In the second year of Yongli, Qing Shun to five years, in August 1648, the Qing inlaid white flag of the main Gushan Ezhen He Luohui, led the inlaid red flag Gushan Ezhen Yechen, Meler Ezhen Zhu Mala and other eight banner generals killed the Ming guard general Tang Wenyao, conquered Luling, all the way south to continue to attack Ganzhou.

Ganzhou defender Li Chengdong led tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians to hold on day and night, and finally held the city of Ganzhou, the commander of the Qing army, He Luohui, the Hongyi cannon died under the city, and the Qing army retreated to the area of Luling.

At this time, in the city of Zhaoqing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, Queen Wang gave birth to a prince.

In October, Jiao Lian, the commander-in-chief of the Guangdong Water Dividing Pass, led the general Chen Bao to invade Fujian with tens of thousands of waterway troops, and successfully instigated Zheng Chenggong to cooperate with the army to attack Fuzhou City.

In the third year of Yongli, in March, Fuzhou was conquered, Chen Jin, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and Zhao Guozuo, the governor of Fujian, were captured and killed.

In the fourth year of Yongli, at the beginning of April, Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang personally commanded an army of 50,000 troops to go north to Huguang, defeated the commander of the Qing army in Changsha, Le Ke Dehun, and Sanshun Wangbu.

At the same time, Wu Sangui, who was stationed in Hubei, was instigated anyway, and after some secret discussions, Wu Sangui led the 30,000 troops of his department to return to the Ming Dynasty anyway, and Huguang was recovered in less than a month.

In July of the fourth year of Yongli, Zhu Youlang personally commanded an army of 100,000 troops from the Yangtze River into Jiangxi, and the commander of the Eight Banners of the Qing Army fought in Jiujiang, the general Tan Tai of the Southern Army, under the city of Nanchang, the Qing army retreated to Nanzhili, the Jin Shenghuan Department in Nanchang City, and the Wang Deren Department in Jiujiang City were successfully rescued.

At the same time, Li Chengdong's troops in Ganzhou City went north to the Ganjiang River and joined the army in Nanchang City.

A month later, Zhu Youlang personally commanded an army of 250,000 and fought with the main force of the Qing army's Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners under the city of Anqing on the Yangtze River, and captured Anqing City at the cost of 20,000 soldiers killed.

The main force of the Qing army's Eight Banners also lost more than 20,000 people.

Tan Tai was repeatedly defeated and removed from his post by the Manchu regent Dolgon, and withdrew the main force of the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners to the north bank of the Yangtze River. At the same time, the governor of Jiangnan University, Shihong Chengchou, was appointed as the commander and was responsible for guarding Nanzhili.

Hong Chengchou was unable to support alone, under the mediation of Qian Qianyi, he surrendered to the Ming Dynasty again, Zhu Youlang carried 200,000 troops and Fujian Jiao Lian, Zheng Chenggong's 50,000 waterway troops entered Nanjing to recover Jinling, so far the seven southern provinces were declared recovered.

Zhu Youlang vigorously rectified the bureaucratic system in the south, opened up the sea for trade, earned tens of millions of military salaries, and the treasury was rich in grain.

In the seventh year of Yongli, Emperor Yongli ordered Jiao Lian to be the general of the conquest, Wu Jisi, Zheng Chenggong, and Zhang Huangyan to be the deputy generals, leading an army of 300,000 to the north into the Central Plains.

During the Northern Expedition, the "Edict to the Central Plains" was issued, in which the proclamation put forward the program of "expelling Hulu, restoring China, establishing a program of Chen Ji, and relieving the people", so as to inspire the people in the north to rise up against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.

The army first took Shandong, removed the barrier of the Qing army, and then marched into Henan, cut off its wings, captured Tongguan, occupied the threshold of the Qing army, and then marched to Beijing, at this time the Qing army was alone, the two sides launched a decisive battle in the Central Plains, the commander of the Qing army Duoduo was killed, and the deputy marshal Azig was captured. More than half of the 150,000 Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners army and the Green Battalion were killed and wounded, and the rest fled in disarray.

Seeing that the general situation had turned, the Manchu regent Dolgon fled north with the imperial family and the remaining tens of thousands of troops to Guanwai, and the Ming army successfully recovered Beijing, recovering the northern provinces in less than three months.

In August of the tenth year of Yongli, Zhu Youlang once again personally unified the army to the north of Shanhaiguan, pursued the rest of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and launched a decisive battle in Shenyang, Liaodong, the Qing army was defeated again, Dolgon was captured and killed, most of the Manchurian royal family was captured, and the rest fled into the Mobei grassland.

In the twelfth year of Yongli, Zhu Youlang ordered Jiao Lian to lead an army of 50,000 to chase the remnants of the enemy in the Mobei grassland, and served the Manchurian royal family in the Fengzhou area, capturing the Manchu chief Shunzhi Emperor and the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang.

In the thirteenth year of Yongli, Zhu Youlang led 200,000 troops to return to the dynasty, amnesty the world, and the whole book was completed.