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Zheng Kezang did not put the proceeds of selling the shares of the two major money houses of Sihai and Tonghai in his pocket, but allocated 4 million guan of income as military expenses with a stroke of his pen, and the first batch of 1.2 million reparations raised by the Japanese feudal domains at this time had arrived in China, and the time was ripe for the Northern Expedition.

Yes, the time is ripe for the Northern Expedition. Over the years, the roads in the Yellow Flood have been repaired and widened, millions of stone of military rations have been piled up in warehouses, and the composition of the Xia army has changed from cold-tolerant southern soldiers to mainly Jianghuai Lake Guangzi, not to mention that Zheng Kezhang has also accumulated more than 100,000 military horses for transportation and established inland river fleets in the middle reaches of the Yellow River and some parts of the lower reaches of the Huai River, and even the overall size of the 6th Division of the Xia Army has also expanded to 85 infantry divisions. After deducting the use of local garrisons, there will be a full 50 divisions and 500,000 people to advance north.

Since the time was ripe, after the autumn harvest in the thirteenth year of Wucheng, hundreds of thousands of Xia troops and several times the number of hired people went north in a steady stream, and built three main sortie camps on the south bank of the Yellow River in the face of the winter wind and snow.

In the face of the undisguised actions of the Xia army, the Qing court quickly got the information, at this time, although the Qing court's finances improved, but it was unable to maintain more troops, the total strength was only 70 internal and external firearms battalions, 35,000 people, 120 new army of the Eight Banners, 60,000 people, 35 new battalions, 210,000 people, and 40,000 Eight Banners outside the Guanwai, as for the old green battalion, although there were still about 70 battalion heads, but it was only about 60,000 people, and it could not bear the big battle, at most, it could barely defend the city or act as an auxiliary army.

Because the Eight Banners outside the Guanwai were contained in the Jinfu area, and the old green battalion was overwhelmed, the Qing court, which was slightly inferior to its opponents, could only be forced to implement strategic contraction. Therefore, in the middle of November of the 50th year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing court first withdrew the forward troops from Kaifeng, Bozhou, Suxian and other places, and concentrated the main forces in Weihui, Caozhou and Xuzhou.

Since the Qing army gave up Kaifeng and Bozhou, the Xia army naturally wanted to accept it, but Suxian was north of the Yellow River and too close to Xuzhou, so the Xia army, which was not prepared to fight in winter, only sent a small number of rangers to control it.

After that, the outposts of the two armies were entangled throughout the winter, with either the Xia army exploring horses crossing the frozen Yellow River to the north to explore the camp, or small units of the Qing army marching south to attack the grain routes, with the result that the corpses of the two armies were forced to abandon under the snow??????

The Qing court finally survived until the spring of the following year, and was trying to take advantage of the thawing period of the Yellow River to recuperate, but as a result, the North Korean army sent troops to recover Yizhou, the last stronghold controlled by the Qing court on the south bank of the Yalu River, and sent four battalions of about 20,000 soldiers and horses to cross the Yalu River and attack the Eight Banners of the Qing army outside the pass on the front line of Phoenix.

It stands to reason that the Qing army was not afraid of the Korean army, and could even use the Yalu River to thaw when the North Korean army was about to thaw to deal a fatal blow to the North Korean army that was cut off from the back road, but the Xia army in Lushun was dispatched at the same time, and after shelling Niuzhuang, Gaizhou and other places, it also sent a small force to infiltrate Shang6 and cut off the communication route between Daning and Beijing, which made the Qing court nervous, worried that the Xia army would repeat the black tiger's plan in addition to the feints between the north and the south.

Just when there was a lot of discussion in Beijing, the Xia army of 50,000 troops crossed the Yellow River on the Shanxi-Shaanxi border and entered Shanxi.

Shanxi is a very important province of wealth for the Qing court, even after Kangxi stripped off some of the state capitals of Yanmen Province in the 45th year, there are seven prefectures and four prefectures directly under the prefecture, totaling eleven second-level administrative regions, which should have been strictly guarded. However, the Qing army's battle line was too long, and there were loopholes everywhere in the division of troops, so it had no choice but to garrison it with about 40,000 old green battalions and village brave regiments, and pinned its hopes on natural obstacles such as the Yellow River and Luliang Mountain to prevent the Xia army from attacking.

However, can the natural danger stop Xia Jun? The result is naturally negative. In fact, if it weren't for the continuous shortage of food in the three northwestern provinces, the Xia army would have crossed the Yellow River early in the morning. Now that the all-out Northern Expedition is imminent, the Northwest Xia Army, which has accumulated a little grain in the past few years, is unwilling to sit on the sidelines and watch the changes in the overall situation of the world, so it repeatedly asks for war from top to bottom.

Zheng Kezhang naturally could not ignore the enthusiasm of the troops for war, so after some weighing, he felt that he might be able to use this to disperse the strength of the Qing army, so he changed his plan and abandoned the original policy of advancing north from Luoyang, and quietly transported 20,000 reinforcements and large reserves of military rations to Shaanxi under the cover of the friction on the eastern front in winter.

In April of the 14th year of Wucheng, the Shaanxi Xia army invaded Shanxi, and the people of Shanxi, who were tortured by all kinds of malpractices of the Qing court, such as struggling in hell, immediately echoed in groups, and the gentry from all over the country also changed their ways and lost their sincerity to Huaxia, and even the Jin merchant collectives who were loyal to the Qing court were also divided, and a considerable number of people switched to the Chinese side??????

In this way, the rule of the Qing court in Shanxi collapsed in just two months. Only a few prefectures such as Taiyuan, Lu'an (Changzhi), Pingyang (Linfen), Jiezhou, and Zezhou (Jincheng) were still under the control of the Qing army, and the rest either surrendered on their own initiative or were uprooted by the rapidly advancing Xia army.

Faced with the dilemma that the whole territory of Shanxi was about to change hands, Kangxi, who was overstretched, could only order the governors of Shanxi and Yanmen to defend Yanmen Pass and Taihang Bacheng to block the Xia army in Shanxi, and at the same time asked the defenders to defend the city to the death, and be sure to drag the Xia army on the west road in Shanxi to prevent it from going east to threaten the back road of the Qing army in Hebei.

Kangxi broke his wrist and harmed the defenders of Shanxi and the people everywhere - because of his distrust of the people, including the Lu'an general Zhu Man, the governor of Shanxi, the governor of Shanxi, Hexiu, the prefect of Taiyuan, Hexiu, the prefect of Pingyang, and Wu Jintai, the prefect of Zezhou, were all Manchu or Han army banner people, knowing that there was no good fruit to eat if they surrendered, so they forced their subordinate departments to resist stubbornly on the spot; And most of the commanders of the green battalion below the Shanxi Admiral are also from Manchu or Han military banners, so they are also broken and broken - under the coercion of these real Tartars and real traitors, the Qing troops in various cities broke out extremely strong resistance**, and if there were not enough soldiers, they would catch the common people to resist the cannon fodder, and the defense facilities were destroyed, so the houses of the people in the city were demolished and repaired??????

The siege battle lasted for several months, and the Xia army on the Western Road finally captured Pingyang (Linfen), Jiezhou, Zezhou and other places, but it was never able to capture Taiyuan and Lu'an, let alone the troops out of Yanmen Pass and Taihang Mountain??????

Taking advantage of the war in Shanxi to attract the attention of the Qing court, the Xia army on the Eastern Route also began to act.

At the end of April, the two divisions of the Jiangbei General Army of the Xia Army, which had long mastered the superiority of the water surface of Hongze Lake, crossed the Yellow River under the escort of the inland water division and arrived at the city of Huai'an. The Huai'an Qing army also only had more than 4,000 old green battalions, which were not the opponents of the Xia army at all, so they had to desperately defend the city and ask for help from the Xuzhou battalion.

The Qing army had about 80,000 people in the Xuzhou camp, but in addition to the direction of Huai'an, it also had to take into account the first line of Guide and Caozhou, and did not dare to divide the troops to rescue, and even judged that this was a trap for the Xia army to lure it out of the Xuzhou line, so it only defended the camp and did not send a single soldier to Huai'an.

Waiting for reinforcements to arrive, the morale of the Qing army defending the city in Huai'an was extremely low.

At this time, the Xia army brought soil to pile up a high platform outside Huai'an City, set up artillery forts, and continuously fired cannonballs into the city. As the key defense of the Qing court, the head of Huai'an City is naturally also equipped with cannons, but because of the Qing court's strategy of heavy eight banners and light green battalions, the artillery configured in Huai'an is an old-fashioned Hongyi cannon type, and the firing range is limited, and even the edge of the Xia army's artillery fortress cannot be touched, let alone prevent the Xia army from shooting. Faced with the dilemma of being beaten and unable to fight back, the high-level officials of the Qing court in the city continued to force the Green Battalion soldiers to defend the city, and finally forced the remnants of the Green Battalion officers and soldiers to rebel.

On May 18 of that year, the lower-level officers and soldiers of the Qing army rebelled with the general Gao Kui, and killed more than 20 civil and military personnel in the city under the Qing army's subordinate envoy Hui Qi, the eight banners of the Eight Banners, the prefect Chunbao, and the Xu Hai admiral Cui Xiangguo of the Han army's Zhengbai banner.

After capturing Huai'an, the Jiangbei Xia army swept through southern Xu without waiting for rest, and successively recovered Suqian, Shuyang, Haizhou and other places, which not only caused a huge shock to the prefectures and counties in northern Xu, but also surrounded the Xuzhou camp of the Qing army.

However, the Qing army was still unmoved, only two key points in Huide and Xuzhou. In the face of the Qing army, which was as stable as Mount Tai, the Xia army changed the established plan, pinned down the two cities with one section, and then seized the Yizhou Mansion with the main force from the north of Pixian County all the way to the east, and killed the Yanzhou Mansion along the Grand Canal all the way, and had the posture of dividing and encircling the Xuzhou camp of the Qing army and the main force of the Qing army.

Kangxi in the Forbidden City pondered for a quarter of an hour and then painfully ordered the Qing troops in Xuzhou and Guide to abandon the city and retreat to Dongchang Mansion in Hebei along the west side of the Grand Canal??????

Although the Qing army retreated and straightened the battle line and ensured that the main forces of the three battalions would not be divided by the Xia army, after abandoning the entire Xuhai and most of Shandong and Hebei, the Qing army had reached the point where there was no way to retreat, so the explosion of the decisive battle was just around the corner. In order to facilitate the command in the decisive battle, Kangxi intended to personally conquer, but considering his advanced age, coupled with the story of the previous royal expedition but was ridden by Zheng Kezang, he finally decided to stay in Beijing City to control the battle situation remotely.

However, the city of Beijing was still too far away from the Daimyo, Dongchang and other prefectures, which was not conducive to mastering the situation on the front line, so Kangxi decided to make the emperor's eldest son Yinhe the crown prince and sent him to the Daimyo to command and control the overall situation.

Let's not talk about how disappointed the rest of the competitors were after the establishment of Yinyu, but a certain kind of Cheng dù Kangxi also took a salary from the bottom of the kettle, and sent his son, who had long held military power and even threatened his position, out of the capital by the most upright means. It's just that Kangxi also considered the possibility that once the battle was won, Yinzhen would return to the dynasty to force himself to abdicate with his military exploits, so he sent Yinzhen and Yinxiang to Zhangde Camp to supervise the army, Yinzhen and Yinyu to Dongchang Camp to supervise the army, and Yinzhi went to Jinan to supervise the war??????

At this point, the preparations of the Qing court have been completed, and it is time for the final attack of Huaxia.