In the third year of Kangxi and the end of the 19th year of Yongli, the Qing court launched an offensive against northern Sichuan. At the beginning of the next year, it suffered an unprecedented defeat and then completely lost its military deterrence power to the south.

The Central Court of the Ming Dynasty, headed by Yang Zai-Yang, immediately wanted to further enhance Deng Ming's title in the name of Emperor Yongli. Deng Ming refused the grace of promoting him to prince, but hinted that he hoped to have a higher promotion in his position.

After some research, Yang reopened the Grand Commander's Office in the name of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, intending to grant Deng Ming the title of General of the General of the Southern Ming Dynasty, which is also the highest official position that military generals can obtain. Although Zhu Yuanzhang stopped awarding the General of the General of the Southern Ming Dynasty, reopening the Grand Commander's Office seemed to be a violation of the ancestral system. However, Zhu Yuanzhang did not grant the prince a title to a foreigner. From this perspective, Yongli gave the title of the Three Princes of the Southern Ming Dynasty to set a precedent.

Shortly after Deng Minggao happily accepted the highest position of this warrior, fierce turmoil occurred again in the south.

Due to a crushing defeat in northern Sichuan, the Qing court had to hand over the governance of Fujian and Guangdong to Geng Jimao and Shang Kexi, making them the two of them become vassal kings who were independent of the kingdom like Wu Sangui. However, the Qing court's handling of Guangxi was a little slow. Sun Yanling could not compare with his father-in-law Kong Youde in terms of qualifications and strength, and had very limited control over Guangxi, so he failed to take the ride.

Sun Yanling, who had nothing to find, was of course very dissatisfied with this. He began to complain publicly, saying that the main force of the Qing court could not defeat the Sichuan army first, and then the Kuidong Army and Zhejiang East Army supported by the Sichuan army. Now even the farmers in western Sichuan could not beat the Qing court. What embarrassed the Qing court the most was that the elite Hexi commanded by Zhao Liangdong, a famous general who was bragging against the Qing court, was almost destroyed by the Jiangyou generation of Sichuan Peasant Self-Defense Forces. Although the Qing court attempted to explain that the farmers in western Sichuan were not farmers in the ordinary sense, this was completely worse and worse. Sun Yanling and others had no intuitive impression of the combat effectiveness of the Sichuan army, and believed that the elites of the Qing court were corrupt. In this case, they were still holding on to power, which shows that the court now had no self-knowledge.

In this case, Sun Yanling began to hook up with Wu Sangui, intending to attack the governor of Huguang Zhang Changgeng on the charge of "Tong Deng".

Compared with Guangxi, where the news was blocked, Zhang Changgeng of Wuchang was shocked by the combat effectiveness of western Sichuan. He saw a lot of reports on the Battle of North Sichuan in the newspaper. Before the regular army of the Ming army and the main forces of the Qing court entered the battlefield, Zhao Liangdong only faced Jiangyou's militia. Moreover, Zhao famous generals had the advantage of surprise attacks. At the beginning, Zhao Liangdong used Han Xin's old trick to secretly cross Chen Cang to secretly make a plank road. When Jieshu claimed to go to Chongqing, he secretly sent elite soldiers to carry a small amount of food, and went day and night to smuggle Jiange and raid Jiangyou. The Ming army was indeed unable to respond at the first moment. When the Qing army's vanguard was in the Jiangyou area, the regular army of the Ming army had not received any news.

Jiangyou is vast and sparsely populated, but every farmer owns a large amount of land and produces rich grain, so the farmers raise horses and sell them to mules and horse shops in western Sichuan. When Zhao Liangdong invaded Jiangyou, all the local farmers had horses, and each family had several rifles. What shocked Zhang Changgeng the most was that the western Sichuan newspapers introduced in detail the feat of a farmer named Kuang Taiping to defend his home. This man refused to provide food to the Qing army's grain collection squad, and hid his wife and two-year-old children in his barn to resist. There were ten people in the Qing army's grain collection squad, Kuang Taiping killed five with a rifle, and then rode a horse to chase the escaped Qing army's defeated soldiers, and killed three more. The next day, the Qing army mobilized hundreds of armored soldiers, led by a thousand generals.

, with spear, big sword and crossbow, besieged the barn where the peasant was stationed, and several people were killed by rifles. At this time, Kuang Taiping's brother-in-law Sima Qiudao heard the news, and arrived with more than a dozen farmers around him with guns, shooting the Qianzong, who led the team, on the spot, and hunted and killed dozens of Qing soldiers. The brother-in-law became a hero who caused a sensation in Sichuan. After the war, he also accepted interviews from several newspapers. There was also a farmer who came to reinforce from Mianzhu and also became a news figure. The farmer named An Yichen, was Kuang Taiping's former friend and was also the first Mianzhu farmers who rode horses and guns to Jiangyou for support at night after hearing the police. Many newspapers enthusiastically reported the relationship between the two people's comrades.

The Qing army, which was advancing lightly, could not conquer food and immediately fell into trouble. Zhao Liangdong's subordinates were beaten to pieces by the peasants, forcing him to personally direct the attack on these armed peasants and also joined his personal barracks. However, facing the peasant dragon cavalry brigade with one man and more horses and everyone held advanced weapons, Zhao Liangdong's heavy infantry was no match for the mud foot. Ten days later, the regular army of the Ming army had not arrived yet, but thousands of peasant brigades with guns were already riding horses and carriages to reinforce, and even Zhao Liangdong's personal barracks were beaten by them and lost their combat effectiveness.

Most other regions think that these reports are fantasy, and even Beijing will believe it, and suspect that the Ming army's boasts are mostly the elements. The greater possibility is that the regular army of the Ming army is dressed up as a peasant and ambushed Zhao Liangdong, who is not familiar with the place. However, Zhang Changgen did not doubt it. Therefore, after the Battle of Sichuan in the early fourth year of Kangxi, he made up his mind to move closer to Sichuan. Moreover, at this time, Zhang Changgen had received news from Chengdu and Beijing respectively, knowing that Wu Sangui was fighting his territory. After learning that Sun Yanling was also involved in the conspiracy, Zhang Changgen mobilized a large number of troops originally placed in Hubei to Hunan to guard against Wu Sangui and Sun Yanling, and also asked for help from Beijing and Chengdu at the same time.

In order to obtain support from Chengdu, Zhang Changgeng sold Yuezhou to Li Laiheng at a low price and Zhong Xiang to Hao Yaoqi. After getting the money for selling land from Chengdu, he gave half of it to Beijing as a loyalty fee. Originally, Chengdu and Beijing were unwilling to Wu Sangui enter Hunan, and after getting the benefits, they both expressed their position and supported Zhang Changgeng to continue to rule Huguang. Because of Zhang Changgeng's land sale behavior, Chengdu felt that Zhang Changgeng was indeed the most suitable ruling candidate in Huguang at present, and Beijing also forced him to do so.

The behavior expressed understanding. Beijing announced that Zhang Changgeng had no loyalty to Deng. If Wu Sangui and Sun Yanling started the war without authorization, it would be a rebellion, and they would have to restrain their behavior; while Chengdu stated that although he had no collusion with Wuchang and was irreconcilable with the Qing court, if Wu Sangui and Sun Yanling were neither loyal to the Ming Dynasty nor to the Qing Dynasty, they would also support Wuchang out of the principle of supporting loyal ministers and righteous men against repeated villains, so as to promote the righteous spirit of heaven and earth.

While Wu Sangui continued to secretly express his feelings to Chengdu and Beijing, he was still preparing to attack Hunan in a hurry. His ally Sun Yanling also openly and fiercely attacked Zhang Changgeng's selling land and mobilizing troops to the south. It was determined that this showed that Wuchang was not willing to resist the Ming Dynasty and was determined to fight a civil war with the Qing army's direct descendants.

If all this had dazzled the world, the events at the end of the fourth year of Kangxi became even more exciting. Wu Sangui finally vowed to fight against the rebels of "Tong Deng". Sun Yanling provided some food and grass and sent troops to assist in the war. As a result, after Wu Sangui got the food and grass, he suddenly cleaned up Sun Yanling's troops, raided and captured Sun Yanling's son, put Kong Sizhen under house arrest, and swallowed Guangxi's army and land, and announced that Sun Yanling was determined to launch a civil war in the Qing army, and was a rebel of "Tong Deng"!

After the war, Wu Sangui and Zhang Changgeng recovered their friendship and voluntarily evacuated Guizhou, garrisons on the border between Guangxi and Hunan, and also included the Huguang cooperation salary that Sun Yanling had originally deserved. Zhang Changgeng saved most of the territory and avoided Wu Sangui or the Ming army from entering his territory; Beijing and Chengdu also let go of their worries about Hunan; Wu Sangui doubled the territory at once. Everyone was very happy, except for Sun Yanling, who was already in a different place.

Because the Ming army restored the two prefectures, Grand Secretary Yang also removed the word "Supreme" before Deng Ming's official title, and he was called General Deng Ming from then on. When the Nanyang War was launched this time, after Deng Ming announced his high-profile announcement, the Daming Cabinet also announced that it would restore the official position of "Prime Minister" that was abolished by Ming Taizu, and temporarily let Deng Ming take the role of "Deputy Prime Minister" and act as the prime minister.

By the time this war is won, the word "deputy" in front of the Prime Minister will definitely be removed. Everyone knows this, and Deng Ming's subordinates have already begun to call him the Prime Minister.

"It is best to seize the Spanish's large ships when we approach the battle." After reading the documents of the meeting, Deng Ming and the generals sat down to further explain his purpose of the battle: "It is an important task to save these large ships of the Spanish. If we simply destroy them, we have won the sea control around us and can successfully obtain Manila, but the threat from the Dutch is still there."

Not every naval battle can be predicted. Once the war with the Netherlands enters a state of war, the entire Nanyang waters will no longer be safe. If you encounter the giant Dutch ships in the vast sea, China's armed merchant ships will become targets without self-defense.

Although the Spaniards hoped to destroy the Ming army's navy by a main decisive battle, the Ming army was not the same. Deng Ming hoped to completely destroy the maritime forces of Spain and the Netherlands in Southeast Asia through several dignified naval battles, so as not to fall into passive maritime wars and guerrilla wars. The Spaniards and the Dutch attached importance to trade, and Deng Ming's attention to trade was not inferior to his enemies at all.

"Only the Spanish ships have heavy artillery that is comparable to the Dutch ships. We seized the Spanish ships so that we could penetrate their armor when the Dutch attacked us. At that time, these large ships will be the primary targets of the Dutch attack, and our small boats can have the opportunity to approach the attack; if the Dutch avoids a decisive battle, we can also use these large ships to protect the channel. As long as we use new shells, even if the sailors have a little less practical experience, we can still gain the upper hand of the Dutch in one-on-one." Speaking of this, Deng Ming smiled: "After all, the goal of our expedition is Batavia rather than Manila. If it can be solved at one time, we don't need to drag it until a few years later."

Therefore, the key to this expedition was to fight the Spanish main fleet. The Ming army not only wanted to win, but also wanted to seize Spanish warships instead of simply destroying them, but also avoid Spanish ships from escaping. In this battle, there would be no large warships attracting firepower and creating opportunities for the advance attack of the small warships of the Ming army; as for the commander of the Ming army, Deng Ming, he had no experience in naval battles.
Chapter completed!