As the back road of the Tartars, Fengtianfu has a royal palace inside, an imperial tomb outside, and a pass to the place where his ancestors rose, and its importance is self-evident.

According to the general law, in the two hundred years since the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, they have never forgotten to leave a way back for themselves. Once there is an irreversible crisis in the pass, they can quickly withdraw from Shanhaiguan and return to the white mountains and black waters, and they can make a comeback in a few years.

The idea is very good, in fact, in this world, the Manchus led by the last emperor Pu Yi did establish a puppet regime outside the Kanwai with the support of Japan, but it was just a puppet after all.

Today, the Qing Dynasty has not yet reached the last precarious situation, so in military construction, it still adopts the practice of taking into account the capital and the back roads outside the Guanwai. Whether it is Nie Shicheng's Wu Yi Army's insistence on Lutai, or Song Qing's Yi Army guarding Jinzhou Shanhaiguan, and Yi Ketang'a personally sitting in Fengtian Mansion, the role is the same.

It's just that the changes in the situation were not predicted by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, their abacus was completely disrupted by Yang Hao's sudden move, and with Nie Shicheng's department being put to a boil, Song Qing's lonely palm was difficult to speak, and the revolutionary army marched straight in by land and water. Before the Qing court could figure out Yang Hao's ultimate goal, Chen Bing was already outside Fengtian City!

The two revolutionary armies were under the city, and the total strength was still less than 30,000. The heavy artillery units were arrayed in a posture of encircling three and one, and the rest were scattered in regiments and battalions to attack and break through the important positions around them. In just three days, the remnants of Iktang'a were trapped and killed together with thousands of soldiers and horses from the Jilin General's Mansion.

Yang Hao led the headquarters out to the front of the battle, and together with the staff led by Shi Jianfei, he looked at the city head full of flags from a distance from the high ground. High power telescope in view. From time to time, faces full of horror can be seen flashing and retracting.

"I didn't even dare to show my face openly. The morale of the Qing army was completely defeated. In my opinion, even if we don't use heavy artillery, we can probably take the city down with one charge. ”

As the commander of the main attack force, Zhou Dingxin knew himself and his opponent, and he was eager to try to get the first merit of the siege. He was one of the first batch of officers of the Liaodong Army who followed Li Jingfang to become a regular, and he was also the backbone of the First Army.

Right now, because it's rising too fast. The ranks of the revolutionary army were generally not high. There are too many old guys in the navy, which is an exception, and in the army, only a few people such as Li Jingfang carry the rank of general, and Shi Jianfei, the young chief of staff, only has the rank of colonel.

Hundreds of thousands of troops were generally arranged in regimental units, and hundreds of officers and colonels were ready to be promoted in the war and become generals who truly mastered a complete combat force.

With the structure of the revolutionary army, once promoted to division commander, he will command at least 15,000 to 20,000 troops. That's a powerful build with multi-class integration. With no worries and sufficient supplies, such a division is enough to sweep the Qing army across the country. There will never be a single man. Nothing else, the equipment is too powerful, the training is too sufficient, and the multi-arms are coordinated, except for the northwest desert and the southeast jungle, most of the domestic plains, mountains, hills and even the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River have ways to deal with it.

Zhou Dingxin is one step ahead of everyone else, and he has the most sufficient combat experience and army command experience, his technical and tactical level is high enough, and his age is not bad, and he is the most promising officer in the first echelon. In this way, it is no wonder that he is so excited and eager to fight.

According to his meaning, there is no need to play any circumference. With the 122mm howitzer or 85mm cannon carried by the army, you can easily destroy the city wall in front of you, open the siege passage at will, and drive straight in. With the low morale and poor equipment of the Qing army, it could not stop the impact of the army at all, and it was enough to knock down the important towns outside the Guan!

Of course, the consequences of this are obvious: in order to speed up the attack, it will inevitably require the use of heavy weapons, and the whole city will be reduced to ruins.

Yang Hao knew what these officers thought, and firmly vetoed: "No, we want an intact city, not a ruin." Every grass, tree, brick and stone here was built by the working people with countless painstaking efforts, and should not be destroyed lightly. Don't forget that our ultimate goal is to unite a nation that identifies with Chinese civilization as a whole, and not simply treat them as enemies. ”

Zhou Dingxin's general argument on this premise could only lick his lips unwillingly. He also knew in his heart that it was precisely because of this major premise that the revolutionary army's proposition could be easily recognized throughout the country and could be used as the main weapon against the armed intervention of the Western powers and their ideological aggression.

But when it comes to specific actions, he still has the rough and direct thoughts of traditional martial artists, as long as he wins the final victory, what can he do if he breaks some altars and jars? According to some youth radicals, a new and better era can only be built on a blank sheet of paper by breaking up the old bad things. And the heavy blood debts owed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty for more than 200 years, and the people's fat and ointment plundered on hundreds of millions of people, must also be repaid with blood!

Yang Hao had similar thoughts before, and he also dreamed of changing to an era like his sideways, and it was inevitable that he would simply and neatly smash the old system and make a complete revolution.

But after two years of experience, he understood what it means to adapt to local conditions. The revolutionary practices of this world have experienced the fiasco of the First Sino-Japanese War, the invasion of the Eight-Nation Alliance, the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the farce of the Republic of China, the warlord melee, and even the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party...... It was completed after half a century of tragic tossing, which completely exhausted and turned an ancient China into a mess.

And what he is facing is a sunset empire that has stood on the precipice of collapse, but can still be saved, the complete regime and the stable ruling foundation are there, and at the same time, in the face of three thousand unprecedented changes, all classes are generally at a loss, and do not know how to deal with the perfect opportunity.

In this way, as a revolutionary mentor and ideological forerunner, he was born out of thin air, easily grasped the right to guide public opinion, and then launched a revolutionary war, which was thousands of times less difficult!

Arguably. As long as he wants. It was too easy to change the Manchu regime. As long as the troops in Tianjin and Hebei are sent to the capital. It will not take three days and five days to take it, and it will not be difficult to establish a new dynasty and make peace with the governors and giants of all parties, and win their respect. In that way, an orthodox Yang Emperor of the Han people could be born.

But what is the difference between the results obtained and those after the Xinhai Revolution in this world? The country is still divided, and it is inevitable that warlord scuffles will break out, and the great powers will take advantage of the situation. I don't know how much work it will take to clean it up.

What about Yang Hao himself? It is estimated that he will be like Jiang Guangtou later, as the nominal commander of a country, he can only shout and move a small piece of the ground, and all his energy is involved in quelling the civil war, and he will miss the great opportunity for the rise of the entire country and nation.

He was soberly aware that once the troops were indulged in a bloody revenge against the Manchus, and once they lost control over the army's behavior, the entire revolutionary cause would go to an irreparably bad situation. The best result is to harvest a mess that ostensibly obeys his orders, and even worse may be because of the reckless use of military force, which will eventually dissipate the spirit of the entire nation.

Sandwiched between two planes, every step must be a trembling temptation. That kind of risk, you can't take it.

The revolutionary army pays attention to the idea first. Ideological guidance has been carried out in all aspects, and this is the valuable experience that our party in this world has finally gained after several decades of bloody and arduous journeys and decades of ups and downs since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Of course, Yang Hao wants to use it ready-made, and spare no effort to spread it to everyone and every group.

Zhou Dingxin, as a backbone officer, has never stopped studying in the past two years, and his body has subtly improved, and his ideological realm is several orders of magnitude higher than that of the original Qing army camp officer. Even so, if you don't pay attention, you can still go down the wrong path.

It can be seen that the difficulty of ideological revolution is better than that of military struggle. Endless meetings and preaching are also a last resort, and all kinds of chaos after the unification of the world's political power are vividly visible.

Zhou Dingxin gave Yang Hao such a gentle blow, he had to suppress the bloodthirsty anger in his heart, and snorted a little unwillingly: "I'm afraid that those bastards don't know how to lift." Iktang Ake was Cixi's godson, loyal to the Manchu court, could he surrender? ”

Yang Hao smiled slightly: "Try it, it won't cost much." ”

The matter was settled, and Zhou Dingxin had no choice but to continue to prepare for the attack. At the same time, the persuasion document signed by Yang Hao himself was also spread into Fengtian City through a hot air balloon, and hundreds of thousands of copies were sprinkled like goose feathers and heavy snow, and the scene was spectacular!

The Qing army, which had been prepared for this for a long time, tried desperately to collect it at the beginning to prevent it from being obtained by civilians, but they didn't expect that the large number scattered from the sky had not changed! Snow-white paper, which seemed to them to be extremely expensive, was really scattered all over the city as if it were not worth money, and the amount almost covered the entire city.

In the courtyard of the General's Mansion in Iktanga, countless leaflets fell on the rooftop trees. It didn't take long for the housekeeper who led the people to clean up to gather several large carts, but in the blink of an eye, the clean ground was again covered with new paving. This situation is like the woods in late autumn, no matter how diligent you clean, there are still more fallen leaves behind it.

Seeing his subordinates crying and reporting with sad faces, Iktanga could only wave his hand weakly: "Forget it, as long as the cannonballs don't fall down, let them toss." ”

Turning his head, he sighed with the sick Jilin General Changshun, shook his head and said: "This hand is really at stake, it seems that it is too difficult to hold Fengtian." ”

Changshun was already so sick that he couldn't move his body, and it was already his limit to be able to bring troops here. It was a warm weather when the grass was growing and the warbler was flying, but he was still cold wrapped in a thick fur, and a strange flush appeared on his cheeks like a ghost fire.

Trembling in his hand, he picked up a leaflet and asked weakly: "Can Yang Yi really do what he said, he can protect our ancestors' mausoleums from damage, and will not treat us harshly?" ”

There is not just one type of flyer, but a series of contents delivered in batches. Among them, there is Yang Hao's disposal of the main land of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The two imperial tombs will still be protected from being destroyed and excavated, but they must be open to the public as cultural relics protection units, and those who are curious can visit them as long as they buy a ticket.

The people inside and outside the city, of course, the guilty will be tried publicly, but they will never kill innocent people in vain. As long as they are willing to accept the reform and education, they will also have equal rights and obligations as members of the big family of the Chinese nation.

Actually, to this day. The estrangement between the Manchus and the Han and even other ethnic groups has long been in vain. Take Qingzhou Mancheng as an example. Most of the Manchurians were already engaged in all kinds of trades that they had previously despised and strictly forbidden. The head shaved, the pedicure, the cart puller, the singing. There are all kinds of lower nine streams. The poor can't eat, the hardcore crops can't be trusted, and what is full of dignity is just an empty word.

Today's Guanwai is full of northern Han people who have broken into the east of the Guandong to survive, and most of them are from Shandong. There were conflicts and cooperation between them and the local Manchus, and by and large they were all running for a living. The masters of the banner men have long since transformed into the traditional class contradictions between landlords and tenants, rich and poor, officials and commoners.

It was also because they saw this reality clearly that the Manchu officials were even more helpless. Yang Hao's leaflet appeal is too strong, especially when he has been a model display in Beizhili for a long time, and for the people of Liaodong, who are not far away, there are countless "seeing is believing". Yang Hao's credibility is there, and now there are more artillery and heavy soldiers on his head, so everyone can't help but float.

Iktanga was angry in his heart, and scolded him: "The surname Yang is too deceitful!" Our ancestors' mausoleum, is that a place that can be alarmed at will? If you let these thousands of minions and untouchables come and go at will. Isn't it going to ruin the luck of the dragon vein? What's the difference between that and digging it up? Hmph, this guy actually said. In the coming day, when the capital is captured, the walls of the Forbidden City will be demolished, and the palace hall will be opened for civilians to visit, which is simply ridiculous! ”

Not only him, but most people were dumbfounded when they saw Yang Hao's national policy article published in the newspaper.

You must know that in China's thousands of years of history, although the emperor who finally enjoyed the throne has often had fun with the people, he just summoned some civilians to the palace city and put on a pro-people posture to spread a little "thunder and rain". That royal position is not accessible even to those closest to you. In order to compete for imperial power, the history of bloody battles in all dynasties is endless.

Yang Hao means this, but if the imperial rule is completely broken, let the common people buy tickets to go around the palace, can this still leave a little bit of the mysterious dignity of the emperor's rule?

This cannon is so shocking that it makes people can't believe it. Moreover, Yang Hao did not capture the capital, whether he will fulfill his promise, the world can only wait and see.

But he didn't expect that in the short period of time after the statement was issued, Yang Hao actually ignored the army of the great powers that were angrily rushing to retaliate, and brazenly sent troops to attack the northeast outside the country. What kind of trouble is this!

Seeing the leaflet today, Yi Ketanga suddenly understood, it's not good, Yang Hao is planning to use the altars and jars of the Manchu ancestral land to make a ready-made model for his policy!

In Fengtianfu, there are imperial palaces, imperial tombs, and not far from the first city, Hetuala. Between the white mountains and black waters, there are still a large number of Manchurian civilians, which is enough for them to show various national policies.

This two-pronged approach of cannon and leaflet is only afraid that it will be the first shot in the future conquest of the whole country!

Changshun is the same old with the same qualifications, and he is the same important minister relied on by the Qing court, but his body really can't bear it, and he is just barely supporting it, but he can't help much.

He let go of his finger and let the leaflet fall, staring at Iktanga and asking, "So, how are you going to deal with it?" Do you really want to use the soldiers of the city to fight with the rebels of Yang to burn jade? ”

Iktanga kept a straight face and didn't speak. In his heart, he wanted to do that. As a firm force of the Qing Empire, as the godson of the Empress Dowager Cixi, and as a general of Fengtian, he has the responsibility to defend the land, and he must withstand the broken bones.

But the problem is that the military power in his hands now is basically heaven and earth compared with Yang Hao's revolutionary army. Cixi's personal interference with the transfer of those new arms was simply a drop in the bucket. More than a dozen advanced spring-loaded 75 field guns were placed in the city, but there were basically no qualified artillerymen and commanders. Brave enough to fight? Let's wash and sleep!

Looking outside the city, 122mm cannons and 85mm cannons are eyeing each other, and because the previous drills outside Jinzhou have long been spread by the intelligence officers of the revolutionary army, after the mouths of the storyteller and the citizens are so rendered, they have become a terrible weapon of destruction that "erodes dozens of miles with one cannon"! Once the war starts, people will bombard it, and the people of the whole city will all be reduced to ashes, and they will not be able to reincarnate when they die!

Ignorant people believe in similar gossip the most, and today's huge hot air balloon stopped overhead, and countless leaflets were sprinkled, which confirmed the rumor that "Yang Hao has a magical method". In the era when people's wisdom was not opened, it was unimaginable that people could fly in the sky, and it was even more awe-inspiring!

An old guy like Iktanga was beating a drum in his heart, and he also knew that Yang Hao had the ability to volley elite soldiers into the air and go straight to his heart.

Under such circumstances, if you want to hold Mukden and block the revolutionary army, it is simply an extravagant hope!

In the face of Changshun's inquiry, Yiktanga was silent for a long time, and finally said in a muffled voice: "I would rather die than betray the court and surrender to the traitor." ”

Changshun understood in his heart, sighed helplessly, got up tremblingly, and slowly left the general's mansion with the support of his relatives. Large swaths of snow-white leaflets fell one after another, depicting a river of decadence and powerlessness for his bleak figure.

In the evening, Iktanga dressed neatly, bowed three times and bowed nine times in the direction of the capital, and then sat on the front seat of the lobby of the General's Palace, drank poisoned wine, and killed himself.

Not long after, a white flag was raised over the head of Mukden City, and the defenders opened the city gates.

Yang Hao saw it from a distance and smiled slightly. The first step in this long march can be regarded as a solid step. (To be continued......)

PS: ps: When the bottleneck passes, the pace will be accelerated.