Zhou Xiuying's command of the battle also had some rules, and Ji Qingwen's side was already exhausted, and he had already achieved the strategic goal of blocking the White Lotus Sect in Wenzhou City, so he did not continue to catch up.

On the contrary, Lord Liu Kongzhao, who rushed to reinforce the sincerity, was unhappy, saying that the White Lotus Sect's attack was frustrated, and it was a golden opportunity to take advantage of the victory to pursue, and he must not let it go, and asked Ji Qingwen to command the army to follow and pursue.

The Ming Wu army under Ji Qingwen is the foundation of his life, and the losses in today's battle are already not small, and he is about to arrange for his sergeants to rest and recuperate in situ, how can he listen to Liu Kongzhao's request and then drive the army to continue fighting?

So Ji Qingwen coldly threw down a sentence: "If you want to chase you, Lord Liu, it's okay, anyway, my people don't have the strength to chase anymore." ”

Dead Zhang butcher, don't eat hairy pigs. Without you Ji Qingwen, this lord can also pursue the White Lotus Sect! This is the idea of Lord Liu Kongzhao, who is sincere.

With such an idea, Liu Kongzhao led the imperial court reinforcements who had just crossed the river from the north bank of the Oujiang River, and personally pursued the White Lotus Sect members who had retreated to Wenzhou City.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Xiuying, the "holy woman" of the White Lotus Sect, had already made preparations, and personally led the Lady Army and other elite remnants of the White Lotus Sect, taking advantage of the opportunity of the official army to pursue the enemy with great interest, and organized a counter-charge, defeating the official army led by Liu Kongzhao and retreating.

Lord Liu Kongzhao, who lost the face of his ancestor Liu Bowen, suffered a defeat, and Fang Cai's spirit immediately disappeared, and he hurriedly withdrew his troops, and no longer dared to pursue rashly.

With the retreat of the entire White Lotus Sect army into Wenzhou City, this decisive battle with the official army that the White Lotus Sect leader Xu Hongru had deliberately organized for a long time ended with this kind of result that although the official army was severely damaged, the strategic goal was not achieved.

After such a big battle, Xu Hongru could only be trapped in an empty city in Wenzhou. And the worse situation is that this war consumed most of the materials that Xu Hongru had worked so hard to collect inside and outside Wenzhou City.

Now, the food in Xu Hongru's hands can only sustain the army for more than ten days of food and drink; Most of the weapons are damaged, and there is no way to repair and replenish them; And after the war, the most important medicine, to treat the wounded soldiers, was even more nothing, so that the city of Wenzhou was full of wailing and painful sounds.

There was no way, Xu Hongru could only set up a magic altar in Wenzhou City, pretended to burn incense and pray, and burned a few pieces of rune paper, dissolving the ashes of the rune paper in the well water, saying that this is the holy water infused with the supreme mana of Mingzun, as long as you drink this holy water, all diseases and pains will come to naught.

Although Xu Hongru didn't fight very well, his holy water was quite popular, and several large buckets of holy water were snatched up by the believers in the blink of an eye

Empty - anyway, there is no medicine stone to heal injuries now, and there is no harm in drinking this holy water anyway, so it is better to believe in it than to believe in it.

And the imperial court, after this tragic victory, also suffered great losses.

Among them, the Ming Wu Army, as the main force of the official army, lost 11 people, seriously wounded 8 people, and slightly injured about 300 people; The casualties of the white pole soldiers were slightly lighter, also about 200 people, but the use of the spears in the hands of the white pole soldiers consumed a huge amount of physical strength, and it was difficult to go into battle in a short period of time; The combat effectiveness of the forbidden army of the Jingshi Battalion was slightly poor, and after the key attack of the elite women's army of the White Lotus Sect, nearly half of the damage was lost, and it basically lost its combat effectiveness.

But in terms of the imperial court, in addition to these elite divisions, there were also a large number of local defenders and guard armies in the hands of Liu Kongzhao, Han Zanzhou, Zou Weilian, and Zhang Yandeng.

Originally, these centaurs couldn't fight the White Lotus Sect, but after the bloody battle before, the combat effectiveness of the White Lotus Sect had also been greatly damaged, and they were unable to resist the attacks and encroachment of so many new forces.

With the gradual development of the follow-up offensive of the official army, the defensive offensive set up by the White Lotus Sect outside Wenzhou City was attacked one by one, but in just three days, the backbone of the White Lotus Sect - including the "Sect Leader" Xu Hongru, the "Holy Daughter" Zhou Xiuying, and the "Senior Brother" Xu Daoqing - were all besieged in a lonely Wenzhou city.

At this time, Liu Kongzhao finally came up with the frame of hand-picking the general point of counterinsurgency, and ordered tens of thousands of officers and troops concentrated near Wenzhou to guard the key points, almost completely blocking the escape of the White Lotus Sect, and achieving the strategic goal of besieging the White Lotus Sect in a corner.

However, even so, Wenzhou City is not so easy to break.

When Zhang Yandeng, the governor of Zhejiang, obeyed Ji Qingwen's order with the "Sword of Heaven", he did not agree with his strategy of clearing the wilderness and luring the enemy into the depths, and because of the urgency of time, he only cleaned the inside and outside of Wenzhou City slightly, and did not destroy the Wenzhou city wall.

Therefore, although the White Lotus Sect suffered a defeat, it still has a danger to defend, and it can still claim the king and hegemony in Wenzhou City.

Liu Kongzhao did not want to break through the isolated city of Wenzhou, so as to hold the first credit of counterinsurgency tightly in his own hands. However, he sent troops to test it several times, but he was smashed back by the White Lotus Sect in the city with tiles, bricks, and stones, so he could only temporarily rest his flag, wait for Ji Qingwen to recover his morale, and then use the power of the Ming Wu army with extraordinary combat effectiveness under his command to break through Wenzhou City in one fell swoop.

Ji Qingwen was not very anxious, and used his power to secretly play the current battle situation and send it to Emperor Chongzhen, and then camped on the spot to comfort the fallen soldiers and treat the injured brothers. He also called Zheng Zhilong, who was already on standby in Oujiang, to send the freshest rice, noodles, vegetables, and fish from Suzhou Mansion and Songjiang Mansion

There was a lot of food and drink in the camp, and by the way, together with Qin Xiangzhen's white pole soldiers and Liu Kongzhao's Jingshi battalion, they also ate and drank spicy.

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When Emperor Chongzhen received Ji Qingwen's battle report, he was reviewing the budget for the restoration of the Liaodong defense line sent by Sun Chengzong.

According to the calculations of the old superintendent Sun Chengzong, the restoration of the Liaodong defense line mainly lies in the repair and expansion of Shanhaiguan and the construction of the Da and Xiao Linghe fortifications. None of these three key projects are money-saving, and they need more than 3.7 million taels of silver in total. Although this money was invested one after another, it was also a large expenditure. Nowadays, there are too many places where the Ming court spends money, so much so that the Supreme Emperor Chongzhen of the Ninth Five-Year Plan has reduced the daily expenses of the palace by half to raise funds.

And Ji Qingwen's battle report is the only good news for Emperor Chongzhen in a lot of bad news. The victory in the decisive battle of Wulong Mountain means that the White Lotus Rebellion, which almost turned Jiangnan upside down, has come to an end, and Jiangnan, as the center of gravity of the imperial court's financial endowment, will finally return to calm, order, and prosperity.

This is an extremely important thing for the Ming court, which is in an eventful season.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen, who was full of joy after reading the war report, remembered the matter of knighting Ji Qingwen again, so he summoned the cabinet Zhou Yanru, Wen Tiren and Xu Guangqi, the three cabinet ministers, and asked them if they had thought about Ji Qingwen's title for Emperor Chongzhen.

How old is Ji Qingwen? If you are not from a two-rank jinshi and have no experience in commanding troops alone, how can you be easily knighted?

Therefore, the three cabinet ministers, together with Xu Guangqi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites who Ji Qingwen had always befriended, also thought that giving Ji Qingwen the knighthood was just a whim, as long as this matter was put aside to cool down for a while, the emperor would naturally figure out the benefits and losses and take back the fate.

Unexpectedly, Chongzhen is an extremely serious and tricky emperor, as long as it is a decision he makes and what he orders to do, even if it cannot be done for a while because various conditions do not allow it, he will never forget it easily, and always find an opportunity to bring it up again. It is because of this character that Yuan Chonghuan's tragedy has been caused from a certain angle.

However, now Emperor Chongzhen has no demand, and there is no reason to deal with Ji Qingwen, after this questioning, it is only these three cabinet ministers who are unlucky, after all, these three bosses dare to take the emperor's will as a deaf ear, and after eight or nine days, they still have not come up with a satisfactory title.

Chongzhen is an impatient emperor, and these bureaucrats are no longer allowed to continue to pass the buck, so they can draw up Ji Qingwen's title on the spot.

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