On April 5, the Tianjin garrison surrendered to the Fuxing Army.
The Third Division handed over the prisoners to the custody of a garrison regiment from the Taihang Mountains, and then quickly headed north. Instead of entering Beijing, they went straight to Shanhaiguan.
At this time, 50,000 foreign troops were gathering in Shengjing. They didn't even know that the Manchu Qing Dynasty had been destroyed.
Dong Shuheng was not prepared to tell them now. If he took Xianfeng's imperial edict to persuade them to surrender, he would probably let these people be established as new kings outside the pass.
After all, the Qing army had always reserved the area outside the Pass as its final retreat. There was even a scaled-down version of the small imperial court in Shengjing.
If they had known in advance that the capital was gone, they would probably have chosen a descendant of the Aisin Gioro family to proclaim themselves emperor.
At that time, many Manchus will gather there, which will cause trouble for the occupation outside the customs.
At this time, the weather is getting warmer. The Far East Military Region and the Black Dragon Military Region must be ready to move south. When the time comes, they will block the allied forces outside the Pass at Shanhaiguan. Wang Xiao will lead people from behind to block their retreat. At that time, they will prepare in advance.
Only by reading out the imperial edict can we force the surrender of these Manchus outside the Pass.
So far, the Southern Route Army has completely occupied eastern Guangdong, but Wu Jianzhang and some comprador merchants of the Thirteenth Line ran to Xiangjiang Island under the control of the British.
The Southern Route Army sent people to propose extradition to the British, but they were rejected. According to Dong Shuheng's order, the current situation is to stabilize the place and not to conflict with the British and French for the time being.
Even when the Americans ordered people to kill people in Yangcheng, the Renaissance Army has not taken strong measures at present. It only verbally demands that the other party hand over the murderers. Of course, the Americans will not give in like that.
However, the Yangcheng Concession was also suspended by the Renaissance Army. Americans are now not even allowed to enter the Pearl River Estuary.
Dong Shuheng has ordered a batch of coastal defense artillery to be transported from the arsenal to Yangcheng to rebuild the Humen Fort.
When the time comes, with the fort in hand, I have the world, even if the enemy's warships cannot defeat the opponent. As long as the opponent's warships cannot reach the walls of Guangzhou, the Renaissance Army will not be afraid of the great powers.
When it comes to the combat effectiveness of the infantry, the Renaissance Army really has nothing to fear.
The Navy also transported two regiments of Renaissance Army infantry from Leizhou to Hainan Island to occupy the entire island.
Originally, there was a base of the Nanyang Navy in Yazhou at the southern end of the island, but the garrison was not large enough to occupy Hainan.
This side of the Central Route Army.
The Second Division has completed the occupation of Qian Province with the cooperation of the local independent columns of the Renaissance Army.
The people in Qian Province are mountainous and poor, and there are not many defenders. However, the local reform of the country is not complete, and the chieftains still have a lot of power.
These people do not know what is right and wrong and will ambush the Renaissance Army in the mountains.
Later, the Renaissance Army used mortars to kill several powerful chieftains, and they finally surrendered.
They are fearful of power and not moral.
In the past, when these people fought against the Qing army, they would be fine just by hiding in the mountains.
The Qing army's artillery could not hit the mountain. Now the Renaissance army's artillery can accurately hit the top of the mountain. It seems to be specially designed to restrain them.
This makes them afraid.
In addition, the Renaissance Army gave them a loose trade policy.
In the past, they couldn't even afford salt, because there was no salt produced here, and the most scarce commodity for the mountain people was salt.
The Qing government imposed heavy taxes on the salt transported to the mountains, making it impossible for the mountain people to eat salt.
But now the Renaissance Army has brought cheap salt, and the quality is even better, which makes these mountain peoples welcome the Renaissance Army even more.
After repeated defeats, they were still better than the Manchu and Qing officials. These people could easily understand how to make choices.
In Guilin in western Guangdong, the instructors of the Central Route Army fought with Shi Dakai. The Taiping Army suffered heavy losses and retreated westward.
Originally, Shi Dakai was about to be driven to the southwest of western Guangdong by the new army from eastern Guangdong.
However, because Wu Jianzhang urgently drew away the new troops in eastern Guangdong, Shi Dakai made a comeback and occupied the entire territory of western Guangdong in one fell swoop.
This greatly increased Shi Dakai's confidence, so he made the first choice in Dong Shuheng's letter.
He wanted to fight Huai Haijun with real swords and guns.
Shi Dakai gathered all the rifled guns in the team and cooperated with his own human wave tactics.
He felt like he could compete with the Renaissance Army.
But he never knew how strong the Fuxing Army's trump card really was.
The artillery bombed from a distance and machine guns fired, and the Taiping Army was overwhelmed in one fell swoop. Looking at the rifled gun in his hand, it seemed that it had become a fire stick.
The Renaissance Army opened up all its firepower, causing huge casualties to the Taiping Army in an instant. Then the infantry of the Renaissance Army rushed up with rifles roaring like a tsunami, and routed the entire line of the Taiping Army.
At this time, Shi Dakai felt nothing but regret.
The few decent weapons in his hand were bought from the Renaissance Army. He knew that the Renaissance Army would not be able to give him the most advanced weapons, but foreigners also used such guns. Could it be that the Renaissance Army was already stronger than the foreigners?
Shi Dakai, who retreated to Liuzhou, disclosed to his confidants the letter Dong Shuheng asked Wen Qing to bring back.
"Holy King, my subordinates have some ideas that I don't know whether to express or not." Wen Qing immediately stood up and said that he was the one who went to negotiate with the Renaissance Army in the first place, and he always felt that there should not be a war with the Renaissance Army.
It's just that the Holy King insisted on starting a war. He couldn't say anything. After all, it was the Renaissance Army that came to seize their territory.
Now it seems that the Holy King is considering pushing him away.
In the past, Shi Dakai was indeed a very conceited person. Among the kings of the Taiping Army, he always believed that he was the most capable of fighting and did not put others in his eyes.
But since the Kingdom of Heaven was destroyed, Shi Dakai fled back to western Guangdong with his remnants and started over.
Since then, Shi Dakai has become more diplomatic, and he regards preserving the fire of heaven as his highest pursuit.
After becoming the Holy King, this transformation in personality was particularly prominent.
Otherwise, he would not have asked Wen Qing to negotiate with the Renaissance Army and seek their help.
Unable to defeat the Guangdong New Army, he decisively chose to develop westward and was once ready to abandon Guilin.
As Shi Dakai's staff, Wen Qing had already discovered his changes early on.
As the saying goes, there is no place for me to stay, but there is a place for me to stay.
Isn't that Lin Fengxiang doing very well in the Kingdom of Korea now?
Wenqing learned from Dong Shuheng that Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang led the Northern Expedition to the Korean Kingdom and captured half of the Korean Kingdom.
Lin Fengxiang also established the Taiping Liao Kingdom, called himself the King of Liao, and became the leader of the country. Isn't it beautiful?
Why do we need to fight to the death with the Renaissance Army in China? Moreover, when the fish is dead, their net may not be broken.
Moreover, the Taiping Army designated its enemy as the Qing Yao. Now that the Qing Yao has been eliminated by the Northern Fuxing Army, there is no reason for itself to start a war with the Fuxing Army.
"Wen Qing, it's okay to say it." Shi Dakai probably knew what Wen Qing wanted to say.
In fact, he did want to change his mind, but it was a bit hampered by human feelings. It would have been better if Wen Qing had brought it up, so that he would have a step down in front of his subordinates.
He wanted his subordinates to think that it was someone else who persuaded me, and it was not me, Shi Dakai, who gave in.
Big shots all cherish their face, otherwise they wouldn't be able to convince the public.
"Holy King, I heard that in Nanzhang, the local residents of Myanmar are mostly of the same race as the Dai and Miao people of Yunnan Province in western Guangdong, and there are also many descendants of Han people in the area. I heard that the land there is fertile and the products are rich. I feel that
It is not impossible to go there. We can spread the teachings of the Kingdom of Heaven there and re-grow the Kingdom of Heaven." Wen Qing continued.
Wenqing's words moved many people. Some of them really wanted to expand the Kingdom of Heaven, while some did not want to lose their lives fighting the Renaissance Army. They wanted to find a place to continue to dominate.
It is better to be an officer of the Taiping Army than to be an ordinary citizen. The holy soldiers of the Kingdom of Heaven can openly accept the worship of the people of the Kingdom of Heaven.
"What do you think?" Shi Dakai glanced at the people in the tent. Seeing that they were silent, he knew that these people all agreed with Wen Qing's suggestion in their hearts.
"Okay, then it's decided according to what Wenqing said, but before we leave, we need to strengthen the team first."
Shi Dakai meant that they should try to keep Qingzhuang under their control as much as possible, because after arriving in the south, his fellow villagers from western Guangdong were the most reliable.
The Taiping Army moved very quickly. They raided all the states from Liuzhou all the way south, and plundered all the money of big households, the government's silver reserves, and all the portable belongings.
Then all the single young adults, who were not the only children in the family, were recruited into the army. After all, this was his hometown, and Shi Dakai did not do anything right. When he took these young men away, Shi Dakai also gave them ten taels of silver to settle down.
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In this way, when they entered Vietnam from Guishun Prefecture in the south of western Guangdong, they already had nearly 300,000 troops, and they were basically all young and strong men.
Only a small number of them are family members of officers and veterans. They left this time and may not be able to come back in the future, so a young family brought their family members with them.
Fortunately, after Wenqing went to explain to the Renaissance Army, the Renaissance Army did not pursue them, but fell far behind to receive the land. This allowed them to move slowly.
Shi Dakai raided all the prefectures in northern Vietnam to replenish his supplies. Then he left Vietnam. At this time, Vietnam had not been colonized by France, and Shi Dakai did not want to fight with them yet.
He led the Taiping Army to fight westward towards Nanzhang, which was split into several small countries. After establishing a foothold, he went to Burma, where he divided the land among chieftains and developed religious people. Of course, this is all a story later.
Let’s talk about the West Route Army. Zuo Jigao successfully persuaded the Governor of Sanchuan to obey Luo Bingzhang and join the Fuxing Army.
In fact, after the fall of an old dynasty, those whose identities changed the fastest were those scholar-bureaucrats.
After Luo Bingzhang surrendered, Zuo Jigao no longer needed to attack city after city.
Sanchuan is too big. If we capture one city after another like that, we don’t know how long it will take to go north.
Now that everything was fine, Zuo Jigao directly asked two Hunan Army adaptors to temporarily station themselves in Sanchuan while he led the West Route Army northward.
Zuo Jigao has two routes to choose from, one is to go north from Long'an Prefecture to Gansu, and the other is to go north to Hanzhong from Suiding Prefecture and then enter Guanzhong.
In the end, Zuo Jigao, who had sufficient troops, directly divided his troops into two groups and advanced.
In Shanxi, the 18th Division had already raided Taiyuan Prefecture. With the blessing of Xianfeng's imperial edict, all of Shanxi surrendered to the Renaissance Army.
Shanxi can be regarded as the back garden of the capital, and the officials here are relatively reliable officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so the imperial edict of Xianfeng can be used.
The 18th Division immediately handed over matters in Shanxi to the garrison troops and militiamen coming from the Taihang Mountains. It then entered northern Shaanxi and recovered the city from north to south.
This time to support the east and west fronts, Taihang Mountain basically sent out all Qingzhuang. Originally, Zhili was supported by militiamen from the north of Jiangsu. However, a flood forced Dong Shuheng to invest hundreds of thousands of militiamen in disaster relief.
As a last resort, the Taihang Mountains carried out a second mobilization and raised tens of thousands of militiamen.
The Eighteenth Division is competing for time, who are they competing for time with?
He was following Ying Gui, who was fleeing westward from Henan, to seize time. Yinggui led his men all the way westward, first settling in Henan Prefecture, and then fleeing to Shaanxi.
Wu Zhenfeng, the governor of Shaanxi, was seized by Yinggui. After seizing control of Xi'an, Yinggui set up defenses in Tongguanting, preparing to block the first division coming from Henan.
Tongguan is difficult to defend and difficult to attack. Yinggui believes that he will be able to block the Renaissance Army here. Of course, if he blocks it in time, he will only be able to survive.
Due to the breach of the Yellow River, the 7th Division Zhang Dabiao's troops had to stay in Henan as all subsequent troops were dispatched for disaster relief.
However, Yinggui only saw the Renaissance Army behind him.
He didn't know that there were Renaissance troops approaching him from both the north and the south.
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On April 20, the allied forces outside Shanhaiguan had been blocked outside Shanhaiguan for ten days.
At this time, Wang Xiao arrived with troops from the Far East Military Region, and together with Cai Shusen's 3rd Division, attacked the coalition forces outside the Guanzhong.
This made the 50,000-strong army of the Allied Forces outside Guanhai unable to advance or retreat.
At this time, Dong Shuheng asked Yi Xin to read Xianfeng's imperial edict in front of the battle line. The 50,000-strong army surrendered.
The Fuxing Army solved the problem outside the customs once and for all.
Dong Shuheng immediately decided to establish Fengtian, Heilong and Wusu provinces outside the customs.
The area south of the Songhua River, including the Liaodong Peninsula, was assigned to Fengtian Province, all the way to the north bank of Heilongjiang in the north, and south of the Outer Xing'an Mountains was assigned to Heilong Province. Both sides of the Ussuri River, including the original Jilin General's Mansion and the coastal area to the east, were all assigned to Ussuri.
Provincial jurisdiction.
Three enhanced versions of the three eastern provinces emerged. To the west of the Outer Xing'an Mountains and the area around Moon Lake were carved out from Heilong Province to form the Far North Province.
The area north of the lower reaches of Heilongjiang, including the area north of the Xing'an Mountains in the west, and all the way to the North Pole are still owned by the Far East Province.
These will be the two northernmost provinces of the Chinese government. Their characteristics are harsh climate, large territory and small population.
At the same time, all the victims of the disaster in Shandong, eastern Henan and southern Zhili moved outside the customs. Millions of people moved outside the customs. It was really impossible to make a splash.
All the costs of relocating these people will be borne by the Renaissance Military Government. In addition, the military government will subsidize food rations for the immigrants until there is a harvest in the coming year.
In fact, there are abundant products outside the customs. After these immigrants arrived, they were able to meet a large part of their food needs just by collecting, fishing and hunting.
The key is that Dong Shuheng is now as good as before. After so many days of searches, the value of gold and silver and other precious metals found in Beijing alone has reached 200 million silver dollars. This does not include jewelry, jade, antique calligraphy and painting and other collectibles.
With these precious metals, Dong Shuheng can finally start to form his own central bank. The conditions for issuing banknotes are also becoming increasingly mature.
The Fuxing Army provided generous land conditions to the immigrants who left the customs. Each household of these immigrants who left the customs could be allocated at least one hundred acres of land.
At the same time, the Fuxing Military Government also issued orders in other places, calling on people to immigrate to the three eastern provinces. Anyway, as long as you go, the government will allocate land and provide subsidies.
The Yellow River Basin is densely populated, but over-exploitation of land, soil erosion, and water shortages occur from time to time.
Dong Shuheng will find ways to continue to migrate the population here in the future. Returning farmland to forests will, on the one hand, effectively occupy the peripheral territories, and on the other hand, it can also improve the living environment of these people.
After the Taiping Army in Guangxi withdrew, the instructors followed up and attacked directly to Yun Province, establishing contact with the Guangnan column. The second division from Guizhou also occupied Qian Province and went south from Dongchuan Prefecture in the north of Yun Province to surround Chuncheng.
Under attack from two sides, after learning that the emperor had issued an edict to abdicate, Chuncheng was finally defeated. At this point, the strategic mission of the Central Route Army had been achieved.
The Southern Route Army also completed its mission and occupied eastern Guangdong and Hainan.
The North Route Army and the West Route Army also captured Shaanxi in a pincer attack. Yinggui and Huang Hao were killed in the army. The North Route Army will then go north to the grassland and attack the grassland from north to south with the cavalry going south from the Far North Province.
Zuo Jigao continued to lead his troops into the Hexi Corridor, and his journey had just begun.
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