At the same time, the military operation against the six important towns of the Qing Dynasty was definitely a big deal, and when the news reached the guards of the six places, they were all shocked: Daming has such power? What can I do?

Especially the Qing Dynasty's Ning Yuan guard, the current Ning Yuan guard will be the Qing Dynasty general Gang Lin, for Lin Yi's transfer of troops, he simply felt incredible, originally he thought that Lin Yi would definitely storm Ningyuan City with a large number of people and a strong army, he had already prepared, and the 10,000 Qing troops in the city were ready to fight.

However, the Ming army's more than 100,000 troops did not attack the city, but divided the troops into more than a dozen routes, advancing by land and water, not for his Ning Yuan? Do you want to do something to Tashan, Xingshan, Songshan, Jinju and Uiju behind you? The camp of the Ming army in front of him was not opened, and he was a little at a loss.

A few days later, another Ming army team came out behind Ning Yuan City, and Ganglin didn't dare to act rashly.

The defenders of Tashan, Xingshan, Songshan, Yizhou and Jinzhou do not dare to act rashly now, Ningyuan has 10,000 Qing troops to garrison, and the remaining five places have the most troops, of course, Jinzhou has 20,000 defenders, Yizhou has 20,000 defenders, and then Tashan, Xingshan and Songshan each have 5,000 Qing troops to defend, that is to say, the Qing army in the six places plus one only has more than 60,000 people, the strength is limited, the enemy is current, of course they have to defend their positions first.

The Qing army of the six places honestly stayed in place, and Lin Yi wanted this effect, lest they echo each other, and then clean up one by one!

Since the defeat of the Qing army Huanggutun, Dolgon was seriously wounded, they retreated to Ningyuan City with thousands of remnants of the defeated generals, after the timely rescue of the military doctor, Dolgon's fate was saved, but then want to lead the troops to lead the team across the battlefield to recuperate for at least a few months, and the power in the army is temporarily under the command of Prince Hauge of Su.

Haoge, Aoluo, Sonny and others discussed that they must immediately return to Beijing to recuperate, first, the regent Dolgon needs to return to Beijing to recuperate from his injuries, and second, the grim situation must be faced with the empress dowager and the emperor, and they must re-recruit troops and horses, otherwise it will be difficult to stop the iron hooves of the Ming army's northward advance.

After they discussed, they asked Ganglin to lead 10,000 horses to hold Ningyuan, and the other five places were the original defenders, so that they could step up their precautions and respond to each other to ensure the safety of the Ningjin defense line.

Because the current Ningjin defense line is too important to the Qing Dynasty, this is the gateway of the Qing Dynasty. Even this line of defense is more important than the Ningjin defense line outside the Daming Pass at the beginning.

Originally, these six places were like six rivets on a board, and they worked at the same time to ensure that this iron plate was firm and secure.

But they knew that the troops in these six places were too limited, Lin Yi led the army to arrive, the enemy was outnumbered, and Shi Daqing suffered defeats, wounded soldiers and lost generals, and morale was low, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, they said that they would go back and let the Queen Mother send rescue troops again, so that they must stick to wait for help, the rescue troops will arrive soon, and those who slack off must be severely punished.

Then Haoge Ao Bai Soni and others led the remnants of the defeated army to protect the seriously wounded Dolgon who returned to the capital of the Qing Dynasty, that is, Shengjing, that is, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province in later generations.

After Haoge returned to the Qing Dynasty with the remnants of the defeated army, the whole country was shaken. In just a few months, the Qing Dynasty suffered a series of defeats, from the defeat of Shanhaiguan to the defeat of Huanggutun, and the elite of hundreds of thousands of Qing troops were wiped out.

You must know that their ancestors Nurhachi and Huang Taiji strategized, worked hard, worked diligently and unremittingly for two generations, and only then did they have the scale of the Qing Dynasty today, and more than half of the national strength was lost in these two defeats!

You must know that the Qing Dynasty is not monolithic now, the dynasty is conquered on the surface, but it is not a thing in the pool, they have long been ready to move in private, and when they learn this news, they may not have something to do.

Because the DPRK is still willing to form an alliance with the Ming Dynasty from the heart, as a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, the DPRK has gained a lot of benefits from it over the years and tasted the sweetness.

After they were conquered by the Qing Dynasty, the only increase every year was heavy forced labor and taxes, and the people in the country were miserable.

In addition, there is Mongolia, including Monan, Moxi, Mobei, the eagle on the desert has never been a fuel-efficient lamp, although over the years under the planning of Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, this eagle can not fly, it is divided, but Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan's father and son created the Dayuan entrepreneurship will always be an example for their various tribes, in addition to their alliances and affinity firmly enveloped the Horqin, Khalkha, Zalut, Kerdos and other tribes, many Mongolian tribes do not really support the Qing Dynasty, are the grass on the wall, with the wind, Which side of the wind is hard and falls to which side.

Now, a few tribes, such as the Weng Niute, the Tumut Right Wing, and the Chahar Bahrain Division, have not all broken away from the Qing Dynasty and re-allied with the Ming Dynasty?

If the Qing Dynasty is not strong, these separate Mongolian troops are just a small beginning, and if the Qing Dynasty is just established, it will be fragmented, and if there are no Mongolian tribes, only the Manchurian Tartars will remain, and they will be even more powerless to fight against the Ming Dynasty, so the country will not be a country!

Therefore, when Haoge Aobai and Sonny carried the injured Dolgon to kneel down in front of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang who accompanied Xiao Shunzhi, this graceful woman who was just 30 years old was furious, and her face was murderous, and the table was slapped, and the needles in the hall could be heard.

Six-year-old Xiao Shunzhi blinked, he seemed to look at the queen mother for a while, look at the minions kneeling below, and then look at Xiao Dezi, who had promised to lead him to play in the back garden, but now he didn't even dare to let go of a fart and hid aside.

What makes the Empress Dowager of Xiaozhuang even more intolerable is that Huanggutun killed three big traitors, two Beizi Baylor, Wu Sangui, Kong Youde and Tong Yangjia in the first battle, this is not enough, they are useful big traitors and big lackeys when they are there, and they can be sealed no matter how they have merit, but it is not as good as a dog when they die, because they are Han people and they are not Manchurian after all.

But Man Dahai and Yue Le are different, the two of them are not only Manchu, but also the best of the Manchurians, that is the grandson of Taizu Nurha, who is not slippery at all, not mixed with any fakes, died young, both died, and the regent Dolgon almost died on the battlefield and got it back dying, how can they be embarrassed? How to be worthy of the ancestors of the Qing Dynasty? How do you comfort the spirits of our fathers and fathers in heaven? In fact, the ancestors and ancestors are not listed, because there are only two or three tablets in the ancestral hall of the Qing Dynasty at present!

Dolgon is now seriously injured, otherwise the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang will not take care of the situation and must severely punish this regent in the next decree, seeing that he has no merit and hard work, and finally comes back alive, only to fine Dolgon a year's salary.

However, Prince Su, Ao Bai, Sony, Ganglin, Xihan, etc. were severely punished, deprived of three years' salary, and demoted by one level to see the after-effects.

Then Xiaozhuang sent the imperial doctor to treat Dolgon, and held the funeral of the two Beizi Belle, Yue Le and Man Dahai's bodies did not come back, but they also had to build a spiritual shed, set up a tablet into the ancestral hall, and then Xiaozhuang pulled Xiao Shunzhi to kneel in front of the ancestors and the ancestors of the ancestors to cry loudly, and finally cried in front of the Huang Taiji tablet to complain about grievances.

"Please mourn the Queen Mother, after all, the Queen Mother's phoenix body is important, I have an eventful autumn in the Qing Dynasty, the regent in front of me is injured, and the Qing Dynasty depends on Lafayette." The personal eunuch Xiao Anzi knelt down and persuaded bitterly.

In the end, Xiao Anzi, who was in his forties, returned to Cining Palace with his thirty-year-old Xiaozhuang, and Xiaozhuang was in a state of turmoil, so he invited two scholars, Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan, to summon the right one.

The two hardcore traitors hurriedly knelt down and asked the Queen Mother Lafayette to say goodbye.

When the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang asked how the two of them could resist the Ming Dynasty, Fan Wencheng, a scholar of Hongwenguan University, was also an old minister of the Three Dynasties, serving Nurhachi, Huang Taiji, and now serving Emperor Shunzhi, in fact, serving the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang and Dolgon.

Fan Wencheng knelt down and said: "Don't worry, the Queen Mother, although the regent is injured, the Qing Dynasty still has the emperor and the Queen Mother, although the emperor is young, but the Queen Mother is blessed with Qitian, and the Qing Dynasty is safe." This time, the Ming Dynasty is nothing more than Lin Yi's trouble, the Ming Dynasty now exists in name only, and the hairy boy surnamed Lin can toss for a few days? The queen mother can use the Han to control the Han and let them take care of their own internal strife. ”

Fan Wencheng is worthy of being "Hanchen No. 1", this hardcore traitor is filial piety and brilliance.

"Lord Zaifu is high-minded, and the mourning family wants to hear the details."

"The Queen Mother." Fan Wencheng continued, "Don't look at the control of the Ming prince surnamed Lin, and what kind of prison he has made for himself, but the current Ming Dynasty is not in the hands of a person surnamed Lin, although Li Zicheng is gone, isn't there still Zhang Xianzhong?" Zhang Xianzhong is now also the emperor in Sichuan, and established the Great Western Kingdom. In addition, according to the knowledge of the slaves, there is also the Zheng family of Fujian on the coast of southern Xinjiang, Zheng Zhi Longshu has deep roots, rich can reach the country, the private army alone has more than 30,000 people in the navy, thousands of warships, even the western maritime power The Dutch Navy was also defeated in the hands of the Zheng family, their Zheng family sits on the southeast coast, as if they have become the overlord of the sea, the merchant ships of the East and the South and Western Oceans, coming and going to and from the Taiwan Strait, only know that there is the Zheng family, I don't know that there is the Ming Dynasty, which one must not look at Zheng Zhilong's face to act? When Emperor Chongzhen was there, Zheng Zhilong accepted the imperial court's recruitment and was crowned Nan'anbo, the general town of Fujian. It can be said that there are two sides of government and business, black and white, and one hand covers the sky, but now that Emperor Chongzhen is gone, can he Zheng Zhilong convince him surnamed Lin? Needless to say, just one Zhang Xianzhong and Zheng Zhilong can turn the Ming Dynasty upside down. ”

The Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang was overjoyed: "What Lord Zaifu said is very true, and I also ask Lord Zaifu to work hard to promote this matter as soon as possible, just say that I, the Qing Dynasty, am willing to conclude an alliance with Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi and Zheng Zhilong, and work together to eradicate Lin Yi, and the Ming Dynasty can divide the world from the Yangtze River and Qinling."

Fan Wencheng knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "The slave is willing to work for Lafayette and serve the dogs and horses of the Qing Dynasty."

The Empress Dowager of Xiaozhuang immediately ordered two wills, one for Zhang Xianzhong, the king of Daxi, and the other for Zheng Zhilong, the overlord of the South China Sea, and prepared two generous gifts, gold and silver beauties, let Fan Wencheng take them and set off on an auspicious day.

The Empress Dowager of Xiaozhuang remembered something again, the purging Wang Haoge and Ao Bai played a fold to her, Lin Yi's troops pressed the border, and after the defeat of the Qing Emperor Gutun, he would inevitably attack Ningyuan and Jinzhou, how to resist? The Ningjin defense line must not be lost.

At this time, Ning finished speaking with me, "The Queen Mother is really smart, she was confused for a while, and there was a peerless master by her side, not at this time, but when?" ”

Ning Wan and I are as famous as Fan Wencheng, both of them are Hanchen, both are university scholars, and both are old ministers of the Three Dynasties, and they have made great contributions to the Qing Dynasty.

"Ning Zhongtang is referring to Lord Hong."

Ning Wan said: "Exactly, Lord Hong is a person who is important to the emperor, and his strategy is not under the regent, so let this person lead the army to resist the enemy, and the Ningjin defense line can be worry-free, so as to win the opportunity for Fan Gong's planning."

"The words of Lord Zhongtang made the mourning family suddenly open, how did the mourning family forget him, come to someone, and send an edict to see Hong Chengchou."

After Hong Chengchou surrendered, he held an important position in the Qing Dynasty, and the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang felt that it was time to use this person.

Soon Hong Chengchou knelt down in front of Xiaozhuang and Shunzhi.

The Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang asked him to command the enemy.

Hong Chengchou's eyes rolled, Dolgon Hauge can't do these people, can I? This Lin Yi is not easy to deal with, it is said that this kid is a demonic existence.

When I was an official in the Ming Dynasty, the kid surnamed Lin became the climate, and many powerful people, including Sun Chuanting, Li Zicheng, Huang Taiji, etc., were planted in his hands.

If I don't succeed, these Tartars will have to chop me alive, don't look at the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang who is now gentle like water, smiling like a flower, and will not spit out bones when she eats people.

Thinking of this, Hong Chengchou knelt on the ground and excused himself: "The Queen Mother is really a slave, the slave is weak, has no power to restrain the chicken, has no name, has no talent, and asks the Queen Mother to invite another master, misleading state affairs, and the crime of the minister."

The Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang's eyes flashed when she heard this, and suddenly shot out two fierce lights, these two rays of light were simply three points into the wood, directly penetrating Hong Chengchou's heart.

"Lord Hong, I am experiencing a disaster in the Qing Dynasty, is Lord Hong unwilling to share the sorrows of the mourning family?"

"The minions don't dare." Hong Chengchou hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, "The Queen Mother Mingjian, the slave is only shallow in learning, and he really doesn't dare to take this big responsibility, if it doesn't work, the slave will die, and it will be difficult to escape the blame." At present, although the regent is injured and sick, I am in the Qing Dynasty, and there are many talents, and Prince Su Haoge is an all-round talent, ten thousand times stronger than the minions......"

As soon as Hong Chengchou said this, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang immediately interrupted him.

"Lord Hong thinks that his official position is small, and he can't control these civil and military generals, right, how good is it to talk about it? The mourning family immediately presented the emperor to the emperor, and crowned Hong Aiqing as the crown prince Taibao, the secretary of the military department and the right capital of the Imperial Palace, and the great commander of the expedition to the south, and gave the Son of Heaven a sword reward, wearing a yellow coat, no matter who he was, he did not listen to the dispatch, and he would cut first and then play. ”

Hong Chengchou's heart moved, such a powerful woman, she couldn't be quite rude in her heart, so she didn't dare to shirk anymore, and quickly kowtowed to thank her.

"Thank you to the Queen Mother and the Emperor for their support, the slaves must do their best, and they will repay the Queen Mother and the Emperor for their kindness." After finishing speaking, he lay on the ground and faced the Queen Mother and Xiao Shunzhi, and knocked his head three times.

Empress Xiaozhuang smiled, "Lord Hong, the Ningjin defense line is related to the lifeblood of my Qing Dynasty, because after Ningjin is the capital master, there must be no mistakes, the mourning family wants to hear Lord Hong's strategy to resist the enemy." ”

"Please rest assured that the queen mother and the emperor have a dangerous city in Ningjin, the aid of Yizhou, the screen of the three mountains, facing the sea, the back of the hills, and the large and small Ling River behind Jinzhou, you can attack when you advance, you can defend when you retreat, as long as there are three inches of minions, you can be foolproof of Ningjin."

"Lin Yi's use of troops is strange, the morale of the Ming army is flourishing, my Qing Dynasty has suffered defeats, morale is low, Lord Hong cannot fight with him, as long as he can hold on, within a year and a half, the surname Lin will inevitably retreat, and at that time, Lord Hong will lead the troops to chase and kill, then Lin Yi will be defeated."

"Obey the Empress Dowager's decree."

The Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang immediately ordered someone to draft a decree, and then gave the holy decree, the yellow coat, and the sword of the Son of Heaven to Hong Chengchou.

With these things, Hong Chengchou's mental arithmetic was in his stomach, the reason why he didn't accept the order just now was because he was afraid that Haoge and Aobai would be proud of their achievements, and they would not listen to his dispatch, and look down on him as a Han, and now he has no worries, and he can finally throw off his arms and do a great job.

To tell the truth, since he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in the Battle of Ningjin, Huang Taiji, the current Dolgon and the Empress Dowager of Xiaozhuang, have been very kind to him.

In particular, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang was tender to him, so that he couldn't help but think about it, and now he is so wantonly sealed, this is really a grace of heaven and earth, and now the Qing Dynasty is in trouble, and it is also time for him to show loyalty to serve the new master.

Hong Chengchou was full of ambition, and after receiving the will of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, he spent more than half a month to transfer troops and generals, and requisitioned 50,000 troops.

One night, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang summoned Prince Su Hauge in the secret room.

In addition to her henchman eunuch Xiao Anzi, and the special palace maid Su Malagu, they are the two of them.

Hauge fell to his knees, respectfully, and kowtowed upward.

In fact, Haoge is several years older than the Empress Dowager of Xiaozhuang, but Haoge still has to be called "Queen Mother" and call himself "Erchen".

The Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang said to Haoge: "Do you know why you came?"

"The son is stupid, please make it clear to the queen mother."

"Alas," the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang sighed lightly, "if it is not my race, its heart will be different." ”

As soon as the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang said this, he immediately understood the intention of the Empress Dowager, and hurriedly kowtowed to the Empress Dowager and said: "Please rest assured that the Empress Dowager dares to be disloyal to the Empress Dowager and the Qing Dynasty, the retainers will definitely let his head fall to the ground."Chinese New Year's Eve

"Alas, I've really wronged you."

Of course, Haoge knew what the Queen Mother meant by the grievances, shook his head and said: "The Queen Mother, Erchen doesn't feel aggrieved at all, for the sake of the Qing Dynasty's Jiangshan Sheji, even if Erchen leads the horse for Lord Hong, he will not give up."

The Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang smiled happily and waved her slender jade hand at Haoge who was kneeling on the ground, "Kneel down, after your triumphant return this time, the mourning family will definitely recommend you to replace the regent of Dolgon." ”

"Thank you to the queen mother, the minister will retire."

Hauge got up and stepped out.

The next day, 50,000 troops, under the personal send-off of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, left the capital division of the Qing Dynasty and went straight to Jinzhou.