In mid-February, martial law and curfews were imposed in Nanjing. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info and then the people of Nanjing can only hear the sound of the army passing through the city at night. The curious people also looked out through the cracks in the doors and windows, while the timid people were tightly curled up in the bed and quilts, and when it was dark, the big and small doors had to be covered with tables and chairs.

This phenomenon is the coming storm. The Northern Expedition, which has been rumored by word of mouth for more than a month in the eyes of the military and civilians, has finally come to the point.

During the day, in the streets and alleys of Nanjing, taverns and teahouses, no one dared to talk about the Northern Expedition, and many acquaintances met, and they also handed each other a look to say hello, and passed by the wrong shoulder.

This is an extraordinary moment.

The fighting method of the sticky pole and the dark camp, no matter how attractive it is, is just an attractive pair of ears, but don't really involve yourself. At this time, if he was arrested by the Fu Han Army because of multiple mouths, how wronged he would be.

"Beep ......"

In the middle of the night, a sharp whistle suddenly sounded on the bank of the Qinhuai River, and the soldiers of the Fu Han Army of the brigade seemed to emerge from the ground in an instant, they lit torches, held guns and knives, and rushed towards a small house with the sharp whistle.

"Big brother, let's go......" The two dressed in short clothes watched Zhou Mazi run over the wall with Zhou Mazi.

"Brother......" Zhou Mazi burst into tears across the wall, and the people in the courtyard were his most trusted brothers.

"Big brother, let's go. You live, and the death of your brethren is worth it......"

Gunshots and explosions were already ringing in the front yard.

The two Zhou Mazi cronies inside the wall were not ready to go to the front to help, they had to hurry to the study and burn all the things that could be burned. At the same time, they prayed in their hearts that their eldest brother would escape safely. Otherwise, no one will remember them above, and the people in this courtyard will die a hundred times and become worthless. Only when Zhou Mazi, the boss who is already a seventh-rank official, is alive, and their family has an idea.

"Woohoo ......" The sound of a dog barking sounded outside the yard.

Zhou Mazi escaped, and Zhou Mazi, who resisted to the end, was slashed three times and tied up in struggle. A few torches shone on him.

Wei Changkong walked up to him, looked at Zhou Mazi, who was still cursing viciously, and smiled disdainfully, "He leaked his face." The two soldiers of the Fu Han Army who were holding Zhou Mazi grabbed one of Zhou Mazi's ears with one hand, and the face stained with dust and blood immediately leaked under the light of the torches. A shrunken person was pushed to Wei Changkong's right hand at this time, "You can see clearly, he is Zhou Mazi?" ”

The person who came looked at Zhou Mazi timidly, "Yes, yes, my lord, he is Zhou Mazi." ”

"Those five ......" Zhou Mazi looked at the person who identified him in front of him, and his eyes were about to pop out. Because this is a banner man, or a banner man with a full army flag, this should be a diehard loyalist of the Qing Dynasty. It was one of the followers of the big man who led Zhou Mazi into the sticky rod before.

"Phew. You dog who has forgotten your ancestors, adults will not spare you, and the court will not let you go......" Zhou Mazi struggled vigorously, and a mouthful of bloody spit sprayed on the five faces.

Wei Changkong waved his hand, and the guy in front of him who was born as a ruffian seemed to have a very high loyalty to the Manchu Dynasty.

"My lord, that's ironic. Zhou Mazi, a Han man, was so loyal to the Tartars, and the five bannermen were all recruited as soon as they were lightly frightened......"

Wei Changkong didn't have a sneer on his face, but he still said, "Don't think too hard about Zhou Mazi." Whether he is really loyal to the Tartars can only be seen after a major punishment in the first torture room. If you can survive it all over again, I will admit that he is a man. ”

Wei Changkong still didn't say a word, "Traitor, there will never be less." "There were many traitors among the people caught at the sticky pole of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and there were also many traitors among the captured people in the stronghold where the secret camp of the Fu Han army was pulled out by the Tartars. This kind of errand is that they succeed in failure after failure.

Not to mention anything else, even the secret camp in Beijing has happened more than once.

At the beginning, there were four points in Beijing, but now there is only one Beijing station left, and what about the other three? Besides, a while ago, Qianlong and his wife celebrated their birthday, and the people in the secret camp in Beijing teamed up with the Special Branch of the Northern Bureau to organize an assassination operation, but nothing happened at the Beijing Station, but someone else was arrested. This matter is a bit of a big fuss, and now at least half of the middle- and lower-level cadres in the secret camp know that in addition to a Beijing station in Beijing, the eighth and twelfth masters each have a man in ambush. I am afraid that the competition between the two masters will become more and more open in the future.

Chen Ming has not slept well in the past few days, and the transfer of tens of thousands of soldiers and most of the logistics troops is a huge project. Moreover, in addition to this team, the Fu Han army and logistics troops in northern Jiangsu, and the troops and logistics on the front line of Jiangyin, Zhenjiang, and Nanjing also had to retreat one after another, and they had to guard against the Qing troops in Haizhou and Songjiang in the middle.

Staff Organs, Chen Ming has never been more desperate in need of a staff body. Regardless of whether it is mature or not, as long as the framework is set up and the system is established, no matter how many things come over, layer by layer, it can alleviate many, many things for him in the end.

The military and political cadres of the expeditionary force have always been in a state of tension, the ranks have expanded too rapidly, and many platoon commanders and officers at the grassroots level have come up step by step by relying on hard work; this kind of person can do practical things, but he is not suitable for entering the staff organization, and the most suitable personnel for building the staff department are the members of the military academy and those who graduated from the Lushan cadre school. It's a pity that there are too few people in the former and too far away in the latter. This time when he returned to Huguang, Chen Ming took this matter to heart.

The large-scale mobilization of the Fu Han army, and the situation of the courts in various places that were gathered in the hands of Chen Ming were also gathered. The administrative jurisdiction of the army in Jiangnan has always been military management, except for a limited number of cities such as Nanjing and Yangzhou, other places are military management committees. Strictly control the prices of daily necessities such as grain, salt, and cloth, and severely crack down on speculation. In such cases, relatively independent measures to establish court institutions have rarely come under criticism. Because compared with the judges in the court who are famous criminals or litigants, the people of Jiangnan are more afraid and less confident of fighting a lawsuit against a group of big-headed soldiers, the former is a professional or not, and there is no need to kneel in the court.

The county-level court, the state-level court, and the Jiangnan Supreme Court, which is above the state capital, were naturally accepted by the people of Jiangnan. Moreover, the concept of the court, as well as the specifications and obligations of courts at all levels, are also accepted by the people of Jiangnan. In fact, this thing is very easy to understand, and there are similar rules in all Chinese dynasties, as long as you replace it, it is easy to understand.

The rules of the Fu Han Army are just a clear norm for the process of 'redressing grievances and appealing', so that the common people will not go directly to the capital to beat the drum after losing the lawsuit in the county government. It is necessary to report one level at a time, and that's it. Moreover, during the trial of the Fuhan Military Division, the court openly introduced a lawsuit stick, and changed its name to lawyer. This measure has certain benefits for both the complainant and the defendant.

Although the people of Jiangnan have not had a single lawsuit to the Supreme Court in the past few months, this does not prevent them from having a good impression of the practice of the Fu Han Army.

Chen Ming also heard that at the county-level courts in various localities, a large number of people poured in to observe every public trial. The words of the defendant's lawyer and the plaintiff's lawyer in the courtroom were like watching a big drama in the eyes of many people. When he heard such a report for the first time, Chen Ming said angrily and funny: "Foolish." But looking at it now, this is not a process that has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

It's a pity that the army is leaving. And it will be difficult to fight back to Jiangnan this year, and when the Fuhan army comes back again, I don't know how much will be left.

In the early morning of 16 February, Jiujiang had not yet returned from the news of the flying pigeons, and the large force of the Fuhan army had already set off from the Xiaguan wharf.

This is the third team to set off from Nanjing to the west this year, but it is also the most amazing team.

What about the promised Northern Expedition? These thousands of large and small ships are mightily going up the river, and there is also the Northern Expedition of ghosts. The Fu Han Army is a Western Expedition, a Western Expedition, not a Northern Expedition!

When, in the midst of the sound of the cannons, the countless people on the shore saw that the fleet was not crossing the river to the north, but heading west, the boos that were born in that moment overwhelmed the cannons.

How many people were stunned at this moment, and even many soldiers of the Fu Han Army were stunned when they found out that the boat was crossing the river to the west instead of the north. When the soldiers of the Fu Han Army carrying the horn in their hands on the small sampans shouted along the fleet: "Go back to Huguang and return to your hometown, how many veterans of the Fu Han Army from Henan and Hubei burst into tears, and they couldn't control their feelings in an instant. In the same way, many soldiers from northern Jiangsu and Jiangnan also burst into tears and snot in an instant......

"Hurry, send it to Haizhou as soon as possible!"

In a small courtyard in the city of Nanjing, a young man with a hideous face was yelling at an ordinary middle-aged man in his thirties, and the middle-aged man turned around and left the courtyard after sealing the secret letter. Slowly, the young man's distorted face slowly eased, and his current face was still very elegant, wearing a beige robe, as if he was a Sven talent.

The young man walked back to the room with his back straight, sitting straight on the chair, like a cold piece of wood.

Expedition to the west, expedition to the west, the thief did not cross the river to the north, but went west......

The pain in the hearts of the youth is indescribable, and the impact of this radical failure to examine the Manchus is difficult to predict. A twisted sensation that was so bad that it would crumple his heart into minced meat.

West, West......

Although I don't know if Chen Ming wants to completely throw away the south of the Yangtze River, whether it is Anqing or Jiujiang, there are suddenly tens of thousands of more troops of the Han Army, which is a catastrophe for the Qing army in Anhui and Jiangxi.

This person doesn't know now that the Fu Han army in Jiujiang has advanced by land and water towards Hubei.

With tens of thousands of troops, so many follow-up troops, and a small entourage of 20,000 soldiers, and more than 2,000 large and small ships used before and after, this is definitely not something that can be cleaned in a while.

But such a momentum, such an eye-shattering reality, like a gust of wind, spread throughout the entire Jiangnan and Jiangbei. In particular, when people saw the logistics troops of the Fu Han Army that had been transferred to Huai'an and assembled, and the five or six hundred boats that had been concentrated there were all loaded to Yangzhou, and when they saw the Fu Han Army in Yancheng and other places running towards the Yangtze River with rats burning their tails, especially the news that the Qing army in Haizhou had crossed the Yellow River and killed Huai'an, everyone was as if they had staged a big show, a big drama called the 'Northern Expedition', and now the big drama has finally come to an end...... (To be continued.) )