On May 27 of the sixth year of Yongli, Duxiu Peak in the city of Guilin, Guangxi, which was originally the palace where King Jingjiang, the vassal king of the Ming Dynasty, lived for generations.

The first line of King Jingjiang is from Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest brother, and Zhu Xinglong, who was posthumously named the king of Nanchang. His son Zhu Wenzheng is not only Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew, but also a famous general in the early Ming Dynasty and the winner of the famous Battle of Hongdu. After Zhu Wenzheng was placed under house arrest for fornicating with Zhang Shicheng, Zhu Yuanzhang canonized his son Zhu Shouqian as the king of Jingjiang in the third year of Hongwu, and it was also the only vassal king inheritance in the Ming Dynasty who was not a direct descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang before Jiashen.

After Jiashen, Zhu Hengjia, then the king of Jingjiang, once established himself as emperor, but was soon overthrown by the Ming court. However, unlike the King of Anhua and King Ning, who failed to rebel in the history of the Ming Dynasty, were directly removed from the title, the Ming court left the title of King Jingjiang and canonized his younger brother Zhu Hengshu

for the king of Jingjiang. But this Jingjiang King was in the troubled times, or a mess left by his brother, a good life has not been much, even the title of the king of the county has not been on the top for a few years, with the capture of Guilin by Kong Youde in the fourth year of Yongli, his family was executed by Kong Youde, and even the palace was changed to the brand of Dingnan Wangfu.

"This prince followed Mao Dashuai to fight before the weak crown, over the years, the battle first, destroy the strong and break the formation, if you talk about the Dongjiang generals, a certain word is the second, no one dares to say the first......"

On the carrier hall, Kong Youde, the king of Dingnan, talked about the past, talked eloquently, and had a look of self-pride. Even when he mentioned Mao Wenlong, who had made the Qing court scratch his head very much, he had no scruples at all.

This time, the banquet was for Shi Yanzhang, the head of the Criminal Department sent by the imperial court to inspect a province in Guangxi. Originally, Kong Youde didn't look down on such a young master who was a talented scholar in the previous subject, but Wang Quanke, the governor of Guangxi, praised his literary style and style, which aroused Kong Youde's interest, so he invited him to a banquet here.

It's not that Wang Quan can boast about it, Shi Yanzhang came from a family of science in Xuancheng, and was employed by Shen Shoumin, a famous scholar of the Restoration Society, who read the scriptures and history, studied diligently and memorized, and wrote poems and ancient literature. The young man had a literary name, once went to Beijing, and Song Wan, Yan Xin, Ding Peng, Zhang Chenming, Zhao Jinfan, Zhou Maoyuan, etc.

This is a rising star in the literary world, and Wang Quan will naturally not let go of the opportunity to raise himself at his end. At this time, Kong Youde seemed to be talking about it very much, and when he talked about his past, he talked endlessly.

“…… In the seventh year of Tiancong, the prince led his troops to join the Qing Dynasty, dedicated Hongyi artillery, attacked Lushun, plundered North Korea, and did not fight with ...... When the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, the prince followed the king of Yu to exterminate the liukou Li Zicheng and suppress the Jiangnan ......"

"The emperor awarded the prince the general Pingnan to capture Huguang...... When those green battalion soldiers couldn't even hold Huguang, the prince was ordered to march south again, killing the puppet left-behind Qu Shiyun, the puppet governor of Guangxi, Zhang Tongchang, and the puppet king of Jingjiang......"

“…… The thief surnamed Li is not yet young, and it is just a matter of bullying and bullying Shen Yongzhong and other small characters. Put it in the hands of this prince, pinching him to death will not waste much more energy than pinching an ant to death! ”

After eating a wine banquet, Shi Yanzhang followed Wang Quanke's instructions in advance, and pursued Kong Youde very much, in exchange for the latter, he was even more complacent. However, when he returned to the post house, Shi Yanzhang did not plan to stay here for long, but asked the servants to prepare the carriages and horses, and set off to leave Guilin City after all the rituals in the past few days.

"Young master, this road is in a hurry, and I haven't had time to rest, besides, there are many places of interest in Guilin City, why rush to the road?"

The old servant of the accompanying family was very strange, obviously on the road, Shi Yanzhang mentioned the famous places of Guilin City many times, and the tour was very interesting. However, it is strange that he is in such a hurry now.

In this regard, Shi Yanzhang sighed, replied "The king's life is in his body", and said no more. But when he was the only one left in the room, he picked up a brush on the table, dipped it in ink, and wrote down cautiously and solemnly, "Gu Yan's life and the twists and turns of the army in western Guangdong" and "Wang Gu Pan is proud, he is full of promises, and he is incompetent". The arrogance is on the paper.

Shi Yanzhang left in a hurry, Kong Youde was still a little dissatisfied, but he didn't take it to heart. After another ten days, Kong Youde and Shen Yongzhong were originally reluctant to send troops to help, but after a long time, he thought about it, and finally feared that the Qing court would investigate it afterwards, so he still let Li Yanghe and Sun Long's second general go to Baoqing Mansion to help Shen Yongzhong.

These two men were sent by Kong Youde on 27 May to assist in the defense of Quanzhou, but when he heard the news of the great victory in Jingzhou, he did not transfer back the Guangxi Admiral Line Guoan stationed in Nanning, the right-wing commander-in-chief Quanjie stationed in Liuzhou, and the left-wing commander-in-chief Ma Xiong stationed in Wuzhou, and maintained control over all key points in Guangxi, and still maintained the posture of the king of Guangxi.

At this time, it was already June 16, but unexpectedly, on June 23, Kong Youde was shocked to hear the news of Baoqing's loss, and while spitting and scolding Shen Yongzhong for being incompetent, he transferred back Li Yanghe and Sun Long to defend Quanzhou, thinking that it would be an interception. It's just that after such a long delay, the Ming army has already completed the transformation of its strategic goals.

On June 28, Li Dingguo personally led the main force of the Ming army from Dabutou in Xinning along the small road to Quanzhou. He was not the only Ming army to go south, but it was the main force of the army. At this moment, Li Dingguo was riding on a war horse, but he was calculating the approximate time of arriving in Quanzhou in his mind.

The king of Xining, one of the four princes of the Great Western Army, followed Zhang Xianzhong to the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty when he was nine years old, and although he is only thirty-one years old, he has been on the battlefield for more than 20 years!

Hunger and chaos were the deepest impressions of his youth, so this time he led the troops to the battle, especially the first time to fight under the banner of the Ming army, Li Dingguo made a contract before leaving the law with five articles: no killing, no adultery, no robbery, no slaughtering cattle, no arson, so as to ensure strict military discipline. The army set out from Guizhou, pulled out Jingzhou, captured Wugang, was invincible, and the momentum was like a bamboo, and everywhere it went, it also acted in the style of not disturbing the people.

For this reason, his brother-in-law Sun Kewang painstakingly raised a large amount of grain and grass, which even included their savings in Yunnan in the past few years, which supported the Eastern Expeditionary Army led by him and Liu Wenxiu's army intended to recover Sichuan.

In the battle of Jingzhou, the Qing army in the south of Huguang was already frightened, but he did not dare to attack the city on a large scale, because the threat of Guangxi still existed - after all, it was Kong Youde's Dingnan Wangfu Domain, this army with better combat effectiveness than the Green Battalion was not only threatening the newly recovered area of the Ming army in the south of Huguang, but more importantly, they could directly attack the Ming army's hinterland in Yunnan and Guizhou to the west.

The army is still marching, stretching away, until in the ranks out of sight, the infantry is marching in a neat line without saying a word, but there are also many loose ones, but one by one they are draped in felt and milled feet, not like the Han soldiers. The cavalry had already been sprinkled out, but there were still many animals to ride in the marching ranks, and the huge size pressed the heavy steps, which made it look very eye-catching.

In this way, the army marched silently as their commander, until a long time later, when a fast horse galloped in, and the army continued to march in silence, while their commander was already on the side of the road to analyze the progress of the division.

"Report to the king, Feng Shuai defeated the captive division at Yihu, beheaded Li Si, the commander of the command, and the rest of the captive division fled...... Our department chased to the Shuangqiao in Quanzhou, encountered the captive Li Yangxing's department, broke it in a battle, and Li Yangxing was awarded the head. ”

"Good!"

Feng Shuangli's progress was very rapid, and according to his plan, Feng Shuangli first went south after capturing the city of Baoqing Mansion and went straight to Quanzhou through Qiyang. After arriving in Quanzhou, he attacked the city, forced the defenders of Quanzhou to ask for help from Guilin, and led Kong Youde's main force to Quanzhou for a decisive battle.

This was a more secure plan than storming the city with the Qing army in Guangxi ready to come back for reinforcements, and he had to face only the troops that Kong Youde had left in Guilin and his left to the left, rather than the full strength of the Dingnan Domain, including Xian Guoan, Quanjie, and Ma Xiong. With Feng Shuangli's victory in the field here, the siege of Quanzhou should be easily formed, and then he just found a suitable place and waited for Kong Youde's army to arrive and cooperate with Feng Shuangli to annihilate it.

The messenger returned, bringing back Li Dingguo's approval and an order to act according to the original plan. However, before it was long, another fast horse arrived, but it sent a report that Feng Shuangli had broken through Quanzhou City and killed Sun Long.

The plan, because Feng Shuangli's progress was too rapid, caused it to deviate from the established track. Li Dingguo immediately ordered the army to be rerouted, not to enter Quanzhou, and to go straight to Yanguan.

"Since there is no way to fight Kong Youde in Quanzhou, then it is in strict pass. Anyway, I wasn't unprepared there. ”