Chapter 21: Dolgon
Zilharang was imprisoned in a tent not far from Wang Pu's tent, and he heard everything Wang Pu deliberately said to Huang Taiji.
Overhearing such a big news, the shock in Zilharang's heart can be imagined! Now that Huang Taiji has been captured alive, the Eight Banners army has no leader, if Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and Shang Kexi are allowed to make trouble from the three internal annihilators, the Eight Banners army on the Songshan front line will be in danger!
Zilharang secretly made up his mind that he must try to escape.
Heaven pays off, and the opportunity will soon come.
Originally, there were two family members who were responsible for guarding Jierharang, one was guarding the first half of the night, and the other was guarding the second half of the night, but it was not yet the middle of the night, and the family who was responsible for guarding the first half of the night may have eaten a bad stomach, so he woke up the family who was guarding the second half of the night, and after a few words, he took his pants and went behind a low wall not far away.
The house keeper who was woken up muttered twice in a daze, and fell asleep again.
The opportunity was fleeting, and Zilharang, who was pretending to be asleep, hurriedly struggled to sit up, because his hamstrings had been broken, so he had to crawl out of the tent with both hands, and two horses were tied to the tent less than ten steps away.
As soon as he climbed out of the tent, a group of Ming patrols passed in front of the tent, and Zilharang quickly shrank into the artemisia grass next to the tent, and the Ming army almost walked in front of Zilharang, but fortunately, the sky was dark, and the artemisia grass was half a man high, so Zilharang was not discovered.
When the Ming patrol was far away, Zilharang crawled out of the grass.
By the time the man had finished his meal and had just come out from behind the low wall, Zilharan had already unreined his horse, and climbed onto his horse's back with great effort.
"Drive."
Jierhelang shook the reins of the horse slightly, and the war horse under the crotch let go of its four hooves and galloped wildly.
"Oh no, Jiannu ran away." The convenient family member shouted, "Jiannu has run away, chase after it!" ”
Zilharang urged the horse to gallop, rushed out of the Ming army camp at the fastest speed, the night breeze was blowing, the front was the boundless Liaodong Plain, looking back, a team of Ming troops with torches had just chased out of the camp, Jilharang sneered, smashed the horse, and disappeared under the dark night sky like a whirlwind.
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Before Duoduo could lead five thousand white-flaged cavalry across the Liao River, Zilharang was brought to him by the rangers.
At this time, Duoduo didn't know that Shengjing had been lost, and he didn't know what the intention of Huang Taiji to send him and five thousand cavalry with white flags back to Shengjing was intended, so the marching speed was not particularly fast, and he had only traveled less than three hundred miles in two days and nights, and had just entered the Shaling Post on the west side of the Liao River.
When the pro-soldiers came to Duoduo with the unkempt and ragged Zilharang, Duoduo couldn't believe his eyes, how did the dignified Minister of Shengjing of the Qing Empire, the owner of the Blue Flag, Prince Zheng Zierharang become like this?
"Prince Zheng, what's wrong with you?" Dodor exclaimed, "How did it get to this? What's wrong? ”
"Quick, quick!" Zilharang urged the horse to gallop for most of the night, already exhausted, and gasped, "Go to Lianyun Island, Lianyun Island ......"
"To Lianyun Island? What to do in Lianyun Island? Duoduo was stunned and said, "Isn't Lianyun Island the naval army garrison of King Sanshun [King Sanshun: King Kong Youde of Gongshun, King Geng Zhongming of Huaishun, and King Shang Kexi of Zhishun]?" What am I going to do there? Besides, the emperor has a will to let the king lead the troops back to Beijing. ”
"The emperor has been arrested!" Ji'er Harang said hurriedly, "Now that I am being escorted to Lianyun Island by the Ming army, it will be too late!" ”
As soon as Zilharang finished speaking, the pro-soldiers and generals around Duoduo changed their faces one after another, the emperor's arrest was not a trivial matter, and it was simply the sky falling for the entire Qing Kingdom.
"The emperor has been arrested!?" Duoduo frowned and said, "Prince Zheng, this kind of joke can't be messed around. ”
"Who's kidding you." Jierharang said angrily, "Prince Yu, you'd better lead the army to Lianyun Island to intercept the Ming army immediately, if you miss the opportunity to let the Ming army take the emperor captive to Guannei, you will be the sinner of the entire Great Qing Kingdom!" ”
Duoduo's face changed at this time, and he exclaimed, "Prince Zheng, what you said is true?" ”
"Of course it's true. ”
"But what is going on?" said Dordor. How was the emperor arrested? ”
Zierharang said: "This matter will not be clear for a while, in short, Shengjing is lost, the emperor has also been arrested, this king has to rush to Songshan to report the news, Prince Yu, you should hurry up and lead the army to Lianyun Island." ”
Duoduo said solemnly: "Okay, without further ado, this king will lead his army to Lianyun Island." ”
Duoduo also ordered Belenikan [the third son of Nurhachi's eldest son, Zhenying] to lead 200 cavalry to escort Zilharang to Songshan, and then led 5,000 iron cavalry to rush to Lianyun Island.
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Matsuyama, Dolgon's Ledger.
Dolgon was convening the prince of Su, Hauge, the king of Wuying, Azig, Rao Beyler Abatai, the king of Sanshun, and the princes and ministers of Ganglin, Xifu, and Sony.
After the defeat of the main force of the Ming army of more than 100,000, Hong Chengchou only led more than 10,000 remnants to retreat to Songshan City, and received the Tang report of the defeat of Songshan, although Emperor Chongzhen had the intention to rescue Hong Chengchou, but there was really no soldiers to send in the pass, and as a last resort, Emperor Chongzhen could only symbolically send thousands of Ming troops to relieve the siege of Songshan, and was completely annihilated by the Qing army.
Soon, the Qing army divided its troops and captured the two cities of Lianshan and Xingshan, so far, the connection between Songshan, Jinzhou and Ningyuan was completely cut off by the Qing army, and it was only a matter of time before the city was broken and people died. In view of the fact that the Qing army had already won the victory, in order to avoid greater casualties, Gang Lin, Sonny and other ministers proposed a long-term siege of Songshan.
Dorgon summoned the people to his tent to discuss a plan for a long siege.
The meeting was only halfway through, and Zilharang entered the tent with the support of two Qing soldiers, and Jilharang's embarrassed appearance surprised Dolgon and others, and Bel Baiyintu, who had always had a good relationship with Zilharang, rushed forward to support Jilharang and shouted: "Prince Zheng, what's wrong with you?" ”
"Out, something big is wrong."
After Jilharang escaped from Liaoyang, he galloped all the way to Songshan, and the whole person was already close to a state of collapse, and he collapsed in Baiyintu's arms with his eyes closed after only saying a word.
Dolgon hurriedly said: "Quick, quickly invite the imperial doctor left by the emperor in the army!" ”
The imperial doctor took two coats and was busy for most of the hour and finally woke up Zilharang, and Dolgon, Hauge and others hurriedly gathered around Zilharang's bed, eager to know why Zilharang was the same?
Hauge, who was impatient, was the first to ask, "Prince Zheng, what's wrong?" ”
"Prince Su." Zilharang looked at Hauge and sighed, "The heavens of our Great Qing Kingdom...... collapsed. ”
"The sky is falling?" Hauge asked, confused, "What is the sky falling?" ”
Zierharang's eyes turned, and he saw Kong Youde, the king of Gongshun, Geng Zhongming, the king of Huaishun, and Shang Kexi, the king of Zhishun, from the crowd, and immediately shouted in anger: "Quick, quickly arrest Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi, don't let them run away, hurry!" ”
Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and Shang Kexi's faces changed greatly, and they were so frightened that they quickly knelt on the ground, Kong Youde grabbed his head and cried: "Your Royal Highness, the servants have been loyal to the Qing Dynasty since they returned to the Qing Dynasty, why does His Royal Highness the Prince say that we are annihilated?" The minions are really wronged. ”
"Wronged? Hum. Zilharang sneered, "If it weren't for my own ears, this king would never have imagined that you would be the annihilator sent by the Nanming barbarians to go undercover in my Great Qing Kingdom!" ”
"Wronged, minions and so on."
Kong Youde and the three of them were so frightened that they were like sifting chaff, kneeling on the ground and crying out for wrongs, don't look at the three of them are kings like Zilharang, they look infinitely beautiful, but in front of the Manchurians, they are a lowly minions, if Jilharang wants to kill them, it will be as easy as pinching an ant to death.
"Wronged?" Zierharang shouted, "If it weren't for your secret help, how could the 1,000 elite soldiers of Wang Pu, the commander of the Southern Ming Datong, pass through the Songshan camp of my Great Qing Army?" If it weren't for the secret help of your house slaves who stayed in Shengjing, how could Wang Pu's army deceive the city gate and break through Shengjing? ”
"What?" Hauge was taken aback and lost his voice, "Shengjing was broken by the Ming army?" ”
Zilharang gritted his teeth and said: "The Ming army not only broke through Shengjing, but also burned the entire city, and the magnificent palace and your mansions are in ruins!" Even Prince Li and this king have become prisoners of the Ming army, if this king is not able to escape on the way, I am afraid that at this time, I am afraid that he has been escorted to Lianyun Island by the Ming army with the emperor, Prince Li, Concubine Chen, and Concubine Zhuang. ”
"Ahh Prince Li and the emperor were captured by the Ming army? ”
Dolgon, Hauge and others turned pale in an instant, the emperor was arrested, and the sky of the Great Qing Kingdom really collapsed!
Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi are even more dead-faced, there is such a big disaster in the Qing Dynasty, and the three of them are loyal to the Qing Dynasty, but I am afraid that they will not escape death.
"Prince Zheng!" Hauge roared angrily, "What nonsense are you talking about!? ”
Zilharang shook his head and said: "I didn't talk nonsense, the Ming army didn't know that the emperor had returned to Beijing, Wang Pudu had already led the army to leave Shengjing, it was Kong Youde who sent someone to inform Wang Pu, Wang Pucai led the Ming army to kill a horse gun, and the emperor was defenseless and suffered misfortune." ”
"Kong Youde!" Haoge turned his head and glared at Kong Youde and the three of them, gritted his teeth and said, "This king killed you......"
"By the way, kill them!"
"Dare to betray the emperor and chop them up and feed them to the dogs."
Daishan's sons Shuoto, Sakhalian and Abatai echoed each other, and the crowd was furious.
Although Ganglin, Xifu, Sonny and others want to persuade them, they are only low-status ministers, and they can't get involved in the affairs of the royal family at all, and the Han people surnamed Tong Yang, Fan Wencheng, and Li Yongfang don't dare to speak.
Seeing that Hauge and the others were furious, and were about to divide the bodies of Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and Shang Kexi, Dolgon suddenly raised his hand and shouted: "Slow! ”
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