The news of the fall of Guilin and Kong Youde's suicide soon spread, and the Qing troops who were still resisting in Guangxi were shrouded in despair after learning of the bad news.

After Guo Zhiqi's document was issued, it was decided by various parts of Guangxi, and the Qing troops in various places surrendered one after another and accepted the rule of the Nanjing court.

So far, Guangxi has recovered.

After the battle of Guilin, Chen Bangfu, the former prince of Qingguo, his son Wenshui Bo Chen Zengyu, Wang Quanke, the governor of Guangxi in the Qing Dynasty, and Zhang Xingguang, the political envoy of the Qing Dynasty, were all captured alive.

After this cadre was sent to Nanjing, Su Yan also hated the character of Chen Bangfu's father and son, and escorted the father and son, who were not right on the upper beam and crooked on the bottom, to be skinned in Cao, Wang Quanke and Zhang Xingguang were beheaded, and then the body of Chen Bangfu who was skinned and weeded was sent to the provinces for public display.

At the same time, he also followed the practice of Sun Kewang in history and posted a text on Chen Bangfu's corpse, saying: The crime of rebelling against Chen Bangfu has escaped the net after robbing the emperor and plundering the palace people. He did not think of making meritorious contributions to atone for his sins, but betrayed the Lord and rebelled. Now that it has been captured, before going to the army, the general Bangfu and his son skinned and passed on to the provinces.

Of course, that's another story.

Li Dingguo, who was still confronting Feng Shuangli on the Yunnan-Guizhou border, heard the news of Guangxi's recovery, and his heart was settled, and he learned that Sun Kewang was leading a large army to rush here, intending to crusade against himself, Li Dingguo thought twice and decided to withdraw to Guangxi and join the Chu army.

Su Yan's previous letter to him he had actually received, but he was in the rear of the Qin Domain, and Guangxi was occupied by the Qing army, so he could not join Su Yan.

Immediately, in late August, Li Dingguo formulated a sophisticated breakthrough plan, he first made a feint posture against Feng Shuangli's troops, forcing Feng Shuangli to shrink his forces and hold on, and after Bai Wenxuan led the way to break through as the front army, he led the army to cover the retreat of the army to Anlongsi.

At the same time as the withdrawal of the army, Li Dingguo also sent a messenger to explain to Guo Zhiqi in Guangxi, asking Guo Zhiqi to lead his troops to respond, Guo Zhiqi learned that he immediately led a large army from Guilin to the west, and ordered Haikang Marquis Li Mingzhong to go north to Qingyuan Mansion, directly attack Guizhou, contain the Qin army, so that Sun Kewang had to return to the division to rescue his Guizhou proper.

Guangxi Chu army mobilized, the Qin army was informed of the military situation for the first time, and the soldiers and horses stationed in Guizhou were urgently transferred to the south to guard against the attack of the Chu army.

On the first day of the ninth month, Li Dingguo led his army through Anlong, although Sun Kewang was pressing behind him step by step, but when passing through the former residence of Emperor Shunzong (the temple number given by the Jianwu Imperial Court in Guiyang to the Yongli Emperor), Li Dingguo still stopped, and worshiped the spirit of the first emperor in the sky in Anlong, and vowed to avenge the first emperor and sweep away Sun Kewang.

Thinking back then, Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang were both righteous brothers and brothers, but now they are turning against each other and attacking each other, which is really embarrassing.

After the worship, Li Dingguo led the army to continue to retreat, and it was not until they retreated to Anlongsi that they were able to take a breath of relief, but they did not stop there, but continued to retreat eastward, and finally stopped when they retreated to the other side of the Hongshui River.

Looking at the flowing surface of the Hongshui River, Li Dingguo clenched the sword at his waist, he was not ready to continue to withdraw, but to fight with Sun Kewang here to frustrate his sharpness - the clay man also has three points of qi, not to mention a person like Li Dingguo?

Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang for many years of righteous brothers, naturally know Sun Kewang's temper, he led the army to set up an ambush on the south bank of the Hongshui River, he took the initiative to lead the soldiers and horses to cross the river at noon on the fourth day of September to meet Sun Kewang, the two sides immediately fought fiercely on the north bank of the Hongshui River, Li Dingguo with war elephants to impact Sun Kewang's army array, although Sun Kewang also has experience in using war elephants in the army, but in the face of the wolf scurrying behemoth, Sun Kewang's army officers and soldiers are still in chaos, after the war elephants break through the formation, trample on each other and kill and wound a lot, Li Dingguo took the opportunity to lead the army to cover up the past, Sun Kewang had to retreat temporarily.

On the fifth day of the first month, Guo Zhiqi, the governor of Liangguang, led his army to the south bank of the Buliu River, less than two days away from the Hongshui River. )

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retreated, but he was unwilling to let Li Dingguo and the Chu army converge like this, but Li Dingguo was restless, took the initiative to attack and fight, insulted and provoked Sun Kewang in front of the battle, Sun Kewang was furious and sent troops to attack and kill.

This time, Sun Kewang bombarded the war elephant in Li Ding*** with concentrated firepower of the artillery, although the war elephant was rough and thick-skinned, but it was also flesh and blood, how to block the bombardment of the artillery, was bombarded and killed several heads, the two armies fought again, Li Dingguo pretended to be defeated and retreated, and fled across the Hongshui River in a hurry, Sun Kewang chased after him, intending to personally chase and kill across the river, and the generals around him stopped him in time and reminded: "The lord of the country, poor Kou Mo chases!" Li Dingguo has always been cunning, not to mention that Bai Wenxuan is not in the army, I am afraid that there is fraud! ”

After the chasing troops crossed the river, Li Dingguo saw that Sun Kewang was cautious and had no intention of crossing the river, and knew that the ambush plan might not succeed, so he retreated and ate the Qin army to cross the river.

Sun Ke, who was on the other side of the Hongshui River, saw that there were indeed ambushes, so he decisively gave up the soldiers and horses on the other side and ordered the withdrawal of the army.

Although he failed to let Sun Kewang kill this fang directly, he was able to kill a chasing army, which can be regarded as reviving the morale that has been declining for many days, Li Dingguo then counted the soldiers and horses, cleaned up the battlefield, and moved to join Guo Zhiqi.

On the sixth day of the first month of September, Li Dingguo and Guo Zhiqi met with the two armies, although Guo Zhiqi did not show it on the surface, and affirmed the results of Li Dingguo and Hongshuihe to break the Qin army, but he still inherited in his heart the disdain and contempt of the Southern Ming court for Li Dingguo, a general from the peasant army - in fact, most of the ministers of the Southern Ming Dynasty had the same idea as Guo Zhiqi, but some people would cover it up, and some people even disdained to cover it up.

After the meeting between the two armies, Guo Zhiqi invited Li Dingguo to Nanjing to meet Su Yan in person, and he would also properly arrange the soldiers and horses brought by Li Dingguo, Li Dingguo knew that he should indeed meet with Su Yan, the top boss, when he first arrived, he gladly accepted Guo Zhiqi's invitation, designated Bai Wenxuan as the main general of the army, and ordered him to stay in the army, and he himself took his three sons to embark on the ship to Nanjing.

After Li Dingguo set out, Guo Zhiqi placed the soldiers and horses he left behind in Guangxi, assisted the Chu army in stabilizing the situation in Guangxi, and gathered the surrendered Qing troops in various parts of Guangxi for disposal.

Nanjing, after the recovery of the whole territory of Guangxi, the system gave Su Yan a system reward as usual - two teams of musket elephants, four teams of rocket artillery and a battalion of Rajipu Zaminda heavy armored cavalry (six companies of 360 people), I don't know if it is because Guangxi is too barren at this time or for what reason, this time the reward is not too much.

The class of troops rewarded with this reward is known at a glance to be the class of the Maratha Alliance, and the musket battle elephant Su Yan guessed that it may be to deal with the war elephant troops in Sun Kewang's army, and the rocket artillery is pure welfare, and the Rajpu Zaminda heavy cavalry has no use in the south, and can be used in the battle against the Qing - these elite cavalry in the Maratha Alliance can also play a role in intimidating the enemy, and they also have superb melee skills, and they are not afraid of close combat.

However, it is worth mentioning that the musket elephants rewarded this time cannot be summoned directly, Su Yan has to find thirty (fifteen in a team) of Asian elephants for free training, and rocket artillery and heavy armored cavalry are better to say, just put them into training directly.

But the question is, where do you go to find so many Asian elephants?

In China in this era, there were frequent elephants in Yunnan, but Yunnan was Sun Kewang's rear, and it was completely impossible to hunt elephants in Yunnan - when the Chu army entered Yunnan, Sun Kewang was mostly finished, could it be that he would be trained as a war elephant and then dragged to the north to fight with the Manchus?

Since Yunnan has no choice, there is only one place left for Su Yan to choose.

Where?

Vietnam.

To be precise, it should be the Kingdom of Annam.

At this time, Annam was still in the period of conflict between the north and south of Zheng Ruan, the Zheng lord Zheng Ji in the north coerced Li Dynasty Li Shenzong Li Weiqi and the southern Ruan lord Ruan Phuc were in frequent battles, and there were Taifu Zong County Gongwu Gongqi and Mo Jingyao, the remnant of the Mo Dynasty, in the north of Annan, it was not difficult for Su Yan to reach into the territory of Annam.

However, it is worth mentioning that Mo Jingyao is the commander of the Annan Metropolitan Department canonized by the Ming Dynasty, and this commander is only nominal, because his (this chapter is not finished!) )

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The sphere of influence is only in a corner of Gaoping Mansion in Annam, and its strength is extremely weak.

The so-called persimmon should be pinched softly, and Mo Jingyao is the weakest, so Su Yan was ready to attack Mo Jingyao first, and never intervened in the political situation in Annan.

That's right, Su Yan is preparing to include Annan in the territory of the new dynasty in the future, Annan is the territory of China since ancient times, but it is a pity that Ming Xuanzong was short-sighted and gave up the good place of Annan, although in the Jiajing period the Ming Dynasty re-incorporated Annan into the territory of the Ming Dynasty (Annan Metropolitan Division), but in fact, Annan has completely separated from China since Xuanzong.

Su Yan he is to correct this mistake, Annan into the territory, from the later generations to cross over he knows that Annan is not the Ming Dynasty in the eyes of the barren land, the Red River Sanjiangzhou here is fertile and rich, and planted the famous Champa rice, the grain yield is extremely high, the tropical climate here can also be planted to produce the future important military resources rubber, as long as it can occupy and stabilize Annan, Su Yan is sure to transform this place into the same as Huguang granary of the world.

However, the Annan people are savage and fierce, it is not easy to conquer them, Su Yan must have a good fighting army and an excellent commander, a good fighting army does not need to worry, what other army in the whole world can compare to the systematic army? The only thing to worry about is the excellent commander, but Su Yan already has a suitable candidate in his heart - it is Li Dingguo, who is rushing to Nanjing!

Li Dingguo's generation of famous generals, let him fight the civil war is really a waste of his talent, but he should also be allowed to expand the territory and establish immortal feats, in order to bring out his prestige and ability, and he has used war elephants in his army, and he also knows how to deal with war elephants, so that he can be said to make the best use of things as the main general who conquered Annan.

Although Li Dingguo took the waterway by boat, but because of the long distance, his speed was still not so fast, before him, Nanyang Bo Li Yuanyin and Nanming Sanma, who were recruited by Su Yan, arrived in Nanjing first, and successively accepted Su Yan's summons.

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