PS: I originally wanted to write a chapter on the arrogance under the foundation of the imperial city, but I think about it or forget it, and it is not the style of Xiaobaijun (renamed Xiaobai from now on, I knew that it was not called Brando, but directly called Brando).

What is surprising is that Zai Feng hesitated in the face of the invitation of the Japanese, so that Zai Feng jumped his feet in a hurry, and it would be too late if he didn't leave, maybe the Chinese army had already set off from the vicinity of Tangshan, and the next second would drive into Beijing City, and he couldn't leave if he wanted to!

"Your Majesty, hurry up and agree, you will still be the emperor after returning to Manchuria, and we will definitely assist and reorganize the rivers and mountains with all our hearts!" Zaifeng thought that Zaifeng was afraid of the throne, so he said bluntly.

Zai Yan didn't want to run away, he wanted to see Lu Liang with his own eyes, say a few words, and die without regrets when the time comes. He had long been discouraged, and he didn't want to continue the fight at all, and followed the Japanese back to Manchuria, which damaged the vitality of China.

"Let's go, I'm not leaving, I want to see Lu Liang."

Genjiro Akashi will never allow his plans to go wrong, especially Zaiyan, and he must be taken away. He glanced at his men, and one of the officers understood, stepped forward and slammed him in the back of the head, knocking him unconscious.

"Your Excellency Zaifeng, please understand my approach, we are now in an extraordinary period, we should use extraordinary means, it is important to leave together!"

If you don't leave, you can't do it, these Japanese suddenly turned from kind to fierce, and the soldiers pulled the bolts of their guns and looked like they would shoot without saying a word, and they couldn't hesitate.

There were no more than a few hundred members of the imperial family, and under the guns of the Japanese, these royal families did not have time to pack their bags, so they were driven to the north gate, where dozens of carriages were waiting, and the rest of the people followed on foot after the women, children, and children got on board. After walking out of the city of Beijing, he found that the Japanese army had been assembled, and he was about to march north when he was about to converge.

The remnants of the Second Army, which had fled from Shandong, and the Japanese troops near Beijing and Tianjin, totaled more than 21,000 people, marched towards Mongolia. As for whether he can return to Manchuria intact, only Amaterasu knows.

Lü Hua's First Army was four hours late, and when the First Division of the First Army arrived in Beijing, the Bauhinia City was already empty, mainly because the armored troops needed to wait for fuel supplies in the rear, which delayed time. The major cities in the Beijing-Tianjin region were all under the control of the Chinese army in a single day, especially Tianjin. Lü Liang made a special note to pay attention to the protection of the tens of thousands of skilled workers in the Tianjin area, who by comparison were the most valuable treasures that surpassed all of them. Even if he doesn't like the thousand-year-old capital, Lu Liang has to consider the influence of big cities such as Beijing and Tianjin from a realistic point of view, the war will soon end, and the stability of the order in the north will start from the city.

After the Chinese army entered Beijing and Tianjin, the bayonets of the soldiers could quickly put an end to the chaos, but the specific administrative work was not good at it, and Lu Hua's energy was still focused on how to deal with the fleeing Japanese army and the Beiyang army. After contacting the General Staff Officer, Lu Hua received an order. A plan was laid out to contain the Japanese troops who had escaped from Mongolia. It was not easy to supply the armored forces, and Lü Hua ordered the 1st Mountain Brigade to carry supplies to catch up with the Japanese army, but not to go too deep into the Mongolian steppe. The Marine Divisions at Chengde and Chifeng were entrusted with the task of sending a large number of scouts to search the northern passage and intercept any traces of the Japanese army. However, Lu Hua estimated that the Japanese would not go through Inner Mongolia, but would make a big circle from Outer Mongolia, through the ******** grassland, through the Great Khing'an Mountains and back to Manchuria, a journey of at least 3,000 kilometers. I don't know if the Japanese will survive it.

In fact, the 1st Mountain Brigade caught up with the Japanese shortly after entering the grassland, and after several engagements, the Japanese retreated. Constantly retreating into the depths of the grassland. After the 1st Mountain Brigade abandoned the pursuit, there were only more than 5,000 Japanese troops left, and the Japanese were forced to give up a large amount of food, grass, ammunition and other materials during the battle. After the abdication of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Mongols, who were tortured by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, set off a wave of settling old accounts on the steppe, the Mongolian Eight Banners collapsed, and the princes and nobles who were canonized by the Manchus also announced that they would sever relations with the Han Manchus. The most powerful lamas are also in large numbers and are also laity.

When the Japanese failed to buy local meat on the steppe, they resorted to violent plunder, and several of the larger tribes disappeared from the steppe, provoking the wrath of the Mongols. They formed more than a dozen cavalry teams of several hundred men in size and followed the Japanese army left and right. Harassment from time to time. When the Japanese army arrived in ********, it was attacked by the Mongols on the greatest scale, and more than 4,000 cavalrymen rushed to the Japanese brigade with sabers in hand. In the end, less than 1,000 Japanese troops broke out of the encirclement and entered the Great Khing'an Mountains, and less than 30 Manchu royal families followed the advance, and these people were attacked by mountain hunters such as the Hulunchun tribe in the Great Khing'an Mountains. He returned to Manchuria in 1906 when the snow was falling, but by this time Gentaro Kodama had already died halfway through, and Akashi Genjiro, who led this remnant army of about 100 people, found that Shenyang, Changchun and other places had been occupied by the Chinese army. Finally passed the road of death, but found that he had returned to the original point, Akashi Genjiro couldn't stand the stimulation and committed suicide on the spot, and the rest of the Japanese soldiers and officers were also disemboweled on the spot!

On the other hand, the Beijing-Tianjin region thinned too many troops in Lü Hua's hands, and the transport fleet preparing to land from Tianjin had not yet left the port of Shanghai, and Lü Hua gave up the pursuit of Yuan Shikai due to the lack of troops and supplies.

The occupation of Beijing and Tianjin did not mean the end of the Northern Expedition, there was still a heavy army group of the Beiyang Army on the Central Plains battlefield that had not been eliminated, and the First Group Army of the Beiyang Army led by Duan Qirui was entrenched north of Zhengzhou and confronted the Second Group Army of the Chinese Army. After opening up the three fronts of Xuzhou, Shandong, and Liaoxi, the Chinese army was unable to continue to carry out large-scale battles in the Zhengzhou area, giving Duan Qirui plenty of respite. However, now that the fighting on the other three fronts is basically over, the logistics supply lines have been completely opened, and the war materials hoarded in Zhengzhou are also increasing, the time is ripe for the Zhengzhou campaign.

After the end of the Shandong Campaign, the Second Army of the Chinese Army set out from Liaocheng to capture Handan, Hebei, and cut off Duan Qirui's road to the north. After the Battle of Xuzhou, the Third Army of the Chinese Army, which had rested for a few days, set out from Xuzhou and threatened Duan Qirui's defense line from the east through Shangqiu.

"Where is Your Majesty now?" As for the headquarters, Duan Qirui, Wu Changchun and other senior generals are frowning, since the second Northern Expedition, these people have not been happy, and the heavy pressure makes them work hard to improve the defense system. It was only after the Chinese army was besieged on three sides that the previous efforts were in vain, and the Chinese army could attack from the blank spaces in the defensive circle, such as the north and east flanks.

"Radio contact is intermittent, the last contact an hour ago, Your Majesty and Feng Guozhang have entered Datong, and it is estimated that they will arrive in Taiyuan in three days."

"It's too slow!" Duan Qirui knocked on the table, and the room was full of people who could express his dissatisfaction with Yuan Shikai: "How can Your Majesty be so confused? 100,000 coolies will drag the team to death, and I have long advised His Majesty to give up those bottles and cans, but he just won't listen. Feng Guozhang is the same, why don't you persuade Your Majesty? ”

"It's useless to say more, general, the troops we sent have arrived in Jincheng, Changzhi, Taiyuan and other places, and are building fortifications. However, I am afraid that Shanxi will also be difficult to hold, so we have to make plans in advance, whether to continue to send troops to move in the direction of Xi'an? Wu Changchun said.

"It's too late, the Chinese army has already occupied Luoyang, and if our army wants to advance westward, it will have to march along the Yellow River and Weishui, and it will definitely be discovered by the Chinese army's reconnaissance planes and scouts on the way. Moreover, now our First Army only has about 70,000 troops in its hands, and we cannot divide our troops. ”

What Duan Qirui and others didn't know was that after the decision to launch the Zhengzhou Campaign, the Chinese army immediately took action. The Third Army of the Second Group Army set out from Luoyang and captured Tongguan, and the plan of the Beiyang Army to enter Shaanxi came to naught. The Third Army on the east side attacked Xinxiang to divert the attention of the Beiyang Army, and the Second Army concentrated more than 1,500 artillery pieces on the south bank of the Yellow River and wantonly bombarded the positions of the Beiyang Army on the other side of the Yellow River, pouring out all the frustration of not being able to take the initiative to attack since the beginning of the war.

After an hour-long bombardment, the Chinese army gave Duan Qirui fifteen minutes to consider whether to surrender or bury Yuan Shikai. The strong conditions made those senior generals angry, but they were helpless, and the Chinese army had the strength to do what they said. At this time, Qirui still did not give up, and ordered the first division to hold the position until the last moment, with the assembly number as an order, and could not retreat if he could not hear the assembly number, and then led the main force of the First Army to flee.

Leading the troops to hold on was General Xu Shichang, deputy commander-in-chief of the First Army, and Duan Qirui left him a force of 5,000 men and a large number of bullets, explosives, etc., but took away all the artillery and shells.

Fifteen minutes later, the Chinese artillery fire struck again, and Xu Shichang, who was hiding in the anti-artillery hole, looked at his two most beloved subordinates, not only with emotion. Yuan Gongbao, who fought the world together, had been blinded by power, or he would not have taken the initiative to ask to serve in the First Group Army when Yuan Shikai was emperor, and now Duan Qirui is running away, and he will stick to the last moment, which can be regarded as living up to his friendship with Yuan Gongbao for many years. However, these two subordinates themselves were reluctant to let them die.

"You Zheng, you are Duan Qirui's most trusted adjutant, why don't you leave with him? Huanzhang, you are the youngest regiment commander of the First Army, Duan Qirui asked you to leave with him, why did you refuse? ”

Xu Shuzheng and Feng Yuxiang, who were standing in front of Xu Shichang, looked calm, they were the two most dazzling young officers of the First Group Army, but they were willing to stay and hold their positions, Xu Shichang felt that it was also good to chat with these young heroes before he died. (To be continued.) )