It's not that they didn't think about retreating, but it's a pity that Dolgon and them were in a hurry, and they traveled a long distance for fear of delaying the time to go back to rescue.

If their own troops break through, even if Sun Chuanting has more than 100,000 troops under the city, they will not be worried.

It's just that if they break through with this unlimited amount of supplies, then they don't have that ability.

It is even more impossible to give up these materials, how many men did their Qing army lose for these materials, and how much did they pay?

What's more, if they don't bring these supplies back to China, in order to worship the destruction they know about the country, I am afraid that this winter will be a little sad.

Over the years, the winter has become colder and longer, and if it weren't for this, their Eight Banners nobles of the Qing Dynasty would not have followed Dolgon, and brought most of the children of the Eight Banners out of the country, but let the Han people of the Ming Dynasty seize the flaws and raid the empty kingdom territory, causing great damage.

As Huang Taiji's loyal henchmen, Ao Bai and Suo Etu were originally from the two yellow banner nobles, so they naturally did not want to see Dolgon or Hauge, Huang Taiji and other brothers ascend to the throne. No matter how to say that today's Qing Dynasty can have such a scene, it is also the construction of the wise lord Huang Taiji with hard work, why the heirs of the former emperor Taiji and other heirs can not inherit the foundation of the emperor, but to the former emperor's ambitious, open-minded brothers who may not be half as good as the old master.

Therefore, the nobles who worshiped them, the two yellow flags, secretly profited from the black hands during the period when Hauge and Dolgon were fighting for the throne, but in the end, they helped the fourth son of the late Emperor Taiji to ascend the throne and inherit the foundation of the emperor.

It's just that the current Shunzhi Emperor is too young, although he is assisted by these nobles with the two yellow banners, but in the end, the power of the court still falls into the hands of Dorgon, the victor in the previous princely dispute.

Once in the Huang Taiji period, as the biggest help of the royal family, the children of the two yellow flags, because of the previous battle for succession, offended Dorgon, and this Dolgon's thief heart is still not dead, and he is still preparing to ascend the throne in the future, but he has been suppressing the generals and nobles from their two yellow flags.

Now Ao Bai and Suo Etu stayed in the Daming Pass to protect the results of the Qing Dynasty's southern expedition, and it was not without the Prince of Rui Dolgon who was worried that after the nobles of Ao Bai and their two yellow flags returned to the country together, they would attack Dolgon because of Dolgon's mistakes now.

Of course, with their hearts, they knew that now was the time when they were most needed in the court, but in order to take care of the overall situation, they didn't think about going back with the team to compete for their power position and help Emperor Shunzhi.

However, it is precisely because the court is now in chaos that even Ao Bai himself does not know when the country will send reinforcements, and how long they will hold out as a lone army.

The materials in the city are piled up, even if the Ming army outside the city is besieged to death, with the materials in the city, they are convinced that they can hold out for more than a year. It's just that there are more seized and looted steel, silk, pearls and other military supplies or luxury goods, although there is a lot of food, but they are also worried that they will be moldy in the long and protracted war or consumed by the worm-like Han people in the city.

The Han army outside the city did not seem to have made any major moves, but according to the reports from the elite scouts scattered around them, behind them, a large army was coming to reinforce them, and it seemed that they were planning to storm and recapture the royal capital that belonged to them.

This is what they are most worried about, when it comes to holding the war, the elite troops of the Qing people may not be more skilled than the Han army, many Han troops consolidate the fortifications and strategies of the city defense, and the Qing army is accustomed to fighting on bow and horse.

Sure enough, just when Ao Bai and Suo Etu were anxious, the Ming Dynasty army besieging Beijing finally made a move.

In front of the Qing army in the city, the Ming army pressed the battle line forward to about two miles, and the Qing soldiers standing in the city did not even need other tools to assist, as long as the weather was clear, they could see the Han soldiers under the city wearing them.

What made Ao Bai and Suo Etu a little frightened was the more than ten artillery batteries that were gradually rising from the ground on the Ming army's position, as well as more than ten huge caliber artillery pieces found by the Qing scouts where the Chinese army was located.

The invention of artillery, so that the invincible Qing people suffered countless losses when attacking the fortifications, and now the other side is building a fort in the field, ready to use it to attack the city, which was originally worried about them, but felt that something unlikely.

Although the Ming Dynasty is rich in resources and strong national strength, they are somewhat backward in the manufacture of firearms, according to the intelligence organization of the Qing Dynasty, almost all the high-power artillery of the Ming Dynasty is purchased from the hands of the Western Yiren.

Even though the Ming Dynasty was now able to imitate Western large-caliber artillery, its manufacturing technology made the artillery often too heavy and could not withstand long-term use, and they were even afraid that they would be raided by the Qing cavalry army, and in turn rob these bulky artillery.

However, the artillery used by this batch of Ming army is not only huge, but also far lighter than the cast cannons of Westerners, and two or three war horses can drag it away, so that they dare not send a cavalry army out to raid, and can only watch the other party build a fort without fear, and slowly put the noose on their heads.

"If you can't go on like this, you have to send cavalry to destroy the fort they built, otherwise we will be turtles in this city, and we will be destroyed by the other party."

As a general, although Hai has never seen the power of the artillery in front of him, he has been fighting on the front-line battlefield all year round, and he can roughly estimate the power of these artillery.

In the case of worry, Ao Bai can only bite the bullet and prepare to react.

"No!"

Suo Etu did not agree with Aobai's opinion and issued an opinion.

"The number of cavalry in our hands is only five thousand, even if we forcibly break through the opponent's position, if we can't threaten the artillery they value, and destroy the artillery built by the opponent once or twice, they can repair it again and again, and consume the strength of our cavalry."

"It's better to wait for all their artillery to be in place, and then we can launch a surprise attack, even if we can't destroy a few artillery pieces in one fell swoop, we can gain some more time, and we can delay a little longer."

"Oh, it seems that you literati still have more bad water in their heads!"

Ao Bai thought that this was really the case, and nodded in agreement, so what Suo Etu said was more thoughtful than his own plan.