Yuan Chonghuan's death is not only tragic, but also can be said to be very stifling.

China's ancient dynasties, it seems that at the end of each dynasty, are eventful period. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, this is the case, there are peasants within the revolt, the outside of the back of the gold regime of the eye of the tiger. It was against this background that Yuan Chonghuan, a great general of the Ming Dynasty at the time, was killed.

In Chongzhen two years (1629), after the Jin leader Huang taiji rate hundreds of thousands of troops attacked the Ming, and after the Jin army in the battle, the army crossed the Jizhou to the west, forced the capital, and learned of the situation, Yuan Chonghuan immediately led the troops back to the capital, outside the city and the Jin army fierce fighting, and finally, after the retreat of the Jin army, "" the siege of Kyoto "solution. The siege of Kyoto" solution. Yuan Chonghuan rate of troops from a long way back to the capital "King", and repulse the enemy, not reward is just, instead of being punished.

Yuan Chonghuan was criminalized because of this "king", because the capital in the country, the Jin army is all the way to the capital, so the courtiers of some people to Chongzhen emperor impeachment that Yuan Chonghuan collusion with the Jin army, and intentionally let the Jin army into the customs, Wen Tiren is one of the ministers of the impeachment of Yuan Chonghuan, while the Wen Tiren, a minister of the reason why the impeachment of Yuan Chonghuan, is to borrow the matter of Yuan Chonghuan to bring down their own political rivals, so as to stabilize their own position.

But Yuan Chonghuan's military achievements, and has a "king" of the merit, even if the Chongzhen emperor according to the impeachment of the courtiers, some doubt, but also can not be so to deal with a meritorious minister. At such a time, after the gold Huang taiji sent people to spread the news that Yuan Chonghuan and after the gold have agreed to deliberately let the Jin army into the pass. The suspicious Chongzhen Emperor, thus Yuan Chonghuan prison, sentenced Yuan Chonghuan "death by lynching", family exile.

Physical pain, we must know that the death of ling chi is a famous ancient torture, a little bit of colloquialism is "death by a thousand cuts". This kind of punishment, ordinary people psychological estimates can not withstand, not yet on the field on the faint dead. Even Yuan Chonghuan couldn't bear the feeling of not being able to live and not being able to die, so he was finally tortured to death.

Spiritual pain, defending the national territory of a generation of Ming General suddenly became a character of a thousand accusations, this was misunderstood by the people of the country's mood I think only I can feel how aggrieved.

Family members were implicated, the ancient idea of the nine clans is very scary, Yuan Chonghuan was convicted, his family and friends can not escape punishment. Most of them were exiled, bearing in mind that many people at the time would have preferred to commit suicide rather than be exiled.

Summary: a generation of famous general Yuan Chonghuan, did not die on the battlefield, but died in the hands of their own people, or death by lynching, so Yuan Chonghuan's death is not only miserable, but also more suffocating.