Anger inevitably leads to revenge, both from an individual perspective and from a global perspective, and the events named the "11, 9" tragedy must be retaliated. In the past, Lu Liang was still a little timid, and the improvised foreign gun team was regarded as a roadblock, and he was struggling to think about how to recover Shanghai without provoking the foreign powers, and now he finally had a suitable reason.

On November 10, the revolutionary government issued a statement to the Western countries involved in the November 9 incident, demanding that the murderers involved in the massacre of the revolutionary party be handed over and that all foreign armed forces return to the leased territory and that they should not interfere with the Zhenguo Army's attack on Shanghai.

This statement was rightly ignored, but not only that, but the ranks of the foreign guns also grew, the first batch of reinforcements arrived in Shanghai from Tokyo, Japan, 3,000 Japanese soldiers became the confidence of the foreign powers, and together with the warships of various countries cruising on the Yangtze and Huangpu rivers, the operation to recover Shanghai became complicated again.

However, Lu Liang no longer cares about those complicated and tense situations. At two o'clock in the afternoon of November 10, Lü Liang issued an order to launch a general attack on Shanghai, demanding that the troops of the Third Army and the two additional divisions be completely defeated by the Qing army entrenched in Shanghai.

When large-scale artillery began to bombard the Qing army's defensive positions, most of the Qing soldiers withdrew to the city and hid in civilian houses. The 5,000-strong foreign gun team did not stand up to the front as everyone expected, but retreated back to the vicinity of the concession -- in the face of the frenzied artillery bombardment of the Zhenguo Army, the foreign gun team, which was only equipped with dozens of small-caliber mountain guns, obviously did not dare to resist hard.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the Zhenguo army entered the downtown area of Shanghai, and Jiading, Qingpu, Minhang and other districts were captured one after another, and the warships cruising on the Huangpu River were too small in tonnage and insufficient firepower, and in the face of the powerful artillery of the Zhenguo army, they could only temporarily withdraw to the Yangtze River. I thought that I would encounter stubborn resistance from the Qing army in the urban area, but I didn't expect that some of the Qing soldiers hiding in the houses changed their clothes, hid their weapons and pretended to be civilians, and some of them directly raised their hands to surrender, and there were few resistors.

It is not surprising that during this time, most of the top echelons of the army have long since fled, and the rest are middle and lower-level officers, who have no access and do not have enough money to clear up the relationship, so they can only passively wait in the city. In fact, most of the people had made a decision in advance to surrender as soon as the revolutionary party came! When Shanghai Daotai also surrendered to Zhen ****, only Xu Run's comprador group and foreign gun team were left in Shanghai to resist relying on the concession, and it became the only remaining gunfire in Shanghai.

After surrounding the leased land, the Zhenguo army did not rush to attack, there were more than 5,000 troops of the great powers, and there were too many things involved in the leased land, and the impact of rash attack could not be estimated. Therefore, after surrounding it, the Zhenguo army began to clean up those Qing troops and officials who participated in the "11, 9" incident.

It was easy to figure out, the Bureau of Investigation had a detailed list of those involved in the matter, even down to the name of each soldier, and a large-scale inventory and manhunt was immediately launched, and a large number of hostile elements were also identified in this inventory. At the same time, stabilizing order in the largest commercial city in the Far East became a top priority for the Zhenguo Army.

One division of the Third Army remained in Zhejiang to maintain order in the Liberation Zone, and the army that captured Shanghai consisted of four divisions, including two from the Third Army and two from the Fifth Army, which was later added. The Third Army was exhausted from fighting for more than a month, so the task of capturing the remaining counties and cities north of Shanghai was entrusted to two divisions of the Fifth Army.

The counties, cities, and towns around Shanghai are rich all over the world, and they have never heard of a large-scale famine here, which is heaven in the eyes of northerners - there is heaven above, and Suzhou and Hangzhou below! In order to resist the invasion of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there were several very heroic battles here, and the massacre of the city occurred from time to time. It is a pity that today, the national integrity of the Han people has long disappeared, and they have become accomplices of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the number of Han people who are willing to be martyred for the Manchu Qing is innumerable.

Of course, every dynasty, every generation, and every civilization will have defections to the enemy, but the frequency and number of such incidents in modern China are rare in the world. Tracing back to the source, it is nothing more than that the feudal rulers only know how to safeguard their own interests, and it doesn't matter if they change the dynasty, as long as they don't hurt their own interests! In this way, the national integrity became a joke, and when the Manchu Qing Dynasty had been educated for hundreds of years, the Chinese civilization that once stood on top of the world became extremely ugly.

In this era, most people are willing, even willing to be the slaves of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, when a hundred years have passed in the world, there are still many people indulging in braided plays, fantasizing about marrying an elder brother, watching a certain dynasty with relish, servility is really deep into the bone marrow of this nation, and bending down has become the most fashionable action.

What about Suzhou and Hangzhou Paradise? What about the rich world? Not yet a groveling minion! Military occupation is easy, but changing such a reality is difficult. However, Lu Liang is not in a hurry, the people have been asleep for too long, they need to wake up, they need a mature political party, they need a wise leader, they are really not in a hurry.

The First Division of the Fifth Army marched north along the line of Kunshan, Suzhou, Changshu, and Changzhou, and by November 20 it captured Zhenjiang, and Nanjing was in sight. The artillery cluster of hundreds of cannons made the generals of the great powers dare not easily approach the banks of the Yangtze River, and they could only watch the Manchu rule in the south collapse in a hurry.

The Second Division set out from Huzhou, which had already been occupied, and marched north along the line of Xuancheng, Wuhu, and Ma'anshan, and the two divisions finally completed the encirclement of Nanjing, and the scene of escape from Shanghai was once again staged in Nanjing.

Unlike the original history, this Northern Expedition gave the Manchu elites enough time to flee, including a large number of Manchus and the Eight Banners, who were threatened by the revolution to the north of the Yangtze River. Their exodus was based on their families, carrying as much gold, silver and jewelry as possible, which made the capture of the Zhenguo army after the recovery of the Yangtze River south of the Yangtze River pitiful. However, large items such as grain stored in their families could not be taken away, and some were burned, and some became trophies. Moreover, the flight of powerful officials has created a power vacuum in the recovered areas, and some lawless elements have taken advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos, and there have been burning, killing, and looting in various places.

Especially in the area from Nanjing to Hangzhou, there are countless soldiers and bandits, and there is no need to worry if there is a fortress in the home of the landlord and gentry, and those ordinary people will suffer. It is impossible for the main force of the Zhenguo Army to be used in all the areas of pacification, which requires a temporary and transitional administrative body before the establishment of new administrative and violent organs.

As a result, those who formed the local armed confrontation comprador group in the first place became the biggest beneficiaries of this policy, and they were well known to the Zhenguo Party, had cooperated, and had a certain armed base in their hands. With these people as the core, a large number of registered local militia groups were established, and the Zhenguo Army sent some officers and soldiers to act as instructors, responsible for training and commanding, and maintaining local order.

For example, Nan Wenbo, a wealthy gentleman in the southwest city area of Jiangxi, became the acting mayor of Fuzhou City, responsible for all administrative affairs, and the local armed forces in the Fuzhou area also formed a militia group of 3,000 people to be responsible for maintaining law and order.

Nan Wenbo's decisiveness and bravery at the beginning made a deep impression on Wang Qiang, the head of the party branch in Jiangxi, and the army also highly recommended this person, and Nan Wenbo's work ability during his tenure as acting mayor of Fuzhou City was also fully affirmed. The Suzhou and Hangzhou regions are the strongholds of the compradors, and there are relatively few people who are inclined to the Zhenguo Party, so the formation of the militia and the restoration of order are progressing slowly. After passing the review, Nan Wenbo was transferred to Suzhou to take up the crucial position of mayor of Suzhou.

The recovery of the south is close at hand, Nanchang in Jiangxi was also recovered on November 7, after which the army spread around Jiangxi, ready to completely control Jiangxi in its hands, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River only left Nanjing without recovery, on the morning of November 6, the Sixth Army arrived at the outskirts of Kunming, and after the deployment of troops, the artillery unit first attacked, shelled the city wall of Kunming, and then launched an infantry attack. Ding Zhenze, who was in a panic, heard that the city wall had collapsed, and after the rebellious party entered the city, he dispersed the outsiders and hanged himself in the governor's palace, which was regarded as loyal to the Manchu master. After occupying Kunming, the Zhenguo army hung Ding Zhenze's body on the city wall and erected a wooden sign on one side: The end of being a Manchu slave!

The war in Yunnan was basically over, and the operation of attacking Sichuan was put on the agenda. The Fourth Army, which had fought the least in the Northern Expedition, had moved its troops to the border between Guizhou and Sichuan, but as before, the transportation conditions here were desperate, very unsuitable for the advance of large forces, and even small-scale infiltrations would be lost. It's like a primitive world, and it's daunting. Relatively speaking, the road from Yunnan to Sichuan is not easy to walk, but it is still stronger than Guizhou, so the Fourth Army is waiting, waiting for the Sixth Army and the three mountain brigades to attack Yunnan together.

As the war draws to a close, larger-scale work begins, and the first thing Nan Wenbo did after taking office was law and order, and this chaotic situation must be ended as soon as possible. He was accompanied by a militia of only fifty people, and if Suzhou was to be stabilized, it was necessary to rely on the strength of the local gentry.

The revolutionary government has a mature plan for the integration of the recovered areas, and the experimental application of this plan in Fujian and Guangxi provinces has shown that this plan is effective.