From the spies, I heard that the Zheng family army did not advance westward, and the two fleets of Beiyang and Donghai were dispatched to resist the Japanese and Western ghosts. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Hong Chengchou believes that in this case, Zheng Jiajun should be unable to attack Huguang again.

At the end of 1653, Hong Chengchou officially ordered Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, and Li Guohan, the guard of Gushan Ezhen Mollegen, to lead 50,000 soldiers and horses from Hanzhong in Shaanxi to Sichuan to attack Yunnan and contain the Ming soldiers.

Ordered Gushan Ezhen Zhao Butai to command 30,000 troops to go south to Hunan, and allocated some Han soldiers by Jingluhong Chengchou, and took the national security department of the Admiral Line under the Huguang and Dingvan to attack Guizhou in the north.

He himself led an army of 100,000 troops from Baoqing, Hunan, to attack Guizhou.

In the first month of 1654, in order to successfully capture the southwest, the Qing court appointed Wang Doni of Xinjun as the general of Anyuan Jingkou, and the king of Tongping County, Luo Keduo, Beile Shangshan, Dulan, Gushan Ezhen Yild, Arzin, Basihan, Zhuo Luo, etc., led 16,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners to the south to help.

When Sun Kewang rebelled, although Sun Kewang's subordinates Bai Wenxuan, Liu Wenxiu's subordinates Ma Jinzhong and Ma Bao all rebelled and made great efforts.

But because of this, Li Dingguo was even more jealous of them, fearing that when they fought against the Manchus, they would also defect.

So after Sun Kewang surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Li Dingguo did not disrupt his troops and incorporated them into his own troops.

Instead, he divided the "Jin soldiers" (under Sun Kewang) and the "Qin soldiers" (under Li Dingguo), and ordered Liu Wenxiu, the king of Shu, to lead the Jin soldiers back to Yunnan to resist Wu Sangui, the king of the western Qing Dynasty.

Then the troops of the king of Shu were transferred to Guizhou to garrison.

Li Dingguo thought that this would make Liu Wenxiu have some scruples and dare not surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

The Qing army had already been dispatched, but in order to rectify the interior, Li Dingguo did not timely deploy the offensive that would inevitably be launched against the Qing side, but instead mobilized the soldiers back and forth, making the soldiers exhausted.

Li Dingguo self-destroyed the Great Wall, and the Qing army's three-way army progressed extremely smoothly.

Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, and Li Guohan, the king of Gushan, seized the opportunity to lead the troops south to Sichuan from Hanzhong, Shaanxi. Wu Sangui marched rapidly, reaching Baoning on the 4th day of the first month of March, advancing south through Nanfang County and Xichong County on the 7th day of the first month, and reaching Hezhou on the 14th.

Along the way, Wu Sangui did not encounter a slight amount of resistance.

On the third day of the fourth month, Wu Sangui led the army to the city suddenly, and Du Zixiang, the general soldier of Nanming who defended Chongqing, was so frightened that he abandoned the city and fled, and Wu Sangui's troops successfully occupied Chongqing, an important town in the southwest.

At that time, there were still many Southern Ming troops stationed in eastern and western Sichuan, Wu Sangui and Li Guohan in order to comply with the Qing court's edict to attack Guizhou, on the 13th led the main force to cross the Yangtze River to the south, in order to prevent the back road from being cut off, leaving Yongning General Yan Ziming and the newly established heavy general Cheng Tingjun to guard Chongqing.

On the 30th, Wu Sangui occupied Zunyi, and more than 5,000 soldiers led by the Ming general Guo Li Ai and others surrendered.

On the other hand, after Zhao Butai led his army to Changde, Hunan, in February, he joined forces with 16,000 officers and men of Daniel Zhang, the commander of Jingliuhong's Chengqu department, and occupied Chenzhou, and 11,000 officers and men of Li Ruchun, Wang Ping, Nan Yikui, and Chen De, led by Yuan Kuoyu, the governor of Yuanyuan, and 11,000 officers and men from Baoqing to occupy Wugang, Xinning, Chengbu, and Suining.

In March, Hong Chengchou sent a handwritten letter from Sun Kewang to recruit many generals of the Great Western Army, and many generals who were loyal to Sun Kewang defected and surrendered, and Hong Chengchou commanded the Qing army to easily occupy Yuanzhou and Jingzhou in Hunan.

The Qing army took advantage of the victory to pursue and occupy Zhenyuan, Huangping, and Pingyue Prefectures in Guizhou;

In April, Hong Chengchou's troops occupied the provincial capital Guiyang, and Leng Meng, the governor of Anshun in the Southern Ming Dynasty, was defeated and died.

On the third day of the first month of May, Wu Sangui, Zhao Butai, Hong Chengchou, and Doni met in Guiyang.

In Guizhou, Hong Chengchou recuperated his soldiers and horses on the one hand, and recruited Nanming officials on the other hand, and successively returned from Shuixi Xuanwei Si Ankun, Xiyang Xuanwei Si Ran Qibiao, Lin Zhou Xuanwei Si Hao Baoshou, Xingning Bo Wang Xing and more than 7,000 subordinates.

The Qing army's four armies had already joined Guiyang, and at this time, Li Dingguo had only finished arranging the order, collected grain and grass, and prepared to enter Guizhou to meet the battle.

The delayed fighter plane lasted for half a year!

At this time, the defense lines of Xiangxi, Sichuan, and Guangxi, which had long been held against the Qing side, quickly collapsed, and even Guizhou Province, which had become a rear base during the period when Sun Kewang was in power, was mostly occupied by the Qing army.

When the overall deterioration of the war situation in the southwest and the strength of the army was already at a disadvantage, Li Dingguo still had no worries.

The achievements of the two famous kings made Li Dingguo full of confidence, and he thought that the Qing army was nothing more than that, as long as he came out, he would definitely be able to defeat the Qing army and regain those lost territories.

In order to defeat the Qing army in one go, Li Dingguo decided to recover Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou Province, first.

Li Dingguo garrisoned Guanling, ordered Feng Shuangli and Bai Wenxuan's troops to concentrate in the Anshun area, and the forwards Qi Sansheng and Li Rubi led more than 30 battalions of soldiers and horses to Pingba and prepared to attack Guiyang.

In addition, he also crowned Luo Dashun as Long Pingbo in the name of the Yongli Imperial Court, and sent him to lead troops to attack Xintian.

ordered Liu Wenxiu to send troops to attack Chongqing and cut off the back road of the Qing army.

In addition, envoys were sent to contact Wang Youjin, Marquis of Ningguo, and Wang Guangxing, Marquis of Jingchuan, who were originally stationed in Youyang, Sichuan, to lead troops from Sinan Mansion to attack Meitan, so as to contain the Qing army in many ways.

As soon as the news of Li Dingguo's troops reached Guiyang, Hong Chengchou also decided to divide his troops into three ways to meet the battle.

Hong Chengchou is 62 years old this year, and he can no longer bear the bumpy and tiring days of the military. In order to prevent another fainting on the battlefield, he decided to lead part of the army to temporarily live in Guiyang, guard the Xinding place, and take care of food and wages.

Zhonglu Doni led a large army to attack Guanling;

The northern route was led by Wu Sangui to attack Anshun;

The southern route was led by Zhao Butai to command the headquarters and the line Guoan and Zhang Guozhu's army, and sent the Gushan Ezhenji Xiha Department to attack Pingba. (To be continued.) )