Zhang Xianzhong and others ushered in good luck after making a wise choice, leaving Qianshan County to kill Taihu County, and officials such as Jin Yingyuan, the county magistrate, and Hu Yongning, the instructor, were all killed for their resolute resistance.

Lujiang City has high walls and thick walls, and it should not be easy to succeed in the city, Zhang Xianzhong and others went around the city and seized Wuwei Prefecture in a few days, until Liuhe captured Tianchang County.

"Beacon fire reached Huaiyang" Nanjing earthquake, Zuo Du Yushi Governor Yingtian, Anqing and other ten prefectures Zhang Guowei alarmed.

Chongzhen issued a holy decree and strictly ordered Zuo Liangyu, Ma Yi, Liu Liangzuo and other generals to join forces to rescue.

The Ming army fought a great battle with Zhang Xianzhong, Yao Tiandong and other thieves in Chuzhou, and Zuo Liangyu, Ma Yi, and Liu Liangzuo were defeated and fled hundreds of miles south and fled into Pukou City.

Zuo Liangyu couldn't beat Zhang Xianzhong at all, they deliberately plundered the Kou to follow behind to pick up the cheap, and found that the main force of the Liukou rushed over and put on a desperate posture, Zuo Liangyu and the others directly slipped out of the passage.

Zhu Dadian, the governor of Caoyun and the governor of Lu, Feng, Huai, and Yang, was at a loss, he had few soldiers in his hands, and the defense of the land was still insufficient, so he was really unable to launch an attack, so he could only choose to defend Fengyang, the longxing land of the old Zhu family.

Later, Zhu Dadian was impeached by the imperial history and the matter of "losing the state and county", and Chongzhen, who was prone to brain fever, did not care about the fact that Zhu Dadian had no soldiers and horses in his hands, let alone that Zhu Dadian was actually a capable minister, and gave him a punishment of three levels of demotion in a row.

Governor Zhang Guowei and supervising the army Shi Kefa took the deputy general Xu Ziqiang, the guerrilla Pan Keda, the garrison Zhu Shiyin and other generals to organize 20,000 horses to reinforce them, relieved the siege of Tongcheng, and recovered the Qianshan and Taihu Lake counties that the Liukou had abandoned.

At this time, Zuo Liangyu led the men and horses that had grown to 50,000 and pounced viciously, why would Zuo Liangyu follow the Liukou seriously?

It was Xiong Wencan, who was recommended by Yang Sichang, the secretary of the Ministry of War, to take up his post, and he personally rushed to Zuo Liangyu's army with a silver ticket of 100,000 taels of money and read out the holy decree of rewarding Zuo Liangyu.

Zuo Liangyu, a warlord, became one of the chief military officers of the eight major generals of the Ming Dynasty, "General Ping Thief", and received a military salary of 100,000 taels of silver.

The price offered by the imperial court made Zuo Liangyu overjoyed, so he decided to behave well and let the emperor know that he, the chief military officer, was not given for nothing.

Zuo Liangyu, who is the strongest, really made a move, and the "Ping Thief General" who was promoted to become rich and happy was like a wolf, beating the rogue wolf.

Liu Liangzuo, Ma Yi and other generals saw that they had a advantage and naturally followed, after all, the rogues plagued dozens of cities, robbed a large amount of gold and silver treasures, and won the battle and captured a lot of money.

Zhang Xianzhong and other thieves are also arrogant, and the battle line has been stretched to the vicinity of Yangzhou, which is approaching the Grand Canal and threatening the lifeblood of the imperial court.

One after another, the holy decrees are issued, which are nothing more than wishes and threats to seal officials, in a word, it is to fight well to add officials to the knights, lose the city and lose your head!

Seeing that the Ming army formed an encirclement, Zhang Xianzhong and others immediately broke through by branching ways, and the Ming army took advantage of the situation to recover the city that was plagued by the rogues.

Daming, who had millions more money, really seemed to be stimulated, and really curbed the development momentum of Zhang Xianzhong, Liu Guoneng, Luo Rucai, Yao Tiandong and other rogues.

Now that it is confirmed that the Grand Canal is safe, Governor Zhang Guowei believes that the territory under his jurisdiction is too large to avoid taking care of one or the other.

Therefore, he asked the imperial court to set up separate governors in Anqing, Chizhou, and Taiping, and recommended Shi Kefa, the superintendent of the army, to serve in this position.

Emperor Chongzhen is not a British lord who knows how to make good use of people at all, and he directly approved it.

Shi Kefa, who couldn't fight, finally became a member of the party with autonomy, but fortunately, he had a chief military officer who could fight well along the way, Mu Wenshou, so Shi Kefa did not get the opportunity to make military mistakes after sitting in Fengyang.

Shi Kefa, who was full of enthusiasm, did not understand military affairs, and ordered the military officers Mu Wenshou and Liu Liangzuo to lead the army to pursue the Liukou, and these two people chose to fight steadily and steadily.

Because they know very well in their hearts that it doesn't matter whether they are surrounding Zhang Xianzhong, Yao Tiandong and other thieves, in case there is a leak in the defense line and Fengyang is looted again, not only will Governor Shi Kefa's head have to move, but he may not have good fruit to eat.

Huang Han resolutely rearranged, and the "Red Banner Army" in the interior gave up Shaanxi, southwest Shanxi, north and south of Henan, and south and west of the country, which had been repeatedly plagued by the exiles.

Many Henan people who were willing to follow the "Red Flag Army" went to Xiangyang to reach Nantong Prefecture under the Yangtze River via the Han River, and waited for a transfer to a sea ship to go to the "Han River Province".

Time has passed, and not all those who defected to the "Red Banner Army" are no longer the proletariat, and many enlightened wealthy officials and gentry in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, and Central China have also brought their families to the country, including many children of prominent families in Luoyang and Kaifeng.

The calculations of the big family are more forward-looking, and the long bet can make the family prosperous, Luoyang and Kaifeng are besieged by the rogues and Jiannu at every turn, and anyone lacks a sense of security.

The force of the "Red Banner Army" was mythologized, and the reputation of conquering the generals and administering the army became well-known, and articles in the "Red Flag Daily" boasted about the new territory.

It became fashionable to induce the wealthy families of Henan to transfer their assets and part of the population to settle in the "Hanjiang Province".

Of course, these people do not take the ships that transport the displaced people, and most of them hire ships to go south to the Yangtze River and then change to luxury passenger ships to go directly to "Han River Province".

Zheng Zhilong's fleet sailed for nearly twenty days, and when he crossed the Zhoushan Islands and approached the mouth of the Yangtze River, he encountered a sentinel ship sent by the general of the expedition.

Unexpectedly, the general of the conquest was really not outside, and directly assigned a task to himself, Zheng Zhilong couldn't cry or laugh, so he had to go to Nantong Prefecture to dock at the port to pick up the 30,000 immigrants waiting for him to be transferred.

Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhihu, Gan Hui and other generals were also quite curious about whether the legendary conquest of the generals and millions of living people was true, and they felt that this place was different when they came to Nantong Prefecture and went ashore.

Originally, they thought that the immigrants waiting for transfer did not know what to look like dirty, but who knew that the immigrants did not have any unkempt hair, and everyone had bright eyes and strict discipline.

If you have any questions, just look for someone with a red armband on your arm, and the custodian will have an answer, and if this person can't solve the problem on the spot, he will be very enthusiastic to take him to his superior.

Zheng Zhihu finally saw the "Red Banner Army" soldiers at close range, there were not many people here in Nantong Prefecture, there were only two generals of the "Red Banner Army", there were two thousand generals in the Weisu Army, and the rest were thousands of villagers and people who practiced every three days.

The village warriors and minzhuang who are not in the training period basically work as porters in the port, because the amount of reprinting here is particularly large, and there is no problem for a strong laborer to earn one or two taels of silver a month in the case of taking care of food.