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The change of hands at the entrance to Beijing, the fall of Nanjing, the flight of Kangxi south to Hangzhou, and the destruction of the 20,000 forbidden brigades and eight banners in Changzhou spread like a shock wave throughout China, making the hearts of the bureaucrats and gentry who were originally not optimistic about Ming and Zheng because of the increasingly embarrassing war situation in Guangdong and Fujian come alive again. (If you like this book, please bookmark biquge.info)

However, these wandering speculators had not yet acted, and Zheng's army conquered the city of Taiping on the fifth day of the fifth month of May, and the Tu Zheng clan kicked off the western expedition. The westward Zheng army traveled up the river to Anqing under the leadership of Wu Shu, the new commander-in-chief of Anhui, because most of the Qing court's troops in Anhui were transferred south to Fujian Province, so the Zheng army was like a bamboo, connecting Wuhu, Fanchang, Nanling and other places.

At the same time, the main force of the Zheng army, which had annihilated the Yabu and Muzina divisions, swept southward and soon besieged Suzhou. Although Song Ju, who succeeded Zheng Duan, who died of illness, as the governor of Jiangsu, and Suo Etu, who was stranded in Suzhou City to raise grain, repeatedly transferred the people to strengthen and prepare for regimental training, but because the main force of the Qing army in Jiangnan either went south or was lost in Changzhou City, the defenders' combat strength was extremely weak, and they could not hold out in the face of Zheng Army's artillery fire and strong attack.

In just three days, the Zheng army broke through the wide moat outside Suzhou, attacked the Qimen, Snake Gate, and Changmen towers, and then captured the whole city. Suo Etu, who had no escape, coerced Song Ju to commit suicide in the fire, and most of the remaining Han soldiers below Tang Zongyao surrendered, and the Manchu and Mongolian officials below Hu Shita also chose to be martyred.

Since Suzhou fell, Taicang, Songjiang, Jiaxing and other places that had been attacked by the Zheng army no longer had the ability to resist, and since Jiasong could not stop the Zheng army, Hangzhou was exposed to the Zheng army's troops. Because the main force of the Qing army's southern expedition into Fujian Province had not had time to overturn, there were also less than five or six thousand defenders in Hangzhou, and they could not face the attack of the upcoming Zheng army at all. Because he knew that the Zheng army was attacking the front line of Anqing, Kangxi did not dare to directly cross Tianmu Mountain and enter Ningguo through Huzhou or Huizhou through Yanzhou, so he could only go up along Zhejiang, from Quzhou to Jiangxi Guangxin Mansion, and then through Raozhou Mansion to Nanchang.

However, this "safe" road is extremely difficult because it has to pass through the mountains of western Zhejiang, not to mention the extremely difficult along the way, and more importantly, the news was cut off after Kangxi's westward journey, so that rumors in Beijing were full of horror because Zheng Jun blocked the Yangtze River and cut off the news from the south of the Yangtze River, coupled with people from all walks of life who had ghosts in their hearts, and for a time the rumors that Kangxi had died were boiling, which further stimulated the ambitions of some speculators.

"Now that Suo Etu is dead, and the emperor's whereabouts are unknown, no one in the court can compete with Mingzhu." In Tong Guowei's private residence, several conspirators were whispering. "If he doesn't agree, it is impossible for the crown prince to succeed to the throne."

"Ming Zheng has always supported the eldest brother, how can he agree to the crown prince's succession?" Echoing the words of the left deputy of the Imperial Palace, Falha, the right attendant of the household department, Si Gese, said. "And the eldest brother once fought in Galdan, Prince Yu, Prince Gong and those Qiu Ba are all quite favored, plus now the war in Jiangnan is still ongoing"

"Yes, not only will Mingzhu not agree to the crown prince's succession, but maybe he may even support the eldest brother," Xizhu, the superintendent of the military department, gritted his teeth and said to his master. "Uncle Guo, the obstacle of Mingzhu must be removed, otherwise the prince will be in danger."

Farha hesitated and said, "But our people alone can't pose a threat to Ming Zheng at all. ”

"Then join forces with the Sodang." Xi Zhu said viciously. "Presumably they can't ask for it at the moment."

"But the two parties can't just join forces," Sigse's brow tightened. "If you want to bring down the pearl, the infantry commander yamen must be mastered, and the pearl outside the palace is closely guarded, and there is absolutely no possibility of doing it, if you want to get rid of the old thief, you have to do it in the palace, I don't know if there is one on the prince's side."

"Uncle Guo, several adults, in case the emperor doesn't die." The minister of the scattered rank, Bo Shumin, listened to it for a long time, and when he heard that the bold and reckless Si Gese was actually preparing to make a bloody case in the palace forbidden, he finally couldn't help but interrupt. "Uncle Guo, a few adults, let's wait for the exact news from Jiangnan."

"Uncle Guo, the so-called preemptive strike and then strike at others, in case Mingzhu makes the first move, we want no people, we want soldiers without soldiers, but we can be slaughtered." Xi Zhu's words are actually very unreasonable, speaking of which, the Tong Party is not on the same starting line as the Ming Party and the Suo Party, Mingzhu may be a little jealous of Tong Guowei, but for the pawns of the Tong Party, he may not have the ability to clean up, but the so-called party is the same and different, for the sake of future glory and wealth, Xi Zhu must instigate Tong Guowei to fight hard, so it is normal to speak a little heavier. "As for whether the emperor is dead or not, what does it matter, just learn from Tang Suzong and follow Tang Xuanzong as the emperor."

"Preemptive, second-strike." Tong Guowei smashed these words, squinted his eyes and thought for a while, and finally made a decision. "Inside and outside the palace, the contact should be contacted first, and it will take time to think about it, if everything is ready, and there is no news from the emperor, then the arrow will have to be sent"

Leaving aside the conspirators in Beijing, another group of speculators finally couldn't hold back and made their own choice.

On 11 May, He Yinbin, the prefect of Ningguo in Anhui Province of the Qing Dynasty, announced the change of banner after sending people to contact Zheng Jun, and Wu Shu, who had cleared the threat from the flank, immediately led 5,000 veterans and 3,000 recruits to the Chizhou Mansion. In the face of the surging Zheng army, Gao Jin, the prefect of Chizhou, who only had five or six hundred green flag soldiers on hand, conspired with Wang Yuan, the deputy general of the Chizhou Association, to kill Chi Taidao Ittala from the Manchurian Zhengbai Banner and Tongzhi Mingtai from the Manchuria Blue Banner, and used the heads of these two people as a letter of surrender to the Zheng army to open the city and surrender.

On 17 May, Wu Shu, who had arrived in Qingyang County, decided to accept the surrender of the two, and the Zheng army entered the Chizhou Mansion without bloodshed, and then accompanied the westward march of the Zheng army's naval division into the Anqing River of the Yangtze River and shelled Jiangbei. Ma Qi, the acting governor of Anhui Province in the Qing Dynasty, supervised the troops to go to the city to hold on, because the strength of the Zheng army was still insufficient, and the Yuzhi Qing army that had been transferred south to defend the south of the Yangtze River had arrived one after another, Ma Qi was able to confront the Zheng army across the river.

Leaving aside the partial divisions of the Western Expedition, the main force of the Zheng army, which captured Suzhou, continued to move south, successively conquering Songjiang, Taicang, Jiaxing and other places under the city of Zhibo Hanghu. The Huzhou garrison, which was sandwiched between the Ningguo Mansion and the Jiaxing Mansion of the Yi Banner, accepted the persuasion of the Zheng army's envoy to surrender after weighing the pros and cons, and surrendered to the Zheng army on May 22.

On the evening of May 23, Kangxi and his entourage, who finally came out of the mountain road in western Zhejiang, entered Guangxin Mansion, but it was on this day that Tong Guowei, who could not hold back, finally launched a coup d'état in Beijing, killed the scholar Mingzhu in the south study, put the eldest brother Yinren under house arrest, and supported the crown prince Yinren as the new emperor.

On May 24, Yinren officially ascended the throne in the Taihe Hall under the witness of hundreds of officials in Beijing, announced that the next year would be changed to Yuan Shaozheng, and posthumously praised Kangxi as Hetian Hongyun, Wenwu Ruizhe, frugality, generosity, filial piety, integrity, merit, and great Chengren Emperor, the temple name Gaozong, and at the same time Yinren appointed Tong Guowei as the uncle of the country, the minister of life, and issued an edict announcing the "destruction of the king of Zheng".

But Yinren's edict could not immediately turn the tide of the war, on May 25, the Zheng army launched a military operation to attack Hangzhou, although Shi Lin resisted stubbornly, but in the end it was just a mantis arm as a car, after five days of fierce fighting, Zheng army from Genshan Gate, Qingchun Gate and other places to attack Hangzhou, Shi Lin saw that the situation was not good, changed his clothes and hid in the pre-prepared dwellings to escape with his life, and more than a month later mixed out of Hangzhou City, since then in history disappeared

Kangxi, who finally returned to Nanchang under the escort of Yu Chengchan, the governor of Jiangxi who hurriedly returned from the battlefield in western Fujian, received the two bad news of the Beijing incident and the fall of Hangzhou almost at the same time, and before Kangxi who wanted to vomit blood calmed down, the news from northern Fujian dealt him a heavy blow - the Qing army in northern Fujian who learned of the mutation in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was ordered to retreat in a hurry, although it blocked the counterattack of the Zheng army for a while, but the Qing army, which had abandoned a large amount of grain and heavy baggage, mutiny occurred on the way to the north, and some of the green flag soldiers surrendered to the Ming anyway and attacked the camp, Hangzhou General and Zhejiang Army Admiral Axitan, Jiangnan Water and Land Division Admiral Lang Hualin was caught off guard and was seriously injured, the first army was dispersed, many green battalion soldiers surrendered to the Zheng army, and more fell into bandits scattered in the countryside - fortunately, the Qing army in northwest Fujian basically withdrew to Jiangxi completely, so that Kangxi had the capital to protect himself.

In view of the fact that the nature of the Beijing incident was far more critical than the change of hands in Nanjing, Kangxi weighed it again and again, on the one hand, informed Beijing that he was safe and asked Yinren to abdicate, and on the other hand, led the main force of Yu Cheng Chan and the Qing army in Jiangxi to cross the Yangtze River on the Jiujiang line, and then drove to Anqing to join Ma Qi. Because Kangxi took a large number of Qing troops with him, the Zheng army in Fujian Province was able to counterattack and recover the vast territory of Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces. The speculative gentry from all over the country successively ate pulp pots and joined the Zheng army, and the Zheng army, which entered the two provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangxi, expanded rapidly, and soon grew into a team of hundreds of thousands of people.

On the first day of July, the main force of the Zheng army in the south and the Zheng army counterattacking from northern Fujian joined forces in Ninghai; On the fourth day of the seventh month, the Qing troops in Jinhua and Chuzhou surrendered to the Zheng army; On the eighth day of July, Hong Gongzhu entered Quzhou and turned to Guangxin and Raozhou to Nanchang; On 14 July, Zhu Qi instigated a mutiny in the Green Battalion left behind in Hubei, and the mutiny captured the three towns of Wuhan, and then went down the Yangtze River to join the Zheng army heading north at Wuxue; Affected by the mutation in Jiangnan and the Huguang mutiny, the governor of Biyuan, Sang E, led his troops to flee to the border of Hunan and Guizhou, and the Qing army in Gui Province also fled back to Guangxi.

Of course, Zheng Jun was not smooth sailing, in addition to the Qing army in western Anhui and northern Jiangsu that were deployed along the Yangtze River, the Jingzhou generals Shuo Nai and Sang Er were still peeping at Jinghu, and Jiang Youliang, the governor of Guangxi, and Ge Sitai, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, also led tens of thousands of people to peep at Guangdong.

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