Mid-September.

The number of people from Henan has reached 500,000.

A homeless camp is no longer sustainable.

So it could only be divided into four large battalions.

The same household registration is registered, and the soup is given every day.

The new army has reached 180,000.

Train hard day by day, waiting to go out with the army.

Tang Xidong promised the new army that once he went out with the army, no matter whether he had killed the enemy in the battle or not, as long as he strictly abided by military discipline, he would give priority to housing and arable land resettlement for his family.

As a result, there is a rush to it.

Without profits, it is difficult for the army to last long.

For the time being, all these people need is a house to live in and food to eat.

At this point, Tang Xidong was able to give them what they needed.

End of September.

The floods in Henan will not recede.

The continuous flooding is not only due to the continuous heavy rains but also the fact that the ancient river defense construction is too backward.

The first day of October.

Tang Xidong held a pledge meeting in Pingyang City.

Prepare to send troops to three states and one government.

In this expedition, in addition to the Pingyang Hero Regiment and the Yueyang Pingyang First Regiment and the Quwo Pingyang Second Regiment in Hejin, there is also the Luoliangshan Hero Company that guards Pingyang.

40,000 people remained in the four places, and the remaining 200,000 new troops were all led by Li Shangquan, Zhang Xiahai, Jia Hu, and Zhang Sanshi, respectively, and marched into three prefectures and one capital.

On this expedition, it can be expected that Tang Xidong will completely tear his face with the Ming Dynasty.

However, the situation was favorable for Tang Xidong for the time being, because the Ming army in Shaanxi and Shanxi was defeated, and because of the repeated floods and the border affairs in eastern Liaodong, the Ming court needed to take priority care of it.

In a short period of time, it was difficult for the Ming Dynasty to recruit troops again and encircle and suppress Tangxidong.

The third day of October.

The army rushed to the battlefield.

Zhang Sanshi attacked Zezhou, Jia Hu attacked Qinzhou, Li Shangquan and Ziyilongguan went out of Pingyang to attack Taiyuan, and Zhang Xiahai attacked Fenzhou.

The 200,000-strong army left the city from Pingyang and divided their troops.

This time, Tang Xidong is completely sure.

The army went out on the march, and once it occupied various places, it was divided and stationed.

Then he picked up the people of Henan to go to various places to fill the population, and at the same time gathered the people in the territory to carry out household registration reform.

Of course, these are all follow-up things.

By early October, millions of victims had gathered in Binh Duong.

The millions of victims are a sign of great hidden dangers, and Tang Xidong must let these victims scatter and find a place to live.

The ancients paid attention to the return of fallen leaves, but now the flood is coming, the heavy rain is continuous, the river is unbearable, and it is impossible to go back for a while, and the flood has washed away the houses and fertile fields, and has almost cut off the way of life for the victims.

At this moment, Binh Duong has become the support of the people.

The most difficult thing in the world to calculate is the human heart, and the most difficult thing is to accept the human heart.

Tang Xidong did not dare to guarantee that he would be able to allow millions of victims to settle in Shanxi, so in the end it seemed that he still took the old path, relying on force and power to let everyone rebuild their homes.

Of course, the best way to do this is to rebuild the family to bond and have a good quality of life.

There is a house, a land, and a livelihood.

October 15.

Zhang Sanshi sent back the good news.

The entire territory of Zezhou was captured, but in fact, there was basically no obstacle.

After Wang Jiayin occupied Lu'an, because of the vast geography and his own troops were insufficient, the combat power was low, although he had the intention to occupy Zezhou, but he did not dare to divide his troops, plus he needed to digest everything in Lu'an, and the original Huaiqing Ming army was requisitioned back to Henan for disaster relief as soon as possible when the flood occurred, after all, it was their old nest.

So the whole of Zezhou basically became an empty nest.

As soon as he received the military report, Tang Xidong sent his officials to Zezhou to investigate the city, and the main content of the investigation was the number of victims and the number of fields that the city could carry.

According to the previous model, it is still to stick to the big cities, abandon the small counties, and hoard the passes.

In the territory of Zezhou, there are five big cities left in the east of Tangxi, namely: Qinshui, Yangcheng, Zezhou, Gaoping, Lingchuan, in addition to Changping Pass in the north, Tianjingguan in the south, and Yonghe Pass in the southeast.

At the end of October, the officials who had gone to investigate returned.

The five cities of Zezhou can move 300,000 people.

So within a week, Tang Xidong began to collect 330,000 acquaintances from the previous villages and moved to Zezhou.

Being on the outside and at home.

No matter what these victims think, Tang Xidong needs them, and they have to stay in Shanxi.

At the end of October, along with the migration of the victims.

Zhang Xiahai sent back the good news and captured the entire territory of Fenzhou.

After Zhang Zongheng mobilized a large army to the north, Fenzhou left only the vulnerable Fenzhou Weisuo army.

The commander of Fenzhou Wei made Tao Gunian and Zhang Xiahai old acquaintances, and Zhang Xiahai continued to send letters to solicit while fighting hard.

Tao Gunian, as the second-grade military attache of the Ming Dynasty, naturally would not surrender easily, so he set up heavy troops in the two cities of Xiaoyi and Jiexiu to defend the city.

However, after Zhang Xiahai led the artillery to bombard, the two cities of Jiexiu and Xiaoyi failed to hold out for more than two days.

After capturing the two places, Zhang Xiahai led his army north and besieged the city of Fenzhou.

After seeing the sharp artillery fire of the new army in Pingyang, Tao Gunian, who knew that he could not hold on, went out of the city and surrendered on the third day, and with the surrender of Fenzhou City, Pingyao City in the northeast naturally went down without a fight.

There are four big cities in Fenzhou: Fenzhou, Xiaoyi, Jiexiu, and Pingyao.

As Zhang Xiahai conquered the entire territory of Fenzhou, Tang Xidong sent the officials who had already been arranged to various cities in Fenzhou to carry out political reform.

Counting the number of people, registering household registration, dividing fields, guiding farming, building factories, encouraging commerce, and reducing taxes.

These matters need to be carried out over a long period of time.

At the same time, Tang Xidong also ordered Zhang Xiahai to select bold and young men from the original Fenzhou Weisho army, and after training, they were incorporated into the new army, and the rest of the people were disarmed and returned to the field after being given certain policy preferences.

According to statistics, there are nearly 200,000 people in Fenzhou, which is already quite a lot, and it is difficult to increase the number of victims again.

As a result, Tang Xidong could only give Qinzhou, which he hoped to capture by Jia Hu, and Taiyuanfu, where Li Shangquan went north to attack.

At the end of October, Jia Hu had basically captured the entire territory of Qinzhou, and the army reached Wuxiang, a large city in the east of Qinzhou.

Along the Wuxiang Outer City River Xiangshui River all the way to the north, close to the location of Liaozhou, the Liaozhou rebels hoarded tens of thousands of rebels on the river, built a village by the water, and looked like a tiger.

Jia Hu led the army to attack many times, but the anti-army was cunning, and once Jia Hu led the army from the land approach, he set up a boat and left, and then returned again.

Jia Hu is helpless, the other party is like a slippery loach, now the river is long, the waterway is smooth, Jia Hu can't find a boat, naturally can't catch up, can't hit.

Looking at the good news sent back, Tang Xidong sneered again and again.

This is a thief's heart that does not die.

But understandable.

Who are the anti-military triumvirate entrenched in Liaozhou?

It is Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong, each of whom is not a good match.

Ambition is not stingy and swallows the world.

If the other party didn't peek into Qinzhou's psychology, it would be hell.

Tang Xidong directly ordered Jia Hu to make a gesture of entering Liaozhou, and then a letter was delivered to the Liaozhou rebels on a fast horse.

Within 10 days, if Liaozhou is not returned, heavy troops will attack the entire Liaozhou at that time.

Tang Xidong is different from the past at the moment, and he is deeply confident.

He had guns, artillery, food, and a new army with amazing combat effectiveness.

If the other party really can't distinguish the situation, then it is not the three famous rebel leaders in history.

Cooperation is mutually beneficial, hello and me, not cooperative? Artillery fire waits.

He wanted to see if the Big Three dared to be tough.