Last year, the loyal battalion besieged Changsha under the command of the governor of Huguang, Du Yinxi, and almost opened the situation on the Huguang battlefield. However, Chen Youlong was attacked by Hao Yongzhong (Note 1), who was ordered by the supervisor He Tengjiao, and the loyal battalion was also ordered by He Tengjiao to relieve the siege, and the Huguang battlefield completely collapsed, and finally He Tengjiao was captured and killed by the Qing army.

After He Tengjiao's death, the Ming army in the Huguang battlefield collapsed, and the loyal battalion was forced to retreat into Guangxi, but it was squeezed out by local civilian officials and warlords, and even attacked and killed. However, the Loyal Battalion was so strong that it was like no one in Guangxi, so the Guangxi warlord Chen Bangfu turned to it and led it to attack the headquarters of Xu Biao of the Nanning Righteous Army, and later lured Gao Bizheng and Li Chixin (Note 2) to attack Guilin.

At the same time that the loyal battalion retreated into Guangxi, Du Yinxi also led the remnants of the standard battalion to retreat into the Zhenxia Pass in Guangxi, but was attacked and killed by the instigated guard Cao Zhijian, and the standard battalion was annihilated, and the father and son of Du Yinxi barely escaped. When Gu Yinxi entered the cabinet and assisted the government, Qu Shiyun, Li Yuanyin and others entangled a group of civil officials to put all the charges of He Tengjiao's loss of teacher and land on their heads.

In this regard, Emperor Yongli entrusted him with an important task, and promoted him to the rank of young master and prince and prince, scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, secretary of the Ministry of Officials and secretary of the Ministry of War, "Governor of Provincial Military Affairs", and controlled loyalty, loyalty, and loyalty to the battalions of soldiers and horses (Note 3). However, under the restraint of Qu Shiyun and Li Yuanyin, the two powerful factions of Guangzhou, Du Yinxi asked for salary five times, thinking that he would pay for the expedition, but in the end, the court only gave a mere 3,000 taels of silver, and was robbed by Li Yuanyin and others.

There was no money at all, and he stayed until August 24, when his majesty resigned, Emperor Yongli asked: "Where will Qing go?" Yinxi replied: "There is no horse on land, no boat on water, there is the name of the teacher, and there is no cost of the army." The ministers will never dare to go on the river, and outsiders will accuse them, but they can only clear the four seas to affirm this intention. As a last resort, you should donate this body to repay the emperor. "Zhu Youlang is helpless," is to withdraw the second dragon flag in front of the emperor, and to be strong. Yinxi thanked and burst out with tears."

However, when the battalion commander was transferred to the loyal battalion, it was just in time for the battalion commander Li Chixin to die of illness, and it was inconvenient for the "new commander in the army" to go out of the division. By November, at the repeated request of Du Yinxi, only Liu Guochang, the Marquis of Huai, of the Loyal Battalion, was willing to lead his troops to follow him. However, the army was weak, and when he waited until November 26, he was exhausted, and he couldn't afford to fall ill in Xunzhou, and finally died of depression.

In the early years of the Southern Ming Hongguang, Longwu and Yongli dynasties, it was all thanks to the loyal battalion led by Gu Yinxi to regain the lost territory in Huguang and fight with the Qing army, so that the Ming court could barely keep this place. However, the governor He Tengjiao presided over the overall situation of the Huguang battlefield, and repeatedly squeezed out the loyal battalion and blocked Yinxi, which led to the deterioration of the situation on the Huguang battlefield, and finally completely ruined the situation of the Huguang battlefield.

It's ridiculous to say that it was He Tengjiao who destroyed the vast situation of the lake, but in the end, the charge fell on the head of Du Yinxi. He Tengjiao was captured and killed, posthumously crowned the king of Zhongxiang, and ended up depressed with Yinxi, but only posthumously sealed a Xunguo duke, which shows that there are still people in the court, who can say that the black is white and the white is black.

Qu Shiyun and Li Yuanyin squeezed out Yinxi, in the final analysis, it actually originated from the Wuchu party struggle that gradually formed in the Yongli Dynasty since Li Chengdong anyway.

At first, because Li Chengdong was anyway, the Yongli Imperial Court entered Zhaoqing, Guangdong, and in order to curry favor with Li Chengdong, there was a chaotic situation of "emphasizing the right thing and keeping the festival in a thin way".

As Qu Shiyun wrote in a letter: "I stayed in Guilin, not only to take care of the east and west, but also to pass through the spirit of the superintendent; It is also the administration of people in the east, but I know that those who flatter and shave their hair ignore the discussion of the court, and they are too unacceptable. It is not possible to be in the same stream as the dirt, and it is impatient to argue all day long, but it is better to be on the outside, and you still have to be innocent. It can be seen that Qu Shiyun was quite dissatisfied with Dongxun's power at the beginning.

However, with the defeat and death of He Tengjiao's soldiers, Ma Jixiang tried his best to win over Li Chengdong in the DPRK, and Chen Bangfu on the Guangxi side competed with him.

At the same time, at the level of civilian officials, it was also a struggle between the civilian officials who advocated using the remnants of the Dashun Army and the remnants of the Daxi Army to resist the Qing army, and the civilian officials who still upheld a hostile attitude of class by He Tengjiao and Qu Shiyun.

The two parties competed, and He Tengjiao squeezed out Yinxi and the loyal battalion on the Huguang battlefield, which led to the corruption of the Huguang situation; Qu Shiyun squeezed out Yinxi in the court, making him unable to do anything after withdrawing to Guangxi, and even died of depression; Chen Bangfu, on the other hand, was co-opting the loyal battalion to eliminate the rebels who were fighting against him, and tried to encourage the loyal battalion to go to Guilin to expel Qu Shiyun.

The two sides did everything they could, making the already weak forces of the Yongli Imperial Court even more unable to be used in the overall situation of resisting the Qing Dynasty. Among them, although Gu Yinxi and others cited Chen Bangfu as help, most of their actions were out of the public intention of resisting the Qing Dynasty, but He Tengjiao, Qu Shiyun and others adhered to the class position, not only to "resist captivity" but also to "pacify thieves", which eventually led to the corruption of the overall situation.

In the next year, in February of the fourth year of Yongli, the Yongli court fled from Guangdong to Guangxi, and after entering the control area of Chen Bangfu, the wind reversed, and Wu Zhenyu, the secretary of the household department, Guo Zhiqi, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, Cheng Yuan, Wan Ao, and Zhang Xiaoqi in the affairs of the household department, jointly exposed the crimes of Yuan Pengnian, Liu Xiangke, Ding Shikui, Jinbao, and Meng Zhengfa, the five tigers, of "controlling the government and doing private business". Emperor Yongli was already dissatisfied with the arrogant and rebellious behavior of the Five Tigers who relied on the military power of Li Chengdong and Li Yuanyin's father and son, and immediately decided to arrest Liu Xiangke and other four people except Yuan Pengnian, who was at home with Ding Wei, and tortured and interrogated them in Jinyi Guard Prison for the purpose of "fighting tigers" in the Yongli Dynasty.

In the final analysis, the imperial court could not control itself, and the decision on the direction of the government lay more on which faction of warlords it depended on, rather than on the overall situation of resisting the Qing Dynasty, which was a matter of life and death.

However, at this stage, whether it is party struggle or fighting tigers, it is actually no longer important. Not to mention, the reason why the Yongli Imperial Court fled from Zhaoqing, Guangdong to Wuzhou, Guangxi was that Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao led the army to cross Meiling.

To put it bluntly, the Qing army marched south and entered Guangdong!

Note 1: Hao Yongzhong, that is, Hao Shaoqi, was originally the general of Yuan Zongdi of the Dashun Army, and why Tengjiao was attracted after the Hongguang Dynasty retreated to Huguang.

Note 2: Gao Bizheng is Gao Yigong, Li Zicheng's brother-in-law; Li Chixin is Li Guo, Li Zicheng's nephew. All are given names.

Note 3: Loyal Battalion, Gao Yigong, Li Guo, Dang Shousu, Ma Chongxi (renamed Ma Tengyun), Zhang Neng, Tian Hu, Liu Guochang, Liu Shijun and other departments; Zhongwu Battalion, Ma Jinzhong, Wang Jincai, Zhang Guangcui, Niu Wancai and other departments; Zhongkai camp, Yu Dahai, Li Zhanchun, Yuan Tao, Wu Dading, Wang Guangxing, Wang Youjin, Wang Chang, Wang Xiang and other departments.