Shunde County, the sandbar where the Huangpu Inspection Division is located.

An eight-oared clipper flew into the water village.

"Mr. Zhang, the owner of Daao. The boat of the Red Flag Water Thieves came down the river. ”

Zhang Pengfei: "How many people and ships does Liang Biaoxiang's dog thief have?" ”

"There are more than 200 ships, and the number of people is not clear."

Wang Huizhi laughed, "It doesn't matter how many people he has." Now it is a southerly wind, and our army is going against the wind, and the enemy army is against the wind. The enemy army has a slight advantage, but the dog thief betrays the master and surrenders, and the soldiers will have no fighting spirit and no fighting spirit, just like a lost dog. The Liang thieves only knew how to flee and go to find their Tartar father, and we invited the attack halfway, and this battle will be won. If they dare to resist, I will send them all into the water to feed the king. ”

Zhang Pengfei: "The owner of Daao is familiar with water conditions and geography, in your opinion, how should we fight?" ”

Wang Huizhi was also not humble, "The old way, your centipede boat is crossing, and my boat is on the continent." Attack on all sides and burn them. ”

Zhang Pengfei had four Portuguese-style Galliot boats, which Cantonese people used to call centipede boats. This half-galley galleys had a single mast with two 4-pounder cannons in the bow and eight 1-pounder furlong engines on each side. On the Pearl River, the Galliot ship is already a first-class ship.

There is no suspense in the battle.

Zhang Pengfei's division from the Liaohai Sea Division formed a hard formation on the river, the battle flag fluttered in the wind, and the sampan cooperated with the big ship to guard the airtight.

Wang Huizhi's sampan rushed out of the river channel on both sides, and in addition to the galleys, the Ming army also had hundreds of Francophone machines, and the firepower was overwhelming.

Wang Huizhi led 10 sampans to surround Liang Biaoxiang's boat, first using a shotgun to beat the deck into a bloody alley, and then to join the gang. Hand-to-hand combat teams armed with broadswords rushed into the official hall and chopped off the heads of Liang Biaoxiang.

One by one, the ships of the Red Flag Pirates were burned, and the men in the rear team, seeing that the situation was not good, threw away the big ships, and fled in all directions with their sampans.

Wang Huizhi carried the heads of Liang Biaoxiang, Liu Longsheng, and Xu Guolong onto the Galliot ship Xiangshan, and the blood was left on the deck.

"Mr. Zhang, what should we do with these 3 dog heads?"

"Hanging at the head of Xiangshan City, we use the head of the rebel general to pay tribute to Prime Minister Wen's spirit in the sky."

Influenced by the order, the Ming army in Hainan has recently paid more and more attention to the propaganda of loyal ministers and good generals in the Southern Song Dynasty.

For example, when Xiangyang surrendered, the deeds of hundreds of guards who committed suicide in Lin'an, pro-army horses, infantry army commanders, and other grassroots officers and soldiers were even more overwhelmingly bombarded with propaganda. This country cannot be saved by heroes alone, and countless grassroots officers and soldiers are the backbone of the nation.

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Nanning, the Mansion of the Loyal Battalion Marshal.

After Liu Guochang seceded, the loyalty camp now has three major departments, Gao Yigong, Li Laiheng, and Dang Shousu.

Originally, Yin Xi escaped from Cao Zhijian's wolf's den at Zhenxia Pass, and also went to Nanning Mansion. There are many soldiers in the loyal battalion from the north, and they are not adapted to the water and soil in Guangxi in the south, and there are many soldiers and war horses who die of disease.

Yongli transferred the loyal battalion to aid Zhaoqing, and Li Guo and Gao Yigong were unable to make up the soldiers who could fight. Plugging Yinxi wrote to Yongli's Shangshu that there is no horse and no boat, only one life. He took a few hundred of his own soldiers on the road, but died of illness during the march.

With the death of Gu Yinxi, the Southern Ming Dynasty lost the only civil restraint on the loyalty camp, and the matter of sending aid could only be stopped.

Soon after, Li Guo, the Duke of Xingguo, also died of illness in Nanning. Li Guo was the commander of the Loyal Battalion, and after his death, Gao Yigong took over the entire army of the Loyal Battalion, and Li Laiheng commanded the original Li Guo headquarters.

The high mortality rate is inextricably linked to malnutrition, and it is difficult for a single Nanning province to support tens of thousands of people in the loyal camp. In Yulinzhou, Qinzhou, and other places, there were several skirmishes between the loyal battalion and the troops in western Guangdong.

The only thing he wanted was people, and the purpose of keeping the Beiliujiang valley was to ensure the safety of the migrant boat group heading south from Hezhou, so he simply took the initiative to cede Xingye County, which was not adjacent to the river in the west of Yulin Prefecture, to the Zhongzhen Battalion. This was a condition in exchange for the Loyal Battalion's restraint in the Chin, Liem and Beiliu River valleys.

The three generals of the Loyal Battalion gathered at the Marshal's Mansion to discuss what should happen to their troops under the current military and political situation.

Dang Shousu said: "Yuan Zongdi and others sent envoys to send secret letters, asking our army to go north, and they greeted each other at Kuimen and prepared a garrison for us. ”

Li Laiheng: "This is a way out, there is nothing to plunder in Nanning, we and tens of thousands of people are trapped here, and many soldiers have died of illness and fled, this is a place of death." ”

Gao Yigong snorted coldly, "Nanning is a dead land, isn't Kuimen a dead land?" In the vast mountains of eastern Sichuan, how many soldiers can be raised? What's more, thousands of miles to Kuimen, the Tartars occupy the vast road of the lake, and we can only go to the mountains of Xiangxi and Guizhou. The attitude of the mountain toast is very unpredictable, and there are tens of thousands of men and women in the camp, and I don't know how many of them can walk safely to Kuimen. Until the last moment, the north went to Kuimen and never mentioned it again. ”

Gao Yigong said the truth, Li Laiheng and Dang Shousu sighed in unison, and they could only wait and see what happened for the time being.

Dang Shousu: "Nanning is too small, we have to find a way to seize some more territory." Chen Bangfu asked me to enter the court, kill Jinbao, and seize Li Yuanyin's soldiers. ”

Gao Yigong said disgustedly: "Although I was a giant before, I was a big man, but I was determined to do something, how could I do something that was not as good as a pig and a dog." ”

Dang Shousu: "Then what should I do?" ”

Gao Yigong thought about it and said to Li Yuanyin: "Chen Bangfu asked us to do bad things, and we don't have to be polite to him." You will lead your troops to Xunzhou Mansion tomorrow, seize his soldiers' money and food, and give him a warning. ”

"Yes, Uncle Gao."

Dang Shousu: "The imperial envoy is almost here, how should we receive it?"

Plug Yinxi died of illness, and the loyalty camp needed to communicate directly with the imperial court.

Gao Yigong: "Since I am a minister, I should welcome him." ”

Li Guo is Li Zicheng's nephew, and while inheriting a considerable part of Zicheng's inheritance, he also carries a heavy political burden. Although he was a vassal to Nanming, the notoriety of forcing Chongzhen to death in the coal mountain has always been entangled in the loyal camp.

It was very difficult to turn around ideologically, and allegiance to Nanming made it difficult for many officers and soldiers to adapt, which brought serious morale problems. Within the Loyal Battalion, including Li Guo, the position of the Shun Army was still used to be knighted, but in fact, the Loyal Battalion had long faced the problem of splitting its banner.

In Lee's past life, the loyal battalion lost its main general, but their political burden was suddenly lightened.

Gao Yigong was the leader of the loyal battalion to the Southern Ming Dynasty, and he was determined to change the situation of Li Guo's disagreement with the imperial court.

Gao Yigong continued to play to Yongli and put forward many useful suggestions. For example, Gao Yigong suggested that the imperial court take back its financial power in order to control the lawless warlords. The Loyal Battalion is willing to take the lead in ceding Nanning Mansion and the left and right rivers.

In the recital, Gao Yigong said that he drafted Ze, received the favor of the country, and wanted to be self-effective. However, the imperial court made it in the interior of Nanning, where the soldiers lived, how could it be undisturbed. Forgetting the captives of the oppressive realm on the outside and the remnants of the land on the inside is not a long-term solution.

Yongli was greatly moved and sent an envoy to recruit him into the court. The envoy was the eunuch Yang Shouming.

Gao Yigong greeted ten miles in the suburbs, walked and saluted, and his attitude was humble, and the etiquette of the envoy to the central envoy was more in place than that of the orthodox officials and soldiers of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Yang Shouming opened the holy decree and ordered Gao Yigong and the party to bring 5,000 soldiers into the guard to reinforce the front line in Zhaoqing.

Gao Yigong bowed again and received the order, "The minister swears to serve the country." ”

Dang Shousu was shocked, "Gao Gong, we can't afford to send troops." ”

To send troops, you have to have money, food, and ships, and there is no loyalty battalion. The people who went to Guangxi Tusi to collect horses have not yet returned, and there are strong soldiers in the loyal battalion, but their combat effectiveness is very weak.

Gao Yigong said: "I should go to the line in person to ask for food, and you wait to stay in the south and Xun to rectify the soldiers and horses, and wait for my order." ”

Warlords are afraid to break away from their troops, and if they lose the troops they control, they are nothing.

For the loyal camp, the Southern Ming court was not a safe place. Gao Yigong didn't have any worries, he only took a hundred soldiers and sailed down the river in Wuzhou.

Gao Yigong is not a warlord. He may not think highly of Nanming, but his loyalty to the country is not in doubt.

Going down the river from Nanning, the boat is very fast. Gao Yigong arrived in Wuzhou two days earlier than Li Yuanyin.

made everyone stunned, after Gao Yigong and Li Yuanyin met, although they did not formally reconcile, they felt a little sympathy.

Gao Yigong went to the edict in person, and Jinbao had been beaten by the Jinyi guards controlled by Ma Jixiang and Xia Guoxiang at this time. Gao Yigong hugged Jin Bao indignantly, "China and foreign countries look at each other, but you are the only one." You were beaten like this by the cane, what else did the society have to do. ”

Yongli summoned Li Yuanyin, and the emperor said to the general that someone sued you for rebellion.

Li Yuanyin replied with a sneer, "Your Majesty said that the ministers rebelled, but there is any evidence and evidence?" ”

Yongli was speechless.

Li Yuanyin kowtowed repeatedly, "The reinforcements stay, and the ministers and Guangzhou City are shattered." The minister's father died in battle, and the minister died after him. Today, the court slandered the ministers and rebelled, and the ministers swore to repay the country with death, and the ministers' death was not compassionate, but they were afraid of chilling the hearts of the loyal soldiers in the world. ”

Yongli can't answer in the end, it's just comfort.

Gao Yigong participated in the whole summons and immediately said, "Your Majesty has a reason for disposing of Jinbao, but the people who can deal with Jinbao are not as good as Jinbao." ”

The two major armies of the east and west almost joined forces to immediately scare the people who had a heart in the imperial court, and the auxiliary minister Wang Huacheng wrote a letter to beg to go, and Yan Qiheng took over as the first assistant.

After Gao Yigong retired from the court, he said indignantly, "If the imperial court does not kill Xia Guoxiang and others, it will definitely not last until next spring." ”

Some people advised Gao Yigong that military generals should not interfere in the affairs of China and North Korea.

Gao Yigong was self-restraint, but he looked down on the old ministers who recruited him to fight against Li Yuanyin, and there were many sarcastic words in private.

Li Yuanyin was anxious about the battle on the front line, and soon left Wuzhou, and once again led the fleet to force Sanshui. This time, the Ming army transferred more main forces to Qingyuan and other places on the northern line, and fought along the Beijiang River with the Tatars on all fronts, and the soldiers were full of fire.

Gao Yigong sat in the town and became the backbone of the Yongli court for a while. Zhu Tianlin and Li Yongji, two more upright ministers, were quite impressed by Gao Yigong's words and deeds.

However, Gao Yigong still does not get along with most of the ministers of the DPRK and China, and the prejudice is deep-rooted and difficult to dissolve. I can't do anything in high school, and I'm very frustrated.

In April, Xiying went out of Yunnan. Within a few months, Bai Wenxuan, Liu Wenxiu, Li Dingguo, and Sun Kewang arrived in Guiyang one after another, and integrated Guizhou's anti-Tartar forces with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai. The Ming army and the Shun army were unable to resist and were defeated one after another.

Sun Kewang's documents accusing the imperial court soon arrived in Wuzhou.

Chen Bangfu, the Duke of Qingguo, was bold, and when he saw that Gao Yigong could not be used for himself, he used a blank pardon and a privately engraved seal of the King of Qin to canonize Sun Kewang as the King of Qin in the name of the imperial court. Sun Kewang was overjoyed and opened a seal in the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou.

Chen Bangfu's edict happened, and both the imperial court and Sun Kewang were dumbfounded.

Sun Kewang didn't expect the Yongli court to be so absurd, and Yongli was frightened stupid by the words of Jia Jiu Xi in the edict, the prime minister's court, and the control of the world's martial arts and horses. Jiajiu tin sword shoes on the temple to praise the nameless, that is the three kingdoms, two Jin Dynasty, the north and the south of the Zen to let the ministers of the necessary prelude.

The two sides were at loggerheads over the matter of the king.

Gao Yigong wrote to Sun Kewang in the tone of an elder: "This dynasty has no different surname Wang, I broke Beijing, forced Chongzhen to commit suicide, was pardoned by the imperial court, and was only named a duke." I hope you steal a corner of the evidence, seal the public is enough, and dare to ask the court for the king? Today, it is better to serve with me in the court and wash away the name of the thief. Don't bully the weakness of the court, you and I are equal in strength. ”

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Qiongzhou.

Shou Zhi passed through the eyes of the imperial court, and watched the great drama of the imperial court, which was the king of Qin's request for sealing. Li Dingguo and others were reluctant to submit to Yongli at first, and Xiying occupied Yunnan and could completely establish himself as king. Sun Kewang tried his best to ask for the title, and the Duke and Marquis of Nanming were everywhere, and he needed the prince to integrate resources.

Gao Yigong strongly objected to giving Sun Kewang the prince, he may have misjudged the situation.

During the period when Xiying moved to the Central Plains, he established contact with the general army of bandits, Yunnan Tusilong Zaitian. With the cooperation of Tusi and the Ming Dynasty defenders, Sun Kewang has been taking over Yunnan for more than 3 years.

Yunnan is located in the borderland, and nearly 80,000 stone of money and grain are being given in a province. Sun Kewang was very good at farming and collecting taxes, and he even fought a small battle with the Taungoo Dynasty of Burma in order to collect taxes.

Yunnan is a horse-producing land, and the soldiers of the Xiying army out of Yunnan are full of fine food, full of soldiers and horses, and their strength is by no means mobile combat without rear, and the loyal battalion that is in the weak stage is comparable.