Sun Kewang was defeated and died, the news reached Yunnan, Yunnan all over the state and county guards surrendered without a fight, when the Western Army entered Yunnan, the local Ming army and the large and small Tusi in Yunnan surrendered, and now Sun Kewang since the defeat, these Tusi and civil and military officials have taken the initiative to go anyway, and returned to the banner of the Longwu Imperial Court, only some of the old troops of the Western Army struggled to break through, and withdrew from Lijiang Mansion in northern Yunnan to Sichuan, and went to join Li Dingguo, the only remaining fruit among the three kings of the Western Army.

For these Western troops who broke through, Zhou Guodong and Liu Tichun chased and killed for a while, and let them retreat to Sichuan, the main focus was still on chasing and suppressing Yongwang Zhu Cihuan, Yongwang Zhu Cihuan was taken away from Kunming by some Western troops, the Chu army has been in pursuit, and finally fled to the area of Xuanfusi in Nandian, under the protection of the local Tusi, temporarily lost his trace, Zhou Guodong knew that he was hiding in western Yunnan, but the terrain of western Yunnan is complicated, and the power of Tusi is very large, and it is inconvenient to use it for a while, so he laid a net around it. At the same time, the Huairou policy was used to recruit local Tusi of all sizes, as well as civil and military officials and gentry of the former Ming Dynasty.

After some efforts, Zhou Guodong entered the city alone, and finally persuaded the famous Qianguo Duke Mu Tianbo, the two became brothers with different surnames, passed on as a good story, after Mu Tianbo returned to Shun, played a huge role in demonstration, those who are still watching the situation of the size of the Tusi and civil and military officials brushed the surrender, Zhou Guodong soldiers are bloodless, and soon controlled the entire territory of Yunnan, seeing that the overall situation has been decided, the Tusi of the Xuanfu Division of Nandian dedicated the Yongwang Zhu Cihuan, and then was beheaded by Zhou Guodong on the charge of pretending to be the prince of the first emperor, and beheaded in public on the streets of Yongchang.

In order to maintain the legitimacy of the Longwu court, Zhou Guodong knew that Yongwang Zhu Cihuan was the real prince, or he still referred to the deer as a horse and cut the grass to the roots.

The news spread, the rule of the Western Army in Guizhou, Sichuan and other places also collapsed, and the guards of various prefectures and counties surrendered to the Chu army in a large area, Tan Xiao, Yuan Zongdi and others jointly besieged Feng Shuangli, Feng Shuangli was defeated in successive battles, the troops were gone, and the remnants also fled into Sichuan to defect to Li Dingguo.

Li Dingguo withdrew from Hubei to Sichuan, taking the march route of Liu Bei in the Battle of Yiling during the Three Kingdoms period, Liu Bei could not defeat the powerful naval division of Eastern Wu that year, but only took the land route out of Sichuan to attack Jingzhou, the road was far away, the supply was difficult, and he was already at a disadvantage in terms of strategy, so that there was a later fiasco, after a thousand years, this road was relatively easy to walk, but it was only relative, Li Dingguo returned to Sichuan after the people were already sleepy, but he received a series of bad news such as the loss of Kunming, Sun Kewang's defeat and death, and the killing of Yongwang Zhu Cihuan, etc., Seeing that Zhou Guodong had already controlled the entire territory of Yunnan, but the morale of the Western Army was extremely low, and in this case, he did not dare to rashly launch a counteroffensive, so he had to stop in Sichuan, divide his troops and strictly guard the key passes in Chongqing and southern Sichuan, and temporarily divide one side.

At the same time, Zhou Guodong, who had just occupied Yunnan, and Tan Xiao, who had occupied Guizhou, were too busy digesting large areas of the occupied area to launch an attack on Sichuan.

Guangxi's Liu Fangliang, Dang Shousu and He Zhen, but took advantage of the good opportunity of the Chu army's frequent good news, swept through the capitals of Guangxi, the Western Army's heart was scattered, and the army was defeated in successive battles, and lost its division and land one after another, and the remnants retreated to Guilin and other cities, which were divided and surrounded by Liu Danghe, and the destruction was only in the mwan.

As the war in the southwestern provinces gradually drew to a close, Wang Kefan ordered Tan Xiao, Liu Danghe and other troops to launch a general attack on the remnants of the Western Army in Guilin and other places, in order to end the war as soon as possible, and then mobilize more troops to cross the river and launch a final battle against the Manchus!

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Tan Tai was defeated and died, and when the news reached Beijing, the Eight Banners were panicked like a lost dog and fell into great panic.

Just when they thought the situation was already terrible, an even worse news came, my Qing Dynasty's Dinghai Divine Needle, the regent of the imperial father, Dorgon, died violently.

Dolgon's health was not good, these two years have been the feeling of running out of oil, with the rapid deterioration of the front-line situation, Dolgon suffered another stroke, after the onset of the disease on the same night to return to heaven, he left a will before his death, the Qing court immediately sued the Longwu court for peace, and then evacuated Beijing, exit the Guanwai.

When Dolgon was dying, he saw very clearly that the Chu army was already unstoppable, and the Qing court would definitely not be able to stand in the pass, and if he continued to stay in Beijing, it would inevitably end up with the extinction of the clan, so he had to stop fighting with the Chu army at all costs, return to the pass as soon as possible, and keep the land of Longxing, and make a comeback in the future.

According to Dolgon's plan, everything outside the pass can be abandoned, as long as there is enough population and material wealth, there is still a great hope of retreating to Shenyang to gain a firm foothold, but he missed one thing, the little emperor Fulin has been full of bitter hatred for him, Dolgon's bones are not cold, he can't wait to carry out a bloody purge of his remnants, obviously the building is about to fall, but he is still busy with infighting, pinning all his hopes on Wu Sangui, hoping that he can block the Chu army.

Wu Sangui was busy negotiating with the Chu army, bargaining to get the greatest benefits, Wang Kefan's answer was very simple, 300,000 Chu troops crossed the river in a big way, plus 100,000 Yuyuan troops and other anti-Qing righteous divisions, and at the same time launched a fierce attack on Hefei, Su'an and other places, in just one month, swept through Jianghuai, annihilated Wu Sangui's tens of thousands of elite troops, conquered Hefei and Su'an one after another, and the troops pointed directly at Xuzhou.

Wu Sangui panicked, took the initiative to change the banner anyway, the whole army of 100,000 soldiers cut off their braids overnight, changed their hair to the Ming army, before the Chu army killed in Xuzhou, he took the lead in the north, invaded Shandong and Zhili, and captured Jinan, he sent a messenger again, begged Wang Kefan, expressed his willingness to drive the king forward, expel the Tartars, and reappear to Shanhaiguan.

"Wu Sangui proposed a bunch of conditions to me last time, don't you want them now?" Wang Kefan said with a smile: "Wu Sangui is the king of Pingxi in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it is understandable that Guiming still wants to be the king anyway, but his king name should be changed, with one word in front and a few words in the back, and he will be called the king of Siberia in the future." ”

"The King of Siberia?" The messenger was stunned.

"Siberia is the land of thousands of miles north of Nuergandusi and even in the far north." Wang Kefan roughly drew the scope of Siberia on the map, from the Arctic Ocean in the north, to the Trans-Khingan Mountains in the south, to the Ural Mountains in the west, and to the Pacific Ocean in the east.

"This, this is not outside Beishan (Wai Xing'an Mountains), how is it different from the army allocation?" The messenger was astonished and frightened.

"Wu Sangui lured the wolf into the house, the sin is unforgivable, I did this, I have already given Wu Sangui a way out." Wang Kefan said indifferently: "You go back and tell Wu Sangui that there is no place for him within the territory of my Ming Dynasty, unless he can open up territory for my Ming Dynasty, he can pardon the previous major sins, within a year, he must sweep Jianzhou, expel Jiannu from Nuer Gandusi, and then lead his troops north to Siberia, otherwise, when my army goes north to Nuer Gandusi, it is the time when Wu Sangui is headed......"

Wang Kefan intended to use Wu Sangui to exterminate the Manchus, of course, if the Manchus fled all the way to the Arctic Circle to be an Eskimo, or crossed the Ural Mountains to plague the rising Russian polar bear, with the current strength of the Chu army, it was indeed beyond the reach of the whip, so they could only go with them.

After the envoy left, Wang Kefan reorganized his troops and horses, and prepared to personally lead the army to the Northern Expedition, at this time, the terminally ill Emperor Longwu improved slightly, and once again made a request to Wang Kefan, wanting to accompany the army to the Northern Expedition together.

Wang Kefan agreed to his request.

"In my life, I've done a lot of things that go against my heart, so let's be willful this time. The Imperial Doctor has already said that His Majesty has two months of life at most, so even if he returns to Beijing, what does it matter? Wang Kefan said to the left and right civil and military forces who dissuaded him: "Everyone, the war will soon end, a new era is coming, the world trend, mighty, those who go along with it prosper, those who go against it die, no one can stop this trend, you should be more generous, don't worry about this and worry about that, after Your Majesty dies, even if the prestige is high, what does it matter......

Wang Kefan has endured humiliation over the years, and has survived until now, and finally has enough capital to do what he wants to do, with the improvement of power and status, his friends are getting fewer and fewer, only Emperor Longwu is still equal to him in spirit, the grievances and entanglements between the two are not enough for outsiders, since Emperor Longwu wants to draw a successful end to his life, Wang Kefan will satisfy him as much as possible.