While Su Yan was engaged in a canning factory in Nanjing, the envoys he sent to contact the thirteen families in Kuidong finally arrived at Maolu Mountain and met Li Laiheng, the Duke of Linguo stationed in Jiulianping, Maolu Mountain.

Li Laiheng, a native of Mizhi, Li Guo's adopted son, if Li Guo succeeds to the throne after Li Zicheng's death, then he will most likely be a prince of the Dashun Dynasty, and it is impossible to even win the crown prince.

It's a pity that the Shun Dynasty has been destroyed for many years, and the current Dashun army only has these soldiers and horses entrenched in Kuidong, and he is also the Duke of Linguo canonized by the Ming Dynasty.

The current Li Laiheng is completely without the heroic posture of the past, he saw the king of Chu sending an envoy coming, and knew in his heart that the king of Chu would rule the world sooner or later, so he naturally did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly ordered someone to set up a banquet to welcome the envoy.

Seeing this, the attendants beside him asked puzzledly, "Grandpa Guo, why are you so enthusiastic about a little envoy?" The king of Chu is not a clan surnamed Zhu, and he is arrogant in leading the prison country, and in comparison, the court supported by the king of Qin is orthodox, shouldn't he be close to His Majesty Jianwu? ”

"What are you talking about?" Li Laiheng said angrily: "Then Sun Kewang plotted to kill the first emperor, whether the so-called Jianwu Emperor is really the heir of the first emperor, how can he be close to disobedience?" ”

Nuo Nuo, who was reprimanded by Li Laiheng, did not dare to speak, so he had to retreat to help prepare the banquet, and it didn't take long for the envoy of the king of Chu to be led into the hall, and Li Laiheng came forward to greet him warmly.

"Dong Xuan, the director of the Ministry of Lower Rites, has met Duke Linguo." The envoy bowed his hand and said respectfully to Li Laiheng.

"Director Dong doesn't have to be polite, please come in." Li Laiheng said with a smile, he personally beckoned Dong Xuan to sit down, but Dong Xuan still insisted on waiting for him to sit on the main seat before sitting on the chair under the hall.

"I don't know what order Director Dong came here to His Royal Highness the King of Chu?" Li Laiheng asked with concern.

Dong Xuan first gave up, and then said: "His Royal Highness Jianguo heard that the thirteen families of Kuidong such as Linguo Gong have long insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty and lived a hard life, and they have always wanted to improve the situation of Linguo Gong and others, and now that Huguang has been decided, His Royal Highness hopes that Linguo Gong and others will go out of the mountain, enter Huguang to repair, and then be the vanguard and recover Sichuan after the soldiers and horses are abundant." ”

His voice fell, paused, and continued: "His Royal Highness has ordered Lord Zhang, the governor of Huguang, to stock up on enough ordnance and food in Guizhou, and only after the thirteen families have left the mountain, they can be delivered. ”

As soon as he heard that the other party was here to deliver supplies, Li Laiheng's attitude became more enthusiastic, and he promised to come down, saying that he would send someone to inform Kui Dong of the other righteous teachers who were still insisting on resisting the Qing Dynasty, and let Dong Xuan wait on Maolu Mountain.

Because Li Laiheng was a latecomer, he did not have any special likes and dislikes for the other righteous teachers of the Thirteen Families of Kuidong, so he was able to treat them equally and assign envoys to the stations of each family to inform them.

Dong Xuan considered that he was not familiar with the people here, and he only spent time visiting one by one, so he agreed to Li Laiheng's proposal.

So, a few days later, several other righteous teachers of the Thirteen Families of Kuidong received a notice from Li Laiheng, and they reacted differently to this, some people thought that Su Yan lured them out of Sichuan in order to annex their forces, so as to ambush them, and some people also hesitated and became wary of Su Yan.

Liu Tichun, who was promoted to preside over military affairs, was not worried, he happily went, and sent envoys to inform the hesitant generals that they should not be too suspicious.

His original words were even more straightforward: "The king of Chu has many generals and a vast area, how can we and the remnants of the defeated army enter his eyes?" ”

Anyway, after Liu Tichun went, the leaders of the various righteous teachers still went with him after hesitating repeatedly.

In mid-November, Liu Tichun, Duke of Anhui, Li Laiheng, Duke of Linguo, Hao Shaoqi, Duke of Yiguo, Yuan Zongdi, Duke of Jingguo, Hou Ma Tengyun of Tongcheng, Hou Ta Tianbao of Yidu, Dang Shousu of Xingping, Hou He Zhen of Qi, Wang Guangxing of Nanzhangbo, Tan Wen of Fuhou, Tan Yi of Renshou, and Tan Hong, Marquis of Xinjin, gathered in Guizhou.

It is worth mentioning that the thirteen families of Kuidong are not actually thirteen rebels, since the end of the Ming Dynasty, the rebels of each department have often used "thirteen families" to describe their many, such as the "thirteen families and seventy-two battalions" and "shaking yellow thirteen families" during the Chongzhen period, which are all a habitual saying.

The leaders of the righteous divisions of various ministries gathered in Guizhou City, and Zhang Mingzhen, the governor of Huguang, also put down his military affairs and went to Guizhou to meet with the leaders of the righteous divisions.

Zhang Mingzhen indicated the intention of the imperial court of the prison state, and the imperial court would incorporate the thirteen families of Kuidong, incorporate them into the battle sequence of the Nanjing court, and distribute salaries and grain and grass on a monthly basis, of course, thirteen (this chapter is not finished!). )

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The family must also be appointed by the imperial court.

As soon as these words came out, Liu Tichun and the others' faces remained unchanged, they had already expected that the imperial court would not let their soldiers and horses be independent of the imperial court, so Liu Tichun got up and hugged his fists and asked, "I don't know who His Royal Highness the King of Chu wants to assign to command us and others to fight?" ”

"His Royal Highness knows the danger of changing generals in battle, so he temporarily appointed the Duke of Anhui as the governor of Sichuan, and the prime minister of Sichuan military affairs. Zhang Mingzhen said solemnly.

As early as the Longwu period, when He Tengjiao, Zhang Kuang and others controlled the entire territory of Hunan, they made it difficult for them in many ways in terms of food and salary, and later in the Yongli court, they were dumped by Qu Shiyun, Chen Bangfu, Li Yuanyin and others.

It can almost be said that they were loyal to the court, but the court failed them.

The Thirteen Kuidong families had no resistance to switching to the Nanjing Imperial Court, so they announced on the spot that they would change their banners and obey the command of the Nanjing Imperial Court.

Subsequently, Zhang Mingzhen distributed the ordnance and food in the state according to the scale of each righteous teacher, and these generals were all grateful after receiving the materials - no way, who let Su Yan be the first to send them supplies.

……

The news of Su Yan's integration of the thirteen families in Kuidong spread quickly, causing an uproar among the three parties.

On one side is Sun Kewang, who is not targeting the Thirteen Clans of Kuidong, but is worried that Su Yan's power is expanding more and more, and now he is almost completely crushing himself.

Now that he can protect the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou, he is already burning high incense, Guangxi has fallen into the hands of the Chu army, and they can also directly attack Yunnan, so Sun Kewang has to send not many soldiers and horses to Yunnan to prevent the Chu army from attacking.

The second party was the Sichuan Qing army, since Wu Sangui's rebellion, the Sichuan Qing army was almost completely cut off from the Qing court, fighting alone, and the Sichuan governor Li Guoying should have become the highest commander in Sichuan.

However, he was completely unaware of the situation of the Qing court, so he could only shrink his forces and make every effort to hold on to Baoningfu, the actual provincial capital of the Qing court in Sichuan, and the surrounding areas.

As for southern Sichuan, it was eaten by Liu Wenxiu, the king of Shu.

The third party is naturally Wu Sangui, this notorious careerist was already panicked because the entire territory of Huguang was returned to the Chu army, and now the Kuidong Thirteen Family obeyed the orders of the Chu army, which made him feel even more pressured.

Moreover, the Chu army was still stationed on the border between Huguang and Shaanxi, and God knows when they will fight, so Wu Sangui had to divide his troops to defend Hanzhong in case the Chu army seized his hometown in Hanzhong.

This is actually not fatal, what is even more deadly is that Shaanxi is seriously underpopulated, the natural disasters at the end of the Ming Dynasty *** a set of combination punches, Shaanxi is already ten rooms and nine empty, even the provincial capital Xi'an is mostly empty, Wu Sangui even if he wants to expand the army, he can't catch the right young man......

Therefore, he could only surrender his eyes to the neighboring Shanxi and Henan, Wu Sangui divided his precious forces to defend Hanzhong, and at the same time marched into Henan under the banner of the Ming Dynasty, wanting to grab money, grain and population from Henan.

The Qing army in Henan was overwhelmed by the rebel army everywhere, so they had no time to pay attention to the Wu army fishing in troubled waters, and really robbed Wu Sangui of some people to go back, but this was just a drop in the bucket and did not play a big role.

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The time entered December, the last month of 1652 A.D., and also the month before the end of the sixth year of the Yongli calendar.

The general of the Guiyang court is called the first year of Jianwu, and the first year of Zhaowu in Hanzhong and Shaanxi is changed.

After the end of this month, there will be no more permanent calendar dates in the world.

The winter of 1652 was still the same cold, from Mobei to Jiangnan, and then to Guangdong, where the four seasons were like spring in the past, snow was drifting everywhere, and the Yellow River began to freeze, which was a good time for the northern cavalry to march south.

It is a pity that the regime in the north, which is good at using cavalry, can no longer afford to look south, and now is the time for the southern and northern expeditions.

1652 was definitely the most desperate year for the Qing court, in this year they lost half of the rivers south of the Yangtze River, lost several princes, and the north was also plunged into endless wars.

In Mobei, the Mongol tribes gradually lost control, and after the Qing court cut off the Cao Yun, the north fell into a famine, which also affected the tribes in the Mongolian steppe.

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Chapter 275: An Eventful Winter

In order to survive this cold and long winter, the Mongol tribes brazenly tore up the peace with the Qing court, and repeatedly invaded the south and plundered the northern border of the empire, but the Qing court was powerless to resist and could only watch the Mongols burn and loot.

For a time, the northern border of the empire was full of smoke, and the people of Ningxia Town, Yulin, Shanxi and other places once again experienced the nightmare of the Mongolian Koubian during the Chongzhen period.

The Mongols invaded the border, and the Qing court was furious.

The regent Zilharang immediately sent an envoy to question the owners of the Mongolian Eight Banners, asking them to stop committing crimes, but the Mongolian Eight Banners had already seen the weakness of the Qing court, and they directly killed the Qing envoys, raised the banner of rebellion, burned and looted all the way, and withdrew to the grassland.

This directly dealt a fatal blow to the already weak Qing court.

suffered such a big blow one after another, even Jilharang, who had been Rong Ma all his life, couldn't hold on, not to mention that he was over half a hundred years old, and he was so angry that he was immediately fainted and unconscious.

Zilharang fainted, and after less than half a month, he died suddenly in the cold winter......

The news of the regent's death soon spread along with the cold snap and reached the ears of Hong Chengchou, who was organizing the daimyo to suppress the rebels.

After learning the bad news, Hong Chengchou was silent, he stood in the snow and stared at the north for a long time before sighing:

"Destiny has been lost."

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