As the minister left behind in Shengjing, after Huang Taiji led the army to conquer Songshan, all affairs in Shengjing City were presided over by Dai Shan.

During this time, he didn't have a good rest, and worked until late at night every day. There are too many things to be busy, the logistics and military supplies of hundreds of thousands of troops, and the daily affairs of Shengjing, Dai Shan has to personally take care of them, which is really harder than leading the army to fight. It was the same tonight, when it was almost time, he lay down, and as soon as he touched the pillow, he fell asleep.

Just as he fell asleep, he was awakened by a loud noise, sat up with sleepy eyes, didn't know what was going on, and was busy asking people around him. It's just that the incident happened suddenly, and the people in the house don't know what happened.

By the time the situation was clarified, the Ming army that had entered the city had already set fire to the two military camps in the city and began to attack the palace.

When Dai Shan hurriedly organized the guards in the palace and rushed to the palace to prepare for reinforcements to resist, the palace had already been breached by the Ming army. Dai Shan never dreamed that such a thing would happen. Frightened, he was scattered, and while ordering his own soldiers to hurry out of the city to rescue the soldiers, he could only lead the personal soldiers around him to enter the palace quickly, preparing to cover the queen and the princesses to flee for their lives.

On the way into the palace, Dai Shan hoped that the palace guards would be able to withstand the attacks of the Ming army, and that he would have time to rescue the women and children.

There were not many soldiers around Dai Shan, only fifty or sixty horsemen. If it was peacetime, as the owner of the two red flags, he had at least four or five hundred soldiers around him, but when the initial battle of Songshan was unfavorable, the Manchu Qing people mobilized, and all the troops were dispatched, and the two red flags of Daishan were also requisitioned, and most of his personal soldiers were requisitioned, and only fifty or sixty horsemen were left.

If there are hundreds of elite cavalry soldiers around him, Dai Shan is not worried too much, he believes that the number of Ming troops attacking Shengjing will not be very large, with the combat effectiveness of hundreds of cavalry and eight banner warriors, it is not a problem to eliminate the Ming army that is coming, but now there are few soldiers and horses in his hands, and there are not many soldiers and horses outside the city, and he can't be transferred into the city at once, how not to let him worry.

After entering the palace, Dai Shan saw the flames rising into the palace and the incessant sound of explosions, which made him anxious.

When entering the palace through the east side gate, Dai Shan met the palace people who had gone to summon him, and only then did he fully understand the seriousness of the matter.

But at this time, Dai Shan still didn't believe that this was done by the Ming army.

In Dai Shan's eyes, after several defeats, the elite of the Ming army was lost, and the rest were greedy for life and afraid of death. Now that the power of the Ming Dynasty cannot solve the siege of Songshan in Jinzhou, it is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to take the initiative to launch a counterattack against the Qing army, let alone attack Shengjing.

Dai Shan's first thought was that the Mongols "took advantage of the weakness", and several or a certain Mongolian tribe took advantage of the Qing army to attack the Ming army, and took the opportunity to attack Shengjing. However, he couldn't think of which tribe it would be, the main elites of the Mongolian tribes also followed the Qing army to attack Songshan and Jinzhou, and there were still thousands of people left behind by the Qing army to defend Shengjing, and no tribe dared and had the strength to attack Shengjing. However, in a hurry to enter the palace with his own soldiers, he got the exact news.

The Ming army turned out to be the Ming army who suddenly attacked Shengjing.

The Ming army not only broke through the gate of Shengjing City, but also the gate of the imperial city was breached, and the Ming soldiers like wolves and tigers were burning and looting in the Qing Imperial Palace. After confirming the news, Daishan was so surprised that he almost thought he was dreaming. Who led the Ming army, who had such courage and strength, rushed for hundreds of miles, easily broke through Shengjing, and attacked the palace.

Dai Shan really couldn't think of who among the generals of the Ming army had this ability.

He didn't have time to think about it, the matter was too urgent, and he had to escort the queen and the imperial concubines, elder brother, and Gege to a safe place when the Ming army attacked the core of the palace. He hoped that the Qing army outside the city, as well as the Qing army from other gates in the city, could quickly rush to the aid and encircle and annihilate all the Ming troops who attacked in the city.

At this time, Dai Shan still believed that the Qing army was several levels higher than the Ming army in terms of combat effectiveness, and as long as the men and horses galloping to help could be in place as soon as possible, the situation could still be controlled. After rushing to the palace, Empress Zhezhe's Qingning Palace, he also immediately asked the empress and the imperial concubine to move immediately, and he was ready to personally lead troops to escort these royal nobles out of the city.

But something he didn't expect happened, when he was guarding Zhezhe and the other imperial concubines, elder brothers, and Gege who had finally gathered and were about to leave the palace, the Ming army that rushed to the palace had already killed them.

A volley of musket bullets hit, and the Qing soldiers who were ready to meet the Ming army fell in a large area. Dai Shan was so shocked that he could only give a death order, so that his own soldiers around him still had a palace guard, and he would stop the pursuing Ming army at all costs.

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In the darkness of the night, Cao Yue didn't know where he rushed with the sergeant.

He has never been to the palace in Shengjing in the Qing Dynasty, although it is not as big as the Forbidden City, but there are many palace buildings, hundreds of horsemen and horses on both roads, almost indiscriminately killing people and setting fire in the palace, almost no sense of direction.

In the darkness of the night, no matter who he encountered, he would cut down people and burn houses when he saw them.

After attacking Shengjing City, Cao Yue wanted to inflict the greatest damage on the so-called capital of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the greatest damage to the Manchus who stayed in Shengjing. In a word, those who can be destroyed will never be left behind, and those who can be killed will never be let go.

The main thing that rushed into the palace was Cao Yue's Jiading troops, the Jiading troops were originally the strongest fighting arms in the Ming army, and the Eastern Association Army was the elite of the Ming army, it can be said that the Jiading troops led by Cao Yue were almost not weaker than the Qing army in the level of cavalry and archery, not to mention, they were equipped with muskets.

Cao Yue ordered that when he encountered a relatively large number of Qing people, or a resolute guard who resisted, he would shoot with a musket first, and if the number was small, the palace maids and eunuchs would encounter it, and they would cut it with a knife. After storming the palace, the family members fired several rows of guns, and quickly destroyed the resistance of the palace guards. After all, the number of guards in the palace is not large, and the palace is large, so there is no way to organize effective resistance in a panic.

Fighting a war turned out to be so simple, and the combat effectiveness of the army equipped with firearms completely overshadowed the army with cold weapons, and Cao Yue's self-confidence grew.

"Those women and sons and daughters who must kill Huang Taiji are all in one place," Cao Yue roared viciously at himself in his heart.

When he rushed to the depths of the palace and saw a large group of people in front of him desperately fleeing, Cao Yue also gave the order to shoot very decisively. It's just that the resistance of this man is very stubborn, although the front row of people was shot down by muskets, but the people behind did not flinch and continued to rush forward. Seeing this scene, Cao Yue was not worried, but overjoyed, he felt that he might have met an important person in the palace.

Therefore, he immediately ordered to annihilate the Qing army that dared to resist, and wipe out all the Jiannu he encountered earlier.

Hundreds of wolf-like soldiers were already red-eyed, howling and rushing forward, quickly eliminating those Qing soldiers who dared to resist. "General, Jiannu women, a lot of Jiannu women and children," one sergeant shouted as he pointed to the front.

By the light of the fire, Cao Yue also saw that there were Qing army sergeants and children of Jiannu women in the large group of people fleeing in a panic in front of him, and he was overjoyed, "Maybe I met Huang Taiji's woman and child, haha!"

At that moment, the order was again given to exterminate all those who dared to resist, and to take all the women and children prisoner first.

Huang Taiji's women and children, Cao Yue certainly wouldn't kill them so easily. No matter what aspect he considered, he couldn't kill these people now, he had to use other means to demonstrate to Huang Taiji and give Huang Taiji the greatest humiliation.

Of course, the family members showed more courage, and quickly wiped out most of the Qing soldiers who resisted, and in the end only an old man with a long sword remained, with a few men who were also armed with weapons, but did not take the initiative to attack, guarding a group of women and children behind them.

These people did not take the initiative to attack, but only guarded the women and children with weapons, and Cao Yue knew that their identities were not simple. Immediately ordered the sergeants, spare their lives, and he will be captured alive.

Finally, hundreds of family members surrounded the remaining Jiannu group in a compound. Inside the encirclement, there were women and children and cries, some of whom had already been killed in the chaos just now, and crying and fear were the instinctive manifestations of the rest of the people now.

"Don't hurt them, we surrender," the old man in the red cloak at the head shouted to the people around him to drop their weapons.

"Who are you?" Cao Yue, escorted by several personal soldiers, rode slowly to the old man who threw down his weapon, but threw his head high and stood tall, guarding the woman and the child behind him. It seems that this man is quite heroic.

"This king is the Prince of Daqingli, Aixin Jueluo Daishan," the old man replied angrily, and then pointed to the group of women and children behind him and said: "This king is willing to take any punishment from you, you can kill this king, this king can give you all the gold and silver wealth in Shengjing City, but please let them go." ”

Dai Shan, like many Manchu aristocrats, spoke fluent Chinese.

"Haha, it turns out that you are the Prince of Jiannu, Sheng Jing stayed behind, and the general was really fortunate to capture you alive," accidentally caught Dai Shan, a figure who was in a high position in the early Manchu Dynasty and influenced an era, Cao Yue was a little surprised. But he soon went berserk, laughed twice, and then immediately shouted angrily: "But why should Ben listen to you? You are now a captive, and you are not worthy of any conditions. The crimes committed by your Jiannu against our Ming soldiers and civilians are too numerous to mention, and there are still fewer Han people you have killed on behalf of others? ”

"You ...... It's really a Nanming barbarian...... Is it really the Ming Army? Dai Shan didn't know whether he was frightened or scared, but he still dared to ask, "Can you tell this king who you are?" What ministry do you have? ”