Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 425 Kou can go, so can I!

Soon, the remaining two or three thousand people in Tianjin opened their closed doors and windows one after another, took to the streets, and listened to the notices being read.

Pan Aqiang and others took the opportunity to organize the military doctors of the Guards to take to the streets to give the people their pulses, and set up preaching platforms at various intersections to preach the various policies of the Ming Dynasty and the good treatment of the people, and the evil of the Qing Dynasty and the officials. The grain seized from the cellars of the big families was divided into small portions and distributed to the common people. For a while, the common people praised it one after another.

The people who fled to the countryside outside the city heard that the Ming army in the city not only did not kill people, but also had strict discipline and did not disturb the people.

Tianjin was completely settled down, and Daming took Tianjin firmly without any effort.

On the Korean side, [-] Korean soldiers, [-] Japanese soldiers, and [-] national defense troops are landing, and reinforcements are coming soon.

Because the North Canal from Tianjin to Shuntianfu is mainly the Baihe River.

Although the river is navigable and used to transport grain into Beijing, it cannot carry the flagship Desheng of the Fujian Sea Fleet with a draft of more than 3000 meters and a depth of more than [-] tons, but those third-tier and fourth-tier warships can barely pass.

Zhu Tiangui had no choice but to brazenly use a third-class warship named Quanzhou as his flagship. Fortunately, after entering Baihe, the Qing army basically had no coastal defense forts. In addition, there were guards clearing the way on both sides of the Baihe River, and there were many warships in front as scouts. Lu, Quanzhou doesn't have to worry about being attacked at all, and it's not afraid of danger.

Although Tianjin City at this time was far from being able to restore the prosperity of the important towns in North China, as the people who had fled to the suburbs and countryside of Tianjin returned one after another, the inside and outside of the city began to be lively.

Pan Aqiang learned that most of the people were afraid of the war and fled outside.

If all the people in Tianjin were here, there would probably be no less than 10 people in the city.

Unexpectedly, there were so many people in Tianjin City, Pan Aqiang was still a little surprised.

However, after thinking about it, I was relieved.

The capital and other places in the Qing Dynasty not only accumulated a large number of garrison troops, but also had a population of nearly one million. They needed to consume a lot of food and other commodities, and these were all transported by water by sea or the Grand Canal. Tianjin, and then via the North Canal via Tongzhou to the capital.

As a result, Tianjin City has become a huge transit center for food and other goods, so even though it has experienced a food shortage, the population is still quite large.

Pan Aqiang did not stay in Tianjin City for long. He waited until the National Defense Forces, Dongying soldiers and Korean soldiers who came across the sea from Korea were commanded. After staying behind [-] National Defense Army soldiers to garrison Tianjin City and the canal waterway, he directly ordered the rest of the troops to set off immediately and march upstream along the Baihe River. Go up and directly march into the capital of the Tartars.

He had obtained Zhu Kezang's consent for this order, and Daming had a telegram!

The army led by Zhu Kezang was accompanied by a generator and a wireless telegraph.

Since in history, the British and French invaders were able to use more than [-] land and water troops to capture the Dagukou Fort all the way, and then take Tianjin, Tongzhou, and finally occupy the capital, Zhu Kezang believes that Ming Dynasty can do it too!

Kou can go, so can I!

Some people may say that in the history of the Qing Dynasty, it was because they knew that foreigners would not occupy it forever, so they were unwilling to fight to the death.

However, Zhu Kezang believed that these Tartar emperors, as emperors who claimed to be the emperors of the heavens, fled in panic and abandoned the capital, and they must have had no choice but to do so.

The Ming Dynasty wanted to take advantage of the fatal flaw of the slow mobilization of troops by the Qing Dynasty, and march faster than the British and French allied forces in history to capture the capital.

Pan Aqiang also had the idea of ​​a battle to determine the fate of the world. He wanted to wipe out all the main forces in the capital area of ​​the Qing Dynasty in one fell swoop.

As long as the Shuntian Mansion is surrounded, Daming can surround it to fight for aid.

Let the Qing Dynasty completely lose its fighting power in the north.

Before, when Huang Taiji besieged Chongzhen, he also kept besieging points to fight for aid, draining the blood of the soldiers in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty.

Decades have passed, and the offensive and defensive trends have changed!
On August 24th, the Ming army hurriedly attacked north along the Grand Canal!

Perhaps it was because of the retreat of the governor of Zhili that the Qing army fled in all directions. The fleet sailed along the river without encountering any resistance.

On both sides of the canal, there are plains full of trees and crops, and the journey is very tiring.

The soldiers of the Ming army have strict military discipline, and they must not be disturbed when passing through villages on the road.

Even the Dongying soldiers and Korean soldiers did not dare to mess around, because the Ming army was staring at them, and if they dared to mess around, they would permanently lose the chance to become a naturalized Daming.

On August 25th, the soldiers of the Ming army arrived at a small town called Beicang by the canal. Scouts reported that according to the people, Yu Chenglong, the governor of Zhili, had passed through this small town and led the The Qing army burned a batch of grain and left in a hurry.

Pan Aqiang ordered to continue to step up to the north. He wanted to take down Shuntian Mansion and defeat the Qing Dynasty garrisons in the Gyeonggi area within a month.

Because in a few months, it will drag on to winter, and the soldiers of the guards are all southerners, who are not used to the severe cold weather in the north, and they will be in trouble.

Pan Aqiang couldn't trust the Korean soldiers who were used to the Northland.

Three days later, the Ming army arrived at a small town called Hexiwu.

Hexiwu Town was originally a small village, but because it was close to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, with the prosperity of water transport, it gradually developed into a town. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, because Hexiwu Town was the throat of water transport, it was here. Set up a tax bill pass and a water and land post station, known as "the first town in Jingdong".

The scouts on the shore came to report that the post station in Hexiwu town had been burned down. Except for a few hundred civilians, the rest of the customs soldiers, water transportation supervisors and canal dredging officers and soldiers all fled.

However, it is estimated that the Qing soldiers did not expect that the Ming Dynasty marched so quickly, and they were too hasty, and they did not even deal with the more than [-] special flat-bottomed grain ships docked in the canal, and naturally they were captured by the Ming Navy.

As for the large post station in Hexiwu Town, although it was burned down, Daming's scouts found dozens of mules and horses around, as well as dozens of carriages specially used to transport grain.

The Ming army found a few poor people and small traders in Hexiwu Town as guides, and together with two Jinyiwei who had ambushed here earlier, they learned that they had passed the North Canal in the Hexiwu section, that is, the upper reaches of the Baihe River, with hundreds of tons The ships were unable to sail.

Pan Aqiang and others had no choice but to disembark from the sailing warship.

Because he was worried about the danger of the small warship, Zhu Tiangui resolutely refused to let Pan Aqiang take the ordinary warship. In desperation, he had to march on foot.

Since large warships could not enter the upstream canal, Pan Aqiang ordered that Hexiwu Town be used as a logistics transfer base for conquests in Gyeonggi and other places.

Although the large transport ships transporting rations, heavy artillery, and gunpowder do not have a hundred tons, they have a deep draft and may not be able to navigate the canal. They can only unload part of the rations from the large transport ships and put them on small ships to ensure navigable.

In order to ensure the logistics supply, Pan Aqiang sent troops to collect small boats and carriages to distribute the food for the troops.

The rest of the luggage that could not be transported away was all hoarded in Hexiwu Town and transported in batches.

In addition, due to the extremely fast marching speed of the Ming army, the scattered soldiers of the Qing Dynasty were caught off guard along the way, and a lot of discarded military rations and other supplies could be captured.

In addition, with the logistics base in Hexiwu Town, which can replenish supplies at any time, the logistics of the Ming army will not have major problems.

However, just in case, Pan Aqiang ordered that [-] Dongying soldiers be stationed in Hexiwu Town to prevent the Qing army from attacking halfway and cut off the supply line, so as to ensure that this logistics base would not make any mistakes. Compared with Korean soldiers, he trusted Dongying soldiers more. .

(End of this chapter)