In November of the fourth year of Yongli, King Pingnan was happy. Geng Jimao, king of Jingnan, captured Guangzhou, and Kong Youde, king of Dingnan, occupied Guilin. The Yongli court stationed in Wuzhou heard that the two provincial capitals had fallen on the same day, and regarded it as chaos.

A group. Wuzhou is located between Guangdong and Guangxi. In the current situation, it is in a pinch. Without too much nonsense, the whole court fled in a hurry and went straight to Nanning.

Nanning is an important town in the south of Guangxi. Yongli's emperor and his ministers planned to go to Nanning, at least temporarily away from the front of the Qing army, before making any plans. When they passed the border of Xunzhou, Qingguo Duke Chen Bangfu decided to surrender to the Qing Dynasty and prepared to sacrifice Emperor Yongli to Nanning.

He gave it to the Qing army, but Emperor Yongli learned about it in advance and "passed by in the rain". Unable to give Emperor Yongli a certificate of surrender to the Qing army, Chen Bangfu simply robbed some of the accompanying officials and then killed Xuan who had retreated here.

Duke Jiao Lian and his son Wenshui Bo Chen Zengyu surrendered to Kong Youde.

They had escaped from the tiger's mouth, but Guangdong and Guangxi were about to fall, and the retreat was disorganized. The rebels took the opportunity to plunder, and some officials who were interested in following the imperial court were hesitant to move forward.

At this time, only a few bureaucrats, including the cabinet scholar Yan Qiheng, the imperial guard Ma Jixiang, and the eunuch Pang Tianshou, were accompanying them. Except for Zhu Minru, the general who suppressed the west, who was killed in Zhaoping County, and Wang Hao, the dismissed courtier who committed suicide by drowning.

Fang Yizhi, one of the young masters, and "Huya" Jinbao, one of the Five Tigers, shaved their heads and became monks and fled into Zen Buddhism; such as Liu Yuansheng, Minister of the Ministry of War, and his younger brother Liu Xiangke, one of the Five Tigers, "Tiger Skin", fled to the mountains; such as Lu Ke

Zao Zao, Qian Bingti, Wang Fuzhi and others all left the Yongli court at this time and returned to their hometowns under the rule of the Qing government to consider themselves survivors.

Compared with those who left the Ming court, Tang Xi, the great scholar in Guangxi, Zhang Shang, the Minister of Household Affairs, Wu Decao, the Prime Minister of Dali Temple, Yu Xindu, the governor of Guangxi, and Wei Yuanji, the food supervisor and counselor, all surrendered to the Qing Dynasty one after another. Those in Guangdong

High-ranking officials such as Huang Shijun, He Wuzou, Yang Banghan, Li Zhenhe, Wu Yilian, etc. were also afraid of surrendering. Among them, Huang Shijun was already eighty-two years old. Some people mocked him and said: "If the king asks his ministers how old they are, it is because they are this year."

Shave your head!”

In addition to these people, Yuan Pengnian and Ding Shikui, the "tiger head" and "tiger tail" who had always surrendered to the Qing court and followed Li Chengdong anyway, one surrendered to Shang Kexi in Guangdong and the other in Guangxi.

He begged for mercy from Kong Youde and claimed that he was forced by Li Chengdong in Guangzhou.

Guangzhou and Guilin were lost, and the army was defeated and dispersed. Like Chen Bangfu, who turned to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, the Zhongzhen Battalion was no longer able to gain a foothold in Guangdong and Guangxi, so it had to go north to Kuidong to join up with the rest of the Dashun Army.

The Ming Dynasty's rule in Guangdong and Guangxi was in danger of falling apart. Even if the Yongli court fled to Nanning, it would still be in danger. The Qing army in Guangxi moved south step by step. The Yongli court issued an edict to Zheng Chenggong to lead his troops to serve the king. However, what happened to the center and the left?

After the raid, Zheng Chenggong had to return the same way; Wen Anzhi, the chief minister who asked to supervise Kuidong, was detained by Sun Kewang on the way; at this point, the Yongli court had no choice but to give in to Sun Kewang again and conferred him the title of King of Ji. The result was natural

It was rejected again by Sun Kewang, who was bent on obtaining the title of King of Qin.

In February of the fifth year of Yongli, the Qing army from Guangxi marched south to Liuzhou. Nanning was in danger, and the Yongli court had no choice but to retreat. Seeing this, Sun Kewang quickly sent his trusted generals He Jiuyi and Zhang Mingzhi to rush to Nanning with 5,000 troops to protect them. The second general

After arriving in Nanning, he killed Yang Dinghe, the Minister of War, and forced to death Yan Qiheng, the chief scholar who was obstructing the sealing of Qin. In the next month, Emperor Yongli had to formally recognize Chen Bangfu, and Hu Zhigong forged the title of King of Qin in Sun Kewang, and drew up the case for the Dian sealing.

It came to a full stop.

As the Daxi Army came to escort them, the Qing army's offensive gradually slowed down. After more than half a year, the Qing army regrouped and occupied Nanning in the twelfth lunar month.

During this period, He Jiuyi and Zhang Mingzhi, who came to escort them, had left camp earlier because the Yongli court was hesitant about entering the area controlled by the Daxi Army. When Kong Youde's confidant General Guangxi Admiral Xian Guoan captured Nanning, they He had no choice but to flee in embarrassment to the area controlled by the Daxi Army. Only with the protection of the Daxi Army could he turn the corner.

In the first month of the first year of Yongli, the Yongli court entered Yunnan and was placed under house arrest in Anlong Qianhu Station in Guizhou the following month. In the fifth year of Yongli, Sun Kewang annexed the troops of Guizhou warlords Kuang Guo Gong Pixiong and Zhong Guo Gong Wang Xiang. , after taking over Guizhou Province, he built the Palace of the Prince of Qin in Guiyang, the provincial capital, and established six ministries. He appointed Fan Kuang, Ma Zhaoxi, Ren Zhuan, Wan Niance and others as ministers, claiming to be the ruler of the country and taking charge of state affairs on his behalf.

The Great Western Army's march out of Yunnan was not limited to Guizhou. While the Qing troops in Guangdong, Guangdong and Guangdong were taking over all prefectures and counties, Sun Kewang appointed Liu Wenxiu as president and marched into Sichuan. The Great Western Army's front was strong, and all the generals of the Sichuan Army were either dead or surrendered. Some fled, and some even went north to the areas controlled by the Qing army and surrendered to the Qing court. However, the generals in Kuidong "defended themselves and sent people to appeal", and they survived by using both soft and hard methods.

While annexing the forces under the Ming Dynasty, in April of the fifth year of Yongli, Sun Kewang sent General Feng Shuangli to lead 10,000 horsemen, tens of thousands of infantry, and dozens of war elephants to conquer Yuanzhou. However, in Chenzhou, he was attacked by Chen Chang's general Xu. Yong and Xushun Gong Shen Yongzhong tried their best to resist.

The two sides faced off for a year, until April of the sixth year of Yongli, when Chen Kai defeated Geng Jimao's offensive with the Lufeng Twin Fortresses. At the same time, Li Ding's Guotong army, already a Ming army, joined Feng Shuangli and launched a confrontation in mid-May. State's Attack.

Chenzhou Prefecture is to the north of Yuanzhou, while Jingzhou Prefecture is to the south of Yuanzhou. While Li Dingguo's army was moving south, Shen Yongzhong sent General Zhang Guozhu to lead 8,000 troops to aid, and fell into a tight siege by the Ming army in Jingzhou. After a short period of time, In the battle, the Qing army was defeated, losing 5,163 officers and men, and 809 horses. Almost the entire army was wiped out, including 103 Manchurian Eight Banners troops.

After the great victory in Jingzhou, Zhang Guozhu "staggered back", and Li Dingguo took advantage of the opportunity to regain Jingzhou Prefecture and Wugang Prefecture in the south of Baoqing Prefecture. On the other hand, Shen Yongzhong, after asking for help from Kong Youde and being rejected, also fled north in a hurry and went directly from Baoqing retreated all the way to Changsha.

Shen Yongzhong fled to Changsha, and Feng Shuangli took the opportunity to cross Maple Ridge and seize Baoqing Mansion. At this point, Li Dingguo and Feng Shuangli captured Baoqing Mansion from the south to the north. At this time, it was only the beginning of June. Yongli Sixth The all-out counterattack by the Ming Army in the southwest in 2008 was just the beginning, and the Ming Army had no intention of stopping there. As the leader of the Jingzhou victory, Li Dingguo, after a short rest, personally led the elite troops from Wugang Prefecture and Xinning County to the south. Statewide.
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