There are several other people who have the same troubles as Li Zicheng, that is, Dolgon and the Duoduo brothers.

The Ming army went out of the Northern Expedition, which did not surprise Dorgon. The Ming army, which had recovered Beijing, would certainly go out of the customs to fight and regain those lost territories after capturing Shanhaiguan. It's just that Dolgon didn't expect that the Ming army would go out to fight so quickly, and the Qing army was still not prepared and did not find an effective way to crack the killing of the Ming army's powerful firearms.

Dolgon knew that if he wanted to fight against the Ming army, which was equipped with a large number of firearms, he could only equip his army with powerful firearms. After withdrawing from the Kanwai, Dorgon and the Dodor brothers were also trying to find ways to manufacture and purchase more muskets and cannons.

However, with the national strength and technology of the Qing Dynasty, there was no way to manufacture a large number of artillery in a short period of time, and the current Qing Dynasty did not have a consortium to buy muskets and artillery, even if they had the money to buy them, but they could not find a seller, and it was impossible for the Ming court to sell firearms to them.

In addition to buying from the Ming Dynasty, they could only buy from Westerners, but the time and gold and silver it would take to buy from the West were not something they could imagine. Therefore, although Dolgon knew that the Qing Kingdom must improve the equipment of the army as soon as possible, he could not achieve it.

In the past period, the equipment of the Ming army has been greatly improved and enhanced, the quantity and quality of artillery and muskets have been improved to a certain extent, and the quality of non-commissioned officers has also been markedly improved. What's more, today's Ming army, with high morale, is not at all comparable to the demoralized Qing army.

For the Qing Dynasty, there were a number of fatal factors affecting the strength, one was that some Mongol tribes, including the Horqin tribe, rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and joined the Ming Dynasty, and the other was that North Korea rejoined the arms of the Ming Dynasty. In today's Qing Dynasty, the land area and population have dropped significantly. The range that the Qing army could control was basically the area near Shengjing.

The rebellion of the Mongol tribes not only deprived the Qing of a strong ally, but also added a formidable enemy. When the Ming army regained Guanwai, the Mongols were also ready to move and prepare to unite with the Ming army. Attack the Qing Dynasty, gain benefits from it, and use it to pledge allegiance to the Ming Dynasty. Many unfavorable factors made Dorgon and the Dodor brothers anxious.

For their brothers, they never dreamed that the powerful Qing Dynasty would decay in the blink of an eye. They find it difficult to accept this reality and want to fight to the death. But in the land outside the gates, the elite Manchurian elite horses. Still unable to stop the Ming army, which was armed with a large number of artillery and muskets. In the dense gunfire of the Ming army, the Qing warriors who were attacking at high speed were shot in front of the battle without even having a chance to play.

There was no way to crack the offensive of the Ming army, and the main general of the Ming army was also very careful, there was no negligence, and basically did not give them a chance to sneak attack, Dolgon and Duoduo were very sad. They couldn't figure out how to defeat the Ming army, so they could only lose again and again.

Both Dorgon and Dodor knew. In this way, all the living space was occupied by the Ming army, and the surviving Manchus could only live in the deep mountains and old forests in the end, or surrender to the Ming Dynasty. For Dorgon and Dorgon they had never considered surrender, but the future of the entire tribe was unexpected. They have to consider. If there is really no way to contend with the increasingly well-equipped and increasingly powerful Ming army, the Manchu tribes will rejoin the Ming Dynasty and plot after surviving, which is not a bad strategy. This is better than going back to the deep mountains and old forests to live a hard life.

But for their brothers, dying on the battlefield, preferring to die rather than surrender, and maintaining their true colors as heroes, that is the only choice.

Dorgon and Dorgon had already quietly discussed that if the situation really reached the point of no return, after a few of them died heroically, they could let the rest of the tribe surrender to the Ming army and save some seeds for the Manchus.

Shengjing was destined to be unable to hold on, but Dorgon and Duoduo were still ready to fight Cao Bianjiao in Shengjing to the death.

Although Cao Bianjiao didn't know what Dolgon and the Duoduo brothers thought, he knew very well that under the current situation, the Ming army, which was equipped with a large number of firearms, was something that Jiannu could not resist, as long as he was not careless, it was expected that this northern expedition would completely eliminate Jiannu.

From Jiannu's futile resistance, Cao Yue knew that Jiannu had no way to resist the attack of the Ming army, but he still didn't dare to be careless, for fear of being accidentally overturned by Dolgon. He also sent people to Shengjing to make contact, asking Dolgon and Duoduo to give up resistance and surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

Under the call of Bumu Butai, Zhezhe and Fulin, many Jiannu nobles quietly chose to give up resistance and surrender to the Ming Dynasty. It would be a good thing if Dorgon and Dorgon could be brought down, at least with a little less effort and an early end to the war. You must know that the war in the northwest is still ongoing, the threat of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong is still very great, and the Red Lady is a female leader to lead the army, Cao Bianjiao does not think that the problem of the rogue can be solved.

If the problem of Jiannu can be solved as soon as possible, then the army he led can turn around and return to Guannei, conquer the northwest, and eliminate Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. Jiannu was extinguished, and the rebellion of the rogues was also eliminated, and the world was really peaceful.

It's just that Dorgon and Duoduo rejected Cao Bianjiao's request for them to surrender, and Cao Bianjiao could only order his men and horses to continue the war.

The naval warships also assisted Cao Bianjiao's campaign, and a warship marched along the Liao River, transporting supplies and military supplies to the army, and supporting the men and horses traveling by land with naval guns. The current of the Liao River is still quite large, and the small and medium-sized naval warships can go up the Liao River all the way to the outside of Shengjing City.

At the turn of spring and summer, the rainfall in the northeast was still quite abundant, which provided great convenience for the military operations of the Ming Guards.

That is, when midsummer came, a warship of the army and navy of the Ming Guards surrounded Shengjing.

Dolgon knew that the Ming army would surround Shengjing sooner or later, and he also re-deployed his men and horses, and led the army to defend Shengjing City, so that Duoduo led the most elite two white flag soldiers to evacuate Shengjing, find a way to attack the Ming army, and give the Ming army a severe blow under Shengjing City.

In addition to using the high mobility of cavalry to deal a blow to the Ming army besieging Shengjing, Dolgon also wanted to hand over the most elite forces of the Qing Dynasty to the commander of Duoduo, and if the situation was not right, he would flee Shengjing, break away from contact with the Ming army, and reserve some strength for the Qing Dynasty.

Dolgon pinned the future of the Qing Dynasty on his younger brother, and the Qing people in Shengjing City, Dolgon felt that if they could not hold Shengjing, they would surrender to the Ming army and seek a way to survive.

Dolgon himself was determined to die and decided to live and die with Shengjing.

Cao Bianjiao didn't pay attention to Dorgon's arrangement, Shengjing was the city he had to capture. It was also when the Red Lady led the army to attack Tongguan Tianwei, Cao Bianjiao, who led the army to surround Shengjing, also launched an attack on the capital of the Manchu Dynasty. (To be continued.) )