In terms of civil servants, the Nandu regime mainly divided the Jiangnan and Jiangbei factions. Jiangnan was naturally a member of the Donglin Party, while Jiangbei was headed by Fengyang Governor Ma Shiying. Huaifu Lu Zhenfei was in Jiangbei, and Liu Liangzuo, the two generals in Jiangbei,
Gao Qian had a close relationship with him, but he also had a close political relationship with the Donglin Party members in Jiangnan.
But in terms of the more critical force, the situation is more complicated.
First of all, there are the two generals Liu Liangzuo and Gao Qian from Jiangbei. Ever since Gao Qian kidnapped Shi Kefa and fled to the south, he and Liu Liangzuo have been colluding with each other. They have repeatedly recruited troops indiscriminately in Jiangbei and expanded their troops crazily. They have become two large groups.
However, the strength and quality of the warlords are in question.
In the upper reaches of Nandu, there were two generals, Huang Degong and Zheng Hongkui, who had been defeated by Dashun Army Guo Junzhen in Jiujiang. Among them, Huang Degong had a closer relationship with Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang in Jiangbei, and the Zheng family represented by Zheng Hongkui was because of Zheng Sen.
Teacher Qian Qianyi has a close relationship with Dong Lin.
The next armed force is the Zhejiang regiment training armed force that Huang Mingjun, Zhu Dadian and others are currently training.
Finally, there was the Tianjin-Liao Navy brought by the minister from the north and an army formed by Liu Zeqing.
These soldiers and horses were divided into three factions: Jiangbei, Jiangnan, and Beilai. Their relationships were complicated and they each occupied their own places. The small Nandu regime quickly turned into a smoky mess.
The most prestigious minister in the south, Shi Kefa, was constrained by Gao Qian and could not integrate the forces of various factions to jointly promote or support a certain vassal king to become emperor. Therefore, in their hearts, King Fu or King Lu certainly hoped that they could become emperor, but because
He was afraid of angering the Qing court and worried about the opposition of hostile factions, so he insisted on verbally respecting the puppet Tongzhi Emperor of the North and did not dare to proclaim himself emperor on his own.
The forces of all parties check and balance each other, which creates a wonderfully balanced situation in the south. No one can act rashly or take any effective actions.
However, the ministers from the north who were returned to the south of the Yangtze River by the Shun Army, especially the Jin-Liao navy brought by Su Guansheng and the Shandong troops brought by Liu Zeqing, joined the southern party struggle as a new force.
When Liu Zeqing and Gao Qiqian secretly formed an alliance and prepared to go to Nanjing to search for Zhu Ming's clan and secretly plan a great cause. The Zheng family, who had control of the Nanjing River's military strength, discovered this change as quickly as possible.
Although Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui were both powerful pirate leaders in the past, most of the elders of the Zheng family seemed to be in a state of twilight. Only Zheng Sen immediately noticed the danger. He found that the troops brought by Liu Zeqing from the north had already been quite large.
When the soldiers and horses used the ships of the Tianjin and Liao Navy to go south under the pretext of going to the south of the Yangtze River for food, they decided to go to Anqing upstream to persuade Zheng Hongkui to send troops to intercept.
But at the same time, Gao Qian and Liu Liangzuo, who were originally ordered to carry out the "Northern Expedition" and incite rebellion among the Henan bandits, approached Ma Shiying.
They all used the news that Zheng's navy had moved south from Anqing to Zhenjiang as a reason to urge Ma Shiying to lead his troops southward and cross the Yangtze River from the upper reaches of Nanjing to acquire the rich territory south of the Yangtze River.
As warlords, Liu Liangzuo and Gao Qian both coveted the wealth of Jiangnan. Ma Shiying was ostracized by the Jiangnan scholars because he was the local governor, so he also wanted to take advantage of the power of the two warlords Liu and Gao to achieve his goal of monopolizing the Jinling regime.
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So the three people hit it off and decided to continue using Shi Kefa, who was coerced by Gao Qian, as a guise, and took advantage of Zheng Hongkui's eastward journey to Zhenjiang to intercept Liu Zeqing, and crossed the river from Anqing to the south of the Yangtze River.
However, at this time, another powerful warlord in the south, Huang Degong, still supported his troops in Anqing. Although Huang Degong's troops suffered a heavy blow from the Dashun Army's Guo Junzhen Department in the Battle of Jiujiang, their strength was seriously damaged. But Huang Degong, who was born in the Yongwei Camp,
The troops under Liu Liangzuo and Gao Qian were still the most powerful among the Ming armies in the south. Ma Shiying also believed that the attack on Anqing might not be successful. Once time was delayed, Zheng's troops would
If the navy returns to support, the Jiangbei warlords will miss the good opportunity to go south.
So Ma Shiying made suggestions for Liu Liangzuo and Gao Qian, and proposed a strategy of uniting with Huang Degong to support King Fu and proclaim himself emperor.
At this time, due to the arrival of ministers from the north, the news that Emperor Chongzhen was killed by the Qing army had caused a sensation all over the country. The small court in Nanjing, overseen by King Lu, in order to resist the Dashun army occupying the upper reaches of the Yangtze River,
They actually forcibly suppressed this news, in an attempt to continue the previous strategy of far-distance and close-attack, and unite with the invaders to suppress the invaders, which had long aroused strong dissatisfaction among the southerners.
Ma Shiying believed that the faults of the Nandu regime should be shouldered by King Lu, who was the supervisor of the country, and had nothing to do with King Fu, who was the governor-general of Rongzheng.
So the reason for supporting King Fu to inherit the throne should be enough to convince Huang Degong. As long as Huang Degong is willing to join the army that has decided to support him, then the three towns joining forces should be enough to suppress other opposition forces in Jiangnan.
Liu Liangzuo himself did not have a general strategy, but Gao Qian had been through the wars in Henan and Shandong for a long time. In the face of repeated defeats by the Dashun Army, he was always able to escape from death. This even surpassed Zuo Liangyu, and he was therefore "
"Famous as a martial artist."
Gao Qian, who was accustomed to speculation, immediately believed that Ma Shiying's strategy was an unprecedented one. So Ma Shiying, Liu Liangzuo, and Gao Qian formed a blood alliance in Fengyang, and took in a group of people who had been suppressed by the Dashun Army.
The armed bandits who fled Fengyang from Henan gathered 30,000 troops, known as the 100,000 army, and marched south through Luzhou until they reached Songyang in Anqing Prefecture.
After arriving in Songyang, Ma Shiying personally went to Anqing Fucheng to inform Huang Degong of the news that Liu Liangzuo and Gao Qian wanted to support King Fu as emperor. Huang Degong was temporarily tempted, but he believed that King Fu was still in Nanjing and was not in the hands of the three towns. Once King Fu was captured by Jiangnan
The party members took advantage of the chaos and took advantage of the situation, so didn’t the three towns do their work in vain?
Ma Shiying then proposed that the three towns in Anqing would raise the banner of supporting King Fu and proclaim himself emperor, and march eastward along the Yangtze River with great fanfare to calm people's hearts.
While Huang Degong was still hesitating, Liu Liangzuo and Gaoqian Towns were already threatening Anqing from the directions of Songyang and Huangshiji respectively. Although the Yongwei Battalion in Huang Degong's hands was more proficient in fighting than the Jiangbei Towns, if they fought hard, they would definitely be defeated.
It greatly reduced Huang Degong's already very limited military strength after the defeat of Jiujiang at home.
After assessing the situation, Huang Degong decided to lead his army to leave Anqing, accepted Ma Shiying's proposal, and went to Songyang to form an alliance with Liu Liangzuo and Gao Qian.
Ma Shiying united with the three towns and immediately launched a slogan in Songyang to support the Fu Fan to inherit the unification and "expedit the Central Plains to the north to clear Youyan". But the real goal of their "Northern Expedition" was of course not in the "North", but in the "North".
"South", such a miscellaneous army of more than 40,000 people, then called an army of 200,000 people, burned and looted along the way, and after plundering Chizhou, it went straight to the city of Nanjing.
Liu Zeqing and Gao Qiqian's faction were trying to support the power of the distant clan. At this time, they were preparing to join Su Guansheng's Jinliao Navy to cross the river in the direction of Zhenjiang. The Zheng Navy was intercepting it. No one had expected that the armies of the three towns were coming from Nanjing.
Coming upstream.
But at this moment, Jiangnan was not completely unarmed. Huang Mingjun, the governor of Zhejiang, had already activated Zhu Dadian, the former governor of Cao, to train Zhejiang braves. There were about 20,000 Zhejiang brave troops stationed in the Jiangnan area.
Although this armed force still lacks cavalry and guns, and many of its backbone troops were taken away by He Gang, Xu Du and others, after Zhu Dadian's rectification and training during this period, it still has considerable strength.
As a result, a major civil war in the small imperial court of Nandu finally reached the moment of complete outbreak...
No matter who wins or loses, it will mean that in a short period of time, the Nandu regime will be unable to interfere in the decisive battle between Shun and Qing in the Central Plains - but even if this internal strife does not occur, the Nandu regime's intervention efforts will probably be quite weak.