There was no suspense in the war on the Southern Front.

In June 1690, the southward legion of the Han Empire was assembled in Wuchang Mansion and Jingzhou Mansion, with a total strength of about 110,000 troops, and the troops crossed the Yangtze River in two ways. One route was led by Yulin General Ruike, directly to Yuezhou, to the Wu Yinglin group trapped in the front line of the river defense stubbornly resisted to launch a general attack, this battle, the Han army invested three armies of 46,000 people, with the cooperation of the inland water division of the second fleet of the navy, the mountains and seas generally overwhelmed the Yangtze River, the north bank of more than 60 ' Under such strong pressure, although Wu Yinglin desperately resisted, but the civil war has been a long time, the army is tired of war, as soon as the Han army crosses the river, and has not yet established a beachhead, the shore defense Wu army water village immediately killed the prison officer, and took the initiative to surrender to the Han army. Without firing a single shot, they all laid down their weapons and gave way to the onslaught Han Imperial Army.

Wu Yinglin ascended the throne as the emperor in Yuezhou Mansion a year ago, with the country name "Zhou" and the year name "Yongkang", and his wife was named the queen, and his second son Wu Shiming was appointed as the crown prince, and a small dynasty was established in Xiangxi and Xiangbei. This dynasty can be said to be the most pitiful dynasty in history, the territory of the province did not exceed 40 counties, but the war 'chaos' was frequent, the people of the country added up to only more than 1 million Dingkou, but raised nearly 150,000 troops, an average of seven people to feed a soldier, in addition to a large number of political bureaucrats, local officials and harem eunuchs, palace 'women', etc., according to the Han Dynasty ordnance grain statistics Ya 'door' reported, Wu Yinglin's people, military service is two Ding 'draw' one, conscription up to four months, Tian Fu collects ten pay seven, commercial tax, The gold is the ten and three, and the weight of its internal demand, the remnant of oppression, and the vacuum before and after.

The northwest of Hunan crosses the four rivers of Hunan, Zi, Yuan and Li, and gets the danger of the Yangtze River, adjacent to the bank of the "hole" court, the land is "fertile", the products are abundant, since the Song Dynasty, there is the reputation of "the land of fish and rice", before Wu Yinglin ascended the throne and became emperor, although Dingkou in Xiangxi Prefecture has experienced war and "chaos", there are still nearly five million people, but after a year, there are only more than one million left. During the two-year reign of this short-lived dynasty, rebellions and rebellions broke out one after another, and the Miao, Yao, Dong, Bai, Hui and other ethnic groups rebelled one after another to resist the 'drawing' of military service, and some areas are still in rebellion until now.

The people of northwest Hunan hate Wu Yinglin, almost comparable to Qiu Kou, among them, since 1688, it is popular in all parts of Hunan to blend glutinous rice into a human-shaped glutinous rice cake, and eat it after barbecue, which is called "eating Lin cake".

Before the Han Empire crossed the river, the fall of the dynasty was already known to everyone. If it weren't for the long civil war and the fact that the army did not dare to surrender to Wu Shiwan's group, I am afraid that Wu Yinglin's small dynasty would have been wiped out long ago.

Therefore, when the Han Empire had just crossed the river, the defenders of the navy division, the river defense army and other defenders flocked to surrender as if they had discussed it, and in addition, the officers and soldiers of Toucheng also enthusiastically led the way. From the Yangtze River ferry to the city of Yuezhou, the large army of the Han army was like an armed parade, not a single shot was fired, the first battle was not fought, and the enemy army automatically became a friendly army.

The reception of the enemy army made the Han army feel "at home". Such a "war" can also be described as a great miracle in the history of world warfare.

The generals of the Han army, who were in charge of the front-line command, were like a dream, and they rushed forward in a daze, and it was not until the generals of the Wu army asked for surrender that they hurriedly sent people to inform the artillery units in Jiangbei to stop the shelling, so as not to 'waste' the shells.

At 4 o'clock in the morning, the Han army launched a river-crossing operation, and as soon as the sky was bright, the troops were already under the city. When Wu Yinglin woke up, he suddenly found that his more than 100,000 troops were only left with more than 3,000 "Imperial Forest Army" in the inner city and more than 16,000 city defense troops in Yuezhou Mansion. And even this point of troops, it is also unstable, there is a shout in Yuezhou Mansion, there is not a single soldier out to press, Yuezhou Mansion Yin, Zhi Jinwu, Jing Zhaoyin and other bureaucrats from all walks of life 'Mao' are not a single one, he is in the palace, he can hear thousands of people on the street outside shouting and scolding him, I don't know how many people cheered and said: "Wu Yinglin, you bastard also has today?!! ”

Outside the city of Yuezhou, the Han army had just finished the whole team, the artillery had not yet entered the position, the city defense was automatically breached, the front-line officers were surprised inexplicably, for fear of fraud, for the sake of gravity, sent two companies of cavalry troops into the city to explore the road, but unexpectedly from the city 'gate' to the palace, all the way unimpeded, no soldier blocked.

On June 21, 1690, Wu Yinglin's "Great Zhou Dynasty" was destroyed by the Han army's attack in less than two hours. Emperor Wu Yinglin planned to "sin his own edict" in the imperial study, and after listing his ten major crimes such as abusing the people, fighting a lot, and favoring 'rape', he begged the Han Empire Emperor Lin Feng to "treat his wife and children well", that is, he committed suicide by taking poison.

Prime Minister Xia Guoxiang killed himself.

Ma Bao, the general of the Zhu State, made up and stole the city after the city was broken, trying to flee south, but he betrayed his subordinates and betrayed him, and saw through the south 'gate' of Yuezhou Mansion, and then he blatantly resisted arrest, and led more than 100 people such as his own soldiers and family members to have a white-knuckle battle with the Han army, and was later stabbed by a certain soldier of the Han army with a bayonet more than ten 'holes' and died.

Wu Yinglin's wife left the palace in mourning clothes and surrendered with the crown prince Wu Shiming.

In addition to this road army, the other way south of the army from Jingzhou Mansion, in the upper reaches of Yuezhou across the Yangtze River, the soldiers are as sharp as the front, into the north of Hunan Province, along the Li River down, break Lizhou, occupy Yongshun Mansion, and finally cross into the Yuan River, break Changde Mansion, along the road all over the wind and fall, more than 50,000 Wu (note: the "Wu army" here, refers to Wu Yinglin's troops) army surrendered without a fight, Wu Yinglin's canonized "Jiangnan Jinglu Metropolitan Governor" Yang Yizhi after the city of Lizhou was broken, that is, he changed clothes out of the city, sneaked into the mountains, and has not been seen since.

The rapid collapse of Wu Yinglin's clique shook the entire south, and when the news came, the people of Changsha Mansion were panicked, and Emperor Wu Shiwan was at a loss, and urgently convened the ministers to discuss it, and hundreds of bureaucrats in the Southern Zhou Dynasty were helpless.

Wu Shiwan was furious, scolded the ministers for misleading the king, but there was silence above the court, at this moment, Yang Shou'an, the minister who was ordered to go to Jiangbei to "negotiate money", has not returned so far, but the Han army is less than two hundred miles away from Changsha.

In fact, the Southern Zhou Dynasty still had more than 300,000 troops, sitting on the ground for thousands of miles, only on the line from Changsha to northern Hunan, it deployed 220,000 troops, and the enemy army in front of it came from the north expedition, the whole army was only 70,000 people, of which the first-line troops were not even 20,000 soldiers, but the Southern Zhou Dynasty monarchs and ministers and the opposition, Changsha and the city, no one said a word of war.

The Southern Zhou Dynasty had unsuccessful discussions, and Wang Shirong, the envoy of the Han Dynasty, the major general of the army, and the privy envoy of the Han Ordnance and Grain Statistics Ya 'Gate', immediately detained the 'Gate' Changsha and persuaded Wu Shiwan to surrender.

On June 29, 1690, Wu Shiwan, the emperor of the Southern Zhou Dynasty, went out of the city for thirty miles, and asked the governor of the Western Front Corps of the Han Empire and the general of Yulin. Rachel presented the emperor's 'jade' seal and led the four provinces of Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou, and Hunan to surrender.

At the beginning of July, the emperor of the Han Empire issued an edict to confer the title of "Duke of Anguo" as the former Southern Zhou Emperor Wu Shiwan, and ordered him to immediately lead his family to set off and move to Beijing under the supervision of 500 Han troops.

At this point, since the year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, the Liaodong Military Group operated by Wu Sangui was completely destroyed. The Lin and Han empires spread in all directions, and more than 300,000 troops in the south disarmed and bowed down, waiting for the reorganization, and the southern parts of the country were calm and quiet, and none of the local officials dared to rebel and restore the "chaos", and they all sat back and waited for the Han Empire to send personnel to accept and choose.

When the Southern Zhou Dynasty fell, Guangdong Shang Zhixin was still in Jiangxi, hearing the bad news, like five thunders to the top - at the beginning of the year, when Zhejiang puppet Qingkang Prince Jieshu self-immolated to death, the Eight Banners Army dissipated, the Southern Zhou Wu Shiwan, Taiwan politics and economics and Guangdong Shang Zhixin like a hungry wolf, immediately pounced from all directions, especially Shang Zhixin.

In fact, Guangdong and Zhejiang do not border, but Guangdong Shangzhixin really can't bear it anymore. Since the three feudal clans started their troops, the terrain of the Shang Zhixin Group entrenched in Guangdong has been very awkward, to the east, is the vast sea; To the south, it is the territory of the friendly Wu Sangui; Only in the north of Fujian, can be expanded strategy, but unfortunately the situation has changed, from the beginning of the army to the present, Shang Zhixin 'Yin' to seek Yang to the fullest, hard work, but always repeatedly defeated, in addition to occupying a few small counties on the border of Fujian, the army can hardly go out of the province, even when Geng 'Jing' Zhong perished, it has not been able to take any advantage.

At that time, as soon as he heard that the end of Jieshu was coming, Shang Zhixin immediately teamed up with Wu Shiwan of the Southern Zhou Dynasty to attack Zhejiang through Jiangxi, in order to get a piece of territory in the richest province in the south of the Yangtze River, but unfortunately people are not as good as the sky, just occupied two state capitals, and the ass has not yet been hot, the emperor of the Han Empire, Lin Feng, gave an order, and tens of thousands of troops in the southern corps poured into Zhejiang in an instant, and the first battle defeated Feng Xifan's troops, and the 20,000 Fujian infantry troops that Taiwan's political and economic hard work turned into nothing, and Feng Xifan was only spared. Wang Dahai, the general of Pingliao, went south with iron hooves, and the army swept in, occupying a large area of land in Hangzhou and Ningbo, and the sharp edge of the army made the princes of all walks of life frightened.

The Taiwanese army was defeated and lost, and Liu Guoxuan hurriedly gathered the remnants of the army and retreated in the direction of Fujian; And Shang Zhixin and Wu Shiwan also completely gave up the idea of making a piece of the pie, withdrew their troops, and gave up the territory of Zhejiang.

However, before Shang Zhixin returned to Guangdong, the Southern Zhou Group had been declared annihilated, and the news came into his ears, almost like a thunderbolt from the sky, he could never have imagined that Wu Shiwan, who had crossed thousands of miles and had hundreds of thousands of troops, surrendered to the Han Empire without a battle, and the Han army's offensive was fierce and fast, which really caught him by surprise.

At this moment, his 20,000-strong army was still near Ningdu Mansion in Jiangxi, and the troops withdrew from southern Zhejiang in early May, marching for nearly a month, but the road was far away, the roads were not smooth, the supplies were not good, and the Guangdong soldiers did not adapt to the local geographical climate, and the speed was extremely slow, so they had to loot along the road, and by the way, blackmailed the local officials of the Southern Zhou Dynasty, and chatted to replenish it, but now the Southern Zhou suddenly surrendered, and the troops fell into a desperate situation almost instantly.

Shang Zhixin suddenly found that he almost had no way to extort a grain of grain, and sent a messenger urging the military grain to eat everywhere, and the magistrate almost sent a threatening 'tone' to him to send a spy to him, telling him: Now this is already the territory of the Han Empire, if "the bandits are running around to make trouble, the Han Heavenly Soldiers will be exterminated", Shang Zhixin was furious, impulsively, and ordered to lead the army to attack the city several times.

The siege is of course a joke, just behind him, a corps of the Han Army's Southern Corps General Pingliao is almost following his marching route all the way after him, and in addition, the garrisons that originally belonged to the Southern Zhou Dynasty also began to assemble rapidly, Guangxin Mansion, Ji'an Mansion, Fuzhou Mansion, Ganzhou Mansion and other places have gathered tens of thousands of defenders, although the new surrender at this time has not been long, the army has not been well organized, but it is not this 20,000 Guangdong guest army can capture.

Even the city of Ningdu Prefecture, which is close at hand, now has more than 7,000 defenders, and they may fight out of the city at any time and cut off their own back roads.

Shang Zhixin was worried, but it was too late to do anything now. On the one hand, he bowed to Lin Feng, the emperor of the Han Empire, and said: "I am willing to go out of the town and lead the soldiers of the three armies to defend the corner for Your Majesty", and on the other hand, he actively sent messengers to the pursuing troops in the rear, trying to get in touch with Wang Dahai, the general of the Liao Dynasty, in order to slow down the attack speed of the Han army. Then the messengers sent out one after another, but they were like mud cattle entering the sea, and there was not even a message. More than 10,000 Han troops were still in an attacking posture, rushing to pursue their own tails, and the big 'gates' of various prefectures, prefectures, and counties were tightly closed, not allowing a single soldier to enter, and all the required grain and straw supplements were not allowed.

Before the Han army arrived, Shang Zhixin's 20,000 army was already disheartened, and morale was extremely low.

Anyone with a little brain understands that although this battle has not yet started, Shang Zhixin has already lost.

A.D. 1690 August 16, Jiangxi rains continuously, mountain floods continued, the official road was seriously damaged, from north to south, the land was muddy, Shang Zhixin's troops marched for only 30 miles, and at this moment, Jiangxi Province Ningdu Mansion, Ganzhou Mansion and other places of the original Southern Zhou surrendered troops to receive the general Pingliao, the southern corps of the Metropolitan Governor Wang Dahai urgent order, jointly sent troops to block the official road, in a mountainous area one hundred and twenty miles north of Ganzhou Mansion, cut off Shang Zhixin's retreat road.

Heavy rain fell from the sky, Shang Zhixin carried all kinds of artillery can not be used, helpless, forced to order the whole army to assault, within two days, launched nearly 40 charges in a row, but the enemy in front of him to wait for work, and take care of the fortifications, under the supervision of the Han army under the supervision of the war officer desperately counterattacked, so that Shang Zhixin could not advance an inch.

On the afternoon of August 18, the heavy rain poured Tuo, the 14,000 troops of the Seventh Army of the Han Army's Infantry Wang Lusi finally arrived at the battlefield, and the foothold was not stable, that is, the first to attack Shang Zhixin's rear army, under the rain curtain, the two armies had a tragic white-knuckle battle, Shang Zhixin personally led the Chinese army's personal guard troops to engage in the battle, the Han army brigade 'stood up' bayonets, lined up in columns, stepped on the drums, came all over the mountains, advanced layer by layer, lasted nearly two hours, until the evening, Shang Zhixin Chinese army' More than half of the 6,000 casualties of the elite troops collapsed, and finally broke the camp of Shang Zhixin's rear army, after the fall of the camp, the whole army was in chaos, more than 20,000 troops lost their formation and fled on all sides, seeing that nothing could be done, Shang Zhixin was guarded by more than 100 personal soldiers, changed into small soldier uniforms and fled over the mountains, but unexpectedly the road was steep and rugged, the horses were frightened by thunder and lightning, accidentally stumbled off the horse, trampled on the horse's hooves and abdomen', seriously injured, escaped from the battlefield two days later, vomited blood and died in a village in the southwest of Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province.

The 24,000 troops of the Northern Expeditionary Army of Shangzhixin in Guangdong were all annihilated, and the main general was lost. The Seventh Army of the Han Infantry Wang Lusi took advantage of the victory to attack Guangdong, and even went down to Shaoguan Mansion and Jiaying Prefecture, but at this moment Shang Zhixin was dead, and the whole province of Guangdong was 'chaotic' and 'chaotic', in a hurry, Shang Zhixin's department Liu 'Chun', Wang Weihe and others recommended Shang Zhixin's son Shang Yicun to succeed him, and two days later sent envoys to Shaoguan to lead the whole province of Guangdong to surrender.

At the same time that the Han army Wang Lusi annihilated Shang Zhixin's army, the main force of the Southern Corps marched south from Zhejiang, assembled from Hangzhou, and swept through Jinhua Mansion, Quzhou Mansion, and Wenzhou Mansion, and took advantage of the victory to attack northern Fujian, and knocked on Shaowu Mansion at the front.

The 18,000 troops under Liu Guoxuan of the Taiwan Army retreated in panic and did not dare to engage in battle. Zheng Jing urgently ordered the provincial governments of Fujian, ordering local officials to empty the local grain depots and silver depots, and send soldiers to escort them to Fuzhou, but before all the escort teams from all over the country arrived, Wang Dahai's troops had already broken Liu Guoxuan's palace troops and approached outside Fuzhou.

On August 25, 1690, under the pressure of the Southern Corps of the Lin and Han Empires, Zheng Jing, the king of Yanping County of the Ming Dynasty, abandoned Fuzhou and left Liu Guoxuan, the general of Zhenhai, to guard the 'gate' of Xia, and ordered Feng Xifan, the general of Fujian, and Lin Xingzhu, the deputy general, to guard the Penghu Islands, and the main force was taken by the Taiwan fleet to retreat to Taiwan.

At this point, with the exception of Xinjiang, Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu, Mongolia, and other areas, the Linhan military group completed the reunification of Chinese mainland.