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He didn't care how much land he snatched from Kang Mazi, he cared about how many troops he killed Kang Mazi.

The army died cleanly, and the foundation was destroyed, and the rest of the land was placed there to pick up at will, but the generals under Kang Mazi were not stupid, and they were not all Yin Huaxing's blood-blooded fight once and again, and they desperately sold their heads to brush the achievements of the Ming army, in fact, the current Qing army generals are more Sabusu, Yue Shenglong, Zhao Hongcan and others, knowing that fighting hard with the Ming army is a suicide act, so simply change the attack into a trap and force the Ming army to attack them.

Although the offensive capability of the Ming army is still strong, at least the gap in combat effectiveness between the two sides in this case is not so big that it is outrageous.

Of course, this is actually a cowardly behavior that can survive for a long time, but this strategy is the most reasonable, even if the Ming army can easily hit a city and push rocket artillery to open the city gate, but the next street battle will still have to be faced after all. In the street fighting, the technical superiority of the Ming army was greatly reduced, in the narrow streets and alleys, the rifled gun was not much stronger than the smoothbore gun, and the fire suppression of the Ming army's artillery was useless, and the heavy black powder defensive grenades of the Ming army would no longer blow up the Qing army.

The battle turned into hand-to-hand combat that was most beneficial to the Qing army.

Therefore, the most important thing for Yang Feng now is to force the Qing army out of their fortress again, and then line up under the guns of the Ming army to wait to be shot, killed by shells, burned to death, they don't come out, just drive them out, lie to them out, he doesn't believe that the Ming army is threatening Beijing, Kang Mazi can still let these generals continue to spend nothing on the front line, and he doesn't believe that Sabusu and these people can withstand the pressure of Kang Mazi At the same time, they can also resist the confusion of the Ming army's main force after the expedition.

And as soon as they continue to die in front of the walls and barbed wire of the trenches of the Ming army, as they did at the beginning, then the second Zhenhai collapse is absolutely inevitable.

If the Qing army collapses like this again, it is estimated that he can expect to drink the Yangtze River, and even the troops will come to Nanjing, and the mobile combat force of the entire Qing army in the south of the Yangtze River will be here, and even the farther Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Liangguang will only have a small number of Qing troops left that will definitely not be able to move. After all, Kang Mazi's so-called prosperous era is just a joke, the peasant uprisings in various places have not been broken much in his life, and the Tusi of various ethnic groups in the southwest have not made much trouble, and many Qing troops are actually unable to move at all. It can be said that as long as the 200,000 Qing troops are resolved, at least before Kang Mazi is re-drawn from the north and re-recruited from all over the country, in short, a sufficient number of troops are cobbled together and they go south to reach Jiangsu and Zhejiang......

The Ming army was enough to fight Nanjing.

"This matter is decided, no matter what, Ben Shuai must go on a northern expedition to rescue His Royal Highness the Prince! Even if there is only Ben Shuai alone, he must not sit idly by and watch His Royal Highness the Crown Prince be killed! ”

With an unquestionable tone, Yang Dashuai rejected the advice of all the civil and military generals, and officially opened the prelude to the Northern Expedition.

Immediately after that, the Ming army began to move on a large scale, among which the combat effectiveness was the strongest, and in Yang Feng's opinion, it had completely surpassed the level of the Anglo-French alliance in the Eryan era, and the first infantry brigade that had reached its level was drawn from the garrisons of Fenghua and Hangzhou respectively. It was replaced by the 8th Brigade that was originally in Ningbo and the newly formed 10th Brigade that had just completed training and went to the battlefield, and the 1st and 2nd Brigades, plus the 9th Brigade that had also just completed training, plus a reinforced battalion cavalry detachment, were jointly organized into the Third Army of the Ming Army, that is, the Northern Expeditionary Army, with Yang Dashuai personally serving as the commander.

In the remaining brigades, the fourth, fifth, and tenth cavalry brigades together form the first army of the Ming army, and the commander is transferred from the third brigade commander Du You, and the new 11th Infantry Brigade will be added in the future, mainly responsible for the defense of the west of the Cao'e River, that is, Hangzhou, Xiaoshan, and Shaoxing. Facing the Qing army of Sabusu, Ma Sanqi, and Zhao Hongcan, the latter currently has a total strength of about 150,000, but the main force is north of the Qiantang River, and only Zhao Hongcan's department on the south bank is less than 40,000 green battalions, and they are all those who received the Ming army's road expenses and released back, and they will definitely surrender immediately if they encounter a slight setback on the battlefield again.

And the remaining infantry three, six, seven, eight, a total of four infantry brigades, forming the second army of the Ming army, the brigade commander is still the former commander of the second army Feng Zhen, the future will have to add the twelfth infantry brigade, they are responsible for the defense of Ningbo, Fenghua, Zhenhai, Shangyu, Cixi, and other places east of the Cao'e River, the opponent is Yue Shenglong and Lu Chongyao, Yin Huaxing three, these three add up to about 60,000 Qing troops, but Lu Chongyao and Yin Huaxing two departments have been beaten out of the psychological shadow, basically there is no real threat, but Yue Shenglong needs to be careful to deal with, However, in the face of absolute strength, Yue Zhongqi's mind was of little use.

Although the Sixth Infantry Brigade is also within the establishment of the Second Army, it is the garrison of Changguo, although the Qing Army does not have the ability to attack across the sea, but it is still good to be prepared, this brigade is mobile and combat, with the old Changguo garrison those coastal defense artillery, which is enough to ensure the safety of this military base.

In addition to the large-scale movement of the army, there is also the rearmament of the navy.

The battlefleet was strengthened, and in addition to the original six battleships, seven newer cruisers were added, and these battleships built of teak were very sturdy and of a larger displacement, with thirty-six naval guns on them. Of course, it is not the original of the British, but the front-loading nine-pound cast steel rifled gun produced by Daming himself, the shell is cone-shaped, with a lead butt underneath, and the bottom of the butt is the same as the bullet of the rifled gun with a concave bottom, which can be embedded in the breech under the power of gunpowder, and then fly to the target with high-speed rotation of the shell.

The maximum range of this artillery is close to seven miles, and the penetration power is far greater than that of round shells, but it mainly uses flowering shells.

That's why Yang Feng said that as long as Lan Li dared to go out of the mouth of the Yangtze River, it would be equivalent to embarking on the road of no return, not only the seven cruisers were replaced with new rifled guns, but the vast majority of the Ming army's capital ships, including the six battleships, were replaced with this kind of artillery. Especially on the Zhenhai and Dinghai, there are even twenty huge forty-pound front-loading rifled guns each, and the vast majority of the rest are eighteen-pound guns, the firepower is terrifying, even if it is pulled out now and the European second-class or even first-class ships are single-handed, there is no pressure, after all, the range and accuracy are there.

And the main task of this battleship was Lan Li's Yangtze River Naval Division, which had fifty cruiser-class warships.

However, the naval combat ability of the Qing army's naval division is extremely poor, because they have no opportunity to train on the sea at all, at most they will train in the bathtubs of the Yangtze River and Poyang Lake, while the Ming army has been floating on the sea for many years, and the two sides are not at the same level at all in terms of equipment level and soldier quality, Yang Feng's battlefleet Admiral Luo Zhang directly patted his chest and promised that if the Yangtze River Naval Division dared to come out, even if there was a warship left on the Yangtze River, Yang Dashuai could directly drag him out and kill him.

In addition to this battlefleet, a total of twenty-five cruisers were formed into the cruiser fleet, including the armed merchant ships that first formed the battlefleet.

This fleet, plus twelve smaller warships, is the captured Qing army's old-fashioned naval warships, these twelve are all green eyebrows, the ship can be equipped with up to a dozen deck guns, their main duty is to act as a frigate, escort thirty transport ships of various types, the vast majority of which are newly purchased European-style three-masted sailing ships, and even have a certain armament, during this period of time, because of the lack of transportation strength, Yang Dashuai spent money to buy a large number of large merchant ships of this kind from the South Seas, and even bought as far as the French.

These merchant ships were purchased by Yang Feng at his own expense, and now belong to Longteng Shipping under his own name, but most of them are contracted by the military.

In fact, in the future, he is ready to develop Longteng as an East India Company.

This total of 67 large and small ships is the composition of his fleet for this Northern Expedition, these ships can transport a reorganized infantry brigade at one time, in addition to enough materials to support them for two months of operations, according to Yang Feng's plan, the first batch will transport the second infantry brigade north to seize Dagukou, and then wait at Dagukou. The fleet then returned to transport the 1st and 9th Infantry Brigades to the north, during which there would certainly be naval battles, and after the naval battles were over, the battlefleet would also join the ranks of transports and operations, so that in three or four months at most, he would be able to march on Peking.

Of course, it doesn't matter whether he can hit Beijing or not, and he is not ready to really rescue Zhu Cijiong, the important thing is that he can force Sabusu and others out of their fortress.

It is also possible to attract Kang Mazi's Jinggi garrison to attack at the mouth of Dagu, this is for sure, Kang Mazi will never tolerate him stuck at the mouth of Dagu, in case the Ming army takes a step forward and cuts off the transportation of Tianjin, then what will the millions of hardcore crops in Beijing eat? This is the same as what the British and French coalition did back then, but now the British and French coalition forces have been replaced by the Ming army, and the will and monk king have also been replaced by Kang Mazi.

In this way, he could create a new execution site, one south and one north, to build two meat grinders to kill the Qing army.

Imagine the scene of the Eight Banners elites in Beijing going forward one after another, turning into a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood in front of the barbed wire fence of the trenches of the Ming army, his mood is immediately very comfortable, as for whether he can enter Beijing City in the end, this depends on his mood, if he is in a good mood, maybe he will really enter Beijing City for a walk, empty the palace and the princes and ministers' houses, and pull out the concubines and princesses of Kang Mazi or something, isn't there a famous Concubine Yi? Although Yang Dashuai disdains these people, it is still very conducive to boosting morale by letting those young Ming soldiers play with princesses and concubines.

Well, it should be a very good idea to take Kang Mazi's harem to Hangzhou and open another one.