AD 1793.
August of the second year after the Ming Dynasty was restored.
Zhu Daohua, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, formally offered sacrifices to the Ancestral Temple and issued a proclamation, declaring that he would lead a million troops to sweep the north and restore the Liao Dynasty in order to avenge the hatred of the country and the family for more than a hundred years.
The next day, he led the Emperor's Guards of 12,000 people, left Yingtian Emperor City, boarded a ship and sailed eastward. At Songjiang Prefecture, he reviewed the first batch of ten brigades of more than 30,000 people heading to Liaodong, and personally led four Thousands of people took a boat across the sea and headed north, aiming for Port Arthur!
Naturally, such a big move by the Ming Dynasty could not be carried out silently.
Don’t say anything else.
It would take several days just to prepare the military supplies for the more than 40,000-strong army to board the ship. With the large army boarding the ship, it would take more than ten days to be fully prepared. In addition, although the Ming Dynasty now has steamships .
However, due to limited voyage, sailing boats were used for such cross-sea expeditions.
When sailing, you have to wait for the opportunity to go out to sea, and it depends on the weather.
Otherwise, if the army encounters extreme weather such as typhoons on the road, it will be doomed.
Therefore, the Ming Dynasty publicly announced that it would sweep the north and restore the Liao Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty personally conquered Liaodong.
In the Imperial Palace in Beijing, Qianlong's Manchu ministers were already arguing noisily.
Emperor Qianlong, who looked pale and thinner, as if he could be blown away by a gust of wind, had a dull pain in his head. What made him even more headache was that the officials wearing flower feathers below were making a fuss.
"The ancestral land of Manchuria must not be abandoned. We must immediately mobilize our troops to reinforce Liaodong! Fight against Ni Ming for our homeland!"
"No! No! Manchuria is deserted and the army is out of the country. Where can we get food and supplies?"
"North Korea is a must-have!"
"North Korea has a small territory, a large population, and poor people. How can it support a large army and materials? What's more, North Korea is a foreign vassal, and persecution is excessive. If North Korea relies on Ni Ming, won't it make the situation even more difficult to handle?"
"How can Beijing defend Beijing when the army leaves the border? The army of bandits has arrived in Zhili!"
Several ministers including Heshen, Helin, Agui, Lebao were arguing.
The current situation of the Qing Dynasty is really extremely bad.
The millions of Eight Banners in Beijing feel like they are trapped in the city.
To the south is the aggressive heavenly army.
To the north are the elite Ming troops who vowed to sweep the north, restore the Liao Dynasty, and avenge themselves.
Under this attack from the north and the south.
The fate of the Qing Dynasty had reached a precarious stage.
It is now time for the Qing Dynasty to decide its fate.
Should we stick to the Central Plains or retreat to Shengjing?
Can the Central Plains be defended?
Can Shengjing be able to hold on?
If neither place is defended...where will the Qing Dynasty go?
Do you want to escape to the grassland?
What do these millions of Eight Banners eat and drink when they go to the grassland?
And he has been pampered and pampered for more than a hundred years.
Can the Eight Banners disciples still endure this hardship?
Perhaps the only good news now is that the religious bandits are blocking Ni Ming's way north.
However, the actions of the religious bandits could not be supported by the gentry.
Therefore, the gentry in Zhili and Shandong still support the Qing Dynasty.
And in order to block the cult bandits.
It can be said that the gentry in both places contributed money and strength when they had money.
Organize group training to accompany the army.
Especially in Guangping Prefecture and Shunde Prefecture in Zhili, which are adjacent to Henan, the local gentry formed villages to protect themselves.
With high walls and strong fortifications, it will not be easy for the heavenly army to defeat them all the way.
The Qing Dynasty had many soldiers and horses in Zhili.
Zhili has always been the focus of the Qing army's defense.
After Zhu Ming and the White Lotus Sect revolted one after another.
The Qing government has strengthened the defense of Zhili. Now the general Agui is the governor of Zhili. The green camp of Zhili includes the generals of the seven towns of Tianjin, Zhengding, Xuanhua, Malan, Daming, Taining and Tongyong, plus the generals of Zhili. Under the supervision of the governor, there were more than 60,000 regular soldiers of the Qing Dynasty.
besides.
During these times, Agui recruited and trained more than 50,000 people in the Zhili organization, with a total strength of 110,000.
But even so, people are still doubtful whether the Qing Dynasty can defend Zhili.
Fortunately, the public sentiment here in Zhili is not as volatile as in the south, and most of the local gentry supports the Qing Dynasty.
And it’s not Zhu Ming who comes, but the religious bandit.
If it were Zhu Ming, everyone would still have a place to live if they surrendered.
However, the religious bandits are a military state with a niche, and they implement a military land system based on feudal manor.
They came to seize their land and wealth, to support their soldiers, and to reward their military merits.
How can they surrender?
So this time.
The wealthy gentry from all over Zhili organized local warriors one after another, and built fortresses in local areas to strengthen the walls and clear the country.
Cities and cities across the country were on the verge of war, and villages across the country began to dig deep trenches and build high walls.
In addition, the Qing court sent Agui to take charge of Zhili, and Agui had 110,000 troops on hand.
It can also uniformly dispatch and command local warriors from all over the country.
It would not be that easy for the Heavenly Kingdom Army to run rampant in Zhili, which had a very strong support for the Qing Dynasty.
However, they want to use 110,000 regular troops and an unknown number of Xiangshen armed forces to fight against the religious bandits, who are said to be one million, but the actual number may not be less than three or four hundred thousand.
It is impossible to completely keep them out of Zhili.
And there is another very troublesome thing.
That means water transportation is cut off.
The Qing Dynasty lost the food of the south.
Now food from the south cannot be transported in.
The Qing court had no choice but to ask Shandong, Zhili, and Shanxi provinces to raise grain and grass for military needs.
The grain collection quota for Zhili Province alone is two million dan!
To know.
Zhili in this era is actually the land of Hebei in history. After thousands of years of reclamation, in this era without chemical fertilizers, the yield of such over-cultivated barren land has been very small.
Large-scale forcible requisition of grain is afraid of triggering civil unrest.
Even more troublesome is that.
The autumn harvest hasn't started yet.
Hundreds of thousands of religious bandits are already at the Zhili border. If they enter Zhili, they will not be able to harvest this year's autumn grain.
Even Shandong's grain may not be harvested.
By then, let alone military supplies.
In the city of Beijing, whatever the millions of hardcore farmers who were not doing anything to produce could eat, they would give the Qing court a headache.
There seem to be too many dead ends for the Qing Dynasty now.
The first is starvation due to lack of food.
The second was to be killed by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom when they broke through the city of Beijing.
The third was that the Ming army entered the Pass through the Liaoxi Corridor and was forced to death.
Especially now that there are too many bannermen in Beijing.
Once Beijing is surrounded, Manchuria will be in danger of being massacred.
Although Qianlong had a headache at this time.
But I also know how powerful it is.
Compared with a strong city, these one million and eight banner nations are the foundation.
When people die, nothing is left.
But now the Ming army has landed in Liaodong.
Where else could the Qing Dynasty go?
A decisive battle in Beijing?
You can't fight decisively, you can't fight tooth and nail.
Qianlong thought to himself.
But one or two of the ministers currently debating do not mention the plan to abandon Beijing.
This made Qianlong anxious.
I am not Chongzhen.
What are you two afraid of?
It's really worrying.
Do you want me to propose evacuating Beijing on my own?
Do you still want your posthumous name?
How about passing the position to Yong Yan now and letting him take the blame?
The fifteenth elder brother who was standing next to Qianlong and was serving him carefully felt a cold feeling on his back and shuddered.
At this time Agui came out to speak.
"Your Majesty, the Qing Dynasty has now reached the stage of life and death. All the Eight Banners must cheer up. In addition, they have to fight in Liaodong on the one hand and the Central Plains on the other. The current strength is not enough. We must try our best. Expanding the Eight Banners is the way to go!”
Agui suggested.
Qianlong nodded and said: "Expanding the Eight Banners is indeed a way!"
He Shen, He Lin and others looked at each other.
How to expand the Eight Banners?
Judging from the conversation between the emperor and Agui, it seems that the two have already discussed it in private.
Now it is just raised publicly.
During the Southern Ming dynasty, the parliament was held as a ceremony, and the Kingdom of Heaven carried out the military reform of the military merit field system.
The Qing Dynasty cannot lag behind.
But of course the Qing Dynasty could not hold a parliament, nor could it engage in government troops.
Instead, we need to carry out a reform of the "Big Eight Banners" plan.
It is to consolidate and strengthen the Eight Banners military system.
On the one hand, the existing eight banners of Manchuria and Mongolia must be mobilized, and all the strong men in the banners must be included in training to organize a large army.
On the other hand, the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty should be expanded, and some local armed forces in Zhili and Shandong should be included in the ranks of the Eight Banners and given flag status.
Before this, the Qing Dynasty had been weakening the Eight Banners Army. By the late Qianlong Dynasty, the number of Han Eight Banners was not large - after all, the Qing Dynasty's finances could not support it if they had to raise so many hard-core crops.
But now the Qing Dynasty has no choice. The Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty must be expanded. Otherwise, how can we mobilize the enthusiasm of the Han soldiers to fight?
besides.
We also need to expand one back to the Eight Banners.
Just go to the northwest to recruit Hui Hui into the flag.
Trying to pass such a reform.
Restore the Eight Banners military system that unites soldiers and civilians, and restore the era when the Eight Banners cavalry was invincible in the world.
Although this idea is very unrealistic.
But now the Qing Dynasty has no other way.
They must expand their base to compete with Zhu Ming and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
at this meeting.
Qianlong made a plan to expand the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, recruit new Eight Banners, and rectify the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia.
The strong men of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia in Beijing were mobilized to join the army, and the old and weak were also organized into battalions.
Pretending to be desperate in the capital.
But some Manchu and Han officials with a keen sense of smell have begun to realize it.
Emperor Qianlong was ready to abandon the capital and leave.
Honestly.
Many Manchurian nobles breathed a sigh of relief after receiving the news.
If Qianlong really wants to fight in the capital, he will put the fate of the entire Manchu clan on the gambling table.
And it looked almost impossible to win.
However, Qianlong did not want to have a decisive battle in the capital, because he was worried about the risk of annihilation - fighting in the capital, you can only win but not lose. If you lose, you will not only lose the country, but also be annihilated.
Moreover, Qianlong himself could not leave. Otherwise, if the emperor ran away, would the soldiers below still be determined to fight to the death?
Since ancient times, there has been no precedent for the emperor to run away and the capital to be able to hold on.
Therefore, Qianlong would not leave the capital as a last resort.
But we can't fight decisively in the capital.
Therefore, the current solution is to fight in Henan and Zhili.
If we lose in the Henan-Zhili battlefield, we can still afford to lose - to be precise, we have time to run away.
But after the battles in Henan and Zhili, what should the Ming army in Liaodong do?
This was also something Qianlong had to deal with.
After the endless coma, Shi Yu suddenly stood up from the bed. If you want to read the latest chapters, please download the Star Reading app and read the latest chapters for free without ads. The website has not updated the latest chapter content, but the Xingxing Reading APP has updated the latest chapter content.
He took a big breath of fresh air, his chest trembling.
Confused, confused, and all kinds of emotions came to my mind.
Where is this?
Afterwards, Shi Yu subconsciously observed his surroundings, and then became even more confused.
A single dormitory?
Even if he was successfully rescued, he should be in the ward now.
And my body...how could I not have any injuries at all?
With doubts, Shi Yu's eyes quickly swept across the room, and finally his eyes rested on a mirror beside the bed.
The mirror showed his current appearance. He was about seventeen or eighteen years old, and he looked very handsome.
But the problem is, this is not him! Download the Star Reading app and read the latest chapters for free without ads.
My previous self was a handsome young man in his twenties who had been working for a while.
And now, no matter how you look, this appearance is that of a high school student...
This change made Shi Yu stunned for a long time.
Don't tell him that the operation was successful...
The body and appearance have changed. This is not a matter of surgery or not, but magic.
He turned into a completely different person!
Could it be...that he traveled through time?
In addition to the mirror placed by the bedside, which was obviously not feng shui-friendly, Shi Yu also found three books next to it.
Shi Yu picked it up and took a look. The title of the book instantly silenced him.
"Essential Animal Breeding Manual for Beginner Breeders"
"Postpartum Care of Pet Pets"
"Evaluation Guide for Interracial Beast-Eared Girls"
Shi Yu:? ? ?
The names of the first two books are pretty normal, but what happened to the last one?
"cough."
Shi Yu looked solemnly and stretched out his hand, but his arm soon stiffened.
Just when he was about to open the third book and see what it was about, his brain suddenly felt a sharp pain, and a large number of memories came flooding back.
Icefield City.
Pet animal breeding base.
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Beastmaster?
