Hong Chengchou's 250,000 main forces of the Qing army and the 200,000 reinforcements from the north were wiped out. At this point, there were only two lonely cities left in Xiangyang and Fancheng, and the regiment training in the city was not worth mentioning at all.

"I will escort Hong Chengchou back to Beijing and report to you first. Xiangyang and Fancheng, it is best not to attack forcefully. If you want to fight, just leave it to the people of Zhongzhen Camp and Daxi Army to deal with it. You can continue the Northern Expedition! If you want to besiege, then start a people's war. As for the Northern Expedition, you can hardly use your brain to fight later. There are the Northern Expeditions of Daxi Army and Zhongzhen Camp, which will restrain Jiannu's troops. You can fight as you like! Before you attack the capital and prepare to liberation the capital, I will naturally return to the army and personally recover the capital!" After Li Guodong explained the Northern Expedition to Wang Quan and his soldiers, he personally escorted Hong Chengchou back to Beijing.

In the two cities of Xiangyang and Fancheng, there were a lot of Huguang gentry in Jiangbei, and a total of 200,000 regiments were stationed in the city.

As we all know, Xiangyang is the most powerful city in the world. Although the Huai Army has huge siege cannons, the cannons can break through the walls of Xiangyang, but the abnormal moat in Xiangyang City is difficult to get through.

The average width of the moat in Xiangyang reached an astonishing sixty feet, and the widest place was more than eighty feet. Moreover, the moat attracted the live water of the Han River. The moat was wide and deep, and there was no way to pass by landfill moats. It could only build a floating bridge to cross the river, which greatly increased the difficulty of siege. Even if the giant cannons in the siege opened the city wall, the army would be bombarded by the Qing army in the city when building the floating bridge. When the floating bridge was built, it would be intercepted by the Qing army's firepower when crossing the river.

The weapons in the hands of those gentry training are not bad. These gentry are rich. In order to protect their vested interests, they are willing to spend money on the gentry training. There are many firearms in the gentry training. If the Huai Army attacks Xiangyang forcibly, they will suffer unnecessary losses.

Because the main forces of Zhongzhen Camp and Daxi Army had already made an expedition in the north, Zhongzhen Camp took the risk of going to Ziwu Valley, and the Daxi Army troops came out of Fengxiang. Therefore, they had to rely on the Huai Army themselves to break through Xiangyang and Fancheng.

Li Guodong only explained one sentence: We must break the city of Xiangyang and launch a people's war!

Of course, launching a people's war does not mean that the people will be cannon fodder and die in vain, but that the people will be mobilized to build fortifications and fortresses and completely besiege the two cities.

According to Li Guodong's instructions, Wang Quan exerted his strong speaking ability and mobilized the local people to build a circle of trenches, earthen cities, and bastions around the two strong cities of Xiangyang and Fancheng, and then formed a militia to give the red and barbarian cannons, red and barbarian cannons, general cannons, tiger squat cannons, turtledove-footed guns, bird guns and other firearms seized from the Qing army. The militia besieged the two cities of Xiangyang and Fancheng, completely trapping the Qing army.

These troupes were formed by gentry, extremely stubborn and reactionary. They would rather be buried with the soon-to-be-destroyed Qing Dynasty than let their land and property be divided into mud legs.

Cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents. This is true. The Huai Army wants to cut off the wealth of these gentry, so they would rather resist to the end than surrender.

But those tenants who were liberated were on the other side. In order to protect the land they were allocated, they must confront these gentry to the end. This is an irreconcilable contradiction between the two classes, an endless relationship, and a life-and-death relationship. Therefore, Taizu of the Red Dynasty did have a very strategic vision. It was Li Guodong who used this to mobilize the people and launch a people's war.

The Huai Army formed 300,000 militias and 500,000 young and strong men. Almost all the people near Xiangyang mobilized them, surrounding the two cities of Xiangyang and Fancheng like iron barrels. Now, the foreign transportation between Xiangyang and Fancheng is only one road left. However, the water was controlled by the Huai Army. Even if the gentry group in the city escaped, there was no place to go, so they could only go downstream and fall into the sky and earth net of the Huai Army Navy. Therefore, as long as the Qing army and the north were cut off on land, Xiangyang could be surrounded.

Not only the siege, the militia outside the city also fired fire and bombarded the city from time to time to reduce the morale of the regiment training and made them lament that it was difficult to defend the city. In addition, the siege of the cities was consuming their food. In the end, the ordinary soldiers in the regiment training would surrender. As long as the soldiers in the regiment surrendered, what would the remaining gentry use to defend the city? Could it be that they, who were powerless to climb up to the top of the city and resist the militia's muskets and cannons?

Under Chen Cang City, the sound of cannons rumbling and the shouts of killing were shocking the sky. The Western Army was launching a fierce attack on Feng Xiang.

Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo stood on the position, holding a telescope, looking at Fengxiang City three hundred steps away.

Although Fengxiang is just a small town, its geographical location is very important. This is Chencang City where Liu Bang secretly visited Chencang in the past, and Hao Zhao also blocked Zhuge Liang's Chencang City. Speaking of Chencang, everyone is familiar with Chencang. Chencang is a strategic location and exiting Sichuan from Sichuan. Chencang is an important road. It is much easier to take Chencang this road than to take the adventurous Ziwu Valley.

Chen Cang was later Baoji. Shortly after the founding of the Red Dynasty, in order to connect the railway network into Sichuan, he chose Baoji as the entrance to Sichuan and built the Baocheng Railway because it was the easiest route. The technology in the 1950s was not so developed. The Baocheng Railway all relied on railway troops, and was excavated with iron shovels and iron chisels, and exploded with explosives. It was very difficult to dig a tunnel back then, so he could only choose Baoji to enter Sichuan.

The Daxi Army used cannons to bombard Fengxiang City. Hundreds of cannons bombarded violently. The female wall squadrons on the city wall were flattened, and the defenders at the top of the city were killed and injured. Of course, the Qing army at the top of the city also used cannons to counterattack, causing considerable casualties to the Daxi Army.

Both sides launched a fierce offensive and defensive battle against this small city. The bodies of the cannon fodder soldiers of the Daxi Army were piled up like mountains, and the bodies of the Qing army on the top of the city were everywhere, but neither side retreated. The attacking party continued to attack fiercely, while the defense was fighting stubbornly. Both sides were fearless and the siege battle was extremely fierce.

Because the Daxi Army's offensive was too fierce and had great advantages in artillery, the Qing army, as the defending city, suffered losses of the Qing army as the attacking party! The Qing army had to dispatch troops from Xi'an and other places to support Fengxiang.

The route from Zhongzhen Camp to Shaanxi was to venture into Ziwu Valley, where the mountains are high and the roads are steep, and the roads are difficult to walk. Although during the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang spent a huge amount of money to build a road in Ziwu Valley in order to allow Yang Guifei to eat fresh lychees, as a passage for fast horses to transport lychees, Ziwu Valley was extremely steep, with either cliffs or cliffs on both sides, and surrounded by dense jungles. As long as the Qing army was prepared, a small army could block the exit and trap Zhongzhen Camp in Ziwu Valley.

Therefore, when Zhongzhen Camp went to Ziwu Valley, it was actually because the Western Army had restrained the Qing army in Fengxiang, and then he took the initiative to take the risk of taking this path.

Sure enough, the Qing army's attention was attracted by the Daxi Army, which came out of Chen Cang. The brigade of troops was transferred to Fengxiang, resulting in almost no defenders at the entrance of Ziwu Valley. As a result, they were killed out of Ziwu Valley by Zhongzhen Camp. For a time, Xi'an City was under the gun mouth of Zhongzhen Camp.

The Huai Army marched north from Nanyang and headed straight to the Yellow River, intending to cross the Yellow River from Luoyang area and head north.

While the Daxi Army, Zhongzhen Camp and Huai Army were invading the north, Li Yan and Hongniangzi's Shandong garrisons also sent troops in Shandong to the east, attacked the Qing army in northern Zhili nearby. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Qing army's insufficient troops, they launched attacks on some cities in southern Zhili, and conquered more than ten county towns in succession.

If the four armies in the Northern Expedition were not fatal enough, there were still many armies who came in from outside the pass.

Subud's army had grown to more than 100,000 troops like snowballing. The army had arrived in Shengjing and began the siege.

The number of Qing soldiers stationed in Shengjing was very small, and there was not even the necessary force to defend the city. As a result, Shengjing was captured by Subude.

After conquering Shengjing, Subud announced that Shengjing would be transformed back to Shenyang, and his army also changed its flags, transforming from Qing army to Ming army.
Chapter completed!