Dominate the Country

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The eighth day of March in the 145th year of Chongzhen is a day remembered by history, because the real decisive battle between Manchu and Han on the Beijing-Tianjin battlefield started on this day after a tense month.

Integrated the first and second divisions of the Shandong Army, the first division of the Jiangsu Army, the first division of the Guangdong Army, the first and second garrison divisions, the Guards Brigade, the Guards Brigade, the Cavalry Brigade, the Shandong Cavalry Regiment, and three external artillery regiments, a total of Chen Ming marched out of Tianjin City with a force of one hundred thousand troops.

At the same time, the 1st Fujian Army Division and the 1st Jiangxi Army Division were to contain the Qing forces in the direction of Dagukou and Junliangcheng respectively, while the Marine Corps troops were responsible for guarding Dabo and Tianjin City.

Chen Ming didn't know where the decisive battle between the two sides would take place, so the army followed the North Canal and headed straight for Beijing.

Anyway, no matter how much Agui shrinks, he can only shrink to Tongzhou. If Agui's army of hundreds of thousands keeps shrinking back to Beijing, will the morale of the Qing army be left at all?

Chen Ming sat back and watched millions of bannermen flee, which gave the Qing army no worries, but also vented most of the Qing army's energy. Without their family members who were closely related to them, the Qing army's determination to fight to the death could still be maintained. How many points are left?

This was something Chen Ming only realized belatedly when Xiong Bingzhang was praising him, and then he shamelessly acquiesced! Of course, another consequence of this is that the Qing army no longer has a burden to escape, and the proportion of them fleeing when the situation is bad is also sky-high. In the vast mountains and plains of the Northeast in the future, it is unpredictable how far the contest between the Fuhan Army and the Qing Army will develop.

"Tell the soldiers that this battle is successful, and this world is ours. From now on, no one can take away the land they have now, and no one can ruin their good life. There will be no more aliens. Riding on the heads of us Han people and dominating us, no one’s slaves are more noble than us Han people..."

"Your Highness is victorious! Your Highness is victorious..."

"The Han army is mighty!"

"The Han army is mighty..."

To boost morale, Chen Ming didn't need to do much at all. The morale of the army was already boiling than boiling water. One hundred thousand troops marched mightily on the flat North China Plain, and the loud military songs shattered the clouds in the sky.

The warm spring style is gentle on the outside, and the warm sun shines on everyone's faces. The heavy cotton coats have long been taken off, and the bright red blended wool military uniforms are straight and majestic. They only need to wear a shirt underneath. This is the moment. Fuhan Army officers and soldiers are equipped with standard equipment.

The 100,000-strong army striding forward stretched for more than twenty miles from front to back, and the entire army was seven or eight miles wide. The cavalry troops spread out for thirty miles. Groups of tired birds returned to their nests on horseback carrying messages one after another, summarizing all kinds of information to the staff headquarters.

Chen Ming traveled from Tianjin to Wuqing, and a relatively clear message came to Hexi Wu. The Fuhan Army's reconnaissance cavalry discovered a large number of Qing army's cavalry in Hexi Wu.

This name is a very unfamiliar name to people who don't know much about geography. In fact, since the construction of the Grand Canal, it has been the waterway throat into and out of Beijing. The imperial courts of all dynasties have set up various government offices, post offices, military equipment, etc. here. The highest official rank is Zhengsanpin, which shows its prominent status. Two hundred years ago, the Ming Dynasty began to build a brick city in Hexiwu. In the following two hundred years, the prosperous Hexiwu has always been known as "the first town in Jingdong" and "the first post in Jinmen".

"Your Highness, there are at least tens of thousands of Qing cavalry in Hexiwu. Our team cannot enter within ten miles of Hexiwu." The dense Qing cavalry was denser than a spider web, and the Fuhan Army's reconnaissance cavalry penetrated again and again. All in vain.

Chen Ming immediately asked someone to take out the map of Hexiwu. In fact, he had a certain understanding of this place in his mind. He felt that this was not a suitable place for a battle because there was too much water.

When the entire map was taken out, Chen Ming was even more convinced of his previous point of view - this place was not suitable for large-scale battles at all.

"It's really strange. The Qing army clearly has an absolute advantage in cavalry, so why did Agui choose Hexiwu?"

"The Qing cavalry appeared in Hexiwu, but it does not necessarily mean that the decisive battle will be held in Hexiwu."

The voices of the staff around him came over, and Chen Ming looked at the map solemnly. In Hexiwu, where there are many waterways and ditches, since the Qing army arrived first, they naturally took control of the stone bridges between the rivers, so they could easily adjust their forces.

But what if? Even because of the complex geographical environment here, the Fuhan Army's large force was inherently 'divided'. Can the Qing army and cavalry launch an attack? Don't go there, the river also blocks the Qing cavalry!

"Spread out the investigation to the left and right wings." Perhaps Agui really placed the battlefield in the Hexiwu area, but the main battlefield was not Hexiwu Town itself, but regarded Hexiwu as an obstacle that a large infantry group could not pass, leaving A group of cavalry is inside, which can pose a considerable threat to the Fuhan Army passing by.

The large army stopped in Wuqing County. Before the cavalry sent out for reconnaissance returned, someone in the countryside of Wuqing County reported to the Fuhan Army that a large Qing army was in Xianghe, just north of Wuqing.

Because the Qing army ignored the remaining Han people after the crazy relocation of the people a few days ago, a large number of Qing troops took away a lot of stone from Wuqing County. The Qing army was going to build a bunker in Wuqing, but there was no time, and the Qing army did not have the spare energy to build a defensive position at the level of Wuqing County around the bunker, because it was useless. Now the Qing army has to consider a big army decisive battle, a life-and-death battle!

Xianghe is sixty miles away from Wuqing. If you just enter Xianghe, the distance can be shortened by half. There are five rivers between the two, Fenghe, Liangshui River, Beiyun River, Wangjiawu Water Diversion River, and Wotou River.

"Report..."

When the Fu Han army came to report to Chen Ming, the Qing army's scouts also delivered the report to Agui. The latter did not deploy the main force in Xianghe County, but in Duji, nearly twenty miles south of the city. This place is on the same level as Ping'an Town, and Ping'an Town is northwest of Hexiwu Town. The three points almost form a regular triangle.

150,000 troops, after joining forces with the Fuerle troops, plus the Shuhede troops transferred back by Agui, the entire Qing army has reached an astonishing number of 150,000.

The daily food intake for people alone is as high as 4,000 shi, and there are more than 80,000 war horses, cattle, donkeys, and mules. The beans and fodder used every day are also an astronomical number.

War is about money and logistics.

The Qing Dynasty organized the battle on the spot, and their logistics pressure was too great, but the Fu Han Army fought across the sea. The entire land force is no less than 120,000 troops, and there are more than 10,000 prisoners of war. Every day, the food for people and horses must be transported from the rear. If it were not for the Confucius, Meng, Yan, Zeng and other families in Shandong who contributed all their wealth, the military expenditure of the Fu Han Army from the first month to March would increase to 12 million to 15 million silver dollars a month.

From Shandong to Guangdong, during the entire process of transporting soldiers and military supplies, outsiders could not have predicted how many ships the logistics department had raised and how much manpower it had mobilized.

"Your salary can be used to increase 25% to offset future taxes!" In order to reduce monetary expenditure as much as possible, the Chen Han government did not even plug the obvious loophole of "debt transfer".

So much so that large industrial and commercial households in various provinces used a 5% to 10% increase to get their "salary" from the ship owners.

This measure alone saved Chen Han five million in real money in transportation costs.

Therefore, after the reserve of troops and various military supplies was roughly completed, no matter how leisurely Chen Ming had been before, he did not want to waste a quarter of an hour now, and immediately sent out troops.

It was just that the atmosphere within the Fu Han Army was very good, and everyone knew that the various organized units that had gathered together, and each unit sent ashore meant that the time for the decisive battle had moved forward one step. In this way, almost the entire army was open to the public, which was very similar to Chen Ming's "College Entrance Examination Countdown" in his previous life, keeping the excitement of the entire army at a very high level.

In the end, the general headquarters only gave a little guidance, and Chen Ming shouted two slogans at the right time to inspire the nerves of the soldiers, and the high morale of the entire army reached its peak.

If it weren't for the belief that he must win, he would have been suffering during this period of waiting.

He was able to show calmness all the time, and he was really not nervous at all in his heart. It was not easy for Chen Ming to have such a performance that he didn't know whether it was a broad mind or true "ignorance".

Anyway, the day of the decisive battle has come.

The Fu Han Army stayed in Wuqing County for two hours. A large number of Qing army reconnaissance cavalry were found on the north bank of the North Canal, which allowed Chen Ming to confirm the correctness of the source of Wuqing's information. When it was about three hours before dark, the army left Wuqing County and headed north. Before dark, the vanguard crossed the North Canal fifteen miles east of Hexiwu Town.

Agui had been silently watching the Fu Han army heading east. When he heard that there was only one regiment of the Fu Han army that crossed the North Canal, he shook his head helplessly.

"Would you like to fight, Marshal?" The Eight Banners generals asked for orders.

Agui flatly rejected it. Why fight? They had enough firepower to cover the length of a canal, unlike the Qing army. The 150,000-man army was so huge, but there were only 200 cannons, half of which were the original old cannons.

The soldiers below didn't know that after all the millions of Eight Banners arrived in Zunhua City, Agui received a secret order from Yongsheng, asking him to preserve the Eight Banners New Army as much as possible when necessary.

Just as Chen Ming thought, the old, weak, women and children of the Eight Banners all rushed to Zunhua. While the morale of the Eight Banners soldiers was greatly reduced, they could escape quickly without any worries. But Yongcheng was still worried that if the army directly controlled by the Qing court was not greatly damaged, even if he could get to Shengjing in time, the Fu Han Army would not attack the northwest, but would continue to focus on the northeast. Yongcheng would still be in trouble!

This is an army of more than 100,000, including 40,000 new troops of the Eight Banners. Chen Han was crazy, so he thought that they were not a big threat and turned his spearhead to attack the northwest. Yongcheng asked Agui to do his best to fight this battle. If he could win, he would win. If he couldn't win, he would take away the elite and let the others be the heroes of the glorious victory of the Fu Han Army.

All the meanings were hidden in an ambiguous secret decree, which was conveyed to Agui in person by the rich monk left behind by Yongcheng.

Agui was very cold mentally, just like Fu Heng who had no choice but to leave the palace after persuading Yongxun. But Agui's brain told him that this was really a way to solve the 'problem'.

It was to use the lives of tens of thousands of Qing troops, most of whom were banner soldiers and Mongolian cavalry, to buy time outside the Northeast Pass and give Chen Ming a reason and step to turn around and head west. Maybe Yongxun will send people to cry to Chen Ni for peace by then!

And the most tragic thing is that the person who issued this decree was tens of thousands of soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Agui Army who all loyal to the emperor!

In the quiet night, the wind blew the camp flag quietly.

Many military tents in the Fuhan Army camp were still lit with lights. From a distance, it looked like an overwhelming field of fireflies.

Everyone, including the division commanders of various ministries, was writing letters home before the war. Don't think that you won't die if you become a high official. Over the years, the number of officers killed in battle by the Han Army has been increasing day by day. There is no precedent for a division commander being killed in action, but there are quite a few examples of brigade commanders being killed, injured or disabled.

Don't worry about whether these troops are the main force or the local garrison.

Jiang Wei was leaning on the desk with a pencil and writing letters home. He still can't write calligraphy with calligraphy. After the pencil was produced, he quickly fell in love with this new writing tool. Compared with large calligraphy with calligraphy, writing a long letter home with a pencil does not require more than two or three sheets of stationery, but writing with calligraphy requires a thick pinch.

His current position is no longer the original small battalion officer. He is the deputy division commander of the First Division of the Jiangsu Army and the brigade commander of the first brigade. Although the military rank is only equivalent to the rank of one's own regiment compared with the main force, this is an unimaginable future for a civilian with a peasant background.

Jiang Wei has long since stopped paying attention to the number of military merit fields. When the number of an object breaks through people's psychological red line, it becomes a mere number. His family has long since moved out of the 013 Military Village. Moved into Lushan City.

Jiang Wei is now working hard to become a general. Compared with military fields and other fields, he wants his son to enter the gate of Sungkyun Public School!

"..., tomorrow our troops will serve as the vanguard and launch a probing attack against the Qing army side by side with the Guards Brigade. This is the prelude to the decisive battle between Beijing and Tianjin and is of great significance. Therefore, we dare not not fight hard and fight to the death. The soldiers are fierce. The war is dangerous and the future is unpredictable. However, there is no other way out than success and benevolence. It is also a good thing for our soldiers to shed blood on the battlefield today when the Manchus and Han Dynasties are fighting to the death.

Beijing is in sight, victory is within grasp, there are great rivers and mountains, and the Han Dynasty will surely be restored in the future.

The Jiang family is a member of the Taira family. On this stormy occasion, I followed His Highness to join the army and fight, which is why my family is as wealthy as it is today. Don't dare to forget your roots because of wealth and neglect your highness's grand plan. In the first battle tomorrow, no matter whether you do good or bad, you must have a clear conscience..."

Jiang Wei didn't think about winning a big jackpot tomorrow as a pioneer, and then he would be promoted and reach a new peak in his life. His biggest hope is not to ruin Chen Ming's plan because of himself.

As Chen Han's absolute direct descendant, Jiang Wei knew very well what the significance of tomorrow's war would be. All thoughts of promotion and wealth were removed from his mind. He clenched his fists in order to fight with all his strength tomorrow. Live up to Chen Han’s great cause!

It was Chen Han who made him rise from a common man to the high position he is today. Although compared to Tang Wencan's good luck, Jiang Wei seemed to be a little worse. However, Jiang Wei's unit is the First Division of the Jiangsu Army. This is an old garrison unit established very early in the Fuhan Army. Half of the division's troops are fusiliers, which is slightly stronger than the Shandong garrison. A level.

With more than 2,000 acres of military fields and shares in several companies, the Jiang family would not be defeated again even if he died in the war without him. These were all given to him by Chen Han, and his life belongs to Chen Han.

Will the military spirit of a general be worn away after gaining glory and wealth? It will definitely happen, but Jiang Wei is not included in it!