Nine hundred and twentieth chapters mercury pours to the ground
On July 14, the first year of Qiongyuan, King Zhu Changzi of Lu took office as the supervisor of the country. After taking power for the first time, in addition to appointing a group of officials, he also sent envoy Chen Hongfan to negotiate peace with the Daping army on the condition of ceding the four counties in the south of the Yangtze River.
I still want to stay on the safe side.
At that time, although Chen Hongfan went to Beijing to make peace with the Hongguang Dynasty envoy, he had secretly surrendered to the Daping Dynasty at that time and was sent back to Jiangnan to act as a traitor. After returning to Jiangnan, he wrote an article called "The Chronicle of the Northern Envoy"
His articles shamelessly promoted his loyalty to the Ming court, but behind his back, he spread the news that the Daping army was in dire straits and urged people to surrender as soon as possible. He was called "Living Qin Hui".
This time, Chen Hongfan, as the representative of King Lu who was supervising the country, took a ship flying the flag of "Serving the Ping Dynasty" and went to Tongfang to secretly discuss the treasonous matter.
But just when Zhu Changzi was still dreaming of staying safe, the Daping Army quickly advanced towards Hangzhou. After Chi Ming took over the fourteen prefectures and prefectures in southern Zhili, the entire army marched towards Zhejiang, heading straight for the Hangzhou garrison. In July
On the 17th, the Qing troops arrived in Tangxi, and the civil servants and military officers around King Lu fled again.
At this time, Chen Hongfan and Zhejiang General Chi Ming had already reached an agreement and returned to Hangzhou to work with Zhang Bingzhen to persuade Zhu Changzi to surrender. Zhu Changzi was greedy for life and feared death, so he decided to surrender in exchange for peace. General Fang Guoan and his nephew Fang Yuanke originally led troops to escort Hongguang.
After the emperor arrived in Wuhu and Zhu Yousong was captured, they came to Hangzhou again. There were still about 10,000 soldiers and horses under his command, preparing to support King Lu to defend Hangzhou. Unexpectedly, Zhu Changzi had decided to surrender and fought with the Fang Army and the Daping Army.
When fighting at the Yongjin Gate, Zhu Changzi went so crazy that he threw wine and food from the city to reward the Daping army. Fang Yuanke and others were extremely angry. He crossed the Qiantang River eastward and later joined the ranks of those who supported Lu Jianguo.
On July 20th, the Daping Army occupied Hangzhou without any effort. Chi Ming took advantage of the situation and sent envoys to recruit the prefectures in eastern Zhejiang and the Ming vassal kings who were avoiding this area. At that time, the king of Zhou lived in Xiaoshan, King Hui lived in Kuaiji, and King Lu lived in
Linhai. Chi Ming sent his cavalry to repair the book, and used ginseng, mink and other things as zhi to invite the kings to meet him. King Lu said that the road was a little far away and he could not come due to illness. King Zhou and Hui crossed the river to go to the summons. They sent him to Nanjing with Emperor Hongguang.
, King Lu all went north. Officials from Huzhou, Jiaxing, Shaoxing, Ningbo, Yanzhou and other prefectures also surrendered to the Daping Dynasty.
On July 17, the first year of Qiongyuan, Tang Wang Zhu Yujian saw that Lu Wang Zhu Changzi had decided to surrender. He was very angry and with the support of a group of civil servants and generals, he left Hangzhou and went to Fuzhou to prepare for the supervision of the country.
Although Zhu Yujian of the Tang Dynasty was the eighth-generation grandson of the 22nd son of Zhu Yuanzhang, he was very far away from Emperor Chongzhen in terms of genealogy. According to the convention, he would not be in his turn. However, because the political center of the Southern Ming Dynasty was in the southeast at that time, Zhu Changzi and Zhu Changrun came to the Qing Dynasty.
Later, the southeastern gentry were also eager to solve the problem of succession and had to choose from the nearby vassals.
Zhu Yujian ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor by sparing the vassals of the Ming Dynasty. Although he really wanted to do something to rebuild the Ming Dynasty, he lacked both his own team and insufficient status. This inherent weakness made him have to rely on advocating for support.
The brothers Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui, the most powerful figures in Fujian, were established. After taking the throne, they named Zheng Zhilong as Pingluhou, Zheng Hongkui as Dingluhou, Zheng Zhibao as Chengjibo, and Zheng Cai as Yongshengbo.
After the Longwu court was established, it issued edicts to various places and was recognized by the Can Ming regime in Guangdong and Guangxi, Gannan, Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan.
In addition, King Zhu Yihai of Lu supervised the country in eastern Zhejiang; King Zhu Hengjia of Jingjiang, who was entrusted to Guilin, Guangxi, was not willing to be lonely. He changed Guilin, the capital of Guangxi Province, to Xijing, and wore a yellow robe. Can Ming actually became a brother.
At this time, the Zheng Zhilong brothers in Fujian. They made the decision to welcome Longwu as the first official minister, and used the name of the Longwu court to consolidate their exclusive position in Fujian and other areas. This had a strong sense of separatism. They also sent out
The envoy hooked up with Da Pingchao and was prepared to fall with the wind.
The king of the Tang Dynasty, Zhu Yujian, originally hoped that Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui would lead their troops out of Fujian and make great achievements. Under his repeated orders, Zheng Zhilong had to send Yongsheng Bo Zheng Cai to lead his troops out of Shanguan to rescue the troops of the residual Ming Dynasty in Jianchang, Jiangxi. Zheng Cai arrived at Shanguan
After that, he stood still and ignored Zhang Jiayu's urgings from the supervisor. Soon after he heard that the Daping Army was approaching, he gathered his troops and ran away, retreating to Pucheng for three days and nights.
As the conflict between the two sides intensified, Tang Wang Zhu Yujian understood that he could not do anything except leaving Fujian and getting rid of the control of Zheng Zhilong brothers. Therefore, he decided to go on a personal expedition, with the purpose of moving the army to Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province as the first step, and then depending on the situation.
It is determined that if Jiangxi succeeds in deploying troops and the situation is stable, it can connect with the He Tengjiao tribe in Hunan to the west, Zheng Zhilong tribe in Fujian to the east, and Guangdong to the south, so as to gain the effect of nearby command. Even if the battle in Jiangxi is unfavorable, it can also move west to Hunan and go south to Guangdong.
The king of the Tang Dynasty, Zhu Yujian, was determined to recover, but Zheng Zhilong relied on his own troops, hijacked the court, and had no intention of making progress. The contradiction between the two sides became increasingly intensified. The chief scholar Huang Daozhou was so angry that he volunteered to lead his troops out of Fujian, contact Jiangxi, and rescue Huizhou and Jin Sheng in Quzhou.
The remaining Ming troops tried to open up the situation for the Longwu court.
On September 28th of the first year of Qiongyuan, Huang Daozhou reluctantly assembled more than 3,000 soldiers and embarked on the journey. King Zhu Yujian of the Tang Dynasty sent Zhao Shichao as the director of the Staff Department of the Ministry of War to serve as the military supervisor. Zheng Zhilong had the power of money and food for the soldiers.
I was secretly happy in my heart, fearing that he would not leave, so he did not allocate elite soldiers, and only paid a monthly quota of food and salary.
Not long after the division was dispatched, soldiers were unable to receive military pay. Huang Daozhou had to use his reputation and calligraphy to write letters of appointment and recruit some loyal men along the way. Huang Daozhou himself had no military experience. All he knew about military matters was
On paper, he has never commanded an army. Most of his soldiers and generals were recruited and lacked combat experience, but they moved forward bravely with passion.
Shi Lang acted as a sidekick at that time and accompanied Dao Zhou on the expedition. With his military vision, he saw that relying on such a team to fight the Daping Army would inevitably lead to defeat. Therefore, he suggested to Huang Dao Zhou that he should disband the team and only bring a few selected people with him.
The path leads directly to Ganzhou, and in the name of the Chief Academic Supervisor, he controls and dispatches the governors, governors, and generals of southern Gansu, Huguang, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places to join forces and advance.
Huang Daozhou was stubborn and did not follow the contingency plan. He thought that having such a loose army was better than nothing. He also overestimated his reputation and believed that wherever he went, there would be crowds of people responding; not to mention that in his mind, Shi Lang
But a humble general couldn't come up with any good ideas. Seeing that Huang Daozhou didn't accept his advice, Shi Lang didn't want to accompany him to death, so he returned to Fujian.
After Huang Daozhou arrived at Huizhou Prefecture, he turned around. It was not until Jin Sheng was defeated and captured that he realized that his army was only separated from Jin Sheng's remnant Ming army by a mountain. Whether his troops could rescue Jin Sheng was of course a matter of course.
question, but at least it shows that he has unclear intelligence and lacks military ability.
Jin Sheng's tribe had been defeated, and the few troops led by Huang Daozhou were no match for the Daping Army, so the purpose of sending troops to aid Hui failed. He led his troops to transfer from Wuyuan, Huizhou (now part of Jiangxi Province) to Jiangxi. In the second year of Qiongyuan,
On the 23rd of the month, the Daping Army heard that Huang Daozhou was setting up camp at Jingmingtang in Wuyuan County. The next day, he was besieged by the Daping Army from three directions. More than a thousand of Huang Daozhou's soldiers were killed, and the rest were scattered. He himself
Zhao Shichao, head of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Military Affairs, Mao Zhijie, general judge, Cai Yong, Zhongshu Cai Yong, Lai Jijin, Zhu Jiadi, a guerrilla military officer, and others were captured. Later, in accordance with the "Amnesty Order", Huang Daozhou and others were beheaded.
Huang Daozhou's counterattack this time was completely child's play. However, it was also the only counterattack from the Southern Ming Dynasty to the Can Ming Dynasty. After that, the Daping Army began the process of pushing forward all the way until all the Can Ming troops were surrounded in Guangxi.
Yunnan and other southwestern frontiers.
The following is a brief introduction to the march of the Daping Army:
After the Eastern Route Army of the late Ming Dynasty occupied Zhejiang Province, Zhang Guowei, the academician, Yu Huang, the minister of war, Chen Hanhui, the minister of rites, and Chen Qianfu, the young minister of Dali Temple, committed suicide one after another.
Zhu Dadian, the governor's scholar, defended Jinhua and refused to surrender. Chi Ming personally led the army from Shaoxing to Jinhua and surrounded the city. However, the Ming army defending the city under the command of Zhu Dadian resisted stubbornly in the city until Chi Ming was transferred from Hangzhou.
The red-coated cannons attacked with overwhelming force for another twenty days before Jinhua was breached.
Zhu Dadian led his family and trusted generals to the gunpowder bureau in the city, tied a rope to the gunpowder barrel, lit the fuse, and with a bang, he became a hero.
Zhu Dadian, a former Ming official who had friendship with Wu Shigong, wrote to Wu Shigong several times to persuade him to surrender, but he was flatly rejected. In the officialdom of the late Ming Dynasty, Zhu Dadian was also known for his greed, but in the end he still showed his power.
Unyielding integrity. When Wu Shigong learned of this result, he could only sigh: "What a pity! What a pity!"
During the Zhou Dynasty patrol, Xue Qiang's West Route Army captured Ji'an and advanced to southern Ganzhou. Afterwards, they defeated the Ming Dynasty army at the foot of Ganzhou City and seized this strategic location that connected Fujian to the east, Hunan to the west, and was a barrier to Guangdong.
Soon, Chi Ming's East Route Army advanced with great success. Soon, Zheng Zhilong and others surrendered to Daping. Tang King Zhu Yujian was captured and killed. Fujian, Jiangxi, and Guangdong fell one after another. He Tengjiao stationed in Hunan was also captured by Zhang Biao's Middle Route Army and Zhou Xun.
The powerful Western Route Army was surrounded on three sides. In the rout, He Tengjiao's troops were almost wiped out, and the remaining troops fled to Guangxi with He Tengjiao.
After the Ming Army in the south of Sichuan learned that Nanjing had fallen, they also sacrificed Chengdu and Chongqing one after another, and most of them surrendered the entire Dashan to the Sichuan Army. The entire territory of Sichuan fell into the hands of the Daping Army.
From the second half of the second year of Qiongyuan to the third year of Qiongyuan, the various armies of the Ming Dynasty, the remnants of the Dashun Army and the Daxi Army, and the local Ming Army in Yunnan and Guangxi, had been forced to temporarily retreat under the mercury-like offensive of the Daping Army.
They united together to resist the attack of the Daping Army. It was not until the end of the fourth year of Qiongyuan that these remaining troops in the southwest border were completely eliminated by the Daping Army.
When the Daping Dynasty first launched the war to unify the country, the troops it mobilized were less than one-fifth of the total strength of the Daping Army. However, when the remaining resistance forces were surrounded in the southwest border, the total strength of the Daping Army in the Southern Expedition had reached
More than 1.3 million. This shows that the morale of Nanming's military is shattered and the people's will is changing.
And at the end, we have to see the Daping Army gather all its elites to fight against the Qing Dynasty. (To be continued...)
ps: The process of the Daping Army unifying the country basically evolved according to the process of the Qing Army entering the Pass. Whenever I see this period of history, especially when I see the original Ming Army that surrendered to the Qing Dynasty with more powerful combat capabilities than the Qing Army, I always sigh: The Qing Dynasty won
In the world, it is not the Manchus who are brave, but the fact that there are too many traitors.
