In a mountain forest, Zhang Huahan was holding a waist knife. When he saw Zhu Yousong's mashed and inflamed lower body, he felt cruel and cut off the mashed and inflamed lower body with a knife. , the blood flow was not much, Zhang Huahan used a found awn thorn to pierce the wound and sutured the wound with cotton thread removed from his clothes, applied it with herbs found nearby by Wu Tieli, and tied the wound with torn clothes into bandages.
After Zhang Huahan took care of Zhu Yousong's wound, which was still unconscious, he dug out the bullet on his shoulder with his hands. His strengthened physique and long-distance shooting allowed the bullet to be tightly clamped by strong muscles as soon as it entered the flesh. The wound was not serious. After applying the herbal medicine to himself and tying the wound, he immediately picked up Zhu Yousong and called Wu Tieli to walk eastward.
Ten days after the Nanjing Incident, Ma Shiying still could not find Emperor Zhu Yousong. He began to regret his reckless actions. If he had known better, he would have waited for a safer time to force the palace and kidnap the emperor. Now he got news that Zuo Menggeng led an army of 200,000 men. They came here in the name of fighting against rebellion, and Huang Degong gathered a lot of local troops, claiming that one hundred thousand troops were about to arrive in Nanjing. Plus Mu Tianbo's eighty thousand troops gave him a headache.
Ma Shiying sent 100,000 troops led by Liu Liangzuo back to Nanjing from Guazhou. Ma Shiying's troops concentrated 220,000 troops in Nanjing. Zheng Hongkui and his 20,000 soldiers also evacuated Guazhou by water, resulting in the formation of Guazhou. There were only a few thousand local soldiers guarding it. If it weren't for the Shaanxi Dashun Army's main force attacking Xi'an City and the fierce fighting with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Guazhou would have changed hands long ago.
A few days later, a three-pronged army besieged Nanjing. While Ma Shiying appeased the court ministers, he announced to the outside world that it was the city defense army who rebelled and attacked the palace, and that he was the hero who eliminated the rebellion. Later, he directly poisoned Liu Liangzuo and took the blame. , so that the leaders of the three armies agreed not to be hostile to him for the time being and to find the emperor first.
The ragged Zhang Huahan, who was carrying the moaning Zhu Yousong on his back, finally saw the waters of Taihu Lake. His legs were still trembling. He had not had a full meal for more than half a month, and his stomach had been in front of his back for half a month. He didn't gain weight when he was able to eat enough. Now he can't eat enough, but he lost a lot of weight in just half a month, and his face was sunken.
Wu Tieli, who was also in ragged clothes, followed him. He looked at Taihu with a tired face and said, "Brother Zhang, we are finally here."
Zhu Yousong looked at the destination mentioned by Guard Zhang, and thought of the hellish suffering he had suffered in the past half month, it was like a lifetime ago. Now when the weather is really hot, the wound on his lower body suppurated twice, and the first time it was used by Zhang Huahan The knife cut open the abscess and squeezed out the pus, but it really didn't hurt him to death. When the abscess developed for the second time, he would rather die than let Zhang Huahan deal with it. Zhang Huahan directly knocked him unconscious. When he woke up, his lower body hurt even more. Only later did he know Zhang Huahan burned the purulent wound with fire in order to prevent it from getting more suppurative. Zhang Huahan didn't understand medical skills, and he didn't even know whether it was right or not, but after that, Zhu Yousong's lower body slowly healed and there was no more pus. suppuration.
The three of them were thinking about their own thoughts. A dozen big men came from around with weapons in their hands. The leader stared at Zhang Huahan for a long time, then walked closer and suddenly knelt down and said: "Second Regiment and First Battalion." Gao Wangcai, squad leader of the fifth squad of the second platoon of the third company, paid homage to the leader. Chief! We have been waiting for you for half a month." A dozen big men also knelt down.
Zhang Huahan said: "The one on my back is the Emperor. Please pay my respects quickly." The soldiers of the Second Regiment, First Battalion, Third Company, Second Platoon and Fifth Squadron and the squad leader Gao Wangcai lazily shouted: "See the Emperor." But he was facing him. Zhang Huahan bowed down.
Zhu Yousong no longer cared about what was wrong with them, and said quickly: "Come to the resting place and rest, and send me a doctor to take a look." Everyone quickly found a boat and entered the Taihu Lake water village.
After entering the water village, Zhang Huahan arranged for Zhu Yousong to rest in the best room, asked Wu Tieli to guard him personally, and asked someone to arrange meals and daily life for the two of them. Huang Ziya, the leader of the first regiment Li Erdan, the deputy commander of the first regiment Mo Xiao, the second regiment Zhao Qijin, the leader of the regiment, Gu Yanwu, the deputy leader of the second regiment, Chen Zilong, the leader of the third regiment, Huang Zongxi, the deputy leader of the third regiment, and Li Gaoshun, the director of the water village, all came. Everyone set up a small vat of chowder and white rice for Zhang Huahan. He raised his trembling arms with hunger, held a big spoon, and ate greedily without thinking about anything else.
Everyone laughed and watched as Zhang Huahan swallowed the amount of food that could feed five adult pigs. After Zhang Huahan finished eating, he was full. After drinking a large bowl of chicken soup, Zhang Huahan felt that his body was back to the state it was in half a month ago. , the body no longer shakes.
After Zhang Huahan greeted everyone, he said: "This time I brought the emperor over, and first obtained the military power in Suzhou and Hangzhou in his name. Then we will wait and see how to expand our power. By the way, there are many heroes in Huguang." Sir, extend our power there, but don’t cause too much conflict with Zuo Mengeng and Dashun’s army yet.”
Huang Ziya said: "Chief, since the Emperor is here, we can't openly call ourselves the Revolutionary Army. From now on, you can decide what to call us."
Zhang Huahan said: "I have thought about it, call it the Hu**, and if possible, call it the National Protection Revolutionary Army." Chen Zilong said: "Chief, it will be good if you come. We still have to rely on you to modify the weapons. We will not be able to feed and clothe you here." There are still many shortages, but we don’t have steel and coal, and the burning temperature of wood is too low to make good steel for our quick guns.”
Zhang Huahan said: "By occupying Suzhou, Hangzhou and the surrounding areas, we will have everything. Haha, everyone will follow the emperor. There will be many benefits." Everyone burst into laughter.
In the name of Emperor Hongguang, a large area from Wuxi to Suzhou, Hangzhou and surrounding areas became the territory of Zhang Huahan's troops without any bloodshed. Moreover, Emperor Hongguang named Zhang Huahan the Protector General and the First-class Loyal and Brave Lord. His troops were named Protectors*. *, and sealed a group of generals who protected him, including Huang Ziya, Li Erdan, Mo Xiao, Zhao Qijin, Gu Yanwu, Chen Zilong, Huang Zongxi and Li Gaoshun, and also sealed Wu Tieli, who was guarding him, as a second-rank officer. Zhang Huahan, the head guard, hired more than thirty experts to protect the emperor.
All parties knew that the emperor was in the hands of the former Taihu Revolutionary Army's current guardian, and everyone demanded that Emperor Hongguang return to Nanjing. Emperor Hongguang met with Mu Tianbo, Zuo Mengeng, and Huang Degong under the arrangement of Zhang Huahan. The passerby's envoy stated that he had escaped from Ma Shiying's rebellion and asked the three groups to eliminate Ma Shiying.
The three groups of troops all had ulterior motives and stood still. They asked the guards to provide food and grass, but Zhang Huahan refused on the grounds that there was no food. As a result, the three groups of troops had problems with their food and grass supplies. Huang Degong, unlike the other two groups, did not have his own. The territory was lost, and now there was no way to retreat, so they were forced to drive the troops who had been hungry for several days to the gates of Hangzhou.
Looking at his original territory, Huang Degong said with emotion to his subordinates: "If I had known this, I should have come back directly after the defeat. I was afraid of the emperor's punishment and wanted to make meritorious service, so I resisted the Qing army on the northern front. If the war in Shaanxi was not tense, The Qing army sent its few elite troops there, otherwise, I would be just a corpse. Now that I have arrived, I have endured hardships and lost my territory. It’s really God’s will that affects people!”
Zhang Huahan knew that Huang Degong was a very ambitious man, and even if he was loyal, he would only be loyal to Emperor Hongguang, so he decided to kill Huang Degong and his cronies and then recruit his troops. However, Huang Ziya and others firmly opposed it. Huang Ziya believed that Huang Degong still had the power after all. People with meritorious service cannot be killed like this, as it will chill the hearts of those who come to seek refuge. It is better to directly appoint an official position without real power. Zhang Huahan listened to their opinions.
After Zhang Huahan consulted Zhu Yousong, he appointed Huang Degong as the admiral of Nanjing. However, Zhang Huahan trained the army first and then led the troops after Nanjing was liberated. Huang Degong, who was without supplies, had no choice but to watch as Zhang Huahan turned his so-called 100,000 troops into actually 70,000 troops. The soldiers were taken away, but after Zhang Huahan selected more than 30,000 top soldiers and dismissed more than 10,000 young and old, he gave Huang Degong more than 20,000 remaining soldiers to select as the team to guard Nanjing in the future.
Zhang Huahan accidentally got up during the recruitment process and personally gave a speech to promote the ideals and concepts of his army. As a result, tens of thousands of people listened, a large number of young men joined the army, and attracted a large number of civil and military heroes such as Hong Ying, Xia Yunyi, and Huang Chunyao to defect to him. Zhang Huahan Seeing the strong response, he went around the area he occupied, and finally summoned 100,000 loyal soldiers who even had fanatical beliefs in Zhang Huahan.
While Zhang Huahan was giving a speech, he suddenly fainted on the podium, which frightened everyone. He woke up automatically later. The most famous doctor in Hangzhou who was invited said that it was due to fatigue and asked him not to speak again. Huang Ziya and others did not think so. Zhang Huahan was a man who could take the rank of general among thousands of horses. There would definitely be no problem with his speech for two days. Zhang Huahan's speech must have been too inspiring. Even they themselves felt that Now that I am countless times more loyal to Zhang Huahan than before, I must have committed some crime. They collectively banned Zhang Huahan from speaking, and based on Zhang Huahan's ideas, they published a publication called a newspaper, and the name of the newspaper was It was called the Dawn Newspaper. It not only preached the ideology of protecting the Communist Party, but also published articles on economic information, current affairs and politics. After Zhang Huahan recovered from his illness, he immediately established a large number of factories, took back the land as state-owned land and then evenly distributed it and sub-leased it to farmers, building advanced Factory for refining coke, steel, gunpowder, explosives and other military equipment. The local army and government officials were transformed into police forces, and the government under the rule was reorganized into a government. The people elected grassroots government officials, and the entire government model imitated modern times. model of government.
Due to the large increase in the number of guards, Zhang Huahan established eight divisions, each with more than 25,000 people, divided into three brigades, each brigade had three regiments, each regiment had three battalions, and each battalion had three Each company has three platoons, and each platoon has nine squads.
Zhang Huahan appointed Huang Ziya as the commander-in-chief. The eight division commanders were First Division Commander Li Erdan, Second Division Commander Mo Xiao, Third Division Commander Zhao Qijin, Fourth Division Commander Gu Yanwu, Fifth Division Commander Chen Zilong, Sixth Division Commander Hong Ying, Seventh Division Commander Li Gaoshun, Eighth Division Commander Xia Yunyi, Huang Zongxi, Huang Chunyao, Hou Tongzeng and other talents managed government affairs.
By the end of autumn, Mu Tianbo, Zuo Mengeng and Ma Shiying simultaneously expressed their request to Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong to return to Nanjing to take charge. In order to express his surrender, Ma Shiying moved his troops out of Nanjing to the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and places close to Henan, expressing his willingness to protect Nanjing from resistance. A barrier for Li Chuang. Ma Shiying had no choice but to make such a big concession. He did not have the courage to change dynasties yet. Seeing the rapid rise of the Hu army, it took more than three months to recruit more than 200,000 soldiers. It is said that the Hu* *li There were thousands of people equipped with more advanced muskets than him. He really didn't want to be enemies with Zhang Huahan, Mu Tianbo and Zuo Mengeng at the same time, so he secretly negotiated with Mu Tianbo and Zuo Mengeng and agreed to provide Mu Tianbo and Zuo Mengeng with Menggeng got some food and grass, and asked the two of them to ask Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong to return to Nanjing to take charge of the government at the same time. Mu Tianbo originally brought King Gui just to speculate, but now he sees that things cannot be done and wants to go back. But Zuo Mengeng has long been worried Zhang Huahan's protector invaded his territory. So the three groups quickly reached an agreement.dd