Although Emperor Chongzhen did not reward Ji Qingwen for the time being, Ji Qingwen's battle in the north of Quanzhou still had a significant impact on the situation.

The first is Fujian.

Zou Weilian, the governor of Fujian, had already made him anxious in order to deal with the White Lotus Sect's looting of Quanzhou City, as if he was a crappy tailor, and he was still a little busy sewing and mending along the way, and he had no leisure or spare energy to sew a new dress.

And Ji Qingwen's battle made the White Lotus Sect die down, which was equivalent to adding an extra arm to Zou Weilian, and finally allowed him to move his energy to deploy calmly and pull up an army of 1230,000 people to deal with the White Lotus Sect.

But Zou Weilian is a scholar in the end, he doesn't know about military affairs, although he has soldiers and horses in his hands and has a certain amount of strength, but he doesn't know where this force should go.

Fortunately, there is still such a number one person as Ji Qingwen in Fujian.

So Zou Weilian, an old bureaucrat who had been a high school jinshi in the thirty-fifth year of Wanli - that is, twenty-three years ago - could only put down his faction and ran to Hui'an County to ask Ji Qingwen, who was still stationed there, for advice on the deployment strategy.

Ji Qingwen is not a completely unreasonable person, and he is quite passable on the big side, seeing that Zou Weilian came to ask for advice, he was also very polite, so he invited Li Yan, Li Yuanyin, Yang Zhan and others to come over to discuss, and Shen Liangzuo naturally also attended.

At this time, three days had passed since the one-sided battle in Hui'an County, and during this time, Li Yuanyin had reorganized the eyes and ears of the Jinyi Guards in Fujian, and according to their incomplete and accurate information, he had already calculated that the main force of the White Lotus Sect was north of Quanzhou, where Fujian and Zhejiang met.

In this way, although it is impossible to achieve precise strikes, but fortunately, Zou Weilian has the advantage of having a large number of men and horses, so he can follow Yang Zhan's suggestion and adopt the strategy of parallel rolling advance, set up a front 200 miles wide north of Quanzhou, and deploy 500 to 1,000 men and horses every other mile to slowly advance to the north.

Although Yang Zhan does not know much about modern military combat strategies with artillery support, he is extremely proficient in traditional cold weapon combat, and his deployment can be called old and spicy, and it really blocked all the main forces of the White Lotus Sect to the north of the battle line, and the polar region compressed the space for the opponent's activities.

The White Lotus Sect is here.

Since Xu Hongru's uprising in Fujian, although there have been occasional small setbacks, but on the whole it can be called smooth sailing, after plundering a large amount of silver, a large number of supplies, then expanded the number of men and horses by more than 20,000, the total reached 80,000.

Eighty thousand, rounded up, is one hundred thousand.

An army of 100,000!

Xu Hongru has rebelled and made trouble many times in his life, but he has never been as successful as this time. This made the White Lotus Sect Master, who was already over his prime, extremely excited, and even the pain caused by the gunshot wound in his shoulder seemed to be alleviated a lot.

However, just as he was about to plan to choose another big city to attack, and then try to gain a foothold in the city, the news came that Ji Qingwen led the army to fight south.

In fact, for Ji Qingwen, the bitter master, Xu Hongru has long been prepared.

He knew that Ji Qingwen's base camp was in Suzhou, and if he wanted to enter Fujian from Suzhou, he had to go through Zhejiang, and Zhejiang to enter Fujian was nothing more than through Wenzhou and Quzhou. Therefore, Xu Hongru first limited his actions to the Wenzhou side of the East Road to prevent Ji Qingwen from attacking his back from Quzhou on the Western Front; On the other hand, he sent his most powerful subordinate, the "Holy Girl" Zhou Xiuying, to lead her "Women's Army" with extraordinary combat effectiveness to hold several dangerous places, just to prevent Ji Qingwen's southward attack.

Unexpectedly, Ji Qingwen did not take the eastern route or the western route, but took the sea route, and suddenly appeared in Quanzhou City, that is, under Xu Hongru's nose.

This ruined all Xu Hongru's deployments, and he had to look back at the vicinity of Quanzhou behind him, and deal with Ji Qingwen's henchman.

If it is according to the usual deployment, in the case of a small army like Ji Qingwen directly penetrating his belly, he should mobilize the strongest troops that can be mobilized and completely eliminate them as soon as possible.

But is Ji Qingwen an ordinary person?

As soon as he arrived in Quanzhou, his foothold was not yet stable, so he captured and wiped out all the White Lotus cultists who were entrenched in Hui'an County, which was unwilling to leave Quanzhou. And it is said that Ji Qingwen himself did not lose a single soldier.

What a fighting power this is!

Regarding the power of the "Ming Wu Army" under Ji Qingwen, Xu Hongru once saw it with his own eyes in Beijing and experienced it once in Nanjing, but even this time he had heard it with his own ears, and it was the third time. After these three repetitions, Xu Hongru was already convinced of the fact that with these White Lotus Sectists under his command alone, no matter how many people there were, they would not be able to easily defeat Ji Qingwen.

So Xu Hongru did not hesitate, he gave up the plan to turn south and fight with Ji Qingwen, but was ready to continue to step up his plan to go north, planning to seize big cities such as Hangzhou, Suzhou, and even Nanjing, and then obtain more financial, material and human resources.

Xu Hongru's plan was not made by him in a hurry, but there was a good reason for it.

First, Ji Qingwen's forces are indeed strong, and if you want to defeat him, you must concentrate all the troops under your command and spend a lot of time to succeed. In this way, there is a loss of the most precious resource of all – time.

Second, since Ji Qingwen has appeared in the south, it means that there are no more officers and soldiers in the north who can match him. As long as the whole army comes out of the nest and fights hard, plus a little luck, it will definitely be able to defeat those local officers and soldiers who are like wine bags and rice bags.

Third, because Xu Hongru attacked the two big cities of Nanjing and Quanzhou twice, and achieved great results, and the silver, grain, grass, and cloth collected in just a few days were more than the harvest he had painstakingly managed for decades. Therefore, occupying the big city, in Xu Hongru's eyes, is like drugs in the eyes of drug addicts, exuding magical power.

And this kind of magic eventually led to Xu Hongru's demise.

However, in any case, Xu Hongru has already made a decision - to avoid Ji Qingwen and Fujian officials and troops in the south, leave a small team to contain it, and personally lead the army, under the wing protection of Zhou Xiuying and Xu Daoqing, to advance to the northern territory of Zhejiang.

Xu Hongru's actions were extremely powerful, and the information reached the ears of the imperial court after a while.

The happiest among the court officials was Zou Weilian, the governor of Fujian.

According to the intelligence, the main force of the White Lotus Sect has now entered the territory of Ningde from Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian Province, which is heavily guarded, and then to Ningde, and then Fu'an to the north, Fuding County to the north, and then to Zhejiang.

According to Yang Zhan's deployment, Zou Weilian organized a large army to advance all the way north, but in fact, there were not a few battles with the White Lotus Sect - the few conflicts were also won and lost, and the official army did not have much advantage. But in any case, the White Lotus Sect is about to leave Fujian, so as the governor of Fujian, the operation to quell the rebellion of the White Lotus Sect has ended, as long as he strictly guards a few key passes from Zhejiang to Fujian, it will be considered a great success.

But Zhang Yandeng, the governor of Zhejiang, was not happy.

At the beginning, the White Lotus Sect first started in the city of Nanjing, which was in Nanzhili, and the big attack was in Quanzhou, Fujian. And as the highest administrative and military governor of Zhejiang Province, he is actually quite proud - after all, the White Lotus Sect is in turmoil in the northern and southern provinces, but it avoids Zhejiang Province in the middle, in contrast, doesn't it seem that he governs the whole province of Zhejiang with the people's will and the law and order is stable?

But now the White Lotus Sect is about to enter Zhejiang from Fujian, so Zhang Yandeng, who originally had the intention of watching the fire from the other side, suddenly found that the fire was almost burning to his feet.

This is something that Zhang Yandeng can't accept no matter what.

Therefore, the governor of Zhejiang, who knew a little about military affairs, hurriedly ordered the Zhejiang defenders who had been stationed in Wenzhou and Quzhou to strictly guard against it, and not let any White Lotus Sect enter the territory of Zhejiang.

As for himself, he chose 2,000 elite soldiers from his cronies and escorted him south to Fujian, where he wanted to have a good theory with his neighbor, Zou Weilian, the governor of Fujian.