Yongli Zhu Youlang has never been the emperor that Zhou Shixiang is willing to support, because this emperor is too disappointing, and what he wants to support is Zhu Yuyi, the king of the late Tang Dynasty.

When Yongli ran from Zhaoqing to Guangxi, the Tang King insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty in Taishan, and he never thought of surrendering or running. After taking Xiangshan, Zhou Shixiang sent Xu Yingyuan to Taishan to meet the Tang King, Xu Yingyuan came back and told him that there was a great drought in Taishan, and the soldiers and civilians had no food to eat. Even so, Tang Wang was persistent, and he did not think of running away like Yongli, let alone giving up resisting the Qing Dynasty.

Zhou Shixiang issued a call for King Qin, and it was Tang Wang who persuaded the tiger general Wang Xing to respond to King Qin of Zhou Shixiang. Zhou Shixiang asked Tang Wang to go to Guangzhou, but Tang Wang was unwilling to go, he asked Xu Yingyuan to bring a sentence to Zhou Shixiang, saying that he only wanted to stay in Taishan and fight against the Qing Dynasty with the soldiers and civilians of Wencun in this life, and he had no extravagance.

At that moment, Zhou Shixiang was determined to support the Tang Dynasty to resist the Qing Dynasty. He knew that the Tang King would not let him down - because he believed that even without his existence, the two elder brothers were martyred for the Ming Dynasty, and the remaining younger brothers could still be martyred for the Ming Dynasty!

Therefore, Tang Wang is a person with integrity, even if a person with integrity no longer has the ability, he will not be afraid of death, like Yongli, he will abandon the soldiers and civilians who follow him and just run away.

The fact that he is not afraid of death is enough for Zhou Shixiang to lead the Taiping army to support the Tang King.

Support Tang, support Gui, and support Lu

Zhou Shixiang never considered what kind of chaos the support of the Tang King would bring to the current Ming Dynasty, because the current Ming Dynasty has been completely chaotic;

He will not consider how Yongli, who abandoned the country and fled to Burma, will treat the Tang King to replace him, because Yongli is no longer important, and from the moment he abandoned the country and fled, Yongli is no longer qualified to become the co-owner of the Ming and Han families.

He will not even think about the so-called human heart, because the human heart has despaired.

The Ming Dynasty needs a new emperor, an emperor who can lead the Ming army and people who are still persisting in resisting the Qing Dynasty, and an emperor who can give hope to the people of the world.

This person, Zhou Shixiang has chosen, is the King of Tang!

Zhou Shixiang's will is the will of the Taiping Army, and it is the will of the army and people of Liangguang, so the Taiping Army will support the Tang King.

In favor of the Tang Dynasty, Zhou Shixiang had a natural ally, and that was the king of Yanping County of Jinxia.

The friendship between the king of Yanping and Emperor Longwu is known to the world, and his indifference to the Yongli court is also well known, so Zhou Shixiang believes that once the king of Tang is established, the king of Yanping will be the most staunch pro-Tang faction besides himself.

The will of the king of Yanping County is also the will of the tens of thousands of Ming troops in Jinxia!

The Thirteen Families of Kuidong are the third supporting force selected by Zhou Shixiang for the Tang King, and there is no reason for it, just because the remnants of the Dashun Army in Kuidong are the elder brother of the Tang King, and Emperor Longwu is the contact and appeasement; It's just because Yongli has never valued Kui Dongbing, and it is unfair to them; Just because Emperor Chongzhen is Yongli's cousin, Yongli has always been hostile to Kui Dongbing. The reason is enough, and more importantly, Zhou Shixiang will go to rescue Kui Dongbing.

The Taiping Army, the Jinxia Zheng Army, and the Kui Dongbing were the three major Ming army heavy army groups on the mainland, except for the headquarters of Li Dingguo, the king of Jin.

The Taiping army had a strong field combat capability, the Jinxia Zheng army had the most powerful naval force of the era, and Kuidong had tens of thousands of veterans and rich experience in battle formations.

It is conceivable that when these three heavy army groups are linked together by the Tang Dynasty, when the scattered sand situation of each party and its own war in the past is completely changed, it will rewrite the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty against the Qing Dynasty.

Anti-Qing has never been Zhou Shixiang's career alone.

Anti-Qing has never been the cause of the Taiping Army.

Zhou Shixiang needs allies and needs to clean up people's hearts, so he must support the Tang king.

Yongli, who was still wandering on the border thousands of miles away, would not have thought that a young man in the north, thousands of miles away, had abandoned him.

The order to go north to Hunan to block the border between Hunan and Guizhou and rescue the thirteen families in Kuidong was carried out by the towns.

On the sixth day of October, under the guidance of the military flag, more than 30,000 officers and soldiers of the Taiping Army's second, sixth, and ninth towns, cavalry brigades, and artillery towns, together with more than 7,000 soldiers, drove out of Guilin and marched towards Jingzhou, Hunan

In Sichuan, the thirteen families of Kuidong once again set off to Chongqing under the contact of the eunuch Pang Yinglong.

Regardless of his old age, Wen Anzhi of the Governor Pavilion personally commanded the battle of Chongqing. Under the command of Wen Anzhi, the Ming army attacked Chaotianmen all the way, Linjiangmen all the way, and Nanjimen all the way, and more than 20,000 soldiers desperately attacked Chongqing City in order to save the imperial court in Yunnan.

The frantic attack of the Ming army made the Qing army in the city feel frightened, and the Qing Chongkui general soldier Cheng Tingjun and Jianchang general soldier Wang Mingde resisted stubbornly according to the city. The battle lasted until November 14, when Tan Yi, Marquis of Renshou, led 4,000 soldiers and more than 3,000 soldiers of Yuan Duxiao's department of the thirteen families rushed to the city for reinforcements.

Finding that the Ming army had another fresh force arriving, Gao Mingchan, the governor of Sichuan in Chongqing, lost confidence in holding Chongqing, and he used the excuse of asking Li Guoying, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, for reinforcements, and led people to break through from the junction of Yuan Zongdi and Tan Wen of the Ming army. Before leaving, he did not forget to leave an order for Cheng Tingjun and Wang Mingde, ordering them to desperately hold on and wait for reinforcements.

After Cheng Tingjun and Wang Mingde got the news that Gao Mingzhan abandoned the city and fled, they both scolded Gao Mingzhan for being greedy for life and afraid of death. But in addition to scolding, they have no way at all, and now they want to abandon the city and abscond like Gao Mingzhan, because the new Ming army completely sealed the gap and surrounded Chongqing.

During the day, after finally repelling another attack of the Ming army, Wang Mingde found Cheng Tingjun and said to him: "I'm afraid this city can't be defended, the Ming army has more soldiers and horses than last time, and the governor said that he went to Baoning to move rescue troops, but there is no more than a month, and it is impossible for reinforcements to come." Now the situation is very critical, and it is better for him to die in the city, so it is better for you and me to lead the elite soldiers to break through at night, so that there will always be a glimmer of life. ”

"There are many soldiers and horses in the Ming army, you and I are several times over, we have no way to break through the siege, and we can only hold on and wait for help now."

Cheng Tingjun vetoed Wang Mingde's proposal to break through, Wang Mingde was helpless, if there was no Cheng Tingjun's soldiers and horses, the soldiers and horses under his command alone would not be able to break through the Ming army's defense line.

Outside the city, the Ming army Renshou Marquis Tan Yi led the soldiers and horses of the Fuhou Tan Wen to replace the soldiers and horses of the Fuhou Tan Wen, who suffered heavy casualties, and Tan Hong, the Marquis of Xinjin, also led the soldiers and horses of the department to take over the defense.

In the night, looking at the dense tents of the Ming army outside the city, Wang Mingde suddenly had a will, he still had seven or eight thousand people under his command, plus a Chongqing city, how could he save his life if he voted for the Ming army. But this idea was immediately rejected by him, because the Ming Dynasty emperors were now probably captured and killed by the Qing soldiers, and it would be too irrational to surrender to the Ming Dynasty for the doomed Ming Dynasty in the past. simply gritted his teeth and gambled, and continued to hold on, maybe he could really hold on to the arrival of reinforcements. He didn't know that at this moment, a shocking change was taking place in the Ming army camp outside the city

(To be continued.) )