However, the final result of the court meeting was beyond the expectations of the two major families of Yuyue and Dongguo. Xia Sizong, who had been on the throne for more than 20 years, ignored the opposition of his ministers and imposed an arbitrary decree to impose an additional two cents of local tax and three cents of land tax nationwide. Commercial taxes are used to recruit and train thirteen new armies of 10,000 people to join the southern battlefield!
Changqing Palace was responsible for the staff, the prime minister Su Wei was moved to the left, the imperial censor was abolished, and he was promoted to Taiwei. Guang Luxun Xiyu Xianjun took charge of the government on his behalf. Xia Sizong followed up with a series of combination punches that made the unsuspecting family members miserable! (This is very similar to his uncle Emperor Guangzong) Within half a month, the city of Anyang was heavily armored and blood flowed like rivers. The heavyweights in the temple were almost wiped out and replaced by a bunch of subordinate officials under the Three Lords. Therefore, People at that time used the phrase "Emperor Jingxi sits in the court, and he is in charge of Secretary Lang" to ridicule Emperor Jingxi who gained great power through a coup, and the middle and low-level officials who suddenly came to power!
The aristocratic families who were caught off guard by the coup led by Emperor Jingxi decided to unite to resist the emperor's purge after a short discussion and re-consolidate the seven major aristocratic families (the Xiyu family of Guanglu Qing Xiyu Xianjun has been replaced by the Su family The seven leading aristocratic families were regarded as traitors, so the seven aristocratic families bypassed the power of the Xiyu family) during secret discussions. Therefore, under the banner of 'Qing Jun Side', the old aristocratic families took action!
At the end of October of the 14th year of Jingxi's reign, General Zhonglang of the city guard stationed in Anyang was coerced by his captain to launch a mutiny. Overnight, tens of thousands of well-trained rebels quickly took control of Anyang City like tigers emerging from the gates. Nine doors! When the sun rose the next day, former Prime Minister Su Wei actually appeared in front of the Forbidden Palace surrounded by five thousand elite city guards!
In early November of the 14th year of Jingxi, Guanglu Shaoqing Yu Yue Jingwen (son of former Taiwei Yu Yue Longguang) led his cronies to attack Shangguan Guanglu Qing Xiyu's first army, then opened the palace gate and let the rebels enter the city. In the afternoon of that day, the main force of the rebels who rushed into the Forbidden City used overwhelming force to crush the resistance of the eunuchs and guards in the Forbidden Palace, and arrived in front of the Changqing Palace where Emperor Jingxi handled government affairs!
In November of the fourteenth year of Jingxi, Xia Sizong, who was determined to take over all the power of the family, made a decisive decision after seeing the strength of the rebels. He immediately escaped from the forbidden palace under the protection of his loyal guards and came to the new army camp outside Anyang City. The old families headed by Su Wei, after a short search to no avail, simply announced that Sizong had died, and then supported Sizong's second son, the Prince of Luyang (Su Wei's grandson) as the supervisor of the country. The minister of state assists in handling military and state affairs.
In December of the fourteenth year of Jingxi's reign, after learning that his second son actually ascended the throne in Changqing Palace and became a pseudo-supervisor of the country, Emperor Jingxi was furious and immediately sent secret envoys to Chenzhou, Qingzhou, Quzhou and Leizhou. The garrison troops from Xuanzhou and Liaozhou came to Anyang to fight the rebellion with them!
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At the beginning of Xia Sizong's fifteenth year of Jingxi's reign, after receiving the emperor's edict to mobilize troops, Qingzhou garrison envoy Tong Ximao was the first to lead 20,000 horse and infantry troops from the state to Anyang day and night; in February of Jingxi's fifteenth year, Chenzhou defended Shan Wen put his Shangguan, the son-in-law of the Su family, and the state garrison envoy Wan Qiyuan under house arrest, and personally led 10,000 infantry troops to Anyang according to the imperial edict. In the same month, the Quzhou garrison envoy sent his subordinates to guard Qushan and Huang, the garrison envoy. Li led 20,000 horse infantry troops to go south under the imperial edict!
However, these are the only three families that are willing to obey the imperial edict! As for the garrison forces in other states, they had long been under the control of aristocratic families. Therefore, not only did they refuse to send troops according to the order, on the contrary, they also killed Si Zong's messengers and reduced their forces to defend the city and hinder other loyal to the royal family. The army marches to Beijing to serve the king! And this means that the civil war in Xia Ting has officially begun...
In March of the fifteenth year of Jingxi, with more than 100,000 troops and thousands of miles of land, the royal family and noble families of the Daxia Empire actually ignored the Ming army attacking cities and territories on the south bank of the Yangtze River. Instead, they concentrated on launching a campaign that might exhaust their last bit of vitality. civil war!
And this also gave the Ming army in the south of the Yangtze River a very precious breathing opportunity. Therefore, when the dusk bell rang outside Anyang City, the Ming Empire also officially began to fight for the world...
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Feiniaojin fell, Fan County fell, and Qian County changed hands. When the northern aristocrats and royal families were fighting among themselves, the important town of Fengzhou, Xianmu Ridge, was once again occupied and captured by the Ming army under Lan Shaoqun, but it was different from the last time. , the Fengzhou Xia Army, which was greatly weakened, was no longer able to send troops to intercept this time. Therefore, one afternoon in April of the fifteenth year of Jingxi's reign, the Ming army advanced again to Fengzhou Prefecture, under Fengcheng City, after wiping out a large number of local militia groups!
The next day, twenty Ming army guards and nearly 100,000 troops, under the cover of cannons, trebuchets and other heavy weapons, launched a fierce attack on Fengcheng! In mid-April of the fifteenth year of Jingxi's reign, the west wall of Fengcheng, which had been bombarded on the 7th and 8th, finally collapsed. Afterwards, the soldiers of the Xia army and the servants of official Kun Jin had a fierce street battle with the Ming army that swarmed into the city! For this reason, the Ming army, which had won many battles, also lost its largest number of troops since its inception in this siege of Fengcheng, with five guards and nearly 20,000 people!
The war was not going well and Pao Ze died. These circumstances made the victorious Ming army soldiers no longer care about the orders of their commander Lan Shaoqun (Lan Shaoqun had occasionally caught a cold during the march and was no longer able to command the army at this time, so he He handed over the command to his deputy, General Ping Zei, who served as the commander of the Leizhou capital, Ni Jing Bo Yang Qinian. Therefore, Yang Qinian should be in charge of the southern expedition at this time.) Not only did they set fire to the Fengzhou Governor's Mansion , and also massacred the prisoners of the Xia army who had laid down their weapons. There were 50,000 civilians, and almost the capital of Fengzhou, a large and populous city, was reduced to a ghost! They are using this method to vent the evil fire in their hearts!
'...Everything in the empire is burdened by you...' General Pingthief of the Ming Dynasty, the commander of the Leizhou capital, Ni Jingbo Yang Qinian was informed that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty massacred the surrendered army to express their anger. Lan Shaoqun hurriedly came to the army. He scolded him severely before, but this did not have any impact on the already red-eyed Ming army! The Ming troops under Yang Qinian scattered out and continued to massacre several forts and small towns near Fengcheng that were still resisting...
In fact, in the final analysis, although the actions of Yang Qinian's troops were a little cruel and bloody, the effect was still really good, because the Southern Expedition Ming Army used this frightening reputation to make other counties in Fengzhou fortify their cities and defend themselves. I no longer dare to go out of the city to fight with the Ming army in the field... And this also gives the Ming army every opportunity to defeat them!
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In June of the fifteenth year of Jingxi's reign, the Ming Army of the Southern Expedition set off again with additional strength. Under their fierce attack, many remaining cities in Fengzhou with high walls and deep trenches fell. By the end of June, even the last city in their hands fell under the fierce attack of the superior Ming army!
In the western frontier of the Great Xia Empire, the Ming army achieved equally fruitful results! A westward marching Ming army commanded by Ming Yun Prefecture's envoy, Zhengnan General, and Zhongxiaobo Liu Gang, with only five guards and more than 20,000 men, defeated the Xia Yun Prefecture garrison of 50,000 men in front of the Jiashi Mountain battlefield, and killed them in battle. The Xia army's garrison envoy Shi Qi and the garrison envoy Fang Rui completely established the Ming army's dominant position in Yunzhou!
In March of the 16th year of Xia Sizong and Jingxi's reign, when the war situation in the north was initially determined, the Xia Ting monarchs and ministers who had achieved a small victory discovered in horror that in this short period of one year, Ming Ni was like a torrent. Sweeping the entire southern border of the empire, six states including Lizhou, Leizhou, Fengzhou, Yunzhou, Liuzhou and Baizhou are no longer owned by Xia Ting!
Peace talks, or to continue the war? Xia Ting, who was facing internal and external troubles, finally quickly set the tone after a fierce quarrel! They sent a delegation headed by Xiyu Chaoyong (the son of Xiyu Xianjun, the former Guanglu Qing, one of the nine permanent members of the Xia court, and a trusted minister of Xia Sizong) across the river and came to Sujing, the temporary capital of the Ming Dynasty. The peace talks with Ming Ting!
In May of the sixteenth year of Jingxi, after a month of wrangling with each other, Xia and Ming finally reached a preliminary ceasefire agreement! According to this agreement, Xia Ting will recognize the independent status of the Ming Dynasty, and the two sides will divide the national boundaries based on the areas they currently occupy. In addition, Xia Ting will also compensate the Ming army's military expenditure of one million taels of silver in the form of coins in exchange for The Ming army suspended its offensive and returned the counties and counties occupied by the Ming army north of the river.
