The Eastern Corps easily solved the Guanning Army in the Ningjin area, and the two Outer Northeast Indigenous Cavalry Divisions quickly pulled out, all the way to the city of Shanhaiguan, and with the cooperation of the Guanning Army, controlled Shanhaiguan.

It took only a few days for other troops to take over the Guanjin defense line one after another, and then left two indigenous cavalry divisions in the outer northeast to guard the Guanjin defense line, and the main force advanced all the way to the Daming Jing Division.

At the same time, the landing force of the Eastern Corps, with the assistance of the Admiralty, crossed the Bohai Bay in a large number of ships, swept the naval divisions along the coast of Daming, and landed in the northeastern part of Daming Mountain and the coastal area of Beizhili.

The landing force of the Eastern Corps quickly penetrated deep into the Daming area, occupied the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, blocked the southward escape route in the Jinggi area of the Daming Dynasty, and joined forces with the Northern Army of the Far Eastern Army under the city of the Daming Jingshi.

After the Far Eastern Army's general offensive in the Central Plains Campaign began, the Northern Corps was also like a bamboo, and it took almost no effort to enter the deep territory of the Ming Dynasty. Along the way, you can occasionally encounter a few resisting generals, but the artillery of the Far East fired a round of artillery, and the Ming army collapsed in an instant, turned around and fled for their lives.

This battle was a little weird, even Li Ming was a little incredible. No matter how bad the Ming army is, it won't be rotten to this extent. In fact, the Ming army at the end of the Ming Dynasty was rotten from the roots, and the most capable border army was bought off by the Far East by various means.

Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting and others were dealt with by the special forces of the Far East before the war, and the grassroots generals of the Qin Army and the Tianxiong Army under their command were also bought by the Far East Army by various means.

Although the armies in various parts of the Ming Dynasty collapsed on all fronts, it is ironic that the Far Eastern Army fought a battle with the exile army led by Li Zicheng.

A month before the general offensive of the Far Eastern Army, Zhou Weifan, the person in charge of the Central Plains Intelligence Station, personally rushed to the Shanxi and Huguang areas, met with Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong respectively, and had a long talk with them, and put forward to him a number of conditions for the Far East Company.

After Zhou Weifan met with him for a long talk, after only a few days of thinking, he agreed to the request of the Far East, and the whole army gave up Xiangyang and crossed the Yangtze River with the help of the Far East Army to the south of the Yangtze River.

But what people didn't expect was that Li Zicheng refused the request of the Far Eastern Army, which also made the company rush to the unbelievable. Li Ming was also amused when he received the report, and he issued an order to the Western Route Army of the Northern Corps to use two newly built cavalry divisions as the main force, with the cooperation and support of the air boat troops, to defeat Li Zicheng's rogue army.

But a thief is a thief, although Li Zicheng's army of displaced people who gathered troops and coerced claimed to be 500,000, but in addition to the tens of thousands of elites in the old battalion, the remaining hundreds of thousands were homeless people who were coerced along the way, to put it bluntly, it was a group of rabble.

Although Li Zicheng relied on Shaanxi generals to accompany him desperately, and there were fierce generals such as Liu Zongmin, Tian Jianxiu, Liu Fangliang, Yuan Zongdi, and Li Guo, they were lackluster in addition to being loyal. There are also Li Yan, Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, Gu Junen and other civil servants, but except for Li Yan, there are almost no others who can really be regarded as talents.

Liu Zongmin is known as the second person in the army, and after entering Beijing, Liu Zongmin is mainly responsible for recovering stolen goods. Originally, this policy was very extreme and should be said when the regime was stable, but Liu Zongmin's continuous expansion in the process of recovering stolen goods made the recovery of stolen goods out of control.

At that time, some people persuaded Liu Zongmin not to provoke a popular uprising, but Liu Zongmin actually said that he was not afraid of a popular uprising, but only a military uprising. It's like the barrel of a gun decides everything, this is definitely a matter of knowledge, to put it bluntly, he's a thief.

Tian Jianxiu was another fierce general under Li Zicheng, and Niu Jinxing was the third person, but they had no talent, and they all surrendered to the Manchus in the end.

That is, Li Yan is still a talent, and he once advised Li Zicheng to "respect the virtuous and courteous, eliminate the mob and be sympathetic to the people", "pretend to be benevolent and righteous, prohibit soldiers from fornicating and killing, and win people's hearts in order to achieve great things".

Moreover, he sent people to pretend to be businessmen and spread rumors among the people: "Break into the king's benevolent and righteous army, do not kill or plunder"; He also made up nursery rhymes for children to sing everywhere: "Open the gate to welcome the king, and when the king comes, he will not pay food", "Open the door early to worship the king, and discipline everyone to be happy". As a result, the displaced people in various places are "afraid that they will not be able to become themselves", and "tens of thousands of people will become themselves".

Such a talent can be said to stand out from the crowd among a group of generals and ministers who broke into the army, so he was repeatedly jealous and excluded by Niu Jinxing and others, and was never able to play his role. And Li Zicheng is often provoked by others and does not trust Li Yan.

In fact, Li Zicheng also hesitated, but he couldn't stand the constant demagogy of his generals, and the armed forces of these thieves thought that they were already very powerful, and their hearts were already extremely inflated.

Li Zicheng and the top brass of the Exile Army are still fantasizing about competing for the world. So in the end, Li Zicheng rejected the request of the Far Eastern Army, and also made a posture of fighting to the death with the Far Eastern Army.

After the Far Eastern Army's Central Plains Campaign began, the two newly built cavalry divisions of the Western Route Army broke through the side wall and went straight to the camp of the Chuang Army entrenched in Shaanxi and Shanxi.

When tens of thousands of Far Eastern Iron Cavalry appeared in the camp of the Chuang army, the hundreds of thousands of homeless people who were coerced in the camp were suddenly stunned.

The artillery units of the two newly built cavalry divisions set up artillery firing positions in the shortest possible time and launched a fierce artillery attack on the large camp of the invading army, which instantly plunged the large battalion into extreme chaos.

At this moment, dozens of airships of the Far Eastern Army's airship detachment also suddenly appeared in the sky above the camp of the breaking army. Air bombing and strafing were carried out on the large camp of the intruding army, which stretched for dozens of miles.

The birth of the Far Eastern Army's airship became the last straw that broke the camel's back. The entire camp of the Chuang army completely collapsed, and countless displaced people ran desperately, causing great damage in the camp of the Chuang army.

In the face of the collapsed battalion, Li Zicheng sent the elite of the old battalion to try to suppress the displaced people. But the displaced people have completely collapsed, and there is no way to recover the situation.

The two newly built cavalry divisions of the Far Eastern Army also launched an attack in a timely manner, and tens of thousands of iron cavalry roared into the camp of the invading army with overwhelming momentum.

Knowing this time, Li Zicheng realized what a stupid decision it was to contend with the Far Eastern Army. But the matter has come to this, he can only take the horse team of the old battalion and try to escape from the pursuit of the Far Eastern Army.

But the airship unit of the Far Eastern Army has long been staring at Li Zicheng, and no matter how fast the war horse is, it can't be faster than the airship. Under the persecution of more than a dozen airships, the elite of tens of thousands of old battalions also collapsed, and finally became scattered and fled.

The collapse of the old camp also means that Li Zicheng's painstaking management of the thief army over the years, as well as the family funds accumulated over the years, were also wiped out after this war, and fled to the south with thousands of elite cavalry. (To be continued.) )