Indeed, there is no need to stay in Tianjin any longer.

In fact, a few hours later, the Ming army's naval artillery destroyed Haiguang Temple, but Yijing still fled under artillery fire, and the defeated Qing army did not stop running until Jinghai and Yang Liuqing, so they could stop and comfort their injured little hearts.

They were attacked by an army of 60,000.

Then the one who fled to Jinghai and Yang Liuqing added up to just over half.

And left under the city of Tianjin, a total of more than 20,000 in total, including the injured can not run, and the latter was also stabbed to death with a spear by the militia team that then went out of the city, and there are thousands of Qing troops actually escaped, the 60,000 army is basically half of the eight banners and half of the green battalion, in this case, those green battalions are fools if they don't run, most of them are between Baoding and Beijing and Tianjin, and they can't escape this catastrophe if they take off their outer uniforms.

In short, the Qing Dynasty's imperial counterattack ended in a crushing defeat, and they were no longer capable of launching a new attack.

Those Qing troops would rather die than charge again.

In this way, it is not interesting for Yang Feng to continue to stay in Tianjin, he stayed here to attract the Qing army to fight a good war, and now this goal has been achieved, these troops are also the maximum that Daoguang can put together in the short term, and there are still those left in Beijing City, and new reinforcements have to be mobilized from outside the Guanwai and even Shanxi and other places. Shandong and Henan are no longer armies, and even the Qingzhou garrison Eight Banners were solved by the British army in the Battle of Zhenjiang, and the Qing troops in Shanxi and Guanwai received orders, and then put them together, and then galloped thousands of miles to help, I am afraid that they will not be able to reach Beijing within a month, that is to say, Beijing will count on the remaining Eight Banners in the short term. Yang Feng left the 2nd Brigade and the escort fleet without an infantry battalion to defend Tianjin, and the battle fleet and an infantry battalion to defend Dagu, so he could take the 1st Marine Brigade to attack Beijing.

Not really offensive, of course.

A brigade attacking Beijing is still less, but it can scare Daoguang into letting him know that this Beijing is no longer available, and then run away as fast as possible.

As long as Daoguang runs away, then this Beijing is not important, the Ming army can rely on Tianjin Port as a base to fight the local tyrants to divide the fields, although there is an ice age in Dagukou, but this time is not the end of the Ming Dynasty, at most there are some ice floes, there are not many days of closure of the port in a short time, the original history of the British and French forces have been here many times in winter, the Beijing Treaty was signed in the winter, and the British and French forces also retreated in the winter, so even if this port has ice age restrictions, it is not worth mentioning at all, and the materials from the south can continue to supply the north.

As for when to conquer Beijing, this is a matter for the generals in the future, and the purpose of Emperor Yang's Northern Expedition is only to force Daoguang to Xi'an.

He still has new enemies to deal with.

The British were regrouping a fleet for the attack, and indeed included the newly commissioned Trafalgar, which was already heading for the Cape of Good Hope, which had just arrived in Paris by telegram from the Ming Consulate in France, and it was clear that Victoria did not want to pay for it.

Since this is the case, Uncle Yang is indispensable to spank her little pimp.

What's more, you can also grab Singapore.

In this way, the two battalions of Junliangcheng and Xianshuigu were soon transferred to Tianjin, and their original task was to secure the transportation line on the Haihe River, but by this time the transport ships had already unloaded their goods and loaded them into prisoners, and this transportation line was temporarily useless, and it would take at least two months for them to return from Guangzhou. Just transferred these two battalions back, plus a battalion originally at the fork, so that three battalions plus an artillery battalion, in addition, Yang Feng also moved the hundreds of captured cannons and ammunition on the city wall, this was handed over to those militias, the people of Tianjin organized 20,000 militiamen, they have no problem using this and throwing grenades, in short, even if he leaves, Tianjin is still iron.

All that's left is the transportation of supplies.

This is also very simple, countless boats are still blocked in the area of the three forks, and they carry a brigade as if they were playing.

On the third day of the bloodletting in Tianjin, the 1st Marine Brigade of the Ming Army boarded the urgently requisitioned boats at the docks of the South Canal, and even the chariot of the Emperor also drove a large boat, and under the frightened eyes of the Qing army spies on both sides of the strait, they turned into the North Canal and began to attack Beijing.

This terrifying news then spread to Jinghai, Yang Liuqing and Lutai, the base camp of the Qing army on the northern front, and of course to the city of Beijing, which had just been made almost closed by the fiasco of Tianjin, and the city of Beijing, which had just been cried by the cries of the inner city with filial piety, immediately fell into an apocalyptic panic. The crops of the subway poles outside Beijing also cried and shouted and poured into Beijing to escape the impending catastrophe, and the officials and gentry around them also ignored their duties and poured into Beijing with their families and gold and silver.

Daoguang, on the other hand, went mad and mobilized all the troops he could muster to defend Beijing.

It's a pity that he really doesn't have much to use.

Yijing took away a full 30,000 Eight Banners stationed in Beijing, and more than 5,000 went south before, such as Duolong'a, who was originally from the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, and there were still tens of thousands of leftovers of the old and weak, and all the green battalions around Beijing that could be transferred to Tianjin were all transferred, and the rest could not be transferred in a short time. Poor Daoguang has no choice but to issue weapons even those women, which is still very gratifying, in fact, in the previous battles including the battle of Zhenjiang against the British army, the women in those banner men showed more bravery than men, and at this time there were women in Beijing, and even the concubines in the palace began to issue weapons, and they could also be used to commit suicide when necessary. At the same time, Daoguang also called on those officials and gentry to organize the rebel army to help, and the latter responded enthusiastically, some strange teams emerged one after another, and even the entertainers and the rabbits of the Eight Hutongs all went to the city, vowing to fight for the Qing Dynasty to the end, in short, the whole of Beijing was completely chaotic and prepared for war.

Even the banner of Fuqing Demon Slayer appeared.

Of course, this is just a helpless move.

Daoguang knew very well that it was not much fun for Yang Feng to fight under the city of Beijing, no matter how much he resisted, and whichever one of the shells bombarded into the city and killed casually was the basis of his rule, so the most important thing was to block this demon outside Beijing.

Then Yijing, Mu Zhang'a, Longwen, and Nar Jing'e, these guys, could only take their remnants of the defeated generals and trembling to attack the Ming army on the canal, fortunately, at this time the Ming army had no city wall to rely on, and there were also a lot of passes on the North Canal, although they failed to catch up with the northbound fleet in Yangcun, but they still caught up in the section of the river east of Hexiwu.

And then......

The first to arrive, of course, were the cavalry.

"This tartar has learned wisely, too!"

Huang Ming stood on the deck of a boat, looking at the south bank with interest, the Qing cavalry of the brigade appeared in the distance, and fired in chaos almost a mile away, although they had high-end smoothbore flintlock pistols in their hands, but such a distance was also meaningless, not to mention the Ming army on the canal, even the slender man who pulled the fiber on the bank could not hit, but it was difficult for the Ming army to hit the target at such a distance, so whether it was the rifle in the soldier's hand or those machine guns, none of them fired, and let the Qing cavalry perform hard in the distance.

"Green camp, it's just a mouthful of food!"

The owner of the ship beside him said with a smile.

Most of the boats on these canals were brought from Jianghuai, and they knew the strength of the Ming army better than the northerners, and they also knew the policy of the Ming army, and small merchants like them were not in the scope of liquidation.

On the contrary, the officials in the Ming control area ruled Qingming, there was no harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the merchants were respected, which made them yearn for it even more, in fact, except for those officials and businessmen who relied on privileges to monopolize, the entire industrial and commercial class was welcome to the Ming Dynasty. Qing Dynasty commerce is a kind of deformed business, unless someone in the court or a top donation, otherwise it is extremely difficult for ordinary businessmen to develop, Wu Bingjian Hu Xueyan The success of these people, of course, has their own talent factors, but more depends on the dependence of officials, the success of Yangzhou salt merchants is the same, the success of Jin merchants is the same. But it is extremely difficult for ordinary businessmen who have no power and no power to succeed, not to mention that this kind of going south and north needs to play countless checkpoints, even a rural merchant has to fight a good local gentry first!

But the Daming control area is different.

There industry and commerce could develop with real freedom, without fear of facing the clutches of the gentry at any moment, and then all the wealth would be filled with their desires.

Although the war blocked the Cao Yun, which would affect these Cao ships mainly for transporting food in the short term, but fortunately, they were all compensated enough, and the owners of each Cao boat involved in the transportation of troops were given a certificate stamped by the Emperor of God, with which they could enjoy some tax exemption privileges in the Ming controlled area, although there was a time limit, it was enough, and when the Ming army conquered Jiangxi and Hunan, their good days began immediately.

And there is no suspense about it.

"Green Camp."

Huang Ming sneered.

In the distance, the cavalry of the Green Battalion, who had been forced to attack, were still putting on a show, shooting at the Ming convoy on the canal with their smoothbore guns more than 500 meters away, and it was clear that they were ready to shoot like this all the time.

And in the sound of their send-off gunfire, the Ming army fleet arrived in Hexiwu, where it was blocked, and some of the Qing troops who arrived in a hurry fired at the fleet with mountain splitting guns, and then were then collapsed by machine guns, saying that the range of mountain splitting guns could not catch up with the machine guns of the Ming army!

The flotilla was fighting and walking, constantly driving away the flies that tried to stop them.

Anyway, whether it is the Eight Banners or the Green Battalion, whether the cavalry or the infantry, after experiencing the corpse mountain and blood sea in Tianjin, no one dares to break into the range of the Ming army's firepower. So despite the upstream, the need to cross the locks, the need to pull through several sections of the river, and even a stubborn resistance, four days later, the fleet arrived at Zhangjiawan and began its march to Tongzhou, still in the midst of a wail in the city of Beijing.