Jin Sheng returned to the center, and Zhang Qiang took over the jurisdiction of the Hubei Prefecture campaign, but he would not directly command, because there was still Xiao Fei as the commander.

Everyone discussed, and since Chen Youzheng did not accept the persuasion, they had no choice but to cut him.

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

Xiao Fei commanded the cavalry to patrol and garrison any place that could escape, and then commanded the army of Merlin Fish to encircle and suppress Chen Youzheng and kill Chen Youzheng, then the relatively powerful Dashun army Li Guobu could only be completely encircled in the Jingzhou area.

After the meeting was dispersed, Zhang Qiang and Gu Yuesheng focused on the civil affairs of the Hubei Prefecture, and began to send manpower to clear out the stubborn opponents in the Hubei Prefecture, so that the officials trained by the Huaxia Army who accompanied Gu Yuesheng could be stationed in the areas that had been occupied.

These things have been done, but with little effect, due to the flow of Li Guo's troops, it is difficult for the people of Hubei Prefecture to settle down, and many people have been coerced into Li Guo's Dashun army.

It is said that the people in the locality, even the landlords are difficult to find a few, and those who are found are some old, weak, sick and disabled, just to settle them, it will take a lot of manpower, and the nearly 100 officials brought by Gu Yuesheng are obviously not enough to have a radish and a pit, and there is a lot of shortage of personnel in the locality, and many officials have fled.

It was a laborious task to persuade the people to return to their homes from the mountains and hiding places, and it was necessary to allocate manpower to help them repair their homes, help them dress and eat, and it was not enough to disperse all the militia that had come with the army at once.

This situation is relatively slight in Wuhan Mansion, after all, this is the place where the Qing army has been stationed, the Qing army wants to run the place, gain the hearts of the people, and cannot oppress too hard, so in addition to 300,000 people in Wuhan Mansion, there are nearly 10,000 Qing army deserters, Xiao Fei They have settled these people and organized them, Jin Sheng After half a month of combing, Wuhan Mansion has basically been stable and the people are stable.

Gu Yuesheng took over and quickly organized a militia team, cooperating with the militia transferred from other places and the militia of the army to mix with these people, so that these people could contribute to the prosperity and stability of Wuhan Prefecture.

At present, there are nearly 30,000 militias in Wuhan Prefecture, of which 10,000 are transferred from other places to directly serve the army, the other 10,000 are mixed militias used to maintain stability in Wuhan Prefecture and nearby counties, and the remaining 10,000 are militias newly formed in Jiangxi Prefecture and Huzhou, as well as militias in Hubei Prefecture that have been newly formed to occupy the ground and cooperate with officials who go to various occupied areas to carry out the occupation tasks.

After the two men summed up, they sent the cavalry units of the 1st Guards Division of the Huaxia Army to help suppress the rebellion and arrest the bandits, and at the same time arrest the landlords and gentry who had not had time to deal with the Qing army in the early stage, confiscate their family property, set up a prisoner camp, and rebuild the areas damaged by the war.

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

Thinking about it for a long time, there was no suitable manpower to be transferred, and at this time I thought of Liu Liangzuo, although this person still had a trace of nostalgia for Nanming and Daming, and at the same time wanted to defect to the Qing army, but he must have recognized the situation clearly now, and it was not far away at this time, so he ordered him to be transferred, anyway, the punishment camp had already entered Huguang with nearly 100,000 prisoners and hard labor, and he was transferred just to let him manage the punishment camp here and Huguangzhou.

After the order was given, Liu Liangzuo came to Wuhan Mansion with a battalion of garrison troops and a battalion of pro-army cavalry.

So Zhang Qiang gave him the task of managing the punishment camps in Huguang and Hubei Prefecture, as well as raiding homes and suppressing rebels.

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

"Oh," Zhang Qiang looked at him in surprise, this person surrendered early, watching the Huaxia army change from weak to strong, but this person is deep in mind and good at studying, Zhang Qiang doesn't trust him very much, at this moment he suddenly wants to say something to Zhang Qiang so actively?

"That's the case, the Metropolitan Governor knows that Kong Youde was defeated, right?" Zhang Qiang nodded, didn't speak, looked at him, and saw what tricks he could shake out?

Liu Liangzuo looked around with a mouse's eyebrows, and Zhang Qiang said: "Let's say, here are my absolute henchmen, personal guards, there is nothing that they can't know." ”

"Then Weichen said, Gao Zhixiang wants to ask the Metropolitan Governor for personal favors, he wants the Metropolitan Governor to ask him from Nanming, and he wants to join the Huaxia Army." Liu Liangzuo whispered.

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

"Yes, as Kong Youde's subordinate general and confidant, he was captured by Su Zhengqing of Nanming, but Li Chengdong and they kept 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 and serve you, the governor of Dadu." Liu Liangzuo said as he looked up at Zhang Qiang, wiping his eyes and figuring out Zhang Qiang's thoughts.

Zhang Qiang squinted at him, touched his chin and pondered, the Huaxia Army can be said to be the soldiers and henchmen who Zhang Qiang originally cultivated are in full power, like those who later took refuge in the Ming and Nanming are all in the position of civilian officials, and the generals who took refuge in Dashun and Daxi are both reused and not reused.

Although Liu Liangzuo took refuge early, no, he should have surrendered early, but he actually didn't have much power, he always had a henchman by his side to keep an eye on him, and he had no other forces to rely on.

Seeing that his mind at the moment seems to want to go further, loyalty is okay, and the system probes his loyalty is almost more than seventy, so it seems that he really wants to develop in the Huaxia Army, not like he thought he was half-hearted, and he still had any nostalgia for the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty.

That's why he is so enthusiastic at the moment and wants to make meritorious contributions.

It was the first time that the Huaxia Army had heard that a captured general of the Qing Dynasty had taken the initiative to join the Huaxia Army.

"Are you sure he really wants to join the Huaxia Army? Instead of wanting to escape the punishment of Nan Mingguo? Zhang Qiang asked.

Liu Liangzuo said: "Don't dare to hide the governor, there is indeed this possibility, Nan Mingguo is deeply concerned about the losses he will cause to Nan Mingguo as Kong Youde's henchman, some officials grasp such a thing and impeach him many times, at the same time, many people are also dissatisfied with Li Chengdong to protect him, and Li Chengdong is impeaching, so he found Weichen and wanted Weichen to help him, protect him, and recommend him to come to the Huaxia Army."

He knew that the Huaxia Army was the suzerainty of the Southern Ming Kingdom, and the Huaxia Army would definitely be able to protect him, although there were many differences between the Southern Ming Kingdom and the Huaxia Army now, but Weichen believed that with the current situation of the Southern Ming Kingdom, they did not dare to turn their faces with the Huaxia Army immediately, and their strength was not enough. As long as the Metropolitan Governor asks them for Gao Zhixiang, it is impossible for them not to give it! ”

"This is not enough to convince me to protect him, you know that he is just a person, compared to the friendship and interests between Huaxia Jun and Nan Mingguo, he is not qualified for me to protect him." Zhang Qiang decisively refused.

(End of chapter)