The great changes in Fujian and Guangdong provinces since last year have come to an end, and the peace is only a short period of half a year before it was first broken by Li Dingguo.

Every move of the most famous commander of the Southern Ming Dynasty is undoubtedly tugging at the heartstrings of all forces, and Hong Chengchou personally led reinforcements to Guilin to assist in the defense, but what he got was the news of the retreat of the Ming army. At the dock, in front of the generals, Hong Chengchou did not put his doubts into account, and the army still entered the city as planned to assist in defense. But before entering the city, Hong Chengchou also ordered to go down and inform the Jingbiao departments of the news that the Ming army had retreated when they heard that reinforcements had arrived, so as to further boost morale. Because, he always felt that this matter was not as simple as it appeared on the surface.

The news of the retreat of the Ming army was soon further confirmed, and the banners of Li Dingguo and Guo Zhiqi all appeared in the Ming army in Liuzhou Mansion. However, some sources pointed out that it was not Li Dingguo who was responsible for controlling the soldiers and horses at the moment, but Guo Zhiqi, and the news came back from Liuzhou, saying that Li Dingguo was sick and could not be a director, so the superintendent university scholar did his work on his behalf.

"Last year, I was sick and I was in Xinhui for a few months, but it is said that I was still busy with official business at that time. Now, instead, the military affairs are handed over to Guo Zhiqi......"

Li Dingguo is the most brilliant commander of the Southern Ming Dynasty so far, even if it is much smoother Zheng Chenggong. At the beginning of Hong Chengchou's tenure as the Southwest Economic Strategy, he studied these opponents of him - Emperor Yongli, Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, and Liu Wenxiu. As for Zheng Chenggong and Chen Kai, at that time, they were still the troubles of Shang Kexi, Geng Jimao and Liu Qingtai, he knew something about them, but he still had to focus on his current opponents.

Among them, Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo are naturally the ones who need to be paid the most attention. At the beginning of his tenure, Hong Chengchou began to restore and strengthen the defense line of Baoqing, so as to try to keep Sun Kewang in Guizhou and prevent him from advancing eastward. As for Li Dingguo, Hong Chengchou also came up with a means of appeasement, taking advantage of the opportunity of Li Dingguo's defeat in Zhaoqing, puffing out his lips and tongue, but Li Dingguo ignored him and went to Xinhui the next year.

These two opponents have their own advantages and disadvantages, and Hong Chengchou is also trying his best to deal with it with the Changsha shogunate and the 5,000-mile long border. Among them, the element of luck is not small, such as Liu Wenxiu's defeat of Changde, but the efforts made and the actual results achieved did make the Qing court's strength in the Huguang area gradually rebound, and gradually had the strength to compete with the Ming army for a long time.

Originally, the next thing to do was to wait for the Ming army to make a mistake, this is the day that Hong Chengchou had been waiting for at the beginning of his tenure. But the problem is that the unexpected spoilers turned the whole situation upside down, and the offensive and defensive momentum of both sides began to reverse.

Now, Zheng Chenggong and Chen Kai are still put aside, only talking about the recent events in Guangxi, according to detailed investigation, Li Dingguo was able to quickly send troops, in the final analysis, Chen Kai and Guo Zhiqi were behind him. With Guangxi and western Guangdong, plus subsidies from eastern Guangdong, this army can move again. At this point, Li Dingguo is getting smaller and smaller than Sun Kewang, relying on the ability of the military commander to confront Sun Kewang's financial strength, he really continues to be suppressed, and only that righteous name remains.

"Damn, the old man should have thought of it a long time ago!"

In the following days, there was a purposeful search, and the information continued to converge from Guiyang and Liuzhou to the capital city of Guilin, where Hong Chengchou was temporarily stationed. Searching for clues at all costs, Hong Chengchou's paranoia surprised Guilin and the generals of Jingbiao, and even Yu Shiyue, the governor of Guangxi from the Changsha shogunate, was also a monk of Zhang's second - he couldn't figure his head.

However, when it came to the month of Layue, with some unreasonable transfers on the Guiyang side and the new discovery of Liuzhou Mansion, all the puzzles were solved.

Sun Kewang sent several waves of people to Anlong Qianhusuo, and Li Dingguo claimed that he was seriously ill and could not be a director, but most of his pro-new generals Jin Tongwu and Li Dingguo's elite were not in Liuzhou, nor in Wuzhou and Nanning. The old man doesn't need to say anything about the rest of the story. ”

It is indeed no longer needed, because the detailed report of the line Guoan said that the Liuzhou Mansion has been preparing grain and grass, and there are already troops that have begun to march in the direction of Tianzhou Mansion. The focus shifted to Anlong, and the Ming army was likely to break out in a new infighting next, which was what the Qing court wanted most of all. But before they can celebrate, they also have to get another thing done before they can sit in the stands with a better view, and watch the show where they can celebrate no matter which side wins.

"Mobilize the army to the south, first take Pingle Mansion and Wuzhou Mansion, and cut off the water transportation again. Then, march into Xunzhou Mansion and Nanning Mansion to completely cut off the connection between the two Guangxi thieves. In this way, you will have a chance to break each one! ”

Historically, Li Dingguo defeated Guangdong twice and had to withdraw to Guangxi to recuperate. At the end of the ninth year of Yongli, he personally led the elite of the headquarters to venture into Anlong and escorted the Yongli court into Yunnan. Although this major move was succeeded by luck with the support of the people's support, from a strategic point of view, it inevitably led to the emptiness of Guangxi, which had recovered most of its troops since the sixth year of Yongli and had been operating for a long time.

When he marched into Tianzhou Mansion, he failed to hide Sun Kewang, and this time he failed to hide from the Qing army. In this context, Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan in Guangdong, and Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, converged with the southwest meridian of Huguang and the Dingnan domain of Guangxi, and quickly began the process of sweeping Guangxi.

On the second day of the first month of the tenth year of Yongli, the Qing army approached Pingnan County, which is adjacent to Wuzhou Mansion and is located on the bank of the Xunjiang River and northeast of Xunzhou Prefecture. At that time, the town was responsible for guarding the Xunzhou Mansion was the Ren'an general Li Chengjue and the management of the water division Yangchun Bo Li Xianfang, the second marshal knew that he was invincible, and took the initiative to withdraw to Nanning Mansion on the seventh day of the first month, and the Qing army occupied the Xunzhou capital city on the tenth day of the first month.

This is just the beginning. Next, the Qing army in Guangdong continued to advance westward, and on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, it entered Guixian in the south of Xunzhou Prefecture, and joined up with the Guangxi Admiral Line Guoan, the general army of Nan Yikui and Zhang Guozhu under the Jingluo Hong Chengchou. The two Qing armies converged, and the momentum rose even more, and on the eighteenth day of the first month, they invaded Hengzhou in the east of Nanning Prefecture, and the Ming generals Gao Wengui and Shi Shangyi, who guarded the local area, and Li Chengjue and Li Xianfang, who fled to this place, retreated without a fight. Subsequently, the Qing army officially occupied Nanning on the fourth day of the second month, and five days later, Ma Xiong, the general soldier of the left wing of the Dingnan Domain, pursued to Setuan in Jiangzhou and captured Li Xianfang, the spring uncle of Yang.

At this point, counting Guilin, Leping and Wuzhou, which were already in the hands of the Qing army, most of the prefectures and counties in Guangxi were occupied by the Qing army. Since then, although the southeastern Ming army and the southwestern Ming army have occasionally liaison, they have never had the opportunity to join forces. (Note)

Today, unlike in the past, the military presence of the Ming army in Liangguang has achieved a solid border, and the Shang Geng and the two feudal domains in Guangdong no longer exist, and the momentum of the Ming army in Liangguang is very good. However, the biggest problem at present is still that Li Dingguo's army is about to enter Yunnan completely, and the emptiness of Guangxi is inevitable.

There were still a large number of Ming troops stationed in Liuzhou, and Hong Chengchou did not dare to fight a decisive battle easily, so he simply chose the target on the two mansions that the Qing court had just lost.

The army, grain and grass are all being mobilized in an orderly manner, and Hong Chengchou is still paying close attention to the movements in Liuzhou. At the beginning of November, news came from Liuzhou that Li Dingguo's troops stationed there had begun to sail south in batches in a planned manner.

Going south, and by boat, it is indeed possible to go to an important town such as Wuzhou Mansion or Nanning Mansion to garrison, but it is more likely that Li Dingguo has already achieved a phased victory.

This is still not directly determined, it is more just speculation, but there are already many civil and military officials who are beginning to lean towards Hong Chengchou's opinion. Next, time is going on, there are more and more news in Guiyang and Liuzhou, and it didn't take long for Guiyang to really break the news of Li Dingguo's westward expansion, and Sun Kewang successively sent Bai Wenxuan and Ye Yingzhen to pick up the information that Hong Chengchou's case was quickly transmitted.

"There's no need to wait any longer."

Above the lobby, Hong Chengchou said the thoughts of the generals. Immediately afterwards, the official order to send troops was issued, this time unlike in history, there were also Pingnan and Jingnan feudal domains to help the war, plus there was still a big enemy in Liuzhou, so Hong Chengchou simply dispatched Ma Xiong of the Dingnan Domain, the headquarters of the second marshal of the whole section, the three departments of the Jingbiao Right Town, the Jingbiaohou Town and the Jingbiao Qianxie Association in the southwest, as well as part of the green battalion, and he led the rest of the troops to continue to sit in Guilin Fucheng.

Preparations had already begun, and once the order was officially given, the army would soon rush straight to Pingle Mansion. The capital city of Pingle Mansion is next to Yangshuo County of Guilin Prefecture, and the Qing army is flowing down the river, very fast. There, there were not many troops left behind by the Ming army, but fortunately, Yangshuo County was in hand, and with the early warning, they quickly made a decision, that is, to directly abandon Pingle Mansion and retreat to Wuzhou Mansion.

The first domino of the dominoes fell easily, if nothing else, next, Zhaoping County, Wuzhou Fucheng, Teng County, Pingnan County, Xunzhou Fucheng, Guixian, Hengzhou, Nanning Fucheng, until Nase Tuan, one by one fell, leaving only the pattern of the Qing army cutting off the contact between the southeast and southwest Ming troops again.

Such a pattern can be said to be unusually gorgeous in the eyes of the Qing court, and Hong Chengchou also enjoyed the process of depicting this pattern the most. However, two days after the arrival of the good news that Pingle Fucheng was back under the control of the Qing army, a new urgent report came, and Hong Chengchou was furious and slapped the military situation on the table.

"It's this Chen Kai again!"

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The Guangdong Governor's Yamen in the city of Guangzhou has always been the busiest place in Guangdong Province. Military affairs, civil affairs, litigation and prisons, all kinds of affairs converge, decide, and distribute here, and re-radiate to eastern Guangdong, northern Guangdong, Guangzhou Prefecture, Qiongzhou Prefecture, and even western Guangdong, even if it is not under the jurisdiction of Chen Kai, the governor of Guangdong, it will still inevitably be affected and affected.

The back house of the governor's yamen, according to the traditional layout of the front and back houses, is also Chen Kai's residence, a member of the Chen family, etc., from Chen Kai and his wife, Chen Kai's children, to the housekeepers, mothers-in-law, maids, cooks, florists, maids, and so on, all live here.

Here, carrying the laughter and laughter of Chen Kai's family, the husband and wife talk at night, raise their eyebrows, and have fun, which is the most indispensable. And in some places that others can't see, there are always some whispers that are deciding the fate of more people.

"Didn't you say that the equipment of the battalion B team directly under Fubiao has not yet arrived, and the training is not enough?"

Last time, a farewell was more than half a year, especially when I was out on the expedition, it was most inevitable to worry about my stomach. What's more, this time's opponent is not a bystander, it is the most capable civil official in the late Ming Dynasty, and it is also the opponent that Chen Kai has always valued the most.

During this time, Zheng Xiyuan looked up at Chen Kai, and the latter couldn't help but sigh: "Sailing on the sea, I'm afraid that I may not be able to wait for a few more days." ”

"So, how long will you be going this time?"

"It shouldn't be too long."

As he spoke, whether it was Chen Kai or Zheng Xiyuan, who heard this comfort, they all knew very well that once a war broke out, it was always full of unknowns. How long a war will last, no one knows. And this is not just a sudden improvement or sudden change in the situation, as the attacking side, just a city under the army, there is no way to accurately calculate how many days and how much to pay to gnaw down the city in front of you.

The pillow person in front of him has begun to restrain his reluctance and worry, which is all in Chen Kai's eyes. Since they got married, they have taken Qiongzhou, restored Guangzhou, captured Shaozhou, and even sat in Fujian to help Zheng Chenggong sweep through Fujian.

However, in such a position, Chen Kai must go all out every time, and Zheng Xiyuan must also endure lovesickness at home to be a virtuous helper. The life of ordinary people who work at sunrise and rest at sunset seems to be destined for them.

"The concubine will take care of the children and take care of the affairs of the family, please rest assured."

"yes, I know." Caressing the beauty's cheeks, Chen Kai nodded solemnly: "There is also the matter of the Guangdong Business Alliance, you have to take care of it." Those, is the future. ”

"Well, don't worry, the concubine will do her best."

Striding out of the room, a pair of children have come to see off under the arms of the nursing mother. It seemed that they felt the atmosphere here, and the two little guys seemed to be unusually silent, just staring at Chen Kai with a pair of watery eyes.

"Wait for Daddy to come back and buy you candy to eat."

Touching a pair of children's little heads, Chen Kai turned around and walked towards the door. At the moment of crossing the threshold between the front office and the back house, I turned around and forgot it, but what sounded in my mind was "Tell me how long you are going, wait for you with your life, dispel the dust It is late autumn, and the mountain wind sighs for a thousand dreams".

Note: At that time, the western part of Guangxi was mostly Tusi, and the wolf soldiers in Guangxi were also quite famous.

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