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Chapter 403

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    Although he didn't make up his mind to make the Northern Expedition until the last moment, Fatty Lu chose the timing of the Northern Expedition too well. In the south, Geng Jingzhong, Zheng Jing and Monk Zhixin fought for the territory and fought to the death; Wu's relatives and Wu's clan in the west  In order to fight for power and profit, the fight is also in full swing, the earth is turned upside down, and the scale is getting bigger and bigger. They want the other party's life with red eyes, and they can't pull out their hands to restrain Fatty Lu.

    As for the enemy of the Fatty Army's Northern Expedition, the Qing court, all the elite main forces were exhausted, and the remaining troops were far from being the opponent of the Fatty Army in terms of quantity and quality. Not to mention blocking Fatty Lu's Northern Expedition army, they just wanted to delay it a little.  And delaying the Northward march of the Fatty Army is a big problem - from this point of view, the military situation faced by the Fatty Army is even far better than Zhu Yuanzhang's Northern Expedition back then.

    At the same time, due to climate change, population growth, and over-exploitation of land, the Shandong area of ??Zhili has long been unable to achieve food self-sufficiency.  The local officials of the Qing Dynasty took turns to search for many times. The economy has already collapsed completely, starvation is everywhere, the people are in dire straits, and people's hearts are changing, including many people in the Qing Dynasty.  The relatively well-disciplined fat army really had a hard time not getting the support of the people.

    Fatty's army's Northern Expedition can only be described as devastated. Gao Dejie, who opened the way for the main force of the Fatty's army, received an order to attack the whole of Shandong. The troops were divided into two groups.  After attacking Dongping and Dongchang, they attacked Tai'an and Jinan all the way. Not long after the army set off, Dongping, Feicheng, Laiwu and other places rushed to send surrender forms, automatically cut their braids and surrendered, and presented their local household registers.  Zhu Xiaochun, the prefect of Tai'an's traitorous bannerman, threatened to live and die with the city of Tai'an, and even used his wealth to recruit Xiangyong to fight the Fatty Army.  The unreasonable people named Wang Xiaoer led them to seize Tai'an City, cut off his head, and dedicated it to the Fatty Army along with the city.

    Zhu Xiaochun may have been a loyal minister to the Qing court, but it is a pity that this loyal minister forgot an old saying - the world is not in chaos, Shandong is the first to turn back!  The people in Shandong are honest and simple, but if the rulers annoy the people in Shandong, the honest and simple will become a tough folk custom. In the past two years, Shandong has been starved and killed, and there are countless people who cannibalize each other. However, the Qing court is still working hard in Shandong.  Raising taxes to collect food, and issuing Qing military currency that is worse than sassafras paper, extortionate extortion and extortion, forcibly exchanging the pitifully small cash in the hands of the people and refusing to pay back, the stomachs of Shandong people have long been full of anger, seized the opportunity  Naturally, he wanted to vent his anger, and Zhu Xiaochun naturally died without injustice.

    Probably because of Zhu Xiaochun¡¯s lesson, Gao Dejie personally led the army to go north along the Tai¡¯an official road. When they first entered Jinan Prefecture, Shandong governor Zhang Fengyi and Shandong admiral Duan Yingju who were in Jinan sealed the Shandong provincial treasury and government treasury, and led nine  Thousands of soldiers from the green battalion who hadn't received a penny of military pay for more than half a year went south for thirty miles and came to Gaode Jiema to ask for surrender.  Zhang Fengyi was the governor of Zhili, and Duan Yingju was appointed general of Jingbei. They asked Gao Dejie to assist Gao Dejie in sweeping up the remaining state capitals in Shandong. He also appointed Zhang Bingzhi, the former Jiangsu inspector who had surrendered to the Fatty Army, as the governor of Shandong to form the Great Zhou Shandong.  provincial government.

    With the help of Zhang Fengyi and Duan Yingju, the two leading parties, the fat man's army captured the remaining state capitals in Shandong more smoothly. Wherever the army went, almost no state or government led the army to resist.  Donate the city, occasionally a few local officials stubbornly resisted, and basically did not use the fat army to do anything, the mite green battalion led by these local officials had already killed them first - I haven't received a penny of military pay for more than half a year, ghosts  Willing to work hard for these idiots and officials.  In less than a month, more than half of Shandong's prefectures have been included in the Fat Man's territory, and only Laizhou and Dengzhou have not changed their flags¡ªit's not that these two prefectures blocked the Fat Man's Army, but that these two prefectures are too remote  , the fat army who expanded too fast couldn't spare a hand to get it.

    At the same time, the Fat Man's Western Expeditionary Army led by Han Daren also advanced all the way, like a broken bamboo, and successively captured¡ªto be precise, they successively took over the Weihui Mansion and Huaiqing Mansion in Henan, and the Zezhou Mansion in Shanxi, and then divided into two.  With a partial division, Zhangde Mansion was taken down easily. The governor of Henan, Tong Fengcai, was surnamed Tong Jia because of unlucky luck, so he did not dare to surrender to the Fatty Army, so he fled back to Beijing.  The famous city of Zhili.  In the end, Han Daren's army was forced to stop expanding and wait for the food and grass to arrive because it was difficult to provide food for the army, and the time was too short to collect food on the spot.

    On May 18th, the 80,000 main force of Fatty's army going north along the canal, led by Lu Fatty himself, arrived at Dongchang Mansion in Shandong, where they joined forces with Gao Dejie's forward team.sp; "Patriarchs of the Qing Dynasty, please open your eyes!"

    When the discussion about escape was in full swing, a cry suddenly sounded in the Golden Luan Hall. Everyone was surprised and turned their heads to look, only to see that the person who cried bitterly was Kang Mazi's cousin Jie who had just been scolded bloody by the old witch of Xiaozhuang.  Shu, Jieshu kowtowed desperately to the northeast, and cried loudly, "The ancestors of the Qing Dynasty, please open your eyes and see, our country and mountains in the Qing Dynasty will be given away for nothing! Our Qing Dynasty  There is clearly hope for the country, but some people just don¡¯t want this hope, and they must give away the country that you shed blood and sweat! Please take a look, what kind of group are your descendants?  stuff!"

    While crying and shouting, Jieshu kowtowed desperately until his forehead bled, and the civil and military officials of Miqing who advocated escape were also full of shame and had to keep their mouths shut. Only the old witch of Xiaozhuang remained calm and said to Jieshu coldly:  "Lord Kang, you don't need to point fingers at Sang Huai. The Great Qing Dynasty has fallen to this day. The Ai family can stand up and say to the ancestors of the Qing Dynasty that the Ai family not only has no responsibility at all, you can also hold your head high and say that there is no Ai family.  With all your hard work, the Great Qing Dynasty will only end faster!"

    "It's not your responsibility, whose responsibility is that?" Jie Shu was so angry that his braids almost stood on end.

    "You all know who is responsible." The old witch Xiaozhuang sneered and said, "Among the responsible persons, you must be Lord Kang. If you were not captured alive by Lu Yifeng in the Bajiang battlefield in Guizhou, and then  Two poor scholars threatened to cut off your life, and forced Zhao Liangdong's rescuers to retreat. Will the main elite of the Qing Dynasty be wiped out by the old thief Wu Sangui? Our Qing army will have almost no elites to use in the subsequent battles.  The thief and Lu Yifeng's dog thief retreated steadily, losing cities and lands one after another?"

    "Our Qing army went from prosperity to decline, and the turning point was the Battle of Bajiang! The number one culprit in Bajiang's disastrous defeat was you, Prince Kang! Things have come to this point, thanks to you, you still have the face to accuse Aijia of ruining the Qing Dynasty  , Are your eyes black, or your conscience has been eaten by dogs?!"

    Being publicly exposed by the old witch of Xiaozhuang, Jieshu was speechless and his face started to have a fever. The surrounding princes Baylor and all the civil and military officials were also shocked. It was the first time they knew about the Bajiang War  special inside story.  After Jieshu blushed for a long time, he suddenly raised his head again, and said solemnly to the old witch of Xiaozhuang: "Old ancestor, in the battle of Bajiang, the slave really deserved to die.  The ancestors gave the slaves a chance to make meritorious service and atone for their crimes, and let the slaves stay in Beijing. It is best if they can hold on to Beijing until the Qing Dynasty counterattacks.

    The old hag of Xiaozhuang stared at Jie Shu, seeing the firmness in Jie Shu's eyes, and after thinking again and again, the old hag of Xiaozhuang sighed, and murmured: "After all, we are the descendants of the Aixinjueluo family, and we still have a bit of backbone.  Well, the Ai family promises you that the Ai family will only take away 1,000 Fengtai garrisons, and leave the rest of the Fengtai garrison and Miyun garrison to you. The southern army is not resistant to wind and snow, and the transportation of grain and grass is not very convenient, and there are still some hidden dangers in the rear.  If you can hold Beijing for three months and drag it into winter, the Ai family will definitely send you reinforcements."

    "Thanks to the ancestors of the Empress Dowager!" Jie Shu kowtowed vigorously, and then said solemnly: "I swear to God, as long as I still have breath, Lu Yifeng's dog thief will never even think about stepping into Beijing!"

    The old witch of Xiaozhuang didn't pay attention to Jie Shu's impassioned words, but turned her eyes to the outside of the Jinluan Hall, looked at the blue sky and white clouds in the south, and sighed softly: "The world is really wonderful. Four years ago, you were greedy for life and afraid of death.  You ruined the last chance to save the elite of our Qing Dynasty, and made Lu Yifeng a dog thief. After four years, you are going to fight to the death against the Lu Yifeng dog thief under the city of Beijing to defend the capital of our Qing Dynasty.  Is it a coincidence, or fate? Well, I hope this time, you're not just a manipulator."

    In the first year of Honghua in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and on June 12th in the first year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, since the main force of the Northern Expedition led by Fatty Lu had already broken through Nanpi and approached Cangzhou, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang of the Qing Dynasty was not allowed to bring her four-year-old great-grandson with her.  Fleeing from Beijing, taking all the rare treasures, gold, silver, grain and rice, he fled to Shengjing via Zunhua and Shanhaiguan, where he was going to start again and rebuild the Qing court.  Most of the Qing prince Baylor and all the civil and military officials fled with the old witch of Xiaozhuang. Only Prince Qingkang Jieshu and a small number of civil and military officials stayed in Beijing, preparing to lead the last ten thousand troops to defend Beijing Jiancheng and the city that was  The first city in China that has been poisoned since the Qing Dynasty.  (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.) (Remember the website URL: www.hlnovel.com
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