Just as Chen Kai informed Zheng Chenggong as soon as he foiled Geng Jimao's offensive, the news that Zheng Chenggong had won the Jiangdong Bridge victory and recovered the capital city of Zhangzhou was also sent to Chen Kai's case.

The two fronts, one defense and one attack, are inevitable in the strategic situation. Now the two sides are blooming, the good news from west to east, from east to west, a while is the Qing army anyway, a moment is a field victory, a moment is a defensive battle to defeat the Han army flag, a while is to recover the city, back and forth sweeping the Ming army's control area, since the Liao incident, how can there be such a situation, this back and forth Lu Bu Feijie will be the gentry and the people's necks are twisted.

However, it is undeniable that this is an invisible boost to the morale of the people, and it also has an excellent endorsement for the government's governance. At least today, when the morale of the Ming army is like a rainbow, those who want to make trouble must first think about the aftermath.

The Ming army on the eastern front won successive battles, and there was a solid fortress on the western front, and the Qing army in Guangdong had recently reined in its minions after touching a face full of flowers in front of the fortress, and it seemed that it was really asking for artillery from Guangzhou as Chen Kai expected. Since there was no war on the Western Front, Chen Kai reassigned the defense of each town, and at the same time set off to return to the capital of Chaozhou.

Returning to the capital city of Chaozhou, Chen Kai could have taken a boat directly to the waterway of the Hanjiang River, but due to the continuous implementation of the division of land and tuntian, Chen Kai learned that there seemed to be many gentry and common people in newly recovered counties such as Huilai and Chaoyang who were worried about this, so he simply took the opportunity to return to the capital city to inspect it.

Huilai County and Chaoyang County, behind the dissatisfaction of the two places are those local tyrants and bandits who have not been made by the emperor, and the successive victories of the Ming army have made many people choose to shut up, and wait until Chen Kai has made it clear that he will not divide the land in these two counties, and the worries are gradually subsiding.

After leaving Chaoyang, Chen Kai returned to the capital of Chaozhou by boat. The boat sailed along the coastline to the waterway of the Hanjiang River, passing by a very familiar place, and after thinking about it, it was indeed here, and through the Guting Village Chen Kai remembered another funny saying.

Historically, after Zheng Chenggong won the victory of Jiangdong Bridge, he first attacked the city of Zhangzhou with ants, and then adopted the method of collapse, just like the earlier attack on Changtai County, neither method worked, Zheng Chenggong simply besieged Zhangzhou City, and besieged until the Pingnan general Jin Li came to the aid of Hangzhou garrison Eight Banners to relieve the siege and meet the battle.

From the siege of April to the end of September, Zheng Chenggong lifted the siege, these more than five months, according to historical records, in the first few months of the siege, the city with the savings of the warehouse and the gentry can still barely support, and in August and September, the price of rice per stone is as high as 550 taels, and the grassroots, wood, leaves, rats, birds, cattle and horses search for food, and then human flesh." Subsequently, "he died of illness, starvation, and throwing himself into water, and soldiers died by forcibly seizing Chuchu, and thousands of people died every day." Mountains of bones and foul smells for miles." In addition to coercing and blackmailing the people, the defenders in the city "tiger and wolf soldiers are boiling at dawn and night, gold and silk pearls and jade, and their waists are full of ropes, and there are still drunken and singing to entertain their main generals." If there is no fighting spirit in the front and no guard in the back, so that the soldiers are a few days late, the city society will not be a mound, and the civil officials will not be a fan."

It is undeniable that Zheng Chenggong did want to use hunger as a weapon to break through the capital city of Zhangzhou, and for this reason, the Jinhua general soldiers and horses sent in May to enter the city were also to exacerbate the food shortage.

However, in the mouths of some later generations, it is like claiming that Zheng Chenggong slaughtered 70,000 people in Outing Village, and they are also ashamed to say that Zheng Chenggong besieged the capital of Zhangzhou and starved to death 700,000 people, and called the most common siege tactics such as besieging the city a major crime of Zheng Chenggong. And the same group of people, for the 10th day of the martyrdom of 800,000 people in Yangzhou, said that "they didn't kill so many people at all, because there is no evidence such as mass graves"; Regarding the Guangzhou Massacre, in which 700,000 people were slaughtered and supported by a common grave, they said, "There are not so many people in the city of Guangzhou, so there is no possibility of killing so many people."

Back then, in Outing Village, Chen Kai once felt that the brain was a good thing, but many people didn't have it at all. Revisiting the old place this time, I think of the examples of Zhangzhou Fucheng, Yangzhou and Guangzhou, but I can only say "the butt decides the brain". As for those who are deceived, he really can't tell whether the deceivers are too cunning or the deceived don't want to understand.

Taking history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall. This is a wise quote that Chen Kai heard when he was in school, and he believes that anyone who has a certain understanding of Chinese history will not be too unfamiliar with it. However, if you know what you know, whether to do it or not, and how to do it, are all decided by your ass, and even often argue for the sake of arguing, completely ignoring right and wrong.

When you think about it, it seems that there is nothing surprising about this. Wasn't that what the Donglin Party had always done back then, but once he thought of this, Chen Kai suddenly had no desire to continue to worry about it. Especially at this moment, while the war situation in southern Fujian and eastern Guangdong is improving, some other places and other things are more worthy of Chen Kai's attention.

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Southern Fujian and eastern Guangdong were all coastal areas that were more favorable to the superior naval divisions of the Ming army. The deeper it went inland, the more unfavorable it was for the Ming army, especially for the Fujian Ming army. On the other side of Wuyi Mountain, the most prestigious in Fujian, far away in Jiangxi, the Jianghu Mountain camp in Guixi County, Guangxin Prefecture, is the place where the governor of Jiangxi Jie Chongxi is stationed and the core of the Jiangxi Ming army in Tuntian, the eastern part of Jiangxi.

In the second half of last year, when Chen Kai traveled to the southeast, he also came here to talk to Jiezhongxi. The two sides maintained a face-to-face harmony, but cooperation was not reached, even if Chen Kai had written a letter to Jiezhongxi before leaving Jiangxi, it did not actually change the strategy of the Jiangxi Ming army.

After Chen Kai left, with Chen Kai's suggestion, the Jiangxi Ming army transferred a large amount of manpower, and continued to strengthen the fortifications on the periphery of the control area at the cost of delaying part of the tuntian. In the following days, after resisting the most ferocious offensives of the Qing army in the previous waves, the Qing army may have outweighed the losses or feared that the situation in Zhejiang would deteriorate after the defeat, and the offensive was intermittent, although the war was not completely over, but it also gave them a rare respite.

But this year, as the Qing army in Zhejiang completed the suppression of the large-scale anti-Qing movement in Zhejiang, at the beginning of the year, Ma Jinbao, the general soldier of Jinhua who was in charge of the green battalion of the four prefectures, was transferred to help in the battle, and the offensive started again, and this time, their situation was even worse than last year.

"What Chen Kai said is true, Zhejiang's Tartar is really here."

"Fortunately, the Tartars of Fujian are still busy themselves, otherwise there will be no way to survive if they are attacked from three sides."

This kind of dialogue has lasted for two months since Ma Jinbao led his troops to step into the territory of Guangxin Mansion at the beginning of the year. At this moment, it is still in the humble governor's yamen, where leading figures such as Jie Chongxi, Fu Dingquan, Cao Dahao, Hong Guoyu and Zhang Zisheng gather here, and what is discussed is the next step.

"Zhejiang's Tartars are more difficult to deal with than Jiangxi's Tartars. That Jin Quma, in addition to the ability to pour vinegar, doesn't seem to be an idle thing. ”

Compared with the Jiangxi Green Battalion, which has been lacking strong troops since Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren anyway, the Zhejiang Green Battalion itself has many troops with strong combat effectiveness, such as Tian Xiong and Zhang Jie, the generals of Huang Degong in the four towns of Jiangbei, such as the Han Eight Banner Army stationed in Hangzhou, and Ma Jinbao, who was born in Zhejiang and Fujian, and Ma Jinbao, who was born in Liukou, plus the opponent has always been the regular army of the Ming Army under the command of Lu Jianguo, the opponent is stronger, and the combat effectiveness tempered is naturally stronger, which is completely different from the situation in Jiangxi.

The recent battles have been very difficult, and they have had to give up some of the outlying camps and fortifications that are difficult to defend, which makes Jie Chongxi and others worried about this, and even brought up Chen Kai's original suggestion again.

"Breaking through one of the Tongmu Pass, the Water Dividing Pass and the Valley Pass is now probably no longer possible. The last general sent spies to investigate a few days ago, and now Fujian Tatars have completely closed the checkpoints, and there seem to be signs of increasing troops. With our ability to tackle tough problems, I'm afraid we won't be able to conquer the level. ”

Retreating into northern Fujian and using the Wuyi Mountains at the junction of Fujian and Jiangxi to deal with the Qing army, this is Chen Kai's suggestion. Zhang Xuesheng begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother to send reinforcements from all walks of life to fight in Fujian, and on the other hand, he blocked the checkpoints, lest the Jiangxi Ming army enter Fujian and further corrupt the overall situation of Fujian Province.

At that time, they did have their own difficulties, such as lack of strength, such as difficulty in coordination, etc., but now, even if they don't say it, they will inevitably have illusions such as "If you had teamed up with Chen Kai to break through the level, what would you do now".

"There should be a crack to drill over there in Shao Wufu......"

Hong Guoyu's words came out, but in fact, he couldn't guarantee anything. And Jie Chongxi and others are also worried about this, especially when they retreat into northern Fujian, the tuntian here is not completely abandoned, but it is nothing more than a temporary maneuver, but if they turn to the south and enter Fujian from Shaowufu, then they must completely abandon these tuntian. And they need to face the provincial capital of Fujian, Fuzhou, which is connected to Shaowu by a Min River, which is the most dangerous.

There is nothing to be done, and it is still like this, and it is in vain. It's just that unlike previous times, this time Jie Chongxi took out a letter, circulated it, and then asked the generals: "Chen Kai's plan, what do you think?" ”