After learning the news of Gao Jie's death, Shi Kefa, the governor at that time, was indeed quite sad. He personally rushed to the Gao military camp to do the aftermath work, and set up Gao Jiezi as the son of Xingping, his nephew Li Benshen as the commander, Hu Maozhen as the pavilion hall (that is, the Chinese army), and Li Chengdong as the general soldier of Xuzhou.

And Gao Jie's wife Xing was worried that her son was young and could not suppress the public, she knew that Shi Kefa had no son, and proposed to let her son worship Shi Kefa as his father-in-law. This was originally an opportunity for Shi Kefa to enhance his relationship with the high-ranking soldiers, but Shi Kefa resolutely refused because the high-level was a "thief", and ordered Gao Jiezi to pay homage to Gao Qiqian, the eunuch of Jiangbei's soldiers and horses, as his father-in-law. It can be seen from this that Shi Kefa's prejudice is deep and incomprehensible.

Later, because of Zuo Liangyu's rebellion, Huang Degong's troops were transferred to Taiping Mansion south of the Yangtze River (the government is in Dangtu, which governs Wuhu and Fanchang counties), which allowed the Gao Department to breathe. With the efforts of the Xing family, the Gaobu people finally incorporated the remaining Xu Dingguo Department, and recruited troops on the spot, expanding the army to nearly 50,000.

However, at this time, the high department did not say that it was Yang Fengyin who violated Nanming, and they were eyeing the soldiers and horses of Nanming's other towns, which was already an abnormality. Therefore, when the Daping army sent troops, they did not hesitate to submit to Zhang Biao's department under the auspices of the Xing family, and some of the rest of the high-level troops had already surrendered to the Chiming department that went south.

And Xing's person is Li Zicheng's ex-wife, she and Li Zicheng, the ex-couple, are a pair of legends in this era!

Therefore, under such circumstances, almost all of the large forces of the Southern Ming army north of the Yangtze River were subordinated to the Daping Dynasty. The dispatch of troops went so smoothly. Let Zhou Xun, Xue Yong, Zhang Biao, Chi Ming and other generals be stunned. And Nanjing has become a ripe fruit, just waiting for the Daping army to pick it.

Until this time, the Daping court had seen that the wood had been completed. Wu Shigong's decree ordering the Daping Army to send troops was transmitted to the southern armies. At the same time, Wu Shigong named Chi Ming as the general of Zhejiang and Zhang Biao as the general of Nanzhili, and under the general command of Zhou Xun, they jointly commanded the Southern Expedition Campaign.

And Xue Qiang was named the general of Henan, keeping the control areas of the Daping Dynasty in Henan and Huguang, and presiding over internal security and suppressing bandits. Under such circumstances, Chi Ming's Eastern Route Army took the lead in carrying out the battle of crossing the river.

On the left, the rebels marched into Chizhou. At the critical juncture when Chi Ming's Shandong army marched southward again, Emperor Hongguang issued a message "If the upstream is urgent, go upstream; Enemy urgency. then resist the enemy". However, such a will is completely a headache and a sore foot, and it is in a passive situation.

In fact, Hongguang Junchen understood that no matter how much troops were concentrated against any side, Nanjing was in danger of falling. Therefore. They had secretly prepared to flee with their troops.

And when Yangzhou fell. When the news of Shi Kefa's martyrdom reached Nanjing, the Hongguang court suddenly fell into a panic, and Zhu Yousong and others still pinned their hopes on the Yangtze River at the beginning. However, on the 11th day of the leap month, Chi Ming's eastern and southern expeditionary army reached the north bank of the Yangtze River, and on the 19th, Chi Ming ordered Zhang Tianlu and other troops of the Southern Ming to cross the river by boat at dawn 15 miles west of Guazhou, and defeated the army of Zheng Hongkui, the commander of the Southern Ming River Defense River, at Jinshan. He then landed on the south bank and occupied Zhenjiang. The follow-up East Road expedition to the southern army crossed the river successively.

On the 20th day of the sixth month of the leap month, Emperor Hongguang only consulted with the cabinet scholars and a few eunuchs, and fled the city in the early morning without even informing other ministers and ministers of the imperial court, let alone making any arrangements.

After daybreak, the gentry, military and people in Nanjing heard that the emperor and the chief scholar had fled, and immediately became in chaos. Some officials and gentry rushed to prison, and invited the young man who called himself "Prince Chongzhen" to come out and ascend to the throne of Wuyingdian, and the year name was still called the seventeenth year of Chongzhen. However, the ministers of the Emperor of Nanjing, Xincheng Bo Zhao Zhilong, decided to surrender the peace and sent people to the Daping military camp to contact.

On the afternoon of the 20th, dozens of cavalry of the vanguard of the Daping Army arrived outside the Hongwu Gate, and Zhao Zhilong, the Bo of Xincheng, and Zhu Guobi, the Duke of Baoguo, surrendered from the city wall to the Qing camp to negotiate surrender.

On the 21st, Chi Ming led the main force of the Eastern Road Expedition to the south of the city outside Nanjing, Zhao Zhilong, Zhu Guobi, together with Xu Jiujue, Duke of Wei, Zhang Gongri, Marquis of Longping, Wang Duo, Cai Yichen, Ruan Dacheng, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Qian Qianyi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Li Zhan, the imperial history of Zuodu, and Lu Jiude, the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi, opened the city gate and went out to the suburbs. After the Daping army entered the city to search for the alert, Duoduo entered Nanjing on the 23rd. The city of Jinling fell into the hands of the Daping Dynasty.

As mentioned above, according to the two-capital system after Yongle in the Ming Dynasty: the three people who held real power in Nanjing were the Shangshu of the Nanjing Military Department, the Commander of Nanjing, and the eunuch of Nanjing; The other ministers and the ministers of the Six Ministries and the Metropolitan Procuratorate are only in name.

And when Emperor Hongguang fled, those who remained in Nanjing City, whether it was a military general or a noble eunuch, were like grass on the wall and turned with the wind, and hundreds of officials competed for their names in order to be used. Take a look at some of them:

The fake prince: After he was escorted to the city of Beijing, Wu Shigong ordered him to be sent to Fengyang to guard the tomb with the real prince Zhu Cihong. Really played a game of black humor. I don't know if the true and false prince of Lu Dao will stage a full martial arts when he meets in Fengyang?

Hou Sui: Under Wu Shigong's repeated invitations, Hou Sui refused to go to Beijing to join the cabinet. He returned to Germany for the elderly on the grounds of old age and infirmity. For this reason, Wu Shigong summoned his son Hou Fangyu to Beijing and served as the teacher of the East Palace, and Hou Fangyu entered the cabinet after Xue Chenglin ascended the throne.

Ruan Dacheng: He, Wang Duo, Cai Yichen, Qian Qianyi and others have all joined the cabinet of the new dynasty. After he was re-elected for four consecutive terms, he has been the prime minister of the cabinet, but he has never become the first assistant and the second assistant, which can be called the tumbler of the Qiongyuan Dynasty.

Qian Qianyi: At the repeated invitation of Wu Shigong, he went to Beijing to enter the cabinet. However, a year later, he resigned and returned to Jinling City to live in seclusion.

Liu Zongzhou: I can't be called out repeatedly, and I have been teaching in Jiangnan. Later Qiongyuan Dynasty established Jinling University in Nanjing, and Liu Zongzhou served as the sacrificial wine of Jinling University.

On the night of the 20th month of leap June, after Zhu Yousong and others escaped from Nanjing, their original intention was to avoid Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Unexpectedly, when passing through Lishui County, it was intercepted and looted by the local native soldiers, and in the chaos, the Yongwei battalion soldiers rushed to the Taiping Mansion with the Hongguang Emperor (the government was in Dangtu), but the Taiping Mansion officials did not know what was going on in the road, closed the door, and transferred to Wuhu to join the Yasukuni Gonghuang to gain merit.

Chi Ming, the commander of the Eastern Road South Expeditionary Army, learned that Emperor Hongguang had fled, and naturally refused to let it go. After entering Nanjing, he ordered Liu Liangzuo, who had just surrendered, to lead his troops to act as a guide, and led the troops to Wuhu through Taiping.

Under the lure of Liu Liangzuo and the heavy troops of the Daping Army, Huang Degong's subordinate generals Tian Xiong and Ma Degong decided to surrender the peace. But Huang Degong didn't know that the army's mood had changed, so he beheaded the envoy sent by Liu Liangzuo to surrender and led the troops to battle.

On the fourth day of the first month of July, the rebels took advantage of Huang's unpreparedness and secretly fired an arrow that hit Huang Degong's throat. Huang Degong, who knew that he was seriously injured and could not escape, killed himself. And Emperor Hongguang was captured alive by Tian Xiong and others and sacrificed to the Daping army.

Nanming Hongguang is extinguished! (To be continued......)