Their conversation was obtained by Zhang Qiang in less than a few days, because Tian Bin, Wang Chong, and Zhang Chao were in the first army of the Qing army's new army, and this situation was still very easy to get.

Hong Chengchou and they were not in a secret place, a few people discussed, but in the whole army simple, when the drill was carried out, they said, and the intelligence officers who paid special attention to them quickly wrote their conversation word for word into intelligence and reported it to Tian Bin and them, Zhang Chao quickly sent it to Mi Lin, and Mi Lin gave it to Zhang Qiang.

After Zhang Qiang saw it, he was not busy mobilizing and adjusting the troops, anyway, there was Wei Wuji guarding the town in Jinling Mansion, and there were three field brigades, a garrison regiment, where were tens of thousands of militia teams defending, there were tens of thousands of field brigade soldiers defending on the banks of the nearby river, there were garrison regiments in the rear, and the militia troops were there, maybe not as good as the Qing army in terms of numbers, but in terms of elite, it was quite elite compared to the Qing army.

But Zhang Qiang felt that he still couldn't let the Qing army be too idle.

Gotta find something for them to do.

Li Dingguo had already gained a firm foothold in Yungui, and Zhang Qiang sent a group of veteran instructors who were good at training and artillery training to support Li Dingguo.

At the same time, there were hundreds of foreign operations members of the Military Intelligence Department led by Mi Lin, who would enter Sichuan through Yunnan and Guizhou, and transport firearms, some captured armor and weapons of the Qing army, as well as high-quality armor and weapons produced by the Huaxia Army to Sichuan Province to support the rebel army in Sichuan Province.

For example, Qin Liangyu and some others.

The intelligence officers in the back were responsible for establishing post stations, establishing the past through Guangxi, Guangdong, and other places, and transferring materials into Yunnan and Sichuan, huge supplies, including grain, war horses, and retired Jingai 1 arquebuses, some captured Qing artillery, firearms, and a steady stream of support to the rebels against the Qing army in Sichuan and other places.

The Southern Ming Kingdom needs to spend money to buy, and Li Dingguo also needs to spend money to buy, but for the rebel army in Sichuan, as well as the Dashun Army, the Great Western Army is willing to rebel against the Qing army, and the white transportation, this line, through Li Dingguo and Longwu Nanming's money to buy weapons and ammunition, can be maintained without the Huaxia Army sticking upside down.

At the same time, the caravan was also expanded to these areas, so that the caravan could transport back the specialties of these regions, and the Huaxia army would do business with Lu Guo and Zheng Chenggong, and the Spaniards, and get rich trade income to support the Huaxia army's finances.

What is surprising is that Li Guo, who was fighting against the Qing army in Huguang, Li Zicheng's nephew sent someone to find him, hoping to support a batch of weapons and equipment for their loyal battalion.

Li Guo cooperated with He Tengjiao of Huguang, but He Tengjiao used them as a shield and a combat army, and did not support them much, which made the loyal battalion resentful, and when they learned that the Huaxia army supported all the rebels who resisted the Qing army, they sent people to find Zhang Qiang.

Zhang Qiang was also happy, and he didn't ask who they were loyal to, whether it was Yongli Nanming or Longwu Nanming, Yigai supported, not only supporting the captured weapons and equipment, but also supporting the chain mail, chain mail, Mingguang armor, and even war horses, grain and grass produced by the Huaxia Army.

So that the whole camp of loyalty is grateful to him.

Mi Lin and they also set up a dragoon guard for Li Guo and Gao Yigong and others for free.

The best steel guns, the best war horses, armor, and the Jingai-1 arquebus that can shoot on the horse, the short fire gun, and the short fire gun are all the kind of flintlock muskets that can only fire one shot of the steel wheel that the chasers of the Chinese Army were equipped with in the past.

They also learned from the Chasseur Guards of the Huaxia Army, each horse hung five short firearms, when they charged, they first hit three rounds when they got close, and when they fought, they took the opportunity to fight two more rounds, and then used spears, sabers, and waist knives to fight the enemy.

In just a month after receiving the support of the Huaxia Army, the loyal battalion changed its guns and artillery, and had 3,000 elite soldiers, 7,000 infantry who had been replaced with equipment from the Qing army, and some civilians who were also coerced, becoming an army with strong combat effectiveness.

When fighting with Huguang's Mang Gurtai Division, they had already defeated Mang Gurtai twice, and laid down some county towns, stopped their mobile combat operations, stayed at ease, and developed their strength, and the Chinese army continued to supply them with grain, grass and weapons and equipment.

There is also a rebel army unit in Huguang, Chen Youzheng, and Mi Lin's intelligence officers will not let go, and they have already contacted them.

There was also a steady stream of support for them, but they were only 2,000 people, and their reputation was not obvious, so Zhang Qiang asked Milin to send them to the border between Huguang and Guangxi to find trouble with the Jilharang tribe.

Give them good crossbow arrows, bows and arrows, and war horses, and let them constantly attack the supply lines of Zilharang and some remote county towns and villages, gather troops, and by the time they received their conversation from the Qing army Hong Chengchou, Chen Youzheng had expanded his army to 5,000 people.

With 300 cavalry, 1,500 horse infantry troops, and 3,200 infantry troops armed with crossbows and bows, they occupied a county town and penetrated their tentacles deep into the territory of Guangxi.

Due to the reputation of the Huaxia Army, Chen Youzheng wanted to defect to the Huaxia Army, Zhang Qiang immediately ordered Tong Dawei, who had just returned, not to take over the post of commander of the cavalry brigade, but to lead 300 cavalry, 300 pikemen, and 400 musketeers, all of whom were militia units, equipped with Jingai-1 arquebuses, to join them and take the opportunity to annex this army.

The Qing army was gathering strength, and Zhang Qiang was strengthening the strength of the anti-Qing forces.

However, it was not all good news, and the intelligence officers who returned from Sichuan reported that Haoge in Ganshan finally pacified the anti-Qing forces and led the army to re-enter Sichuan.

At the same time, they eliminated Yungui's Tusi family and accelerated their control over Yungui.

The Tusi family was wiped out a lot, and many Tusi were subordinated to the Qing army and became the arms of the Qing army, which was not good news for Li Dingguo.

The Dutch ships arrived at Laizhou Mansion, brought more than a dozen Dutch armed merchant ships, the Qing army sailors in one day, grew a lot, Shi Lang took the opportunity to attack the Zheng army on Chongming Island, Chongming Island was in danger, Zheng Chenggong had to send a large group of Zheng ships to counterattack Shi Lang.

The war at sea continued, and both sides had their own victories and defeats.

Last month, Zheng Chenggong finally compromised and discussed with Zhang Qiang to buy the warships of the Huaxia Army.

The warships of the Huaxia Army have begun to build a large warship of 1,000 tons, which is the kind of large super warship with four decks and 110 guns, which also belongs to the super warship in Europe and the West at that time, and belongs to the category of sail battleships.

The merchant ships of the Chinese Army, escorted by a special escort fleet, had already made many trades with the Spaniards, whose relations were sometimes bad.

The largest merchant ship in the escort fleet was the 500-ton Daifuku, the average warship was more than 300 tons, the Galen ship with 36 guns, and the 300-ton Clark ship with 27 guns.

The escort fleet had fifteen Daifuku ships, fifteen Galen ships, fifteen Clark ships, twenty-seven Canton ships, thirty-five centipede clippers, and nearly 100 warships, escorting merchant ships on three routes at the same time.

Footprints reached Japan, Manila, and even Malacca under Dutch rule.

Sometimes I go to Vietnam too.

When Zheng Chenggong came to him, Zhang Qiang asked Gu Yuesheng of the household department to personally negotiate with him, and in order to strengthen the anti-Qing forces, he sold Zheng Chenggong 30 search of the Guangzhou ship, 30 search of the Dafu ship, 10 Galen ships of 300 tons, and more than 100 other small boats, and obtained nearly 20 million taels of silver, and at the same time gave Zheng Chenggong some of the goods accumulated by the Huaxia Army over time, and obtained silver taels and the goods outside worth 40 million silver taels.

After Zheng Chenggong got these warships, he immediately fought several battles with Shi Lang and Huang Wu near Chongming Island, Shi Lang's Taoism was definitely not as good as Zheng Chenggong, after one or two small victories, he was surrounded by a brigade led by Zheng Chenggong, thousands of warships, and fought for three days, Shi Lang was defeated and fled, losing three Clark ships sold by the Dutch to the Qing army, more than 20 armed merchant ships, and at the same time losing more than 100 searches of Guangzhou ships and Fu ships, more than 10,000 Qing army sailors, and the Qing army sailors were slumped near Chongming Island and had to retreat to the vicinity of Laizhou Mansion.

After getting the news of Zheng Chenggong's victory, Zhang Huangyan couldn't sit still, and immediately contacted Zheng Chenggong, and sent Lu Zhenfei, his infantry, and the naval division to Chongming Island, and tens of thousands of infantry and naval divisions arrived on Chongming Island, and the Qing army had to retreat.

And Zheng Chenggong didn't look at King Lu, King Lu took the opportunity to arrive at Chongming Island, and Lu was in danger again.

On Chongming Island, many of them were Zhang Huangyan and other troops loyal to King Lu, so the strength of King Lu's troops on Chongming Island increased greatly.

The relationship between the two sides has become delicate and critical.

After getting such news, Zhang Qiang sent people to mediate the disputes between the two sides, and after paying a lot of weapons and equipment, and even some Jinkai 2 arquebuses, Zheng Chenggong no longer pursued King Lu's unauthorized escape, but the gap between the two sides was irreversibly generated.

Zheng Chenggong's subordinate Chen Peng rebelled against Zheng Chenggong and led a part of 300 medium-sized canton ships and 2,000 officers and soldiers of the Navy Division to defect to King Lu, who named him the Admiral of the Navy Division and let him lead the Navy Division.

The changing situation made Zhang Qiang think about it for a long time, and he was unwilling to mix the relationship between the two at this time, but if he could have one more force to contain the Qing army, Zhang Qiang still did it without hesitation.

Immediately supported King Lu again, gave them more than 20 search Clark warships, 100 small fortune ships, King Lu's forces gained a foothold on Chongming Island, and Zhang Qiang compensated Zheng Chenggong for a hundred Guangzhou ships, anyway, the shipyards of the Huaxia Army are now blooming on the southeast coast, and there are more than that, every bay suitable for shipbuilding has a shipyard of the Huaxia Army, and these shipbuilding ships cannot be consumed at once, and can be used to make up for the relationship between the two sides and strengthen the strength of the anti-Qing Dynasty, Zhang Qiang is still very happy.

Even so, a ship worth almost 10 million taels of silver was used.

At the same time, Zhang Qiang told Zheng Chenggong that if he could cooperate with the Huaxia Army before the next war, then he would give Zheng Chenggong 100 Fu ships, 20 large Fu ships, or 20 300-ton Galen ships.

Zheng Chenggong immediately dispatched troops and sent 50,000 Zheng troops, 8,000 sailors, and 300 warships to Chongming Island, waiting for a counterattack on the Qing army.