After satisfactorily settling the land of Huguang's health center, Zhu Cihong finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But at this time, Li Tingbiao's Jinyiwei sent urgent information again, Zhang Xianzhong led the army to take Hezhou, Hanshan, ** and other places in the east, entered Yangzhou Mansion, and pointed directly at Nanjing.

This sudden news made Zhu Cihong very surprised, Zhang Xianzhong is really bold, according to the normal situation, he will retreat to Yingshan after the failure of the attack on Luzhou, or from the Yangtze River to take advantage of the Tianwu Army to pursue the fifth battalion of Gezuo to attack Wuchang, at worst, to find a place where the defense of officers and soldiers is weak to cross the Yangtze River to Jiangxi, because Jiangbei can not stay, Tianwu Army can skin him Zhang Xianzhong alive after returning to the division.

Zhu Cihong never expected Zhang Xianzhong to be so bold that he would dare to attack Nanjing, which was heavily guarded, was his head so iron?

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 return to Yingshan, and the end of his return would be the same as that of the Fifth Battalion of Zuoge.

When Zhang Xianzhong heard this, he felt that it was also the same, instead of going back to hide in Tibet, it was better to do a big ticket and save some popularity, even if he couldn't beat Nanjing, he could still grab a wave of blood in the surrounding area.

After the decision of several leaders, Zhang Xianzhong marched all the way east, successively captured Hezhou and Hanshan until he reached the ** north of Nanjing, burning and looting along the way, and catching young people everywhere to integrate them into his army and expand his strength.

However, the Chuzhou government has just implemented the tuntian system in the second half of this year, and many young and strong people have been conscripted as tuntian soldiers.

Yangzhou Mansion is a rich land, and the people live well, and only when they are full of food and support do they pin their heads to the waistband of their trousers to be anti-thieves.

The source of soldiers could not be effectively replenished, which had a great impact on the thieves, Zhang Xianzhong suddenly discovered a problem, the richer the place, the fewer people who want to rebel! It is simply unrealistic to recruit rebels in Jiangnan!

The thieves and soldiers were in the north of the river, and Nanjing was shaken, and the nobles and gentry in Nanjing were a little panicked, and they all urged Zhang Guowei, the governor of Yingtian, to transfer troops to suppress it.

Zhang Guowei did not dare to be careless, and hurriedly mobilized reinforcements from all walks of life in the south of the Yangtze River to aid Nanjing, and at the same time sent officers and soldiers stationed in Jiangbei to attack the thieves.

Although Zhang Xianzhong's army of more than 100,000 people is mostly a rabble, after all, there is still the old foundation of the old battalion, plus there are many people, and after only a few rounds of fighting, the officers and soldiers were beaten and collapsed.

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

In this operation, the Tianwu Army pursued the 5th Battalion of Gezuo for more than 1,000 miles within a month, and it was very tired and needed to be repaired well.

As for Nanjing, he doesn't have to worry about it for the time being, Nanjing City is a big city, the city defense is very solid, as long as the defenders are not rice buckets, no one abandons the city to flee and surrender to Kaicheng, it is not difficult to hold it, and after Zhang Guowei mobilized all the troops and horses in the south of the Yangtze River arrive, he can encircle and defeat Zhang Xianzhong, and there are Zhou Yuji's 5,000 Tianwu troops stationed in Taiping Mansion, Nanjing can't lose it.

In Zhu Cihong's heart, he even hoped that Zhang Xianzhong could make trouble in Nanjing for a while, deal a heavy blow to Nanjing nobles and local powerful forces in the south of the Yangtze River, and reduce the resistance for himself to enter Nanjing.

Zhu Cihong planned to expand the Tianwu Army, incorporate a part of the Tuntian soldiers into the army, and expand it into three divisions.

Now the combat effectiveness of the Ming army in various parts of the Central Plains is really impossible to look at directly, Zhu Cihong plans to station troops in various places, and it is very necessary for the Tianwu Army to expand its army.

Recently, more and more officers and soldiers have come to serve Zhu Cihong, and some people are willing to join the army, Zhu Cihong asked Huang Degong to reorganize and train these people, and after a period of training, those who can stay will stay, and those who can't will be driven away.

After careful consideration, Zhu Cihong decided to let Huang Degong lead the first royal brigade to be stationed in Wuchang, commanding the military and government of Huguang, and was responsible for assisting Fang Kongzhao, the governor of Huguang, to check the land and suppress the civil unrest.

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

Sun Kewang learned that the Ordnance Bureau of the Tianwu Army producing firearms was in Taiping Mansion, and felt that the distance was not far, so he asked for someone to send someone to grab a wave.

Zhang Xianzhong was also very interested in the firearms of the Tianwu Army, and by the way, he wanted to use some artillery, and blasted several cities along the way to replenish food and population, so he agreed to the request of raising children and grandchildren.

Sun Kewang rushed to the Taiping Mansion Army with 10,000 horses, but met Zhou Yuji halfway, and his 10,000 horses were almost wiped out by Zhou Yuji's 3,000 Tianwu army.

Sun Kewang led the remnants of only a few hundred people to escape, and was almost slaughtered by the Tianwu army, but fortunately Li Dingguo arrived in time and copied Zhou Yuji's back road, Zhou Yuji was worried about the safety of the Ordnance Bureau, no longer pursued, and hurriedly led the army back.

Li Dingguo saw that Sun Kewang was beaten so badly, and he didn't dare to hold it up, so he hurriedly withdrew after saving Sun Kewang.

Being hit in the head by the Tianwu Army, Zhang Xianzhong no longer dared to fight the idea of the Jiangnan Ordnance Bureau, and at this time, the army of officers and soldiers was chasing after him, and he hurriedly ordered to run to the area of Huodi Mountain and Chai Mountain.

Half a month later, he walked Gaochun's finger mountain to Ningguofu, and finally got into the area of Huangshan, and walked all the way through the mountain road, and did not dare to plunder important cities.

The richer the place in the south of the Yangtze River, the more heavily guarded it was, and Zhang Xianzhong was also afraid of provoking the officers and soldiers and local landlords, so he tore them up.

Even so, all the places where the thieves passed were looted, and some villages were burned to the point that only the broken beams and pillars and some remnants of the corpses of the people remained, although Zhang Xianzhong did not stay in the world for a long time, but the destructive power brought along the way was still huge.

When the army of thieves entered the area of Huangshan surrounded by mountains, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and other thieves were completely relieved.

Especially when crossing the river and entering Ningguofu, everyone was afraid of being blocked in the mountains by the officers and soldiers and beaten up, but fortunately, those dog officers and soldiers were just chasing from a distance behind, and they didn't want to really do it.

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

Liu Guoneng snorted: "If it weren't for those dog officers and soldiers who were afraid of death and didn't dare to chase them, who of us would be able to run away, next time you want to play, Lao Tzu won't accompany you!" ”

Zhang Xianzhong pointed at him and scolded angrily: "Your mother is hairy, look at your five big and three thick, why are you so cowardly as a thief?" Can you achieve great things like this? ”

Liu Guoneng said loudly: "Are you willing to be a thief?" If it weren't for the officials forcing the people to oppose Lao Tzu and being forced to go to Liangshan, who the hell would want to hide in this ravine all day long? ”

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

"What? Still want to fight with Lao Tzu? Come on! Liu Guoneng also rolled up his sleeves and prepared to fight with him.

Luo Rucai stepped forward and persuaded: "Okay, stop arguing!" As the saying goes, a thief for one day, a thief for life, since we have chosen this path, we are all our own people, this big thing has not been accomplished, how can we have internal strife! ”

Li Wanqing also stepped forward to persuade the two to make peace precious.

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

Zhang Xianzhong said angrily: "Master Cao, you still help him speak, see what virtue he has now!" ”

Luo Rucai shook his head, and sighed secretly in his heart, this Liu Guoneng is seriously passive and rebellious now, I am afraid that it will not be easy to come together in the future, maybe he will be appeased by the officers and soldiers.......