After Qi Sansheng fled from Guiyang, he ran all the way to Pu'an Prefecture on the border of Guizhou and Yunnan before stopping, and then issued Liu Wenxiu's last orders to all places, summoning troops to defend Yunnan.

However, under the blow of the Chu army, all the units of the western army have collapsed, and the Yunnan soldiers of Bao Shengting and other departments have also been dumped by Tan Xiao, and there is not one out of ten troops who have fled back, and only some local troops in western Guizhou have responded to Qi Sansheng, and it took more than ten days to gather six or seven thousand men.

The only good news is Gao Wengui's miraculous escape, after he jumped off the cliff, he was rescued by a few passing Western soldiers, and escaped the pursuit of the Chu army, I heard that Qi Sansheng gathered soldiers and horses in Pu'an Prefecture, and came all the way to Pu'an, but unfortunately Gao Wengui's left leg bone was shattered, even if he recovered from his injury, he could not ride a horse in the future, and he could not go into battle to fight.

Hearing that Zhou Guodong and Liu Tichun's troops were pressing the border, Gao Wengui persuaded Qi Sansheng to retreat immediately.

"Pu'an Prefecture can't hold it, we must withdraw to Yunnan as soon as possible, and then gather troops and horses from all over the country to hold Kunming."

When Liu Wenxiu attacked Guiyang, he transferred all the mobile forces in the southwestern provinces, and Qi Sansheng was able to raise these thousands of men, mainly under the pressure of the Chu army, many prefectures and counties in western Guizhou no longer had the confidence to protect themselves, so they took the initiative to abandon the defense and retreat to Pu'an Prefecture to keep warm...... If you want to fight with the Chu army, this number of troops is far from enough, and you must rely on the local defenders in Yunnan, especially the 10,000 Western Army guarding the city of Kunming.

Kunming is the base camp of the Western Army, in addition to the families of the soldiers, Yongwang Zhu Cihuan and a large number of logistics and internal affairs personnel are here, there must be no accidents, so when Sun Kewang went to Huguang, he left enough defenders in Kunming, some of which were transferred by Liu Wenxiu to attack Guiyang, and the remaining troops still have more than 10,000 people, and then mobilize the defenders from all over Yunnan together, and maybe it is possible to block the attack of the Chu army.

Qi Sansheng accepted Gao Wengui's suggestion and led his troops to withdraw from Pu'an Prefecture and withdraw into Yunnan.

Three days later, Zhou Guodong and Liu Tichun entered Pu'an Prefecture and then pursued Yunnan.

At this time, there was no general in Kunming, Qi Sansheng took advantage of Liu Wenxiu's last life, and successfully mastered the military power in Yunnan, and then gave up a large number of state and county guards, concentrated troops to move closer to Kunming, and prepared to fight to the death with the Chu army.

In the eastern part of Guizhou, Feng Shuangli and Yuan Zongdi also divided the winners and losers.

The two of them were originally unable to hold each other, Feng Shuangli relied on the advantage of troops, and took the initiative slightly, but after the news of Liu Wenxiu's defeat and death reached Zhenyuan Mansion, the Western Army was immediately in turmoil, and Yuan Zongdi seized the opportunity to fight a counterattack, Feng Shuangli was defeated and retreated, and Shi Bingcai, who retreated dozens of miles away, stabilized his position.

Yuan Zongdi and Tan Xiao's troops arrived one after another and launched an attack on Shi Bing, Feng Shuangli saw that he could not resist, and retreated to the Tongguwei on the border of Hunan and Guizhou......

The Chu army was invincible in Guizhou, but in Nanzhili, which was thousands of mountains and rivers away, the army of the Longwu court fought a solid defeat.

When the news of the defeat reached Nanjing, Emperor Longwu was seriously ill, but Wang Kefan was very calm.

"It's a pity, the 100,000 army was defeated in a battle, how did Zheng Chenggong fight this battle?"

This battle report was sent by Wang Jincai, who was stationed in Yangzhou, and there was some schadenfreude between the lines, Zheng Chenggong landed on the north bank of the Yangtze River, launched a fierce attack on Wu Sangui, and even fought and won victories, and the offensive was fierce, and captured Gaoyou and other prefectures and counties one after another, and Wu Sangui's main force launched a decisive battle in Huai'an Mansion, but at the last moment it was overturned by Wu Sangui, and the army of 100,000 collapsed, and when Zheng Chenggong fled back to Nantong Prefecture, only a few thousand remnants of the army were defeated.

(Zheng Chenggong counterattacked Nanjing with an army of 100,000, but was wiped out by thousands of green battalions, which is a true thing that happened in history, and has little to do with the main line of this book, so I won't go into details.) ）

After Wu Sangui defeated Zheng Chenggong, he pursued to the south and pushed the battle line to the city of Yangzhou, at the same time, Taixing, Nantong, Haimen and other places east of Yangzhou were in an emergency, Wu Sangui had the momentum of crossing the Yangtze River in one fell swoop, and the atmosphere in Nanjing became very tense, and some timid gentry and ordinary people had fled to the countryside.

The main forces of the Chu army were all transferred to Hunan, and only Tian Jianxiu's First Army of the Northern Expedition in the Nanjing area, as well as some new armies that had just been trained, seemed to be in a very dangerous situation, but from Wang Kefan down, the top of the Chu army was very calm, and there was no intention of evacuating at all.

After two years of vigorous development, the Chu army's naval division has been basically formed, although it cannot be compared with Zheng Chenggong's "ocean-going fleet", but it is an invincible existence for the Qing army, even if Wu Sangui recruits a group of civilian ships and merchant ships to forcibly cross the river, he will be wiped out on the Yangtze River by the Chu army's naval division with strong ships and guns, as long as his brain does not enter the water, he will not let the troops die in vain.

In order to ensure that nothing went wrong, Wang Kefan borrowed a fleet from the evacuated Zheng Chenggong to strengthen the Yangtze River defense line, and in return, he ordered Wang Jincai to meet the remnants of Zheng Chenggong as much as possible to cover their retreat, and at the same time sent Zheng Chenggong a batch of food and supplies.

Zheng Chenggong's "army" was lost in Huai'an, but the fleet of the "navy" was unscathed, and the warships that were fully loaded when they were sent out were now useless empty ships, so they agreed to Wang Kefan's request and left him fifty warships in exchange for all kinds of help from the Chu army.

"This is probably the inertia of history, after Zheng Chenggong returns to Xiamen, most of them will go to Taiwan."

Knowing that Zheng Chenggong left, many people in the top echelons of the Chu army celebrated, Zheng Chenggong returned from a big defeat this time, and he was already greatly injured, for the Chu army, there was one less opponent in the world, Emperor Longwu heard that Zheng Chenggong suddenly fell ill after the defeat, and the reason was obvious, he originally had great expectations for Zheng Chenggong, but now he can only die......

On the Huguang battlefield, Li Dingguo's troops were all in Hubei, and Sun Kewang in Hunan fought separately, after the news of the loss of Guiyang reached Huguang, Li Dingguo wanted to cross the river to support Hunan, but Sun Kewang was very resolute in refusal.

Because of the loss of Guiyang, Sun Kewang's prestige has seriously declined, and he himself has become very sensitive, and has an inexplicable deep wariness of Li Dingguo, for fear that after he enters Hunan, he will threaten his position, so he must let Li Dingguo stay in Hubei, where there is no war to fight, but Sun Kewang also knows that Hunan's troops are empty, so he repeatedly ordered Li Dingguo's troops to be transferred from Hubei to reinforce Hunan.

On the one hand, Li Dingguo was not allowed to come to Hunan, and on the other hand, he transferred his troops, Sun Kewang's move was obviously selfish, but Li Dingguo put the overall situation first, and still transferred tens of thousands of troops to try to cross the Yangtze River and support Hunan. As a result, Hubei has become relatively empty.

In Huangzhou Mansion in eastern Hubei, when the Chu army counterattacked for thousands of miles, Li Guo once repelled the Qing army, but under the attack of Tan Tai and Tun Bu'er on both sides, he soon turned to the defense, because the enemy was outnumbered, unable to hold Huangzhou Mansion, and finally withdrew to the south bank of the Yangtze River with the cooperation of the naval division, and the Qing army completed the strategic goal set by Dolgon, and basically controlled the north bank of the Yangtze River in their own hands.

Wu Sangui defeated Zheng Chenggong's good news to Hubei, the Qing army was even more morale-boosting, seeing Wu Sangui's victory, the troops went straight to the capital, Tan Tai, Tun Buer and Kong Youde were not far behind, although the Qing army controlled most of the north bank of the Yangtze River, but Li Dingguo still occupied half of Hubei, learned that Li Dingguo divided his troops to support Hunan, Hubei became very empty, Tan Tai and Kong Youde mobilized heavy troops, crossed the Han River to launch a fierce attack on the Western Army, the two armies fought fiercely for many days, and the former alliance became in name only.

Li Dingguo's troops were small, and after the war, he was defeated and retreated, and on the surface he was powerless to resist, but in fact it was a deliberate plan to pride the enemy.

Kong Youde chased and fought all the way, trying to catch Li Dingguo's main force, and he was about to succeed several times, but in the end he missed it, gradually lost his vigilance, became impatient, and finally got into Li Dingguo's encirclement near Jingzhou, and the whole army was annihilated, and the soldiers were defeated and died.

Li Dingguo took advantage of the victory to pursue and launched a counterattack on Tan Tai, Tan Tai hurriedly escaped from the Han River, scuttled all the ships of the Han River, thinking that the Western Army would never be able to cross the river again, but Li Dingguo went around to Zhong Xiang overnight, and used Zhong Xiang, a nail pierced on the east bank of the Han River, to meet the army to cross the river, and finally caught up with Tan Tai in Xiaogan, and started a fierce battle again......

On the Hunan side, after Liu Wenxiu returned to Guizhou, Sun Kewang's troops became overstretched, because the battle line was too open, and the supply line was too long, so he could only divide troops everywhere and defend everywhere, Wang Sheng took the opportunity to launch a counteroffensive again, interspersed with the depth of the Western Army from the gap, avoided Changsha, Hengyang and other big cities, and specialized in small and medium-sized strongholds below the county seat, especially the warehouses and post stations on the supply line, and at the same time tried to divide the connection between Yuezhou, Changsha and Hengyang, five hundred today, eight hundred tomorrow, piecemeal for more than a month, the total number of Western troops destroyed exceeded 15,000, which was not inferior to the number of enemies destroyed in a large-scale battle.

The greater Sun Kewang's losses, the less strength to launch a counterattack, although not defeated for the time being, the situation is becoming more and more passive day by day, at this critical moment, Li Dingguo sent reinforcements arrived in time, Sun Kewang finally stabilized his position, recaptured a number of county strongholds, reconnected Yuezhou, Changsha and Hengyang, and opened up the supply line connecting the rear.

The situation is getting better!

Sun Kewang immediately sent the good news to all departments of the Western Army to boost morale, but Bai Wenxuan, who was stationed in Hengyang, was very upset and sent someone to send a handwritten letter, in which he implicitly accused Sun Kewang of making mistakes in his tactics, and should not waste his precious troops on these city strongholds, but should concentrate his troops to fight a decisive battle with Wang Sheng, otherwise, even if he can recapture these county strongholds for a while, he will have to divide troops everywhere and defend everywhere in the future, and he will still be broken by Wang Sheng, and so on, no matter how many troops can't fill this bottomless pit.