Last year's great changes in Fujian and Guangdong provinces came to an end, and the peace only lasted for just six months before it was first broken by Li Dingguo.

Every move of the most famous commander in Nanming undoubtedly touched the heartstrings of all parties. Hong Chengchou personally led the reinforcements to Guilin to assist the defense, but what he got was the news that the Ming army had withdrawn. At the dock, when

With the generals, Hong Chengchou did not put his doubts into words, and the army still entered the city as planned to assist in defense. However, before entering the city, Hong Chengchou also ordered to go down and inform the ministries of the Ministry of Finance that the Ming army had retreated after hearing the arrival of reinforcements, so as to

This further boosted his morale, because he always felt that this matter was not as simple as it appeared on the surface.

The news of the Ming army's retreat was soon further confirmed. The flags of Li Dingguo and Guo Zhiqi all appeared at the Ming army in Liuzhou Prefecture. However, some sources pointed out that it was not Li Dingguo who was responsible for controlling the troops at the moment, but

It was Guo Zhiqi. The news came back from the editor in Liuzhou that Li Dingguo was ill and could not be a director, so the Grand Master of the Superintendent's Office took over his duties on his behalf.

"Last year, I was delayed in Xinhui for several months because of an illness, but it was said that I was still busy with official duties at that time. Now, I have handed over the duties to Guo Zhiqi..."

Li Dingguo is the commander-in-chief with the most brilliant record in the Southern Ming Dynasty so far. Even Zheng Chenggong, who had much smoother success, was far behind. When Hong Chengchou took up the post of Southwest Strategy, he had studied his opponents - Emperor Yongli, Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo,

Liu Wenxiu. As for Zheng Chenggong and Chen Kai, it was still gratifying at that time. He was aware of the troubles of Geng Jimao and Liu Qingtai, but he still had to focus on the current opponents.

Among them, Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo are naturally the ones who need the most attention. When Hong Chengchou took office, he began to restore and strengthen Baoqing's defense line, thereby trying to keep Sun Kewang in Guizhou and preventing him from advancing eastward. As for Li Dingguo,

Hong Chengchou also used methods of appeasement and took advantage of Li Dingguo's defeat at Zhaoqing to flirt with him. As a result, Li Dingguo ignored him and continued to attack Xinhui the next year.

These two opponents have their own advantages and disadvantages, and Hong Chengchou is trying his best to deal with it with the help of the Changsha shogunate and the five thousand-mile long border. There is a lot of luck in this. For example, Liu Wenxiu defeated Changde, but his efforts and

The actual results achieved have indeed enabled the Qing government to gradually recover its power in the Huguang area, and gradually gained the strength to compete with the Ming army for a long time.

Originally, the next step was to wait for the Ming army to make a mistake. This was the day that Hong Chengchou had been waiting for since he took office. But the problem was that an unexpected spoiler turned the entire situation upside down.

The trend began to reverse.

Nowadays, I still put Zheng Chenggong and Chen Kai aside and only talk about what happened in Guangxi recently. According to detailed investigation, Li Dingguo was able to send troops quickly. In the final analysis, it was because Chen Kai and Guo Zhiqi were behind him. With Guangxi and western Guangxi, plus

With subsidies from eastern Guangdong, this army can take action again. At this point, Li Dingguo is getting smaller and smaller than Sun Kewang. With the ability of the military commander to compete with Sun Kewang's financial strength, the real situation is to continue

What was suppressed was only the righteousness and honor.

"Damn it, I should have thought of it earlier!"

In the days that followed, there was a purposeful search, and intelligence continued to converge from Guiyang and Liuzhou to the city of Guilin where Hong Chengchou was temporarily stationed. Searching for clues at all costs, Hong Chengchou's paranoia surprised the generals in Guilin and Jingbiao.

In fact, even Yu Shiyue, the governor of Guangxi who was born in the Changsha shogunate, was a monk of only two feet in height - he couldn't figure it out.

However, in the twelfth lunar month, with some unreasonable transfers in Guiyang and new discoveries in Liuzhou Prefecture, all the mysteries were easily solved.

"Sun Kewang sent several waves of people to the Anlong Qianhu Office. Li Dingguo claimed that he was seriously ill and could not govern. However, his most pro-Xin general Jin Tongwu and most of Li Dingguo's elite troops were not in Liuzhou, Wuzhou or Nanning. Later

If so, I don’t need to say anything more."

It is indeed no longer needed, because Xian Guoan's detailed report said that Liuzhou Prefecture has been preparing food and grass, and that troops have begun to move towards Tianzhou Prefecture. The focus has shifted to Anlong, and the Ming army is likely to break out in a new attack.

Internal strife was what the Qing court wanted to see most. But before celebrating, they had to do another thing well before they could sit in the stands with a better view and watch this place no matter where it was.

When one side wins, they can all celebrate together.

"Mobilize the army to go south, first attack Pingyue Prefecture and Wuzhou Prefecture, and cut off the waterway traffic again. Then, march to Xunzhou Prefecture and Nanning Prefecture, completely cutting off the connection between the bandits in Guangdong and Guangxi. Only in this way can we have the opportunity to defeat them one by one!"

Historically, Li Dingguo was defeated in Guangdong and had to retreat to Guangxi for rest. At the end of the ninth year of Yongli, he personally led his elite troops to break into Anlong and escort the Yongli court into Yunnan. Although this major move was not supported by the people,

It succeeded by chance with the support of Guangdong, but from a strategic perspective it inevitably led to the loss of most of Guangxi's troops, which had been recovered since the sixth year of Yongli.

When they entered Tianzhou Prefecture, they could not hide it from Sun Kewang, and they could not hide it from the Qing army this time. In this context, King Pingnan of Guangdong was gratified, and King Geng Jimao of Jingnan combined Huguang's southwest meridian and Guangxi's Ding.

The Nanfan generals quickly began their march across Guangxi.

On the second day of the first lunar month of the tenth year of Yongli, the Qing army approached Pingnan County, which is adjacent to Wuzhou Prefecture, located on the bank of the Xunjiang River and northeast of Xunzhou Prefecture. At that time, the people responsible for guarding Xunzhou Prefecture were General Ren'an Li Chengjue and the naval commander Yang Chunbo Li Xianfang.

Knowing that they were outmatched, the second commander took the initiative to retreat to Nanning Prefecture on the seventh day of the first lunar month. By the tenth day of the first lunar month, the Qing army occupied the capital of Xunzhou.

This was just the beginning. Next, the Guangdong Qing army continued to advance westward. On the 15th day of the first lunar month, it entered Guixian County in the south of Xunzhou Prefecture.

The two Qing armies converged, and their momentum increased. On the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, they invaded Hengzhou in the east of Nanning Prefecture. The Ming generals Gao Wengui and Shi Shangyi who were guarding the area, as well as Li Chengjue and Li Xianfang who had fled here, retreated without a fight.

.Subsequently, the Qing army officially occupied Nanning on the fourth day of February. Five days later, Ma Xiong, the commander-in-chief of Nanfan’s left wing, pursued him to Laituo in Jiangzhou and captured Yangchun Bo Li Xianfang alive.

At this point, including Guilin Prefecture, Leping Prefecture and Wuzhou Prefecture, which the Qing Army had already controlled earlier, most of the prefectures and counties in Guangxi were occupied by the Qing Army. Since then, although the Southeast Ming Army and the Southwest Ming Army had occasional contact,

There is no chance for us to join forces again. (Note)

Today is different from the past. The Ming army's military presence in Guangdong and Guangxi has achieved a real border. The Shang Geng vassal in Guangdong has also ceased to exist. The Ming army's momentum in Guangdong and Guangxi is very good. However, the biggest problem at present is still that Li Dingguo's army is about to completely

Entering Yunnan, the emptiness of Guangxi is inevitable.

A large number of Ming troops were still stationed in Liuzhou. Hong Chengchou did not dare to fight easily, so he simply chose the two mansions that the Qing government had just lost as his targets.

Troops, food and grass were being mobilized in an orderly manner, and Hong Chengchou was still paying close attention to the movements in Liuzhou. At the beginning of November, news came from Liuzhou's detailed operations, saying that Li Dingguo's troops stationed there had begun to make plans.

Groups of people took boats to go south.

Going south, and taking a boat, it is indeed possible to go to an important town such as Wuzhou Prefecture or Nanning Prefecture to garrison, but it is more likely that Li Dingguo has already achieved a staged victory.

This still cannot be directly determined. It is more of a guess, but some civil and military officials have begun to lean towards Hong Chengchou's view. Next, as time goes by, more and more news comes from Guiyang and Liuzhou, and there is no doubt that

After a long time, the news of Li Dingguo's westward march actually broke out in Guiyang, and the information that Sun Kewang sent Bai Wenxuan and Ye Yingzhen to pick him up was quickly spread to Hong Chengchou's case.

"There is no need to wait any longer."

In the lobby, Hong Chengchou spoke out the thoughts of the generals. Immediately afterwards, the official order to dispatch troops was issued. This time, unlike in history, there were Pingnan and Jingnan vassals to assist in the war, and there was also a big enemy in Liuzhou.

, so Hong Chengchou simply dispatched Ma Xiong of Dingnan Fan, the headquarters troops of the second commander of the entire festival, the Jingbiao Youzhen of Southwest Jingbiao, Jingbiao Houzhen and Jingbiao Front Xiebu, as well as part of the Green Battalion to go out, and he

Led the rest of the troops and continued to sit in Guilin Fucheng.

Preparations had been started earlier. Once the official order was given, the army would soon attack Pinglefu. The city of Pinglefu is close to Yangshuo County in Guilin Prefecture. The Qing army moved down the river very quickly. There, the Ming army

There were not many troops left behind. Fortunately, Yangshuo County was in hand. With early warning, they quickly made a decision to abandon Pingle Prefecture and retreat to Wuzhou Prefecture.

The first domino fell easily. If nothing unexpected happened, next, Zhaoping County, Wuzhou Fucheng, Teng County, Pingnan County, Xunzhou Fucheng, Guixian, Hengzhou, Nanning Fucheng, until Nasetu

, fell down one by one, leaving only the pattern that the Qing army once again cut off the communication between the Ming army in the southeast and southwest.

Such a pattern was unusually gorgeous in the eyes of the Qing court, and Hong Chengchou also enjoyed the process of painting this pattern the most. However, the news that Pinglefu City had returned to the control of the Qing army had not been delivered in the past two days.

When the urgent report came, Hong Chengchou was so angry that he slapped Jiang Qing on the table.

"It's this Chen Kai again!"

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The Guangdong Governor's Office in the capital of Guangzhou has always been the busiest place in Guangdong Province. Military affairs, civil affairs, litigation and prisons, and all kinds of affairs gather here, are decided, distributed, and re-radiated to eastern Guangdong and northern Guangdong.

Even if Guangzhou Prefecture, Qiongzhou Prefecture, and even western Guangdong are not under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Governor Chen Kai, they will still be inevitably affected and affected.

The back house of the governor's Yamen, according to the traditional layout of the front and back houses, is also the residence of Chen Kai, and everyone in the Chen family, including Chen Kai and his wife, Chen Kai's children, the housekeeper, and his mother-in-law.

Sons, maids, cooks, gardeners, servants, servants, etc. all live here.

Here, it carries the laughter and laughter of Chen Kai’s family, the husband and wife talk at night, raise eyebrows together, and have fun with their children, which are most indispensable. And in some places that no one else can see, there are always some whispers that determine the fate of more people.

destiny.

"Didn't you say that the equipment for the second team of the Fubiao Battalion directly under the battalion has not arrived yet, and the training is not enough?"

Last time, we were separated for more than half a year, especially when we were away on an expedition, so worrying was unavoidable. What's more, this time the opponent was no one else, but the most capable civil servant in the late Ming Dynasty, and the one whom Chen Kai always valued most.

's opponent.

At this moment, Zheng Xiyuan raised his head and looked at Chen Kai, who couldn't help but sigh: "I'm afraid I won't be able to wait for a few more days while sailing on the sea."

"Then, how long will it take to go this time?"

"It shouldn't be too long."

After the words came out, both Chen Kai and Zheng Xiyuan who heard these words of comfort knew very well that once a war breaks out, it is always full of unknowns. No one knows how long a war will last. And this,

It's not just that the situation suddenly improves or something unexpected happens, as the attacking party, just a sudden attack on the city, there is no way to accurately calculate how many days and how much price it will take to take down the city in front of them.

The person next to me on the pillow has begun to restrain his reluctance and worry. This is all in Chen Kai's eyes. Since getting married, he has conquered Qiongzhou, restored Guangzhou, captured Shaozhou, and even sat in Fujian to help Zheng Chenggong sweep through Fujian.

, the sentence "less gatherings and more separations" can best describe the situation of the couple.

However, in such a position, Chen Kai must go all out every time, and Zheng Xiyuan must also endure the lovesickness at home and be a good housekeeper. Like ordinary people, they work at sunrise and rest at sunset.

Life seems to be destined to be out of reach for them.

"I will take good care of the children and take care of things at home. Please don't worry, husband."

"Yes, I know." Caressing the beauty's cheek, Chen Kai nodded solemnly: "There are also matters related to the Guangdong Business Alliance. You have to take care of them. Those are the future."

"Well, husband, don't worry, I will do my best."

Striding out of the room, a pair of children had already come to see them off in the arms of their wet nurse. As if sensing the atmosphere here, the two little guys seemed extraordinarily silent, just staring at Chen with their watery eyes.

Kai.

"Wait until daddy comes back to buy you some candies."

After touching the little heads of a pair of children, Chen Kai turned and walked towards the door. The moment he crossed the threshold between the front office and the back house, he turned around and forgot, but what sounded in his mind was "Tell me how long you are going, and it will take your whole life."

By the time you are enough, it will be late autumn when the dust of levy has been dispersed, and the wind blows down the mountain and sighs about the dreams of thousands of years.
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