For more than ten years, the sky of Shu Kingdom has been held up by a big man named Yang Zhan. His brothers, even Zhu Pingxi, are used to helping him.

Now, he has become a fool. He will not go anywhere except Heiniu Village. He does nothing except farming, herding cattle, and practicing martial arts. There is no one who can take his place.

The brothers argued for a long time, and finally had to act on both sides.

Liu Jianguan's men went to Meizhou City to open a government office, and sent out one by one the warlords who came to explore Yang Zhan's reality. He made sure that these kings of hell could be stabilized for a while.

Li Zhiyong was also sent to Guizhou to deliver a memorial to Emperor Yongle abdicating the throne. Zhu Pingxi had already made up his mind to throw the title of King of Shu to Liu Wenxiu, hoping that Emperor Yongle would recall Wenxiu as soon as possible and let him join Shu to care for the people.

They held their breath and eagerly waited for news from Guizhou. One month, two months...

Little did they know that Emperor Yongle could not protect himself, and his life under the shelter of others was extremely difficult. He was forced by Sun Kewang to be unable to survive, and he could only put aside the memorial after receiving it.

Li Zhiyong stayed at Anlong Mansion for a while, but when he couldn't wait for the result, he decided to go find Liu Wenxiu himself.

At this moment, Liu Wenxiu was also looking forward to Yang Zhan's coming to help him get out of trouble.

The friendship between them has long since changed. They cannot withstand the temptation of power or the alienation of others.

Sun Kewang's ambition to usurp the throne was known to the world, and his suspicion of Li Dingguo reached the point where he wanted to kill him. Even in the dangerous anti-Qing battlefield in Huguang, he sent his troops to sneak attack Dingguo when he got the opportunity.

In order to take the overall situation into consideration and avoid killing each other, Li Dingguo moved to Guangdong and Guangxi.

This gave the Qing army an opportunity to send Beile Tunqi into Hunan again and meet the "Jiaqian Army" pursuing Li Dingguo in Baoqing.

Because the "Jiaqian Army" was arrogant and underestimated the enemy, they were severely defeated by the Qing soldiers. Sun Kewang fled to Dongjiang River in a hurry, causing Hengzhou, Wugang, Jingzhou, Chenzhou, Yuanzhou, Liping and other counties to fall into the hands of the Qing army.

, nearly a million civilians died, and nearly half of Dingguo’s elite were injured.

Shang Kexi, the Southern King of the Qing Dynasty, also sent his navy to capture Wuzhou and Guilin. The good situation that Li Dingguo and the Daxi Army officers had previously achieved was completely destroyed by Sun Kewang.

Sun Kewang wanted Liu Wenxiu to lead his army out of Hunan to the Yangtze River, join another army and seize Jiangnan.

On the one hand, Liu Wenxiu was sad about his brother's rebellion, and on the other hand, he was dissatisfied with Sun Kewang's ambition. Although he accepted the post of general, he was reluctant to send troops to the east, which delayed the best opportunity to seize Jiangnan from the Qing army.

After dilly-dallying for several months, finally unable to withstand Sun Kewang's repeated urging, he led Lu Mingchen, Feng Shuangli and others to embark on the Eastern Expedition with 60,000 infantrymen and more than 40 elephants.

The original plan was to attack Changde first, cut off the access to Hubei and Hunan, then recover Changsha, Hengyang, and Yuezhou, and then attack Wuchang northward after success.

But he met his old enemy Hong Chengchou. At this time, Hong Chengchou had already defected to the Qing army and was named the governor of the five provinces.

Thinking back to the time when his adoptive father Zhang Xianzhong couldn't defeat Hong Chengchou, Liu Wenxiu couldn't help but feel frustrated.

He attacked Changde with a strategy of advancing by land and water simultaneously, sending Lu Mingchen to lead an army to advance by boat from the Yuan River, while he himself led the army to advance by land.

At that time, it was the season of high water. Lu Mingchen's army sailed down the river in more than a hundred ships and quickly captured Taoyuan County. However, the main force led by Wenxiu himself was very difficult to move due to continuous rains, swollen streams and muddy roads.

, the horse and infantry were stranded for dozens of days, unable to cooperate with the waterway army commanded by Lu Mingchen.

After Hong Chengchou received the news that Liu Wenxiu's army had entered Hunan, he quickly made countermeasures and dispatched Jingzhou Manchuria Eight Banners troops to Changde to strengthen defense forces.

Lu Mingchen's troops entered the city of Changde and were ambushed by the superior Qing army. Without the support of Liu Wenxiu from the land route, they were obviously at a disadvantage. In the fierce battle the next day, Lu Mingchen died after being hit by an arrow and fell into the water. The water route army was almost completely wiped out.

Since Liu Wenxiushui and the land-based attack plan failed, and Lu Mingchen's death seriously affected morale, he was ready to give up the plan to capture Changde.

At this time, Li Zhiyong found him in the army and told him about the great chaos in Shu, and the king of Shu gave up the throne and asked him to come to Shu to appease the people.

He asked: "My master Yang Zhan should have been released from seclusion, so why did the King of Shu and his uncles come to invite me?"

Li Zhiyong had previously received authorization from Liu Jiankuan to tell the truth about Yang Zhan's current situation.

Wenxiu was shocked when he heard the news and cried: "My heroic master has ended up in such a miserable situation. Of course I must go to him as soon as possible to fulfill my filial piety." So he led the army back to Guizhou.

Sun Kewang was very dissatisfied with Liu Wenxiu's performance and once again removed him from military power and asked him to return to Kunming to live leisurely.

Liu Wenxiu knew that if he brought up the matter of King Shu's title at this time, not only would he not be able to do so, but he would also be more likely to cause trouble to Emperor Yongle.

Come on, come on, come on, what does it matter if you don't become the king of Shu? Return to Kunming first, and then wait for an opportunity to escape. It's okay to go to Shu to become a monk and Taoist priest.

Unexpectedly, just after returning to Kunming, Li Dingguo also withdrew from the anti-Qing battlefield.

Li Dingguo's war in Guangdong and Guangxi was not going well. The Qing army mobilized almost all the elite Manchu and Han soldiers to besiege him.

First, Yongzhou was captured, and later he was welcomed into Guangdong by Luo Jinnai, a righteous army from Guangdong. He defeated Kaijian, Deqing, and reached Zhaoqing City. However, due to the desperate resistance of the Qing army, they were forced to withdraw and retreat to Liuzhou.

After Hong Chengchou heard of his defeat, he sent people to surrender, but Li Dingguo ignored him. He felt deeply that his strength was not enough to pacify Guangdong, so he took the initiative to write to Zheng Chenggong, inviting him to attack Guangzhou. However, due to inconvenient contact, Zheng Chenggong delayed the date. Zheng and Li united for the first time

The action failed to materialize.

Not only did Li Dingguo fail in Guangdong, but his progress in Guangxi was also not smooth. He led 20,000 troops to attack Guilin and besieged Guilin for seven days and nights without success, so he had to retreat to Liuzhou.

However, Sun Kewang still wanted to put him to death and sent Feng Shuangli to sneak attack Liuzhou. Li Dingguo had already prepared and secretly ambushed his troops in Ludi at the mouth of the river. When Feng Shuangli came to attack, he resisted with his elite troops. Feng quickly withdrew his troops, ambushes appeared everywhere, and Feng had to throw himself into the water.

.Li Dingguo issued an order not to kill him, and Xiao showed his righteousness. From then on, Feng Shuangli surrendered to Li Dingguo.

Not long after, he went on an eastern expedition again. He defeated Lianzhou and Leizhou, and occupied Luoding, Xinxing, Shicheng, Dianbai, Yanghong, Yangchun and other counties. Volunteers from all over Guangdong and Guangxi responded, and the anti-Qing situation reached a climax again.

Li Dingguo prepared to ask Zheng Chenggong to jointly attack Guangzhou, pacify Guangzhou, and then expand to the whole country. So he inscribed "One Kuang Tianxia" to express his pride after Guan Zhong's comeback.

Li Dingguo understood that in order to conquer Guangzhou, he must first open Xinhui, the gateway to Guangzhou. This plan could only be completed with the cooperation of Zheng Chenggong.

He wrote to Zheng Chenggong again, inviting him to jointly attack Xinhui. The letter stated that reinforcements should be sent no later than October. At the same time, Li Dingguo contacted the East Guangdong Water and Land Volunteer Division, claiming to have an army of 200,000, and surrounded Xinhui.

Li Dingguo continued to attack for two months, but failed to work. At this time, he believed the lie that the spy city was out of food, ordered to stop the attack, and adopted siege tactics, which gave the Qing army a chance to breathe. The Daxi army also suffered from the plague and its morale was low.

Being in a disadvantageous situation.

The Qing court sent another 100,000 Manchu and Han troops to rush over and use iron cavalry to overwhelm Li Dingguo's left army. The war elephants that Li Dingguo relied on were also frightened away, causing the entire Great Western Army to collapse.

Taking advantage of the victory, the Qing army pursued them for twenty miles, leaving corpses everywhere. Li Dingguo had no choice but to cross the Yangtze River and burn the pontoon bridge to break the siege of Xinhui, and retreated to Nanning overnight.

Zheng Chenggong was negotiating peace with the Qing government at this time. He waited until the peace negotiation failed in December before sending his navy to Guangdong. Li Dingguo had already been defeated and had missed the opportunity to fight.

At the same time, Sun Kewang cut off material aid from Yunnan and Guizhou, which finally led to the failure of the Battle of Xinhui. When Li Dingguo retreated to Nanning, only 6,000 people were left with him.

At this time, Emperor Yongle sent someone to Nanning with an imperial edict written in blood, asking him to return to Guizhou to escort him, so he decided to return to Guizhou.

Sun Kewang sent Bai Wenxuan to move Emperor Yongle to Guiyang ahead of Li Dingguo. Bai Wenxuan was dissatisfied with this move, so he delayed the move on the grounds that "the followers were not gathered".

Li Dingguo went to Anlong and met Emperor Yongli. The emperor and his ministers held each other's hands and cried. Li Dingguo secretly swore to serve and decided to move the imperial court to Yunnan.

At that time, Liu Wenxiu and Sun Kewang's close associates Wang Shangli, Wang Ziqi, He Jiuyi and others were all stationed in Yunnan, with a total of 50,000 troops.

When Li Dingguo arrived in Qujing, the Yunnan garrison discussed resisting with troops. Liu Wenxiu met Li Dingguo privately and said: "We think Sun Kewang is a person like Dong Zhuo, but even if Sun Kewang is killed, someone like Cao Cao will inevitably appear."

Li Dingguo swore to heaven that he would never imitate Sun Kewang. So the two of them worked together to hide the truth from Sun Kewang's cronies and bring Emperor Yongle safely to Yunnan.

Prior to this, Li Zhiyong had sent Zhu Pingxi's memorial to Liu Wenxiu after many twists and turns.

Emperor Yongli changed Kunming to the "Capital of Dian", named Li Dingguo the King of Jin, Liu Wenxiu the King of Shu, Bai Wenxuan the Duke of Gong, and all major affairs were handled by Li Dingguo.
Chapter completed!