Han’s Son is Not a Slave

During the confrontation between the main force of the Ming army in the Hunan battlefield and the Manchu and Han Qing forces of the Qi tribe in Xiangtun, Sun Kewang sent another troops to invade southern Sichuan, intending to occupy the whole Sichuan. He led his troops into Sichuan from Hanzhong, Shaanxi. Wu Sangui and Li Guohan led their troops to Baoning, the temporary provincial capital of Sichuan. , resulting in the Qing army occupying Chengdu without losing one soldier and one soldier.

Lin Shitai participated in the Daxi Army led by Zhang Xianzhong in his early years. After Zhang Xianzhong died in battle, Lin Shitai felt that the Daxi Army had no future, so he surrendered to the Qingying Prince Azige, who appointed him as the chief officer of Baoning. A few years later, Lin Shitai heard that under the leadership of Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, the rest of the Daxi Army was fighting against the Qing Dynasty, so he fought against the Qing Dynasty in Tongchuan and returned to the Ming Dynasty.

After Lin Shitai surrendered to the Qing Dynasty again, Wu Sangui believed that this person was capricious. When he returned to the Ming Dynasty, the Qing court issued a clear decree to arrest him, so he ordered Lin Shitai to be beheaded and displayed to the public, and 165o of his cronies were trapped. kill.

After the Qing army occupied Chengdu, Wu Sangui sat in the city, and Li Guohan commanded the troops to take Meizhou and Jiading, and captured the former native official of Xuanwei in Shiping Prefecture, Lin'an Prefecture, Yunnan Province, and is now the chief military officer of the Ming Dynasty. Afterwards, Wu Sangui and Li Guohan mobilized Mailer Zhangjing, Ge Chaozhong, Bai Hanzhen, Tong Shisheng, Kuizhou commander Lu Guangzu, Zuolu commander Chen De, Yongning commander Bai Yongfu, etc. to attack Chongqing, and they occupied Hezhou on the fifth day of the first lunar month. , Fen Shui 6 and the second approach to Chongqing.

Lu Mingchen, the defender of the Ming army in Chongqing, gave up Chongqing on the 14th because he was too weak to resist the menacing Qing army. In late April, Wu Sangui dispatched another Qing army led by Jia Lazhangjing Yang Zhengtai, Guo Yunlong, right-wing commander Nan Yikui, and Xuzhou general Ma Huabao to attack Xuzhou. Lost, take the initiative to retreat to Yongning. So far. In addition to the Baoning area originally controlled by the Qing army, they successively won Chengdu, Chongqing, Xuzhou, Mahu, Qiongzhou, Yazhou, Jiading, Meizhou and other prefectures and counties, and most of Sichuan was in the hands of the Qing army. As a result, the Qing court thought that the whole of Shu was gradually determined, and it should focus on managing the land of Tianfu in the aftermath. Support the subsequent offensive against Yunnan and Guizhou with the material resources of Sichuan.

Sun Kewang, who was facing off against the Qing army on the Hunan battlefield, learned that Sichuan was unstable. After the Qing army had occupied most of Sichuan, he was afraid that the Qing army would gain a foothold in Sichuan and invade Guizhou. Entering Sichuan in three ways, Jianchang, Xuyong, and Pengshui launched a comprehensive counter-offensive. On the ninth day of the eighth lunar month, the Ming army captured Xufu, and all the Qing troops who were defending the city were wiped out. More than a dozen people died in Jiala and Niulu. At the same time, Sun Kewang's general Bai Wenxuan also led his troops to counterattack Chongqing from Yongning.

Wu Sangui and Li Guohan saw that the Ming army was strong, and on August 19, they had an emergency meeting with Sichuan Governor Li Guoying in Jiajiang County, and decided to withdraw the entire division north to ensure safety. The Qing army generals stationed in Chongqing, Meile Zhangjing, Ge Chaozhong, Tong Shisheng, Bai Hanzhen, Zhangjing Yindecai with the red flag, general soldiers Bai Yongfu, Chen De, and Lu Guangzu received Wu Sangui's order to retreat on August 24. On the 15th, he returned to the north of the Yangtze River. On the same day, the Ming army recaptured Chongqing, and immediately sent troops to chase after the Qing army. They surrounded the Qing army at Tingxi, 120 miles away from Chongqing, and used firearms to besiege it on all sides. On the 28th, the Qing army was defeated. Mailer Zhangjing Bai Hanzhen was captured alive, and when Yongning chief soldier Bai Yongfu fled to Baoning with the remnants of defeated soldiers, his subordinates were fragmented and weakened. Only gathered more than 100 remnants of soldiers.

In September, Wu Sangui also led his troops to retreat to Mianzhou, and then to Guangyuan. As a result, Baoning, the temporary provincial capital of the Qing Dynasty in Sichuan, only had more than 100 soldiers under the imperial censor Hao Yu and the commander-in-chief Yan Ziming. Wu Sangui and Li Guohan had plans to give up Sichuan and retreat to Hanzhong in Shaanxi under the situation that they were defeated like a mountain.

Governor Hao Yu, however, persuaded Wu Sangui and Li Guohan not to give up on guarding peace with the idea of ​​"don't die from thieves, but from law". We will live and die together with Baoning. Wang Zi returned to Han, and the governor returned to Bao Ning to prepare guards." After saying that, he said goodbye to Wu Sangui and Li Guohan. He led the hundreds of battalions under his command and returned to Baoning.

Seeing this, Li Guohan hesitated and said to Wu Sangui: "I will not be able to lead the army to restore the river. If Baoning is abandoned, and the governor is lost, what King Fadu of my court knows, what will I say to the court?"

Wu Sangui woke up after hearing this, and the envoy chased Li Guoying back and asked him, "I want to go to keep Baoning, will the governor have food?"

Li Guoying said: "Although Baoning's food is not much, it is still enough to support troops and horses for five months."

Seeing that Baoning had food to support, and fearing that Baoning would lose the governor, Wu Sangui led his troops and Li Guohan back to Baoning.

After Liu Wenxiu conquered Xuzhou and defeated the defending enemy in Qingchong, he was invincible along the way, which led to the arrogance of the enemy. Wu Sangui and the others saw that they had no way out. Only by fighting the beasts and fighting against the city could they survive.

On the 8th day of October, the main force of the Ming army gathered in the north of Baoning City, and Liu Wenxiu climbed the northeast hill to command the siege. Wu Sangui learned through reconnaissance that Zhang Xianbi's army was the weakest in the Ming army, and decided to concentrate his forces to attack Zhang's army first. In order to confuse the Ming army, Li Guoying ordered his green battalion soldiers to change to the Eight Banners Zhengbing Banner.

At dawn on October 11th, Liu Wenxiu commanded a large army to attack the city. The soldiers and horses descended from the mountains. , Get cards, flat knives, bows and arrows, long spears, stacking Li Xu, swarming to attack the city.

Chen Shi, Wu Sangui led his troops out of the city and attacked Zhang Xianbi's army directly. Zhang Bu could not resist the enemy, so they fled one after another, and the defeated soldiers rushed Wang Fuchen and other troops into a mess. The Qing army took advantage of the situation and fought bravely. The Ming army was in chaos and could not stand on its feet. It collapsed at noon that day. When retreating, because the pontoon bridge was cut off, a large number of soldiers could not cross the river and were chased by the Qing army or fell into the water and died. The Ming general Wang Fuchen, the chief soldiers Yao Zhizhen, Zhang Xianzhen, Wang Jiye, and Yang Chunpu were successively captured and killed by the Qing army. They lost most of their soldiers, three war elephants, and more than 2,300 horses and mules. Liu Wenxiu's King of Funan was also killed. Captured by the Qing army.

After the narrow victory, Wu Sangui once sighed to the left and right: "I have never seen such a formidable enemy in my life, and I owe it to me."

Liu Wenxiu led the defeated soldiers to return to Guizhou. Sun Kewang was deeply dissatisfied, and ordered his military power to be lifted and returned to Kunming to live idle; Zhang Xianbi was beaten to death by random sticks.

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During the security battle. Because neither side could eat the other, the Ming and Qing sides were in a stalemate on the Hunan battlefield for a long time, during this period of time. Sun Kewang led his troops to guard the front lines of Chenzhou, Yuanzhou and Wugang, while the Qing army guarded Changde, Changsha and Baoqing areas. In the ninth year of Shunzhi, Tun Qi led the rest of the Manchu Eight Banners soldiers who had been brought to Hunan by Nikan and returned to Beijing to rest. This move made Hong Chengchou, who had just taken office, complained, and worriedly sent several reports to the Qing court, asking the Qing court to give him more troops, otherwise the situation in Huguang would not change.

Hong Chengchou complained for his own reasons. Shunzhi used him to implement the strategy of "using Han to control Han" set by Dorgon, so as to avoid the heavy losses of the Eight Banners of Manchuria in the southern battlefield. Therefore, as soon as Hong Chengchou arrived in Wuchang, Shunzhi made an urgent order. The Manchu Eight Banners troops in Hunan were led by Tun Qi and all retreated to Beijing. The Huguang war was entirely in charge of the Han army flag and the green camp. However, only 10,000 soldiers and horses designated by Hong Chengchou to mobilize to Hunan, and the green battalion soldiers stationed in Huguang, Guangxi and Sichuan were absolutely unable to compete with the Nanming army commanded by Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo. Ten thousand. As soon as the Manchu troops who were the backbone of the army retreated, the Han army and the Green Battalion were even more frightened. In the face of the tens of thousands of Nanming troops under the command of Sun Kewang, they were afraid and did not dare to make provocations easily. Hunan is likely to fall into the hands of the Ming army because of the withdrawal of the Manchu soldiers from the Tunqi tribe.

Hong Chengchou knew that only relying on his own forces to deal with the thirteen armies of Xiangxi, Guizhou Ming and Kuidong under the direct command of Sun Kewang could not only defeat the enemy, but even defend Hubei Yiling and Jingzhou. Changde, Changsha, and Baoqing in Hunan are all uncertain. As for most of Guangxi within the scope of his strategy, it is still under the control of Li Dingguo, the general of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and it is even more powerless.

Moreover, after the long war and chaos in Hunan, the place was broken. The so-called big enemy is in front, and the small bandit is in the wild. An endless stream of soldiers, plus the trouble of welcoming. And to attract one or two refugees also returned. If the people do not come, there are officials who want to go. Changsha City, where Hong Chengchou was stationed in the festival, was extremely depressed. Baoqing City had no people or houses, and there was no vegetable trading.

In the face of such a mess, Hong Chengchou worked tirelessly, trying to organize the Green Camp and other Han soldiers to stick to the place, and at the same time asked the court to send another Manchu army to help. He urged the Qing court to order Jingnan King Geng Jimao to quickly move the town of Wuzhou, Guangxi. The actual intention was to transfer the responsibility of capturing Guangxi and containing the Ming army of Li Dingguo to the two Han kings in Guangdong.

After the Qing court received Hong Chengchou's memorial. There was no decree for Jingnan King Geng Jimao to move to Guangxi, but he also knew that the Han troops and horses controlled by Hong Chengchou alone would not be able to compete with the Ming army. So in December of the tenth year of Shunzhi, Shunzhi appointed Gushan Ezhen Chen Tai as the generals Tonggushan Ezhen Lanbai and Ji Xiha to lead the Eight Banners of Manchuria to Hubei and Hunan to guard. After Chen Tai was appointed as the general of Ningjing Kou, he did not lead his troops south. Instead, he waited until the Tuenqi troops returned to Beijing before going south. It took more than a year to pass.

In April of the 12th year of Shunzhi, the army of the advance Eight Banner soldiers Gushan Ezhenji Xiha and Lanbai sent by Chen Tai entered Hunan. Advance until the dead army failed to reach Hunan.

After Gushan Ezhenji Xiha and Lanbai's Eight Banners soldiers arrived in Hunan, Sun Kewang knew that he was not the leader of the army, and decided to reinvigorate the Funan King Liu Wenxiu, who had been cut off due to the Battle of Baoning. However, Liu Wenxiu has become increasingly passive since Baoning was deprived of military power. When he was abandoned in Kunming, he even wanted to study Taoism in the mountains. Sun Kewang summoned him to Hunan several times, but he did not come to Hunan. In the end, at the insistence of Sun Kewang, Liu Wenxiucai took up the post of "big recruit". With 60,000 horses, 60,000 infantrymen and more than 40 elephants, they embarked on the journey to attack Huguang in the east. In April, Liu Wenxiu's troops gathered in Chenzhou, Hunan, and planned to capture Changde first, cut off the passages from Hubei and Hunan to the west of Dongting Lake, and then recapture Changsha, Hengyang, and Yuezhou, and then attack Wuchang in the north.

According to Liu Wenxiu's deployment, the Ming army attacked Changde and adopted the policy of advancing with water and 6. Liu Wenxiu sent Lu Mingchen to lead an army by boat to advance along the Yuanjiang River, and he himself led the army by the 6th route. When the Ming army came out, it was in the season of rising water. Lu Ming's officials took more than 100 ships down the river. On April 17, they captured Taoyuan County and captured Li Rong, the magistrate of the Qing Dynasty. However, the main force led by Liu Wenxiu himself was very difficult to move because of the rain for several days, the stream was swollen and the roads were muddy.

After Hong Chengchou and Chen Tai received the news that Liu Wenxiu's army had entered Hunan, they quickly made countermeasures. In addition to dispatching troops from Hengzhou and other places to go back to Changsha, the provincial capital, on the 10th day of May, they dispatched the Eight Banners of Jingzhou and Manchuria to Changde to strengthen the defense force. On the night of May 23rd, Mingchen Lu entered the city of Changde and was ambushed by the superior Qing army. Due to the lack of support from the 6th Ming army, the fierce battle lasted until the next day. ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ After the war, the Qing army strengthened its defense against Chenzhou. The plan of Liu Wenxiushui and 6 to attack the two sides failed. The death of Lu Mingchen seriously affected the morale of the army. Liu Wenxiu had to give up attacking Changde. plan to lead the army back to Guizhou. Sun Kewang was deeply dissatisfied with Liu Wenxiu's actions, and once again relieved his military power and let him return to Kunming, Yunnan to live idle.

Sun Kewang appointed Liu Wenxiu as a great recruit, and his original intention was to let him lead his army out of the Yangtze River from Hunan in the eighth year of Yongli, and join forces with Zhang Mingzhen and others to capture Jiangnan. At that time, the Qing army of the Qi army retreated north, and the Qing army of the Chen Tai army had not yet moved south. It was a great opportunity to defeat the Han army assembled by the Qing Jingluo Hong Chengchou and enter the south of the Yangtze River in one fell swoop. However, due to Sun Kewang's plot to usurp the throne, Liu Wenxiu, who has always opposed this move, was unwilling to act according to Sun Kewang's strategy, lest Sun Kewang successfully usurp the throne. As a result, his inaction led to Sun Kewang's intention to join forces with Zhang Mingzhen and the East and the West. Jiangnan's plan was completely shelved.

After the Battle of Changde, Liu Wenxiu returned without success, and Chen Tai also died of illness. Although the Ming army was defeated in the Battle of Changde, the Qing army did not gain any Nanming territory. .

After the confrontation for several months, the spies sent by the Qing army to the area controlled by the Ming army came to the shocking news that Sun Kewang and Li Ding were in domestic strife, and Li Dingguo had led his troops to break through the defense line set up by Sun Kewang in Tianzhou, Guangxi and headed straight for Guizhou. Go away! (To be continued)