The Eight Banners soldiers were good at field battles.
However, due to the narrow terrain of Hetuala, the Eight Banners Army was unable to exert its full strength.
Continuing the fight would only result in more casualties, and would neither stop the Ming army's attack nor save the Qing Dynasty.
For this reason, Dorgon decided to abandon the city and flee.
In order to avoid being pursued by the Ming army, he tricked Hauge into defending the city to attract the main force of the Ming army.
When Hauge believed it to be true.
Dorgon had already fled eastward along the mountain road with the remaining troops, bags and food.
Escape until noon.
Only after making sure that there were no Ming troops pursuing them did they stop to rest.
They looked at Dorgon at the same time, not knowing what to do next.
Dorgon wanted to prove the legitimacy of his power.
He took out the forged imperial edict and read it to the generals.
The content of the imperial edict was very long, and the general meaning was that Hauge knew that the capital was no longer safe.
In order to avoid the destruction of the country and the extinction of the race.
Hauge decided to defend the capital to the death to give everyone a chance to escape.
At the same time, he passed the throne to Dorgon, allowing him to lead the Qing Dynasty to greatness again.
After hearing this, everyone burst into tears: "The late emperor was so righteous!"
"Yes! If there is an afterlife, I will serve the late emperor like a slave!"
After sighing.
Everyone knelt down and kowtowed to Dorgon, shouting "Long live Dorgon!"
Watching everyone kneeling and listening to their cheers.
For the first time, Dorgon felt the taste of the throne.
Although he had previously controlled the court and Fulin.
But after all, he was not the emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
I can only behave and do things as a subject.
Now that he has finally sat on the throne, his identity has also been transformed.
At this moment, Dorgon was extremely excited.
But after only a moment of excitement, he was forced to calm down by the reality of the situation.
When others become emperors, they rule the world and hold all the land in their hands.
When he became emperor, he abandoned the city and fled with only a few defeated troops under his command.
Not to mention the city, there are not many decent tents left.
But Dorgon was not pessimistic.
He slowly said to the crowd: "My dear ministers, please stand up!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Everyone stood up and looked at Dorgon.
There was awe and confusion in their eyes.
I am in awe of Dorgon, but at the same time I am confused about the future.
I escaped.
But where to go next?
If they had enough food and grass, they could hide in the mountains and forests for a while.
After all, the total strength of the Ming army was only tens of thousands, so even if they wanted to search the mountain, they would not find anything.
but...
Their food supplies were limited.
The food supply will run out in seven or eight days at most, or five or six days at least.
If the food problem was not solved, the soldiers would run away on their own without the Ming army chasing them.
For the future of the Qing Dynasty, Dorgon summoned everyone to discuss the matter.
There were a lot of people attending the meeting.
Half of them were Manchus, including Duoni, Luoluohun, Tulai, Sony, Tantai, Gong Adai, Tunqi and others.
Han people accounted for more than half, including the leaders of the Eight Banners Han Army, as well as Wu Sangui, Shang Kexi and others.
Fan Wencheng and Hong Chengchou also participated.
Dorgon asked first: "How many troops do we have left in the Qing Dynasty?"
Luo Luohun said: "In reply to the emperor, according to statistics from various departments, we still have less than 20,000 soldiers and horses left."
"Less than 20,000?" Dorgon frowned.
Luo Luohun thought that Dorgon thought the number was too small, so he quickly explained: "The mountain road is narrow, and we retreated at night. Many people got lost, otherwise there would be more."
"No," Dorgon waved his hand.
He didn't think it was too little, but rather that it was too much.
Before Wu Sangui surrendered, Dorgon had a total of 40,000 troops.
After Wu Sangui surrendered, his military strength once reached 50,000.
However, many people fled one after another, and the number of troops was reduced to 43,000.
After the Ming army captured Jiefan Village, he lost another six or seven thousand people.
During the Battle of Hetuala, a total of six to seven thousand people were lost on the battlefield.
There were also a large number of disappearances.
Many soldiers did not appear on the battlefield after leaving the barracks, but disappeared.
Except for a few people who hid in the mountains, most people surrendered to the Ming army.
That is to say, before leaving Hetuala, his total number of troops was only about 23,000.
Minus the three thousand old, weak and sick people left to Hauge.
The only troops he could take with him were 20,000.
So many people ran all night, but not many people fell behind!
This is so rare!
In fact, there were many people who fell behind, and they wanted to surrender to the Ming army.
But the one in charge of the pursuit was Li Dingguo.
In order to implement Chongzhen's strategy.
Not only did Li Dingguo refuse to accept the surrender, he also sent people to slaughter and drive away the soldiers who fell behind, forcing them to keep up with Dorgon's escape.
"Less than 20,000..." Dorgon looked up at everyone: "Now we have two places to go. One is to go to the Mongolian grasslands to join the Mongols, but food and grass are a problem. The second is to go south to North Korea, but there are three sides of the sea there, and we have no way back!"
Everyone lowered their heads and thought about it. Luo Luohun was the first to say, "Let's go to the Mongolian grasslands. That's where the cavalry rule!"
Fan Wencheng objected: "Go to North Korea, there is not only enough food there! There are also smuggling ports..."
Dorgon had already made up his mind.
The reason for bringing this up is to make everyone feel involved.
Only when you feel involved can you feel a sense of accomplishment.
Only when you have a sense of accomplishment will you not change your mind easily.
......
Hetuala.
Hauge on the city wall was so angry that he almost vomited blood. He cursed: "Damn it, I was careless!"
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