After the city of Beijing was breached, the work of leaving enough troops to defend, count the captures, and restore order was carried out, and the work of recruiting and recruiting rebels was also actively carried out.

The reason for attacking Beijing is that it is hoped that through the decapitation tactic, the state administration of the Manchu Qing will be paralyzed, and then the rest of the country will be easily taken. Now that it's finally down, those opportunities are coming off the ground.

First of all, Zhou Lang began to act around Beijing, the Qing Dynasty was directly subordinate to Hebei Province in later generations, and divided troops to recruit various states and counties, regardless of those who resisted stubbornly, first grabbed territory, and broke through the aftermath of Beijing.

How easy it was for the Eight Banners to enter the customs and occupy the prefectures and counties at the end of the Ming Dynasty, how easy it is for Zhou Lang now.

And he also has a powerful helper, Chen Huai has already arrived in Shandong before the city of Beijing is broken. He followed the army and recruited all the way from Yangzhou. Jiangsu and Shandong, east of the Grand Canal, have already surrendered, and some prefectures and counties west of the Grand Canal have also surrendered.

After hearing the news that Wang Shi had broken through Beijing, Chen Huai did not take advantage of this opportunity to continue to recruit the prefectures and counties in the west of the canal, but rushed to Beijing, and he wanted to be the first minister to say hello to the emperor.

Emperor Zhou Lang didn't think so much, and directly put him in charge of recruiting Manchu officials around Beijing. Chen Huai has now recruited experience in recruiting and surrendering, and he doesn't have to go to some places, he just sent a letter to him, and the army went to the other party's Kaecheng, but the army team didn't go, and the other party even sent someone to invite him. In some places, Chen Huai will go in person, and he can usually get it done. He said that where he couldn't recruit him, the army wouldn't surrender if he went, which was very effective, which surprised Zhou Lang.

In less than a month, Zhengding and Tangshan were left in Zhili without surrendering, and all other places were included in the territory.

As for the military action, Zhou Lang only made one, that is, on the third day after the city was broken, he sent the army to Shanhaiguan to quickly recruit the defenders of Shanhaiguan. It's a pity that Shanhaiguan was obtained, but the defenders withdrew from the pass and ran to the northeast. This made Zhou Lang feel that he had made a mistake and should have gone to Shanhaiguan as soon as possible, instead of waiting for three days for the soldiers to rest. Of course, he is not only for the customs city of Shanhaiguan, because this first Xiongguan is not as important to Zhou Lang as the ancient dynasty.

Zhou Lang is not worried about the enemy knocking on the pass, and occupying the pass is only convenient for him to go out of the customs to fight, and he can also take the sea route to go out of the customs to fight, so Shanhaiguan is not a necessary place for Zhou Lang. The army stationed in the pass is more important, recruit them, the Manchu Qing has one less formed army, run away from them, the Manchu not only has one more army, but also the hometown in the northeast is more stable.

In the absence of the use of troops, other places began to see the great surrender of Manchu officials as the news of the destruction of Beijing spread.

Fu Gang, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, staged a coup d'état, purged a group of civil and military officials who refused to surrender, and surrendered to the Great Zhou with the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou as a heavy gift for surrender. But this governor of Yungui is really not a good official, he is a big corrupt official. He once served as the governor of Caoyun and other fat shortages, and in the name of paying compensation, he paid tens of thousands of taels of silver to various grain roads and Wei Benqiang. In the office of the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, he was greedy and corrupt, his official style was corrupt, he sold his official beard, and covered the sky with one hand, which was also a standard Heshen henchman, but the hidden ones were relatively deep, or the roots were deep, and Jiaqing never dared to move.

Historically, Jiaqing transferred Shulin back from Xinjiang, and was the first governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, who directly made up for Fugang, and Shulin personally interrogated him, sentenced him to death, and was executed in October.

However, due to the danger of Huguang at that time, Shulin went to Huguang, Zhou Lang sent troops to Huguang, occupied Wuchang, Hunan was turbulent, and the traffic between Hubei and Yunnan and Guizhou was also affected.

Hunan has almost all surrendered, in fact, Hunan has almost paved the way for Chen Huai earlier, but the Hunan officials are ambiguous, ambiguous, obviously wait-and-see, Zhou Lang is not in a hurry, he is not in a hurry to expand the territory, as long as Hunan does not trouble him, he will let the other party finally recognize the reality. The reality is that the Manchu Qing Qi is exhausted, and the capital cannot be defended, which is equivalent to the situation of destruction.

There are also Anhui and Henan, under the idea of Zhou Lang expanding the territory and creating a general trend, the auxiliary troops occupying the areas that have surrendered quickly rushed from Jiangsu to Anhui and from Shandong to Henan, and most of the two provinces quickly surrendered.

So far, Zhou Lang is already two out of three in the world.

Why Jiaqing fled at that time also learned the details from the captured Manchu magnates. In fact, since the siege of Zhou Lang, every time the Zhou army wins, it will cause a group of Eight Banners magnates to advise the emperor to patrol and hunt (originally intended to go to other places to hunt, as a euphemism for escaping in times of crisis) Chengde, connect the princes of Inner and Outer Mongolia, and then try to recover.

But Zhu Jue firmly opposed these suggestions, believing that as soon as the emperor left, the Jingshi would definitely fall and the world would collapse in an instant. It was suggested that the emperor must stick to Beijing and wait for a turnaround. But there was no turnaround at all, and the reinforcements that Zhu Jue was forced to transfer were also annihilated outside Beijing again and again, resulting in even lower morale. The stronger and more convincing the exhortations of the magnates to go hunting in Chengde, the more convincing.

Until Zhou Lang's army entered the outer city, the entire defense system collapsed by itself, Zhu Jue still wanted the emperor to stay dead at this time, saying that once the emperor died, it was possible to inspire loyal ministers, and once the emperor left, the world would die.

In the end, Jiaqing really couldn't stand this teacher, and refused to listen to him anymore, agreed to the Chengde hunting plan of other powerful people, and fled north from Yongguan, but he didn't forget to bring his teacher Zhu Qi with him before leaving.

In addition to Juyongguan, Jiaqing did not go to Hebei, but went to Shanxi, after stabilizing Shanxi, the surface of the rivers and mountains, but also people contacted Zhengding Mansion, Zhengding (Shijiazhuang) and Shanxi through the Jingcheng connection, Zhengding, then Shanxi is stable; Because Jiaqing's movements were fast enough, the civil and military forces of Zhengding Mansion were controlled by him and sent to garrison. This is why Zhengding has not surrendered to Zhoulang, and there is also a reason why Tangshan has not surrendered, because Tangshan is where the imperial tomb of the Qing Dynasty is located, and there is an army stationed in the center.

Jiaqing also established contact with Shaanxi through Shanxi, the terrain of Shaanxi is more dangerous than Shanxi, Hangu Pass is a card, a husband is a pass, Xi'an Eight Banners have been stationed for generations, and loyalty can also be guaranteed. Shulin sits in Jingxiang, connecting with Shaanxi through the Han River on the one hand, and communicating with Sichuan through the Yangtze River on the other. Jing Xiang is in hand, and Sichuan is also in hand.

Therefore, Jiaqing steadily controlled Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, Xinjiang, Mongolia and Northeast China, and in terms of territorial area, it was even twice as large as the territory controlled by Zhou Lang.

It is basically impossible for Zhou Lang to spread the word in these places, and it is necessary to use force, but this year has been fought for too long, and the army needs to turn to rest.

In the autumn of the sixth year of Jiaqing, Zhou Lang ended the military operation that lasted for half a year and ordered the whole army to move to rest and recuperate.

Military operations have been halted for the time being, but political work has been accelerated.