Zuo Liangyu, who was in Jiujiang City on the other side, was almost noon every day. After the fog on the river surface dissipated, he would climb up the Wangjing Gate Tower and look out into the Jinyang Army camp in the north of the Yangtze River. The shadows were faintly shaking, and the sound of gongs and drums and military music came from time to time. At night, when it was dark, Zuo Liangyu would also climb up the Wangjing Gate Tower and look out into the north of the Yangtze River. He found that the Jinyang Army camp was brightly lit.

Zuo Liangyu did not notice at all. In fact, the main force of the Jinyang Army's Land Division had left. After all, the river surface was wide, and the width of Jiujiang River was four miles. In addition, the distance from the city wall to the riverside, the distance from the opposite bank to the riverside was six miles away. Although Zuo Liangyu had a man-made monocular telescope in his hand, the distance was too far to see clearly the movements on the other side of the shore. Moreover, the Zuo Army did not dare to send the navy to peep at the other side. Just kidding, the Huai Army navy was rampant on the river surface, so where did Zuo Liangyu dare to cross the river?

Li Guodong's cavalry set out first and marched along the Jiangbei land route toward Hanyang.

Three days after the cavalry left, the Huai Army Navy took the auxiliary troops of Jinyang Army to set off overnight.

After dawn, Zuo Liangyu climbed the Wangjing Gate Tower again. He found that the river was empty, and even the shadow of a boat was gone, and there was no movement in the camp on the other side.

"No! The Li thief has already set off!" Zuo Liangyu shouted, "That thief must have gone to Wuchang! Send the order and the three armies will set off today and rush to Wuchang!"

Zuo Menggeng asked suspiciously: "My father, can you be sure that Li Zhe is going to Wuchang? The child is only worried that it would be this thief's trick to deceive us into going to Wuchang and die?"

Zuo Liangyu shook his head: "It shouldn't be possible. Even if it's this trick, we can stop attacking the city when we arrive at Wuchang City. Our army will set up camp to defend us. Let's see what Li thief can do to us?"

"But the terrain outside Wuchang City is low and our army set up camps. If this thief lets water flood our army, what should we do?" Li Guoying said worriedly.

"He dares not!" Zuo Liangyu snorted coldly, "I and Li Zhe are both imperial officials. Although they are not in harmony, at most there will be some conflicts. He cannot use this poisonous trick to deal with us! If he dares to flood our army, it would be like a rebellion!"

As both Ming army, they had conflicts and conflicts with each other. It was normal to fight and kill, but it was impossible to use poisonous strategies such as fire attack and water attack. The nature would change and it would not be a conflict.

All the main forces of the Zuo family army left Jiujiang, leaving only Lu Guangzu with more than 10,000 people to defend the city. More than 200,000 troops headed straight to Wuchang.

The cavalry of Jinyang Army went to Wuchang by land. Along the way, Li Guodong dispersed the light cavalry and went all the way to recover Huangzhou, Macheng, Guangji, Qizhou and other cities. These cities were already empty cities without guard. After Xianjun captured these cities, they killed local gentry, burned the land deeds, and carried the young and strong men. They immediately went to these places. Now that the light cavalry of Jinyang Army came over, they recovered the lost land without any effort. Often, a city was recovered with only more than a hundred cavalry.

Although the local people did not understand the Jinyang army of Wuweibo, no one resisted. The local rebellious militia troops had been pulled away by Zhang Xianzhong. The Jinyang cavalry entered the city, and no one resisted the officers and soldiers. No one left behind was women, children, old and weak. Even if they didn't like the officers and soldiers, what could they use to resist the officers and soldiers?

All the young and strong men were taken away by the Daxi Army, and the food at home was also taken away by the Daxi Army. These women, children, old and weak could only go hungry. Although the riverside and rivers were rich in aquatic products and could catch some fish and shrimps to fill their stomachs, these things were not hungry at all. If there was no food, children would cry at night. In fact, some elderly people who experienced the Republic of China in later generations knew about this. When famine came, those who lived in rivers, lakes and seasides could eat fish and shrimps, but had no food, they were still hungry. What's more, fish and shrimps were not infinite. Maybe a family could catch a few small fish to fill their stomachs a day.

Seeing that the women, children, old and weak were pitiful, the light cavalry took out the dry food they carried at any time and distributed it to these people.

"Thank you, Jun! Thank you, Jun! Thank you, for your great kindness!" The old man who received the food, the women knelt on the ground and kowtowed to thank you.

"Dear fellow villagers, get up quickly. We are just passing by. We don't have much food on our body. We only have this little bit. We can only eat it and let the children eat their fill first." Liu Li apologized to the people.

"Good people! You are all good people!" An old man burst into tears, "I've lived for eighty years. When have I ever seen such a good officer and soldier?"

After recapturing Huangzhou, Macheng, Guangji, Qizhou and other cities, Li Guodong sent someone to bring memorials to Beijing and reported to the capital that the Jinyang army recovered many cities in Hubei. Emperor Chongzhen was overjoyed when he saw the memorials and was willing to reward him, but he could not get the silver to reward Li Guodong. He was opposed by the ministers in the court. In desperation, he had to issue an imperial edict and rewarded Li Guodong for those places that had been harmed by Zuo Liangyu and Zhang Xianzhong in turn, and asked him to manage the local fields.

Before the imperial edict of the court arrived, Li Guodong's cavalry had arrived at the city of Hanyang. Before the main cavalry arrived, a team of people had already arrived at night. Hanyang was already an empty city. Shen Huilin, who was left in Hanyang, led the defenders across the river and ran south, following the main force of the Daxi Army.

More than 100 Ye Wukong "recovered" Jiangxia City without any effort. Li Guodong led 7,000 cavalry and then entered the city.

"Jiangxia, an important town during the Three Kingdoms period, was across the river from Wuchang. It was once a prosperous city. Now it was first thieves and then thieves. Nine out of ten houses were empty and broken." Li Guodong rode into Jiangxia City on a horse. The scene inside the city made him feel deeply moved.

The city of Jiangxia was already empty, and most of the gentry and businessmen in the city were killed by Zhang Xianzhong. There were many gentry and businessmen in this city, so half of the people were killed. Most of the remaining people in the city were swept away from Jiangxia and Hanyang by the Daxi Army and became refugees. All the young and strong men were taken away by the Daxi Army, leaving only women, children, and elderly people. When the Jinyang Army entered the city, there were crying sounds in the city, women and old people hugged their children and cried bitterly. Their son, husband, and father were taken away by Xianjun. In this era, the separation of relatives was even a separation of life and death, and I don’t know if there was a chance to see their relatives again in this life.

Li Guodong ordered: "Take out the food and distribute it to the people."

The cavalry of Jinyang opened the food bags they carried with them and distributed food to these ordinary people. The cavalry carried not much food, only some dry food, but each person could save them. The people who were given food knelt on the ground and thanked the Jinyang army for their help.

"Dear fellow villagers, get up quickly!" Li Guodong made a false support action and signaled the people who were kneeling on the ground to get up. "Brother Ben will bring not much food this time. When our navy arrives, he will also distribute food to everyone."

"Lord, have you reported to the court that our army will recover Jiangxia?" Zhang Wei asked.

Li Guodong shook his head: "No need for now. When we cross the river and recover Hanyang and Wuchang, we will report to the court, saying that our army will recover Jiangxia, Hanyang and Wuchang."

"There is no ship on the river, and it was taken away by the thief." Han Dashan came back to report.

Not only was there no ship found on the Yangtze River, but even the ships on the Han River were taken away. This time, Li Guodong only had cavalry with him. The navy had not arrived yet and could not cross the river for the time being. Not to mention crossing the Yangtze River to recover Wuchang, it was impossible to cross the Han River to recover Hanyang.

Li Guodong walked to the Han River, picked up his telescope and looked at Hanyang on the other side. He saw that Hanyang City was also in a depressed state. The Daxi Army killed all the gentry in the three towns of Wuhan, wrapped up the young and strong people in the three towns, and left the women, children, and the elderly and weak here. Losing the three towns of the young and strong people, the lives of women, children, and the elderly and weak people behind became problems. How to solve these problems?
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