The situation in Guangxin Mansion deteriorated rapidly, and even if Tong Guoqi had extraordinary resourcefulness, it was difficult to hold out for too long in the face of absolute power. So, he decided to reinforce Guangxin Mansion while asking the Qing court for help, and Kadahun quickly ordered his troops and horses to set off.

With all doubts about Tong Guoqi's will to fight, Kadahun accelerated forward with this reinforcement. Along the way, Changshan County, Yushan County, and Guangxin Fucheng were all quickly left behind by them. When they passed Chating Town, they received an urgent report that Tong Guoqi's headquarters had been forced to retreat to Hekou Town by the Ming army.

Nahekou Town is located at the confluence of the Leadshan River and the Xinjiang River, and the county seat of Leadshan was also moved there from Yongping Town in later generations. Along the Xinjiang River, the downstream is Yiyang, Guixi, and the upstream is Fucheng. They are in between the two at the moment, and if nothing else, they should be able to come into contact with the Ming army's scouts when they get close to Goose Lake Town.

"Baturu Luku, take your men to Goose Lake and threaten the flanks of the thieves so that they can't attack Estuary with all their might."

"Slaves obey!"

Jialazhangjing took the order and left, and soon, a cavalry detachment broke away from the brigade and galloped in the direction of Goose Lake Town. It's just that the splashes of dirt and the rising smoke and dust make Kadahun only feel that the road ahead is becoming more and more blurred. This feeling is not a physiological response from the eyes to the brain, but a worry from within. And such a negative state made him drive the Qing army under his command to speed up the pace, as if he could sweep it away if he did it.

The army continued to march west along the Xinjiang route, but the grain route was blocked, and as he marched, he left troops in important villages and towns along the way to guard the grain route. It didn't take long for the news of contact with the Ming army to explore the horses from Baturu's side. According to the description of several urgent reports from Jialazhangjing, who was trusted by him, the Ming army once tried its best to rely on Goose Lake Town to resist the Qing army after encountering the Qing army, but it did not take long for the Ming army to withdraw from Goose Lake Town. However, they did not simply walk away, but continued to maintain contact with the Qing army and harass them as necessary, apparently slowing down their westward advance.

"If Hekou Town is still in the hands of Tong Guoqi, it is that the thieves want to withdraw their troops; If the town of Kawaguta has been lost, then the thieves are trying to delay the time. ”

This thought flashed in his mind for the first moment, and then the idea of launching a volley against the Ming army naturally came to mind. With a call, the two minions spread the map on the back of the other minion, and Kadahun took the horsewhip and crossed several points at the moment of the army, in Ehu Town, in Hekou Town, in Leadshan County, etc., and a plan to copy the rear road of the Ming army from Ehu Town to the south was formed in his mind.

From the map, the town of Ehu is located just north of the county seat of Leadshan, while the town of Hekou is located in the northwest. The Ming army marched along the lead mountain river, or rather, it was chasing Fubiao in Fujian. Suppose that they move south from Ehu Town and capture the Ming army's camp north of the city, they can release the Henan Green Camp in Leadshan County, and then block the passage of the Ming army to the north. It was even possible to cut off the grain route of the Ming army that had left Hekou Town, making it a lone army, so as to eat it.

This is undoubtedly a great temptation, but after fighting for most of his life, he is already at the age when the loess has no chest, and the first thing he feels when the temptation is activated is not impulsive, but uneasy!

That's right, he led the army directly south to turn the tide of the war in one fell swoop. However, the Ming army couldn't think of this, didn't they prepare in advance?

It must be known that from Ehu Town to the south of Leadshan County, it is necessary to pass through a large area of mountainous areas. Here, it is already the home field of the Ming army, with a home advantage, and the Ming army's tactics are more suitable for mountain combat than the Qing army.

What's more, Chen Kai, this non-mainstream civil official is really too cunning. Since he was able to advance into Leadshan County by controlling the villages and towns in the mountainous areas, it was impossible for him not to think of this loophole. Therefore, as long as you enter the mountain, you will definitely be ambushed, and it can only be a fool's dream to turn the tide of the battle in one fell swoop.

Thinking of this, Kadahun immediately gave up his plan to take risks, and instead pushed it over with all his heart. The commander's will was the direction of the army, so they continued down the Xinjiang River, advancing step by step, and soon approached the town of Hekou.

"Slave Tong Guoqi, I have seen the master."

The Han army with the blue flag is only a fat rabbit in front of the Manchurian Red Flag Gushan Ezhen, but the name of the Tong Jia clan can add a color to it, but it is only limited to having a seat in the eight banners of Manchuria, Mongolia and Han after the big salute.

"Tell me, what's going on now?"

By the time Kadahun's reinforcements arrived, or rather, when Batu Luchuku had made contact with Tong Guoqi, the Ming army had already withdrawn from outside Hekou Town. During this time, the boss asked, and Uncle Tangguo hurriedly got up and knelt down and replied: "The slaves are incompetent, since the siege of the city by thieves, our department has attacked many times to try to relieve the siege of Leadshan County. However, the thieves were so powerful that they not only failed to break the siege, but were forced to retreat here. If it weren't for the arrival of the army led by the master, our department would not have been spared......"

In the big tent, Tong Guoqi told the story and told all the generals about everything that happened these days. Listening to his words, although the siege of Fubiao in Fujian was not successful, it also effectively interfered with the siege rhythm of the Ming army. It is precisely because of this that the Ming army will choose to send a large army to pull out his nail once and for all. In the next field battle, they were naturally not the opponents of the Ming army, and retreated to Hekou Town, but achieved a lethal exchange ratio by virtue of street fighting. However, the Ming army advanced step by step, and they were in danger, and if the reinforcements arrived a day and a half late, he would have to wipe his neck.

and thanked Kadahun and the generals present, Tong Guoqi's posture was very low, making everyone very comfortable. After confirming that the information of the Hongyi artillery team of the Ming army had not been discovered, Kadahun also calmed down a little.

"Didn't the green battalion soldiers in the city cooperate with you to break the siege?"

As soon as he had asked a question, Kadahun immediately threw out the next question. In this regard, Tong Guoqi, as a civil official, answered the question fluently. According to his description, when he tried to relieve the siege of the Henan Green Battalion for the second time, the Green Battalion soldiers in the city did fight out of the city, but they were beaten back by a unit of the Ming army called Liwu Town.

"This bunch of garbage."

Kadahun blurted out without any scruples, so that the generals of the green battalion who could only stand and listen in front of the Eight Banners Army were all embarrassed. But the senses of the Han people are indifferent to the self-held "invincible" banner people. But what he heard about this new battalion from Tong Guoqi made him have more ideas.

"Liwu Town ......"

After more than three years in Zhejiang, Kadahun remembers that this town is an old army under Zheng Chenggong. To be precise, since the recovery of Fujian, the Ming army has not established several field troops in Fujian. The so-called expansion is either to expand the number of troops under the original number, or to establish a city guard camp to liberate the original field troops from the work of guarding the locality.

The reason for this is that the pressure on military rations is too great, and even with the support of Guangdong and high-yield crops, Fujian, which has to import grain from other provinces even if it is in peacetime, will not be able to support more troops. What's more, the Ming army was also gathering heavy troops in Guangdong and Southern Jiangxi. And Chen Kai also pocketed all the provinces of Guangdong not long ago, and his administration placed great emphasis on recovery and development, and he was absolutely unwilling to fish with all his might, and even the civil officials in Fujian were not very willing to excessively squeeze the local gentry and ordinary people for the sake of expanding the army.

Do the math, the partial division of the Ming army that appeared in Lead Mountain was already quite large-scale - the second town of Dubiao, Zhongchong Town, Houchong Town, and Liwu Town, which was 12,000 soldiers. It seems that even the twenty-eight camps have one or two, which Tong Guoqi heard from the spies who sneaked out of the Henan Green Camp.

"Haikou is planning to open up the situation here, but fortunately it came quickly enough, or they really let them succeed."

He breathed a sigh of relief, but he was also more sure of the idea of the Ming army besieging the city and sending reinforcements. In this regard, he hurriedly sent someone to report to Quzhou, not only that he had relieved the crisis in Hekou Town, but more importantly, he reminded Jidu to guard against Zheng Chenggong in Xianxia Pass. After doing all this, Kadahun reassigned the task, and then offered to go to see Fubiao in Fujian.

This is the proper meaning, Tong Guoqi naturally had no reason to refuse, so he had to follow him to the military camp in Hekou Town. Just before leaving, he glanced at a pro-soldier, and the latter quietly left the team.

The Ming army has just been repulsed, and Fujian Fubiao is still recuperating, so it is not good for them to practice martial arts. However, Kadahun is an old soldier, and after walking around, he has already learned the general situation of this army.

I have a number in my heart, and the words in Tong Guoqi's mouth, such as "trying to break the siege several times", are all farts. After all, with such a unit whose combat effectiveness is at most the average level of the southern green battalion, I am afraid that it will not even be able to defeat the Henan green battalion encircled in the city, how can it be possible to successfully break the siege in the face of the overwhelming superiority of the Ming army. At most, send some cavalry to see the excitement, and put a few arrows from afar, and the meaning will be over. Even so, this fire still burned the flames to his pants, and he almost burned himself to death, not to mention, he even took Guangxin Mansion to give them a funeral.

However, Kadahun did not have any harsh intentions for this, after all, he had clearly seen the objective reality that the Green Battalion was not the opponent of the Southeast Ming Army, and Tong Guoqi could send someone to release a few arrows. Even to put it more pessimistically, assuming that Tong Guoqi really didn't know whether to live or die with Fujian Fubiao to fight the Ming army, let alone Hekou Town at this time, it is estimated that half of Guangxin Mansion is already the Ming army.

Sometimes, a sense of presence is more important than actually doing something.

"You did your best."

"The slave thanks the master for his understanding."

Fujian Fubiao's combat effectiveness is not high, which is no wonder Tong Guoqi, nor can it be blamed on those generals. There is no way, who made this army a broken army, and Kadahun didn't expect them to do anything. Now that I've seen it with my own eyes, I'm inexplicably relieved. The rest is to test Tong Guoqi's ability and see how good this guy who has recently taken on the name of a wise general is.

"Governor Tong, as you can see, how should you defeat the thieves next?"

Tong Guoqi has obviously thought about this question. As a civilian official, he naturally made a strategic, focusing on the national situation, and then radiating to the war of annihilation in the southwest and the war in the southeast. In his words, the two complemented each other, both for the Ming and Qing armies.

Kadahun agreed with this, but what he wanted to hear more was Tong Guoqi's analysis of the battle situation in the southeast, especially the lead mountain battlefield they were currently in. It's a pity that before Tong Guoqi officially began to analyze the sources of many theoretical bases in his theory of ten wins and ten losses in the battle of annihilation in the southwest, the Qing army must win and the Ming army must lose, as well as a series of issues such as the short-term and long-term impact on the war situation of the Ming and Qing dynasties, a Fujian Fubiao probe horse rushed to the front, and then rolled the saddle and dismounted, and fell to the ground.

"Report, on the orders of the Fu Army, our department followed the thieves and investigated the enemy. It was discovered that the thieves were cutting down trees on a large scale, and it seemed that they were planning to build siege equipment. ”

Siege of the city, the target is needless to say that it is the county seat of Leadshan. Besieging the city and sending reinforcements may have become a fish in the throat for the current superior strength of the Qing army. Therefore, it is very likely that the Ming army planned to swallow the county town of Lead Mountain and the 4,000 green battalions in the city first, and then go all out to fight against the reinforcements of Kadahun.

Whatever the enemy is trying to achieve, it is only natural that we will try to prevent it!

With such a mode of thinking, Kadahun naturally couldn't give the Ming army any time to breathe. At this time, he hurriedly threw away Tong Guoqi, who was still in the ascending position, and let Fujian Fubiao continue to rest. And he organized reinforcements to launch an offensive along the lead mountain river, at least to threaten the Ming army and disrupt its siege rhythm.

With the idea that the Ming army would always be stuck in the throat and evil, the old and strong Kadahun organized a continuous offensive against the Ming army's camp in the north of the city. His diversion campaign was so effective that the Ming army had to switch the wood originally used to make siege equipment to forts for better defense. But he soon found out that he was wrong, he was really wrong, he really shouldn't be competing with an opponent who was dozens of years younger than him in terms of energy - whenever he wanted to combine work and rest and let the offensive stop for a few days, his opponent began to rebuild the siege equipment as if he were inserting a needle, saying that he would pull out the fish bone of Leadshan County. And he had to organize his troops again to continue the offensive.

This feeling of letting people lead his nose made him very uncomfortable, and as a Manchurian veteran with a beard, eyebrows, and braids that had turned white to the point that there was not a single variegated color, Kadahun subconsciously felt that something was wrong. As a result, he once again expanded the scope of Tanma's intelligence search to deal with any intrigues and tricks that the Ming army might come at any time.

At the same time, he even sent people back to Quzhou to report to Jidu, telling the other side some of his speculations about the Ming army's attempt to divide the strength of the Qing army in Quzhou, and hoped that the other party could use the power of Prince Zheng's palace and the blue banner in the court to accelerate the progress of Guan Zhong's troops to help.

The sender's letter was delivered on the fastest horse, but by the time he asked his staff to write the letter, the recipient had already received two messages.

One is good news, the Qing court has approved Jidu's request, and dispatched the commander of the Han army in Jiangnan to lead the Han army to the south to help in the battle; The other, but the bad news, according to the secret agent's report, the Jinhua general soldier Ma Jinbao, whom he had been suspecting earlier, had recently had a secret meeting with a Zhedong scholar named Vanceda, and the guy surnamed Wan was said to be a disciple of the wanted criminal Huang Zongxi......

Today is already the twenty-first day of the lunar month, and seeing that the New Year is coming, it is inevitable that the work of going south to help the Guan Allegiance Department will be delayed due to the New Year, so Jidu decided to give Guan Xiaozhong a special order, so that he can immediately lead his troops to the south, and arrive in Quzhou as soon as possible before the middle of the first month, and no later than the Shangyuan Festival. In other words, Guan Allegiance must go to Quzhou to eat the Lantern Festival, otherwise, he will wait to eat the whip.

While ordering Guan Xiaozhong to set off as soon as possible, Jidu released the news of the southward movement of the Han army in Jiangnan to deter Ma Jinbao and prevent it from completely falling to the Ming army.

After this series of operations, Jidu is also much more relieved. However, he had just slept peacefully for two nights, and the letter from Kadahun came with a detailed return - the banner of Huang Ting, the premise governor of the five admirals under Zheng Chenggong, had appeared in Wenzhou, and it also included the Ming army of the two towns of the premise of the left town and the right town of the premise of the governor.

This general of the Ming army has always been responsible for guarding northern Fujian, and he is Jidu's old opponent before the second half of this year. Now that Zheng Chenggong is personally sitting in Xianxia Pass, he naturally does not need to continue to play a leading role here. However, just in time for Ma Jinbao to become more and more closely connected with the anti-Qing people in eastern Zhejiang, Huang Ting led his troops to leave Jianning Mansion and detour from Funing Prefecture to Wenzhou. Whether it was intended to intensify the offensive against Longyou County, or to go north into the territory of Jinhua Province, either way, would mean turmoil or even collapse on the eastern flank of the Quzhou army.

After thinking about it, Ji Du also discussed with Ashang Ge for a long time, and felt that in the mountainous areas of eastern Zhejiang, it was not easy for the Qing army to enter, and it was also difficult for the Ming army to get out. The arrival of the Huang Ting will increase the military pressure on the flank of the Qing army's eastern front, but in the final analysis, it is still necessary to try to stabilize Ma Jinbao, as long as Jinhua Town is still guarding those prefectures and counties for the Qing court, it will be difficult for the Huang court to open up the situation. As for that hidden danger, when the allegiance comes, it can naturally be solved.

Do the math, that is, half a month's work. Ji Du repeatedly read Kadahun's conjecture that the Ming army was trying to divide the main force of the Qing army in Quzhou, and repeatedly estimated the number of his own troops and the number of troops that the opponent could deploy. After comparison, he still decided to send a partial division composed of 500 Manchurian Eight Banners, 500 Mongolian Eight Banners, and 1,000 Han Army Eight Banners to assist in defending Longyou County—not only to defend against a possible offensive by the Huang Ting, but also to temporarily deter Ma Jinbao.

If the situation allows, after Guan Allegiance arrives, Ji Du intends to cooperate with Guan Allegiance to relieve Ma Jinbao of military power and minimize the danger factor. And he has also thought of a candidate to replace Ma Jinbao, that is, Liang Huafeng, the general soldier of Su Song, who is currently responsible for guarding Suzhou and Songjiang. It was a martial artist who was born in Shunzhi for three years, and unlike the generals who are still the mainstream of the Green Battalion generals, he is a Han military general cultivated step by step by the Manchu Dynasty, and he is obviously more trustworthy. As for the ability, it is also a temporary choice in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

The battle situation is still deteriorating, which is already the norm for Jidu, or in the past four years, his ability to resist pressure has made great progress, which is not the same as at the beginning. He is still trying to slow down the deterioration. And the imminent arrival of a new force also gave him hope for a gradual reversal of the situation.

However, just a few days later, on the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month of the Yongli calendar, when all men and women, young and old, virtuous and foolish, loyal and traitorous, all of them were making final preparations for the arrival of the Spring Festival, under the Xianxia Pass, the Fujian Ming army was transferring the most elite troops to the southernmost area of the Quzhou capital through the last periodic change of defense a year ago.

Under the banner of the general, Zheng Chenggong watched the last army, Qinding Town, which had already formed an army as early as the first year of Yongli, stride across Xianxia Pass, and couldn't help but feel a drum of pride in his chest.

From the end of the second year of Longwu, the twelve-year-long overcoming of thorns and thorns finally gave him the strength and opportunity to fight to the death with the Manchurian heavy army group. For this day, the youth, blood, and even life of countless people finally paved this moat. Of course, this is also indispensable for him and Chen Kai's round-the-clock planning.

Today, the total strength of the Qing army's heavy army group in Quzhou has been constantly appearing on the flanks, and the threat has been reduced to less than 40,000 red lines. This should already be the limit. Even if even such a figure was beyond the reach of Zheng Chenggong's troops in the upcoming first wave of the offensive, he didn't care about it.

"The rest of the problems can be solved with the white blade of the spear!"