Jirgalang was detained in a tent not far from Wang Pu's tent, and he heard everything Wang Pu said to Huang Taiji without missing a word.

After accidentally hearing such a major news, Jierharang's shock was imaginable! Now Huang Taiji was captured alive, and the Eight Banners Army had no leader. If Kong Youde is allowed to be allowed to make trouble, the three traitors Geng Zhongming made trouble, and the Eight Banners Army on the Songshan Front will be in danger!

Jirgalang secretly made up his mind to try to escape.

God pays off on those who are interested, and the opportunity will come soon.

Originally, there were two servants responsible for guarding Jirgalang. One was guarding for the first half of the night and the other was guarding for the second half of the night. Before the middle of the night, the servant who was responsible for guarding for the first half of the night might have suffered from a stomachache after having dinner, so he woke up the servant who guarded the second half of the night. After a few words of advice, he carried his pants and crawled into a short wall not far away to make it convenient to go.

The woken servant muttered twice in a daze, then fell asleep again.

The opportunity was fleeting. Jirgalang, who was pretending to be asleep, quickly struggled to sit up. Because his tendons had been broken, he had to support the ground and climb out of the tent with both hands. With less than ten steps outside the tent, two horses were tied. As long as he was on the back of the horse, Jirgalang had the confidence to escape. Compared with riding skills, even if his feet were used, he could still beat these Southern Ming barbarians.

As soon as he climbed out of the tent, a team of Ming army patrol soldiers passed by the tent. Jirgalang quickly retracted into the artemisia bush next to the tent. The Ming army almost walked past Jirgalang. Fortunately, the sky was dark and the artemisia bush was half a person tall, so Jirgalang was not discovered.

After the Ming army patrol went away, Jirgalang climbed out of the grass.

When the servant finished his convenience and just walked out from behind the low wall, Jirgalang had untied the reins of the horse and climbed onto the horse's back with all his strength.

"drive."

Jierhelang shook the reins lightly, and the war horse under his crotch released his four hooves and ran wildly.

"Not good, Jiannu ran away." The servant shouted, "Jiannu ran away, chase him!"

Jiergalang urged his horse to go quickly and rushed out of the Ming army camp as fast as possible. The night breeze was blowing, and the vast Liaodong Plain was ahead. Looking back, a team of Ming army had just chased out of the camp with torches. Jiergalang sneered, smashed the horse hard, and disappeared under the dark night sky like a whirlwind.

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Duoduo led 5,000 cavalrymen in the inlaid white flag before crossing the Liao River, Jirgalang was brought to him by the rangers.

At this time, Duoduo did not know that Shengjing had fallen, nor did he know what Huang Taiji issued an edict to transfer him and the five thousand cavalrymen to return to Shengjing, so the marching speed was not particularly fast. He only traveled less than 300 miles in two days and nights, and had just arrived at Shaling Post on the west side of the Liaohe River.

When the personal soldiers came to Duoduo with disheveled and ragged Jirhalang, Duoduo could not believe his eyes. How did Prince Zheng Jirhalang, the left-behind minister of Shengjing of the Qing Empire, the lord of the Lan Banner, become like this?

"Prince Zheng, what's wrong with you?" Duoduo screamed, "Why is this like this? What's wrong?"

"Quick, hurry!" Jirgalang urged his horse to go fast for half the night, already exhausted, gasping for breath, "Go to Lianyun Island, Lianyun Island..."

"Go to Lianyun Island? What to do when you go to Lianyun Island?" Duoduo said in surprise, "Is Lianyun Island not the naval base of King Sanshun [Sanshun King: King Gongshun Kong Youde, King Huaishun King Geng Zhongming, King Zhishun King Shang Kexi]? Why should I go there? Besides, the emperor has an order to let me lead my troops back to Beijing."

"The emperor is arrested!" Jirhalang said anxiously, "Now it is being taken to Lianyun Island by the Ming army. It will be too late!"

As soon as Jierhalang finished speaking, Duoduo's personal soldiers and generals changed their faces one after another. It was no small matter for the entire Qing Dynasty to be arrested.

"The emperor was arrested!" Duoduo frowned, "Prince Zheng, this kind of joke cannot be made randomly."

"Who is joking with you?" Jiergalang said angryly, "Prince Yu, you'd better lead your army to Lianyun Island to intercept the Ming army. If you miss the opportunity to let the Ming army take the emperor into the pass, you will be the sinner of the entire Qing Dynasty!"

Duoduo then changed his face and said in surprise: "Prince Zheng, what you said is true?"

Jirgalang said: "Of course it's true."

Duoduo said: "But what happened? How did the emperor get arrested?"

Jirhalang said: "This matter is not clear for a while. In short, Shengjing is lost and the emperor is also arrested. I will rush to Songshan to report the news. Prince Yu, you should lead your army to Lianyun Island as soon as possible."

Duoduo said solemnly: "Okay, it's not time for me to lead my army to Lianyun Island."

Duoduo ordered Berenican, the third son of Nurhaci's eldest son, to lead 200 cavalry guards Jirgalang to Songshan, and then led 5,000 cavalry to quickly rush to Lianyun Island.

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Songshan, Dorgon held a tent.

Dorgon is summoning Prince Su Haoge, Prince Wuying Ajige, Rao Yubeile Abatai, Sanshun Kings, and Prince Ganglin, Xifu, Sony and other princes and ministers to discuss matters.

After the defeat of more than 100,000 main forces of the Ming army, Hong Chengchou only led more than 10,000 remaining troops to retreat to Songshan City. He received a report of the defeat of Songshan. Although Emperor Chongzhen was willing to rescue Hong Chengchou, there were no soldiers in the pass, so he had to. Emperor Chongzhen could only symbolically send thousands of Ming troops to remove the siege of Songshan, and was completely wiped out by the Qing army.

Soon, the Qing army divided its troops to capture Lianshan and Xingshan. At this point, the connection between Songshan, Jinzhou and Ningyuan was completely cut off by the Qing army. It was only a matter of time before the city was destroyed. Given that the Qing army was sure to win, in order to avoid greater casualties, ministers such as Ganglin and Sony proposed to siege Songshan for a long time.

Dorgon summoned everyone to his account to discuss the strategy of long-term siege.

Just halfway through the meeting, Jirgalang entered the tent with the support of two Qing soldiers. Jirgalang's embarrassing appearance surprised Dorgon and others. Belebyintu, who had always had a good relationship with Jirgalang, even rushed forward to support Jirgalang and shouted: "Prince Zheng, what's wrong with you?"

"Out, something big happened."

After Jiergalang escaped from Liaoyang, he rode his horse and headed straight towards Songshan. He was almost exhausted. He closed his eyes and collapsed in Baiyintu's arms after just saying a word.

Dorgon said anxiously: "Hurry, invite the imperial physician who is left in the army!"

The personal soldiers had already taken the order and left. In less than a cup of tea, they led the imperial physician to Dorgon's tent. The imperial physician and the two men were busy for more than half an hour and finally woke Jirgalang up. Dorgon, Haoge and others quickly surrounded Jirgalang's couch, eager to know why Jirgalang was a deputy?

Haoge, who was impatient, asked first: "Prince Zheng, what happened?"

"Prince Su." Jirgalang looked at Haoge and sighed, "The sky of our Qing Dynasty... has collapsed."

"The sky collapsed?" Haoge asked in confusion, "What the sky collapsed?"

Jiergalang's eyes turned and saw from the crowd that King Kong Youde, King Kong Shun, Geng Zhongming, King Zhishun, and King Shang Kexi, immediately shouted in anger: "Hurry, arrest Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi, the three spies, don't let them run away, hurry!"

Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and the three of them changed their faces. They were so scared that they quickly knelt down on the ground. Kong Youde stole the head and cried: "Your Highness, the slave, have been loyal to the Qing Dynasty since surrendering to the Qing Dynasty. Why did Your Highness say that we are spies? You are really wronged."

"Unfortunate? Humph." Jierhalang sneered, "If it weren't for my own ears, I would never have thought that you would be the spy sent by the barbarians of the Southern Ming Dynasty to my undercover agent!"

"Why are slaves and others wrongly accused?"

Kong Youde and the other two were so scared that they were as decent as sieve. They knelt on the ground and complained about their wrongs. Although they were kings like Jirgalang, they looked very glorious, but in front of the Manchus they were just a lowly slave. If Jirgalang wanted to kill them, it would be as easy as killing an ant.

"Unforgivable?" Jiergalang shouted sternly, "If it weren't for your secret help, how could a thousand elite soldiers of Wang Pu, the general general of Datong of the Southern Ming Dynasty, pass through the Songshan camp of our Qing army? If it weren't for your family slaves who stayed in Shengjing, how could Wang Pu's army trick the city gate to break through Shengjing?"

"What?" Haoge was shocked and said in a lost voice, "Shengjing was captured by the Ming army?"

Jierhalang gritted his teeth and said, "The Ming army not only captured Shengjing, but also burned the entire city. The magnificent palace and the mansions of you all became ruins! Even Prince Li and I became prisoners of the Ming army. If I had not been able to escape on the road, I would have been taken to Lianyun Island with the emperor, Prince Li and Concubine Chen, Concubine Zhuang and others by the Ming army."

"Ah! Prince Li and the Emperor were both captured by the Ming army?"

Dorgon, Haoge and others were pale in an instant. The emperor was captured, and the sky of the Qing Dynasty was really collapsed!

Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi were even more ashamed. If such a big disaster occurred in the Qing Dynasty, they would probably not be able to escape from death if they were loyal to the Qing Dynasty.

"Prince Zheng!" Haoge roared angrily, "Are you talking nonsense!?"

Jiergalang shook his head and said, "I didn't say nonsense. The Ming army did not know that the emperor had returned to Beijing. Wang Pudu had led his army to leave Shengjing. It was Kong Youde and the others who sent people to notify Wang Pu. Wang Pucai led the Ming army to kill and retaliate. The emperor was unprepared and suffered misfortune."

"Kong Youde!" Haoge turned around and stared at Kong Youde and the other two, gritting his teeth, "I have killed you..."

"By the way, kill them!"

"Dare to betray the emperor and chop them up and feed them to the dogs."

Daishan's sons Shuoto, Sahalian, Abatai and others all agreed, and the crowd was infuriated.

Although Ganglin, Xifu, Sony and others wanted to persuade them, they were just foreign ministers with low status and could not interfere in the affairs of the royal family. Han people such as Tong Yangxing, Fan Wencheng, and Li Yongfang were even more afraid to speak. At this time, it was easy to extort Kong Youde and the others as their accomplices. Isn’t that asking for death by himself?
Chapter completed!