<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > preface</h1>
Li Dingguo won the great victories in Guilin and Hengyang, and "two famous kings, the world shook", which caused the "lord of the country" Sun Kewang to be extremely jealous. In order to avoid Sun Kewang's persecution, Li Dingguo decided to lead his army out of the Hunan battlefield and into Guangxi to open up a new battlefield in Liangguang.
In February 1653, Li Dingguo sent troops from He County, Guangxi, to capture the important town of Wuzhou, and began a strategic plan to march into Guangdong and pass through the south of the river.
In March, Li Dingguo's Southern Ming army attacked Kaijian and Deqing Prefecture all the way and reached Zhaoqing City. In advance, Li Dingguo had already sent a letter to Zheng Chenggong, inviting him to send troops from Fujian to attack the Qing army in Guangdong from the east and west.
The Battle of Zhaoqing thus began.
Li Dingguo personally came to Zhaoqing City and commanded the Ming army to launch a strong attack from the east, west, and north; at the same time, Li Dingguo also divided his troops to capture Sihui and Quang Ninh.
As soon as Li Dingguo entered Guangdong, the anti-Qing rebel divisions in Guangdong responded one after another, but their strength was not strong; only Hao Shangjiu, the general of Chaozhou in the Qing Dynasty, rose up anyway, and the momentum was relatively large. However, because Hao Shangjiu's troops were strongly contained by the nearby Qing forces, they could not kill Li Ding's division and restore the whole territory of Guangdong.
Hao Shangjiu had to send someone to Zheng Chenggong for help, asking Zheng Chenggong to send troops to help him fight against the Qing army.
The defender of Zhaoqing will be Xu Erxian, the general of Zhaoqing in the Qing Dynasty, who is brave and good at war, and relies on the fortification of Zhaoqing City, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and stubbornly resists in Zhaoqing City.
Xu Erxian repeatedly thwarted the Ming army's offensive, but after all, he was insufficient in strength and it was difficult to fight for a long time; so Xu Erxian asked Shang Kexi, the Qing Dynasty king of Pingnan, who was guarding Guangzhou, to send reinforcements quickly.
Shang Kexi had been on the battlefield for a long time and was proficient in military affairs; he analyzed the situation and believed that as long as Li Dingguo was repelled, the anti-Qing forces in other places were not to worry about.
Shang Kexi personally led the main force of the Qing army in Guangdong to Zhaoqing and engaged Li Dingguo.
After arriving in Zhaoqing, Shang Kexi learned about the military situation on both sides and believed that Li Dingguo could not take the fortified city of Zhaoqing; the only terrible thing was that once Li Dingguo sent troops to assist Hao Shangjiu in attacking Guangzhou, then the Qing army would fall into a catastrophe.
Shang Kexi urgently ordered Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan who remained in Guangzhou, to send elite cavalry to cut off Li Dingguo's contact with Hao Shangjiu.
Geng Jimao did encounter a small force sent by Li Dingguo to contact Hao Shangjiu, defeated them, and thwarted Li Dingguo's strategic intention to take advantage of the false attack on Guangzhou.
After relieving his worries, Shang Ke was rewarded with a heavy reward, recruited dead soldiers, rushed out of the city, and fought to the death with Li Dingguo's Ming army. After several bloody battles, Shang Kexi finally repelled the Ming army. It contained Li Dingguo's fierce offensive against Guangdong.
After the strong attack on Zhaoqing was defeated, Li Dingguo had no news of Zheng Chenggong and Hao Shangjiu, so he led his troops back to Guangxi.
Because Zheng Chenggong was secretly negotiating peace with the Qing court at that time, he remained unmoved and did not cooperate at all with Li Dingguo's strategy of marching into Guangdong and passing through Jiangnan, which eventually led to the defeat of Li Dingguo's troops in Zhaoqing and the withdrawal of Guangxi.
After Li Dingguo withdrew, the Qing army gathered heavy troops to besiege Hao Shangjiu. Hao Shangjiu pleaded with Zheng Chenggong for help; Zheng Chenggong only ordered Hao Shangjiu to hold the city, but did not provide any assistance to Hao Shangjiu. In the end, the Qing army captured Chaozhou, and Hao Shangjiu committed suicide in defeat.
In fact, Zheng Chenggong was not concerned about who won or lost in Nanming and the Qing court. His real idea was: Whoever makes me claim dominance in the southeast will be called by whom.
Zheng Chenggong believed that once he helped Li Dingguo defeat the Qing army, then Li Dingguo would follow him in Guangdong, and it would not be conducive to his claim to hegemony in the southeast.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="15" > conclusion
Because Zheng Chenggong blindly and vainly attacked the Qing army in Guangdong, Hao Shangjiu was besieged by the Qing army and died; Li Dingguo fought alone and did not get any help. Under the stubborn resistance of the Qing army, Li Dingguo was defeated at zhaoqing city. Had to return to Guangxi. </h1>
Li Dingguo's first military campaign into Guangdong came to an end. However, Li Dingguo's army defeated Zhaoqing, and his military strength did not suffer much loss; soon, he wrote to Zheng Chenggong again, and Zheng Chenggong attacked Guangdong again, and then the xinhui great fierce battle broke out.