The 215th year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty......

Yang Feng did not change the name of the year, the name of the era after Chongzhen can not be regarded as orthodox, the Ming Dynasty died in the Chongzhen Dynasty, then the revival must start from Chongzhen, so the Ming Dynasty has so far taken Chongzhen as the year name, even if it is to be changed in the future, it will be restored to Nanjing to worship the filial piety tomb, and it will continue to be the name of Chongzhen before the recovery of Nanjing.

Two hundred and fifteen years of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty.

That is, the 22nd year of Daoguang in the Tatar Qing Dynasty, and the 1842nd year of the Western calendar.

The first day of October in autumn.

Emperor of the Tatar Qing Dynasty loved Xinjueluo. Min Ning ordered to set up Xijing in Xi'an, and restored Xi'an as Chang'an, and on the same day issued an order to patrol Xijing, civil and military officials and later Gong were all accompanied.

In addition, the sixth elder brother Yixun was named Prince Gong, and at the same time set up the Beijing Left-behind Mansion and Prince Gong was the left-behind guard in Beijing, with the Minister of Military Aircraft Mu Zhang'a and the general of the Beijing Ministry of Officials and the General of the Beijing Military Department, and the Governor of Zhili, Nar Jing, and the Secretary of the Beijing Military Department, assisted Prince Gong to guard Beijing and exterminate the bandits in Zhili and returned to the Qing Dynasty......

In short, Daoguang threw Beijing to the devil six, who is only nine years old.

He had no other choice.

Beijing must not be able to stay, the transport ships of the Ming army will soon send reinforcements, the reason why Yang Feng retreated to Tongzhou, of course, is not because those Han people in Beijing were used as meat shields, but because he was so thousands of people who never thought of attacking Beijing, Daoguang didn't want to use the common people as meat shields in exchange for the Ming army not continuing to bombard, and he could be given a chance to take a breather. But if Yang Feng really wants to fight Beijing, he only needs to blast open the gates of Chaoyang and enter the city, just like he did in Tongzhou, but once he enters Beijing, he will definitely be drowned by hundreds of thousands of banner people, which is the real reason why the Ming army has always blocked the door but does not attack, so Yang Feng took the opportunity to show a wave of love for the people and then withdrew to Tongzhou.

But when his reinforcements arrive, he will definitely attack again.

A few thousand people are indeed not enough, but 20,000 people are enough, and the Ming army will be almost 20,000 as long as two more brigades come over, and Daoguang will really have nothing to do at that time.

So I can only take this opportunity to run away quickly.

And the spare Shengjing must not go, Yang Feng said that he is going to go to Shengjing in blood, and the Ming army landed in Gaizhou to Shengjing is nothing more than a little way, Shengjing will change to the next Beijing at any time, and another spare summer resort can not go, this is not a temporary hiding can come back at any time, this is to prepare for a long stay in the future, run the summer resort to have a fart future. There is no Cao Yun and there is not enough population to loot, and hundreds of thousands of hardcore crops will not be able to eat in a few months, so you can't gnaw on the grassroots! Those herdsmen on the grassland can't support so many uncles even if they eat together. And it is not possible to go south to Luoyang, because the Ming army has begun to attack Changsha at this time, and it is possible to leave Hunan at any time, and then it will not take long to go north along the Han River to Nanyang.

Then the only option left is Xi'an.

Although Guanzhong is no longer the Han and Tang dynasties, and the land there can't support too many people, but fortunately, there is still the barrier of Taihang Qinling, as well as the backing of Shanxi, Gansu and Sichuan, which is enough to ensure his foothold.

And the Yellow River can still transport some grain.

In this way, the Qing Dynasty moved the capital to Chang'an.

Although it is said to be a patrol, it is just a cover-up, and everyone understands that this is the official relocation of the capital.

In the autumn wind and autumn rain, including the Yijing Department, a total of 50,000 elite soldiers of the Eight Banners, guarding hundreds of thousands of old and weak women and children, left Beijing in the cry of the reluctant gentry, and dragged the long dragon to the south under the 30,000 green battalions of the Narjing Department, including a part of the Shanxi Green Battalion of King Qin, they will go south to Luoyang, and then go from Luoyang to Chang'an, it is definitely not possible to go to Taihang Mountain, and hundreds of thousands of people will starve to death if they cross Taihang Mountain.

Such a long migration to eat is a big deal.

Fortunately, Daoguang was fortunate that the Ming army in Tongzhou did not attack, and it is estimated that the first Nar Jing Forehead Department was in the Daxing area, and the second Xien led the cavalry to Jizhou after receiving follow-up reinforcements, so that together with the Eight Banners accompanying the escort, it was also nearly 100,000 troops, and the Ming army did not dare to provoke a brigade.

Of course, this is Daoguang's own guess.

In short, the Ming army sat back in Tongzhou and watched it leave.

At the same time, taking advantage of the retreat of the main force of the Qing army, the Ming army in Tianjin quickly attacked and captured the Ninghe River and Jinghai, plus the Xianghe River and Anci captured by the Ming army in Tongzhou, as well as the Wuqing captured before, a deep protrusion with the Haihe River and the canal as the skeleton was formed, and the apex of this protrusion was Tongzhou, and it can even be said that in front of the Chaoyang Gate in Beijing.

Anyway, the later Ming army often went to visit.

At the same time, a large-scale land reform was carried out in this controlled area, and the upsurge of fighting local tyrants and dividing the land swept away the cold of winter, so that the entire Ming army-controlled area fell into a happy carnival, and the people outside the control area were all watching.

The gentry quickly rallied around those local officials, formed a detachment to practice, and continued to compose their hymn to our loyalty to the Qing Dynasty with Prince Gong in Beijing as their spiritual sustenance, and the war in the north came to an end. After all, it was difficult for the Ming soldiers from Liangguang to have any interest in launching a large-scale attack in the cold winter of Beijing, and the canal had begun to freeze, and the materials in Tongzhou could only ensure that the defense could not support the consumption of the attack. As for Dagukou, it is still navigable, and the land transportation between Dagukou and Tianjin is smooth, so the materials from the south are still being transported to Tianjin.

Including follow-up reinforcements of the Ming army.

The headquarters of the Eighth Army and two infantry brigades arrived ten days after Daoguang withdrew from Beijing.

But because the weather turned colder, they still had to adapt to this winter, so even if they received reinforcements, the Ming army still did not continue the attack, but continued to transport troops from the south during this period, and by the end of the year, two other brigades also arrived, during which soldiers were also recruited from the local area, and three new brigades were quickly formed, including a cavalry brigade.

This is also the first cavalry brigade of the Ming Dynasty.

Although a certain number of war horses were also captured before this, they were basically given to the cavalry reconnaissance posts to which the brigades belonged, and there was no real cavalry brigade in the Ming army, and the Eighth Army was the first, but in this era the spear cavalry has fallen behind, and the equipment of this cavalry brigade is mainly based on sabers and Spencer rapid-fire rifles.

At present, the Ming army is mixed with three kinds of rifles, the infantry of the army is a front-loading rifled gun, and the cavalry is a Spencer metal cartridge case rapid-fire rifle, but it is not really popular, only a few cavalry posts of the main brigade are this new rifle, after all, the total strength of the Ming army has already exceeded 40 infantry brigades at this time. Each brigade has a cavalry reconnaissance post, and if you replace Spencer, it will cost 10,000, and at present, Yang Feng's copper production cannot meet the consumption of 10,000 Spencers, especially the navy has to consume machine gun bullets, and even the infantry of the Marine Corps are paper shell bullet firing pin rifles.

That is, Dresser.

This is also the main reason why the army does not have machine guns so far, the Marines actually do not really go out to fight, but the army is in the battlefield battles in several provinces, if they are equipped with machine guns, Yang Feng does not even have enough copper to make bullets.

Fortunately, this problem can be alleviated soon, because during Yang Feng's Northern Expedition, the two battlefields of Jiangxi and Hunan continued to advance, and the Jiangxi battlefield has already been approached by Nanchang, of which the headquarters of the Third Army is already attacking Xinrao Erfu, and the Ming army in Hunan has also surrounded Changsha, and Jiangxi and Hunan will be in hand in another year at the latest. In this way, the two major copper mining areas of Dexing and Tongling will also be in hand, and at that time there will be enough copper to popularize machine guns for the army, in the end, his war at this time has begun to fight for resource consumption, more than 40 brigades plus seven artillery brigades, and the consumption of ammunition per moonlight is a very terrifying number. It's not just that the copper is not enough, including his nitrate and sulfur have been used up, and now the artillery shells used by the army are not as powerful as before, although Da Ming is also producing nitrate by himself in various ways, but these nitrates are obviously not at the same level as those modern goods in Yang Feng's inventory.

Fortunately, steel production is no longer constrained with the construction of open-hearth furnaces.

In fact, steel production is growing at a rapid pace.

Resource constraints are also the reason for Yang Feng's recent sluggish expansion, at least until the Chilean route is established and the saltpeter is brought back there, he has to enter a period of consolidation for a while.

In addition, he actually has a problem, that is, the saltpeter from Chile is not so easy to ship.

Because the country's saltpeter mines have only been developed for a few years, the first batch of Chilean saltpeter began to be shipped to Europe only ten years ago, and the original production increased to 30,000 tons per year after ten years, and those saltpeter mines were largely controlled by British capital. Therefore, Yang Feng must first show his strength, and he must first solve the problem between him and Victoria, at this time, the British expeditionary fleet is estimated to have passed the Cape of Good Hope, that is, by the end of summer, he will have to face this huge fleet of sixteen ships of the seventh and fourth guns.

And there are also two brand-new battleships of the first rank.

The Trafalgar and St. George's were commissioned only last year.

It was clear that Victoria was angry.

This young woman, who had just been married, sent out her most powerful weapon to show her anger to Uncle Yang, although she only showed her nails like an angry kitten, but her Uncle Yang still had to deal with it seriously, after all, these were two first-class battleships with one hundred and twenty guns, and they were also armed with powerful sixty-eight-pounder bombardments.

Don't underestimate this thing.

In the British test, the sixty-eight-pounder cannon fired cast steel bullets, which could penetrate the armor of all ironclad ships before the sixties of the nineteenth century within four hundred yards, at least none of the battleships of the Ming army could withstand the bombardment of this kind of naval guns, so this was not an easy war for the Ming navy.