In the winter of 1685 A.D., the king of Han killed the Shengjing general Dakma and the Heilongjiang general Sabusu, slaughtered Liaoyang Mancheng, degraded the Eight Banners and the clan, burned the tombs of the Qing Heavenly Mandate Khan Nurhachi and Tiancong Khan Emperor Taiji, killed the corpse of the owl, sent messengers to run around the four directions, issued an edict to the world, and pardoned the traitorous officials of the pseudo-Qing Dynasty to immediately restore the clothes of their clan.

The land of China is bathed in the smoke and flames of war.

Since Lin Feng strangled the national rebel gangs headed by Kangxi who were entrenched in Beijing, because of the drastic changes in the war situation, the war had subsided for a period of time, and the forces of all parties had to judge the situation again and reformulate their strategic plans under such a situation. After just a few months of cultivation, the princes of all walks of life took the opportunity to start a war again.

At the same time that the Han army marched out of the pass, the Southern Zhou Wu Sangui group also began to rectify the interior, and at the same time from the Yangtze River defense line to draw elite troops to gather in Yongzhou, Hengzhou, Baoqing line, and then sent the general Ma Bao to swear to go out to attack the Qing army Guangxi Sun Yanling, Fu Honglie's troops, at this time the morale of the Qing army declined, the people's hearts were gone, although the hardcore traitor Fu Honglie desperately resisted, but still failed to stop the fierce offensive of the Zhou army, the capital Guilin only held on for seven days before being breached, it was a battle, Ma Bao to inspire his subordinates to deter the Qing army in Guangxi, brazenly slaughtered the city, killed more than 160,000 soldiers and civilians in Guilin in one day and night, and then the soldiers were divided into many ways, and took Liuzhou and Wuzhou, and Sun Yanling, the governor of Guangxi in the Qing Dynasty, was very frightened, and immediately ordered to kill his wife Kong Sizhen, and led the army to surrender to Zhou, until the winter solstice of 1685, the state capitals either rebelled or surrendered, and the Zhou army included the entire territory of Guangxi. Sun Yanling was awarded the title of General Anjing for his meritorious service to Cheng, and was recruited by Wu Sangui as a concubine.

In addition to Wu Sangui's Southern Zhou military group, Guangdong Shang Zhixin, Fujian Zheng Jing, and Zhejiang Jieshu were also in a scuffle. Not long after the autumn harvest, Shang Zhixin personally led an army of 60,000 troops, starting from Chaozhou, defeated Feng Xifan's troops guarding Longyan, and forced its main force to retreat in the direction of Fuzhou.

Among the three parties in the southeast, although the military strength is the strongest in Jieshu, but at this time, the Qing court was defeated, the capital fell to the emperor and martyred, and the morale of the army was extremely low, so although the number was the largest, there was no large-scale offensive ability, and when Zheng Jing and Shang Zhixin were in a fierce battle, the prince of Qingkang, Jieshu, on the one hand, contracted his troops, repaired the city wall and consolidated the defense line, and sent Pingnan general Lai Ta to lead thousands of white flag cavalry to sneak attack and harass the territory of the Zheng army, but they were defeated by Chen Jinnan one by one, and later there were warning signals from the rear of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Zheng Jingqin led the Taiwan fleet to attack Wenzhou, Taizhou, Ningbo and other places, and after landing, the Qing army was caught off guard and suffered heavy losses, and was taken away by Zheng Jing A large number of gold and silver, grain and grass and strong men, so far Jieshu's momentum declined, and he was even more unable to launch an offensive against Fujian.

Compared with South China, the northwest battlefield appeared quite calm, the Zhou army ***, Wang Pingfan and the Qinggan Shaanxi Green Battalion Daniel Zhang and Wang Jinbao's troops fought for several years, both sides were exhausted, and each side was helpless, so although small groups of cavalry clashed from time to time, the battle line was still stable in the Hanzhong area.

It was the Jiangxi battlefield that really played a decisive role in China's political situation. In the past, after the alliance between the Horqin Department of Eastern Mongolia and the Han army, Buryagma immediately secretly sent an envoy Pegasus to the south to inform the more than 13,000 Mongolian iron horsemen who were still serving under the command of Yue Le, the prince of An, of the Qing army. After receiving the information, the Mongolian cavalry immediately launched a rebellion in Jiujiang and Nanchang, more than 10,000 Mongolian cavalry suddenly burst the camp, coerced tens of thousands of green battalion Han troops in the city on all sides of the arson and robbery, because of the suddenness, Prince An Yue Le was at a loss, for a while he thought that it was a sneak attack by the Zhou army, and hurriedly gathered his cronies Eight Banners troops out of the camp to resist, but the night was vast, and the Eight Banners troops had not had time to explore the battlefield situation, and the Horqin Iron Cavalry immediately killed on a large scale, and thousands of Eight Banners troops collapsed in two charges. Yue Le, the prince of Qing'an, was hit by sixteen arrows and died of his wounds on the way to escape, in addition, many generals of the Qing army in the Jiangxi battlefield, such as Leerjin, Mang Yitu, and Jueluo Shushu, died in the chaos.

After the news came out, Jiangxi and Hubei were in chaos, and more than 10,000 Horqin iron cavalry successively broke through many county towns in Jiujiang Prefecture, killing and looting on a large scale, and then forcibly requisitioned ships around Poyang Lake to cross the Yangtze River, all the way to Huangzhou and Anqing alone, and nearly 200,000 elite Qing troops around them retreated to defend themselves, and no one dared to fight.

Yang Qilong, who confronted the Qing army from the front line of Ruzhou, was overjoyed when he heard the news, and nearly 100,000 peasant troops poured out, and the troops were divided into two routes, one was led by the famous general of the righteous army, "Shoveling uneven", and led an army of 30,000 to besiege Xinyang, and the other was led by Yang Qilong himself, leading an army of 60,000 to attack Hefei through Yingzhou.

There are 100,000 righteous troops in front of the border, after the Mongolian iron cavalry borrowed the road, Anhui province shook up and down, the army and the people panicked, Anhui Governor Baltai, Governor Yuan Gongmao was helpless, from the governor of the Yamen set off for 800 miles to ask for reinforcements to report a wave of Jiangxi, Jiangsu and other places galloping, and the enemy army did not arrive, Qing Anhui according to the inspection envoy Li Fugui, Dao Shiyue, Huainan prefect Wu Anguo, etc. abandoned their posts and fled, Yang Qilong's army was bloodless and even occupied Yingshang, Xia Cai, Shou County, Huainan several cities, Lindong Feihe Tun soldiers Wabu Lake, sent messengers to Hefei, In the name of the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, he promised high-ranking officials Houlu and attempted to recruit Anhui Governor Baltai and Governor Yuan Gongmao.

At this time, Lin Feng sent envoys to various places, all the way around the military towns, in the states, the government in a big fanfare to distribute the Han King's edict, although the Han envoy light car simple to follow, but the banner direction, the provincial governors all trembled, dozens of small teams arrogantly through Henan, Shandong and other provinces towards the south of China, the Qing army in various places tens of thousands, actually closed the city gates, neither dared to send troops to intercept, nor did not dare to welcome the Han King's edict.

When the Han envoy entered the territory of Anhui, the soldiers and people of Anhui Province seemed to have caught a life-saving straw, the governor Yuan Gongmao after reading the Han Wang's text, that night and the Anhui general Zhou Qiu and other dozens of Han army green battalion officers conspired, and then Hefei coup, eight thousand green battalion Han army under the supervision of the officer wringed out the braids, anti-uniform, killed hundreds of eight banner troops stationed on the side, in Hefei city conflict arson, governor Yuan Gongmao and the general soldier Zhou Qiu personally led the main force to besiege the Admiral Yamen, just encircled, the Han army on duty in the Admiral Yamen, The servants fought back under the shouts of the governor, and in less than half an hour, the Admiral's Yamen fell into a sea of fire, and the Anhui Admiral Baltai's whole family. Then there was a riot in the whole city, and in a day and night, the 2,000 women and children of the Eight Banners living in the inner city were slaughtered by the rebels.

After dawn the next day, Governor Yuan Gongmao and the general soldier Zhou Qiu sent hundreds of cavalry to welcome the Han envoys into Hefei, announcing that Anhui was under the edict of the King of Han, ordering officials and garrisons at all levels of other roads, prefectures, prefectures, and counties to kill all the soldiers stationed in the Eight Banners, and the soldiers and people of the province must cut their braids and wear Hanfu instead, and at the same time burn all the flags, documents, and tokens with the words "Qing", "Manchu", and "Jin".

As soon as this order was issued, the whole province of Anhui was shaken, except for several cities occupied by the righteous army and a few small counties near Jiangxi and Jiangsu, other places responded enthusiastically, except for a very small number of anonymous absconding, almost all the officials of the Eight Banners were killed, and without Lin Feng sending a single soldier, his banner was hung on the vast land north and south of the Huaihe River.

After welcoming the Han envoy into the city, Yuan Gongmao in addition to the Beijing Pegasus report, respectively to Yang Qilong's army and the Mongolian Horqin Iron Cavalry sent a messenger, less than a decade, Lin Feng received the news immediately crowned Yuan Gongmao as the governor of Anhui of the Han Dynasty, Zhou Qiu for the Han Jianwei Zhonglang general, and at the same time ordered the Han infantry second army Liu Lusi Department immediately pulled out the camp to the west, forcing the Henan border, Yang Qilong had no choice but to take the main force to turn west, and the "shovel uneven" next to the big scar troops converge, together will attack Xinyang.

However, the Mongolian iron cavalry of Horqin ignored Yuan Gongmao's messenger, and still marched towards the capital city of Anhui, burning and looting all the way, Lin Feng was furious when he heard the news, and immediately ordered Datong Koubei Zhonglang to bring Zhao Liangdong to the department, Xuanhua Mongolian Zhonglang to Zhao Guangyuan, and Ning Jinping Liao Zhonglang to gather Wang Dahai and Nuergan to break the general Ma Yingbu to gather troops to move towards Horqin in Eastern Mongolia, Bulyagema was shocked, and hurriedly sent a messenger Zamuhe with 500 war horses and 2,000 taels of gold to Beijing to sue for peace, and at the same time Pegasus reprimanded the Mongolian cavalry in Anhui, He was ordered to return north according to the road designated by the Han officials.

Lin Feng, who had just returned to Beijing, had not had time to rest, and was dizzy by this big mess, and for several days in a row, because he did not spend a single soldier to get Anhui, people from all walks of life in Beijing ran to the Han Wangfu in Zhongnanhai to make a big slap, so that he even lacked time to make love with his wife, and there was indeed some fire in his heart, in fact, he was not very concerned about this so-called "good news", you must know that although the Han army is winning at this moment and the power has multiplied, the remnants of the Qing court are still not to be underestimated. At present, although Prince An Yue Le is a fool hanged up, there are still nearly 200,000 Qing troops in Jiangxi, and in addition, there is also an army led by Prince Jian Rabu in Jiangsu, and Anhui and Zhili are separated by Henan and Shandong, and they are close to an "enclave", so it is really difficult to say whether this Anhui can be guaranteed, and it is indeed too optimistic to celebrate it now.

At the moment, what he is most worried about is not the enclave of Anhui, but Shanxi, a large province near Zhili. Shanxi's rivers and mountains have always been the Central Plains, which must be fought for by soldiers, and according to the current situation, it is the gateway to Beijing, so no matter from which point of view, the Han army must seize Shanxi.

According to the report submitted by Wang Shirong, a member of the Ordnance Statistics Yamen, the situation in Shanxi is worrying at the moment. With the great eastward advance of Dzungar, a large number of Mongolian cavalry from the northwest plateau poured into Gansu, Shaanxi and other places, and after Geldan defeated Tushetu to occupy Hohhot, tens of thousands of Mongolian iron cavalry from Yulin, Shaanxi entered the Kou, crossed the Great Wall and invaded Shaanxi, northern Shanxi, and at this time the Central Plains was in chaos, and the warlords of all walks of life were fighting each other, so the enemy was like an invasion, and they were powerless to resist. Tens of thousands of troops in Junggar broke through the border fortress, the iron hooves have broken through Baodezhou, and at this moment the main force of the Qing army in Shanxi was all drawn south to fight in the peasant rebel army, at this time hurriedly gathered troops and horses to block Geerdan, for several months in a row of defeats, Shanxi Admiral Amutu was killed, the governor Yu Chenglong was defeated and fled, until now, the forward iron cavalry of Junggar has been following the Fenshui south, threatening Taiyuan.

There were different opinions among the Han army on how to deal with the situation in Shanxi, and a group of civilian officials led by Li Guangdi believed that this was a melee between the enemy, and the Han army should take the opportunity to recuperate and collect the benefits of the crane mussel when the time was ripe; However, a group of ultra-nationalist young officers of the General Staff believed that the Han army should make a big attack, drive out the Mongol iron cavalry, and recover the Han family. The two factions quarreled with each other, attacked each other, and quarreled in the court.

For two days in a row, the collegiate meeting was spent in debate, except for the decision to let the troops of the Han army Liu Lusi march into Anhui through Henan, almost no decision was made, and the men and horses of both factions made statements to the Han king, demanding that their own ideas be adopted, which made Lin Feng very annoyed, and when it came to the later meetings, he most of the time just sat down and left, leaving them to debate.

Before stepping into the gate of the palace, Li Ergou, the general of the guard, hurriedly broke into the lobby, "Lord Qi, Chen Menglei Jin of the Imperial History of the Imperial Inspection!" ”

Since taking up this offended official position, Chen Menglei's popularity in the Han military system has become worse and worse, and because of official duties, he usually patrols around in the territory of the Han army, so the time to meet Lin Feng is getting less and less, and the last time a group of ministers came out to welcome Lin Feng's triumph, his colleagues also left him in Beijing, so although he is in a high position, his life is not very good. However, in Lin Feng's mind, he still takes him very seriously, putting aside everything else, how to say that he is also the first strategist to serve himself, and he also wants to save face no matter what, so at the moment, regardless of fatigue, he barely cheered up, and said to Li Ergou, "If you have please, Mr. Zhen!" ”

Because of the busy relationship, Chen Menglei lost a lot of weight, and before he entered the gate, Lin Feng held his hand with a smile, "There is no need to engage in this etiquette today - come, come, come, please sit down!" ”

After Chen Menglei sat down next to the chair, Lin Feng said with a smile, "It's so late, Zezhen still came over, then there must be something urgent?!" ”

Chen Menglei bowed his hand respectfully, "Lord Qi, Menglei is here, just to have something important to tell!" ”

Sure enough, something happened, Lin Feng was taken aback, according to his terms of reference, his "important matter" was definitely not good news, could it be that the important ministers in the Han army were corrupt? The general rebelled?! I couldn't help but nervously ask, "What's the matter?" Don't scare me! ”

"Back to the lord, there is indeed a case that is not easy to deal with...... To Lin Feng's surprise, Chen Menglei's face became very strange, and he said in a slurred manner, "Ahem...... Cough...... Lord, this case is unprecedented in our Han history, so I have come to ask my lord to get a strategy! ”

Lin Feng was stunned and said in disbelief, "Why is this case so weird?!" Even Zezhen doesn't know what to do?! ”

Chen Menglei smiled bitterly, "Lord, this matter is indeed ...... Cough...... Cough...... There is a subordinate subordinate to a member of the official named Wu Zhirong, who was originally the head of the Qing court, and later served the Han under the inspiration of the lord's righteousness, and the lowly position saw that this person understood things, and the work was quite smooth, so he was also appointed as a party to the imperial history, and this case was handled by him...... "He stroked his beard embarrassedly, reached deep into his sleeve, took out an official document, stood up and respectfully presented it to Lin Feng, "This ...... This lord can be seen at a glance......"

Lin Feng was inexplicable, opened the file and saw that it was actually a long poem, its words were extremely beautiful, and the literary style was flying, and he couldn't help but chant casually, "...... Dinghu abandoned the world on the same day, broke the enemy and collected the jade pass under Beijing; The six armies wept and wept, and Chong Guan was angry...... "Suddenly woke up and exclaimed, "This ...... Isn't this the song of Wu Sangui and Chen Yuanyuan? He smiled wryly, "What kind of 'important thing' is this?!" - Zezhen didn't make fun of me, did he?! ”

Chen Menglei's expression was solemn, without any humorous meaning, "Lord Qi, Wu Zhirong annotated in the dossier that Wu Weiye, the author of this "Yuanyuanqu", has ill intentions and slanders the current princess Niangniang, which is a great disrespect and can be rebellious, so he is sentenced to be cut in half and razed the three clans......"

"What are you kidding?!" Lin Feng was stunned and said, "Is this also a rebellion?" Even the family?! ……”

"Ahem...... Cough...... Enlighten the Lord! Chen Menglei smiled bitterly, "This...... This princess is indeed from the Lord of Zhou and Concubine Chen, and Wu Zhirong and others believe that Wu Weiye insinuates and humiliates Princess Han, and it is irrefutable that he is inferior and others......"

Lin Feng was so embarrassed that he helplessly picked up the tea bowl and diverted the topic, "What about this...... Is this Wu Weiye dead?! ”

"Returning to the lord, the lowly rank thought that this matter still had to be decided by the king of Han, so he had not yet been tortured, and Wu Weiye was still imprisoned in the Metropolitan Procuratorate! ......" he hesitated for a moment, "Lord, I think that this Wu Weiye may be ...... Or don't kill it, since the imprisonment of this person, there are many rumors in the northern Shilin, and many famous Confucians have also written to rescue, so the minister thinks that it is for the prestige of my Han Dynasty, or ...... Please be solemn!! ......" He secretly glanced at Lin Feng, "This time Weichen came over, and he also brought a person, this person is a great Confucian in the world, with a very high reputation, and this time he entered Beijing, just to appeal in front of the lord for Wu Weiye's case!" ”

"Oh?! Confucian?! Lin Feng glanced at Chen Menglei strangely, "Who?!" ——”

"Kunshan Gu Yanwu, Mr. Gu Ningren!" Chen Menglei got up again and bowed deeply to Lin Feng, "Please see the lord!" ”