Nanzhao, Yexian, Yuzhou, and the three northern cities of Nanyang, plus the three eastern cities of Biyang, Tongbai, and Wuyang, were all quickly occupied as the Ming army advanced from the north and east.

The Tatars left without fighting, abandoned the city after hearing the news from afar, and fled to the forts and villages in various places. They were also supported one after another, and with an imperial edict, they all dispersed and returned to farming.

The Ming army only sent the first corps from the first town out to the north, and only sent one corps from the 18th town to the east to advance, and they captured six cities.

Quickly dispatch officials to select officials on both sides, organize and train Baojia, clear fields, register households, provide relief to victims, and resume production.

It's hot.

The Li Baoquan post stationed in Cuizhuang Township in Nanzhao also caused a sensation in the entire army because all the unmarried war auxiliary soldiers in the post were married there. The emperor's handling of this matter also caused various towns to pay tribute to their brothers in the army.

The wave of wives.

While everyone was suppressing the bandits and recruiting peace, they were busy with the military-civilian marriage, which was very lively.

The imperial camp only sent two associates to enter the outskirts of Nanyang and capture six cities, but this put great pressure on Nanyang Basiha and Wuguan Nikan. They could only continue to urge the Hubei Eight Banners to speed up their retreat northward.

The suicide of King Guangen of Yunyang and the surrender of Xu Qiyuan and others further intensified the panic of the Tatars.

Xu Qiyuan and others were killed after surrendering, which was unexpected but seemed reasonable.

End of July.

The two sworn brothers Zhu Pengfei and Zhu Dingguo stopped in the Gucheng area and began to turn around to reorganize their troops, eliminate bandits, recruit fortresses, etc. They were also very busy.

Zhu Shengli from Hunan and Li Chixin from Yiling had already gone down the river and entered Jingzhou, which had been evacuated.

This important town in Jingjiang changed hands again.

A few years ago, Li Chixin and others failed in their first attack and retreated. Later, after joining the Shaotian Dynasty, they succeeded in attacking again, but quickly evacuated on their own initiative, and now they finally came back again.

The sun and moon flags were placed on the top of Jingzhou City and fluttered in the wind. This empty city also seemed energetic.

A few days later, the armies of Zhu Shengli and Li Chixin and the Shunjun army captured Gong'an, Shishou, Jianli, Mianyang, Qianjiang, Tianmen, Hanjiang and other cities, and finally arrived all the way to Hanyang and Wuchang.

At this time, the Qing troops in the three towns of Wuhan, Hanyang, Hankou, and Jiangxia had all evacuated. The Ming troops from Jiangbei, Jiangxi, also went up the Shuo River and recovered the empty cities of Huanggang City and Wuchang City in Huangzhou Prefecture.

On the first day of August, the two armies successfully met at the mouth of the Han River.

Mid-Autumn Festival.

During this festival, Zhu Yihai rode into Nanyang City, Zhu Pengfei, Zhu Dingguo and Gao Bizheng's regiment from the Yunxiang camp in the upper reaches of the Han River, the Emperor's Royal Camp Zhongjun Group from the Shaanluo camp, Zheng Zunqian, Zhu Zhongyi, Liu Mu's regiment, and Jingjiang camp from the east of Henan.

Zhu Shengli, Li Chixin, Yuan Zong's regiment, and Zhang Mingyang, Jin Shenghuan, Zhang An, and Wang Deren's regiment from the Jiangnan camp also rushed to Nanyang to join forces.

The entire Hubei and Henan provinces declared liberation.

This time, almost no troops were wasted. The imperial court chased the Tatars from behind. The Tatars evacuated one city, and the Ming army recovered another city.

Regarding the emperor's deployment, many generals believed that they had missed an excellent opportunity to encircle and annihilate the Qing army. However, the emperor insisted that no general be allowed to send troops to intercept and surround the Qing army in violation of the order.

Just like herding sheep, they were all driven from Huguang to Xiangyang, to Nanyang, and finally to Wuguan and Shangluo.

Huguang and Henan were conquered without a fight.

Soldiers and horses from all walks of life gathered in Nanyang.

However, the emperor had no intention of rushing into Guanzhong, and did not propose a plan to attack Wuguan.

Instead, a decree was issued again on the reorganization of troops and horses, and the reorganization of various towns was to be accelerated.

The first town of Jin Gongyu was located in Shandong, and the second town of Zhang Quan was located in Hebei.

Zheng Zunqian's seventh town was stationed in Jiangbei, Liu Mu's eighth town was stationed in Jiangxi, Zhu Shengli's ninth town was stationed in Hunan, and Zhang Shipeng's tenth town was stationed in Sichuan.

Yuan Zong's eleventh town was stationed in Guizhou.

Zhu Zhongyi's 18th Town is stationed in Henan, Zhu Pengfei's 19th Town is stationed in Shaanxi, and Zhu Dingguo's 20th Town is stationed in Hubei.

Meng Xian led the third town in Zhejiang, Zhang Pengyi led the fourth town in Jiangdong, Lu Xiangguan led the fifth town in Fujian, and Zhang Mingyang led the sixth town in Guangdong.

Yang Boxing led the 12th town in Guangxi, and Liu Shixun led the 13th town in Yunnan.

Zheng Jiwu led the 14th town in Gansu, and Li Chixin led the 15th town in Liaodong.

Zhang Mingbin's 16th Town and Qin Yiming's 17th Town guarded the capital and accompanied him.

The three towns of Jingying are the 21st to 23rd towns, which are respectively stationed at Yingtianfu in Nanjing, Fengtianfu in Tokyo and Shaotianfu in Xingjing.

The four naval towns are towns 24 to 27, which are located in Lushun, Liaodong, Qingdao, Shandong, Zhenjiang, Jiangdong, and Guangzhou, Lingnan.

Seeing that the Qing army in Huguang retreated into Wuguan, Zhu Yihai was not in a hurry to send troops to attack.

But an unexpected order was given.

Except for the 16th Town, the 17th Town Royal Camp, and the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd Towns of the Jingying Town, the other towns returned to their respective defense area garrison after celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival in Nanyang to complete the

Reorganization with local troops.

In the eleven provinces of Fujian, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Gansu, Shaanxi, and Liaodong, in addition to the 15,000 soldiers stationed in each new imperial camp town, there is also a garrison town with 15,000 soldiers.

Settling in remote mountainous areas, plowing and guarding.

There will no longer be any villages or towns in other provinces.

Each province has one or two regiment training towns, which are used for farming in peacetime, training in winter and spring, and assisting defense in wartime. Generally speaking, there is one town in one province, one association in each province, one standard in each prefecture, and one battalion in each county. In peacetime, they are only stationed in the local area.

We conduct training in the area to assist in defense, and do not leave the defense area unless there is an important battle.

It turned out that all the foreign towns were integrated and jointly operated with the imperial camps.

Those who were cut off from Yuyingwai Town were given priority to enter Tun Town. Those who were cut off from Tun Town were given priority to join the regiment training. Those who were cut off from the regiment training could be given priority to be post soldiers and local government officials.

"Now that the army has gathered, why doesn't Your Majesty attack Guanzhong in one fell swoop, wipe out Nikan and Wu Sangui together, and then march straight to Beijing?"

"The Tatars have moved their capital to Yanbei," Zhu Yihai said calmly while eating a piece of osmanthus mooncake to the generals and ministers who arrived in Nanyang. "Now the army is gathering in Nanyang, but Nanyang cannot supply such a large army.

Food, grass and equipment, the more soldiers there are, the heavier the burden will be.

And Nikan now has a large number of troops gathered at Wuguan. If we attack by force, he will definitely resist."

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Zhu Yihai is unwilling to attack Wuguan. Wuguan is more dangerous and the casualties will be high in an attack. Moreover, Wu Sangui will definitely sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight. It is better to withdraw all the troops and return to the plan.

Settled in the area, let them reorganize with the local troops, merge with local armed forces such as outer towns and villages, and further recruit and surrender fortresses, exterminate bandits, etc. This can not only solve the problem of food and grass supply, but also stabilize the local area, especially in Xinjiang.

The recovered provinces of Shandong, Henan, and Hubei, as well as Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Bashu and other places in the southwest where there were many chieftains and were not very stable.

Nowadays, Henan, Hubei and other places need a lot of food and grass to relieve the people and cannot supply too many troops gathered here.

Moreover, the imperial court is pressing hard, and Nikan is very likely to join forces with Wu Sangui. It would be better to just leave a few people here to block the situation, because Nikan will not be able to afford it.

He could either leave the Pass and fight the Ming army, or he would have to continue to Guanzhong to borrow a way from Wu Sangui.

He even went so far as to kill the rebel Wu Sangui and seize Guanzhong.

The less pressure on Zhu Yihai, the more likely Nikan and Wu Sangui will get into trouble.

For Zhu Yihai, he was very satisfied that he was able to successfully regain the three provinces of Shandong, Henan, and Hubei this time, and he won them without any blood.

Next, instead of rushing to fight Nikan and Wu Sangui to fight for Guanzhong, it is better to take a step back, wait, and stabilize the few lands in hand first.

In particular, Jin Shenghuan, Li Chixin, etc., who have been left undisposed of, should be reorganized in outer towns and villages.

With the lessons learned from Wang Guangen and others, Zhu Yihai would never really trust a military leader like Jin Shenghuan. In the past, he had to consider the overall situation, so he could only tolerate him first, appease them, and let them become warlords of a separatist side, which would have no influence on their local power.

You can only tolerate misbehavior.

But now that we have this condition, we must first regain military power.

Only by taking away the military power of these military leaders and reorganizing these local armed forces can we talk about local governance and local financial rights and stabilize the rear.

Zhu Yihai is pretty good to Jin Shenghuan and others.

After all, when they chose to surrender, they also contributed to his resurgence, so as long as they are willing to hand over military power now, he will not do the same thing as crossing the river and destroying the bridge.

"Shen Qing!"

Zhu Yihai handed over an imperial edict he had prepared earlier to Shen Wenzhong, the general envoy.

Shen Wenzhong read out the edict.

"Jin Shenghuan listens to the order!"

Jin Shenghuan was granted the title of Duke of Chang State, hereditary, with the rank of General of the Hussars of the Jin Dynasty. He was granted the title of 1,600 households. He was also granted the title of Crown Prince Taibao. He was also appointed the Commander-in-Chief of the Left Army and the Right Commander of the Fifth Army of the Jin Dynasty. He was awarded the first armored seat in Tokyo and rewarded 100 servants.

Granted 1,600 acres of Yongye land and 3,000 acres of land in Taiwan.

The three generations of ancestors were posthumously given the title of Duke of the country, and the mother and wife were given the title of imperial edict.

One of Yin's sons was appointed to the Imperial Guard, one to the Imperial Academy, and the other to the Martial Arts Hall.

He was given a python robe, a jade belt, a silver seal and a gold seal.

Reward 10,000 silver dollars!"

Jin Shenghuan has been feeling restless since he entered this hall today.

The emperor issued an order to garrison the imperial camps in various provinces. After Liu Mu's eighth town was stationed in Jiangxi, he became very uneasy. Liu Mu's eighth town was originally the merger of the two towns' imperial camps, and the troops and horses were basically full. After the war in Yingzhou,

Not much was lost.

Now they have to be stationed in Jiangxi, and they have to merge with his outer town in Jiangxi and Zhang An, Wang Deren and other troops, so there is no place for them.

Sure enough, now the emperor directly wants to transfer him to the court.
To be continued...