If Lin Fengxiang wants to march eastward to North Korea, he must defeat the blocking army under General Shengjing in the east.
There was not much time left for Lin Fengxiang, mainly because Xianfeng had already given Seng Gelinqin a death order.
The bandits in Liaodong must be captured before August, and the safety of the late emperor's mausoleum must be ensured. Otherwise, Seng Gelinqin will be punished.
Dong Shuheng destroyed Tianjing and destroyed Hong Xiuquan and others. Although Xianfeng was not happy, it gave the Qing court an opportunity.
The foundation was lost. At this time, the Taiping Army must have lost its morale and morale. It was the time to beat the dog in the water.
In fact, Lin Fengxiang's men were indeed affected by the attack on Tianjing at this time and had negative emotions.
Some officers and veterans' families are still in Tianjing City, and these people are even more panicked. Some of them are even close to collapse.
At this time, it was Lin Fengxiang who relied solely on his personal charm to support the morale of the army.
The emperor's order to Seng Gelinqin was very serious. This time Xianfeng had no patience. If the ancestral mausoleum was destroyed, wouldn't he have to repeat the mistakes of Chongzhen?
If the emperor was cruel to him, he would be cruel to his subordinates, so Seng Gelinqin also gave death orders to his subordinates.
Lin Fengxiang's troops who stayed behind to block the attack were pulled out one by one.
Under this situation, His Royal Highness Lin Fengxiang, the King of Liao of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, finally decided to lead his men to find a new way of life.
"Xiucai, you have to make an idea. If we continue like this, we will make dumplings for Qing Yao!" Although Li Kaifang has also been granted the title of king now, he is still the same straightforward man as before.
"Old Li, after all, Liaodong is the headquarters of Qingyao. It was my fault that I misjudged the situation at the beginning."
"It might have been better if we had gone west to Shanxi and Shaanxi." Lin Fengxiang said with some self-blame.
"Hey, scholar, it's already this time, why are you still talking about this? When I came to Liaodong to dig up Qing Yao's ancestral grave, it was I who suggested it first."
Li Kaifang quickly interrupted him and said, this Lin Xiucai is good at everything, but he is a bit bitter and likes to take all responsibilities on himself.
Although both of them have been crowned kings, the relationship between Lin and Li is still very good. Their temperaments complement each other perfectly, one is resourceful and the other is courageous.
One of them is strategic and steady, while the other is brave but a little impulsive. Li Kaifang is very self-aware, and he always listens to Lin Fengxiang on matters involving major decisions.
Therefore, when the two of them are together, Lin Fengxiang usually takes the lead, while Li Kaifang is more like a general in front of the tent.
"Old Li, now that Tianjing is gone, we have become a group of homeless people, but we still have tens of thousands of brothers! So we can't give up. We have to find a way out for the brothers and give them peace.
A home.”
"But, where are we going? Now I feel that outside the Pass are all enemies. It would be great if there were more Han people here. Huh! Qing Yao is really vicious. Even if such good land outside the Pass is left uncultivated, it will not be cultivated by the Han people." Li Kaifang complained.
road.
Lin Fengxiang found an old map, which was seized from Qingyao's government office after entering Liaodong. He moved his hand to the right from the map and said to Li Kaifang: "Old Li, what do you think of this place?"
Lin Fengxiang pointed his finger across the Liaodong Peninsula to the other side of the Yalu River.
"Xiucai, you mean to follow the example of the Ming army and go to North Korea?" Li Kaifang has also learned a lot in these years.
He had heard people tell the story of how the Ming army withdrew to Pi Island in North Korea and persisted in resisting the Qing Dynasty.
"We are not going to North Korea to borrow power. North Korea is now a vassal state of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. After we pass, the North Korean Kingdom will be our enemy. So, what I mean is to conquer North Korea directly and let's rebuild the Kingdom of Heaven there." Lin Fengxiang said.
Although Korea was a vassal state of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Manchu Qing Dynasty's own affairs have not yet been settled.
Lin Fengxiang felt that if they went to North Korea, the Qing army would not pursue them in a short time.
"Xiucai, I think this is going to happen!" Li Kaifang's eyes lit up after hearing this. North Korea is a soft persimmon. When the time comes to enter the border of North Korea, those pure demons will naturally not chase them all, and there are all mountains over there, and the large troops will not
Can't be deployed.
Lin Fengxiang first gathered the team together. In the past few days, he had not talked to the people below, but he knew that the people below wanted to fight. So now he simply spoke to everyone.
Lin Fengxiang revealed an important piece of news: Although Tianjing has fallen, the Huaihai Navy is not persecuting the family members of the Taiping Army. Lin Fengxiang assured everyone that they will exchange their family members with the Huaihai Navy.
Then Lin Fengxiang told his subordinates their current situation and their future plans.
After following Lin Fengxiang for so long, veterans and officers are extremely convinced of Lin Fengxiang, not for anything else but because he can share the joys and sorrows with his brothers below.
During marches and battles, Lin Fengxiang never cooked a small stove for himself. He always ate the same food as the soldiers.
Sometimes, if a desperate situation is used well, it will not only prevent the team from despairing, but can also inspire everyone to have the courage to fight back.
Lin Fengxiang is a very charming person, and his words are always convincing.
Even unruly warriors like Li Kaifang obeyed him, which shows Lin Fengxiang's prestige.
Lin Fengxiang told everyone his thoughts, and the generals and veterans below also supported his choice.
Finally, Lin Fengxiang and his men decided to leave a group of troops behind the scenes. The remaining troops first went south around Shengjing, then eastward, crossed the Yalu River and entered Yiju. After reaching North Korea, they quickly occupied the northern part of North Korea.
North Korea is also mainly farming, and among all the vassal states, it is the closest to the domestic situation. After all, for a long time in history, North Korea was under the direct rule of the Central Plains Dynasty.
Most of the people in Korea today migrated from the Central Plains Dynasty.
The Lee Kingdom of Korea has been established for hundreds of years, and domestic conflicts are also very serious, which is a scene of the end of the kingdom.
Lin Fengxiang wanted to try this time to see if he could implement the Taiping Rebellion in North Korea.
In the end, he couldn't stay in North Korea anymore, so he had to make the last choice.
There was one thing that only he and Li Kaifang knew, not even Ji Wenyuan told him.
The time when I received supplies from the Huai Navy outside Tianjin.
The envoy from Huaihai Navy once handed him a letter from Dong Shuheng to him and Li Kaifang.
This letter contains a lot of content, and it even mentions that you can try your luck outside the customs.
Of course, the most important content is: Whenever Lin Fengxiang and others are in desperate situation, the door of Huaihai Navy is always open for them.
It turns out that Lin Fengxiang just felt that Dong Shuheng was talking nonsense about him. What qualifications did he have to surrender?
But now it seems that he still underestimated Dong Shuheng. If the big Tianjing City was broken, the territory operated by the Taiping Army in Anhui and Jiangxi was also lost in an instant.
Lin Fengxiang naturally knew more inside stories than ordinary people. It was the internal strife in Tianjing that gave Huai Haijun an opportunity to take advantage of it.
In fact, Lin Fengxiang had long lost confidence in the kings of Tianjing. He had a chance to lead his men back to Tianjing before, but he gave up.
He led his team outside the customs just because he wanted to conquer a world for himself.
However, the stability of Manqing's business outside customs far exceeded his imagination.
Even so, Lin Fengxiang still did not give up. He was ready to go to North Korea for a last ditch effort.
In fact, Lin Fengxiang doesn't know what the situation in North Korea is like now.
There is a chain of contempt in the hearts of Chinese people. Our country in heaven despises vassal states, and large vassal states despise small vassal states.
This seems to be a natural thing.
This time Lin Fengxiang did not let Li Kaifang stay in Duanhou. The task of Duanhou was taken over by Ji Wenyuan.
Lin Fengxiang knew that this time the break would be even more dangerous, and there was not much room for detours in the Liaodong Peninsula.
Finally, Lin Fengxiang told Ji Wenyuan a secret. If he was chased by the Qing army and unable to enter North Korea, he would simply move north or northeast. He would encounter the Huaihai Navy's forces at the seaside.
Lin Fengxiang didn't say anything else. His intention was very clear, that is, let Ji Wenyuan surrender to the Huai Navy at the last moment.
If it fell into the hands of the Qing court, all of them would be dead, and Ling Chi's fate would definitely be the same.
Ji Wenyuan knew that Lin Fengxiang did not say it clearly. But he understood what King Liao meant, and he did not say it out loud, he just responded.
The veterans below were resentful of Huai Haijun. After all, it was Huai Haijun who destroyed their Tianjing City.
Only senior officials like them knew some secrets. In fact, the Huaihai Navy was already kind to the Taiping Army.
Most of the casualties in Tianjing City were actually caused by Wei Changhui and others.
Huai Haijun basically took over Tianjing City peacefully, including many places in Jiangxi and Anhui that were recruited from the former Dongwangfu's subordinates.
Moreover, the Huai Navy did not do much harm to the prisoners of the Taiping Army. Only some of them were concentrated on farms to participate in labor reform.
In the eyes of Lin Fengxiang and others, this is not considered punishment.
How did Lin Fengxiang and the others know this information? Naturally, Huai Haijun wanted them to know.
Based on this, Lin Fengxiang said such words to Ji Wenyuan, and Ji Wenyuan also understood the profound meaning.
The plan was finalized, and the Taiping Northern Expeditionary Army quickly launched operations here.
Ji Wenyuan led more than 5,000 soldiers and horses and suddenly attacked the Qing Fuling Mausoleum east of Shengjing.
All the Qing army's attention was attracted to it. It was the mausoleum of the old boar skin.
If it is burned by bandits, no one can bear the responsibility.
Taking advantage of the Qing army's full attention, Lin Fengxiang took the remaining 15,000 men in his hands and quickly defeated the 3,000 Qing troops under General Shengjing who were blocking the east side, regardless of casualties.
Because the Qing army was attracted by Fuling, Yinglong mobilized part of the garrison from other places to Fuling.
Especially the east and south sides of the Taiping Army. They believed that the Taiping Army was least likely to attack in those two directions.
With North Korea to the east and the sea to the south, it was impossible for the Taiping Army to mobilize ships.
As for going to North Korea, Yinglong's imagination hadn't reached that city yet. He didn't expect that Lin Fengxiang's imagination was much bigger than his, and he really set his sights on North Korea.
Liaodong had been in seclusion for two hundred years, and the land was desolate and sparsely populated. No one east of Shengjing could stop the Taiping Army. Three days later, the Taiping Army broke through Phoenix City, obtained supplies, and then continued eastward to plunder Kuandian, a Manchu settlement.
Five days later, the Taiping Army crossed the Yalu River to Yizhou and captured Yizhou in two hours.
Yizhou is an important trading city on the border between China and North Korea. It was built on the basis of the former Baozhou of the Liao Kingdom.
After the establishment of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the policy of seclusion was adopted, which gradually caused the trade status of Yiju to decline, but it was still an important port between the Qing Dynasty and North Korea.
Because it was backed by the Qing Dynasty, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had never allowed the Korean Kingdom to station heavy troops here.
Therefore, Lin Fengxiang's ability to win here this time also had an element of luck.
After obtaining Yizhou, Lin Fengxiang ordered people to set up defenses on the banks of the Yalu River to prevent the Qing army from crossing the river. On the one hand, he attacked Ping'an Road where Yizhou was located, and quickly occupied Tieshan and Xuanzhou in the south.
After all, Lin Fengxiang is a foreign force in North Korea, and the local people do not trust them. But the people of North Korea do not have such a strong sense of resistance.
The fundamental reason is that Lin Fengxiang did not plunder on a large scale this time in North Korea. He used the old method of the Taiping Army, plundering wealthy landowners, and then using land and food to win over the civilian class.
Because he was an outsider, Lin Fengxiang knew that he had to appoint a group of Koreans.