The one who came to join the Taiping Army was a group of Ming troops scattered by the Qing army after Li Dingguo retreated and returned home, so they had to scatter the remnants of the Ming army near Xinhui. Their leader was Qi Hao, and the people in the team also called him "Fourth Brother". Speaking of which, Qi Hao was not from the southerner, but from Fengyang Prefecture, and he was also a person of a very big background, and had a lot of connection with Zhang Xianzhong.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, when Zhang Xianzhong led his army to capture Fengyang, Zhongdu, Qi Hao, who was only eighteen years old, couldn't survive because he was hungry. Seeing that the peasant army was in great power, he even dug out the ancestral tomb of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. After that, he simply joined the peasant army. He then followed Zhang Xianzhong's army to fight everywhere and started working hard to tie his head on his belt just to make a living. Because he was young and learned a few skills in fisting when he was young, he not only did not die after the battle in recent years, but gradually became famous in the army.

In the 16th year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong captured Hubei and changed Wuchang to Kyoto, claiming to be the King of Daxi. His peasant army was also called the Daxi Army. Qi Hao, who was 25 years old that year, also became an officer in the Daxi Army, with hundreds of people under his command, and was considered a small person. Later, when Zhang Xianzhong saw that Li Zicheng had occupied Beijing, he decided to enter Sichuan to establish his foundation and ordered the Daxi Army to advance to Sichuan. As a member of the Daxi Army, Qi Hao naturally followed him into Sichuan.

In August of the 17th year of Chongzhen, the Daxi Army attacked Chongqing. In this battle, Qi Hao was in charge and made great contributions to killing the Ming Governor Chen Shiqi. Zhang Xianzhong was promoted to the general of the camp by Zhang Xianzhong. After the Daxi Army occupied Chengdu, Zhang Xianzhong changed Chengdu to Xijing, officially established the Daxi Kingdom, and changed the reign of Dashun. The 17th year of Chongzhen was the first year of Dashun, and established the cabinet and six ministries, and appointed officials of the former Ming surrender to Shun, Wang Zhaoling was appointed as the cabinet and the left prime minister. Yan Xi ordered him to be the Grand Secretary and the right prime minister.

After the establishment of the Daxi regime, Zhang Xianzhong began to manage Sichuan, recruit refugees and resume production. He severely suppressed former Ming officials, gentry and landlords in violent places. Within the Daxi Army, soldiers were strictly restrained and plundered, and those who violated discipline were punished from "bundling" to "Xiaoxi". At the same time, Zhang Xianzhong also ordered the release of prisoners in the former Ming prison and the treasury of gold and silver from various prefectures to help refugees. Zhang Xianzhong's measures allowed the hearts of Sichuan people to be stable in a short period of time. The slaves who had been oppressed by former Ming officials, gentry and landlords in the past had riots and responded to the Daxi Army, or reported the crimes of the former master to the local governments of the Daxi regime, causing them to be sanctioned.

In the same year, Zhang Xianzhong reformed the Daxi military system. The special units of the Daxi Army were 120 battalions, and each battalion had a general. Qi Hao was named by Zhang Xianzhong himself as one of the 120 general officers. His immediate superior was the adopted son of the Daxi Emperor and General Dingbei Ainengqi.

During the period when the Daxi Army was operating Sichuan, the Dashun Army led by Li Zicheng was gradually defeated under the attack of the Qing army. After the Qing army occupied the provinces in the Yellow River Basin, they divided their troops south. In the second year of Shunzhi of the pseudo-Qing Dynasty, the Qing court sent people to Sichuan to surrender to Zhang Xianzhong, but Zhang Xianzhong regarded himself as a Han Chinese and would never surrender the enemy and refused to surrender. He also summoned civil and military strategies to protest against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Central Plains.

In August of the third year of Shunzhi, Prince Su Haoge of Qing led his troops across Jiange to Langzhong. After hearing the news, Zhang Xianzhong personally led the main force of the Daxi Army to fight. When he arrived at Fenghuang Mountain in Xichong, the Qing soldiers arrived suddenly. Because of negligence in defense, the Daxi Army did not enter the battle for a while. As a result, Zhang Xianzhong, who was personally inspecting the enemy, was shot to death by the Qing army's bow and arrow.

After Zhang Xianzhong died in battle, facing the advance of Haoge's army, the Daxi Army had to retreat south. At this time, the Daxi Army was behind the Qing army, and the Nanming army guarded by the Yangtze River, and the Daxi Army almost reached the end of the country. At that time, the people in the army were in chaos and morale was sluggish. Many soldiers recruited by the Daxi Army in Sichuan were abandoned, and a large number of officers fled with Jin. Faced with this crisis, Qi Hao firmly believed that the Daxi Army would not be defeated. He tried his best to restrain his subordinates. His troops became the few camps without soldiers, and were praised by Ainengqi.

In order to deal with the crisis, Zhang Xianzhong adopted his descendants, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu and Ainengqi unanimously decided to execute Empress Zhang Xianzhong and minister Wang Zhaoling, who interfered in the command of the Daxi Army. At the same time, the four of them restored their original surnames to form a system led by the four generals of the Daxi Army. Among the four, Sun Kewang had a relatively high status and prestige, was a little older, and read and read, so he was jointly elected by Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu and Ainengqi, and became the supreme commander of the remaining troops of the Daxi Army.

After solving internal troubles, the remaining troops of the Daxi Army concentrated in Qijiang, Sichuan under the leadership of Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, and Ai Nengqi, gathered and reorganized the team. During this reorganization, the 120th Battalion set up by Zhang Xianzhong was dismantled, and Qi Hao's troops were directly transferred to Ai Nengqi's command. Later, under the command of Sun Kewang and others, the reorganized Daxi Army defeated Zeng Ying's troops, who were defending Chongqing in one fell swoop. Zeng Ying fell into the water and drowned, and his troops fled. The Daxi Army crossed the natural barrier of the Yangtze River and entered Zunyi. As the troops sent by Prince Haoge of Qing Su came, the Daxi Army continued to retreat south and entered Guizhou, and successfully occupied the provincial capital Guiyang.

Zhang Yao, the Censor of Guizhou in Ming Dynasty, Zeng Yi, the Chief Secretary General, and Chen Ruizheng fled to Dingfanzhou and pieced together a group of troops to resist the Western Army. Sun Kewang then sent General Ainengqi, Dingbei, to lead troops to attack the remaining Ming army. In this battle, Qi Hao was appointed by Ainengqi, a former vanguard, and on February 12, he took the lead in conquering Dingfan, and captured the Guizhou Censor Zhang Yao. Later, the occupied area was destroyed and was deserted everywhere. The food supply in the army could not be provided. Ainengqi was forced to lead Qi Hao and others back to the army.

During the period of the Great Western Army's Anjing period in Guiyang, a rebellion in the chieftain Shadingzhou in Yunnan occurred in Yunnan, causing the Ming Dynasty's Duke Mu Tianbo to flee from Kunming. Sun Kewang sent troops to Yunnan under the name of revenge of the Duke of Qian. The Great Western Army advanced to Kunming, and the four generals jointly proclaimed kings, Sun Kewang was called King Pingdong, Li Dingguo was called King Anxi, Liu Wenxiu was called King Funan, and Ainengqi was called King Dingbei. The subordinates of the original kings were still directly promoted by the kings.

In the fourth year of Shunzhi, Sun Kewang sent Liu Wenxiu to fight in southern Sichuan. In the same year, the Daxi Army and the Yongli court of the Southern Ming Dynasty launched negotiations to jointly fight against the Qing Dynasty.

In May of the second year of Yongli (the fifth year of Shunzhi in the pseudo-Shunzhi), Ai Nengqi led Qi Hao and other generals to fight against the rebellion of Dongchuan Chiefs. As a result, the troops advanced 30 miles to Dongchuan Prefecture and were suddenly attacked by Lu's local soldiers on both sides of the ambush. The vanguard general Qi Hao led his troops to fight to the death to resist and cover the central army's retreat. Unexpectedly, the local soldiers of the Lu family carried a large number of poisonous arrows. Ai Nengqi was shot by the poisonous arrows of the local soldiers on the way back and carried back to Kunming overnight, but died.

After Ainengqi died in battle, Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu were furious and sent more troops to attack Dongchuan again. In this battle, the generals under the command of the Northern King were originally determined to make meritorious contributions. In order to the shame of the death of the Lord General, Qi Hao personally led his people to climb the cliff path. He defeated the local soldiers of the Sanlu family from behind and completely occupied Dongchuan and its nearby counties.

Not long after the Battle of Dongchuan, the generals of Ainengqi's subordinates faced a major choice in life. They had to choose one of the three princes, Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, and Liu Wenxiu. Because Sun Kewang is the King of Pingdong, with the greatest reputation and power, many generals of Ainengqi's subordinates chose to surrender to Sun Kewang.

However, Qi Hao had too many generals to join Sun Kewang, and Sun Kewang's troops were the strongest, not more than him, and less than him. If he joined Sun Kewang, he might not be as valuable as he was in Ainengqi's past. Instead, he chose to join Li Dingguo or Liu Wenxiu to benefit his future development. With this idea, Qi Hao expressed his willingness to return to the Ministry of War sent by Sun Kewang to the officials of the Ministry of War. Sun Kewang did not stop him after learning about his decision, but he was dissatisfied with Qi Hao.

After being transferred to Li Dingguo, Qi Hao was not valued by Li Dingguo as he had thought, but he was not excluded. It was just that he was not as close as Li Dingguo's former confidant generals, and the treatment of other troops was not favorable to each other. This made Qi Hao feel a little relieved while disappointing.

In the following years, Qi Hao participated in the Battle of Hengyang and Guilin under Li Dingguo. In the Battle of Hengyang, Qi Hao's troops did not fight with the Qing army head-on, but took on the task of transporting food and grass. After Li Ding's BN took over Hengyang, Qi Hao was appointed as the garrison of Hengyang by Li Dingguo. However, a few months later, because the main force of the Qing army in Hunan was not seriously injured by the killing of Nikan, Sun Kewang did not provide enough support to Li Dingguo, but secretly dragged Li down, causing the Qing army to make a comeback after a breath.

Faced with the superior forces of the Qing army, Qi Hao, who had only more than 2,000 troops, had to abandon Hengyang and retreat to Wugang. Although this was not Qi Hao's fault, Li Dingguo still punished him for abandoning important places without a battle. He removed his position as general and was appointed as the general. When Li Dingguo deployed the Battle of Guilin, Qi Hao led his troops to the Central Army to obey the order and participated in the battle to capture Quanzhou. Later, he continued to engage in logistics food and grass transportation tasks to ensure the supply of food and grass for the army that attacked Guilin.

Others are doing the prestigious act of charging into battle and killing generals and flags, but their own family always do the logistics of escorting food and grass. The credit is someone else's, but the guilt is his own. Over time, Qi Hao cannot help but have no opinion in his heart. In addition, although Li Dingguo is a rare general, he is rejected by the generals who are not his direct line, which makes Qi Hao somewhat regretful of his original choice. One day after drinking, he complained a few times, but was reported to Li Dingguo. As a result, although Li Dingguo did not treat him, he did not use it more seriously since then.

In the seventh year of Yongli (the tenth year of Shunzhi), Li Dingguo moved to Guangdong because of the forced force of Sun Kewang, and led his army to attack the important town of Zhaoqing. In this battle, Qi Hao was ordered to participate in the battle to attack Wuzhou first, and then led his army to occupy and start construction, but did not directly participate in the battle to attack Zhaoqing. The following year, Li Dingguo attacked Guangdong twice, bypassed the important town of Zhaoqing, and pointed directly at Xinhui. At first, Qi Hao was not ordered to advance eastward, but stayed in Wuzhou. Later, the siege of the city failed for several months, and Li Dingguo ordered

Qi Hao led his troops to support the navy of General Linghai Chen Qice into the Xijiang River and captured Jiangmen. In this battle, Qi Hao cooperated with Chen Qice's troops to kill Gai Yipeng, the general of the Qing Dynasty's Guangdong Navy, controlled the sea outlet of Guangzhou, and cut off the passage between Xinhui and Guangzhou. Seeing the critical situation, the Qing army authorities in Guangdong led their troops to Jiangmen in person to strengthen defense in the south and west of Guangzhou, but they still did not dare to fight the main force of Li Dingguo.

On the third day of October, Li Dingguo's pro-government army claimed to have launched a general attack on Xinhui for 200,000. The Ming army successively used tactics such as digging ground, bombing the city with cannons, logging and filling trenches, but was repelled one by one by the Qing army defending the city, and did not succeed in the attack. During this period, Qi Hao led his troops to station in Jiangmen, and had small-scale contacts with the Qing army in front of him, each with his victory or defeat.

In December, the Qing general Zhu Mala led the Qing army of Manchu and Eight Banners from Beijing to Guangzhou. With the courage of the Manchu soldiers, Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao then sent the main force of the Guangzhou Qing army to cooperate with Zhu Mala to attack Xinhui. Due to the military's desperation, the Ming army and the Qing army fought fiercely for four days and retreated on the whole line.

After the main force of Li Dingguo's army retreated, the rest of the Ming army scattered in prefectures and counties near Xinhui cooperated with the army to fight. Except for General Linghai Chen Qice, who relied on the navy to retreat safely, the rest of the Ming army that went deep into Xinhui were cut off by the Qing army, or the entire army was annihilated, or most of them were scattered. Among them, the most of the Yi troops who responded to the Ming and Guangdong Governor General Lianchengbi were almost mostly captured by the Qing army.

Qi Hao only realized that he had become an isolated army on the fourth day after Li Dingguo's army withdrew. At first, he also tried to lead his troops to break through, but the Qing army had blocked the roads for the west. The Manchu and Han Qing army with superior forces attacked everywhere, and the news of the Ming army being annihilated everywhere. After failing to break through twice and his subordinates lost half of their losses, Qi Hao had no choice but to order his subordinates to break through. He led dozens of old brothers to sneak into the mountains to wait for the Qing army to end the blockade before retreating west.

This wait took more than half a year. During this period, Qi Hao and others had been fantasizing that King Anxi's army would advance east again, but all they had waited for was the Qing army to search the mountains continuously, and half of the dozens of brothers who sneaked into the mountains together died.
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