming World and witnessed the Qing Army invade the Central Plains and massacre civilians.
• Zhu Ying told Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao that Ming Dynasty had nearly conquered the current world and controlled the Prehistoric World and Late Jin and the Five Hu world.
• Zhu Ying revealed that the Late Ming World’s Ming Dynasty had fallen to the Jurchens after famine, rebellion, and the Qing Army’s invasion.
• Zhu Ying explained that Chongzhen Zhu Youjian had tried to govern but could not overcome the Ming Dynasty’s crises and factional strife.

Zhu Ying prepared to lead an elite army from the Grand Ming Empire into the [Late Ming World] to save the Ming Dynasty and defeat the northern barbarians. As his forces opened the Spatial Portal, Chongzhen faced the imminent fall of Beiping and was urged to flee.

• Zhu Yuanzhang asked to visit the [Late Ming World], and Zhu Ying promised to take him there.
• Zhu Ying ordered young commanders to prepare an expedition, deploying fifty thousand Imperial Guards, including Velociraptor and Pterosaur troops, and received Zhu Yuanzhang's support.
• Many days later, Zhu Ying addressed the assembled soldiers and opened the Spatial Portal to the [Late Ming World].
• In the [Late Ming World], Li Jiantai reported that Li Zicheng had surrounded Beiping and that northern barbarians might march south, leaving Chongzhen and his officials despairing.
• Li Guozhen reported that Li Zicheng's forces had reached the capital gates and urged Chongzhen to flee.

As Li Zicheng’s forces neared breaching Beiping, Chongzhen prepared to accept the Ming Dynasty’s fall. A golden Spatial Portal then appeared, and an unfamiliar Ming army with dinosaurs and advanced weapons emerged, leaving Chongzhen and his court stunned.

• Chongzhen refused to flee and ordered Li Guozhen to defend Beiping against Li Zicheng’s vastly larger army.
• Li Guozhen reported that the South Gate was about to fall, and Chongzhen told the defenders to surrender and the officials to flee.
• Thunder struck as the Spatial Portal appeared in Beiping, prompting a messenger to tell Chongzhen about the golden gate.
• Chongzhen and his officials witnessed the Ming Imperial Guards, dinosaur legions, cannons, and firearms emerge from the portal.
• Li Guozhen stood protectively before Chongzhen as the unfamiliar army advanced and the court panicked.

The Grand Ming Empire's forces routed Li Zicheng's rebels in Beiping, and Zhu Yuanzhang arrived with Zhu Biao and Zhu Ying to meet Chongzhen. Chongzhen recognized Zhu Yuanzhang as the Ming dynasty's founding emperor and welcomed him, while the court also learned that Zhu Biao and Zhu Xiongying had returned.

• Li Guozhen urged Chongzhen to shelter in the hall as Li Zicheng's rebels breached Beiping's walls and the Grand Ming Empire's army entered the city.
• The Imperial Guards, Velociraptor Imperial Guards, and Pterosaur Imperial Guards overwhelmed the rebels and drove them into retreat.
• Chongzhen and his ministers watched a Wind God Pterosaur approach the palace carrying Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao, and Zhu Ying.
• Chongzhen recognized Zhu Yuanzhang as Hongwu Taizu, and he and the officials knelt to pay their respects.
• Zhu Yuanzhang introduced Zhu Biao and Zhu Xiongying to Chongzhen, and the court saluted them.

Li Zicheng’s rebels stormed the imperial palace, where Zhu Yuanzhang’s Imperial Guards, Pterosaur Army, and Velociraptor Army routed them. Zhu Ying ordered Liu Lei to seal Beiping’s gates and prevent the surviving rebels from escaping, leaving Li Zicheng’s forces trapped in the city.

• Li Zicheng dismissed his deputy’s warning about monsters in the palace and led his army toward the palace gates.
• The rebels broke into Fengtian Square, where Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the Imperial Guards to kill them all.
• The Imperial Guards, Pterosaur Army, and Velociraptor Army overwhelmed the rebels with gunfire and a fierce charge.
• Zhu Ying ordered Liu Lei to lead Wang Wei’s Pterosaur Army to seal the city gates and hunt down fleeing rebels.
• The officials and Chongzhen watched in shock as the rebels were trapped in Beiping, while Zhu Yuanzhang urged Zhu Ying to ensure none escaped.

Zhu Yuanzhang’s army crushed Li Zicheng’s rebel forces with Pterosaurs, Velociraptors, and Imperial Guards, then captured and executed Li Zicheng and his generals. The chapter ended with an Imperial Guards commander reporting that the sentence had been carried out.

• Zhu Yuanzhang ordered his forces to slaughter the rebels as Pterosaurs and Velociraptors routed them throughout Beiping City.
• Li Zicheng saw the Pterosaurs and Velociraptors, tried to fight through the beasts, and was captured with more than a dozen generals.
• Chongzhen revealed that the emperor confronting Li Zicheng was Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
• Li Zicheng and his generals begged Zhu Yuanzhang for mercy, but Zhu Yuanzhang ordered them cut into a thousand pieces.
• An Imperial Guards commander reported to Zhu Yuanzhang that Li Zicheng and his subordinates had been executed.

After the rebels were defeated, Zhu Yuanzhang blamed the Donglin Party for the Ming Dynasty’s troubles and ordered their estates confiscated. When the guards uncovered eighty-five million taels of silver, he sentenced the officials and their households to brutal punishment.

• Chongzhen Zhu Youjian thanked Zhu Yuanzhang for saving the Ming Dynasty, but Zhu Yuanzhang blamed court infighting for the rebellion and targeted the Donglin Party.
• Zhu Yuanzhang praised Li Guozhen for defending the capital, then accused the Donglin officials of harming the court and the people.
• Fan Jingwen begged for mercy and argued that disasters and an empty treasury, not the officials, had brought the Ming Dynasty to ruin.
• Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the Imperial Guards to confiscate the Donglin officials’ estates, and they seized eighty-five million taels of silver.
• Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the Donglin officials executed, their male relatives killed, and their women exiled into slavery.

Zhu Yuanzhang crushed the Donglin Party rebellion, then made Zhu Youjian recount Ming history from the Jianwen Emperor through the Tumu Crisis. The chapter ended as Zhu Youjian began explaining the Oirat advance on Beiping after Emperor Yingzong of Ming Zhu Qizhen was captured.

• Zhu Yuanzhang seized fifteen chests worth five million taels of silver from Fan Jingwen, then ordered him and the other Donglin Party officials executed.
• Zhu Yuanzhang asked Zhu Youjian to recount Ming history, and Zhu Youjian explained that Zhu Yunwen inherited the throne after Zhu Biao and the Imperial Grandson died in that world.
• Zhu Youjian said Zhu Yunwen's harsh attempt to weaken the feudal princes provoked Zhu Di's rebellion, after which Zhu Di took the throne and Zhu Yunwen disappeared.
• Zhu Youjian described Zhu Di's military and civil achievements, including his northern campaigns, the Yongle Encyclopedia, and Zheng He's voyages.
• Zhu Youjian recounted the Rule of Ren and Xuan, then said Wang Zhen's influence led Emperor Yingzong of Ming Zhu Qizhen to lose the Tumu Crisis and be captured by the Oirats.
• Zhu Youjian began explaining that the Oirat army advanced on Beiping City after capturing Zhu Qizhen.

Zhu Youjian recounted the Ming Dynasty’s rulers after the Oirat invasion, while Zhu Yuanzhang condemned Zhu Qizhen’s execution of Yu Qian and questioned how later emperors weakened the dynasty. The account ended with Zhu Youjian describing Zhu Youxiao’s obsession with carpentry, favoritism toward Wei Zhongxian, and the unrest caused by disasters.

• Zhu Youjian explained that Yu Qian and other officials supported Zhu Qiyu as emperor, and that they defeated the Oirats after they entered Beiping City.
• Zhu Ying and Zhu Youjian described Zhu Qiyu’s confinement of Zhu Qizhen, Zhu Qizhen’s return to the throne, and his execution of Yu Qian; Zhu Yuanzhang angrily denounced Zhu Qizhen.
• Zhu Youjian recounted Zhu Jianshen’s reign and the Hongzhi Restoration under Zhu Youcheng, which pleased Zhu Yuanzhang.
• Zhu Youjian described Zhu Houzhao’s indulgent habits, and Zhu Ying defended him as capable in major crises despite his unsuitability for emperorship.
• Zhu Youjian and Zhu Ying traced the decline through Zhu Houcong, Longqing, Wanli, and Zhu Changluo, noting neglect of state affairs and growing corruption.
• Zhu Youjian reported that Zhu Youxiao neglected governance for carpentry, favored Wei Zhongxian, and ruled during natural disasters and widespread unrest.

Zhu Yuanzhang learned that the Ming Dynasty faced rebel armies and a future Tatar invasion, and he chose to deal with Wu Sangui first. At Shanhaiguan, Wu Sangui heard that Li Zicheng had entered the capital and decided to wait for the rebels to weaken one another.

• Zhu Yuanzhang spared Ni Yuanlu after Zhu Ying defended his loyalty, then promoted him to Grand Secretary of the Cabinet.
• Zhu Youjian reported the rebel forces across the realm, and Zhu Ying warned that the Tatars and several Ming commanders threatened the dynasty.
• Zhu Ying identified Wu Sangui and his Guan Ning Army as the first force to confront, and Zhu Yuanzhang agreed to attack him.
• A messenger told Wu Sangui that Li Zicheng had entered Beiping City, leaving Wu Sangui to fear that the Ming Dynasty was doomed.
• Wu Guigui urged Wu Sangui to fight Li Zicheng for the realm, but Wu Sangui chose to wait for Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong to fight first.

Wu Sangui plotted to ally with Dorgon and open Shanhaiguan Pass so they could enter the Central Plains, while Zhang Xianzhong prepared to seize Sichuan. Zhu Ying’s army arrived at the pass before Dorgon’s forces could cross, leaving Wu Sangui uncertain who was approaching.

• Wu Sangui dismissed Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong as unreliable and sent Wu Guigui to persuade Dorgon to invade through Shanhaiguan Pass.
• Zhang Xianzhong and Wang Zhaoling agreed to speed up the conquest of Sichuan while Li Zicheng became a target for rival forces.
• Wu Guigui told Dorgon that Li Zicheng had reached the capital and proposed an alliance with Wu Sangui; Dorgon agreed to enter through Shanhaiguan Pass.
• Zhu Ying led twenty thousand Imperial Guards, ten thousand Dinosaur Legion soldiers, and three thousand Wang Wei Pterosaur Army troops to Shanhaiguan Pass.
• Wu Guigui reported that Dorgon would assemble his army in ten days, but a soldier then warned Wu Sangui that a large force was approaching.
• Wu Sangui saw Zhu Ying’s approaching army and wondered whether it was the Court Army and whether Chongzhen had defeated Li Zicheng.

Zhu Ying's Ming Dynasty Imperial Guards, Pterosaur Army, and Velociraptor Army defeated Wu Sangui's Guan Ning Army and captured Shanhaiguan Pass. Wu Sangui was executed, while his nephew Wu Guigui reached the barbarian army's camp outside the Great Wall.

• Wu Sangui mistook Zhu Ying's approaching army for the Court Army and ordered his troops to fight when they attacked Shanhaiguan Pass.
• Zhu Ying refused to use the Red-Clad Cannon and sent the Pterosaur Army and Velociraptors into battle.
• The Guan Ning Army's defenses collapsed under the combined attacks, and Wu Sangui ordered his troops to retreat beyond the Great Wall.
• Zhu Ying's forces pursued the fleeing army, captured Wu Sangui, and reduced the Guan Ning Army to a few hundred men.
• Zhu Ying identified himself as the Ming Dynasty's Imperial Grandson, accused Wu Sangui of colluding with the barbarians, and ordered Liu Lei to execute him.
• Zhu Ying occupied Shanhaiguan Pass, while Wu Guigui arrived at the barbarian army's main camp outside the Great Wall.

Dorgon sent fifty thousand Tatar troops to retake Shanhaiguan Pass, but the Imperial Guards repelled them with cannons and muskets. Zhu Ying returned to Beiping, where he planned to pacify the Central Plains before turning against the Tatars.

• Wu Guigui asked Dorgon to send reinforcements to Shanhaiguan Pass, and Dorgon rushed there with fifty thousand troops.
• Zhu Ying confirmed that Wu Sangui and the Guan Ning Army had been defeated, then left twenty thousand Imperial Guards to defend Shanhaiguan Pass while leading his main force back toward the capital.
• Dorgon killed Wu Guigui and ordered an assault on Shanhaiguan Pass, but the Imperial Guards' artillery and muskets inflicted devastating losses and forced the Tatar army to retreat.
• Zhu Ying arrived at the imperial palace in Beiping and told Zhu Yuanzhang and Chongzhen that Wu Sangui was dead and Shanhaiguan Pass was secure.
• Zhu Ying and Zhu Biao agreed that the priority was to quell unrest in the Central Plains, defeat Zhang Xianzhong, and bring wavering Ming generals under control before confronting the Tatars.