"Walk in step."

As soon as Fan Wencheng and his team walked out of the tent, they saw a new army coming not far to the left.

There are more and more troops around the capital. Although I don’t know how many people have come, when they came to negotiate yesterday, the place was still an open space.

Now there are many more tents. Fan Wencheng roughly estimated in his mind that at least 10,000 or 20,000 people have arrived. How many people are there in the Ming army?

The expression on Prince Li's face was not very good. If time delayed so much, the Qing people could hold on for a while, but the Ming Dynasty also had more and more troops. If there was a battle in the future, their chances of winning would be less and less.

"It's not a solution to continue like this. After going back today, you have to discuss a solution. It will be of no benefit to us if we continue to delay. When we came here yesterday, they only had two rows of cannons, but today they have turned into three rows of cannons."

After getting on the carriage, Prince Li said with his eyes closed.

"What the prince said is that the Ming army is getting stronger and stronger. According to the slave's speculation, the Ming Dynasty had just occupied so many places and needed to recuperate. It was impossible for it to send so many troops. Now it seems that the slave has made a mistake."

Fan Wencheng also felt that his hope was getting slim. He occupied so many places in Shandong and Hebei, so he should settle the local area first.

This should require a lot of strength from the Ming Dynasty court, but judging from the current situation, it seems that there is no spending much power at all, and there are still troops reaching the capital continuously.

In fact, Shandong and Hebei have settled down. As long as there is food, the local people can stay well.

The Ming Dynasty court introduced a new policy to allocate all the local unowned land to them, and they can lend them food without interest this year. As long as you plant food next year, you can return it.

The common people have never heard of such things. They always give food to the court. Even if the court encounters disaster relief, they will be given a day or two to them.

I have never heard that the court would lend you hundreds of kilograms of food.

This is also a new measure created by Zhu Cixuan, which can relieve the pressure on refugees from all over the country.

On the other hand, I also want these people to start production quickly.

Since you have signed an agreement with the court, you have enough food to survive this year. In order to be pregnant with the court's food next year, you will definitely work hard this year.

In fact, the people of this era are very kind. As long as they can eat enough, who would follow the rebel army to run around, and would not be able to occupy the mountain and become king.

This new measure by the imperial court quickly stabilized the people in the occupied areas.

Of course, the court also told them that if the weather was bad back then or if it was caused by other reasons, the court would not need them to return the food at one time.

You only need to return part of it, and the rest can be returned next year and after.

This also dispels the doubts in many farmers. After all, it is normal to rely on the weather to make a living in this era. If God doesn't give you a good weather, even if you work hard for a year and end up starving.

Now that the court has made this promise, the people dare to borrow food from the court.

Of course, the high-level officials of the Qing Dynasty did not know about this operation at all. According to their previous ideas, the Ming Dynasty occupied so many new areas and it took at least half a year to recover.

Who knew that in just one or two months, these new areas had been straightened out, and many soldiers had been contributed to these areas.

Take the two infantry regiments that had just arrived on the battlefield, all of them were recruited from the areas north of Texas.

I took me to Nanjing for training for three months, and now all of them have finished training for recruits.

It is definitely not possible to use them as old troops on the battlefield, but if they perform blockade missions, these people can still complete them.

Hu Qiang's men must have an army that can be fought. As for secondary tasks such as blocking the northern mountainous areas, these new recruits can do it.

When Prince Fan Wencheng and Li returned to the Regent's Mansion, Dorgon's face was also bleak and sad. Now he didn't know how to deal with the retreat path in the north had been blocked. Now this is a dead city.

Originally, they wanted to return to Liaodong through the Mongolian grassland, but now it is basically impossible. According to the spies outside the city, the Ming army continued to increase troops to the north of the city this afternoon, with the number of people exceeding 35,000.

After fighting for such a long time, the Qing court knew that basically a Ming soldier could beat more than five of them.

There are more than 30,000 soldiers in the north now. If they want to rush over, they will have to sacrifice at least 100,000 troops, which is impossible for the current Qing court.

"Fourth brother, you can't continue like this. This is simply a trap. When you meet them tomorrow, they may propose to ask for 1.5 million yuan in silver every day, and we will never feed their mouths."

When Prince Li just saw Dorgon, he proposed this matter. How could he not feel sorry for spending so much money every day? This is one of the few money in the Qing Dynasty.

It is said that they robbed money quickly, but compared with the Southern Ming court, where are they faster? Or these Ming armies are faster.

"I don't know this, but now I don't know what to do, otherwise we can order all the soldiers and fight them?"

It is indeed very awkward to live like this. Dorgon also learned from his subordinates that many people really want to fight once.

"This matter is absolutely inappropriate. If we have to fight hard, we still have a chance before, but now we really have no chance. At most, there is only 300 meters in front of the Nancheng Gate, they have set up their own positions. If we go out of the city and fight with them, our cavalry will not be able to assemble, and they will have already fought."

Fan Wencheng kept shook his head. What he said was the truth. When Hu Qiang occupied the open space outside the southern city, he ordered the army to compress space as much as possible and would never give the territory that the Qing people gathered.

It was raining even when the house was leaking, and now there was no chance to fight to the death.

The Qing Dynasty, which almost occupied the Central Plains, now has no chance to make a last try...
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