Although he did not make up his mind about the Northern Expedition until the last moment, the timing of Lu Fatzi's Northern Expedition was still too good, and Geng Jingzhong, Zheng Jing and Monk Zhixin in the south fought upside down for the sake of the territory, and died and lived; In order to compete for power and profit, the relatives of the Wu family and the Wu clan in the west are also fighting hotly, the earth is turned upside down, the scale is getting bigger and bigger, and they all want each other's lives with red eyes, and they can't pull out their hands to restrain Lu Fatzi. 【Reading.com】

And the enemy of the Fat Army's Northern Expedition, the Qing Imperial Court, the elite main force was all killed and wounded, and the remaining little army was far from being the opponent of the Fat Army in terms of quantity and quality, not to mention blocking Lu Fatzi's Northern Expedition Army, just wanting to delay and delay the Fat Army's northward footsteps a little, which is a big problem - from this point of view, the military situation faced by the Fat Army is even far better than Zhu Yuanzhang's Northern Expedition back then.

At the same time, because of climate change, population growth and land overdevelopment, the Shandong area of Zhili has long been unable to achieve food self-sufficiency, all rely on the support of the south of the grain, and now Caoyun was cut off by the Fat Army for two years, and was taken by Kang Mazi, Xiaozhuang Old Demon and Mites Qing local officials took turns to loot many times, the economy has already completely collapsed, starvation is everywhere, the people are not happy, people's minds have changed, including many mites The people are looking forward to ending this chaotic era, and laid a solid foundation for the Northern Expedition of the Fat Army, the army has relatively good discipline of the Fat Army, It's really hard to get the support of the people.

The time and place are favorable, and the people are all in the fat hands, and the Northern Expedition of the Fat Army can only be described as destroying the withered and decaying, and the Gao Dejie Department of the Fat Army, which opened up the way forward, received an order to capture the entire territory of Shandong, and the troops were divided into two routes, all the way to Dongping, Dongchang, all the way to Tai'an and Jinan, and soon after the army set off, Dongping, Feicheng and Laiwu and other places rushed to send the table, automatically cut the braids and surrendered, and presented the local household registration register. Zhu Xiaochun, the prefect of Tai'an, threatened to live and die with the city of Tai'an, and also took out his family property to recruit Xiang Yong to prepare to fight with the fat army, but what Zhu Xiaochun never dreamed of was that the Xiang Yong he recruited had just received the weapon, and immediately seized Tai'an City under the leadership of a Diao Min named Wang Xiaoer, cut off his head, and dedicated it to the fat army together with the city.

Zhu Xiaochun may be a loyal minister to the Mites Qing court, but it is a pity that this Mite Qing loyal minister forgot an ancient saying - the world is not chaotic, Shandong is the first to rebel! The people of Shandong are honest and simple, but if the ruler provokes the people of Shandong, the people will become fierce and simple, and in the past two years, Shandong has been starving everywhere, and there are countless cannibals in Yizi, but the Qing court is still desperately collecting taxes and collecting grain in Shandong, and also issuing mite Qing military coins that are worse than sassafras paper, and forcibly exchanging the pitiful cash in the hands of the people and not paying it back, the people of Shandong have long been full of anger in their stomachs, and they naturally want to vent when they seize the opportunity, and Zhu Xiaochun naturally died unjustly.

Probably saw Zhu Xiaochun's lesson, Gao Dejie personally led the army along the Tai'an official road to the north, just entered the territory of Jinan Prefecture, Shandong Governor Zhang Fengyi and Shandong Governor Duan Yingju sealed the Shandong Provincial Treasury and the Treasury of Shandong, led more than 9,000 green battalion soldiers who had not received a penny of military pay for more than half a year to the south for 30 miles, and took the initiative to come to Gao Dejie Ma to ask for surrender. Let the two assist Gao Dejie to sweep the remaining state capitals in Shandong, and appoint Zhang Bingzhi, the former Jiangsu envoy who had surrendered to the Fat People's Army, as the governor of Shandong to form the Shandong Provincial Government of the Great Zhou.

With the help of Zhang Fengyi and Duan Yingju, the two leading parties, the Fat Army's capture of the remaining state capitals in Shandong was smoother, and wherever the army went, almost none of the states and governments led the army to resist, all of them surrendered when they heard the wind, and took the initiative to cut their braids and sacrifice the city, and occasionally a few local officials resisted stubbornly, and basically did not need the Fat Army to do it, and the mite Qinglu battalion soldiers led by these local officials had already killed them first - they had not received a penny of military pay for more than half a year, and the ghost was willing to give these idiot mite Qing officials their lives. In less than a month, more than half of the Shandong Prefecture has been included in the territory of the Fat Army, and only the two prefectures of Laizhou and Dengzhou have not changed their flags - it is not that these two prefectures are blocking the Fat Boy Army, but that these two prefectures are too remote, and the Fat Boy Army, which has expanded too quickly, cannot spare their hands to take it.

At the same time, the Fat Army's Western Expeditionary Army led by Han Daren was also marching all the way, like a bamboo, and successively captured - to be precise, it successively received Henan's Weihui Mansion and Huaiqing Mansion, as well as Shanxi's Zezhou Mansion, and divided a partial division, and easily took Zhangde Mansion, Henan Governor Tong Fengcai because of his unlucky surname Tong Jiashi, did not dare to surrender to the Fat Army, and fled directly back to Yanjing. In the end, because the military rations were difficult to maintain, and the time was in short supply, it was impossible to collect grain on the spot, so Han Daren's army was forced to stop expanding and wait for the grain and grass to arrive.

On May 18, the main force of 80,000 people of the Fat Army along the canal north, under the personal leadership of Lu Fatzi, arrived in Dongchang Mansion, Shandong, and met with Gao Dejie's forward team here, and Gao Dejie's team after several months of recruiting and recruiting new soldiers, the team has expanded to more than 70,000 people - if it were not for the fact that the sweet potatoes that had been planted in large quantities in the north had begun to be harvested at this time, these recruits would have almost eaten up the logistics of the Fat Army. After the meeting, Lu Fatzi greatly praised Gao Dejie and Zhang Bingzhi for their meritorious civil and military skills, and quickly held a meeting in the Dongchang Mansion to discuss the next military plan to capture Zhili and Yanjing.

At the beginning of the meeting, Lu Fatzi first promulgated a long-brewing land decree in the north, and it was also a land decree specifically aimed at the evil deeds of the mite enclosure, announcing that the land captured by the Fat People's Army in the hard-hit areas of Shandong, Zhili, Henan and Shanxi provinces, all farmland and mountainous land belonging to the mites will be confiscated, and half of the land cultivated by Han tenants will be privately owned by Han tenants, half confiscated, and those who are uncultivated or those who have fled and died will all be collected into the ownership of the Great Zhou Yue Palace, waiting for the distribution of rewards to the meritorious soldiers of the Great Zhou Yue Palace. At the same time, the land of all the Qing officials, magnates, landlords and gentry who refused to surrender was confiscated, and it was also prepared to be distributed to the meritorious soldiers of the Great Zhou Yue Palace.

As soon as the decree was announced, without waiting for the fat army to make a name for the world, the jackals of the fat army and the future big landlords first smiled and squinted, and the mountain called the prince a thousand years old, and by the way, he completely forgot about the Honghua court of the Great Zhou, and only hoped that Lu Fatzi would usurp power earlier and ascend the throne and be the emperor - if the Honghua court entered the Central Plains, these good fields and good lands could still have the share of the fat army soldiers? The civilian officials are also eager to try, knowing that with the current situation, the Fat People's Army's unification of the Central Plains is already within reach, and their lackeys and accomplices, who were the first to follow Lu Fatzi, will definitely be able to get a big cake in the future division of power.

Finally let the civil and military lackeys stop cheering, the decision-making level of the Fat Army immediately launched a discussion on the tactics of the army, a part of the Fat Army civil and military officials advocated that the troops should be divided into three routes, one division to attack the last two state capitals of Shandong and Dengzhou and Laizhou, a main force west to Guangping Mansion, from Guangping Mansion to the north all the way to attack Shunde, Zhengding and Baoding and other important towns of Zhili, and the other main force along the canal north, attacking Cangzhou and Tianjin, and smashing Yanjing. There are also some people who think that there is no need to divide the troops, and that they should choose the main force to go north along the canal and go straight to Yanjing, and when Yanjing is taken, the prefectures and counties such as Shandong can also be passed on, and at the same time, the main army will go north along the canal, and they can also take advantage of the canal water transportation to reduce the logistical burden.

In fact, the choice of which tactic is the same, judging from the intelligence of the fat army's detailed report, in the face of the pressure of the fat army's Northern Expedition army, the old witch of Xiaozhuang did not fully organize the new army to prepare for resistance, and did not draw the last two Qing troops of Shengjing General Unei Baturu and Ningguta General Bahai from outside the pass into the Guanqin King, but chose the excuse to form a new army outside the pass, and sent a large number of grain, grass and silver obtained from the expropriation back to Shengjing, the intention to escape was already very obvious, and the fat army did not choose which tactic to enter, It is unlikely that they will be desperately resisted by the Qing court.

After thinking about it carefully for a long time, under the pretext that the potatoes and sweet potatoes in Shandong had already begun to be harvested, and the logistical pressure was small, so he could capture the county capital in the south of Zhili earlier, and he could also use the famine as an opportunity to temporarily alleviate the administrative order and consolidate the rule of the newly occupied land, and chose to divide the troops to the north.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Fatzi began to dispatch troops, appointed Tian Dazhuang, the general of the Fat Army who had performed well in the Gaoyou War, as the governor of Shandong, and ordered him to lead an army of 10,000 to attack Denglai Erfu and completely eradicate the last power of the Qing court in Shandong. He also ordered Gao Dejie to lead an army of 50,000 to the west into Guangping Mansion, go north along the official road of Zhili, capture the official mansions along the way, and join the main force of the Fat Army under Yanjing City. Then appoint Quan Jie as the backup general, command 30,000 troops to sit in Dongchang, organize the township brave people to protect the canal grain road and escort grain and grass, and the remaining 60,000 troops are led by Lu Fatzi himself, along the canal to Yanjing, and under Yanjing City, he will join Gao Dejie's army.

After listening to Lu Fatzi's arrangement, Gao Dejie asked with a smile: "Lord Wang, you walk along the canal, I walk along the official road, the distance is about the same, are you interested in making a bet to see who will arrive in Yanjing first?" ”

"Bet anything, you're going to lose." Fat Lu replied with a smile.

"Not necessarily." Gao Dejie smiled proudly: "Although the road you walk, the road full of dogs on the road is less, but Lord Wang, your army is mostly infantry, and the team of the last general is mostly cavalry. ”

"Since Brother Dajie is so confident, let's bet." Fat Lu laughed and said, "If I lose and break through Yanjing, I will let you enter Yanjing City first." If you lose, then I will go to Yanjing City, you can't complain, and you have to wave the northeast for me, and chase and kill the Mangou court that fled back to Shengjing. ”

"Okay, high-five!"

Gao Dejie was overjoyed, stretched out a hand to high-five Lu Fatzi, Lu Fatzi did not hesitate, stretched out his fat palm and Gao Dejie hit hard, and then said with a smile: "Brother Dajie, if you can't conquer Baoding City for a long time, don't worry, I will enter Yanjing, I will naturally send reinforcements to you, don't rush to the battlefield to risk charging because you are in a hurry to grab merit, muskets and bows and arrows do not have eyes." ”

"Can't conquer Baoding City for a long time?" Gao Dejie was stunned and asked suspiciously: "How is it possible, Baoding seems to only have more than 1,000 dog green camps and more than 4,000 villagers, right?" Lord, do you underestimate me? ”

Lu Fatzi smiled, but did not explain, but Gao Dejie quickly came to his senses, slapped his forehead and screamed: "Yes, there is this possibility!" Baoding City is where the Yamen of the Governor of Mangou Zhili is located, and the Mangou Commander who guards the city must be greater than Jackie Chan, and that old man is absolutely impossible to surrender to us! Damn, how did Lao Tzu meet this hardcore old man? ”

Lu Fat laughed, and the other civil and military officials of the Fat Army also laughed, Han Yuanren laughed the most happily, and he was very gloating that his brother's sworn enemy had encountered such a hard nail. After laughing, Lu Fatzi instructed Gao Dejie again: "Brother Dajie, if the siege succeeds and Yu Chenglong is captured, if he insists on not surrendering, give him to commit suicide, don't embarrass him." ”

Gao Dejie nodded in agreement with a sad face, and said viciously: "If the old thing is really as stubborn as the legend, desperately pulling my hind legs, even if he is given to commit suicide, I will bury all his accomplices alive!" Send all their ladies to the military camp! ”

"It's up to you." Lu Fatzi lay back on the handsome chair, knocked on Erlang's leg and swayed and said: "Although our Great Zhou army is a benevolent and righteous army and does not harm the people casually, but for those Han Annihilation accomplices who are determined to work hard for the dogs, you don't need to be polite, I won't interfere with what you want to do." ”

After a day's rest in Dongchang, on May 20, the three armies of the Fat Man Army set off together, Gao Dejie and Tian Dazhuang marched east and west, and Lu Fatzi personally led more than 74,000 troops along the canal to the north and directly killed Yanjing. When the news spread, there was a panic in the territory of Gyeonggi in Zhili, and the four evil slaves with their hands stained with the blood of the Han people packed up their packages and fled to the outside of the Guan, and the hardcore Han Annihilation who helped the abuse was panicked, and he was not willing to give the funeral to the Qing court, and he was afraid that the fat army would not forgive his crimes. Even ordinary people packed up their packages and fled to other places, trying to avoid being affected by the war.

Contrary to all the rumors in the Inner Nine Cities, the Forbidden City, the center of the storm, was calm, and Yinyu, who was less than five years old, didn't understand anything, so he naturally didn't know that the country he had been sitting on for less than a year was going to be finished, and he was just peeing and playing in the eunuch's mouth every day. The old witch of Xiaozhuang, who is really in charge, is also very calm, every day is to eat when she should eat, drink when she should drink, and one hundred and eight dishes per meal are not missing, but in the end, she couldn't bear the pressure of the prince of the Qing Dynasty and the civil and military officials, and chose to hold a court meeting on May 28 to discuss countermeasures.

As soon as the court discussion began, the Jinluan Palace immediately quarreled, the prince of the Mite Qing Dynasty Beile and the civil and military officials expressed their opinions, accused each other, and argued, but in the final analysis, there were three opinions, one opinion was headed by the last hawk Jieshu of the Mite Qing, and it was recommended to defend the Yanjing Jiancheng, and at the same time dispatch the Guanwai banner soldiers and the Mongolian army's entry Qinwang to fight to the death with the fat army under Yanjing City. The second opinion is to withdraw from the customs and flee to the north of Shanhaiguan to survive, waiting for the opportunity to make a comeback. The third opinion is to seek peace, send an envoy to contact Lu Fatzi, saying that the minister will pay compensation for the land, and only ask Lu Fatzi not to fight Yanjing.

Finally, it was the turn of the old witch of Xiaozhuang to speak, and as soon as she opened her mouth, she scolded the main battle faction Jieshu for a bloody head, and asked like a cannon: "Defend Yanjing?" Transferring flags from outside the customs and the Mongolian Eight Banners into the king of Guanqin? How many troops are there in Yanjing City, and how long can they stop Lu Gou? How long can grain and grass last? How many bannermen and Mongol cavalry were there outside the pass? Desperately can still make up fifty or sixty thousand men, no food, no salary, no weapons, thousands of miles to Yanjing is the king of Qin, or is it sent to the door to kill Lu Gou? ! ”

After scolding Jie Shu to the point of disgrace, the old witch of Xiaozhuang fired at the peace faction again, and asked coldly: "Ask for peace with Lu Dog?" Lu Gou has already burned the former emperor into the toilet, and it is possible to accept our Qing court's request for peace? Even if you agree for the time being, when the situation is stabilized, I'm afraid that the old bones of the mourning family will be burned into the toilet by Lu Yifeng's mad dog, right? ”

scolded the main battle faction and scolded the peace faction, but let go of the escape faction, the true intention of the old witch of Xiaozhuang was also revealed, and the mite Qing magnates who advocated escaping back to the Northeast were also excited, scrambling to tell the various benefits of escaping back to the Northeast, desperately encouraging everyone to run together, and many people simply discussed on the spot how to retreat and when to retreat, and some people even advocated burning Yanjing into ruins, killing all the Han people in Yanjing City, leaving a piece of scorched earth for Lu Fatzi, and also received a lot of responses. The old witch of Xiaozhuang was also quite tempted, but seeing the pale faces of the Han officials present, and considering that the Han people in Yanjing City had not 800,000 but 500,000, she finally dispelled this idea.

"Ancestors and ancestors of the Qing Dynasty, please open your eyes!"

When the discussion of escape was in full swing, a crying voice suddenly sounded in the Jinluan Palace, everyone turned their heads in surprise, but saw that the person who cried bitterly was the cousin of Kang Mazi who had just been scolded by the old witch of Xiaozhuang, Jie Shu, while kowtowing desperately to the northeast, while crying, "The ancestors and ancestors of the Qing Dynasty, please open your eyes and take a look, our Qing Dynasty is about to be given away in vain!" There is still hope for our Qing Dynasty, but some people just don't want this hope, and they must give away the rivers and mountains that you have shed blood and sweat for! Let's take a look at what kind of stuff your children and grandchildren are! ”

While crying and shouting, Jie Shu kowtowed desperately until his forehead bleed, and the mite Qing civil and military officials who advocated escaping were also full of shame and had to keep their mouths shut, only the old witch of Xiaozhuang remained silent, and said coldly to Jie Shu: "Lord Kang, you don't need to point your finger at Sang and scold Huai, the Qing Dynasty has fallen to this day, the Mourning family can hold their chests and say to the ancestors of the Qing Dynasty, the Mourning family not only has no responsibility, but also can hold their heads high and say, without the Mourning family's hard work, the Qing Dynasty will only finish faster!" ”

"It's not your responsibility, whose responsibility is it?" Jie Shu was so furious that he almost stood up with his mouse braids.

"You all know who is responsible." The old witch of Xiaozhuang sneered: "Among the responsible persons, Prince Kang, you must definitely be counted as one, in the Bajiang battlefield in Guizhou back then, if you were not captured by Lu Yifeng, and you were threatened by two poor scholars to cut off the root of your life, forcing Zhao Liangdong's rescuers to retreat, the main elite of the Qing Dynasty would be annihilated by Wu Sangui's old thief in one fell swoop?" Our Qing army will have almost no elite available in the later battles, and will be defeated and retreated by Wu Sangui's old thieves and Lu Yifeng's dog thieves, and lose cities and land one after another? ”

"Our Qing army has declined from prosperity to despotism, and the turning point is in the Battle of Bajiang! The first sinner in Bajiang's fiasco is you, Prince Kang! Things have come to this point, you still have the face to accuse the mourning family of burying the Qing Dynasty, do you have black eyes, or your conscience has been eaten by dogs?! ”

was exposed by the old witch of Xiaozhuang in public, Jie Shu was suddenly speechless, and his face began to have a fever, and the surrounding mite Qing prince Baylor and civil and military officials were also shocked, and for the first time they knew the special inside story of the Bajiang War. And after Jie Shu's face was red for a long time, he suddenly raised his head again, and said solemnly to the old witch of Xiaozhuang: "Old ancestor, in the battle of Bajiang back then, the slave really deserved to die, the slave didn't want to quibble, the slave only asked the ancestor to give the slave a chance to make meritorious service and atone for his crimes, so that the slave could stay in Yanjing City, and it was best to hold Yanjing City and persist until the Qing Dynasty counterattacked, if he couldn't hold it, the slave would be martyred!" ”

The old witch of Xiaozhuang stared at Jieshu, saw that Jieshu's eyes were full of firmness, and after thinking twice, the old witch of Xiaozhuang sighed and muttered: "In the end, it is the descendants of our Aixin Jueluo family, and we still have a little backbone, okay, the mourning family promises you, the mourning family will only take away a thousand Fengtai garrisons, and the remaining Fengtai garrisons and Miyun garrisons will be left to you." The southern army is not tolerant of wind and snow, the transfer of grain and grass is not very convenient, and there are still some hidden dangers in the rear. ”

"Empress Dowager Xie Ancestor!" Jie Shu kowtowed vigorously, and said solemnly: "The slave swears to the sky, as long as the slave still has a breath, Lu Yifeng's dog thief will never want to step into Yanjing City!" ”

The old witch of Xiaozhuang didn't pay attention to Jieshu's impassionedness, but turned her gaze to the outside of the Jinluan Palace, looked at the blue sky and white clouds in the south, and sighed softly: "The world is really wonderful, four years ago, your greed for life and fear of death buried the last chance to save our main elite of the Qing Dynasty, and achieved Lu Yifeng's reputation as a dog thief." After four years, you are going to fight to the death with Lu Yifeng dog thieves in this Yanjing City to defend the capital of our Qing Dynasty, is it a coincidence or fate? Alas, I hope this time, you're not a mantis arm as a car. ”

In the first year of Honghua in the Great Zhou Dynasty and June 12 in the first year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, in view of the fact that the main force of the Northern Expedition of the Fat Army led by Lu Fatzi himself had broken through Nanpi and approached Cangzhou, the old demon woman of Xiaozhuang, the Empress Dowager of the Qing Dynasty, was not allowed to escape from Yanjing with her great-grandson who had just turned four years old, and fled to Shengjing through Zunhua and Shanhaiguan with all the treasures that could be taken away, gold, silver, grain and rice, and prepared to go there to restart the stove and rebuild the Mite Qing court. Most of the mite Qing prince Baylor and the civil and military officials fled with the old witch of Xiaozhuang, only the mite Qingkang prince Jieshu and a small number of civil and military officials stayed in Yanjing, ready to lead the last 10,000 troops to defend Yanjing Jiancheng, and defend this first city in China that has been poisoned by mites so far.

(To be continued)