History tells Zhou Shixiang that Sun Kewang could not defeat Li Dingguo, but instead betrayed his relatives and eventually surrendered to the Qing army, led the Qing army into Sichuan and Guizhou, thus completely ruining the Southern Ming Dynasty. His opponent, Li Dingguo, was recorded in history as a Han national hero in the late Ming Dynasty, and was admired, missed and sighed by future generations.

Sun Kewang clearly has more territory than Li Dingguo, more soldiers and more horses than Li Dingguo, and more generals than Li Dingguo. The Sun army, who is also the Daxi Army, has no lower combat effectiveness than Li Dingguo's troops, but why was he the one who failed?

After all, Zhou Shixiang, who was a man of two lives, was not a historian. He could not explore the failure process and specific reasons in detail, but he was clear that it was that human hearts were not in Sun Kewang, and righteousness was not in Sun Kewang's side.

In name, the territory still owned by the Yongli court include Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hunan, Sichuan, Guangdong coastal areas, as well as Fujian and Zhejiang coastal areas. These territory, including the areas controlled by Sun Kewang, are all respected by Emperor Yongli. Even if it is Fujian, which does not obey the order or the Xuan, the Zhu Yihai clan and Zheng Chenggong clan of the King of Lu on the coast of Zhejiang, they all regard Yongli as the orthodox clan, and the Qing court has always regarded the Yongli court as the orthodox continuation of the Ming Dynasty.

When Li Dingguo was two famous kings, Shunzhi wanted to use the land in the south of the Yangtze River as a negotiation condition for Yongli to draw the river and govern the Ming and Qing Dynasties. This shows that the orthodox view of the Southern Ming represented by the Yongli court was so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it was far from what Sun Kewang, who was a bandit, could replace it.

If Sun Kewang really took Yongli, the first person who was dissatisfied was the Ming Dynasty officials in various provinces. They could accept the alliance to resist the Qing Dynasty and the west to resist the Qing Dynasty, but they could never accept the birth of a new emperor who was not a child of the Zhu family. What's more, this was the last time when the Ming and Qing dynasties fought each other and determined the Han family's aura. At this critical moment, the killing of the last resistance forces of the Han people was undoubtedly the Southern Ming regime that ended early and could survive for several years. What's helpless is that even if Sun Kewang failed, the Southern Ming still couldn't hold on. Li Dingguo struggled for five years, but he was unable to stop the building from falling, and he was also buried in the border area.

The shame of Sun Kewang is not that he wants to take over the Ming Dynasty. It is not scary to have ambitions, but what is scary is that after the ambition was hit, Sun Kewang actually surrendered to the Qing court and became a traitor! As a great man who has long led the Daxi Army and was named King of Qin, his surrender to the Qing Dynasty had a huge blow to the morale of the Southern Ming army, and the losses caused by this are even more difficult to measure with money!

It was precisely because of Sun Kewang's surrender to the Qing Dynasty that the Qing army could understand the reality of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and also caused the defense lines against the Qing army to collapse on various battlefields after leaving Yunnan. The Qing army had almost no losses and seized the important land he had advanced southward that he had not been able to take a few years ago.

Whenever I think of this, Zhou Shixiang wishes to swallow Sun Kewang alive!

At present, he is unable to interfere in Sun and Li Xiang's fight, nor is he able to change Sun Kewang's surrender to the enemy, but he can prevent the situation from collapsing so quickly. He wants to influence this historical process. In Xinhui, he did it, and next, he has to do more.

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Sun Kewang was unpopular, and his subordinates would not go along with him, nor would they be enemies with Li Dingguo, one of the four heroes of the Great Western Army. They would not be enemies with the emperor in their minds. Maybe for several months or years, Sun Kewang would definitely be defeated, and the emperor far away in Kunming would definitely be fine.

Zhou Shixiang analyzed that Sun Kewang would be defeated with righteousness and people's hearts. Chen Qice heard it quite reasonable. Although he was still suspicious and worried, he still felt a little worried.

However, Zhou Shixiang only uses righteousness and people's hearts to tell Sun Kewang that he will be defeated, and does not mention the contrast between the power of the two sides, which made Hu Deyu feel quite slight. But he is loyal to the Ming Dynasty, so he naturally does not want to see Sun Kewang win, nor does he want to see the generals of the Navy disagree about the matter. The good situation that had just won the Xinhui collapsed again. Therefore, he also expressed a few opinions to support Zhou Shixiang's opinion.

After Zhou and Hu analyzed this, the navy generals also settled down. They no longer felt panic when they heard that the emperor had moved to Kunming just now. They all began to analyze the impact of this matter on the situation against the Qing Dynasty.

But then Zhou Shixiang mentioned another urgent matter, and he said to Chen Qice: "Anlong Mansion has always been controlled by Sun Kewang's men. However, the King of Xining has been resting at the junction of Guangdong and Guangxi since he retreated from Xinhui at the beginning of the year. Now he leads his troops to protect the troops. Wouldn't Guangxi rejoin the Qing army?"

Hearing this, Hu Deyu shook his head and said, "The line Guoan in Guangxi is Kong Youde's general. After Kong Youde's death, he and General Ma Xiong led the prefectures, prefectures and county officials appointed by the Qing court to Wuzhou to fight stubbornly. Later, seeing that the King of Xining could not stop the troops of Xining, he retreated to Zhaoqing. Three years ago, the King of Xining was ordered by Sun Kewang to lead the troops from Guangxi to Hengyang, Hunan, and participated in the battle of attacking the Prince of Qing Nikan. As a result, our army who remained in Guangxi was very weak. Shang Kexi from Guangzhou took the opportunity to order the line Guoan, Ma Xiong, Quanjie selected elite troops together with the deputy general of the Guangdong Navy Qiang Shijue and others to set off from Fengchuan, Guangdong, and advanced water and land, and re-occupied Wuzhou."

He paused and said: "Later, the line Guoan defeated the royal family General Anxi Zhu Xisan in one fell swoop. In Pingle, the general Liao Feng's army defeated Yining Bolongtao, and the general Liao Feng's army occupied Guilin again. After that, the line Guoan, Quanjie and the Qing Dynasty appointed Guangxi Governor Chen Weixin have been entrenched in Guilin and Wuzhou. The king of Xining wanted to pull out this nail before the first attack on Guangdong. He led his troops to attack Guilin again, but unfortunately he failed to win this time. However, although the line Guoan had Guilin and Wuzhou, the king of Xining was also stationed at the junction of Guangdong and Guangxi in the past two years, so the line Guoan and others only dared to take a defensive stance and did not dare to send troops to attack and plunder. However, the king of Xining has brought his headquarters to Kunming, and there must be not many soldiers left in Guangxi. It is hard to say whether the line Guoan would hide in Guilin honestly."

Speaking of this, Hu Deyu's face darkened, and he seemed to not think that the straight Guoan would put Li Dingguo, the tiger, not take any action if he was not in Guangxi.

Chen Qice said slowly: "If Guangxi is occupied by the Qing army, the news between us and the court will be completely eliminated. There are the Qing army in Guangdong in front and the Qing army in Guangxi in the back. Our situation is more difficult than ever."

This is the first time Zhou Shixiang has heard people explain the situation in Guangxi. He had always thought that Guangxi had fallen into the hands of the Ming army since Kong Youde's defeat. Now, after Hu Deyu said that Guangxi still has Qing army forces. What's even more terrible is that Guilin, the capital of Guangxi, is still in the hands of the Qing army. Isn't this saying that Li Dingguo made useless efforts in the battle between Guangxi and Kong Youde in Guangxi!

It severely damaged the enemy, forced the enemy general to commit suicide, and seized all the strategic cities, but did not send troops to eliminate the enemy's remaining troops, and finally transferred the main force, which made all efforts in the previous period was wasted. How did Li Dingguo think about this battle?

Zhou Shixiang found it difficult to understand Li Dingguo's strategic view of Guangxi. He didn't know anything else, but knew that if Guangxi was lost, the Ming army in Guangdong would become an isolated army and would be attacked by Qing troops from both Guangzhou and Guangxi. In other words, all the Ming army troops that were still insisting on resisting Qing in Guangdong were trapped in the Jedi.

"Guangxi is finished, we are finished too!"

"Guilin's line Guoan is a hungry dog. How can you bite the bones when you see them?"

"If Guangxi is lost, the Qing court will definitely be ordered to be Shang Kexi. Geng Jimao is moving westward, and Hong Chengchou from Hunan will not miss this opportunity. If Wu Sangui's dog thief went south from Sichuan again, would he still fight this battle?" (To be continued.)
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