Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 260 Azig’s Manchu Noble Reaction After Returning to Beijing (Fourth Change)

It was only yesterday that Dorgon learned that Azig had also returned in a big defeat in Huguang, and he already knew that Azig also lost nearly ten thousand Manchu cavalry.

Therefore, Dorgon temporarily decided to let only the great scholar Ganglin and the Minister of the Ministry of War Hong Chengchou lead the officials of the cabinet and the Ministry of War to go out of the city to greet him.

But University scholar Ganglin and Minister of War Hong Chengchou didn't know the news of Azig's defeat. They simply think that Dorgon is still in a bad mood because of the annihilation of Dodo's army, and Azige will return to the court this time. Although he defeated Li Zicheng's main force, he returned in vain to attack Ming from the south, so he was not in the mood to leave the city.

This is also understandable.

University scholar Ganglin and Minister of the Ministry of War Hong Chengchou still kept their smiles like a spring breeze, and walked forward: "Slaves (ministers) welcome the Prince of England and congratulate the Prince of England for destroying the bandits. Make a peerless feat!"

What the scholar Ganglin and the Minister of War Hong Chengchou said was indeed the fact that Azige had made merit in defeating Li Zicheng, which was equivalent to taking care of Azige's face and flattering Azige.

But at this moment, to Azig, who had just experienced the defeat of Huguang, it sounded like he was laughing at him, as if he was slapping him in the face, causing burning pain on his face.

Azige frantically raised his whip to teach Gang Lin and Hong Chengchou a lesson, but he was stopped by Beizi Xihan: "My lord, calm down, they are all trusted ministers of the regent, you don't have to give them face, but the regent You have to give them some face, and they have stood here for a whole day to welcome you. If there is no credit, there will be hard work. You will spare them this time. I am afraid that they do not know what is going on at the front line. crime."

Hearing this, Azig nodded, sighed helplessly, gritted his teeth and walked over, snorted, and didn't bother to talk to the officials like University Scholar Ganglin.

At this time, University scholar Ganglin and Han Shangshu Hong Chengchou also began to widen their eyes in surprise, because they found that Azig and the Qing cavalry behind Azig had no vigor to win. Some of them didn't even have armor, and were wounded all over their bodies. Looking up, there were only a few thousand cavalry who came back.

"Did the Prince of England also lose?"

University scholar Ganglin took a look at Hong Chengchou, and Hong Chengchou nodded firmly. Even a fool could see that Prince Azig had also suffered a defeat.

Only [-] remnants of Azig entered Beijing, and the bannermen in Beijing immediately exclaimed loudly: "My God, I remember that the Prince of England took away tens of thousands of cavalry, and I alone have tens of thousands of cavalry from Manchuria!" , Why only come back so little, isn’t that the vice commander of Xianghuang Banner chasing (son), why is there no arm, where is my Ama?”

Su Na also stared blankly at everything in front of him, shut his mouth, and then hurriedly ran down from the teahouse, shouting: "Suksaha, Suksaha!"

"You are Suna Angbang Ama, Suke Sahata died in battle." At this time, a soldier walking in Azig's team stopped and said to Suna.

The bannermen in Beijing were naturally very disappointed at this time. No matter whether their children went south with Duoduo or Azig, they were all lost now, and the bannermen naturally complained.

Azig indeed entered the city of Beijing in a somewhat dejected manner. Seeing those eyes that hated him, he couldn't help lowering his head, feeling ashamed to see Jiang Dong's elders. There began to be crying in the city, some said Those who didn't see their own Ama come back, some said they didn't see their own chasing them back.

Because Dorgon sent someone to order Azig and the officials who greeted Azig to go to his regent's palace first, Azig did not enter the palace, but came to the regent's state.

Dorgon looked at Azig who was coming towards him with a heavy heart. He didn't expect that even though he had ordered Azig to withdraw all his troops in advance, Azig still suffered a big defeat. Now he only brought back three thousand cavalry, and It was the three thousand cavalry who had been beaten without soul.

"Brother Wang, I am sorry for my Eight Banners disciples in this battle. Even if Your Majesty kills me, Azig, I will never complain!"

Azig bowed his hands to Dorgon first.

At this time, Dorgon also knew that his only arm was Azige, so it was not easy to blame Azige, not to mention that Azige was still his elder brother, so he just patted him on the shoulder: "Brother Wang, don't worry about it yourself." The main responsibility for the failure of the Southern Expedition lies with me. This king underestimated Zhu Youjian's determination to revive the Ming Dynasty after he went south. He used scholars as soldiers, and dared to abandon hatred and accommodate the traitor Li Zicheng. He regarded me from the beginning. The Qing Dynasty is the great enemy, and such a broad-minded emperor should not be underestimated."

"It's strange to say that fighting the intruders in the Shanxi and Shaanxi areas was effortless. These rogues fought without any rules, but when they went south to Huguang, these intruders seemed to have changed their blood after they became an army of destroying captives. The firearms are sharper and more daring to fight. In the battle of Wuchang, I put all the cannons of the red cannons and almost razed Wuchang to the ground, but the army of destroying captives has not yet retreated. It's very interesting."

When Azige said this, Dorgon laughed: "It's Li Yan! As soon as he joined Daming, he was appointed as the governor of Huguang. Transferred back to Jiangnan, we underestimated Zhu Youjian and this Li Yan! Did you really kill Li Zicheng?"

"Brother Yu only knew that Li Zicheng was dead, but he didn't know why he died, and I thought that once Li Zicheng died, the Chuang army would be disbanded, but I didn't expect that he was more tenacious than before," Azige said. Er Gun slapped the table: "Hmph, if the king's guess is correct, Li Zicheng must have died at the hands of the Ming court! It's a pity that the whole world now thinks that Li Zicheng was killed by us, which makes us forget this mistake for nothing." !"

"I heard that the fifteenth brother was defeated?" Azig couldn't help asking about Doduo: "I also saw Boluo being escorted to the city wall at the top of Wuchang City, and I also saw the fifteenth brother's king flag. "

"completely annihilated!"

Dorgon didn't want to accept this fact, but he still had to nod his head, his fists were slapping, and when he thought about it, he felt that someone was slapping his ears, which made his face burn and hurt.

Azig didn't come back to his senses for a while.

At this time, Doroquexi Belle Tulun walked in: "My lord, the latest news, according to reports from spies, Prince Yu was tortured at the Taiping Gate in Nanjing on the [-]th of last month, and cut more than [-] knives. The people of Nanjing share it and eat it."

"what!"

Dorgon suddenly yelled, and spit out a mouthful of blood.

Azig almost fell to the ground, grabbed Tulun by the collar and yelled, "What are you talking about, what happened to my fifteenth brother!"

"My lord, calm down, Prince Yu has been tortured!"

Tu Lun hurriedly replied.

Azig kicked Tulun away: "Zhu Youjian, I'm going to kill you! I'm going to slaughter the city of Nanjing!"

(End of this chapter)