At the end of the nineteenth year of the Yongli period of the third year of Kangxi, the Qing court launched an offensive against northern Sichuan, and suffered an unprecedented defeat at the beginning of the following year, after which it completely lost the right of military deterrence to the south

The central court of the Ming Dynasty, headed by Yang Zaiyang University, immediately wanted to further add officials to Deng Ming in the name of Yongli Tianzi, and Deng Ming declined the grace of promoting him to the king of the county, but hinted that he could have a higher promotion in his position

After some research, Yang Zai reopened the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion in the name of the Great Tomorrow, intending to grant Deng Ming the title of General of the Expedition, which is also the highest official position that the military general can get, although the position of the General of the Expedition is Zhu Yuanzhang stopped awarding to the general, and the reopening of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion seems to be a violation of the ancestral system, however, Zhu Yuanzhang has not awarded the prince to a person with a foreign surname, from this point of view, Yongli has set a precedent for the title of the prince of the three princes of the Southern Ming Dynasty

Soon after Deng Ming happily accepted the highest position of a martial artist, there was another fierce upheaval in the south

Due to the crushing defeat in northern Sichuan, the Qing court had no choice but to hand over the governance of Fujian and Guangdong to Geng Jimao and Shang Kexi, so that the two of them became vassal kings of an independent kingdom like Wu Sangui, but the Qing court's handling of Guangxi was a little slow, and Sun Yanling could not compare with his father-in-law Kong Youde in terms of qualifications and strength, and his control of Guangxi was also very limited, so he could not take this ride

Sun Yanling, who had found nothing, was of course very dissatisfied with this, and he began to publicly complain to his subordinates, saying that the main force of the Qing court could not defeat the Sichuan army first, and then could not defeat the Kuidong Army and the Zhedong Army supported by the Sichuan army, and now they could not even defeat the peasants in western Sichuan -- the most embarrassing thing for the Qing court in northern Sichuan was that the elite of Hexi led by Zhao Liangdong, a famous general who was touted by the Qing court, was almost completely wiped out by the peasant self-defense force of the Jiangyou generation in western Sichuan, although the Qing court tried to explain that the peasants in western Sichuan were not peasants in the ordinary sense at all. But this is completely smearing more and more black, Sun Yanling They have no intuitive impression of the combat effectiveness of the Sichuan army, and believe that the elite of the Qing court has decayed, and in this case, they are still clinging to power, which shows that this court has no self-knowledge at all

In this case, Sun Yanling began to hook up with Wu Sangui, planning to use the crime of "Tongdeng" to crusade against Zhang Changgeng, the governor of Huguang

Relative to the news of Guangxi, Wuchang's Zhang Changgeng was shocked by the combat effectiveness of western Sichuan, he saw a lot of reports on the battle of northern Sichuan from the newspaper, before the regular army of the Ming army and the main force of the Qing court entered the battlefield, Zhao Liangdong only faced the militia of Jiangyou, and Zhao Mingjiang also had the advantage of surprise attack, at the beginning Zhao Liangdong used Han Xinming to repair the plank road to secretly cross Chen Cang's old trick, and when Jieshu announced that he was going to Chongqing, he secretly sent elite soldiers to carry a small amount of food, and smuggled into Jiange to raid Jiangyou day and night; It is true that the Ming army was not able to react at the first moment, and when the vanguard of the Qing army was in the Jiangyou area, the regular army of the Ming army had not yet received the news

When Zhao Liangdong invaded Jiangyou, everyone in the local peasants had horses, and each family had several rifles, and the most shocking thing for Zhang Changgeng was that the newspapers in western Sichuan detailed the feat of a peasant named Kuang Taiping who defended his homeland, and this person refused to provide grain to the grain collection squad of the Qing army. With his wife and two-year-old child hid in his barn to resist the Qing army's grain collection team of ten people, Kuang Taiping killed five with a rifle, and then rode a horse to pursue the fleeing Qing army rout, and hacked three to death The next day the Qing army mobilized hundreds of armor, led by a thousand generals, with spears, broadswords and bows to besiege the barn where the peasants were 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 peasants around him on horseback and guns, and killed the Qian Zong who led the team on the spot, After the war, he also accepted interviews with several newspapers, and there was a peasant from Mianzhu who came to reinforce Kuang Taiping, and also became a news figure, this Mianzhu farmer named An Yichen, was Kuang Taiping's former friend, and was also the first batch of Mianzhu peasants who rode horses and guns to Jiangyou to support in the starry night after hearing the police, and many newspapers enthusiastically reported the comrades-in-arms of these two people

The lightly armed Qing army could not collect food, and immediately fell into a predicament Zhao Liangdong's men were beaten by the peasants and lost their armor, forcing him to personally command the attack on these armed peasants, and also invested in his own battalion, but in the face of a peasant dragoon brigade with more than one horse and everyone with advanced weapons, Zhao Liangdong's hoplites turned out to be no opponent, and after ten days of deep mud feet, the regular army of the Ming army had not yet arrived, but thousands of peasant brigades with guns in Mianzhu had already arrived on horseback and in carriages to reinforce one after another, Even Zhao Liangdong's pro-military battalion was beaten by them and lost its combat effectiveness

For these reports, most of the other regions think that it is a fantasy, even Beijing will be suspicious, suspecting that the Ming army is boasting, and it is more likely that the regular army of the Ming army disguised itself as a peasant and ambushed Zhao Liangdong, who was not familiar with the place, but Zhang Changgeng did not doubt it, so after the end of the battle of northern Sichuan in the fourth year of Kangxi, he made up his mind to move closer to Sichuan, and at this time, Zhang Changgeng had already received news from Chengdu and Beijing respectively, knowing that Wu Sangui was fighting his territory, and after learning that Sun Yanling was also involved in the conspiracy, Zhang Changgeng transferred a large number of troops originally placed in Hubei to Hunan to guard against Wu Sangui and Sun Yanling, and also asked Beijing and Chengdu for help at the same time

In order to obtain the support of Chengdu, Zhang Changgeng sold Yuezhou to Li Laiheng at a low price, and sold Zhong Xiang to Hao Shaoqi, and after getting the money from Chengdu for the sale of land, he gave half of it to Beijing as a loyalty fee. Chengdu felt that Zhang Changgeng was indeed the most suitable ruler of Huguang at present, and Beijing also expressed understanding for his forced behavior, Beijing announced that Zhang Changgeng would never act with Deng, and if Wu Sangui and Sun Yanling started the war without authorization, they would be guilty of rebellion, and they should restrain their behavior; Chengdu said that although he had no collusion with Wuchang and vowed not to stand with the Qing court, if Wu Sangui and Sun Yanling were not loyal to the Ming Dynasty or the Manchu Dynasty, they would also support Wuchang out of the principle of supporting loyal ministers and righteous people against repeated villains, so as to promote the righteousness of heaven and earth

While Wu Sangui continued to secretly plead his case to Chengdu and Beijing, while still preparing to attack Hunan in full swing, his ally Sun Yanling also openly attacked Zhang Changgeng's behavior of selling land and transferring troops south, believing that this showed that Wuchang had no intention of resisting the Ming Dynasty and was bent on fighting a civil war with the Qing army

If this qiē has dazzled the people of the world, the events at the end of the fourth year of Kangxi turned out to be more exciting, Wu Sangui finally swore to set off, crusading against the rebels of "Tong Deng", Sun Yanling provided part of the grain and grass and sent soldiers and horses to help the war, but after Wu Sangui got the grain and grass, he suddenly cleaned Sun Yanling's troops, raided and captured Sun Yanling's father and son, put Kong Sizhen under house arrest, and annexed the army and land of Guangxi, and announced that Sun Yanling was bent on launching a civil war in the Qing army and was the traitor of "Tong Deng"!

After the war, Wu Sangui and Zhang Changgeng were friendly and took the initiative to evacuate the garrisons on the border between Guangxi and Hunan in Guizhou, and at the same time included Sun Yanling's share of the Huguang Association that Sun Yanling originally deserved; Zhang Changgeng thinned most of his territory to prevent Wu Sangui or the Ming army from entering his territory; Beijing and Chengdu have also put aside their concerns about Hunan; Wu Sangui doubled his territory at once, and everyone was happy, except for Sun Yanling, who was already in a different place

Because the Ming army recovered the two prefectures, Yang Daxue also removed the word "conquest" before Deng Ming's official title, and since then it has been called the great general Deng Ming When he launched the Nanyang War, the Daimyo cabinet also announced in a high-profile manner that he would restore the official position of "Prime Minister" that was abolished by Ming Taizu, and temporarily let Deng Ming take the "Deputy Prime Minister" and act as the prime minister

When this war is won, the word "deputy" in front of the prime minister will definitely be removed, which everyone knows well, and Deng Ming's subordinates have begun to call him the prime minister

"Fight close to the enemy, it is better to capture the big ships of the Spaniards" After reading the text of the Yuan meeting, Deng Ming and the generals sat down and further elaborated on his purpose of the battle: "These big ships of the Bo Spaniards are a very important task, if we simply destroy them, we will certainly win the control of the surrounding seas, and we can also take Manila by the way, but the threat of the Dutch is still there"

Not every voyage can predict that once the Netherlands enters a state of war, the entire South Sea sea will no longer be safe, and if it encounters the Dutch giant ships in the vast seas, China's armed merchant ships will become targets with no self-defense capabilities

Although the Spaniards relied on a decisive battle to destroy the Ming army's navy, and the Ming army was not the same, Deng Ming hoped to be able to completely destroy the combined forces of Spain and the Netherlands in Southeast Asia through a few dignified voyages, so as not to fall into a passive joint engagement and guerrilla warfare in which the Spaniards and the Dutch attached importance to trade, and Deng Ming's emphasis on trade was not at all under his enemies

"Only the great ships of the Spaniards have the same heavy artillery as the big ships of the Dutch, and we can penetrate the armor of the great ships of the Spanish when the Dutch attack us, and then these large ships will be the first targets of the Dutch, and our small ships will have the opportunity to attack at close range; If the Dutch avoid a decisive battle, we can also use these large ships to protect the waterway, as long as we use new shells, even if the sailors have a little worse combat experience, we can still have the upper hand over the Dutch in one-on-one" Speaking of this, Deng Ming smiled: "After all, the goal of our expedition this time is Batavia and not Manila, if we can solve it all at once, we don't need to delay it until a few years later."

Therefore, the key to this expedition was to sail with the main Spanish fleet, and the Ming army not only wanted to win, but also to capture the Spanish warships rather than simply destroy them, and more importantly, to prevent the Spanish ships from escaping; In this operation, there will be no large warships to attract firepower, creating an opportunity for the Ming army's small warships to attack progressively; As for Deng Ming, the commander of the Ming army, he had no experience in sailing

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