Although it will take some time for the main force of the Yue Ming army to march westward, Xing Shengping, as the governor of Anhui, and the 20,000 people under his department directly advanced upstream from Jiangnan and Jiangbei at the same time.

Also arriving were Jin Sheng, the governor of the military affairs department of Huining Chitai, and Wang Sunfan, the governor of Jiangxi, although they should have rushed to Nanjing to attend the enthronement ceremony as soon as possible, but Jin Shenghuan's rebellion disrupted their plans.

As soon as Xing Shengping saw them, he said very clearly: "Before leaving, His Majesty King Yue and Zhang Niangniang specially explained to me that anyone who refuses to join my Yue Ming army is a Qing army trying to get through the pass!"

Many of these so-called "Qing troops who tried to get through the customs in disguise" were comrades-in-arms of Wang Sunfan and Jin Sheng before, but now that the situation has changed so dramatically, even the Longwu Dynasty has become the first enemy to be solved by the Yue Ming Dynasty, and these intermediate forces that refuse to belong to the Yue Ming Dynasty have naturally become the first targets of the Yue Ming Dynasty to be eliminated.

In the past, everyone had the common enemy of the Qing army, and they could naturally tolerate individual forces under the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty to act on their own, but now that the Yue Ming army has recovered Nanjing and taken the south of the Yangtze River, these anti-Qing forces still dare to act on their own, and it can be said that they are seeking their own death.

But he did not object to such a policy change: "Your Highness Shengming, Niangniang Shengming, anyone who refuses to join is a person with bad intentions, even if it is not a Qing army trying to get through in the dark, it is also a person with bad intentions, although I will give them another chance, but if they miss this opportunity, don't blame the ruthlessness of the imperial court!"

Jin Sheng also felt the same way: "In the past, there were always people who harmed the people lawlessly under the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty, and since the country is ready to establish the southeast of the country, it cannot tolerate these unscrupulous people!"

Jin Sheng and Wang Sun Fan, as the gentry class, naturally hated the "thieves" who disrupted the order, and had to cooperate with these intermediate forces to some extent due to the needs of war in the past, but now that the Yue Ming army has recovered the entire Jiangnan, it is natural to re-establish order within the ruling area and eliminate all enemies who dare to oppose the imperial court.

Whether it is the army of the Tang Dynasty Longwu Dynasty, or the army under the banner of other vassal kings, or the Qing army that is still wavering, or the thieves and bandits, they will all be the enemies that the Yue Dynasty must destroy.

Xing Shengping originally thought that he needed the strength of nine bulls and two tigers to persuade Wang Sunfan and Jin Sheng, but he didn't expect them to be more active than himself, so he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and leaked some inside information: "His Royal Highness Yue Wang means that we will take Jiujiang first, and we will get as much territory as we can, and he will personally lead the army westward when the time comes!"

Speaking of this, Xing Shengping lowered his voice and said: "Your Highness means that not only Nanzhili will be divided into provinces, but Huguang will also be divided into provinces, and the two gentlemen must be prepared!"

Although it is said that the Vietnamese Ming army has achieved an extremely brilliant military victory, in terms of territory, it has only won the whole province of Zhejiang, most of Nanzhili and half of Jiangxi, and it will be of great significance to divide one or two more provinces.

And Nanzhili was originally a freak in the political pattern of the Ming Dynasty, although a set of central institutions were set up in Nanjing, but it turned out that this set of central institutions did not play much role, and the territory of Nanzhili was too large, and there were many inconveniences in governance, and several governors and governors were temporarily added in Nanzhili in the late Ming Dynasty.

Although the Yue Ming Dynasty was under the banner of the Ming Dynasty, everyone knew that the Ming Dynasty in the past was not the same thing at all, and Liu Yongxi was not ready to inherit the countless ills of the Ming Dynasty, so it was imperative to divide the provinces of Nanzhili and Huguang.

Jin Sheng is a native of Huizhou and has a great interest in this matter, and he has already gotten some rumors: "Is His Royal Highness King Yue really ready to let Jiangsu and Anhui separate provinces?" ”

Xing Shengping nodded and said: "That's roughly the case, anyway, the matter of dividing the province will depend on Da Sima at that time!"

Jin Sheng said very confidently: "When the time comes, I will fight for my hometown!"

Wang Sunfan didn't understand what the Huguang Province had to do with him, so he just asked in a low voice: "Although the Huguang Province is reasonable, it doesn't have much impact on Jiangxi!"

Xing Shengping immediately laughed: "Although Huguang is divided into provinces, but Hunan and Hubei provinces are both under the jurisdiction of the governor of Huguang, when I talked to His Royal Highness King Yue about the candidate for the governor of Huguang, His Royal Highness the King of Yue said that my qualifications and ability can only be a governor of Anhui for the time being, and it is not enough to be the governor of Huguang!"

Only then did Wang Sun Fan understand that for the Yue Ming Dynasty in the southeast of the country, the position of the governor of Huguang, who guarded the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, must be the first important minister of the dynasty, so Liu Yongxi said that Xing Shengping was not enough.

Although there is already a "Governor of the Five Provinces Military Affairs Yipin Zhenyi Lady Gao" sitting in Jingzhou, this is only an expedient measure, the imperial court must send its own people in the real sense to sit in Lianghu, and Wang Sunfan happens to be one of the suitable candidates.

Wang Sunfan immediately understood Xing Shengping's kindness: "Tianmen Bo rest assured, I will definitely fight for the position of Governor of Huguang when the time comes!"

For the Qing Dynasty, the second year of Shunzhi can be said to be a year of great ups and downs, and it can even be said that since the Seven Great Hatreds raised their troops, the Qing Dynasty has never had such a brilliant victory, nor has it experienced such an unprecedented setback.

At the beginning of the year, the Great Qing State successively conquered Tongguan, Xi'an and Yan'an, giving Li Zicheng's Dashun Dynasty a devastating blow, followed by Azig and Duoduo's two southern expeditions, but the degree of success and results of the southern expedition was beyond everyone's expectations, but it was only two or three months, and the Qing army had not yet fought a decent battle, and the Great Shun Kingdom and the Hongguang Dynasty had completely become history.

But precisely because such a victory came too quickly and easily, the Manchurian nobles, including the regent Dorgon, suddenly floated away and issued a shaving order without hesitation, but neither Dolgon nor anyone else expected that the consequences of the shaving order would be so serious.

In August, the Yue Ming army had recovered Hangzhou, Bolobel's 40,000 troops were wiped out in Hangzhou, and the army led by Prince Duoduo of Yu also suffered a great defeat in Huzhou.

But no one expected that the rampant degree of the Jinhua thieves had reached the point of lawlessness, although the imperial court had ordered the British king Azig's hundreds of thousands of troops to march east along the river, but due to the Jinhua thieves and thieves converging Jingzhou was lost, the Azig army was forced to return to the division, and the situation in the south of the Yangtze River became more sinister, not only Songjiang Mansion and Suzhou Mansion were lost successively, but there was even a big defeat such as the Battle of Liyang.

However, the imperial court still had high hopes for the war situation in the south of the Yangtze River, and always felt that since the imperial court had invested the two princes Duoduo and Hauge and the army under their command, even if they were forced to retreat north, they could maintain the situation of dividing the river and ruling the river.

However, at the beginning of December of the second year of Shunzhi, the sudden loss of Jiangning Mansion made the princes and Baylor of the Beijing Division wake up like a dream, but until now they don't know how Jiangnan was lost, and they don't know anything about the specific battle of Nanjing, and they don't even know how many people Duoduo and Haoge brought to the north in a hurry, Duoduo and Haoge only said that "there are only 20,000 or 30,000 people left in the northern retreat of the Wang Division."

But I didn't say whether 20,000 or 30,000 people were withdrawn from Jiangning Mansion, and I don't know how many of them were the Eight Banner Army, how many Han Army, how many Green Battalions, and how many new annexed troops, in fact, Duoduo and Haoge's statements are often changed in one day, and they only know that they will flee all the way north in the hope of the wind, and tens of thousands of Qing troops do not seem to be as good as a few thousand.

Now the Manchurian nobles, including Dorgon, have seen the mystery, but even the enemies of Duoduo and Hauge do not dare to stand up and expose the truth now.

It's easy to debunk the truth, but how to deal with the aftermath is a big problem, if you don't solve the problem, you can only solve the person who raised the problem, not to mention that there are no less than 100,000 elites in the Qing Dynasty who followed Duoduo and Haoge's southern expedition, and now there are not even 20,000 or 30,000 people, such an amazing loss is a dead end no matter who goes to deal with the aftermath, so all the princes, Baylor and Dolgon dare not take responsibility, and can only put all their hopes on the big Baylor Daishan who personally marched south.

It wasn't until the news of Jin Shenghuan Nanchang reached Beijing anyway that the princes and Baylor finally came back to their souls, and immediately someone stood up and accused Duoduo and Haoge: "Prince Yu and Prince Su have tens of thousands of troops but only know that they will collapse when they see the wind, and after retreating to Jiangbei, they have not fought with Jinhua thieves but have lost Yangzhou, Fengyang, and Huai'an one after another, should they be held responsible?" ”

It's just that if you really want to be held responsible, it must be the regent Dolgon who is the most responsible, not to mention that Duoduo is his half-brother, and the two candidates for Duoduo and Hauge are both made by Dolgon himself, so Dolgon can only save these two defeated generals who hate to death first.

"Although the King of Yu and the King of Su are the generals of the defeated army, if they can hold Xuzhou, they will be allowed to make meritorious contributions, and now the military situation in Jiangxi and Huguang is more important, you must have also seen the report of the King of England, and the King of England is ready to retreat north!"

When it comes to King Azig's retreat to the north and Jin Shenghuan in Jiangxi anyway, although everyone knows that Xuzhou will definitely not be able to hold it, they temporarily give up holding Duoduo and Haoge responsible: "How long the king can hold out in Huguang depends on how long Jin Shenghuan can hold out in Jiangxi!"

Although on the surface, Jin Shenghuan in Nanchang is extremely unfavorable to the Qing Dynasty anyway, but since Jin Shenghuan is attached to the Tang Dynasty, it is naturally a great benefit to the Qing Dynasty, and even Duoduo and Haoge's recitals say that Jinhua thieves have sent nearly 10,000 people along the Jiangxi River.

And Dolgon said very clearly: "No matter how long the British king can hold out in Huguang, the lesson of Jiangning's loss this time cannot be repeated, this is the elite of the Eight Banners!"