Before the Yellow River returned to the northern course, Linqing was an important city on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. The city is surrounded by canals on three sides, and there is the Zhanghe River in the southwest that leads to the Daimyo's Mansion.

This time, Wei Ze's troops first attacked in separate ways and wiped out all the Qing troops around Linqing. Zhang Liangji, the governor of Shandong, and Zhang Jigong, the prefect of Linqing, were captured. Speaking of the two of them, the Taiping Army knew that they were soaked like chickens in soup, trembling like monkeys when they were rescued, and they were still holding the well rope in their arms and not letting go.

The captured ones were lucky, and none of the Manchurian officials survived. Wei Ze painted the big characters "Expelling the Tartars and Restoring China" on the wall at the gate of Linqing City, and then dragged these Tartars to the door and cut them down in front of the eyes of the wealthy merchants who were forcibly escorted to see the killing.

And among this group of people, the minister of the Chin Mission, Shengbao, was divided by five horses. This guy turned around and ran away after losing the battle, but the Taiping army didn't catch him. However, when the Taiping army conquered Linqing on the 28th, a brother from Zhili who came to defect to Wei Ze actually tied up Shengbao and gave Shengbao to the Taiping army as a meeting gift, this brother was still a little embarrassed and said: "The master of the Taiping army, this guy should be a court official, and he himself said that he is a minister." But I don't know him, do you know him? ”

The Taiping army didn't know Shengbao, but although Shengbao's clothes were dirty and gray-headed, he was indeed not a person who was born in hardship. He sent Katsuho to the Ministry of Politics, which was in charge of screening prisoners. The Ministry of Politics knew that there was only one minister in Zhili Shandong, Shengbao. But everyone didn't know Shengbao, and then Wei Changrong, who was still in charge of the next day's overseer outside the city, came up with an idea. Meet the guys who are "suspected of winning the insurance" and the guys who will be killed tomorrow one by one.

Some of the officials were both smart and a bit backbone, and they didn't say a word when they saw Shengbao. When the other guys saw Katsuho, they cried and pounced on him and shouted, "Katsubo-sama, why have you been arrested?" ”

Shengbao was originally just holding on to luck, but after being recognized, he no longer concealed it. He confessed that he was the minister of the Imperial Mission. Wei Ze also saw Shengbao once, and he asked, "Shengbao, are your family willing to pay 100,000 taels of silver to redeem your life?" ”

Looking at Wei Ze's expectant look, Katsuho was dumbfounded. He never expected that the leader of such a brave and warlike Shu Yue bandit would actually be a wealth fan, looking at Wei Ze's eyes that were as round as copper coins, Sheng Baosi thought about it, and finally said: "Naturally I don't want to." ”

Shengbao actually wanted to say that his family could redeem him, but after thinking about it carefully, Shengbao was not sure. He served as a minister and a general in commanding the army. Not dying when captured is already appalling. As for being redeemed by his family in private, even if he can really return to the capital alive, he will not escape the fate of death. Thinking of this, Sheng Bao could only make his attitude clear about his rejection of Wei Zeti.

Wei Ze sighed in disappointment, "Then you have a good meal tonight, and you will die tomorrow." After saying that, Wei Ze put Shengbao behind his back and just carried it out.

Sheng Bao looked at Wei Ze's back dumbfounded, but he didn't understand what Wei Ze's clean words meant. Katsu Bao felt that he was also a dignified minister of the Qing Dynasty, how could he say that he would kill him like this. Although Wei Ze also asked Shengbao if he was willing to let his family pay 100,000 taels to ransom people like a bandit, even if Shengbao said that it was impossible, then there was something else for Shengbao to talk about.

But when Shengbao opened his mouth and wanted to call Wei Ze back, he felt that he couldn't hold his face. Seeking Cantonese bandits for their lives is indeed full of humiliation for Shengbao. So in this mentality, Katsubo was dragged out the next day.

Less than 100 people were killed in this execution, and the Manchu record became "the canal changed color".

The Qing army near Linqing was swept away, and in addition to Seng Lingqin in Dezhou, only a few thousand Qing troops who stayed in Fucheng were still blocked between Wei Ze and the Northern Expeditionary Army for the time being.

"Chief of the General Staff, I am willing to go and meet the cavalry of Monk Greenqin." After Lei Hu had experience in fighting cavalry, he volunteered.

At this time, there is no need for the General Staff to make detailed planning, and everyone can see it. As long as they can send troops to defend against the monk Lingqin and defeat the Qing army in Fucheng, Wei Ze's troops can reach Jinghai and Duliu Town.

Even at that time, as long as Wei Ze dared to send a force to make a move to threaten Beijing, the Qing army would dare to withdraw the Qing army of Seng Lingqin and Tianjin to Beijing for defense. At that time, the Northern Expeditionary Army would be able to gain freedom of movement.

Even if there were no such favorable conditions, the Qing army took the wrong medicine and attacked Wei Ze's troops like moths to a fire, and with the strength of the current Northern Expeditionary Army, it was able to break through the Qing army's defense line and arrive at Fucheng to join Wei Ze.

"We still lack cavalry!" Wei Ze finally said regretfully.

"Even if you order the Twist Army to attack and harass, you can finally mobilize the Qing army." Wei Changrong said. All the generals also looked at Wei Ze, anyone could think of such a simple tactic, but Wei Ze didn't put forward any such ideas. This is not normal.

Wei Ze sighed and replied, "Don't hide it from my brothers, I regard this battle as a military training. The strength of the Qing army is far weaker than our troops, and even if we are besieged by the Qing army, as long as we do not make mistakes, the Qing army will not be able to do anything about us. However, there will be no such good opportunities in the future. Our enemies will only get stronger and stronger, and we will not be able to approach war with the mind of training. ”

This reason can only be said to be "magical" to the ears of the generals, and he has always repeatedly warned everyone not to make mistakes, and it is Wei Ze who repeatedly asks everyone to be careful and careful, and now Wei Ze is the one who looks down on the Manchu Qing Dynasty the most.

Wei Ze saw that everyone was very dissatisfied, and he said seriously: "The Manchu reactionaries are all paper tigers, and we must strategically despise them. But even paper tigers can bite, and we need to pay attention to them tactically. If you think that I paid too much attention to the Manchus, you can recall that there was a time when I did not attach importance to the Manchus at the tactical level. How could we have ever dared not fight the Manchus? ”

Although this can be regarded as self-justifying, it still surprises the generals. But there's no time for the accident at this point. Plans for a new march were soon finalized. Lei Hu went to Dezhou to attract the cavalry of Seng Lingqin, Wei Changrong led his troops to defend Linqing, and Wei Ze led the 13th Army and the Twist Army to attack Fucheng together.

Wei Changrong asked Wei Ze to take away the troops of the three brigades of the Eleventh Army, "Now many heroes from Shandong and Zhili have come to defect, and my subordinates have more than 9,000 people, and the chief of the general staff will not affect the defense of the city if he takes away the three brigades." ”

On March 3, the troops came out. And the Qing army of Seng Lingqin, Shandong and Zhili did not move, and when Wei Ze killed Fucheng, the Qing army in Fucheng also fled.

On March 6, the Northern Expeditionary Army and Wei Ze's troops converged at Fucheng. rg

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