While Chen Wen was fighting in Zhejiang, on the southwest battlefield, the Southwest Ming Army, dominated by the Daxi Army, was also carrying out a large-scale counterattack.◇↓,

Since the Yongli court and the Daxi Army completed the merger, the Emperor Yongli was placed under house arrest by Sun Kewang to Anlong Mansion. The Ming court's power center in the southwest changed from the Emperor Yongli to the Qin Palace in Guiyang. Under Sun Kewang's plan, the Ming army in the southwest finally began to accumulate a long-term power burst out.

In April of the sixth year of Yongli, Li Dingguo and Feng Shuangli, who had recovered the southern part of Chenzhou Prefecture in Huguang a year ago, returned to the army. In the middle of the next month, they defeated the Qing army composed of Jingzhou defenders and 8,000 reinforcements. They took advantage of the victory to capture Jingzhou and Wugang Prefecture, and achieved a good start in the southwest battlefield - a great victory in Jingzhou.

After recapturing Jingzhou, the Ming army began to launch a counterattack on Huguang. Shen Yongzhong, the Duke of Xu Shun who was responsible for Huguang military affairs in the Qing Dynasty, fled north in a hurry. After confirming the general trend of the Qing army in Huguang, Li Dingguo divided his troops with Feng Shuangli, and Feng Shuangli continued to recover Huguang prefectures, while he personally promoted a large army to attack Guangxi.

On the fourth day of the seventh month of the sixth year of Yongli, after attacking Guangxi, Li Dingguo defeated Sun Long, the general of King Kong Youde of Dingnan, with a devastating momentum. Li Yangxing led reinforcements to rescue Yan Guan and the army personally promoted by Kong Youde. On this day, Kong Youde died. At the same time, on the Sichuan battlefield, the Sichuan Ming army led by Liu Wenxiu also began to fight with the goal of regaining the entire Sichuan...

In just a few months, the Ming army in the southwest expanded from the remaining two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou to the north, northeast and east, and recaptured the entire Guangxi area, as well as the southern part of Huguang and Sichuan, making a good start for the large counterattack that the Daxi Army had accumulated for a long time.

Unlike the Southeast battlefield that has begun to deviate from the track, the general direction of the Southwest battlefield is no different from that in history, but some small details have begun to show some minor changes.

The Qin Palace in Guiyang City is the newly built royal palace, which is second only to the Qin Palace in Kunming in terms of luxury in Yunnan and Guizhou Provinces. Even the Qianguo Mansion, which lived in Yunnan for many years, cannot be compared, let alone the Yongli Emperor Palace converted from the Qianhu Office of Anlong.

In the main hall of the Qin King's Mansion, when the envoy retreated, Sun Kewang discussed a major event with his several confidants.

Since Sun Kewang put Yongli emperor under house arrest in Anlong Mansion, he established a system of imitating the Ming Dynasty in Guiyang as the "King of the Kingdom" of Qin, established central institutions such as the Six Ministry of the Initiatives, and used Fan Yan and Ma Zhaoxi as authors, and Wannian Jian as officials, households, rites, and ministers of the Ministry of War. These people were his confidants, and the major event they were discussing was the news brought by the envoy sent by Zhu Cheng, the Marquis of Weiyuan, Fujian - the State of Lu went to the State of Supervisor to the State of Supervisor.

The Lu Jianguo claimed that the regent was in the second year of Hongguang, which was much earlier than the orthodox orthodox Yongli of the imperial Ming Dynasty that they nominally followed. However, unlike the three emperors of Hongguang, Longwu and Yongli, the influence of the regent of the regent was mainly in Zhejiang and Fujian provinces. For example, some rebels in Nanzhili and Shandong also mainly worshipped the regent, but their influence on the entire area was greatly insufficient.

With the Longwu of the Tang Dynasty and the Shaowu regime was destroyed one after another, the Lu Jianguo Group generally did not interfere with the Yongli Dynasty, and did not compete with the Tang Dynasty. However, now, the Lu Jianguo has changed his name to the Yongli of the Guizhou dynasty and changed his royal family to the orthodox orthodox of the imperial family. The matter here naturally requires Sun Kewang and his confidants to weigh the pros and cons.

"The king of the country, I think this matter has nothing to do with the overall situation for the time being, so I can just approve King Lu in the name of the emperor. On the contrary, Chen Wen, who had previously been the king of Lu, still needs to be given a title as usual."

After Yongli was under house arrest, Sun Kewang decided on his own military and national affairs and informed him again. As for minor matters, he was too lazy to even inform him. The Lu family changed the main body of Yongli, which was related to orthodoxy, which was a real big matter. Moreover, King Lu had two major armies in name - one was the more than 10,000 troops under the command of Zhang Mingzhen, the Marquis of Dingxi, and the other was Chen Wen, who was locating western Zhejiang. However, Zheng Chenggong's envoy did not mention Zhang Mingzhen at all, but only said that the army that fled to Fujian with King Lu was besieging Zhangzhou with Zheng Chenggong. With both sides tacitly understood, then there was naturally only one Chen Wen left.

In fact, Sun Kewang doesn't look down on Chen Wen very much now, and even Zheng Chenggong can't catch his eye. He is just a small force that is swaying in the southeast and cannot be compared with his Great Western Army. However, with ambition, some things must be considered in advance.

After acknowledging the suggestion of the Minister of War Wannian Ce, Sun Kewang turned his attention to the Minister of Rites Ren Zhuan and the Minister of Personnel Fan Yan. He was nothing more than choosing a reasonable title and an envoy responsible for passing the imperial edict.

With Zheng Chenggong's example, the title of Ren Zhuan was naturally unlucky. As for the envoy who passed the imperial edict, Sun Kewang was also satisfied with Fan Yan's proposal. However, in the future, Sun Kewang suddenly remembered the hearing that made him feel a little unpleasant.

"Let that big headscarf named Zhang Heyan act as the deputy envoy, so as not to be idle and have nothing to do in Anlong Qianhu's swearing in the military formations and mercenaries of the Thais."

The person Sun Kewang said was Zhang Gongyan, who was a student of Guangnan Prefecture in eastern Yunnan. He had guarded Guilin with Qu Shishi. The Portuguese mercenary recruited from Macau had left a deep impression on him, and was even so profound that he, a Confucian scholar who had originally stayed away from Western learning, changed to him. It seemed that he had determined that if the Ming Dynasty changed the phalanx of the teeth, it would be easy to restore the two capitals.

Anlong Mansion was full of Sun Kewang's suspicion from inside to outside. Although this scholar had not violated his taboos against the Yongli court, Sun Kewang was not very happy to advocate things that he didn't understand at all. The situation is very good at the moment, so he didn't need to kill people for such a small matter. He simply chased them away. It would be best if he was not accustomed to the environment and died in a foreign land to meet his invisible intention.

Everyone present followed Sun Kewang for many years, and they still had this little vision. The staff quickly decided that although this matter was a big deal, it did not reflect any interests.

After all, they were just a prince living in other people's territory and a general under the prince who was surrounded by the Qing army. Perhaps the envoy had died before he arrived. As for the joke about the military rebellion, Sun Kewang just thought it was just a joke. The Lu Jianguo did not make a decision, and he was also unwilling to be that fool. So soon they put aside this matter and continued to discuss the wars and appointments of officials in Huguang, Sichuan and Guangxi, as well as the taxes in the two inherently occupied areas of Yunnan and Guizhou. These are major matters that are related to life and death.

A few days later, the envoy set out as promised. They would go along with Zheng Chenggong's envoy to Leizhou, Guangdong when they came, and then enter Guangxi, and return to Guizhou's original itinerary. First go to Zhongzuo in Fujian to announce the imperial edict, and then go to Jinhua, which is not bounded with the Ming army occupied area, so as to finish the matter.

Outside the short city gate of Anlong Mansion, Zhang Gongyan and Lin Qingyang, a civil servant whom he had to chat with on weekdays - the Ministry of War Military Selection Office. The two were just a friend of words that they sang to each other, but this time they were slightly different. However, the envoy sent by Sun Kewang was on the same road with the envoy who informed the Emperor Yongli. The person was not far away. The two just said goodbye to each other for a moment and then said goodbye.

The envoy of the Yongli court, to be precise, Sun Kewang's envoy had set out and headed towards the initial destination of Zhongzuo Guard of Yongning, Fujian. At this time, in the residence of King Zhu Yihai, the King of Lu, not far from Zhongzuo, everyone was still shocked by the news he had just delivered.

A few months ago, Cao Conglong launched a rebellion, trying to use Chen Wen's defenders who were left in Jinhua to recover Taizhou and make his last attempt for the Lujianguo Group. However, less than a month, the rebellion was suppressed by Chen Wen, and most of the people involved were executed, and even the local gentry and wealthy families in Jinhua Prefecture were implicated. But what followed was that Chen Wen's process of conquering Quzhou was interrupted, and the Qing army inexplicably got a chance to breathe, and even took back the strategic initiative for no reason.

The memorial full of doubts and questions was sent to Kinmen, and the remaining members of the Lujianguo Group were in sorrow. During the long wait, this hope had been considered unrealistic in the hearts of most people. In the silence, only a very small number of officials were still defending Cao Conglong and rudely accusing and insulting Chen Wen.

But all this was useless. Zheng Chenggong sent less and less food. Except for Zhang Mingzhen, other nobles had already brought their subordinates to serve in the Zheng army, and even many civil servants were involved. I knew that they could not support it completely and even hope was cut off today. Today, when King Zhu Yihai of Lu chose to supervise the country and change himself to the orthodox emperor. This is the only thing he could do. It is better to protect his face than to be forced to supervise the country in person.

Destiny was handed over to people, and while the days when the Yongli court was waiting for the breakup, Zhu Yihai thought more than once that if Cao Conglong had not launched a rebellion, there might be a turning point. However, as the civil servants who were attending him continued to slander Chen Wen, Zhu Yihai quickly turned to his fantasy on Cao Conglong's successful rebellion and took advantage of the opportunity to recover Taizhou.

He should have been a prince of Taiping. Facing the overturn of the Ming Dynasty, he dared to be on the front line to inspire morale. However, he did not have his own idea when encountering problems, and could not be the leader of Zhongxing at all.

Just like now, when a civil servant under Zheng Chenggong submitted the news he received from the Qing army in Fujian to him, the lost voice in the lobby immediately reminded Zhu Yihai of the idea of ​​going to the state supervise.

"Cao Yunlin ruined the country!"

The civil servant under Zheng Chenggong's curtain had already left, and Zhu Yihai immediately vented his long-saved resentment.

Chen Wen defeated the Qing army in Quzhou a few months ago and surrounded Quzhou Fucheng, but his previous efforts were wasted by Cao Conglong's internal strife. However, a few months later, Chen Wen marched into Quzhou again and defeated 15,000 Qing army with 8,000 soldiers, including elite existences such as Zhejiang and Fujian Governor Biao, Jiangxi Governor and Fujian Left General General Biao Battalion. He also surrounded Quzhou again, not only regaining the strategic initiative, but also slapped those who had previously slandered him.

Facts are better than words. Before the Cao Conglong Rebellion broke out, Chen Wen's plan to attack Quzhou first and then restore Taizhou had been sent to the imperial front of the Lu Jianguo. However, with the outbreak of the Cao Conglong Rebellion, this plan naturally could not be counted. Zhu Yihai, the King of Lu who had lost the last hope, chose to give up his position as a governor and let his ministers transfer it to Zheng Chenggong.

Over the past period of time, except for Zhang Huangyan who did not want to express his opinions on this, almost everyone described Chen Wen as a traitor who was punished by everyone, and described Cao Conglong as a loyal minister who was determined to turn the world back and be harmed by traitors.

But now it seems that the "loyal minister" was undoubtedly corrupting the state affairs, and the "treacherous" fought bloody battles for the revival of the Ming Dynasty again and again, which made Zhu Yihai suddenly have the urge to laugh. But then he thought that these officials who slandered Chen Wen on a daily basis are still loyal to him, and it is really not appropriate to hurt the hearts of these ministers, but it is really uncomfortable to hold it in, so he had to turn the ridicule into anger and vent it.

"Cao Yunlin ruined the country!"

Since the Qing army participated in the war, there were two Fujian green camps among the Qing army, and the deputy generals of Jianning Mansion were even more unaware of their lives and death. Therefore, all versions of this war spread throughout the Qing Dynasty officialdom in Fujian like the wind. Naturally, there was no miss Zheng Chenggong, who was still resting the troops and preparing to start the war again.

The civil servant sent by Zheng Chenggong repeatedly confirmed that all the officials who accompanied him blushed, and even the former chief minister Shen Chenquan was no exception.

Historically, after fleeing to Fujian in the Lujian Kingdom, Shen Chenquan chose to go to Japan to borrow troops to respect himself, but died in a shipwreck. However, this time, because the Lujian Kingdom Group needed to send someone to contact Chen Wen, Dingxi Hou Zhang Mingzhen opposed him on the grounds that the chief minister could not be moved easily. As a result, even the plan to go to Japan was put on hold, so Shen Chenquan naturally had no chance to get out of the shipwreck.

I don’t know that he actually lived to this day because of Chen Wen’s appearance. Although he was very dissatisfied with Cao Conglong’s recklessness, he still said some bad things about Chen Wen for the sake of the civil servants, just like other civil servants.

But now, the great victory in Shentangyuan severely slandered them in the face of Chen Wen's previous accusation of his ability and his careful frame-up. He even closed his eyes, as if they had never seen a general pointing at the nose and mocking them for sending a colleague who had no ability to accomplish things to carry out an idiot plan, mocking them for being like a group of incompetent people.

It was really, it really made everyone feel ashamed to find a crack in the ground to get into it.

Unlike the only remaining civil and military officials of the Lujianguo Group, Zheng Chenggong, who is currently in Zhangzhou, learned that Chen Wen had defeated the Qing army again. If he had not maintained his usual majesty, he would have jumped up with joy.

Zheng Chenggong has always been focused on strengthening his own power and regards restoring the two capitals and reviving the Ming Dynasty as the only way to wipe out the shame of the Xue family. Although the existence of the Lu Jianguo Group attracted a lot of ideas for him, the Zheng family offended the Lu Jianguo Group too much in supporting the Tang King. The Lu Jianguo Group has always been a great threat to him. Therefore, when Zheng Cai invited the Lu King to guide Fujian, he continued to fight under the banner of Longwu, without any interest in the company. When the Lu Jianguo State was in a difficult situation, he did not hesitate to take the remnants of the Lu King's troops into his own use without hesitation, for fear that the Lu Jianguo State would turn over.

Although Chen Wen had regarded the King of Lu as orthodox in the past, the military supervisors sent by the Lu Jianguo Group recklessly launched a rebellion for an inexplicable plan, completely offending this promising general, and a potential threat was gone. This time, he informed King of Lu Zhu Yihai of Chen Wen's defeat of Chen Jin again, in order to make the group collapse more thoroughly within the internal situation.

Even if he put aside the Lu Jianguo Group, Chen Wen's existence did attract too much attention from the Qing army in the Southeast. After the half year of besieging Zhangzhou, no Qing army from other provinces came to aid Fujian, and was attracted by Chen Wen to Jinhua and Quzhou. Since the news brought back by the envoy who went to Jinhua not long ago, Chen Wen himself praised him very much and had some longing for the cooperation between the two.

Even if this is just an illusion, Zheng Chenggong hopes that Chen Wen can continue to persevere in Zhejiang, at least until he revives the entire Fujian and has the strength to fight the Qing Dynasty heavy army.
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