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Before boarding the ship, Zheng Kezhang issued an edict to increase the size of the 6th division of the Xia Army by a quarter within three years, that is, the scale of 330,000 officers and soldiers in 52 divisions of the existing 15 armies was expanded to 410,000 officers and soldiers in 66 divisions of 16 armies, in order to prepare for the needs of the Northern Expedition.

In the same edict, the Sanyo Fleet and the Yangtze River Fleet were officially upgraded to naval divisions, thus establishing the command system of naval divisions, fleets, sub-fleets, and ships (ships), and appointing commanders, commanders, commanders, and pipe bands as commanders. In the future, a sub-fleet will roughly include four to six warships (warships) of the same specification, the fleet will have jurisdiction over two to four sub-fleets, and several fleets will form a naval division in a certain direction.

The alternation of next summer is a major event that affects the whole of China, and Kangxi in Beijing naturally pays attention to the whole process.

It is impossible to say that Kangxi did not have the heart to find opportunities to profit from it, but on the one hand, although Zheng Kezhang left Wuchang to go out on inspection, Zheng Fan's cabinet and privy council always stayed in Wuchang to carry out the central task, and the defenders of Huguang and Jianghuai were also fully prepared for war, and did not give the Qing court a chance to counterattack;

On the other hand, the Qing court was not the only enemy of the Zheng family, although the attention of the Jungar in the west shifted to Bukhara and other places, it could make a comeback anytime and anywhere, and the Oros in the north was an insatiable hungry wolf, and wanted to tear off a piece of meat from the Qing court at the slightest opportunity, not to mention that the Qing court, which had lost Jiangnan, Huguang and half of Sichuan, was extremely financially poor, and the Han people in the north who ate chaff had also been oppressed to a certain critical line, and there was no financial strength to lose the Qing army to a series of wars.

Therefore, Kangxi could only suppress his unwilling heart and sent an envoy to congratulate Zheng Kezhang on his standing, hoping that the two countries could formally sign a peace treaty and divide China equally. Of course, the peace and strike was only a superficial article, and Kangxi also knew that Zheng Kezhang would not necessarily agree, so he should continue to prepare for war, so in order to solve the financial difficulties, Kangxi made a decree in February and March, abandoning the original strategy of prohibiting the Han people from returning to Liaodong, and encouraged the landless people to enter Liaodong to reclaim the famineland and rent the fields of the imperial village and the Manchurian princes, hoping to increase taxes and make up for the financial gap.

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Kangxi wants to hide his minions, lie down and taste his courage, and regroup, but the tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop. On the eleventh day after Zheng Kezhang returned to Wuchang, Zhu Qi, the king of Ning, who had long since run out of oil, finally died in the anxiety and irrepressible resentment after learning that Zheng Kezhang officially became the Ming Dynasty.

It doesn't matter if Zhu Qian dies, but the mess left behind makes his followers very troubled. Originally, the Ming Army in Eastern Sichuan was a hodgepodge of associations, and Zhu Qi was just the leader and symbol of the alliance, and there were many people who did not sincerely obey Zhu Qi's scheduling, not to mention the undried heir left by Zhu Qi.

Therefore, most of Zhu Qi's widows advocated that according to Zhu Qi's deathbed confession, they would surrender to the Huaxia Dynasty in exchange for the glory and wealth of everyone, but these people who advocated the summer did not include Zhu Qi's heirs.

The true identity of Zhu Yiqin, who is only sixteen years old, is no longer available, but his time by Zhu Qi's side convinced him that he is the rightful heir to the throne of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the ambitious young man naturally wanted to inherit the glory of Zhu Chongba, and naturally did not want to go to Wuchang to be a caged bird, so he secretly sent his henchmen to contact some powerful factions in the Ming army in eastern Sichuan.

Of course, most of Zhu Yiqin's envoys ran into a wall, and most of the Ming troops in eastern Sichuan who were sandwiched between the Qing and Xia could no longer bear the days in the cracks, and they were too late to rush to the Huaxia Dynasty to lose their sincerity, so naturally they would no longer have the heart to help this little prison country with neither influence nor strength.

But Zhu Yiqin is not the only one who has ambitions, Li Li Sijiu, a small warlord who occupies Guang'an Prefecture in Shunqing Prefecture, is one of them. The arrival of Zhu Yiqin's envoy made him see the opportunity, so he abandoned his old nest and took the patchwork of 2,000 troops to Chongqing, and seized the pass with Zhu Yiqin's secret help.

Because the hosts either went to Zunyi to contact the Xia army, or were imprisoned by Zhu Yiqin into the main hall, the attacked Zhu Qi's pro-army did not organize a strong resistance at all, and was either forced to surrender to Li or dispersed in a hurry, so that Li Sijiu's troops captured the city of Chongqing without blood.

Li Sijiu, who seized Chongqing, was respectful to Zhu Yiqin on the surface, but after annexing Zhu Qi's own army, the most elite of the Ming army in eastern Sichuan, Li's strength had swelled to 10,000 people, and some of the eastern Sichuan forces who were unwilling to be restrained by the Huaxia Dynasty came to take refuge, and Li Sijiu became a powerful minister who controlled the small court of Chongqing in one fell swoop.

Li Sijiu's actions caused a further split in the Ming army in eastern Sichuan, and it was naturally impossible for the Qing army not to take advantage of it.

In the first year of Wucheng in Huaxia, the 38th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, and the 27th day of May in the second year of Taishun of the Ming Dynasty, the governor of Sichuan in the Qing Dynasty, Sildaryu Chengdu, and the general Sange led 30,000 troops to contain the four divisions of the Xia Army, Xuyong General Army, and Shanyin (County) Bomao Hongyan Division south of Longchang, and he himself led the Qing army of five towns to Chongqing, trying to seize this important town in eastern Sichuan in one fell swoop by taking advantage of the civil strife of the Ming army.

As soon as the Qing army moved, the Xia army naturally could not sit idly by and watch it seize the whole Sichuan and threaten the surrounding provinces, so under the leadership of the former Sichuan Eastern Ming Army who were willing to surrender to Xia, the Xia army units that were also waiting for the pillow also quickly entered all parts of eastern Sichuan. By the beginning of July, except for Mao Hongyan's troops, which were pinned down by Sang'e, they had not advanced an inch, and the Xia army, which had attacked from Guizhou, had already taken over Nanchuan, Qijiang, Jiangjin, Fuling, Fengdu, Shizhu, Wulong, and Pengshui in Chongqing Prefecture, and the three counties of Youyang, Qianjiang, and Xiushui also raised their banners and surrendered. The Xia army, which marched from Huguang, captured Kuizhou and Zhongzhou all the way, and a considerable number of prefectures and counties in Suiding and Shunqing were also attached.

According to this, Zheng Kezhang demarcated the two prefectures of Enshi and Yichang, which were originally subordinate to Hubei, to add Yidong Province (and other places), which took Kuizhou Mansion as the government, and governed five prefectures such as Enshi, Yichang, Suiding, and Shunqing, and Zhongzhou and Youyang Prefectures. He also appointed the former Guizhou General Soldier and Changhua (County) Bo He Qian as the chief military officer of eastern Sichuan, and unified the command of all units of the Xia Army entering eastern Sichuan, while Le Minyue, the former deputy general of Huguang Right who commanded the Huguang Xia Army to enter Sichuan, was transferred to the deputy general army of Guizhou to support He Qian.

The whole army of the Huaxia Dynasty was very busy, and the defense of Chongqing was also carried out at the most critical moment.

Although Li Jiusi's division was complex and morale was low, there was a deep hatred between the Ming army in eastern Sichuan and the Qing army, so despite the continuous internal contradictions, they could still share the same hatred at the moment of the great enemy. In addition, Li Sijiu had already considered the worst possible situation at the beginning of the operation, so he had made various preparations for dealing with it early on.

The Ming army, which concentrated its strength and retreated to the vicinity of Chongqing, relied on the rugged terrain, complex environment, strong fortifications and the grain that Zhu Qian had hoarded earlier to fight to the death with the Qing army.

In September, He Gan, who had already completed the unification of the Xia Ming army, suddenly attacked Nanchong, the city of Shunqingfu. Fearing that the Xia army would take advantage of the situation to attack the whole of Sichuan, the exhausted Silda had to lead the army to retreat to Chengdu.

However, it was not so easy for the Qing army to retreat, Li Sijiu showed his true character at this time, concentrated the only elite thousand people to pursue the Qing army, broke the Qing army's rear guard in one fell swoop, captured thousands of Green Flag soldiers, and took Silda's ass to recover Bishan, Tongliang, Dazu, Hechuan, Rongchang, and threatened the frontal flank of Longchangsang.

In the face of the situation of the enemy on the belly and back, Sang Er deserved to be a veteran of fleeing in front of the enemy, he did not move, moved like a rabbit, and retreated in great strides, discarding Jiading, Qiongzhou, Meizhou and other places, and fled back to Chengdu at once, thus losing Zizhou and other places to the two armies of Xia Ming to fight for food, hoping to divert the contradiction and preserve the survival of the Qing army in Sichuan.

At this time, the situation in Sichuan appeared to be even more chaotic, the Xia army that entered Sichuan by the two roads had already controlled the prefectures of eastern Sichuan, northeast Sichuan, southern Sichuan, and southwestern Sichuan, and established two new provinces of Yidong and Xuyong, while the Qing army was desperately defending Chengdu, Mianyang, and Baoning, while Li Sijiu's Ming army controlled a long strip of land from Chongqing in the east to Zizhou in the west.

Judging from the distribution of the forces of the three parties, the Ming army, which was sandwiched between the two powers, was actually in danger. But at this time, Zhu Yiqin, who was in a daze, ignored the actual situation that his own strength was the weakest, and proposed to hold an enthronement ceremony to inherit Mingzuo, which detonated the contradiction between him and Li Sijiu.

On October 24 of that year, Li Sijiu, who felt that the contradictions had intensified to the point that they had become irreconcilable, decisively led troops to imprison Zhu Yiming. At the same time, Li Sijiu sent an envoy to Xia Jun, and at the cost of ceding Chongqing and other places, he asked Xia Jun to open up the net. Just when General Xia Jun was quite surprised, Li Sijiu decisively gave up all places, concentrated 20,000 troops and horses and 150,000 old and weak to kill and run to Chengdu.

For the battle between the Ming army and the Qing army, the Xia army was naturally happy to see it, not to mention that Li Sijiu's department also brought more than 100,000 old, weak, sick and disabled people to fight, isn't it a joke. However, just when the Xia army was watching the jokes and receiving various places, Li Sijiu, who rushed to the Chengdu Plain, made a false shot, turned around and headed west, and then seized Mingshan and Lushan counties in Yazhou Prefecture, successfully got rid of the Qing Xia's attack, and built a small world in Chuankangbian. Not to mention how Li Sijiu drove the Tibetan and Han to run his small forces in the Chuankang side, the disappearance of the buffer made it inevitable that there would be a direct confrontation between the Qing and Xia.

On the seventh day of December in the first year of Wucheng, Mao Hongyan, the general soldier of Xuyong, led eight divisions to approach Longquanyi on the periphery of Chengdu. He Qian, the general soldier of the same day, also led the five divisions to march into Baoning Mansion to govern Langzhong, threatening Jianmen, and preparing to cut off the passage for the Qing army to come to the rescue from Shaanxi and Gansu.