"The success of the bombardment of the port of Seoul by Zhenhaebo made the Korean monarchs and ministers determined, and coupled with the triumphant advance of your high-spirited battle against Hulu, the king of Joseon finally made a choice - to turn his back on the puppet Qing and pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty again."

Wu Zhongluan's voice fell, and Su Yan, who had listened to the story of the two chapters, finally reacted, and he spoke: "The choice of the Korean monarch is indeed wise, but how will they deal with the counterattack of the puppet Qing? As far as this king knows, the puppet Qing still retains a large number of soldiers and horses outside the pass. ”

"This is the helplessness of the Korean monarchs, although they are willing to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty again, but at the same time they must guard against the counterattack of the puppet Qing, but the Korean monarch has begun to mobilize the army and prepare to deploy troops on the northern border to prevent the puppet Qing army from moving south."

After speaking, Wu Zhongluan paused and said, "In addition, the monarch of the DPRK is also ready to send an envoy to meet His Majesty, but at the moment, His Majesty is still trapped in Anlong, so he can only give up." ”

Su Yan wanted to say that they would never have the opportunity to see Emperor Yongli in their lives, but he still said on the surface: "This king has shown that His Majesty has returned to the southern capital with the imperial court, and His Majesty Long Yuan has embarked on the way back, but it will be there in half a year." ”

As a courtier of King Lu, Wu Zhongluan didn't have much affection for Emperor Yongli, he just nodded, echoed a sentence, and did not continue to discuss this topic in detail.

After chatting a few more words about what he had seen and heard in North Korea, Wu Zhongluan said goodbye on the excuse that he was tired from the journey and needed to rest, but Su Yan did not keep him, and ordered the housekeeper to send him away, and he continued to sit in the study and fall into thought.

At first, he just wanted to cut off North Korea's grain and grass tribute to the Qing court, but he didn't expect Chen Zhaojun's bombardment of the port to be so good, and directly let the Korean monarchs and ministers choose to defect from the Qing court and return to the Ming Dynasty.

However, at present, the monarch of North Korea has not yet made a public announcement, and Su Yan still needs to wait for the fermentation of the news.

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In May of the sixth year of Yongli, the Korean king Yi Hao publicly announced that he would sever his vassal relations with the Qing court, restore his tributary status with the Ming Dynasty, and organize an envoy to Nanjing.

At the same time as the public announcement, Li Hao made every effort to search for the Qing court envoys in Korea, and in order to show his determination, he killed all the Qing court envoys, and the pro-Qing officials in the country were also purged.

When the news reached Beijing, the regent Zierharang was furious, and immediately wanted to count the Liaodong soldiers and horses who went south to Korea to teach the Korean monarchs and ministers who did not know the height of the sky, but the Qing court was short of food and grass, and although the army received the order to send troops, it was still unable to move.

The Korean rebellion was only an appetizer, and after hearing that the Qing court was gradually declining, the Mongols, who were already disagreeing with the Qing court, gradually began to leave, and all the tribes on the Mongolian plateau were in turmoil, and even some small tribes began to go south and cross the Great Wall to plunder.

All kinds of bad news flew to Jingshi like snowflakes and piled up on Jilharang's desk, making the 53-year-old prince almost gray overnight, physically and mentally exhausted, and the huge pressure also made his physical health drop rapidly.

However, there is barely good news that the sick Emperor Shunzhi finally woke up, but the situation after he woke up was not very optimistic, and he still fainted from time to time, unable to return to the government for a long time.

Emperor Shunzhi, who came to his senses, faced this worsening mess, and wished that he would faint like this and never wake up again, but as the king of a country, he still had to fight hard to deal with the situation in front of him. _o_m

He wanted to moisten.

After figuring out the situation in front of him, the young Emperor Shunzhi remembered to retreat outside the Guanwai, as early as when Nanjing was besieged, he wanted to escape, but was slapped by the emperor's mother.

And now, his mind to retreat outside the customs is even more serious, without consulting with the emperor's mother, the Shunzhi Emperor summoned Hong Chengchou and Jierharang and other important ministers, and after some secret discussions, he issued a holy decree in mid-May.

Kitakari Morikyo!

Emperor Shunzhi announced the Shengjing of Beijia under the pretext of returning to Guanwai to worship his ancestors, entrusted the government affairs to Jierharang with full authority, and appointed Hong Chengchou to be the governor of military affairs in the name of the military department Shangshu and the right deputy imperial envoy of the Imperial Inspectorate, and made every effort to clear out the rebel armies in Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Beizhi, and Shaanxi.

Subsequently, despite the opposition of the Empress Dowager and a group of courtiers, he officially opened his post in mid-May and rode to Shengjing on the Dragon Rim.

Emperor Shunzhi's Northern Hunt was not given to the Qing court.

There were many heavy blows to the majesty, and now not only the people everywhere, but even the officials and squires and landlords were very disappointed in the Qing court.

This was supposed to be the best time for the Northern Expedition of the Southern Ming Dynasty to regain the lost territory, but Su Yan and Sun Kewang were guarding against each other, and did not go all out to organize the Northern Expedition.

Sun Kewang transferred the front of the army directly under him to Hunan, and gathered heavy troops to guard against Su Yan's trouble, and Su Yan also transferred new troops from Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangnan provinces, formed a brigade in each province, and merged it into a second town and transferred it to Huguang. Initial Update@

Although he nominally wanted to attack the Qing army Ke Yongsheng in Hubei, many officials within the Southern Ming Dynasty saw that Su Yan's real purpose was very likely to be Sun Kewang, who had been dispatching troops for several days.

However, although Su Yan was guarding against Sun Kewang here, he did not miss the opportunity of the Northern Expedition, he handed over the military affairs of the Northern Expedition to Zhang Huangyan, gave Zhang Huangyan the right to act cheaply, and ordered him to go on a northern expedition to Shandong.

It was not until the end of May that Zhang Huangyan swore in Fengyang to swear a northern expedition, and the three-way army under his command crossed the Yellow River to attack the boundary of Yanzhou Prefecture, and the Qing army in Yanzhou fell in anticipation of the wind, and captured a number of county towns in just a few days, and conquered Jining Prefecture, and the troops pointed directly at Yanzhou.

When Zhang Cunren, the governor of Shandong, heard the bad news of the Ming army's Northern Expedition, he did not care about clearing the rebel army in Shandong, and hurriedly dispatched Xia Yu, the governor of Shandong, who was still suppressing bandits in eastern Ludong, to lead the army to aid Yanzhou.

But that Xia Yu is not a fool, he knows the record of the Ming army in Jiangbei, and he is not an opponent to mess with, so after receiving Zhang Cunren's order, although he was ordered to rush to help, but the road is grinding, normally the march can walk thirty or forty miles a day, but he just walked twenty miles, and stopped and stopped, watching the city of Yanzhou fall.

Officials and generals like Xia Yu abound after the Shunzhi Northern Hunt, and the Qing Dynasty was broken before it reached its heyday, and its spine weakened rapidly, and everyone could see that the Qing court was exhausted, and naturally no one was willing to die for it.

The time soon came to the beginning of June, under Xia Yu's passive resistance and the hope of the Qing army in various places, most of Yanzhou Mansion was recovered by the Ming army, and the remnants of the Yuyuan Army who were still alive in Caozhou also rushed to Yanzhou to meet Zhang Huangyan, and took the initiative to express their hope to join the Ming army and fight against the Qing army together.

For these remnants of the Yuyuan Army who took the initiative to vote, Zhang Huangyan was naturally hospitable, and immediately agreed to the other party's request, incorporated the Yuyuan Army into the army, and gave them ordnance, grain and grass, so that they could repair with peace of mind.

At the same time that Zhang Huangyan was spreading good news in Shandong, thousands of miles away in the territory of Chenzhou Mansion in Hunan, Emperor Yongli's convoy was preparing to cross the Wushui, but he didn't expect that there were already many pairs of eyes staring at them in the dark.