On July 14 of the first year of Qiongyuan, Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, was appointed as the superintendent. After taking power at the beginning, in addition to appointing a group of officials, another envoy Chen Hongfan was sent to make peace with the Daping army, and on the condition of ceding the four counties in the south of the Yangtze River, he still wanted to be on the side of Gou'an.

In that year, although Chen Hongfan had sent the Hongguang Dynasty envoy to Beijing to make peace, at that time he had secretly surrendered to the Daping Dynasty and was sent back to Jiangnan to act as a traitor. After he returned to Jiangnan, he wrote an article called "Northern Envoy Jiluo", Tian shamelessly proclaimed his allegiance to the Ming court, but behind his back, he spread everywhere that the Daping army was invincible and persuaded people to surrender as soon as possible, and was called "living Qin Hui".

This time, Chen Hongfan, as the representative of King Lu of the Jianguo State, took a ship flying the flag of "Feng Envoy Ping Dynasty" to discuss the traitorous matter with the square.

But just when Zhu Changshu was still dreaming of stealing peace, the Daping army quickly pressed towards Hangzhou. After Chi Ming received the 14 prefectures and prefectures of Nanzhili, the whole army marched to Zhejiang, heading straight to Hangzhou and Zhuma. On July 17, the Qing troops arrived in Tangxi, and the military attachés around King Lu once again broke and fled.

At this time, Chen Hongfan and Zhejiang General Chi Ming had already discussed properly, and returned to Hangzhou to persuade Zhu Changshu to surrender with Zhang Bingzhen. Zhu Changshu was greedy for life and afraid of death, so he decided to surrender to the table. The chief soldier Fang Guoan and his nephew Fang Yuanke originally led the soldiers and horses to escort the Hongguang Emperor to Wuhu, and after Zhu Yousong was captured, they came to Hangzhou again, and there were about 10,000 soldiers and horses in the department, ready to support the king of Lu to defend Hangzhou. Unexpectedly, Zhu Changshu had decided to surrender to peace, and when the Fang army and the Daping army fought under the Yongjin Gate, Zhu Changshu was frenzied and threw down from the city with wine and food to reward the Daping army. Fang Yuanke and others were extremely indignant. crossed the Qiantang River to the east, and later participated in the ranks of supporting the Lu Jianguo.

On 20 July, the Daping Army occupied Hangzhou without much effort. Chi Ming took advantage of the situation to send envoys to recruit the Ming vassal kings who had taken refuge in the prefectures of eastern Zhejiang and those who had taken refuge in this area. When the king of Zhou lived in Xiaoshan. King Hui's residence will be Ji, and King Lu's residence is near the sea. Chi Ming sent a horse to repair the book, and invited the kings to meet with ginseng, mink and other things. King Lu is a little farther away from the road, and he can't get sick. The two kings of Zhou and Hui crossed the river to summon. Find Nanjing, and go north with Emperor Hongguang and King Lu. Huzhou, Jiaxing, Shaoxing, Ningbo, Yanzhou and other prefecture officials also accepted land and surrendered to the Daping Dynasty.

On July 17 of the first year of Qiongyuan, Zhu Yujian, the king of Tang, saw that Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, had decided to surrender. Indignant, with the support of a group of civilian and military generals, he left Hangzhou and went to Fuzhou to prepare for the supervision of the country.

Although Zhu Yujian of the Tang Dynasty is the eighth grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang's twenty-second son. is far away from Emperor Chongzhen in terms of genealogy, and it is not his turn according to the convention. However, because the political center of the Southern Ming Dynasty at that time was in the southeast, after Zhu Changshu and Zhu Changrun descended to the Qing Dynasty, the gentry in the southeast were also eager to solve the problem of succession, so they had to be elected from the nearby feudal domains.

Zhu Yujian was enthroned as emperor in the Ming Dynasty. Although he would like to do something. Rebuilt the Ming Dynasty, but he lacked both his own team and not enough fame, this congenital weakness made him unable to rely on the Fujian real power figures Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui who advocated the first support. After ascending the throne, he supported Dai Gong and crowned Zheng Zhilong as the Marquis of Pingyu, Zheng Hongkui as the Marquis of Dingju, Zheng Zhibao as Cheng Jibo, and Zheng Cai as Yongshengbo.

After the establishment of the Longwu Imperial Court, edicts were issued in various places, which were recognized by the Ming regimes in Liangguang, Gannan, Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan.

In addition, Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, supervised the eastern part of Zhejiang; Zhu Hengjia, the king of Jingjiang who was sealed in Guilin, Guangxi, was not willing to be lonely. Guilin, the capital of Guangxi, was changed to Xijing, and the yellow robe was added. Remnant Ming has actually become a brother Xiao Wall.

And the Zheng Zhilong brothers who were in Fujian at this time. They immediately took Yingli Longwu as the first of the ministers to set the policy, and used the name of the Longwu court to consolidate their position as the only one in Fujian and other regions, with a great color of separation. He also sent envoys to hook up with the Daping Dynasty, ready to fall with the wind.

Tang King Zhu Yujian originally hoped that Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui would lead the troops out of Fujian and make contributions. Under his repeated orders, Zheng Zhilong had to send Yongshengbo Zheng Cai to lead his troops out of Shanguan to rescue the remnants of the Ming army in Jianchang, Jiangxi. After Zheng Cai arrived at Shanguan, he did not move, no matter how Zhang Jiayu urged the prison army to do so, he ignored it. Soon he heard that the Daping army was coming, so he pulled up the team and ran, and retreated to Pucheng for three days and nights.

As the contradictions between the two sides intensified, Zhu Yujian, the king of Tang, understood that it was impossible to do anything except leave Fujian and get rid of the control of Zheng Zhilong's brothers. Therefore, he decided to personally conquest, the purpose of the first step is to move the line to Ganzhou, Jiangxi, and then depending on the situation, if Jiangxi succeeds in using troops and the situation is stable, he can connect the Hunan He Tengjiao Department in the west, the Zheng Zhilong Department in Fujian in the east, and Guangdong in the south, so as to obtain the effect of nearby command. Even if Jiangxi is unfavorable in the war, it can still move west to Hunan and south to Guangdong.

Zhu Yujian, the king of the Tang Dynasty, was determined to recover, but Zheng Zhilong supported his troops and respected himself, held the court hostage, and had no intention of enterprising, and the contradictions between the two sides became increasingly intensified. Huang Daozhou, the chief university scholar, was indignant and volunteered to supervise the troops out of Fujian, contact Jiangxi, rescue the remnants of the Ming troops of Jin Sheng and other troops in Huizhou and Quzhou, and try to open up the situation for the Longwu court.

On September 28 of the first year of Qiongyuan, Huang Daozhou reluctantly pieced together more than 3,000 soldiers to embark on the journey, and Zhu Yujian, the king of Tang, sent Zhao Shichao as the head of the Ministry of War to serve as the pre-military supervisor. Zheng Zhilong, who held the power of money and food for soldiers and horses, was secretly happy in his heart, but he was afraid that he would not go, so he did not allocate it to the elite soldiers, and the food and salary were only paid for a month.

Soon after the division was released, the soldiers' salaries could not be paid. Huang Daozhou had no choice but to use his prestige and calligraphy to write a letter of appointment and recruit some loyal people along the way. Huang Daozhou himself, with no military experience. All the military affairs he knew were only on paper, and he had never commanded an army. Most of the subordinate generals were recruited, lacked combat experience, and moved forward bravely with enthusiasm.

Shi Lang acted as a partiality at that time and accompanied Dao Zhou on the expedition, and he saw with a military vision that relying on such a team to fight against the Daping army would definitely be defeated. Therefore, he suggested to Huang Daozhou that he dismiss the troops, take only a few selected people directly into Ganzhou by small road, and control and dispatch the governors, governors, and general soldiers of Southern Jiangxi, Huguang, Guangdong, Guangxi, and other places in the name of the chief university sergeant inspector, and join the division to forge ahead.

Huang Daozhou was stubborn and did not reach the power change, thinking that it was better for him to have such a loose army than nothing, and overestimating his prestige, thinking that everywhere he went would respond in droves; What's more, in his mind, Shi Lang is just a humble general, how can he have any good plans. Shi Lang saw that Huang Daozhou did not adopt his own opinion, and was unwilling to accompany him to death, so he returned to Fujian.

After Huang Daozhou arrived at the Huizhou Mansion, he turned his head hazy, and it was not until Jin Sheng's army was defeated and captured that he figured out that his army was only separated from Jin Sheng's remnant Ming army by a mountain. Whether his forces can rescue Jin Sheng is certainly a question, but at least it shows that he has unknown intelligence and lacks military talent.

Since the Jin Sheng Department had been defeated, and the few armies led by Huang Daozhou were not opponents of the Daping Army, the purpose of sending troops to aid Hui was defeated. He led his troops from Wuyuan, Huizhou (now part of Jiangxi Province) to Jiangxi, and on February 23 of the second year of Qiongyuan, the Daping army detectives heard that Huang Daozhou was camping in Jingmingtang in Wuyuan County; The next day, he was besieged by the Daping Army on three routes, and more than 1,000 corporal soldiers of the Zodiac Zhou Department were killed, and the rest of the stars were scattered, and he and Zhao Shichao, the director of the Civil Officers and Soldiers' Department, Mao Zhijie, the general judge, Cai Yong, Lai Jijin, and the military attache guerrilla Zhu Jiadi were captured. Later, according to the "Amnesty Decree", Huang Daozhou and others were beheaded.

Huang Daozhou's counterattack this time is completely child's play. However, this is also the only counterattack from the Nanming to the Remnant Ming stage. After that, the Daping Army began the process of pushing all the way until it surrounded all the remnants of the Ming army to the southwestern frontiers such as Guangxi and Yunnan.

The following is a brief introduction to the march process of the Daping Army:

After Chi Ming's East Route Army entered and occupied Dongfu County, Zhejiang, Zhang Guowei, a scholar, Yu Huang, a scholar of the Inspector Army, Chen Hanhui, a secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Chen Qianfu, a Shaoqing of Dali Temple, committed suicide one after another.

Zhu Dadian, a scholar of the Inspector University, guarded Jinhua and swore not to surrender. Chi Ming personally led a large army from Shaoxing to Jinhua and surrounded the city on all sides. However, the Ming army defending the city resisted stubbornly under the command of Zhu Dadian, and it was not until Chi Ming transferred red-coated artillery from Hangzhou and attacked it for 20 days with an absolute superiority of troops, and Jinhua was breached.

Zhu Dadian led his family members and cronies to the gunpowder bureau in the city, tied it to the powder keg with a rope, lit the fuse, and made a bang.

Zhu Dadian, a former Ming official who had a friendship with Wu Shigong, Wu Shigong also wrote several times to persuade him to surrender, but he flatly refused. In the officialdom of the late Ming Dynasty, Zhu Dadian was also known for his greed, but in the end he still embodied the mighty and unyielding integrity. And after Wu Shigong learned of this result, he could only sigh: "It's a pity! Pity! ”

Zhou Xun and Xue Qiang's Western Route Army conquered Ji'an and advanced to southern Jiangnan. After that, the remnants of the Ming army were defeated under the city of Ganzhou, and they seized this strategic place that connects Fujian in the east and Hunan in the west, and is also the barrier of Guangdong.

Soon, Chi Ming's East Route Army marched forward, and soon, Zheng Zhilong and others surrendered to Daping, Tang King Zhu Yujian was captured and killed, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Guangdong fell one after another, and He Tengjiao, who was stationed in Hunan, was also surrounded by Zhang Biao's Middle Route Army and Zhou Xun and Xue Qiang's West Route Army on three sides. In the rout, He Tengjiao's troops were almost wiped out, and the remnants fled to Guangxi with He Tengjiao.

After learning of the fall of Nanjing, the southern Ming army of Sichuan also surrendered Chengdu and Chongqing one after another, and most of them surrendered to the Sichuan army. The whole territory of Sichuan fell into the hands of the Daping army.

From the second half of the second year of Qiongyuan to the third year of Qiongyuan, the remnants of the Ming Army, the remnants of the Dashun Army and the Great Western Army, and the local Ming Army in Yunnan and Guangxi had to temporarily unite under the mercury-like offensive of the Daping Army to jointly resist the attack of the Daping Army. It was not until the end of the fourth year of Qiongyuan that these remnants of the troops in the southwestern frontier were completely wiped out by the Daping army.

When the Daping Dynasty had just launched a war to unify the whole country, the forces it used were less than one-fifth of the total strength of the Daping Army. However, when the remnants of the resistance forces were surrounded in the southwestern border, the total strength of the Southern Expeditionary Daping Army had reached more than 1.3 million. It can be seen from this that Nanming's military spirit is scattered and the people's will is desired.

And at the end of the day, we have to look at the battle against the Qing Dynasty in which all the elites of the Daping Army were concentrated. (To be continued......)

PS: The process of unifying the whole country by the Daping Army basically evolved in accordance with the process of the Qing Army's entry into the customs. Whenever I see this period of history, especially the Ming army that was stronger than the Qing army, I always sigh: The Qing Dynasty won the world, not because of the bravery, but because there were too many traitors.