Zhu Jinglun once promised Xu Rongcun to wait for him to come back from Alaska to participate in the enthronement ceremony, and he had already returned, but the enthronement ceremony did not start, and Zhu Jinglun did not delay it for some reason, but the ministers thought that they might as well wait. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

They were waiting for a piece of news, the news that the army had conquered Beiqi, and they thought that such news could greatly enhance the legitimacy of the Ming Dynasty and make the enthronement ceremony more glorious.

The First Army of Xin'an nested in Tianjue for a winter, before they explored the road to Beiya, prepared the next plan, only to wait for the arrival of reinforcements after the beginning of spring, they will launch an attack on Beiya.

In fact, if the First Army chooses for itself, they prefer to do it themselves, and Wen Yuan has repeatedly asked for battle to attack Bei Yacheng and has been strictly ordered to garrison Tianjin.

Also in winter, the black dog was not idle in Fujian, the Wukeng army invaded Zhejiang to the north, and the main force of Zuo Zongtang battled, defeated Zuo Zongtang's Chu army in one fell swoop, and captured a large number of legal rifled guns, but unfortunately the performance is not very good, far inferior to the British production of Armstrong rear-loading cannons, the Ming army after the test that the reliability is too poor, the comprehensive level is not as good as the smoothbore guns equipped by the Ming army.

The artillery unit that Zuo Zongtang painstakingly formed was basically annihilated, causing him to have to retreat to Hangzhou, and at this time, the Taiping army took advantage of Zuo Zongtang's shrinking forces and had captured many places in Zhejiang.

Yanzhou Mansion and Quzhou Mansion can be said to be Zuo Zongtang gave to the Taiping Army, he almost did not resist here and retreated to Hangzhou Mansion, because after giving up here, the Taiping Army will go north to the junction of the Ming army in Chuzhou Mansion and Wenzhou Mansion, Zuo Zongtang very much hopes to see the two robbers break up because of the competition for territory, but unfortunately he was disappointed, when the Taiping Army arrived, the Ming Army took the initiative to hand over the occupied area, and the Wukeng Army went directly north.

At this time, it was already winter, and of course he did not go north to fight Tianjin, but to capture Ningbo Mansion with the navy that went south from Tianjin to hide. When the port of Ningbo was occupied, it was strongly protested by the British and French, especially the French, and even sent warships to confront the Ming army for a long time.

It's a pity that the Ming army changed its guns at this time, and the warships purchased from the United States greatly improved their combat effectiveness, at least on the surface, they were bluffing, but the technical ability of the soldiers was not as good as that of France at this time, let alone with Britain. However, the French confessed, and after strong protests, they failed to block the landing of the Ming army, let alone directly open fire.

After the occupation of Ningbo Port, the Ming government quickly sent officials to manage the port, and the management mode of the port changed for a while, but it promoted trade, and Britain and France slowly lost their excuses to enjoy the expansion of trade, but at the political level, they still did not accept the Ming army to occupy here.

Zuo Zongtang saw that the Ming army was so tough, and the foreigners were able to endure this breath, which made him sigh and miscalculate, and the situation behind him directly made him vomit blood, under the fierce offensive of the Taiping army, the Huai army in northern Jiangsu, which had not yet taken shape, retreated under the order of Li Hongzhang and withdrew from the area south of the Yangtze River in Jiangsu, which made Zuo Zongtang immediately fall into the situation of being attacked by the Taiping army from the north and south.

After Zuo Zongtang vomited blood, he immediately sent a letter to the Qing court, asking the court to negotiate with the Ming army, telling the court that the current court could not afford to wage war with two rebels at the same time, and if it could stabilize the Ming army, it should try its best to appease.

But the Ming army, which had already occupied Tianjin, didn't want to end the battle at this time, and the black dogs were willing to honestly give up the occupied Zhejiang territory, just because they had a lot of strength in their hearts to fight Beijing, and whoever blocked their Northern Expedition at this time would dare to play with whom.

The reason why Li Hongzhang fled was because he suffered too heavy losses in the blood station with the Taiping Army a few years ago, and Cheng Xueqi, the chief general last year and had been partnering with Gordon, was shot in the head by a foreign gun when he attacked Jiaxing and died.

The massacre of the Huai army in the Jiangnan region not only made Gordon want to duel with Li Hongzhang, but also made the Taiping army extremely heroic when fighting with the Huai army, because they knew that even if they surrendered, it was a dead end, and the local people were actually helping the Taiping army, because Li Xiucheng adopted the Huairou policy when he ran Jiangnan, and Li Hongzhang never paid attention to the discipline of the army, and the wanton plundering and killing policy of the Huai army after occupying Jiangsu made the local people miserable.

After the bloody battle with the Taiping army in Zhenjiang and Changzhou, the Huai army suffered heavy losses, although the Taiping army suffered the same heavy losses, but Li Hongzhang no longer had the determination to fight to the death with the Taiping army, at this time because Tianjin was occupied, the Qing court issued an edict of King Qin, Zeng Guofan and Zuo Zongtang ignored it, but this gave Li Hongzhang a good excuse, under the banner of going north to capture the king, he ordered the rest of the Huai army to retreat from Suzhou Mansion and Songjiang Mansion, as for whether Zuo Zongtang would fall into death, Li Hongzhang never considered.

Li Hongzhang went north under the banner of King Qin, but he didn't leave Yangzhou when he walked to it, and he relied on this rich place where salt merchants gathered, and said that he needed to raise military salaries.

However, Zuo Zongtang faced a dilemma, whether to fight to the death with the Taiping army, or like Li Hongzhang, it was important to preserve his strength.

Zuo Zongtang was a decisive man, and after the Taiping army captured Huzhou Mansion at the cost of 20,000 dead and wounded, he immediately ordered the remaining Chu army to retreat from Jiaxing Mansion to Shanghai, giving up all the land in Zhejiang.

At this time, another Han warlord group, the Hunan army has been resting in Anqing, after Zeng Guoquan retreated from Tianjing, he fell seriously ill, and did his homework with his brother Zeng Guofan for several months in Anqing, read many of the books that his brother asked him to read, and finally recovered, but they still did not choose to attack, even if the Taiping army that surrounded them was far less powerful than the Hunan army, they still did not act.

Zeng Guofan may not have any objections, but it doesn't mean that Zeng Guoquan doesn't mean this, he really wants to see if the Ming army can capture Beiqi City.

Once the Ming army captured the city of Beiqi, he wanted to see if his brother could still be unmoved, and he could still stick to his heart, and always compete with the Taiping army instead of fighting for the world.

The fall of Tianjue frightened the Qing court, Cixi kept urging foreign troops to come to King Qin, and Yixin continued to negotiate with foreigners, hoping that foreigners could intervene in this war, but he still had to nod face, or he was equally concerned about foreigners, he just hoped that foreigners could come forward to mediate.

After the Americans said that they had no choice, he found the Russians, and the last time he mediated Britain and France, he relied on the Russians to contribute, and the last reward for the Russians was more than one million square kilometers of land in the northeast. Despite the high cost, Yixin hoped that the Russians would come to their aid one more time.

The Russians were very active, because the Qing court was too easy to deceive, and the Anglo-French army Felibaha hit Beiqi City, and the Russians sat on the ground to share the spoils but got the lion's share, and they really wanted to play this kind of cattiness once.

However, the Ming Dynasty refused to cooperate, and made it clear that he would not negotiate peace with the Qing court until he captured the Northern Castle.

Britain and France were powerless to intervene, and Russia, which was in the midst of a chaotic period of emancipation of serfs, was even less able to intervene, so they had no good way.

Finally, spring began, the snow in Beijing melted, the port of Tianjin thawed, and the fleet of the Ming army came straight to Tianjin.

There were not only warships, but also a large number of merchant ships transporting supplies for the army, and the last time they monopolized the trade interests of Tianjing, they were very eager to replicate that kind of monopoly profits in Tianjin, and they could not wait to follow the fleet north.

It's a pity that Tianjin is not Tianjing, and foreigners are deeply rooted here, and it is not easy for them to stick a lever.

But they were still very happy, and were happy to witness that their army had captured the capital of the puppet Qing Dynasty.

As soon as the Wukeng Army and the Xin'an Second Army landed, the Xin'an First Army had already set off, and they couldn't wait to get the first credit of the Northern Expedition to capture Beijing.

Wen Yuan continued to urge the troops, along the way to defeat all the troops who dared to resist, for those troops who took the initiative to stay away from them, whether it was the Qinwang army from Shandong and other places, or the Eight Banners and Green Battalion stationed in Beijing, as long as they did not block his progress, they could not care at this time.

Behind the First Army, the Wukeng Army and the Xin'an Second Army were like waves, advancing layer by layer, and the back waves wanted to catch up with the front waves and take credit from the front waves.

In this kind of race to advance of the modern army, basically no Qing army can stop it, in fact, they don't intend to stop it, they just want to save their strength, or save their lives.

At this speed, Wen Kite's march was faster than the original British and French coalition army, and when he also arrived at the Old Summer Palace, he also heard that the Empress Dowager Cixi followed in the footsteps of his deceased husband and went to the Mulan paddock to patrol.

"Fu Zhuli, take your people to shout, don't you know how to speak the Northern dialect? Tell them to surrender in Kaejo, or they will be killed! ”

Wen Yuan saw the tall Beiqian City, his heart was deeply shocked, and at the same time he was very excited, such a majestic fortified city was about to be conquered by him, if it wasn't for the close pursuit behind, he would rather fight a battle and capture this city in a dignified manner, rather than persuade him to surrender.

Fu Zhuli knew that the Ming army's order was not to kill prisoners, but he didn't want the bannermen of Beiqi to really fight with the Ming army, he knew too well the terrible Ming army, these people are crazy now, one by one they want to enter the city with red eyes, and at this time blocking their way, that is, looking for death. In addition, Fu Zhuli really honestly served the Ming army during this time, or cooperated, because Zhu Jinglun promised him that after he defeated Beiya, he would let him and other Guangzhou bannermen return to Beiya. As for the Ming army's defeat of Bei Lingcheng, whether Zhu Jinglun sat on the rivers and mountains, or something else, Fu Zhuli couldn't control it, in order for him and other Guangzhou banner people to settle down in Bei Qi safely in the future, he hoped to help a group of compatriots in Bei Qi, if they could save their lives in this war, I believe they would know their kindness in the future.

So Fu Zhuli went, brought a dozen banner men, and after shouting for a while under the city, the city put down the hanging basket and pulled him up to the North Castle.

Wen Yuan anxiously waited for the result, the tower of Beiqian City never left his sight for a moment, the telescope continued to scan all corners of the city wall, the artillery had already been aimed at every place, but this kind of city was not easy to explode, so he pinned his hopes on the other party to surrender.

Fu Zhuli had been gone for three hours, from noon to evening.

For Wen Yuan, compared to these Qing troops, he regarded the friendly troops behind him as opponents or even enemies, and he even hated to set up a position and have an artillery battle with the Wukeng Army behind him.

But he couldn't, and when the sentry reported that the Wukeng Army was less than ten miles away from them, Wen Yuan couldn't wait any longer, and immediately ordered the cannon to be fired.

When a round of cannons landed on the walls of Bei Qian for a quarter of an hour, a white flag flew over the city, and Fu Zhuli persuaded the city army to surrender.

Of course, the conditions for surrender were very favorable, and the Qing army did not even have to lay down their arms, they only needed to return to the barracks or return home, and not to resist.

When the city gate had just opened a gap, Wen Yuan had already ridden a horse and led the cavalry to rush into the Beiqi City first, and then he galloped wildly and went straight to the Forbidden City. (To be continued.) )