On the seventh day of the seventh month of the 11th year of the Kangxi reign, on the seventh day of the seventh day of Jin Guangjin Dazhonglie, he was hung on the second hall of the Guangdong Governor's Office in Qujiang County while crying, completing the fifteenth day after his sublimation from a traitor and a traitor butcher accomplice to the Qing Dynasty. At the gate of Shuiguan in Gaoyao, Zhaoqing Prefecture City, Guangdong, a group of neatly robed and coated figures had been gathered, and a archway was also built.

At a glance, you can tell that it must be the new General of Dingnan, Sun Yanling and his concubine, the Princess of Dingnan, Kong Sizhen, who finally arrived.

In April, Emperor Kangxi issued an edict to order Sun Yanling and Kong Sizhen to lead Guangxi troops to Guangdong to join the war. However, Kangxi also issued an edict to Kong Sizhen to recruit fifteen subordinates of the Dingnan Prince's Mansion Banner Army, which could not be handled overnight.

Recruiting flag troops!

Although it is not the Eight Banners Army, the Dingnan Prince's Palace Banner Army is still much nobler than the ordinary Green Camp soldiers. Of course, it requires high standards and strict requirements. At the same time, it cannot openly recruit flags to the people of Guangxi! How can we give Guangxi people such good treatment? This requires recruiting people from Kong Youde's old subordinates and Ding Yu stationed in Guangxi.

There were 20,000 old subordinates who followed Kong Youde to invade Guangxi, half of which were Liaodong soldiers who followed Kong Youde in their early years, and they were considered Kong Youde's true direct line.

After Kong Youde's death, these people were led by Kong Youde's confidant general and Guangxi Admiral Ai Guoan, and later added more than 10,000 yuan.

After Ai Guoan became seriously ill, these people were led by Kong Youde's son-in-law, Sun Yanling.

The other half were the northwestern soldiers of Ma Jiaolin, the leader of the Northwest Guyuan regiment who defected to the Qing Dynasty during the Shunzhi period. Most of them were Tianfang scholars, and the cohesion of fellow villagers in the northwest was very strong!

After Ma Jiaolin passed away, they followed Ma Jiaolin's adopted son Ma Xiong. After Ma Xiong died, he obtained the position of admiral of Guangxi and became the second leader of the Qing army in Guangxi.

Kong Sizhen burned incense and worshiped Buddha, and was still a woman, so she was of course inseparable from Ma Xiong's subordinates. So her fifteen subordinates still had to recruit from the army under Guangxi General Sun Yanling and Ding Yu and this was equivalent to cutting off Sun Yanling's flesh and establishing a team for Kong Sizhen!

Moreover, these fifteen subordinates were flag soldiers, so they not only recruited people, but also had to occupy land outside the Guilin Prefecture City in Guangxi, build vassal villages, and also had to create some people to be flag slaves.

It was really costly and laborious, and it made the surrounding area of ​​Guilin a mess. It was not until late June that the fifteen flag soldiers of the subordinates were pulled up and the green camp soldiers under his command were replenished.

The news of Sun Yanling enclosing land and arresting slaves in Guilin also spread to Beijing during this process. A censor named Ma Dashi also wrote a memorial to impeach Sun Yanling. This was thankless!

What makes Sun Yanling most difficult to describe is that his princess wife is very difficult to serve!

This Kong Sizhen is more than ten times more difficult to serve than Princess Jianning in Wu Yingxiong's family. She lost her parents when she was young. She married Wu Yingxiong, who was in her early twenties at the age of twelve or thirteen. She started to "grow" her loli and was not very conscientious, so she was at the mercy of Wu Yingxiong. But this Kong Sizhen grew up with Kong Youde's army, was familiar with the military affairs of the cavalry, and was strong in character, and was just a tigress!

In addition, she was sent by the Empress Dowager Bumubutai to be a first-class guard in the guard office for a period of time, responsible for "defending" Emperor Shunzhi, and almost became the concubine of Emperor Shunzhi.

After marrying Sun Yanling, Kong Sizhen didn't know how to restrain herself and regarded her husband as a subordinate commander. Sun Yanling did not dare to provoke the tigress who had only the backstage, so she had to spend many years in aggrieved and begged for her. It was not until the fourth year of Kangxi that she coaxed the tigress and walked the path of the Empress Dowager for him, making him a general in Guangxi, and finally got a bite of fragrant soft rice.

After becoming the general of Guangxi, Sun Yanling began to turn around and "bully" the mother tigress Kong Sizhen. When he was "bullying" very happily, Emperor Kangxi didn't know what he thought, but he actually gave Kong Sizhen, who was being bullied and suffering, "issued" three thousand flag soldiers and a title of Princess Heshuo Dingnan, who was titled as "female Dingnan".

Perhaps Emperor Kangxi had no idea that there were species like tigresses in the world, but they were real tigresses. When they arrived in the harem of Emperor Kangxi, a tiger enthusiast, they would have to become kittens!

In Kangxi's view, as long as he promotes Kong Sizhen, he can greatly inspire the "soft rice lover" Sun Yanling, allowing him to see that there is hope of becoming the King of Dingnan further.

Even if Sun Yanling had ten thousand unwilling in his heart, he could only do it according to the imperial edict of Emperor Kangxi. This was the "soft rice given by the emperor". No matter how unpalatable it was, it had to be eaten, and he had to shout "It's really fragrant" while eating it.

So after working hard for more than two months, Sun Yanling, who finally helped the Tiger's Three Thousand Flag Army stand up. On the seventh day of the seventh month, he led his 13,000 army of Kong Sizhen, and the 7,000 army of Guangxi Admiral Ma Xiong, a total of 20,000 troops. He drove to Gaoyao City, the head county of Zhaoqing Prefecture, on the Xijiang River Road!

At this time, the terrain was critical. Gaoyao County, surrounded by the Xijiang River on three sides, had become the most important stronghold of the Qing Dynasty on the west side of Guangzhou City.

This was originally the residence of the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Jin Guangzu. When Shang Kexi and Liu Bingquan both left Guangzhou to fight, Jin Guangzu did not leave with him, but was always stationed in Gaoyao, the head county of Zhaoqing Prefecture.

Most of the Jin Guangzu's commanders were left in Gaoyao City. Later, Shang Zhixin sent Shang Keai to lead a cavalry under his command to station in Gaoyao, further strengthening the troops in Gaoyao City.

Afterwards, Jin Guangzu took advantage of the fall of Guangzhou to accommodate some of the flag army and green camp soldiers who escaped from Guangzhou City.

Later, Jin Guangzu used the token of the governor to transfer general Zu Zeqing and his 4,000 Green Camp soldiers from Gaozhou Prefecture.

Now Sun Yanling, Kong Sizhen and Ma Xiong have brought another 20,000 troops, making the total number of Qing troops gathered in Gaoyao County have reached nearly 30,000!

"Including these, there are at least 30,000 Qing troops in Zhaoqing Prefecture! There are hundreds of flag troops from Xushun Gongfu on the Shaozhou Prefecture, more than a thousand regiments retreated from Chaozhou, more than a thousand men withdrawn from Guangzhou, and three or four thousand Green Camp soldiers who drove from Hunan, totaling five or six thousand. There are more than a thousand men admiring two generals in Huizhou Prefecture. These alone may be more than 45,000!"

Standing on the wall of Gaoyao County, while watching the vast fleet coming from the waters of the Xijiang River, the person who counted the number of Qing soldiers around Guangzhou was Wu Sangui's military advisor Liu Xuanchu.

What he listened to was Zhu Heying’s right deputy military advisor Yang Qilong!

These two military advisors have now been on the blacklist of Emperor Kangxi, and the Governor General of Guangdong and Guangxi Jin Guangzu also received a court letter from Kangxi, asking them to be arrested secretly.

However, these two people were really brave enough, they just put on a jacket of a green camp military officer, and followed Zu Zeqing into Gaoyao City openly.

Now standing on the city wall, watching Sun Yanling and Kong Sizhen's army arrive!

"Sun Yanling, Kong Sizhen brought all the soldiers from Guangxi, right?" Yang Qilong said, "These soldiers were originally used to restrain the King Pingxi. Now they are all here in Guangdong. Can the King Pingxi be ordered to raise an army to defend the king?"

"Of course!" Liu Xuanchu said with a smile, "Zu Lianggeng brought the prince's secret letter and the prince was already determined to raise an army."

He actually said half of his words. Wu Sangui had a determination, but it was hard to say how many there were, maybe there was only a little bit.

"Really?" Yang Qilong was overjoyed when he heard this, "When will the army start?"

"The letter didn't say it," Liu Xuanchu said, "but the prince asked me to go to Guangzhou and go to visit His Highness Prince Ding on his behalf."

"Okay!" Yang Qilong said with a smile, "I am going to go back to Guangzhou too. Mr. Liu might as well go this trip with me."
Chapter completed!