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After Li Dingguo left Guilin with more than 200,000 horses, he traveled through the lofty mountains and mountains of Guangxi, and it took him four months to reach Yulin Prefecture, where he entered Darong Mountain after the last supply. Li Dingguo can't take this road, and the best way to take recently is, of course, to take Wuzhou, where he goes down the Xijiang River. At the same time, the lower reaches of the Xijiang River are Zhaoqing, which is the granary of Guangdong, and it is said that Zhu Hongsan has settled millions of southward migrants there, and millions of stone of rice are produced every year.

However, this road cannot be taken now, and Wuzhou is now occupied by the Cantonese New Army, where a regiment is stationed. It was not that Li Dingguo was afraid of the combat effectiveness of the new army in Guangdong, but that he had been entangled in Wuzhou for a long time and that Guangzhou had been on guard. There is no choice but to take this farthest and most difficult path.

Out of Darong Mountain is Luoding Prefecture in Guangdong, although it is a state, but the master is Chen Qilong, the general of the anti-Yao staff.

In the Ming Dynasty, a large area of land in Liangguang was still owned by the Yao people, and the Han people could only live in and around the city. The imperial court set up three anti-Yao generals in Liangguang from the Wanli period, and Luoding Prefecture is the most important one of them.

Zhu Hongsan also had a headache with the Yao Rebellion after occupying Guangdong, and in order to prevent these barbarians from dragging his feet, Zhu Hongsan did not reorganize the local guard system in Guangdong on a large scale, and the two anti-Yao generals in Luoding and Qiongzhou in Guangdong were also retained, and the silver was distributed as before. At the same time, Zhu Hongsan felt that the opposite of Luodingzhou was a mountain, and the road here was unknown, and the Guangxi Ming army would never attack Guangdong from here, so he separated Zhou Yu's six divisions, the first regiment and the second regiment were stationed in Guangzhou, the third regiment was stationed in Wuzhou, the fourth regiment was stationed in Shaozhou, the north gate, and the fifth regiment was in Leizhou.

Who thought that Li Dingguo would not take the usual path and had to get out of the mountains.

Li Dingguo finally walked out of the mountains in November, really killed Luo Dingzhou by surprise, the general Chen Qilong was killed in battle, and the garrison Mao Peng saw that there was nothing to do, and the remaining more than 3,000 people and horses all voted for Li Dingguo. Next, Li Dingguo was like a bamboo, occupying the two counties of Xinxing and Yangchun in Zhaoqing Prefecture in a few days, and it was less than a hundred miles away from Shunde, which was on the outskirts of Guangzhou.

At this time, Feng Ziyong had already reacted from the initial shock, and immediately organized the factory in Dongguan to move to Guangzhou as a whole, because he knew that everything else was good to say, these factories and workers were the lifeblood of Emperor Zhu Hongsan, as long as the factory and workers were kept, it would be a great achievement.

However, Li Dingguo and Lu Daqi did not think so, they did not immediately lead the army to destroy Zhu Hongsan's factory in Dongguan and weaken Zhu Hongsan's industrial production capacity, but like the ancient marching army, after occupying Xinxing, they sent their generals with 50,000 troops to occupy Zhaoqing and grab grain.

In this way, Feng Ziyong was given time to prepare his troops for battle, and when Li Dingguo arrived in Guangzhou on the tenth day of December, Feng Ziyong had already cleared the walls around Guangzhou, and concentrated the inspection divisions of several surrounding counties, as well as Zhou Yu's two regiments, to be in strict formation.

Guangzhou City was built in the Han Dynasty and renovated in the early years of Hongwu, and it is the first fortified city in South China. Moreover, Guangzhou City is built on the Pearl River, and the east and south sides are adjacent to water, but Li Dingguo has no sailors on his side, so he can only cross the Pearl River and form a formation in the north of Guangzhou City.

Li Dingguo took his generals Zhou Jintang, Ye Biao, Shi Shangyi, Xiong Chaozuo, Wang Han, and Deng Yao to the outside of Guangzhou. ”

Zhou Jintang followed Li Dingguo to fight in the north and south, it was his absolute confidant, he was not satisfied with Li Dingguo's defection to the Ming Dynasty, and now Li Dingguo was just a Guangdong commander-in-chief, and there was also a Lu Daqi on it, which really made these old brothers unhappy.

Li Dingguo frowned and said: "What nonsense, you didn't hear what your father-in-law said before he died, we can't be rogues anymore, now the Manchu Qing Dynasty has entered the pass, and it is about to unite the Han people and foreign barbarians to fight to the death!" ”

Zhou Jintang heard Li Dingguo say this, and didn't dare to say anything and retreated.

In fact, Li Dingguo was not satisfied with the Ming Dynasty's arrangement for him, because it was not as difficult as in history, so he didn't like these peasant armies. For the first time in history, Sun Kewang was only crowned the king of Pingliao, and now he was directly demoted by one rank and named the Duke of Jingguo, while Li Dingguo just made the Marquis of Dingyuan.

Li Dingguo came to Guangdong and saw that it was very rich here, and he also had the idea of secession in his heart, but he only accounted for one-third of Zhang Xianzhong's Western Army that year, and he and Sun Kewang also looked like they were separated.

After Zhang Xianzhong's death that year, his wife and confidant Prime Minister Wang Zhaoling still stood above the generals and advocated business as usual, that is, to continue to implement the radical policies of Xianzhong's lifetime. Therefore, Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, and Ai Nengqi unanimously decided to put the "queen" and Wang Zhaoling to death, and the four of them were adopted by Zhang Xianzhong as adopted sons and changed their surnames to Zhang, and each of them returned to their original surnames at this time. In this way, a system led by the four generals was formed. Among the four, Sun Kewang's original status and prestige were relatively high, and he was a little older, and he was literate and literate, so he naturally became the main leader.

However, Sun Kewang was not as good as the other three in the war, so the three of them did not respect Sun Kewang very much. Sun Kewang decided to ask the Yongli Imperial Court to seal it, and also had the intention of holding Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu hostage. Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu's status was originally comparable, after entering Yunnan, although Sun Kewang was promoted as the leader of the alliance, but after all, he can not be compared with Zhang Xianzhong, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu have heavy troops, each of them regard themselves as the lord of "Xifu" and "Nanfu", and they cannot only obey Sun Kewang's life. As a scholar, Sun Kewang naturally learned the methods of those stinky old nines, and at the beginning of the year, Sun Kewang took advantage of the flag-raising incident in the martial arts field to press Li Dingguo to the ground and beat him to the ground, so as to establish and improve his leading position in the whole army.

Of course, this board completely deteriorated the originally good relationship between the three, Li Dingguo took 50,000 horses from his headquarters to Guilin through the emperor's summons, and Liu Wenxiu also took his own people to Guiyang (Ai Nengqi died in battle when entering Yunnan).

So it's not that Li Dingguo doesn't want to be self-reliant now, but he doesn't have the capital. The obedient soldiers in his hands now are only the original 50,000 horses, and the rest are either newly recruited in Yungui or the guards that Emperor Yongli in Guilin added to him.

Li Dingguo sighed and said loudly: "Start attacking the city!" He figured it out, no matter what, let's take Guangzhou first!

Just when Li Dingguo organized his men to attack the city, Lu Daqi, who was the governor of Guangdong and Fujian, was not in the barracks, but came to Shabei Village outside Guangzhou with hundreds of personal soldiers.

Of course, Lu Daqi did not come here for tourism, but to meet a person, and this person was Chen Zizhuang, the second chief assistant of the Shenwu Dynasty and the leader of the scholars in Guangdong.

Although Chen Zizhuang's family property was confiscated, the emperor still left him more than a dozen acres of paddy fields, which was enough for Chen Zizhuang's family to have food and clothing every year.

When Chen Zizhuang learned that the army of Emperor Yongli of Guangxi had arrived in Guangdong, he sighed in his heart, and then ordered his family to close the door tightly, and no one should open the door.

But Lu Daqi smashed the door with his own soldiers, and Chen Zizhuang had no choice but to meet this former friend in the house.

Lu Daqi saw Chen Zizhuang wearing a homespun robe, and his hair was white, and he couldn't help but ask distressedly: "Jisheng, you have suffered!" ”

Chen Zizhuang smiled and said, "Brother Ruo, is it okay not to see your health for many years?" I heard that King Gui made you a governor of Guangdong and Fujian? ”

Lu Daqi frowned when he heard Chen Zizhuang say that King Gui was furrowed: "Jisheng, this time Your Majesty sent me to take back the Guangdong occupied by Chu Wei!" Jisheng, you were persecuted like this by Chu Shun, this time Your Majesty has a will, as long as Jisheng stands up and raises his arms and shouts against Chu Shun, His Majesty will also let Jisheng enter the cabinet! ”

Chen Zizhuang smiled faintly: "Like a brother, since the old man went out of the mountain to assist my emperor back then, he is naturally loyal!" Needless to say, if my brother has extra words, please go back after drinking tea! ”

Lu Daqi didn't expect Chen Zizhuang to be so loyal to Zhu Hongsan. "Jisheng, have you forgotten what Chu Yi did to you? Have you forgotten that your three sons are still suffering in Luzon? ”

After Lu Daqi finished speaking, he didn't expect Chen Zizhuang to close his eyes and say nothing, and the angry Lu Daqi scolded: "Chen Zizhuang, do you still think that the emperor you are loyal to is a good person?" Look at this! ”

After Lu Daqi finished speaking, he took out a copy of the letter Xu Bengao gave Zhang Tongchang from his arms, and said, "Jisheng, take a look!" This is a letter from Nanzhili Xu Bengao to Zhang Beishan! ”

Chen Zizhuang took it and looked at it a few times, then stood up angrily and scolded: "This must have been done by that Ma Mingyuan, what kind of new deal is there at this time of internal and external crisis, isn't this pushing the scholars to the side of the Manchu Dynasty?" ”

Lu Daqi saw that Chen Zizhuang was angry, and said happily: "Jisheng, you saw it!" What do you want to protect such an emperor? ”

How do you know that Chen Zizhuang sat down again after he was angry, and after calming down, he continued: "Brother Yanruo, my opposition to the new policy is not to protect the interests of scholars, but the timing of its implementation is not right, if my emperor's northern expedition is successful, I will be the first to write to ask my emperor to implement the new policy!" If you are a brother, you and I are our own masters, I will not go to Guangxi with you, please go back! If you want to use force, the old man will die in front of you! ”

Lu Daqi and Chen Zizhuang are very familiar with each other, and they know that this old guy has the temperament of Jiang Gui, he is old and strong, and he can do it if he can say this. Lu Daqi couldn't sigh and took his leave.

As soon as Lu Daqi left, Chen Zizhuang's younger brother Chen Zisheng turned out and asked in a low voice: "Big brother, since Emperor Shenwu is so mean and unkind to us, why don't you go to King Gui?" ”

Chen Zizhuang snorted and said, "What do you know? The old man served as the emperor's first assistant, and knew that the emperor's new army was extremely combative, but it was not something that those rogues could beat! And you inform me not to contact Lu Daqi, this time King Gui will still lose! ”

When Chen Zisheng heard his brother say this, he didn't dare to object, so he had to bow down and make arrangements.