Feng Yunshan called Zuo Zongtang and Fan Ruzeng over, not only to arrange the Indian-stirring sticks, but also to use troops abroad.

Now Feng Yunshan has a little intention of shaking off the shopkeeper. With his modern thinking, he prefers to make himself the chairman of the company of the Chinese Empire rather than the emperor of the Chinese Empire. He also knew that in a few decades at most, the democratic and republican trend of thought in the whole world would rise, and it would undoubtedly be impossible to be an autocratic monarch and emperor. It's better to let go as soon as possible and be an emperor similar to a constitutional monarchy with peace of mind, Feng Yunshan doesn't think about how much his descendants can do, it is better to enjoy the shade he brings to them like a parasite, and enjoy the wealth and prosperity.

Since he wants to be the shopkeeper and some laborious things, Feng Yunshan just instructed the cabinet and the general staff to do it, he asked the results, and the check was done. In fact, not long after the new establishment of the empire, Feng Yunshan's prestige was still very high, and he was not worried about who would not obey his orders. Moreover, as long as he has a good grasp of the cabinet and the captive army, especially the specific generals of the captive army, who are all his cronies, he will not worry about who will betray him. The Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of the Interior, and especially Fan Ruzeng's secret service department, these are not vegetarians.

Therefore, Feng Yunshan usually only assigns tasks, and let the cabinet take the lead in handling government affairs, while the affairs of the General Staff are handled by Zuo Zongtang and Mao Qi. And he himself, after a period of relaxation, remembered his own strengths, and felt that it was better to use the only advantage of his knowledge of one hundred and sixty years more than this era to calmly plan and plan.

Two days ago, news came from Liaodong that the weather there had become warmer, and the three army divisions of the captured army, the original First Division, Eighth Division, and First Division, and now the new number has become the first division, the seventh division, and the ninth division of the army.

In the spring of the third year of Taisheng, 22,000 people from the first and ninth divisions of the army infantry of the Chinese Empire attacked the Xinmin Hall of Fengtianfu, and the Manchu Eight Banners had long been ambushed in the passes and Huangzhuang such as Kaicheng and Ping'an Fort dozens of miles outside the Xinmin City.

The Manchu side relied on a large number of men, and more than half of them were cavalry, familiar with the terrain, and charged several times, but they were all repulsed by the 1st and 9th Divisions, which occupied a high ground on the riverbank. During the day, the Qing army did not dare to attack, they attacked twice at night, and they could not rush once, and they were fired by the captured army with 10,000 muskets, and they lost thousands of dollars, so they fled in a flash, but in this way, the troops of the two divisions of the captured army were dragged to death, and they could not march. Moreover, when the captives were attacked at night, it was inevitable that there would be some damage.

When the stalemate was in place, the Seventh Division bypassed the Xinmin Hall and went north, smashed the front banner of the left wing of Horqin in the north, and occupied this birthplace of the Manchu concubines. When the news reached Xinmin, the Manchu Eight Banners were shaken!

At this time, the Eighth Infantry Division, which had crossed the sea to the mouth of the Liaohe River in the autumn of last year and captured the eight infantry divisions of Niuzhuang City and Haicheng County, and part of the marine regiment of the East China Sea Fleet (formerly the 10th Division), also captured Liaoyang Prefecture, and captured dozens of small towns and Huangzhuang along the way, and directly attacked the city of Shengjing.

The Manchu Emperor Yi Xun in Shengjing City was shocked and issued three holy decrees in succession, recalling the Eight Banners soldiers led by Shengjing's general Long Ketuo who had less than 40,000 left, to defend Shengjing City.

General Ronkto panicked. He didn't expect that the 20,000 captives would resist his 50,000 elite soldiers of the Eight Banners, and they would suffer serious losses. It has been overcome, and now Shengjing is in danger. In desperation, he had to give up the opportunity to defeat the 20,000 captives and retreat to Shengjing. He finally commanded properly, and after being killed by the pursuers and killing 5,000 soldiers, the 35,000 Eight Banners returned to Shengjing City and defended them to the death.

The 1st Infantry Division, the 8th Division, and the 9th Division, as the main force, surrounded the Shengjing regiments, and for a time the artillery fire was continuous, and the Shengjing City Tower was dusty, and the Qing soldiers of the Eight Banners were hit by artillery fire and could not raise their heads.

Perhaps it was the last old capital of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners actually forgot their lives and forgot their lives, and they did not care about their lives, and the children of the Eight Banners in the city also rushed to the city tower desperately to assist in the defense.

When the city wall collapsed slightly, the people of the Eight Banners in the city immediately demolished the brick walls of the houses and repaired them overnight. A gap was opened slightly, and thousands of children of the Eight Banners were blocked by human walls, and the tenacity of the Eight Banners made it impossible for the captives to attack for a while. The two sides fought a tug-of-war between attack and defense, fighting continuously for more than half a month, on the city tower, two or three thousand people died every day, and the army under the city was also killed and injured by hundreds of people every day.

At this moment, news came from the Mongolian steppes in the north that two Mongol princes and one Dorobel of the Horqin Banner and the Zhaowuda League had taken the lead in surrendering to the captives under the coercion of the 7th Infantry Division roaming around the steppe.

Speaking of which, under the leadership of division commander Chen Tianshi, the 7th Infantry Division was like Huo Quai's reincarnation, leaving all the heavy firearms and baggage such as artillery in the rear, and went into battle with light equipment to penetrate into the front banner of the left flank of Horqin, and plundered more than 15,000 Mongolian horses in all directions, each with a new musket and a knife, and directly turned his original infantry into cavalry, which should be horse infantry.

With horses, it is easy to go deep into the Mongolian steppe, and the more than 10,000 soldiers of the captive army come and go like the wind, constantly attacking the territory of the Mongolian princes, so that the Mongolian princes suffer losses, and because the Manchu Qing Dynasty has been fighting for many years, the strong men on the Mongolian steppes have been drawn to be soldiers, either killed in battle, or served in the border passes, there are not many prime-aged warriors on the grassland, in desperation, the Mongolian prince has long forgotten the alliance between his ancestors and the Manchu Emperor Taiji, life and death, where can he take care of so much, and return to the Chinese Empire by himself.

When the news reached Shengjing, the Manchu Emperor Yixun was so angry that he vomited blood and scolded the Mongols for being unreliable. Also, Mongolia has been the closest ally of the Manchus since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, and it is unthinkable that even the Mongolian Five Banners have been abandoned now, although these five banners are only a small part of Mongolia, but this is also very representative of the problem. The wall fell down and everyone pushed it, the Manchu Qing was weak, and even the closest allies had to be betrayed, and the most important thing was that this was still the Horqin grassland, the birthplace of the queens of the Manchu dynasties, which made Yixun even more desperate.

The news was extremely deadly. Yixun couldn't help but worry that other Mongolian princes, Beizi, and auxiliary generals would follow suit. Once the Mongol soldiers surrendered to the captive army and dealt with the Manchus in turn, Yixun was worried that he would not even have a place to escape, but he was afraid that the entire Manchu people would be in danger of extinction!

At this time, the Jilin general Jing Chun made a statement and suggested that Yixun should first move to Alchuka City, and then move the capital to Heilongjiang City. Jingchun's statement is that Heilongjiang City is far to the north, between the deep mountains and old forests, and it is difficult for the captive army to chase there, and the winter is long there, and the living habits of the Manchu Eight Banners are adaptable, but the Cantonese thieves cannot, and as the last foundation, they can deal with the Cantonese thieves. Moreover, by the way, you can also recruit the tens of thousands of Eight Banner soldiers of Sushun and Heilongjiang General Yinglong, and gather troops to strengthen the power of the imperial court.

I have to say that in this situation, whether it is the Jilin general Jing Chun or the Manchu emperor Yixun, they no longer have hope that they can counterattack the Central Plains. They could only fantasize that they would be lucky to be able to hold Manchuria.

Originally, in a bitter cold and remote place like Heilongjiang, unless he was demoted, even ordinary princes and ministers were unwilling to take up their posts, but now he was a dignified Manchu emperor, but he was beaten all the way by Cantonese thieves, and he even thought about fleeing here. It's really a compelling situation.

Yixun, who panicked for a while, knew that Sheng Jing couldn't stay longer. He has a deep understanding of these Cantonese thieves. No matter how strong a strong city is, as long as it is targeted by them, there is nothing that will not be conquered. What's more, there are fewer and fewer young people in the city now. If it continues to be consumed like this, I am afraid that if the Shengjing City is not broken, the children of the Eight Banners of the Manchu Dynasty will die.

He even thought that this could be the sinister intentions of the damned Cantonese thief, maybe he could have captured Shengjing City and deliberately dragged it not to break the city, but in this way, let the children of the Eight Banners in the city go to the city wall to defend and fight, and take the opportunity to kill these Eight Banners disciples.

As a result, the Manchu Emperor Yi Xun was afraid. He was not afraid that he would be captured, but he was really afraid that the Manchus would be buried in his hands. The original Shengjing army of nearly 100,000 Eight Banners killed more than 30,000 people in the battle, and thousands of Mongolian bannermen fled, leaving less than 60,000 people. And the 167,000 and 8 banner disciples in Shengjing City died as many as 30,000 or 40,000 because of assisting in defending the city.

In desperation, Yixun had to agree to give up Shengjing and move the capital to Heilongjiang City. [.]