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Liu Changqing didn't expect that he would have such a day! The former governor of Guangxi in the Qing Dynasty, from a high-ranking official, would be reduced to mixing with a group of barbarian mountain people. That's not all, if you don't know, he will even cooperate with the traitors he disdained in the past, and fight side by side as brothers, which simply makes him crazy!

But thinking about his situation, he could only sigh dejectedly, there was no way, there was only this way to go!

At the beginning, he Liu Changqing led his own soldiers to flee to Pingxiang Prefecture, Taiping Prefecture, which was handed over to Vietnam, and joined his cousin and second son who served as a guerrilla general in the Xintai Xielong Pingying Battalion. Since then, Liu Changqing can be said to have formed a life-and-death enmity with the Cantonese thieves, and he led his cousin's subordinates and his cronies to flee to the vassal state "Vietnam" canonized by the Jiaqing Emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. So he occupied the town of Dong Deng and the town of Lang Son not far from it, and stationed there.

Strange to say, the Cantonese thief seemed to be more disciplined than the Qing army, and when he saw Liu Changqing and them fleeing to Vietnam, he stopped chasing them, returned to Pingxiangzhou City on his own, and arranged for 500 troops to garrison it.

After Liu Changqing stayed in Langshan Town for a month, he used the gold, silver and jewelry he brought with him when he fled, and he collected some grain while looting, and recruited more than 1,000 nearby mountain people for a little training.

Unexpectedly, the local garrison of the Cantonese thieves turned out to be all muskets, not only muskets, but also mixed with well-armed foreign guns and artillery, Liu Changqing, who forcibly attacked, was delayed for a while, and lost four or five hundred people, fortunately, except for a few personal soldiers and more than 100 soldiers from the Long Ping Battalion, most of the rest of the dead were local mountain people who were temporarily recruited. But even so, Liu Changqing is very distressed, now there is no Qing court to allocate military salaries, everything depends on himself, although it is to rob the nearby mountain people, but it also has to spend effort, right?

But between the mountains and mountains in the north of Yuebei, the population is not large, and it is barren, and the mountain people have nothing to grab at all, only a few rations, after looting a few times, every family has no rice to cook, looking for food everywhere, in desperation, Liu Changqing had to plan carefully.

At this time, another group of people known as the righteous army of Gongyitang entered Vietnam from Longzhou, Taiping Province, Guangxi, along the Longjiang River. Liu Changqing inquired that there were more than three or four thousand people in this group, but the leader was Wu Lingyun.

Liu Changqing also inquired that this gang of Gongyitang rebels, a while ago, when the Guangxi local government and Qing soldiers were attacked by Cantonese thieves, directly captured Taiping Mansion, captured the prefect Liu Zuosu, Dusi Huang Yaolin and the general Li Weiliang, and captured the city of Longzhou Prefecture, beheaded the governor of Longzhou and Tongzhi, and later fled to Vietnam for fear of fighting with the Cantonese thieves, and occupied An Lu Town and Wenmi Town in the upper reaches of the Longjiang River.

Originally, this gang of Gongyitang rebels, together with their own Qing officers and soldiers, were no longer in the land of the Qing Dynasty, and naturally the well water did not interfere with the river water, and they were safe. Unexpectedly, that gang of thieves had set their sights on the wealth they had brought and came to attack them. Fortunately, it was a group of chaotic people, who had no combat power at all, but a large number of people, and after fighting with his subordinates a few times, they did not take advantage of it, so they retreated to Taiping Mansion, but suffered a big loss, from three or four thousand people, to more than two thousand, and even the leader Wu Lingyun was killed.

In desperation, this group of Gongyitang rebels returned to Anlu Town, and the leader was also changed, named Zhu Hongying.

At this time, the Vietnamese king Emperor Duc sent the general Chen Jiancheng to lead 3,000 troops to encircle and suppress, wanting to drive out the rebels in the northern part of Vietnam.

Liu Changqing, who had originally grown to 2,000 people, knew that he couldn't resist it, so in desperation, he sent someone to contact Zhu Hongying, the leader of the rebels of Gongyitang, and asked the two sides to negotiate peace and deal with the enemy together. So, the two armies joined forces, and although they did not determine who was the big leader, they repelled the 3,000 officers and soldiers of Vietnam.

Although the encirclement and suppression failed, he inquired that the leader of the rebel army stationed in Lang Son was actually Liu Changqing, a high-ranking official of the Qing Dynasty. Shocked, he sent a message to the Vietnamese king Emperor Duc, saying that Liu Changqing, the governor of the Qing Dynasty, was desperate and proposed to recruit Liu Changqing.

Emperor Side sent Chen Jiancheng to surrender according to his words, but asked Liu Changqing to purge the rebels in the northern part of Vietnam.

Liu Changqing really has no way out, the poverty in the Langshan area makes it unbearable for him and his subordinates to endure it. However, when he learned that the king of Vietnam demanded that he destroy the rebels in the northern part of Vietnam, he knew that the other party was only trying to use him. It's nothing more than wanting to let himself and those rebels kill each other and lose his own troops, Liu Changqing can't help but sneer, he underestimates himself too much!

If he hadn't been in trouble now, this small country of Vietnam would really not have let him take it seriously. If he is still the governor of the Great Qing Kingdom, he only needs to find an excuse to propose a town of soldiers and horses to enter northern Vietnam, then the king of Vietnam must not obediently come to apologize in person? Now that the tiger has fallen into Binh Duong and is bullied by dogs, the little Vietnamese king has also made up his own mind!

In this case, Hugh blames Lao Tzu. Liu Changqing suddenly had an idea.

He pretended to agree to submit to the Vietnamese court. And, in order to prove his sincerity, he took the initiative to ask Chen Jiancheng for help, saying that he was planning to exterminate Zhu Hongying's rebels stationed in Anlu Town. But his troops were insufficient, and Zhu Hongying had many rebels, so in order to wipe out Zhu Hongying in one net, he asked Chen Jiancheng to lead his troops to ambush in Tongdeng Town in advance, and when he sent a signal, he jointly attacked Zhu Hongying and captured him.

Chen Jiancheng has no doubt about him, and in his opinion, submitting to the Vietnamese court is indeed the best way out for Liu Changqing. He sent troops to ambush in Tongdeng Town in advance according to the plan, and as soon as Zhu Hongying arrived, he and Liu Changqing fought together to attack the thieves.

However, Liu Changqing sent his cousin and nephew to quietly send a letter to Zhu Hongying, agreeing to come together to encircle and annihilate the Vietnamese officers and soldiers in Tongdeng Town, and then develop separately without interfering with each other. In order to convince Zhu Hongying, he also let his cousin and nephew be held hostage in Zhu Hongying's army, and at the same time, he first launched an attack on the Vietnamese officers and soldiers.

Liu Changqing's conditions are so generous, Zhu Hongying agreed, and he also felt that Vietnam was his blessed land.

As a result, the Vietnamese officers and soldiers who were kept in the dark were urged.

As soon as Zhu Hongying led the troops, Chen Jiancheng waited for the code sent by Liu Changqing, but this code was not to attack Zhu Hongying with him as agreed, but to attack him with the thief soldiers. He had originally led 3,000 troops to the expedition, but when he escaped, only 1,200 men remained, so he had to return to Hanoi in despair, and then rush to the imperial city of Hue to resume his life.

After the victory, Zhu Hongying realized the benefits of forming an alliance with Liu Changqing, so he proposed that the two armies form an alliance and expand their territory together. The two sides agreed that whoever captured Hanoi, the big city in northern Vietnam, would be the master.

The two sides hit it off.

Taking advantage of the weakness of the Vietnamese government in northern Vietnam and the lack of troops, coupled with the new defeat of Chen Jiancheng and others, Liu Changqing and Zhu Hongying both expanded their forces and occupied the towns and villages of northern Vietnam in all directions.

Liu Changqing led his subordinates to the east, all the way to seize all the places in the northeast of Vietnam bordering the Taiping Mansion, recruited troops, arranged for the villagers to hoard fields, and sent his subordinates to sneak into the countryside of the Taiping Mansion to secretly buy seeds and farm tools to transport back to the northeast of Vietnam.

And Zhu Hongying is developing rapidly. Taking advantage of the prestige of defeating the Vietnamese officers and soldiers, he led his troops into the area of Gaoping in northern Vietnam, and forced all the leaders of the four displaced people who had entered Guangxi, Lu Zhiping, Qin Sidi, Yang Jiajia, and Li Yasheng, who had originally been mixed in the area of Gaoping, Yuanping, and Bao Le to surrender, and suddenly grew his strength to more than 5,000 people. At the same time, Zhu Hongying set up customs and established cards on various transportation arteries in northern Vietnam, collected grain and taxes, divided administrative districts, and divided territories, as if it were a small independent kingdom.