Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

On July [-]th of the first year of Qiongyuan, Lu Wang Zhu Changhao took office as supervisor.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 that the four counties in the south of the Yangtze River were ceded, and he still wanted to be safe.

Back then, although Chen Hongfan had gone to Beijing with the Hongguang Dynasty envoys, he had secretly surrendered to the Daping Dynasty at that time and was sent back to the south of the Yangtze River to act as a traitor.After he returned to the south of the Yangtze River, he wrote an article called "Journal of the Northern Envoy" and shamelessly declared his allegiance to the Ming court. ".

This time, Chen Hongfan, as the representative of King Lu who supervised the country, took a ship flying the flag of "Envoy to Ping Dynasty" and went to Tongping to secretly negotiate and sell the country.

But when Zhu Changhao was still dreaming of living in peace, the Daping Army quickly advanced towards Hangzhou.After Chi Ming took over the fourteen prefectures and prefectures in Southern Zhili, the whole army marched towards Zhejiang and headed straight for Hangzhou to station horses.On July [-], the Qing soldiers arrived in Tangxi, and the civil servants and military officials around King Lu fled again.

At this time, Chen Hongfan and Zhejiang General Chi Ming had already negotiated, and returned to Hangzhou to work with Zhang Bingzhen to persuade Zhu Changhao to surrender.Zhu Changhao was greedy for life and afraid of death, so he decided to submit to the table.General Fang Guoan and his nephew Fang Yuanke led troops and horses to escort Emperor Hongguang to Wuhu. After Zhu Yousong was captured, they came to Hangzhou again. There were still about [-] soldiers and horses in their troops, ready to support King Lu to defend him. Hangzhou.Unexpectedly, Zhu Changhao had decided to surrender. When Fang Jun and Daping Army were fighting at Yongjin Gate, Zhu Changhao threw wine and food from the city to reward Daping Army.Fang Yuanke and others were extremely indignant.He crossed the Qiantang River to the east, and later joined the ranks of supporting the establishment of Lu Jianguo.

On July [-], the Daping Army occupied Hangzhou without any effort.Chi Ming took advantage of the situation and sent envoys to recruit the prefectures and prefectures in eastern Zhejiang and the Ming vassal kings who had taken refuge in 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, horses were sent to revise books, and all kings were invited to meet with ginseng, mink and other things as gifts.The king of Lu thought that the road was a little far away, so he couldn't get away from the illness.Zhou and Hui two kings crossed the river to call.Seek to send Nanjing, and go north with Emperor Hongguang and King Lu.The officials of Huzhou, Jiaxing, Shaoxing, Ningbo, Yanzhou and other prefectures also surrendered to the Daping Dynasty.

On July [-]th of the first year of Qiongyuan, Tang Wang Zhu Yujian saw that Lu Wang Zhu Changhao had decided to surrender.Overwhelmed with indignation, with the support of a group of civil servants and military generals, he left Hangzhou for Fuzhou to prepare to supervise the country.

Although Tang Fan Zhu Yujian is the eighth-generation grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang's No.20 second son.In terms of pedigree, he is far away from Emperor Chongzhen, and it is not his turn according to the routine.However, because the political center of Nanming was in the southeast at that time, after Zhu Changhao and Zhu Changrun surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the southeast gentry was also eager to solve the problem of succession, so they had to be elected from the nearby Shufan.

Zhu Yujian proclaimed himself emperor with Shufan ascended the throne in Ming Dynasty.Although he would like to do something.He rebuilt the Ming Dynasty, but he lacked his own team and not enough reputation. This innate weakness made him have to rely on the brothers Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui, who advocated and supported the real power in Fujian.After ascending the throne, Zheng Zhilong was named Marquis of Pinglu, Zheng Hongkui was named Marquis of Dinglu, Zheng Zhibao was named Bo of Chengji, and Zheng Cai was named Bo of Yongsheng.

After the establishment of the Longwu court, it issued edicts to various places, which were recognized by the remnant regimes in Guangdong, Guangxi, southern Jiangxi, Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan.

In addition, King Zhu Yihai of Lu supervised the eastern part of Zhejiang; King Zhu Hengjia of Jingjiang, who was enfeoffed in Guilin, Guangxi, was also unwilling to be lonely.Guilin, the capital of Guangxi Province, was changed to Xijing, and a yellow robe was added to the body.In fact, Remnant Ming has become his brother Xiao Qiang.

And Zheng Zhilong brothers in Fujian at this time.They took Lilong Wu as the number one policy minister, and used the name of the Longwu court to consolidate their exclusive status in Fujian and other regions, which was very separatist.They also sent envoys to hook up with Daping Chao, and were ready 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 instructions, Zheng Zhilong had no choice but to send Yongsheng Bo Zheng Cai to lead troops out of Shanguan to rescue Jiangxi Jianchang Remnant Army.After Zheng Cai arrived at Shanguan, he did not move. No matter how the supervising army urged Zhang Jiayu, he ignored it.Soon after hearing that the Daping army was approaching, he pulled up his team and ran away, retreating to Pucheng for three days and nights.

With the intensification of the conflict between the two sides, Tang Wang Zhu Yujian understood that it was impossible to do anything other than leave Fujian and get rid of the control of Zheng Zhilong brothers.Therefore, he decided to conquest himself. The purpose was to move his troops to Ganzhou, Jiangxi in the first step. Then, depending on the situation, if Jiangxi used troops successfully and the situation was stable, he could connect He Tengjiao in Hunan in the west, Zheng Zhilong in Fujian in the east, and Guangdong in the south. Receive the effect of nearby command.Even if the battle in Jiangxi is unfavorable, it can still move westward to Hunan and southward to Guangdong.

Zhu Yujian, the king of the Tang Dynasty, was determined to recover, but Zheng Zhilong supported his troops, hijacked the court, and had no intention of making progress. The conflict between the two sides intensified day by day.Chief scholar Huang Daozhou was so indignant that he volunteered to supervise troops out of Fujian, contacted Jiangxi, rescued Jin Sheng and other remnant troops in Huizhou and Quzhou, and tried to open the situation for the Longwu court.

On September 28th of the first year of Qiongyuan, Huang Daozhou managed to cobble together more than 3000 soldiers to embark on the journey. Tang Wang Zhu Yujian sent Zhao Shichao to serve as the former military supervisor of the Ministry of War.Zheng Zhilong, who held the power of money and food for soldiers, horses and horses, was delighted in his heart, fearing that he would not go, neither allocating elite soldiers, and only paying a monthly quota of food and salaries.

Not long after the division left, the soldiers' salaries were insufficient.Huang Daozhou had no choice but to use his own prestige and calligraphy to write the letter of appointment in his own hand, and recruit some loyal people along the way.Huang Daozhou himself has no military experience.All the military affairs he knows are just on paper, and he has never commanded an army.Most of the subordinate soldiers were recruited, lacking combat experience, and marched 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 saw that relying on such a team to fight against the Daping army would undoubtedly lead to defeat.Therefore, he suggested to Huang Daozhou to disband the team, take only a few selected people directly into Ganzhou by the small road, and control and dispatch the governors, governors, governors, and governors of Southern Jiangxi, Huguang, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places in the name of the chief university scholar supervisor. Commander-in-Chief, join forces to forge ahead.

Huang Daozhou is pedantic and stubborn, he thinks that it is better to have such a loose army than nothing, and he overestimates his reputation, thinking that wherever he goes, there will be a crowd of people; However, a lowly general, how could he have any good plans.Seeing that Huang Daozhou didn't accept his opinion, Shi Lang didn't want to accompany him to die, so he went back to Fujian.

After Huang Daozhou arrived at Huizhou Prefecture, he turned around in a daze. It was not until Jin Sheng was defeated and captured that he realized that his army was only a mountain away from Jin Sheng's remnant army.Whether his troops can rescue Jin Sheng is certainly a question, but at least it shows that he has unknown intelligence and lacks military ability.

Since the Jinsheng Department was defeated, and the few troops led by Huang Daozhou were no match for the Daping Army, the purpose of sending troops to aid Hui was defeated.He led his troops from Wuyuan, Huizhou (now Jiangxi Province) to Jiangxi. On February 23, the second year of Qiongyuan, the Daping Army found out that Huang Daozhou was camping in Mingtang, Wuyuan County; the next day, he was besieged by the Daping Army from three routes More than 1000 soldiers of Huang Daozhou's subordinates were killed in battle, and the rest were scattered. He himself, Zhao Shichao, head of the Civil Service Department, Mao Zhijie, Zhongshu Cai Yong, Lai Jijin, military officer Zhu Jiadi, etc. were captured.After that, Huang Daozhou and others were all beheaded according to the Amnesty Order.

Huang Daozhou's counterattack this time is completely child's play.However, this is also the only counterattack in the stage from Nanming to Remnant Ming.From then on, the Daping Army began the process of flattening all the way until it surrounded all the remnant troops to the southwestern borders of Guangxi and Yunnan.

The following is a brief introduction to the marching process of the Taiping Army:

After the Eastern Route Army of Chi Ming occupied the counties of eastern Zhejiang, the scholar Zhang Guowei, the governor of the Ministry of War, Yu Huang, the Minister of Rites, Chen Hanhui, and the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, Chen Qianfu, committed suicide one after another.

Zhu Dadian, a scholar of the Superintendent University, guarded Jinhua and vowed not to surrender to the death.Chi Ming personally led an army from Shaoxing to Jinhua and surrounded the city on all sides.However, under the command of Zhu Dadian, the Ming army defending the city resisted stubbornly. It was not until Chi Ming transferred red cannons from Hangzhou and stormed with overwhelming force for 20 days that Jinhua was breached.

Zhu Dadian led his family members and cronies to the gunpowder bureau in the city, tied the gunpowder barrel with ropes, lit the fuse, and with a bang, he was a hero.

Zhu Dadian, a former Ming official who had a friendship with Wu Shigong, also sent several letters to persuade Wu Shigong to surrender, but he flatly refused.In the officialdom at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Dadian was also known for his greed, but in the end he still embodies the mighty and unyielding integrity.After Wu Shigong learned of this result, he could only sigh sadly: "It's a pity! It's a pity!"

Zhou Xun and Xue Qiang's West Route Army conquered Ji'an and advanced to southern Jiangxi.Afterwards, the remnant Ming army was defeated under the city of Ganzhou, and it seized this strategically important place that connects Fujian to the east, Hunan to the west, and is also a barrier to Guangdong.

Soon, Chi Ming's East Route Army marched forward triumphantly. Before long, Zheng Zhilong and others returned to Daping. Tang Wang Zhu Yujian was captured and killed. Fujian, Jiangxi, and Guangdong fell one after another. The strong West Route Army encircled them on three sides.During the rout, He Tengjiao's troops were almost wiped out, and the remnants fled to Guangxi with He Tengjiao.

After learning of the fall of Nanjing, the Ming army in the south of Sichuan also sacrificed Chengdu and Chongqing one after another, and most of them surrendered Quan Dashan 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, all the troops of the Remnant Ming Dynasty, the remnants of the Dashun Army and the Daxi Army, and the local Ming Army in Yunnan and Guangxi had no choice but to temporarily Unite 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 southwestern border were completely wiped out by the Daping Army.

When the Daping Dynasty first started the war to unify the whole country, it used less than one-fifth of the total strength of the Daping Army.However, when the remaining resistance forces were surrounded in the southwest border, the total strength of the Southern Expedition Daping Army had reached more than 130 million.It can be seen from this that Nanming's army's morale was broken and the people's will.

And in the end, we have to look at the battle against the Qing Dynasty that all the elites of the Daping Army concentrated on. (To be continued..)

ps: The process of the Daping Army's unification of the country basically evolved according to the process of the Qing Army's entry into the customs.Whenever I see this period of history, especially the Qingyuan Ming army whose combat power is stronger 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.