Around the Chinese New Year, bad news came from Hunan and Guizhou one after another. The Miao uprisings in the two provinces of Pen~Fun~Ge www.biquge.info were suppressed by the Qing army. Only the large and small Jinchuan in Sichuan have become more and more ferocious, and to a certain extent, they have restrained a certain number of Sichuan green camps.

If Chen Ming did not win the battle of northern Jiangsu, the news of the defeat of the Miao people in Hunan and Guizhou came out again, coupled with the death of Wang Tiansheng in Guangdong, the general trend of the world would have returned to the hands of the Manchus. The anti-Qing tide throughout the world will fall into a slump, even if Fujian's land and sea development is very strong.

And this is the 'trend', this is what the people want, the trend of the times. Just like Chen Ming after winning the crucial Battle of Northern Jiangsu, the mighty sky-high momentum completely crushed the unfavorable news from Guizhou, Hunan. He clamored for the Northern Expedition, even though he still had the Qing army in Songjiang and southern Zhejiang around him who did not take care of it, at this time the Northern Expedition, the timing was a little rushed, but the 'momentum' of the Fu Han Army had reached a peak, at this time Chen Ming announced a large-scale Northern Expedition, and many people still easily chose to believe. It is because many people think that Chen Ming's army at this time can deal a heavy blow to the Qing government.

The Manchu Dynasty and the opposition, and the people opened their tongues, and they were convinced of the 'Northern Expedition' of the Han Army, and it was never without reason.

Chen Ming bid farewell to the second fleet heading west, the twelve elite veteran battalions, at the Xiaguan Wharf. In order to better hide their identities, Chen Ming let them board the ship at night, and the fleet left the dock after dawn, and the hundreds of boats waving to the shore were all unarmoured......

If there was no previous momentum, Chen Ming's trick might not have been able to hide it from the discerning people, but as he expected, the attention of the Qing army had been fully focused on Huai'an, because every day there was a steady stream of boats loaded with food and military supplies sent into Huai'an, those were real materials, and there was no fraud at all. In order to confuse the Qing army, Chen Ming also made a bloody investment.

According to the report of the Public Security Department, there have been a lot fewer signs of activity at the sticky poles in Nanjing recently.

There have also been reports from Shandong that the wealthy and powerful households in those localities have been very active recently, and every household is busy transferring property. A very direct phenomenon: Shandong's high land prices have fallen by more than 30% in the month after the year.

Moreover, after the matter of the local tycoons in Haizhou surrendering to the Han army was opened by the sticky pole and the local government, a huge and huge blue brick in the foundation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty inevitably cracked, and the local government will inevitably have an inexplicable meaning in the eyes of the local tycoons. It's like when the rabbit fruit party is having a good time, and suddenly there are cases of big landlords and big capitalists colluding in a certain place, how shocking is this. Especially in Shandong, where the Northern Expedition of the Fu Han Army bore the brunt.

Haizhou's wealthy households were able to sell the Manchu Qing Dynasty at a critical juncture, and how much stronger could Shandong's wealthy households be than Haizhou's?

Of course, this kind of vigilance will not be put in front of everyone's eyes directly, after all, the Haizhou case is only one case, and it is impossible to say whether it is universal or not. And most importantly, the Manchus themselves were inseparable from the local wealthy and powerful households, and those gentry and landlords were not only the foundation of the Manchu rule in the rural villages, but also the main source of local militias.

Chen Ming was very satisfied after reading the report of Shandong Dark Camp, how could such an influence be comparable to the strength of a few wealthy and powerful households? Although it is only an undetectable crack, it is difficult to heal if there is a gap. When the pressure reaches a certain level, it is possible that this crack is the 'culprit' of the shattering of the cornerstone of Manchu rule. This caused certain problems for the entire Manchu government at all levels.

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Spring has arrived, the temperature in Henan is warming rapidly, and when the ice and snow melt, a 10,000-strong Fu Han army came out of Nanyang and pressed straight towards Xiangyang.

On the fourth day of the second month, the Qing army of the Fu Han army fought a battle in Fancheng, and on the fifth day of the first month, neither side fired fire, and on the sixth day of the first month, the second battle of Fancheng broke out again. This time it was the Qing army that attacked, and the Fu Han army defended.

What were the two battles of Fancheng for? Both battles were meaningless for both the Han army and the Qing army. Even if the Fu Han army defeated Fancheng, it would be impossible to conquer Xiangyang, and the Qing army in Xiangyang was going to launch a counterattack on Fancheng across the Han River, and their combat effectiveness would multiply overnight?

For the Qing army, the most direct result of these two operations was to contain the Fu Han army. Give the Qing troops in the western part of Xiangyang Province and Yunyang Province time to defend Gucheng. But Yunyang Mansion has long been patronized by the Fu Han army twice, so what if it is patronized by the Fu Han army again? However, the Qing army in Xiangyang still launched a battle in Fancheng, and the Fu Han army naturally responded to the battle.

The Qing army training in Jingzhou and Anlu are all rushing towards Xiangyang. The naval battalion of the Fu Han army is sweeping the river surface of Hubei, but the naval division battalion is the naval division battalion, and their combat effectiveness on the Yangtze River is very strong, and their combat effectiveness is average without the warship.

The newly formed Hankou Naval Division Battalion suffered heavy losses, and the Huguang and Qing armies all thought that the Han Army was relieving the pressure on Jiujiang. No one would have thought that the second battalion of the Navy Division was fighting to prepare for the surprise attack of the Han army in Hubei.

It was still Chen Erbao who led the attack of the Fu Han army, and it was the current Huguang Governor Detai who sat in Xiangyang. After the battle of Chengzi Town in the battle of the Arya River, Detai, the deputy capital of the Eight Banners and the White Flag, was transferred to the post of Governor of Huguang, and then was transferred to Xiangyang by Aligon, who was transferred from the Henan battlefield to the Governor of Huguang, replacing Shi Liang, the deputy capital of Jingzhou.

The re-attack of the Henan Fu Han army did not attract the attention of the Qing army in Hubei, and Ah Gui, who succeeded Ali Gon in Zhengzhou, did not realize anything, and he is now making every effort to transfer troops to the front line of Guide and Kaifeng, so that when the Fu Han army in the south of the Yangtze River went north to Shandong, he could quickly advance to Shandong to rescue.

For more than a year, the Qing army fought again and again with the Fu Han army in the base area, and generally found out the combat effectiveness of the Fu Han army in Henan. It can't be said that their combat effectiveness is poor, but compared to the Fu Han army led by Chen Ming, there is still a little gap. At least the Fu Han army in Henan does not have the sharpness and ferocity of the Fu Han army, perhaps the Fu Han army in Henan has been fighting defensive operations, and it has snuffed out a lot of its own sharpness. And Chen Ming's Fu Han army, from Hubei to Jiangnan, either overcame danger or fought in the field along the way, and the team trained in this way is of course much better than the Henan Fu Han army that served as a turtle in the strong fortress. Even when that army left Xiangyang, there were many, many new recruits.

Ah Gui fully estimated the combat effectiveness of the Henan Fuhan Army, and under this premise, he tried his best to transfer troops. As he said in a correspondence with friends in Beijing: "The key to this year's fight is not in Henan, but in Shandong." Chen reversed the Northern Expedition, and protecting Gyeonggi was the top priority...... "Is it because the weight of the Northern Expedition is too heavy and heavy, so that no one thought that Chen Ming was shaking them."

When Chen Ming received the news of the base area attacking Hubei, the second westward team had just left Nanjing for a day. After Chen Erbao led tens of thousands of troops to fight two battles in Fancheng, the army had already captured Zaoyang to the east, and made a posture to attack De'an.

Although the offensive of Chen Erbao's army and the second battalion of the naval division of the Fu Han army that swept across the Hubei River were very cheerful, in the eyes of Aligon, the governor of Huguang, these were all diseases of scabies, and no matter how strong the two bandit armies were in trouble, they could not shake the rule of the Qing army in Hubei. The former Chen Erbao can't cross Xiangyang, and the latter can't fight on land, so they can't become a big climate. Huguang is the granary of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Ali Gon is now sitting in the position of the governor of Huguang, thinking not only about blocking the road for the Henan thief army to go south, but also preparing to organize a large army to sweep away the Yangtze River from top to bottom. Arigon's plans and ambitions are great!

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Yangzhou, Boy Scout Camp.

Liu Chengshan, an officer of the first battalion and one team of the boy scouts, roared, and the 100 boy scouts wearing khaki uniforms and cloth hats on their heads in a column formation quickly stepped forward with guns, and the three horizontal columns within 20 steps became a line, and the distance between people was only about half a meter.

Liu Chengshan looked at the fairly neat formation, and didn't feel that there was anything to be satisfied with, how many days had they been training, if they couldn't do this, they wouldn't be able to stay in the first battalion of the Scouts.

"One row, quick strike! Ready, go! Following Liu Chengshan's order, the 30 soldiers in the first platoon on the far left advanced in small brisk steps under the leadership of the platoon commander. After entering the range of the musket, under the command of the platoon commander, the whole platoon of boy soldiers began to load nervously. Put! "A salvo of 30 muskets was fired at a target about 100 metres away.

Liu Chengshan has been looking at the pocket watch, this is the glory of the first battalion, the three team officers have one in their hands, such a delicate gadget makes everyone look at it strangely. The first row took 1 minute and 25 seconds from start to finish. They used arquebuses.

"Report officer, first row shooting results: 17 out of 30, 11 shots in the chest and abdomen."

Liu Chengshan did not say a word about this relatively good result, which can only be said to be a passing grade in the Fuhan Army Musket Battalion. Thirty zhang spacing, the target is so big, the row is still relatively dense, what is there to be happy about the hit rate of less than sixty percent?

"Second platoon, step forward quickly, turn right and shoot a volley! Ready, go! ”

"Three rows, step forward quickly, turn around and shoot a volley......"

The first team's training school is very large, and it is a separate training ground, so the boy soldiers do not have to fear shooting someone else when shooting. It's just that the arquebus has a strong recoil when it is fired, which makes it difficult for the boy scouts who are still young and have not yet grown up to bear it, which affects the accuracy of shooting to a certain extent.

However, such scouts, after years of training, when they grow up to adulthood and join the army, their excellent fighting qualities are absolutely outstanding, and they are not comparable to ordinary recruits.

Zeng Ming, who had just been transferred to the Boy Scouts, couldn't help but grow his mouth after standing next to him and watching the normal drills of one of the best Scout Squads. This kind of fighting quality is stronger than the soldiers of the team he led before.

At the beginning of the battle of Wangzhuang on the shore of Sheyang Lake, Zeng Ming's team was almost swallowed by the Qing soldiers, although they escaped from Sheyang Lake with the help of friendly troops, a team of 100 people only had half of them alive. Zeng Ming himself was injured in many places, and he went directly to the wounded and nourished, and he did not encounter the later battles of Northern Jiangsu and the battles of Suzhou and Hangzhou.

Now he was transferred to the Boy Scouts, and finally rose to the rank of battalion officer, but he was a battalion officer of the Boy Scouts.

"Lao Zeng, the Boy Scouts can do a good job. The future of our team is bright, don't just look at others in the future, you have to stand up yourself......" Duan Guorui looked at Zeng Ming's still unchanged ruffian, and it was really for his good.

Now that the entire Fu Han army is moving, who doesn't know the cries of the Northern Expedition? It's clear that there's going to be a big war again. Chen Ming's true purpose was concealed even from middle-level officers and cadres who were not involved in the army. Zeng Ming was transferred to the boys' camp at this time, which was obviously not conducive to his achievements, but the transfer order has come down, and no one can change it, right? Since Zeng Ming has arrived at the boy camp, he will seriously work in the boy camp. To say that the oldest group of boy soldiers in this boy camp are about to enter the main barracks, in the first half of this year, Zeng Ming did a good job, so he could not take advantage of the east wind to give himself a ride...... (To be continued.) )