In the 215th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty...

Yang Feng did not change the reign title, and the reign titles after Chongzhen could not be considered orthodox. The Ming Dynasty fell in the Chongzhen dynasty, so the revival must start from Chongzhen. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty has used Chongzhen as its reign title. Even if it is to be changed in the future, it will be restored to Nanjing to worship Xiaoling. Before Nanjing is restored, the reign title of Chongzhen continued to be used.

In the 215th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty.

That is, the 22nd year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty and the 1842nd year of the Western lunar calendar.

Autumn October 1st.

The Emperor Aisin Gioro Minning of the Qing Dynasty issued an order to set up Xijing in Xi'an, and restored Xi'an to Chang'an. On the same day, the imperial edict was issued to visit Xijing, and all civil and military officials and later Gong followed.

In addition, the sixth prince Yixin was appointed Prince Gong, and at the same time, the Beijing left-behind office was established and Prince Gong was appointed as the Beijing left-behind office. The military minister Mu Zhanga was appointed as the Minister of Personnel in Beijing and the general of the Beijing Ministry of Personnel and the garrison in Beijing. He was appointed as the governor of Zhili, and the Minister of War in Beijing, assisting Prince Gong in guarding Beijing and destroying the bandits in Zhili to restore the bright world of the Qing Dynasty...

In short, Daoguang threw Beijing to the Japanese devils who are only nine years old.

He had no other choice.

Beijing will definitely not be able to stay. The Ming army's transport ship will soon send reinforcements. The reason why Yang Feng retreated to Tongzhou was not because the Han people in Beijing were used as meat shields, but because he had only a few thousand people who had never thought of attacking Beijing. Daoguang didn't even want to use the people as meat shields. The Ming army won the news that the Ming army would not continue to bombard, which could give him a chance to take a breath. But if Yang Feng really wanted to attack Beijing, he just needed to open Chaoyang gates and enter the city, just like what he did in Tongzhou, but once he entered Beijing, he would definitely be drowned by hundreds of thousands of bannermen. This is the real reason why the Ming army always blocked the door but did not attack. So Yang Feng took the opportunity to show his love for the people and then withdraw back to Tongzhou.

But after his reinforcements arrived, they would definitely launch another attack.

Thousands of people were indeed not enough, but having 20,000 people was enough. As long as two more brigades of the Ming army came over, it would be almost 20,000. At that time, Daoguang was really helpless.

So I can only take this opportunity to run away quickly.

The backup Shengjing must not be able to go. Yang Feng said that he was going to go to waste Shengjing. The Ming army landed in Gaizhou and went to Shengjing for only a little while. Shengjing would become the next Beijing at any time, and another backup Summer Resort could not go. This is not a temporary hiding and you can come back at any time. This is to prepare for a long-term stay in the future. There is no canal transportation there, and there is no enough population to search. Hundreds of thousands of hardcore crops will not be able to eat for a few months. By the way, you can't eat grass roots! Even if the herdsmen on the grasslands can't support so many old men even if they eat together. And it is not possible to go south to Luoyang, because the Ming army has already started to attack Changsha at this time, and it is possible to leave Hunan at any time, and then go north along the Han River and leave Nanyang in a short time.

Then the only option left is Xi'an.

Although Guanzhong was no longer during the Han and Tang dynasties, and the land there could not support much population, fortunately there was also the barrier of Taihang Qinling, as well as the backings of Shanxi, Gansu and Sichuan, which were enough to ensure that he had a foothold.

Moreover, the Yellow River can transport some food in some way.

In this way, the Qing Dynasty moved the capital to Chang'an.

Although it is a tour, it is just a cover-up. Everyone understands that this is the formal movement of the capital.

In the stern autumn wind and rain, including the Yijing headquarters, a total of 50,000 elite soldiers of the Eight Banners guarded hundreds of thousands of elderly, weak, women and children. They left Beijing with the cry of those reluctant gentry. Under the 30,000 green camps of the Nar Jing'e headquarters, including some of the Shanxi green camps, dragged a long long dragon to the south. They will go south to Luoyang, and then go from Luoyang to Chang'an. It is definitely not possible to walk the Taihang Mountains. Hundreds of thousands of people across the Taihang Mountains would be able to starve to death.

Such long-distance migration is a big deal.

Fortunately, Daoguang was glad that the Ming army in Tongzhou did not attack. It was estimated that the troops of Naer Jing'e were in the Daxing area, and the second was that after receiving subsequent reinforcements, Xien led the cavalry to Jizhou. In this way, together with the Eight Banners who were accompanying the escorts, there was a nearly 100,000 army. The Ming army was only one brigade and still didn't dare to provoke them.

Of course, this was what Daoguang himself guessed.

In short, the Ming army sat down in Tongzhou and watched him leave.

At the same time, taking advantage of the major retreat of the Qing army, the Ming army in Tianjin quickly attacked to capture Ninghe and Jinghai. In addition, the Xianghe, Anci, the Ming army captured by Tongzhou, and the Wuqing that was previously captured, a deep protrusion with the Haihe and Canal as the skeleton was formed. This protrusion was Tongzhou, and it could even be said to be in front of the Chaoyang Gate of Beijing.

Anyway, the Ming army later often visited.

At this time, winter began. The Ming army from the south was not used to the coldness of Beijing and Tianjin, and quickly turned into a state of winter. At the same time, a large-scale land reform was launched in this controlled area. The craze for combating local tyrants and dividing the fields of the land swept away the cold of winter, causing the entire Ming army to fall into a happy carnival, and people from all over the area outside the controlled area were watching.

The gentry quickly united around the local officials and formed group training, using Prince Gong in Beijing as a spiritual sustenance to continue to compose their hymns of loyalty to our Qing Dynasty. The war in the north came to an end. After all, it was difficult for the Ming soldiers from Guangdong and Guangxi to have any interest in launching large-scale attacks in the cold winter of Beijing, and the canal began to freeze. Tongzhou's materials could only ensure defense and could not support the consumption of the offensive. As for Dagukou, it was still open to navigation, and the land transportation from Dagukou to Tianjin was smooth, so the materials from the south were still being transported to Tianjin.

Including subsequent reinforcements from the Ming army.

The Eighth Army headquarters and two infantry brigades arrived ten days after Daoguang withdrew from Beijing.

But because the weather became colder, they had to adapt to this winter. Even after receiving reinforcements, the Ming army still did not continue to attack. Instead, they continued to transport troops from the south during this period. By the end of the year, two other brigades also arrived. During this period, soldiers were recruited from the local area and three new brigades were quickly formed, including a cavalry brigade.

This was also the first cavalry brigade of the Ming Dynasty.

Although a certain number of war horses were seized before this, they were basically given cavalry reconnaissance posts to the brigades. There were no real cavalry brigades in the Ming army, and the Eighth Army was the first, but in this era, the spear cavalry had fallen behind, and the equipment of this cavalry brigade was mainly sabers and Spencer rapid-fire rifles.

At present, the Ming army has mixed three types of rifles. The army's infantry is a front-mounted rifle and the cavalry is a Spencer metal shell rapid-fire rifle. However, it is not really popular. Only a few main brigades' cavalry sentry are this new type of rifle. After all, the total strength of the Ming army had already exceeded forty infantry brigades. Each brigade had a cavalry reconnaissance post, and if it was replaced with Spencer, it would cost tens of thousands. At present, Yang Feng's copper production still cannot meet the consumption of 10,000 Spencer, especially the navy has to consume machine gun bullets, and even the infantry of the Marine Corps are paper-shell bullet firing rifles.

That is, Dresse.

This is also the main reason why the Army has no machine guns so far. The Marine Corps has not actually dispatched wars, but the Army has provided machine guns to them in battlefield wars in several provinces, Yang Feng did not even have enough copper to make bullets.

Fortunately, this problem will be alleviated soon, because during Yang Feng's Northern Expedition, Jiangxi and Hunan continued to move forward, and the Jiangxi battlefield was already facing Nanchang. The Third Army was already attacking the Xinrao Mansion, and the Ming army in Hunan had already surrounded Changsha. At the latest, Jiangxi and Hunan would be obtained. In this way, the two copper mining areas of Dexing and Tongling would also be obtained. At that time, there would be enough copper to popularize machine guns for the army. After all, his war at this time was already starting to consume resources. More than 40 brigades and seven artillery brigades, the consumption of ammunition for each month was a very terrifying number. Not only was there insufficient copper, but his nitrate and sulfur were used up. Now the artillery shells used by the army were no longer as powerful as before. Although the Ming Dynasty was also producing nitrate through various means, these nitrates were obviously not at the same level as those in Yang Feng's inventory of modern goods.

Fortunately, steel production is no longer restricted with the completion of the open furnace.

In fact, steel production is growing rapidly.

The constraints of resources are also the reason for Yang Feng's recent weak expansion. At least before the Chilean route is established and the saltpeter transported there, he has to temporarily enter a period of consolidation.

In addition, he actually has another problem, that is, saltpeter from Chile is not so easy to transport.

Because the country's saltpeter mines have just been developed for a few years, the first batch of Chilean saltpeter began to be shipped to Europe ten years ago. Originally, the output in history only increased to 30,000 tons per year ten years later, and those saltpeter mines have to be largely controlled by British capital. So Yang Feng had to show his strength first and solve the problem between him and Victoria first. At this time, the British Expeditionary Fleet was probably already passing the Cape of Good Hope, that is, before the end of the summer, he had to face this huge fleet of sixteen seventy-four-art three-class ships.

And there are two brand new first-class battleships.

The Trafalga and St. George, which were just completed and put into service last year.

It was obvious that Victoria was angry.

This young woman who had just gotten married sent her most powerful weapon to show her anger to Uncle Yang. Although she just showed her nails like an angry kitten, Uncle Yang still had to deal with her seriously. After all, these are two first-class battleships of 120 cannons, and they are also equipped with powerful 68-pound bombardment guns.

Don't underestimate this thing.

During the British test, the sixty-eight-pound cannon fired cast steel bullets, which could penetrate the armor of all iron armored ships within 400 yards before the 1860s. At least no battleship in the Ming army can withstand the bombardment of such naval guns, so this was not an easy war for the Ming Navy.
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