The food brought by Wu Sangui greatly relieved the pressure on the three towns of Wuhan, because this is the economic and political center of Huguang and the largest city, so the refugees around are moving closer to here, and the number of refugees is increasing day by day, if there is no sufficient food supply, sooner or later it will lead to a civil uprising.

Under the guidance of the imperial court officials, the camp dug drainage ditches, built public thatched houses, and drowned in the camp, all of which had to be buried on the spot, and the draft was unified into the East Lake, and the water could only be boiled to drink, and they wanted to give them rice and grain to cook for themselves, but considering that the refugees had to cook in pots and cook, the trees of the entire Luojia Mountain would be burned down, so they still opened a porridge shed and put two meals of thick porridge every day, as well as salty and dried radish and other salty food, and the strong men with sticks patrolled the camp every day to prevent stealing and snatching food。

In order to prevent the plague from happening, He Tengjiao sent strong troops to bury the carcasses of dead people and livestock, hunt and kill wild dogs, steam and cook vinegar and herbs in the camp, isolate and resettle the sick victims, and everything was carried out in an orderly manner.

However, with the increase of the number of victims, there is still a shortage of food, in recent days it has been heavy rain, the convoy carrying grain has been trapped on the road, the governor Yamen has to consider buying rice and grain from the local disaster relief, this time He Tengjiao once again showed his excellent administrative ability, for those profiteers in Hankou who hoarded and raised prices, carried out a thunderous blow, took people to seal the warehouse, confiscated all the rich businessmen, originally had Zuo Liangyu as a backer, but now no one to support them, so they had to think that they were unlucky, obediently sold the stored grain.

Front-line war reports continued to come to Ezhou, in just a month, several times changed hands, and finally fell into the hands of Wu Sangui's army, Zuo Mengeng's troops looted Ezhou, wrapped in a lot of personnel and materials, and continued to drive south along the Yangtze River to Huangshi, Huangshi guards saw that the left army was gone, naturally unwilling to take Zuo Mengeng, the two soldiers clashed fiercely, and then Wu Sangui's army arrived to help the Huangshi army defeat Zuo Mengeng, the remnants of the left army continued to flee south, and entered the control of King Ning, Jiangxi.

Wu Sangui no longer pursued, but waved his army to Changsha, the second largest city in Hunan. On behalf of the imperial court, Liu Ziguang took over the railways of Wuchang, Ezhou, and Huangshi under the ownership of the Ministry of Industry, and Liu Zhijun, the former stationmaster of Ezhou Station, was appointed as the chief of the Wuchang Railway Bureau because of his meritorious service in assisting the thieves, and was in charge of the railway affairs in Huguang, repairing the tracks, resuming traffic, and striving to ensure that the raw materials of the Hanyang Iron Works and Wuchang Shipyard were continuously supplied.

The disaster relief is being carried out in an orderly manner, Liu Ziguang is also embezzling state-owned assets in a planned way, the war is also going on smoothly, the 30,000 army led by Wu Sangui killed all the way to Changsha City, set up a camp, set up cannons, aimed at the head of the city, Changsha guard Zhang Yingyuan just took He Renlong, and the chasing soldiers were killed in two days, so anxious that he was restless.

Zhang Yingyuan did not have the courage of Zuo Liangyu and did not have the ambition to dominate one side, in this case, his first thought was to surrender, and after receiving the news, Long led people to kill Zhang Yingyuan, incorporated his troops, and brazenly sent troops to resist the imperial court soldiers.

Wu Sangui's ability to command troops was stronger than Liu Ziguang, 30,000 horses and horses under his command, and he set up a solid camp and arranged the troops with a clear plan, and even the deputy general Jin Shengheng was amazed.

Jin Shengheng and He Renlong were originally Zuo Liangyu's subordinates, and their left and right men were fierce generals who were good at force, one trembling and one He madman started a battle, one was more desperate than the other, and the original good brothers became enemies on the battlefield, they had no mercy, and the two armies fought in front of the battle, and each other was killed and wounded after two battles.

The equipment of the forbidden army under Wu Sangui is far less advanced than that of the Red Shirt Regiment, or it is mainly based on swords, guns, bows and crossbows, supplemented by cannons and firearms, and that part of the firearms is also relatively backward, and the breech guns and flint guns are not equipped with much, so they will not shoot at critical moments.

When Jin Shengheng consumed He Renlong's fresh force almost exhausted, Wu Sangui finally made a move, and sent three thousand men and horses with the flint gun battalion as the main force, and the forbidden army could not do it with one manpower, and the army was divided into several components, with the firecracker as the core, supplemented by the long card player, archer, spearman, etc., when the long card player was in front of him, blocking the enemy's arrows, and the fire gun hand shot calmly in the second row, when the shooting was completed, the archers in the third row shot back to cover the spearmen on both wings of the team, The knife and axe hand was responsible for protecting the long-range strike force inside, and the firepower of the suppression force of this mixed combination of firearms, bows and crossbows was so amazing that the cavalry of He Renlong did not dare to go out of the city at all.

Thirteen bamboo tubes are hung on the chest of the firecrackers of the forbidden army, each bottle contains a piece of gunpowder and a projectile, when used, bite open the barrel plug with teeth, first pour a little gunpowder in the medicine pool of the flint mechanism, and then pour the remaining gunpowder and projectiles from the mouth of the firecracker into the gun, tamp it with a whole strip, and then support the bipod under the firecracker, firmly stand on the ground, aim at the target and shoot, because there are thirteen ammunition wooden barrels hanging on the chest, so it is also called the thirteen Taibao.

Wu Sangui has twenty eight-pound artillery pieces lined up, aiming at Changsha City, taking turns to shoot Changsha City, Changsha City has not been in battle for many years, the city wall is still left during the Song Dynasty, where can withstand it, after half an hour of bombardment, it finally collapsed, the official army rushed into the city, and He Junsheng street fighting, the battle was not tragic, because this is not a war to resist foreign races after all, there is no need to be so desperate, and the officers and soldiers also said that surrender can avoid death, and the silver is put home to farm, so a large number of He troops lost their swords and guns and surrendered, only He Renlong's iron subordinates died and did not surrender, and Wu Sangui sent the thirteen Taibao people to line up in a dense line and advance along the street in front of the palace, and every step was a shot, forcing the He army to Yamen UniversityThe courtyard was then surrounded by cannons, bombarded with cannons, and when someone broke out, he was beaten with a platoon and a smash for a long time, and the government became a pile of rubble, and there was no living person, and he was pitiful, and the dragon was long-term for many years, and finally ended up with no bones, which formed a strong contrast with Jin Shengheng, who had also rebelled against the imperial court, was angry, and the horse was so unhappy, this campaign, he repeatedly made miraculous achievements, and it was not a problem to be promoted to a general soldier in the future.

Wu Sangui got Changsha, while resting the troops, collecting military rations and strong men, and reported to Wuchang, asking Liu Ziguang to make the next step, asking the imperial court to send local officials. Zuo Liangyu did not have garrisons in all prefectures and counties, and those places were still in charge of the original magistrates, and they paid money and grain to the Zuo regime every month, and now the Zuo clan has been defeated, and these small bureaucrats have taken advantage of the situation, so they only need to send a few chief officials of large prefectures and counties, and the imperial court has already selected Jinshi from Hunan, and now they are on the way to the south.

The battle of Huguang is over, and in front of them are Jiangxi, Sichuan, and Yungui, which are in a semi-independent state, and these places are not openly betraying the imperial court, but adopting the attitude of the emperor who is far away, especially the Miao people and Yi people in Xiangxi, Yungui, Sichuan, etc., who are not satisfied with Wang Huajiu, and it is also very troublesome to want to move troops against them, all of which are mountains and dense forests, full of miasma and poisonous insects, so Wu Sangui did not dare to act rashly for the time being, waiting for further instructions from Liu Ziguang.

Liu Ziguang kicked the ball to Nanjing, he felt that these places were remote areas after all, these barbarians were only happy to dominate the local area, far less threatening than the Manchu Qing Dynasty and Western Xia, and could be postponed, as for what strategy to adopt, let those bigwigs in the capital decide, what he has to do now is to deal with the affairs of Wuchang as soon as possible, so as to hurry home to see his wife.

Merchants from the south of the Yangtze River and northern Jiangsu have settled in Hankou, they are here to participate in the disaster relief and reconstruction work, the contract for the construction of the river embankment is mouth-watering, as long as it can be wrapped up in a few miles, it can be reached, if it is a few hundred miles, then even the children and grandchildren in the next life have a settlement, can not grab a big list, can also pick up a small contract to rebuild the village, so that you can also make a thousand children and eight hundred, who does not know that the court bidding is greasy, the target is only worth three thousand taels of silver, can be marked to ten thousand taels, and then everyone presses to about six thousand eight thousand extra silver, the winning bidder and the competent officials share the spoils, and then exchange some water when they work, two thousand taels of silver can be dealt with, anyway, the court produces silver, and the quality of the common people use it, no one cares about it。

Therefore, in the past few days, Liu Ziguang's temporary line outside the door has been coming and going, all of them are big businessmen, and some of them are holding a note written by powerful people in the court, hoping that the Hou of Zhenwu can be taken care of in the upcoming bidding, this year, the back door is above board, anyway, there are not so many imperial histories here in Wuchang, staring at the merchants, in addition to the name of the card, it is a thick silver ticket, the number is enough to impress the wealthy Zhenwu Hou, in addition to a gift given by one person, it is not gold and silver treasures, but a unique rectangular Nanmu box.

Liu Ziguang sat under the shady tree to enjoy the shade, his line is set up by the East Lake, which is convenient to swim in the lake every day to relieve the heat, and the worship boxes sent by those merchants are piled up on the small table, too lazy to watch in person, only let the guards write down the name of each briber and the number of bribes, Liu Ziguang does not intend to charge them with bribery, because this is the current atmosphere, these builders are also forced by corrupt officials to become like this, this thousand-mile river embankment bidding involves the livelihood of millions of people along the Yangtze River for more than 100 years in the future, so you can't come to the half, in the end, who can do it, who can't do it, but also carefully study。

"Dashuai has a good baby!" The guard opened a Nanmu box and took out a sword with a blue light and a cold air, the sword was no more than one foot five wide, one and a half inches long, and the shape was simple, it was by no means a weapon today, Liu Ziguang's guards followed him, and they all knew some appreciation, and immediately distinguished that it was the favorite thing of the bronze sword marquis in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Liu Ziguang beckoned the guards to take the sword over, took off his sunglasses, and took a closer look, only to see that the sword was turned outwards into a hoop shape, and 11 concentric circles were cast with extremely fine intervals inside, and the sword body was covered with regular black diamond-shaped dark checkered patterns, the front of the sword grid was inlaid with blue glass, and the back was inlaid with turquoise.

Near the sword grid there are two rows of bird seal inscriptions. Liu Ziguang collected a lot of ancient swords, played a lot, and naturally knew the seal inscription, and he gently read out the eight words: "Yue Wang Goujian self-acting sword!" At the moment, he couldn't help but change color slightly, this is a rare peerless treasure, he pinched the hilt of the sword, and lightly scratched a sword on the book of "Zhenwu Hou Zhengbei" on the coffee table, and the book of more than forty pages was completely broken!

"Sure enough, it's a divine weapon! Who sent it? Liu Ziguang asked.

"Hui Hou Ye is a builder named Wang Jiu."