In November of the fourth year of Yongli, King Shang Kexi of Pingnan and Geng Jimao, King of Jingnan, captured Guangzhou, King Kong Youde of Dingnan occupied Guilin, and the Yongli Imperial Court stationed in Wuzhou heard that the two provincial capitals had fallen on the same day, and even if it was a mess. Wuzhou is located between the two Guangzhous, and the current situation is in a situation of being under attack. There was no need for too much nonsense, and the court fled in a hurry and went straight to Nanning.

Nanning is an important town in the south of Guangxi, and Yongli Junchen plans to go to Nanning, at least after temporarily breaking away from the Qing army. When he arrived at the border of Xunzhou, Chen Bangfu, the Duke of Qingguo, decided to surrender to the Qing Dynasty and prepared to dedicate the Yongli Emperor to the Qing army, but the result was learned in advance by the Yongli Emperor and "rushed through the rain". Failing to send Emperor Yongli to the Qing army as a letter of surrender, Chen Bangfu simply plundered some of the accompanying officials, and then killed the Xuanguo Gong Jiaolian who had retreated here, so that he and his son Wenshui Bo Chen Zengyu surrendered to Kong Youde.

But the imminent fall of Liangguang, coupled with the disorganization during the retreat, the rebels took the opportunity to plunder, and some officials who were interested in following the imperial court also hesitated.

At this time, only a few bureaucrats such as Yan Qiheng, a cabinet scholar, Ma Jixiang, and Pang Tianshou, a eunuch, were left with him. In addition to the Zhenxi general Zhu Minru who was killed in Zhaoping County and was dismissed courtier Wang Hao committed suicide by throwing himself into the water, such as Fang Yizhi, one of the four sons of the late Ming Dynasty, and one of the five tigers, "Huya" Jinbao, shaved his hair and became a monk and fled to Zen Buddhism; For example, Liu Yuansheng, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and his younger brother, Liu Xiangke, one of the five tigers, "tiger skin", avoided deep in the mountains; For example, Lu Kezao, Qian Binglu, Wang Fuzhi and others all left the Yongli court at this time and returned to their hometowns under the rule of the Qing government, claiming to be remnants.

Compared with these who broke away from the Ming court, Tang Yan, a bachelor in Guangxi, Zhang Shang, a household servant, Wu Decao, a Dali Temple, Yu Xindu, the governor of Guangxi, and Wei Yuanji, a grain governor, all surrendered to Kong Youde; And those high-ranking officials and eunuchs in Guangdong, such as Huang Shijun, He Wuyu, Yang Banghan, Li Zhenhe, Wu Yilian, etc., are also afraid of the queen, among which Huang Shijun is eighty-two years old, and there are ridiculers: "If the king asks the age of the minister, he will shave his head for the Tao this year!" ”

In addition to these people, who have always pretended to be self-proclaimed, once surrendered to the Qing court, and also followed Li Chengdong's "tiger head" Yuan Pengnian and "tiger tail" Ding Shikui anyway, one surrendered to Shang Kexi in Guangdong, and the other wagged his tail to Kong Youde in Guangxi to beg for mercy, and the aspirants claimed that they were forced by Li Chengdong in Guangzhou anyway.

Guangzhou and Guilin, the two places fell, the army was defeated and scattered, just like Chen Bangfu's turn to the Qing Dynasty, and the loyal battalion was no longer able to gain a foothold in Liangguang in this matter, so it had to go north to Kuidong to join the remnants of the other Dashun army.

The rule of the Ming court in Liangguang was very popular, and even if the Yongli court fled to Nanning, it was also precarious. The Qing army in Guangxi moved south, and the Yongli court issued an edict ordering Zheng Chenggong to lead his troops to King Qin, but the center left was raided, and Zheng Chenggong had to return the same way; Wen Anzhi, the first assistant minister who asked for the superintendent Kuidong, was detained by Sun Kewang on the road; At this point, the Yongli court had to make concessions to Sun Kewang again and canonize him as the king of Ji, but the result was naturally vetoed again by Sun Kewang, who was bent on seeking the title of King of Qin.

In February of the fifth year of Yongli, the Qing army of Guangxi went south to Liuzhou, Nanning was in danger, and the Yongli court had no way to retreat. Seeing this, Sun Kewang hurriedly sent his cronies to lead 5,000 soldiers to Nanning to escort him. After the second general arrived in Nanning, Yang Dinghe, the secretary of the killing department, forced Yan Qiheng, the chief university scholar who obstructed the sealing of Qin, to death. In the following month, Emperor Yongli had to officially recognize Chen Bangfu and Hu Zhigong to entitle Sun Kewang as the king of Qin, drawing an end to the case of Yunnan Feng.

Due to the arrival of the Great Western Army, the Qing army's offensive gradually slowed down. After more than half a year, the Qing army restarted its army and occupied Nanning in Layue.

During this period, He Jiuyi and Zhang Mingzhi, who came to escort him, had earlier left the camp because the Yongli Imperial Court was hesitant to enter the area controlled by the Great Western Army. When Kong Youde's henchman General Guangxi Admiral Line Guoan captured Nanning, they had to flee to the control area of the Great Western Army in embarrassment, and only after receiving the protection of the Great Western Army could they be regarded as turning 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 in Guizhou the following month. In the fifth year of Yongli, Sun Kewang annexed the Guizhou warlord Kuang Guogong Pixiong and Zhongguo Duke Wang Xiang's department, and after taking all Guizhou provinces, he built the Qin Wangfu in Guiyang, the provincial capital, set up six departments, and appointed Fan Ying, Ma Zhaoxi, Ren Shu, Wan Niance and others as Shangshu, claiming to be the lord of the country and taking charge of state affairs.

The Great Western Army's departure from Yunnan was not only in Guizhou. At the same time that the Qing army of Liangguang and Guangxi took all the prefectures and counties, Sun Kewang appointed Liu Wenxiu as president and entered Sichuan. The Great Western Army was strong, and the generals of the Sichuan army were killed, surrendered, or fled, and there were even those who surrendered to the Qing court in the areas controlled by the Qing army in the north. The generals of Kuidong "stripped themselves and sent people to apply for good", and they survived by means of both soft and hard.

At the same time as annexing the forces under the Ming court, in April of the fifth year of Yongli, Sun Kewang sent the general Feng Shuangli to lead 10,000 horsemen, tens of thousands of infantry, and dozens of war elephants to conquer Yuanzhou, but in Chenzhou was resisted by Xu Yong, the general soldier of Chenchang, and Shen Yongzhong, the duke of Xushun.

The two sides confronted each other for a long time, until April of the sixth year of Yongli, that is, when Chen Kai thwarted Geng Jimao's offensive with the Lufeng Twin Fortresses, Li Dingguo's army, which was already the identity of the Ming army, converged with Feng Shuangli and launched an attack on Jingzhou in mid-May.

Chenzhou is north of Yuanzhou, while Jingzhou is south of Yuanzhou. At the same time that Li Dingguo's army went south, Shen Yongzhong sent Zhang Guozhu, the general soldier, to lead 8,000 troops to help, and fell into the siege of the Ming army in Jingzhou. After a short battle, the Qing army was defeated, losing 5,163 officers and soldiers, 809 horses, and almost all the troops were wiped out, including 103 people of the Manchurian Eight Banner Army.

After the victory in Jingzhou, Zhang Guozhu "staggered back", and Li Dingguo took advantage of the situation to recover Wugang Prefecture in the south of Jingzhou and Baoqing Mansion. And Shen Yongzhong, after asking Kong Youde for help was refused, he also fled north in a hurry, and retreated directly from Baoqing all the way to Changsha.

Shen Yongzhong fled to Changsha, and Feng Shuangli took the opportunity to cross Fengmuling and seize Baoqing Mansion. So far, Li Dingguo and Feng Shuangli have taken the land of Baoqing in the south and the north. At this point, it's just the beginning of June. In the sixth year of Yongli, the counterattack of the Ming army in the southwest was just beginning, and the Ming army had no intention of stopping. As the leader of the great victory in Jingzhou, Li Dingguo, after a short rest, personally led the elite from Wugang Prefecture and Xinning County to the south to enter Quanzhou.

Quanzhou, Guangxi Cheng announced the political envoy of Guilin Prefecture to the northernmost state. From here, go south, through Xing'an, Lingchuan, is the Guilin Mansion where King Kong Youde of Dingnan is located!