When Ma Rufeng was training recruits in Nanxiong Mansion, thousands of miles away in Nanjing, Bo Luo, the general of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was also ready to lead his troops south.

The Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which had lived in the bitter cold of the Northeast for generations, began to adapt to the hot south. In the battle of pacifying Nanzhili in 1645, the second year of Shunzhi, more Manchu soldiers died of illness because of the water and soil, and more Manchu soldiers died in the battle than in the battle. The Manchu regent Dolgon also discovered this, and immediately after the end of the Nanzhili War, he transferred back a large number of Manchu Eight Banners and Mongolian Eight Banners, leaving less than 5,000 garrison Eight Banners in Nanjing.

Now the entire Nanzhili basically has no resistance activities under Hong Chengchou's soft and hard means, and also, those who are not satisfied are either killed or run south to Nanming's controlled place, leaving behind braids.

This time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty said in the edict that it would raise 100,000 troops, but in fact there were less than 60,000. Most of them were the troops of the original four towns of Jiangbei. Li Chengdong must be the main force in this. This guy retreated to Suzhou Mansion after being beaten by Zhao Guodong in Jiading, and did not contact the Ming army in Guangdong on the grounds that the soldiers suffered heavy casualties. Li Chengdong's inaction also helped Li Zhi to transport the displaced people to a certain extent.

The good days of the Ming army in Guangdong came to an end from Hong Chengchou to Nanjing, and Zhu Hongsan stopped the war in Nanzhili mainly to kill people with a knife, in fact, there are reasons why the war in Nanzhili did not go well. Hong Chengchou did have two brushes, and the three-plate axe after taking office greatly alleviated the rejection of the Manchu foreign power by the gentry of the Southern Zhili. At the same time, the tax payment of the two Susong provinces was greatly reduced, which could reduce the dissatisfaction of the common people with the Manchus to a certain extent. You must know that the taxes of the second Su Song Mansion of the Ming Dynasty are the heaviest, Hong Chengchou, as a member of the former Ming Dynasty, naturally knows the dirty affairs of Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, in order to win the hearts of the people, the first day of taking office reduced the taxes of the Su Song Second Mansion by two-thirds, which can be described as very happy.

In addition, Nanjing City was given to the Manchus by Donglin Stirring Stick for a day, and a large amount of money and grain in the city fell into the hands of Hong Chengchou, so now Nanjing's strength is still above the Manchu Qing in Beijing. After the edict from Beijing reached Nanjing in early February, Hong Chengchou began to prepare for the southward movement of the army.

Let's talk about the first enemy encountered by the Manchu army in the south, that is, the Lu Wang regime entrenched in eastern Zhejiang.

This generation of King Lu is called Zhu Yihai, and he is also an unlucky child. The first generation of Lu King Zhu Tan was the tenth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and was enclosed in Yanzhou, Shandong. When the title of King Lu passed to Zhu Yihai's father, Zhu Shouyong, he was already the eighth generation. At that time, Zhu Shouyong was named the king of Lusu, and Zhu Yihai was his fifth son. Counting, Zhu Yihai should be the tenth grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and the uncle of Zhu Youzhen, Emperor Chongzhen. Of course, Zhu Yihai is much stronger than Zhu Hongsan, the king of Chu in Guangdong, in terms of blood, which is one of the reasons why Zhu Hongsan has always been criticized by the world's corporals. King Lu and King Tang are the sons of the previous prince, and you, Zhu Hongsan, are just a relative of King Chu who can't beat him, so it's no wonder that he is disagreed by the world.

Zhu Yihai, as a royal child, should have lived a life of a gentleman with gold clothes, food, food, drink and merry. However, history did not give him such a good opportunity, on the contrary, almost all of his life was a life of suffering and displacement. After the death of Zhu Yihai's father Zhu Shouyong, Zhu Yihai's elder brother Zhu Yipai was named the king of Lu. In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the Qing soldiers went south to Shandong and broke through Yanzhou, and Zhu Yipai was killed. Zhu Yihai was also almost killed by the Qing army, and after escaping death, he attacked the king of Lu in February of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen. In March of the same year, the Dashun army conquered Beijing and marched into Shandong, and Zhu fled to Hainan, living in Taizhou, Zhejiang during the period of Zhu Yousong, Emperor Hongguang.

At this time, the legitimate heir of Zhu Di's lineage was almost dead, and the last Lu king, Zhu Changshu, was also captured by the Manchus in Hangzhou.

After the end of the ending of the peasant army, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing army, the balance of history tilted in favor of the Qing Dynasty. At this time, the Qing army went south after the "Ten Days of Yangzhou" and "Three Massacres of Jiading", breaking through Hangzhou and Zhejiang, and Ningbo was in danger!

At that time, anti-Qing movements were raging in various parts of eastern Zhejiang. Zhang Guowei, the former secretary of the Ming Dynasty's military department, discussed with the registered bureaucrats Chen Hanhui, Song Zhipu, and Ke Xiaqing, and believed that it was urgent to appoint a Ming dynasty clan to serve as a supervisor. At that time, the Ming Dynasty relatives and county kings in Zhejiang, only Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu in Taizhou, did not surrender to the Qing Dynasty, so he naturally became the only candidate for the restoration of the Ming Dynasty in Zhejiang.

On June 28, the first year of Hongguang, Zhu Yihai, with the support of Zhang Guowei, Fang Fengnian, Fang Guoan and others, came to Shaoxing from Taizhou and took up the post of superintendent.

At this time, the Qing army in the south had occupied Hangzhou in June, and the Manchus thought that the emperor had captured many of them, and the problem of the Southern Ming should be solved, so the general of the Dingguo Dynasty, Prince Yu Duoduo, was transferred back to Beijing, and the department was led by Luck Dehun. But what the Manchus did not expect was that due to the forced shaving of their hair by the Qing court, the military and civilians in eastern Zhejiang surrendered and rebelled, and the anti-Qing movements rose one after another.

The Lu Wang regime should be one of the few remnants of the Southern Ming Dynasty in the south, mainly armed with Zhang Guowei, Fang Guoan, Wang Zhiren, Qian Sule and other troops, but because it is close to the coast, it has a large number of sailors, which are arranged on the south bank of the Qiantang River. In August, Zhang Guowei, a scholar of Lujian University, was Lianke Fuyang (now part of Zhejiang) and Yu Qian (now the east bank of Zixi in Lin'an, Zhejiang). Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, gave Shang Fang a sword and ordered Zhang Guowei to lead the army. On the second day of the first month of September, Fang Guoan, Marquis of Zhendong, and Wang Zhiren, Marquis of Wuning, led their troops to attack Hangzhou from Fuyang and were defeated by the Qing army. On October 14, Zhang Guowei went out to Qiantang and joined forces with Qian Sule and other troops to attack Hangzhou, and fought on the outskirts of the city for 10 days and won a small victory. The Qing general Luck Dehun hurriedly led troops to aid Hangzhou, and the Ming army retreated. Since then, the Lu regime has been fighting with the Manchus, winning and losing each other. However, this victory was based on Li Zhi's attack on the coast of Zhejiang and the Yangtze River route, which made the Manchus anxious and neglected one another. But with the release of water from Li Zhi's side, King Lu's good days have come to an end.

Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants are really not the same, Zhu Yihai did not hesitate to resolutely shoulder the banner of resistance to the Qing Dynasty when the strong enemy pressed the realm, but after all, he is a dragon son and grandson in the palace, and he is used to the decadent and debaucherous aristocratic life, so he refuses to give up the glory and wealth of the small court, and his life is extremely debaucherous after ascending the throne. Zhu Yihai lacked the ability to govern the country, and he was extremely corrupt in appointing the emperor's relatives and relatives. Zhang Guojun, the elder brother of the Yuan Concubine Zhang, recruited power and accepted bribes, and even appointed bandits, such as Xie Sanbin, who went through the back door of his uncle to serve as a university scholar after participating in the Lu Jian State regime, and his employment administration can be seen from this. Zhang Dai, a contemporary of the time, once commented on Zhu Yihai: "It is an imperial virtue to always be thirsty for talent and accept advice." If I am the king of Lu, I will suffer from both. When King Lu saw a person, he relied on his heart; When you hear a word, you believe that it is like a yarrow turtle, and it is true and modest, and everyone wants to use it. But it is not the case when it turns to hope, and when it sees the descendants, the predecessors abandon it like a hair, and when it hears the latter, the foreword is regarded as ice charcoal. Later, there were many people and no one could be used. "From today's point of view, Zhang Dai's words should be said to be relatively fair.

Militarily, although the Lu Jianguo regime was on the front line of resistance to the Qing Dynasty, it could not effectively use the local military and financial resources. At the same time, for the so-called orthodox status, it also fought with the regime of Zhu Yujian, Emperor Longwu of Fujian, and fought endlessly. Before Zhu Yihai became the superintendent, Zhu Yujian, the king of the Tang Dynasty, had already proclaimed himself emperor in Fuzhou on the seventh day of the sixth month of the leap month of the first year of Hongguang. In September, Zhu Yujian, who had already called Emperor Longwu, sent a military department to Liu Zhongzao as an envoy to Shaoxing to issue an edict, announcing that the two families were indistinguishable from each other, and that the courtiers appointed by Lu Jianguo could serve as equal officials in the Longwu court.

There was an uproar among the ministers of the Lu Jianguo as to whether or not to recognize the legitimacy of the Longwu Imperial Court, with about half in favor of reading the edict and about half in favor of reading it. Seeing that many of the courtiers advocated respecting Emperor Longwu, Zhu Yihai was indignant and announced his retirement from the vassal throne and returned to Taizhou on September 13. On the first day of October, the ministers who advocated the recognition of the Longwu court as orthodox read the edict. However, at the insistence of Zhang Guowei, Xiong Rulin and others, they finally decided to refuse to accept the edict of the Longwu regime and welcome back Zhu Yihai. Since then, the struggle between Tang and Lu has intensified, and finally they met each other.

Just when the King of Lu and the King of Tang were fighting to the death, Bolo came to eastern Zhejiang with the Qing army that went south. In May of the second year of Hongguang, Bolo finally came to the edge of the Qiantang River with an army of 60,000. King Lu ordered the scholar Zhang Guowei to organize the defense line of the Qiantang River, and Zhang Guowei set up a joint venture on the south bank of the Qiantang River for 200 li, and the Manchus were isolated on the north bank of the Qiantang River because they had no boats to cross the river.

On the first day of June, the Manchu Qing finally collected enough boats to cross the river, and the defense line of the Qiantang River, which King Lu had painstakingly managed, was immediately breached. King Lu looked at the number of people much more than the Qing army, but most of them were temporarily captured Zhuangding, there were the opponents of the traitor army in the Qing army, as soon as the pigtail army arrived, all the troops of King Lu fled, and the general soldier Fang Guoan led 100,000 men and horses, but they didn't fight a battle, but they fled one after another when they saw the banner of the Manchu Dynasty.

King Lu saw that the general trend had gone, so he had to bring Zhang Huangyan's sailor to avoid trouble at sea.

King Lu looked at the burning Shaoxing City, and said to Zhang Huangyan beside him: "Xuanzhu, I am defeated!" ”

"Your Highness, don't be sad, we can recruit troops and buy horses to fight again!"

"But the world is so big, there is a place for me!"

Zhang Huangyan bent down and said: "Your Highness, there is also a sailor of the King of Chu in Guangdong in Dinghai, I heard that the ship is strong and the cannon is sharp, we can go and beg them to take it in." ”

"King Chu? Is that Lieutenant Bongkook? The guy who came to power by flattery? Will they be able to take us in? ”

"Now that the nation is in danger, I think the king of Chu should be able to distinguish the righteousness of the family and the country, and he will definitely be able to take us in!"

Zhu Yihai thought about it, now there is a place to go, the entire eastern Zhejiang is already the world of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Tang King of Fujian has not dealt with him, it seems that he can only go to the King of Chu.

Zhu Yihai thought about it and said, "Okay, let's go to Dinghai!" ”