Sun Kewang was in power and there was no problem in forcing Yongli to "abdicate", but his intention was opposed by Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, which made Sun Kewang in a dilemma. He knew very well that if he forced himself to take over Ming, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu and others would definitely not recognize him as the emperor, so the abdication was delayed.

However, Sun Kewang did not wear a yellow robe. Emperor Yongli, who was in Anlong Mansion in Guizhou, felt a sharp sword hanging above his head, and he was at risk of being deposed or even killed at any time. In order to obtain the security of himself and the Yongli court, Yongli issued a secret edict at the suggestion of Grand Secretary Wen Anzhi to summon Li Dingguo to lead troops into the guards.

Wen Anzhi said to Yongli: "Liu and Li's friendship must be in harmony, and everyone is in harmony with Sun Li, but the gains and losses are unknown."

Yongli then said to the internal supervisor Zhang Fulu and Quanwei and the two of the country: "I hope that there will be no courtesy to me. The treacherous minister Ma Jixiang and Pang Tianshou have been doing it, and I am restless when I sleep and eat. Recently, I heard that Li Dingguo, the Western vassal, personally led the ruler, attacked Chu and Guangdong, captured the rebel Chen Bangfu and his son, served the country's loyalty for a long time, and the military voices were greatly boosted. In the future, I will be in danger. Moreover, Dingguo and Kingwang have a long gap. I want to write a secret imperial edict, send the official to travel to the camp and summon Dingguo to protect him. Can you secretly plan this matter for me?"

Although Zhang Fulu and Quanwei were internal supervisors, they were extremely loyal to Yongli. They immediately proposed that Xu Ji, Lin Qingyang and others had impeached Ma Jixiang, and Pang Tianshou was loyal and reliable, and suggested that they discuss the matter secretly with them.

After Emperor Yongli agreed, Zhang Fulu immediately contacted Xu Ji and others to discuss it. After the discussion, he went to Wu Zhenyu, the chief assistant of the Yongli court cabinet, to discuss the specific methods secretly.

Wu Zhenyu had long been dissatisfied with Sun Kewang's domineeringness, and now agreed to summon Li Dingguo to lead troops into the guards. He said to Xu Ji and others: "Today's decline in the court is so declining, it is the deadly autumn of our generation. However, the traitors are watching every moment, and I am afraid that the situation is not secret. Who among the Lords can serve as an envoy?"

Lin Qingyang volunteered to do his best. Wu Zhenyu immediately ordered Jiang Qianchang, the priest of the Ministry of Rites, to draft the imperial decree, and Zhu Dongdan, the head of the Ministry of War, to write it. Zhang Fulu and others held it in the palace to build the treasure of the emperor. Lin Qingyang, in accordance with the prior plan, took the name of asking for leave and burying his parents. He set off for Ding*zhong in November of the sixth year of Yongli (the ninth year of Shunzhi). At that time, Li Dingguo was fighting against the Qing army in Hunan and Guangxi. He had no time to look inside.

Emperor Yongli saw that Lin Qingyang was on an envoy for half a year and had no sound. In a hurry, he asked Wu Zhenyu to send envoys to find out the news. Wu'an Bo Zheng Yunyuan suggested that he should try to send Sun Kewang's confidant Ma Jixiang to avoid leaking the news. Emperor Yongli asked Ma Jixiang to go to Nanning to stay in the name of sending important officials to stay in Nanning after regaining Nanning.

After Ma Jixiang left Anlong to take office, the secret envoy went to the road secretly. After arriving at the Li Ding State Camp, the secret envoy read the decree of the decree of the decree of Li Dingguo. Li Dingguo was deeply moved, kowtowed and bleeding, and cried in tears: "My Dingguo has not died for a day. I would rather let Your Majesty be humiliated for a long time. Fortunately, I will bear it for a little while. My brothers are expected to have a year, and I would rather let my friends down than let the king down."

Unexpectedly, after Ma Jixiang arrived in Guangxi, he met Liu Yixin, a Yongli court official from Li Dingzhong. Liu thought that Ma Jixiang had been favored by Emperor Yongli for a long time and was a marquis. He must have participated in the secret summoning of Dingguo. After meeting, he told the court that the two imperial edicts Li Dingguo were ordered to lead troops to welcome the chariots, and said: "The Western Palace received the imperial edict. I was grateful and shed tears. I will come to Anlong to welcome the chariots soon."

Ma Jixiang was shocked and immediately sent someone to report Sun Kewang. After Sun Kewang received the report, he knew that once Li Dingguo successfully welcomed the government, the situation of his monopoly of government affairs would be completely changed. Therefore, he decided to find out the truth about this matter and sent his trusted general Zheng Guo and Wang Aixiu to enter the Anlong Palace on the sixth day of the first lunar month of the eighth year of Yongli to force Emperor Yongli to explain the whole story and ask for the person who was in charge of the incident.

Yongli was forced by two generals and couldn't help but shirk his responsibilities: "The ministers in the court must not dare to do a secret imperial edict. For several years, there have been many fake edicts outside and many fake treasures. You still have to visit them secretly. Is it all a matter in the court?"

In Zheng State, Wang Aixiu immediately joined Pang Tianshou and arrested about twenty officials related to the secret edict on the sixth day of the March 19th. After severe torture, Wu Zhenyu and others admitted that in order to avoid involvement in Emperor Yongli, some court officials colluded with the inner supervisor Zhang Fulu, and all of them secretly forged the imperial edict and secret edict for Li Dingguo without telling Emperor Yongli.

Zheng Guo asked, "Does the emperor know?"

Wu and others insisted: "There has not been reported."

The people who depended on Sun Kewang in the Zheng State and the Yongli court could not imagine that they had to convict the case of "stealing treasures and forging edicts, deceived the king and misleading the country" and reported to the King of Qin. Sun Kewang ordered the trial to be organized in the name of the Yongli court. On March 20, Zhang Juan, Zhang Fulu, Quan as the country's chief criminals, and were sentenced to be cut off; Jiang Qianchang, Xu Ji, Yang Zhong and others were accomplices, and they were executed immediately; Chief Grand Secretary Wu Zhenyu was the mastermind, so he thought of being a minister and ordered to commit suicide. This is the famous "Eighteenth Mr. Case" in the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Politically, Sun Kewang was extremely cautious about the Yongli court, but he was also enterprising military. As early as November of the sixth year of Yongli (the ninth year of Shunzhi), Sun Kewang came to Yuanzhou, Hunan in Guizhou. He sent general Bai Wenxuan to command horses and more than 50,000 infantrymen to attack Chenzhou. On the 21st, the Ming army divided the waters and Lu two routes arrived at the city of Chenzhou, surrounding the city on all sides. Xu Yong, the general of the Qingchen Chang, ordered his deputy general Zhang Pengxing to lead troops to fight and was shot dead by the Ming army's artillery fire. Xu Yong still tried to seize the city and resist stubbornly.

The next day, Bai Wenxuan used elephants as the front drive and broke through the east gate. A large group of soldiers rushed into the city. Xu Yong was killed by random swords during the melee. Liu Shengzuo, the Qing Dynasty guarding Chen Changdao, and Wang Renqi, the prefect of Chenzhou, were also captured and executed. Subsequently, Sun Kewang changed Yuanzhou to Qianxing Prefecture, and the prefecture was governed by Xingyuan County, leading nine counties in one prefecture: Jingzhou, Xingyuan, Qianyang, Mayang, Tongxi, and Pingxi. The prefecture was changed to Guizhou Province.

At the same time, Sun Kewang captured Chenzhou, Li Dingguo killed the commander of the Qing army in Hengyang. At this time, the Qing army suffered major setbacks one after another, and the commander was killed and his morale was depressed. It was a great opportunity for Sun Kewang to organize the Ming army, with the main force of the Western Army, to launch a large-scale counterattack into the Qing army in Hunan. However, Sun Kewang did not seize this favorable opportunity. Instead, because Li Dingguo's two famous kings were disproportionate, he was afraid that Li Dingguo's achievements would shock him, the "master".

When Li Dingguo deployed the Hengyang Battle, it was originally proposed that Ma Jinzhong and Feng Shuangli move their troops to Baigao City. The main force of Dingguo was stationed in Hengzhou, waiting for Nikan's army to pass Hengshan County. The two troops of Ma and Feng were conquered to the enemy's rear, and they attacked the north and south with the Dingguo's troops to completely wipe out the Qing army commanded by Nikan in one fell swoop. Sun Kewang learned of this deployment, but he was afraid that the Dingguo's achievements would be completed, so he secretly ordered Feng Shuangli to retreat to Baoqing, and Ma Jinzhong also left. Due to Sun Kewang's demolition, although Li Dingguo killed Nikan, the commander of the Qing army, but because of his single force, he gave up Hengzhou in December.

After the Battle of Hengzhou, Sun Kewang conspired to convene a military meeting, and arrested him as soon as Dingguo arrived. As for the army commanded by Dingguo, it was handed over to Feng Shuangli. If Sun Kewang's removal of Liu Wenxiu's military power also reflected the principle of rewarding merits and defeats, the murder of Li Dingguo, who had outstanding military achievements, would definitely be extremely unpopular. Therefore, some people who knew the inside story rushed to Dingzhou to report, and advised him not to come to the meeting.

Li Dingguo originally hoped that Sun Kewang led his troops from Chenzhou to advance eastward and jointly attacked the Qing army in Hunan with his own troops (after Nikan was killed, the troops entering Hunan were led by Beiletunqi). If the army could be wiped out, it would inevitably lead to a great loss of strength of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, which was frightened by far and near. Then, they would join forces with the thirteen Kuidong troops to seize Hubei in the north and attack Jiangxi in the east, which would likely have a situation of unstoppable momentum. When he learned that Sun Kewang ignored the overall situation and deliberately planned to murder him, he was indignant and said to his generals: "Unfortunately, he was trapped in the army, and he had difficulty in making great contributions, supporting the royal family, and immortal. Now he was killed by the famous king and won the victory, but suspicion was everywhere. Moreover, I and my brother Funan started Yunnan together, and once they were wrong, they would be abandoned. It would be even more important to be afraid of me. My wife was in Yunnan, so how could I run away!"

In late February of the seventh year of Yongli (the tenth year of Shunzhi), Li Dingguo led his troops to give up Yongzhou and retreated to Guangxi through Yongming through Longhu Pass, thus avoiding meeting Sun Kewang. The brotherhood of his brotherhood for about twenty years was written off by Sun Kewang.

Sun Kewang forced Li Dingguo to leave and soon suffered a bad consequence. At that time, Sun Kewang was in charge of the army from Jingzhou to Baoqing through Wugang. His subordinates included generals Bai Wenxuan, Feng Shuangli, etc., with a total force of 100,000. On the sixth day of the third month, the generals of Dingyuan of the Qing Dynasty led the main force of Manchu and Han to Baoqing from Yongzhou to the north. On the fifteenth day, he was stationed at a fork in the road, thirty miles away from the Ming army, Bai Wenxuan, Feng Shuangli, and Ma Jinzhong camp.

The next day, the Qing army advanced to Zhoujiapu. Because the Ming army camp was on the top of the mountain, the terrain was dangerous and it encountered sky rain again, the two sides confronted each other. That night, Sun Kewang led his personal army from Baoqing Prefecture to reinforce. On the 17th, the Ming army went down the mountain to launch a full-scale attack on the Qing army. The Qing army fought in different directions, and the two sides launched fierce battles. As a result, the Ming army led by Sun Kewang was defeated, with many casualties, and more than 700 horses were seized by the Qing army. The Qing army took advantage of the victory to occupy Baoqing Prefecture. However, the Qing army also paid a great price in this battle. Two Mongolian Meilezhangjing Wei Zheng, Zhenghuang Banner, and Wu Jingdu were killed in the fierce battle.

After winning the Battle of Baoqing, the Qing army of Tunqi failed to occupy the entire Hunan due to heavy losses. Sun Kewang was unable to fight with Tunqi again. Therefore, the Ming and Qing armies had a long stalemate in Jingzhou and Wugang.

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The situation may be suspected of flooding water. I originally thought that through the characters and storylines, the problems between Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, and the reasons why the main force of the Southern Ming army and the Qing army stalemate in the Hunan battlefield, but because these things happened one after the fifth year of Yongli, and the Taiping Army was trapped in the ninth year of Yongli (the twelfth year of Shunzhi), it was difficult to show the storylines to readers in the past few years through one or two chapters. I had no choice but to describe them briefly. I hope you can forgive me (to be continued)
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