The 20,000 vanguard were destroyed, and the next situation was a mountain of defeat. Nearly half of the remaining 60,000 troops were killed or captured, and half of the remaining ones ran away and did not know where to go, only the prison army Qian Liang withdrew to Quang Nam Province with more than 15,000 generals, which can be regarded as picking up a life.

The defeat of the Nanming army, when the news reached the ears of Mu Bin, the king of Xiping, it was difficult to support it alone, and he hurriedly led the army to retreat to Yunnan Mansion for fear of being tricked.

The defeat in this battle caused the elite army of Nan Mingbu in Yunnan to be lost, and its strength was also reduced by nearly half. It was at this time that the counterattack of the Minwang line, Jiaozhi and the Miao army arrived. They first sent a part of the army to monitor the king of Xiping in Yunnan Province, and then gathered the main force to surround Guangnan Province.

Without the slightest preparation, in order to avoid the doom of being besieged, the Nanming army in Guangnan Mansion retreated in a panic, so that it left Guangnan Mansion behind, and left most of the grain and grass in the city that was originally prepared for the war of the army, and fulfilled the Minwang Division, which caught up.

After losing Guangnan Mansion, he originally wanted to march to Guangxi Mansion so as to join the Xiping Wang's department. But he didn't dare to believe anyone, because he was afraid that the king of Xiping would also be stabbed in the back, and at the suggestion of Wang Lai, the governor of Huguang, Yang Xinmin, the former secretary of the Guangdong political department, and Qian Liang, the superintendent of the army, voted in favor. The army then withdrew from Yunnan and headed for Sicheng Prefecture in Guangxi.

But who would have thought that there was not enough communication in advance, and the Guangxi army was not well prepared, which caused the army to advance all the way too slowly. After fleeing again and again, after only spending one night in Sicheng Prefecture, the army continued to retreat eastward, passing through Qingyuan Mansion, Guilin Mansion, out of Guangxi and then passing through Shaozhou Mansion in Guangdong Province to Ganzhou Mansion in Jiangxi.

A few months ago, it was here that Yang Chendong and more than 10,000 soldiers in Guangdong converged, and after gathering here, they solved the Yellow Bandit Rebellion in Guangdong. But who would have thought that it would only be a long time for the king to retreat here?

After losing most of the cities in Yunnan, Guangxi and Guangdong, the Southern Ming army finally settled down. The Min King did not pursue, but began to digest the land and city they had just gained.

And because it was jointly captured by the three departments of King Min, Jiaozhi and Miao Min, it was also necessary to discuss the division of the city, which gave the southern Ming army a chance to breathe.

But at the same time, it has to be said that with the occupation of most of the territory of the three provinces, the three armies composed of the Minwang family also revealed their true nature, burning, killing and looting are everywhere, and for a time the people in the three provinces are not living, how many large households have been robbed, how many people have been displaced, and they have no clothes and food.

The news of the defeat of the army spread like a gust of wind towards Nanjing, the capital of the Southern Ming Dynasty. When Zhu Qizhen, the emperor in the palace hall, heard the news, the legend fainted on the spot, and soon after, important civil and military generals came to the palace. To everyone's surprise, among the ministers who came this time was Kuang Ye, the secretary of the military department, who was asked to recuperate at home a while ago.

Kuang Ye stood on top of the court, without the slightest appearance of illness, but his iron-blue face still told everyone that he was in an extremely bad mood at the moment.

Not only Kuang Ye, I'm afraid that no one in the court will be in a good mood now.

One-third of these ministers were important ministers in the former northern and northern Beijing divisions, and they came to Nanjing because they believed in Zhu Qizhen. Originally, I thought that after following Yingzong to establish the Southern Ming Dynasty first, and then after working hard, he counterattacked the Northern Ming Dynasty and completed the great cause of unifying the Ming Dynasty. At that time, they will all have the skill of being from the dragon, and it is not impossible to go down in history.

Who would have thought that just two seemingly inconspicuous civil strife in the south would lead to such consequences, Nanming would lose three provinces in a row, if it can't be contained, I'm afraid it won't be long before the entire Nanming will cease to exist. At that time, Mo said that he would return to Beijing, that is, whether his old life could be saved, it was a matter of two words.

The sudden change and the bad situation left everyone speechless. The civil and military officials arrived one after another, and then they all followed Kuang Ye's appearance with a calm face, which looked very ugly.

The ministers were rarely dumbfounded, so that when the great eunuch Cao Jixiang broke the tranquility with a whisk in his hand, this movement attracted everyone's eyes to stare here.

Cao Jixiang's face was not good-looking at the moment, he first swept towards the ministers, and when he found that all the people who should have come had come, he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "The emperor has a decree, and several ministers such as Xuan Kuangye, Wang Zuo, Chen Xun, Xiao Xuan, and Shang Qi will enter the inner hall to wait. ”

"Obey." Kuang Ye and the other five hurriedly bowed down and hugged their fists in agreement, and then followed Cao Jixiang and left the Jinluan Palace.

As soon as the five of them left, the other courtiers were all the same, and they didn't leave for a while, and they didn't leave. And some of the courtiers also looked at Liu De, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Jiang Yuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry.

Among the six books, only the two of them were left behind, and it was inevitable that they would not be examined. Especially Liu De, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, has left a lot of doubts on his body.

Jiang Yuan is the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and he can not play a big role in the war, at most it is just a matter of supervising the creation of weapons. But I heard that a while ago, a lot of usable weapons have been created, which can be used by the army at any time. In this way, he can already play a very small role. Liu De is different, he is the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, war is not just about fighting, but also about negotiations and public opinion offensives, and these need to be done by the Ministry of Rites. But he was indeed left here now, and when he thought of the fact that it was because of his advice that Kuang Ye Shangshu was allowed to go home to recuperate a while ago, which led to the defeat of this war, and involuntarily, there were many more question marks in the eyes of everyone looking at him.

In this regard, Liu De naturally felt it early on, and he also knew that this time the army at the front was defeated, and the emperor needed to find a scapegoat. It doesn't have to be yourself, but proper tapping is always needed. The fact that he didn't announce himself just now is already a clear proof.

But even after knowing these things, Liu De still stood there without showing the slightest timidity. He knows these courtiers too well, once you gain power, what kind of good words and even meaty words can be spoken. On the other hand, once you lose power, it will be said as badly as you can.

In the main hall, Liu De, who was standing there, was tormented. In the inner hall, Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, whose demeanor had returned to normal, was already sitting on the golden dragon chair. Aside from the fact that his face was still a little pale, there was nothing wrong with anything else.

"All Aiqing, sit down." Seeing the five ministers coming to him, Zhu Qizhen pointed to the tables and chairs that had been set up and said.

"Your Majesty, Emperor. The ministers are guilty, and they really dare not sit down. After the five ministers glanced at each other, they all shook their heads and said their own guilty words. Many times, the more polite the emperor is to you, the more it often proves that it is not a good thing, and they have seen this too much, so they naturally dare not sit down at random at this time.

"Alas, what are your crimes, the guilty ones are the generals who command the battle at the front, and they have nothing to do with you and others, take a seat. Kuang Aiqing, you are the oldest, and your health was not good a while ago, you should take the lead and sit down, by the way, your body is fine now. Zhu Qizhen showed his concern as much as possible and said it to Kuang Ye and others.

"Emperor Xie is worried, and the minister's body is already fine." Kuang Ye said with a grateful look on his face.

"Okay, okay, just fine. I can't be a capable minister like you around me, by the way, you can also sit down. Under some gratitude, the other courtiers also looked for seats and sat down with gratitude on their faces.

After everyone took their seats one by one, Zhu Qizhen sighed and said, "Zhong Aiqing, you must know the news of the defeat of the army in front. It was all Wang Ji's bad idea, which caused us to make mistakes in decision-making, and the generals in front of us were afraid of death and war, which led to the current situation, and I really regret it. ”

After some self-criticism, Zhu Qizhen shook his head vigorously, with a look of regret, and then nodded to Cao Jixiang who was standing on the side.

"Yes." Cao Jixiang hurriedly agreed, and then took out the golden back holy decree in his hand and read it out: "Fengtian carrier, emperor, edict: Wang Ji, the left attendant of the military department, retreated in fear of the enemy, and immediately removed his official position, and took it back to Kyoto to be imprisoned and convicted; Jinyi Wei Qian Liang's supervision was unfavorable, and he was demoted to 100 Jinyi Wei households, and was fined for half a year to see the after-effects. Wang Lai, the governor of Huguang, Yang Xinmin, the political secretary of Yunnan, and others were fined Lu for one year, and the official was demoted by half a rank, and he stayed in the army to serve in order to see the after-effects..."

In the holy decree, all the generals and officials of Yunnan were punished one by one. Especially Wang Ji, who has just been to Yunnan for less than a month, has changed from the original scenery to today's prisoner, and the situation is changing so quickly that people really sigh that the sky is unpredictable and the official is not easy to do.

punishing a group of courtiers, especially taking down a left squire of the military department, is equivalent to putting an end to the defeat of the war, and the next thing to talk about is the current situation.

"Zhong Aiqing, the traitor Zhu Huixuan and others have now caused trouble in Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guangdong, and may soon reach Jiangxi, what are your policies?" Zhu Qizhen landed his hopeful gaze on the five old ministers, and his expression of expectation was overflowing.

There was a moment of silence in the inner sanctum. Nanming's army was originally not very large, and the last time Kuang Ye inspected the guards, he found some empty salaries, so that the personnel of the guards did not reach the full state. At that time, the approximate figure was less than one million.