After the two sides confronted each other for several days, Zuo Liangyu did not dare to launch an attack, but just siege.

But the siege was of no use to Li Guodong. His camp was arranged with the water and backed by the Han River. Wang Quan's fleet could come to pick him up at any time. When Zuo Liangyu discovered that there was a fleet coming to deliver food to the Jinyang army, he knew it was too late. However, the fleet arrived was extremely large and Zuo Liangyu dared not provoke him.

The two sides were in a stalemate and confronted each other for seven days, Yang Sichang returned to Xiangyang.

"What's going on?" Yang Sichang entered Li Guodong's camp and asked at the beginning.

"When I returned to the commander, General Zuo's soldiers plundered the people and tried to humiliate good women. The soldiers under Li met them, so they gave the soldiers to the ground to rectify the law. General Zuo hated him for killing his soldiers, so he sent troops to surround our army." Li Guodong bowed and replied.

At this time, he was already a super Count and there was no need to give a big gift to Yang Sichang. But for Yang Sichang's support, Li Guodong bowed and bent his waist.

Yang Sichang said: "Hey, Guodong, you don't know that the court lacks General Zuo's military pay, so he has no choice but to let his soldiers find a way by themselves. Most of the Zuo family army are bachelors with strong spirits. When going out to prepare food, something will inevitably happen. But his soldiers violated military discipline and should be dealt with by themselves. Guodong, you killed him without authorization, which makes him unable to lose face."

"Supervisors, our Ming soldiers should protect the people and protect them! If they do evil, what is the difference between them and Jiannu and bandits?"

Yang Sichang pondered for a moment, stroked his beard and said, "There is something wrong with Zuo Liangyu. I will persuade her now and let someone retreat by themselves. Guodong, the war is imminent. Your Jinyang army and Zuo Liangyu's Zuo family army are both officers and soldiers of the court. How can you kill each other?"

"Supervisor, Li did not kill each other with General Left. If Li really attacked, he would surround Li's people and charge back with one charge. Li could retreat without any impulse. Considering that everyone is a court officer and soldier, he would not be impulsive."

Yang Sichang touched his beard and nodded: "I will go now and persuade Zuo Liangyu to withdraw."

Li Guodong bowed and said, "Then please give me the commander."

Yang Sichang left Li Guodong's camp and went to the Zuo Family Army camp that besieged Jinyang Army outside. After a while, Zuo Liangyu retreated on his own.

On the afternoon of the same day, Yang Sichang sent him out of the city and sent military orders to Li Guodong's camp: He asked Li Guodong to temporarily station in Xiangyang. After the New Year, he went north along the Han River to prepare to fight Zhang Xianzhong. The main force attacking Zhang Xianzhong was Zuo Liangyu, but Zuo Liangyu's army had few cavalry, so Li Guodong was ordered to be responsible for the pursuit.

Li Guodong made a suggestion to Yang Sichang: "I look at the celestial phenomena. The floods in Huguang will rage next year. I am willing to take advantage of the slack farming opportunity to go south to build a dam. I hope the supervisor will submit a report to the court and ask the court to approve it."

"This matter is serious?" Yang Sichang was shocked. Huguang is the granary of the world. If Huguang had floods, the world, which was originally uneasy, would have made even worse. This matter is quite serious, but he still felt that observing the celestial phenomena seemed unreliable. "Can the celestial phenomena be accurate?"

"If there is no such incident, Li is willing to go to Beijing and let the emperor deal with it!"

"Okay, then I will submit the court."

Twenty days later, Emperor Chongzhen's imperial edict arrived, and the military households incorporated by Li Guodong went to Huguang to build a dam during the slack season. After all, it would be better to believe in this matter than to believe in it. Emperor Chongzhen was also worried that there would be another natural disaster in Huguang, and the Ming Dynasty would really collapse. However, there was no silver for building the dam, so Li Guodong found a way for himself.

It was the thirteenth year of Chongzhen in a blink of an eye. In these months, Wang Quan, in accordance with Li Guodong's instructions, brought a group of military households to the south of the Yangtze River, built river embankments on the riverside of Suzhou and other places, and helped Lu Xiangsheng and Qian Qianyi and other groups of Donglin Party gentry to build a integrated farm. According to Li Guodong's order, Wang Quan first wanted to build the river embankment. At the same time, Wang Quan's confidant Zhang Shiwen also brought a group of military households from Shandong to Huguang to build a dam. Because there would be a major flood in the south in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Guodong would definitely prevent such a thing from happening.

Li Guodong invested in the construction of embankments in Suzhou and other places, so it was possible to build them for free. However, when he went to Huguang to build the embankments, Li Guodong did not negotiate with the gentry of Huguang, and there was no silver for the court, so he asked Wang Quan and Zhang Shiwen to negotiate with the local gentry.

Finally, under the agitation of Wang Quan's three-inch tongue and Zhang Shiwen's fright, the Huguang gentry finally agreed to pay for the construction of dams and water conservancy projects. The Huguang gentry paid a total of more than one million taels of silver. After all, this was related to their economic interests. They rely on producing rice to make money. If the farmland is flooded, the source of money will be cut off. No gentry would be willing to be unable to get along with the money. As for asking them to pay taxes to the court, it would be impossible. If the court collapsed, they would live a good life as if they had changed their masters. But if their farmland was washed away, the loss would be great.

In addition to the food expenses, tools loss of migrant workers, and military pay they paid, Wang Quan could also earn about 400,000 taels.

After more than 100,000 civilians invested in Jiangnan and Huguang respectively, they could greatly reduce the impact of the major flood in Chongzhen in the 13th year.

Although the number of civil servants traveled south and carried a lot of tools, because they were sailing south, they did not waste much time on the road. It took only five days to go to Jiangnan, and about ten days to go to Huguang. After the civil servants arrived, they immediately started to build.

This military and civilian team has a new name, called the Engineer Soldier.

In peacetime, engineers built embankments, cities, forts, workshops, and shipyards. During wartime, they could build fortifications and could directly be put into combat. Although the engineering troops did not have any armor protection, the fortifications they built were the best protective force. When siege, engineers could dig tunnels and assist in siege.

The refugees who were sheltered by Li Guodong were placed in Shandong and those who rushed into the military households were almost all incorporated into the engineering army.

When the intensive construction of Huguang and Jiangnan began, Yang Sichang's army set out.

The Ming army followed the Han River and attacked towards the junction of Sichuan and Shaanxi in the northwest. Zuo Liangyu's army opened the way in front, and Yang Sichang was behind He Renlong's central army and Li Guodong's cavalry hall, and headed all the way to Sichuan and Shaanxi.

Li Guodong knew that Zuo Liangyu would defeat Zhang Xianzhong in the Pingli area soon. After that, Yang Sichang would order the army to chase into Sichuan. But he would definitely not chase into Sichuan, because Sichuan is too far from Shanxi, and Li Guodong's goal is to accommodate refugees in Henan and expand his team. As for Sichuan, let Zuo Liangyu, He Renlong and others fight.

As expected, after Zuo Liangyu's army entered the junction of Sichuan and Shaanxi, they encountered Zhang Xianzhong in Pingli. In this battle, Zhang Xianzhong, who was not prepared, was defeated in disgrace, and lost his wives, concubines and military advisors, and Xianjun fled in a panic.

Li Guodong knew very well that it was time for him to perform.

"The Zuo family army has defeated the thief army! Brothers, our command to pursue us is to pursue us! We pursue us!" Li Guodong pulled out the imperial sword and pointed forward.

Li Guodong's cavalry followed the retreating Xianjun and chased after them, capturing countless soldiers and refugees of Xianjun. In fact, Li Guodong was also protecting these people who were forced to rebel. If they fell into the hands of Zuo Liangyu, the old and weak and injured would be cut off to seek credit. The strong and strong man would be incorporated into the Zuo family army and eventually became the Green Camp Army that helped the Qing army conquer the world.

Of course, the Jinyang army also cut their heads. Some thieves who fought stubbornly were killed, and some ran away to death halfway through, and those who were seriously injured and died, all of them were cut off their heads.

Li Guodong led his army to chase after him for more than 50 miles, beheaded more than 30,000, captured more than 60,000 bandits and refugees, and seized countless food, supplies and supplies.

"Supervisor, this is unfair!" Zuo Liangyu complained to Yang Sichang, "It is a merit for defeating the thief army, but it is a merit for pursuing the thief army. Zuo worked hard to defeat the thief, but this kid got the bargain!"
Chapter completed!