Yinghua launched the Northern Expedition in March of the 24th year of the Holy Dao, and in terms of military affairs, the Northern Expedition was hasty. However, in less than three months, Shandong, Henan, and Shanxi had been swallowed, and at the same time, the Mongolian tribes also surrendered one after another. Compared with the Great Ming Yuan, this progress is enough to be described as galloping.

In October of the twenty-seventh year of Yuan Zhizheng (1467), Zhu Yuanzhang appointed Xu Da as the general of the conquest, Chang Yuchun as the deputy marshal, commanded 250,000 troops, and went north from Henan and Shandong to attack Yuan, all the way like a bamboo, and it took more than four months to recover Shandong and Henan. After entering Hebei, to the first year of Hongwu in July, the army came to the capital, Emperor Yuan Shun fled north, and the total billing time was about nine months.

When Hebei was restored, Shanxi and Shaanxi and Gansu had not yet entered the territory of the Ming Dynasty, until December of the second year of Hongwu, the Ming army defeated the expansion of Timur, that is, Wang Baobao's northwest army, to complete the great cause of the Northern Expedition, and the total billing time was more than two years.

The reason why the Anglo-Chinese Expedition to the North is so sharp and unstoppable is not only that the Manchu Qing Dynasty has no heart to resist to the death, but also that the Anglo-Chinese have settled in the northwest and even the north of Xinjiang early, and the land of Hebei has been surrounded on all sides, leaving only the situation of the Western Liaoning Corridor.

At the same time, the depth of the people's hearts was not beyond the reach of the old world, and the military no longer occupied an absolute force in the British Northern Expedition. Even with the divisions and battalions that were urgently transferred halfway, the British North China Expeditionary Army only had 14 red-coated divisions and two blue-coated divisions, with a total of 120,000, counting the 20,000 Mongolian cavalry in Mobei, which had not yet reached the estimated strength of the commander-in-chief's advance advance, and the 100,000 volunteers who followed the regular army almost did not undertake any combat missions.

On 9 June, the Sixth Guard Division of the First Army arrived at Huangcun, the 17th Guard Division of the Third Army arrived at Wanping, the Left Division of the Fubo Army of the Fifth Army arrived in Tongzhou, and the Ranger Battalion of the 90th Cavalry Division of the Fourth Army also passed through Badaling.

These six elite hundred-figure divisions were the general reserve of the Northern Expedition. At the moment, it seems that it is of little use, and the emperor initially dispatched them, not only to follow the strategic path with sufficient troops, but also to save a trace of selfishness to let these old troops share the glory of the Northern Expedition.

On that day, in Zhuozhou, more than 100 miles away from Beijing, in the camp of the Northern Expedition, the appearance of several people was pure selfishness.

"Bangladesh has been swallowed up completely, there is the Governor of Song and the Western Company, and there is no problem with Tianzhu affairs for the time being. The minister is here to ask His Majesty to guide Tianzhu and even Persia in the next step. ”

The Western capital guards Jia Hao in a serious manner, and behind him there are two naval governors, Hu Hanshan and Lu Hanshan, who are both grinning and showing innocent smiles when they see the emperor squinting at them.

"The Kazakh Yuz and Turghuts have been submitted, plus the Uhnzi. We are already in an all-out attack in the Western Regions, and there is Fang Tang Heng to take care of it, there is no chaos, I ...... I'm here to report to Your Majesty. ”

Most of the Western Regions protected Wu Ya thieves and thieves, and there were a group of Western Regions officials such as Luo Tangyuan and Wang Tanghe standing behind them, one by one, you pushed me and squeezed me, for fear of being the first to be seen by Li Xian.

"Me? Didn't the minister want to raise the naval affairs in Beiyang? Why do you want to run to the city of Beijing? This...... Wherever Your Majesty goes, the Commander-in-Chief will go, isn't it very convenient for the minister to ask for a seal here? ”

Navy Boss. Xiao Sheng, who was over sixty years old, had a white beard and squinted his eyes in a serious manner.

Li Xian was speechless, and then looked at the Tang Nu Wulianghai who obviously had a ghost in his heart, and did not dare to look up at each other, most of the capital of Tang Nu and Wulianghai protected Zhang Hanwan and Beiting all protected Yu Hanyi, and said in his heart, you guys, you should push out the gate and cut off your head a hundred times!

The surrounding situation in the Western Regions, Tangnu Wulianghai, Beiting, and the West and South Seas is relatively stable. Even if it's unstable. For example, the Western Regions were also stirred up by Yinghua holding the initiative. It would not be a big deal for the military and political chief to leave for a few months. These guys asked to return to the mainland for various reasons such as "vacation" and "debriefing", and he agreed.

Unexpectedly, these people rushed back at the pass of the city of Beijing, and they all gathered around him on this day, obviously not to blame the public.

Looking at these guys who are no longer confused, Xiao Sheng is even more half-haired, but the gaze cast at him is as clear as thirty years ago, and with the expectation that his work will be completed, the little muttering in Li Xian's heart also dissipated instantly, this is what they deserve, not only them, whether it is the subordinates who hold important positions and are difficult to get out, or those heroes and martyrs who have been sleeping on the earth, they all have the right to share this glory.

"The Northern Expedition to restore the land, the unification of China, this glory is not something that I can bear alone, nor is it what you share, and the bloodstains under the glory are equally scorching, you should have seen both sides along the way."

Li Shi still wants to beat them, Beijing has not yet fallen, all kinds of soldiers and horses are fighting for merit, these guys came together, and they also have the intention of not being willing to thank Dingbei and Zhang Ying for these people to be alone in the great cause, this is to remind them that under the great cause, in addition to the martial arts, there are other people, and the price paid by Huaxia for this unification is not as slight as they imagined.

Speaking of this trip, everyone was silent, what they saw along the way was indeed extremely shocking, even if the emperor went through these thirty years, together with Ding Yinghua, but when they saw that scene with their own eyes, it was still unbelievable. Yinghua is a country, the government and the opposition, can burst out with such a majestic force, washing the northern land inch by inch, and the bloody waves set off by this power also make people's scalp numb.

In April, the Yinghua Red Clothes temporarily stopped, and the General Administration of North and South Affairs promoted the civil forces to enter Hebei, and in May, the Emperor and the Holy Aunt met for ten years, and the tide of the Red Clothes rose again, and then it was completely a turbulent and vast march.

The red clothes marched along the main road, staying in the volunteers, and the backbone was intercepted and erected, and the British and Chinese officials also settled in the city one by one, pulling up a tight net.

Relying on this large net, the Yinghua government further won the hearts of the northerners, and issued a large article, emphasizing that the Northern Expedition was to expel the Tartars, not to target the Han people in the north. A number of government decrees were also promulgated to reduce or exempt the imperial grain tax and abolish the harsh government system. At the same time, Yinghua still has a place to tolerate Confucianism, and scholars still have a way out, and the policy of cultural governance is promoted to the northern son.

In addition to the efforts of the government, the alliance is also acting, along the longitude and latitude of this big net, the alliance will use the communication channels composed of express delivery of various vests, on the one hand, the government decrees will be widely spread to the countryside, and on the other hand, they will also show their abilities, do good deeds, and establish a business, even if they cannot drag people's hearts to the side of Yinghua. It is also necessary to promote stability in various places, and separate it from the unity fist and the powerful bandits who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic.

On the one hand, Huairou is the same as the people, and the same is true on the tough side. Under the latitude and longitude of this big net, that is, in the countryside or remote prefectures and counties, the government uses officials in black clothes, and the people use red vests and returning villagers, up and down two roads, and one township cleans up.

The land of Hebei. The advance of the red clothes is also like Shandong, Shanxi, and Henan, and it has not encountered fierce resistance, and there are few traces of blood on the longitude and latitude of this large net. And in the mesh of this big net, the killing is several times more fierce than his province, which can be said to be a bloody pestle.

Nan Zhili's blood color is slightly lighter. Beizhili has been occupied by the Unity Fist, and even most of them are bandits wearing the skin of the Unity Fist. The Manchu officials and big landlords in the entire Zhili Dynasty, and the big lords with the status of banner men have all run away, and the timid small and medium-sized landlords, gentry and good people are all waiting for the country to change color, but they do not want to become the targets of the unity fist and the robbery and robbery of the bandits.

The refugee camps set up by the General Administration of North-South Affairs in Guangchang, Houlu, Jinju, Nampi, Tanggu and other places have accommodated more than one million refugees, all of whom have been ruined by the Solidarity Fist Rebellion and have had to leave their hometowns for refuge. Therefore, the returnees from Hebei not only came from Yinghua in the south, but also these refugees, and the two were added with red vests. Melted into a strong return to the hometown, went north and returned to his hometown, and launched a bloody purge of the unity fist and the bandits in his hometown.

Chen Wance's original reminder to the emperor has completely become a reality, the price of recovering Shanxi is only tens of thousands of heads, while the land of Hebei, a land of government, can be counted in tens of thousands. Although the Anglo-Chinese government governed the returnees with military law, restricting them from committing crimes and not committing crimes, this military law could only govern the Anglo-Chinese.

In the homecoming group. Northerners who have not yet entered the country. Occupy their homes and take their possessions. With the support of Yinghua, the enemies who killed their relatives and made them displaceable were hated to the bone marrow, and with the support of Yinghua, they were ruthless in killing and uniting boxers and bandits, and they were so ruthless that Yinghua and Chinese people couldn't stand it.

But compared with the solidarity fist to kill people and harm the people, what the return to the hometown group did was still too merciful.

Unity Fist killed people in Beizhili, first only to find "barbarian things" related to Yinghua to convict people, and later developed into anyone who did not like the eye, or had a desire, he would swing a knife and go straight up, and he didn't even have to find an excuse or a hat. Their unity fist represents God, those men and women obey them, obediently offer their goods and bodies, don't they have nothing? Why do you want to resist, I don't know if resisting them is rebelling against God, it's all their own fault!

It was during this time that the crime of breaking the limits of humanity was staged in this land.

The unity fist of Qingxian County, Tianjin Fuqing occupies the county seat, the trade routes are endless, and the grain and rice are still sufficient, but the boxers are competing for human flesh. The reason is that the senior brother said that except for the heroes of their unity fist, everyone else has been infected by the evil spirit of the Southern Barbarians, and they are no longer human, and they should be eaten as pigs and sheep. And whoever does not eat human flesh means that his anti-British and Qingqing heart is not resolute. When this command was handed down, it was already crooked and ate these people, so that it could be poisoned......

Rongcheng County, Baoding Prefecture's unity fist played even more, Wu Ya can only be ashamed of himself in front of them, these people paste human heads into the city wall, to build a human head city wall, the reason is that the dog-headed military division from the Shen Han Dynasty designed a "Ten Thousand Ghosts Soul Devouring Array", to embed 99,999 human heads into the city wall, so that the entire county can be impregnable, guns and cannons are invulnerable, and the altar that was completed first is built with 999 boys and women's heads.

There are many people coated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the unity fist of Xianghe County, Jingshi, that is, the so-called "Zhuangli people", who have been tenants of Huangzhuang for generations, and their "revolutionary spirit" is the most resolute. At first, it was still to remove the meat to make sauce, and grind the corpse into powder, and then it was troublesome, and even the pit was unwilling to plan, so it was directly piled up in the field and burned.

As soon as the returning regiment arrived, they relied on the red vests and volunteers, and at most asked for the help of the red-clothed artillery, they scattered these unity fists, and then cleaned up according to the village. But anyone who has incense scars on his wrists and arms (a sign of entering the unity fist) and it is difficult to prove his innocence will be killed if he is caught. Tens of thousands of people were hastily screened, women and children were not careless, Ding Zhuang was all pulled outside the city, and they were killed in batches.

The Alliance, which followed the red-clothed, Yiyong and various returnee groups to the north, was initially very indifferent to this bloody revenge, and the Confucian and Momo people and various newspapers also submitted their intercession to the General Administration of South-North Affairs, demanding that the returnee groups be strictly restrained. But when they saw what the Unity Fist and the bandits were doing, they were all silent.

In the midst of great chaos and great governance, there will be overkill, and it will be difficult to uphold righteousness. Yinghua has been jointly won by the government and the people, and the hearts of those who can be won over, and the remaining diehards are already inhuman demons, when the boxers and bandits are strong and strong under the swords and guns of the homecoming regiment fall one by one, and when the heads roll to the ground, and the blood and water even lose their ankles, public opinion has gradually retreated to the line of calling not to hurt the innocent.

Unity Fist plagued Hebei, not only killing countless people, but also coercing countless people. Yinghua went north, and took the return group to "clear the township", and also killed a river of blood. The British invaded the north of the country and regained the land, and only a few died in the battle array, and the vast majority were swallowed up by this tide.

In the twenty-fourth year of the Holy Dao, the Anglo-Northern Expedition, how many people died in the north have been debated. There are 600,000 based on official statistics, 5 million based on scattered data of the League, and 10 million based on the comparison of the household registration of Baojia in the Qing Dynasty with the statistical data of the British people, in short, it is by no means a small number that can be ignored. There is also a wild history that the statistics of the Shentong Bureau back then were the closest to the truth, but that number was only clear to the emperor, and the emperor never announced a country, only a vague "million living beings".

It is not a small number, someone has to take the blame, and it is a consensus that the Manchu Qing Dynasty, who set off the Unity Fist Rebellion, is the main culprit, but who should be held responsible, which has also caused a huge controversy. Some say it was caused too late by the Northern Expedition, and some say it was caused too early. When history entered the modern era and many theories and theories that had been smelted and formed by a country matured, some radical northerners claimed that it was the north that bore the bloody price of China's rebirth into the new century, which seemed to be closer to the truth contained in the heavens.

On June 9, the 24th year of the Holy Dao, when the emperor reminded his henchmen of the bloody cost of this great cause in Zhuozhou, the cost was still rising under Guang'anmen, an outer city of Beijing.

"Kill the thief! Kill! ”

On the Guang'an Gate, the gentlemen's association formed by Ji Xiaolan and her classmates was all about to crack, roaring with red faces, and the shouts of killing under the city were even more like an angry tide, and the figures came and went, it was actually a big battle, but there were no red or blue clothes in the meantime, it was more like the people on two sides were fighting.

"Kill! Kill it clean! ”

Sanlitun, at the gate of the Yinghua Consulate General, Chen Run had personally carried his gun into battle, and together with the officers and soldiers guarding the Consulate General, he leaned on the sandbag defense line to resist the enemy. The Consulate General was crowded with evacuees, most of whom were dressed as Qing people.

Overlooking the city of Beijing, on this day, there was chaos inside and outside the city, only the Forbidden City, which had almost been emptied, was still lying silently on the ground, as if it had nothing to do with this boiling killing.