After successfully settling the Huguang health station land, Zhu Cixiang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But at this time, Li Tingbiao's Jin Yiwei sent urgent information. Zhang Xianzhong led his army eastward to take Hezhou, Hanshan, Liuhe and other places, enter Yangzhou Prefecture, and go straight to Nanjing.

This sudden news surprised Zhu Cixiang. Zhang Xianzhong was really a coward. Under normal circumstances, he would have retreated to Yingshan after his failure to attack Luzhou, or he would have followed the Tianwu Army along the Yangtze River to pursue the Gezuo Fifth Battalion and attack Wuchang.

The commander also had to find a place with weak defenses to cross the Yangtze River to Jiangxi, because he could not stay in Jiangbei and the Tianwu Army could skin Zhang Xianzhong alive after returning to the division.

Zhu Cixi never expected that Zhang Xianzhong would be so courageous that he would dare to attack the heavily guarded Nanjing in reverse direction. Is he so stubborn?

It turned out that Zhang Xianzhong wanted to return to Yingshan after the failure of the attack on Luzhou, but Luo Rucai said that he could not go back to Yingshan, and the fate would be the same as that of Zuoge's Fifth Battalion. The officers and soldiers could go into the mountain once to hunt, and they could do it a second time.

, and might even be blocked halfway by the officers and soldiers gathered in Anqing.

When Zhang Xianzhong heard this, he thought so. Instead of going back and hiding in Tibet, he might as well do something big and gain some popularity. Even if he couldn't defeat Nanjing, he could still gain blood in the surrounding areas.

After several leaders made the decision, Zhang Xianzhong marched eastward and successively captured Hezhou and Hanshan as far as Liuhe in the north of Nanjing City. He burned, killed and looted along the way, capturing young men everywhere and incorporating them into his own army to expand his strength.

However, Chuzhou Prefecture just implemented the farming system in the second half of this year. Many young and strong people have been recruited to serve as farming soldiers. Although they have not yet been assigned a field to start training, everyone has an idea in their mind and does not want to be a rebel. Many people secretly sneak in on the way.

's slipped away.

Yangzhou Prefecture is a prosperous place, and the people live a good life. Only when they are full do they put their heads in their belts and become rebels.

The lack of strong supply of troops had a great impact on the traitors. Zhang Xianzhong suddenly discovered a problem. The richer the place, the fewer people wanted to rebel! It is simply unrealistic to recruit rebels in Jiangnan!

When the traitor troops came to the north of the Yangtze River, Nanjing was shaken. The nobles and gentry in Nanjing were a little panicked, and they all urged the governor of Yingtian, Zhang Guowei, to mobilize troops to suppress it.

Zhang Guowei did not dare to be careless and quickly mobilized reinforcements from all walks of life south of the Yangtze River to assist Nanjing. At the same time, he sent officers and soldiers stationed in the north of the Yangtze River to attack the bandits.

Yingtian Mansion has been at peace for a long time, and the soldiers have been fighting in battle formations for a long time. Although most of Zhang Xianzhong's army of more than 100,000 are ragtag, after all, they still have the old foundation of the old camp, and with the large number of people, it only takes a few rounds of fighting.

, the officers and soldiers were beaten to a pulp.

Zhu Cihong read the battle report, and after thinking about it for a moment, he threw the battle report aside and ordered the Tianwu Army stationed in Wuchang to repair for a few more days.

In this battle, the Tianwu Army pursued the 5th Battalion of Gezuo for more than a thousand miles in one month. They were very tired and needed to be repaired.

As for Nanjing, he doesn’t need to worry about it for the time being. Nanjing is a big city and its defenses are very strong. As long as the defenders are not idlers and no one abandons the city and flees and Kaicheng surrenders, it will not be difficult to hold it. Wait for the troops from all over the Yangtze River mobilized by Zhang Guowei to arrive.

After arriving, they can encircle and defeat Zhang Xianzhong, and with Zhou Yuji's 5,000 Tianwu troops stationed in Taiping Mansion, Nanjing cannot lose it.

In Zhu Cihong's heart, he even hoped that Zhang Xianzhong could cause trouble in Nanjing for a period of time, deal a heavy blow to the Nanjing nobles and local powerful forces in Jiangnan, and reduce the resistance to his move to Nanjing.

Zhu Cixiang planned to expand the Tianwu Army and incorporate some of the field soldiers into the army to expand it into three divisions.

Nowadays, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army in various places in the Central Plains is really hard to see directly. Zhu Cixiang plans to station troops in various places. It is very necessary for the Tianwu Army to expand its troops.

Recently, more and more officers and soldiers have come to serve Zhu Cixiang, and some civilians are willing to join the army. Zhu Cixiang asked Huang Degong to reorganize and train these people. After a period of training, those who can be retained will be retained, and those who cannot be will be driven away.

After careful consideration, Zhu Cixang decided to let Huang Degong lead the Royal First Brigade to be stationed in Wuchang, command Huguang's military and political affairs, and be responsible for assisting Huguang Governor Fang Kongzhao in inspecting land and suppressing civil unrest.

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A few days later, Zhu Cihong received a battle report from Nanjing. Sure enough, after Zhang Guowei's armies arrived in Nanjing, Zhang Xianzhong had already led the army to run away and crossed the river south overnight.

Sun Kewang learned that the weapons bureau of the Tianwu Army that produced firearms was in Taiping Mansion. He felt that it was not far away, so he asked for orders to send someone to grab it.

Zhang Xianzhong was also very interested in the Tianwu Army's firearms, and wanted to buy some artillery for use. He blasted several cities along the way to replenish food and population, so he agreed to the request of Wen Wang to raise his children.

Sun Kewang rushed towards the Taiping Prefecture army with 10,000 men and horses, but met Zhou Yuji on the way. His 10,000 men were almost completely wiped out by Zhou Yuji's 3,000 Tianwu Army.

Sun Kewang led the remnant of only a few hundred people to escape and was almost killed by the Tianwu Army. Fortunately, Li Dingguo arrived in time and cut off Zhou Yuji's escape route. Zhou Yuji was worried about the safety of the Ordnance Bureau, so he stopped pursuing and hurriedly led his army back.

Seeing that Sun Kewang was beaten so badly, Li Dingguo didn't dare to blame him. After saving Sun Kewang, he quickly withdrew his troops.

After being hit in the head by the Tianwu Army, Zhang Xianzhong no longer dared to take advantage of the Jiangnan Ordnance General Administration. At this time, he saw an army of officers and soldiers chasing him from behind, so he quickly ordered to run to the Tierra del Fuego and Chaishan areas.

Half a month later, we walked from Gaochun's Zhitou Mountain to Ningguo Mansion, and finally headed into the Huangshan area. We followed mountain roads along the way and did not dare to plunder important cities.

The richer the areas south of the Yangtze River were, the more heavily guarded they were. Zhang Xianzhong was also afraid of offending the officers, soldiers and local landowners, and would tear them apart.

Even so, wherever the thieves passed, everything was looted, and some villages were burned down to only broken beams and pillars and some remaining corpses of the people. Although Zhang Xianzhong's stay in the world along the way was not long, all the people along the way were still there.

The destructive power it brings is still huge.

When the bandit army entered the Huangshan area surrounded by mountains, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and other bandit leaders breathed a sigh of relief.

Especially when crossing the river and entering Ningguo Mansion, everyone was afraid of being blocked by the officers and soldiers in the mountains and being beaten up. Fortunately, the dog officers and soldiers only chased from a distance and did not want to actually take action.

Zhang Xianzhong laughed loudly and said: "Haha, this trip is really exciting!"

Liu Guoneng snorted as he broke into the collapsing sky: "If it weren't for those dog officers and soldiers who were afraid of death and didn't dare to pursue them, none of us would have been able to escape. Next time you want to play, I won't accompany you!"

Zhang Xianzhong pointed at him and cursed angrily: "Your mother is a bastard. Looking at you, you are so rich and powerful. Why are you so timid as a rebel? How can you achieve great things like this?"

Liu Guoneng said loudly: "Do you think I am willing to be a rebel? If the people were not forced to rebel against me by the government and were forced to go to Liangshan, who the hell would be willing to hide in this ravine all day long?"

"Damn you!" Zhang Xianzhong cursed angrily, then took off his arm armor and rolled up his sleeves.

"What? You still want to fight with me? Come on!" Liu Guoneng also rolled up his sleeves, preparing to fight with him.

Luo Rucai stepped forward to break up the fight and said: "Okay, stop arguing! As the saying goes, once you are a thief, you will always be a thief. Since we have chosen this path, we are all our own. This big thing has not been accomplished yet, how can we have internal strife?

Woolen cloth!"

Li Wanqing, who shoots the sky, also stepped forward to break up the fight and asked the two of them to consider peace as the most important thing.

Liu Guoneng glanced at Zhang Xianzhong, snorted coldly and rode away.

Zhang Xianzhong said angrily: "Master Cao, why don't you speak for him? See what kind of virtue he has now!"
Chapter completed!