After the plan was formulated, Du Yinxi and He Tengjiao led their troops to attack respectively. In early June, Du Yinxi led Li Chixin, Gao Bizheng, Li You, He Lan and others to lead an army of 60,000 to launch an attack on Jingzhou.
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Zheng Siwei, the Qing army general in Jingzhou, was originally a subordinate of Liu Fangliang, the general of Dashun Army. Later, he followed the Jingzhou defense envoy Meng Changgeng to guard Jingzhou. When the Qing army invaded the south for the first time, he killed Meng Changgeng and surrendered to the Qing army, so he knew it clearly.
Once Jingzhou City was broken, Li Chixin and Gao Bizheng would never let him go, so he also strengthened the defense in Jingzhou City and sent someone to ask Tong Dai for help.
But at this time, He Tengjiao and Zhang Kuangji led 80,000 troops to Yuezhou and ordered Ma Jinzhong, Wang Yuncai, Lu Ding and Wang Jincai to march into Linxiang, and the troops also rushed straight to Wuchang Prefecture. At this time, Tong Dai's subordinates only
If seven or eight thousand men are guarding Wuchang, everything will be fine. Those who still have the troops to rescue Wuchang Prefecture.
At this moment, Geng Zhongming and Han Dai led the Qing army to enter the Hunan area. The total strength of the Qing army was about 50,000 or 60,000, of which Geng Zhongming's troops had about 40,000 and Han Dai's troops had 15,000.
As soon as the Qing army arrived in Jiujiang, Geng Zhongming and Han Dai received news that He Tengjiao and Du Yinxi had made progress in Wuchang. The two also decided to leave the army's baggage and travel slowly, and then led 10,000 troops to attack lightly.
Rescue Wuchang and then rescue Yuezhou.
At this time, He Tengjiao was in charge of Yuezhou, full of confidence, and thought that he would not wait for Du Yinxi to seize Wuchang first, so as to monopolize the great contribution of regaining Wuchang. Therefore, he ordered Huang Chaoxuan to advance Jiayu, Zhang Xianbi to advance Puqi, but Huang, Zhang
After the two generals left Yuezhou, they were stationed at the junction of Wuchang Prefecture and Changsha Prefecture and could not stay in. He Tengjiao urged him three times in a row, and then they did not force their troops to march. They arrived at the southern bank of Lushui, and used the excuse of finding a ship to cross the river, and stopped again.
Got down.
As a result, reinforcements led by Geng Zhongming and Han Dai also arrived in Wuchang, and Tong Dai, who was stationed in Wuchang, led 5,000 troops and joined forces with them to fight against He Tengjiao's troops. Huang Chaoxuan and Zhang Xianbi heard about the Qing Dynasty.
The reinforcements of the army arrived, and they dared to stay by the water and hurriedly retreated to Linxiang. The four generals of Ma Jinzhong, Wang Yuncai, Lu Ding and Wang Jincai who were stationed in Linxiang saw Huang Chaoxuan and Zhang Xianbi fled back, and immediately abandoned the city and fled.
He didn't even enter Yuezhou, but sent people into the city to inform He Tengjiao that the Qing army's reinforcements had arrived. The army was powerful and could not be defeated, and then fled southward.
Seeing that the Ming army fled without fighting, the Qing army immediately divided its troops. Han Dai led 5,000 troops to rescue Jingzhou, Geng Zhongming and Tong Dai took 10,000 troops to attack Yuezhou.
At this time, He Tengjiao had 60,000 troops in Yuezhou. If he could stabilize the morale of the army and boost morale at the extreme, he could fight the Qing army. However, Huang Chaoxuan, Zhang Xianbi, Ma Jinzhong, Wang Yuncai and others fled in panic.
He Tengjiao and Zhang Kuang were also unwilling to care. Liu Chengyin, Cao Zhijian, Hao Yaoqi and others were panicked when they saw the generals, and they were not willing to fight. They immediately led their respective troops to retreat to Changsha. In less than a day,
Nearly half of the troops in Yuezhou were scattered. He Tengjiao and Zhang Kuang had no choice but to give up Yuezhou and retreat to Changsha. He also did not send anyone to inform Du Yinxi. As a result, the Qing army was almost ineffective in blood.
He occupied Yuezhou.
On the other side, Du Yinxi, Li Chixin, Gao Bizheng and others were launching a fierce attack on Jingzhou, but the walls of Jingzhou were high and thick. Although the Qing army was insufficient, Zheng Siwei ordered the people in the city to protect the city and demolish hundreds of private houses.
As a defense of the city, the Zhongzhen Camp attacked for three days and demolished more than 7,000 troops, but still could not capture Jingzhou City.
On June 12, Han Dai led 5,000 troops to Jingzhou, while Du Yinxi, Li Chixin, Gao Bizheng and others still knew nothing about this and still planned how to command the troops to capture Jingzhou.
So Han Dai launched an attack on Zhongzhen Camp that night, but Zhongzhen Camp was unprepared for this and caught off guard, and suddenly became in chaos. Zheng Siwei also led his army to break out of Jingzhou City, and Zhongzhen Camp was beaten up by the Qing army.
Defeated. During the melee, Zhongzhen Camp was killed and scattered by the Qing army. Du Yinxi fell off his horse and broke his arm. After being rescued by his subordinates, he retreated to Changde to guard. Li Chixin and Gao Bizheng retreated westward. Retreat to the Yiling area to hide, while Li Zicheng
His third brothers, Li Zi, Zhang Nai, Li You, Wu Ruyi and others led more than 5,000 troops to surrender to the Qing army at Yilingkou.
At this point, He Tengjiao and Du Yinxi's plan to recover Hubei was not only completely failed, but also worked hard to reorganize the army in the early stage and lost most of the 100,000 troops. However, Han Dai and Geng Zhongming's army have not arrived and their troops are insufficient, so
He temporarily conquered the army and did not pursue the victory. He Tengjiao and Du Yinxi had to continue to station in Chongde and Changsha, and were no longer able to launch an attack on the Qing army. The entire situation in Huguang was also reversed by the Qing army.
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Just in Geng Zhongming, the Qing army of Han Dai's troops defeated the Ming army's attack on Wuchang in Hunan. Another route was Shang Kexi, and the Qing army led by Jueluo Bahana also made great progress in Jiangxi.
Shang Kexi, the Qing army of Jueluo Bahana tribe had about 65,000, of which more than 45,000 were Shang Kexi's tribe and about 20,000 were Jueluo Bahana tribe, but Jueluo Bahana
The troops they led were originally the Eight Banners of Manchu and Han, as well as the three major camps and green camps, and only a few followers, coats, and at the same time, there were thirty cannons and two thousand musketeers.
During the early stage of the journey south, the Qing army had already captured Jiujiang, Nanchang, Raozhou, Nankang, Ruizhou and other regions along the Poyang Lake in northern Jiangxi. Shang Kexi and Jueluo Bahana also divided their troops into two groups and made progress separately.
Fujiang and Guangxin, and then met in Jianchang Prefecture.
Jiangxi is the barrier west of Fuzhou, so Zhu Youjian did not dare to be careless and appointed Wan Ji as the governor of Jiangxi and to take charge of Ganzhou to strengthen the defense. At the same time, Liu Guangyin was appointed as the governor of Jiangxi, assisting Wan Ji in supervising military affairs, and at the same time ordered various places to go out.
The army quickly reinforced. The Yunnan general Zhao Yinxuan recruited from Yunnan by the Censor Chen Xi, and 5,000 elite troops from Hu Yiqing's troops; Ding Kuichu, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, sent Tong Yizhen and 4,000 people from Chen's troops; the Guangdong soldiers sent by Grand Secretary Su Guansheng also sent
More than 6,000 people, plus the former garrison of Ganzhou, Jiangxi, Wu Zhifan, Zhang Guozuo's troops, and Yang Tinglin, the Grand Secretary of Wuying Palace, were transferred from Yudu. Zhang An and other troops were dependent on the fourth camp of Yan Luo. Five troops gathered in Jiangxi.
The army of 60,000 was not inferior to the Qing army in terms of number. At the same time, Zhu Youjian also sent people to Hangzhou to ask Shang Yi to send troops and attack the Qing army from the flanks.
But Zhu Youjian was also very clear that the Ming army was a mob pieced together by various people and was definitely not a match for the Qing army. Shang Yi was far away in Zhejiang and could only send troops to restrain the Qing army at most, and he could not solve the danger in Jiangxi. Therefore, he only
I can hope that Zheng Zhilong can send troops to support Jiangxi.
But Zheng Zhilong found various excuses and repeatedly urged to send troops. Under Zhu Youjian's repeated orders, he had to send Yongsheng Bo Zheng Cai to lead troops out of Shanguan to guard Jianchang Prefecture, Jiangxi, and ordered Zheng Hongkui to send troops to Xianxialing to rescue Guang
Xinfu. However, after Zheng Cai's men arrived at Shanguan, they remained silent. No matter how Zhang Jiayu urged him to the supervisor, he ignored him.
As a result, after the Qing army arrived, all the Ming troops were vulnerable and were killed by the Qing army and fled one after another. Some Ming troops retreated without fighting. The Qing army was as powerful as the bamboo shoot, and successively captured Fujiang and Guangxin.
Linjiang, Jianchang and other places, as well as the entire central part of Jiangxi, were occupied by the Qing army, and the troops had reached the border of Fujian Province.
Zheng Cai, who was stationed in Shanguan, heard that the Qing army had arrived, immediately abandoned the pass and fled, retreating to Pucheng. Moreover, Zheng Hongkui also gave up Xianxialing and retreated to Jianning Prefecture. The Qing army also took advantage of the situation to advance and captured Fujian.
Shaowu Mansion.
After hearing the news, Emperor Longwu was furious and issued an order to complain about Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Cai's behavior of fleeing without fighting, and demoted Zheng Hongkui from the Grand Tutor to the Young Master, and removed Zheng Cai's title of Earl.
Zhu Youjian was the most enterprising among the monarchs of the Southern Ming Dynasty. After he succeeded to the throne, his intention was to restore the Ming Dynasty as his mission. However, Zheng Zhilong did not have such ambition. He just hoped to stick to his sphere of influence in Fujian and Guangdong and separatist.
On the one hand, he supported Zhu Youjian as the emperor, just wanted to use the name of the Longwu court to consolidate his power in Fujian and Guangdong to gain legitimacy. Of course, he also used the emperor's name to recruit the south, resist the Qing army, and preserve it.
Fujian and Guangdong were intended. Therefore, after supporting Zhu Youjian, Zheng Zhilong sent his son Zheng Chenggong to Hangzhou to reach an offensive and defensive alliance with Shang Yi, which was also an act of protecting Fujian and Guangdong.
However, Zheng Zhilong's actions were based on the Qing army's attempt to attack Fujian and Guangdong, and they were not interested in defending other areas in the south. As soon as Hong Chengchou arrived in Nanjing, he sent a connection with Fujian *** Yun and Zheng Zhilong.
, and as a fellow villager, persuaded Zheng Zhilong to surrender to the Qing court. *** Yun came to Fujian with Hong Chengchou's letter to meet Zheng Zhilong, expressing Hong Chengchou's meaning. Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but be moved, but he did not dare to believe in the Qing Dynasty easily.
Ting, just treat *** Yun well and let him return to Nanjing.
After *** Yun returned to Nanjing, Hong Chengchou also knew that Zheng Zhilong had the intention to surrender. When Yu Zu was attacking Jiangxi, Hong Chengchou sent *** Yun to Fujian again. This time he also brought Duoduo's letter, saying that
As long as Zheng Zhilong surrenders, he can be named the king's title, and is ranked alongside Wu, Kong, Geng, Shang and others.
Zheng Zhilong didn't care whether he was granted a title to the king or not. He was interested in actual interests, that is, he wanted to separatist Fujian and Guangdong and continue to operate his overseas trade. However, the Qing court issued this condition, which also showed that the Qing court also showed that the Qing court had
If you are sincere, you can talk indifferently. Therefore, Zheng Zhilong also replied to Duoduo, expressing his wishes obscurely. In order to show his sincerity, he did not send troops to rescue Jiangxi, and at the same time gave up Xianxialing