Yang Qing left his army, and then went straight to Dengzhou without stopping......

He was the first to arrive in Guide.

The contraction was also completed here, and the regular army and militia under the defense of Guide Town all entered the city, and the Mongolian cavalry was still looking for food in vain in the cold wind outside, and the main force of the Qing army still did not dare to leave the pontoon bridge under construction in Yifeng......

They are still waiting.

However, it was on this day that Luoyang's Shun army finally went out of Guangcheng Pass to kill Chenzhou.

Yang Qing then rushed to Xuzhou.

The city was actually the command center of the entire northern battlefield, and Cao Youyi, the commander of Xuzhou, was in charge of the long front from Weihui to Jinan, at which time the attack on Jinan had already begun, but because the canal had not thawed, the attack on Dongchang could not be launched. The Qing army was in the two major fortresses opposite, Jinan and Dongchang, but the meaning of Jinan's existence was only to cover Dongchang's flanks. Don't underestimate Dongchangfu City because of modern obscurity, this city is actually the biggest obstacle to the Ming army's northern expedition along the canal......

He cut the canal right here.

The canal was completely drained around, making the fortress built in the center of the lake feel like an island, and except for the Ming army's heaviest Shenwei invincible general cannon, almost no cannon could inflict substantial damage on its walls with cannonballs across several miles of water.

But the cannonballs fired from the Dongchang city wall could lock the canal.

Of course, Yang Qing doesn't need to worry about this.

The eighteen Shenwei Invincible General Artillery Cannon of the Heavy Artillery Brigade directly under the Xuzhou Metropolitan Command Department did this, but the canal was not thawed, and it was impossible for these behemoths weighing several tons to be transported by land......

In fact, there is no land route either.

Even Yang Qingxiu's national highway can't withstand this tonnage cannon, this thing is actually a twenty-five times the diameter of the thirty-two pounder cannon, together with the weight of the gun carriage Ben four tons. In this era, there were no roads that could withstand its crushing, unless it was laid on tracks, but from here to the north, countless large and small rivers had to be crossed, and even if the road load-bearing problem was solved, the bridge load-bearing problem could not be solved.

In the end, it can only be transported by water.

As long as the canal is thawed, the heavy charge of these shells, which is a half-weight shell, can chisel through the brick-clad city cannon 2,000 paces away, and will destroy all the fortresses that block the Ming army.

The walls of Beijing could not carry it.

In short, this is handed over to the sworn brother, the staff system of the Ming army has been perfected, the staff officers of the Xuzhou Metropolitan Department are responsible for formulating the battle plan, the commanders of the various armies are responsible for implementing the plan, and the commanders of the front line are responsible for direct combat. On the contrary, the ability of the commander himself is not very important, and what is most needed in this position is the prestige position and coordination ability, especially the ability to deploy logistics, to put it simply, the ability to ask the logistics department for materials. And the sworn brother of the protector of the country is of course unmatched in this regard, even if everyone knows that Cao Dutong almost never won a battle when he led his troops to the battlefield. However, as a veteran figure of the current Ming army system, it is a guarantee that the entire system of the Metropolitan Command Division will not be in chaos.

Yang Qing then left.

On the same day that he left Xuzhou, the Shun army advanced to Xuzhou, and a battalion of the Ming army stationed in Xuzhou abandoned the city and fled.

Yang Qing continued north to Yizhou.

On the same day that he arrived in Yizhou, the cavalry of the Shun army engaged the cavalry of the Ming army to the west of Chenzhou.

The light cavalry of the Ming army, which had not experienced a real battle for many years, was defeated by the elite iron cavalry of the Shun army honed on the battlefield in the Western Regions, and the Ming army retreated into Chenzhou to hold on. The Shun army commanded the Chinese army with Li Zicheng, Yuan Zongdi and Tian Jianxiu divided the left and right, Liu Fangliang drove forward with elite cavalry, and Chen soldiers swept through Henan with 200,000 soldiers. The advance of the Shun army joined the Mongol cavalry on the banks of the Jialu River, and then Man Dahai, who was overwhelmed by great happiness, went to meet the king of Qin in person......

Of course, it's a secret visit.

King Qin still stood under the banner of the Ming Dynasty.

In short, he returned satisfied, and then on the same day that Yang Qing arrived in Jiaozhou, the Yifeng Qing army went south to attack Kaifeng.

Also on the same day, Duoduo went south from his daimyo.

The Qing army forwarded to cross the river by ice at the Huayuankou of Zhengzhou, the Ming army abandoned the Huayuankou and retreated into Zhengzhou, the Shun army went out of the tiger prison to attack the flood, and the Ming army abandoned the city and retreated into Zhengzhou.

Anxious to get food, Duoduo ventured to send a grain transport team across the river to Luoyang, and transported 2,000 stone of grain, but on the way back, he was raided by Huaiqing's Ming cavalry, and finally only two horsemen fled back. Duoduo then besieged Zhengzhou, trying his best to solve the nail stuck between him and Li Zicheng, and on the same day that Yang Qing arrived in Dengzhou, the battle of Zhengzhou had already begun. Faced with the terrible reality of Li Zicheng's 200,000 Chen soldiers, the Ming army in Chenzhou was worried that the transportation line would be cut off and cause it to fall into trouble, so it abandoned Chenzhou and surrendered to Yingzhou on the same day......

"That's the latest battle!"

Zheng Chenggong rode on a horse and said while accompanying the Protector to walk in Dengzhou City.

He was visibly worried.

As for the Protector of the Kingdom, he did not react, and continued to smile and look at the pedestrians on both sides, but the pedestrians didn't pay much attention to him, and no one knew him here, and he had never been to Dengzhou......

"You've done a good job all these years!"

The Protector said.

At present, the city is indeed clearly prosperous under Zheng Chenggong's governance.

Xiao Zheng has been here for six years.

Born in a pirate family, he is very smart in developing the economy, although he and the generals of the Beiyang Navy Division share a lot of benefits, but the prosperity they bring to Dengzhou is also real. Gold mines, coal mines, especially graphite mines, which became increasingly important because of crucible steel, fishing and processing in the Yellow Sea, trade with North Korea, or blood sucking from North Korea, completely erased the traces of the war in Penglai City. However, the home port of the Beiyang Naval Division is no longer Penglai Water Village, and now the Beiyang Water Division is under the control of forty cruisers, the largest tonnage has exceeded 500 tons, in fact, it is close to a small battleship, and this water village can no longer accommodate it.

The new home port of the sailor is Weihai Weijun Port.

Except for a small number of small cruisers used to patrol the Bohai Bay, the main area is merchant ships, and the export destination is the Japanese state.

And the goods are mainly silk.

With the spread of sweet potatoes and corn in Shandong, the famine problem has been solved, and the silk industry in the Zichuan area has also begun to recover. Through Zheng Chenggong's special relationship with North Korea, they bought a large number of slaves and maids from North Korea, and unlike the entertainment industry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which is young and beautiful, they want those widows caused by the war, and these hard-working women are happily busy in the mulberry garden......

It's really happy.

The ongoing war in Korea has created countless widows, most of whom are struggling to die of hunger and cold, and come here to work as slaves and maids at least without food and clothing.

As for the work......

They're more tired in their hometowns, okay!

As for whether they are slaves and maidservants......

More than half of the population of North Korea is someone else's slave!

In short, the Qilu gentry who were educated by the sages quickly adapted to the new system and found a way to deal with them after they could not take their compatriots as slaves, and now they even have the ability to buy female nu from the Wa Kingdom.

They are always wise in this regard.

The prosperity of trade and the development of industry and mining in just six years have created a prosperous city here, and the Jiaodong Peninsula, which could have been called a poor place, is truly becoming rich and well-fed. For the little marquis of the Zheng family who led them to today, the people here are sincerely respectful, and of course, they are even more grateful to the protector behind the little marquis of the Zheng family. Yang Qing can even see a shrine not far away that enshrines his tablet, and there are many good men and women kneeling there, such ancestral halls are found everywhere, and the number of 9,000-year-old ancestral halls of the Protector is far greater than the 9,000-year-old Father-in-law of Wei.

However, Yang Qing was not interested in stopping it.

This is the freedom of the people of the Ming Dynasty, and he is not good at interfering, at most he is not allowed to be too luxurious.

"Protector, the battle situation in Henan is a bit puzzling!"

Zheng Chenggong said cautiously.

Of course, with his mind, he can see that the battle situation in Henan is very problematic, he knows very well what the strength of the First Guards Army is, the Second Marine Army and the First Guards Army under his command have the same tactical equipment, and the latter even has the bonus of the assault infantry brigade, and he actually fled without a fight?

This is an exaggeration.

What's more, there is also the Tenth Army, the two armies include a Guards Army, and the nearly 50,000 troops are actually afraid of Li Zicheng's 200,000 people? In other words, the logistics supply of such two armies is sufficient, and they are fully capable of entering Luoyang! He is a veteran who has been playing in line for many years to shoot, and he knows very well that the result of this tactic against Li Zicheng's arquebus and spear is that the Shun army, which is still stuck in the era of rotary shooting, will be broken at the moment of the firefight......

"You said Zeng Ying, they? That's intentional! ”

Yang Qing showed a bright smile to a little beauty who was looking at them on the side of the road, and said casually.

"Deliberately?"

Zheng Chenggong was stunned.

"Zheng Chenggong!"

Yang Qing suddenly changed his face and shouted.

Zheng Chenggong was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses and immediately dismounted, and quickly knelt down on one knee in front of Yang Qingma in a stunned gaze......

"The last general Dengzhou will be the commander of Zheng Chenggong, and he will listen to the generals of the metropolitan governor."

He said.

There was an immediate exclamation on both sides.

All eyes turned to Yang Qing's face, followed by a chaotic bow, especially those soldiers, obviously showing ecstatic expressions, this is not only the Dengzhou Metropolitan Division, but also the garrison of the Second Marine Army, and the figure of red military uniforms can be seen everywhere in the city.

"Order, the whole army of the Beiyang Naval Division is assembled, and the whole army of the Second Marine Army is assembled!"

Yang Qing said.

With that, he slowly looked around.

"The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, I am Yang Qing, the governor of the capital, blowing the horn of assembly, the governor of the capital will take you to recover the northern capital!"

He went on to say.