Liu Zeqing, who was surrounded by nearly three divisions of the National Defense Army, was already in a state of panic, and now he began to regret not accepting the Provisional Government's order to reorganize the troops.

Liu Zeqing, who was panicked, had to send someone to negotiate with Huang Degong and expressed his willingness to accept the adaptation, but Huang Degong quit.

Mr. Huang's strength stemmed from a recent decision by the provisional government to overhaul Nanjing's ironworks, which would be larger than those in Guazhou and Wuhu.

The newly built steel mill and its supporting industries will require a large number of workers, and the provisional government is worried about this matter, Luo Jian thought of the 50,000 people in Liu Zeqing's department.

Luo Jian's intention was to disband all of Liu's troops, most of his troops were recruited after arriving in Jiangyin, the time was still short, and they were not contaminated with Liu's vices, and this part of the personnel would be absorbed into the factory, and both problems would be solved.

In accordance with the resolution of the provisional government, Huang Degong ordered Liu Zeqing to disband the troops, and it was up to him to decide what to do.

Just as Liu Zeqing hesitated, Huang Degong, who had been impatient for a long time, ordered the troops to attack, and in less than two hours, Liu Zeqing's troops collapsed on the whole line, and Liu Zeqing himself escaped from the Yangtze River by boat, and finally disappeared.

Liu Zeqing's troops were all dismissed, except for a small number of people who were unwilling to stay as workers, most of them were dismissed into the factory, and the problem that had been plaguing Luo Jian was finally solved satisfactorily.

The two divisions and one brigade did not stop after solving the Liu Division, and continued to march southward without stopping.

The resolution of Liu Zeqing's ministry has played an excellent exemplary role, and Lu Zhenfei's reorganization of various prefectures and counties will be much faster.

In Hangzhou in March, the grass grows and the warbler flies, the trees recover, and the flowers are in full bloom, which is a fairyland on earth.

Lu Zhenfei, Huang Degong and others arrived in Hangzhou with the army, and the army did not enter the city, but was stationed outside Hangzhou.

The situation in Hangzhou was much more complicated than in other prefectures and counties, and without the support of the army, Lu Zhenfei and Huang Degong were not sure that the problem of Hangzhou would be solved.

There were no less than 70,000 or 80,000 troops in Nanming near Hangzhou, including Zheng Hongkui's more than 10,000 sailors who came from Nanjing.

In addition to consuming a large amount of food and salary every day, these troops were actually of no use at all, and when the Qing troops rushed thousands of miles to Nanjing, only more than 5,000 people went out of the city to intercept them, but they did not even delay the time of the Qing troops.

Luo Jian is very troubled by these former Ming troops, if they are disbanded, and he is afraid that they will become bandits and scourge the people, if they all stay, just raising this large group of people is a big expense.

Luo Jian knows very well that with the development of industry in the future, the shortage of manpower will be a serious problem, but at this time the industry and commerce have not really developed greatly, with the solution of Liu Zeqing's department, the employment problem of the new factory near Nanjing has been basically solved, and it seems impossible to solve the problem of the placement of the Nanming army by relying on the factory.

And it is not very likely that these soldiers will be allocated land and let them return to their hometowns to work in agriculture at present.

These places in Nanming are not like the Yangzhou area, which has been passed by the Qing soldiers several times, and there is a lot of ownerless land, which allowed Luo Jian to easily settle the soldiers eliminated in the army.

Continuing the vicious disease of the Ming Dynasty, the land annexation of the Southern Ming Dynasty was extremely serious, such as the king of Lu in Hangzhou occupied more than 100,000 acres of land near Hangzhou, and there were many other large landlords, ranging from hundreds of acres to tens of thousands of acres.

Some of these big landlords are like King Lu for nothing, and some are scheming and robbing, but most of them are accumulated from generation to generation, and these landlords cannot be as one-size-fits-all as their predecessors, and the social situation at this time is fundamentally different from that time, and the same method will cause more problems.

Although in the long run, hundreds of thousands of former Ming troops were not a big problem at all, as long as the Manchu problem was solved, the land problem would certainly not be a problem, and the population of the whole of China, including the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was only 50 or 60 million at this time, and the insufficient population would become a problem again.

Luo Jian thought of the sulfur ball.

After the Sulphur Ball was actually occupied, Ren Minyu also sent officials to govern it, but the population of the Sulphur Globe Islands is too small, and a large amount of land on the islands has not yet been developed, so it must be no problem for these islands to accommodate tens of thousands of people.

Except for Zheng Hongkui, who took his sailors from the coastal sea to Fujian to find his brother Zheng Zhilong, all the troops near Hangzhou were concentrated outside the city.

Lu Zhenfei and Huang Degong took people to the Ming army to do a lot of work, and made a promise on behalf of the provisional government that those who went to the island for development would enjoy the preferential treatment of being exempted from paying any taxes for 10 years, and those who were willing to return to the island after three years could also apply to the government, and the government would try its best to arrange for them to return to the mainland.

In recent years, Yangzhou's industrial and commercial development and the prosperity of foreign trade have played a great role, and people no longer regard these overseas islands as before, as before, they are regarded as a place of exile.

Lu Zhenfei and Huang Degong's hard work was not in vain, and they finally mobilized 30,000 or 40,000 people willing to go to Sulfur Ball.

Luo Jian, who received the report, did not delay at all, and immediately sent a fleet and merchant ships to start transporting personnel and supplies to Sulphur Island.

There were also many Ming soldiers who were willing to return to their hometowns, and Lu Zhenfei and Huang Degong gave them a certain amount of settling-in allowance and travel expenses, and there were also 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers in this part of the army.

Only 12,000 of the 780,000 Ming troops remained, and these people were carefully selected by Huang Degong, and the remaining officers and soldiers were organized into the Hangzhou Garrison Division, and Ma Yingkui was appointed as the commander of the garrison division, and the backbone of the 1st and 2nd Divisions was selected for intensive training.

It took more than half a month to solve the Hangzhou problem, and after the problem was solved, the army continued to march south.

Although the army marched south in the name of meeting the Qing army, anyone can see that its main purpose is to consolidate the provisional government's governance of the former Nanming subordinates, and under the deterrence of the army, Lu Zhenfei and Huang Degong's reorganization of the prefectures and counties and the reorganization of the army are extremely smooth, and in two days, the army will enter the territory of Fujian.

After the three divisions entered Fujian, they suddenly increased their speed, and they could not help but be in a hurry, and the documents of the two Guangxi newspapers were already flying like snowflakes to Nanjing.

Just when the provisional government was consolidating its subordinate governance, Hong Chengchou did not stop, and more than 200,000 Qing soldiers launched a fierce attack on Xiangliangguang under the personal leadership of Hong Chengchou.

The Qing soldiers were divided into east and west roads, and the 160,000 people on the east road were led by Hong Chengchou himself, and the "Tianzhu Army" of Zhishun Wang Shang Kexi was also among them (the previous text was wrong, Kong Youde's troops were mistaken for the Tianzhu Army, everyone forgive me), and they drove straight into Guangdong and were storming Shaozhou (now Shaoguan, Guangdong).

The 110,000 men on the West Road, led by Dorobellebolo, set off from Yongzhou, Hunan, and the striker had arrived in Liuzhou, Guangxi.

Considering the extremely large number of Qing troops marching to Liangguang, Luo Jian was worried that the number of two divisions and one brigade was too small, so he let all the cavalry divisions catch up, and the westward army was under the unified command of Liu Zhaoji.

As a result, there was no garrison in Nanjing, and at the suggestion of Shi Kefa, the Seventh Division, that is, the Yangzhou Garrison Division, was transferred to Nanjing, and directly stationed in the Beijing camp, while strengthening training, while being responsible for the defense of Nanjing.

The news that the provisional government had sent a large number of reinforcements greatly boosted the morale of the Ming army in Guangdong, and the Qing soldiers were met with stubborn resistance in Shaozhou, and the Tianzhu army, which was mainly attacking Shaozhou, stormed for eight days, but the city of Shaozhou was still in the hands of the Ming army.

Hong Chengchou saw that the resistance of the Ming army was really stubborn, and the Tianzhu army could not capture the city of Shaozhou, which was not tall in the city wall, so he hurriedly transferred dozens of artillery pieces from the army and began to bombard Shaozhou City.

The city wall of Shaozhou was not tall for long, the city wall was finally bombarded, Shaozhou was also occupied by the Tianzhu army, Shang Kexi who entered Shaozhou was frenzied and issued an order to slaughter the city, and more than 30,000 soldiers and civilians in Shaozhou City were all killed by the Qing soldiers.

The mountainous terrain of Fujian seriously affected the advance of the army and the transportation of military supplies, especially Yan Yingyuan's artillery was extremely inconvenient, and at this rate, I am afraid that it would not be able to reach Guangzhou in a month.

In desperation, Liu Zhaoji had no choice but to lead his army from Nanping to Fuzhou, preparing to march to Guangdong from the sea.

The Provisional Government's naval fleet, which is in full swing to deliver men and supplies to the sulphur ball, has not yet returned, and it may be too late for them to return.

Fortunately, Zheng Zhilong in Fuzhou submitted a letter of allegiance to the provisional government, expressing his willingness to obey the leadership of the provisional government, and Liu Zhaoji went to Fuzhou to use Zheng Zhilong's sailors to transport troops and supplies.

Knowing that the army was delayed in Fujian, Lu Zhenfei and Huang Degong also put down their work in Zhejiang and rushed to Fujian, where they also had to use the military might of the army to solve the problem in Fujian.

Zheng Zhilong, a general of the Fujian Navy Division, is Zheng Chenggong's father, since Zheng Chenggong joined the Yangzhou Army, although he has never returned to Fujian, but the correspondence has never stopped, Zheng Zhilong also knows a lot about Yangzhou and the current Nanjing Provisional Government, and is particularly impressed by several warships of the Yangzhou Army in the past.

At the beginning, he also sent people to attack the fleet led by Zheng Chenggong despite the love of father and son, but it was cleaned up very badly, which made him very jealous of the sea power of the Yangzhou army, and since then, Zheng Chenggong has done his job much easier.

Historically, Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Manchu Qing in 1646, but because Zheng Chenggong stopped him, he only went north with a few henchmen to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and was killed by the Manchu minister Suke Saha.

Now due to the development and growth of the Yangzhou army, the Southern Ming court has been relatively stable, and Zheng Zhilong will not have the intention of surrendering to the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

After the Southern Ming court was destroyed, the Nanjing Provisional Government soon issued a notice to take over the jurisdiction of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, he knew very well that the governor of Nanjing somehow attached great importance to his son Zheng Sen, and seeing that his son had a great future in the provisional government, Zheng Zhilong would not drag his son back, just for this, he was very dissatisfied with Zheng Hongkui's refusal to accept the reorganization of the provisional government and took the sailor to Fujian, and the two brothers are still making trouble.

Now that the Wehrmacht wanted to borrow his sailors to transport troops, Zheng Zhilong agreed to do so, and after Liu Zhaoji sent someone to inform him, he immediately began to prepare the ships and made all the preparations, and even the grain and grass of the Wehrmacht were ready, which made the provisional government save a lot of grain and grass.

It still took more than 10 days for the National Defense Army to transfer from Nanping to Fuzhou, and Liu Zhaoji, Li Chengdong and others were all anxious, thinking that taking a boat on the sea basically did not consume physical strength, and both of them ordered the troops to march towards Fuzhou at the speed of a rapid march, while Yan Yingyuan's artillery dragged behind.

At this time, the Qing troops led by Hong Chengchou had approached Guangzhou.