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When the spring breeze blew the green land in February, the news that the Fu Han army was going to go on a northern expedition had spread throughout China from the south of the Yangtze River. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The army retreated from Jiangnan to the Nanjing-Zhenjiang-Jiangyin line, and the territory that the Fu Han army wanted to occupy for a long time seemed to be only the northwest of Taihu Lake, Changzhou, Zhenjiang, and Jiangning, plus a Yangzhou Prefecture in the north of the Yangtze River.

The army marched towards Nanjing with great vigour, and even many middle-level officers did not know Chen Ming's true intentions, and they really thought that the Fu Han army was going to make a big northern expedition. For a time, he entered the city of Beijing and marked the Jinluan Palace, which became a mantra on the lips of many soldiers.

"The clouds are from the dragon, the wind is from the tiger, and the dust and earth are fame."

"Looking at Shenzhou, the people are suffering, and thousands of miles of fertile land are barren."

"Look at the world, do all the nonsense, and make up for the defects of the way of heaven."

"Good boy, don't be a parent, just for the common people, not for the lord."

"Ninety-nine with a steel knife, kill all Hu Erfang."

"I am a dignified man, what is a Tartar as a horse and a cow."

"A strong man drinks all the wine in the bowl, and he will not look back on a journey of a thousand miles."

"The golden drums roared in unison, and the yellow dragon swore endlessly......"

The loud military songs resounded from Hangzhou to Suzhou, from Taihu Lake to the Yangtze River. The murderous fighting spirit and the strong and majestic military style have stained the weak Jiangnan with a layer of blood and bravery. This kind of power that bursts out from the depths of the hearts of thousands of soldiers, together with the Fu Han Army, an army galloping across the south of the Yangtze River, is deeply engraved in the hearts of the people in the south of the Yangtze River.

This is the power of bravery, and it is another charm that is different from writing and writing. It's a pity that the readers of this era are completely different from their predecessors in the Han and Tang dynasties. The legacy of the Han and Tang dynasties has long been dissipated in the long river of years, and 'going on the horse to govern the army, and getting off the horse to soothe the people' has long become the 'reverie' that only exists in the minds of countless scholars, and they can't even ride a 'donkey'!

When the armies were completely gathered in the small area from Nanjing to Jiangyin in the east and west, and from Nanjing to Taihu Lake in the north and south, countless eyes staring at Jiangnan seemed to have discovered for the first time that there were so many people in the Fu Han army. Although many of these soldiers only held knives and guns, not to mention armor, and even had only two grenades, these people were full of spirit and high spirits, even if they were far from being comparable to the elite troops of the Fu Han army, they were better than the training and courage of the Manchu Qing organization, right?

Shandong's new minister of regimental training, Wang Qixu, has now become a joke, except for the regimental training in his hometown Dengzhou Mansion, Wang Qixu can't mobilize people from other prefectures and counties at all. At the beginning, the unfair treatment that Shandong Tuanlian received in the southbound army had already spread throughout Shandong, whether it was the common people, the squires and landlords, they paid for the organization of the regimental training, but they did not go for nothing to replace the dead ghosts.

If you can't do anything about the overall situation, it's good to be able to take care of the family and protect the hometown.

There are hundreds or even thousands of people in a regimental training force that can be used to do so, and the monthly consumption of food and salary is a huge expense, and if hundreds of people die, the pension can squeeze people dry. What's more, too many people have died, and the bad impact is also a great negative impact on the organizers behind it. Because many of these people are their relatives, friends, clansmen, and tenants, could it be that the swords, guns, and bullets on the battlefield are all long-eyed, and they only kill the tenants, instead of hurting the relatives, friends, and clansmen of the rich man?

Not to mention anything else, Li Mingxing, who is now doing his best to supervise the Qing soldiers and prisoners of war in the prisoner of war camp, has become a middle-level cadre in the prisoner of war camp, and his own brothers are all hanging on the battlefield. But he didn't hate the Han army at all, he only hated the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and only hated Fengsheng and Hailancha who drove them into battle, and now Li Mingxing said that the Manchu court was a dog and a Tartar.

The large-scale mobilization of the Fu Han Army, the full turnover of troops, grain, grass and materials, and Shandong, as the legitimate head of Chen Ming's army's Northern Expedition, I don't know how many officials' nervous nerves have collapsed. Land prices continued to depreciate, and food prices soared. A large number of rich gentry fled to Dengzhou or fled straight to Hebei.

When Qianlong had just come out of the first lunar month, he transferred tens of thousands of horses from the northeast and Mongolia, plus the Beijing flag in Beijing City, and the number of cavalry made Chen Ming salivate. It also made Chen Ming more deeply aware of the lack of his own strength. The Fu Han army is now short of flintlock pistols, and the capture of the First Battle in Northern Jiangsu has expanded the musket battalion under Chen Ming to a full four, but compared with the total strength of the entire army, there are still too few people. If the Fu Han army wants to fight the large group of horses of the Qing army on the North China Plain, the proportion of muskets in the army cannot be less than 50%, right?

Chen Ming planned to return to Huguang with a large army and communicate with the base area, in addition to the strategic layout, another reason was to go back to the old nest to change weapons and equipment, even if the number of muskets in the general's mansion would not be too much, at least the iron armor was enough, as long as everyone could wear armor, the team under his command would be able to increase its combat effectiveness. At that time, the non-main forces under Chen Ming, especially those new battalion heads, will not be regarded as a team that can only be regarded as a level of training and courage with the Qing army, and their combat effectiveness will comprehensively surpass that of the green battalion soldiers.

And Guangdong, the southernmost part of China, was also greatly affected by this news, because they are next to Fujian. If the Fu Han army did not go on a northern expedition, and if the Fu Han army entrenched in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time, then Chen Ming's army would definitely have a great impact on the situation in Zhejiang. At that time, Guangdong will not only not be able to contain the Zhejiang Qing army from the Fujian Tiandihui rebellious party, but the Fujian Tiandihui rebellious party will also be reinforced by the Fuhan army.

In the Spring Festival of the 34th year of Qianlong, many cannons generally appeared in the hands of the rebels on both sides of the Taiwan Strait in Fujian, and the firepower of the two foreign bandits on the sea increased sharply, and the rebels of the Tiandihui on land even dragged one cannon after another to the outside of Fuzhou. The Manchu Cantonese government was in a hurry to find the British to talk, that is, to buy cannons, and then urgently transport them to Fuzhou.

Only a year before and after, in a month or two, the help of the Fu Han Army to the Fujian Taihai Rebellion was so huge, if the main force of the Fu Han Army was entrenched in the south of the Yangtze River, how bad would the situation be? As long as the thought of the continuous transportation of artillery from the sea to the Taiwan Strait in Fujian Province will give Guangdong a headache.

Fortunately, fortunately, the Fu Han army is about to go on a northern expedition. As its army moves north, the pressure on the Qing army in Zhejiang will inevitably be greatly reduced, and the chaotic party in Fujian will no longer have a source of artillery, and it seems that a big mountain has suddenly disappeared in the hearts of the military and political officials in Guangdong.

What the? You say Shandong is going to suffer? Then ......, then we are Guangdong here. Shandong suffers or not, what is in the way of our Guangdong?

It's not that we are cheeky in Guangdong, but that you have too little knowledge. Haven't you heard a word? Dead and poor, not dead friends. There is always a time when someone is going to suffer, then try to let others suffer, and the most important thing is to save your own life.

However, after all, Guangdong and Jiangnan are separated by thousands of miles, and some news from Jiangnan to Guangdong has long lost its timeliness. However, the officials and people of Guangdong were still eager for any information about the Northern Expedition of the Han Army.

"I really didn't expect that those big-nosed people from England were so bold that they dared to sell them to the imperial court cannon at this time."

"O they, are the fearless of the ignorant. I think this group of English people is about to be cleaned up by the Fu Han army......"

A teahouse by the Pearl River, He Huazhang, who got out of trouble from Suzhou, is the owner of this teahouse. He Huazhang, who came to Guangzhou, acted in a low-key manner according to Chen Ming's instructions, and guarded the teahouse to collect news. He Huazhang is still the highest-level secret agent in the secret camp, Chen Liang is not qualified to command directly, and none of such a baby needs to be issued by Chen Ming personally.

In recent days, it was suddenly reported in the city of Guangzhou that the British had reached an arms agreement with the Manchu government, selling the government 20 cannons and corresponding shells and gunpowder, and then the government sent these artillery ammunition to Fuzhou, and it was with this batch of artillery that the defenders of Fuzhou barely survived the last wave of the Tiandihui's strong attack.

As soon as this news was exposed, it immediately caused a sensation in Guangzhou. You know, Heaven and Earth will also have it in Guangzhou. Moreover, Fujian's Tiandihui Righteous Army obviously has the support of the Fu Han Army, and even the team that has an ugly reputation of the Yuan Sect, Chen Ming also threw out a Shandong general soldier, and Zhang Qiu's foreign bandits also gave a commander of the Southeast Water Division. I heard that the rebels in the Taiwan Strait of Fujian Province had sent women to Chen Ming, and they had a close relationship.

If the Fujian Righteous Army breaks through Fuzhou City, it will be of absolute significance, and it must be what the Fu Han Army is willing to see. As a result, the British inserted a knife in it and stirred up a good situation, can the Fu Han army endure it? Absolutely unbearable. The entire Guangzhou city street is unanimously seen in this way.

The teahouses and restaurants in Guangzhou City will lower their voices when they talk about this matter, and they have some scruples; But outside the city of Guangzhou, in the area of the Thirteen Lines, few people will scruple about it.

In winter, the sailing ships of the foreigners generally return to China, and taking advantage of the monsoon, ships with sails full of sails can quickly reach India. The sailing ships of Europe are no better than the hard sailing ships of the East, which can make the wind in all directions, and the sailing ships of the Europeans must sail with the wind, so they have to take advantage of the monsoon to travel to and from the East.

Every spring and summer, merchant ships from various countries come to Guangzhou along the southwest monsoon. Every winter, the northeast trade winds blow continuously from the mouth of the Pearl River to the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. Summer winds, winter winds, come and go.

It is not that there are no European merchant ships that stay in Guangzhou in winter, and sometimes there will be a lot of them, because of the problem of goods, because of the problem of money, anyway, if they stay in Guangzhou, then they will stay until the winter of next year.

Those foreigners can't enter the city of Guangzhou, they are in captivity, and the oceanic horses can't live in the merchant house. About 200 yards from the southwest corner of Canton, by the river, Europeans could only move around that area, or go to Macau. European merchants and sailors of this era often climbed on the roofs of their rented apartments and gazed across the city walls over Guangzhou, looking out over the bustling streets and spacious residences. They could only walk along the outer walls of the West City, and could only look into the city through the long black aisles of the city gates.

But this year some rules have changed, more than once people have seen foreigners with big noses enter the governor's yamen in carriages, and some of the big oceans have also lived in merchant houses openly; There is also a certain period of time, Pan Zhencheng frequently goes in and out of the Yi Pavilion. Cantonese people say that this is the court's favor to foreigners, and the court wants to buy cannons from foreigners, so shouldn't it give foreigners a little benefit......

"Shopkeeper, Boss Fang is coming to you." He Huazhang was stunned and thought about it, and then he felt that his arm was touched, and when he turned around, he saw a subordinate and said in a low voice.

"Boss Fang? This is Xiao Jian......" He Huazhang thought in his heart, it seems that those two people really got it right, and Chen Baye really didn't want to swallow this breath......

The movements of the Fu Han Army in Jiangnan can closely affect the two foreign bandits of Tiandihui and Zhang Zheng in Fujian's Taihai Strait, and can affect Shandong and Guangdong...... (To be continued.) )