At this time, Emperor Yongli was in a dilemma both internally and externally, and fell into a panic.

After experiencing Jin Shenghuan and Li Chengdong's anyway, due to the lack of unified deployment, it was hit hard at the beginning of the third year of Yongli (1649).

First, the Qing army broke through the city of Nanchang, which had been besieged for 4 months, and Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren were killed in the first month of this year. Then the Qing army broke through the city of Changsha, and He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang, was killed.

It turned out that after Jin Shenghuan captured Jiujiang, he decided to lead the army to capture Zhuzhou, so as to restore the power of Jiang (west) and Hu (south) provinces first, so he wrote to Li Chengdong, hoping to send troops north to jointly seize Zhuzhou.

It is said that after Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren launched an armed rebellion in Nanchang, they immediately introduced Jiang Riguang, the leader of the Donglin Party, into Jiang (West) Province and promoted the leader of the alliance as the god card

Subsequently, everyone began to reward their cronies, and most of Jin Shenghuan's clansmen in the army were appointed to the position of governor, and his guest Huang Renlong was the chief soldier

and Wang Deren's brother-in-law Huang Tianlei was appointed as a squire in the military department;

Both Kim Shenghuan and Wang Deren opened shogunates to recruit followers.

This can make Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren overjoyed, it seems that he killed the traitor, which is still quite popular, so everyone still discusses and handles things in this way, so the whole thing is handled quite steadily.

But as mentioned earlier, Jin Shenghuan came from Zuo Liangyu's Ming army, and Wang Deren came from Li Zicheng's rebel army.

First of all, Wang Deren took advantage of the unpreparedness of the Qing army to lead the army to break through Jiujiang, and his staff Hu Shu suggested: "Now we should take advantage of the big victory, drive straight in, and attack Jianye, so that Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces are defenseless, and it is easy to seize Jianye."

As long as Jinling is captured, then Shandong and Henan will inevitably respond, so as long as we lead the army directly into the Central Plains, the entire Central Plains can be passed on to the Central Plains! ”

Since the Qing army had just pacified Jiangnan, if he led his troops down to Jiangnan and entered the Central Plains, the squires along the way would inevitably welcome him.

This can make Wang Deren excited, if that is the case, it is not impossible for the army to attack the Central Plains and create Li Zicheng's good achievements.

But at this time, Jin Shenghuan asked Wang Deren to return to Nanchang for deliberations.

Wang Deren was proud of the horse's hooves, and ran to Nanchang in one breath to explain Hu Tang's suggestion to Jin Shenghuan.

When everyone heard this, they all thought that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and in the Liangguang region, Li Chengdong's situation was becoming more and more obvious anyway, in the south of the Yangtze River, but the traitor troops commanded by Kong Youde and others were only stationed in Jizhou.

However, Jin Shenghuan's aide Huang Renlong resolutely disagreed, thinking: "Ganzhou is in the upper reaches of Nanchang, and the civil and military ministers and their families are here, so they should seize Zhuzhou first."

If we don't capture Zhuzhou, the enemy may copy our back road. ”

Huang Renlong's attitude is Jin Shenghuan's attitude, in addition, Jiang Yueguang also thinks so: "In the past, King Ning rebelled down the river to take Nanjing, and the nest was broken by Wang Shouren in Ganzhou, and finally killed by the other party." ”

In this case, Song Kuiguang defended Nanchang, and Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren led the army to attack Jizhou.

However, because the Qing army in Ganzhou already knew that Jin Shenghuan was anyway, they built a large number of fortifications in Zhuzhou for defense, so after months of fighting, it was difficult for Jin Shenghuan to break through Jizhou.

At this time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had already reacted and sent 80,000 troops led by Tan Tai, Gushan Ezhen Turge, Shang Kexi, and Geng Jingmao to the south in the starry night and captured Jiujiang in May of the second year of Yongli.

Subsequently, all the armies marched together, and successively captured Raozhou Guangxin, and then Tan Tai led the armies to surround Nanchang.

In this case, Jin Shenghuan asked for help from He Tengjiao in the south of the lake on the one hand, Li Chengdong in the south, and on the other hand, led the army back to Nanchang in the starry night.

But it was still a step too late, after Jin Shenghuan returned to Nanchang, the Qing soldiers had already killed under the city of Nanchang, and the two sides fought, Jin Shenghuan could not resist, so he had to retreat to Nanchang

Tan Tai led a large army to surround Nanchang, blocking Ji'an, Yuanzhou and other places from transporting grain to Nanchang, in this case, Emperor Yongli had no choice but to order Li Chengdong to lead the army to the rescue.

Li Chengdong, who fought majestically against the Southern Ming Dynasty, had long since lost his former demeanor, and after the army occupied Xinfeng, it was blocked by the troops led by Gao Jinku, the general of the green battalion.

And Nanchang City was besieged, to the Yongli three years in January in the city of food, killing people and eating, Jin Shenghuan saw that there were no reinforcements, so Nanchang City will be broken sooner or later, ordered to open the east gate to let the people flee to forage for food, the Qing army also relieved the siege of one side, allowing the people to escape.

Seeing this scene, Jin Shenghuan's corporal rushed to flee, so the city was breached, and Jin Shenghuan killed his wife, burned the house, was hit by two arrows, and died in the lotus pond of the Shuaifu.

Wang Deren was wounded and captured, and Ling Chi was executed.

University scholar Jiang Yueguang committed suicide by throwing himself into the water.

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After hearing that Jin Shenghuan was killed, Emperor Yongli posthumously named Jin Shenghuan as the king of Yulin, and he was loyal to the martyrs; Wang Deren is the founding prince of the country, loyal and strong.

And only seven days later, He Tengjiao was also killed by the Qing army because of his selfishness, He Tengjiao was killed, although there were reasons for the bad environment, but at a deeper level, it was his own fault.

He is actually a person who is "famous, but actually difficult to bear", on the one hand, he has the courage to do things, and never bows his head in the face of setbacks and failures;

On the other hand, it is selfish and prejudiced, and there is a "little family spirit" everywhere.

When Jiang (west) and Guangdong successively raised the banner of "opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty", and Kong Youde and other traitor troops were forced to retreat in great strides, the "revolutionary" situation in Hu (south) at that time was not a small good, but a great good!

But at this "sunny moment", He Tengjiao made an abnormal move that made "the enemy happy, and the relatives painful".

He asked his "No. 1 Fierce Man" Comrade Hao Yongzhong to suddenly stab Chen Youlong, who was fighting bloodily with the Qing army in Baoqing, in the back.

The reason why He Tengjiao did this was because he and Chen Youlong not only had "national grudges", but also "family feuds".

"National grievances" is our great Inspector He, and we can't let Hao Yongzhong, who is in the limelight, take the lead in "recovering Hunan".

Because in his opinion, Hu (Nan) is his "He family compound", which was lost from his hands before, and now he has to take it back in his hands, and others have no right to "offside action".

The "family feud" is Chen Youlong, after following the "Liu Tieba" to the Qing Dynasty, in order to be able to make a good face in front of Kong Youde, he actually led the troops to He Tengjiao's hometown - Gui (Zhou Liping, and arrested more than 100 family members such as He's mother Sun and wife Xu to the Qing camp as hostages, so that He Tengjiao, who was over half a hundred years old, became a "painful bachelor" overnight.

After the unsuspecting Chen Youlong was stabbed in the back, he screamed in anger.

But the arms can't twist the thighs, the wolf can't fight the tigers, the only thing he can do is to lead a group of remnants of the defeated soldiers and run to Emperor Yongli to sue the emperor.

Because of He Tengjiao's selfishness, Baoqing became the "bag" of the Qing army in a blink of an eye.

After driving away Chen Youlong, the high-spirited He Tengjiao commanded the army not only to recover the three major cities of Hu (Nandaozhou, Yongzhou, and Hengzhou), but also to conquer Luxi, Chenxi, Xintian, Qianyang and other county seats, forcing the Qing army to obediently retreat to Xiangxiang and Changsha to wait for help.

But if there is more space occupied, the forces will be dispersed, so He Tengjiao has become the "end of the strong crossbow", and he is unable to launch a new offensive again.

At this time, Du Yinxi invited the loyal battalion to attack Changsha, and under the command of Li Chixin and Gao Bizheng, he rushed to Changde as quickly as possible, and defeated the reinforcements sent by Xu Yong, the general soldier of Hu (South Changsha).

Subsequently, the loyal battalion took advantage of the victory to advance eastward, recovering Yiyang, Xiangtan, Hengshan, Xiangxiang and other places, and on November 11, surrounded Changsha.

Although the loyal battalion that was constantly mobile and fighting lacked siege artillery, it still had all kinds of bows and arrows and bird guns.

During the attack on Changsha, the loyal battalion invented an upgraded version of the siege technique - the double blasting method, which is to dig two layers of tunnels under the city wall, bury two layers of explosives, detonate the upper layer first, and when the Qing army came to plug the gap, then detonate the lower layer of gunpowder to form a second blow.

Seeing that Changsha City was about to fall, He Tengjiao ordered the loyal battalion to stop attacking Changsha and quickly save Nanchang.

The military order was like a mountain, and Du Yinxi had no choice but to march to the west of the river with the loyal battalion on November 16.

He Tengjiao, who was transferred from the loyal battalion, did not organize a decent army to fight Changsha until the first month of the following year.

At this time, the last Manchu ace division in the hands of Dolgon, under the leadership of the general Jingyuan and the prince of Zheng, Jierharang, had rushed from the capital to Hu (south).

The time has come for He Tengjiao to "pay" for his "selfish use"!

On January 20, 1649, Jierharang, who entered the low Daolin, learned from the captives that He Tengjiao and Ma Jinzhong were both in Xiangtan City, and marched overnight, He Tengjiao was defeated and captured, and finally killed at the foot of a small slope next to the Xiangtan Liushui Bridge.

After hearing that He Tengjiao died in battle, Emperor Yongli posthumously named He Tengjiao as the king of Hunan and the Duke of Wenlie.

Just when he heard that the two provinces of Hu (South and Jiang (West) were lost, he suddenly heard that Sun Kewang led his troops into Guangxi (West), claiming that if the righteous army did not stop pursuing, he would lead his troops to attack Nanning and kill Zhaoqing.