The second day of the celebration banquet happened to be the third day of March in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen. This day happened to be the traditional Chinese Shangsi Festival.

Yang Zhen, who was already hungover and sleepy, was happy to take this opportunity and ordered everyone to gather in Jinhai Town near Fuzhou City to take a day off to relax.

He also asked Zhang Degui, who was also the general manager of the Assistant Camp Affairs Office of the Jinhai General Town Government, to raise wine, meat, money and silk, and reward the entire army.

When the news spread, the garrison camps inside and outside Fuzhou City suddenly became a sea of ​​joy, and the already high morale became even higher.

In complete contrast to the situation where the troops in Jinhai Town in Fuzhou City were happy, relaxed and had high morale, on the same day, the Gaizhou City was filled with mist and misery.

Prince Rui Dorgon, who had retreated all the way to Gaizhou City, met the obedient King Kong Youde who fled back to Gaizhou in embarrassment on the early morning of the third day of March.

It was not until this time that Dorgon finally received the exact news about the rear army led by Abatai, King of Raoyu County.

But this news was really unacceptable to him.

"Prince Rui, Prince Rui, Prince Rao Yu's troops are finished, and so are the servants' troops, they are all finished!"

Kong Youde, the obedient king who fled all the way back to Gaizhou, met Dorgon. He first hurriedly told the story of their ambush in the Guanma Mountain area south of the Fudu River, and then he lay down on the ground and started crying.

In the evening of the same day, King Kong Youde, the obedient king, saw that something was wrong and immediately abandoned his helmet and armor, avoided his own army and hid in the reeds in the swamp on the south side of the post road.

It wasn't until that night that the entire battlefield quieted down. Then he took a few soldiers and got out of the reed swamp where he was hiding. With the water skills he had developed in Dongjiang Town, he quietly swam across the Fudu River in the dark, all the way.

He escaped from birth to the north.

However, although he himself escaped, except for a few personal soldiers, all the heavy artillery and fifteen Niulu troops he brought south were completely wiped out.

Thinking of these heavy losses that he had never suffered before, the obedient King Kong Youde couldn't help but feel sad. In front of Dorgon, he burst into tears, crying with snot and tears.

Dorgon saw that Kong Youde, who was in his forties, had become like this after being hit. His own emotions gradually changed from shock when he received the news to disgust on his face.

Dorgon sighed, bowed his head, held his forehead with both hands, rubbed it vigorously a few times, then took a deep breath to calm down, then turned around and ordered the attendants to tell them to tell Prince Zheng Jierharang,

Prince Azig and Prince Zhishun came to discuss matters.

Later, Dorgon looked at the obedient King Kong Youde and said, "Where is Prince Raoyu? Do you know his whereabouts?"

The obedient King Kong Youde saw that Dorgon finally spoke and asked Abatai as soon as he opened his mouth. He quickly stopped crying, put his sleeve on his face, and replied:

"King Raoyu heard that the Xuguan Bridge was destroyed, and he took the lead in evacuating from the foot of Guanma Mountain, hoping to lead his army upstream to cross the river, but he fell into the swamp on the south bank of the Fudu River.

"At that time, the tide was rising at the mouth of the river, and the water flow of the Fudu River was not smooth. The river level rose, and the swamps and depressions on the south bank were all over the country. It was extremely unfavorable for cavalry and horse fighting. If Prince Yu spared him, he would be in trouble!"

At this point, Kong Youde's voice sounded crying again, and the meaning was very clear.

After Dorgon heard this answer, he squinted his eyes and stared at Kong Youde for a long time, as if he was asking Kong Youde why you, Kong Youde, could come back alive.

However, Dorgon did not ask this question after all.

After a while, Dorgon nodded expressionlessly, seeming to have accepted Raoyu County King Abatai's judgment of bad luck, and then asked:

"So, what about those heavy artillery? Are they destroyed or are they all lost?"

When Dorgon asked this question, Kong Youde's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly became frightened and bowed his head to the ground, muttering and not daring to answer.

Those God-blessed heavy artillery that supported the general were not only the foundation of Kong Youde's own life, but also the foundation of the Qing Dynasty's victory in conquering fortified cities.

For people like Dorgon, such an important military weapon would rather be destroyed than fall into the hands of the enemy.

In addition to the life and death of Abatai, King of Raoyu County, Dorgon was most concerned about the disposal of those heavy artillery at the moment.

"Tell me! Destroyed or lost?"

When Dorgon saw that Kong Youde was mumbling and speechless, he suddenly stood up from the couch and looked at Kong Youde with a cold eyebrow.

"Prince Rui, I deserve death. I deserve death. The situation was urgent. I didn't have time to destroy those heavy artillery——"

"Bastard! Waste! Idiot!..."

When Dorgon heard what Kong Youde said, his long-suppressed temper suddenly broke out. He stepped forward and kicked Kong Youde to the ground, and then kicked him head and face, and cursed him while kicking him.

Of course Kong Youde was not a waste or a fool, but he was kicked so hard that he fell to the ground on his back. He could only endure the pain and hold his head and face, enduring Dorgon's sudden rage without daring to refute at all.

Thanks to Kong Youde's good fortune, Dorgon's fatal series of kicks did not last long. Prince Azig, Prince Zheng, and Prince Zhishun Shang Kexi arrived.

Upon seeing this, Prince Azig knew that something was wrong and that the team behind must have encountered something unexpected, so he did not stop them.

But Prince Zheng Jierharang was different. He knew that Kong Youde's status in front of Huang Taiji was not low, so he quickly stepped forward and hugged Dorgon who was furious.

After Jierhalang's repeated persuasion, Dorgon finally stopped beating Kong Youde.

He turned around angrily and answered in front of the couch, picking up the tea bowl and taking a sip of tea, and then he threw the tea bowl heavily on the ground, and it shattered into pieces with a snap.

"Prince Rui, what is the situation with the rear army commanded by Prince Rao Yu? The top priority now is to discuss countermeasures. Why should you be so angry with a slave?"

Prince Zheng Jierhalang withdrew to Gaizhou City a few hours earlier than Dorgon's troops.

As for Azige's troops, they were a whole day ahead of the blue flags from Jilhalang.

In his opinion, although the war to conquer Jinhai Town failed to achieve the goal Huang Taiji set for them, as long as the main force of the self-defense army that conquered Jinhai Town was safely withdrawn, Huang Taiji could not do anything to them.

At most, it is just to punish them for the crime of working hard in vain or returning without success, which is not a big deal.

Just last night, when Dorgon led his Zhengbai Banner army withdrew to Gaizhou City, Azige, Jierhalang, Shang Kexi and others went to greet him, but they did not see any unusually strong emotions in Dorgon.

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Therefore, when Jierhalang saw Dorgon like this, he had an ominous premonition in his heart.

When he asked this question, Prince Azig, who was standing aside and watching with cold eyes, suddenly said: "Old Fourteen, what is going on, you should tell me!"

Sure enough, after Prince Azig also asked impatiently, Jierhalang saw Dorgon sighing, slumped back on the couch, and said:

"The rear team was ambushed at the foot of Guanma Mountain on the south bank of the Fudu River and the entire army was wiped out."

"What?!"

"completely annihilated?!"

Prince Azig and Prince Zheng could not believe their ears. After hearing Dorgon's answer, their eyes widened and they kept asking questions.

As for King Zhishun, he was happy. He heard early in the morning that Kong Youde returned in embarrassment with only a few people, and he knew in his heart that something big must have happened in the rear.

Shang Kexi and his Tianzhu soldiers were officially merged into Prince Zheng's Jierhalang Xianglan Banner a few months ago.

This time, after Prince Zheng Jierharang took the lead in withdrawing to the vicinity of Gaizhou, Shang Kexi heard the news and went out of the city a few miles south, knelt down by the roadside to plead guilty, and obtained Jierhalang's forgiveness on the spot.

At the same time, he also inquired about some news about the Fuzhou front line from Jierhalang and his surroundings.

He knew that Abatai's Zhenglan Banner troops had suffered heavy losses, and he also knew that his former enemy and now fellow traitor Kong Youde's obedient king soldiers had suffered heavy losses when they besieged Xiping Mountain.

However, no matter what, he did not dare to think of the entire rear route being wiped out.

After all, the entire rear force led by Raoyu County King Abatai and the Manchu and Mongolian elite cavalry under the Zhenglan Banner alone numbered thousands. Even if they were ambushed by the main force of Jinhai Town, they would not be able to defeat them all at once.

The army was destroyed!

At this moment, when he heard such words spoken calmly from the mouth of Prince Rui Dorgon, it was like a thunder exploded suddenly in his ears, almost knocking him to the ground.

However, Shang Kexi has not forgotten that he is currently in an embarrassing situation. He has not yet received explicit forgiveness from Dorgon for losing Xiong Yuecheng.

Therefore, in front of Dorgon, he did not dare to say anything at all, he just stared and opened his mouth, stunned on the spot.

"You heard it right. What I said was that the entire army was annihilated. Not only was the rear horse and infantry army annihilated, but even Prince Rao Yu himself was missing. His life and death are unknown, and his whereabouts are unknown.

"Also, the vehicles, artillery and equipment escorted by Prince Rao Yu and his troops were all left on the south bank of the Fudu River. Only this slave, only this slave, escaped back with several people - "

Faced with the shocked rhetorical questions from Prince Azig and Prince Zheng, Dorgon sighed and answered in a soft voice with no expression on his face.

Moreover, when it was finally mentioned that Kong Youde almost escaped alone, Dorgon's conversation immediately turned to the batch of heavy artillery, and he was heard muttering to himself:

"Sixty-one heavy artillery pieces of God's blessing to support the general, sixty-one pieces, were all lost at once, completely lost at once! - Kong Youde, Kong Youde, you have the nerve to come back!"

When Dorgon said this, although his voice was not loud, his tone had become extremely sinister, almost speaking through clenched teeth.

"Prince Rui, Prince Rui, this slave is guilty and deserves to die. However, the troops under his command suffered heavy losses as early as at the foot of Xiping Mountain. When they reached the south of the Fudu River, the Xuguan Bridge was destroyed, and they encountered tidal waves at the mouth of the river.

Increase, slave—it’s really unimaginable!”

Kong Youde, the obedient king, saw that Dorgon was looking at him with an unkind look, and knew that Dorgon was looking for a scapegoat. For a moment, he was extremely frightened, crying, and hurriedly defended himself.
Chapter completed!