On the second day of the first month of February, Zhou Lang boarded the Dagu Pass, and Ma Dalei, deputy general of the Shuai battalion, Hong Jiuzhi, deputy general of the First Army, Chen Xiaoshou, deputy general of the Second Army, Gou Quan, deputy general of the Third Army, and Chen Weizhi, deputy general of the artillery army, all went to Tanggu Port to greet him.

Zhou Lang nodded at them, these senior generals went against the sun, and saw that Zhou Lang suddenly felt different from before, although he had been conscious before, but suddenly at this time he had a sense of being a minister.

The second dragon raised its head in February, and Zhou Lang landed at this time, which is very meaningful, but this is just an accident, and it is not uncommon for the sea voyage in this era to be wrong for ten days and a half months.

But the subordinates discussed this day yesterday, and last night Zhou Lang went to the open sea and gave an order that he would land this morning, and they thought it was a magical day.

The real dragon has landed!

It was obviously sunny, but when a few generals told others later, they said that they were carrying the wind and rain. And with their status, they don't need to lie, they don't need to pat on the back, they even remember themselves wrong.

Zhou Lang rode with his subordinates, while inquiring about the situation, the situation was very good, the Qing army in Tianjin fled to death, there was no sign of the enemy army in the surrounding thirty miles, the people were in good order, there was no spontaneous attack, but a large handful of eggs were peddled with vegetable baskets, which made people laugh.

In total, the commander battalion and the 123rd Army, the infantry was 40,000, and most of the artillery was dispatched, and there were only 8,000.

Objectively speaking, the strength of this army led by Zhou Lang is not weak, the strength of the Anglo-French alliance to attack Beijing was less than 20,000 people, of course, Zhou Lang thinks that his army, combat effectiveness and more than half a century later Anglo-French alliance is a gap, and the Qing army in the Qianlong era is not as wasted as the Qing army in Xianfeng, at least during the Qianlong period, they fought ten martial arts, even if they did not achieve a real record worth transmitting, but they at least trained a group of middle and low-level officers with combat experience, The organizational skills and combat experience of the army are still there.

Compared with the two, Zhou Lang felt that it was unrealistic to fight Beijing. Historically, there were very few cases of capitals of the level of Beijing and Nanjing being captured from the front, and most of them were lost because the defenders fled and surrendered.

The area and population of Beijing are not controlled by 40,000 people.

Therefore, Zhou Lang was also eager to conquer Beijing, but he always thought that it was unrealistic, unless Qianlong and Jiaqing escaped with their concubines like Xianfeng, he would not attack.

However, the idea of escaping did not exist in the minds of Qianlong and Jiaqing, and the courtiers were much more backbone than the courtiers in Xianfeng, they were not thinking about how to negotiate peace, but thinking about how to kill the enemy.

This person's name is Chu Pengling, and he is an imperial historian, and the duty of the imperial history is called the wind and news, that is, anything can be impeached, and there is no need to verify it. This official position was very powerful in the Ming Dynasty, because as long as it was impeached by them, even if it was the first assistant, he had to stop his work immediately and wait for the investigation, which was called waiting to be participated. But the imperial history does not need to be verified, they only need to hear a little rumor, they can impeach the emperor, and the purpose of setting up this position is to let them supervise officials. However, because the imperial history does not need to be responsible for the truth of the matter, it is like some media in later generations will do their best to sensationalize, exaggerate the facts, and even fabricate the facts. Anyway, even if the matter of their final impeachment is nothing, they can't be hit because they fulfilled their accusations, and to attack them is to attack Yanlu, that is, to faint and tyrant, so the emperors of the Ming Dynasty are not very willing to provoke these people, because these people can even participate in the impeachment of the emperor.

With such unbridled power, it is easy for the imperial historians to become tools for the power struggle of the powerful, and many of the senior officials have their own control of the imperial history, and use them to attack their political opponents, because they impeach, the other party will stop working, which often causes great trouble. The other side will then retaliate, and so on and so forth, with serious consequences.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty summed up the experience of the Ming Dynasty and called the speech official one of the three major disasters of the Ming Dynasty, which was ranked alongside party strife and eunuchs, that is, the degree of harm of the speech official was placed at the level of Wei Zhongxian and Donglin Party.

Therefore, although the Qing Dynasty also set up this department, due to the recognition of the harm, the power of the Qing Dynasty's imperial history was not as great as that of the Ming Dynasty, and they did not need to stop working immediately if they were impeached, and the impeachment was wrong, and it had to be investigated. Therefore, the speech officials of the Qing Dynasty were relatively unrestrained, not as unscrupulous as the Ming Dynasty, and not as a tool for party struggle like the Ming Dynasty.

Chu Peng Ling is an imperial history, but he is an imperial history who does not rub sand in his eyes, and hates corrupt officials the most, and he dares to impeach him at any level.

This kind of person is not afraid of death, nor is he greedy for money, he has a good reputation, he is also very bold, he dares to say anything, and he will cause trouble when others clean them up, so it is very difficult to deal with.

At the beginning, Peng Ling proposed that the Son of Heaven should now drive the expedition in person and follow the example of the Holy Ancestor Kangxi, which will definitely boost morale and calm the trouble.

His recital was supported by some more upright officials, but the officials of the Heshen family were resolutely opposed, believing that the emperor's golden body could not be dangerous, and the great principle that the golden body did not sit in the hall was shouted by them.

But Chu Peng Ling really didn't care about the safety of the Son of Heaven, did He Shen really love the emperor?

Chu Pengling may really dare to speak out because of his political cleanliness, but He Shen's purpose is definitely not so pure.

Qianlong is not dead yet, he is Qianlong's person, Qianlong is one day, and Heshen is the second emperor, after Jiaqing is pro-government, he may reuse Heshen, but it is by no means as comfortable as it is now.

So He Shen has to think about Qianlong, the Son of Heaven is driving in person, the old man Qianlong is almost ninety years old, of course it is impossible to go, then it can only be Emperor Jiaqing, Jiaqing is driving in person, whether he wins or loses, it is a big trouble, if he wins, his prestige increases, can Qianlong still be able to suppress him? Lost, the army that Jiaqing mastered when he was in charge of the expedition was a huge threat, and who dared to guarantee that he would not take the opportunity to launch a coup d'état.

Anyway, restricting Jiaqing and suppressing Jiaqing is where Qianlong's interests lie, and any contact between Jiaqing and the army is dangerous.

Of course, this danger is not the danger of Jiaqing himself, but the danger to Qianlong, as for the emperor's personal expedition, there have not been several emperors in history, and an emperor is at least much safer than his soldiers and generals under him.

For this reason, Peng Ling and Heshen's henchmen had a fierce argument, and Tianjin fell for more than ten days, but he couldn't come up with any ideas.

Zhou Lang did not know at this time that due to his military pressure, there was a rift in the dual power center structure of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which did not conform to the convention of the emperor and the emperor.

In fact, this is also inevitable, this kind of power structure, no pressure is naturally good, once there is strong pressure, it is inevitable that something will happen. The Northern Song Dynasty is an example, the Jin soldiers went south, Li Gang and others persuaded Song Huizong to let Chan let Song Huizong ascend the throne, and he took Cai Jing and other ministers to the south, and the Jin soldiers retreated and rushed back to Kaifeng. Then there were various estrangements between the two old and new emperors, and in the end, they were both taken captive by the army.

The relationship between Qianlong and Jiaqing's family, although Jiaqing can't challenge it because Qianlong's prestige is too heavy, but Jiaqing has ascended the throne and has a righteous name, but Qianlong is already old, and the people's hearts are back, and it is subtle.

Zhou Lang actually understands the dangers of this dual power structure, he has seen too many power struggles between the president and the chairman, the vice president and the department manager, and the relationship between Zhou Lang and Henry Pitt within the Chinese company is the same, so Zhou Lang would care very much about Wang Fuqian's power at the beginning, but he was worried about the emergence of a second power center.

But when he rose to the level of the state, Zhou Lang didn't know what would happen, but he knew that there would definitely be problems between Qianlong and Jiaqing, and this was one of the purposes of his coming to fight Beijing, so that this fragile power structure that defied common sense would be divided, although it was not enough to sink the huge broken ship of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but it would definitely cause all kinds of problems.

However, Zhou Lang didn't know that there was a problem in the other party's court so soon, he just sent the army to attack in an orderly manner, and after resting in Tianjin for a month, in early March, he began to march towards Beijing.

There are two routes from Tianjin to Beijing, one is to follow the Yongding River corridor and finally enter the Fengtai area in the south of Beijing, and the other is to go north along the Grand Canal to Tongzhou, and finally attack the area of Beijing's Dongcheng.

Zhou Lang's troops could not be divided, so he chose the Tongzhou route, and the place in Langfang did not seem to be very friendly to the invaders.

There is also an advantage of taking the Grand Canal, which is a channel to transport various materials from the south to Beijing, Zhou Lang can use the reserve resources and transportation forces along the way, after going ashore, Zhou Lang's sea ships are useless, and the large and small grain ships on the canal have become strategic resources, Zhou Lang has requisitioned hundreds of boats, of course, he gave money, and the money given to the owner was enough to buy the ship with the goods, but Zhou Lang left, and promised that as long as the owner was willing to follow, the boat would still give it to him in the end, if the owner could organize workers to help transport, will also pay the wages, and the result is really that half of the shipowners are willing to take the slender men with them.

The vanguard was the First Army's Hong Jiuzhi Division, followed by the Second Army, Zhou Lang followed the commander's battalion, and the artillery and baggage were escorted, and the Third Army stayed in Tianjin.

The generals were against Zhou Lang's follow, but the opposition was not strong, and Zhou Lang could follow under the banner of pro-conscription.

Although his combat experience was far inferior to that of these officers, his morale in the barracks was different, and no soldier would think that the commander would be worse than their commander.

That's where prestige comes in.

The advance march went very smoothly, and the return reports showed that they had encountered little organized resistance, with small groups of flood troops fleeing and large groups of Qing troops not yet appearing.

It was not until Zhangjiawan in the southern suburbs of Tongzhou that he encountered the heavy army group of the Qing army.