At the same time that Chen Wen was fighting fiercely in Zhejiang, on the southwest battlefield, the Southwest Ming Army, dominated by the Great Western Army, was also carrying out large-scale counteroffensive operations.

Since the Yongli Imperial Court and the Great Western Army completed the merger, the Yongli Emperor was placed under house arrest by Sun Kewang to Anlong Mansion, and the power center of the Ming Court in the southwest was changed from the line of the Yongli Emperor to the Qin Wangfu in Guiyang. Under Sun Kewang's planning, the Southwest Ming Army finally began to accumulate strength in the sixth year of Yongli.

In April of the sixth year of Yongli, Li Dingguo and Feng Shuangli, who had recovered the southern part of Huguangchen Prefecture a year earlier, returned to the division, and defeated the Qing army composed of Jingzhou defenders and reinforcements of up to 8,000 people in the middle of the next month, and took advantage of the victory to capture Jingzhou and Wugang Prefecture, and achieved a good start in the southwest battlefield - Jingzhou victory.

After recovering Jingzhou, the Ming army began to launch a counteroffensive against Huguang, and Shen Yongzhong, the Manchu Duke of Xushun, who was in charge of Huguang military affairs, fled north in a hurry. After Li Dingguo confirmed the general trend of the defeat of the Huguang Qing army, he divided his troops with Feng Shuangli, and Feng Shuangli continued to recover the Huguang provinces, while he personally raised the army to attack Guangxi.

On the fourth day of the seventh month of the sixth year of Yongli, Li Dingguo successively defeated the generals Sun Long and Li Yangxing, the generals of Kong Youde, the king of Dingnan, and the army personally mentioned by Kong Youde after entering Guangxi, and attacked Guilin on this day, Kong Youde burned himself and died. At the same time, on the Sichuan battlefield, the Sichuan Ming army led by Liu Wenxiu also began to fight for the purpose of recovering the whole of Sichuan......

In just a few months, the Ming army in the southwest expanded the occupied area from the only remaining Yunnan and Guizhou provinces to the north, northeast, and east in one fell swoop, recovering the entire territory of Guangxi, as well as the southern part of Huguang and most of Sichuan, making a good start for the great counterattack that the Great Western Army had been accumulating for a long time.

Unlike the southeast battlefield, which has begun to deviate from the track, the general trend of the southwest battlefield is not different from that in history, but some small details have begun to show some slight changes.

The Qin Palace, the newly built palace in Guiyang City, is second only to the Kunming Qin Mansion in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces in terms of luxury, even the Qianguo Mansion that has lived in Yunnan for many generations cannot be compared, not to mention the Yongli Tianzi Palace rebuilt by the Yamen of Anlong Thousand Households.

In the main hall of the Qin Palace, when the envoy retreated, Sun Kewang discussed a major matter with several of his cronies.

Since Sun Kewang put the Yongli Emperor under house arrest in Anlong Mansion, he built an imitation of the Lighting Dynasty in Guiyang as the "lord of the country" of the King of Qin, and established central institutions such as the six departments of the camp. These people are all his cronies, and the important thing they are discussing is the news brought by the envoy sent by Zhu Chenggong, the Marquis of Weiyuan, Fujian-Lu Jianguo has gone to Jianguo.

Lu Jianguo said that the Jianguo was in the second year of Hongguang, far earlier than the Emperor Ming orthodox Yongli that they nominally obeyed, but unlike the three emperors Hongguang, Longwu, and Yongli, the influence of the Lu Wang regime of the Jianguo was mainly in Zhejiang and Fujian provinces, such as Nanzhili and some of the rebels in Shandong also had the main Fenglu Jianguo, but the influence on the entire region was greatly insufficient.

With the collapse of the Longwu and Shaowu regimes of the Tang Dynasty, the Lu Jianguo Group generally did not interfere with each other and did not compete with the Tang Dynasty. But now, Lu Fan has gone to supervise the country and changed the Yongli of Gui Fan to the orthodoxy of the Emperor Ming, and this matter naturally requires Sun Kewang and his cronies to weigh the pros and cons.

"The lord of the country, Weichen thinks that this matter has nothing to do with the overall situation for the time being, and he can approve King Lu in the name of the emperor. On the contrary, Chen Wen, who was previously dominated by King Lu, still needs to be given a title as usual. ”

After Yongli was placed under house arrest in Anlong Mansion, Sun Kewang decided on his own for major military affairs, and then notified the matter, and as for the small things, he didn't even bother to do it. During this period, the Lu clan changed to the Yongli calendar, which was a matter of orthodoxy and a real event. Moreover, King Lu nominally had two large armies - one was an army of more than 10,000 troops under Zhang Mingzhen, the Marquis of Dingxi, and the other was Chen Wen in western Zhejiang. However, Zheng Chenggong's envoy did not mention Zhang Mingzhen at all, only said that the army that fled to Fujian with King Lu was besieging Zhangzhou with Zheng Chenggong.

In fact, now Sun Kewang doesn't look down on Chen Wen very much, and even Zheng Chenggong can't get into his eyes, it's just some small forces in the southeast, which can't be compared with his Great Western Army at all, but with ambitions, some things must always be considered in advance.

After approving the suggestion of the Ministry of War's Shangshu Wan Nian Ce, Sun Kewang set his sights on Ren Ying, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Fan Ying, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, which was nothing more than choosing a reasonable title and the messenger responsible for spreading the edict.

There is an example of Zheng Chenggong, and it is naturally difficult to write the title, and as for the messenger of the edict, Sun Kewang is also satisfied with Fan Ying's proposal. It's just that he has time to put this matter aside in the future, and Sun Kewang suddenly remembered what he heard that made him a little uncomfortable.

"Let that big turban named Zhang Heyan be the deputy envoy, so that the guy has nothing to do to advocate those Taixi's military formations and mercenaries in Anlong Qianhu."

The person Sun Kewang said was called Zhang Gongyan, a student of Guangnan Mansion in eastern Yunnan, who had guarded Guilin with Qu Shiyun at the beginning, and the Portuguese mercenaries recruited from Macao had left a deep impression on him, and even so profound that he was so far away from Western learning that he changed to Zhang Mu, and seemed to believe that if the Ming Dynasty changed to practice the tooth phalanx, it would be easy to recover the two capitals.

Anlong Mansion is full of Sun Kewang's eyes from the inside out, although this scholar has not committed his taboo against the Yongli Imperial Court, but advocating those things that he doesn't understand at all, Sun Kewang is not very happy. At present, the situation is very good, and he can't kill people for this little thing, so he simply chases him away, and it is best to be unwilling to accept death in another country.

Everyone present has followed Sun Kewang for many years, and this bit of vision is still there. The personnel were quickly finalized, and although this matter was a big deal, there was nothing reflected in the interests.

After all, it's just a prince who lives in someone else's territory and a military general under this prince who is surrounded by the Qing army, maybe the envoy will die before he arrives at the place. As for the joke about the rebellion of the prison army, Sun Kewang just listened to it for fun, Lu Jianguo did not make a decision, and he was also unwilling to be that fool. Therefore, they soon put this matter aside and continued to discuss the war and the appointment of officials in Huguang, Sichuan, and Guangxi, as well as the taxes in the two inherent occupation areas of Yunnan and Guizhou, which were major matters of life and death.

A few days later, the envoys set out as promised, and together with Zheng Chenggong's envoys, they sailed from Fujian to Leizhou, Guangdong, and then to Guangxi, where they returned via Guizhou. First go to the Central Left Office in Fujian to proclaim the edict, and then go to Jinhua, which does not border with the Ming army's occupied areas, so as to put an end to this matter.

Outside the short city gate of Anlong Mansion, Zhang Gongyan said goodbye to a civilian official who could be talked about on weekdays - Lin Qingyang, a member of the Military Selection Division of the Ministry of War. The two of them only sang and spoke to each other on weekdays, but this time it was slightly different, but the messenger sent by Sun Kewang was on the same road as the messenger who informed the Son of Heaven of Yongli, and the person was not far away, and the two just said goodbye to each other for a moment and then said goodbye.

The envoy of the Yongli court, to be precise, Sun Kewang's envoy, had set off and headed for the initial destination, Yongning Weizhongzuo in Fujian. At this time, in Kinmen, not far from the center and left, in the residence of Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, everyone was still shocked by the news that had just arrived.

A few months earlier, Cao Conglong had launched a rebellion, attempting to use Chen Wen's remaining garrisons in Jinhua to reclaim Taizhou and make a last-ditch effort for the Lu Jianguo group. However, within a month, the rebellion was suppressed by Chen Wen, and most of those involved were executed, even the local gentry and wealthy families in Jinhua Mansion were implicated. But what followed was that Chen Wen's process of attacking Quzhou was interrupted, and the Qing army inexplicably got a chance to breathe, and even regained the strategic initiative for no reason.

The recital, full of suspicion and questioning, was sent to Kinmen, and the only remaining members of the Lu Jianguo group were in mourning. After a long wait, this hope has been recognized as unrealistic in the minds of most people, and in the silence, only a very small number of officials are still defending Cao Conglong, making rude accusations and insults against Chen Wen.

But all this has been to no avail, Zheng Chenggong has given less and less food, except for Zhang Mingzhen, other nobles have already brought their subordinates to serve in Zheng's army, and even many civilian officials have joined it. Knowing that he couldn't support it anymore, and even hope was cut off today, Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, chose to go to the prison country and change Yongli to the emperor's orthodoxy, this is the only thing he can do, and it is better to save face than to be forced to go to the prison country in person.

In the days when fate was in the hands of others, waiting for the execution of the Yongli Imperial Court, Zhu Yihai thought more than once that if Cao Conglong had not launched a rebellion, maybe everything would have taken a turn for the better. However, as the civil officials accompanying him continued to slander Chen Wen, Zhu Yihai soon turned his fantasies to Cao Conglong's successful rebellion and took advantage of the situation to recover Taizhou.

He should have been a prince of peace, in the face of the general trend of the collapse of the Ming Dynasty building, it is his advantage to dare to go sideways to the front line to stimulate morale, but he has no idea of his own in case of trouble, but people can't be the master of Zhongxing at all.

Just like now, when a civilian official under Zheng Chenggong's curtain relayed the news he had received from the Qing army in Fujian, the silence in the lobby immediately reminded Zhu Yihai of the thoughts he had just had when he went to prison for the country.

"Cao Yunlin misled the country!"

The civil official under Zheng Chenggong's curtain had left, and Zhu Yihai vented his long-accumulated resentment.

A few months earlier, Chen Wen had defeated the Qing army in Quzhou and besieged the capital of Quzhou, but Cao Conglong's infighting had been abandoned. However, a few months later, Chen Wen marched into Quzhou again, defeating the 15,000 Qing army with 8,000 soldiers, including the elite presence of the Zhejiang-Fujian Governor, the Jiangxi Biao, and the Fujian Left Road General Battalion. Moreover, he once again surrounded Quzhou, not only regaining the strategic initiative, but also slapping those who were still slandering him in the face.

Facts speak louder than words, before the outbreak of Cao Conglong's rebellion, Chen Wen's plan to attack Quzhou first and then restore Taizhou had been sent to the imperial front of Lu Jianguo. However, with the outbreak of Cao Conglong's rebellion, this plan naturally could not be counted anymore, and Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, who had lost the last hope, chose to give up the title of prisoner and let the ministers transfer to Zheng Chenggong.

During this period of time, except for Zhang Huangyan, who did not want to express his opinion on this, almost everyone described Chen Wen as a chaotic minister and thief who everyone was punished, and Cao Conglong as a loyal minister who had the heart to return to heaven but was brutalized by traitors.

But now it seems that it was the "loyal minister" who undoubtedly corrupted the state affairs, and the "traitor" fought bloody battles for Zhongxing Daming again and again, which made Zhu Yihai suddenly have the urge to laugh for a while. But then I thought about it, these officials who slandered Chen Wen on weekdays are still loyal to him, and it is really not appropriate to hurt the hearts of these courtiers, but it is really uncomfortable to hold back, so I have to turn ridicule into indignation and vent it.

"Cao Yunlin misled the country!"

Because there were two Fujian green battalions in the various departments of the Qing army participating in the war, and the deputy general of Jianning Mansion did not know whether he was alive or dead, so the various versions of this war spread almost like the wind throughout the Manchu officialdom in Fujian, and naturally Zheng Chenggong, who was still resting his troops and preparing to start the war again.

From the mouth of the civil official sent by Zheng Chenggong, it was repeatedly confirmed, and all the officials who accompanied him were red-faced, even the former first assistant Shen Chenquan was no exception.

Historically, after Shen Chenquan fled to Fujian in the state of Lu Jianguo, he chose to go to Japan to borrow troops for self-respect, but died in a shipwreck. But this time, because the Lu Jianguo Group needed to send someone to contact Chen Wen, Zhang Mingzhen, the Marquis of Dingxi, opposed his visit on the grounds that Shoufu could not be moved lightly, and as a result, even the plan to go to Japan was shelved, and Shen Chenquan naturally had no chance to go out of the shipwreck.

I don't know that he actually lived to the current Shen Chenquan because of Chen Wen's appearance, although he was also very dissatisfied with Cao Conglong's recklessness from the bottom of his heart, but for the sake of the interests of civil officials, he still said some bad things about Chen Wen, just like other civil officials.

But now, Shentangyuan's great victory has ruthlessly put their previous framed Chen Wenxing and their intentions on their faces. They even closed their eyes, as if the general, whom they had never seen before, was pointing at their noses and laughing at them, at them for sending a colleague who was not capable of getting things done to carry out an idiot's plan, and at them for being a bunch of incompetent people.

It's true, it's really embarrassing for everyone to find a crack in the ground to get into.

Different from the only remaining civil and military forces of the Lu Jianguo group, Zheng Chenggong, who is currently in Zhangzhou, is afraid that he can jump up with joy when he learns the news that Chen Wen has defeated the Qing army again, if he has to maintain his usual majesty.

All along, Zheng Chenggong has focused on strengthening his own power, and regards the recovery of Liangjing and Zhongxing Daming as the only way to wash away the shame of the Xue family. The existence of the Lu Jianguo Group attracted a lot of ideas from the Qing army for him, but their Zheng family offended King Lu too much in supporting the Tang Dynasty, and the Lu Jianguo Group has always been a great threat to him. Therefore, when Zheng Cai invited King Lu to attack Fujian, he continued to fight under the banner of Longwu without the slightest interest in the company. And when the country of Lu Jian was embarrassed, he did not hesitate to use the remnants of King Lu for his own use through a series of means, lest the country of Lu Jian be able to turn over.

Chen Wen, although he had served King Lu as orthodox before, but the prison army sent by the Lu Jianguo group actually recklessly launched a rebellion for an inexplicable plan, completely offended this promising general, and a potential threat was gone. And this time, he informed Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, of the news of Chen Wen's defeat of Chen Jin again, in order to make the group collapse more completely internally.

Even if he put aside the Lu Jianguo group, Chen Wen's existence did attract too much attention from the Qing army in the southeast for him, and during the half year of besieging Zhangzhou, not even a single Qing army from other provinces came to aid Fujian, and they were all attracted by Chen Wen in Jinhua and Quzhou. Since the news brought back by the envoy who went to Jinhua not long ago, Chen Wen himself also admires him very much, and has some longing for the cooperation between the two.

Even if this is just an illusion, Zheng Chenggong hopes that Chen Wen can continue to hold out in Zhejiang, at least until he recovers the whole of Fujian and has the strength to fight a decisive battle with the Manchu heavy army group.

Perhaps, the concubine of a clan Xu Weizheng can exchange this possible friendship for more practical benefits, and the background of the hereditary military general family since Emperor Gao is barely worthy. Well, after recovering Quanzhou, someone will find out about this matter. (To be continued.) )