Spring goes to autumn, summer ends with the winter solstice.

In the distance is the majestic city wall of Nanjing, Xu Ping held the horse with one hand and looked at the land of his ancestor Longxing, the last time he passed by Nanjing, he did not take a closer look here, because the war in the south was urgent, so he planned to wait until he came back to see - if the south is easy to attack, he will come back after unifying the whole country; If the south is not easy to attack, then wait until the front is calm. However, the sudden rebellion of the Northern Alliance made Xu Ping directly return to Beijing with his troops, and he had this idea again when he went south this time, but he still gave up because of the agreement with the Ming army.

"There are only more than 100 Ming troops in it, and if the general wants to go to Nanjing, the last general will be able to drop a thousand soldiers and horses immediately." Chen Zhe saw that Xu Ping stood for a long time, and couldn't help but say, "Why does the general always stay in this cold wind? ”

"No, didn't you promise for me, if you want to tear up the agreement, you need to tell a month in advance?" Xu Ping shook his head and said, it was impossible to tell the Ming army in advance, taking advantage of the fact that the north wind was very strong these days, the balloon of the Ming army could not set off, Xu Ping let this large-scale military plan that he had carefully planned for a long time put into action.

After the public servant division was stationed in Chunhua, even Xu Ping was helpless, and after August, a new batch of supplementary troops of the Southern Army completed their training and began to be incorporated into the troops, and a new batch of tens of thousands of soldiers were all sent to Zhejiang, and with the supplement of these soldiers, the Seventh Army of the Southern Ming Dynasty was rebuilt. At present, this new corps, like the Sixth Army, has three divisions under its jurisdiction: the Honest Division, the Trustworthy Division, and the Compassion Division, and the commander of the army is temporarily represented by He Feihu, the former commander of the Sixth Army.

Replenishing tens of thousands of soldiers is not a problem for Beishun, but tens of thousands of well-trained soldiers are not easy, in the face of the seemingly endless financial resources of the southern army, Xu Ping began to consider for the first time in August whether there is a need to withdraw troops from Jiangnan, at this time the Shandong defense envoy also tried several times to concentrate on recapturing Dengzhou, but Xu Ping vetoed.

After October, He Feihu left Danyang and went to Zhejiang to command the 50,000 troops of the Southern Ming Seventh Army to go north for the second time, and the combat effectiveness of the three divisions of the Ming Army in Longtan and Chunhua was also different from what it used to be, forcing Xu Ping to leave a stronger force to ensure the way back, and felt that it was difficult to repeat the victory of Huangchi again. Moreover, the Ming army on the Jiangxi side was also ready to move, and it seemed that it had the intention of cooperating with the Seventh Army to attack Nanjing, which made Xu Ping finally make up his mind to abandon Jiangnan and retreat to Jiangbei.

Finally, when the wind picked up these days, the more than 60,000 Shun troops in Jiangnan began to assemble at several designated ferries according to Xu Ping's prior plan. Finally, Xu Ping had seen enough of the Nanjing city wall, turned back to his subordinates and said, "Let's go." ”

"Okay, when we cross the river again, we won't sign any more agreements with Nanming." Chen Zhe said loudly, Xu Ping told the generals that his plan was to temporarily transfer the main force of the Shun Army Field Army to Jiangbei, pull it into the supply line of the Ming Army, and at the same time get close to his rear base, and then attack the Ming Army's troops in the north, and then consider counterattacking after a large amount of manpower and material resources of the Ming Army were consumed.

Therefore, Chen Zhe's bold words aroused the approval of many subordinates, Ying Tianfu's battlefield room for maneuver was too small, and the Ming army threatened the Shun army from three sides, and the Yangtze River shipping was more convenient, and they were all convinced that after the Shun army retreated to Jiangbei, there would be more and better opportunities to destroy the enemy.

"Yes, we can't celebrate the New Year in Nanjing, but if we move quickly, we can still let the whole army celebrate the New Year in Yangzhou." Xu Ping said with a smile, his subordinates were still full of confidence in him, this was not the first time he had given up Nanjing, and the strength of the Shun army was stronger now than it was then. But Xu Ping's heart was far less calm than when he left Nanjing last time, and when Nanjing disappeared from view, a strong sense of attachment suddenly rose in his chest, much like the premonition when Xinjun and Huang Zijun broke up, this familiar feeling made Xu Ping a little worried - maybe he would never have the opportunity to see the Nanjing city wall again in his life.

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Of course, the Dashun court would not agree to abandon Jiangnan, and Niu Jinxing feared that this would seriously weaken the prestige of the Dashun court and might also shake the vassal state's confidence and loyalty to Dashun. Therefore, the Prime Minister's Office once asked Xu Ping to resist to the end in the south of the Yangtze River, looking for an opportunity to fight a big victory similar to Anqing and Huangchi, and once again break the strategic offensive of the Ming army.

However, He Feihu commanded the three divisions of the Seventh Army to slowly advance in a group with inverted characters, and released a large number of motor boats and balloons to closely monitor the movements of the Shun army along the way (now the Ming Air Force in the sky has become more and more), if the weather is bad and the Air Force cannot dispatch, the Ming Army will turn to defense on the spot. Originally, Xu Ping couldn't allocate much troops to attack the 50,000 Ming army, and He Feihu was so cautious that he wouldn't give him a chance to take advantage of.

After He Feihu entered the Taiping Mansion, Xu Ping felt that his troops had become more careful, and the three divisions advanced alternately, although there were many new recruits, but Zhao Ning's remaining remnants of the defeat last time would be assigned to the whole army, and He Feihu also brought the soldiers who returned from the wounds of the Constitution Division to the Seventh Army, and they played a backbone role in the Seventh Army together with the only remaining regiment of the Honest Division, which made the current Seventh Army very different from the group of outright rookies who came last time. When the Ming army was approaching the Taiping Mansion, Xu Ping noticed that He Feihu had turned half of his forces to the east to prevent another flanking attack by the Shun army, and judging from the number, it was still the more elite half.

The Ming army gathered on the ground, and the ghost of the airship in the sky did not disperse, Xu Ping estimated that he had no good way to relieve the siege of Taiping Mansion, so he let the defenders take the initiative to retreat before the Ming army closed the siege. After the fall of Taiping, the pressure on Anqing increased in vain, and they reported that the Ming army in Jiangxi was showing signs of attacking again, but it was slow due to the weather, and they hoped that Xu Ping would send at least 10,000 field troops to assist in the defense at once.

Therefore, although the Prime Minister's Mansion repeatedly cheered up the front and asked Xu Ping to hold on in Jiangnan no matter what, he was determined to disobey again - now the Shun army has been pinned down in a small area by the Ming army that is not weaker than himself on both sides, and it is difficult for either side to fight quickly, and in the future, whether the Ming army is further approaching or the Jiangxi Ming army is attacking Jiangbei, Xu Ping is worried that the main force of the Shun army will not be able to go.

The actions of the Shun army in Layue were very unexpected by the Ming army, and the intention to use the weather to cover the Shun army was not discovered until much later. For example, in the first two days after the Shunjun fortress on the outskirts of Chunhua was abandoned, the Ming army was still meticulously guarding it; The Shun army's surveillance fort outside Longtan was still under routine artillery bombardment by the Ming army on the night it was abandoned, and the council division poured shells on the former Shun positions, which were practically empty, for several hours.

When it was discovered that the Shun army was retreating across the Yangtze River in large numbers, the Ming army still appeared quite cautious, and did not quickly advance to attack Xu Ping's rearguard position, and by the time they arrived cautiously, these rearguard troops had also retreated to Jiangbei with the main force, and the whole retreat operation was very smooth.

When it was confirmed that there were no Shun troops south of the Yangtze River in Nanzhili, the media of the Southern Ming Dynasty cheered, the Second Northern Expedition had been a great success, the main goal had been achieved, and Nanjing was undoubtedly back in the hands of the Ming army. As for the other target of this Northern Expedition, the territory south of the Yangtze River in Huguang is still in the hands of the Shun army, and it is difficult to launch an attack for a while due to the weather.

But the problem did not seem to be too big, Xu Ping ordered the defenders of Anqing and Luzhou to also shrink northward, and more than 100,000 Shun troops, including local troops and miscellaneous troops, left the north bank of the Yangtze River one after another. In this way, the Ming army in Jiangxi did not need to attack to the east with the main force, but began to turn around and go west, planning to make some strategic adjustments in the winter, and then launch an attack on Li Dingguo after the beginning of spring.

Since the attack on Huguang could not be launched immediately and could not necessarily be won quickly, the Constituent Assembly decided to announce to the people that the Second Northern Expedition had been successfully completed under the wise leadership of His Majesty and the Duke of Qi, so that the Ming army in Jiangxi could prepare calmly and without haste, and their subsequent offensive would be included in the list of actions for the Third Northern Expedition.

And this offensive was soon launched, just after the New Year of the eighth year of Shun Yongchang and the seventh year of Ming Hongguang, Qi Guogong announced the return of Nanjing, and at about the same time the Ming army of Jiangxi entered Huguang in a big way. At this time, a large amount of territory in the north of Nanzhili was still in the hands of the Shun army, and the Ming army only controlled the area along the Yangtze River in Jiangnan and Jiangbei, and was considering whether it was appropriate to establish the Qingyuan of Nanzhili (not only the question of the area occupied by the Shun army, but also whether the Zhili area should have the concerns of the Governor's Mansion and the Qingyuan. The Duke of Qi ordered the Southern Zhili to be one and the second, changing the area already controlled by the Ming army to Jiangsu Province, and the one that was still in the hands of the Shun army to another province, and at the same time canceling the title of Zhili, imitating other provinces to set up the Provincial Secretary House and the directly elected governor's office. By the beginning of April, Li Dingguo had abandoned the area south of the Yangtze River and retreated to the north of the Yangtze River, and the Duke of Qi followed the example of his previous treatment of Nanzhili, announcing that most of the area controlled by the Ming army would become the constituency of the Hunan Provincial Governor's Office and the Qingyuan, and the remaining part would be the territory of the future Hubei Province.

Originally, the plan of the Northern Expedition also included an offensive against Yunnan, but for the sake of elections, those officials and parliamentarians who were about to expire did not want to announce the victory of the Northern Expedition as often as possible, so after Li Dingguo withdrew from Jiangbei and began preparations for the election of the Hunan Provincial Government, the Nanming authorities once again impatiently announced to the people that the Third Northern Expedition had achieved brilliant success.

By this time, the weather had begun to get hot, and the battle lines of the Shunming and Ming armies were once again calm, but the next target of the Ming army was undoubted, Yunnan was undoubted, a large number of Ming troops were entering Guizhou, the number of outposts on the Yunnan-Guizhou border was surging, and the Constituent Assembly of the Southern Ming had no intention of hiding this - they announced that the goal of the Fourth Northern Expedition was to liberate Yunnan Province.

However, the Northern Shun was unable to support the Yunnan front, and the Ming army opposite the Shun army on the battlefields of Anhui and Hubei was stronger than them and was actively preparing for war, and once the weather turned cold, they would most likely launch another offensive. In particular, the contrast between the strength of the two armies in the Hubei battlefield was even more huge, and a large number of supplements were urgently needed, otherwise Li Dingguo would probably have to retreat to Henan.

Li Chengdong, the king of Shu, was asked to support Yunnan as best he could, but Sichuan was still far from recovering from the devastation of the Ming army, and Li Chengdong also needed to raise an army to defend his own territory.

The house leak coincided with overnight rain, and the Liao Domain, which had a large amount of rich land, also broke out this year: Beishun had allowed a large number of displaced people to go to Liaodong in the hope that they would restore the production of Liaodong's ripe land as soon as possible to support the imperial court, and these people were mainly concentrated in the coastal areas. However, after the introduction of irrigation from the sea last year, this year, the Liaowang Mansion announced that an unprecedented agricultural disaster had occurred in eastern Liaodong, and a large area of land was not harvested.

Despite this, while calling on the people not to flee the famine and unite as one not to cause chaos to the Liao Domain, the Liao Wangfu also assured the imperial court that the contribution of the Liao Domain would be doubled this year, and Yi Cheng, the chief writer of the "Liaodong People's Observer" who returned to Liaodong from Nanjing, wrote an article vigorously eulogizing the decision of the Liao Wangfu, proudly claiming that the people of Liaodong have backbone, although they will also double the provision of front-line materials in the year of the catastrophe, they would rather die standing than live on their knees! This fully reflects the superiority of the equal pay system for equal work in Liaodong.

When Yi Cheng was hoarse and applauded the Liao Palace, Wu Sangui went to ask Fan Wencheng to come out of the mountain, this guy surrendered to Zu Dashou in the first battle of Zunhua, and then surrendered Lin Dan Khan with Zu Dashou in Jinzhou, and finally returned to Dashun in Chifeng. This catastrophe made the King of Liao very dissatisfied with the administrative ability of the Liao Prime Minister Hong Chengchou, and became much more neglected by him, and the newcomer Fan Wencheng was introduced by him as a guest and named the left minister of the Liao Palace, while the original Xiangguo Hong Chengchou was demoted to the right minister, and even under Fan Wencheng.

For this kind of personnel arrangement, of course, the old people of Liaowangfu will inevitably have a little whispering, the former senior brother of the chief soldier of Mingshan Customs, as Wu Sangui's old comrade-in-arms for many years, came out to sing a few words of grievances for Hong Chengchou, who had worked hard for many years, and thought that although Fan Wencheng had been on an errand in Liaodong for many years and was very familiar with the specific situation, after all, he was not as close as Hong Xiang and Guan Ning's military generals. When the King of Liao heard the report, he was furious and ordered that his brother be imprisoned immediately, and that he and the generals of the Liao clan of the Shanhaiguan faction who surrounded him be designated as the rebel group of Gaodi.

While cleaning up the power of his elder brother, Wang Fuchen asked Yi Cheng to concentrate his firepower on attacking Nanming according to the instructions of the King of Liao, the focus was to make the Liao people realize the ugliness and hatred of Nanming, and at the same time, it also inspired their sense of pride and honor.

"Our Peaceful World", which has just spread from the south, was selected by Yi Cheng as a breakthrough, and the attitudes of all parties to this song are very complicated:

There are different opinions on this song within the Ming army, such as Jin Qiude and Li Yunrui feel that this song seems to indicate that Qi Guogong has a precursor to going crazy, in their opinion, Huangshi seems to be deceived by his own propaganda, but Qi Guogong is the master and the future emperor, and this song will be a royal product in the future, and Jin Qiude and others naturally dare not prohibit it from circulating in the army.

And after Beishun learned the content of this song, Niu Jinxing's first thought was "harming others and disadvantage", but unfortunately he has not seen the martial arts of later generations, otherwise Niu Jinxing will definitely say that Huangshi is playing the Dafa of Heavenly Demon Disintegration and hurting himself before hurting others. However, the song was so infectious that many of the soldiers in the Shun army liked it, and Xu Ping did not agree to punish his men simply because they sang a few tunes. When Niu Jinxing emphasized that this was an anti-song, Xu Ping started a pen and ink lawsuit with him, saying that these subordinates were all born and died to fight the world for Dashun, Li Zicheng, who had always felt that what Niu Jinxing said was reasonable, saw Xu Ping's words, and immediately regretted agreeing with the military's opinion, and no longer agreed to punish the soldiers who sang the anti-song, and comforted Niu Jinxing in turn: The body is not afraid of the shadow, can you do it by singing two songs? There are still a lot of obscene songs in the army, and if I don't see them, I will burn, kill, loot and disobey the military order.

Compared with Li Zicheng, who made Niu Jinxing helpless, the wise and martial Wu Sangui immediately ordered a strict ban on the spread of "Our Taiping World" in the territory, and Yi Cheng began to criticize word by word, carefully picking out the anti-Chinese ideas in it.

First of all, Yi Cheng pointed out that Huangshi had dealings with many overseas barbarian states, and he was affected by the barbarian wind and forgot the righteousness of the Chinese monarchs and ministers. Yi Cheng repeatedly stressed that the emperor is unique to China, without the emperor Chinese would not multiply and become the co-masters of the world, and to oppose the emperor is to oppose China.

Continuing along this line of thought, Yi Cheng immediately discovered that this was actually a conspiracy, to the effect that overseas foreign countries were envious and jealous of China's emperor, and feared China's unparalleled excellent monarch father thought, unlike the Chinese people who did not know the blessings in the midst of happiness, foreigners saw it very clearly: if they wanted to subvert China's dominance, they must bring down the great emperor system that led China forward, and if the Chinese could not doubt the greatness of the imperial system, then China would always be the unattainable peak of mankind in the future.

And the traitor Huangshi, Li Lingzhi fainted and befriended a group of barbarian beasts who were immortal in the heart of China, trying to turn Yiyi into Xia; Yi Cheng fondly recalled the glorious achievements of the imperial system since the Qin Dynasty: it was the imperial system that enabled the Chinese people to learn to make wine, learn to make silk, and possess art and writing, and it was the imperial system that ensured that the Chinese people could develop navigation and farming - therefore, we must unswervingly adhere to the imperial system, deeply expose and criticize Huangshi, which has no shame and patriotism, and must not allow the conspiracy of overseas barbarian anti-Chinese forces to succeed!

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After Xu Ping led the army back to Jiangbei, the Shandong defense envoy asked him several times to recover Dengzhou, and the Ming army had expected such a request, and the Ming army was not worried about the siege of the Shun army, and not only did they not concentrate the marines to hold Dengzhou, but instead divided the army to attack Qingdao, Nantong and other places, and established a series of landing points along the coast of Shandong.

After the end of the Jiangnan War, the navy also began to transport the army to these coastal strongholds to hold on, the sea was a moat for the Shun army, and a thoroughfare for the Ming army. The military determination of the Southern Ming Dynasty was: if Xu Ping sent a small force, then the Ming army would use the city defense to hold on; If the Shun army is large, then the Ming army can also use the sea to replenish the elite of the Shun army; Even if the Shun army attacked at any cost, the Ming army could also retreat by boat.

And no matter how the Shun army moves, the Ming army can gain a greater advantage on the frontal battlefield.

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