In the middle of the Yuan 4338, the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, winter.

The Yellow Emperor's chronology should have been "Kaiyuan", but in order to avoid confusion with the Tang Dynasty era, Zhao Han ordered the name to be changed to "Zhongyuan".

There was no need for Zhao Han to contact at all, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai made trouble again.

They first escaped from Shaanxi and quickly took the town of Gansu. The soldiers of the border town were paid for money, killed the border generals of Gansu Town, expanded the army to 30,000, and stepped on the snow and ice to re-enter Shaanxi.

The Shaanxi border generals who surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty plundered the gentry everywhere in order to raise military rations.

The Manchus not only connived at this, but the Eight Banners stationed in Shaanxi even joined the robbery gang themselves.

So, after Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai were killed, a large number of gentry recruited villagers to follow. The gentry of Shaanxi actually cooperated with Li Zicheng to resist the Qing Dynasty, and many gentry scattered their wealth to recruit soldiers!

In the middle of October, Li Zicheng captured Lintao Mansion, Taozhou Wei, Jingyuwei, Minzhou Wei, Ningxia Zhongwei, Gongchang Mansion and Pingliang Mansion.

Li Zicheng once again occupied half of Shaanxi, and now he is storming Hanzhong!

This was the result of the rapid expansion of the Manchus, who had no control over the localities. After mobilizing the main force to Henan, a group of troops and generals could not withstand Li Zicheng's counteroffensive at all. Many gentry who were forced to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and even the border generals of the Ming Dynasty, chose to rejoin Li Zicheng.

In desperation, Dolgon could only send 20,000 Eight Banner troops to Shaanxi to fight Li Zicheng immediately.

Sichuan, also a winter operation.

Huang Qi and Qin Liangyu jointly sent troops, Fuzhou (Fuling) and Changshou two counties, and the generals defending the city directly looked at the wind and surrendered.

After taking Changshou, in Dianjiang County in the northeast, the magistrate actually sent a messenger to ask Huang Qi to divide his troops to take over Dianjiang.

This Dianjiang magistrate is still an official of the Ming Dynasty, the mountains are high and the road is far away, and no one has beaten him......

Huang Mi sent 300 peasant soldiers over and asked the accompanying officials to go to divide the fields.

With the expansion of the territory, there is no shortage of officials now. A large number of reserve officials are waiting to be regularized, a large number of regular officials are waiting to be promoted, and I don't know how many scholars are looking forward to fighting.

Even the call for the resumption of the imperial examination was suppressed by these officials.

Lao Tzu worked hard to get promoted, why should he be in a hurry to resume the imperial examination? Do you want to run to the Jinshi examination, all kinds of airborne officials, squatting on Lao Tzu's head and every minute?

Not only businessmen and peasants supported Zhao Han, but also the poor scholar class were also hardcore supporters of Zhao Han.

They have long had no hope of taking the imperial examination, and they did not even have the money to continue taking the examination. Under the rule of Zhao Han, he can easily become an official, and he can become an official in a year or two if he is strong, and he can slowly rise up if he is poor.

These people are the main body of scholars in the Ming Dynasty, and many of them were even disgusted with the Eight Shares of Scholars!

For example, Feng Houdun, the newly appointed magistrate of Changshou County, although he was born in a well-off family, he is also extremely disgusted with Bagu Zhishi. spent half his life, and had to spend money to buy officials, and only became a Jiangyin instructor, that is, a teaching assistant at the official school in Jiangyin County.

When Zhao Han occupied Jiangnan, Feng Houdun signed up as a reserve official, and now he has been promoted to Qipinzhi County.

In Daming, his assistant teacher didn't want to be an official until he died.

However, although he did not become an official in history, he was known as the "Three Princes of the Anti-Qing Dynasty".

Jiangyin County, which had already been submitted to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, due to Dolgon's "shaving order", a group of Xiucai made a blood alliance, saying that they would rather cut off their heads than cut off their hair.

The Xiucai killed the magistrate, elected Yan Yingyuan, Chen Mingyu, and Feng Houdun as leaders, and the officials and people of the city united to resist the Qing.

120,000 Jiangyin volunteers, facing tens of thousands of Qing troops, trapped in the lonely city for 81 days, dared to go out of the city to fight halfway, and finally collapsed the city wall by artillery.

On the day of the city's destruction, none of them surrendered, and they fought hard in the streets, and only 53 people were alive in the city.

Yan Yingyuan refused to kneel after being captured, was pierced in the shin, and died heroically.

Chen Mingyu died in battle after the city was broken.

Feng Houdun hanged himself in the direction of the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

History says that Jiangyin is eighty-one days.

Although it is not like what Yeshi said, he killed the three kings and eighteen generals. But it was true that three Manchu princes came to supervise the war, namely Bolo, Nikan and Kong Youde.

is the so-called: eighty days of wearing allegiance, the seventeenth dynasty of Taizu; 60,000 people died with one heart and righteousness, saving 300 miles of rivers and mountains in the Ming Dynasty.

Chen Mingyu and Feng Houdun in the "Three Princes of the Anti-Qing Dynasty" are now civil officials under Zhao Han.

There is still one Yan Yingyuan, the commander-in-chief of Jiangyin 81st, and he doesn't know where he is dormant at present.

After Feng Houdun took office in Changshou County, he immediately led the accompanying officials to first complete the rule in the city. Then, together with the peasant association, with the county seat as the center, they began to reconstruct the household registration and divide the land.

In addition, this is the material transit point of the Datong Army, and he has to cooperate with the work of the military.

An officer got off the boat and ran quickly to the county office: "Feng Zhixian, General Huang has an order, please immediately organize carpenters to build siege equipment and transport it to Chongqing Mansion for assembly!" ”

"I'll do it right away, and ask General Huang to stay for a few days." Feng Houdun said.

Zhao Han didn't allocate too much grain and grass, Huang Mi couldn't recruit enough people, and everything relied on water transportation from the Yangtze River. Even the construction of siege equipment was carried out in Changshou County, and the parts were shipped to be assembled outside the city of Chongqing.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

On the Chongqing River, a water war is breaking out.

Due to the fact that there were too many dangerous shoals in the Three Gorges, none of Zhao Han's large warships came to Sichuan, and all the warships that came were small and medium-sized warships.

Wang Xiang owned more than 300 naval warships, all of which were converted from merchant ships, and were fighting with the Datong naval division.

The wind was not in the right direction, and the Datong Naval Division did not use "chemical weapons".

However, the Datong Naval Division has artillery!

Although they were all small Furlong cannons, they were enough to suppress the Chongqing sailors who only had crossbow arrows.

The two sides fought for three hours, and more than 80 Datong Navy warships, more than 20 Chongqing warships, and more than 10 were battered.

"Lord Wang, I can't fight, General Lu asks to withdraw the army!"

Wang Xiang was furious: "Why can't you fight? Our army still has 300 warships, and the enemy warships are less than 100. All rushed up and got close to the port! ”

Wang Xiang, born as a house slave, was Wang Yingxiong's servant.

At this time, Wang Yingxiong, who should have been dismissed from office at home, was called to serve as a cabinet minister due to Zhao Han's occupation of Jiangnan and Chongzhen's use of a large number of people from the southwest and north. was first beaten half to death by Li Zicheng, and then took the opportunity to escape, and now he is blocked in Shandong and cannot return to his hometown.

Wang Yingxiong's servant Wang Xiang became a general as early as the sixth year of Chongzhen, and was later transferred to guard Bazhong.

Due to the rise of thieves, the gentry of Chongqing Prefecture held a large group training, and Wang Xiang took the opportunity to lead troops over, and with the support of the Wang family, he grew rapidly. Now it not only occupies half of Chongqing Mansion, but also takes Shunqing Mansion (Nanchong, Guang'an and other places).

The current identity of this product is the king of Daming Dingxing.

It was not self-established as a king, but canonized by Emperor Longwu of the Ming Dynasty!

Yes, there is a Ming Longwu Emperor in Sichuan. A group of warlords in Sichuan suddenly didn't want to fight, and under the tandem of the Ming relict ministers and gentry, they supported Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, as Emperor Longwu.

Wang Xiang of Chongqing, who was named the king of Dingxing; Wu Shangxian of Zunyi was named the king of Yongxing...... In one go, he sealed six princes and eleven marquis.

Yang Zhan, who played the banner of Datong, was surrounded by a group of princes in the middle, and he was completely stunned at this time.

If it weren't for Huang Qi and Qin Liangyu to send troops in time, Yang Zhan would definitely change his banner and take refuge in Emperor Longwu of the Ming Dynasty first.

Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, or Emperor Longwu of the Ming Dynasty, although only a puppet, nominally occupies most of Sichuan.

Wang Xiang shouted: "Send a messenger to Chengdu again to ask the emperor for help!" Damn, it's all for Daming, why is Lao Tzu alone? ”

Three waves of emissaries had already been sent to ask for help, and Wang Xiang was so anxious that he sent a fourth wave.

Lu Guoyu, the commander of the Chongqing Navy Division, was even more depressed, he commanded more than 300 warships, all of which were fucking goods. Even the sailors are mostly boatmen, and many of them are coolies at Chaotianmen Wharf.

Fighting a war with a regular water army, and still a fart?

Finally rushed over and approached several enemy ships to meet the sideboard, but the Datong sailors were frightened and fled in a row.

Lu Guoyu is a Confucian businessman, showing off his talent and fame, and his family runs the Yangtze River transportation. He doesn't want to fight, he just wants to do business!

But the whole family was in Chongqing, and he didn't dare to surrender.

Seeing that his warships were sunk one by one and captured one by one, Lu Guoyu wanted to shout at Wang Xiang to sell his mother.

In the fourth hour of the battle, more than 60 Chongqing warships were captured on the spot by the Datong Naval Division.

Lu Guoyu relied on the large number of ships and commanded the navy to pick up the ship. Then, he collapsed himself, and as long as the Datong sailors fired, the Chongqing sailors broke up in an instant. The Datong sailors jumped over, and the Chongqing sailors collectively fell on the deck and surrendered.

They are all shipwrights and coolies, who have only been soldiers for a year or two, and they are hungry and full, so why do they have to work for the officials?

Fearing shelling, many Chongqing warships took the initiative to stick to them and were captured. It looks heroic and fearless, but in fact, it surrenders at the first touch, and later it is too lazy to behave, and a large number of warship commanders choose to surrender.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Lu Guoyu led the remnants of the warships to retreat on their own initiative, and landed at Chaotianmen Wharf and retreated to the city, so frightened that he didn't even dare to ask for the warships.

"How dare you lead your troops to escape!" Wang Xiang was furious.

Lu Guoyu roared: "Don't you run and wait for the whole army to be wiped out?" On the opposite side are the elite of the sailors, with guns and artillery. I only have a group of shipwrights and coolies, not to mention muskets and artillery, not even bows and arrows. How do I want to fight? ”

Wang Xiang pressed the handle of the knife with his hand, hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "You lead the troops to defend the city together!" ”

The Lu family is a big family in Chongqing, not only has a lot of land, but also has a big business, Wang Xiang really doesn't dare to kill indiscriminately.

The Datong Naval Division commanded Gu Jianshan, and this time he personally came to Sichuan to fight, because he was a native of Sichuan.

After winning the water battle, Gu Jianshan smiled and said, "Mr. Wang, please." ”

Wang Yingxi is Wang Yingxiong's younger brother, when the Datong army conquered Nanjing, Wang Yingxi was on vacation in the Nanjing prison, and now he is a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy Literature Museum.

The cargo climbed up the stairs from Chaotianmen Wharf, stood under the city and shouted: "I am Wang Yingxi, quickly open the city and surrender!" ”

Wang Xiang's face suddenly changed drastically, and he said that he was just a domestic slave of the Wang family. Even if one side is divided, it is also with the help of the power of the Wang family, and many Wang family members are still officials and generals under him.

Especially on the side of the Golden Purple Gate, it was Wang Yingxi's own son who was responsible for leading the troops to defend the city.

Wang Xiang immediately led his troops to the Golden Purple Gate and quietly gave the order halfway.

After coming to the Golden Purple Gate, he couldn't help but say that he hacked Wang Yingxi's son to death, and there were also troops in the city to kill the Wang family.

The merchant quickly summoned the gentry and threatened: "Once the city is broken, the Datong army will confiscate your land and property in the countryside, and will also raid your house and kill people, and rob your property in the city." If you want to keep your wealth, you will fight to defend the city with me, and Your Majesty (King of Shu) will definitely send troops to the rescue! ”

It is impossible for Wang Xiang to surrender, he is a mortal enemy with Yang Zhan, and he has also had many conflicts with Qin Liangyu.

Now, Qin Liangyu and Yang Zhan have both taken refuge in Zhao Han, and he is afraid that after he surrenders, he will be killed by Yang Zhan's design.

Yang Zhan is indeed brave, but he has character flaws. He is very kind to those he likes, and he is very careful with those he doesn't like, even to the point of retribution.

Fan Yixuan is standing on the city tower at the moment, he is Wang Xiang's military advisor, and he served as the governor of Ningxia before his dismissal.

In Fan Yixing's opinion, the Longwu Emperor in Chengdu is a joke, it is better to vote for the Nanjing Emperor early, why not resist stubbornly?

In the middle of the night, Fan Yixuan set fire to the city in tandem with the gentry, and he couldn't stand Wang Xiang, a rampant house slave!

Just when Huang Qi captured Chongqing Mansion, the Mu family of Tianbo Mansion in Yunnan Province supported Zhu Qifeng, the king of Min, as the emperor.

This King Min fled from Hunan.

The mountains in Yunnan are high and the road is far away, and it was not until winter that I knew the news of Chongzhen's hanging. A group of relict ministers, holding Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Qianguo, quickly supported King Min as the "Emperor Zhenwu" in Yunnan.

At this moment, the five emperors of China coexisted.

Zhao Han, Emperor Datong in Nanjing, Emperor Fulin of the Qing Dynasty in Beijing, Li Zicheng, Emperor of Dashun in Shaanxi, Zhu Zhishu, Emperor Longwu of the Ming Dynasty in Sichuan, and Zhu Qifeng, Emperor of Zhenwu of the Ming Dynasty in Yunnan (next to the golden character).