Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 507
New book for collection: "The Rise of Great Powers 1900"

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Yang Chao's military actions have been reported to Sun Kewang, and he reported it in a humble manner, because Sun Kewang is now the Grand Marshal of the World's Soldiers and Horses, a member of the fake Huang Yue, personally appointed by His Majesty Zhu Cihuan, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.

Sure enough, Sun Kewang was in a hurry. He had long regarded Huguang as something in his pocket. He used to toss with Zhang Xianzhong in Sichuan without any results. Later, he did have some achievements in Yunnan, but Yunnan is a bitter cold. In this land, the naturalized population is only 100 million. Counting the hidden, black households and escapees, it is only 300 million, and the chieftains and ethnic minorities are 500 million. Such a province is far from satisfying Sun Kewang's ambitions.

Therefore, Huguang, which has a population of more than 1000 million and is still the center of grain production in the world, is his foundation for dominating the world, and he absolutely does not allow others to get involved.

So Sun Kewang gave up the rivalry with Li Dingguo, hurried northward, and dispatched Feng Shuangli to attack Yuezhou from Changsha, and then attacked Wuchang Mansion.

Sun Kewang easily crossed the Zhijiang River, and then quickly advanced towards Jingzhou Mansion.

And Feng Shuangli was even more relaxed. The Qing army fled without a fight, allowing him to easily capture Yuezhou City, and then quickly advance into Wuchang Mansion.

At the same time, the Qing army gathered heavy troops to attack Lu Mo in Xingguo Prefecture and Daye County, making it very difficult for Lu Mo to advance.

The Zheng Yongwang army led by Yang Chao did not go well in the attack in Huangzhou. The battle against Huanggang City was very fierce, with thousands of casualties, and Yang Chao had to retreat temporarily.

Feng Shuangli quickly took down the entire Wuchang Mansion, only Wuchang City, an isolated city heavily defended, could not be defeated.

After Sun Kewang successfully entered the Jingzhou Mansion, he also suffered setbacks. The Qing army in Jiangbei seemed to be more tenacious than the Qing army in Jiangnan. The Qing army refused to retreat, and fought against him for ten days. In the end, Sun Kewang had to take the initiative to retreat, but the Qing army did not pursue him.

After Sun Kewang returned the same way, he began to mobilize his troops and focus on attacking Wuchang Mansion.

Yang Chao carefully analyzed the tactics of the Qing army. It was obvious that they were indulging Sun Kewang and giving up most of Wuchang Mansion, leaving only Wuchang City as an aggressive base.

"It's Hong Chengchou again! It's a pity, he's a little timid. If he dares to give up Wuchang City, he will be courageous!"

Yang Chao believed that this was Hong Chengchou's strategy again. The purpose was to let Yang Chao compete with Sun Kewang for Wuchang Mansion. He blocked Yang Chao's advance, but handed over most of Wuchang Mansion to Sun Kewang. If he grabs it, he can watch a good show.

At this time, Sun Kewang had a taste of the fighting power of the Qing army through this attack, especially the Eight Banners soldiers in Jiangbei were even more powerful. Sun Kewang was not a fool. , and generals who are not capable of leading troops.

The same army, if given to Li Dingguo's command, can be opened and closed like art, and it can only be quite satisfactory in his hands. In terms of the quality of the army and the quality of individual soldiers, his army is still inferior to the Qing army, so He can only suffer defeats, but Li Dingguo can win battles. It is better to say that he has a high level of command than to say that he has a strong military force.

After passing this test, Sun Kewang was even more jealous of Li Dingguo. At the same time, he also guessed the intention of the Qing army. Only the Fucheng of Wuchang was kept.If it weren't for this connivance, it would be absolutely impossible for Sun Kewang to retreat from Hubei, and at least half of the troops he brought would have to stay.

However, the connivance of the Qing army made Sun Kewang very worried. The other side obviously did not give up Hunan by retaining a city of Wuchang. As long as there was an opportunity, Sun Kewang believed that the Qing army would not give up this opportunity.

So after he returned to Hunan, he turned around and led troops to attack Wuchang City, and at the same time caused Feng Shuangli and Yang Chao to have internal strife.

Since the Qing army surrendered all the other prefectures and counties to Feng Shuangli, the Qing army in Xingguo Prefecture and Daye also retreated. Yang Chao easily took these two places, but he also joined Feng Shuangli's troops.

Who would have thought that Feng Shuangli would suddenly surround Daye.

Yang Chao immediately sent troops to protest to Sun Kewang, and Sun Kewang quietly told the envoy that his goal was Wuchang City, so he asked Feng Shuangli to lead troops to surround Daye and Lu Mobu in Xingguo Prefecture, while advancing to Wuchang City with his main force.

After Yang Chao received Sun Kewang's intention, he quickly withdrew the troops from Huangzhou Mansion and went south to Jiujiang on a large scale, making a plan to fight Sun Kewang desperately. Daye and Xingguo Prefecture.

Sun Kewang's move not only pleased the Qing army, but also felt regretful. Sun Kewang always left [-] troops outside Wuchang City, so he could not go all out with Yang Chao. The Qing court believed that Sun Kewang was afraid of the Qing army in Wuchang City.

At this time, Hong Chengchou boldly proposed to Dorgon to abandon Wuchang City. After repeated weighing, Dorgon agreed to his proposal. Let's pass this opportunity for Sun and Yang to fight each other.

After the Qing army withdrew from Wuchang City and crossed the river, Sun Kewang entered Wuchang City as he wished, but then he withdrew from the siege of Daye and Xingguo Prefecture. The Qing court was dumbfounded at this time. They underestimated Sun Kewang's resourcefulness.

Hong Chengchou was so embarrassed that he wanted to send troops to cross the river again, but found that Yang Chao's navy had stopped at the wharf in Wuchang.

Helpless, he had no choice but to swallow this bitter fruit. Those who are good swimmers will die in the water, and those who are good at playing tricks will also die in tricks.

Sun Kewang was very satisfied with Yang Chao's cooperation, and he sent a lot of gifts, including thirty women from Hunan.

At the same time, he promised Yang Chao that he would play the emperor and crown Yang Chao as king. He was very dissatisfied with Yang Chao. He had made so many military exploits, but he was only an earl. It was really unfair. Some people just killed a few names It is said that the prince of the Qing Dynasty can be crowned king, but Yang Chao killed Duoduo and captured Haoge, but he was only an earl.

Sun Kewang promised that he would go back to Guizhou in person to meet Zhu Cijiong, the Emperor of Longwu, and ask the emperor to confer Yang Chao as King of Wu and command the land in the south of the Yangtze River.

Yang Chao regarded these as Sun Kewang's wooing, and he didn't take it seriously at all. The reason why he was only an earl at first was because his earl was used to pay for escorting the princes of Chongzhen to go south, so when Hongguang founded the country, he didn't He could be promoted to one level, but when he made new achievements, Emperor Hongguang turned against him, and at the same time, he was captured by the Qing army and went to Beijing without a chance to reward him.

Later, Emperor Longwu, induced by a large group of scribes around him, was even more wary of Yang Chao. He was unwilling to give any reward that could increase Yang Chao's power. As a result, Yang Chao is still a loyal uncle, and Zheng Chenggong His loyal and filial uncle is like two brothers.

What Yang Chao didn't know was that Sun Kewang didn't go to see Emperor Longwu. Instead, he led his troops back to Changsha and immediately summoned Li Dingguo from Hengzhou to discuss the military situation.However, Bai Wenxuan was allowed to enter Baoqing Mansion.

Li Dingguo was about to go north, but was told that Sun Kewang planned to kill him.

The informer was Liu Wenxiu's son.

As a result, Li Dingguo was shocked. He had long suspected that Sun Kewang wanted to harm him, but he did not expect to do it. He also learned that Bai Wenxuan led [-] troops to Baoqing and threatened Hengzhou from the flanks. Li Dingguo made a decisive decision and immediately gave up Hengzhou. Going to Yongzhou, Sun Kewang led his troops into Hengzhou, Li Dingguo retreated again, directly retreated to Guangxi, and burned the Guangxi and Hunan passages.

When Yang Chao received these information, he realized that Sun Kewang's promise was not to win him over, but simply to deceive himself, just to stabilize himself, but it was already too late.

Immediately asked the envoy to protest to Sun Kewang, accusing him of provoking internal strife, and hoped that he would rein in the precipice, otherwise the Jiangnan soldiers would take action, probably because the threat played a role, or Sun Kewang was satisfied with taking the whole of Hunan into his hands, so he stopped further actions. Instead of going south to attack Li Dingguo in Guangxi, he actually returned to the army and stationed in Guizhou.

At this time, in the Daxi Army, Sun Kewang's family dominates.

Originally, among the four brothers, Ai Nengqi died in battle when he entered the Yunnan Pingtusi Shadingzhou Rebellion, and Liu Wenxiu was in charge of attacking Sichuan. It went very smoothly at first, and almost all of Sichuan was recovered. When Wu Sangui was sent by the Qing army, after a fierce battle, both sides suffered heavy losses, and Liu Wenxiu retreated.

As a result, after returning to Yunnan, Sun Kewang immediately punished Liu Wenxiu and took away his military power.

That's why Liu Wenxiu hated Sun Kewang, and sent someone to inform Li Dingguo that he wanted to return Li Dingguo.And the reason why Liu Wenxiu was able to inquire about such news was not difficult.Back then, the four brothers annexed the prime minister and the queen's party, and divided up Zhang Xianzhong's remaining troops. In fact, there are me among you and you among me. Whoever has a few confidantes in the opponent's army, or at least among his own men, has high-level officials in the opponent's camp.

In fact, Li Dingguo himself found out that Sun Kewang wanted to kill him, not all because of Liu Wenxiu's notification, so he was able to be sure of the news, and immediately gave up southern Hunan and entered Guangxi.

Liu Wenxiu was dismissed from military power, Li Dingguo left for Guangxi, Sun Kewang had 30 troops, and occupied the three provinces of Hunan, Yunnan, and Guizhou. The desire of the white hat comes.

Under Yang Chao's mediation, Sun Kewang did not attack Li Dingguo, but quickly attacked Emperor Longwu.

First, he punished Li Ruyue, an important minister beside Longwu.

This Li Ruyue committed suicide because of a traitor, Chen Bangfu from Guangxi.

After Kong Youde occupied Guangxi, Chen Bangfu surrendered to Kong Youde. After Li Dingguo invaded Guangxi, he captured Chen Bangfu and tied Chen Bangfu to Sun Kewang.

And Li Ruyue used this to impeach Sun Kewang for killing Xunchen.

Emperor Longwu withheld his impeachment papers, for fear of offending Sun Kewang, but this Li Ruyue was not afraid of death, so he immediately copied a copy of his memorial, handed it directly to Sun Kewang's subordinates, and told Sun Kewang that Li Ruyue impeached him over him.

As a result, Sun Kewang continued to do nothing, skinned Li Ruyue and used it as grass, and killed dozens of members of his family.

(End of this chapter)