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In just a few days, the battle situation began to move in the favorable direction of the Northern Army, and Duan Fang couldn't help but sigh a little when he looked at the battle report in his hand, and at the same time had doubts about the future of the Qing Dynasty.

As one of the planners of this Northern Expedition, Duan Fang never thought that the battle situation would change so much, and a moment ago he thought that the victory of the Northern Expedition was just around the corner, and the only thing to worry about was the matter of time.

The next moment, he was directly knocked into hell, such a change in the contrast between the two levels, no one knew what Duanfang's heart was like at this moment.

"Brother Zhou, I'm afraid that this Northern Expedition is destined to return empty-handed." After saying this, Duan Fang let out a long sigh inexplicably and put down the paper in his hand.

"Brother Duan, why bother to give up on yourself so much, even if the Northern Expedition did not achieve any results this time, we have also learned some lessons and know what the army has in those places.

As long as we finally hold our own territory, our soldiers will be almost run-in after these battles, and when the time comes, we will be working hard for a few years, and the Northern Expedition will be a little more certain than now. ”

After these things, Zhou Fu also discovered the gap between his side and the Northern Army, fortunately, there was still hope for salvation in his view, although his side has currently lost the military strength of three towns.

As long as we retreat to Jiangsu and hold on to Jiangsu, relying on the experience of this Northern Expedition, we will go back and train the army for a year or two, and then we will be much more sure of the Northern Expedition than now.

After listening to Zhou Fu's comfort, Duan Fang immediately said.

"Brother Zhou, this statement is reasonable, I'm just a little indignant, after this blow, we will still be able to fight back in a few years."

The content on the paper is very simple, it is information about Dongping Prefecture, and the support troops sent by Duanfang have already encountered soldiers scattered from the direction of Dongping Prefecture before they arrived in Dongping Prefecture.

According to the oral accounts of these soldiers, the army of the two towns in Dongping Prefecture had been routed by the Northern Army, and a considerable number of them chose to surrender, and only these soldiers escaped.

Just when the commanders who went to support were curious about how these soldiers managed to escape from the dense encirclement of the Northern Army, these soldiers were a little hesitant and embarrassed to speak.

Seeing this scene, the commander immediately knew that he was afraid that this group of soldiers who ran out was deliberately done by the Northern Army, and wanted these defeated soldiers to report to him and let him retreat.

And this commander really did this, and after learning the news, he even gave the order to return the way he came.

This system is also fun, everything is guessed as much as you want, and the reason why these routs ran out is not because of Chen Dongsheng's benevolence.

After the surrender of the Qing army in Dongpingzhou, a considerable part of the Qing army directly chose to join the ranks of the Northern Army, for these soldiers who chose to join the ranks of the Northern Army.

Since they have chosen to surrender to the Northern Army, there is no good life to return to the South, and it will even affect their families, so it is better to join the Northern Army, and maybe in the end, the Northern Army will unify the whole country.

At that time, it is also a face-saving thing for him to return to his hometown, and it is not difficult to see from this that in the eyes of these Manchu soldiers, it is actually the probability that the Northern Army will unify the whole country is more probable, not their own side.

Chen Dongsheng was naturally extremely happy about the choice of these soldiers, these Qing troops in Dongping Prefecture were fighting to the end, and these soldiers already had a preliminary belief, that is, to fight for their families.

Moreover, in the end, the soldiers left behind in these Qing troops can be regarded as veterans, and under such a high-intensity offensive, these Qing troops still stubbornly supported for several days, which is enough to prove the combat ability of these soldiers.

As long as they are dismantled and reintegrated, and after a little training, it will be a force that can fight, how could Chen Dongsheng not be happy that such a soldier chose to join his side.

The remaining small number of Qing soldiers were worried that their families in the south wanted to leave, and Chen Dongsheng did not object after listening to the words of these soldiers, and personally ordered the people below not to make any obstruction to these soldiers, and also provided all supplies to these soldiers.

Of course, the guns in the hands of these soldiers still have to be kept.

The reason why Chen Dongsheng agreed to the departure of these Manchu soldiers was mainly due to two considerations.

The first point is that when it comes to publicity, the focus of propaganda on my side is my family, and my family hits the softest place in the depths of these Qing soldiers, otherwise these Qing soldiers will not choose to surrender.

Now these soldiers want to choose to go back to see their families, and if they make a way to obstruct them, wouldn't they be a little discredited by these soldiers.

The second point is that the return of these soldiers to the south is also beneficial to their own side, no matter how the Manchu court in the south propagandizes the north, it is all lip service.

Far from being as convincing as the soldiers who came back from the north, these soldiers who came back from the north really knew what the situation was like in the north, and under the propaganda of these soldiers, the Manchu soldiers in the south naturally knew how the north treated the prisoners.

There will be no unilateral blinding by the south, and the benefits for their own side are also great, the Qing army fought so tenaciously before the emergence of the province, and after the surrender, there was a personal guarantee, and no Manchu soldiers would be willing to die on the position.

The crisis in Shandong was solved by more than half, and the main forces of the two sides had not yet made formal contact, and the Manchu Qing lost the military strength of three towns, which made Duanfang and others also have a hint of wanting to retreat.

Moreover, Duanfang's actions were the same, and he relaxed the attack on Yizhou City, which made the defenders of Yizhou City breathe a sigh of relief.

Just after such a thing happened in Shandong, Yiyang Sanguan, which originally belonged to Hubei, also completed a gorgeous turn from the south to the north.

After Yu Dahong and Zhang Xiyuan's families arrived at the three passes of Yiyang, Wusheng Pass fell into the hands of the Northern Army half-pushed, and the Manchu army at Pingjing Pass was still strong at first after seeing that they had been betrayed by friendly forces.

said anything like living and dying with Pingjing Pass, but after the defenders of Pingjing Pass knew that they had become a lone army, they no longer said anything about coexistence.

Instead, he chose to surrender under the persuasion letters of Yu Dahong and Zhang Xiyuan, and since then the three passes of Yiyang have completely fallen into the hands of the Northern Army.

Hubei is like a woman who has been stripped of her coat, losing all defenses, unable to make any resistance, and can only gradually be occupied by the northern army relying on the Jinghan Railway, the main transportation artery. (To be continued.) )