"Congratulations to King Chu, congratulations to King Chu!"

"His Royal Highness the King of Chu is prosperous and prosperous, he is actually the pillar of the court and the pillar of the country, and it is really a blessing for me to have such a capable minister as His Royal Highness the King of Chu!"

「……」

Wuchang, Huguang Governor's Palace.

After receiving the edict of the prince of Chu, Su Yan's temporary residence after capturing Wuchang Mansion immediately became crowded, and many officials and generals came to congratulate Su Yan, and his subordinates who had become earls, marquises, and even dukes would write letters to order people to prepare heavy gifts even if they could not come in person.

The significance of being named the prince of Chu is not only that he officially became a prince with real power from the prince of the county, but more importantly, he is the second prince with a different surname in the imperial court, and he is also willing to be canonized by the imperial court.

Compared with a series of dirty things that Sun Kewang did in order to become the king of Qin in the past few years, killing many ministers before he was barely recognized by the Yongli court, Su Yan's Chu prince is justified.

Perhaps there is also a reason why the imperial court is trying to fight against Sun Kewang's power, anyway, under the leadership of Emperor Yongli, Su Yan successfully became the king of Chu, and had the power to open the palace, and the palace of the king of Chu in Wuchang City was also rewarded to him.

Since Zhang Xianzhong conquered Wuchang Mansion in 1642 and set fire to it, most of its palace has become a ruin.

Therefore, he took out part of the money and grain seized from Wuchang Mansion to use it as funds for repairing and rebuilding the Chu Palace, he was not a person who paid attention to luxury, so he did not plan to expand on the basis of the original palace.

In addition to canonizing a large number of people to Su Yan as the king, the imperial court also agreed to Su Yan's request for the imperial court to move, saying that he would leave for Nanjing on the same day.

And Sun Kewang also publicly stated that the eastward migration was far away, and there were many dangers on the road, and he was willing to send soldiers and horses to escort - although the imperial court thought that Sun Kewang was a weasel to give a chicken New Year's greeting, but they also expected that Sun Kewang would not dare to risk the world's disapproval, so they agreed to Sun Kewang's escort proposal.

On the third day of the fourth month, the day after the edict was sent, the festive court took a pitiful belongings and left Anlongsuo, a place full of bad memories for the Yongli Emperor, under the escort of the Qin army.

Before leaving, Emperor Yongli sat in the dragon chariot, looked back at the low and dilapidated city wall of Anlongsuo, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he said to the attendants beside him:

"An Long Anlong, how can I get this dragon, and when I return to the southern capital, I will definitely remove this An Long."

After saying that, he glanced at An Longsu with a complicated expression and ordered to set off.

Because the province of Guangxi was still under the control of Kong Youde, the king of the south of Qingding, and Li Dingguo, the king of Xining, was at war with him, the troops of the imperial court did not take the road of Liangguang.

Instead, under the escort of the Qin army, he first went to Guiyang, then entered Huguang, went all the way to Wuchang to receive Su Yan and the high-level of the Ming army in the southeast, and then went down the Yangtze River waterway to Nanjing.

The opportunity for the imperial court to move eastward crossed most of China, and judging from the urine nature of these civil officials, it would take at least half a year to reach Nanjing.

While Su Yan intervened in the internal struggle of the Southern Ming, the battle with the Qing army was still going on north of the Yangtze River.

Due to the retreat of the Qing army to the north, Sun Kewang fulfilled the agreement and did not continue to attack Hubei, and Ke Yongsheng, the governor of Huguang, had a chance to breathe, and he immediately mobilized troops and horses to counterattack Zhang Mingzhen and Wang Yi, who were still in Huangzhou Prefecture.

At that time, the two were marching to De'an Mansion with strong troops and horses, intending to take Anlu Mansion directly after taking De'an - Anlu Mansion was the place where Emperor Sejong was born and raised, and the Ming Dynasty was the Xingdu Chengtian Mansion, which was one of the four capitals in the late Ming Dynasty.

After capturing Anlufu, the Ming army could go north to capture Xiangyang, and retreat to the south to capture Jingzhou, an important town on the Yangtze River.

However, Ke Yongsheng would not let them easily as they wanted, and after crossing the Yangtze River and escaping back to Hubei, Ke Yongsheng immediately mobilized troops and horses from all over Hubei to reorganize their armies.

Regardless of the danger, he placed the camp of the governor of Huguang in De'an

Fucheng, personally commanded the front-line soldiers and horses to fight with the Ming army, Zhang Mingzhen and Wang Yi's soldiers and horses were mostly ordinary soldiers who had not received systematic training, so they fought back and forth with the Qing army, and fell into a stalemate.

It is worth mentioning that after Wuchang was conquered, Hanyang Mansion, which was only separated by a river from Wuchang, also chose to surrender the next day, and Su Yan sent Ma Xin to lead a pacesetter to cross the river to take over Hanyang Mansion.

Ke Yongsheng was well aware of the importance of Hanyang, and immediately sent Xu Yong, the general soldier of Changsha, to recapture Hanyang after withdrawing to De'an Mansion, but their speed was still one step too late, and Xu Yong's front army saw that the banner of the Ming army was hanging at the head of Hanyang City, and did not dare to fight again, so they retreated on their own.

Although Xu Yong was also a tiger general of the Qing army in Huguang, he had just experienced the great rout in Hunan, and he did not dare to act rashly, so he stationed troops in Hanchuan County with the intention of threatening Hanyang Mansion, and also prevented the Ming army from advancing westward from Hanyang Mansion.

The Ming army swept through the capitals and counties of the two Huai prefectures under the command of Zhang Huangyan, the governor of Jiangbei, and recovered Fengyang, the hometown of the Zhu Ming royal family.

After Feng Sunshine recovered, only Bozhou and Yingchuan were left in Jiangnan Province set up by the Qing court, but it was obvious that the loss of these two states was close at hand, and it was only a matter of time.

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Time flies, and in the middle of April, Bozhou and Yingzhou have been recovered, and the southern Zhili of the Ming court has finally recovered.

Jiangnan Province also gave Su Yan some rewards, perhaps because of the higher status of Zhili, this time the system rewards are more generous - the system directly rewards Xu Jin shooting, drumming marching, and bursting rockets, as well as two teams of rocket artillery.

The rocket artillery here is not the rocket with a range of thousands of kilometers in later generations, but the most primitive black powder powered rocket.

In the 18th century, the rockets used by the Europeans were imported from Tipu Sultan in Mysore, India, and the British army in India was defeated by rocket attacks several times and suffered heavy losses.

Named the Congreve Rocket System, it could be launched from a warship or in a land battle, and the British artillery included a rocket artillery unit in the Battle of Waterloo, although the written accounts of the rockets fired were often divergent, and their functions even included illuminating the battlefield as flares.

For this kind of early unstable black powder powered rocket, Su Yan would definitely not produce it on a large scale until he really went into battle and saw its power.

However, he is interested in producing a few more rocket boats in the navy, which can easily ignite the sails of enemy ships, and if he is lucky, he may even directly detonate the ammunition depot.