Since the Yongli court moved from Zhaoqing to Anlong Mansion in Guizhou, Lian Chengbi, the governor of Liangguang, became the highest official of the Ming Dynasty in Guangdong, and he was nominally the governor of Liangguang (Guangdong, Guangxi) of the Yongli court, but in fact he could only command the Ming army and righteous division along the coast of Guangdong to resist the Qing. After cooperating with Li Dingguo twice to recover Guangzhou, Lianchengbi was in a more difficult situation, and at the beginning of the year, he moved the governor to Leizhou further west. After learning that Chen Qice, who was stationed on Shangxiachuan Island, had entered Tanjiang to support Xinhui without an order, Lian Chengbi was more worried than annoyed, because just a few days ago he had received accurate news that Li Dingguo's troops had broken into Anlong and moved the Son of Heaven to Kunming.

The Son of Heaven has been under the rule of Anlong Mansion, which is controlled by the Qin King Sun Kewang, but now he was suddenly moved to Kunming by Li Dingguo, what does this mean, and how can Lianchengbi, who is the governor of Liangguang, not know?

At the time of the national crisis, Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, the two pillars of the Ming Dynasty, were in internal strife, which made the city wall so anxious that they couldn't sleep all night, and at the same time they were even more worried about the deterioration of the situation in Guangdong.

Last year, the news of the new recapture could make the Governor unable to sleep with excitement, but now he can only sleep with worry. He knew how important Xinhui City was to Guangzhou, but if he wanted to play the role of Xinhui, the premise must depend on the eastward advance of Li Dingguo's army again. Now that Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang have infighting and moved the Son of Heaven to Kunming, can Sun Kewang meet Li Dingguo after he knows it? At that time, the two main forces of the Ming army were killed in the rear, and where could they take care of the Qing army. Without Li Dingguo's great westward march eastward, what is the significance of whether the new meeting can be won or not?

Lian Chengbi understood that the news of the civil strife between Sun Kewang and Li Ding would be learned by the Qing army sooner or later, and the Qing army would definitely take advantage of the situation at that time, and Guangdong would bear the brunt of it, Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao would definitely take action, and at the moment his mission as a governor was no longer concerned about the safety of the Son of Heaven who moved to Kunming, but to worry about whether he and the two governors of Guangzhou could still stay in Guangdong, and whether the Ming Dynasty was really over.

After sending away Chen Qice's messenger in a vague tone. Lian Chengbi went to see Guo Zhiqi overnight, hoping to get a way from the latter that could best ensure that the situation in Guangdong would not deteriorate.

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The Governor spoke vaguely, but the envoy sent by Chen Qice was a shrewd man, and he smelled something wrong from the governor's words, and he did not rush to return, but spent a lot of money in the city to move around, and finally got the details of Li Dingguo's transfer of the Son of Heaven from the Governor's Yamen Master.

It turned out that as early as when Li Dingguo first marched into Guangdong, Emperor Yongli of Anlong Mansion sent someone to carry a secret edict for Li Dingguo to lead the troops to meet him. At that time, Li Dingguo's intention was to join forces with Zheng Chenggong to recover Guangdong, so that he could not only expand the area controlled by the Ming army, but also use Zheng Chenggong, Zhang Mingzhen and other powerful factions in Fujian and Zhejiang to curb Sun Kewang's ambitions. But who knew that Zheng Chenggong was short-sighted and did not want Li Dingguo, who was born in the Great Western Army, to make such a great achievement, so he delayed his troops and did not move, resulting in Li Dingguo returning in Zhaoqing without success.

After receiving the secret edict of Yongli, Li Dingguo knew that the survival of the Yongli court was related to the success or failure of the entire anti-Qing cause, and if the Yongli court died, the Ming army that insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty would lose its co-master, and the Ming Dynasty would really die at that time. After much deliberation, Li Dingguo decided to move the Son of Yongli to the area under his control. so as not to be harmed by Sun Kewang. Only at that time, he was leading his army to attack Zhaoqing, and then he fell ill for several months, and he was unable to implement this plan.

When Li Dingguo's second eastward march defeated Xinhui, the hope of contacting "Dongxun" to support the Ming Room in the plan was completely frustrated. Only then did he withdraw to Nanning, Guangxi, to rest the soldiers and horses, and at this time there was news that Sun Kewang was ready to ascend the throne and claim the emperor, and Li Dingguo could only decide to lead the troops and horses of his headquarters to Anlong in person to rescue Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang from the control of Sun Kewang.

Upon learning of Li Dingguo's move to march into Anlong, Sun Kewang immediately sent his generals Liu Zhenguo and Guan Youcai to lead troops to be stationed in Tianzhou to intercept Li Dingguo's army from going north. Li Dingguo in order to break through Sun Kewang's blockade. Elite are dispatched, and it is easy to soap the flag in the army, day and night. In three days, he entered Tianzhou. Liu Zhenguo and Guan Youcai couldn't figure out the details of the incoming army, so they were caught off guard, leaving their soldiers and horses and fleeing on horseback. After pacifying the more than 20,000 soldiers left behind by Liu and Guan, Li Dingguo kept marching towards Anlong.

After receiving the news that Li Dingguo broke through the Tianzhou defense line and marched towards Anlong, Sun Kewang was shocked and hurriedly sent the general Bai Wenxuan to Anlong. He gave Bai Wenxuan only one order, that is, he must move the Yongli monarch and ministers into Guiyang and put them under his direct control.

Although Bai Wenxuan is Sun Kewang's old department, he does not approve of Sun Kewang taking the Ming Dynasty, so he always defends the Yongli monarch and ministers either explicitly or secretly, and even every time he goes to Anlong Mansion to visit Yongli, he is sweating and does not dare to look directly.

After receiving Sun Kewang's order to move Yongli Junchen to Guiyang, Bai Wenxuan disagreed, and although he arrived in Anlong, he was reluctant to act. Sun Kewang saw that Bai Wenxuan refused to escort Yongli Junchen to Guiyang, and sent his cronies Ye Yingzhen to Anlong to urge.

Sun Kewang repeatedly sent troops and horses to Anlong to urge Yongli to move to Guiyang, Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang knew that this trip was auspicious, and the women in the palace were also so frightened that they cried. Seeing this, Bai Wenxuan couldn't bear it, so he said to Ye Yingzhen that Anlong is a small place, it is not easy to recruit people, and the matter of moving the car is very important, so it cannot be dealt with rashly, so it is better to wait for a few more days, and it is not too late to move the car when the manpower is complete.

Although Ye Yingzhen is Sun Kewang's confidant, the soldiers and horses he led are not as good as Bai Wenxuan, so he didn't dare to violate Bai Wenxuan's words, so he could only wait patiently, but he didn't expect that Li Dingguo had personally led his troops and horses to arrive in the past few days.

Li Dingguo sent an order to rest not far from Anlong, and he ordered Yang Xiang to go to Anlong to get in touch with Yongli Junchen first. As a result, Li Xiang was captured by Liu Zhenguo's troops in the Bantun River, fifty miles away from the city, and sent to Bai Wenxuan.

Bai Wenxuan personally asked Yang Xiang about his intentions, and Yang Xiang said: "I sent a message to Yang Xiang, and the lord of the country ordered me to supervise and urge the prefecture and county to prepare grain and grass, so as to wait for the lord of the country." After speaking, he took out a piece of dragon card paper from his armor, and wrote on it "Prepare grain for Yang'an Longdao Mansion", and there was nothing else, Bai Wenxuan knew that the "lord of the country" in Yang Xiang's mouth was not Sun Kewang, but he pretended to be confused, and ordered people to treat him with wine and food, and then let him move freely.

In this way, with the secret help of Bai Wenxuan, Yang Xiang was able to enter the city to meet Emperor Yongli, and present the secret that Li Dingguo had hidden in his heart to Yongli. At this point, Yongli knew that Li Dingguo's army was about to arrive in Anlong, and his heart that had been hanging was finally let go. After Yang Xiang saw this, he immediately returned to Li Dingguo's military camp in disguise.

Ye Yingzhen heard that Li Dingguo's army was about to arrive in Anlong, and hurriedly led the soldiers to enter the palace, forcing Emperor Yongli to immediately ride to Guiyang. Because he was worried that Li Dingguo would suddenly kill, Ye Yingzhen's attitude towards the emperor and queen was extremely bad, and he was so frightened that the palace was crying again inside and outside.

At the critical time, Bai Wenxuan arrived, and when he saw that Ye Yingzhen was arrogant, he called him over and threatened him: "The lord of the country is afraid that Li Dingguo will surrender to the Qing Dynasty, so he wants to move the Son of Heaven to Guiyang, in order to prevent the Son of Heaven from being poisoned by Li Dingguo." Now that Li Dingguo has not yet arrived, how dare you persecute the Son of Heaven like this? If you insist on persecuting it to this point, the Son of Heaven is the jade leaf and golden branch, the lord of all the peoples in the world, unlike your life and mine, in case of an accident, can you bear this responsibility?"

Ye Yingzhen was stunned by these words, after all, Sun Kewang didn't say anything to him before he came, and he panicked in his heart, afraid that he would be reprimanded by Sun Kewang after he went back.

Bai Wenxuan saw that Ye Yingzhen's face was afraid, and comforted him: "I have already sent someone to visit Li Dingguo, if he really brings Qing soldiers here, it is not too late for you to move." If Li Dingguo didn't vote for it, he and the lord of the country would still be a family, so why should we persecute the Son of Heaven too much for him and take the blame for ourselves!"

In this way, in the end, under the coaxing of Bai Wenxuan, Ye Yingzhen was forced to back down and no longer forced Yongli to move. As a result, in the early hours of the morning, the fog was thick, and suddenly dozens of cavalry arrived at the foot of Anlong City, and immediately the cavalry shouted around the city: "The soldiers of Xifu are here!"

In the city, the Yongli monarchs and ministers and the people heard the shouts and shouts, and Ye Yingzhen did not dare to be an enemy of Li Dingguo, so he hurriedly led people to flee back to Guiyang.

After dawn, Li Dingguo's pro-unified army arrived in Anlong, and then entered the city to meet the Son of Heaven.

As soon as Emperor Yongli saw Li Dingguo, he cried and said: "I have known Qingqing's loyalty for a long time, and I hate to see each other too late!" ”

Li Dingguo was also so excited that he burst into tears, and said: "The minister is grateful to His Majesty, and he wants to take two Guangdong to welcome Luanyu, but not only does he not fulfill the minister's wishes, but also renews His Majesty's worries, and he will be unable to redeem himself until he dies!" ”

At this point, Li Dingguo gained control of Anlong, because he lost a lot of soldiers in the Xinhui Battle last year, and the Guizhou region was Sun Kewang's sphere of influence, so Li Dingguo discussed with Bai Wenxuan about the relocation after returning to the camp after the court, and the two agreed that moving to Kunming, Yunnan Province was the best policy.

After the decision was made, Li Dingguo chose 500 people under his account to guard the palace first, and two days later personally escorted the Yongli monarch and ministers to leave Anlong and march to Yunnan. After arriving in Qujing, Yunnan, because the generals Liu Wenxiu, Wang Shangli and others stationed in Kunming were at the behest of Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo asked Emperor Yongli to stay here temporarily, and he led the elite soldiers to Kunming to discuss the matter of welcoming Liu Wenxiu and others.

Liu Wenxiu, like Li Dingguo, also supported the Yongli Imperial Court, and because of the contradiction between the battle in Sichuan and Sun Kewang, although his status was high, his military power was not large. When the news of Li Dingguo's escort to Qujing reached Kunming, Liu Wenxiu, Wang Shangli, Mu Tianbo, and others discussed how to deal with it, but they couldn't make up their minds. Because if you open the door to welcome Emperor Yongli, you are close to betraying Sun Kewang, but it is obviously inappropriate to send troops to refuse.

Although Emperor Yongli was just a puppet in the minds of Wang Shangli and others, he could not help but serve his "Zhengshuo" and recognize his status as emperor, not to mention that Li Dingguo, who came with him, was second only to Sun Kewang in the Great Western Army, and his influence could not be ignored. When Wang Shangli and others were in a dilemma, Li Dingguo had personally commanded the troops and horses to come outside Kunming.

Knowing that Li Dingguo was already outside the city, Wang Shangli immediately panicked, and under the persuasion of Liu Wenxiu, he reluctantly went out of the city to greet him. Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu agreed to welcome Emperor Yongli into Kunming, Wang Shangli was not convenient to disobey the two kings, and he did not know how many men and horses Li Dingguo brought, so he did not dare to act rashly and agreed to welcome Emperor Yongli into the city. (To be continued.) )