After Wu Jisi and Jiao Lian received the holy decree, they each led 10,000 cavalry horses in their towns to take the first step.

At the end of July in the second year of Yongli of the Ming Dynasty (1648), after leaving the imperial camp loyal army Li Dingguo to stay in Changsha to assist the governor to block Yinxi to govern and guard Huguang, Zhu Youlang brought the imperial camp "Gongsheng Camp" and "Dingbadu" two elite guards, and more than 3,000 people commanded by the generals Hu Yiqing and Zhao Yinxuan to return to the court.

The rest of the more than 90,000 cavalry horses in eight towns, including Li Guo, Gao Yigong, Dang Shousu, Liu Tichun, Hao Shaoqi, Yuan Zongdi, Li Dingguo, and Dubiao Yingdu, Zhengming, all stayed in Hunan to prevent the army of King Sanshun from taking the opportunity to go south.

Since the emperor's personal expedition, the capital Zhaoqing City, up to the ministers of Jiuqing, down to the gentry and merchants, there is a sense of panic, even if it is the representative of the "main battle faction" - the first assistant of the cabinet Qu Shiyun, his desire to resist the Tartars and recover the rivers and mountains is strong, but after all, the Tartars have been famous for many years, and the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Tartars have gone south, with strong troops and fierce momentum, which is far more difficult to deal with than the 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers and horses under the command of Li Chengdong.

In particular, there are many barbaric and fierce true Tartars in the army that went south, and their combat power is extraordinary.

Therefore, many people are not optimistic about this pro-conscription operation, and privately think that the Son of Heaven is too frivolous and reckless, and he is not stable.

The pro-conquest army gathered a total of 40,000 or 50,000 horses, but the Qing army in the south was called "300,000", although the actual strength is not necessarily so much, but how can it not be less than 200,000, even if the Ming Dynasty still has 80,000 or 90,000 people left behind in Huguang, the two armies together are only more than 100,000 troops.

There are not many Tartars who have not yet gone south!

Not to mention that there are still tens of thousands of Tartar troops left behind in Huguang, and the Ming Dynasty can't have any advantage in terms of strength, not to mention that most of the 80,000 or 90,000 left-behind people in Huguang are the remnants of the camp that have been recruited, and they are lawless and difficult to control.

One is not good, it may be the same as the four towns of Jiangbei back then, as soon as the Tartar army arrives, it will immediately fall to the wind!

How can you look at this pro-expedition like another "civil fort" incident?

Many people with lofty ideals regret for a while, they are still too eager to seek treatment today, they are too reckless, and they have not thought about it!

Some of the officials and gentry and local tyrants who were lucky enough to save their lives because of the previous collusion with the military generals of the Weisuo were involved in the case and were rectified by the imperial court, and the gentry and local tyrants who were lucky to save their lives because the circumstances were not very serious, they called friends and friends, put the wine in the wind, and secretly played the crown to celebrate, and took the opportunity to spread rumors among the people that the situation in Huguang was critical, and the pro-conquest army was unfortunately defeated, and the Son of Heaven was already captured by the Tartars, and also published poems and articles, satirizing the traitors in the court, so that the Ming River was declining, and the people were not able to make a living, and tried their best to blow the cruelty of the Gu Tartars, good at fighting, and the mixed Yuan Yiyu was unstoppable......

It wasn't until Shoufu Qu Shiyun couldn't bear it anymore, suppressed it with strong means, and dispatched the Jinyi Guards to arrest people, that their behavior was somewhat restrained, and they didn't dare to blatantly spread rumors and demagogue, otherwise the two Guangxi and the other area would have been rumored and chaotic.

Since the hundreds of thousands of Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners army of King Sanshun and Tatar Chief Tan Tai have successively gone south to Huguang and Jiangxi, the city of Zhaoqing, the capital of Xingdu, can be said to be three shocks a day, for fear that the news of defeat will come, many court officials and ministers have quietly transferred their property to the countryside, and are ready to change the psychology of the dynasty.

It is Wu Zhenyu, the imperial history of the left capital who has seen the rectification of the imperial camp and the military appearance, Chen Zizhuang, the squire of the military department, Yan Qiheng, the secretary of the household department, Pang Tianshou, the imperial horse supervisor, Yang Shouchun, the ceremonial supervisor and other emperors' confidants, and the civil and military ministers, all of whom are like Qu Shiyun in their hearts, more or less a little uneasy, and dare not give complete trust to the tens of thousands of pro-conquest troops who went north to resist the Tartars, after all, the other party is a fierce and powerful Manchurian Tartar.

They are all courtiers loyal to the Ming Dynasty, no matter how bad the situation is, subjectively, they still hope that the Ming army can block the sharp front of the Tartars, even if it is only a stalemate in the end, they can keep the last piece of land in Lingnan, they will be satisfied.

They pinned most of their hopes on the 50,000 imperial battalion soldiers of the Son of Heaven, and the remnants of the camp in Huguang, how much the soldiers and horses of the feudal town could play is still unsellable, but the combat power of the imperial camp pro-army is still somewhat bottomed up in their hearts, with abundant food, sufficient training, rich combat experience, and high morale, it is not much worse than the combat power of those two Tartars of King Sanshun, that is, against the real Tartars, as long as the generals are willing to serve the dead, they can not fight!

At that time, the hundreds of thousands of troops on the nine sides, if it were not for the corruption of the government and government, the perennial arrears of food and wages, the resentment in the army, the lack of food and clothing for the soldiers, almost went to the battlefield with hunger, and Songshan might not have lost to those Tartars in the first battle.

In the days after the army set out, most of the imperial party henchmen headed by Qu Shiyun had a heavy heart, and they handled government affairs with a strong spirit every day. In the midst of gains and losses, the military report of a great victory finally came from the front.

Several waves of messenger soldiers heard about it, took the official road from Hunan to Guangxi, successively passed through Guilin, Pingle, Wuzhou, and then to Zhaoqing, the capital of Guangdong, shouting "great victory" all the way, and flew into Beijing.

The gentry and people of the state capitals of Liangguang and Guangzhou, after seeing the messenger of victory, were first surprised, and then cheered!

After learning that in the battle of Yiyang, the Son of Heaven led the army to defeat the main force of the 50,000 Qing army and beheaded more than 1,000 Zhen Tartars, Qu Shiyun and others opened their mouths wide, quite unbelievable, and after confirming it again and again, they knew that the news of the great victory was indeed true. Finally breathe a sigh of relief!

In their opinion, it was a fluke that the pro-conquest army could force back the Tartars and hold Hunan, but they didn't expect to defeat the main force of the Tartars in a battle, and by the way, they also captured and killed tens of thousands of Tartar soldiers, including more than 1,000 real Tartars, not only to hold Hunan, but also to seize Yiyang, Changde and other military towns, threatening Hubei!

Getting this unexpected surprise, Qu Shiyun ignored the image of the first minister, and screamed at the case, excited and uncontrollable. In the first battle of Yiyang, the strong captives were defeated, Zhu Ming's country can continue, and the imperial court is expected to be safe!

Yang Shouchun, the minister of ceremonies, and Pang Tianshou, the imperial horse supervisor, were also full of tears, and bowed to Huguang, where Emperor Zhu Youlang was, and said: "Ancestors bless, God bless Daming, God bless Daming!" ”

When the news of the great victory spread all over the two Guangzhou, firecrackers burst out everywhere, and the people rejoiced, like the New Year, they took to the streets one after another, dancing lions, playing dragon lanterns, and celebrating the great victory.

The Battle of Yiyang, the most critical battle that laid the foundation for the great victory, was passed on by word of mouth among the people, and in the end, it became more and more divine, and the more outrageous it became.

The people gave full play to their imagination and said that the Son of Heaven was like a god, able to call the wind and rain and scatter beans into soldiers.

Li Dingguo, who made miraculous achievements in the decisive battle, was depicted as a god of war, one foot tall, holding hundreds of pounds of battle axes, one person killed hundreds of thousands of Tartars, and killed the Tartars with their heads and rats.

Since they learned that the army of hundreds of thousands of Tartars had gone south, they were too depressed because they were worried about the defeat of the imperial court, so as soon as they got the military report of the great victory, everyone's joy can be imagined.

Only those resentful local tyrants and inferior gentlemen, shaking their heads one by one, sighing for a long time, can be described by the word "such as mourning". The jubilant sound of the people outside was so piercing in their ears, incompatible with their bad mood, the imperial court soldiers and horses repelled the Qing soldiers who invaded the south, which meant that their revenge was completely hopeless, and the military fields that were forcibly collected by the imperial court could no longer be recovered!