"Aren't you trapped in Cangzhou? Why are you back?"
Sony's return shocked all the top management of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties.
Dorgon just finished asking, and then his expression changed.
"Are you here to persuade me to surrender?"
Sony quickly fell to the ground and told the truth.
After listening to Zuo Mengeng's warning, the Manchu and Qing senior officials were very angry.
"Where does his arrogance come from? Will he be able to defeat me, the Qing Dynasty?"
"Now that the outcome is not decided, he is so rampant. Naturally, the arrogant soldiers will be defeated."
Listening to the crowd's shouting, Dorgon felt dizzy. He waved his hand to stop the noise.
"Queen Mother, I leave it to you to decide how to behave in the future."
Although everyone blushed when asked, they could only tell the truth in the face of life and death.
In the hands of Azig and Duduo, all the wealth of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is gone. If it is really gone, the Manchu Qing Dynasty will be gone too.
By that time, if they don't leave, all the top management of the Manchu Qing Dynasty will be made prisoners.
"Li Shutai only has 10,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, so he cannot stop us. Once Jinzhou is lost, our way back will be cut off."
Sikut, who was guarding Shanhaiguan, informed the news that the National Defense Forces had landed on Huludao and besieged Jinzhou.
These words made many people feel relaxed.
As a result, I haven’t gotten to know this place yet, so I will probably leave.
It seems that the Empire can still treat the Manchus fairly.
Everyone was frightened by this prediction.
Now, the dream of occupying the Central Plains has been completely shattered.
Man Dahai still clung to the illusion of what might happen.
The central strategic cluster in the Gyeonggi region also has about 300,000 people.
Dorgon was shocked and realized that he had been negligent.
Daishan looked at the splendid Forbidden City and felt itchy in his heart.
"Prince Su said that we must not go through Shanhaiguan. Otherwise, the enemies in the south will take advantage of the situation and kill us, and western Liaoning will be our burial place."
He knows very well the terrain of the Western Liaoning Corridor.
Not only was it impossible to execute, the Qing army itself had to carefully concentrate its forces to avoid being defeated individually by the National Defense Forces.
Once Hauge is defeated, there will be no obstruction in front of the capital, and we can only let the national defense troops rush to the city.
Everyone knows in their hearts that they simply cannot hold on.
More than 10,000 people were killed on the Cangzhou and Guangning front lines in this battle, and the rest were in the hands of Hauge to defend the Gu'an and Wuqing front lines.
No matter what strategy, deployment, timing, location, people, or luck, in the final analysis, what really affects the outcome is always strength.
That's what war is all about.
"Everyone, let's talk about it, do you want to leave or not?"
This is where the Manchus were most helpless.
What made the Manchus and Qing Dynasties most powerless was that the combat effectiveness of the National Defense Forces was far superior to that of the Qing Army. Therefore, even if the National Defense Forces were divided into multiple groups and the battlefield was spread out, the Qing Army could no longer implement the tactics of the past.
Having just moved into the capital, he was likely to leave again. Dorgon did not dare to make a decision on such a big matter, so he asked Empress Xiaozhuang about it.
However, that night, bad news came from Liaodong.
Xiaozhuang was even more depressed.
An urgent report was sent from Henan and Huguang. The strength of the Central Plains Strategic Cluster of the National Defense Forces should be around 300,000.
This is already an army of 600,000, which is three times more than the Qing army.
With great difficulty, his son became the emperor, finally entered the Central Plains, and finally lived in the Forbidden City.
After understanding the situation, Xiaozhuang began to feel relieved and handed over the decision-making power to his ministers.
Dorgon was very moved after hearing this.
If we can win a big victory in Liaodong, it would be best to capture some prisoners so that we can exchange them with the empire and even defend the territory of Liaodong.
"Sikut has already led his troops to the rescue. Together with Jinzhou Jiancheng, Li Shutai is very capable and can hold on for at least three or four months. As long as we speed up, we might be able to attack from both sides with Jinzhou. If we can have a fight.
If we win the battle, we can also ask Zuo Menggeng to surrender, and then we can talk about it."
Now the strength of the National Defense Force far exceeds that of the Qing Army, so no matter how we fight, it is right.
"The Empress Dowager doesn't know that there are three hundred thousand enemies in front of us. Even if we mobilize soldiers and horses from around the capital and even Shanxi, it will be far worse. Besides, those things that just surrendered
, no one is sure how loyal they are. If they suddenly rebel, it will harm everyone's life."
"If you want to leave, leave immediately and take it easy, otherwise there will be too many things to throw away."
Dorgon frowned.
"Then what should we do with the capital? Do we really want to leave it to Zuo Mengeng?"
Empress Xiaozhuang didn't know much about fighting, but she couldn't help but tremble when she heard that the National Defense Forces approaching exceeded 300,000.
She had learned that since Azig and Duduo went on the expedition, the total number of Qing troops in the Gyeonggi area only amounted to more than 40,000 people.
As for whether it can be defended...
Just when he was about to give the order to set off immediately to rescue the Jinzhou battlefield, Hauge's messenger arrived.
Only Dorgon can make a decision on this kind of thing.
"Then tell everyone, hurry up and pack up. We will set off the day after tomorrow at the latest."
Only when the empire actually launches will they be able to find out exactly how many troops the National Defense Force has.
"How long will it take for Prince Ying and Prince Yu to come back?"
Jilharang stood up.
Isn't this a joke?
"We in the Qing Dynasty have strong soldiers and strong generals, so are we really no match for Zuo Mengeng?"
Another sad question.
"I heard that when Li Zicheng withdrew from here, Shandong once said that as long as Li Zicheng did not damage the capital, Shandong would not take action. It turned out to be the case. It shows that Zuo Menggeng is a man of his word."
Jilharang was very decisive.
Seeing this, Dorgon made a decision on the spot.
"They cannot go directly north through the Central Plains. They need to detour through Shaanxi and pass through Shanxi before they can come back. They are afraid that the Chinese army will advance too fast and cut off their return route."
"The Empress Wu of Zuo Menggeng is the daughter of Wang Shizhong, and she is also a Manchu. I also heard that Mang Gurtai also became a high-ranking official there, and even married a wife and had children."
In this way, at least even if the Manchus were completely defeated in the future, the tribe would be able to be preserved.
All the high-level officials of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties were blown up.
It is not yet known whether Azig and Duduo's lone troops outside can be withdrawn.
When it comes to this, Sony has more say.
This is tantamount to telling everyone in disguise that they can abide by Zuo Mengeng's warning.
Once inside, there is no room for change. Either rush through the defense line of the National Defense Forces in Jinzhou and return to Liaoyang and Shenyang; or defend Shanhaiguan to prevent the National Defense Forces from catching up behind them.
However, it is not yet known what the situation is in Jinzhou.
And Shanhaiguan absolutely cannot stop the National Defense Forces.
After all, Shanhaiguan is designed to face the north, not the south.
What if Jinzhou has been captured by the National Defense Forces and Shanhaiguan fails to defend it. By then, all the senior Manchu and Qing officials will be surrounded in the Liaoxi Corridor, and the situation is over.