Lord of Ming Dynasty

The No.19 Field Brigade led by Wang Yuqun went to attack Jingzhou Prefecture, and the opponent was Li Guo's Zhongzhen Camp, Dashun Army.

Mei Linyu's No. 20 First Field Brigade occupied Yichang Mansion and attacked Li Guo's Jingzhou Mansion back and forth.

But their main opponent is Chen Youzheng's Jingmen County's anti-reverse army. Chen Youzheng is currently in contact with He Tengjiao. He is loyal to Yongli Daming and recognizes Yongli Daming as the orthodox royal family of Ming Dynasty.

Brother Zhu's No.20 field brigade was handed over to Tong Dawei. Tong Dawei was also promoted from the commander of the cavalry brigade to the commander of the field brigade. The strength of the other field brigades is also 20 troops, and the No. [-] field brigade is the second class, with a strength of [-] troops.

The remnants of his Fifth Cavalry Brigade were split into various field brigades and served as attached cavalry, because after Guangxi Prefecture cooperated with Nanming Kingdom to fight with Kong Youde and Mangultai, his cavalry brigade was no longer fully staffed. , and after the bloody battle with the Qing army with Oboi, his cavalry had actually been dismantled and crippled, so there was no need to keep them during the war.

The No.20 Field Brigade attacked in the direction of Xinyang, contained He Tengjiao, occupied territory, and monitored the Qing army in Anhui Prefecture. This direction was directly in charge of the [-]th Field Brigade led by Xiao Fei before Zhang Qiang led the First Guards Division. With Zhang Qiang's First Guards Division, he can attack He Tengjiao's tribe freely, and send [-] field brigades to monitor the movements of the Qing army in Anhui Prefecture.

Although Hong Chengchou had defected to the State of Lu and became a member of the Ming Dynasty, it is customary that both Zhang Qiang and the Huaxia Army fighting in Hubei Prefecture referred to them as the Qing Army.

The war machine of the Huaxia Army started, rumbled and crushed the enemy. The Qing army was wiped out in front of them, and gained an absolute advantage. Compared with the Qing army, He Tengjiao of Yongli Daming, who had been suppressed by the Qing army, seemed to the Huaxia army. He Tengjiao, their leading figure, would have to be completely wiped out in order to solve them. Once He Tengjiao fell, the power of Yongli Daming led by him would naturally disappear and disintegrate.

In this regard, Zhang Qiang believes that Brother Zhu, who has experienced the battle of Raozhou Mansion and fought against 60 Qing troops, will definitely handle it well.

Although Tong Dawei led the infantry to fight for the first time, if he only monitored and occupied some territories abandoned by the enemy, and wiped out some deserters and bandits, there should be no problem.

The important battlefield is still on the side of Li Guo's Zhongzhen Camp and Chen Youzheng's army.

As Li Zicheng's nephew, Li Guo followed Li Zicheng in the north and south when he was a teenager. He made a lot of contributions and defeated many generals of the Ming army. It seemed to be handy, but Zhang Qiang worried that Wang Yuqun and Mei Linyu, who had been serving in the regular army, would suffer from him.

According to the intelligence sent by Xiao Fei in the early stage of the battle, it can be seen that the area around Jingzhou Mansion is now a huge barracks of bandits, and all the people have been coerced by Li Guo. The sum of the population of common people in several nearby prefectures.

For half a month, Xiao Fei's strategy was to penetrate from behind, first occupy Yichang Mansion, the big mansion previously occupied by He Tengjiao's tribe, and then encircle Jingzhou Mansion from behind. In the southwest direction, they attacked all the way, and finally took Yichang Mansion, and the defenders of He Tengjiao's troops retreated to Xiangyang Mansion.

At present, Mei Linyu is carrying out the second step, attacking Chen Youzheng in Jingmen.

Compared with the cunning Li Guo's department, Chen Youzheng's department is just an anti-reverse army, a local self-defense force composed of the Ming army who surrendered to the Qing army in the pre-Ming Dynasty, local gentry, and landlords and family members. The military organization, according to intelligence, the other party has five thousand regular soldiers, village braves and regiments, five thousand Qing army green battalion soldiers who surrendered, and two thousand young and strong civilian husbands recruited.

They used guerrilla and sneak attacks to fight against the Qing army, and sometimes they fought with Yongli Daming's troops, and had some small battles. Generally speaking, they maintained an ambiguous attitude towards Yongli Daming's separatist warlords. If they are close, they must not believe that He Tengjiao can give him much benefit, and there is a longing for Daming in their hearts. Before they can contact other higher-level organizations in Daming, they maintain their obedience to He Tengjiao's department on the surface, and obey the dispatch. But not its confluence.

The war has been fought since the entry of the Qing army to the present. Chen Youzheng is a repeated general. He surrendered to the Qing army and came anyway. The Ming army general, he must be old and cunning. Such a situation arises because of his sober judgment, which is up for grabs.

Zhang Qiang asked Xiao Fei, "Have you ever tried to send someone to persuade you to surrender?" Xiao Fei looked at Jin Sheng. Jin Sheng had come to suppress the formation before, and was also the envoy to solve the problem of local Ming people turning to the Huaxia Army. Zhang Qiang had sent him to preside over it earlier. The overall situation here, but later Gu Yuesheng was sent here to act as a civil affairs official, so he, the first minister of the cabinet, was not needed to deal with this matter. After Gu Yuesheng arrived, Jin Sheng sent the relevant The matter of civil affairs was handed over to Gu Yuesheng, and he was about to return to the center.

He, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, cannot leave the center for too long.

Because of Zhang Qiang's arrival, he failed to make it, so he was called here for a meeting.

Seeing Xiao Fei turning his head to look at him, Jin Sheng bowed and said, "Report to the Governor, I have written to him as the Minister of the Huaxia Military Officials Department, but he is stubborn and refuses to submit to our Huaxia Army. , and insulted us as traitors who steal the country, like Li Zicheng, they are rebels and rogues, and they disdain to join our army. The minister failed to write letters again and again, and even went to visit him in person, but he refused to see the minister. This kind of obstinate person who despises the Tianwei of the Chinese army, the humble minister can tell General Xiao Fei to destroy him."

Zhang Qiang has nothing to say. For this kind of person, he doesn't have time to play with Zhuge Liang's gentle policy, such as capturing Meng Huo seven times and letting Meng Huo go seven times. His talent and historical reputation have not yet reached that level. Well, this kind of person had better be the same as Bai Wenxuan, who is more famous than him, and submit obediently, otherwise he can only bear the wrath of the Huaxia Army.

"Well, such people don't need pity, Jin Shangshu, you should go back to the center immediately, help Prime Minister Zhou Cong settle down inside, and assist Deputy Prime Minister Zhu Dadian to manage the government. I will leave it to Minister Gu Yuesheng and General Xiao Fei here. I believe there are them. , Hubei Prefecture will be determined soon."

"Thank you, Commander-in-Chief, I will return to the center right now, sit in the center, and share the worries of the governor." Jin Sheng saw that Zhang Qiang didn't need him anymore, and immediately bowed and retreated.

Chapter 474 Liu Liangzuo Pleads For Mercy

Jin Sheng returned to the center, and Zhang Qiang fully took over the jurisdiction of Hubei Province's campaign, but he will not take direct command, because there is still the commander Xiao Fei.

Everyone discussed it, and since Chen Youzheng refused to accept the persuasion, they had no choice but to take him under the knife.

While the Seventh Field Brigade led by Brother Zhu maintained pressure on He Tengjiao's troops, the encirclement against Li Guo's troops and Chen Youzheng of the Dashun Army was basically completed.

Xiao Fei commanded the cavalry to patrol and garrison any place where he could escape, and then commanded the army of Mei Linyu to encircle and suppress Chen Youzheng. After Chen Youzheng was killed, the relatively powerful Dashun Army, Li Guo, could only be completely encircled. Jingzhou area.

After the meeting was over, Zhang Qiang and Gu Yuesheng focused on civil affairs in the Hubei prefecture, and began to dispatch personnel to remove the stubborn opponents in the Hubei prefecture, and let the officials trained by the Huaxia Army who accompanied Gu Yuesheng to station in the occupied areas.

These things have already been done, but with little effect. Due to the fleeing of Li Guo's troops, it is difficult for the people in Hubei Province to settle down. Many people have been coerced into Li Guo's Dashun Army.

It is said that the local people, even the landlords, are hard to find a few, and the ones they find are old, weak, sick and disabled. Just settling them requires a lot of manpower. The nearly one hundred officials brought by Gu Yuesheng, one radish and one pit, are obviously Not enough, there are many shortages in the localities, and many officials have fled.

Persuading the people to return home from the mountains and hiding places is a costly and troublesome thing, and people have to be deployed to help them repair their homes, help them dress and eat, and it is not enough to disperse all the militiamen who came with the army at once .

This situation is relatively mild in Wuhan Mansion. After all, this is the place where the Qing army was stationed. If the Qing army wanted to run the place and win the hearts of the people, it could not oppress too hard. Therefore, in addition to the 30 people in Wuhan Mansion, there are Nearly [-] Qing soldiers deserted, Xiao Fei and the others had settled them down and organized them. After half a month of sorting out by Jin Sheng, the people of Wuhan Mansion have basically settled down and the people are stable.

Gu Yuesheng took over and quickly organized a militia team, and combined with militias transferred from other places and the militias of the army to make these people contribute to the prosperity and stability of Wuhan Mansion.

At present, there are nearly [-] militiamen in Wuhan Prefecture, of which [-] are transferred from other places to directly serve the army, and the other [-] are mixed militias used to maintain the stability of Wuhan Prefecture and nearby counties, and the remaining [-] are The newly formed militias in Jiangxi Prefecture, Huguangzhou, and the newly formed militias on the occupied ground in Hubei Prefecture were mixed with officials to go to various occupied areas to perform occupation tasks.

After the two men combined, they dispatched the cavalry unit of the First Division of the Huaxia Army to help the local government suppress the rebellion and arrest the bandits. Prisoner camps, rebuilding places damaged by war.

At this time Zhang Qiang felt that manpower, especially the generals, was not enough.

After thinking about it for a long time, there is no suitable manpower to be transferred. At this time, I thought of Liu Liangzuo. Although this person still has a little nostalgia for Nanming and Daming, and at the same time wants to defect to the Qing army, he must have recognized the situation clearly now. Not far away, he was ordered to transfer him here. Anyway, the punishment camp had brought nearly [-] prisoners and hard labor into Huguangzhou, and the transfer of him just happened to let him manage the punishment camp here and in Huguangzhou.

After giving the order, Liu Liangzuo came to Wuhan Mansion to report with a battalion of garrison troops and a battalion of pro-military cavalry.

So Zhang Qiang entrusted him with the task of managing the punishment camps in Guangzhou and Hubei, as well as ransacking his home and suppressing the rebels.

"Governor, the general has another request. I don't know if I should say it or not?" Liu Liangzuo asked when there was no one around.

"Oh," Zhang Qiang looked at him in surprise. This man surrendered early and watched the Huaxia Army grow from weak to strong. But this man is deep-minded and good at studying. Zhang Qiang doesn't trust him very much. At this moment, he suddenly wants to What did you say to Zhang Qiang?

"It's like this, the governor knows that Kong Youde was defeated, right?" Zhang Qiang nodded, without opening his mouth, and looked at him to see what tricks he could pull off.

Liu Liangzuo looked around suspiciously, Zhang Qiang said: "Let's say, here are my absolute confidantes, personal guards, there is nothing we can't let them know."

"The humble minister just said that Gao Zhixiang wanted to seek favor from the governor, he wanted the governor to take him from Nanming, and he wanted to join the Huaxia Army." Liu Liangzuo whispered.

"Gao Zhixiang, wasn't he caught by Nanming? How can I contact you? Didn't Nanming kill him?" Zhang Qiang asked.

"Yes, as Kong Youde's subordinate and confidant, he was captured by Su Zhengqing and the others from Nanming, but Li Chengdong and the others saved him, but he didn't want to be Li Chengdong's subordinate, so he sent someone to send a message to Xiao, wanting to join The Huaxia Army will serve for you, the commander-in-chief." Liu Liangzuo said while looking up at Zhang Qiang, rubbing his eyes and trying to figure out Zhang Qiang's thoughts.

Zhang Qiang squinted at him, rubbed his chin in thought, the Huaxia Army can be said to be the soldiers and confidantes trained by Zhang Qiang at the beginning to take full power, like those people from Ming and Nanming who later took refuge in civil servant positions, Dashun and Daxi Some of the generals who took refuge in him were reused, and some were not.

Although Liu Liangzuo surrendered early, no, he should have surrendered early, but he actually doesn't have much power. He always has a confidant by his side watching him, and he has no other forces to rely on. He doesn't have much military power, and he can't rebel if he wants to. He doesn't have much official position, and he is not very active in doing things.

It seems that his mind at the moment wants to go further, and his loyalty is enough. The system detects that his loyalty is almost 70, so it seems that he really wants to develop in the Huaxia Army, not as he thought before. He is half-hearted, he still has some nostalgia for Ming and Qing, he probably has, and this time he was relegated to be Lin Cheng's deputy, so the excitement is gone.

That's why he is so enthusiastic at this moment, wanting to make meritorious service.

This is the first time that the Huaxia Army has heard that a captured general from the Qing Dynasty offered to join the Huaxia Army.

"Are you sure he really wants to join the Huaxia Army? He doesn't want to escape the punishment of Nanming Kingdom?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Liu Liangzuo said: "Don't dare to hide the fact that the governor, there is indeed a possibility. The Nanming Kingdom is deeply concerned about the losses he will cause to the Nanming Kingdom as Kong Youde's confidant. Some officials seized on such things and impeached him many times. At the same time, many people are also dissatisfied with Li Chengdong's protection of him, and they are impeaching Li Chengdong, so he found Weichen, and wanted Weichen to help him, protect him, and recommend him to the Huaxia Army.

He knows that the Huaxia Army is the suzerain of the Nanming Kingdom, and the Huaxia Army will definitely be able to protect him. Although there are many differences between the Nanming Kingdom and the Huaxia Army, Wei Chen believes that judging from the current situation of the Nanming Kingdom, they are still afraid to fight with Huaxia immediately. The army turned their faces, their strength is not enough.As long as most inspectors ask them for Gao Zhixiang, they can't not give it! "

"This is not enough to convince me to protect him. You know that he is only one person. Compared with the friendship and interests between the Huaxia Army and Nanming Kingdom, he is not qualified for me to protect him." Zhang Qiang refused decisively.

Chapter 475 Persuasion

It is true that a little-known General Kong Youde is really not worthy of Zhang Qiang's attention. He is now comparable to Li Zicheng in his peak period. He has been famous for a long time, talking about him has changed color, and the Qing army on both sides of the Yangtze River has changed color.