Yang Qiaoran, who supervised the army in Changsha, decided to follow the military system of his ancestor Yang Zaisi, and implemented a full-time military campaign in the surrounding areas of Chengbu County to fight a protracted war with the Qing army. So he wrote to Emperor Longwu and asked him to be given the power of the supreme military commander of Huguang, and his words were impassioned and practical, which was conducive to the coordination and unification of the Southern Ming army.

Emperor Longwu was far away in Fuzhou, and was very concerned about the situation in Huguang, and after he saw the twists and turns, he admired Yang Qiaoran's loyalty and courage very much, and was determined to build Chengbu County into a base for opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty.

In May of the second year of Longwu (1646), Yang Qiaoran, the superintendent of the Huguang Supervision Army, led the army to Shangguan Village to worship the ancestors again, and the elders of the Yang clan gathered in the ancestral hall to offer suggestions for the restoration of the Ming Dynasty.

In order to stabilize the mood of the clansmen, Yang Qiaoran was ordered to deliberately carve a stone tablet of "Procuratorate" from the Changsha Provincial Government with bluestone slabs, positioning Yang Yiyuan and other 31 Yang descendants as "official households", enjoying the county government's salary, exempting local errand service, miscellaneous servants, etc., which was the first case in Baoqing Mansion.

Yang Qiaoran walked to the front hall and always felt that something was missing, so he picked up the pen and wrote the plaque of "Pai Zong Kansai" and hung it in the front hall, echoing one after the other.

An elder said, "Qiao Ran's nephew, the Yang family's ancestral hall is too common, why don't you ask the emperor to change the name?" ”

Yang Qiaoran thought about it and had an epiphany: "Okay, then I'll ask the emperor to give the Yang family an official hall, what do the seniors think?" ”

The elder said, "The Yang Clan's official hall ...... This is good! It is not only a symbol of honor and a place to review official documents, but also a place for the descendants of the Yang family in Hunan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Chongqing and other places to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors. ”

Yang Qiaoran said: "It's been hundreds of years, it's long overdue. I'll write a note to the emperor and settle it. ”......

Soon, Emperor Longwu of the Southern Ming Dynasty happily appointed, and the Yang Clan Ancestral Hall in Chengbu County was officially renamed "Yang's Official Hall". On the day the plaque was erected, hundreds of officials came to Shangguan Village to congratulate them.

At that time, the red carpet of the cemetery of Yang Zhengxiu, the first ancestor of Jingliang Village, stretched for hundreds of meters, from the foot of the mountain to the front of the grave, the scene was quite spectacular, and it was the greatest luck of the Yang family since the opening of the Ming Dynasty.

Yang Qiaoran's military and political status in the Southern Ming Dynasty continued to rise, attracting the envy of many people, and He Tengjiao, the chief soldier guarding Wugang, and Liu Chengyin, the deputy chief soldier, were the most typical. The two are in-laws, they don't know anything about marching and fighting, but they are very good at fighting for power and profit, trying to cover the sky with one hand and hold the emperor hostage.

Liu Tiebang had an army of 20,000 people, most of whom were hooligans and ruffians from Nanjing. In 1646, Emperor Longwu of the Southern Ming Dynasty named him Dingmanbo, which was even more arrogant and lawless. Gong Shanxuan passed by Wugang on business, and he actually asked the soldiers to insult Gong Shanxuan.

He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang, successfully appeased Li Zicheng's generals Li Guo, Hao Shaoqi, Yuan Zongdi, Wang Jincai, etc., as well as Zuo Liangyu's old subordinates, and the thirteen armies of Jing and Xiang were also thrown under the banner of Longwu, so He Tengjiao was proud of his achievements, suppressed dissidents, and secretly cultivated his own forces.

Zhu Yujian, who was under house arrest in Fujian, received a secret letter from Yang Qiaoran and learned that the military group of the Yang family general had begun to take shape and had a certain combat effectiveness, and Yang Qiaoran hoped that Emperor Longwu would get rid of Zheng Zhilong's control as soon as possible.

Zhu Yujian was overjoyed, so he hurriedly took thousands of Ming soldiers from Fuzhou to Yanping, and ventured to Hunan to join Yang Qiaoran. Yang Qiaoran led tens of thousands of elite soldiers of the Yang family to Jishui on the border of Hunan and Jiangxi, and was ready to meet them at any time.

In the early morning of August 22 in the second year of Longwu (1646), hundreds of Qing soldiers put on the clothes of the Ming army, waved the banner of the Ming army, and went straight to the city gate. The defenders of Tingzhou thought it was the defeated Ming army, and without careful interrogation, they actually opened the city gate and let the Qing army in.

As soon as the Qing army swarmed in, they were all slashing and killing the defenders, and Zhu Yujian realized that he had been fooled at this moment, and regretted that he should not have listened to Yang Qiaoran's advice. So he drew his sword, led his troops to fight with the Qing army, and hacked many Qing soldiers to death.

In the end, due to being outnumbered, Zhu Yujian retreated into the lobby of the Tingzhou City Palace, and was killed by the Qing army's indiscriminate arrows, and his queen Zeng, Shen Concubine, Chen Concubine and the prince who was not yet in the moon were killed.

As soon as Emperor Longwu died, the so-called battle for the throne broke out, the army of Zhu Yulu, the king of Tang and the army of Zhu Youlang, the king of Gui, had a fierce battle, the snipe and the clam competed, the fisherman profited, the Qing army took the opportunity to capture the city of Guangzhou, Zhu Yulu committed suicide, and Guangdong fell.

Zhu Youlang left Zhaoqing and fled into Guangxi again, Zhu Zhijian, the governor of Ming and Guangzhou, and Chen Bangfu, the general of Wuzhou, who stayed in Zhaoqing, abandoned the city and fled, the emperor fled, and looked forward to his subordinates to sell their lives, Zhu Youlang was simply delusional,

In February 1647, when the Qing army attacked Guilin, Liu Chengyin claimed that Guilin's defender Qu Shiqian had colluded with the Qing court to force King Gui to go to Quanzhou in an attempt to blackmail Emperor Yongli into returning to Wugang. In Quanzhou, Liu Chengyin didn't take King Gui in his eyes at all, as if he was Zhu Youlang's savior, domineering and very arrogant.

Yang Qiaoran couldn't look at Liu Tieba, who was prestigious, but said: "Liu Tieba, pay attention to the courtesy of the monarch and the minister, don't come nonsense!" ”

Liu Tieba actually insulted Du Yushi Yang Qiaoran: "Open your eyes and see who I am, be careful that I beat you flat!" "Swinging their fists at each other, they will tear people's hats and clothes.

The guard Zhang Xiliang drew his sword and wanted to slash Liu Tieba. In order to take care of the overall situation, coupled with the fact that there were not many soldiers around him at the moment, Yang Qiaoran stopped Zhang Xiliang in time. Then, Yang Qiaoran closed the door and asked King Gui to relieve Liu Tieba's military power and return to his own control.

The escape champion Zhu Youlang was indecisive and still went his own way, he naively thought that Liu Tieba's ability far exceeded Yang Qiaoran's, and he didn't listen to Yang Qiaoran's advice.

In March, Emperor Yongli moved his capital to Wugang, Yang Qiaoran wrote to Zhu Youlang to enter the mountainous area of Chengbu County as soon as possible, and the Yang family would be able to ensure his safety, but the mediocre Zhu Youlang said: "Chengbu County is a mountainous area, I am not used to it!" "With the Minwang Mansion as the palace and Liu Chengyin as the Wugang Hou, Yang Qiaoran was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

However, the ministers were intimidated by Liu Tieba's obscenity, and they competed to curry favor with him, and the superiors praised his merits. So Liu Tieba was named the Pillar of Xingguo, gave Shang Fang the sword, and he asked his brother Liu Chengyong to be Wu Gangbo, and Zhu Youlang also agreed, and since then Liu Chengyin has become more and more domineering.

Zhu Youlang, who was drunk and dreamed of death, did not want to forge ahead, and left Yang Qiaoran aside, not allowing his family army to enter the Wugang jurisdiction, otherwise he would be punished for rebellion. The Qing army successively broke through Changde and Baoqing, and approached Wugang City.

The Qing army suddenly appeared in the south of Wugang Prefecture, the Ming army was terrified, and the south of the city was lost, and the Ming army of the brigade abandoned the city from the north gate and fled. On August 13, the Qing troops broke through Wugang, and Liu Chengyin surrendered to the city.

Emperor Yongli ran the fastest, and he didn't even want the queen, son, sister-in-law, and mother, and then he remembered Yang Qiaoran and quickly fled to Chengbu County.

After Liu Chengyin surrendered with 50,000 or 60,000 people, he actively participated in the military operation to suppress the Southern Ming forces.

After Emperor Yongli crossed the papaya bridge, he lost his way on the path to the city, and Yang Qiaoran's tens of thousands of troops waited at the Niushi Bridge for a full day, but did not see Zhu Youlang's shadow, so they evacuated.

Cabinet minister Wu Bing was ordered to escort the emperor's eldest son to Chengbu to escape, and when he arrived at Chengbu County, Yang Qiaoran had already retreated to 100,000 Gutian, and the county seat had been occupied by the Qing army, and the group was captured and escorted to Hengyang. Wu Bing went on a hunger strike, tidied up his clothes, worshiped the monarch in the north, and hanged himself to death.

Zhu Youlang didn't meet the Qing army along the avenue, stumbled all the way to Jingzhou, and finally met Yang Qiaoran's Feishan tribesmen by mistake, which was the first day of the ninth month.

Under the escort of the army of the Feishan tribe, he was transferred to Liuzhou, this time it was a great fortune, Zhu Youlang saw Yang Qiaoran, and cried with joy: "Yang Aiqing, I insist on not using the Yang general, it's a big mistake!" ”

Yang Qiaoran was dumbfounded, not knowing what to say. In 1649, He Tengjiao, who had more than enough success, led hundreds of thousands of troops to attack Changsha, and the command was improper, he was defeated and captured, and committed suicide, which single-handedly ruined the overall strategic situation of recovering Hunan and aiding Jiangxi. Since then, the elite of the Southern Ming Dynasty has been completely lost, and it has been chased and beaten by the Qing army everywhere.

The seven provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, and Guangdong controlled by the Yongli regime were in crisis, and the claws of the Qing army were approaching step by step. Zhu Youlang had no choice but to let Yang Qiaoran come out as the governor of southern Sichuan at this time, and Yang Qiaoran, who was born behind the Jiangmen, was obliged to take his Yang family army to fight in the east and west.

The mountains and rivers are broken, the wind and rain are shaking, and the building is about to fall, can Yang Qiaoran support the crisis alone? Does he have the power to return to heaven? Will his Yang family group be able to turn the tide? Only God knows.

Soon after, Yang Qiaoran was appointed as the governor of southern Sichuan and went directly to Sichuan. The atrocities of the Qing army aroused the strong dissatisfaction of the people in the Han area, and Yang Qiaoran took the opportunity to get in touch with Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, and the rest of Li Zicheng's Dashun of the Great Western Army.

In 1652, after Sun Kewang grasped the power of the Southern Ming Dynasty, he launched a new round of attacks on the Qing army with Guizhou as the base, and the Ming army, which was reorganized by the Great Western Army as the main body, was invincible all the way, and the anti-Qing armed forces drove straight into Hunan, Guangxi, Sichuan and other places.

Yang Qiaoran, the governor of southern Sichuan, provided accurate military information to Li Dingguo, the king of Xining, and transferred 20,000 Yang troops to assist in the attack, and the 30,000 elite soldiers led by Li Dingguo, who was confident, returned to Huguang.

The brave and warlike Yang Jiajun was incorporated into the army, Li Dingguo's confidence was greatly increased, and most of the lost territory in Hunan was occupied by the Ming army. Yang Qiaoran suggested going south to Guangxi, going straight to Guilin, killing the traitor Kong Youde, the king of Dingnan, and fighting the arrogant Qing army, Li Dingguo readily agreed, and immediately adopted Yang Qiaoran's strategy.