Three days before Zhu Youzhen arrived in Tongzhou, Dolgon had just left Tongzhou City.

Although none of the Qing troops of Tianjin Wei escaped, Dolgon himself sent scouts to inquire about the news of Tianjin Wei.

Therefore, he now also knows the news of the loss of Tianjin Wei.

But.

This time.

When Dolgon learned the news, he did not show any more manic attitudes, but only hummed and ordered to return to Beijing.

Dolgon knew that the general trend was gone, and he also knew that the victory of the Ming army's Northern Expedition was a foregone conclusion.

But everyone has the psychology of fantasy and dying struggle.

The same is true of Dolgon, who also thinks it is feasible when he learns of Mingle's plan to ambush the Ming army in Triangle Lake, and even fantasizes that he can inflict a heavy blow on the Ming army.

But what Dolgon didn't expect was that his Qing Dynasty was still defeated.

Dolgon was also a little depressed, he didn't understand why the fate of himself and the Qing Dynasty would change so much, he knew that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen, was in Tianjinwei, not far from Tongzhou, and he even wanted to meet him, to meet the Chongzhen Emperor who suddenly interrupted the prosperity of the Qing Dynasty.

Dorgon couldn't help but think of the old days, when he also lost the throne and lost his woman, but he did not lose his self-confidence, nor did he fall into complete ruin.

But now

"Send an order to Azig, let him immediately start destroying the palace and the temple, and after ten days, all the civil and military officials and banner people who remained in Beijing will leave Beijing, and order all the banners and families to start preparations."

Dorgon gave the general order to retreat, but he himself had no intention of leaving Beijing.

"What a good river and mountain, why doesn't it belong to my Qing Dynasty!"

Dorgon coughed as he spoke.

Over the years, he has vented all his excitement and grief on Bumu Butai's body, and with the fatigue of the case, his body has long since disappeared.

It was precisely because he knew that his life was not long, that Dolgon decided to defend the city of Beijing to buy more time for his escape to Mobei in the Qing Dynasty.

However, although he was once Prince Rui, he didn't know how to keep it.

He even went to Jingshan once after entering Beijing, and the crooked neck tree on Jingshan attracted him.

Dolgon didn't know why he touched the crooked neck tree, but he immediately shook his head again: "Well, I, Dolgon, am not the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, so how can I be qualified to die in the palace." ”

Dorgon did not choose to die directly for his own Qing Dynasty.

But he went to the inner court of the palace, to the place where Bumu Butai had stayed, and he began to regret letting Bumu Butai go, but he remembered that he seemed to have never wanted Bumu Butai to go first.

But he had no reason to let Bumu Butai stay.

Dolgon found that in the end there was no one to accompany him.

Dolgon came to the Qianqing Palace, looked at the emperor's throne, he couldn't help but hold his breath, walked up step by step, and then slowly sat down.

For some reason, he suddenly felt that it was so nice to sit on it, and he couldn't help but laugh, and finally even laughed, and he even slept on it.

Dorgon began to regret why he had made Shunzhi emperor in the first place, and why he had not just usurped the throne as emperor.

That way, he will be able to sit on it in advance, and he will be able to sit for a few years.

The more Dolgon thought about it, the more he regretted it, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt pity.

Now that the group of people who supported Shunzhi had left, he simply lived in this Qianqing Palace unscrupulously.

……

There are also Qing defenders in Tongzhou City, and there are even red-coated cannons.

After all, the city of Tongzhou was an important gateway to Beijing and a fortified city to defend Gyeonggi, and it was impossible for Dolgon to abandon it directly.

Zhu Youzhen looked at Tongzhou City, which stood by the river, and his thoughts couldn't help but go back to six years ago.

Six years ago, in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, not long after he crossed into this world, he moved south with the civil and military forces of the entire Beijing City, and it was his own decision, and even in order to make this decision, he had to use the most brutal means.

But it is precisely because of this that the civil ministers, especially the Donglin Party, have justified the blame for the loss of the northern capital on his head, and even conspired to subvert his imperial power several times.

But Zhu Youzhen did not flinch, he chose to fight back, using violence to fight back, and also assumed the responsibility of an emperor.

In dealing with Li Zicheng, he made a move that shocked the world, and also laid the cause and effect for the later rebellions of King Lu and King Fu.

Fortunately, Zhu Youzhen came over.

Moreover, Zhu Youzhen did not regret it, if he did not flee from Beijing City, he could only die, in the face of the belief that "the Son of Heaven guards the country, and the monarch dies in the community", he would rather choose to live for the time being and live stoically.

Even if the world's infamy is concentrated on him, he is not afraid, and he uses a butcher's knife to teach them how to speak.

It's the same with Li Zicheng.

Li Yan and other thieves are not a group with a sense of nationality, they have an instinctive hatred for themselves and the Ming Dynasty, a group of bureaucratic landlords, and even hatred is no less than that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

In this era when there is no "people 0 clan", he can only use the most stupid means to appease Li Yan and other generals.

Zhu Youzhen didn't dare to imagine if he had caused Li Yan to retreat into Hunan because of his refusal of Li Yan's request, and Azig would have been able to withstand it.

Under the circumstances of the invasion of foreign invaders at that time, the war situation was changing rapidly, and if you hesitated for a moment, it would lead to the overthrow of the country.

In the original history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the Ming court did not really absorb the strength of the peasant army to resist the Manchus because it always had a grudge against the peasant army.

Huguang He Tengjiao is like this, in the original history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, because of the death of Li Zicheng, Gao Yigong and other dragons had no leader, and took the initiative to ask to belong to He Tengjiao, but He Tengjiao refused to attach them, and finally blocked Yinxi chose to accept these peasant troops.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen chose to take the initiative to appease the peasant army, and even recognized Li Zicheng's identity as emperor.

The gentry bureaucracy in the north recognized the Manchu chieftains as the lords of the Central Plains, and they themselves recognized Li Zicheng as emperor in order to subdue the peasant army.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen sometimes feels that he is also unprincipled.

But he didn't have any pressure, because he never regarded himself as a member of the Zhu family.

Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants have been raised by the Chinese people for hundreds of years and are worthy of them, although he is possessed by Chongzhen, so he bears some infamy, but so what, if you want to scold, you can only scold in your heart, who in the world dares to say bad things about me Chongzhen! I'm going to break him to pieces!

This is the case, I am my emperor, and no one else has the right to express any opinion.

As for the fact that this will make some people start to think that rebellion can be whitewashed, Zhu Youzhen is also fearless.

I'm not afraid that you will rebel, if there is a kind of rebellion, you will try to rebel!

If you can really get into Beijing from a laid-off post station like Li Zicheng, it can only be your own problem.

After all, Zhu Youzhen didn't know what the consequences would be if he delayed for a moment more at that moment, and had a more time of arguing with the army, Azig would go south in an instant, and would he be able to return to this place of Gyeonggi at this time?

(End of chapter)