The news that the 1st, 8th, and 9th Divisions of the Infantry Division of the captured army had captured Shengjing City together made Feng Yunshan overjoyed. Although he knew that the current Manchu Qing Dynasty was already a grasshopper after the autumn, the key was that they were in the deep mountains and old forests in the northeast, and it was particularly difficult to encircle and suppress them.

However, to Feng Yunshan's disappointment, he still failed to capture the puppet emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. After sacrificing more than 10,000 Hezhe and Xibe warriors and thousands of Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers to the palace, Yixun led the only remaining 50,000 Eight Banner soldiers and 100,000 Eight Banner people of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to escape from the north gate of Shengjing City.

However, because of the last critical moment, the Manchu emperor treated the Hezhe and Xibe and the Mongols differently, which made these conquered peoples feel cold, and when the main force of the Eight Banners fled to Jilin City, the 3,000 garrisons of the Hezhe people in Baidune, Jilin rebelled against the Manchus, led the tribesmen into the Horqin grassland, and made a detour to Shengjing to return to the army to beg for captivity.

The other most loyal Mongol tribes, although they did not surrender to the captive army, also began to be uncertain. For a time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty came to an end. In the process of Yixun leading the troops to flee to Alchuka City, Shengjing, Jilin, Heilongjiang and other Manqi tribes along the way who heard the news followed and fled to the north.

When the news came, Feng Yunshan sensed that the time had come to recover all of Manchuria. In addition, the country's military strength is now increasing, and although the new recruits are still being trained, it is time to go out and fight.

Moreover, Feng Yunshan was most worried about the threat from the north. Polar bear Russia must have invaded the east with all its might after the defeat of the Crimean War, targeting the Outer Northeast and Siberia, and at that time, it was inevitable to clash with itself that was expanding, so Feng Yunshan summoned Zuo Zongtang and Fan Ruzeng to make a good arrangement and layout in advance.

"Zuo Aiqing, now that the army has captured Shengjing, the capital of the Qing Demon, and the main force of the Qing Demon is still there, fleeing north to Jilin, what are your ideas?" Feng Yunshan asked directly.

"Your Majesty, Weichen has sent more than 30,000 troops from the 7th, 8th, and 9th Divisions of the Infantry to form a character line to continue northward and pursue the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The 1st Infantry Division stayed in the vicinity of Shengjing and waited for other troops to come forward to change their defenses. Zuo Zongtang replied: "But Your Majesty, Jilin and Heilongjiang and other bitter cold places, only in the summer I can fight the army to carry out the offensive, now there are still three or four months, if you can't catch up with the Manchu deserters, or the remnants of the Manchu Qing just flee and refuse to fight, my three divisions of the capture army are all southerners, can not fight in this bitter cold place, must return to the Shengjing area for the winter." Now it's troublesome, and Weichen doesn't have any good ideas to wipe out the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. ”

Feng Yunshan shook his head helplessly and said, "Didn't you say that the Seventh Division has become a horse team?" How about a horseback pursuit? Let the soldiers capture and collect more horses, and the captive army will inevitably form a cavalry unit, Zuo Aiqing. ”

"Your Majesty, although the Seventh Division has been formed into a horse infantry, and the speed of the march has been greatly accelerated, the logistics and supplies cannot catch up. Today, the gunpowder projectiles carried by the 7th Division have almost been depleted, and they can only withdraw from the Mongolian steppe and return to the Shengjing area for replenishment. As for the formation of cavalry, preparations have been made for a long time, but the problem now is not horses, tens of thousands of horses have been collected, and the surrender of several tribes in the Mongolian Horqin steppe will not be a problem with horses in the future. The problem now is cavalry, except for the Manchu Eight Banners who are less than 20,000 soldiers, 120,000 new soldiers have been recruited in the north, but they are all infantry, and cavalry has not yet been recruited. The 20,000 Eight Banners did not dare to be directly adapted and used, because there were not enough cavalry of the captive army to suppress them, and they were worried that if they were formed, they would come and go without a trace, and it would be troublesome to rebel. Zuo Zongtang talked about the formation of cavalry.

Feng Yunshan realized that he was thinking a little simple.

Although the cavalry marched quickly, if it was a musketeer, it needed a lot of supplies, and the supplies could not keep up, so it was indeed difficult to advance quickly. As for the infantry, there is no way to take those Manchu Eight Banner soldiers. You must know that at the beginning, because the Eight Banners had a lot of infantry and were stationed in the city, it was easy to be surrounded and annihilated by the captive army. But now, most of their forces have been lost, and the rest are the elite soldiers of the cavalry, and they are wandering around, and it is difficult to contain them at all. Moreover, the most important thing is that the full flag soldiers fled to the north, in this era before the start of global warming, the winter in the Northeast, especially in the Outer Northeast, is particularly cold, and it is difficult for the soldiers of the captive army, who are mostly southerners, to adapt to field operations in October. Also, even if the Logistics Department of the General Staff is already prepared and equipped with gloves and padded jackets, it can't stop this biting cold, and he can't even hold a musket in his hand, how can he kill the enemy?

It seems that it is difficult to eradicate all the remnants of the Manchu Qing in a short period of time.

But Feng Yunshan is most worried about the behemoth in the north, Russia, which is known as a polar bear. For this fighting nation, Feng Yunshan has learned that the history of Russia can be said to be a history of militaristic colonization and military warfare.

Feng Yunshan remembers that in history, Russia only turned its attention to the East after the defeat in the Crimean War. But before that, in fact, there was a premeditated plan, as early as a few years ago, Russian soldiers invaded the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River and established an invasion base, and, at this time, it seems that there is a person who served as the governor of Eastern Siberia, whose name Feng Yunshan has forgotten what his name is, anyway, these Russians are either Yev or Vyov, this person was later called the national hero of Russia, under his command, a large number of Russian mercenaries broke into the Heilongjiang River and carried out military occupation on the north bank of the middle and upper reaches and the two banks of the lower reaches.

Moreover, Russia, which is eyeing the tiger, is also good at seizing opportunities, and after the outbreak of the Eryu War, this polar bear immediately took action, and the man with the name of the man sent troops to the Outer Northeast, forcing the Heilongjiang General Yishan to sign the "Aihui Treaty" with him, completely ceding 600,000 square kilometers of land north of the Heilongjiang River and south of the Outer Khing'an Mountains in the Outer Northeast to Russia, and also to the east of the Ussuri River, and 400,000 square kilometers of land south of the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River, including Sakhalin Island, as a Sino-Russian condominium area.

Feng Yunshan immediately thought of the consequences of the remnants of the Manchu Qing fleeing to the Heilongjiang area. There must be two, one is to develop courageously, increase strength step by step, develop the Heilongjiang area, and then return to the Central Plains. In this way, there will be a conflict with the Russians who are developing here, and the Russians will be driven out of the Outer Northeast. The other is to collude with Russia and sell its territory to gain its support to attack itself and return to Shengjing and the Central Plains. There are only these two results.

Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan directly ordered Fan Ruzeng to dispatch a powerful spy to the outer northeast region to collect intelligence and find out the situation there. Moreover, the key is to be able to adapt to the soldiers of the extreme cold of the north.

"Zuo Aiqing, most of the original soldiers of the capture army are southerners, and you can't take the problem of fighting in the north, what is your strategy?" Feng Yunshan asked directly.

"Your Majesty, 120,000 recruits have been recruited in the area north of the Yellow River a while ago, and I believe that they can adapt to the weather in the north, but they have not been trained yet, Your Majesty, they should be able to fight on the battlefield last year." Zuo Zongtang reported: "In addition, Your Majesty, in addition to the Manchurians, there are not also Mongolians, Hezhes, Xibes, Solons, Daur and other tribes in Manchuria, and now the surrender of several tribes in Horqin and the annexation of 3,000 troops of the Hezhe tribe mean that after the Manchus were defeated by His Majesty, many tribes began to think carefully and were no longer willing to submit to the Manchus. ”

"Aiqing is saying that we can fight these tribes that were originally conquered by the Manqi people?" Feng Yunshan asked with interest.

"Not bad!" Zuo Zongtang simply stood up, put his hand on the table, and drew a map with his hands dipped in water with the paper on the table, "Your Majesty, please see, here in Jilin, as well as in the Songhua River area, there are tens of thousands of Xibe and more than ten thousand Daur people. At the junction of Heilongjiang and Mongolia, there are still hundreds of thousands of Mongolians and Hezhe people, and there are tens of thousands of Koreans in the area of Changbai Mountain in Jilin, many of whom can recruit people who are good at fighting. ”[.]