Xu Yifan was urgently deploying in Zhending Mansion and rectifying Zhending Mansion, while Qin Mufeng led 20,000 cavalry to Shanhaiguan through Hejian Mansion and Tianjin Mansion.

In the capital, Duoduo and Abatai and Zilharang led the remnants of the defeated army after five or six days, and finally escaped back and came to the city of Beijing.

"Go, enter the city, go to the regent!"

Duoduo shouted.

The news of the defeat of Zhending has long been transmitted to the capital, and now Dolgon is no longer at a loss, but has fallen into despair, originally led 200,000 Manchu and Han Eight Banners into the Guannei, and can definitely attack Zhu Ming's world with a sweeping momentum, and win the Central Plains, who would have thought that instead of establishing an immortal hegemony, but in just two years, Manchuria was completely defeated by Zhu Jie, this is fate, fate!

If someone else becomes the emperor of the Zhu Ming Dynasty, it is definitely not what it is now, Dolgon has his own pride and self-confidence in his heart, even if Tang Taizong is reborn, in this situation, I am afraid that he is not his opponent, but he met a nemesis like Zhu Jie, this is his nemesis, both Shengyu and He Shengliang?

Dolgon is only in his thirties, just because of the past two years, his temples are already gray, and now he is much older, where will Manchuria go next? Manchuria was once lost, and now it is not a matter of breaking the muscles and bones, but the vitality is greatly damaged, and even the root is shaken, without the Manchurian Eight Banners that dominate the world, who will care about the Qing Empire? Who cares about Manchuria? Korea in the east and Mongolia in the west are afraid that they will be out of their control, and as for the Zhu Ming Dynasty in the south, as long as they do not cross the Shanhai Pass and sweep the Manchurian plough court, they will have to worship the Buddha and burn high incense.

While Dolgon was in distress, the little eunuch ran in and whispered, "Prince Regent, Prince Yu and Prince Zhuang have returned, and they are asking for an audience outside!" ”

Dolgon's brow jumped, rubbing his temples vigorously, and whispered, "Let them in......"

After a short time, Dord, along with Zilharan and Abatai, entered the main hall.

"Ministers, see Regent!"

Dolgon waved his hand and said in a low voice: "Get up, Zhending Mansion is lost?" ”

Duoduo said abruptly: "Brother Wang, it is the incompetence of the ministers, the incompetence of the ministers, in the Zhending Mansion fell into Xu Yifan's tricks, and the Zhending Mansion was besieged outside the city, and the result was a complete defeat, seventy or eighty thousand troops, casualties, only less than 20,000 troops rushed out, please Brother Wang to punish the crime......"

Zilharang and Abatai are also full of shame, the three-way army, successively recruited 300,000 troops to participate in this protracted war, and even lost so miserably, shameful, really shameful, since Taizu raised the army, how could Manchuria have suffered such a miserable defeat?

"You all get up, don't blame you, we have used all the means, defeated, it is the heavens that do not favor me, what do you have to do with it, Zhu Jie, Zhu Jie, in the end, it was careless back then, so that you became the nemesis of this king, fate, this is fate!"

Dorgon sighed.

The three princes got up and lost their territory, and they lost all the elites of Manchuria, even if Dolgon cut them all, they all had no complaints, but they didn't expect that Dolgon would let it go gently, which was really a bit unexpected.

"Duoduo, how many troops do we have in each banner now?"

Duoduo hurriedly replied: "Brother Wang, the two red flags and the two blue flags have basically been killed and wounded, among the two yellow flags, there are only 1,000 people left in the positive yellow flag, and there are only 3,000 people left in the white flag, only the yellow flag and the white flag still maintain a certain structure, there are 6,000 people in the yellow flag, and there are 8,000 people in the positive white flag, but more than one-third of them are wounded, and two or three thousand of them are no longer able to fight on the battlefield......"

Dolgon shook his head secretly, the number of troops who can continue to fight is less than 16,000 people, it is really miserable, there are more than 2,000 troops in the city, and more than 2,000 troops of two white flags, most of which are still the old, weak, sick and disabled who stay in the rear, such a force wants to hold the capital, it is almost a fool's dream, you must know that the strength of the Ming army is close to 200,000 now, and there is no possibility of turning the tables at all.

"Next, what should we do?"

Dorgon asked.

Zilharang said abruptly: "Regent, for today's plan, we can only retreat outside the pass, recuperate, and wait until we recover our strength to compete with Zhu Ming for the world, revenge, and now it is impossible to defend the capital, the combat power of the Ming army is too strong, there are more than 200 artillery alone, and there are no less than 20,000 muskets, these firearms are too powerful, powerful to the extreme, most of our elites are lost under their firearms......

Back to the customs?

That is equivalent to two years of conquest have done useless work, Manchuria lost 200,000 elites, consumed countless money and food, and suffered heavy casualties, not to mention the loss of capital, even the bottom pants were lost, just quit Shanhaiguan, Dolgon is really unwilling.

"What about the two of you? What do you mean? ”

Dorgon asked.

Abatai hesitated for a moment, and replied in a low voice: "Regent, Zilharang is right, we now have no capital to continue the war, the elite of Manchuria has been lost, even outside the customs are mostly old, weak, sick and disabled who have not experienced the war, and there is not much military support, lack of firearms, there is no way to compete with the Ming army, the minister's meaning is the same as Zilharang, withdraw from Beijing City, and then go out of the customs through Shanhaiguan, and the sooner the better, it's late, the Ming army behind catches up, we can't go if we want to... …”

Dolgon was silent for a moment, gritted his teeth and said: "Since this is the case, then immediately prepare for the withdrawal of the capital, however, the road of Shanhaiguan, I am afraid that it is already impassable, Xu Yifan will not let us get out of the customs easily, it will definitely let the army ambush outside Shanhaiguan, if you want to get out of Shanhaiguan, it is as difficult as climbing to the sky, and we have suffered such heavy losses, no matter what, it will not be so cheap Zhu Ming Dynasty!" ”

Dodor asked, "Brother Wang, what do you mean?" ”

"Decree to order all the Manchurian soldiers to go out and sack the city of Beijing, sweep away all the wealth, and take away everything that can be taken away, gold, silver, silk, grain, antiques and jade, all take away! The speed must be fast, and the entire capital will be looted, so that we can hope to tide over the difficulties in front of us! ”

Dorgon said fiercely.

Since they are leaving, then nothing can be left for the Ming army, and even if they seize the city of Beijing, it can only be a mess! Rotten to the extreme!

(End of chapter)