After Li Dingguo and Yang Qiaoran's Southern Ming army killed Kong Youde, the king of Dingnan, and Nikan, the auxiliary king, the Qing court was disgraced, and the Qing emperor Fulin ordered Tunqi Beile to gather 100,000 troops again, kill the Huguang area, and avenge Nikan. The remnants of Nikan in Hunan merged with the Qing army from Beijing in an attempt to crush tens of thousands of Southern Ming troops in Huguang in one fell swoop.

Liu Wenxiu, who entered Sichuan, defeated the lackey Wu Sangui, recovered the prefectures and counties in southern Sichuan, and made contact with the Thirteen Armies of Kuidong. The anti-Qing forces of Zhang Huangyan, Zhang Mingzhen and others on the southeast coast also entered the counteroffensive and recognized the Yongli regime, and the situation of resisting the Qing Dynasty was very good.

Li Dingguo and Yang Qiaoran, who were fighting abroad, teamed up and won many successes, and their fame was shocking. The only items seized by Li Dingguo sent to Guiyang were the gold seals, gold books and human resources of the king of Dingnan given to Kong Youde by the Qing court, and there were not many gold and silver treasures.

Sun Kewang, the No. 1 real power figure in Nanming in the base camp of Guizhou, was very unhappy, listened to slander, suspected Yang Qiaoran and others of privately sharing the spoils of war, and was restless. The most terrible thing is that Sun Kewang thinks that Li Dingguo's military exploits are too high, which will lead to his status surpassing his own, and he is very frightened, so he embarrass Li Dingguo and Yang Qiaoran everywhere, and the demon thoughts of jealousy sway Sun Kewang sway, and he falls deeper and deeper into the wrong path of hatred.

When Li Dingguo fought fiercely with the rest of Nikan, Sun Kewang took the Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang to his sphere of influence in Anlong, Guizhou, in order to blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes.

The confused Zhu Youlang didn't know what the plan was, and praised Sun Kewang for his loyalty, comparable to Guo Ziyi in the Tang Dynasty, who made an indispensable contribution to the rebuilding of the Ming Dynasty, and promoted Sun Kewang to be the "Lord of the Country". Sun Kewang has this identity and has become a monkey jumping up and down, he wants to "make trouble in the Heavenly Palace" and be a Monkey King.

Under the pretext of reorganizing the political order of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Sun Kewang instructed his subordinates to set up six cabinet ministries in Guiyang, establish Taimiao and Sheji, and formulate court rituals, in fact, in order to prepare for the usurpation of power. In the name of the emperor, Sun Monkey issued an order to the anti-Qing generals in the southwestern provinces to enter Anlong to meet Zhu Youlang, so as to collect military power and monopolize power.

When the documents reached the hands of the generals in Sichuan, under the pressure of Sun Kewang, all the generals entered Guizhou, and Liu Wenxiu, who was the most powerful, was deprived of military power. Yu Dahai and Li Zhanchun's old camp was stationed in Xipingba, Fuzhou (now Fuling), controlling the three counties of Fuzhou, Changshou and Dianjiang, and insisted on not going to Guizhou.

When Sun Kewang was a rogue under Zhang Xianzhong, he sent troops to kill Zeng Ying, the former Ming Dynasty Sichuan guard, and Li Zhanchun was Zeng Ying's righteous son, and Sun Kewang formed a Liang Zi, not wanting to belong to Sun Monkey.

Sun Kewang was helpless, so he tried his best to fight for it first, and sent a messenger to persuade him to surrender, but Li Zhanchun was not convinced at all, and swung his sword and slashed the envoy angrily. Such a big lord can't subdue the generals of a place, so Sun Monkey feels very faceless.

Some subordinates proceeded from the overall situation and advised Li Zhanchun: "General, isn't it just a verbal confession?" We might as well push the boat down the river. ”

Li Zhanchun was very unhappy in his heart, and scolded: "He killed my father and put the emperor under house arrest, if I surrender to him, it will be disloyal and unfilial, what is the difference between him and a beast!" Sun Monkey is trying to seek power and usurp the throne, don't you see it clearly? ”

The subordinates had no choice but to shake their heads helplessly and said: "The hero doesn't suffer the immediate loss, don't want Sun Monkey to grab the handle, we will be safe, and we can fight against Qinggou with peace of mind, and I hope the general will think twice." ”

Li Zhanchun said: "If you think twice, everyone has been killed by me." It seems that Sun Monkey will make a big fuss about this! ”

The general said: "General, we have no other way out?" Can I be guilty of petitioning? ”

Li Zhanchun said: "You are a fool to be a monkey, he is stupid, I can't be stupid, once I go to Guizhou, I will be a dead end." ”

At that time, Yang Qiaoran, the governor of southern Sichuan, walked in, he had already seen that Sun Monkey had evil intentions, and Sun Kewang wanted to transfer his 20,000 troops to Muwangfu in Yunnan to enrich the defense of Yunnan, and he was on fire: "It is right not to submit to Sun Monkey, at least there is a chance to rescue the saint." ”

Li Zhanchun and Yang Qiaoran are good friends, and they admire Yang Qiaoran's thorough view of the problem, and Yang Qiaoran's military command ability is beyond doubt, so he decided to defend Shu with Yang Qiaoran to see how Sun Kewang will make his next move.

Sure enough, when Sun Kewang heard that the envoy had been killed, he was furious, and a few days later sent troops to attack Li Zhanchun, and the two Ming armies killed each other. Yang Qiaoran and Li Zhanchun stuck to Fuzhou together and fought for seven days, but were finally defeated by Sun Kewang's army due to the disparity in strength.

In order to save the people from being slaughtered, Yang Qiaoran, the governor of southern Sichuan, still insisted on staying and fought with Sun Kewang to the end. Li Zhanchun and Yu Dahai fled to Huguang, intending to surrender to the Qing army.

Tens of thousands of refugees fled with Li Zhanchun and others, and the long queues were scattered along the narrow post roads, and they were in chaos. Halfway through, the food was almost gone.

The refugees complained one after another, saying that if Sun Kewang had surrendered early, he would not have been displaced.

After Li Zhanchun heard this, he felt very guilty and felt very sorry for everyone, so he said: "I, Li Zhanchun, have a bad thought, let the villagers suffer!" ”

He then knelt down and saluted the tens of thousands of refugees, "If you go back, it's still too late!" So most of the refugees returned to Sichuan.

Li Zhanchun entered a tavern and drank with his wife. In the middle of the night, Li Zhanchun rode into Huashan alone and became a Taoist priest, and no longer cared about political affairs (three years later, the Qing court sent people to surrender, and had to go to Wuchang, but he was not officially accepted, and Yu Dahai surrendered to the Qing court).

Sun Kewang did not dare to move Yang Qiaoran, the governor of southern Sichuan, and sent someone to ask Yang Qiaoran to go to Guizhou to see Zhu Youlang, and took the forces of Mu Wangfu and Yang Jiajun, Sun Kewang granted Yang Qiaoran's request to return home, and Sun Kewang drove the army of 100,000 out of Shu, wanting to get rid of Li Dingguo in Jingzhou.

Yang Qiaoran went first, and as soon as he returned to the city, he didn't have time to rest. Out of the original intention of uniting Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, Yang Qiaoran quickly arrived at Li Dingguo's military camp.

The two proposed to Sun Kewang the next three-step plan to resist the Qing Dynasty: first join forces to encircle and annihilate the elite of the Eight Banners under the command of Belle Tunqi, and then take advantage of the victory to expand the results of the battle with thunder to eliminate the rest of the Qing army in Huguang, recover Huguang, and then further recover Jiangnan.

After Sun Kewang received the letter, he pretended to agree. He told the envoy that Li Dingguo had to come to Jingzhou in person to discuss. Li Dingguo did not immediately go to Jingzhou on the grounds that the war was tight.

Within three days, Sun Monkey, who was murderous, issued seven orders in a row, and stationed troops in Wugang, constantly urging Li Dingguo, who was in Hengzhou, to return to Wugang to participate in the military meeting, otherwise it would be disobeying the holy decree.

Li Dingguo was forced to have no choice, so he had to bite the bullet and go with Yang Qiaoran to see Sun Kewang in Wugang. When the army marched to Ziyangdu, Liu Wenxiu's son learned of Sun Monkey's plot to trap Li Dingguo, and secretly sent his men Pegasus to Li Dingguo's military camp, and said in a hurry: "Sun Kewang wants to kill the general in Wugang and seize military power." ”

When Li Dingguo heard this, he was taken aback, and said to Yang Qiaoran: "Lord Governor, I'm sorry, it's not that General Ben doesn't want to meet Sun Monkey, he wants to kill me as the emperor, and I can't send sheep into the tiger's mouth." ”

Yang Qiaoran took Li Dingguo's hand and said, "Whether the saint can get rid of Sun Monkey's control depends on the general!" It's not a pity that my Yang died, so I'll go back to the city and say goodbye! ”

In late February, Li Dingguo led his 40,000 or 50,000 soldiers and horses to abandon Yongzhou (now Lingling), and retreated to Guangxi through Yongming (now Jiangyong County, Hunan) across the Longhu Pass.

Sun Kewang hated so much that he led the army to chase to Yongzhou, but did not catch up, so he gave up, which created a great opportunity for the Qing army to attack Sun Kewang.

On the sixth day of the first month of March, the Qing army led the main force of 100,000 Manchus and Han from Yongzhou to Baoqing by Tunqi. On the 15th, it was stationed at a fork in the road, only 30 miles away from Zhoujiapu, the camp of Bai Wenxuan, Feng Shuangli, and Ma Jinzhong of the Ming army.

On the 16th, the Qing army advanced to Zhoujiapu. The Ming army camp was on the top of the mountain, the terrain was dangerous, and it rained, and the two sides faced each other in formation, and the situation was critical.

That night, Sun Kewang led his own army to reinforcements from Baoqing Mansion, Sun Kewang thought that without Yang Qiaoran and Li Dingguo, he could still defeat the Qing army, and he wanted to prove that he was a real protector of the country.

On the 17th, the Ming army went down the mountain to launch a full-scale attack, and together with Sun Kewang, the Qing army attacked by different routes, and the two sides launched a fierce battle.

Sun Kewang, who had average command ability, would not set up a formation at all, but only knew that he would fight and rush, suffer heavy casualties, and the Ming army would be defeated. The Qing army captured more than 700 war horses and an elephant, and Baoqing Mansion was lost. However, the Qing army also paid a great price in this battle, and two Mongol soldiers of the Zhenghuang Banner, Meile Zhangjing, Wei Zheng, and Wu Jingjing, were killed in the fierce battle.

The Ming and Qing dynasties were still facing off on the front line, and the Qing court was simply unable to move south, and Sun Kewang was able to withdraw to Guizhou.

In March 1654, Emperor Yongli saw that Sun Kewang's ambition to usurp the throne was becoming more and more obvious, and he was afraid, so he secretly summoned Li Dingguo to escort him. At this time, Li Dingguo stationed troops in Nanning, and Sun Kewang sent troops to attack, which was defeated by Li Dingguo.

Without Yang Qiaoran supervising the army, Sun Kewang was even more presumptuous, he felt that the Zen position was blocked, and immediately sent the general Bai Wenxuan to Anlong to take Zhu Youlang hostage and move to Guiyang. Bai Wenxuan was dissatisfied with what he could do, and deliberately waited for Li Dingguo to arrive and jointly escorted Emperor Yongli to move to Kunming.

In August 1656, Sun Kewang did not listen to the goodwill released by Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and insisted on going his own way. Sun Monkey colluded with Wu Sangui and led an army of 160,000 from Puding to attack Kunming.

In September, Sun Kewang retreated to Puding with dozens of people, and the guard Ma Jinzhong closed the city gate, not allowing Sun Kewang to enter the city, and ordered the city to open artillery bombardment on Sun Kewang, and many rebels ran off their horses.

So, Sun Kewang's subordinates shouted anxiously: "Don't open fire, this is the lord of the country!" ”

Ma Jinzhong replied at the head of the city: "The lord of the country swore an oath to come out, counting 160,000 soldiers, and dozens of people have been there so far. This must be a thief! ”......

When Sun Kewang arrived in Guizhou, Feng Shuangli couldn't get used to Sun's narrow-minded Sun Kewang, and he didn't accept this invincible Sun Monkey behind closed doors, and said that if he didn't leave, he would kill him, and Sun Kewang regretted it.

Desperate, Sun Kewang had no choice but to flee from Guizhou, flee to Hunan with his family and dozens of soldiers, surrendered to the Qing court in Baoqing Mansion, and became a shameful traitor.

Sun Monkey brought a large amount of military intelligence of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and revealed the characteristics of senior generals such as Li Dingguo and Yang Qiaoran to the Qing army, and the Qing army knew the military and political situation of the Southern Ming Dynasty well.

The rebellious Sun Monkey was named the righteous king by the Qing court and decided to borrow troops to take revenge. Everywhere he went, Sun Monkey was the vanguard of the attack on Nanming, and he also appeared to encourage the generals of the year to surrender to the Qing court, and those generals defected one after another, and the Nanming, who lived in the three southwestern provinces, was hit hard by this, and it couldn't last long.