Since the end of the ninth year of Yongli, but it has stopped for less than a year, the war between the Ming and Qing dynasties has been frequently staged in Guangxi, Fujian, Southern Jiangxi, and Guangdong, although its intensity is not as strong as the Ming army's counteroffensive against Guangdong and Fujian provinces in the eighth year of Yongli, but the area of influence, the scope of radiation and the troops and resources invested by both sides, etc., are not inferior to the former at all.

By this time, the war in Fujian had ended with a complete victory of the Ming army, but in the remaining battlefields of eastern Guangxi, northern Guangdong and southern Jiangxi, the war between the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties still did not show the slightest sign of stopping the war, but became more and more intense.

In the south of Ganzhou, the war was in full swing, and in Ji'an, the tension between the government and the people was also intensifying with the advance of the Ming army.

Just like Ruijin County when the Ming army besieged the capital city of Tingzhou, the capital city of Ganzhou was about to face the encirclement of the Ming army, and the grain, grass and military supplies in Ji'an Mansion were also constantly shipped to the capital of Ganzhou through the Ganjiang River waterway. Although these two prefectures are both Jiangxi Prefectures, they are under the jurisdiction of different governors' yamen, which is exactly the opposite of Tingzhou Prefecture and Ruijin County.

However, at this point, everyone can see that once the Ming army breaks through the Ganzhou Mansion, then the next one will be Ji'an Mansion. Even, along the Ganjiang River channel and Poyang Lake, the Ming army can go all the way down the river, through Ji'an Mansion, Linjiang Mansion, Nanchang Mansion, Nankang Mansion, Jiujiang Mansion directly into the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, just like a string of sugar gourds, directly Jiangxi Province to penetrate out!

The capital city of Ganzhou is undoubtedly the most difficult place to gnaw on this road, just since the Southern Ming Dynasty, Jin Shenghuan and Li Chengdong have already proved the horror there with their lives and the fate of the country.

The warehousing of Ji'an Mansion is constantly being shipped, in order to make Ganzhou Mansion last longer. Some officers think that they should reinforce the city of Ganzhou, and some officers think that it is the matter of Ganzhou Mansion, and they only need to hold Wan'an and Longquan counties near Ganzhou Mansion. Other officers said that once the capital city of Ganzhou fell, then the peripheral counties of Wan'an, Longquan and even Taihe would be completely under the front of the Ming army.

The last group of officers is the mainstream opinion, among which the optimists say that they should still stick to the capital city and wait for Nanchang, or even more distant reinforcements; The pessimistic group said that once they lost, it was better to give up Ji'an Mansion and flee directly to Nanchang, and even now it was better to prepare their bags and save time to catch blind......

The government and the green camp were very busy, and the local people had to be busy under their urging. It is most normal for those who are worried - after all, the soldiers are in danger of fighting, and the loss of soldiers may be just a number, and the losses of the people in the war, if not too huge, often cannot even be written into the history books, only ordinary people are silently bearing.

In addition, it has always been the orientation of positioning, between the government and the common people, the Confucian scholars and doctors can be said to be officials when they advance, and gentry when they retire, and their existence as intellectuals, bureaucratic reserves, and grassroots powerhouses often have more complex thoughts than the government, the green camp, and the ordinary people.

On the whole, the gentry of Ji'an Province were more inclined not to participate in the war between the Ming and Qing dynasties, which the more you look at it, the more you can draw conclusions. This is not an emotional decision of the vast majority of them, but in fact, the anti-Qing movement in Jiangxi has been surging in recent years, and the gentry class has contributed a lot.

It can even be said that the climax stage of Jiangxi's anti-Qing movement was for Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren, but aside from these, it was almost entirely dominated by the Jiangxi gentry. Jiangxi Governor Jie Chongxi, the right attendant of the military department and the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, Fu Dingquan, and the Marquis of Dingnan, Cao Dahao, are all representatives of the local gentry in Jiangxi, especially Jie Chongxi, who can basically be regarded as the actual leader of the entire Jiangxi Anti-Qing Movement except for Jin Shenghuan.

However, under the brutal suppression of the Qing army, the losses of the Jiangxi scholar class were too huge. Seeing too many of the heads of their peers fall to the ground, the nostalgia for the homeland, the disgust for the barbarians, and the resulting resistance in the hearts of the rest of the people born from the defense of Yixia will gradually fade under reason to the point that even if they are resentful in their hearts, it will be difficult to stand up and fight against the Qing court. These people are often the so-called remnants.

The butcher's knife of the Qing court shocked most people, so that after the Qing court's serious collapse of the Jiangxi Four Great Kou, the anti-Qing movement in Jiangxi fell directly to the bottom, even more exaggerated than Zhejiang after the Battle of Zhoushan. Among them, there is no lack of Cai Shiying's implementation of the policy of the Qing court to resume production, but in fact, the Jiangxi Anti-Qing Movement has always been province-wide, and the bloodshed is naturally province-wide......

The killing was so great that more people were reluctant to come out to fight against the rule of the Qing court, just like Tao Qian's father-in-law, and even persuaded his nieces and sons-in-law to take the imperial examinations of the Qing court to ensure the continued prosperity of the family.

This is understandable, but with the gradual increase in the momentum of the Ming army's counteroffensive in Fujian and Guangdong provinces, especially Chen Kai's heaven and earth will gradually lay nails one after another on the ground in Jiangxi, although most of the folk gentry still have the intention of sitting and watching the changes, but there are more and more unwilling gentry who have participated in the anti-Qing movement and later have to be the remnants.

In this process, Zou Nan and his two friends who received training in Guangdong with him, and then returned to their hometown in Ji'an Province to lurk, can be described as a fish in water locally. They established mutual aid associations in the countryside, and at the same time developed more members, spreading the tentacles of the organization, and reached a tacit understanding with Liu Jing, the leader of the anti-Qing rebel army in Yunxiao Mountain.

According to Chen Kai's earlier training, the current work of the Ganzhou Tiandi Association is what they need to do after the Ming army recovers Ganzhou, and they have already been psychologically prepared at this point, and even when the Ming army's battle line is getting closer and closer to the Ganzhou capital, they are also preparing intensively in private.

The comrades who are connected with the Heaven and Earth Society need to make plans in advance according to their own situation if they have organized mutual aid associations, and those who have not organized mutual aid associations must also play their respective roles - gathering intelligence, liaising with and instigating powerful people, and even more difficult things. The anti-Qing Dynasty has never been a dinner invitation, and the gentry recruited by the Jiangxi Tiandi Association have basically participated in the anti-Qing movement, and of course they know that there is a matter of life and death.

Everything is still being prepared in an orderly manner, and as the head of the Ji'an Mansion Heaven and Earth Association, Zou Nan can be said to have a lot of opportunities. This state lasted until the moment when the bad news sounded in his ears, and it was only a moment's work, as if the whole world had been turned upside down.

Dizziness is the body's first reaction, Rao is Zou Nan has experienced too much in most of his life, and when such news is presented in front of him, especially when the other side of happiness is coming, he is even more shocked by this.

"Something must be done, something must be done......

After the shock, the first reaction in his mind was this. If he doesn't do anything, he will completely accept his fate, and since he can re-shave his hair and lurk, he is definitely not a character who will accept his fate casually. At this moment, there are thousands of thoughts and whimsical thoughts in his mind, but after thinking about it, he still does not have a good solution. It's not that his ability is insufficient, it's really a clever woman who can't cook without rice, and the gap between the two sides is too huge.

"Liu Guangbi, the governor of Jiangxi, has 5,000 soldiers and horses, divided into five battalions; The total army of Jiujiang rose together, and the soldiers and horses of the department were also 5,000, which was also divided into five battalions. Originally, Fujian was in turmoil, and Jiangxi was rushed to Jianning Mansion to help in the war, and later Fujian's green battalion stabilized the battle line, and they returned to Nanchang. And the Jiujiang town mark was originally divided into troops to help defend Nanchang, and when the standard returns, they will also return to the defense area......"

Liu Guangbi is a person from Liaodong, a person with a blue flag in the Han army, originally promoted to the Han army with a blue flag Meler Zhangjing with military merits, and served as a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, and later Jin Shenghuan anyway, although Tan Tai was left here after being suppressed in the south. Liu Guangbi has been in Jiangxi for many years and knows the situation in this province very well.

In contrast, the promotion of the Jiujiang General Soldier Qi was transferred from the Lingong General Soldier on the Ganshan side only the year before last, and Yang Jie, the former chief military officer, was transferred to the Ganshan side as the Xing'an General Soldier. However, the 3,000 Shanxi soldiers that Yang Jie brought from Shanxi back then still stayed here in Jiujiang, and their combat effectiveness was still much stronger than the green battalion soldiers formed locally in Jiangxi.

These two green battalions are the existence of Dinghai Shenshen in Jiangxi, which itself stems from the Qing court's military deployment in Jiangxi - with Jiujiang Prefecture, where Poyang Lake flows into the Yangtze River, the provincial capital Nanchang, and Ganzhou, a strategic place in the south, as the core of defense, and the three green battalions are all 5,000 large establishments, which is rare in other provinces. However, in other prefectures and counties in Jiangxi, aside from them, the largest establishment is nothing more than the 2,000-soldier association of Yuanzhou Mansion, and even the Fubiao of Jiangxi and Southern Jiangxi has only 1,500 people, and the rest of the prefectures are basically the existence of 300 or 600 soldiers.

This time, Hong Chengchou simply transferred out these two people, completely ignoring the problem that the two places were about to stage an empty city plan, which shows that he knows that the current situation is urgent.

"The Eight Banners Army over there in Huguang, after many inquiries by the subordinates, found out that the general Arzin did not come, and the two Gushan Ezhen did not come, but a senior officer of the Eight Banners named Suke Saha, it is said that this guy defeated the King of Funan in Changde, and he is a very difficult guy."

The Qing army's Eight Banners Army in Huguang has never been less, the earliest is the Eight Banners of the Han Army, and later the Ming army counterattack in the sixth year of Yongli, the Qing court sent Nikan to lead the army south, but Nikan died, and Beile Tunqi, who succeeded Nikan, was defeated in the next year. The army had already returned to Beijing to recuperate, and the Eight Banners Army of Chen Tai, the general of Jingkou in Ningnan, who arrived later, was composed of Chen Tai's headquarters and horses, plus Gushan Ezhen Lanbai, Ji Xiha, and Suke Saha, the commander of the escort army. Later, during the Battle of Changde, Chen Tai died of illness, and the Qing court sent another Gushan Ezhen Arzin to replace him.

After the battle of Zhoujiapu, the Ming army had the strategy of attacking Changde, and there was also a return to the division of Tunqi, Hong Chengchou took advantage of the situation when he first arrived, although there were not a few wars, but the small fight never stopped.

At the moment, there is indeed news that the Ming army in the southwest is about to fight, but the signs of infighting have just appeared, Li Dingguo is still busy advancing Yunnan, and Sun Kewang still has not had time to set a strategy, and the Ming army of the Qin domain system is also still in Chenbing Huguang. At this time, the troops that the Qing army in the Huguang area could draw out were really limited, especially when Hong Chengchou commanded tens of thousands of southwest economic standards to cut into northern Guangdong, and Arzin and them did not dare to move easily. God knows, if they move slightly, then Sun Kewang will not take Huguang's Qing army to practice first.

The strength of the Eight Banners Army brought by Sukh Saha is still unknown, which is considered a secret in Jiangxi officialdom, and where can the Tiandihui in Nanchang easily get accurate information. However, with the Jiangxi standard and the Jiujiang town standard as the base, the scale of this army is 100 percent or more than 10,000 soldiers. In this way, as long as this army arrives in Ganzhou, the Ming army's military advantage in the southern Jiangxi region will be wiped out. Not to mention that there is also the Eight Banners Army here!

In recent years, the Heaven and Earth Association in Ji'an Prefecture has indeed developed rapidly, and all counties have members of the Heaven and Earth Society, and they also have mutual aid associations established by them, and these mutual aid associations are very powerful in the people, with these forces, coupled with the existence of Liu Jing, they are also more comfortable in the face of the prefecture and county yamen.

But the problem is that the mutual aid association is just a mutual aid association, even if it is like Zou Nan who has formed a group training team that can be used as the backbone in the future in the name of the nursing hospital, there are only a few dozen men with a little martial arts foundation. This little manpower, let alone against that army, even the local green battalion is never afraid to provoke.

"This matter is beyond our ability, we must try to inform the gentleman, and it is up to him to decide!"

Zou Nan has always regarded himself as a disciple of Chen Kai, and he has always interpreted the age difference between each other to others as Han Yu said, "There is no before and after learning, and the master is the teacher", which has been unanimously recognized by other members of the Heaven and Earth Association. He was personally trained by Chen Kai, and so was this friend from Nanchang. After thinking about it, they had nothing to do, so they could only try to report to Chen Kai, so as not to affect the overall situation.

However, Zou Nan is a lifter, due to the development of the mutual aid association, he is a powerful person in the local area, and the prefecture and county lords in the prefecture and county yamen are often frequent, and he must not be moved lightly during such a period of time, so as not to arouse the suspicion of the government.

At the moment, it is undoubtedly necessary to find a suitable person to go south as soon as possible and report the news to Chen Kai. This not only involves confidentiality, but what is more fatal is that there will definitely be chaos on the way south, and it is best for them to have a certain ability to protect themselves, so that they have a better chance of delivering the news in time. Otherwise, the detour is safe, but the message is completely useless after the statute of limitations, but it is better not to run this experience.

If you don't go through this kind of experience, it will never work. At this moment, Zou Nan thought about it for a long time, but there was one person who would definitely be able to deliver the news on time as long as he was willing to go out of the mountain. However, on second thought, this person was not a member of the Heaven and Earth Society, and according to the confidentiality system of the Heaven and Earth Society, he could not perform such a confidential task.

"If he is a member of our Heaven and Earth Society, it is enough for one person and one knife to go directly to the official road. Those clips along the way were cut directly, and dozens of green battalion soldiers were just waiting for idleness. ”

"Can this man be trusted?"

"Xindang is a believer, but the problem is that he is not a member of our Heaven and Earth Society."

Zou Nan's personality, the members of the Nanchang Tiandi Association know that the exaggeration of literati art does not exist in his mouth, but it will not be exaggerated to the extent that it is impossible to believe it. It's just that believing is one thing, and the secrecy system of the Heaven and Earth Society is beyond doubt. Although such a secrecy system seems to be a bit conservative, they have not lost their wind over the years, and in addition to not making actual anti-Qing moves, such secrecy measures have contributed a lot.

"Let's take a detour, hurry up, go to Xingguo County, and run to the capital. Didn't you say that the Wang Shi who entered Ganzhou from Fujian was there? ”

After thinking about it, they really didn't dare to entrust such a secret to a non-Heaven and Earth Society member. In this case, they had to find a member who had not formed a mutual aid association and was not very conspicuous on weekdays and rushed to Ganzhou Mansion overnight to report the news.

Next, the members who received the task also lived up to their trust and hurriedly set off, and did not dare to delay in the slightest on the way. So he went straight to Yandu County, and when he got there, he inquired about the news of the Mutual Aid Association, and made an incision with the local members of the Heaven and Earth Society, so he was recommended by the latter and rushed directly to the Ming army camp in the east of Ganzhou Fucheng. There, knowing that Chen Kai was not on the front line in Ganzhou for the time being, his people had to inform the news of the Huangshan Mountain, which was very close to Tao, and sent a messenger to Chen Kai.

The task is completed, especially in front of Tao Qian, the head of the Ganzhou Heaven and Earth Association, there should be no more mistakes. Along the way, he knew that the stakes were very high, so he could almost save the effort of sleeping, and he was really tired to go on such a journey. At the moment, it was easy to complete the task, but on the way back, the more he thought about it, the more wrong he became, and the more he thought about it, the more worried he became.

"The chief helmsman is not on the front line in Ganzhou, so how should Admiral Huang and Admiral Ke coordinate the command. Also, if the Tartars arrived, and the helmsman hadn't come back, who would listen to whom would the two of them in the middle of a battle? ”