Shanhaiguan.

British Duke Zhang Shize and Xiangcheng Bo Li Guozhen stood side by side, staring at the endless Qing army camps outside the city.

The British Duke frowned and said, "How many days have you been here?"

Li Guozhen said: "It's been three and a half days."

The British justice: "Then why hasn't Jiannu launched an attack yet? It's impossible for them to come here just to camp and play, right?"

Li Guozhen thought for a while and said, "Can it be that some civil strife broke out within them?"

The British Duke shook his head and said, "It's impossible. Jiannu is a country on the surface, but in fact it's just a tribal alliance."

"Each of these tribes is very clear that they cannot be opponents of the Ming Dynasty when fighting alone, so they will definitely reach an agreement before sending troops."

Li Guozhen pondered for a while and said, "Since the option of internal strife is ruled out, then... it should be what His Royal Highness predicted, right?"

The British Duke narrowed his eyes and said after a long time, "This guy Dorgon really hates His Royal Highness the Prince to the core."

Li Guozhen hurriedly said, "Since Dorgon has led the main force to the north, let's take action quickly, Duke of England."

The British Duke shook his head and said, "It's not possible yet."

Li Guozhen said anxiously: "Why?"

Britain looked at the Qing army camp in the distance fairly and said, "Because we have no definite evidence to prove that the main force of Jiannu has indeed gone north. What if Dorgon did not go north? Then what we have to face when we lead troops out of the city is the main force of Jiannu."

"Xiangcheng, I'm here to ask you, do you think we can win if we meet Jiannu's main force now?"

Li Guozhen hesitated for a moment and said, "It should be a certain chance of winning, after all, we also have a total of 10,000 musketeers."

British justice: "The Shenji Camp was actually not without the confrontation with Jiannu, but its role was actually relatively limited. The Ming Musketeers rebuilt by His Royal Highness the Prince are indeed far better than the Shenji Camp, but... after all, they have never experienced actual combat."

Li Guozhen was speechless for a moment.

The British Duke looked at Li Guozhen and said seriously: "Nei Xiangcheng, of course, I want to defeat Jiannu, and of course I want to fight to Shenyang tomorrow and kill the Jiannu who is entrenched there."

"But don't forget that our place is Shanhaiguan, which is the last and only line of defense to guard the capital. The emperor, civil and military officials, the lives of the capital and even the millions of ordinary people in the Central Plains are under the control of this line of defense. How could I take the risk easily?"

Li Guozhen was speechless at all.

After a while, Li Guozhen said reluctantly: "Then we can't stay here all the time, right? Your Highness the Crown Prince..."

The British Duke smiled and said, "Brother Xiangcheng, I know you are worried about His Highness the Crown Prince. But I must say that if we only talk about the war, we will not be enough to carry shoes to His Highness the Crown Prince, right?"

"Since His Highness the Crown Prince has chosen such a strategy, he will definitely make arrangements, so you can wait."

Li Guozhen asked subconsciously: "What arrangement?"

The British Duke shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands and said, "I don't know, but that's what His Highness said at that time."

Li Guozhen: "..."

After talking for a long time, your British Duke is just holding a chicken feather as a command arrow. If you don’t know, pretend to understand!

Just as countless alpacas were rushing in Li Guozhen's heart, a general hurriedly came to the two of them.

"The British Duke, Xiangcheng Bo, there was news from the dock. I just caught a smuggled from the sea and claimed to be an envoy from the East Factory in Shengjing. I have top secret information to submit it!"

The British Duke was obviously surprised and said, "Take someone to our office!"

Soon, in the British office room, he saw the envoy who was tied up.

The Duke of England did not talk to the envoy, but looked at a eunuch who had just arrived next to him: "Has his identity been confirmed?"

The eunuch was from the East Factory and followed the British Duke all the way. He heard this and nodded, "I have confirmed that I have been around through tokens and code words. I am indeed a spy arranged by the East Factory in Shenyang."

The British Duke then asked someone to loosen the messenger and asked, "What happened in Chenyang?"

The messenger moved his wrist, which was a little painful because he was tied up, suddenly took out a letter as if he was magical, and smiled and said, "I don't know this little one. The little one is just a person responsible for sending the letter. Please read the letter."

The British Duke looked at the letter in front of him and his face gradually changed.

The content in this letter is actually very simple. It translates the information written in Manchu into Chinese characters before, and then adds the comments from the Chenyang branch of the Dongchang.

Li Guozhen was waiting a little anxiously and couldn't help asking: "Dude, what exactly is written on it?"

The British Duke let out a long sigh and handed the letter to Li Guozhen, and said with a smile: "Boy Xiangcheng, have you told you? Your Highness the Crown Prince must have made some arrangements. This is the arrangement of Your Highness the Crown Prince!"

Li Guozhen was overjoyed when he looked at the contents of the letter: "So that's it. Dorgon, a dog, has been north for several days. This is really unexpected. By the way, Dorgon actually left 30,000 people to Dodo? Does he look down on us too much?"

At the end, Li Guozhen was even a little angry.

With a 100,000 army on Shanhaiguan, Dorgon actually felt that only Duoduo's 30,000 people could deal with it?

The British Duke laughed and his expression became serious: "Dorgon is so confident that he is so bold. Xiangcheng Bo, you immediately order the entire army to prepare for battle today. We will go out of the camp tomorrow morning to give Jiannu outside a good look!"

Li Guozhen smiled and nodded vigorously: "Please ensure that the task is completed!"

At dusk that day, the Qing army camp.

Duoduo stood on his horse and stared at the Qing army camp in front of him, with a trance expression, not knowing what he was thinking.

A Qing general rode his horse to Duoduo and said, "Prince Yu, all the soldiers have evacuated."

Duoduo nodded slightly and said, "Leave a thousand cavalry here. When the Ming army comes in tomorrow, ignite all the camps and retreat."

The Qing general nodded, and then said with some distress: "So many tents... Prince Yu is going to burn anyway, so why don't we take a little more away."

Duoduo slapped in the face.

"Idiot, these tents are all for confusing the Ming army. Do you think they are all useless? So what if you burn more? As long as you can confusing the Ming army for one more minute, it will be worth the money!"

After scolding this ignorant Qing general, Duoduo finally felt much better.

At this moment, Prince Yu was under great pressure. He had deceived the Ming army for four days and knew that the Ming army in Shanhaiguan would react sooner or later.
Chapter completed!