With Li Dingguo, the vanguard of the former army who was almost disabled, he returned to the small county town of Nanmingguo that he captured halfway, settled the army, and after three days of busyness, he sent people to the edge of his territory to occupy the six county towns that Nanmingguo had promised him before, where was already the base camp of Li Dingguo's attack.

In order to help Li Dingguo, Zhang Qiang can be said to have spared no effort to send Liu Liangzuo, the deputy director of the punishment camp, who had stayed in the punishment camp, to help Li Dingguo.

After Liu Liangzuo went, he learned from the Huaxia Army, classified and sorted out the 70,000 or 80,000 prisoners, as well as the young and strong soldiers who had captured the six counties of Nanmingguo before, and the total number of prisoners reached 200,000.

Then those who did serve as soldiers, did fight with the Southern Ming Kingdom and the Huaxia Army, but it was not long, and the Southern Ming Army that was less than a year old was thrown into the farmland to farm, and sent those who withdrew to fight uselessly, but had to be guarded by the routs who had to be arranged.

Then those veterans who are oily, but not bad in nature, are thrown into the prisoner camp, sentenced to three years, and can be released back to their hometowns if they perform well in three years, and if they have meritorious service, they can be promoted to the head of the overseer, and after they are released, they can get material rewards, or those who want to stay can be promoted to the next level, these people are basically repairing the city, doing some chores in the punishment camp, and not going out to do those hard work.

The battle to besiege Aobai had actually been opened a long time ago, but Xiao Fei didn't seem to be in a hurry to eat Aobai in one bite, and always sent three or hundred people to attack, of course, it was a dragoon, ran to the outside of the town to shoot a few shots, and then quickly retreated, waiting for the enemy to chase out in a hurry, and then fired a few shots, the enemy chased and fired a few more shots, the enemy was fooled once or twice, chased out a few miles, and then was ambushed by the cavalry outside to wrap dumplings, and ate the enemy's thousands of cavalry at a time.

After two or three times, the enemy did not suffer a loss, but did not attack the pass defended by Wang Yuqun's 19th Field Brigade, but the whole army retreated to the town, began to build fortifications, and prepared to hold on.

Aobai, who was once famous and brave in the Qing Dynasty, became a dead fish and was besieged in the town, silently waiting for death to come.

Seeing Aobai's reaction, Xiao Fei, who was still thinking about eliminating Aobai in one fell swoop, began to harass and besiege as soon as his heart moved, wanting to hang more Qing troops and encircle them to send reinforcements, which was also the tactic that Zhang Qiang taught them when he trained them.

However, Xiao Fei was soon disappointed.

It has been a few days, not only did not the Qing army in Hubei Prefecture rush here to rescue Aobai, but the Qing army in Hubei Prefecture has withdrawn completely, and even the Qing army in the distance has retreated, he received the news that Tong Dawei led the cavalry brigade and the 23rd field brigade to take a number of county towns bloodlessly, victoriously took Wuhan Mansion, and then turned to Yichang Mansion upwards.

There are not many Qing troops on this one, and the officials along the way have hung up their seals and gone to their posts, the gates are open, and many counties are beating gongs and drums to welcome the posture of the king.

This is why Xiao Fei sat on wax.

Hurriedly contacted Zhang Qiang, who was building in Huguang, Zhang Qiang sent personnel to contact the Ministry of Military Intelligence, Milin hurriedly ordered an investigation, ten days later, the news came, Xiao Fei smiled bitterly, the Qing army actually retreated, all of them withdrew into half of the territory of Anhui Prefecture, or withdrew into Henan Mansion, Huai'an Mansion, and some entered Shandong Prefecture, and the Qing army seemed to be shrinking its strength.

At present, the difficulty thrown to them is that there are not so many troops to seize a large amount of territory in Hubei Prefecture, which is seized by some Ming rebel army and anyway army, as well as He Tengjiao in Hubei Prefecture, of course, Li Guo's loyal battalion and Dashun army are indispensable.

Knowing this situation, Zhang Qiang ordered Xiao Fei to immediately dismantle the cavalry and seize a few county towns in all directions, and at the same time ordered the 24th Field Brigade stationed in Jiujiang Mansion to send people to cross the river to reinforce the remaining troops of the 23rd Field Brigade that took over Wuhan Prefecture, where to establish a defensive line to prevent the Qing army from raiding.

Xiao Fei ordered Brother Zhu to take the cavalry brigade plus the cavalry of the two field brigades that had just replenished the cavalry to march quickly to reinforce the Yichang Mansion where Tong Dawei was stationed, to help Tong Dawei stabilize the situation and prevent He Tengjiao of Yongli Daming from attacking the Huaxia army, and he took two field brigades and Wang Yuqun's field brigade to continue to surround Aobai, and Zhang Qiang had not yet given instructions on how to deal with Aobai.

However, at present, the main contradiction is not their battle with the Qing army, but how to deal with the relationship with the Yongli Ming in Hubei Prefecture and Li Guo's loyal battalion in Dashun.

There is also the relationship between Chen Youzheng and the rebel army and the rebel army.

Xiao Fei had to admire Hong Chengchou as an opponent, he handed over a difficult problem to the Huaxia Army, instead of facing the Huaxia Army head-on.

If he wants to complete the task assigned to him by Zhang Qiang, he must deal with this problem, otherwise if he encounters the Yongli Daming, the loyal battalion, and the army, if people do not recognize them, or are unwilling to surrender to them, how to deal with it?

At present, although there is a little friction between the Huaxia Army and the Yongli Daming, but the overall relationship is still in a state of cold treatment, Zhang Qiang is not willing to take the initiative to lift the cover, and the Southern Ming Army has friction from time to time, and has fought a few small wars, but generally speaking, the two countries are still allies, to be precise, the Nanming Kingdom belongs to the vassal state of the Huaxia Army, but the people are also the legitimate successors of the Ming Dynasty, it is orthodox, those rebel armies and the anyway army may still recognize people, Longwu may also recognize people, if these people are beaten, Maybe the relationship with Nanming will decline.

The Huaxia Army is not afraid of the Nanming Kingdom, and the Nanming Kingdom can't defeat the Huaxia Army, but at this moment, it is still necessary to be cautious in dealing with it, don't mess with things that shouldn't be provoked, and take down the things that can be done at a small price, this is Zhang Qiang's code of conduct.

It dragged on for half a month, even if the intelligence officers of the Military Intelligence Department were slow to react and convey intelligence on the way, Zhang Qiang also got a report from the Military Intelligence Department, and almost got the information that Hong Chengchou and Feng Quan had changed in the Qing army.

Seeing such information, Zhang Qiang was also stunned, what the hell, the Ming Dynasty has become the Warring States Period, is it really divided into multiple entity countries?

Looking at this situation, Hauge didn't know when he had such courage, and he dared to muster up the courage to take back the position of the emperor that belonged to him, a few years ago, if it weren't for Dolgon, Hauge would be the legitimate and orthodox person who was the most promising person to take over the position of emperor of Huang Taiji, he was the eldest son, according to the tradition of the Chinese land, the eldest son to succeed the emperor was the most legitimate and undisputed option.

It's a pity that Dorgon, the imperial uncle, and Zilharang and others used their strength to deprive him of his legal inheritance.

Such a situation is what Zhang Qiang is willing to see, and the internal strife in the Qing Dynasty is also what the emperors and anti-Qing aspirants of the Ming Dynasty are willing to see, but it has caused problems for the next move of the Huaxia army.

Should we continue to go all the way north and take down the Manchus, or should the Manchus continue to kill each other and attack when the overall situation is settled?

There is also how to get along with Nanming, Daming, these forces in the future, the situation has changed, the Qing Dynasty is in civil strife, and now Nanming has been left behind by the Huaxia Army, behind the people, there are no enemies left and right, with the urine of Nanming Longwu, he will definitely turn his face with the Huaxia Army immediately, even if he does not attack the Huaxia Army, he will secretly make trouble.

Such a change in the situation is beyond Zhang Qiang's expectations, if Dolgon does not die, the Qing Dynasty is still a whole, he can suppress the Shunzhi Emperor to the death, Shunzhi can not take all the Qing troops scattered in the entire Ming land together, continue to attack Yongli Daming, continue to attack Nanming, he does not have that strength and prestige.

Oh my God, Zhang Qiang also felt a headache.

Next, Yongli Daming may have to turn his face with him, because to be honest, the nature of the Huaxia Army is the same as the nature of Li Zicheng, a traitor, and he wants to fight for the world with others.

Yongli Daming and the Qing army still had contact, but the Southern Ming Kingdom had no enemies, if they knew this fact, then their Huaxia army would be in danger.

Maybe they can't beat the Huaxia Army, but the relationship between the Huaxia Army and the Southern Ming Kingdom is difficult to say.

Zhang Qiang immediately rearranged and ordered the Military Intelligence Department to focus on monitoring the movements of the Southern Ming Kingdom, and at the same time monitoring those Ming generals of the Huaxia Army, such as Liu Liangzuo and others, as well as civilian officials, Qian Bingrup and others.

At the same time, Liu Liangzuo was sent back to the center and given idle positions, such as helping Lin Chengcheng to manage the punishment camp, he went to manage the prisoner camp, and in the prisoner camp near Jinhua, the prisoner camp was responsible for inspecting the prisoner camp according to the inspector.

After Liu Liangzuo did this, he basically diverted about 60,000 prisoners, reduced the pressure on them, and also reduced Li Dingguo's consumption of grain and grass, don't think that the enemy can leave you more grain and grass in the county town, Li Dingguo's grain and grass are mostly transported from the Yunnan base camp, the road is far away, and it is difficult and dangerous, and three of them come here, five of which must supplement the consumption of Li Dingguo's army, and three can be left as military food to supply these prisoners.

At the same time, the food provided to the common people, the officials of the Southern Ming Kingdom, like the Ming Dynasty, were eager to loot and clean, and the common people could not survive.

Being a soldier does not lose a way to survive, so in these poor mountains and bad waters, many ordinary people are actually soldiers, even if the food in the army is not good, at least there is a military salary and stuttering, so in fact, there is a shortage of people in these places, which is why Liu Liangzuo wants to release these people to their hometown, they need to reclaim the land, for themselves, for the new ruler of this territory - Li Dingguo to open up wasteland and farm land and pay taxes.

Of course, with the help of the Huaxia Army, how could the place ruled by Li Dingguo be like the previous Southern Ming Kingdom, the alliance of Zhang Huangyan and Du Ge, and Zhang Liang's help, made Li Dingguo's territory different from the original.

(End of chapter)