In addition to the Chu army Keyanzhou and Wu Sangui to support the imperial court, there are also commendable major events in the south.

The third major event is the recovery of the whole territory of Huguang.

At the beginning of October, the Chu army, under the leadership of Zhang Mingzhen, surrounded the important town of Xiangyang, and then launched a fierce artillery bombardment on the city wall of Xiangyang, and after several days of fierce fighting, Fancheng and Cabinet City on the north bank of the Han River were first breached.

The Qing army then resisted stubbornly in the main city on the south bank, and finally on the afternoon of the sixth day of October, the Chu army broke through the Yangchun Gate, Ke Yongsheng died on the top of the tower, the general soldier Xu Yongli died in battle, and the Qing army surrendered to the death of Zuo, and Xiangyang fell.

After Xiangyang recovered, the Yunyang Mansion that Ma Weixing and Ma Bao brothers had been unable to attack for a long time also surrendered, and all localities were completely subjugated to the Nanjing court.

After the recovery of the whole territory of Hubei, the Chu army bordered Shaanxi occupied by Wu Sangui, and the Chu army in Hubei only had time to repair for a few days, and was deployed at the junction of Huguang and Shaanxi under the mobilization of Zhang Mingzhen to guard against Wu Sangui's Zhou army attacking south.

Su Yan was not in a hurry to start a war with Wu Sangui, he ordered Zhang Mingzhen to prepare for the southern invasion of the enemy army in the north, while sending officials to Huguang in Xinding, to restore order in various places, and implement the policy of dividing the land into acres, aiming to allow the Huguang granary to resume its role.

At the same time, Su Yan also sent an envoy into Kuizhou to contact the remnants of the Dashun army entrenched in Kuizhou, and now Huguang has been decided, and the territory of the Qing army in the Yangtze River is only besieged Sichuan, if the Chu army wants to enter Sichuan, it is the best choice to advance by waterway from Kuizhou.

At the same time that Su Yan contacted the thirteen families in Kuidong, Sun Kewang finally made up his mind to abandon Hunan and make every effort to stick to the basic market of Yunnan and Guizhou.

Under his order, Sun Zhengqi, the governor of Hunan, had to lead the army to evacuate Hunan in embarrassment, but before the Qin army evacuated Hunan, all the people of Xiangxi moved westward on the principle of not being able to support the enemy, and all the money, grain, and documents were taken away, and the houses and farmland were also burned, and Xiangxi almost became a blank land.

The people of Xiangxi were naturally reluctant to move westward, but under the deterrence of the Qin army's butcher's knife, they had to cry and embark on the road to the west, in order to ensure that Xiangxi was not used by the Chu army, the Qin army set fire to the city before leaving, and the reflection of the sky-high fire was the sad face of the local people.

Subsequently, the people embarked on the nightmare road of migration, the terrain on the road from Xiangxi to Guizhou was complicated, and many people fell behind or died almost every day, Sun Zhengqi could not bear the tragic situation of the people, he wanted to order to stop the migration, but was stopped by Wang Shangli.

Facing Sun Zhengqi's confused gaze, Wang Shangli replied with a cold face: "Shizi, in order to prevent the people from falling into the hands of thieves, we can only do this. ”

"But aren't we here to put an end to this troubled world and let the people of the world live in peace and contentment again? Aren't we doing this to make the people miserable? Sun Zhengqi asked strugglingly.

"For the sake of future victory, the sacrifice of the moment is worth it." Wang Shangli replied.

He once followed Zhang Xianzhong to invade Sichuan, and he was used to seeing the miserable situation of the people, so his heart had no waves, if it wasn't for the unscrupulous Sun Zhengqi, he would not have bothered to say this.

Sun Zhengqi couldn't accept Wang Shangli's answer, he had rarely been in contact with the outside world under the protection of Sun Kewang's wings, in his cognition, war was the best way for men to make contributions, but what kind of disasters would be caused to the people behind this, he never thought about it.

And now, not only Chu Jun taught him a lesson, but his father and his teacher also taught him a good lesson.

Sun Zhengqi fell silent.

No matter what Sun Zhengqi thought, the Qin army still left Xiangxi with the people, and after the Chu army entered Xiangxi, the already barren Xiangxi completely became a deserted white land, where villages and farmland were burned, and wells were thrown into dead families.

The tragic situation outside had not yet made the Chu soldiers have any thoughts, and after breaking through the Chenlong Pass and arriving at the periphery of Chenzhou Mansion, they were immediately shocked by the scene in front of them - Chenzhou City had been swallowed by the sea of flames, because most of the buildings in the city were civil structures, so the flames continued to burn for several days without extinguishing.

The scale of the fire was so great that the Chu army could not do anything in the face of this monstrous fire, and could only watch the flames continue to burn until a few days later, when heavy rain fell from the sky, and the fire was finally extinguished.

After the Chu army took over the abandoned city by the Qin army, Hu Guangxing (this chapter is not finished!) )

Chapter 273: Navy Division

The whole province finally returned to the Nanjing Imperial Court, and Su Yan finally got the system reward of unifying Huguang.

Well, it is necessary to unify the entire Huguang system to issue rewards to Su Yan, and you can't get it by just winning Hunan.

Perhaps because Huguang is actually two provinces combined, this time the system rewards are not abundant—Lime juice and sauerkraut from the Naval Tech Tree, Food Preservation Tech and Wood Drying Method, and Incendiary Bombs from the Ordnance Tech Tree.

The four technologies are just appetizers, along with the food preservation technology came two canning factories, these two canning factories have their own traps for the early canning production process, although they do not have unlimited resources like the small arms arsenal, but with the territory and resources that have occupied half of the country, it is not difficult for Su Yan to make canned food that can supply the front-line soldiers.

In addition, there is a judicial officer with a six-star administrative ability and a naval officer with a five-star administrative ability, which is just to help fill the vacancy in the upper echelons of the imperial court.

Don't look at the Nanjing Imperial Court, it seems that it is full of talents, but in fact, there are not many capable people, and the indigenous Su Yan of this world has no way to intuitively see their ability, and the system characters are different, you can see one or two from their star ratings.

One of the two officials rewarded by the system is called Fan Zhengen, 40 years old, and the system set him as a Jinshi in Chongzhen's ninth year, who once served as the imperial history of Shanxi - Su Yan asked him to go back to his old profession and serve as the vacant Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, responsible for the reorganization of the Imperial Procuratorate.

Another person is called Huang Enben, 42 years old, the system set him to be Chongzhen's nine years of lifting, once served as the Ministry of Industry Langzhong, his major is the navy, Su Yan after some thought, decided to set up a new naval division in the DPRK, by Huang Enben as the commander of the naval division.

Su Yan's act of setting up the Navy Division did not cause too much turmoil in the DPRK and China, and the officials below did not oppose it when they saw that the cabinet did not say more, and the Navy Division was quietly established.

Su Yan set up the office of the Navy Department in Xiaguan, next door to the dock, because the court lacked talents who were good at water warfare, and the actual official was only Huang Enben.

After setting up the Navy Division, Su Yan focused his main energy on the two canning factories - this is the top priority of this award!

Chapter 273: Navy Division