Chapter 126: These Two
Dolgon, who was leading his troops to quickly return to Beijing, also soon received the news that Beijing had fallen and the Ming army had attacked the Forbidden City.
After receiving this news, Dolgon's whole person was stunned, completely incredulous.
"What's going on?" Dolgon angrily threw his horsewhip on the ground, yelled viciously at the sergeant who came to report it, and without waiting for the other party to answer, jumped off his horse, knocked down the frightened sergeant with one punch, and shouted again: "If you lie about the army, this king will break you to pieces." ”
The sergeant who reported the news was frightened away, rolled on the ground several times, and then got up, trembling and crawling in front of Dolgon, and broke Beijing by the Ming army, the Ming army besieging the city had occupied the palace, all the royal family members became prisoners of the Ming army, and the other nobles in the city scrambled to flee first, and the chaos in Beijing was told again.
Before the sergeant could finish the story, the second messenger ran up to Dolgon.
Hearing that there was not much difference in the content of the reports of the two sergeants, Dolgon no longer doubted that the city of Beijing had really been captured by the Ming army. Oh my God, how could this be! Dolgon sighed in his heart, only to feel that it was dark in front of him, and all the strength of his body had been drained, and he slowly fell.
This frightened the guards half to death, and a large crowd rushed forward to pick up Dolgon, and called out one after another, and some poured goat's milk on him.
After a while, Dolgon slowly woke up, looked at the surrounding situation blankly for a while, and then shook his spirit, pushed away the guards holding him, and roared angrily: "Come over to Prince Yu immediately!"
"Yes, master!" Several guards around him agreed, jumped on the war horse quickly, and ran away without a trace.
After a while, Duoduo, the prince of Yu who led the front army to the front, carried the billowing dust and sand, and the flying horse ran in front of Dolgon.
"Brother Fourteen. What is the matter with me? Waiting to fly back to Beijing, Duoduo jumped down without waiting for his horse to stop, ran to Dolgon in three steps and two steps, and asked in a loud voice, "Has the Ming army caught up again?" ”
Because the servant army behind the palace was defeated, there was no way to resist the pursuing Ming army, and he was worried that the pursuing Ming army would follow them to Beijing, leaving the Qing army vulnerable to the enemy, and Dolgon had to stop several times to fight the pursuing Ming army. What is surprising is that the pursuing Ming army is super combative, and the musket shooting is almost no different from positional warfare. The Qing army that volleyed suffered heavy losses. In order to avoid greater trouble, the front army led by Duoduo had to join the ranks of counterattacks, which reluctantly repelled the pursuing Ming army.
It's just that the pursuers, who suffered huge losses, did not retreat because of this, but killed them desperately, and the Qing army, which also suffered heavy losses, had almost no way to get rid of the pursuers. I'm afraid that Dorgon will have an unexpected Dord. did not run far with the front army, whether it was Dolgon or Duoduo, they all thought that the Ming army's partial division could not quickly break through the city of Beijing, which had more than 100,000 defenders. Even if the Ming army arrived with an equal number of men and horses, it would not be possible to break through the city gate in a short time. Now the rest of them are almost all the elites of the Qing Dynasty, and they must not suffer great losses, otherwise the Qing Dynasty will really have no soldiers to fight.
This also made the speed of reinforcement much slower than expected. The successive defeats caused Dolgon to hesitate, and he was also worried that the speed of return would be too fast, causing the entire Northern Naoli to collapse. Dolgon at this time. Still wanted to hold Beizhili, he subconsciously believed that the Ming army's sneak attack on Beijing was not really to capture the city of Beijing, but to force the Qing army to withdraw.
Dolgon believed that now the Ming army led by Cao Yue was at the end of its strength, and their ammunition and food must be scarce. The Ming army's way of fighting a war, the loss is very amazing, with the financial resources of the Ming ******, it is difficult to support a long-term war, so Cao Yue had to play this card that he must deal with, and sent a partial division to attack Beijing, the purpose is to fight for the Ming army to recuperate, and then sit on the mountain to watch the tiger fight, and watch the Qing army and Li Zicheng's rogue fight to the death, and reap the benefits of the fisherman.
Dolgon knew that Cao Yue's hasty northern expedition was not to allow the Liukou to be completely wiped out by the Qing army, and to give the Liukou a chance to survive, so that after the Liukou recovered, he could consume the strength of the Qing Dynasty. And Cao Yue can take advantage of the desperate battle between the Qing Dynasty and the Liukou and the rebellious Jiang Jiao brothers, start a rest, replenish all kinds of military supplies, and wait for the Qing army to fight with the Liukou, and then come up and insert a knife.
Dolgon was very helpless, but he also knew that Cao Yue made this move, he would definitely take it, even if Cao Yue really just forced the Qing army to retreat, after all, Beijing has now become the capital division of the Qing Dynasty, and it is the lifeblood of the Qing Dynasty.
Duoduo also agreed with Dolgon's point of view, thinking that the Ming army only sent a partial division to attack Beijing, but the loss of Tianjin Wei was of great importance, so after retreating to repel the Ming army attacking Beijing, he would find a way to recover Tianjin Wei, or temporarily block the canal from Tianjin Wei to Beijing to prevent the Ming army's sailors from passing through. Beijing is not a place to stay for a long time, and this point is different from that of Dorgon, especially in the current situation, Duoduo thinks even more, he feels that it is necessary to move the capital back to Shengjing, otherwise the risk is too great.
But unexpectedly, the Ming army's partial division actually broke through the city of Beijing, and after Dolgon heard the news, he fainted in a fit of rage, and Duoduo was also stunned and crumbling after hearing the news. "Brother Fourteen, how can this be? The Ming army had a division of tens of thousands at most, how could they break through the city of Beijing in such a short period of time? There must be a traitor in the city, and the city gate should be opened to join the Ming army. ”
Duoduo's words also made Dolgon suddenly understand, but when he thought about it, it was not quite right, even if there was an internal response, the Ming army would break through that city gate at most, how could it be possible to break through the palace very smoothly and occupy the Forbidden City?
While the two brothers were discussing and suspicious, a messenger from Beijing arrived at them, and after listening to the report, Dorgon and Dordo probably understood what was going on. It turned out that Zhezhe and Bumu Butai ordered the defenders of the entire city of Beijing to give up resistance and handed over the defense of the imperial city to the Ming army, which occupied the palace almost bloodlessly after breaking through the Chaoyang Gate.
"The two queen mothers actually ...... Is it the internal response of the Ming army? Dordor burst out in a dumbfounded sentence, "How is this possible?" ”
Dolgon's face changed several times in an instant, and finally became very hideous, he drew his saber, raised it viciously in the air, and then roared at the sky a few times, and then gritted his teeth and said to Dordor: "Maybe it was really because of those two women, it was they who broke up the Qing army in Beijing City and allowed the Ming army to occupy the palace smoothly. These two cheap women, this king must kill them!" (To be continued.) )