Chapter 26 Chapter 25: A Flash in the Pan

After Li Chengdong was in Guangdong, the actual control area of ​​the Yongli regime in the Southern Ming Dynasty quickly expanded from a corner of Guangxi to all of Guangdong and most of Jiangxi, Fujian, and Hunan. Another few million people, under the bright sunshine of Ming Dynasty, once again lived a life of freedom and dignity by "wearing my Han's clothes and restoring my Han's hair". But this happy day did not last long. The people of Nanming discovered that under the leadership of the Yongli government, their happiness index has really dropped! why? Because in Nanming's social life, the irritating phenomenon of "more than three" is eroding the interests of the people and depriving the people of their happiness.

The "three many", one is "many officials". Under the excellent situation when Emperor Yongli returned to Zhaoqing and the prospect of the revolution was bright, various "official forces" sprung up like mushrooms after rain. These forces, large and small, either boasted of having contributed to "organizing the underground anti-Qing movement", or claiming to have the integrity of "loyalty" in front of the enemy, or claiming to have contributed to "saving the country anyway". Please ask the Yongli government While commending and rewarding them, the energy is only used, and "people" are used instead of "do".

In order to expand the base of "voters", the Yongli government opened the door to these talents, and they never refused. As a result, the Hongguang Dynasty's ugly drama of "the governor walks all over the street, and the staff is as cheap as a dog" was staged again in the Yongli Dynasty. The second is that there are many opportunities to "dedicate to the country". The people of Nanming found that since the moment the "Flag of Ming Dynasty fluttered high" was by their side, their chances of "contributing to the country" multiplied exponentially.

First, there are more opportunities to serve in the military. Because the "big three"—Jin Shenghuan, Wang Deren, and Li Chengdong—are all outsiders, and they didn't bring many soldiers. Especially Li Chengdong, he mainly relied on his own 4,000 "Qin Army" to conquer Guangdong, and Zheng Zhilong's surrendered troops. Ever since he started anyway, Zheng Zhilong, who "could not bear his abuse", surrendered. Under the leadership of Shi Fu and Shi Lang, he ran to Fujian to vote for Zheng Chenggong without even saying "bey—bey" to him! There is no way, in order to complete the arduous and glorious mission of "Zhongxing Ming Dynasty", the "Big Three" can only implement local conscription.

During the Great Conscription Movement, the Kings and Kings conscripted more than 200,000 soldiers in Jiangxi, while Li Chengdong conscripted nearly 400,000 soldiers in two parts. "Twelve volumes of military books, each volume has your name", the folks in Ganyue and Guangdong suddenly had a great opportunity to "take up arms and serve the country". After recruiting soldiers, we have to provide logistical support! The "Big Three" could only continue to use the state machinery, and recruited more than two million "citizen husbands" from the people. If the Han people are not enough to be recruited, then the minorities will be recruited. Anyway, "patriotism does not distinguish between ethnicities"!

After conscripting people, a large amount of combat materials such as bows, knives, guns, gunpowder, armor, mules and horses were confiscated free of charge from the homes of the common people. More officials and more soldiers will inevitably give birth to the "third excess" - more taxes. Feeding "cadres" big and small requires money, and fighting wars requires money. In addition, you can't be too stingy with the emperor, and you should give some royal funds (60,000 taels of silver per year is really not much). The result of all parties needing money is that the people of Nanming tightened their belts, cut down on food and clothing, paid taxes to every family, and donated money from every household.

The life of the "mass" in Nanming was very hard, and the life of the "cadres" in Nanming was not easy. Because of them, it was not long to see helplessly and painfully: On Nanming's newborn body, three serious "pathological tissues" are rapidly growing and expanding. The first "pathological organization" - "fragmentation". The territory of the Yongli Dynasty is not too big, but it is actually divided by eight strongmen. Li Chengdong controls Guangdong (including Hainan Island) and Wuzhou in Guangxi, Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren control most of Jiangxi, He Tengjiao occupies central Hunan and southern Hunan, and Du Yinxi controls western Hunan.

Qu Shixu was in charge of Guangxi's military administration in name, but the administrative scope was confined to Guilin, and the rest of Guangxi was dominated by Chen Bangyan. Zheng Chenggong is alone in the two "enclaves" of Tong'an and Xiamen in Fujian. The existence of these "independent" small regimes made Yongli's slogan of "one game of chess for the whole country, defeat Dorgon" can only stay on the written plan, until finally it was defeated by the Qing government of "another game of chess for the whole country" and set foot on it again. escape trip.

The second "pathological tissue" - "the power of the monarchy falls by the wayside". The issue of "the power of the monarchy falls to the side" is a problem that needs to be treated by "dividing it into two". If the power of the monarchy falls into the hands of a person who "want to do big things, can do big things, but can't do big things" (such as the great reformer Zhang Juzheng), it will be a good thing for the country, the nation, and the people. But if the power of the monarchy falls into the hands of a person who uses public power for personal power everywhere (such as the great conspirator Yan Song), the harm it will bring, you can finish counting your fingers and continue to count your toes!

Emperor Yongli's monarchy just fell into the hands of a person similar to Yan Song - "Little Conspirator" Ma Jixiang. Ma Jixiang, who fled with Emperor Yongli all the way, was originally a petty official with a criminal record. However, because the comrade has strong coordination and communication skills, he is a good material for a "office director" by nature, so he quickly won the favor and trust of Emperor Yongli. Emperor Yongli granted Ma Jixiang the title of Marquis of Wen'an for his "meritorious service in escorting the emperor", and made him the commander of Jinyiwei, making him gradually become the "first person" in Nanming who could influence the emperor's thoughts and actions.

Regarding this point, even Li Chengdong, the "No. 1 strongman" in Nanming, also has "body" feelings. When Li met Emperor Yongli in the Longqing court, in order to show his sincerity of "respecting and loving the emperor", he specially made a list of officials from the whole province of Guangdong and Wuzhou in Guangxi, and handed it to the emperor. He wanted to use this kind of action to show that the appointment and replacement of officials at all levels under his rule would be completely "arbitrary" by Emperor Yongli. But soon he keenly felt that it was not His Majesty the emperor who could "make decisions arbitrarily", but Ma Jixiang who was beside the emperor who held the signature "a pen". One day when he came to court, Ma Jixiang said to him: "The emperor thinks that all the generals under your command have made meritorious service anyway, and they are going to reward them. Please bring the list and I will operate it." Li Chengdong solemnly drew up the list and presented it to Ma Jixiang. In order to show his "extraordinary" ability, Ma Jixiang splashed ink in front of Li, "writing memorials and enclosing them". After a while, Emperor Yongli completely followed Ma Jixiang's memorabilia, and issued an imperial edict to confer the titles of Du Yonghe, Yan Keyi and others as marquis or uncles. Afterwards, Li Chengdong, who returned to his residence, sighed with emotion: "I still don't believe people say that Emperor Ma is the emperor. I saw it today, and this statement is true. Power ministers are in power, and ZTE's great cause is more or less auspicious! I will abandon my mother and son. , How can we meet under the Nine Springs?" Since then, his respect for Ma Jixiang and his like in the court has changed from respect to contempt; his hope for the central government of Yongli has also changed from hope to disappointment. The third "pathological organization" - constant party struggle. This is because: The result of the fall of the monarchy is bound to be a lot of factions. The result of numerous factions is bound to be constant party struggle. Party struggle, for the Ming Dynasty, can be regarded as a "traditional political project" with a long history. Since Emperor Jiajing was "neglected at work and busy with health preservation", the party struggle has entered a stage of brilliant development. For more than 120 years, the old and new have been introduced, and the torch has been passed down from generation to generation. The party struggle in the Yongli Dynasty was mainly a dispute between the two parties. One party is composed of "heroes from the east anyway". The party is supported by soldier Li Chengdong outside the party, and Yuan Pengnian with tiger head, Liu Xiangke with tiger skin, Jinbao with tiger teeth, Ding Shikui with tiger tail, and Meng Zhengfa with tiger claws act as thugs. , unstoppable. Because most of them are Chu people, the party is called "Chu Party". The other party is composed of "Fathers Returning from the West", with Chen Bangyan who occupied Guangxi and Du Yinxi who guarded Xiangxi as aids, Ma Jixiang, the favorite minister, and Pang Tianshou, the "technical eunuch" (the one who is good at making artillery) ), the cabinet minister Zhu Tianlin, and the official minister Wu Zhenyu are in power. Although their power is weak, they are all in the central authority, and their strength should not be underestimated. Because most of them are from Wu, the party is called "Wu Party". Qu Shixu and He Tengjiao were originally two "non-party" people, but because they were squeezed by Chen Bangfu and Du Yinxi for a long time, they had to vote for the Chu Party and seek asylum. On the "moral level", the Chu Party believes that the Wu Party is a villain in power, disrupts the government, and harms the country and the people; while the Wu Party believes that the Chu Party has shaved its head and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and is a cunning person who was disloyal to Qin and Chu, and was disloyal. . The focus of the two parties' struggle in the early stage was mainly soldiers, money, food and territory. The core of the struggle between the two parties in the later period was how to carry out cooperation with the peasant army (Dashun and Daxi Army). We must pull the "peasant brothers" onto the boat against the Qing, and use the chests of the "peasant brothers" to block the sabers of the Qing army. In terms of right and wrong, the Chu Party in the early stage was more right than wrong, while the Wu Party in the later period was more public than private. As far as the intensity of the struggle is concerned, in the early stage, the Chu Party gained power and was domineering; in the later stage, the Wu Party rose and counterattacked. After fighting and fighting, the result still corresponds to the fable that has been passed down through the ages——"The snipe and the clam fight, and the fisherman wins." Dorgon finally calmed down from the initial panic, mobilized all the forces that could be mobilized by the Qing Dynasty, and finally "wiped out" the two parties of Wu and Chu! A person with "seriously diseased tissue" is destined to have a short lifespan. So what about a regime with "seriously diseased tissue"? A political and economic "disease" in a regime will inevitably lead to "rottenness" in the military, which will eventually lead to the loss of "vitality" of the regime. The "fester" in the military of the Yongli Dynasty was a little clued in an important military meeting held by Jin Shenghuan in March 1648. After the Jin and Wang reconciled, the Northern Expedition led by Wang Deren occupied the Jiujiang area at the end of February.If you go down the river, you can attack Nanjing directly. But what makes King Jin deeply disturbed is that in Jiangxi, there is still a "caged tiger"-Ganzhou, which has not been eliminated, and it may come out to hurt people at any time. Whether to conquer Nanjing in the east first or take Ganzhou in the south has become a difficult problem that needs to be solved urgently at this military meeting. Most of the participants advocated taking Nanjing first, and then called on the southeast. As for the little Ganzhou, it is now at both ends of the first mouse, so you can ignore it!When the southeast is fixed, Ganzhou will naturally fall without a fight. Only Comrade Huang Renlong, who had just been named the "Governor of the Five Provinces" (Governor of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, and Henan), raised objections. Comrade Huang Renlong said: "Back then, Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao rebelled in Nanchang because he ignored Ganzhou in the south. As a result, he was stabbed in the back by Wang Shouren, the governor of Gannan, and his success failed!" His "dangerous words" suddenly frightened Jin Shenghuan who "doesn't study hard or study hard". In order to prevent the tragedy of history from repeating itself, on March 16, 1648, Jin Shenghuan personally commanded 200,000 "New Jiangxi Army", advancing both by land and water, and went straight to Ganzhou. Ganzhou, which had been quiet for half a year, was suddenly stirred up by the war. Among the decision-makers in Ganzhou, there were only two people who resolutely refused to surrender and were willing to fight to the death with Jin Shenghuan's army. One is the "top leader"-Liu Wuyuan, the governor of Southern Jiangxi in the Qing Dynasty, and the other is the "second leader"-Gao Jinku, the guard general of Ganzhou in the Qing Dynasty. The rest of the "high-level people" are all "watching and thinking", and want to wait for the situation to become clearer before making a decision. Liu Wuyuan did not surrender because he was from Liaodong, and he came to Ganzhou purely to "be naked as an official". For the sake of his family members in his hometown, he could only "sacrifice me, a happy family". Gao Jinku did not surrender because he and Jin Shenghuan used to be colleagues, and they worked together under Zuo Liangyu's subordinates. They knew that the other party was a character of a few catties, so they decided not to join Jin Shenghuan's "rebel ship". But this time, Jin Shenghuan came to Ganzhou under the banner of "Recovering Daming", which is very appealing and persuasive to the Han people in Ganzhou. In the final analysis, war is to let the people on one side fight the people on the other side. If the people in Ganzhou were unwilling to beat the people brought by Jin Shenghuan, then the only thing waiting for them was the guillotine besides the judgment stand. We have to find a way to arouse the desire of the common people here, and beat the desire of the common people there. Liu Wuyuan and Gao Jinku soon had a "focus". After sorting out and processing the black materials from burning, killing and looting when Jin Shenghuan's army attacked Ganzhou half a year ago, they sent people to quickly write "big-character posters" one by one. Posted all over the street. The unhealed scars of the people in Ganzhou quickly split open in front of the "big-character posters".The "virus" of terror and hatred has spread among the people on a large scale. Under the leadership of Liu and Gao, the people of Ganzhou decided not to talk about Ming and Qing, but to talk about good and evil, and resolutely not to let Jin Shenghuan, a group of "harmful spirits" who do all kinds of evil, step into the city of Ganzhou again. . "Sow good to get good, sow evil to get evil", Jin Shenghuan did not expect that the "record of doing evil" half a year ago would attract the people of Ganzhou today, with extremely fierce swords and extremely intense artillery fire! Ganzhou faces water on three sides and mountains on one side. The terrain is dangerous and the city walls are strong, easy to defend but difficult to attack.Coupled with the desperate resistance of the common people, the result was that the battle of Ganzhou was fought for a month and a half, and Jin Shenghuan got nothing. Jin Shenghuan believed that the reason why he could not defeat Ganzhou was that the Jiangxi soldiers in the army sheltered the fellow soldiers in Ganzhou. So he ordered Wang Deren, who was fighting in Jiujiang, to bring the "old troops" to Ganzhou for reinforcements. On the first day of April, Wang Deren arrived with "100,000 troops", and together with Jin Shenghuan, launched a new round of "crazy attack" on Ganzhou. However, this "group fight tactic" did not achieve much obvious effect, and Ganzhou City is still "I stand still." Not only did they not move, but in the middle of the night on April 22, the Ganzhou defenders took the initiative to leave the city and launched a surprise attack. During this sudden attack, Wang Deren was accidentally shot and injured, and the morale of the siege army was even lower. The King and King had no choice but to change their tactics again and adopt a long-term siege of Ganzhou, preparing to use "hunger therapy" to make Ganzhou succumb. Under the impenetrable siege, a serious "famine" appeared in Ganzhou City, and the price of rice rose to forty taels of silver a stone. The defenders also began to kill horses to satisfy their hunger when there was no food to eat. When July comes, the hungry Ganzhou has become dying. Ganzhou's resistance won precious time for the Qing army to go south smoothly. On May 1, under the command of Tan Tai, the Qing army went south and occupied Jiujiang, which was empty of defense. In early July, the Qing army pushed into Nanchang, the provincial capital. Seeing that there was a loss in the "old nest", Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren had to order to stop attacking Ganzhou, and the whole army retreated. Ganzhou, which had been held down and beaten for four months, finally had the opportunity to "vent anger and relieve hatred". The whole army went out of the city, chasing and beating Jin and Wang's rear guard. By the time the king and king returned to Nanchang with their troops, the situation on the battlefield in Jiangxi had completely reversed. The Qing army changed from strategic defense to strategic offense, and the Ming army changed from active offense to passive defense. Wang Deren fought fiercely with the Qing army on Qili Street in the suburbs of Nanchang. After being defeated, he returned to Nanchang angrily. On July 10, the Qing soldiers surrounded Nanchang, and first divided their troops into four, cleared the periphery, and cut off the connection between the city and nearby counties. Then, the Qing army launched a violent attack on the city, but they were all stubbornly repelled by the defenders. The Qing army, who had tasted the "strong city and iron fist", also "copied" the tactics used by the Kings and Kings in Ganzhou - the siege of the city, and planned to use hunger as a "sharp weapon" to drag Nanchang across. The most brutal siege in the history of Nanming—the Siege of Nanchang was staged. The first to be drawn into the vortex of the war were the Han civilians on the outskirts of Nanchang. In the eyes of the Manchu commander Tan Tai, these Han civilians can be regarded as the people of the enemy country, without pity or protection! Under the scorching sun, these innocent civilians were collectively arrested, regardless of whether they were poor, rich, old or young, and acted as "citizen husbands", digging trenches and building bridges for the Qing army, and doing the preliminary work for the siege of Nanchang. In order to save precious food, these "citizens" engaged in high-intensity and heavy physical labor received food from the Qing army every day, which was just a bowl of clear gruel. In order for the Qing army on the front line to "maintain vigorous combat effectiveness", with Tan Tai's acquiescence, the Qing army could go to any village on the outskirts of Nanchang and arrest "ministers" to "comfort" their injured bodies and minds. Waiting for these "citizen husbands" and "citizen daughters" to lose their functions, Tan Tai, who is not only good at military struggle, but also good at economic construction, gathers them together, sells them to human traffickers at a price of "jin", and transfers them to human traffickers. Sell ​​to all parts of the country for profit. Compared with the civilians outside the city, the soldiers and civilians trapped in Nanchang City have more painful lives and more tragic endings! After the siege, the biggest difficulty encountered by the soldiers and civilians in the city was the lack of food. After being besieged for more than a month, at the end of September, the price of rice in Nanchang had risen to 621 shi (15 times the price of rice when Ganzhou was besieged). By the end of October, there was no rice to sell in Nanchang. In desperation, some special foods were put on the counter. These special foods are: dog meat, cat meat, crow meat, sparrow meat, and rat meat. But these special foods are all very expensive, even the "disgusting" rat meat costs two dollars a piece. After all kinds of poor animals became extinct one after another, the only thing people in the city could eat was human flesh. As a result, the meat of the dead, the sick, and the captives were placed on everyone's table in a "magnificent" manner. Pain numbs death.Even when Jin Shenghuan carried out the "release life" action to mobilize the people in the city to flee for their lives, there were very few responders. The "release" operation was carried out three times, and only more than 200 people "voluntarily left the city". But even the only two hundred people were not protected by the Qing army, who self-labeled as "a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, punishing the people and punishing crimes." Tan Tai's policy on survivors is consistent, that is, "men are killed separately and women are separated". The only "survival channel" for Nanchang people was also blocked. Under such circumstances, they were so red-eyed that they launched nine "suicide-style" charges outside the city on a large scale under the leadership of the King Jin respectively, and achieved the victory of killing Zhang Jingjue, the first-class Mei Le of the Qing army. Luo Gu Nadai's "special result". However, under the obstruction of overlapping trenches, the people of Nanchang worked hard again and again, but failed again and again. They kept sending people to ask for help from Emperor Yongli, but until the city was broken, there was still no sign of reinforcements. At noon on January 19, 1649, half a year after the siege, the defenders were no longer able to raise their swords to kill the enemy. The Mongolian soldiers who saw the fighter plane were the first to ascend the city with vertical ladders. In the end, Nanchang was like a leaf depleted of nutrients, withering painfully in the midst of hunger and massacres. In the bloody massacre that followed, the tens of thousands of surviving residents who survived the hunger and war, without exception, enjoyed the "non-national treatment" of the Qing army's "separate killing of men and separation of women". Amidst the wailing and pain of the whole city, Jin Shenghuan, who was hit by two arrows, threw himself into the lotus pond of the commander-in-chief's mansion. University scholar Jiang Riguang also took the same method to kill himself. Wang Deren, on the other hand, never changed his "heroic qualities". He went to and fro in the Qing army camp, went in and out three times, and was wounded and captured in the end. He was sentenced to the cruelest "punishment". After the news reached Zhaoqing, Emperor Yongli, in addition to his grief, gave the three of them "posthumous rewards" of "posthumous titles" and "recognition of posthumous titles". After the city of Nanchang was broken, the Qing army captured other counties and counties in Jiangxi one after another, bringing this piece of land under the control of the Qing Dynasty again. In this land of victory, what the victor sees is a land of blood, pain, and hatred. Moreover, this costly victory also allowed them to see the fact that: Among the martial arts fighters of the Han nationality, there is also a kind of iron-blooded resistance, heroic and unyielding integrity. At the beginning of August when Nanchang was just besieged, Li Chengdong led an army in person, set off from Guangzhou, crossed Nanxiong, and entered Jiangxi. The purpose of this trip is to take down Ganzhou first, and then move northward to "hunt" with King Jin's army under the city of Nanchang. The reason why Ganzhou keeps appearing in our articles is because it is located at the center of Nanchang-Guangzhou. No matter whether you go north or south, this special city cannot be avoided. But this time, Li Chengdong has full confidence to win the city. This is because: First, he has an army of 100,000 in his hands. Thinking about the year before last, he was able to sweep across the southeast with only 4,000 troops. Now that he has 100,000 banners, he can't even settle Ganzhou, which has just been devastated by the war. Second, Ganzhou defender Gao Jinku is his "old comrade-in-arms".At present, this comrade-in-arms who values ​​love and righteousness has tirelessly sent messengers to express his strong desire to "abandon the dark and turn to the bright". In late September, Li Chengdong led his army across Meiling, divided his troops into two groups, and approached Ganzhou. On October 1, the army had arrived at the city. In order to achieve the goal of "subduing the enemy without fighting", Li Chengdong camped more than ten seats, and held a huge "bonfire party" that night. Outside the entire Ganzhou city, there were seas of people, songs like waves, bonfires like stars, and cannons sprayed "beautiful fireworks" into the city from time to time, pushing the atmosphere of the whole party to a climax. At dawn, the Ming army, who had been partying all night, went back to the camp and went to bed, preparing to listen to the opinions of the "audience" in Ganzhou at dawn. The enthusiastic "spectators" in Ganzhou, before dawn, went out of the city from the small east gate, south gate, and west gate, and rushed straight to the Ming army who had "sleepless last night", expressing their opinions on that "evening party" with swords . The Ming army who was still in the dream was caught off guard, and the Qing army who was "full of opinions" quickly rushed into the camp. The army brought by Li Chengdong has been built for less than three months, and most of them are a bunch of "new recruits" with no actual combat experience. Moreover, in this army, the ideological problems of valuing the "old" over the "new", and valuing the "north" over the "south" are very prominent, and the relationship between officers and soldiers is extremely unharmonious. As the Qing army slashed from left to right, the "new recruits" trampled on each other, without fighting and chaos; because the veterans were scattered into each battalion, they could not form an effective joint force at all, and the whole army was like a snowman under the scorching sun. Instantly melts. According to subsequent statistics, in this battle, the Ming army lost more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians, and half of the armor, mules, horses, and equipment fell into the enemy's hands. In particular, the forty new artillery pieces shipped from Guangzhou have all become the trophies of Ganzhou. Li Chengdong, who was full of resentment and regret, had to lead the defeated soldiers back to Guangdong in order to try again. After a short rest and replenishment of soldiers and equipment, in January 1649, Comrade Li Chengdong once again "formed" a "new army" with a number of about 200,000, and made another northern expedition. In late February, the Ming army of the Northern Expedition crossed Meiling for the second time and entered Jiangxi. The target of the battle was still Ganzhou. Li Chengdong, who didn't know that Nanchang had fallen, adopted the strategy of "strike steadily and clear the periphery" for Ganzhou this time. But Ganzhou at this time is already "not what it used to be". After the last narrow victory, Liu Wuyuan, the "top leader" of Ganzhou City, with urgency, used Li Chengdong's inevitable comeback as an excuse, and kept pleading with General Tan Tai to send troops for help. After conquering Nanchang, Tan Tai, who was well-equipped with troops, finally sent "pure-bred full soldiers" with two banners of Zhenghong and Zhengbai to Ganzhou, which greatly improved Ganzhou's offensive and defensive capabilities. On February 16, 1649, the Qing army composed of mixed Manchu and Han troops set out from Ganzhou and launched a counterattack to Xinfeng, where Li Chengdong's headquarters is located. Due to the constant resistance from "anyway" counties and counties, the progress of this Qing army was slow, and it was not until February 29 that it advanced to the vicinity of Xinfeng. Here, they fought fiercely with the Ming army led by Li Chengdong. The Ming army was defeated and retreated to Xinfeng, and the Qing army then besieged the city. At that time, the Taojiang River outside the east gate of Xinfeng was flooded and it was difficult to ford. The "cunning" Qing army saw this point, and specially adopted the "encircle three Que one" tactic, only besieging Xinfeng City on the west, north, and south sides, and only let go of the east gate. Under the "intensive" attack of the Qing army, the Ming army who had no intention of fighting fled from the east gate one after another, and Li Chengdong was also threatened. When the Ming army crossed the Taojiang River, the Qing army came from Sanmen as planned and launched a roundup. Countless Ming soldiers fell into the water and died. Amid the wailing of their comrades, the surviving Ming army fled to Guangdong. When they fled to Dayuling, the Ming army found a big trouble, the coach Li Chengdong disappeared. The Ming army had no choice but to send out a "person-hunting team" to secretly sneak back to Xinfeng to find Li Chengdong's whereabouts. A day later, the "Squad" found Li Chengdong's horse. Three days later, the "Squad" found Li Chengdong's dead body. After inspection, it is believed that the comrade died by drowning. According to the memories of the staff around the comrade, Li Chengdong, who had always been "open-minded and energetic" during this dispatch, suddenly became "tranced and chattering".Sometimes I worry about the lack of morale on the front line, and sometimes I worry about the shortage of food and grass in the rear. On the eve of Xinfeng's breakthrough, the comrade suddenly let out a long sigh of "everything is heavy in life, but light in death"! Maybe it was because he committed too many crimes in the first half of his life, or maybe it was because history didn't want to put the crown of success on his head. in the ditch. "Chengdong is here, Guangdong is here; Chengdong is gone, Guangdong is lost." With Li Chengdong's departure, Emperor Yongli discovered that Guangdong is no longer the world of Nanming. When Emperor Yongli was still immersed in the grief of Li Chengdong's "accidental death", news came from Hunan that made him "distressed". Comrade He Tengjiao, the supervisor, was captured and killed by the Qing army in Xiangtan, Hunan! Comrade He Tengjiao was murdered on January 27, 1649, but due to the long distance and mountains and rivers, it was already mid-March when the news reached the court in Zhaoqing. He Tengjiao's murder was certainly caused by the bad environment, but at a deeper level, it was his own fault. In fact, he is a person who is "unbearable under the great name". On the one hand, he is brave enough to do things, and never bows his head in the face of setbacks and failures; When Jiangxi and Guangdong successively raised the banner of "Anti-Qing and Fuming", and Kong Youde and other traitor troops were forced to retreat in great strides, the "revolutionary" situation in Hunan at that time was not a small good, but a great one! But at this "sunshine moment", He Tengjiao made an abnormal move that made "enemies happy, relatives painful".He asked his "No. 1 hunk" Comrade Hao Yongzhong to suddenly stab Chen Youlong's troops in the back, who was fighting bloody battles with the Qing army in Baoqing. The reason why He Tengjiao did this was because he and Chen Youlong had not only "national grievances" but also "family feuds". "National grievances" is our supervisor He Dashi, and we can't let Chen Youlong, who is in the limelight, take the lead in "Fuxiang". Because in his view, Hunan is his "He family compound", which was lost from his hands before, and now he has to regain it, and others have no right to "offside". The "family feud" is Chen Youlong. After following "Liu Tiegun" to the Qing Dynasty, in order to make a good face in front of Kong Youde, he even led the troops to He Dushi's hometown - Liping, Guizhou.He's mother Sun, his wife Xu, and more than a hundred family members were taken to Qingying as hostages, turning Dushi He, who was over fifty years old, into a "painful bachelor" overnight. Chen Youlong, who was unsuspecting, screamed in anger after being stabbed in the back. But an arm can't twist a thigh, and a wolf can't fight a tiger. The only thing he can do is to lead a group of defeated soldiers and run to Emperor Yongli to file a lawsuit. Baoqing, obtained after a bloody battle, became the Qing army's "possession" in a blink of an eye. After driving away Chen Youlong, the high-spirited Governor He commanded the army, not only regained the three major cities of Daozhou, Yongzhou, and Hengzhou in Hunan, but also conquered Luxi, Chenxi, Xintian, Qianyang and other counties, forcing the Qing The army obediently retreated to Xiangxiang and Changsha to stand firm and wait for help. But if it takes up too much space, the power will be dispersed.At this time, Dushi He's army is "at the end of its strength, unable to penetrate Lu Jin", and is unable to launch a new offensive again. The Hunan battlefield fell into a stalemate. In order to change this situation, Du Yinxi decided to use the "United Front" method again and invite the Zhongzheng Battalion to attack Changsha. Since the siege of Jingzhou in 1646 and was defeated by Luck Dehun, the Zhongzhen Camp has been quietly dormant in the mountains at the border of Sichuan and Hubei for nearly three years. After receiving the "gracious invitation" from Du Yinxi, the loyalty battalion who never forgets the old kindness, under the command of Li Chixin and Gao Bizheng, rushed to Changde as quickly as possible, and defeated Xu Yong, the commander-in-chief of Changsha, Hunan Province. Sent reinforcements. Afterwards, the Zhongzhen Battalion, which "has been silent for three years and became a blockbuster", took advantage of the victory and marched eastward, regaining Yiyang, Xiangtan, Hengshan, Xiangxiang and other places. On November 11, they surrounded Changsha. The Loyalty Battalion, which is constantly mobile and fighting, lacks cannons for siege, but it still has everything that one expects to find. For a time, arrows rained down in Changsha, bullets fell like hail, and countless defenders on the city walls were injured. But this is just an "introduction", the purpose is to let the Qing army in Changsha do a "warm-up exercise". Subsequently, the Zhongzhen Battalion introduced their newly invented and upgraded siege technique to the Qing army-the double blasting method. The so-called double blasting method is to dig two layers of tunnels under the city wall, bury two layers of explosives, detonate the upper layer first, and then detonate the lower layer of gunpowder when the Qing army comes to block the gap, forming a second layer of explosives. strike. When the tunnel was being dug, Comrade Xu Yong, who was very interested, came specially to "inspect the work" by stomping his mouth. As a result, Li Chixin, who was waiting aside, was nailed to the city wall with an arrow, becoming a living "coordinate". Just when the double blasting project was about to be completed, there was an urgent military order from Governor He to stop attacking Changsha and save Nanchang quickly. The military order was like a mountain, so Du Yinxi had no choice but to march towards Jiangxi with the Zhongzhen Camp on November 16th. However, Dushi He, who had been expelled from the Zhongzhen Camp, did not organize a decent army to fight Changsha until the first month of the following year. At this time, the last Manchu trump card division in the hands of Dorgon had already rushed from the capital to Hunan under the leadership of General Dingyuan and Prince Zheng Jierhalang. It's time for Governor He to "pay the bill" for his "selfish use"! On January 20, 1649, Jierhalang, who entered Daolin, learned from the captives that He Tengjiao and Ma Jinzhong were both in Xiangtan City, so he marched overnight and surrounded Xiangtan County by surprise at dawn. Ma Jinzhong hurriedly led his troops out. In the chaos, he "accidentally" pulled the poor Governor He into the city and became a "senior prisoner" of the Qing army. Jierharang wanted this "senior prisoner" to surrender, but he was flatly refused by the "mighty and unyielding" Governor He. Subsequently, He Dushi was killed at the foot of a small slope next to Liushui Bridge in Xiangtan. Before he died, this man with Nanming's "Pillar of Optimus" once slapped his hands on the ground and shouted "It's a pity, a pity", so that both palms died. I don't know if Supervisor He is sorry for what he did, or because Nanming's achievements fell short! But for the Chinese who have a strong "death worship" plot, He Tengjiao, who died tragically, is still a good comrade who "has a lack of personal morality and a good integrity". Therefore, whether it is the official "Ming History" or the private "Yongli Shilu", he has been highly praised. In fact, for the Yongli Dynasty, when He Tengjiao was alive, Hao Yongzhong, Cao Zhijian, Wang Jincai, Hu Yiqing and other ministries could gather together to beat people with one fist. Once he died, this fist could no longer be formed. With the fall of the four superstars Jin, Wang, Li, and He, the ZTE situation formed since "Jiangxi Anyway" was completely lost. Nanming's Yongli regime, once again, was thrown into a trough with an uncertain future.