A day later, the main force of the captives arrived outside Tianjin. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At this time, Feng Yunshan's "Extinction of the Ocean" also arrived at the Zhigu River Wharf on the outskirts of Tianjin.

Due to the North Canal from Tianjin to Beijing, the main stream is the White River. Although the river was navigable and could be used to transport grain into Beijing, it could not carry more than 3,000 tons of draft more than 3,000 tons of the "Exterminating Yang," and even the second flagship of Luo Xuan's "Keyang," could not carry it.

Fortunately, after entering the Baihe, the Qing army no longer had a coastal defense battery, and there were captured troops on both sides of the Baihe River to open the way, and there were many warships in front of it as a way to explore, so the "Prisoner Yang" did not have to worry about being attacked at all, but was not afraid of danger.

Therefore, the "Captive Yang" has not only become the flagship of the Fifth Division of the Naval Division, but also the water palace of the Holy King Feng Yunshan.

At this time, although the city of Tianjin was far from recovering the prosperity of an important town in North China, with the return of the people who fled to the countryside on the outskirts of Tianjin, the city began to be lively inside and outside.

Feng Yunshan learned that most of the people were afraid of the war and fled. If the people of Tianjin are here, there are only 200,000 people in the city.

In this era, there were so many people in Tianjin City, Feng Yunshan was still a little surprised. However, when I think about it, I am also relieved. The Manchu Qing Dynasty's Jingshi and other places not only accumulated a large number of garrison troops, but also had a population of nearly one million in the city, which required the consumption of a large amount of grain and other commodities, and these were transported by sea or the Grand Canal, which had to pass through Tianjin first, and then through the North Canal through Tongzhou to the capital. As a result, Tianjin City became a huge transit center for grain and other goods, so the population was also large.

Feng Yunshan did not stay in Tianjin City for long, after he left behind the 5,000 captive soldiers of the 5th Division to garrison Tianjin City and the canal channel, he directly ordered all units of the captive army to immediately open upstream, go up the Baihe River, and directly march into the capital of the Qing Demon.

Feng Yunshan already had the idea of a surprise attack, he arranged so much, and let the captive army attack in several ways to attract the strength and attention of the Qing army, the purpose was to catch the Qing army off guard. Since in history, the British and French invaders were able to use more than 17,000 troops by land and water to capture the Dagukou Fort all the way within two months, followed by Tianjin, Tongzhou, and finally the city of Beijing, Feng Yunshan believed that the capture army could also be!

Some people may say that in history, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was unwilling to fight to the death because they knew that foreigners would not occupy it forever. But Feng Yunshan believes that Xianfeng, as the emperor of the self-proclaimed Heavenly Empire, fled in panic and abandoned the capital, which must have reached the point of necessity.

Feng Yunshan wanted to take advantage of the fatal flaw of the Manchu court's slow mobilization of troops, and march faster than the historical Anglo-French army to capture the city of Beijing. Moreover, Feng Yunshan had the intention of deciding the outcome of the first war, and annihilated all the main forces in the Gyeonggi area of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in one fell swoop. Let the Manchus lose their backbone, and then its dynasty, which has ruled China for more than 200 years, can come to an end!

Similar to the revolution in later generations, the crumbling Manchu regime collapsed in an instant, and the wall fell down and everyone pushed it, it is conceivable that as long as he led his troops to conquer the capital of the Manchu Dynasty, the Hui Party in various places, such as the Twist Army, the Miao Min, the Northwest Anti-People and other forces will swarm, and at this time, he raised his arms and shouted, it is really possible that the volunteers from all over the country will come to vote!

Even if most of the high-ranking officials such as provincial governors and admirals are full of people and will not surrender themselves, but what about the prefects and county orders below, the guerrillas and thousands of generals, especially the Han soldiers at the grassroots level, as long as the secret service department is slightly instigated and guided, most of them will still surrender to the holy country together.

On the afternoon of the 24th day of the ninth lunar month, Feng Yunshan only entered the city of Tianjin to rest for two hours, and then immediately took the "Captive Yang" with Luo Xuan, Shi Dakai, Zuo Zongtang, Huang Yukun, Liu Shengbang and others, as well as more than 100 royal guards, to take the "Capture Yang" and go upriver along the Baihe River.

There were still more than 100 guards of the palace, and the "Prisoner Yang" could not sit down, so they had to rush on the shore with the officers and men of the two marine regiments of the Fifth Division.

The vanguard of the 10th Naval Division at the forefront cleared all the obstacles blocking the estuary -- barrage chains, bamboo rafts, tree fences, hidden piles, and dikes, and so on, and the "Captured Ocean" followed the other combat fleets to sail smoothly in the Baihe River.

Perhaps because of the retreat of the governor of Zhili, the Qing army scattered and fled, and the fleet drove along the river without encountering any resistance. The weather is slowly getting cooler, and it's autumn. On both sides of the canal, plains full of trees and crops can be a tiring walk. The soldiers of the captives had strict military discipline, and they were not allowed to be disturbed when they passed through the villages.

On September 25th, the soldiers of the begging army arrived at a canal-side wharf town called Beicang, and there was a report from the begging army on the bank, saying that according to the people, Guiliang, the governor of Zhili, had passed through this town, led the Qing army to burn a batch of grain, and left in a hurry.

Feng Yunshan ordered to continue to intensify his northward march, and it was already autumn, and he had to take down the city of Beijing within a month or two to defeat the Manchu garrisons around Gyeonggi. Otherwise, if it drags on until winter, the soldiers and soldiers of the captive army are all southerners, and they are not suitable for the severe cold weather in the north, and then they will be in trouble.

Three days later, the naval division arrived at a small town called Hexiwu.

Hexi Wu Town is a small village, because it is close to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, with the prosperity of Caoyun, slowly developed into a town, the former Ming and Manchu dynasties, because this Hexi Wu Town is the throat of Caoyun, all set up tax and money customs here, water and land station, known as "the first town in Jingdong".

The 9th Division, which served as the vanguard on the shore, reported that the post station in Hexiwu Town had been burned down, and that except for a small number of 100 people in the town, the rest of the officers and soldiers of the customs and Cao soldiers, the Cao transportation overseers, and the canal dredging had all fled.

However, it is estimated that the Qing soldiers could not have imagined that the capture army would march so quickly, and the incident happened in a hurry, and they did not even deal with the more than 30 special flat-bottomed grain ships docked in the canal, and naturally became captured by the 10th Division. Although the large post station in Hexi Wu Town was burned down, the soldiers of the captured army found that there were dozens of mules and horses around, as well as dozens of carriages dedicated to transporting grain.

The 10th Division of the Pioneer Division of the Navy Division and the 9th Division of the Pioneer Division of the Land Division both found a few poor people and small traders in Hexi Wu Town as guides, plus two special agents of the Special Service Division who had been ambushed here earlier, and learned that after crossing the North Canal in the Hexi Wu section, that is, the upper reaches of the Baihe River, ships of hundreds of tons could not sail.

Feng Yunshan and others had to all get off the "Capture Yang". Because he was worried that the small warship was in danger, Luo Xuan resolutely refused to let Feng Yunshan take an ordinary warship, and in desperation, he had to take a carriage. Fortunately, Liu Shengbang, who had a prescient name, also transported the "bulletproof" carriage reinforced with steel plates that Feng Yunshan usually used to travel.

Large warships could not enter the canal upstream, so Feng Yunshan ordered that the town of Hexi be renamed "Capture Town" as a logistics transit base for the conquest of Gyeonggi and other places.

Although the large transport ships that transported the heavy loads of military rations, heavy artillery, and gunpowder did not have 100 tons, they had a deep draft and might not be able to sail on the canals.

Zhou Shengfu led another 2,000 captives to collect small boats and wagons to distribute and transport rations.

The rest of the baggage that could not be transported was hoarded in the town of Rak and transported in batches. Moreover, Feng Yunshan had already discovered that with the further rapid march of the captive army, the Manchu Qing Dynasty could capture a lot of abandoned military rations and other supplies along the way. In addition, with the logistics base of the capture town, the supply can be replenished at any time, and there will be no major problem in the supply of the capture army.

However, just in case, Feng Yunshan still ordered that the three regiments of the 1st Division B and the three regiments of the 5th Division B should be left with a total of more than 7,000 troops to garrison the town to prevent the Qing army from sneaking up on the supply line and cutting off the supply line halfway, so as to ensure that this logistics base could not make any mistakes.