Yang Ying mentioned by Zheng Tai was a household official in Zheng Chenggong's army, and he was considered a loyal master of Zheng Chenggong. The "Records of the Conquest" compiled by him later was an important historical material for studying Zheng Chenggong. However, the ambiguity and errors in some historical events were also criticized by later historical researchers.

The Ming army in Fujian needs time to recover their vitality before they can fight again, and what they are facing now is no longer just Fujian's Green Camp soldiers, which makes Zheng Chenggong only able to maintain the defensive momentum in the past year and a half.

In fact, this was not the result of Hong Chengchou's hope for the time to offer his plan to Shunzhi. At least in his eyes, the ten thousand soldiers of the Jingnan vassal were the leaders of the Manchu Han army and should play a greater role in the future, such as completely suppressing the anti-Qing movement in the four southeastern provinces.

After officially taking office as the governor of the four Southeast provinces, Hong Chengchou stayed in Nanjing for a few days. After completing the matters that needed to be determined there, he left for Nanchang, so that he would not make Ma Guozhu unhappy. However, in Nanjing, Hong Chengchou not only summoned Chen Wen's former military supervisor Wang Jiang, but also met with Jin Li and Li Zhifang, who were about to be escorted back to Beijing, without any fear of any dissatisfaction.

After meeting the two, Hong Chengchou did not intend to write a letter to them Shunzhi to ask for anything, because there was no need for him. However, the actual situation of the Ming army mentioned to him by the two of them still attracted his attention, especially a crucial issue mentioned by Jin Li, which made him send a confidant back to the capital with a quick horse.

After arriving at the Nanchang Zhengwei Yamen, Hong Chengchou summoned Liu Guangbi, Yang Jie, Wang Zhigang and Zhang Guoxun's generals in batches, and issued a document in Hangzhou and Wenzhou to require the generals to strengthen the training of their soldiers and repair the city defense in case the Ming army attacked.

A series of plans before the New Year have won several months for the southeast war situation of the Qing Dynasty. The green camp soldiers in the north and the elite troops squeezed out have set off. However, it is almost March now, and there is little time left for the Ming and Qing armies in the southeast.

There will be a battle in southwestern Zhejiang in the first half of this year. Hong Chengchou is very clear that even if the Qing army failed to launch an encirclement and suppression, the Ming army in Zhejiang would inevitably launch an attack after the rest. The report on the Green Camp in the North reported the army's speed and arrival location was sent to Hong Chengchou's case every day. However, in such a tense atmosphere, a secret report still left him all his official duties to pay more attention to the progress of the situation.

In late February of the seventh year of Yongli, in Yongzhou, southern Huguang, Li Dingguo gave up Hengyang in December last year and then garrisoned the troops here.

The previous year was a year worth celebrating for the Ming court and the anti-Qing people from all over the country. On the southeast battlefield, Chen Wen and Zheng Chenggong defeated the Qing army many times in southwestern Zhejiang and southern Fujian respectively. On the southwest battlefield, not only were Jingzhou and Chenzhou two major victories, but also Li Dingguo’s two famous kings, which was extremely inspiring.

But not long before the Hengyang victory, he had won consecutive victories on the Sichuan battlefield and recovered all Sichuan in one fell swoop. Liu Wenxiu's troops, who were heading north to Gansu, were defeated in the city of Baoning in October. The generals of the destruction of the enemy, Wang Fuchen, generals Yao Zhizhen, Zhang Xianzhen, Wang Jiye, Yang Chunpu, etc. were captured and killed by the Qing army, losing most of the soldiers, three elephants, and more than 2,300 horses and mules. Even Liu Wenxiu's golden seal of Funan King was seized by the Qing army, and the large area of ​​lost land that had been recovered was again occupied by the Qing army.

Liu Wenxiu's failure was mainly caused by his eagerness for quick success and short-term gains and underestimation of the enemy. The Qing army, including Wu Sangui, Li Guoying and other Qing troops took advantage of this and gave priority to defeating Zhang Xianbi, the Duke of Yuan, who had the weakest combat power in the Ming army, and then drove away the defeated army Liu Wenxiu's army and completely defeated him. Afterwards, Sun Kewang gave up the Sichuan battlefield and used this defeat to seize Liu Wenxiu's military power and threw him away.

In this way, Hengyang missed the opportunity, Sichuan Baoning's crushing defeat and Guangxi's resurgence, from the map, the large number of lost land that the Ming army once recovered was once occupied by the Qing Dynasty, and there were not many that could be truly transformed into a stable base.

Until not long ago, with the end of several months of rest, the Ming army in the Southwest also recovered from the fatigue of the successive battles last year. For this reason, Sun Kewang strongly invited Li Dingguo to Jingzhou to discuss the issue of sending troops. Li Dingguo did not suspect that he was, so he stood up and went. However, while on the road, there was a secret report from Sun Kewang that intended to take this opportunity to murder him.

The person who sent the secret report was a confidant of Li Dingguo. After receiving the news, Li Dingguo was in a dilemma. Li Dingguo stopped halfway, and Sun Kewang issued seven orders in three days to ask Li Dingguo to go. In the next few days, people came to report to Li Dingguo secretly, for fear that his achievements would shock the Lord. He was ready to kill him during the military discussion. Later, Sun Kewang's confidant Feng Shuanglilai led the army under Li Dingguo, and the people who reported the news also included Liu Wenxiu's son.

There was a conflict between Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo. As early as after Zhang Xianzhong's death, Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo's "Fu Ming" advocated going to the left in the meeting to survive. Later, under the pressure of Li Dingguo's death, the Daxi Army went south to Yunnan to take advantage of the opportunity to pacify the Shadingzhou Rebellion.

During this period, the Great Western Army was ruled by Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi, but as the Great Western Army recovered Yunnan in a devastating way, Sun Kewang's ambition was extremely inflamed by some people who were interested, such as Ren Zhu and others. In the "flag-raising incident of the martial arts field" in Kunming, Sun Kewang used the punishment of Li Dingguo to determine his identity as the supreme commander of the Great Western Army. Then, in the dispute with the Ming court about the title of King of Qin, Sun Kewang completely overwhelmed Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu with the authority of the Ming court. As for Ai Nengqi, he had already passed away during this period.

The Yongli court completed the merger with the Daxi Army at the end of his desperation. The Emperor Yongli was also under house arrest in the Qianhu District of Anlong. Sun Kewang had long claimed to be the king of the country, but in his opinion, the Emperor Yongli and Li Dingguo, who had a similar status to him in the Daxi Army and had heavy troops, and Liu Wenxiu, these three people posed great threats to his status, especially the latter and the former.

In addition, there were also many Ming court civil officials around Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo who instigated the two of them to be incompatible. For example, Yang Weizhi, the former deputy envoy of Yunnan, once fanned the flames in front of Sun Kewang: "If a general can win the title of "King of Qin" in the court, he can not only shock the southwest, but also suppress the two kings and kings of Li and Liu, how powerful!" In front of Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu and others, he criticized Sun Kewang for being arrogant and arbitrary, and did not care about brotherhood. He hypocritically reminded them to be careful of the two palaces being replaced with the "Sun" banner.

The civil servants of the Ming court intended to divide the generals of the Daxi Army to safeguard the authority and interests of the Ming court. This is understandable, but under a series of instigation, the cracks that already existed between the two became even deeper.

Next last year, Li Dingguo won a great victory in Guilin. Although he respected him, the "principal" who lives in Guiyang, only sent a memorial to the Yongli court in Anlong. Sun Kewang was very dissatisfied with this. In the Hengyang victory, he secretly instructed Feng Shuangli to violate the agreement with Li Dingguo, which led to Li Dingguo being unable to take the opportunity to encircle and annihilate the heavy army group of the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners.

Not long ago, Sun Kewang deprived Liu Wenxiu of military power and left him idle. This was not impossible for this move.

"Unfortunately, I was trapped in the army for a few years, and I had a hard time, and I wanted to make great contributions, support the royal family, and live up to my reputation. Now I was killed by the famous king and won the victory, but I was suspicious. Moreover, I and my brother Funan started in Yunnan together, and if they were wrong, they would be abandoned. I would be even more afraid of me. My wife is in Yunnan, so how could I run away?"

After returning to Yongzhou, Li Dingguo still couldn't let go of this and said to his generals with grief and anger.

The brotherhood of more than 20 years has been a brotherhood, but the news has come one after another, which has forced him to believe Sun Kewang's plot to kill him and seize his army. Moreover, Sun Kewang is not unable to do this. After Zhang Xianzhong's death, Zhang Xianzhong's wife and Prime Minister Wang Zhaoling in the Western Army were above four people, and Sun Kewang took the lead to kill the two, so that the four people were able to leave Sichuan with the commander's army. Now it seems that it is just a re-use of the same trick.

We cannot continue to stay in Huguang, otherwise the Western Army will inevitably perish in the killing of each other, and the only one who benefits from this will be the Qing Dynasty.
Chapter completed!