It started from the Ming Dynasty's two southward expeditions a few years ago.

Many Han landlords in the Manchu ruling areas who held military power were ready to raise troops to respond to the Ming Dynasty.

If it weren't for the fact that the Manchus made some compromise policies to maintain their rule, and these powerful Han forces settled down a little, I am afraid that before the Northern Expedition, the rear of the Manchus would have been in chaos.

And with the Northern Expedition of the Ming Guards, it is not surprising that these powerful Han forces are now responding to the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty.

After all, now that Zhou Ze took the lead in opposing the Qing Dynasty, he became the chief military officer of the Ming Dynasty, which is the most vivid example.

In addition, the Guards' severe punishment of the gentry and landlords who could not afford to fight against the Qing Dynasty prompted some Han forces who still had nostalgia for the Ming Dynasty to rise up against the Qing Dynasty one after another, without daring to delay in the slightest.

Especially in Shanxi and Shaanxi, where the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not have much control, all kinds of large and small forces that rose up against the Qing Dynasty were surging.

Jiang Huang is only the biggest force here, in the original history, Jiang Huang raised troops against the Qing Dynasty in the fifth year of Shunzhi, and now he chooses to raise troops against the Qing Dynasty is also in the process of cleaning up.

Originally, after the Third Army of the Guards Army entered Shanxi, the Qing army in Shanxi was exhausted, and now Jiang Jiu is in chaos, and several lonely cities in Shanxi such as Taiyuan and Pingyang are still in the hands of the Qing army.

Dolgon had to make the decision to abandon Shanxi, and ordered Zhu Shichang, the governor of Shanxi, to concentrate all his forces to hold Taiyuan and block the Ming army from the direction of Zhendingfu to take the road from Baoding to Beijing.

At the same time, Dolgon immediately mobilized the Qing army in Datong Mansion to withdraw from Datong to defend Bauhinia Pass and Liangxiang, prevent Jiang Hao from entering Beijing through Bauhinia Pass from Datong, and ordered Han Dai, the prince of Zhenguo, to bring red-clothed cannons and 3,000 firearms to support Bauhinia Pass, responsible for the defense of Bauhinia Pass all the way.

Then, Dolgon ordered Gushan Ezhen Shi Tingshu to withdraw his troops and hold the three important places of Baoding, Tianjin Wei and Tongzhou, so as to prevent the Ming army from entering Beijing from these three routes.

In addition, Dolgon, who has not yet received the situation of Zu Dashou in Shanhaiguan, ordered Prince Amin to personally lead 5,000 iron cavalry and 10,000 firearms soldiers to strengthen the defense of Kaiping in Jizhou in order to prevent the consequences of the fall of Shanhaiguan.

In May of the 23rd year of Chongzhen, the Manchu auxiliary king Jierharang was ordered to lead 5,000 Manchurian iron cavalry and 20,000 Qing infantry to inspect the Miyun rearguard.

At the same time, Shunzhi immediately ordered the north to hunt Mobei in mid-May, set off on May 17, and jumped to the Gubeikou of the Great Wall in early June, arriving at Mantaoer.

That is to say, by June of the 23rd year of Chongzhen, the Manchu Qing forces had basically only occupied the relevant Beizhili and parts of Shanxi and Shaanxi, as well as the Nuer Gandu Division outside the Guan.

Jiang Hao raised an army in December of the 22nd year of Chongzhen to create a rebellion against the Manchu Qing Dynasty and killed Geng Chunmanmen, the governor of Datong of the Manchu Dynasty, but Geng Chun escaped by luck.

Later, Jiang Hao entered Huairen and Gaoshanwei in January of the 23rd year of Chongzhen, and began to take the initiative to contact the Ming Guards.

At this time, the First Corps of the Third Army of the Ming Guards had entered and occupied Licheng and Lucheng, and surrounded Lu'an Mansion on January 20, the 23rd year of Chongzhen.

Because all the forces of the Qing army in Shanxi had been concentrated in Taiyuan and withdrawn into the north of Zhili, even Lu'an Mansion, an important town that controlled the two-day key road in the southeast of Jin, did not have any Qing army to defend at the moment, and only some local landlords were armed to defend the city for the Manchu Qing.

Dolgon knew that his Qing Dynasty could not resist the offensive of the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty, so he further gave preferential treatment to some Han landlords, not only allowing them to organize regimental training and arming, but also ordering local governors to give these local gentry the official positions of their respective commanders, commanders, general soldiers, daotai, prefects, and prefects without scruples.

For a time, many Qing court officials emerged in the entire Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Beizhili areas.

Even in the northern part of Henan, the south of Beizhili and other areas that the Ming Dynasty has occupied, a few squires who have slipped through the net have appeared from time to time, and in the deep mountains and old forests, claiming to be the general of the Qing Dynasty, the squire of the Qing Dynasty abounds.

The Guards naturally have only one way to deal with these forces, and that is to kill!

Dolgon wanted to give the Ming an eye medicine before his Qing Dynasty withdrew from the Guanwai, so that these northern local tyrants could disrupt the rule of the Ming Dynasty, but the Guards were not Manchus, and the Guards had enough troops, and there were also a complete set of military and political systems to unite the common people to severely crack down on these local armed forces who tried to disrupt the local ruling order.

The Jin merchants have always been rich, and they helped the Manchu Qing Dynasty to successfully enter the customs the most, and they are the number one traitor in the merchant group!

Therefore, now it is especially in Shanxi that the largest number of landlord armed forces have emerged to support the Qing army.

Of course, there were also landlord armies who responded to the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty.

So, when the Guards entered Shanxi, the whole Shanxi had become a pot of porridge, and the landlords who supported the Manchu Qing Dynasty attacked each other with the landlords who responded to the Ming Dynasty, fighting for territory and robbing the people.

Gradually, there seemed to be countless warlords large and small in the entire Shanxi region, like princes on one side.

Unfortunately, now entrenched in Lu'an Mansion is a landlord army that supports the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the leader of this landlord army is called Fu Mingsheng, who has now become the Shanxi Luli Daotai, and organized 30,000 horses to defend Lu'an Mansion.

The First Corps of the Third Army of the Guards Army was also unkind, and a round of artillery attacks turned Lu'an Mansion into ruins, most of the 30,000 Qing troops were killed and wounded, and Fu Mingsheng was also killed by the artillery bombardment of the Guards.

As a result, the 1st Corps of the 3rd Army of the Guards Army easily recaptured Lu'an Province.

Then, the First Corps of the Third Army of the Guards Army sent a cavalry battalion to connect Gaoping and Ningshan Weizhu counties along the official road, opening up the communication line from Huaiqing in Henan Province to Lu'an Mansion in Shanxi.

The First Corps of the Third Army of the Guards Army went north along the official road and occupied Xiangyuan on the first day of the second month of the 23rd year of Chongzhen, followed by Qinzhou and Wuxiang, thus recovering the entire territory of Qinzhou Prefecture.

So far, the First Corps of the Third Army of the Guards Army has recovered the two provinces in the southeast of Jin, and the front of the troops is directly aimed at Liaozhou and Taiyuan Mansion.

The First Corps of the Fourth Army of the Guards Army had also arrived in Yangcheng at this time, and after capturing Yangcheng, it marched west along the direction of Qinshui all the way west to Yicheng, Quwo, and Jiangxian and then occupied Wenxi, and divided two cavalry battalions to recover Xia Xian and Anyi respectively.

Then, two cavalry battalions joined forces to attack Siyancheng, and Xiajiezhou and Ruicheng occupied Puzhou, Linjin, Yishi, Wanquan, and Ronghe counties, and went north along the official road to Pingyang Mansion to join the main force.

At the same time, an infantry battalion was also ordered to send troops to Jiangzhou, Jishan, and Hejin, and successively recovered these county seats.

The First Corps of the Fourth Army of the Guards Army officially regained Linfen, the city of Pingyang Prefecture, on the third day of February, and recovered the surrounding prefectures and counties respectively, and by February 15, the entire territory of Pingyang Prefecture was recovered, and the troops were also directed at Fenzhou Prefecture.

Counting the Datong Mansion occupied by Jiang Xuan, only Taiyuan, Liaozhou, and Fenzhou are still in the hands of the Manchus in the entire Shanxi.

(End of chapter)