After Chen Xinjia learned that Li Guodong had entered Gaoyang City, he felt relieved: "We also withdraw our troops back to the capital. With General Li in Gaoyang to assist in the defense, Jiannu cannot break through."

The Ming army had no intention of fighting the Qing army, so after it got dark, it evacuated the camp and retreated to the capital.

The Qing army scouts and whistle cavalry discovered the situation and immediately reported to Dorgon: "Prince, the Ming dog opposite us has retreated, leaving only an empty camp."

"There is no need to chase them. The key to our entry into the Ming Dynasty is to loot people and property. Since Minggou dares not chase our army, we will continue to go south!" Dorgon asked to send an order.

Abatai asked, "Prince, can we not attack Gao Yang?"

"Li Laoer has entered the city, what else can we fight?" Dorgon snorted.

Originally, when the Qing army invaded, they would not go head-on to the city, and when they encountered it, they would go around the city. Dorgon attacked Gaoyang County just to breathe a sigh of relief. With the firepower of the Eight Banners of Han, Gaoyang City was about to be broken, but Li Guodong entered the city. Dorgon knew that if he continued to fight, he would only waste time and manpower, so he ordered Gaoyang to be abandoned and the army continued to move south.

The next day, the defenders at the city entrance of Gaoyang found that the Qing army camp opposite was empty, and the soldiers and civilians at the city entrance were talking.

"Jiannu has retreated."

"I don't know if it's really retreating or cheating."

"I'm afraid that Jiannu will have an empty camp plan to lure us out of the city?"

Li Guodong walked up to the city and observed the movement outside the city. According to his judgment, the Qing army should have retreated. Based on his understanding of the Qing army, before the Qing army officially entered the pass in the 17th year of Chongzhen, the Qing army had robbed the enemy and ran away after several times, and would not attack the city. Before, Gao Yang was attacked entirely to capture Sun Chengzong and let out a breath. Now they had no hope of breaking Gao Yang, and they would definitely not waste a lot of time and manpower here. Therefore, he judged that the Qing army must have retreated.

However, Li Guodong still did not dare to neglect. He sent Ye Bucheng out of the city to spy on the enemy's situation.

Not long after, Ye Bu took it back and brought back the news that the Qing army had already evacuated.

"Let's stay here for a few days, waiting for the court's order to transfer the order." Li Guodong didn't like fighting such a war. He was restrained everywhere and could not play it freely. He had to go anywhere, and there was a transfer order from the court. If there was no military order, it would be a private transfer, and even the correct tactics could not be implemented. But under the roof, he had to bow his head.

Every time the Later Jin invaded, the Ming army's actions were all about serving the king. The Ming army scattered out of various places did not dare to take the initiative to attack and followed the Jin army to attack. The Ming army hid in a solid city to defend. When the Jin army encountered a city that could be broken, it would break around the city that could not be broken. The Ming army could be said to have fought very passively and was completely led by someone.

But Li Guodong was unable to change anything, so he could only wait for the imperial edict in Gaoyang.

The capital city is more than 300 miles away, and the morning court is in the Forbidden City. News from Shandong comes to the capital city. Qufu was captured by the Qing army, and Yanshenggong's family was killed. Yanshenggong's mansion and Confucius Temple were burned completely by the Qing army. When this news came to the capital, all the civil servants were as if they had lost their parents and cried. The capital city was full of crying. Those civil servants who were usually arrogant were like their parents were killed by the Tartars, shouting to avenge Yanshenggong.

"Jiannu actually burned down Yanshenggong's Mansion and killed Yanshenggong's family. He is such a beast!"

"They want to destroy the famous religion to be enemies of our scholars all over the world!"

"I swear to be incompatible with Jiannu!"

"I actually burned the Confucius Temple! Jiannu, who was full of conscience!"

Compared to those civil servants who cried so much that they felt even more uncomfortable than their parents who died, the military generals and nobles were a little gloating and secretly happy in their hearts, but they could not show it on the surface, and could only comfort the civil servants in a hypocritical manner.

Humph! I only know how to suppress us on weekdays. Now, without our protection, even your holy land has been burned! A general said in his heart.

In the hearts of many military generals and nobles, I felt that this fire was so relieved! Since the Tumu Fort Incident, civil servants gradually seized the military power of the nobles and suppressed ordinary military generals, and gradually formed a situation where civil servants and nobles were inferior. In the end, the civil servant group was so powerful that even the emperor had to bow to them. This was why the incident happened that Wanli did not attend court for 30 years and the Tianqi used the eunuch party to balance the civil servant group.

The Yansheng Gong Mansion and Confucius Temple were burned. Emperor Chongzhen was in a very complicated mood. Since he ascended the throne eleven years ago, he has been fooled by civil servants every day. Although there were so many cabinet chiefs, he was still from the Donglin Party after all. Now that the Confucius Temple was burned, he felt a little distorted. But he also felt a little sad. After all, the destruction of the Confucius Temple happened during his reign. This kind of thing could not be considered a good thing, right? He expected that after the Qing army retreated this time, the civil servants would definitely force him to issue a self-criticism.

Anyway, Chongzhen issued two edicts for guilt. The first time was that Zhang Xianzhong captured Fengyang and burned Fengyang imperial tomb. Chongzhen fainted from crying. After waking up, he went to the Taimiao to worship and issued his first edict for guilt. The second time was in April of the tenth year of Chongzhen. The north was drought again, and the land was barren, and the people were starving everywhere. The people were living in poverty. Local officials were still forcing the people to rebel. Chongzhen sacrificed to the sky and asked for rain, and issued another edict for guilt.

This time Qufu was captured by the Qing army and the Confucius Temple was burned. It would be strange if the civil servant group did not force Chongzhen to issue a self-criticized edict.

"Issuing a self-criticism to issue an edict, otherwise they will not be able to calm their anger." Chongzhen, who was sitting in the Western Warehouse, sighed and said to himself.

"The Emperor..." Wang Chengen said in pain when Emperor Chongzhen, who was less than thirty, was so sad that his hair turned white.

"I am not willing to be lenient with my sins! From now on, I respectfully tell God in the palace to silently punish God, to rectify the crime and observe the matter, and to destroy the Hu Pingkou to atone for his sins..." Chongzhen said to himself, and wrote a line of words on a blank edict.

While he was writing with his pen, the eunuch Wang Dehua, the chief of the Sili Supervisor, came in cheerfully: "Old Master, a great victory! A great victory! The Governor of Xuanda Chen Xinjia, the Ming Dynasty's King's Army went south to rescue Gaoyang, and annihilated more than 5,000 Jiannu people ten miles north of Gaoyang City, of which 3,326 were captured!"

Chongzhen was overjoyed and stood up: "Come to take Chen Aiqing's memorial and watch it."

After reading Chen Xinjia's memorial, Emperor Chongzhen issued an edict: "Xuan Yang's Aiqing and Chen's Aiqing come to the palace to meet the saint!"

Shortly after the eunuch passed away, Yang Sichang hurried into the palace to meet the saint.

After Yang Sichang visited Emperor Chongzhen, Chongzhen pointed to Chen Xinjia's memorial on the desk and said, "Yang Aiqing, please read Chen Aiqing's memorial first."

Wang Chengen picked up the case and submitted it to Yang Sichang.

Yang Sichang received the memorial and looked carefully. His face turned red and showed a little excited expression. At the end, he almost cried and knelt down on the ground: "Congratulations to your Majesty! Depending on the great blessing of ancestors, the power of the saints, the commander of the Lord Chen made great contributions, not only saved Gao Yang, but also destroyed five thousand Jiannu! This is my great blessing of the Ming Dynasty!"

He was excited from the bottom of his heart. You must know that Qufu was broken and the Confucius Temple was destroyed. This was a blow to Yang Sichang! Yang Sichang was in charge of peace, but the Qing army burned the Confucius Temple and killed the Yan Shenggong family. The scholars and family of the world could not negotiate peace with the Qing Dynasty. At this time, anyone who showed that they would discuss peace with the Qing Dynasty would be the public enemy of the gentry in the world! Originally, Yang Sichang planned to send people to discuss peace with the Qing army after the Qing army withdrew. Now it seems that this path has been completely cut off.

Since there is no way to negotiate peace, the fault should be covered up with credit. Only more credit can calm the anger of the gentry in the world. Chen Xinjia's victory in this battle gave Yang Sichang more capital.
Chapter completed!