Li Guodong could not make Li Zicheng too relaxed. Li Zicheng in this time and space was much stronger than Li Zicheng in history, nor could he develop too quickly. Moreover, this guy did a lot of bad things in Henan. As for Li Zicheng's massacre of Henan, Li Guodong would not blindly believe it. Just like Zhang Xianzhong and Tuchuan, many bad things were done by the Qing Dynasty, and then he put the hat on the peasant uprising army.

In fact, the so-called Li Zicheng slaughtered Henan, Zhang Xianzhong and Chuan were all surrendered to the late Ming literati of the Qing Dynasty and charged Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. The resistance forces in the early Qing Dynasty, the last ones were the peasant uprising troops, and the literati and court officers and soldiers surrendered one after another, helping the Qing Dynasty to conquer the south.

If there were no Green Camp, relying solely on the Eight Banners Army, we would go to the south where the water network was crisscrossing. The hot climate was not conducive to the cavalry's mobility, and the hills and mountainous terrain. If we left the Green Camp, we would go to the south with more than 100,000 Eight Banners Army and kill them in minutes.

Although Li Guodong did not believe that Li Zicheng slaughtered Henan, Li Zicheng flooded Kaifeng and actually killed many people, and the blame could not be escaped. In addition, wherever the thief army passed, like locusts crossing the border, no grass would grow. The usual method of the thief army was to steal all the people, encircle them to join the army of refugees, and act as cannon fodder for Li Zicheng.

When Li Guodong went on an expedition, the most important thing was to rescue the people, rescue a large number of people who would have been constrained by the thief army and send them to Shandong.

Shandong was ravaged by the Qing army, and after drought and locust plague, the rich Shandong land was sparsely populated. Li Guodong wanted to move the rescued people from the already dry and cracked and uncultivated Henan land to Shandong.

Population seems to be a burden in the Ming Dynasty court at present, but for Li Guodong, population is wealth. People are needed to produce food, weapons, and mine. Li Guodong and Huang Taiji can be said to have similar views on this. Huang Taiji repeatedly invaded, mainly to plunder the population, and slaughtered the elderly who he thought were useless and rebels who resisted the Qing Tianjun Army. At the beginning, when the Later Jin army invaded, they killed children because they were unwilling to waste food to raise children. After the subsequent invasions, they also plundered children out of seclusion.

Of course, Li Guodong would not slaughter children, nor would there be slaughtering rebels. His method of migrating population was to adopt a relatively mild approach.

"Lord, the Weihaiwei of Dengzhou has been taken down. We have obtained the official seal of Weihaiwei, so that a group of brothers can be sent over." Before Li Guodong went to war, Zhang Shuheng came to report an important matter to him.

Many garrisons in Dengzhou were taken down by Li Guodong. After passing through Jiaodong where Kong Youde was ravaged, almost all garrisons were abandoned, and a large amount of land was deserted there. As early as three years ago, Wang Quan had already started to come forward and find ways to take down those garrisons. However, Wang Quan was not good enough at that time, and the plan of those garrisons failed. Now Wang Quan made great contributions with Li Guodong and had more money in his hand, so he followed the flow and won a batch of garrisons.

The capture of Jiaodong garrison is part of Li Guodong's strategic plan. The terrain of Jiaodong is relatively complex, with both plains and hills, and the estuary of deep-water harbors. A large number of military forts are built in Jiaodong. They can attack and retreat or defend, but they can't defend anymore and retreat from the sea. This is why Li Guodong wants to build a shipyard. The navy is not only guarding the Yangtze River, but also an important offensive force!

However, Li Guodong's own naval power was too weak. On the one hand, he needed the help of the Zheng family to help him form a naval force. On the other hand, he also asked Wang Quan to recruit fishermen from Hongze Lake, Chaohu, Weishan Lake, Gaoyou Lake and other places and train them into naval officers and soldiers.

In the future, after the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, in Zhili, Henan, the Qing army and the bandit army would compete with the Qing army. Li Guodong's Ming army hid in the mountainous area of ​​Jiaodong. To the west, it could echo the city walls in Huai'an and control the canal traffic line; to the north, it could take a boat to cross the sea and threaten all parts of Liaodong. The Qing army had to attack Jiaodong, and faced the scattered forts, I don't know how much blood would be to wipe out those forts. Even the Ming army's military forts were lost, and as soon as they boarded the boat at the beach, they fled back to Jiangnan.

Therefore, Shandong's nail must be firmly in its hands. Even if the Qing army attacked Yangzhou, Jiaodong cannot be lost.

If you defend the river, you must defend the Huai River. Even if the two Huai Rivers are lost, relying on Wang Quan's power in the mountains of Huaixi, the power of the canal naval division, and the Shandong guards behind them, the Qing army could not stand the tenable place in the two Huai Rivers. In the end, they could only get out of the two Huai Rivers in shame and run to the Central Plains to fight the thieves' army to the death.

Looking at the map in front of him, Li Guodong knocked on the map and said to Zhang Shuheng: "We are still a little less now. The guards of Jiaodong cannot fill the crowd. They need to go to Henan to fight with the thieves for a few battles, save some people, and take them to Jiaodong. However, we cannot defeat the thieves too badly."

Li Zicheng was trying to force the people but did not engage in production, so the thief army would have to fail in the end, and it was better than Zhang Xianzhong. Zhang Xianzhong went to Sichuan and was still doing construction in Sichuan.

Not to mention Zhang Xianzhong and slaughtered Chuan. If it were the slaughter of Chuan, Liu Wenxiu and his friends in Sichuan for more than ten years, where did people and food come from? If the number of murders recorded in historical books is combined, the total number of people killed by Zhang Xianzhong will exceed 600 million! I'm afraid there were not so many people in the world at that time? Could it be that Zhang Xianzhong would have gone to Europe, America, and slaughtered the whole world. There were probably not so many people in the whole world.

The real ones who slaughtered Sichuan were Li Guoying and Zhang Yong!

In contrast, Li Zicheng is a thief. He has been in trouble for more than ten years and has no base for his own. His fate of failure is already destined.

Since Li Zicheng was holding back the people but did not produce, Li Guodong would snatch these people away and take them back to engage in production.

"I understand!" Zhang Shuheng bowed.

Li Guodong's Jinyang army was ready and was waiting for the imperial court's order to go to war.

On the sixth day of the ninth month of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Yang Sichang, who was carrying the imperial monk Fang Baojian, was preparing to go to the expedition.

Yang Sichang went to the palace to say goodbye to the emperor. The emperor was particularly concerned about the Guanglu Temple holding a banquet on the platform and gave him farewell. Zhu Youjian personally poured wine for him and ordered the ministers to toast him for three rounds. Then, amid the musical accompaniment, Emperor Chongzhen took out the seven-character poem he wrote in his own hand from Wang Chengen and said: "The assistant ministers and supervisors do not often do things, so I will write numbers and give them to you."

Yang Sichang knelt down and took it, and recited: "Salt plum is now temporarily in Gancheng, and the general is majestic and fine Liuying camp. He will wipe out the atmosphere of the enemy from now on, and he will continue to educate and improve people's livelihood."

This poem borrows allusions. "Salt Plum" originated from the Shangshu, and is used to praise the prime minister who served the country; "Xi Liuying" borrows the allusions of Zhou Yafu, a general of the Han Dynasty, to describe the strict military discipline and to express his reliance on Yang Sichang just right. I wish this General Yan Mei, the general, will succeed in supervising his subordinates.

Yang Sichang's heart was ups and downs, and he was very excited, crying and bowing.

At the same time, Emperor Chongzhen also handed over the seal of the general of the bandit to Yang Sichang, asking him to take the imperial edict and the general of the bandit to Zuo Liangyu's army, read out the imperial edict, and named Zuo Liangyu the general of the bandit.

However, Yang Sichang himself did not expect that the title of General Punishment for Zuo Liangyu was later changed by the common people, and the word "ping" was removed and turned into General Punishment! The title of General Punishment is indeed very consistent with Zuo Liangyu's image.

In fact, Zuo Liangyu's army was not much different from the thieves. Zuo Liangyu also carried on the people and robbed the people, and did countless bad things. After Zuo Liangyu's death, Zuo Menggeng surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Many of the loyal ministers of the Qing Dynasty, such as Li Guoying, came from Zuo Liangyu's army.

Yang Sichang bid farewell to Emperor Chongzhen and headed south with the eunuch Liu Wenbin, the army supervisor, and headed straight to Xiangyang, Hubei. He went to Xiangyang to reward Zuo Liangyu. At present, several armies suppressing the bandits, Zuo Liangyu has the largest number of troops, and Yang Sichang also had high hopes for Zuo Liangyu.
Chapter completed!