"If you are spared, you will become a novice. If you don't follow suit, my father will be a thief all his life, and he will end up like today."

Kong Youde set himself on fire and died. His wife Bai, after entrusting Kong Youde's son Kong Tingxun to a guard named Bai Yunlong, just left these words and hanged herself in the palace.

When the Ming army invaded Guilin City, Kong Youde's two sons and daughters embarked on the road to escape under the protection of the guards and nanny respectively. However, unlike his younger sister Kong Sizhen, Kong Tingxun was quickly captured by the Ming army. As Guilin City

Under the full control of the Ming army, including Chen Bangfu, the Duke of Qing Dynasty who killed Jiao Lian and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Chen Zengyu and his son, Bo Wenshui, as well as Wang Quanke, the Qing's Guangxi inspector, and Zhang Xingguang, the political envoy, were all captured by the Ming army.

After the First World War in Guilin, the Ming army was divided into two groups. Feng Shuangli and Ma Jinzhong led the troops north to recapture southern Huguang. As news of Kong Youde's death spread, the Qing government had already received a message: "Don't waste the war, move to defend."

Shen Yongzhong, who had the secret decree, quickly abandoned Changsha and ran all the way to Yuezhou Mansion north of Dongting Lake before temporarily stopping his steps.

Counting the Baoqing Prefecture in Guilin before the First World War, Shen Yongzhong gave up the four prefectures of Baoqing, Changsha, Hengzhou, and Yongzhou in southern Huguang in this short period of time. Officials at all levels of Dao, Prefecture, Prefecture, and County in various places also did the same.

He fled with the army in a hurry, leaving most of Hunan to the Ming army. For a time, "before the soldiers arrived, there was no one for thousands of miles." In the entire south of Huguang, the only ones left by the Qing government were Changde Mansion and Youchenchang.

Commander-in-Chief Xu Yong guarded the city of Chenzhou and continued to resist stubbornly.

In the next period of time, Feng Shuangli and Ma Jinzhong were only busy marching and controlling the area. At the same time, Li Dingguo, who was still stationed in Guilin, dispatched troops to recover the lost territory in Guangxi.

According to Kong Youde's defense arrangement, the Qing army's defense points in Guangxi province had four main points: one was Guilin, the provincial capital, where King Kong Youde of Dingnan personally led his troops; the other was southwest of Guilin, Liuzhou, an important town in the central part of Guangxi province, where Kong Youde ordered Dingnan Fan

The right-wing general guarded the entire festival; the third was the former Yongli Dynasty, together with Wuzhou, the water and land hub of Guangdong and Guangxi, where Dingnan Fan's left-wing general Ma Xiong commanded troops and horses; and the last one was Nanning, Guangxi Admiral Line Guo'an

After leading the army to capture this place, he led a large army to control it.

The Ming army won the field battle, and the army marched straight into Guilin. Kong Youde ordered the generals to abandon their trusted territory and return to the provincial capital to aid. However, the generals soon received the news of Kong Youde's death.

The death of Kong Youde, king of Dingnan, greatly shocked the Qing army in Guangxi. After hearing the news, Xian Guoan, Quanjie and Ma Xiong fled to Wuzhou at full speed. Quanjie, the right-wing general who was most threatened by the Ming army, was the most embarrassed.

The Ming army went south, and the whole army fled to Wuzhou on July 16. "All their troops and horses were scattered." He Jiucheng, the deputy general of the left camp, was injured and died on the way; the deputy general of the right camp, Zheng Yuanxun, and the Chinese guerrilla Cai Bin led the troops

Ma went to Guilin to surrender; Shen Bangqing, the deputy general of the rear camp, was killed. In addition, the Ming army entered Liuzhou and captured Jin Hanhui of Youjiang Road. They went south to Pingle, killed Zhou Lingxu of Jiangdao, and captured Yin Mingting, the prefect of Pingle. The Ming army was devastated along the way, and the Qing army was destroyed.

He only focused on fleeing eastward, leaving the entire province to Li Dingguo.

In August, Li Dingguo took advantage of his victory to attack Wuzhou, attacking Guo'an and Ma Xiong. The entire army fled without a fight and retreated directly into the territory of Guangdong. At this point, Li Dingguo relied on his actions in the battle of Guilin to regain nearly two provinces.

Li Dingguo's feat of regaining Guangxi in one fell swoop greatly encouraged the anti-Qing forces in Guangxi. People in some areas took the initiative to expel the Qing army without waiting for the arrival of the Ming army. Li Dingguo "ordered no unnecessary killing and pacified the surviving Li Shu". The policy was generally welcomed by the gentry and common people in Guangxi.

In just one or two months, the Duke of Wei, Hu Yiqing, who had been forced to hide in the mountains, the founding Duke Zhao Yinxuan, the Hou Mabao of Anding, Bolong Tao of Yining, the former Qing Duke Chen Bangfu's former Zhangwu General Yuan Laichao, and the Yongguo Gong Cao Zhijian's generals Wang Dajie, Lei Zhaosheng, Ou Zhengfu, etc. all stood up again to fight against the Qing army. In terms of civilian officials, Liu Yuansheng, the Minister of the Ministry of War, Guan Siqiu, a member of the Zhongshushe, and Zhu Changshi, the director of the Ministry of War, also came out from the mountainous area to see Li Dingguo. , discussed machine affairs together, and assisted in guarding Guilin. Wu Decao, the former governor of Guangxi, also took up his post in Wuzhou at his order, "sitting in the gate tower, checking in and out". The whole province of Guangxi was installing officials and re-establishing the ruling order.

According to the records of Qu Changwen, the grandson of Qu Shichun, the great scholar in charge of the governor, who was in Guilin at the time, "the minister of Jieyi in the eight counties of Guangxi avoided the fishy smell in the deep and poor valley, moved to poverty, waited for the opportunity, and never changed his behavior. The defenders are all men recommended by the rulers of the government. They are lucky enough to be reborn, and all the mourners in the mountains and wild swamps will also rejoice to see the majesty of the Han officials again."

Although there is some element of Qu Changwen showing off and praising his grandfather Qu Shichun, the news of Guilin's victory did greatly inspire the anti-Qing people in Guangxi. When the Ming army generals came out from Yongfu, Yangshuo and other mountainous areas to fight against the Ming Dynasty in the southwest, The army met. Ming troops from other mountainous areas in Guangxi also took advantage of the situation and came out, making the anti-Qing forces even stronger.

Some families were happy and some were sad. While the Ming army was aggressively attacking the city and seizing territory, they received the news of Kong Youde's death. Shang Ke, who was in charge of Guangzhou City, was so happy that he didn't say a word for a while.

Prince Dingnan was always disliked by Shang Kexi. He was unruly and unruly. Even princes like him and Geng Zhongming, who were both Dongjiang generals, did not take it seriously. Because of this character, Chen Chen Only when Kai spread the rumor that Kong Youde wanted to seize the wealthy Lei Qiong Si Mansion as Guangxi's outlet to the sea did Shang Kexi take it seriously.

However, this man's arrogance is not without support. In the years since the Qing army entered Liaodong and even entered the Pass, in terms of military prowess, among the generals of the Han army, only Wu Sangui can be among his brothers. Like him, he is more cunning. He is very intelligent, but when it comes to martial arts, he is still far behind.

Such a figure died at the hands of the Ming army, which forced them to overestimate the combat effectiveness of the southwestern Ming army. And these overestimations also intensified their fear of harming others. After regaining his composure, Shang Kexi quickly ordered "the civil and military officials of the prefectures and counties bordering Guangxi are like thieves in the city, even if they come to protect the seals with cameras to consolidate the foundation." At the same time, he sent a letter to Geng Jimao of Haifeng County, requesting He immediately led the troops of Jingnan Domain back to Guangzhou.

In his words, Chen Kai in eastern Guangdong and Zheng Chenggong in southern Fujian are not easy to deal with, but for them at this moment, they are just a small scabies problem and cannot hurt their lives. But that Li Dingguo has tens of thousands of troops. Said, even Kong Youde is no match, this is a terrible killer!

Geng Jimao quickly led his troops back after receiving the letter. The soldiers of the Jingnan clan, together with the green battalion soldiers of Zhang Daoying, the commander-in-chief of Dongguan, only left Huang Yingjie in Haifeng.

The Qing army left in a hurry and exposed many flaws. The Ming army soon received the news that the Qing army had hurriedly evacuated. Although the generals were not sure why, they were sitting firmly in Diaoyutai in Chaozhou City.

Chen Kai, however, knew very well how much the victory of Guilin had shaken the Qing army in Guangdong. Withdrawing the troops now is the right thing to do!

"Li Dingguo, hey, here comes another huggable thigh..."

It's a joke to hug the thigh, but the Guilin victory did buy Chen Kai more preparation time. Compared with others, Chen Kai knew the importance of the sixth year of Yongli in this period of history. He built the Luohe River

The purpose of the bastion was to wait until the news of the victory in Guilin came. After that battle, Guangdong's strategic situation would begin to show signs of improvement. Geng Jimao's withdrawal at this moment was the beginning.

"General Controller, that bitch Geng Jimao ran away and left Huang Yingjie in Haifeng. It is said that the dozens of red barbarian cannons that were transferred did not have time to be transported away, so the general thought it would be better to take this opportunity to take over Haifeng County.

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As time went by, after regaining the local battlefield advantage, the Ming army's detective horses obtained more and more intelligence, including the red barbarian cannon. Geng Jimao did not want to leave these things here, he had already ordered

Huang Yingjie sent troops to escort him back bit by bit. But he himself wanted to rush back to Guangzhou as soon as possible, so he couldn't take care of it for the time being.

Under such circumstances, it was a good opportunity to further weaken the Qing army. Reports of the Guangdong generals requesting war were submitted one after another. Even Wang Qifeng, the chief military officer of Tieqi Town stationed in Chaozhou City, was confused.

He came and asked to join the war. However, Chen Kai didn't have much desire for this.
Chapter completed!