Fan Yongdou and his son were escorted outside the city to the scene of the swearing-in meeting.

Zhu Ci stumbled and glanced at the hundreds of thousands of troops under the stage, behind Zhu Cihe, there was an altar, on which there were seven heads, and a five-clawed golden dragon flag fluttered aside, under the support of the defeated heads, it looked extremely majestic.

"In the past, Emperor Taizu on a cloth body, from the grass, expelled the Mongolian Tartars, the creation of the Ming Dynasty, now the Ming Dynasty has enjoyed the country for 281 years, however, since the end of Wanli, the rise of the Manchu Tartars, rebel against the Ming Dynasty, captivity year after year, resulting in the displacement of the people of the Ming Dynasty, full of complaints, Chongzhen 17 years, the exile into Beijing, the fall of the Beijing Division, Emperor Sizong would rather die than yield, from the hanging coal mountain, showing the iron backbone of the Ming Dynasty."

"The Liukou are hateful, but the Manchu rebels took advantage of the civil strife in the Central Plains of our country to rob and rob the country, occupying all the northern provinces, half of the Ming Dynasty fell into their hands, and tens of millions of Han people were enslaved."

"In the past, the Mongol Tatars were divided into four classes, and our Han people were listed as fourth-class pariahs, which were wantonly trampled on. Taizu Tian gave him the order to send troops to the Northern Expedition, and finally recovered the Han people's rivers and mountains, and the power of the Ming Dynasty was far away. Today, I, Zhu Ci, want to follow the example of Emperor Taizu to go on the Northern Expedition, not to recover all the lost land, and to vow not to return to the division! ”

After Zhu Ci said this, he did not stop, but turned around and pointed to the seven heads behind him, as well as Fan Yongdou and his son, who had just been escorted up.

"Manchurian has a population of hundreds of thousands, and the whole people are not more than 100,000 soldiers, how can they occupy thousands of miles of rivers and mountains in the north of the Ming Dynasty, all because of traitors!" Zhu Ci's tone was cold, full of murderous intent.

The war between the Manchus and the Han is a matter between the two races, there is not much right or wrong, but what Zhu Cizhen hates the most is these traitors who help foreign races and sell their own nation for profit, such people are not worthy of being Han people, he will not tolerate them when he sees one and kill the other.

"If it weren't for Fan Wencheng, Hong Chengchou and other traitors gave advice to the Manchus, Geng Jingzhong, Shang Kexi and other traitors acted as pawns for the Manchus, and tricked other Han people into beating themselves, how could the Manchus have a chance, so the Manchus are hateful, but the traitors are even more hateful.

"These eight people, originally the people of Shanxi Daming, have secretly transported various military supplies for the Manchus since the Manchu rebellion, and collected various intelligence for the Manchus, and have now been named the Eight Great Emperor Merchants by the Manchus, in fact, they are the Eight Great Traitors!"

"Now, I want to sacrifice the military flag with the blood of traitors to show my determination to the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty!"

"Execution!" Zhu Ci staggered.

Immediately, a knife and axe hand rushed up and suppressed Fan Yongdou's father and son.

Fan Yongdou's father and son were frightened, their faces were dead, and they kept shouting, but unfortunately no one listened to what they were shouting, and after the knife and axe man blocked the mouths of the father and son, he escorted the two to Xingtai.

Directly in front of Xingtai is an altar where the heads of the other seven traitors are placed.

Fan Yongdou's father and son's mouths were blocked, and their eyes were staring at the disastrous head on the altar in front of them, they were already able to determine their fate.

At this moment, the father and son were extremely remorseful, why should they be tempted by the Manchurians to sell military supplies and intelligence to the Manchurians in exchange for gold and silver for the sake of silver, and now this end is extremely miserable.

"Poof!"

Bright red blood sprayed, and the heads of Fan Yongdou's father and son rolled off, and countless blood continued to gush out from the necks of the lost heads.

A guard quickly brought a golden basin to catch the blood of the traitor.

"Sacrifice the flag!"

The blood of the traitor was splashed on the military flag, and the bright red blood of the traitor stained the five-clawed golden dragon flag red.

"Boom! Boom! Boom"

The war drums are thundering, the chests of the soldiers in the audience are burning, and the morale is like a rainbow!

Zhu Ci personally pulled out the five-clawed golden dragon flag stained red with the blood of the traitor, and roared at the countless soldiers in the audience.

"Expel the Tartars and kill all the traitors!"

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

"Expel the Tartars and kill all the traitors!"

"Expel the Tartars and kill all the traitors!"

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers shouted together, with a mighty and murderous aura.

"Expedition!" Zhu Ci announced his departure.

At this point, the Northern Expedition officially began.

Zhu Ci was dressed in golden armor, straddled his war horse and led hundreds of thousands of soldiers to the battle.

These hundreds of thousands of troops, in addition to the first army already in Xuzhou and the fourth army in Quanzhou, a total of 80,000 Yinglong army, and the seventh army to the sixteenth army and other nine standing armies of 180,000 people, a total of 260,000 troops, if you count the first army in Xuzhou and the fourth army in Quanzhou to attack from the sea at any time, the total number of troops of the Northern Expedition reached 300,000.

Although the 300,000-strong army was nearly 2 million for the north, the Manchurian army was not a large number.

However, except for a few who still use cold weapons, the Northern Expeditionary Army is an all-firearms army with strong combat effectiveness, not to mention the Yinglong Army, which is equipped with a new type of firing pistol and a 90-millimeter caliber field cannon.

300,000 against nearly 2 million, it's a feat, but it's also a feat with full grasp.

When the news of the Ming Northern Expedition reached the north, the people were shocked.

However, I heard that the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty was only 300,000 troops, and the Manchurians settled down all of a sudden, after all, the Manchus have always won more with less, and the only defeat in Xuzhou was 800,000 against more than 400,000, although I felt that the defeat was a little unjust, but it was understandable.

And now, the Ming Dynasty only 300,000 troops of the Northern Expedition, after several years of all-out construction, the Qing Dynasty has nearly 2 million troops, although more than eighty percent are Han Banner Army, but after all, the number is more than six times that of the Ming Northern Expedition Army.

The Manchurian generals all denounced Zhu Ci for being extremely arrogant, and one by one did not take the Ming Northern Expedition army in their eyes at all.

Among the Manchus, only Dolgon and a few Manchu high-level people are sober, Dolgon has all the information of the Manchurians, he is very clear about the configuration of the Ming Northern Expedition army, 240,000 all-firearms army, 120,000 Yinglong Army is equipped with the secret weapons newly developed by the Ming Dynasty, although Dolgon does not know the specific power of the two secret weapons of the new guns and new cannons of the Ming Dynasty, but there is no doubt that the Yinglong Army equipped with those two things, the combat effectiveness must be stronger than before.

Fan Yongdou and the other eight imperial merchants were wiped out outside Taiyuan City, and Dolgon already knew about it.

He also knew what the traitor elimination team that attacked the Eight Great Emperor Merchants in that battle had shown.

An object that could be pulled and thrown with bare hands, and the power was not much worse than a cannonball, and he noticed it, and there was no doubt that it must be one of the secret weapons newly developed by Da Ming, and it was the third secret weapon that he didn't know before.

The unknown is the most terrifying, and Dolgon deeply felt that the combat effectiveness of the Ming Northern Expedition was unpredictable, and he did not dare to underestimate it at all.

The Manchurians also moved, the army moved more frequently, and various defensive lines were arranged.

The first stop of the Northern Expedition was Shandong, and Dolgon deployed 500,000 Han Banner troops to defend here, gradually depleting the strength of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

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