"If you are spared, you will be a novice. Don't follow the example of your father's life as a thief, and the end will be today's ear. ”

Kong Youde died by self-immolation, and his wife Bai entrusted Kong Youde's son Kong Tingxun to a guard named Bai Yunlong, but only left such a sentence and hanged herself in the palace.

The Ming army invaded the city of Guilin, and Kong Youde's sons and daughters embarked on the road of escape under the protection of the guards and the nurse respectively. However, no compared to Kong Sizhen, who was his sister, Kong Tingxun was quickly captured by the Ming army. With the full control of Guilin City by the Ming army, including Chen Bangfu, the Duke of Qingguo, Chen Zengyu, Wenshuibo, who killed Jiao Lian and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, as well as Wang Quanke, the Guangxi governor of the Qing court, and Zhang Xingguang, the political envoy of the Qing Dynasty, were all captured by the Ming army.

At the end of the First World War in Guilin, the Ming army was divided into two routes. Feng Shuangli and Ma Jinzhong led the troops north to recover the southern part of Huguang. As the news of Kong Youde's death spread, Shen Yongzhong, who had already received the secret order of the Qing court to "not fight in waves, move to the army and keep it", hurriedly abandoned Changsha and ran all the way directly to Yuezhou Mansion north of Dongting Lake before temporarily stopping his footsteps.

Counting the Baoqing Mansion before Guilin World War I, Shen Yongzhong gave up the four prefectures of Baoqing, Changsha, Hengzhou, and Yongzhou in the south of Huguang in this short period of time, and officials at all levels of the province, prefecture, prefecture, and county were also busy absconding with the army, and lost most of this Hunan to the Ming army. For a time, "the soldiers have not arrived, and there is no one for thousands of miles", and the Qing court in the south of Huguang only left Changde Mansion and Chenzhou Mansion City, which was guarded by Xu Yong, the general soldier of Chenchang, and continued to resist stubbornly.

Feng Shuangli and Ma Jinzhong were left to march and control the territory for the next period of time, while Li Dingguo, who was still stationed in Guilin, sent his troops to regain the lost territory in Guangxi.

According to Kong Youde's defense, Guangxi Province, the Qing army's defense points have four: one is the provincial capital Guilin, which is personally led by Kong Youde, the king of Dingnan; The second is Liuzhou, an important town in the southwest of Guilin and the central part of Guangxi Province, and Kong Youde ordered the right wing of the Dingnan Domain to be guarded by the whole army; The third is the former Yongli Dynasty, together with the land and water of the two Guangzhou, to rush Wuzhou, the left wing of the Dingnan Domain, the general soldiers and horses, and the soldiers and horses in this town; The last place is Nanning, where the Guangxi Admiral Line Guoan led the army to seize this place and then led a large army to control it.

The Ming army won the field battle, and the army went straight to Guilin, and Kong Youde ordered the generals to abandon the letter and return to the provincial capital. But soon the generals received the news of Kong Youde's death.

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

The Ming army went south, and the whole festival fled to Wuzhou on July 16, "its soldiers and horses were scattered", and He Jiucheng, the deputy general of the left battalion, was wounded and killed on the way; Zheng Yuanxun, the deputy general of the right battalion, and Cai Bin, a guerrilla of the Chinese army, led the soldiers and horses to Guilin to surrender; Shen Bangqing, the deputy general of the rear battalion, was killed. In addition, the Ming army entered Liuzhou, captured Jin Hanhui of Youjiang Province, went south to Pingle, killed Zhou Lingxu of Jiangdao, and captured Yin Mingting, the prefect of Pingle. The Ming army was devastated all the way, and the Qing army only cared about fleeing to the east, losing the entire province to Li Dingguo.

In August, Li Dingguo took advantage of the victory to attack Wuzhou, and the line Guoan, Ma Xiong, and Quanjie fled without a fight, and retreated directly into the border of Guangdong. At this point, Li Dingguo relied on the battle of Guilin to recover the land of nearly two provinces.

Li Dingguo's feat of recovering Guangxi in one fell swoop gave great encouragement to the anti-Qing forces in Guangxi. In some areas, the people did not wait for the arrival of the Ming army to automatically expel the Qing army, and Li Dingguo's policy of "ordering no unwarranted killings and pacifying the remnants of Li Shu" was widely welcomed by the gentry and common people in Guangxi.

In just one or two months, Hu Yiqing, the Duke of Weiguo, Zhao Yinxuan, the founding Duke of the People's Republic of China, Hou Mabao of Anding, Long Tao of Yining, Yuan Laichao, the general of the former Zhangwu of the former Qingguo Gong Chen Bangfu, and the generals Wang Dajie, Lei Zhaosheng, and Ou Zhengfu, who were forced to hide in the mountains earlier, all stood up again to fight against the Qing army. In terms of civil officials, Liu Yuansheng, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Guan Heiqiu, the head of the Zhongshu She, and Zhu Changshi, the director of the Ministry of War, also came out of the mountains to see Li Dingguo, discuss the business together, and assist in guarding Guilin. Wu Decao, the former governor of Guangxi, was also appointed in Wuzhou at his order, "sitting on the gatehouse, checking in and out", and the whole province of Guangxi was setting up officials to rebuild the ruling order.

According to the records of Qu Changwen, the grandson of Qu Shiyun, who was in Guilin at the time, Guangxi's "eight counties in the righteous minister, avoiding the fishy in the deep and poor valleys, migrating to the difficulty, and always waiting for the time, never change their guards. ”

Although there is no lack of Qu Changwen to show off and praise his grandfather Qu Shiyun, the news of Guilin's victory did greatly invigorate the people of Guangxi to resist the Qing Dynasty. The generals of the Ming army came out from Yongfu, Yangshuo and other mountainous areas to meet the Ming army in the southwest. The Ming army in other mountainous areas of Guangxi also took advantage of the situation to go out of the mountains, making the anti-Qing forces even stronger.

A few families were happy and a few were worried, and while the Ming army was attacking the city, they received the news of Kong Youde's death, and Shang Kexi, who was sitting in Guangzhou City, did not collapse for a long time.

That prince of Dingnan, Shang Kexi has never liked it. This person is unruly, and even the prince who is the same general of the Dongjiang River like him and Geng Zhongming does not take an eyelid clip. It is precisely because of this character that Chen Kai spread the rumor that Kong Youde intended to seek the four mansions of Gaolian Lei Qiong as the outlet to the sea in Guangxi that Shang Kexi paid great attention to it.

However, this man's arrogance is not without support. In the years since the Qing army was in Liaodong and even entered the customs, in terms of martial arts, only that Wu Sangui could be among the generals of the Han army. Like him, he is known for his cunning and wisdom, but when it comes to this martial arts, he is still far from being able to match.

Such a character died at the hands of the Ming army, which made them have to overestimate the combat effectiveness of the Ming army in the southwest. And these overestimates also exacerbated their fear of material harm, and only waited for a little relief to come, Shang Kexi hurriedly ordered the border with Guangxi "state and county civil and military officials are like thieves and thin cities, even if the camera protects the imprint, in order to consolidate the roots." At the same time, he sent a letter to Geng Jimao of Haifeng County, asking him to immediately lead the troops of the Jingnan Domain back to Guangzhou.

In his words, Chen Kai in Yuedong and Zheng Chenggong in Minnan, these two guys are not easy characters to deal with, but for them at the moment, they are just scabies and can't hurt their lives. But that Li Dingguo, not to mention tens of thousands of troops, even Kong Youde is not an opponent, this is a deadly killer!

Geng Jimao hurriedly led the army back after receiving the letter, and the soldiers of the Jingnan Domain, together with the green battalion soldiers of Zhang Daoying, the general soldier of Dongguan, only left a Huang Yingjie in Haifeng.

The Qing army walked in a hurry, showing a lot of horses and feet, and the Ming army soon received the news of the Qing army's hasty withdrawal, although the generals did not know exactly what the reason was, but Chen Kai, who was sitting firmly in the Diaoyutai in Chaozhou City, was very clear, and he was very aware of the strong shock of the victory in Guilin to the Qing army in Guangdong. It is the right thing to withdraw now!

"Li Dingguo, poof, there is another thigh that can be hugged......"

Hugging his thighs is a joke, but the victory in Guilin did buy Chen Kai more time to prepare. Compared with others, Chen Kai knows the significance of the sixth year of Yongli in this period of history. He built a fortress in Luohe in order to consume the news of Guilin's victory, and after that battle, Guangdong's strategic situation would begin to show signs of improvement, and Geng Jimao's withdrawal was the beginning.

"General system, Geng Jimao's son ran away and left Huang Yingjie in Haifeng. It is said that the dozens of Hongyi cannons that were transferred did not have time to be transported away, and the general thought that it was better to take this opportunity to take Haifeng County! ”

With the passage of time, after the Ming army's Tanma regained the advantage of the local battlefield, they got more and more information, including the Hongyi cannon. Geng Jimao didn't want to leave these things here, he had already instructed Huang Yingjie to send troops to escort them back little by little. As for himself, he wants to rush back to Guangzhou as soon as possible, and he can't take care of it for the time being.

Under such circumstances, it was a good time to further weaken the Qing army. The reports of the generals in Guangdong who asked for war were handed over one after another, and even Wang Qifeng, the chief military officer of Tieqi Town, who was stationed in Chaozhou City, came to ask to join the war. However, Chen Kai's desire for this is not very great.

"All towns are strictly ordered not to attack without authorization. Those who disobey military orders will be killed! ”