The North-South confrontation between the Ming and Qing Dynasties was formed due to the temporary cessation of fighting. The two sides roughly determined their spheres of influence along the Qinling-Dabie Mountains, as well as the provincial boundaries between South Zhili and Henan and Shandong provinces.

However, the sentinel and cavalry battles between the armies of the Ming and Qing Dynasties never stopped. The Ming army's fear of Manchuria has been greatly reduced. When they have the upper hand, they are not afraid of fighting the Eight Banners soldiers.

Of course, most of the sentinel cavalry are capable soldiers, and they are not lacking in courage and courage. When fighting alone, they almost always suffer casualties on each other. The Manchu soldiers are not gods and can be defeated. This is gradually becoming clear

General consensus among the military.

Sandwiched between the two major forces of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Daxi Army in western and northern Sichuan, and the remnants of the Dashun Army in the Chongqing-Kuizhou area are facing increasingly severe survival crises.

Zhang Xianzhong is getting more and more crazy now, and his murderous personality becomes more and more obvious as the situation changes. Even Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, and Ai Nengqi can't stop him. Not to mention, there are also people around him

A traitor and a queen are swaying him.

Moreover, as the Nanjing court of the Ming Dynasty gained a foothold, the armed landlords in various parts of Sichuan and the remaining forces of the Ming army began to counterattack. If it were not for the remnants of the Dashun Army entering Kuizhou and Chongqing, part of the Ming army was forced to Guizhou and Daxi.

The situation facing the military will become even more severe.

Since Li Zicheng's unexpected death, Azig retreated north early, and the remaining Dashun Army was not further weakened by the pursuit of the Qing army as in the original history.

Gao Guiying, Li Guo and Gao Yigong also quickly stepped forward to take charge of the situation, basically integrating the remaining 40,000 troops of the Dashun Army. However, due to the death of Li Zicheng, the Dashun Dynasty lost its backbone, many of whom

After confirming the situation, the soldiers and horses directly defected to Du Yinxi, who was willing to accept the peasant army.

At the same time, after so many years of war, Chongqing and Kuizhou areas were too poor to support the remaining 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Dashun Army. The army's weapons and equipment were not replenished in time, and the food, horses, and even more

It is difficult to maintain.

Gao Guiying is not a tough person, nor does he have any opinions. Li Guo and Gao Yigong, the two top leaders of the remaining Dashun Army, one is in charge of military affairs and the other is in charge of internal affairs. Faced with such a dilemma, they saw the blockage again.

After Yinxi's kindness and sincerity, everyone had other thoughts.

After all, Li Zicheng is dead, and their enmity with the Qing army is no less than that with the Ming army, but the Ming army is also an enemy, which puts them in a dilemma.

The Qing army is absolutely invincible, so the only option is to defeat the Ming army and occupy Hunan.

Therefore, taking advantage of the opportunity of Du Yinxi's surrender, Li Guo and Gao Yigong chose to pretend to accept the recruitment in order to solve the army's supply problem, and then chose the opportunity to rebel, occupy Hunan, and solve the army's supply problem.

If the army of more than 30,000 people wants to recover its strength, it will be almost impossible in one year without the strength of a single province.

In the original history, the reason for being able to compete with the Qing army in Shaanxi was due to strategic mistakes. The Shun army was at a disadvantage due to army supply problems. In the later period, even the elite Green Camp Army was unable to fight against it.

However, what Li Guo and Gao Yigong did not expect was that while the Qing army was retreating north, Du Yinxi, Ma Shiying, and Zuo Liangyu's armies had all made arrangements and did not give them a chance to make a sneak attack.

At the same time, although Chongzhen wanted to annihilate these rebels in one fell swoop, he was still an emperor who had no idea. I am afraid he would never change this in his life. Under the instigation of Zhou Shixian and his ministers, he also agreed to a compromise.

Policy.

The bank of Jingzhou, Yueyang Prefecture, Changde Prefecture, Shizhou Wei, and Kuizhou Prefecture have all become the garrison of the remaining troops of the Shun Army. However, the local area can only provide part of the money and food for the army. The supplies of the Shun Army have to rely on Du Yinxi, a small financial manager.

Supply of experts.

Moreover, in such a long and narrow territory, the remaining Shun army had to deal with the threat of the Qing army from the front, and the Ming army was watching from the back. Chongqing, which they withdrew from, was reoccupied by the Ming army that had originally withdrawn to Guizhou.

After the She'an Rebellion, Guizhou's productivity was greatly damaged and it was unable to support such a large army in Guizhou and Sichuan provinces. Zhou Shixian and the local officials of the Ming court weighed the situation in the four provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Hunan before finally forming such a layout.

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After Du Yinxi integrated the remaining troops of the surrendered Shun Army, he deployed them in Wuchang, restrained by Zuo Liangyu's troops, while Ma Shiying's troops were stationed in Changsha Prefecture, restraining the remaining troops of the Shun Army from behind.

The rest of the Shun Army has nominally accepted the reorganization, and has become the vanguard and main force in dealing with the Qing army in the Kuizhou-Jingzhou-Yueyang area, as well as the Wuchang area, but in fact, whether it is Hao Yaoqi and other troops who had previously submitted, Li Guo

, those headed by Gao Yigong are all self-contained and do not listen to orders.

Although Zhou Shixian, Du Yinxi, Zuo Liangyu and others all knew this, they, like Li Guo and Gao Yigong, formed a temporary compromise.

However, although the various forces at the local level are intertwined, with the entry of several important officials, the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Huguang, Guangdong and Guangxi, Fujian and other places have stopped swinging after Zhou Shixian defeated the main force of the Qing army's ern expedition to the east.

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However, the presence of the central Ming court, local military leaders, Dashun, and Daxi forces meant that these places would not be able to be effectively managed for a while.

However, the richest provinces of Southern Zhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi are already firmly in the hands of the Ming court in Nanjing. To deal with the Manchu and Qing courts in the north, if all Southern Zhili are mobilized, there will be a complete set of effective measures

system is actually sufficient.

After Zhou Shixian returned to Nanjing, ministers from various factions threw olive branches at him. Although many ministers still pretended to be calm on the surface, in fact they began to fawn over the two veterans Li Banghua and Ni Yuanlu.

Zhang Huangyan and Zheng Chenggong, two young generals from the Zhejiang and Fujian families, were considered to have promising futures. In addition, Zhang Mingzhen was promoted quickly, which led to rumors that Zhejiang officials were favored by the prince-in-law.

Two veterans, Li Banghua and Ni Yuanlu, one controlled the censor and the other controlled the financial power, basically controlling the situation in the court.

This year, Song Yingxing, Wang Fuzhi, Huang Zongxi and others also recovered from seclusion and loss, and came to Nanjing to serve the new imperial court.

Of course, at this time, Emperor Chongzhen also felt the crisis and began to win over major military leaders in a fancy way, hoping to gain greater support.

However, at this time, everyone is a smart person, so it would be fine if it were someone else, but the one who wanted to usurp the throne was the Prince Consort, and he still relied on his own troops to defeat the arrogant Prince Consort of the Qing Army.
Chapter completed!