Chapter 30 Chapter 29 ZTE is expected

For Sun Kewang, the real title of King Qin is really a good deal of "fame and fortune". One is that he formally called himself the "lord" of the Qin State. Internally, he established six camps in Guiyang, appointed officials, households, rites, and ministers of the Ministry of War, and actually took over the power of the Yongli court; externally, he incorporated Yuanchuan All kinds of "supporting the Ming" armed forces in Guizhou and Guizhou made their own military strength "inflate" sharply again. The second is that when he sent troops to Sichuan, Hunan and Guangxi in the form of the Nanming government army, he found that the common people here had lost their hostile and guessing eyes, and replaced them with friendly and trusting attitudes. The resistance to his march was greatly reduced. lighten.

But on the contrary, for Emperor Yongli, the title of king was only exchanged for a chance to "continue to survive". After the fall of Nanning in December 1651, Emperor Yongli, who "had no place to stand", had to reluctantly run to Sun Kewang's jurisdiction to seek refuge. In a village called Fuchao in the easternmost part of Yunnan Province, after spending a "desolate and miserable" Spring Festival, under the special care of Sun Kewang, Emperor Yongli led his only remaining civil and military officials, more than 50 people. , soldiers, entourage, and family members, more than 2,900 people, "relocated" to the Qianhu Office in Anlong, Guizhou.

The Thousand Households House, as the name suggests, should be a guard house with a thousand households.But in fact, the population here is less than a hundred. Sun Kewang's idea of ​​"respecting him at a respectful distance" is self-evident when putting Emperor Yongli in a small village with a narrow land and a sparse population, neither in Kunming in the rear, nor in Guiyang, the administrative center! Emperor Yongli, who no longer had any right to speak, had no choice but to sigh for this arrangement. The only thing he can do now is to change "Anlong" to "Anlong" and raise the administrative level of "Suo" to "Fu".

Perhaps in the depths of his heart, the royal blood, the natural dragon breed, is his last bit of pride and upholding. In terms of supplies to Emperor Yongli, Sun Kewang was also extremely "stingy". Every year, he pulls out eight thousand taels of silver and six hundred stones of rice to supply the emperor, ministers and followers of Yongli. Emperor Yongli, who was unable to make ends meet, once asked Sun Kewang to increase his funds because he was "not enough". Sun Kewang ignored it! Not only that, but Sun Kewang also appointed his confidant Fan Yingxu as the magistrate of Anlong Prefecture, and Zhang Yingke as the Prime Minister Titang Official to monitor every word, deed, and every move in the Yongli Dynasty Hall.If there is any trouble, report it immediately.

Now, the miserable Emperor Yongli had no choice but to be a "Crouching Dragon" quietly in the small village of Anlong! Sun Kewang's escalating behavior of "abusing the emperor" provoked an important minister to stand up to fight. This important minister is Yang Weizhi who once asked Sun Kewang to be the King of Qin. As an old minister of the Ming Dynasty, he was very dissatisfied with the "illegal" behavior of Sun Kewang's general He Jiuyi, who forced to death the chief academician Yan Qiheng, and went to Shushu. Later, without Sun Kewang's approval, he "arbitrarily" accepted the official title of Emperor Yongli's Ministry of Rites and Dongge University Bachelor, and since then he has stood by Emperor Yongli's side and "fighted against injustice" for His Majesty everywhere.

Yang Weizhi's deviant behavior of "eating the inside out" touched Sun Kewang's narrow and fragile nerves again and again. Until one day, Sun Kewang, whose nerve was nearly broken, finally ordered He Jiuyi to "arm" Yang Weizhi and escort him back to Guiyang for "interrogation". During the interrogation, the two people who did not agree with each other broke out a fierce quarrel. During the quarrel, an angry Yang Weizhi took off the scarf on his head and threw it at Sun Kewang. At this time, Sun Kewang, who is in full control of power, is no longer "the old temper and appearance".

Yang Weizhi was furious over Yang Weizhi's "disrespectful" behavior, and immediately took an extremely arbitrary solution-ordering the sergeant to push him out and behead him. Yang Weizhi, who had made great contributions to Sun Kewang's pacification and construction of Yunnan, was decapitated in a blink of an eye, and his soul returned to heaven. The sudden killing of Yang Weizhi not only chilled the hearts of many former Nanming officials, but also made Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, who had always had a good relationship with Yang Weizhi, very dissatisfied with Sun Kewang's behavior of "killing important officials without authorization".

The conflict between the three brothers with different surnames deepened further! In April 1651, with the resolution of the entanglement of grievances and conferring the king, Sun Kewang sent Feng Shuangli to lead more than 10,000 horsemen, tens of thousands of infantry, and more than ten war elephants.After conquering Yuanzhou, they aggressively attacked Chenzhou. Here, Feng Shuangli was desperately resisted by Xu Yong, the general of Chenchang, and Shen Yongzhong, the general who suppressed Hunan, and the war entered a stalemate. At this time, Kong Youde, king of Dingnan in the Qing Dynasty, took Guangxi's green mountains and beautiful waters into his pocket "like a stroll in a courtyard".

For Sun Kewang, whether to "restore Hunan" or "accept Gui" first is a question! After careful research with Li Dingguo and others, they decided to "restore Hunan" first, and then "receive Gui". The benefits of doing this are: 1. Kong Youde, the "veteran oil boy", is now in the limelight, and his troops are concentrated. Confronting him may not be able to gain any advantage.However, as it sieges cities and loots land in the future, its forces will be dispersed. At that time, the difficulty factor of fighting with it will be greatly reduced.

2. The current commanding officer in Hunan is the "soft persimmon" Shen Yongzhong. Most of the soldiers in this guy's hands are local armed forces from Hunan and miscellaneous troops brought from Shandong, which are easier to fight. 3. "Xiang" and "Gui" are the relationship between door and household. If "Xiang" is laid down, it is equivalent to closing the door of "Gui". Kong Youde will become a "dog in the house" and let the Ming army beat and kill . "The policy is certain, and execution is the key." In April 1652, Li Dingguo personally led an army trained by him, entered Hunan from Guizhou, and in mid-May, together with Feng Shuangli's Ministry, attacked Jingzhou.

Sensing the seriousness of the situation, Shen Yongzhong didn't dare to be careless in the slightest, and hastily dispatched a "Mixed Manchu and Han Troop" of 8,000 people, led by Zhang Guozhu, the commander-in-chief, to rush for reinforcements. But this well-built army did not give him face.In the First Battle of Jingzhou, 5,163 soldiers (including 103 full soldiers) and 809 horses were lost, and they were basically beaten and disabled. Li Feng took advantage of the victory and marched northward, conquered Jingzhou and recovered Wugang. Last year, because Kong Youde took money and food from Hengzhou and Yongzhou without authorization, Shen Yongzhong made a "small report" to the court, and the two formed a "Liangzi" because of this. But at this time, facing the fierce offensive of the Ming army, Shen Yongzhong hurriedly asked the Dingnan King of Guangxi for help as if he had suffered from amnesia. Kong Youde, who is "a small amount of adults", replied immediately. Apart from sending out old complaints, he did not send a single soldier to this anxious "neighbor". Seeing that Kong Youde could not be counted on, Shen Yongzhong began his own continuous escape.He lost Baoqing, abandoned Changsha, and fled northward to Yuezhou before he stopped. Under the demonstration effect of the "Supreme Chief Executive" of Hunan, the "top leaders" of 35 prefectures and counties including Hengzhou, Yongzhou, Chenzhou, Daozhou, Xiangxiang, Xinning, etc., collectively abandoned the city and fled. In less than a month, except Yuezhou in the north, Changde and the "isolated island" Chenzhou, which were still in the hands of the Qing army, all other places in Hunan fell into the hands of the "new Ming army". This also means that the gate of Guangxi is closed! But at this time, Kong Youde, who was imprisoned in Guangxi, was still complacent and unaware of the coming danger. He already had a high opinion of himself, and since he went south, he has beaten Nanming's invincible opponents, which further fueled his arrogant arrogance. Even though he had received the information that Li Dingguo's army was returning from Hunan and was attacking Quanzhou, Kong Youde still didn't mind, and did not send troops from all over Guangxi to defend Guilin where he was stationed. On June 28, Quanzhou fell, and the "funeral report" came that the guards Sun Long and Li Yangxing died in battle. Only then did Kong Youde realize that Li Dingguo, who was born 19 years younger than him, was "terrible". The next day, Kong Youde personally led the Guilin garrison to Yanguan in Xing'an County, trying to block Li Dingguo's advance through the dangerous pass. But his wish was quickly shattered, because his "great army" was beaten by Li Dingguo's army in the blink of an eye, "floating corpses down the river". At this moment, he realized that he encountered a Ming army that was different from the past. This Ming army has the expectations of their relatives behind them and the hopes of the Han people in front of them. They know what to fight for! This Ming army neither looted nor plundered, nor burned nor killed, and the people along the way gave them food and led the way, willingly! This Ming army, the Yao people from the Han Dynasty, gathered many ethnic groups, and they were good at attacking on the plains and fighting in the mountains. Kong Youde, who was deeply invincible, fled back to Guilin overnight.While urgently ordering to close the city and defend it to the death, "Flying Call" urgently ordered the Qing army in Guangxi to abandon Nanning, Liuzhou, and Wuzhou and return to aid the provincial capital Guilin. But it's too late! On July 2, Li Dingguo had surrounded Guilin, and at noon on the 4th, he broke through Wusheng Gate. Hearing that the city has been destroyed, Kong Youde "turned pale" and repeatedly called "it's over"! In Guilin, Li Dingguo has gained a lot in other respects except Kong Youde, the famous king. Chen Bangfu and his son Chen Zengyu, who killed Jiao Lian and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Wang Quanke, the inspector of Guangxi in the Qing Dynasty, and Zhang Xingguang, the administrative envoy of the Qing Dynasty, all became his senior prisoners. On August 2, Chen and his son were escorted back to Guiyang. On September 2, Sun Kewang, who didn't think about his old love of "conferring the seal to the king" at that time, ordered the father and son to be peeled and pulled grass in the downtown area, and then sent to various places in Yunnan and Guizhou for a tour exhibition. False Messenger" Hu Zhigong. Sun Kewang's "ungrateful" behavior aroused strong indignation from a young censor named Li Ruyue. He immediately appealed to Emperor Yongli and impeached Sun Kewang for "killing the lord without authorization, adultery and recklessness". Sun Kewang's handling of this ignorant behavior is also extremely "humorous".He directly ordered Li Ruyue to be taken from Anlong to Guiyang, where she was also punished with skinning and weeding. As soon as Kong Youde died, all parts of Guangxi fell into a state of "trees fell and monkeys scattered".The generals in Wuzhou and Liuzhou could not organize effective resistance in the face of Li Dingguo's aggressive attack.By August 15th, the night of the reunion of thousands of lights, Li Dingguo had recovered all of Guangxi. After regaining Guangxi, Li Dingguo appointed general Xu Tianyou as the governor of Guangxi, and assigned officials at the cloth, press, prefecture, and county levels to effectively manage the province. Once Guangxi was lost, Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao in Guangdong immediately became "frightened birds". In order to avoid following in the footsteps of Guangxi, an emergency plan has been introduced, planning to abandon the prefectures and counties west of Zhaoqing, and concentrate all troops to the east of Zhaoqing to stand firm and wait for help. Li Dingguo, who is full of confidence, is also going to go to Guangdong to burn another fire and turn Shang Geng, the two traitors and their henchmen, into ashes. But at this time, he received an urgent military order from Sun Kewang, and immediately raised his troops to go north and enter Hunan to face the "Zhenman" troops led by Prince Jingjin of the Qing Dynasty. "Soldiers take obedience to orders as their bounden duty." After receiving the order, Li Dingguo quickly mobilized most of the troops in Guangxi to form the "North Advance Corps", which arrived in Hengyang on October 20. The most brilliant and brilliant drama in the history of military warfare in the Southern Ming Dynasty——Hengyang Victory is staged here! Before the play begins, let me introduce another protagonist of this play—Nikan, the commander of the Qing army in the Southern Expedition. Nikan, born in a royal family, is the third son of Chu Ying, the eldest son of Nurhachi. He refers to Dorgon as his uncle and Emperor Shunye as his younger brother. In this book, Nikan appears for the second time.The last time he appeared on the camera was Jiang Guan who went out to rebel in Datong. But that time, as a "Three Generations of Emperors" with a very low generation, he only played a small supporting role among the uncles of "Bright Stars". This time, the reason why he was able to be the protagonist in a whimsical manner is very simple. Comrade Dorgon, the original "chief director" of the Qing Dynasty, bid farewell to his beloved "political show" career forever in December of the year before last (1650), and went to play a role in another world. The current "chief director" of the Qing Dynasty is Emperor Shunzhi who was only 16 years old. After receiving reports of the "fall" of most prefectures and counties in Hunan and Guangxi, this frightened minor decided to change Dorgon's prudent use of the "True Manchu Army" and directly dispatch Manchu Banners to fight southward. Regarding the selection of the commander-in-chief of the army, Emperor Shunzhi looked around in his home, and after looking around, he focused on the elder brother Nikan who had passed his forties. Nikan not only has the experience of commanding troops and fighting, and his talents are of great use, but also expressed strong dissatisfaction with Dorgon, and he has shown strong loyalty to himself, and he belongs to his "imperial circle". Therefore, on July 18, 1652, with a swipe of his pen, Emperor Shunzhi appointed Nikan as the general of Dingyuan, who had the power to command the Qing army going south, including Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao's army. Nikan, who was suddenly promoted to the commander-in-chief of the army, suddenly felt a surge of emotion and his blood pressure rose. After receiving the order, he immediately organized an army to go south.Along the way, he is determined to build on the glorious career of his ancestors to show his glory and create greater glories again! Facing such a smug opponent, how can Li Dingguo overcome the enemy? Since the war between the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the Wanli Dynasty, the only tactic used by the Ming army to defeat the "True Manchu Army" was to occupy Jiancheng and use heavy artillery. But today, Li Dingguo is determined to change his fighting style to defeat the "invincible" "True Manchu Army". This new way of fighting is to use the mountains to set up ambushes to lure the "true Manchu troops" who are good at plain field warfare into an ambush circle where they cannot use force. Li Dingguo is very confident in this style of play. Because, in his hands, he not only has a minority army that is particularly good at fighting in the mountains, but also has a special arm --- the elephant army. Moreover, in the outskirts of Hengyang, he also found an excellent ambush. Now, all he has to do is how to create conditions so that the "True Manchu Army" led by Ni Zhan will obediently walk into the place where the Ming army set up an ambush. And it's not too difficult to lure Comrade Nikan to the ambush circle, as long as one condition is met. This condition is - to show weakness, to show weakness to Nikan who is already very arrogant. It is not difficult to show weakness, because the "True Manchu Army" led by Ni Zhan successfully regained Changsha, the provincial capital, as soon as they entered Hunan. At present, they are arrogant and arrogant. In order to make Nikan "be proud again and again", under the arrangement of Li Dingguo, the Ming army voluntarily abandoned Xiangtan and retreated to Hengyang in a "wretched" state. On November 22, 1652, Nikan marched to a place only more than 30 miles away from Hengyang. Here, he encountered the resistance of more than 1,800 Ming troops sent by Li Dingguo.When he launched a fierce attack with the whole army, this army, like the Ming army encountered before, retreated back without armor and armor. Proud people often have blind spots in judgment. Nikan, who is accustomed to the Ming army's approach of collapsing in one battle, did not have any doubts at all, and continued to carry forward his usual "rush, chase, and strike" tactics, and followed closely behind, hoping to use this wave of defeated troops to beat the enemy. Open the gate of Hengyang. In the early morning of the next day, in the misty morning light, Nikan once again "meeted" with this defeated army. After the battle, this unbeatable army still retreated towards Hengyang "as usual". Nikan launched a pursuit "as usual", and was finally "accurately" introduced into Li Dingguo's ambush circle. This is a long and narrow area facing mountains on one side, forest on the other side, and a deep valley in the middle.After entering this area, the "true full army" led by Nikan was quickly "naturally" pulled into a long snake several kilometers long. When the sun dispelled the morning fog and the partridges honked, the Ming army, who had been waiting for a long time, fired condescendingly at the "True Manchu Army" to "greetings". Accompanied by the sound of fierce cannons, the Ming army ambushing on both sides of the valley suddenly rushed out like a tide.The "true full army" caught off guard was instantly divided into countless panicked "little snakes". In particular, the appearance of such a huge elephant made the horses of the "True Manchurian Army" neigh and run wildly in fright. During the melee, Nikan, who was wearing a yellow horse hexagram, became the key target of the Ming army to "clean up". Countless Ming troops rushed towards the coach one after another. Nikan's personal guards continued to fall, and he himself was directly exposed to the blows of the Ming army. The Ming army had no intention of being a "servant" to this "royal family member". Under a mess of knives, Nikan was stamped into seven big pieces and eight small pieces. The one who was stamped along with Nikan was also the first-class Bo Chengni of the Qing Dynasty. The battle lasted for more than two hours. After more than two hours, the remnants of the Qing army rushed out desperately, and fled to Changsha dejectedly under the leadership of Dolebeile Tunqi. The victory in Hengyang was another major victory for Comrade Li Dingguo after Kong Youde was destroyed in Guilin. These two major victories had a huge impact on the Ming and Qing Dynasties. For the Ming Dynasty: 1. It greatly improved the morale of "anti-Qing" among the officials, gentry and people. Regarding these two great victories, Huang Zongxi, a great thinker in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, once made a very incisive evaluation: "The victories of Li Dingguo, Guilin and Hengzhou, the two famous kings, shook the world, which cannot be achieved in the world since Wanli. Have." This sentence shows that since the Ming and Qing Dynasties fought in Wanli, these two battles are the "great victory among the great victories" after surpassing Ningyuan and Ningjin.It broke the history that the Ming army could not defeat the "True Manchu Army" through "field battles", and made ordinary Han people in the rear and occupied areas truly feel that any powerful enemy can be defeated. Second, the situation has changed. After the two battles, the rejoicing Han Shikun changed their hostile attitude towards the "Daxi version of the Ming Army" and instead sought cooperation with it, in order to realize their political ideal of "expelling the Tartars and rejuvenating the Ming Dynasty".Comrade Li Dingguo's popularity index rose sharply, and for a while, he became a "national hero" admired by all Han people. 3. A large number of anti-Qing "guerrillas" and "underground armed forces" joined Li Dingguo's Ming army on a large scale. After the "Two Famous Kings", the situation faced by Li Dingguo is quite similar to that after Yue Fei won the great victory in Yancheng - various places fought against the Qing Dynasty and rushed to join. The general situation is as follows: First, the civilian anti-Qing armed forces that had been branded as "guerrillas" and "underground armed forces" moved closer to Li Dingguo, or directly accepted his leadership (such as Ma Bao, the remainder of the Dashun Army, who later became an important general of Li Dingguo); Or they regard him as a "spiritual leader" (such as Liu Jing and Li Wenbin who are active in Luoxiao Mountain on the border of Hunan and Jiangxi) in order to keep warm and develop together. Second, under the leadership of its generals, the surviving Nanming government army changed its attitude of not cooperating with the "Daxi version of the Ming army". (such as Hu Yiqing and Zhao Yinxuan who have shown their faces many times before). On the contrary, it was the "distressed heart" of the Qing emperor and the "collective fear" of officials. Emperor Shunzhi, who had been in power for two years, looked up to the sky and sighed after receiving the bad news that his great hall brother Nikan had "sacrificed his life for the country": "I have never lost anything in my military affairs." However, the officials of the Qing Dynasty fell into a "hysterical" mood collectively. When they heard the order to go to Hunan and Guangxi to be an official, they felt like mourning and suffering. "There are policies at the top, and countermeasures at the bottom." In the face of personal interests, officials of the Qing Dynasty lost their "great ambition" of "taking the rise and fall of the world as their own responsibility" and secretly bribed officials of the Ministry of Officials to avoid replacing officials in Xianggui.