Chapter 723: The Regent of the End (Middle)
The old doctor departed, and Zilharan stood in front of Dorgon.
The white sheets set off Dolgon's pale countenance, and his eyes opened and closed, then snapped open again, as if they were returning to the light.
"Why Am I Defeated at Your Hands"
At first, his voice was very high, and the tone of his voice fell little by little, and by the end it was all heavy gasps. He gasped, and a trail of blood welled up from the corner of his mouth.
Zilharang looked flustered, turned his head and shouted in the direction of the door of the big tent: "Call the doctor, call the doctor"
Dolgon's head shook lightly on the pillow, and he said in a very weak voice, "No, this king is fine"
Zilharang looked at the regent worriedly, the Qing Dynasty couldn't do without him now.
"Do you think I'm going to die?" Dorgon wanted to laugh, but his facial muscles seemed to be frozen and he couldn't move.
"Do you know, when I was in the grassland, in Tumut, I had the opportunity to kill him, but in the end, Yue Tuo died at the hands of that person." It was as if Dorgon was speaking to Zilharan, and as if he were speaking to himself.
"Yue Tuo wanted to recruit Tumut, like that person, but I didn't expect him to become my old enemy of the Qing Dynasty, Yue Tuo and I were defeated in his hands, and who can say for sure what is going on in the world. If God doesn't let me clear the world, why should he let us see hope. ”
At that time, he regarded Yue Tuo as his opponent in the court.
He felt the fishy smell at the corner of his mouth and reached out his right hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his lips.
"You say, is it wrong for this king to give a shaving order?" he asked the question that everyone in the Manchu court was afraid of.
Zilharang still didn't dare to say bluntly: "Lord, rest in peace, I still have 100,000 armor soldiers in the Qing Dynasty, and if I endure it for a while, I will definitely be able to regain the world."
Dorgon shook his head: "It's over, we're leaving"
"We can't capture Jinan City, Zhai Zhe will soon break through Xuzhou. When the time comes, we will suffer the enemy in the belly of this place, and don't lose all the warriors of the Eight Banners on the land of the Han people. ”
Zilharan was surprised at first, but when Dorgon had finished speaking, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Has the regent finally figured it out? It's the shape of shì forcing people to have to do this.
He didn't expect that Dolgon would now want to cut off his head with a knife.
More than 10,000 soldiers watched under the city of Jinan for three days, waiting for the Ming army in the city to strengthen the city defense and raise supplies, and watched the righteous army in Shandong gather in the city next year to form an impregnable city defense.
"The best time has passed," Dolgon said, closing his eyes.
"Order, ordering Bo Luo and Li Chengdong to abandon Xuzhou and go north along the canal"
"Ordered Hong Chengchou and Lucketthun to retreat to the north of the Yellow River"
"Ordered Azig to return from Shaanxi to Shanxi"
"Lord" Zilharang didn't expect Dolgon to give up so completely once he made a decision.
"The soldiers and horses of Xuzhou are all defeated, and the king is weak and powerless, unable to control the overall situation. Look at all the soldiers who saw me vomiting blood today, and we must not let the news leak out. Zhai Zhe gathered the Huaiyang army to the north, and the 50,000 troops of Li Laiheng in Luzhou had also crossed the Huai River.
Dolgon felt his own weakness, the weakness that he could not return to. He waved his hand and motioned for Zilharang to do his best to give orders.
Until the tent was empty, he grabbed the white sheet with his right hand and muttered, "Let's decide the winner under the city of Beijing."
Because of the excitement, his face was slightly bloody.
The Qing soldiers outside Jinan City are like a performance, galloping under Jinan City every day, and then go away.
Meng Kang knocked on the masonry on the city wall boringly, and made a "tuk-tuk" sound: "You say, why don't Dolgon attack the city?"
Shi Lang was also puzzled, thinking about it, he asked hesitantly: "Could it be that Dolgon really suffered from heat stroke?"
The first wave of Qing soldiers crossed Jinan to the north, and the battle flags carried by the soldiers were like banana leaves that had been wilted.
The cannon at the head of Jinan City rang out, and more than a dozen iron balls crossed the black trajectory in the air and landed far away from the retreating Qing soldiers. The Ming army seemed to be demonstrating, and it was also like a farewell. In fact, it's just that Meng Kang can't stand the silence outside the city.
Two days later, Dorgon was still lying in the tent. He could get up and stand and walk, but the slightest movement was dizzy in his brain.
A man with slender eyes knelt in front of his bed, he was Dolgon's close attendant Mu Jilun, who had just come from Xuzhou to the outside of Jinan. He couldn't figure out why the regent had become like this in just a few days.
"Mu Zilun, have you received a military order?"
Mu Jilun's face was full of sorrow, and said: "The slave met the messenger who ordered him to go on the way, after the prince left, the shape of Xuzhou was very bad, the army was defeated, the army was disheartened, and the soldiers were shouting to return to their hometown outside the city, and the Ming army outside Xuzhou City added a lot, and Xuzhou was almost unable to hold it."
There was no reply from the sickbed for a long time, and Muzilun looked up and saw that Dorgon was looking at him, but his eyes were wandering and he was in a daze.
"Lord Wang," he shouted boldly.
Dolgon's face was gloomy, he was not in Xuzhou, and he knew what was born there.
"As soon as this king leaves Xuzhou, will anyone dare to make trouble?"
Mu Jilun already knew the military order, and said boldly: "No, it's just that the Ming army is under fierce artillery fire, and hundreds of people die in the city every day, and Xuzhou really can't hold it."
He came to ask for help, and when Zilharang was in Huai'an, he brought two more Yellow Banner soldiers, and after Dolgon replaced Zilharang, he reactivated the white flag guards he trusted. The contradiction between the two yellow flags and the two white flags is already in the same situation.
Dolgon, of course, knew that Muziren was lying, and there was no point in pursuing it now.
Squad after squad of cavalry headed north.
Many squires from Shandong drove carts mixed with soldiers and horses.
After another two days, the wooden boats in the canal were connected, and there was no edge in sight. The Jurchens and Han Chinese crowded the bow of the ship under the scorching sun overhead.
The white flag guards Muzilun and Sukh Saha were maintaining military discipline along the way, and the regent ordered that anyone who talked nonsense to deceive the army should be beheaded immediately.
The rebel army at the head of Jinan City watched nervously every day as countless Eight Banner soldiers marched north.
Meng Kang held a clairvoyant mirror in his hand, looked at it for a while, and bragged to several rebel commanders around him: "See, these are the Jurchens who were defeated by my Ming regent and fled back."
He shook his head and regretted: "It's a pity, Dolgon was not fooled and refused to attack Jinan City, we have prepared all those things in vain."
Zhang Tiaofu and several other commanders of the rebel army did not dare to answer, and according to their few years of wandering experience, the Jurchens were much more terrible than the Han army.
"Why don't we go out of the city and attack?" Meng Kang thought suddenly.
Zhang Tiaofu and the others turned pale, they were not afraid of death, but seeing the majestic war horses and shiny armor of the Jurchens outside the city, they knew that going out of the city was equivalent to sending them to death
Shi Lang couldn't help it, pointed to the city and said, "My lord, the Qing prisoners have long been prepared, and there are thousands of cavalry over there who have been circling Jinan City. ”
"I saw it a long time ago," Meng Kang pouted: "That's what I said." ”
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