In the palace of Prince Rui in Beijing, there is an endless stream of people these days, and Dolgon has been indulging in wine for a long time, and it has reached the point of running out of oil and lamps.

At a young age, like his younger brother Dodor, he was surprisingly lascivious and unrestrained. Especially after entering the customs, the complacent Dolgon indulged in sexual indulgence.

Hai Dongqing, who was fierce in the white mountains and black waters, is now like a sick chicken, with black eyes and an emaciated body, indicating that this uncle of the Manchu regent who was incredibly lucky has reached the end of his life.

On the yellow rosewood bed with golden curtains, Dolgon struggled to sit up, and Xiaozhuang and Fulin on both sides had complicated expressions.

Dolgon looked around, and some remorse was born in his heart, after entering the customs, the Huahua World completely consumed his fighting spirit, making him the most despised Zhu Ming vassal king before.

Dolgon coughed, and the handmaidens around him hurriedly caught it with a white scarf, and secretly hid the bloodshot handkerchief in his sleeve.

"Where did Li Haoxian from the Agni Camp hit?"

The surrounding Manchurian ministers were silent, and no one dared to speak, for fear that Dolgon would die directly after he was in bad spirits, and then he would fall into blood mold.

Seeing that no one was talking, Dorgon became even more angry, and thumped the bed board and asked, "Speak!" Where did Li Haoxian hit? ”

Xiaozhuang glanced at him and said softly: "It's time to get to the river, Prince Su and Prince Ying have already led the troops, you take care of your health." ”

Dolgon sneered and said, "Brother Hao and Azig have already arrived at the Daimyo's Mansion, but Li Haoxian still hit the river, pointing out that it is better for them to retreat outside the gate as soon as possible. ”

Hearing the words "retreat outside the gate", most of the people present were bright-eyed, they were not stupid, they had long seen that they were not the opponents of the Northern Expeditionary Army. Although the Huahua World in the Central Plains makes them linger, these people have not yet given birth to the illusion that robbers have become masters.

In their opinion, even if they withdraw from Guanwai this time, it will not be regarded as a failure. It was an incomparably successful raid, a hundred times greater than any previous harvest, and if they wanted to, they could carry countless belongings, slaves, beautiful women... Back to Kanwai.

Dolgon suddenly became furious, and even stood up by himself, and scolded: "Li Haoxian, the southern thief, is the second thief after Hou Xuanyan, and he has forced us to retreat to the pass several times. ”

When the Qing court arrived at this time, it was surprisingly united, and when it heard this, it fell to its knees. They all asked Dolgon to think twice, his body was here, and it was difficult to say whether he would be able to reach the battlefield alive when he was in command.

Dolgon couldn't help but say that he insisted on going on the expedition, and he knew that his time was short, but he did not want to die in bed.

There are really a lot of soldiers and horses in Dolgon's hands, and his chances of victory are not low, this time it was only a fire battalion of the Eastern Route Army, and the Manchu court was not very afraid. The reason why I was so frightened that I almost fled outside the pass last time was because the Middle Route Army and the Eastern Route Army went hand in hand, and this time Wu Sangui dug up the Yellow River and blocked the 230,000 people of the Northern Expedition Middle Route Army in Xuzhou, which was an opportunity for the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

What they are most afraid of is that Li Haoxian stops, just like Hou Xuanyan arranged, waiting for the middle route army to enter Gyeonggi together.

However, Li Haoxian made a military order and vowed to ask for battle, which shook Hou Xuanyan's determination to march step by step and let him march alone.

The whole world is optimistic about the invincible fire camp, which can defeat the Manchu Qing in one fell swoop, and even Wu Sangui and other hardcore traitors are ready to flee to Shu and take advantage of the danger of Shu Road to survive.

In September, Dolgon personally took command and led two white flags and 300,000 Han Nu soldiers and cannon fodder from the trap to the river to fight Li Haoxian.

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Under the city of Xiangyang, the well-prepared loyal battalion finally began to attack the city, and Hou Xuanyan mobilized all the artillery in Huguang, a total of more than 300 guns, and bombarded Xiangyang City for a day.

Countless cannonballs poured on the city wall, and Du Yinxi and the other generals of the loyal battalion watched from a distance, and their hearts ached.

The walls of Xiangyang were repaired and strengthened by them themselves, and every brick had helped them resist the onslaught of the four feudatories, and if it wasn't for the traitors who opened the city gates, they were confident that they would have been defending Xiangyang.

Hou Xuanyan didn't care at all, this time he broke Xiangyang, and he didn't have to defend it anymore. A full-scale counteroffensive has been launched for a long time, and in the original plan, he would be able to steadily attack Beijing by the end of this year. If it weren't for the trick of breaking the embankment of the Yellow River and using water as a soldier, Henan at this time would have been surrounded by them in a bowl-shaped encirclement, and the siege on three sides would have been taken long ago.

From early morning to dusk, finally in the cheers of the loyal camp, a wall at the south gate of Xiangyang collapsed.

Hou Xuanyan was overjoyed and ordered all artillery to aim at the gap and blow up a bigger gap.

The bright moon rose, Hou Xuanyan gave an order, and the loyal battalion soldiers began to charge.

Kong Youde in the city drew his sword and shouted, the gate of Xiangyang slowly opened, and cavalry from Liaodong swarmed out of the city.

Hou Xuanyan's siege of the city exceeded Kong Youde's imagination, in his opinion, the Hunan army camp was trapped in Xuzhou, and the loyal battalion surrendered half of itself, and he was absolutely at ease in Xiangyang.

Who knew that there was a Hou Xuanyan, who had the energy to mobilize the power of the whole province to attack Xiangyang.

Kong Youde's temper was also completely beaten, and the moment the city wall collapsed, he reorganized his elite cavalry and opened the city gate to take the initiative.

Because of the surrender of Tian Jianxiu and others, he knew the situation of the loyalty camp well, and Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi agreed that even if Hou Xuanyan came to Jingxiang, he would not send troops to attack Xiangyang.

Hou Xuanyan gave an order, and the Chinese army waved, and the horns sounded from all over the place. The loyal battalion bravely marched forward against the enemy cavalry, and a fierce battle unfolded on the outskirts of Xiangyang.

The sky was getting dark, and the battlefield was full of fire, and the night shone like day. After the hand-to-hand battle, both sides were red-eyed, Kong Youde shuttled back and forth in the battle formation with a big knife, this guy is indeed a little brave, no wonder he was taken by Mao Wenlong at a glance.

Yuan Zongdi, a fierce general in the loyal camp, stepped forward and smashed the head of Kong Youde's personal soldier with a knife. Kong Youde was the prince of the Qing court, but his temperament of advocating force was even greater than that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and he laughed and fought with Yuan Zongdi into a bunch.

Hou Xuanyan stood on the lookout car and commanded, seeing that although his side had an advantage, this advantage did not support him to be able to carry the problem of few troops and conquer Xiangyang, a fortified city that had resisted the Mongol Yuan army in its heyday for decades.

"It's time to show my cards..."