After recruiting Liu Chengyin, Huang Chaoxuan, Dong Ying and other troops, the Qing army continued to launch a fierce attack and soon occupied most of Hunan.

On the battlefield of the Eastern Front, Hao Shaoqi, Wang Jincai, Cao Zhijian and Lu Ding and other troops were defeated in five battles in Hengyang, Leiyang and other places, Hengzhou Mansion and Chenzhou Mansion were lost one after another, and the remnants fled in all directions, retreating to the border area of Hunan and Guizhou and Hunan and Guangdong to stabilize their positions, He Tengjiao's hundreds of thousands of troops have lost more than half of them so far, and the troops have also been scattered, but Tong Yanghe just stared at him, with a group of elite soldiers in pursuit, He Tengjiao fled to Quanzhou, Guangxi with hundreds of remnants, only to get rid of the Qing army's pursuit.

On the battlefield of the western front, the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties fought around the two big rivers of the Yuan River and the Zijiang River, the Yuan River ran through Chenzhou Mansion, and the Zijiang River ran through Baoqing Mansion, the Qing army relied on the advantage of the water division, and advanced forward along these two supply lines, while the Ming army was fortified layer by layer, blocking the Qing army in Luxi, Chenxi, Huaihua and other places, Kong Youde made unfavorable progress, and constantly transferred troops from the eastern front to reinforce the troops, and smashed the positions of the Ming army with artillery layer by layer, and finally occupied Shaoyang, the capital city of Baoqing Mansion in mid-April, and basically controlled the southwest of Hunan Province.

In the face of the fierce Kong Youde, the loyal battalion and the Chu army did not fight hard, but while killing and injuring the Qing army, they carefully preserved their own strength, and after the loss of Shaoyang and Huaihua, the troops of the loyal battalion dispersed and retreated, part of which retreated into the mountains of the Hunan and Guizhou borders, and part of them retreated south to the Hunan and Guizhou borders.

The Chu army fought and retreated, alternately covering with the loyal battalion, assembling while retreating, and before Shaoyang was lost, they handed over the last shift to Li Guo, and under their cover, they suddenly turned their heads to the east, crossed the Zijiang River and entered Yongzhou Mansion. Together with Hao Shaoqi and Lu Ding, they launched a counteroffensive and surrounded Tong Yanghe, who was alone in the capital of Yongzhou Mansion, Lingling.

After more than ten days of hard fighting, the Ming army finally broke the city. In this battle, more than 3,000 Qing troops were wiped out in one fell swoop, including more than 400 Eight Banner soldiers, more than 600 Tianyou soldiers, and more than 1,000 Wuzhen Chaoha soldiers.

Lucketthun was furious about this, and personally ran to Shaoyang to question Kong Youde. Two-thirds of the main forces of the Huguang Qing army were on the western front, and the Chu army should be overwhelmed, how could it suddenly jump to the eastern front. A black punch that made his eyes glow?

Kong Youde couldn't say what he was suffering about.

Although the war on the Western Front was won on the surface, the Chu army and the loyal battalion have always avoided decisive battles, but took advantage of the geographical advantages to consume the strength of the Qing army, attacking and defending one at a time. The battle loss ratio between the two sides has always remained around three to one. He not only suffered nearly 10,000 casualties, but also consumed a large amount of supplies, but the Chu army and the loyal battalion were not injured and could launch a counterattack at any time.

The two armies fought, victory or defeat was a common thing in soldiers, he had been vigilant against the counterattack of the Ming army, and was even ready to fight a losing battle, but what he didn't expect was. Wang Kefan turned out to be so cunning that he did not launch a counteroffensive on the Western Front. Instead, jump to the Eastern Front and get a black hand behind the back of Luckedhun!

As the commander of the whole army, Kong Youde is responsible for the defeat of Lingling no matter what, and Luckedhun's identity is precious, since he came to the door to ask for the crime, Kong Youde can't just find a reason to prevaricate, so he can only hold back his anger and admit that it was his own mistake, and agreed to Luckdehun's request, and transferred the main force to the Eastern Front, eliminated the Chu army, and recaptured Lingling, in order to avenge the revenge of one arrow.

The loyal battalion had retreated into the mountains, and the trap had trapped them to death, and Kong Youde, at the request of Luck Dehun, shifted the focus of the attack to the eastern front, and tens of thousands of troops rushed straight to Lingling......

Chen Youlong took the Zhenxiao soldiers into the Yongshun Xuanwei Division, and after recruiting the Tusi Peng Hongshu, he crossed the mountains and went deep into Guizhou, raided Liping Mansion, and captured He Tengjiao's stepmother Sun, wife Xu and more than 100 people.

Hearing that He Tengjiao's family was caught, Kong Youde immediately wrote a handwritten letter, moving it with affection, knowing it with reason, serving your mother as my mother, treating your wife as a brother's wife, etc., and then sent someone to Guangxi Quanzhou to recruit He Tengjiao.

He Tengjiao didn't reply, but only brought a sentence to Kong Youde, he will definitely not surrender, how to deal with his wife, you can just watch it...... After the envoy left, the extremely sad He Tengjiao was seriously ill, his shape was broken, his temperament was even more irritable and paranoid, and his subordinates often heard him muttering Chen Youlong's name, gritting his teeth, and his voice was full of hatred......

Soon after the victory in Yongzhou, Emperor Longwu set out from Guangzhou and moved to Guilin.

The Huguang war was defeated one after another, and the Qing army advanced to Guangxi, for security reasons, a considerable number of officials in the imperial court opposed the move to Guilin, and there was a fierce dispute with the approval faction, but at the insistence of Emperor Longwu and the Chu Xun group, the work of moving Guilin has been moving forward.

Although Guilin is too close to the front line, it is "the upper reaches of the western province, the shape is better than Saga", the city is strong, the defenders are numerous, and Emperor Longwu went there not only to boost morale, but also to build Guilin into a strong fortress against the Qing Dynasty, and then try to recover Huguang. After all, the Ming Dynasty had the tradition of the Son of Heaven guarding the country, and the impact of the Battle of Huguang had exceeded the province.

With the angel's trip to Guilin to proclaim the decree, Guiwang Zhu Youlang went to Liuzhou, and the governor of Guangxi, Qu Shiyun, also added a scholar of the feudal pole palace, and joined the cabinet after the imperial court moved to Guilin, and the Guangxi warlords Chen Bangfu and Jiao Lian were also knighted as marquis, and made all preparations for moving.

From top to bottom of the Longwu government and the opposition, He Wuyu, Su Guansheng, Chen Zizhuang and other "Southern Party" forces were the most opposed to moving Guilin, they were all Cantonese officials, and they hoped that Emperor Longwu would stay in Guangzhou, and if Emperor Longwu went to Guangxi, the political center of gravity of the imperial court would shift to the west, which was not in their interests...... But with the news of Yongzhou's victory, they had no reason to object, so they had to follow Emperor Longwu to Guilin.

After Emperor Longwu moved to Guilin, he gradually kneaded several provinces that were separate and unified to allocate various resources, and Nanming was on the right track, and gradually had the appearance of a country.

However, in the spring of the fourth year of Longwu, when the Longwu monarchs and ministers had just arrived in Guilin, the Huguang war situation was still precarious, and there was a negative and pessimistic atmosphere in the imperial court, thinking that Guilin would be like Beijing in those years, constantly attacked by the Qing army, and everyone would die here.

Emperor Longwu himself also felt that the future was uncertain, although Yongzhou Mansion won a battle, but the Qing army still occupied an overwhelming advantage, He Tengjiao needless to say, even the Chu army and the loyal battalion he had high hopes for were constantly defeated, and it was not sure when the Qing army would be killed under the city of Guilin.

Armament war!

When Emperor Longwu left Guangdong, he brought Zhao Yinxuan, Hu Yiqing and Shi Lang to Guilin, and entrusted them with the important task of organizing and training a new type of imperial forest army.

There happened to be a big war in Huguang, and the displaced people who fled into Guangxi were innumerable, and there was no problem with the source of soldiers, and Emperor Longwu easily recruited 20,000 young men and handed them over to Shi Lang and others to practice every day.

The focus of the work was on military training, and the progress in other aspects became slow, and the plan to develop the two Guangxi was simply stopped, and the Guangxi officialdom did not dare to start easily, and Emperor Longwu deliberately encircled Qu Shiyun, Chen Bangfu, and others, except for the announcement that a second Enke would be opened in April, everything was basically maintained for the time being.

The time is not right, you can only wait.

He was waiting for the Battle of Huguang to take a turn for the better, waiting for Wang Kefan to surprise him and use the victory on the front line to support the reform in the rear......

After the Chu army captured Lingling, it neither took advantage of the situation to counterattack Hengyang nor retreated to Guangxi, but stayed there provocatively so that they could rest and recuperate.

Luckedhun transferred more than 30,000 reinforcements from the western front, plus the Qing army on the eastern front divided into several routes, launched a pincer attack on Lingling, Hao Shaoqi and Lu Ding could not withstand the pressure, and retreated early to the Zhenxia Pass (also known as Longhu Pass) at the junction of Hunan and Guangxi, but the Chu army suddenly turned to the southeast before the Qing army was encircled, and went around to the northwest in a circle, entering the central region of Hunan.

The most dangerous place is the safest, Luck Dehun thought that he would retreat to Guangxi, the main force was placed south of Lingling, but the Chu army plunged into the hinterland of the weak Qing army, but it was like entering a no-man's land.

During the march, Fang Zhengzheng couldn't eat, he kept staring at the map in a daze, and asked after a long time: "Our army is advancing lightly and rushing straight to the new city, does Wang Junmen want to cross the Xiangjiang River?" ”

Wang Kefan nodded while taking a big bite of rice: "Yes, only by crossing the Xiangjiang River can the Tartar pursuers be thrown off, they are chasing too quickly these days, and they can't even eat steadily." ”

Fang Zhengzheng frowned and asked, "What is the meaning of this move of the military gate?" My 30,000 troops are deep into the enemy's territory, there is no food and grass to support, and there is no city to defend. ”

"There is no deep meaning, in fact, it is to drag the Tartars, the fat ones drag the thin, the thin ones drag to death, attract the main force of the Tartars to chase, and then slowly look for fighters." Wang Kefan said with a smile: "Food is indeed a problem, and I don't have a good way, so I can only fight to feed the war, grab it from the Tartars, and if we grab more, we will go around a few more times, and if we grab less, we will pat our butts and leave." ”

"Let's go? Where to go? Fang Zhengzheng was even more worried.

"Don't worry, the world is big, where can't you go?" Wang Kefan smiled at Mimi, glanced at the map very casually, and paused when he saw Jinggang Mountain......

Xincheng is a small city in the upper reaches of the Xiangjiang River, or a larger town, there are only a few hundred green battalion soldiers in the town, and the Chu army suddenly came here in a big circle, and the Qing army had no defense.

In the evening, more than 20 soldiers of the Chu army disguised themselves as heavenly helpers and came to the city gate in a big way, and the green battalion soldiers who were responsible for guarding the city gate stopped and checked, but they were slapped by the general who helped the soldiers that day, and kicked them twice: "What are you, go and call Wang Fushan and call Lao Tzu back!" ”

"Fuck, these guys are so bad!" The green battalion soldier dared not speak in anger, turned around and entered the city gate to report to the official of Lu. (To be continued......)