Since he did not dare to send troops to fight, the Longwu court could only limit Ren Siqi's dominance to words, after discussion, Emperor Longwu issued an edict, sent people to Nanjing to condemn Ren Siqi's unauthorized killing, and ordered Ren Siqi to rein in the precipice and stop killing the gentry of Nanzhi. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Ren Siqi scoffed at the edict of the Longwu court and immediately drove the envoy out. At the same time, Ren Siqi announced that he would respond to Lu Jianguo's request and send Ren Xingfan to lead 30,000 troops to attack Hangzhou.

On 20 March, Ren Xingfan's troops approached the city of Hangzhou and defeated the Eight Banners Melerzhangjing Zhumala and Tian Xiong, the chief soldier of the Green Battalion, who had gone out of the city to meet the battle.

The Qing army in Hangzhou City is less than 10,000 people, and it is naturally more than enough to deal with the Lu Wang army in eastern Zhejiang, but it is not enough to deal with the Chongming army.

However, the consequences of Ren Siqi's murderous days in the early days finally appeared, and the gentry in Hangzhou were afraid of being persecuted by the Chongming army after the fall of the city, so they actively organized their servants and villagers to assist the Qing army in defending the city, so that the number of troops defending the city reached as many as 30,000, almost equal to the Ming army outside the city.

Sima Nan sent people to transport cannons into the Qiantang River and bombarded the city wall of Hangzhou, and the Qing army in the city could hardly gain a foothold. Ren Xingfan took the opportunity to send people to dig out the city wall of Hangzhou Xicheng, buried tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder, and exploded the city wall dozens of zhang wide with a loud bang, and the Chongming army entered the city of Hangzhou.

The combat strength of the Chongming army is not what it used to be, with half of the musketeers and half of the pikemen in each team, and a large number of plate armor equipment into the army greatly increases the defensive power. After attacking the city, he quickly defeated more than 1,000 Eight Banners in the battle, and seeing that the situation was not good, Zhang Jie, the general of the green battalion, led the army to surrender. After a day of street fighting, all the Qing soldiers were wiped out, and Zhang Cunren, the governor of Zhejiang, Fujian in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was killed.

Seeing that the Chongming army had conquered Hangzhou, Lu Jianguo hurriedly sent people to ask for Hangzhou. After Ren Xingfan plundered, he led his troops to withdraw from Hangzhou.

On April 1, Lu Jianguo entered Hangzhou, sealed the vassals, and was named the king of Chongming County with Ren Siqi's immortal achievements, and the southern part of the Jiangnan part of the south was its fief.

After taking Hangzhou, the power of Lu Jianguo expanded to the whole of Zhejiang, and if Ren Siqi's territory was added, he could almost compete with Emperor Longwu, so he had the idea of being the emperor, and was desperately dissuaded by Zhang Guowei and others.

The news of the loss of Nanjing reached Beijing, which once caused panic in the Qing court, and after careful analysis, Dolgon believed that Ren Siqi had only taken advantage of the emptiness of Nanjing, and the combat power of his army could not compete with the Eight Banners at all.

In March of the second year of Hongguang (Ren Siqi did not recognize the orthodoxy of Longwu and still used the name of Hongguang), that is, in March 1646, Dolgon once again sent a three-way army to attack Ming.

The Eastern Route Army was commanded by Duoduo, Prince of Yu, including the Han Eight Banners of Shang Kexi Geng Zhongming, composed of 20,000 Eight Banners and 30,000 Green Battalions, and the troops went out of Yangzhou to attack the southeast. The Middle Route Army still had Azig as the commander, Gongshun Wang Kong Youde as the vanguard, and together with the subordinates of the Pingnan general Le Ke Dehun, the troops went out of Nanyang, passed through Xiangyang Wuchang, and attacked the Ming army He Tengjiao in Huguang. The Western Route Army was led by Haoge as the commander, with Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, as the vanguard, and went down to Hanzhong through Xi'an to attack Zhang Xianzhong, the king of Daxi in Sichuan.

Let's talk about Duoduo first, he led his troops to Yangzhou in April and joined the naval army of Zhunta, but when crossing the river in Guazhou, the fleet was defeated by the Chongming army, and under the bombardment of the Chongming army's artillery, hundreds of river boats sank at the bottom of the river. Duoduo could only reluctantly withdraw his troops from Yangzhou, sighing to himself in the face of the mighty Yangtze River.

The Manchu Jingnan general Hao Ge and the king of Pingxi, Wu Sangui, led a Manchu and Han army of 50,000 and entered Hanzhong in May. In September, Zhang Xianzhong, the king of Daxi, led his subordinates to leave Chengdu with more than 100,000 troops, and went north to resist the Qing Dynasty, the former general of the Great Western Army Liu Jinzhong was suspicious of Zhang Xianzhong, and led the army to surrender to the Qing army.

On November 26, Hauge sent Ao Bai, the commander of the Protector Army, and other generals to lead the Eight Banners Protector Army to advance lightly, and launched a surprise attack on the Great Western Army. On the morning of the 27th, the Qing army met Zhang Xianzhong's Great Western Army across the Sun Creek. In the face of this unexpected sudden attack, Zhang Xianzhong responded to the battle in a hurry and commanded the horse infantry of the Daxi Army to resist the Qing army on two sides. At this time, the commander of the Qing army, Hao Ge, led a large army to follow, and sent the staff leader Gebuku and others to attack the right flank of the Great Western Army, and Wu Sangui led the army to attack the left flank of the Great Western Army. The battle was very fierce, and the Qing army general Gebuku and others were killed by the peasant army, and the Great Western Army also suffered heavy losses.

When the battle was fierce, Zhang Xianzhong was suddenly shot by a dark arrow and unfortunately died, and the Great Western Army collapsed immediately.

After Zhang Xianzhong's death, his generals Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, Ai Nengqi, Feng Shuangli and others led the remnants of the Great Western Army to the south and moved towards Guizhou.

After the Qing army reached Wuchang in the middle route, Azig first repelled the loyal battalion that occupied Jingzhou, and then defeated the combined forces of He Tengjiao and the loyal battalion, and He Tengjiao retreated to Changsha. The main purpose of Azig's troops was not to attack Hunan, but to cooperate with Duoduo to attack Nanjing. In May, Azig led a Manchu and Han army of more than 60,000 people, with Luckduhun as the vanguard, and took a thousand warships down the river from Wuchang.

Ren Siqi personally led an army of 50,000 and blocked the way of the Qing army in Wuhu. Kong Youde in the Azig battalion was extremely familiar with the naval army, and sent a large number of fireships to attack the Chongming army's strong ships and artillery. The two sides fought fiercely and held each other, and the artillery and muskets of the Chongming army were sharp, so that the land attack of the Qing army was also in vain. At this time, Duoduo was defeated by the Mao Eighteen Water Division in Guazhou, and Azig had no choice but to give up and continue the attack.

Ren Siqi had just occupied a large amount of land, and was anxious to digest the results, and did not pursue the retreating Qing army.

After Azig retreated, he was not reconciled, so he sent multiple troops to attack Hunan and Jiangxi, trying to encircle Nanjing from several directions. In May, Jin Shenghuan, the chief soldier of the Green Battalion, led his troops to capture Ji'an Prefecture, and in September, Gao Jinku, the general of the Green Battalion, captured Ganzhou. Ganzhou is the key point of Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, and Guangdong, and the fall of Ganzhou means that the door of Fujian was opened by the Manchus.

Hearing that Ganzhou had fallen, Emperor Longwu threatened to drive the expedition in person and lead the troops to recapture Ganzhou, but all the troops were in the hands of Zheng Zhilong's brothers, and Zheng Zhilong, who was the commander of the army, only thought about the side and ignored Emperor Longwu's actions.

Huang Daozhou saw that the Zheng family did not move, and the army departments were cowardly and waiting, and Huang Daozhou, who had passed the age of the sixtieth year, said to Emperor Longwu: "Instead of sitting and waiting for death, it is better for the monarch and the ministers to fight together." As a minister, I should act before the emperor and set an example for others. "We must go north before the emperor to resist the Qing Dynasty.

Huang Daozhou contributed money, plus the support of friends, only brought more than 10,000 taels of silver, and generously set out with several disciples. The righteous people from all over Fujian heard about it, and nearly 10,000 people joined him under his command. This patchwork army, with no combat experience, was defeated by the Qing army as soon as it left Fujian, and Huang Daozhou was also captured by the Qing soldiers.