On 18 December, Dorobel and Pingnan General Luck Dehun boarded the ship from Jiangning, went upstream, and arrived at Wuchang in more than 20 days.

At this time, the situation in Huguang was turbulent.

In the Ming Dynasty, He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang, was stationed in Changsha to lead the overall situation, and the governor of Hubei, Yinxi, was stationed in the loyal battalion of the Changde Supervision Army.

Except for Li Guo and Gao Yigong, the rest of the generals in the Loyal Battalion were all cleared last year. Yuan Zongdi, Zhang Nai, Tian Jianxiu and other senior generals went to Wuhan to bow down to Tong Yanghe, the governor of Jianyu. Tong Yanghe's condition was to let He Tengjiao, who was entrenched in Pingjiang, Liuyang and other places, attack Changsha with the remnants of the Shun army, so that he could be effective, and Yuan Zongdi and others naturally agreed.

He Tengjiao had almost no ability to defend himself at that time, and the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty was presented like a naked woman in front of Jianlu and Liukou. He Tengjiao did not panic, he did three things to break the alliance between the Tatars and the Liukou.

The first thing is to plan Ma Jinzhong anyway. Ma Jinzhong was also a member of the peasant army, nicknamed 100,000, and was later recruited by Zuo Liangyu, who did not surrender with Zuo Mengeng, and strangely surrendered Azig in Hubei. At this time, Ma Jinzhong had hundreds of warships and was the only surface force worth mentioning on the Jingjiang River.

The second thing is to surrender Hao Shaoqi. Hao Shaoqi broke away from Li Chuang's remaining troops, accepted the change of identity, and became a Ming army.

The third thing is that Yu Yinxi stabilized Li Guo and Gao Yigong. Li Gao's second division has always been Li Chuang's strongest combat unit, and Azig has suffered a big loss from them.

Li Gao's military discipline is better, which is completely different from the rest of Li Chuang's rest of the army, and his combat effectiveness is also the most complete at this time, and his subordinates are half riding and half, and their strength is crushed. Gao Yigong tended to belong to the Ming army to resist the Tartars together and relieve the hardships with his former enemies. However, the time was not ripe, and Li Guo accepted Tong Yanghe's order to cross the Yangtze River to attack Yinxi.

After the shaving order, Ma Jinzhong showed his true character as a hero, and the predecessors of the peasant army at the end of the Ming Dynasty were not in vain. Ma Jinzhong first fooled the people under the British Prince Azig who managed all the Hongyi artillery, and on the pretext of helping the Manchurian Taijun to transport the artillery and make them walk more comfortably, he got nearly one-third of the heavy artillery in the country and threw it into the rolling Yangtze River in front of thousands of Taijun. In hindsight, Ma Jinzhong ran to Hubei to surrender for this batch of heavy artillery.

After committing such a big incident, he actually coaxed Tong Yanghe well, and there was no punishment at all. According to Tong Yanghe's deployment, Ma Jinzhong led his warship into the eight-hundred-mile Dongting Lake, and summoned the rest of Li Chuang's troops scattered around the Dongting Lake as a senior to swear. Except for Hao Shaoqi and a few other troops who were recruited earlier, everyone else responded to Ma Jinzhong's call and formed an alliance to fight against the Tartars.

Li Chuang's rest joined the Ming army, only the two tigers Liu Tichun was unwilling, and continued to use the banner of the Shun army to lead his headquarters to cross the Yangtze River north towards Xiangyang. The rift between Li Chuang's remnants is also very deep, and it is difficult for them to get along with each other. He Zhen was the first to surrender to Jianyu in Hanzhong, and fought a big battle with Li Guo, who retreated to southern Shaanxi

After receiving Zhao'an, Li Guo and Gao Yigong took Yue Fei as an example and were loyal to the country and lived up to the name of the loyalty camp.

Wang Yuncheng, Wang Jincai, Niu Wancai and others from Li Chuang joined forces with Ma Jinzhong, Niu Wancai and others had a deep contradiction with Gao Yigong, they were compiled by He Tengjiao as a loyal military battalion, and they still did not change the style of burning, killing and looting. The Chungwu battalion used their warships to gather the remnants of Li Chuang, who were scattered around Dongting Lake.

Although Hao Shaoqi's rogue style did not change and continued to burn, kill and plunder, he has completely broken away from Li Chuang's system since then.

However, the self-formed Chinese army, represented by Yuan Zongdi, Tian Jianxiu, Zhang Nai, and Wu Ruyi, committed the old problem of infighting again, and began to start at both ends of the first rat. They introduced their third brother Li Zi as the leader, known as the three thousand years old.

He Tengjiao tolerated the slightly rebellious behavior of Yuan Zongdi, Tian Jianxiu and others, and continued to provide them with military salaries.

For these wall grasses, retribution is quick.

Ma Jinzhong's subordinate deputy general Hei Yunchang led 200 warships to surrender to the advance of Le Ke Dehun, and Ma Jinzhong had no choice but to evacuate Yuezhou.

After eliminating the threat of Yuezhou on the flank, Luckedhun's troops divided into two routes, one to the south of the Yangtze River and one to the north of the Jiangbei, and advanced covertly. Traveling 100 miles at night, entering Jingzhou City in the early morning.

On the 29th day of the first month of the second year of Longwu, Jingzhou.

Zhang Nai said hello to Yuan Zongdi and Tian Jianxiu, and started another day's siege.

The light mist of the early morning obscured the vision, and some strange sounds came from the north and south of Jingzhou City.

Zhang Nai, Yuan Zongdi, Wu Ruyi, and Tian Jianxiu, who had become self-made cronies, immediately glanced at each other, and they all noticed the bad expressions on each other's faces. Immediately after a lifetime of fighting, they realized something.

5 thousand Jianju cavalry spread out from both flanks. When the flags and teethers who were wearing heavy cotton armor and even their faces were covered appeared in front of Zhang Nai's eyes, he didn't say a word, immediately turned his horse's head, turned around and ran.

Now it is obvious that it can't be defeated, there is no need to send it to death, as long as you can run away with the soldiers, and find a few prefectures and counties in Jiangnan to slaughter them, you can recover your vitality.

Li Chuang has been in this way for more than ten years, and Zhang Nai has rich experience in this.

Zicheng was defeated by Duoduo in Shaanxi, and retreated to Dengzhou, Henan, where the Liukou slaughtered and plundered, and rested for fifty days.

It's just that Zicheng didn't expect that Jianyu was not a Ming army at that time, and he would not show mercy to his subordinates and raise his own respect. When Li Zicheng used the old method to disperse the grain, Azig pounced and pursued mercilessly, beating Li Zicheng until only 20 people remained.

Jianyu's troops in Jiangnan arrived at the same time, and Gao Yigong and others were garrisoning the public security lawn, and at the same time encountered the Jianzhou cavalry rushing out of the fog, and the whole army collapsed.

Zhang Nai and the others saw that their hearts and galls were split, and they immediately turned around, scattered to the west, and fled north. For a whole day, Jiangbei's army did not break away from Jianyu's pursuit.

Although Luckedhun's soldiers fought for four days in a row and marched more than 100 miles overnight, the pursuit at this time was still fierce and powerful, and they pursued north to Xiangyang and west to Yiling. In terms of this marching capability alone, the current Jianyu is one of the strongest armies in the world.

At the beginning, the Zicheng Chinese Army, which surrendered the fastest to Jianyu, from the Cihou Tian Jianxiu, the Yihou Zhang Nai, the Wuyang Bo Li You, and the Taiping Bo Wu Ruyi, 39 generals and more than 5,000 horse infantry knelt densely beside the road.

The hair was hastily shaved into a money rat tail.

Along with them were more than 10,000 horses, mules, and cattle, as well as countless women from Huguang who had been taken captive. There are so many women that Jianyu has not bothered to count them.

Babutai, the general of Jianyu Fengguo, kicked over Zhang Nai, who was kneeling on the ground and trembling, and asked, "This is his adopted son, right?" Abandon the adoptive father, what is the use of the unfaithful and unrighteous slut, kill. ”

followed by Tian Jianxiu, Yuan Zongdi, and Wu Ruyi, Babutai did not have a second word, "Kill." ”

When it was the turn of the nominal leader of the Shun army, the three-thousand-year-old Li Zi, Babu Tailuo hesitated for a while, and finally spat out a single word, "Kill." ”

Babutai was addicted to killing, and the last part of the Chinese army hid on the ground and shivered. But surrender is useless, the Shun army is surrendering and rebelling, and at this moment it is chasing after Shun. Jianju, regardless of the old and the young, killed all the more than 5,000 troops who surrendered on the spot.

The captive Huguang refugees brought the news of Jianlu's killing of Guangliukou to the north and south of the river, which would win the hearts of countless people.

The rest of the Shun army consumed most of the battle in Jingzhou, and Li Guo and Gao Yigong continued to retreat to the south with the remainders.

The two tigers, Liu Tichun, joined forces with He Zhen, who had been re-ordered by shaving his hair, in Hanzhong, and united with the local Ming army to launch a large-scale attack on Xi'an, almost destroying the entire northwest.

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At the same time, Taiwan.

Mrs. Xing's troops and Wang Yunlun and Zhang Shijie's three Ming troops, totaling more than 6,000 people, conquered Taichung in only one month. The Taichung Basin is more than 100 meters above sea level, which is higher than the coastal area and has a more comfortable climate. If it weren't for some of the Big-bellied Fan Society's retreat into the mountains, Mrs. Xing's actions would definitely be faster.

There are 26 fan societies in the Potbelly Kingdom that have been uprooted, and more than 20,000 people and animals have been captured. As is the general practice, the men plundered the lumberyards and mines, and the women gave them to the soldiers.

Shou Xuan and Maiden issued several orders in succession, and built a total of two states and three counties in Yilanzhou, Taichung, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, and Miaoli, and the prefectures and counties all appointed chief officials, among which the governor of Taichung, who was close to the front line, was Zhou Luqing, the former Dongliuzhi County of Nanzhili.

The salt households of Nanzhili were placed in Miaoli, and the salt dings had the attributes of workers and were better organized than the peasants, so it was more appropriate for the oil fields in Miaoli to be handed over to them. Immigrants from Shanghai were resettled in Taichung, while immigrants from other places were assigned to Yilan and other places.

Zhang Shijie's troops and Wang Yunlun's two Ming armies were placed in Taichung, distributed fields and women, and also undertook the task of defending to the south. Their troops are mostly Shanghainese, and being placed in Taichung with the villagers is conducive to regional stability.

In addition to Taipei, there is still a large amount of land abandoned in various states and counties, and there is still room for further population expansion. There are many weavers, tea farmers, silkworm households, and other skilled workers in this migration, and the grassroots officials from the mainland are very experienced in the distribution of manpower. All states and counties have begun work to plant mulberry and tea trees. Mulberry tea does not need to occupy flat arable land, and there are many low hills near Taipei County, which are suitable for growing cash crops.

Taipei does not plan to export silk and cotton cloth, but only to meet certain local demand and reduce the amount of imports and purchases. Some weavers have switched from cotton to hemp, and the first American sisal planted in Taipei has matured, which is an important material for ship cables.

Some of the artisans brought from Jingdezhen were sent to Taipei, where they used low-grade porcelain clay to make porcelain. Taipei's chief executive also did not expect to be able to export ceramics, and homemade ceramics were also for local needs.

Jingdezhen Imperial Ware Factory has the most, and the most important part is the master of the beacon kiln, and there is another appointment for the order. The hottest furnace in China at this time was not a high-speed iron furnace, but a porcelain kiln. Orderly requires the most fire-savvy workers in China to discover new materials for refractory bricks, to study how mechanical blasts are realized, and to observe the temperature of the flame.

As for the vast number of steelworkers, there is not much use in Taiwan. The Order left Maiden with the necessary blacksmiths, and he intended to take the rest with him.

For Taipei, in addition to land reclamation, the most urgent task now is that they have a more immediate need.

Build a stone granary. There are many typhoons in Taiwan, with an average of more than 1 per year. This requires the grain depots of all states and counties to be unusually strong.

The quality of the pozzolana cement is good, but the order does not make reinforced concrete. Don't think about bamboo reinforced concrete, the bamboo reinforced concrete building of the school in Guangdong in later generations is a special case, why there is no problem, the reason has not been clear. Although the tensile strength of the bamboo green layer is very high, it is not firmly bonded with the concrete, which reduces the grip and wrapping force of the whole bamboo tendon, and has no social use.

In any case, the bamboo reinforced concrete can not be used, and the special case has no reference value

Without the right concrete, and the wooden roof was so fragile before a typhoon, there was only one solution left that was familiar to both the East and the West. The roof of the granary is based on the Chinese-style stone arch bridge and the Romanesque long-span dome, which is made of stone, brick and pozzolana cement. Single-storey building, raised foundation for easy drainage.