Li Guodong killed Guan Qizhong and Liang Huafeng, annihilated more than 10,000 Qing troops, causing Hong Chengchou's plan to surround him on all sides to completely bankrupt. The Zhongzhen Camp took the opportunity to counterattack, breaking a fortress blocked the junction of western Hubei and eastern Sichuan, opening up the connection between the various departments of the Zhongzhen Camp, and making Hong Chengchou's plan fail.

At the same time, the Huai Army launched a fierce offensive against Guangxi, and the army of the pseudo-Yongli Dynasty retreated all the way. Emperor Yongli Zhu Youlang fled to Yunnan in a hurry. If the Huai Army continued to attack, Zhu Youlang would probably have to run to Myanmar.

Guangdong's steel manufacturing industry is developing rapidly, with more than 2,000 brand new flintlock rifles, 100 rifled rifles, more than 2,000 triangular bayonets, forty artillery of various calibers, ten rocket launchers and a large number of ammunition being continuously produced. At this production speed, in another year, you can attack the Central Plains in the Northern Expedition. However, Li Guodong is still a person who keeps the agreement and will not launch the Northern Expedition before the date of the fifth year of the Ming and Qing dynasties. He will first help the Zhongzhen Camp and the Daxi Army equip some new weapons, train some new troops, and then let the Zhongzhen Camp retake Hubei and help the Daxi Army recover the entire Sichuan.

The situation is now very good. According to Li Guodong's estimate, it will take more than half a year to completely quell the civil strife.

Li Guodong had returned to Wuchang and took charge of Wuchang to prevent the Qing army from crossing the river to the south. The first batch of new troops trained in Guangdong also entered Wuchang. This new army had about 10,000 people, including 1,000 cavalry, 1,000 artillery, 500 scattered soldiers, 500 engineers, and 2,000 chariot soldiers. They were not taken away at night. The remaining 5,000 were all flintlock infantry.

The new army's clothing also adopts a new military uniform. Although the musketeer's collar is still in a Chinese style, the military uniform is a short top, the pants are long straight military trousers, long military boots on the feet, and a wingless black hat similar to the Jinyiwei on the toe, but there is a hat brim on the front, the hat is black and a circle of red on the edges; the military uniform and military trousers are both fiery red, the collar and belt are white, and there is also a white edge on the pants.

The military uniform, mainly red, white and black, looks like a lobster soldier from the 18th century.

Considering the threat of opponents' bows and arrows, during combat, musketeers can change into six-petal steep iron helmets, and wear a cotton spike armor on the outside of their military uniforms, or light iron armor.

The musketeer carries a flintlock rifle, equipped with a triangular bayonet, a short knife hangs around his waist, and carries four grenades, fifty rounds of fixed loading until the shell bullet.

The gunner's uniform was exactly the same as the infantry, and was equipped with a pointed iron helmet, with a short gun and a short sword.

The cavalry's regular uniforms are the same as those of infantry and artillery, but during combat, the heavy cavalry had a full body of armor, and a pair of iron masks hung under the six-petal steep iron helmet, equipped with iron cans that are invulnerable to swords and guns. The war horses were also equipped with vests and arrow curtains, which could ensure that the war horses were not threatened by opponents' bows and arrows when charging. Each cavalry was equipped with a horse lance, a sabre and two tiger-winged guns. The dragon cavalry was only equipped with half-body armor, carrying two flintlock guns, two tiger-winged guns, four grenades and a sabre.

The uniforms of the chariot soldiers are the same as those of the infantry artillery, but among the chariot soldiers, half of the chariot soldiers work part-time as iron armored soldiers. The regular uniforms of the chariot soldiers are like infantry. When fighting, they are wrapped like cans of iron. They also carry an iron shield, equipped with six grenades and a mud-cut knife. Ordinary chariot soldiers carry wooden shields and spears, and are equipped with four grenades. These chariot soldiers also work part-time as spear soldiers. They stand on the chariots and fight to block opponents' cavalry.

The chariot used by the chariot is a four-wheeled truck. The chariot is loaded with wooden piles and barbed wire mesh. During combat, engineers will arrange the barbed wire mesh array.

The uniforms of engineers are the same as those of infantry artillery, but without armor. In addition to laying barbed wire on the battlefield, they can also dig trenches and build fortifications. Each engineer carries an engineer shovel and a short gun. When necessary, they can use engineer shovels to throw them into battle. The hard and sharp engineer shovels can hit people with one shovel, and they can break multiple thick armor like an axe.

Ye Busu and Skies' regular clothes are grass-green. When fighting, Ye Busuo wears colorful military uniforms. There is a chain mail inside the military uniform, and there is also armor on the outside. The armor is covered with a layer of colorful cloth, and the helmet is also wrapped with a layer of colorful cloth. Skies have no full body armor, only one piece of armor, and the armor is covered with colorful cloth.

Each night was equipped with two horses, carrying two tiger-winged guns, four grenades, and one melee hand-fighting weapon that they were handy; each fox was equipped with two horses, a rifled rifle, and one tiger-winged gun, carrying four grenades, one hundred bullets, a triangular bayonet and one melee hand-fighting weapon that they were handy.

With this new army, Li Guodong has the confidence to let all the Qing army that dared to cross the river south go back and forth! After all, the defense line on the river is not a false one. The Qing army cannot cross the river on a large scale, so it can only be a small group of troops smuggled across the river and attacked sneak attacks. However, when a small group of troops cross the river, this new army has a 100% winning rate to defeat its opponents.

The summer has passed in the downstream Nanjing Forbidden City and the climate has become cooler.

As usual, Chongzhen reviewed memorials every morning and morning after courtship. When it was almost evening, he paused his work and took a group of Jinyiwei and eunuchs out of the palace to go swimming and exercise in Xuanwu Lake.

During this period, Chongzhen always felt that his body was a little strange, but he couldn't realize what was wrong. However, as usual, he insisted on running in the morning, swimming in the afternoon, and exercising. Only a good body can give him the energy to fight those officials.

The place where Chongzhen swims is an area surrounded by walls, with embankments drawn between lakes separated from other areas of the lake. There are soldiers and Jinyiwei guards on guard all around, so Chongzhen swims is very safe.

But today, after Chongzhen went into the water, he felt something was wrong: "It's strange, it's only August (lunar calendar), why is the water so cold? I went into the water in the winter in December last year, and even in the cold winter of the 30th century, I didn't feel that cold."

After swimming in the water for a while, Chongzhen felt so cold that he couldn't stand it. He climbed onto the shore and sneezed repeatedly. After wrapping a bath towel, Chongzhen still felt that he was trembling with cold, and his sneezing continued, and his nose was flowing.

"Your Majesty, wrap it in a blanket." Wang Chengen quickly handed over a blanket.

It was only after Chongzhen put on the blanket that he felt much more comfortable.

"Your Majesty, what's going on? It seems that it's not that cold this day?" Wang Chengen asked.

Chongzhen shook his head: "I don't know what's going on. According to Duke Chu, I have been training for four years and my body is getting stronger day by day. But I don't know what's wrong during this period, and it seems that people can't hold on."

Wang Chengen said with concern: "Emperor, then go back to the palace first and let the imperial doctor see what's going on."

"Well, I won't swim today," Chongzhen turned his head and shouted, "Go back to the palace!"

When he returned to the palace, Chongzhen felt weak all over. He walked on the ground with his feet as soft as stepping on cotton. And no matter how much clothes he put on, he was still trembling with cold. He touched his forehead and it was so hot.

Chongzhen returned to his bedroom and lay down. Zhou Hou, who rushed over to hear the news, touched Chongzhen's forehead and was shocked: "Your Majesty, you are so hot!"

Not long after, the imperial doctor came, looked at Chongzhen's face, touched his forehead, and took his pulse again, and then asked Chongzhen to stick out his tongue to look at the tongue coating. The imperial doctor said, "Your Majesty, you have been infected with wind and cold for several days. If you soak in cold water today, your condition will worsen. I will prescribe some wind and cold medicine for you."

Half an hour later, the people from the Imperial Hospital brought the medicine.

Wang Chengen first tried it with a silver needle, then took a sip in person, and found that the medicine was fine, so he brought it to Chongzhen for drink.
Chapter completed!