Dan Ding Kuichu and Qu Shiqi knew in their hearts that He Tengjiao was newly defeated, and the other generals of the Yongli court dared not serve the merchant army.

What to use to seize Hunan? And the merchant army doesn't come to attack the market

It's definitely not because of fear of Yongli Dynasty

I guess I will leave some room for the Yongli court. If the Yongli court is really uninterested, it will definitely send troops, which may annoy the merchant army. If it really comes to attack Guangxi, it will be troublesome.

Zhu Youlang was originally an emperor without enterprising spirit. When he heard that the merchant army did not want to seize Guangxi, he felt relieved. Where would he still have the will to seize Hunan?

However, at this time, Qu Shixi came up with an idea and suggested that Zhu Youlang recruit the merchant army in Hunan. It turned out that the Yongli court had also found out that the head general of this merchant army was Yang Wucheng. Although he was appointed as the commander of the merchant army by Shang Yi, his official position in the Ming Dynasty was only a general. If the Yongli court could be granted the title of prime minister with a high official title and a duke Yang Wucheng, he might be able to surrender this merchant army for his own use. In this way, not only could the land of Hunan be obtained at your fingertips, but the Yongli court could also have an additional combat-capable army.

In fact, the method Qu Shisi came up with was not surprising. In order to strengthen their own strength, the various regimes of the Southern Ming Dynasty would use high-ranking officials as yos and recruit generals with soldiers, including some generals of the Yuanming who had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, or generals of the Dashun Army and the Daxi Army in the past. Although this approach can indeed gather a lot of people and horse forces in a short period of time, it also caused a flood of official positions. For example, the general was originally the highest official position of a military general, but at this time it became the most basic price. As long as the general had some troops, they would at least be named general. If there was a little power, they would also be awarded the title of Prince and the title of Prince. Some generals saw the opportunity to take advantage of it, and they also took their troops to respect themselves and bargained with the Southern Ming court.

However, Qu Shisi's suggestion was also opposed by many people. Because the military forces of the Yongli court represented by He Tengjiao were not strong, because the merchant army was too strong. Once they were really surrendered by the Yongli court, there was still room for themselves. Of course, some people were also out of jealousy. A small general was named Duke, which was simply a step to reach the top. He had not been able to survive for more than ten years. How could that be?

However, Zhu Youlang was very interested in Qu Shisi's suggestion, and another cabinet minister, Ding Kuichu, did not object to surrendering Yang Wucheng, but he did not approve Yang Wucheng's official position so high that he would not need to be a duke. He would be able to be granted a marquis. In addition, he could add a second-rank official named Longhu General Longhu. With the support of two cabinet ministers, Zhu Youlang immediately sent people to Changsha to issue an edict, regardless of the opposition of other ministers, and appointed Yang Wucheng as General Longhu and the Hou of Ningxiang.

But a few days later, the Yongli court received a thank-you note from Yang Wucheng, saying that he was just a young general under Shang Yi, who was unsuccessful and did not dare to receive rewards. Shang Yi made great contributions to the world and asked the Yongli court to reward Shang Yi.

It is of course impossible to say that Yang Wucheng was not moved by the Yongli court's reward. After all, the title of a marquis is indeed much nicer. However, although Yang Wucheng was not from a small mountain village, he was one of the first people to follow Shang Yi and was very respectful to Shang Yi's talents. At the same time, he was influenced by Shang Yi, valued real profit and neglected fame. Therefore, although Ningxiang Hou and General Longhu sounded pleasant, they were all false names. They were never ranked according to the official positions of the Ming Dynasty in the Shang family. Now he is in charge of 45,000 people, and his actual power is not under the general seal of the general. Moreover, once Shang Yi really achieved great achievements, he was the founding father. Not to mention a marquis, it was not impossible to be a king.

In addition, Yang Wucheng also knew that although the combat effectiveness of the merchant army was strong, it was entirely supported by the logistics supply in the rear, and muskets and cannons all had a certain service life. However, if the ammunition supply from Zhejiang and there was no new weapons replacement, the combat effectiveness of his own army would also have to be severely dismantled. Therefore, no army of the merchant army could survive Shang Yi and exist independently.

Anyway, Hunan has been taken down now, and Shang Yi did not ask him to take Guangxi, so he certainly declined the reward for the Yongli court.

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On another front, the situation faced by the merchant army in Jiangxi is much more complicated than that in Hunan.

After the Qing army was defeated, Jueluo Bahana retreated to Guangxin Mansion and Jin Shenghuan to join forces, but the merchant army then rushed to Guangxin Mansion. Jueluo Bahana and Jin Shenghuan dared to fight with the merchant army at this time, so they had to lead their troops and continue to retreat south. They gave up Guangxin Mansion, Fuzhou Mansion, Linjiang Mansion, Yuanzhou Mansion and other places, and fled to Jianchang Mansion before they temporarily settled.

At this time, the Qing army had only four prefectures in Jiangxi Province, namely Ji'an, Ganzhou, Nan'an and Jianchang, with less than 30,000 troops. Most of them had surrendered troops, and the Manchu and Han flag troops were less than 2,000. The army of the merchant army was gradually approaching Ganzhou. It was impossible to return to Jiangbei. The only hope of the Qing army now was that Shang Kexi, who was in Guangdong, was still his own people. Therefore, Jueluo Bahana also decided to give up the entire Jiangxi area and retreat to Guangdong to join forces to resist the enemy merchant army.

But Shang Kexi was afraid that Jueluobahana would lead the merchant army to Guangdong. On the other hand, if Jueluobahana gave up all over Jiangxi, Guangdong would lose its barrier. Therefore, he asked Jueluobahana to at least defend Ganzhou and send troops to support him so that he could block the merchant army. At the same time, he ordered the blockade of all roads from Jiangxi to Guangdong, forcing Jueluobahana to station in Jiangxi. Anyway, he was not afraid of Jueluobahana surrender.

After receiving Shang Kexi's letter, Jueluo Bahana also felt desperate. But now there was no other way, so Jueluo Bahana could only obey Shang Kexi's request and retreat to Ganzhou.

But at this moment, Jin Shenghuan had different ideas.

Jin Shenghuan and Deputy General Wang Deren were both generals of Zuo Liangyu in the past. They were originally people who were used to changing their responsibilities. The current situation has been very obvious. The power of the Qing army can only be limited to the north of the Yangtze River, and south of the Yangtze River. Not to mention that they are all under the merchant army, they are not as good as the Qing army. Not to mention that Jueluo Bahana could not defend Ganzhou, even the Guangdong, which was Shang Kexi, would probably be difficult to preserve. He followed the Qing army, and it was just a dead end. Therefore, the two planned to surrender to the merchant army.

So the two also sent envoys to contact the merchant army, saying that they could capture Jueluo Bahana alive, and then offer all the land in Jiangxi to raise troops to surrender to the merchant army, but demanded to protect their troops.

After Luo Yuanbin received the envoy, he also told him that the merchant army could accept Jin Shenghuan's surrender, and that they had made contributions to the uprising in front of the battlefield, and that the crime of surrendering to the Qing Dynasty could be ignored, and their property and personal safety were guaranteed. However, it was impossible to completely retain the troops. They could only retain one regiment of troops, but they could be appointed Jin Shenghuan as the regiment commander, and other troops must accept the reorganization of the merchant army.

Such conditions are obviously far from Jin Shenghuan's request, so he sent someone to reply and bargain with Luo Yuanbin. The request should be at least a commander.

However, Luo Yuanbin quoted the example of surrender in the Nanjing Battle. At that time, the Qing army had 100,000 troops stationed in Nanjing. The battle situation was still unpredictable. The Xie Zheng gave up the Jubaoshan position so that the merchant army could directly attack Jubaoén. He made great contributions to the recovery of Nanjing, but he was only appointed as the commander. Now that most of Jiangxi has been occupied by the merchant army, the overall situation has been decided, and the Qing army has only 20,000 to 30,000 defeated soldiers are left without force to support it. It is not enough to worry. Why should Jin Shenghuan want a division commander? If he is willing, he will continue to talk and start a fight if he is unwilling.

After receiving Luo Yuanbin's reply, Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren quickly recruited their confidants and told everyone about the conditions they decided to surrender to the Merchant Army and the Merchant Army. Everyone discussed it for another day. In the end, everyone thought that there would be no future with the Qing army now. Although the conditions of the Merchant Army were very harsh, there was no other way to go, so they could only accept it. The regiment commander was the regiment commander. No matter what, at least they could save their lives. As for whether it was good or not in the Merchant Army, they could only wait for it later.

After everyone reached a consensus, Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren also made up their minds, so they sent someone to reply to Luo Yuanbin, expressing their willingness to accept the conditions of the merchant army, while preparing to attack Jueluo Bahana.

At this time, Jueluo Bahana was about to retreat to Ganzhou, so the two pretended to write a letter to Jueluo Bahana, saying that they had contacted Zheng Zhilong's old subordinates from Fujian and could spend some money to buy a road of life: retreat from Jianchang Prefecture to Fujian Province, provide several ships to the Qing army on the beach, and then escape from the sea to Jiangbei. However, the conditions for the whole body should be asked Jueluo Bahana to discuss with his camp.

After hearing this, Jueluo Bahana was also a little moved because he was very attractive to him because he fled back to Jiangbei. Moreover, there were indeed many old subordinates in the Qing army, and it was reasonable to have such an intention. Therefore, he did not have any doubts and only brought more than a hundred guards to Jin Shenghuan's camp.

As a result, Jin Shenghuan was ambushed in the camp. As soon as Jueluo Bahana entered Jin Shenghuan's camp, he was immediately surrounded by ambushers. Originally, Jin Shenghuan wanted to capture Jueluo Bahana alive, but Jueluo Bahana was quite tough as a grassland nation. Seeing that the situation was not good, he was unwilling to be captured and led the guards to fight to the death. However, because they were outnumbered, the guards were all killed in battle. Jueluo Bahana still fought hard, killing dozens of people in a row, but he also suffered dozens of injuries and finally committed suicide by wielding his sword.

Although he failed to capture Jueluo Bahana alive, Bi Jing also killed him, so Jin Shenghuan and others were relieved, chopped off Jueluo Bahana's head, then packed up their troops, and prepared to surrender to the merchant army.
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