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Volume One: Invasion of the Capital, Chapter 924: The Land of Mercury Flooding

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    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 an 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, he still wanted to keep peace.  At that time, although Chen Hongfan went to Beijing to facilitate the Hongguang Dynasty's envoys, he had secretly surrendered to the Daping Dynasty and was sent back to Jiangnan to act as a traitor.  After he returned to the south of the Yangtze River, he wrote an article called "The Chronicle of the Northern Envoy", which shamelessly promoted his loyalty to the Ming court. Behind his back, he spread the news that the Daping army was invincible 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 treason matters.  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 garrison in Hangzhou.  On July 17, 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.  The commander-in-chief Fang Guoan and his nephew Fang Yuanke originally led the troops to escort Emperor Hongguang to Wuhu. After Zhu Yousong was captured, they came to Hangzhou again. There were still about 10,000 troops under their command, preparing to support King Lu to defend him.  Hangzhou.  Unexpectedly, Zhu Changzi was determined to surrender. When the Fang army and the Daping army were fighting at Yongjin Gate, Zhu Changzi frantically 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 that supported the establishment of 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 had fled this area.  At that time, the king of Zhou lived in Xiaoshan.  King Hui lived in Kuaiji, and King Lu lived in Linhai.  In the late Ming Dynasty, he sent his cavalry to repair the book, and used ginseng, mink and other things as zhi to invite the kings to meet him.  The king of Lu thought that the road was a little far away, so he could not come because of his illness.  The two kings of Zhou and Hui crossed the river to attend the summons.  I sent him to Nanjing and went north together with Emperor Hongguang and King Lu.  Officials from Huzhou, Jiaxing, Shaoxing, Ningbo, Yanzhou and other prefectures also surrendered to the Daping Dynasty.  On July 17 of the first year of Qiongyuan, King Zhu Yujian of Tang Dynasty saw that King Zhu Changzi of Lu had decided to surrender.  Indignant, with the support of a group of civil servants and military 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 is far away from Emperor Chongzhen in terms of genealogy, so according to the convention, he would not be able to take his turn.  However, because the political center of the Southern Ming Dynasty was in the southeast at that time, after Zhu Changzi and Zhu Changrun surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the southeastern gentry were also eager to solve the succession problem and had to choose from nearby vassals.  Zhu Yujian ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor after the Ming Dynasty cleared the vassal vassals.  Although he really wanted to do something.  To rebuild the Ming Dynasty, he lacked both his own team and enough status. This inherent weakness made him have to rely on the Fujian brothers Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui, who were the first to support the establishment.  After he ascended the throne, he conferred the titles of Zheng Zhilong as Pinglu Marquis, Zheng Hongkui as Dinglu Marquis, Zheng Zhibao as Chengji Bo, and Zheng Cai as Yongsheng Bo due to his support.  After the Longwu court was established, it issued edicts to various places and was recognized by the Canming regime in Guangdong, 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.  Guilin, the capital of Guangxi Province, was renamed Xijing, and the yellow robe was added to the body.  Can Ming has actually become a brother Xiao Qiang.  At this time, brother Zheng Zhilong was in Fujian.  They immediately made the decision to welcome Longwu as their first official minister, and used the name of the Longwu court to consolidate their exclusive position in Fujian and other areas, which had a strong sense of separatism.  He also sent envoys to collude with Daping Dynasty, and was prepared to fall with the wind.  Tang Wang Zhu Yujian originally hoped that Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui would lead their troops out of Fujian and make contributions.  Under his repeated orders, Zheng Zhilong had no choice but to send Yongsheng Bo Zheng Cai to lead troops out of Shanguan to rescue the residual Ming troops in Jianchang, Jiangxi.  After Zheng Cai arrived at Shangguan, he did not move. No matter how the supervisory army urged Zhang Jiayu during the incident, he ignored it.  Soon I heard that the Daping Army was approaching, so I gathered my troops and ran away, retreating to Pucheng for three days and nights.  As the conflicts between the two sides intensified, Tang Wang Zhu Yujian understood that it was impossible to do anything except leaving Fujian and getting rid of the control of Zheng Zhilong brothers.  Therefore, he decided to go on a personal expedition. The first step was to move his troops to Ganzhou, Jiangxi. Then, depending on the situation, if Jiangxi succeeded in using troops and the situation was stable, he could connect the He Tengjiao tribe in Hunan to the west, Zheng Zhilong tribe in Fujian to the east, and Guangdong to the south.  Take advantage of nearby command.  Even if the battle in Jiangxi is unfavorable, we can still move west to Hunan and south to Guangdong.  The king of the Tang Dynasty, Zhu Yujian, was determined to recover, but Zheng Zhilong relied on his own troops and hijacked the court with no intention of making progress. The contradiction between the two sides increasingly intensified.  Huang Daozhou, the chief scholar, was indignant and volunteered to lead troops out of Fujian, contact Jiangxi, rescue Jin Sheng and other remnant Ming troops in Huizhou and Quzhou, and try to open up a situation for the Longwu court.  On September 28th of the first year of Qiongyuan, the Zodiac Week was barely put together.More than 3,000 soldiers 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, who had the power of soldiers, horses, money and food, was secretly happy, fearing that he would not leave, so he did not allocate elite soldiers, and only paid a monthly quota.  Not long after the division was sent out, soldiers and salaries were no longer available.  Huang Daozhou had no choice but to use his reputation and calligraphy to write the letter of appointment and recruit some loyal people along the way.  Huang Daozhou himself had no military experience.  What he knew about military affairs was only on paper, and he had never commanded an army.  Most of the soldiers and generals under his command were recruited and lacked combat experience, but they moved forward bravely with enthusiasm.  Shi Lang acted as a sidekick at that time and accompanied Dao Zhou on the expedition. With his military vision, he realized that relying on such a team to fight the Daping Army would definitely lead to defeat.  Therefore, he suggested to Huang Daozhou that he should disband the team and take only a few selected people directly into Ganzhou through the small road. In the name of the chief academic supervisor, he would control and dispatch the governors, governors, governors, governors, governors, governors, governors, governors, governors, governors, etc.  General troops, join forces and forge ahead.  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  It's just a humble general, how can he have any clever ideas?  Seeing that Huang Daozhou did not accept his opinion, Shi Lang did not want to accompany him to death, so he returned to Fujian.  After Huang Daozhou arrived at the border of 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 can rescue Jin Sheng is certainly a question, but at least it shows that he has unclear intelligence and lacks military ability.  Since the Jin Sheng tribe had been defeated, and the few troops led by Huang Daozhou were no match for the Daping Army, the purpose of sending troops to aid Hui failed.  He led his troops to move from Wuyuan, Huizhou (now part of Jiangxi Province) to Jiangxi. On February 23, the second year of Qiongyuan, the Daping Army discovered that Huang Daozhou had set up camp in Jingmingtang, Wuyuan County. The next day, he was captured by three Daping troops.  During the siege on the road, more than a thousand of Huang Daozhou's soldiers were killed, and the rest were scattered. He himself, Zhao Shichao, the head of the Civilian and Military Department, Mao Zhijie, Zhongshu Cai Yong, Lai Jijin, and Zhu Jiadi, a military attache who was a guerrilla, were captured.  Later, in accordance with the "Amnesty Order", Huang Daozhou and others were beheaded.  Huang Daozhou¡¯s counterattack this time is completely child¡¯s play.  However, this was also the only counterattack in the Nanming to Canming stages.  After that, the Daping Army began the process of pushing forward all the way until all the Can Ming troops were surrounded by Guangxi, Yunnan and other southwest border areas.  The following is a brief introduction to the march of the Daping Army: After Chi Ming¡¯s East Route Army occupied the county in eastern Zhejiang, the bachelor Zhang Guowei, the Superintendent of the Ministry of War Yu Huang, the Minister of Rites Chen Hanhui, and the young minister of Dali Temple Chen Qianfu committed suicide.  Zhu Dadian, the great scholar in charge of the division, defended Jinhua and vowed not to surrender.  Chi Ming personally led an army from Shaoxing to Jinhua and surrounded the city on all sides.  However, the Ming army defending the city under the command of Zhu Dadian resisted stubbornly. It was not until Chi Ming transferred red artillery from Hangzhou and attacked with overwhelming force for twenty days that Jinhua was breached.  Zhu Dadian led his family members and trusted generals to the gunpowder station 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 a good relationship with Wu Shigong, wrote to Wu Shigong several times to persuade him to surrender, but he flatly refused.  In the officialdom of the late Ming Dynasty, Zhu Dadian was also known for his greed, but in the end he still showed his majestic and unyielding integrity.  When Wu Shigong learned of this result, he could only sigh: "What a pity! What a pity!" Zhou Xun and Xue Qiang's West Route Army captured Ji'an and advanced towards southern Jiangxi.  Afterwards, they defeated the remnant Ming 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, the Eastern Route Army of Chi Ming Dynasty advanced with great success. Soon, Zheng Zhilong and others surrendered to Daping. The 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 and Xue.  The powerful Western Route Army was surrounded on three sides.  In the rout, almost all of He Tengjiao's troops were wiped out, and the remaining troops fled to Guangxi with He Tengjiao.  After the Ming army in southern Sichuan learned that Nanjing had fallen, they also sacrificed Chengdu and Chongqing one after another, and most of them surrendered 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 of Yunnan and Guangxi, etc., 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 used were less than one-fifth of the total strength of the Daping Army.  However, when the remaining resistance forces were surrounded on the southwest border, the total strength of the Daping Army in the Southern Expedition had reached more than 1.3 million.  It can be seen from this that the morale of Nanming's military was shattered and that of the people.  And in the end, ?Let¡¯s see how the Daping Army gathered all their elites to fight against the Qing.  (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 customs.  Whenever I see this period of history, especially the Ming army that surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, which was more powerful than the Qing army, I always sigh: The Qing Dynasty won the world not because the Manchus were brave, but because there were too many traitors.
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