The Fat Army's Northern Expedition War really has nothing to introduce, the main opponent of the Fat Army's northern line is Gao Dejie, there is only a regular Qing army stationed in Suqian with a number of about 3,000 people, and it is basically composed of the defeated Qing army on the Huai'an battlefield, with low morale and lack of food and salary, stationed in Suqian is not so much to prevent the Fat Army from going north, but to monitor the movements of the Fat Army's northern front from afar, and to send the news to Yanjing as soon as possible when the Fat Army launches the Northern Expedition. As soon as the fat army led by Gao Dejie crossed the Yellow River, the Qing army had already abandoned the city and fled under the leadership of the Qing army's capital Nuomuqi, and ran to Xuzhou City to defend it behind closed doors, and robbed it in Suqian City when he left.

Gao Dejie's other opponents are even more miserable, the state capital and county town are basically defended by the township Yong and a small number of green battalions, and they are completely fleeing from the wind in the field battle, even if they hide in the city, as long as they see the white banner and white felt hat of the Fat Army, they usually only make two choices, one is to open the city and surrender, the other is to abandon the city and flee, there is no city and a place to slightly block the northward movement of the Fat Army, but it is the gentry and the people who greet the road that have created a little trouble for the Fat Army - too many people have blocked the road and delayed the advance of the Fat Army.

Less than ten days after crossing the Yellow River, Xuzhou and Haizhou two prefectures and nine counties were all included in the territory of the Fat Army, the only battle took place under the city of Xuzhou, the Fat Army concentrated more than 60 artillery pieces on the east gate of Xuzhou only one round of salvo, Nuomuqi's deputy Lin Ke had already cut off the head of the hardcore Han Annihilation Wang Mingde of the Xuzhou prefect who refused to surrender, opened the gate of Xuzhou, and led the officials and soldiers in the city to surrender to the Fat Army. As for the commander of the Qing army, Nuo Muqi, because he accidentally took the surname Niu Colu, who was killed by the fat army, he fled back to Shandong from the canal early with gold and silver.

Immediately afterwards, the fat army was divided into two routes, Gao Qi led the partial division from Shuyang to Yizhou in the north, and the main force was led by Gao Dejie himself to Yanzhou to attack the two important towns of Yanzhou and Jining, and the soldiers entered Shandong for the first time. The situation of the Qing army in Shandong is even more miserable, the main force has been completely drained in the previous war, the regular army of the Qing army in the whole Shandong is less than 10,000 people, the lack of pay and food is more serious than the Qing army in Xuzhou, and the morale is also lower, just to deal with the civil uprisings one after another and the many bandits like cattle hair has been extremely difficult, not to mention blocking the fat army to the north, Shandong Admiral Duan Yingju hid in the city of Jinan and refused to come out, and the three prefectures of Yizhou, Yanzhou and Jining, which were basically guarded by the township, all looked down, The only trouble that created for the Fat Army was that there were too many troops and bravery, and they almost ate up the military rations carried by the Fat Army's forward team.

It was also at this time that Gao Dejie finally understood why Lu Fatzi predicted that going north too quickly would drag down the logistics of the Fat Army, and in the two prefectures of Yizhou and Yanzhou, which took the initiative to surrender, the grain stored in the treasury together was less than 5,000 stones, and the local officials also did not receive a penny of Lu and a rice of Lu for more than two years and three years. He was only given two meals a day and an ultra-low salary of ten copper coins, but as a result, 30,000 or 40,000 people came to Hulala at once, and many of them came from the control of Mites, and they almost robbed the granary of the construction site. Gao Dejie couldn't cry or laugh, so he had no choice but to expand the number of recruits, and listened to the suggestion of Zhang Bingzhi, a civilian deputy, to borrow grain from the local gentry and large households with the guarantee of military salaries, so that he could barely cope with the problem of grain for river workers.

Han Daren's team, another Northern Expeditionary Army of the Fat Army, is a little easier in terms of logistics, Anhui is a grain-producing area, and the people have a little grain stockpile, so Han Daren's army will not increase the burden in terms of logistics in order to buy the hearts of the people, and at the same time, the Anhui Qing Army, which has also had little strength left, also has little courage to fight to the death with the Fat Army, Governor Jin Fu defended Anqing City, the largest granary in Anhui, and did not dare to come out, the Qing Army in Luzhou only defended for three days before the Fat Army broke through the city, and the whole family of the prefect and the defender was killed clean by the Fat Army, The nearby Lu'an Prefecture took the initiative to send a surrender table to ask for surrender, but it was unexpectedly rejected by Han Daren - if Lu'an takes it again, the fat army will immediately border the Wu army, and the notoriously selfish Han Daren will naturally not do such a stupid thing.

Immediately afterwards, Han Daren's army continued to go north to Fengyang Mansion, two hundred miles away from Fengyang Mansion City, Fengyang Governor Zhang Qinwen had already taken the initiative to surrender, and also detained a batch of autumn grain that should have been sent to the capital to give to the Fat Army, in exchange for Han Daren's Huyan Dayue, immediately said that he wanted to ask Lu Fatzi for Zhang Qinwen's reward, and then the surrounding Sizhou and Yingzhou also took the initiative to ask for surrender, and even Lin Sui, the county governor of Xiayi County, Guide Prefecture, which originally belonged to Henan, just heard that the Fat Army was sending troops to the northwest, and also sent his son to run from hundreds of miles away to ask for surrender in the Fat Army team, sacrificed the household registration register and took the initiative to accept the jurisdiction of the Fat Army, and the claws of the Fat Army finally reached into Henan.

Basically, it can be said that the Fat Army's two-way Northern Expedition is not so much the Northern Expedition, but more accurate than the Northern Expansion, the battle is basically not fought, and the time is completely wasted on the march and taking over the surrendered state capital, and on the tenth day of the first month of the first month of the first year of the first year of the Great Zhou Honghua and the first year of the Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, when the Fat Army Han Daren's team stepped into Henan, the only decent opponent of the Fat Army's Northern Expedition, the Mites Qing Baoyi Army led by Tong Guogang and Fei Yanggu, finally appeared within the reconnaissance range of the Fat Army scouts. And on the same day, he stationed in Guide City, temporarily blocking Han Daren's northward footsteps.

The marching speed of the Baoyi army and the time of arrival in Guide were about the same as estimated by Lu Fatzi, and the Cai Lu righteous army who hurriedly got up did not be able to stop the pace of Tong Guogang and Feiyangu, and only defended for a month in Huaiqing, and was breached by the Baoyi army, and Cai Lu's father and son who failed to break through were killed together with Cai Lu's nephew, and then the Baoyi army also moved to Xuzhou according to the edict of the old witch of Xiaozhuang, and prepared to Xuzhou, where the grain and grass were barely sufficient, to prevent the most dangerous fat army Northern Expedition, and just crossed the Yellow River to Kaifeng, received the news of the Fat Army's two-way Northern Expedition, and had to rush to Xuzhou for reinforcements, but although it was the first to settle in the important town of Guide Mansion in the four provinces of Tongqu, it happened to be blocked by Gao Dejie and Han Daren's team of the Fat Army.

Tong Guogang and Feiyangu were already enough to make a fire, and what made them even more angry was that when they rushed into Guide City to take over the city defense, they were stunned to find that Zhang Sui, the prefect of Guide, had cut off his braids and sealed the treasury, and also prepared a surrender letter and household registration roster to surrender to the Fat Army. Under the thunderstorm, the notoriously corrupt Baoyi Army naturally chopped Zhang Sui's family into meat sauce, and executed all the officials who had taken the initiative to cut their braids, and at the same time sent a large number of scouts to reconnoiter everywhere to find out where the Fat Army had advanced.

It's better not to reconnoitre, and finally figured out the surrounding situation, Tong Guogang and Feiyangu were suddenly scared out of a cold sweat, and the Fat Army Gao Dejie team advanced from Jining to the southwest, the main force had already passed through Jinxiang and was coming to Shan County in the northeast of Guide, and the four counties in the south of Caozhou had surrendered to the Fat Army; And the fat army's Han Daren department also settled in Xiayi County on the tenth day of the first month, although there was no next move after a night, but the situation is obvious, the cunning and sinister Han Daren must have found out that the Baoyi army has settled in Guide City, worried that the army is tired and difficult to fight, so he let the army rest in Xiayi City for a night, and then may kill Guide at any time.

"Grandpa Tong, the Guide Mansion can't stay for a long time, we have to withdraw immediately!" Feiyangu immediately made a decision, immediately suggested to Tong Guogang to retreat, and reminded: "The 32,000 troops in our hands can be said to be the last elite of our Qing Dynasty, and we must not be lost here, only by bringing this army back, can we have the last ray of hope and the last seed in the Qing Dynasty." ”

"Where are you going?" Tong Guogang only thought about it for less than three seconds before asking rhetorically.

"Withdraw to Kaifeng first, and then withdraw north from Weihui Mansion (now Ji County)." Feiyangu replied: "Judging from Wu Gou's strength, Wu Gou's Northern Expedition this time does not look like he is well prepared, and he should not chase too far. ”

"Immediately proceed with the retreat." Tong Guogang also made a decision immediately, "Take away everything that can be taken away in Guide City, and all that can't be taken away will be burned down, including the people's houses, all of them will be burned, don't leave any scum to Wu Gou!" ”

The order was conveyed, and the Baoyi army, which was famous for burning and killing silver plunder, immediately became as excited as if it had been beaten with chicken blood, and rushed into the people's houses in Guide City in groups, the screams of men and women, as well as the sound of turning over boxes and cabinets and basin jars smashing, also quickly came out of the people's houses, and even many soldiers of the Baoyi Army seized the time to bully the beautiful people's women, and more Baoyi soldiers set fire to the city everywhere, and the city of Guide soon rose everywhere, and the smoke rose to the sky.

Tong Guogang and Feiyangu did not misestimate the criticality of the situation, but they seriously underestimated the speed of the advance of the fat army and the determination to annihilate the Baoyi army in the territory of Guide, and sent the scouts of the Baoyi army to Xiayi to investigate the situation of Han Daren's army will return to the city at two o'clock, bringing the movements of Han Daren's army before Chenshi, just after two o'clock, Tong Guogang and Feiyangu decided to abandon the city and retreat, and plundered the Baoyi army, which was surnamed and inferior to beasts, began to loot the whole city at three o'clock, and arranged the retreat, but it was early noon. The main force of the 23,000 fat army led by Han Daren himself had already rushed to the outskirts of Guide, and the speed was so fast that it almost caught up with the scout hooves of the Baoyi army!

Tong Guogang and Feiyangu were shocked when they heard the news, and urgently ordered the Baoyi army to give up the looting and return to Germany to assemble out of the city, but the action was always one step too late, more than 30,000 Baoyi troops just took the property robbed by large bags and small bags out of the city, and assembled at the north gate designated by Tong Guogang and Feiyangu, Han Daren's army had already arrived within five miles, Tong Guogang and Feiyangu were forced to be helpless, so they had to order the whole army to line up to meet the battle, preparing to take advantage of the opportunity of the decline in physical strength after the rapid march of the fat army, first beat Han Daren away and then retreated calmly.

The current world is still the fastest, just as the Baoyi Army hurriedly lined up to meet the battle, Han Daren had already started the pre-war mobilization in the Fat Army team, riding a war horse back and forth in the Fat Army team, and kept shouting, "Brothers, do you see it?" The army full of dogs in front is the notorious army of the full dog team! This army full of dogs has a habit of going there and grabbing there, from Yanjing to Chahar, and then from Chahar to Tongguan, and then from Tongguan to Guide, and grabbed gold and silver as high as a mountain. ”

"Brethren! What should we do if the gold and silver are all the blood and sweat of our Han people, and they are snatched away by full dogs? Han Daren asked with a roar.

"Grab it back!" The soldiers of the Fat Army scrambled to raise their arms and shout.

"Yes, get it back!" Han Daren yelled: "Snatch all the gold, silver and jewelry of our Han people from the hands of Mangou!" Half of the gold, silver and jewelry that you have defeated and snatched back will be handed over to the Great Zhou court, and half will be divided equally between you, and the general will not take a penny! ”

Although Han Daren, who has always been known for his selfishness, shouted that he didn't even believe in ghosts if he didn't take a penny, but the upper beam was not right and the lower beam was crooked, and the fat soldier who was burned with gold, silver and jewelry and his eyes were red still roared like thunder, and his morale was greatly boosted, "Grab it back!" Grab it back! Grab it back! ”

"Blade Formation! Charge the whole army! Han Daren didn't even bother to line up, so he directly ordered the whole army to charge, and the well-trained Fat Army officers and soldiers quickly adjusted in the running charge, with Han Daren's own army, which had the strongest combat effectiveness, as the arrow, the wings were open in the shape of arrows, and the infantry of the brigade was in the rear, charging at full speed with red eyes.

The tactics of the fat army are naturally very risky, but Han Daren knows that he has a hard time, and he can't do it, because Han Daren's team is different from Gao Dejie's team, the cavalry is only more than 3,000 people in total, and the number is less than half of the Baoyi army. Even if Gao Dejie's reinforcements can't arrive in time, he can use the melee to eliminate the soldiers of the Baoyi Army as much as possible and complete some of the tasks assigned by Lu Fatzi - by the way, Gao Dejie, who is not in agreement, can lose face.

Fortunately, Han Daren's team is different from Li Tianzhi's southern expeditionary team, Li Tianzhi's team has relatively little actual combat experience, except for a small number of elite veterans of the Fat Army, most of the soldiers can also bully Geng Jingzhong's army, Han Daren's team is a division of a hundred battles trained on the battlefield of the Western Front of the Fat Army that has been tug-of-war all year round, with rich experience and strong combat effectiveness, plus Han Daren was skillfully boosted by morale, and immediately charged after the rapid march, the impact on combat effectiveness was not too great, and it also killed the Baoyi Army by surprise- Tong Guogang and Feiyangu never expected that the Fat Army would not rest at all on a rapid march, and immediately launched a charge.

In the earth-shattering shouts of killing, the fat army used Han Daren's elite pro-army cavalry as arrows, like a sharp arrow off the string, rushed and charged with red eyes, and directly plunged into the front of the unstable clothed army, fiercely and viciously advancing towards the depth, and the shouts and the sound of swords and guns clashing shook the ground trembling slightly. The equally experienced Baoyi army also recovered quickly, fought back fiercely from the front, outflanked the two flanks, and used the advantage of strength to besiege Han Daren's army, and fought hand-to-hand combat with the fat army with knives and guns.

This is a vicious battle and a hard battle with almost equal strength, there is no flying of three good rockets, and there is no roar of artillery fire - because these things are still in the rear of the fat army, and there is no conspiracy and ingenious tactical command, dazzling interspersed with roundabouts, and there is not even a reserve, some are just head-on, flesh and blood are flying and the blood is good, and the competition is whose sword and gun are faster, whose fist is the hardest, whose will is the firmest, and who is the first to collapse, who is the loser.

In the melee, countless soldiers on both sides caught and killed, everyone seemed to be crazy, everyone in the knife bush gun array fought separately, the sword light and sword shadow flashed like a tide, and in the screams, someone was constantly cut off his arms and heads, and the blood was splashed half a day high, and the people who were cut off were immediately cut down, the heads and limbs of the people who were cut off fell to the ground, and the soldiers who were kicked by the melee rolled around, and the blood dyed the ground outside the north gate of Guide in less than a quarter of an hour, and the casualties of the soldiers on both sides quickly broke through the four-digit mark.

The hardcore Han annihilation Zhou Peigong and the famous general Feiyangu of the mite Qing Dynasty joined forces to train the Baoyi Army is indeed good, the combat effectiveness in the field is no less than the first-line army of the Fat Army, the quality of the individual soldiers is strong, and the cooperation is also very skilled, and the hard battle is completely equal with the Fat Army, the casualty ratio has almost always been stable at one to one, and relying on the advantage of troops, it gradually surrounded the Fat Army in a semicircle, slashed and killed around the Fat Army, slashed and smashed, slashed with knives and guns, smashed with fists, rolled together with teeth biting throats, fingers clasped eyes, hugged together and died together, It is not uncommon on the battlefield, and the fat army gradually gathers into a group, and struggles to compete with the superior strength of the Baoyi army in a circle formation, and the battle situation is gradually stalemate, but the Baoyi army, which has an advantage in strength and physical strength, has a slight advantage.

Although they had a small advantage on the battlefield, Tong Guogang and Feiyangu still did not feel the slightest sense of ease, because judging from the distance, if the Gao Dejie team of the fat army, which was dominated by cavalry, had marched normally, it should have arrived at the Guide battlefield after dark today, but if they marched in a hurry regardless of horsepower, then before the fall today, Gao Dejie's team could arrive at the Guide battlefield at any time and reverse the situation of the entire Guide battlefield -- judging from the rapid march of the infantry of Han Daren's team, Unless the team did not receive the news of the arrival of the Baoyi army in Guide, it was very unlikely that they would not launch a rapid march.

Even if there is no hidden danger of the fat army's reinforcements, Tong Guogang and Fei Yanggu do not dare to go on with Han Daren so hard, because the mite Qing court now only has the last elite soldier left in the Baoyi Army, and one less one dies. What else to take to reach Gao Dejie's pursuers?

At the same time, it is impossible to retreat at this time, the battlefield is in a state of stalemate, and the Baoyi army retreats from the battle, which is equivalent to giving up his ass to kick the fat army that has already killed the red eye, and Han Daren can severely damage the Baoyi army without reinforcements. Forced into desperation, Feiyangu could only obtain Tong Guogang's consent, gather a Qing cavalry of about 2,000 on the periphery of the battlefield, and detour back to the rear of the Fat Army to charge, in a vain attempt to disperse the Fat Army with a cavalry surprise attack and quickly lay down the victory.

Although Feiyangu's abacus is good, but it is a pity that the infantry-based Fat Army has always paid attention to the confrontation training between infantry and cavalry, Feiyangu's team has just launched a charge, and there is no need for Han Daren to personally command, the rear team of the Fat Army immediately changed formation under the command of the grassroots generals, and the layers of stinging rifles were set up in a neat queue, Feiyangu's cavalry just broke through the first layer and was stopped by the second layer, losing the momentum of the charge, the rear team of the Fat Army took the opportunity to change the formation again, and the two wings were outflanked and up, incomparably interspersed into the gap of the Qing cavalry team, biting the Qing cavalry, So that the Qing cavalry could not retreat and assemble, and charged again.

Evil has evil retribution, when the battle situation between the two armies is stalemate, there is a sudden chaos in the city of Guide, and countless Han people spontaneously organize themselves and pour out of the city, holding flat poles, hoes and dung forks to rush to the Baoyi army, men, women and children, and some simply hold stones and kitchen knives - so the Houqing Dynasty asked for a real-name system for kitchen knives, and shouted all kinds of slogans with red eyes to pounce on the rear team of the Baoyi Army, avenging themselves and helping the Fat Army kill the enemy, the first to bear the brunt was Tong Guogang who was hiding in the periphery and fighting the war, although Tong Guogang's personal soldiers tried their best to resist, But the number of people was too much, and the team around Tong Guogang was messing around, forcing the Baoyi Army to divide troops to rescue, while the Fat Army was demoralized, and the slashing in the melee was even more fierce, gradually turning the situation around.

"Da Zhou!" When the fierce battle reached the middle of the afternoon, a new shouting and the sound of thunderous horses' hooves came, and Tong Guogang, who was trapped in the middle of the battlefield by the people, hurriedly looked back, and what made him scattered was that on the official road in the north, the fat cavalry of the brigade had appeared in the field of vision, and the tide was rushing towards the battlefield of Guide.

"Reinforcements have arrived!" Seeing the arrival of reinforcements, of course, the Fat Army team was cheering and demoralizing, but the Wrapped Army was terrified, countless soldiers turned around and ran eastward, and the Fat Army pursued and killed with all their might, slashing and killing the Wrapped Army, chasing the Wrapped Army's ass barrel and stabbing Tyrant Ju.

After another moment, when the fat army of 12,000 cavalry rushed into the battlefield, there was no suspense about the victory or defeat of the battlefield of Guide, and the clever threw down the gold, silver and jewelry that they had stolen over the years and ran eastward, while the greedy threw themselves into the carriage full of goods, drove the carriage to escape or grabbed some packages to escape, and many soldiers of the Baoyi Army simply threw down their weapons and surrendered, shouting, "Master of the Great Zhou, I am a Han man, I am a Han army banner man, you don't kill the Han people, and you don't rob our things, This is stipulated by you, Prince Lu, himself. ”

"Don't accept surrender!" Although they were still two or three miles away, Gao Dejie and Han Daren, the two generals of the Fat Army, issued an identical order in unison, "This team full of dogs is the beast of the beast, the beast of the beast!" Not subject to surrender! Catch and kill! ”

The order was delivered, and a new slogan that shook the world sounded in the ranks of the Fat Army - kill the beasts! The people of Guide who had just been plagued by the Baoyi Army for less than a day also shouted with the soldiers of the Fat Army, and rushed to kill more fiercely than the regular soldiers with red eyes, and once the lone soldiers of the Baoyi Army were caught by them, the end was even worse than the massacre of the Fat Army, and the angry people smashed them with hoes, wooden sticks and stones, tore them with their teeth and hands, and chopped them with kitchen knives, smashing one after another of the soldiers of the Baoyi Army into meat paste and chopping them into meat sauce -- so the Houqing Dynasty asked for a real-name system for kitchen knives, leaving behind a pile of filthy flesh and blood that could not tell what kind of animal it was.

In the chaos of the battle, the famous mite general Feiyangu tried to organize the army to break out, but when he shouted orders, the plate armor on his body and the lightning rod on his head betrayed him deeply. Noble's background, not only the cavalry of Gao Dejie's team concentrated their forces to kill him, but Han Daren, who had already killed his face covered with blood, also personally led his own soldiers to kill him, and the soldiers of the clothed army who gathered and killed Elisan did not dare to resist at all, and left Feiyangu to flee for their lives, and Feiyangu soon had only a dozen personal soldiers left, and he was quickly overwhelmed by dozens of times the cavalry of the Fat Army, and there was no chance to escape from the encirclement.

Feiyangu is actually very lucky, the most unlucky is the commander of the Baoyi Army, Tong Guogang, the ancestor of the square monument only arrived in Guide yesterday, and that night he spoiled two Han girls who were robbed, and was also remembered by countless Guide people, which will collapse the Baoyi Army and the people of Guide beat the water dogs, and Tong Guogang, who rode on a war horse and had a handsome flag next to him, naturally became the target of the angry Guide people, with hundreds of soldiers surrounded by tens of thousands of Guide people, there is no way to go to the sky, and there is no way to go down.

In order to survive, Tong Guogang broke through in the direction of the Fat Army several times, intending to rush to the Fat Army to surrender and save his life, but each time he was blocked by the people of Guide, and the soldiers around him were pulled off the war horses one by one and torn to pieces, and finally Gao Dejie's general Hu Guoliang took the initiative to rush with a team of cavalry, and the people of Guide gave way to Tong Guogang before he was able to rush to the Fat Army and kneel down and surrender - surrounded by tens of thousands of red-eyed and angry people, in a hurry, Tong Guogang also forgot all about the fat army's four killing orders.

Tong Guogang was not lucky enough to die under the fat man's saber, as soon as he was taken down by the fat army, countless people poured in front of the fat army, crying about Tong Guogang and the Baoyi army's accumulated crimes in Guide City, and asked Hu Guoliang to hand over Tong Guogang to them for disposal, Hu Guoliang, who was in a lot of anger for his cousin Hu Guozhu was detained by Guo Zhuangtu, did not live up to the expectations of the people, first let the fat army soldiers break Tong Guogang's hands and feet, and then threw them to the people, the result is natural, after countless tortures, Tong Guogang can't find even a little bone slag.

Of course, because of this decision, after the war, Hu Guoliang was also scolded by Gao Dejie and Han Daren, "Idiot!" Why don't you leave Tong Guogang's dog's bones to burn the ashes, and then burn the ashes into a toilet to make money? Do you know how many Han Chinese people and Mongolian tribes this Manchu dog has harmed in recent years? Do you know that the toilet bowl made of the ashes of the Emperor Mangou has now been bought for 10,000 taels of silver! Idiot! Put on airs! ”

"Kill the beast!" The pursuit and killing battle is still ongoing, not only the people in Guide City, but also the people outside Guide City have joined the team of chasing and killing the Baoyi Army, holding all kinds of weapons, roaring and rushing towards every lone Baoyi Army soldier, and every soldier who catches the Baoyi Army is beaten to death, buried Ling Chi alive, and chopped into meat sauce with a kitchen knife!

Therefore, it is indeed necessary for kitchen knives to implement a real-name system.

(To be continued)