Chapter 422: Collusion
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After reading the latest battle report, Lord Qianlong slammed the coffee table on the ground indiscriminately, his eyes were bloodshot, fortunately, at this time, there was no outsider in the study except for a loyal old slave eunuch, and Emperor Qianlong's ugliness did not have to worry about spreading out......
After smashing those priceless coffee tables all over the ground, the depression in Emperor Qianlong's heart finally vented a little, and he sat on the seat inlaid with a golden dragon panting, holding his forehead and falling into deep thought......
The chief eunuch who grew up watching Emperor Qianlong on the side sighed sadly, since Qianlong ascended the throne, this is the first time he has been so out of shape!
Emperor Qianlong trusted this personal eunuch who watched him grow up very much, and he had no intention of hiding it, and only this old slave in the entire palace knew the Qianlong Emperor who was calm on the outside, and the entanglement and fear in his heart!
The battle report that was thrown on the desk was impressively written with urgent information from the six coastal provinces (Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, and Taiwan Province)!
Even, in just a few months, the Han army only used a small force of less than 50,000 troops to press the entire coastal area of the Manchu Empire to the ground and beat it violently!
The disparity in strength was like a hot slap, constantly slapping the face of the seemingly glamorous Manchu Empire, and it broke the illusion of the Manchu magnates and the Qianlong Emperor's counterattack!
Among the six coastal provinces, there are even two important provincial capital cities that have been broken by the Han army, one is Jiangsu Province and the other is Zhejiang Province, these two richest provinces in the Jiangnan region of the Manchu Empire have been taken care of by the Han army, and the landing Han troops occupy more than half of the entire Second Route Han Army!
It can be said that under the key care of the Han army, the rule of the Qing army in Jiangsu Province and Zhejiang Province has collapsed, except for the local county towns in the countryside and a few second-tier cities, most of these two rich provinces have fallen, and more than eighty percent of the Han soldiers such as the green battalion and patrol battalion in Zhejiang Province and Jiangsu Province have surrendered or even defected to the Han army!
With the advent of this war report, the news of the sharp drop in taxes in Jiangnan also came......
The Manchu Empire's largest source of wealth was already facing the vicious situation of being completely cut off by the Han army, and if this development continued, the Manchu Empire's control over the rich areas of the southeast would completely disappear!
According to Emperor Qianlong's estimates, it would only take a year for the Han army to defeat the Manchu Empire into a northern state......
This is a sign of the death of the country!
Emperor Qianlong was very sober, and he already knew through the battle reports in the coastal areas that in the face of the Han army, which did not know how many generations of the Qing army was to pull down the Qing army, the victory and defeat could be determined without fighting on the frontal battlefield, and no matter how the Qing army resisted, the results achieved were only how many Han soldiers could be killed......
Nowadays, the only limiting factor that prevents the Han army from making great strides and sweeping the entire land of China is only because the land of China is too vast, and the more territory the Han army occupies, the more scattered the troops are, and the motivation to attack is lost!
This was the only way the Manchu Empire could drag on time......
However, Emperor Qianlong was not stupid, as long as the Han army consolidated in the occupied area for a period of time, trained and attracted a group of Han people loyal to the Han State, and handed over the local governance power to the newly formed Han New Army to manage, the field troops of the Han State could get rid of the security work in the occupied areas and continue to use it for the conquest of the Qing army!
The Han army had actually begun to do so, and there was not much time left for the Manchu Empire!
You know, the Han Empire has a much greater advantage than the Manchu Empire, that is, they both belong to the Han people!
Under the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Han Dynasty!
This slogan may not really make all the Han people die, but it is not a problem to keep those Han gentry neutral, and the Han army also intends to maintain the original wealth of the local gentry, completely putting on the attitude that this war is only to overthrow the Manchu Tatars, and will not interfere with the fundamental interests of the local Han gentry!
Although the Manchu Empire used the imperial examination system to win over the hearts of scholars all over the world, the opening of the imperial examination road was too small, and thousands of Han scholar elites could only squeeze into such a single-plank bridge.
Therefore, those Han gentry may not follow the Han army to oppose the Manchu Empire, but after all, they know very well the difference between the Han and the Manchus, and the military might of the Han army is so awesome, they came up and took down the capital of Emperor Qianlong!
In this way, those Han gentry naturally uphold a wait-and-see attitude, the Han army does not touch their interests, and the Han gentry are also happy to wave the flag and shout for the Han army, but they will not really help!
The inaction of the local Han gentry and magnates made the Han army face a lot fewer enemies, and the Han army only needed to think about how to defeat the Eight Banners and the Qing army, which is also the reason why the small force of the Han army landed in the coastal area, all the way to the ground!
The Beijing-Tianjin capital region has been lost, and if the wealth of the southeast is lost, the Manchu Empire will have a chance to turn around, and it is unknown whether it can maintain its own orthodoxy and continue!
With no money, no prestige, and the army being crushed by the Han army, it is no wonder that Emperor Qianlong was so desperate and afraid......
Emperor Qianlong looked at the unfolding battle report with great concentration, and after thinking about it for a long time, he gritted his teeth and said to the old eunuch beside him: "You go and inform the military aircraft chief assistant that our Qing Dynasty is willing to carry out comprehensive cooperation with the Tsarist Russian Empire!" ”
After saying this, Emperor Qianlong seemed to have lost all his strength, looked at the ceiling blankly, and muttered to himself: "Since you want to kill them all, don't blame me for unscrupulous means!" ”
Due to the defeat of the revolutionary situation on the European continent, the Tsarist Empire has successfully annexed the Polish-Lithuanian region, the Belarusian region, the Ukrainian region, destroyed a large number of fragmentary republics, and successfully signed an armistice, and began to restore its original atmosphere.
And Zhao Dutian's large-scale military action against the Manchu Empire, of course, could not hide the double-headed eagle battle flag bordering the Manchu Empire!
However, Tsarist Russia fought with the revolutionary machine for many years, the strength of the army was seriously damaged, and there were no troops deployed in the Far East at all, so it could only send envoys to try to set up a line with the Qianlong Emperor who was driven out of Beijing, as long as the Qianlong Emperor agreed to the support of Tsarist Russia from Mongolia and Tibet, Tsarist Russia would have the opportunity to easily seize hundreds of square kilometers of land!
Obviously, under Zhao Dutian's aggressiveness, Emperor Qianlong had to swallow this bitter fruit even if he knew that this was a plot with the tiger!