Li Dingguo, whose real name is Hongyuan, was born in a poor peasant family in Yan 'an, Shaanxi on June 1966162/Kloc-0. 1630, Li Dingguo, who was only ten years old, joined Zhang Rebellion. Zhang saw Li Dingguo's extraordinary appearance and adopted him. Zhang has four adopted sons, the firstborn is, the second is Li Dingguo, the third is, and the fourth is Ai Nengqi. From then on, Li Dingguo followed Zhang.
1637, 17-year-old Li Dingguo led 20,000 troops and followed Zhang to attack Henan and Hubei. 164 1 February, he disguised himself as a special officer of the Ming army, took 20 light horses and flew to Xiangyang at the gates overnight, and then captured Xiangyang. Hundreds of thousands of military assets saved by Ming Taizu and Yang Sichang were acquired by the peasant army. The battle of Xiangyang was a turning point in Zhang Shengli.
1644 1 1 month, Zhang formally established the Daxi regime in Chengdu, and Li Dingguo was named General Anxi and the commander of the 16th Battalion for his outstanding military exploits. At this time, Li Dingguo was only twenty-four years old, eight feet tall, handsome and smart. He is famous for his tolerance and kindness in the army, but he is very brave in the battle, and he is called "Little Weichi" or "Ten Thousand Enemies". He is a clever and brave soldier in the western army.
Since the Qing army entered the customs, ethnic contradictions began to rise to become the main social contradictions. 1In August of 646, Zhang led 500,000 troops from the Western Expedition to the north to resist the Qing Dynasty. Unfortunately, 165438+ was shot by the Qing army in Fenghuang Mountain in Xichong on June 27th, and died soon. After Zhang's death, the army was in chaos, collapsed in an instant and suffered heavy casualties. Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi, four generals, gathered more than a thousand remnants and more than 10,000 people in distress, and quickly went south from Shunqing, traveling hundreds of miles day and night, preserving some effective forces. In December, the western expedition army arrived in Jiangbei, Chongqing, and Zeng Ying, the company commander of Nanming, led the troops to stop it. The peasants crossed the river and killed Ceng Ying, so that a dozen remnants of the Ming Wan Army suddenly fell apart. In Chongqing, four generals killed the left prime minister Wang, who instigated Zhang to kill the soldiers and civilians by mistake and hated the army and pushed it to Qijiang. The general preached to the battalions: "Everyone wants Qi Xin to work together to help the young master achieve great things", which improved morale. After the announcement, the camp was filled with cheers. All the camps are very happy. ".The western army began to develop from adversity again.
Pacify Qian Dian
In the first month of A.D. 1647, the army of the Western Expedition marched into Guizhou. In March, even Guiyang, Ding Fan, Yongning and counties in western Guizhou failed.
In Guiyang, four generals discussed the future outlet and strategy of the Western Expedition Army. Sun Kewang advocated
Li Dingguo fought the Qing soldiers in Guangdong until Nanling generation. If there is a crisis, he can go to sea. Li Dingguo helped Nanming restore Daming Mountain. Due to the entry of the Qing army, Zhang's attitude towards the Ming Dynasty changed. On the eve of going north to resist the Qing Dynasty, he said to the Ministry, "Daming, who has lived for 300 years, is China orthodox. It was providence that he didn't die. After I die, you should submit to Daming and don't do anything unjust. The failure of the Western Expedition also made Li Dingguo feel that he had made a mistake against the Ming Dynasty. At this time, Li Dingguo wanted to submit to Nanming and restore the Ming regime. Sun He argued with each other. Li Dingguo said angrily, "Go by yourself if you have the ability. Don't drag me." So he pulled out his combat knife and stabbed himself. People took the combating Dao and immediately tore up a banner and wrapped it, unanimously expressing their willingness to obey Li Dingguo's orders. Sun Kewang has to be rebuilt.
1April 647, the army of the Western Expedition marched into Kunming, and all the people in the city squeezed out to meet the enemy. The general continued to appease the situation, persuaded Mu Tianbo to unite with the peasant army, and announced: "We will help Qi Xin to help the king and restore the Ming Dynasty."
In August and August, the four generals jointly claimed the title of king in Kunming, with Sun Kewang as king of Pingtung, Li Dingguo as king of Anxi, Liu Wenxiu as king of Funan and Ai Nengqi as king of Dingbei. They still maintain the tradition of the peasant army. At every meeting, four people sit side by side, and the rewards and punishments of the soldiers in each battalion are decided by Sun Kewang.
With the improvement of Sun Kewang's status, his personal ambition gradually expanded. So the Ming empire said to him, "Let General Sun be the ruler of the country himself, set up hundreds of officials, issue coins and issue year numbers." Sun Kewang was very happy to hear this, but Li Dingguo despised it very much. Every time he said this, he was very contradictory. Sun Kewang and his cronies Wang Shangli planned to conquer Li Dingguo and establish personal authority. 1648, on the first day of April, all the troops went to the martial arts field together. When Li Dingguo first entered the martial arts field, the army saluted as usual and raised the handsome flag. Sun Kewang accused Li Dingguo of saying, "Don't look down on me on weekdays." Then start with Li Dingguo's one hundred sticks. Li Dingguo was furious and said, "Although you and I are brothers, there is no commander in chief in the army for the time being, so I respect you. Why should I count on you? " To prevent secession, Bai Wenxuan, commander-in-chief of the former military government, hugged Li Dingguo from behind and said, "Please be patient for a while. If you leave, the army will split and we will be used. " Li Dingguo reluctantly blamed him, and the general was beaten with fifty sticks when he interceded. After the battle, Sun Kewang gave Li Dingguo a crocodile hug and said, "I did it for justice. I hope that good brothers will not hold grudges, and we will unite in the future. " In order to maintain the unity of the Great Western Army, Li Dingguo endured this insult and then demanded the pacification of Shadingzhou. "
In May, Ai Nengqi, the king of Dingbei, was killed by a poisonous arrow in the battle to conquer Dongchuan, and his department was taken over by Sun Kewang. In August, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu attacked Shacun and captured Shadingzhou, and eastern Yunnan was completely flat. When the army returned to the leeward, Mu nodded his thanks. The local people hate him because he is usually destroyed by Sha Dingzhou. They all applauded and cheered when they heard that he had been killed.
With the four generals' policy of resuming production and benefiting the people in Yunnan, people of Yi, Bai, Zhuang, Dai and other ethnic groups joined the army in succession, and the Western Expedition Army expanded to more than 200,000 people, adding an elephant head. There are over 50,000 people in Li Dingguo alone. Production has also made great progress. That year, there was a bumper harvest and the soldiers and civilians lived in peace.
Kanglian mingqing
1646165438+10. In October, Qu, the governor of Guangxi in the Ming Dynasty, made Zhu Youlang emperor in Zhaoqing and established the last regime in the south of the Ming Dynasty. Sun Kewang ignored the principle of "uniting Ming and resisting Qing" and attempted to split Yunnan and monopolize one side. Li Dingguo righteously said to him, "Zhaoqing already has an emperor Li Yong. How dare you be arrogant without looking at your own virtue? Do you want to commit suicide? " Due to the strength of Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, Sun Kewang dismissed the idea for the time being, but his heart was still bitter. Yang, a fellow countryman and deputy envoy of Yunnan, saw his thoughts and advised him: "General Sun, like the other three generals, was unpopular because of some false names. Now Emperor Li Yong is only in Zhaoqing. Do you really want to be a hero? " Sun Kewang said, "Now that I have an emperor, I will' take the emperor to command the ministers'. I believe they won't resist me. " So in April of 1649, Yang was appointed as the special envoy to "negotiate" with the emperor.
In September, Sun Kewang led an army into Guizhou, suited to capture southern Sichuan and expand the base area. When Li Dingguo was sent to attack Anshun, Wei Mingqing took the opportunity to lobby: "If you are in the name of General Ming, who dares to be the enemy of the general?" So, Li Dingguo and his blood as an alliance, to help Ming room together, said no second thoughts. After learning about this, Huang was executed. Li Dingguo hates Sun Kewang, and the contradiction between them has deepened.
Guizhou was soon pacified, and Sun Kewang went to Guizhou, stayed in Li Dingguo and stuck to Yunnan. Li Dingguo stepped up its training and prepared to move eastward. Liu Wenxiu pacified southern Sichuan, and the Western Expedition Army established a new base area centered on Yunnan and Guizhou.
However, the situation of the Li Yong regime is getting worse and worse. In A.D. 1649, the Qing army captured Hunan and then Guilin. Qu Shigu was killed, and Zhu Youlang fled to Wuzhou and Nanning, so he had to rely on the sole strength of the Great Western Army.
165 1 At the beginning of the year, Zhu Youlang sent an envoy to Guizhou and made him king of Hebei, but Sun "refused". Li Dingguo suggested that Yang negotiate with Ming. Although Sun promised on the surface, he secretly sent a good soldier to Nanning, killed five ministers, and forced Zhu Youlang to be the king of Qin. At the end of the year, Nanning fell again, and Zhu Youlang fled to Seto. /kloc-in the first month of 0/652, Sun Kewang sent someone to take Emperor Li Yong to Anlong, Guizhou, and renamed it Anlong House. He promised to send money and food to Emperor Li Yong every year. As expenses of the royal family, Emperor Li Yong allowed Sun Kewang to fight the future wars first. In this way, the joint anti-Qing front of the Great Western Army and the Li Yong regime was formally established.
Li Dingguo, who stayed in Yunnan, continued to carry out political and economic reforms in order to "unite the Ming Dynasty and resist the Qing Dynasty", so as to reduce the burden on the people and make southern Yunnan have certain stability. He trains soldiers, armor and elephants all day, and trains 30 thousand soldiers a year. There is also an exam for giving birth to children, which gives 300 strings of rewards to those who pass the exam, encourages everyone to study hard, and lets them be officials if they want to recover in the future.
Two famous kings
/kloc-in the spring of 0/652, the Qing court ordered Kong Youde, the king of the south, to attack Guizhou from Hechi, Guilin, Wu Sangui from Jiading and southern Sichuan from Syria. The purpose of the Qing court was to attack the anti-Qing base area surrounded by the Great Western Army in two times. Facing the urgent situation, Li Dingguo wrote to Sun Kewang, demanding to send troops to Huguang to crush the encirclement and suppression of the Qing army. Sun Kewang agreed and decided that the western troops would attack in two ways. The Northern Route Army was dominant, while Bai Wenxuan and Wang attacked Sichuan. Li Dingguo is the commander of the East Route Army, and Feng is the lieutenant. Sun Kewang commanded the "former army" to stay in Yunnan and Guizhou, and the army of the Western Expedition began to confront the main force of the Qing army.
In March, Li Dingguo marched 80,050 elephants. There are five provisions in the pre-departure contract law: no killing, no rape, no looting, no slaughtering cattle and no arson, which effectively guarantees the military discipline and combat effectiveness of the troops. In May, the North Road Army stationed in Keyuan, Jing and Wugang. Shen Yongzhong, the general of the Qing army guarding Baoqing, reported to Kong Youde that Kong Youde went to Guilin for rescue. Li Dingguo robbed the enemy before crossing the river from Fengmuling to Baoqing, and wiped out 5,000 Qing troops.
In June, Li Dingguo sent troops to Qiyang, ready to seize Guimen State and destroy Kong Youde in Guilin. The soldiers split into three roads. Feng Lingbing took Quanzhou from the left and attacked from the right. He personally led the way to attack foreign troops.
Yan Guan is located in the north of Guilin. If you take it, you must seize the way to Guilin. On June 30th, the Qing army came to seize Yan Guan, and Xiliang army fought bravely, causing numerous casualties. On the first day of July, Kong Youde led the elite to attack again. Before the two armies fought, the elephants of the Great Western Army came and the horses of the Qing army were frightened. Kong Youde ran away in a crushing defeat, and the Great Western Army tried to kill them. Kong Youde was the only one who fled back to Guilin City. Western troops chased Guilin and surrounded the city. On the fourth day of July, the Western Army climbed the ladder to attack the city, and Kong Youde was shot in the forehead. Knowing that he had no choice, he put all his belongings in one room, then personally killed his beloved wife and finally set himself on fire. Only one woman, Kong Sizhen, escaped.
After Guilin's victory, Guangxi was quickly recovered, and people in some areas automatically expelled the Qing army before the arrival of the Western Expedition Army. Li Dingguo ordered not to kill innocent people, but to resettle them first. Ming generals Hu Yiqing, Zhao and so on. Submitted to Li Dingguo one after another. So, Li Dingguo held a banquet in Qixingyan, Guilin to celebrate the victory. He said to the ministers of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty: "Wen and generosity are enough to light a beacon in the history of the Qing Dynasty and bring color to the world. However, for the sake of our country, we secretly don't want this result. " He expressed his ambition to recover the land occupied by the Qing army and restore the Ming Dynasty.
In August, in order to defend Guilin, Xu Tianyou Li Dingguo, the governor of the Ming Dynasty, led an army northward and took Quanzhou and Yongzhou directly. In September, Li Dingguo attacked Hengzhou, and Shoujiang Shen Yongzhong abandoned the city and fled. Jin Tingxian, governor of Changsha, fled to Yingzhou along Changsha, and all the officials below the supervision department fled. Before the Qing army arrived, all the Qing troops in Hunan ran away. Set officials in Hengchow and Li Dingguo, rest troops, and prepare to continue northward.
At the same time, Li Dingguo ordered the Ming army in Guangxi to take Yangshan and Lianzhou in the east, occupy the northwest of Guangdong, send Feng Bei to take Changsha, capture Changde and Yuezhou, and ordered Gao Wengui to go east to Jiangxi, and even Yunghsin, Anfu, Yongning and Longquan besieged Ji 'an, an important town in western Jiangxi. Since Li Dingguo sent troops in July, it has recovered two states and sixteen counties, and returned the Nanming regime for about 3,000 miles. Won the victory of "Great Victory in Hunan and Guangxi" in history.
Li Dingguo's troops are not only effective, but also disciplined. Li Ji, a veteran of the Ming Dynasty, described: "The national military law is extremely strict, and the resident is stationed in the division for half a year. Residents didn't know there were soldiers, so they went to the market to buy them. Half the country must be Los Louro. Although its sergeant is extremely difficult to restrain, David Ho has laws to control it. "
The successive defeats of the Qing army in Huguang shocked the Qing government and quickly ordered Hong Chengchou to travel to Huguang, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi and Changsha. 1 1 month, the Qing court appointed Prince Ni Kan as General Dingyuan and led150,000 soldiers from Sanbaylor and Bagushan to Changsha. In the face of powerful enemies, Li Dingguo made careful arrangements: the army of the Western Expedition temporarily withdrew from Changsha, lured Qing soldiers to cross Xiangjiang River, ambushed Feng and Qing soldiers to cross Hengshan Mountain in the city, Li Dingguo attacked from steaming water, and Feng and Ma attacked from behind. The two armies met and annihilated Ni Kan. But the plan was revealed to Feng. Sun Kewang didn't want Li Dingguo to make contributions, but secretly thought about how to frame him. Mi Feng Li Shuang withdrew from the ambush and Ma Jinzhong withdrew from the battlefield.
1 19 10 19, Ni Kan arrived in Hengzhou, Li Dingguo led the army to steam water, and then moved to Xiangcaoan and Caojie in the north of the city, where it was tied. Therefore, Li Dingguo is prepared to adopt ambush tactics. On the 24th, when the two sides fought again, Li Dingguo pret
The two victories of Guilin and Hengzhou shocked the ruling and opposition parties in the Qing Dynasty. Hearing Li Dingguo's name, I shuddered and even gave up the plan of making peace with Li Dingguo in the southwest provinces. In less than a year's war, Li Dingguo conquered several provinces, recovered Hunan and Guangxi, defeated hundreds of thousands of Qing troops, and set off the second anti-Qing climax after the first anti-Qing climax in 1647. Huang praised, "In the battle of Guiyang, Li Dingguo's two great generals shook the world. Today's Wanli Five-Five is unprecedented in the world. "
Sun's infighting
However, the North Road Army was defeated by Wu Sangui in Baoning on 1652 and 10, and the deputy general Wang died. Sun Kewang not only cut off Liu Wenxiu's knighthood, but also dispersed the army, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the generals in the Great Western Army, and the people in the Great Western Army were distracted. After seeing Li Dingguo's great achievements, Sun Kewang was even more jealous of him. For Li Dingguo, he not only withheld silver and prevented Li Yong from making him the king of Xining, but also tried every means to murder him. In the first month of A.D. 1653, Sun Kewang was afraid that Li Dingguo's arrogance in the future would be bad for him, so he led the "former army" eastward to Yuanzhou. At this time, the Qing army in Tunpu, Li Dingguo, noticed that the Qing soldiers brushed the east bank of Xiangjiang River and ambushed horses on the road. Sun Kewang sent seven letters in three days urging Li Dingguo to attend the meeting. Li Dingguo had to give up the surprise attack. When we arrived at Ziyang Ferry, Liu Wenxiu's son secretly sent someone to tell us: "Sun Kewang tried to kill you when he sent you back." Li Dingguo said with tears: "Sun Kewang still has the mentality of being a thief and can't work with him, but I still have to treat him sincerely." Said to Sun Kewang: "Today, it is difficult to achieve such a good situation. Success or failure is at hand. We want Qi Xin to work together to restore Daming Mountain in Qixin. Please don't listen to rumors, let us hurt ourselves. I hope you can think twice. " Sun Kewang became angry from embarrassment after receiving the letter, so he led the troops to attack. In order to take care of the overall situation and avoid killing each other, Li Dingguo left Hunan and went to Quanzhou, Guangxi. He said to his men, "We won such a great victory today, but later we were suspected by others. In addition, Liu Wenxiu and I established our army in Yunnan at the same time, and we made great achievements. Once we make a mistake, all our efforts will go to waste. But for the sake of the overall situation, how can we give up halfway? " About fifty thousand troops followed him south. I didn't tell the people who came, it's a pity to lose this fighter.
1February 653, the Qing army learned that Sun and Li tricked them into sending Belletun back to Hunan to join the "former army" pursuing Li Dingguo. Sun Kewang was killed by the Qing army and fled to Dongjiang because he proudly despised his enemies. Hengzhou, Wugang, Jingzhou, Chenzhou, Yuanzhou, Liping and other counties all fell into the hands of the Qing army, causing numerous casualties, and almost half of them were defeated by the national elite. King Shangkexi of Pingnan also sent boatmen to capture Wuzhou and Guilin. The excellent situation achieved by Xiliang Army in Li Dingguo was completely destroyed by Sun Kewang.
Move to Guangdong and Guangxi
The Qing army followed Li Dingguo. At the end of February, Yongzhou fell and Li Dingguo moved to Longhuguan. In March, Luo Jinnai, the righteous teacher of Guangdong, welcomed Xiliang Army into Guangdong, and Guangdong launched the anti-Qing movement again. Li Dingguo broke through the studio and Deqing, and reached Zhaoqing at the gate, and divided his forces to conquer Sihui, Guangning and Sanshui, thus completing the siege of Zhaoqing. On March 26th, the Western Army besieged Zhaoqing on three sides. However, due to the desperate resistance of the Qing army, the siege was not broken in January, and the general of the Qing army Geng Jimao sent fighters to rescue, and the peasant army was forced to withdraw from Liuzhou. Hong Chengchou heard that he was defeated and sent someone to surrender, but Li Dingguo ignored him.
Li Dingguo felt that his strength was not enough to pacify Guangdong, so he took the initiative to attack.
Li Dingguo not only lost in Guangdong, but also made poor progress in Guangxi. /kloc-in July of 0/3, he led 20,000 troops to attack Guilin, besieged it for seven days and nights, and had to return to Liuzhou. However, Sun Kewang still wanted to kill him. In August, Feng sent troops to attack Liuzhou. Li Dingguo is going to lie in ambush among the reeds in the estuary. When Feng attacked, he resisted with elite troops. Feng quickly withdrew his troops and ambushed them. Feng had to drown himself. Li Dingguo told him not to kill him, and told him to uphold justice. From then on, Feng voted for Li Dingguo.
1654 At the beginning of the year, Zhang Mingzhen, Prince of Nanming in Lu, led a seagoing ship into the Yangtze River and arrived in Zhenjiang. Zheng Chenggong also sent troops to attack Chongming, and the coastal area of the Qing court was in an emergency. When the situation improved, Li Dingguo made another crusade. In March, tens of thousands of peasant troops and thirteen elephants attacked Lianzhou and Leizhou and occupied Luoding, Xinxing, Shicheng, Dianbai, Yang Hong and Yangchun counties. In May, Zhang Yue, commander-in-chief of the Qing army, sent troops to attack Gaozhou and returned. In June, Wuzhou was attacked again. Although the Qing soldiers were prepared and unable to do so, the righteous teachers from all over Guangdong and Guangxi responded one after another. Li Dingguo took control of Lian, Lei and Gao areas, and people all over the country responded. The anti-Qing situation reached its climax again. Li Dingguo is going to make an appointment with Zheng Chenggong to jointly attack Guangzhou, pacify Quanguang, and then expand to the whole country. So I wrote the inscription "One Family in the World" and came back from Guan Zhong, feeling very proud.
Li Dingguo understands that if you want to conquer Guangzhou, you must first open a new gateway to Guangzhou. This plan can only be completed with Zheng Chenggong's cooperation. In July, Li Dingguo wrote to Zheng Chenggong again and invited him to attack the new club. The letter pointed out: "Huicheng Erkui, based on the sea, is in business. Zigu has been stationed in Xingyi and is in Zhawuyang every day. However, Lu did not regard Xinhui as the key to storing grain and money, but used the spirit of unity of knowing and doing, and he constantly paid for it. I don't like this valley. If I want to get rid of it, the provincial capital can do nothing. " The letter said that reinforcements should be provided no later than 10. At the same time, Li Dingguo contacted Wang Xing and Chen Jice, two divisions of land and water in eastern Guangdong, claiming to be 200,000 troops and cleaning up a new owner.
10 10 14, the siege began, and the peasant army was repelled by shelling, digging tunnels, logging and filling trenches. The attack lasted for two months, but failed. At this moment, Li Dingguo believed the lie that the spy city was out of food, ordered the attack, adopted siege tactics, built palaces, set up official warehouses, and collected salt rice from counties to give the Qing army a breathing space. The troops on the western front suffered from plague, and their morale was low and they were at a disadvantage.
In February of 65438, Shang Kexi, Geng Jimao and General Jumala of the Qing Dynasty led hundreds of Manchu soldiers to come here. The Qing army used fighter planes to crush Zuo Jun and Li Dingguo, and the war situation in Li Dingguo was scattered, which led to a total rout of the troops on the western front. The Qing army fought for twenty miles, and the bodies were everywhere. Li Dingguo had to cross the Hengjiang River and burn the pontoon bridge to solve the siege of Xinhui.
After Li Dingguo withdrew from Xinhua News Agency, 600,000 to 700,000 people retreated along the way. Li Dingguo appeased the people, followed the army to retreat, and retreated to Nanning overnight. Since then, Gao, Lei and Lian in Guangdong, 18 counties in Zhaoqing and Luoding, Hengzhou and Yulin in Guangxi have all fallen into the hands of the Qing army, and the righteous teachers in Guangdong have also failed one after another. Subjectively speaking, the fiasco of Xinhui is related to Li Dingguo's pride and underestimation. Objectively speaking, Zheng Chenggong was negotiating with the Qing court at this time, which delayed the aid to Guangdong. In February 65438, the negotiations failed. Zheng Chenggong sent Lin Cha to lead the shipmaster to Guangdong, but Li Dingguo was defeated and delayed the fighter plane. At the same time, Sun Kewang cut off Yunnan-Guizhou material aid, which eventually led to the failure of Xinhui War. When Li Dingguo returned to Nanning, there were only 6,000 people around him. Since t
Since Emperor Li Yong was accepted by Sun Kewang from Enron, he has been living as a guarantor. As the capital of Guizhou, Sun Kewang has built palaces and set up civil and military officials. At first, it followed the name of Emperor Li Yong, and later it acted like an emperor. In order to keep the throne, Zhu Youlang conspired with Wu Zhenyu, a university student, and sent messengers to Guangxi to call Li Dingguo to escort him. 1653 165438+ in October, after receiving the secret letter, Li Dingguo said, "As long as I stay in Li Dingguo for one day, your majesty will not be humiliated. I hope your majesty can bear it for a while. I'm going to help I would rather put up with Sun Kewang than your majesty. " Tell me I'll see you as soon as Guangdong recovers. Unexpectedly, Ji Xiang of Wenan Houma came to ask Sun Kewang to report the matter. Sun Kewang executed 18 ministers, including Wu Zhenyu, on charges of "deceiving the monarch, disrupting the country, stealing treasures and changing imperial edicts". Since then, Sun Kewang has become more domineering. In order to prevent Li Dingguo from returning to Yunnan, he sent Liu Zhenguo and Guan Youcai to station troops in Tianzhou to stop him.
The failure of the new conference also prevented the development of Li Dingguo in Guangdong and Guangxi. In the annals of Gong Jin, the story of Zhuge Liang's treacherous court official in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms was used to persuade him to return to Yunnan and Guizhou. 1655, Emperor Li Yong once again sent envoys to Nanning to accuse Sun Kewang of "deceiving the city". Li Dingguo took a bloody book and wept bitterly, saying that he would die to eradicate treachery and restore the country. At this time, Hong Chengchou was using the strategy of "suppressing Guangdong and Guangxi" to compress Nanning, and Li Dingguo was threatened, so he made up his mind to return to Guizhou. In the first month of the second year, Li Dingguo arrived in Tianzhou. When the defenders heard that the troops of the Western Expedition were coming, they either fled or defected. Guan Youcai and Liu Zhenguo escaped. In order to control Li Yong for a long time, Sun Kewang immediately sent Bai Wenxuan to transfer Li Yong to Guiyang. Dissatisfied with this move, Bai Wenxuan was slow to move on the grounds that his disciples did not accept it. On October 22nd, 65438/kloc-0, Li Dingguo went to Anlong and met the emperor Li Yong. The monarch and his subjects embraced and wept. Li Dingguo swore an oath to serve the country to the ministers of the Southern Ming Dynasty and recited the words "faithfully serve the country". Ministers say that Li Dingguo is a loyal minister. After deliberation, it was decided to move the capital to the imperial court and March into Yunnan.
At that time, Liu Wenxiu and Sun Kewang's cronies Wang Shangli and He Jiuyi were stationed in Yunnan, with a total of 50,000 troops. On February 1 1, Li Dingguo arrived in Qujing, and the Yunnan Shoujiang refused to talk to the soldiers. Liu Wenxiu privately said to Li Dingguo, "We think that Sun Kewang is a person like Dong Zhuo, but even if Sun Kewang is killed, there must be a person like Cao Cao." Li Dingguo swore to heaven that he would never learn from Sun Kewang. So they teamed up to meet Sun Kewang. Now they must single-handedly, outwit Sun Kewang's cronies and enter Yunnan safely. Emperor Yong changed Kunming to "the capital of Yunnan", made Li Dingguo the king of Jin, Liu Wenxiu the king of Shu and Bai Wenxuan the public. All major events are handled by Li Dingguo.
Although Li Dingguo held the power of military forces, he had great respect for Li Yong, and the money he gave to Emperor Li Yong was quite generous. However, due to improper employment, Jin Weixin was awarded assistant minister of official department and Duchayuan, which led to infighting, while Ma Jixiang tried his best to please Li Dingguo. Li Dingguo has been corrupted by eternal corruption.
However, when dealing with the Sun Kewang issue, Li Dingguo still started from the overall situation of anti-Qing, hoping for reconciliation. He asked Liu Wenxiu to bring Sun Kewang back, but was rejected, and sent Sun Kewang's wife to Guizhou, but there was still no reconciliation. He doesn't want to. 1657 In May, Bai Wenxuan was sent to Guizhou to discuss peace. Sun Kewang detained Bai Wenxuan and detained his troops. He also sent Sun Kewang's old staff Zhang Hu to intercede. Before he left, Emperor Li Yong gave Zhang Hu a gold hairpin and an amulet, and asked Zhang Hu to enlighten Sun Kewang. Zhang Hu is two-faced, but Sun Kewang lied and said, "Emperor Li Yong killed me with Jin Chai."
In September, Sun Kewang army arrived in Shuicheng, and Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu led the troops to resist with 50,000 troops. Because of the disparity in strength, people's hearts are floating. At this moment, Bai Wenxuan came to tell Li Dingguo, "Go to war quickly. They are all ready. We will suffer if we are late. " Li Dingguo is determined to fight. Estimated that Kunming and Sun Kewang were empty, they sent Ma Bao and John Zhang to sneak attack, conspired with Wang Shangli, and Ma Bao sued Li Dingguo. On September 19, the two sides fought on the Jiaoshui River. Bai Wenxuan led the army to Ma Weixing camp, but Ma Jun turned around and rushed to Sun Kewang camp. Sun Kewang shouted, "Why have all the generals defected?" Then he ran away. Li Dingguo marched forward bravely, and the soldiers of each battalion shouted "The King of Jin is coming" in unison, and Sun Kewang was defeated. Liu Wenxiu and Bai Wenxuan studied the downfall of Sun Kewang, while Li Dingguo studied Kunming. As a result, Ma Bao was captured, John Zhang was captured, Wang Shangli committed suicide, and the civil war subsided.
Sun Kewang rebelled, only a few dozen followers rode horses, and all the passing towns were closed. When Feng Shuang stayed in Guizhou, he pretended to be in pursuit, and Sun Kewang surrendered to Hong Chengchou with his wife's treasure. The Qing court named him "the righteous king", but kept him under strict supervision. 1660 1 1 month, hunted.
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However, under the hostage of Ma Jixiang, Li Yong fled from Tengyue to Myanmar and lost contact with Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan. In March, Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan met in Mubang to discuss the future. Li Dingguo thought, "Myanmar is a poor place, and as soon as the army enters Myanmar, there will be trouble. Besides, Myanmar is just you and me, but it may be safe for the emperor to go alone. " Bai Wenxuan said: "Now that the mainland has been occupied by Qing bandits, it will be very dangerous to stay in the mainland. Why don't I go to Myanmar with the emperor and you are in charge of foreign military affairs? " The two disagreed and parted ways.
After the war of Mopan, there were only a few thousand people left in Li Dingguo, and the power was embarrassing. Soon, He Jiuyi led ten thousand people in Guangnan to meet the enemy, as well as Qi Sansheng and others. When the troops returned, their military strength was slightly shaken. Move Li Dingguo Camp to Menglian, build more seals and toast, and call for joint resistance to Qing Dynasty. Yuanjiang toast Song Na got up and responded. Li Dingguo persisted for several months and was attacked by the Qing army. Then he moved to Meng Gen, recruited the first person, and used it as an example of a county to grow food.
Seeing that Wu Sangui could not destroy Xiliang Army, he took measures to bring it down. At that time, the unstable elements in the peasant army surrendered in succession. 1660 in March, Wu Sangui advised He Jiuyi to surrender with his wife. He Jiuyi was about to surrender and was killed by Li Dingguo. No one dares to say anything.
Li Dingguo wrote more than 30 letters to Li Yong. Until July, Bai Wenxuan captured Awati, the capital of Myanmar, and failed to return. Bai and Li learned the truth. It turned out that Emperor Li Yong was detained in Myanmar, and they decided to attack Myanmar and capture Emperor Li Yong alive. In September, the two went to Myanmar respectively. In June 65438 +065438+10, Dingguo defeated the Burmese army and put forward the conditions for Li Yong's return and withdrawal. Myanmar replied: "I am not afraid if you want to attack the city. When your army comes here, its soldiers will die. " In February of the following year, Bai and Li jointly marched into Myanmar, where 150,000 people gathered and thousands of elephants came to fight. They fought bloody battles and defeated the Burmese army. They crossed the Tin Foil River to meet Myanmar City in Jinsha River, but Myanmar still refused to hand over the emperor Li Yong. Li Dingguo had to send troops to build boats to cross the river. In May, Burmese soldiers destroyed the shipyard. Li Dingguo was furious and besieged Myanmar, only to find that the army was sick and sick, hungry and cold, and died in battle one by one, so he had to move the army to the foot of the mountain. In August this year, the two men once again assembled their forces to attack Myanmar, but the start was unfavorable. Five of the sixteen ships sank. In Myanmar, they also learned that Wu Sangui launched a large-scale attack on Myanmar, killing more than 40 of Li Yong's men. Bai Wenxuan's department is very depressed
In February 65438, Li Dingguo prepared to attack Myanmar again. He was furious when he heard that the king of Myanmar had ceded Emperor Li Yong to Wu Sangui, and said, "The situation is inconsistent and we can't chase it." Move the landscape. However, in April of 1662, he went to Mengla again and sent officials to get on the bus to borrow soldiers in an attempt to make a comeback. In May, assistant minister Jiang Guotai persuaded Siam to marry Dingguo to help Xiangma recover Yunnan. Shu Ren Jiugong also came back from the ancient spine. Yunnan has gathered 4000 people and is willing to win a corner. As Li Dingguo was about to go to war, unfortunately, there was a plague in the army and many people died. Li Dingguo repaired his watch, told the sky and prayed, "The tide has ebbed. I hope that God will let me die alone in Li Dingguo, and don't involve the military and civilians again. "
On June 1 1, Li Dingguo suddenly fell ill on his 42nd birthday. Then on April 8th, news came that Li Yong was strangled by Wu Sangui. Li Dingguo wept bitterly and ordered Li Yong to mourn for him. The soldiers in the army were all dressed in white, and Li Dingguo had long hair and shouted for the ground. His eyes were full of blood and tears. He cried and said, "I'm sorry for Daming, I'm sorry for the emperor. How can I face the world? " On the night of June 27th, Li Dingguo died in Mengla. Before he died, he said to his son and his men, "I would rather die in the wilderness than surrender."
After Li Dingguo's death, thousands of his men gathered hundreds of miles east of Ava, known as "Jia Gui" in history. People of all ethnic groups in Mengla also worship Li Dingguo as a god and the tomb of King Jin. The "Hanwang Temple" was rebuilt in Houshan, and a grand sacrifice was held every Spring Festival.