When he learned that Luzhou City was broken, Ding Qirui sat for a long time without speaking, and finally just sighed, wrote a note, sent someone to Beijing to ask for guilt, and since Chen was unable to save the situation of Nan Zhili, he asked to resign and return to his hometown, and now Ding Qirui has basically fallen into despair, he knows that Nan Zhili is estimated to be unable to keep it, so instead of waiting for Nanjing City to be broken when he was killed by Xing Tianjun or beheaded by the court afterwards, it is better to resign now and pull down.

There is no hope of returning to his hometown to raise him, his hometown is in Yongcheng, Henan, which is already Xing Tianjun's territory, and now many of his relatives are under the control of Xing Tianjun, and even some relatives have simply joined Xing Tianjun, and some juniors have even joined Xing Tianjun's army to serve Xiao Tianjian, so even if he resigns, he can only go to Liangguang to find a place to settle down first.

On the one hand, Ding Qirui resigned from the imperial court, but on the other hand, he still insisted on mobilizing men and horses, and transferred most of the people and horses that could be mobilized to the area of Nanjing City as much as possible, in order to strengthen the defensive force of Nanjing City.

At this time, Han and Guangmei of Jiujiang Mansion came with news again, saying that Luo Rucai, one of the thieves and thieves chieftains, was now attacking Jiujiang Mansion again and again, and he was no longer able to hold Jiujiang Mansion, and although Fang Guoan led the troops to help Jiujiang Mansion, he was delayed, he couldn't wait any longer, and begged Ding Qirui to allow him to abandon Jiujiang Mansion and retreat to Nanjing City.

In fact, it was not that Fang Guoan really saw death and refused to lead his troops to Jiujiang Mansion to help, but that after Fang Guoan sent troops, he was repeatedly harassed by a small group of Xing Tianjun's men, and then he didn't go out of Nanchang Mansion for long, and then he heard the news that a large group of Xing Tianjun's men and horses were killing Nanchang Mansion from Ningzhou, so Fang Guoan had to lead his troops to turn around and return to Nanchang, only to know that the news was false when he arrived in Nanchang Mansion, and the so-called large number of Xing Tianjun's men and horses were just a group of thieves who were active in the area of Nanchang Mansion. wanted to take advantage of the emptiness of Nanchang Mansion, so he attacked Nanchang Mansion under the banner of Xing Tianjun, but there was a false alarm, but it was a great favor for Luo Rucai, Fang Guoan sent people to disperse this gang of thieves, and led the troops to Jiujiang Mansion again, but it was too late at this time.

Luo Rucai continued to send people and horses from Huguang to Jiujiang Mansion, and at the end of June, there were 30,000 soldiers and horses besieging Jiujiang Mansion, although these people and Xiao Tianjian's elites were not of the same grade, but the combat effectiveness still exceeded the official army a little, Luo Rucai in order to get through Jiujiang Mansion, an important town on the Yangtze River, this time sent a ruthless continuous supervisor to attack Jiujiang Mansion, and at this time Liu Yaoben in Anqing Mansion was not idle, he collected some ships in the area of Anqing Mansion, It seems that they are going to do a lot of work, so Han and Guangmei can't stay in Jiujiang Mansion anymore, and they feel that if they don't leave at this time, they may not be able to leave if they are attacked by the enemy, so they ask Ding Qirui for his life on the one hand, but on the other hand, they have already packed up their soldiers and horses and started to withdraw from Jiujiang Mansion.

Originally, Ding Qirui would not have agreed to let Han and Guangmei abandon Jiujiang Mansion, but after he received Han and Guangmei's request, he immediately ordered Han and Guangmei to defend Jiujiang Mansion and not evacuate, waiting for Fang Guoan's reinforcements, but it didn't take long for Ding Qirui to learn the news that Han and Guangmei had abandoned Jiujiang Mansion in a panic and fled towards Nanjing City.

The angry Ding Qirui almost didn't care about anything, and scolded Han and Guangmei on the spot for being incompetent, and immediately wrote a recital, started the court, and demanded that Han and Guangmei be punished.

But Ding Qirui is so tossed in vain, Han and Guangmei, little-known figures, can be regarded as people with heavy troops in the Jiangnan area at this time, now Zuo Liangyu is gone, Huang Degong was also captured by Xing Tianjunsheng, and there is only one Sun Yingyuan left in the entire Nanzhili who is a more capable general, and the other one who is a little famous is Fang Guoan, Han and Guangmei, who are incompetent, have now become the important generals of Nanzhili, although Ding Qirui is angry, But the imperial court didn't dare to move this general soldier with more than 10,000 horses in his hands at this time.

Luo Rucai originally thought that he might not be able to take Jiujiang Mansion, but he didn't think that Han and Guangmei, the straw bale, would abandon the city and flee, and throw Jiujiang Mansion to him so easily, so he immediately led the army into the city under great joy, and there were still a group of officials in Jiujiang Mansion who did not escape, and as soon as Han and Guangmei ran away, they had no intention of going against Luo Rucai again, so they surrendered to Xing Tianjun one after another.

Fang Guoan finally led his troops to a place dozens of miles away from Jiujiang Mansion, but heard that Han and Guangmei had run away and Jiujiang Mansion had been lost, so without saying a word, he turned around and returned to Nanchang Mansion again.

After Han and Guangmei fled to Nanjing, they sued Fang Guoan for not saving him when he saw death, and he did not come to Jiujiang Mansion for a long time, while Fang Guoan wrote angrily and scolded Han and Guangmei for being cowardly as a mouse, and took the initiative to give up the important town of Jiujiang Mansion and ask the court to punish him.

Needless to say, how to fight this kind of lawsuit, as soon as Jiujiang Mansion was lost, Xing Tianjun basically opened up the passage to enter Nanjing, and also opened up the channel for the transfer of materials from Huguang to the front-line army, and a large number of materials immediately began to go down the river after Luo Rucai captured Jiujiang Mansion, and were transported to Anqing Mansion by boat.

At this time, Liu Yaoben caught Huang Degong again, and defeated Han and Guangmei, and began to send troops to carry out large-scale activities in the area of Anqing Mansion, he first led his troops to take Huaining County in the northwest of Anqing Mansion, and then took Qianshan County almost without a knife and a shot, and then began to attack Lujiang County in the north. As a result, the territory in the northwest of Nanzhili soon turned to the territory of Xing Tianjun.

On the other side, the old Hui Hui led the troops to quickly recapture Macheng, which was captured by Huang Degong a few months ago, and then quickly took Yingshan County at a speed like a thunderbolt, and then waved his division to the north to attack Huoshan County. The old Hui led the troops in the area of Yinghuo Mountain as if he had entered a no-man's land, and almost all the people raised their hands to welcome him, so that Lao Hui almost effortlessly controlled the area of Yinghuo Mountain in the hands of Xing Tianjun.

In this way, during this months-long operation, the Xingtian Army basically controlled most of the northwest of Nanzhili in the hands of the Xingtian Army, so that the border areas of Huguang, Henan, and Nanzhili were all under the banner of Xingtianjun.

By the beginning of July, Xiao Tianjian had basically swept away the area around Luzhou Prefecture, and solved their problem of military rations through water transportation on the Yangtze River, which greatly relieved the pressure on Henan to transport materials to support the army's operations.

After taking the Luzhou Mansion, Xiao Tianjian and the generals discussed again, according to their current situation, categorically gave up the original plan to attack Chuzhou, but the army went south and Liu Yao's department joined forces in Lujiang County, and quickly captured Lujiang County, the army arrived in the area of Anqing Mansion, and began to do a short rest, at this time Luo Rucai also led his troops to arrive in Anqing Mansion and Xiao Tianjian's division together, so that Xiao Tianjian gathered nearly 60,000 horses in the area of Anqing Mansion, Officially posed a direct threat to the city of Nanjing.

And at this time, the official army can be said to be defeated and retreated, and it is impossible to stop the pace of Xing Tianjun's attack on Nanjing City, Luzhou and Jiujiang Mansion, Anqing Mansion and other places are lost, and the entire Nanjing City is equivalent to opening the door, and the last barrier of Nanjing City is only Chizhou on the Yangtze River, Taiping Mansion and Chuzhou in Jiangbei are the last line of defense.

For these places, after Xiao Tianjian and Li Xin discussed, they finally put the target directly on Chizhou and Taipingfu, after all, after the Yangtze River water transportation, the supply of grain and straw of the Xingtian Army no longer needs to rely on land transportation to guarantee, just send a boat in Wuchang Mansion, on top of dozens of cars or even hundreds of carts to transport the number of materials, and the employment is also very small, the speed is also fast, the consumption of transportation personnel on the way is also very small, and the safety is also sufficient, there is no need to consume a large number of troops to escort these materials, Therefore, it is much more convenient to attack Nanjing by water than by land.

After a little discussion with the generals, Xiao Tianjian ordered to start sending troops in Anqing Mansion, Liu Jiang has taken over the position of Yang Kunshan who died at this time, and became the commander of the Yangtze River Water Battalion, after more than a year of experience with Yang Kunshan, Liu Jiang has also washed off the style of the heroes of the rivers and lakes, and began to transform into a serious soldier, after the Ezhou Water War, although the Yangtze River Water Battalion suffered great losses, but after a few months of recovery, A large number of officers and soldiers in the navy and many water thieves and lake robbers on the rivers and lakes surrendered one after another, so that Liu Jiang regained the strength and warships of the water battalion in a short period of time.

After arriving in Anqing Mansion, the original two warship battalions have added a lot of new warships, and the strength has exceeded the original scale, with more than 3,000 troops, and more than 200 warships available, many of which are medium-sized warships that can carry dozens of people, and two or three artillery pieces can be erected on them, so in terms of naval forces, Xing Tianjun is not weaker than the official army and naval army at present.

So Xiao Tianjian changed his order to Liu Jiang to lead the naval army to set off, and for the follow-up soldiers and horses, they swept the official and military warships on the river around Chizhou, and after clearing the river, the army and supplies could go down by boat to attack Chizhou.

After Liu Jiang received the order, he immediately ordered two battalions of warships and water battalion soldiers, boarded the ship in Anqing Mansion, and went down the river to Chizhou, Chizhou at this time the official army defenders were only four or five thousand people, and there were forty or fifty warships, although there was still a certain combat power, but compared to the strength of Xing Tianjun, it was very disparity, so Chizhou Zhizhou Ma Ruxian did not dare to fight, and those officers and soldiers of the naval warships were even more courageous, and they fled to Taiping Mansion by boat first, and there were several officers and soldiers on the boat after pondering, He drove the boat and simply surrendered Liu Jiang, who led the army, and turned around and became a member of Xing Tianjun.

Han and Guangmei fled from Jiujiang Mansion, but did not really run to Nanjing, he also knew that it was a big crime to give up Jiujiang Mansion without authorization, Nanjing's Ding Inspector had a large number of people in his hands, and he also had the Shang Fang Sword given to him by the imperial court, once he was angry, he was not allowed to ask Ding Qirui when he fled to Nanjing, please take out the Shang Fang Sword to ask him, and it was not impossible to lose his head at that time, so after he arrived in Taiping Mansion, he was stationed in the Taiping Mansion City, and did not dare to go to Nanjing.

Ding Qirui really had the intention to behead this Han and Guangmei, but Han and Guangmei Chen Bing Taiping Mansion just refused to go to Nanjing, and he didn't dare to send people to Taiping Mansion to arrest Han and Guangmei, so he could only acquiesce to let Han and Guangmei temporarily sit in Taiping Mansion, after all, there are more than 10,000 officers and soldiers under Han and Guangmei's command, and if they are in a hurry, these people may really turn against and surrender to the Heavenly Army.

Han and Guangmei were frightened when they learned that the Xingtian Army was attacking Chizhou along the river, and they didn't care about Ma Ruxian, the governor of Chizhou, for help, and ordered to defend the Taiping Mansion and not send a single soldier to support Chizhou.

As a result, after Liu Jiang led his troops to clear the river, Xiao Tianjian immediately led his troops to Chizhou City, for Chizhou City Xing Tianjun can be said to be a rainbow of morale, learned that Han and Guangmei refused to lead troops to come to help, Chizhou Zhizhou Ma Ruxian scolded Han and Guangmei for not being a thing, and he couldn't take Chizhou City, so before breaking the city, he changed into civilian clothes from the south gate of Chizhou and fled from Chizhou City with his family, and no one knew the whereabouts of this Ma Ruxian Ma Master since then, Chizhou City was also conquered by Xiao Tianjian's troops on July 16, and the next step was only the Taiping Mansion as the last line of defense in Nanjing City.

At this time, Zhu Youzhen, the emperor in the court, had no way at all, and he almost thought of the way he could think of, first sent Ma Ke to lead his troops to attack Zhangde Mansion, Ma Ke did not go, but forced Bai Guangen to send troops, and as a result, Bai Guangen's troops were forced, and Yang Guozhu did not dare to go out of Xuanda to find trouble with Xing Tianjun.

At present, Hong Chengchou only has a total of about 70,000 soldiers and horses left, and this amount of troops is not enough to prevent Jiannu, let alone draw troops to the south to rescue Nanzhili! What's more, Nan Zhili was too busy to take care of himself, and he also cut off the delivery of silver to the imperial court, and the imperial court is now poor and can't open the pot, and there is no money and grain to mobilize a large number of people and horses into the customs.

When Chongzhen was in June, he also thought about using Shandong's soldiers and horses to go south to deal with Nanzhili, but Liu Zeqing was really scared by Xing Tianjun, and after hearing the holy decree, he simply ignored it, not only did not lead his troops south from Jining, but led his troops to evacuate Jining, and ran back to Jinan Mansion to be a prestige!

Chongzhen was angry and wanted to issue an order to arrest Liu Zeqing, but in the end, because he was afraid of forcing Liu Zeqing to rebel, he finally had to stop his disrespect for the decree.

Chongzhen wanted Shaanxi to send troops to attack Shaanzhou, and more or less able to contain Xing Tianjun, but in June, news also came from Shaanxi, and the thief Li Zicheng seemed to be very cooperative with the actions of the Xingtian Army, and Li Zicheng entrenched in Hanzhong for more than a year, developed rapidly, not only firmly controlled the Hanzhong area, but also extended its tentacles into Sichuan, and the troops became stronger and stronger, and in June, more than 30,000 troops were sent from Hanzhong, and the troops were directed at Xi'an. forced the Shaanxi side to mobilize troops to deal with Li Zicheng's troops and horses, let alone send troops to attack Shaanzhou, and respond to Nanzhili.

At this point, Chongzhen had no choice but to watch the Ming Dynasty gradually disintegrate under the advance of Xing Tianjun's troops, as for Ding Qirui's resignation, he was even less interested, looking at the officials in the court, Chongzhen could not find a suitable replacement for Ding Qirui at the moment, so he finally directly ordered to keep Ding Qirui to continue to stay, and the governor soldiers and horses guarded Nanjing.

It seems that Xiao Tianjian also wants to prove that he will be the one who buries the Ming Dynasty, and on the day of July 20, Xiao Tianjian, who had just taken Chizhou for only a few days, once again led his troops out of Chizhou, and killed the Taiping Mansion by land and water, and arrived at the Taiping Mansion on July 22, and then launched a strong attack on the Taiping Mansion, Han and Guangmei defended the city for three days, and once again abandoned the city and fled, but this time he did not take a large number of people and horses, but only took more than 3,000 cronies and men, and went straight to Hangzhou, The rest of the soldiers and horses basically surrendered to Xing Tianjun, and a small number of resisting officers and soldiers were immediately annihilated by Xing Tianjun in Taiping Mansion.

Originally, Ding Qirui wanted to send troops to rescue the Taiping Mansion, but before he could settle the soldiers and horses, he learned that Han and Guangmei were defeated and fled, and the Taiping Mansion was broken.

(Today, I would like to thank my old friend Bai Yun for his generous reward!) There were no three updates yesterday, and today I will update another big chapter! ）