The Mughal Empire was close to the central important town, where the Qing army was stationed in the ancient western city.

"Regent, it will take two days for the cannonballs transported from Isfahan to reach Guxi City, but our army uses cannons to attack the city all the way, and the consumption is too great, and the Fire and Gas Manufacturing Bureau can't produce it, and there are not many shells in this batch, at most it is only enough to attack six or seven small cities and two big cities!" Zihar said to Dorgon.

The Mughal Empire is too big, not much smaller than the Ming Dynasty during the Chongzhen period, the Qing army along the way, even down nearly a hundred cities, although many of them were opened to surrender, but nearly half of them were forcibly attacked, plus the consumption of several major battles, it was too big, even if the Qing army prepared a lot of shells before the war, it was still not enough, and it needed to be supplied from the rear.

However, when he set out on the expedition, Dolgon emptied the shells manufactured by the Manchu Firearms Manufacturing Bureau, and in such a short period of less than a month, the Manchu Firearms Manufacturing Bureau did not have many personnel, and the Manchu manufacturing process was not high, even the simplest solid bullets needed to be carefully polished, not to mention the technically complex flowering shells, so there were not many shells accumulated in this month.

Dolgon's brows furrowed tightly, there were no cannonballs, how could they capture one city after another to hunt down the Mughal emperor.

The Mughal emperors were also cowardly enough, and every time they captured a city, the Mughal emperors fled to another city, always keeping a distance of thousands of miles from the Qing army, but it was really hateful to be so small.

If the Mughal emperor cannot be caught, it will be difficult to destroy the Mughal Empire, and the Qing Dynasty has to continue to consume in the Mughal Empire.

Dolgon took a deep breath and suppressed the anger in his heart, since the situation is like this, then there is no other way, even if he can't catch the Mughal emperor for a while, and quickly destroy the Mughal Empire, the Qing Dynasty can capture the entire Mughal Empire by forcibly attacking.

"There is also the matter of the source of troops, as the main force of the siege, the number of Persian banners needs to be replenished, and the captured Mughal cities also need to be garrisoned!" Dorgon asked about something else.

When the Mughal Empire first entered, although the Qing army had 220,000 troops, but several major battles, and the consumption of attacking cities all the way, plus the need to send people to each captured city, the original 220,000 troops, by the time of Guxi, there were less than 60,000 left to use, if you continue to pursue the Mughal emperor or capture more Mughal cities, it is obvious that the follow-up is insufficient, and additional conscription is needed.

There is no need to think about the Manchu Eight Banners, the Manchu population is limited, and only more than 13,000 men enter the army every year, so they can only start with the servant cavalry and the Persian flag.

The servant cavalry are all from about two million herdsmen in the three steppes of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, such as the Northeast Bulha, these herdsmen are also limited, and there are up to 30,000 servant cavalry to join every year, in terms of the Persian flag, although the Persians have a population of more than 10 million, they have experienced the fall of the Persian Empire, experienced the shaving and changing clothes, and the continuous wars over the years, the loss of young and strong men is extremely heavy, and it is obviously difficult to add them to the Persian flag on a large scale.

"Back to the regency, the servant cavalry has only increased by 10,000, and the Persian banner has only increased by 60,000, making a total of 70,000 new troops." Zihar was a little embarrassed.

At this point, it is already all the current potential of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

"Seventy thousand? Counting the army that can be used at the moment, it is only 130,000, with this amount of troops, how can you hunt down the Mughal emperor or capture the entire Mughal Empire. Dorgon said with an ugly look on his face.

Could it be that it is impossible for him to destroy the Mughal Empire this time?

After all, the Mughal Empire was too big, with too many populations and many cities, and it would be too difficult for the Qing Dynasty to destroy its center at once. The Mughal Emperor and many Mughal ministers who fled with the Mughal Emperor were the center of the Mughal Empire.

"It's a pity! It's a pity that the Mughal emperor fled too quickly at the beginning, and he lost the other! Miscalculated! Dorgon said with a sudden sigh.

At the beginning, he seized the opportunity and ordered the Mughal army commander to retreat, which caused a great chaos of the Mughal army in Haryana City, and ordered the army to attack Haryana City and occupy it in one fell swoop, and also annihilated the Mughal army of hundreds of thousands in the city by the way, and the results were brilliant, thus making the subsequent decisive battle outside the city much easier.

However, this fighter made it easier for the Qing Dynasty to win the battle, but because of the premature capture of Haryana City, it frightened the Mughal Emperor too early, so that the Mughal Emperor was frightened and fled the capital Delhi in time, so that after the victory of the decisive battle, a Qing army rushed to Delhi as quickly as possible, but still failed to stop the Mughal Emperor and let the Mughal Emperor escape.

"Forget it, even if you can't capture the Mughal Emperor for a while and destroy the Mughal Empire, at least you have to capture more territory of the Mughal Empire, and sooner or later the Qing Dynasty will still be able to completely annex the Mughal Empire!" Soon, Dorgon recovered.

In any case, the Qing had already conquered a quarter of the Mughal Empire, especially the Delhi and Lague areas, which were so populous that at least 30 million Mughals were under Qing rule.

As long as the Qing Dynasty slowly digested these results, it would be easy to pull out a huge number of Indian flags among the 30 million Mughal Indians! When the time comes, with the Indian and Persian flags stationed in various cities, and responsible for the loss of siege and loss, the Qing Iron Cavalry will be able to completely free themselves, exert their maximum combat effectiveness, and then annex the Mughal Empire in one go.

With this thought, it can be said that Dorgon has slowly given up the idea of quickly attacking and destroying the Mughal Empire.

Although Dolgon had slowly given up the idea of the rapid destruction of the Mughal Empire, and instead consolidated and accumulated strength, the Mughal emperor and Mughal ministers in the city of Raipur, in the east-central part of the Mughal Empire, did not know this.

The Mughal Emperor only knew that the Manchus had captured Guxi City and would continue to hunt him down, and he could dream that he was captured by the Qing army, and now how to resist the Qing army was the first priority.

Speaking of resisting the Qing army, the current imperial army is full of fear of the Qing army, even if he raises an army of 200,000 people again, he does not have the slightest confidence to resist the fierce Qing army.

After all, in the first battle of Haryana City, the empire's 450,000 troops and 3,000 war elephants were buried, and the 200,000 army that had just been forcibly formed and had not even been trained did not think that it could resist the Qing army.

Thinking of the fierceness of the Qing army, the Mughal emperor only felt that the future was bleak.

Just when the Mughal Emperor and many high-caste Mughal ministers were worried about how to resist the Qing army, an envoy sent by the Ming court arrived, indicating that they wanted to meet the Mughal Emperor.