Anyone with a little military knowledge knows that in the era of cold weapons, the physical fitness requirements for archers were higher than that of ordinary soldiers.

Pull the bow and aim and shoot. It only takes a few rounds and turns, and ordinary people will be out of breath and cannot support it.

Even these trained archers can only pull dozens of times and then have to stop.

The body has its limits. If you use it again, you will be injured and even your hands will be ruined.

On the other hand, the musketeers had no such trouble at all.

Any musketeer can easily shoot hundreds of bullets every day, completely overwhelming the archers in terms of quantity.

Therefore, even with the same number of casualties, the Qing army's archers were completely unable to engage in a protracted battle with the Ming army's musketeers.

The body does not allow it!

Azig said silently for a while, "Where are the other troops?"

The general said: "All the archers who can be used have been sent out and want to continue to maintain the defense line unless they are drawn from the vanguard's troops!"

Badali, who was standing beside him, couldn't help saying: "The vanguard troops can reach Shengjing at most only twenty miles. Isn't it a nonsense to draw archers back at this time?"

Azig looked at Badali: "What do you mean?"

Badali said very decisively: "Prince Ying, you can only survive by cutting off your tail!"

Azig fell silent.

To put it bluntly, the so-called "cut tail" to survive is to give up the archers and the Korchin cavalry who are fighting with all their might, so that the remaining Qing troops will retreat in time.

After pondering for a while, Ajige flatly refused: "No, you can't do this."

Badali was anxious: "Prince Ying, the Ming army just wants to contain us here. If we still have to look forward to it, if Zhang Shize, the troops of Ming army came here, I am afraid that all the troops would be trapped here."

Azig glared at Badali and said, "Do you think I don't know these reasons? My brother has sent someone to talk about it. He will also send troops to attack from Shengjing to respond to us. The British Duke Zhang Shize dared not attack with all his strength."

At the main formation of the Ming army, Zhu Cilang squinted his eyes and stared at the battlefield in the distance.

From this position, you can see the big chariots behind the Qing army and the archers behind the chariots, you can't see anything else clearly.

Li Dingguo stood beside Zhu Cixuan and was reporting.

"Your Highness, Jiannu's resistance is very fierce, and their archers seem to be more numerous than we expected!"

In Li Dingguo's original plan, it would be at most one and a half hours to break through the Qing army's defense line, but now two hours have passed, and the Ming army's musketeers still did not make any further breakthroughs after paying a large amount of casualties.

This made Li Dingguo feel a little bit self-blame when he reported.

Zhu Cilang had a calm expression and smiled and said, "It's okay. If this palace expected it was good, Jiannu should have drawn troops from the front to support him."

Li Dingguo was stunned for a moment, with a surprised expression on his face: "Isn't Jiannu afraid of Duke of England when he was transferred from the front?"

Zhu Cixuan said: "Of course they are afraid of the British Duke, but the problem is that they think Dorgon in Shengjing can find a way to restrain the British Duke."

British Duke Zhang Shize was staring at Shengjing in the distance.

At this moment, the gate of the city has been open for a long time, and teams of Qing soldiers are rushing out of the inside and forming arrays outside the city.

Li Guozhen, the lord of Xiangcheng, stood beside the British Duke and said in a deep voice: "Dorgon in the city should be unable to hold back."

The British Duke laughed: "I thought about letting Jiannu come out and fight some time ago, but I didn't expect that Jiannu really dares to come out now. Xiangcheng Uncle, what should we do now?"

Li Guozhen said without hesitation: "The last general can lead his army to block these Jiansen. The British Duke just feel at ease."

The British Duke looked at Li Guozhen and said, "I can only give you 20,000 troops."

Li Guozhen laughed: "Twenty thousand is enough!"

The British man patted Li Guozhen on the shoulder, turned over the horse, and quickly left behind surrounded by many cavalrymen.

In front of the British Duke, the main force of the 80,000 Ming army was rushing like a tide, pointing to the north.

This scene completely fell in Dorgon's eyes at the head of Shengjing, making Dorgon's face even more gloomy.

"Did these damn Ming people take the elites in Shengjing seriously so much?"

The layout of the Ming army was already very obvious, leaving behind 20,000 troops led by Li Guozhen to block Dorgon's troops in Shengjing City, and two armies, Zhu Cixuan and British Duke, surrounded and annihilated the main force of the Qing army outside the city led by Ajige.

The city of Shengjing was not full of waste, so naturally the people around Dorgon saw this and suddenly became a little panicked.

"Prince Rui, what should I do now?"

"Prince Rui, if something happened to Prince Ying's troops, then the Qing Dynasty would be in great trouble!"

The biggest difference between the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty is that there are few people in the Qing Dynasty.

If there are few people, you cannot bear too much loss.

The Ming Dynasty can always lose, killing 580,000 or even 100,000 each time, but it can regain its momentum and continue fighting next time.

But if the Qing Dynasty lost all the 100,000 troops this time, it would be completely over!

Dorgon raised his tone: "Everyone calms down!"

Dorgon's prestige was still there, and in one sentence, everyone suddenly became quiet.

Dorgon looked at the main force of the Ming army who was still moving in the distance and spoke slowly.

"The Ming people have great ambitions this time. They want to eat up 100,000 elite soldiers of our Qing Dynasty in one fell swoop, but don't forget that the elite soldiers of the Qing Dynasty are not so easy to be eaten!"

"As long as our troops in Shengjing City can penetrate the Ming army's blocking force outside the city, they can directly penetrate the rear wing of Zhang Shize's army in the Ming army!"

"At that time, it will not be Zhu Ciyang and Zhang Shize who encircled and annihilated Ajige, but I and Ajige who encircled and annihilated Zhang Shize!"

Speaking of this, Dorgon's eyes suddenly lit up, very bright.

"Zhu Ciyang felt that this was an opportunity to defeat our Qing Dynasty in one fell swoop, but he didn't know that this was also a great opportunity for the Qing Dynasty to completely ruin the main force of the Ming army here!"

Listening to Dorgon's analysis, many Qing ministers also began to become excited and spoke out in a verbal manner to ask for battle.

"Prince Rui, I am willing to take my family slaves and soldiers to fight together!"

"Prince Rui, this time we will all go out and fight against Mingren!"

Amid the sound of asking for battle, Dorgon's smile became more and more pleasant.

He waved his hand and signaled everyone to be quiet.

"Since you all are so united, please go back and organize the soldiers at home immediately and leave the city to meet within half an hour."

"As for me, I will go out of the city now and personally command the 60,000 troops in the city, striving to break through the defense line of the Ming army outside the city in one fell swoop!"
Chapter completed!