Before coming to this world, although Deng Ming did not know Wen Anzhi, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Tichun, etc., he had heard of Zheng Chenggong, Li Dingguo and Li Laiheng. It was precisely because he knew that Li Laiheng was the last commander of the Qing Dynasty in mainland China that he found that when the other party was only 30 years old, Deng Ming felt that he was so young.

Li Dingguo, the 39-year-old King of Jin, was the oldest of the three people Deng Ming knew, and four years older than Zheng Chenggong. A few years ago, Li Dingguo successively defeated the traitors Kong Youde and Nikan, and the Nanming power revived. But the good times did not last long. In a blink of an eye, the internal strife between Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu and Sun Kewang broke out, causing the collapse of the Southern Ming regime.

After this disaster, Li Dingguo, who returned to Kunming, carefully reviewed his previous mistakes and was determined to repair his relationship with Qin generals such as Feng Shuangli. In addition to the Qin generals in Xiying, Li Dingguo also planned to make more contact with the generals of the former camp in Kuidong and no longer stick to his previous views. After learning that a large number of Qin soldiers such as Feng Shuangli were stationed in the Sichuan Xingdu Division, Li Dingguo sent envoys to Jianchang, hoping to persuade them to return to Yunnan to meet with him, or allow Li Dingguo's Jin troops to go to Sichuan. In this way, the generals of the Xiying reunite were still a force that should not be ignored.

But the Qin generals in Xiying around Jianchang were disdainful of this. When they came to Sichuan Xingdusi, they had already taken away the people and supplies along the way, believing that Li Dingguo could not send troops to pursue them. Even if Li Dingguo had this intention, the threat from Wu Sangui in Guizhou was enough to dispel his idea.

After learning that the generals of Jianchang were unwilling to return, Li Dingguo retreated and no longer forced the other party to come back to meet with him or allow his army to enter Sichuan, but he hoped that the other party would obey his leadership at least strategically and could take unified actions against the common enemy. Regarding this requirement, the generals of Jianchang's Xiying were also vague and did not make a clear statement. With the lessons of Li Dingguo's rectification of Liu Wenxiu, Feng Shuangli and the others suspected that Li Dingguo would still settle accounts with him, so they should maintain their military status.

Seeing that Li Dingguo's second request was still not met, the Jin generals in Kunming were indignant. Bai Wenxuan, Li Jiucheng believed that the Jianchang army was too bullying and asked Li Dingguo to blame him in the name of the Emperor Yongli. Ma Bao, who had just returned to Xiying, also said that the Qin army in Xiying who fled to Jianchang, had only about 20,000 armored soldiers in total, and the factions were mixed and people were unstable. He was willing to bring 5,000 elite soldiers to Jianchang and take Jianchang back to the court for the King of Jin.

But Li Dingguo immediately rejected the proposal of a resolution by force.

He said to the generals: "I was young and energetic back then, and I always felt that I was righteous. Others disagreed with my plan because I was ulterior motives, and I was greedy for personal gain and refused to work for the court. Because of disagreement and some minor conflicts, I locked up the King of Shu (Liu Wenxiu), which made him depressed. Looking back now, I was ashamed and sweated. Our dispute almost led to the overthrow of the court and destroyed the great cause of rejuvenation. Fortunately, God has continued to end the Han Dynasty, and we can return to Kunming today. This time I must repent and must not kill each other again, giving the Tartars an opportunity to take advantage of it."

"But Feng Shuangli was originally unfaithful to the court. When Sun Kewang kidnapped the emperor, he had an ambiguous attitude." Bai Wenxuan said.

Feng Shuangli respected Sun Kewang more, and stood firmly on Sun Kewang's side during the confrontation between the three kings. After Sun Kewang began the usurpation of the throne, Feng Shuangli did not immediately object like Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, but was watching. If Sun Kewang succeeded, it seemed that he would be optimistic.

"Do you know how the emperor told me when I defeated Sun Kewang and returned from Guizhou to report to the emperor?" Li Dingguo asked. Of course, everyone didn't know. Li Dingguo sighed and said, "The emperor was silent for a long time at that time, and told me and the King of Shu that it would be fine if he could capture him, but it would be better not to force him at the beginning."

Everyone was shocked. Unexpectedly, Emperor Yongli wanted to let go of Sun Kewang, a rebel who openly rebelled.

"At that time, the King of Shu and I argued that the emperor's words were inappropriate. The so-called "eliminating evil" was completely done, so how could we sit down and watch the Sun thief occupy Guizhou? At that time... ah..." At that time, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu were still discussing privately, believing that this was just because Yongli was as timid as a mouse, so he did not take Yongli's worries to heart.

However, when the Qing court learned that Sun Kewang had fled to Huguang with a dozen people, Shunzhi immediately sent envoys to Huguang and named Sun Kewang the prince. When Sun Kewang had hundreds of thousands of troops and a large area of ​​territory in the southwest, it was extremely difficult to get a throne from Yongli. Now it was a dead end, Shunzhi and Obai rulers and ministers regarded him as the treasure to conquer southwest China.

When the Qing army conquered Kunming before, the Qing Dynasty believed that the major events in the southwest had been settled, and there was no need to keep some of the controversies of Shunzhi and Hong Chengchou, so he proudly published them as evidence of Emperor Shunzhi's wiseness, and Li Dingguo also had the opportunity to know the content.

It turned out that Hong Chengchou set off from Beijing and rushed to Changsha under the order of Shunzhi, and served as the governor of the five provinces. When he was in Beijing, he told Shunzhi that the strategy of conquering the southwest was to be preventive, and he sat down to watch the changes in the Nanming itself. In the following years, Hong Chengchou and Shunzhi's memorials and communications, he repeatedly emphasized this strategy and presided over the construction of a five-thousand-mile defense line extending from Shaanxi to Guangxi to resist the offensive of the Nanming.

In the secret memorial, Hong Chengchou tried his best to point out to Shunzhi that if there was no internal strife in the Southern Ming Dynasty, then the Qing court would not be able to succeed if the military conquest of Xiying and Zheng Chenggong Navy wanted to defeat Xiying in military terms. Instead of trying to conquer by force, it would be better to try to negotiate early to form the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

But Hong Chengchou repeated his views: First of all, Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong were suspicious of each other and would never cooperate sincerely; secondly, Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang would inevitably have internal strife. The Qing court should accumulate strength and attack the split Southern Ming after the internal strife broke out.

The strategy of the entire Changsha Shogunate can be simply attributed to: never take the initiative to attack, never invade the territory of the Southern Ming Dynasty until the collapse of the Southern Ming itself.

Hong Chengchou's strategy was fully supported by Shunzhi. Several times, officials from Beijing's Ministry of Revenue felt that Hong Chengchou's strategy brought huge pressure to the Qing court. It cost a lot to maintain a five-thousand-mile defense line. Moreover, since he refused to attack, there was no end to lift the burden. Shunzhi resisted all the pressures from all sides to ensure that the Changsha Shogunate's defense strategy could be persisted.

Before the internal strife broke out between the three kings, Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, each dispatched troops to prepare for the fire. The Ming army on the front line returned to the rear and prepared to deal with the Ming army in other systems by force. Seeing the empty territory of the Ming army, the Eight Banners soldiers stationed in Huguang thought they were Manchus. They sneaked into Chenzhou despite Hong Chengchou's ban and seized it, and reported their merits to Beijing for rewards. The Eight Banners soldiers' unauthorized actions made Hong Chengchou very angry. He asked Emperor Shunzhi to transfer these domineering Manchus from his banner immediately.

In this conflict, Shunzhi still stood firmly on Hong Chengchou's side, and without hesitation rejected the memorial for merit, and ordered the Eight Banners soldiers occupying Chenzhou to retreat immediately and then return to Beijing immediately.

By comparing with Nan Ming's reaction, we can see the accuracy of Hong Chengchou's judgment: When the news of Chenzhou's loss reached Guizhou, Sun Kewang immediately ordered the stop of mobilization against Li Dingguo, and transferred Feng Shuangli and other main forces to the Huguang front, preparing to retake Chenzhou; Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu temporarily put away their hostility towards Sun Kewang and sent their respective elite soldiers to the east. Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo both wrote to the other party, saying that the enemy was in front of him, and no matter what disagreement was between the brothers, they should try to resolve it peacefully.

But when the Qing Dynasty voluntarily gave up Chenzhou, the three kings of the Southern Ming Dynasty immediately forgot the kindness they had just released, and soon the relationship completely broke down and they fought.

"Not confused forty." Li Dingguo remembered that Hong Chengchou's insidious strategy almost destroyed the Han people's country. He said to his generals: "In the past, I was reckless and had no tolerance. I finally returned to Kunming. In the future, I must unite with the Yanping vassal and the Kuidong generals, expel the Tartars, and restore the Central Plains. Those people in Jianchang are old brothers from Xiying. If I can't even tolerate them, how can the Kuidong army work with me in the Yanping vassal in the future?"

Therefore, after learning that Deng Ming had won consecutive battles in Huguang, Li Dingguo was determined to cooperate and tried his best to launch some constraining wars against Guizhou, which made Wu Sangui and Zhao Liangdong unable to turn back. Moreover, Li Dingguo looked at the map and believed that the importance of Chongqing to the Sichuan-European Ming army was self-evident. Only by capturing Chongqing could the east and west Sichuan be connected together. In this way, Yunnan and Sichuan could focus on dealing with the frontal enemies.

Li Dingguo sent an envoy to Jianchang to propose joint attacks against Sichuan, Guizhou and Qing troops. Li Dingguo, who was seriously injured, found it difficult to attack Guizhou alone, so he hoped that Jianchang's Ming army could go north to the Chengdu Plain, then attack Chongqing, threaten Baoning, Zunyi and other places, so that it would definitely restrain part of the attention of the Qing troops in Guizhou. Although the road in Zunyi is not suitable for large army access, the Qing army might send thousands of troops to reinforce. At this time, Li Dingguo made some feints on the Yunnan-Guizhou border, which might make Wu Sangui feel in danger.

However, Li Dingguo's thoughts were completely unaware of the Jianchang Ming Army. In the eyes of Feng Shuangli and others, Sichuan Xingdusi and Chengdu are now back-to-back - both are allied troops under Deng Ming, and they have a lot of hatred with the Yunnan Ming Army.

Now the main focus of the Jianchang Ming Army is on the south side, and Feng Shuangli and others are also deployed in the areas bordering Yunnan. Even the already damaged Dongchuan Prefecture has dispatched reconnaissance troops to ensure safety, in order to prevent Li Dingguo's army from suddenly entering the territory of Xingdusi, Sichuan, and dealing with them by force.

There were enemies that formed during the internal strife of the three kings. In the future, Deng Ming and Dangzi would have a great battle for the throne, and Feng Shuangli and others have regarded King Jin as the enemy.

"Although Mr. Deng entered Chu, we are already Mr. Deng's troops." Di Sanxi spoke at the meeting. All the generals knew that his words represented Feng Shuangli's meaning: "Mr. Deng has already distributed all the military households and land here to everyone here. Can the King of Jin give more? If the emperor returns to the palace, will the land and land that Mr. Deng gives us have to be returned?"

Everyone shook their heads, and no one was willing to spit out the meat they had eaten.

"The King of Jin said back then that Sun Kewang was self-defeating and had nothing to do with others. We believed King of Jin. But King of Jin classified us as the 'Old Qin Army', seized the post and dismissed us, and took away our armor and soldiers. We can't be fooled again!" Di Sanxi's speech resonated again. Now almost all the people in Jianchang were punished after the internal strife of the Three Kings.

"Even if Mr. Deng doesn't return to Sichuan for the time being, he can't refuse Sichuan. Now we are still weak and cannot follow Mr. Deng to conquer the world, but we must at least protect Sichuan for Mr. Deng and not let others get involved." Di Sanxi said more and more passionately: "In the future, Mr. Deng will recover Nanjing and Beijing. When he looked back, he saw that Sichuan is still loyal to him in the hands of the generals he promoted. At that time, Mr. Deng will know our loyalty and hard work."

Many people agree with Di Sanxi's words.

After hearing that Deng Ming left Sichuan, many people were shaken. Their fear of Li Dingguo was already deeply rooted. Now that they have walked away from the mountains, they can't help but want to join them again. But today Di Sanxi's speech progresses layer by layer. First, they talk about everyone's good days now, then reviewed the resentment of the past, reawakened everyone's dissatisfaction with Li Dingguo, and made everyone even more reluctant to hand over the rights in their hands. Finally, it eloquently proved that as long as Deng Ming keeps Sichuan and prevents it from falling into the hands of Yongli, this contribution is enough to ensure everyone's future wealth.

With immediate benefits and future merits, we can also make things difficult for the unkind old boss... Everyone agreed to do it like this, and they could no longer obey the command of King Jin.

"And in my opinion, King Jin is absolutely unhappy this time." Di Sanxi had learned the request of King Jin from Feng Shuangli in advance. After he passed it to everyone, he further analyzed: "When King Jin saw that we were united and had no gaps on the border, he knew that there was no gap to take advantage of it, so he advised us to go to Chengdu and then to Chongqing. At that time, we were fighting on the front line, and King Jin took the opportunity to seize our foundation, and then forced us to drive away to seize Sichuan for the guy who fled to Myanmar."

When Di Sanxi talked about Yongli, he couldn't help but look contempt. When Sun Kewang rebelled, he advised Feng Shuangli to send troops to help because he could not understand why Li Dingguo must support the incompetent Zhu family emperor. Did the King of Jin forget that it was because the Zhu family emperor forced everyone to survive that everyone rebelled?

Well, Di Sanxi admitted that Deng Ming's surname was Zhu, but Deng Ming was capable. If Yongli was like him, he dared to run into Di Sanxi's army alone and smash his four teeth, then Di Sanxi would also admire him.

Although Feng Shuangli never spoke from beginning to end, everyone understood that Di Sanxi was his melody. The mobilized generals of Xiying stood up one after another and whispered to Feng Shuangli: "What will we do if the king says, we will do what we will do. Let us advance and retreat with the king."

"Yes, King Qingyang is also the adopted son of the eldest king (Zhang Xianzhong). Mr. Deng said before leaving that we should listen to King Qingyang, and we should govern the military affairs of the Sichuan Xingdu Division and control the camps. King Qingyang should do whatever the last general wants to do."

Seeing that everyone had unified their thoughts, Di Sanxi asked the messenger to bring in the envoys of Li Dingguo.

"I've seen the king." The envoy from Yunnan was very respectful to Feng Shuangli. Before leaving, Li Dingguo repeatedly told him to talk to the generals of Jianchang politely. He must not have the proud style of the past, and he cannot be self-respecting that he is the direct line of the King of Jin and will not take the generals of other factions into consideration.

In front of everyone, the envoy reiterated Li Dingguo's plan, which was to ask them to go north with their main force, then attack Chongqing, and try to threaten Baoning and Zunyi. Li Dingguo not only promised not to send one army and one soldier into Sichuan, but also tried his best to act in concert with them, support and cooperate with the wars in Huguang and Nanjing.

Feng Shuangli's guards took Li Dingguo's official documents from the envoy - although it was a suggestion, Li Dingguo was the prince, and the emperor of Yongli gave fake Huang Yue, and all the official documents sent to local generals were similar to orders.

In front of everyone, Feng Shuangli slowly tore Li Dingguo's official documents in half, then tore them up, pulled them into four pieces, then let them fall to the ground.

Although he was repeatedly told to be polite, the envoy still changed his color when he saw Li Dingguo being so contemptuous, and shouted at Feng Shuangli angrily: "King Qingyang, this is the imperial order of King Jin!"

"What kind of edict?" Di Sanxi jumped up and replied on behalf of Feng Shuangli: "What right does the King of Jin have to issue edicts to the king?"

"The King of Jin is fake Huang Yue and is in charge of military affairs within and outside the country." The envoy said coldly. The fake Huang Yue gives Li Dingguo the authority to act as the emperor, and his status is equivalent to that of the governor of the country. Now what Li Dingguo said is not much different from the imperial edict.

"Where is the emperor?" Di Sanxi sneered, then retorted: "The emperor is in the country, and Huang Yue is the same as the emperor's decree and will do the emperor's affairs on behalf of the emperor, but where is the emperor right now?"

"The emperor will visit the vassal states and will return to the palace soon." The envoy said unwillingly.

"Then let's wait until the emperor returns to the palace before issuing an order to us." Di Sanxi laughed.

"Arrogant and disobedient!" The envoy looked at Feng Shuangli in a blink of an eye: "King of Qingyang, is this what the king meant?"

Feng Shuangli nodded. Before Yongli escaped, although the whole Xiying had been rebels, the imperial edict still had a considerable effect on them, and he could not help but feel respect - more or less.

But now the imperial court has completely lost its prestige, at least in the Jianchang army.

Di San said happily, "The emperor gave the King of Jin a fake Huang Yue and asked him to do the emperor's affairs on his behalf. If the emperor is not satisfied, he can take it back. But now that the emperor has gone to the country, how can he know if the emperor is satisfied with the King of Jin's handling? Perhaps the emperor has already wanted to get the King of Jin back, but he is not able to take it back. If the emperor does not come back for a day, can the King of Jin be able to be the emperor forever with this fake Huang Yue? Haha, it seems that the person who is most looking forward to the emperor that the emperor cannot return is the King of Jin."

Feng Shuangli waved his hand and interrupted Di Sanxi's mean words. He said to the envoy: "Now I only know that there are Mr. Deng and General Wen, but not others. Mr. Deng and General Wen want me to lead the generals to guard Jianchang, so I will definitely not move to other places. If the emperor returns to the palace and issues an imperial edict to this king, it will naturally be a different matter. I am sorry to obey my orders now, so you can just repay the King of Jin like this."
Chapter completed!