On the third watch day, it was ten minutes in the middle of the night, but the city of Beijing under the heavy snow was already like day.

At this time, Beijing has already imposed a curfew, and it is not as vibrant as the south, and the whole city is silent, and only occasionally there will be a fast and slow sound from the streets, and the city will have to wait until the fourth watch day, when officials are ready to go to court, will it be more lively.

At this time, outside the Yongding Gate of Beijing City, on the official road in the distance, a rapid sound of horses' hooves came, and several Qing soldiers with urgent flags, carrying a round bamboo tube behind them, rushed to the city.

There are many types of expedited letters, different ones, and different flags are planted, and like this group of Qing soldiers, they carry urgent letters on their backs in bamboo tubes, and those who know some ways will know at a glance that it must be an 800-mile urgent military report.

The cavalry galloped to the Yongding Gate, and the cavalry led by him immediately raised his head and shouted to the city; "Quickly open the door, eight hundred miles of urgent military report, to beat the regent."

"Open the gates..."

The cavalry shouted two or three times, and only then did the soldiers at the head of the city stick out their heads tremblingly. He looked down and saw that there were only seven or eight Qing cavalry under the banner of urgency, and immediately reported to the Qing general on duty, and the cavalry below put the passing orders and arrows into the hanging basket, and after a while, the city gate slowly opened, and the cavalry who reported the news immediately rushed into the city and galloped towards the regent's mansion.

Watching the cavalry go away, the Qing soldiers closed the city gate from the new, and muttered while pushing: "In such a hurry, it won't be another defeat in the south, right?" ”

Several Qing soldiers sighed a little when they heard this, they lost Jiangnan last year, every household in Beijing did not have a good New Year, and many people did not even eat vegetarian dumplings, and it was only the third day of the first lunar month, and there was an urgent military report coming, so this year is even worse than last year.

The sound of horses' hooves galloped through the streets, and soon entered the inner city through the Zhengyang Gate, and finally stopped sharply in front of the Regent's Palace.

On the third day of the first lunar month, the Manchu Dynasty had not yet opened the dynasty, although there were still officials on duty in the military department, but the situation was serious, and the regent must be informed first.

The cavalry led by him immediately turned over and dismounted, stepped on the steps covered with thick snow, and hurried to the gate of the palace, beating the copper ring, and shouting: "Eight hundred miles of urgent military report, must be reported to the regent immediately!" ”

The door knocked a few times, squeaked open, but only one head was exposed, the other head looked around, frowned slightly, this midnight three watches, disturbing people and Qing Xiu, everyone has fire, not to mention the prime minister's third-grade official in front of the door, he, the regent's doorman, how can he be regarded as a second-grade official.

"Urgent military report, you must report to the regent immediately!" The cavalry at the head of the leader, seeing his head stretched out, hurriedly said again.

After hearing this, Menzi glanced at a few cavalrymen, all of them looked like dusty soldiers, their faces were full of exhaustion, and their lips were dry, if it was someone else, he would naturally want to play a prestige, but he didn't dare to rush the military situation.

Although it was said that the New Year holiday, but the state affairs were not going well, Dolgon was not allowed to rest, and he was busy until the third watch when he just returned to the house, resting with the Mongolian princess Borzigit, and just as he was about to fall asleep, he was gently pushed awake by Borzigit, "Lord! Rajah! ”

Dolgon was very tired, and his whole body was much older, he half-opened his eyes, propped himself up with one hand, and wondered, "Is it the fifth watch?" ”

After that, he was ready to get up, and there was still a lot of official business waiting for him to deal with.

"Lord Wang, it's only been the third watch, it seems that there is an urgent military situation sent here, and it must be reported immediately."

It was only three days ago, and Dolgon's body immediately appeared with a sense of fatigue, but when he heard that it was an urgent military situation, his heart was shocked, and what he was most afraid of now was that something unpleasant would happen again, so he fell asleep at all.

Dorgon lifted the quilt and sat on the edge of the bed, and Borzigit, wearing a belly pocket, knelt on the bed and hung up the veil. Dorgon sat still for a while, and when he looked up, he saw a eunuch kneeling in front of the bed.

After Borzigit hung up the veil, he got out of bed and brought a cup of strong tea to Dolgon, and then got into bed again, Dolgon took the teacup and took a sip, cleared his mind, put the teacup on the table next to the bed, and asked, "Is it the military report sent by King Yu from Yangzhou?" ”

In November, in order to alleviate the Qing army's destruction of Jiangbei, Wang Yan gathered 80,000 horses, with the advantage of the water division, crossed the Yangtze River from Zhenjiang, attacked Yangzhou, Duoduo 800 miles to rush into Beijing, after Dol Roll learned, was considering whether to give up Yangzhou, retreated to Hefei and Xuzhou, packed up the troops, so as to turn to the defense, but Duoduo's second report, and then transmitted to Beijing, after the Ming army arrived at the city of Yangzhou, but did not attack the city, but concentrated on building their own camp, as if waiting for the Qing army to attack.

The Qing court therefore judged that the purpose of the Ming army was only to threaten Yangzhou and force the Qing army that had plundered Jiangbei to reinforce Yangzhou, thus ending the destruction of Jiangbei.

The situation was not urgent, and Yangzhou was an important town in the north of the Yangtze River, which directly threatened Jiangnan, so it was a pity to give it up, and some people in Manchuria suggested that Yangzhou should be used as a condition in exchange for a truce with the Ming Dynasty to seek benefits, so the plan to abandon Yangzhou was temporarily shelved.

Now isn't it that the Ming army suddenly began to attack the city, and Duoduo urgently reported to Beijing?

Dolgon thought it was news from Yangzhou in the south, but the eunuch who was lying on the ground replied: "Master Qiqi, it's not the prince of Yu, it's the urgent military information sent by the king of Pingnan in Henan, and it is said that it is 100,000 urgent." ”

Henan? A few years ago, there was a report from Henan that came to Beijing, saying that the Azig raid on Huguang was very smooth, the Ming army closed the city and defended itself, and did not dare to fight in the field, and the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry was invincible, and the looted materials had been transferred back to Luoyang, how could there be 100,000 urgent military reports?

Dolgon was stunned for a moment, could it be that something had happened in Henan, he hurriedly got up and stepped out of the big bed, "Where is the urgent report?" Show it to the king! ”

The eunuch who was lying on the ground immediately opened the bamboo tube, poured out a roll of military newspapers, and held it high.

Dolgon walked over, picked up the military newspaper, unfolded it and looked at it, his face turned white instantly, the whole person was like a lightning strike, the military newspaper fell directly to the ground, his legs and feet were weak, he only felt dizzy, staggered back a few steps, saw that he was crumbling, the kneeling eunuch was shocked, hurriedly got up, and held Duo'er rolling.

When Borzigit on the bed saw it, he was also shocked, and approved a coat, so he hurriedly got out of bed, picked up Dorgon, and scolded: "Dog minion, what have you shown your master?"

Dolgon was helped back to sit on the edge of the bed, and the eunuch listened to Borzigit's reprimand, and quickly kowtowed, but Dolgon suddenly shouted, "Twelve brothers! Kill me too! ”

The Borzigit clan listened to Dolgon's cry of pain, and his face showed a look of horror, "What about the Twelfth Master? ”

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