If Zhu Yongxing set off a wave of resistance against the Qing Dynasty and won the victory, as long as the third prince of Zhu appeared safely, the people of the world would regard this as a miracle and a sign, proving that God still favors the Ming Dynasty and the mandate of heaven has not been transferred. Even if it is a pawn of a peddler, he may rise up to contribute to the Ming Dynasty because of the call of the third prince of Zhu. Just like Zhu Yihai and Zhang Huangyan, although their interests and Zhu Cihuan are not completely identical, they will still be excited by this news.

But now the shape is different, what kind of impact the appearance of the third prince of Zhu will have on the current government dominated by Zhu Yongxing, and whether it will be beneficial or disadvantageous to the current war of resistance against the Qing Dynasty, it is necessary to think carefully.

"According to His Royal Highness's secret letter, the five princes are incognito in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, join the squire of the Hu family, and take teaching as a profession." Zhang Huangyan frowned and said: "Weichen's old subordinates in Zhoushan also sent a letter, which is similar. It's just that this truth still needs to be proven, and His Royal Highness Min has already taken action to rescue him. If nothing else, the fifth prince will soon be in Guangzhou. ”

Zhu Yihai listened carefully, thought for a moment, and said: "Gu has abdicated and become a vassal, don't say the word Weichen again in the future." After a pause, he continued on the topic of the third prince: "Incognito, and joining the Hu family, where should this be the son of the Lie Emperor?" Well, Lone remembers that there was a pseudo-prince in the Hongguang Dynasty, which caused confusion in people's hearts. The lessons of the previous car must be learned! ”

"Wei, Xia Guan thinks the same way." Zhang Huangyan said approvingly: "At this time, Zhongxing is very good, and it must not shake people's hearts. But if it is really the fifth prince, it cannot be captured by the Tartars. His Royal Highness Min wants to rescue him from Guangzhou, I'm afraid he is also worried! ”

"yes!" Zhu Yihai nodded lightly, "At this time, there must be no civil strife, and we must not give the Tartars a chance to confuse the public." Secret rescue, secret screening. Secret disposal, well, so good, so good. But why should I leave it to you? ”

"This-" Zhang Huangyan thought for a while and said, "Maybe it's because the lower official is the secretary of the criminal department!" ”

Lu Wang Zhu Yihai looked at Zhang Huangyan suspiciously, and did not think that this was a very reasonable explanation.

Zhang Huangyan sighed softly. said: "Today, in the south of the hunt, His Royal Highness Min doesn't want to get involved in this matter, and he also has a hard time, right?" ”

Lu Wang Zhu Yihai groaned for a while, and bowed his head slightly, feeling that this should be very close to the correct answer. He felt that Zhu Yongxing didn't want to have a bad reputation, anyway, the so-called Third Prince Zhu didn't look like he had big ambitions, and it was not easy for others to tell the truth and falsehood, not only was it not easy to generate gossip, but it also didn't pose any threat to him. The big position has been decided. Hongguang will not give way to the crown prince, and Yongli will not give way to the five princes. From this point of view, although the third prince Zhu's background is prominent, as long as he is not used by some people with ulterior motives, he will not be able to set off any big waves.

As for letting him participate in the selection, perhaps because this should be a matter of the royal clan, he is a pro-vassal, and the judgment he makes should be more convincing.

"The Min clan is a distant branch clan. I can unify all the departments, and I can have the current achievements. The hope of becoming a Zhongxing Daming depends on his own efforts and ability, so he will stay in Guangzhou temporarily and help him. Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, said with emotion: "He is braver than Lone, more powerful than Lonely, if he can suppress Wu Sangui this time." If it returns anyway, the war in Jiangnan can be decided! ”

Zhang Huangyan opened his mouth and didn't say anything. Although he has a deep relationship with King Lu, it should be a wise choice for King Lu to back down now. If he is persuaded indiscriminately. If King Lu regains his ambitions, the infighting will undoubtedly lead to Zhu Yongxing's victory, and King Lu will inevitably lead to death.

"If Jiangnan goes down, according to the great ambition of the Min Domain, he will follow the emperor's Northern Expedition, right?" Zhu Yihai looked out the window and said quietly: "If this king can return to the ancestral grave, what more can he ask for?" ”

Zhang Huangyan was shocked when he heard this: "Chitose Spring and Autumn is prosperous, why do you say this?" ”

"I know how Lone's body is." King Lu smiled slightly: "If you recuperate, it will be difficult to get rid of the disease!" I hope that the Min Fan can recover China as soon as possible, and I also think that I can survive until that day! ”

Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, has a prominent "royal bloodline": his ancestor, the first king of Lu, Zhu Tan, is the tenth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and is feudal in Yanzhou, Shandong. Counting, Zhu Yihai should be the tenth grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and the uncle of Zhu Youzhen, Emperor Chongzhen.

As a royal child, Zhu Yihai should have lived a life of a gentleman with golden clothes, food, food, drink and merry. However, history did not give him such a good opportunity, on the contrary, almost all of his life was a life of suffering and displacement.

After the death of Zhu Yihai's father Zhu Shouyong, Zhu Yihai's elder brother Zhu Yipai was named the king of Lu. In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen (1642), the Qing soldiers went south to Shandong and broke through Yanzhou, and Zhu Yipai was killed. Zhu Yihai was also almost killed by the Qing army, and after escaping death, he attacked the king of Lu in February of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen. In March of the same year, the Dashun army conquered Beijing and marched into Shandong, and Zhu fled to Hainan, living in Taizhou, Zhejiang during the period of Zhu Yousong, Emperor Hongguang.

At that time, the anti-Qing movement in eastern Zhejiang was surging, and it was commendable that Zhu Yihai could resolutely shoulder the banner of resistance to the Qing Dynasty without hesitation when the strong enemy pressed the border, but after all, he was a dragon son and grandson in the deep palace, and he was used to the decadent and debaucherous aristocratic life, so he refused to give up the glory and wealth of the small court, and his life was extremely debaucherous after he ascended the throne. Later, he fought with the Tang King for orthodoxy, so that the swords and soldiers met and killed each other, and Zheng Chenggong was deeply disgusted from then on.

After the Qing army pressed the territory and lost all the land bases, under the escort of Zhang Mingzhen, the Marquis of Dingxi, Zhu Yihai fled to the sea, and then traveled to Zhejiang and Fujian seas, living a hard life of "water for the golden soup and the boat for the palace", which was called "the son of heaven on the sea" by the people of the time.

Huang Zongxi, who had followed King Lu's conquest, said with emotion when he wrote "Lu Ji Nian": "Since the loss of the Zhejiang River, although the county has been restored, the water is the golden soup, the boat is the palace, and the land is only Zhoushan for two years. The sea is the most bitter in the water, invading the morning bath, but one. The cabin is large and the body is large, and the holes are down, and the two of them lie on their sides, still covering the holes under them, which is tantamount to being in the coffin. The royal boat is slightly larger, and the name is the river. The top of it is the court room, and the ministers are in the matter. ‘

After experiencing countless failures, as well as the hard life of displacement and instability, and accustomed to seeing the white eyes of the Zheng family when living in Kinmen, Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, only had one son, and his wife and other sons were all lost in the war, although they vowed not to surrender. But ambition has been spent.

Of course, if he is still called upon for the great cause of resisting the Qing Dynasty, it is estimated that he is also duty-bound and will not be a turtle with a shrunken head like Zhu Cihuan. But now that Zhu Yongxing has raised this banner high and waved it to hunt and hunt, Zhu Yihai knows that he is too inferior in prestige and talent. can't look up to it at all, so he will stop fighting for power and profit, and he will be satisfied to be a stable prince.

Zhang Huangyan sighed silently, watching the former lord give up the idea of competing for the throne, it is a pity to lose his will, but as far as the current form is concerned, it is indeed a way to survive in peace.

"The prince is tired of traveling, please rest first." Zhang Huangyan bowed and paused for a moment. He also said: "The day after tomorrow is Sunday, if Your Highness is interested, Your Highness is willing to accompany you to listen to the play." ”

"Listening to a play?" Zhu Yihai hesitated for a moment and asked, "The war is tight, is it appropriate for the Min clan to conquer the family?" ”

"The prince doesn't know anything, but this play was made by His Royal Highness Min, and it is said to be fun with the people." Zhang Huangyan explained with a smile.

Li Ji, the fourth son of the great traveler Xu Xiake in the Ming Dynasty, once wrote a poem "Xi Shi Mountain Opera Zhan". depicts the situation when Zhu Yihai was in charge of the country: "The monarchs and ministers of the Lu State are entertained, and they have no courage to say anything. King Yue loves to watch singing and dancing. I don't believe in Xi Shi Ken Wu. The original note after the poem: "Lu Jian Guozhi is also in Shaoxing, with the Qiantang River as the boundary." Hearing that the generals of Shoujiang were drinking and singing, the singing and blowing sounded for more than 100 miles...... From this point of view, the king's tone and lust, and the child's play of the monarch and the ministers, can be seen. No wonder the generals are on the river! Failed year after year. Not unfortunate either.

When the Eastern Zhejiang Righteous Army had just started its army, the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties confronted each other in Qiantang, and King Lu's favorite thing to do was to listen to the play, so that the stage must be set up in the camp of the righteous army from all walks of life for the entertainment of the prisoners. Unfortunately, the good times were short-lived. King Lu's hobby was not only ridiculed by the literati, but also led to the defeat of the army. As for the wandering, he no longer has such conditions for leisure and luxury.

When he settled in Xialong, although the conditions were much better than those in Kinmen, Zhu Yihai was also afraid of attracting dissatisfaction, so he kept his tail between his legs and behaved honestly, not daring to swagger. Now that he heard that there was a drama to listen to, he asked if it was appropriate, but his heart was itchy. After Zhang Huangyan finished explaining, he accepted it calmly.

"Since it was made by the Min Domain, this king will go to cheer up." Zhu Yihai nodded with a smile, suddenly stopped Zhang Huangyan again, and instructed: "Light car Jian Cong, don't reveal your identity, Min Fan is not here, I don't want to show off in the city." ”

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The earth was covered with hoarfrost, dry and hard, rattling beneath our feet. Every time a cold wind blows, the frosted leaves suddenly break off the ground and flutter in the air like a flock of birds.

A flagpole with a length of more than a foot was held high, and the yellow character "Min" on a red background with a length of 6 feet 9 inches and a width of 3 feet 6 inches made the flag jump out of the horizon and flutter in the wind.

Although not all of the ceremonial guards such as Qingdao, sword and shield, Bai Zeqi, and painting horns are complete, they are not much different. In the guard of honor, Zhu Yongxing rode slowly, behind him were Ming soldiers in bright armor, and behind the team was a long convoy of baggage, creaking forward.

The earth hummed sullenly under the trampling of horses' hooves and feet, and with the slaughter of early winter, it was an unstoppable majesty.

Zhao Wang Bai Wenxuan stood at the head of Guiyang City, put away the binoculars, turned his head to the leader of the guards and solemnly explained: "Your Highness has arrived, you all go down to suppress the vigilance, and you must not miss it." ”

Five days have passed, and the Wu Department has all been pulled out of the city and reorganized in Kaiyang County in the northeast. The Jingshuo army has taken over all the prefectures and counties from Qujing to Guiyang, and the 20,000 native soldiers in Shuixi, led by Kuang Guogong Pixiong and others, have been driven to Guiyang and stationed outside the city, and there is a division of regular Ming troops in the city to guard it. And the safety and security work done to welcome Zhu Yongxing has already been arranged, but Bai Wenxuan is still not at ease. The leader of the guards didn't say much, and after giving a military salute, he turned around and strode away.

"Clan pro-conquest!" Kuang Guogong stood in the middle of a group of officials waiting at the city gate, looking at the royal flag honor guard that was getting closer and closer, his mood was agitated, his eyes were moist, and he muttered: "The old man can see the majesty of the Ming clan again, and he can see that the great cause of Zhongxing will be accomplished, and he will die without regrets, and he will die without regrets." ”

Shuixi's consolation made An Kun stand next to the leather bear, and he also smiled comfortably. As the Ming army became stronger and stronger, he became more respectful of Pi Xiong and others. This time the Ming army entered Guizhou, which was considered to have completely appeased him, he just wanted to be his soil emperor in Shuixi, and he had no ambitions, or no thoughts.

Conscripting 20,000 soldiers to help in the war is nothing. The Ming court often relied on local soldiers to suppress peasant uprisings and minority uprisings in various places. The conscription of local soldiers was frequent. The local officials "every time they encounter a conquest, they wish to be driven by Hege, and the country relies on it to cut down ......", and "for conscription" to express their service to the imperial court, so as to obtain a good opportunity to be crowned an official and promoted to a knighthood.

Among the officials who greeted him, Wang Fuchen, the chief soldier of the Wu army, was uneasy. His face was uncertain. He is one of Wu Sangui's henchmen and generals, and he was named by Zhu Yongxing this time, I don't know what it is for, is it a blessing or a curse? His heart was uneasy.

Wang Fuchen's original surname was Li, a native of Henan, and he was an official eunuch slave when he was a child, and later participated in the peasant rebel army at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Soon. He also flowed into the camp of Jiang Xuan, a Ming general, as a soldier. There was a general named Wang Chaojin, who had no children under his knees, so he accepted him as a righteous son, and changed his surname to Wang from then on.

When he grew into a young man, he was more than seven feet long, with a fair face and little beard. The eyebrows are like lying silkworms, and his appearance is very similar to the famous general Lu Bu of the Three Kingdoms painted by the world. Handsome and strong, "brave champion of the three armies, you can't do it". Because he was good at riding and shooting, and he was like flying immediately, so people nicknamed him "Horse Harrier".

Later, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Shanxi Datong guard Jiang Hao rebelled. Galloping vertically and horizontally, the Qing army shouted: "The horse harrier is the best." The regent Dorgon's two personal expeditions failed, and Wang Fuchen became famous in one fell swoop. Soon he descended to Azig, saved himself from execution, and was confiscated into the Xinzhi library as a slave. After Dorgon's death. Wang Fuchen was reused by Shunzhi and supervised the Hong Chengchou Department, and then Hong Chengchou Baoju Wang was the chief military officer, and then he was returned to Wu Sangui's department.

"The horse harrier is good at riding and shooting, and there is probably no place to show it in the south, and the king of Jin has become a hussar in Sichuan, and he intends to transfer it to show his strengths, what does the king of Han want?" At this time, Zhu Yongxing rode on the horse, turned his face slightly, and asked Wu Sangui.

"Wang Fuchen is the general of the Dangshuo army, and he should be sent by His Royal Highness." Wu Sangui paused for a moment, bowed down on his horse and replied: "His subordinates think that His Highness has hired people appropriately, and Wang Fuchen is just making meritorious contributions in cavalry battles, and it is not suitable to spend time in the south. ”

"Hehe, King Han is afraid that he is dismantling the old part and dividing it, right?" Zhu Yongxing waved his hand to stop Wu Sangui's defense, and Zhengse said: "Gu does have a little bit of such a meaning, which is needless to say, but it is not all. Do you think that the old part of the Dangshuo army is still there, is it your blessing? If you treat Wang Fuchen's son and nephew, but you know that he sent someone to bring gold and silver into Beijing, and he wants to get through the relationship and transfer him out of here? ”

"This—" Wu Sangui was taken aback, and didn't know what to say for a while.

"Dismount! Don't make people think they are arrogant. Zhu Yongxing didn't explain much, raised his hand to stop the team, turned over and dismounted, and strode forward under the escort and protection of the guards.

Self-confidence comes from strength, and after subduing Wu Sangui, Zhu Yongxing became even more majestic and noble. gestures and words, although most of the time with a smile of Hexi, but still with an irresistible momentum.

Whether you are a prince, a brave general, or the Tartar who once swept the world, you will crawl at my feet. Except for God, no one can stop me from moving forward, and no one can stop me from building a different and magnificent China, and make it stand tall in the world and stand out from the crowd.

Zhu Yongxing was dressed up, his eyes were firm, his golden armor was shining in the sun, accompanied by powerful footsteps, sonorous and faint, like a god who could not be looked at directly, so that all the people who were waiting couldn't help but bow their heads.

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The sky has changed!

The Min clan personally conquered Guizhou, subdued Wu Sangui, and reorganized his army, depending on the transmission of Guizhou Province. Since then, the Ming army has really opened the curtain of a major counteroffensive.

Dutong Heye and Hulib led reinforcements to Changsha, non-stop, and immediately supervised the army to the south, with 10,000 "Eight Banner Elites" composed of banner slaves and family members, and 20,000 Hunan Green Battalions, totaling 30,000 horses. On November 19, the Qing army advanced to Xiangtan County; On the 21st, the Qing army set off from Xiangtan, and the next day it entered more than 30 miles away from Hengzhou Mansion (now Hengyang City), and was blocked by the Ming army.

When the two armies met, Du Tong Heye thought that his soldiers were brave and immediately ordered an attack. The Zhengshuo army attacked instead of defending, and used the fortifications to repair to give the attacking Qing army a head-on blow. After a day of fierce fighting, the Qing army not only failed to break through the first line of defense of the Ming army, but suffered heavy casualties. He Suo, the deputy commander of the Red Banner, the first-class Adhaha-Pansang, and the second-class Adhaha-Pansulma were killed, and a dead body was left in front of the position.

Only then did He Ye realize that the war model was not as described by his ancestors, and the topography of Hengyang was also very unfavorable to the play of the "Eight Banners Elite", and he couldn't help but regret it.

In Hengyang, there are 393 rivers and streams with a length of 5 kilometers or a basin area of more than 10 square kilometers, and mountains, hills, hills, and water surfaces account for four-fifths of the total area. The muskets, grenades, and curved guns of the Ming army were even more powerful according to the fortifications such as trenches and breastworks.

"Where the Eight Banners go, the enemy will collapse at the slightest touch, and the wind will be invincible", "The Ming army is not afraid of the green battalion, only afraid of the Eight Banners", such prejudices have penetrated into the minds of He Ye and others, and they were very shocked and regretted at the first defeat. When attacking again, the green battalion will be in the front, and the Eight Banners will only supervise the battle in the back, and they will not dare to rush to kill again. (To be continued......)