The time came to the middle of March of the old calendar in 1645 AD, when the spring flowers were blooming and the grass was growing and the warbler was flying, which was a good time to fight with the marching army.

At this time, Chongzhen was around Jiujiang Mansion, and the actual number of King Qin's soldiers had exceeded 600,000.

In the past few months, the prince has not been idle for a day in Shangjing, including officials from all over the northern Zhili, and various strategic resources such as grain, grass and silver have been continuously transported to Jiujiang to support the front line.

It can be called a soldier's essence and enough food.

Moreover, the prince wrote a chapter, according to the agreement of the Shanhaiguan Treaty, the second batch of compensation of 20 million taels of silver and 1,000 quintals of grain in the Manchu Qing Dynasty have been sent to Shangjing and the storage has been completed.

Chongzhen laughed when he saw the folds, Xiaozhuang is really a trustworthy person.

Chongzhen is in Jiujiang, and the soldiers are full of food.

At this time, the battle report came, and Jin Shengheng, the old department of Zuo Liangyu, the general who stayed in Wuhan, led his 100,000 troops to surrender to Zhang Xianzhong, the king of Daxi.

The current King of Daxi, Zhang Xianzhong, has been proclaimed emperor, and like Li Zicheng, he is also the respect of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, sitting on the dragon chair, sleeping on the dragon bed, and accepting the worship of civil and military officials.

Wuchang is Zuo Liangyu's old nest, Zuo Liangyu's father and son were defeated a few years ago, and Jiujiang City fell, shaking the entire Wuchang.

Jin Shengheng was born as a thief, and was nicknamed a bucket of millet by people, and it is said that he can eat a bucket of rice a day, hence the name.

The defeat of Zuo Liangyu's father and son caused Jin Shengheng to panic, and he had to make a choice to continue the war with Chongzhen, but he had no confidence.

Zuo Liangyu and Zuo Mengeng's father and son can't beat Chongzhen, let alone him? He was just a chief officer under Zuo Liangyu.

Otherwise, he would have to surrender to the Ming court, but he was afraid that Chongzhen would punish him, so he firmly controlled the 100,000 soldiers and horses in Wuchang, wandered for a while, and got the news that Zhang Xianzhong was proclaimed emperor in Sichuan.

At this time, Li Zicheng's Dashun army also pointed to Wuchang.

After Li Zicheng's army withdrew from Yanjing, he was defeated all the way in Shanxi, and was chased by Wu Sangui and fled all the way into Shaanxi.

Wu Sangui wanted to coerce Duoduo and Azig, with the mixed army of the Guanning Army and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, plus the remnants of Li Zicheng, the number of people also reached more than 100,000, and they were in hot pursuit.

Wu Sangui took Shanxi, and Li Zicheng's Dashun army started a big battle in Tongguan, Li Zicheng settled heavy troops in Tongguan, decided not to run anymore, and had already run to his hometown in Shaanxi.

He plans to compete with Wu Sangui again here. The Battle of Tongguan lasted two months and ended with the defeat of Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng led the main force, retreated to Hubei through Henan, went to Nanyang, and approached Wuchang through Xiangyang.

Jin Shengheng felt unprecedented pressure, after the Ming army in the east took Jiujiang, he would definitely march west to Wuchang, and his soldiers and horses could not resist the Ming court at all.

But Li Zicheng's strength in the north is strong, don't look at him if he can't win against Wu Sangui, it's still easy to clean him up Jin Shengheng.

Of course, Jin Shengheng knew Li Zicheng's name, because they were all thieves, and after weighing the pros and cons, Daxi, Dashun and Daming, the three imperial courts, he had to make a choice.

In order to maintain his strength, Jin Shengheng finally fell to Zhang Xianzhong in Sichuan.

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong had already occupied the whole of Sichuan, including Chongqing, of course, and he had long coveted Wuchang, because Zhang Xianzhong had established the Daxi regime in Wuchang two years earlier.

Later, because of the discord with Li Zicheng for Wuchang, and now Wuchang is back in the hands of Zhang Xianzhong, of course, this murderous demon king is very happy.

Immediately ordered Liu Yanju, a general stationed in Yichang, to send troops east to take over Wuchang. Liu Yanju was a subordinate of Sun Kewang, the king of Pingdong, who was now stationed in Chongqing, an important town in northern Sichuan.

This is one of the four kings under Zhang Xianzhong, and it is also the most powerful of his four godsons, civil and military all-rounders, if Zhang Xianzhong's country weighs 1,000 pounds, Sun Kewang can bear 500 pounds alone.

Therefore, the current Wuchang City has belonged to Zhang Xianzhong's sphere of influence, and heavy troops have been stationed.

Xiangyang, north of Wuchang, was the snobbery of Li Zicheng's Dashun army, and Liu Fangliang, a fierce general under Li Zicheng, was stationed and hoarded 80,000 elite soldiers.

Chongzhen must go west to Wuchang.

On the other hand, Ma Shiying and others have already gone to Fujian and have been treated with great courtesy by Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui. They are in cahoots, and now Zheng Zhilong and Ma Shiying have brought out Zhu Youlang, the king of Gui, respected him as the emperor, built the capital of Fuzhou, and changed the year name to Yongli.

Officials from Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, and other coastal areas vied with each other to join in, and the momentum was huge. They threatened to go on the Northern Expedition, played the banner of Zhongxing Daming, and threatened to sweep away the puppet emperor Chongzhen, and it is said that they had more than 600,000 soldiers and horses.

Chongzhen heard these two war reports, and couldn't help but be furious, I spent a winter in Jiujiang, and in just a few months, the bricks and tiles were all thought of becoming fine, what Daxi, Dashun, and there was a Yongli Emperor.

It seems that all those who should come have come, a country, four emperors stand side by side, and I have to clean up one by one.

Chongzhen immediately decided to divide the troops into two routes, and ordered the general Li Yan and 200,000 handsome elite soldiers to march south to Fujian, and the generals Ma Bao, Ma Ma Jinzhong and Ma Weixing followed the army to listen to it.

Chongzhen knew that Ma Shiying had martial arts masters like Wu Shen to help him fight, so Chongzhen sent Ziyang Zhenren, Shaolin, Wudang and Kunlun and other masters to accompany the army.

The second road Chongzhen decided to drive the expedition in person, raised an army of 400,000, and went out of Jiujiang to capture Wuchang, and the generals Huang Degong, Liu Zhaoji, Wang Zuntan, Lu Ding and other troops listened to it. Among the martial arts masters who accompanied the army, there were the five major sword sects, as well as the martial arts masters of the White Lotus Sect, the Heaven and Earth Sect and other sects.

Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty Chongzhen