After listening to Liu Liangzuo's suggestion, Zhang Qiang felt that this was a good way.

Capturing the Southern Ming Kingdom and supporting some of their veterans who have experienced the test of war has always been a trick for the Huaxia Army to win over the Southern Ming Kingdom, but the relationship between the two sides is not so harmonious due to a series of reasons.

There is both cooperation and hostility, and for a period of time, both sides complain that the other is not good to themselves, and they do not completely fall to the other; At the other end, due to the common enemy, the two sides had to fight the enemy back to back like the closest comrades-in-arms, temporarily forgetting the unhappiness of both sides and facing the enemy together; And most of the time, the two sides maintain an invisible and unhealable distance, treating each other as enemies and guarding against each other.

This is because, after all, Longwu Nanming is the orthodox and legitimate heir to the throne recognized by most people in the southeast, and the Huaxia Army, which is also in the southeast, is regarded as an illegal and betrayal person because it was born out of the Nanming regime.

This kind of form, born is a mortal enemy, just like a cat and a mouse, no one can make up for the cat's natural wildness, I don't know when the cat will eat the mouse as a good friend, the mouse also naturally knows that the cat is their mortal enemy, even if it is close to the cat, but also keep a distance, so as not to restore the wild nature of the cat, bite him to death.

Now it seems that the Huaxia army is born with the wildness of a cat, because it is relatively strong, and at the same time, it also bears the notoriety of betrayal, and is a traitor, which is what the people of the Nanming Kingdom think, and the relatively weak Nanming Kingdom thinks that they are naturally weak, and keeps a distance from the increasingly powerful Huaxia Army, because they are afraid of the pit.

Although exchanging surplus prisoners for Gao Zhixiang and others could not make up for this rift, it could ease the relationship between the two sides, so that the Huaxia army would not immediately deal with the embattled crisis.

Because Zhang Qiang was ready to exterminate the Yongli Ming Army and Li Guozhong's Dashun Army in Hubei Prefecture, as well as Chen Youzheng's Anyway Army, he attacked the Lu Ming Army, mainly attacking Hong Chengchou, the original Qing army who had taken refuge in Lu State, and the Huaxia Army would never allow such a powerful force at its doorstep.

This force is not only strong, but also constantly improving, they are good at learning, which is what Zhang Qiang is afraid of.

"Okay, this matter will be handed over to you and Minister Zhang Liang to handle, we must do it well, get back Gao Zhixiang and the people who also want to take refuge in us, we don't want them to do anything, just set an example for outsiders, it is good to take refuge in us, if you don't take refuge in us, you will destroy him, understand?"

Zhang Qiang said to Liu Liangzuo.

"Yes, Metropolitan Governor, I will definitely take care of this matter for you, so what about me here?" Liu Liangzuo asked.

Zhang Qiang waved his hand, "The prisoners of the punishment camp are dispatched and arranged, you don't need to do it yourself, let the people below do it, I just let Gu Yuesheng watch it by the way." He's the highest administrative official here, and he has his share in these things, and he doesn't care who cares? There you go. ”

"Yes, Grand Duke, listen to my good news." After saying that, Liu Liangzuo really left this time and went to do something.

Zhang Qiang also stepped on the war horse and took the guard battalion to go outside.

The capital city of Wuhan is simply a large barracks, and at the same time, it is extremely busy, with a large population, as well as people who have lost their land and their homes because of the war; As well as the army of prisoners, militia troops, garrisons, and officers and men of the Guards Brigade who came here from all over the country.

The 1st Guards Brigade is stationed outside the city, and it is always a combat unit, an elite unit, and the 2nd Guards Brigade is stationed inside the city, responsible for protecting the government office, key figures, officials, and Zhang Qiang, while assisting the garrison to maintain order.

Zhang Qiang took the guard battalion around the city.

It can be seen that Hong Chengchou is still doing a good job here, such a tall city, if he really transfers troops from Jiujiang Mansion to attack, even if he breaks the city wall and rushes into the city, he will face major damage, otherwise he will not be able to take here.

Because this is the Yangtze River on the more important Dafu City, but also the Yangtze River waterway artery, so this city is extremely huge, the circumference has reached more than 60 miles, the city wall alone is as high as more than 20 meters, equivalent to eight or nine stories as high, all kinds of street fighting fortifications in the city are built towards the kind of bunker in the firearms age, are all at important intersections, official mansions, slightly larger mansions are like an independent bunker, small walled city, such fortifications, to attack it, must use cannons, dead and wounded countless people.

Even if the enemy uses a bow and arrow, it is not easy to capture, if it is a firearm, then even the shield will not work, such a big city, it is difficult to take it without killing and wounding tens of thousands of people, which has to make Zhang Qiang secretly shout a fluke.

Surrounded a Aobai and scared Hong Chengchou away, as long as 10,000 Qing troops are stationed here, then it is really delusional for the Huaxia Army to take this big city with a field brigade.

Dolgon's death was really timely, as soon as he died, Hong Chengchou immediately switched to Lu State in fright, and at the same time shrank his troops, although he knew that he had been preparing for two years, just to block the progress of the Huaxia army, and wanted to compare with the Huaxia army here, but now that he saw Wuhan Fufucheng, he still felt that he should be grateful for Dolgon's death.

After seeing it in the city, and going outside the city, Zhang Qiang was even more surprised outside the city, Hong Chengchou not only took out the original set of Huaxia Army to deal with him, but also made a lot of changes.

For example, with three trench lines, he made six trench lines, each of which was about a mile apart, just as the heaviest 8,000-pound red-coated cannon in the city could hit hundreds of meters outside the trenches of the first line of defense, supporting the infantry guarding the trenches.

The tunbao camps and passes outside the trenches made more than the Huaxia army.

There is a large satellite city in the more than ten miles of the city, the satellite city is sandwiched between the old towns and villages, relying on the terrain, mountains, mountains, ravines, rivers, constituting a dangerous defensive fortress, if the army is sufficient, get a hundred thousand people to defend here.

In this era when there were no tanks, Zhang Qiang had to fight with the enemy to fight the number of people if he wanted to capture the outer defense line with the troops of the era of platoon shooting, which was Hong Chengchou's desire to pull the Huaxia army to the same level as them to fight the Huaxia army.

Tunbao, the camp is built in front of the trench, in the middle, judging from the traces of which tunbao, the enemy must have arranged a lot of artillery, ballistas, trebuchets and other heavy long-range weapons, the Huaxia army wants to attack here, has to take out the latest weapons of the Huaxia army, flowering shells, otherwise with solid shells, it will take tens of thousands of catties of solid shells to destroy these strong camps and tunbao.

Now these fortifications have been occupied by the Huaxia army, and the Huaxia army has weakened these fortifications, because at present, the Huaxia army is really not worried that the enemy has such a large number of troops, or such a powerful army to attack here, because the Huaxia army's strength here has reached more than 100,000 troops, unless the enemy has another strong force of six or seven hundred thousand, otherwise, just breaking the outer defense line they arranged, it will have to pay hundreds of thousands of troops, and the Huaxia army will have to fight for consumption.

A cavalryman ran over, and after passing several inspections and reports, he came to Zhang Qiang, "Report to the Governor of Dadu, the 19th Field Brigade of our army was ambushed by the enemy when attacking Jingzhou Mansion, and lost a 100-household baggage team, and when our cavalry rushed to it, it was besieged by the enemy's cavalry and infantry on the way, and a scout squad of cavalry was wiped out, and a 100-household squadron suffered heavy losses, and Brigade Commander Wang Yuqun was dispatching the whole army to encircle and suppress the enemy. ”

Zhang Qiang knew that if it was just such a small matter, Xiao Fei would not send someone to tell him, there must be other things, or more important things to discuss and report to him.

He thought about it, turned to the herald beside him and said, "Let the 1st Guards Brigade immediately pull out the camp, and let's go to Xiaogan County." ”

(End of chapter)