With the 2,000 white pole soldiers of the Tusi Qin family in Sichuan fighting side by side, with Shen Liangzuo's 2,000 Beijing division battalions for direct command, with the orders of the governors of Zhejiang and Fujian, and with the cooperation of the Nanjing garrison sergeant Yang Fengyin but still passable, Ji Qingwen implemented his plan, and it was much easier.

Ji Qingwen's plan was decided after he discussed it with Li Yan and Yang Zhan, two cronies of Wen Yiwu, for a whole night, and it was a good idea that could wipe out the White Lotus Sect bandits.

And the core of this plan is to lure all the main forces of the White Lotus Sect to a pre-set place, and then surround and annihilate them.

And this place of encirclement and annihilation should first have a great attraction to the White Lotus Sect, so that the White Lotus Sect Xu Hongru willingly led the main force and plunged into this pre-dug trap.

And this place is Wenzhou, where Zhejiang and Fujian are handed over.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, although Wenzhou was not as prosperous as Nanjing, Suzhou, and Hangzhou, it was a big city in the south of the Yangtze River, and it was a target that could not be refused by Xu Hongru, who urgently needed to occupy the city and obtain supplies and expand his influence, and it was also a bait that exuded an attractive atmosphere.

Therefore, on the one hand, Ji Qingwen asked Zou Weilian, the governor of Fujian, to continue to urge his troops to advance northward, so as to drive the White Lotus bandits out of Fujian and into Zhejiang.

This kind of arrangement was what Zou Weilian dreamed of, so he immediately ordered the Fujian defenders under his command to continue the previous tactics according to Ji Qingwen's arrangement, continue to roll northward, and be sure to drive all the White Lotus bandits who were still entrenched in northern Fujian to Zhejiang.

However, the order received by Zhang Yandeng, the governor of Zhejiang, was not to intercept the White Lotus bandits on the border of Zhejiang and Fujian, but to retreat in an orderly manner to the north, first to the north and withdraw from the Feiyun River in the south of Wenzhou City, and then continue to withdraw from Wenzhou City, then cross the Oujiang River in the north, and finally line up on the north bank of the Oujiang River.

Of course, before the start of this operation, Ji Qingwen used the sword of the Son of Heaven to order Zhang Yandeng to empty the city of Wenzhou in advance, and the gold, silver, rice, livestock, poultry, etc. in the city all ran to other places with the people of Wenzhou to live temporarily, leaving Xu Hongru with only a bare and empty Wenzhou city.

The Nanjing garrison under Liu Kongzhao and Han Zanzhou had to ambush the west side of Wenzhou City in advance, and once the White Lotus Sect was ready to change direction, especially when it planned to change its northward direction to westward, it would not hesitate to take interception actions to continue to block them in the vicinity of Wenzhou.

In addition, the "Ming Wu Army" under Ji Qingwen, the white pole soldiers led by Qin Xiangzhen, and the soldiers of the Beijing Division Battalion brought by Shen Liangzuo from Beijing, these three elite divisions followed Ji Qingwen to act together. Ji Qingwen knew that Xu Hongru was not an ordinary person, so he saw through Ji Qingwen's deployment and continued to go north to occupy the big city, but immediately changed his direction and goal, and directly looked for an opportunity to fight a decisive battle with the imperial court.

If it really comes to such a time, the miscellaneous army under Liu Kongzhao, Han Zanzhou, Zou Weilian, and Zhang Yandeng alone will not be enough to fight against the White Lotus Sect bandits who are jumping over the wall in a hurry!

Ji Qingwen's deployment is not completely unnecessary, it is such a deployment, which has given the indispensable flexibility of the entire operation from the beginning, and completely dispelled the last trace of Xu Hongru's heart to jump off the wall at a critical moment.

And now Xu Hongru didn't realize that a net of heaven and earth was sweeping towards him.

He had already made up his mind to leave the poor countryside of Fujian and go north to develop in wealthy areas such as Zhejiang and Nanzhili, looking for opportunities to attack one or two prosperous big cities, and after continuing to obtain supplements, he sent troops to Nanjing and captured the center of Ming Dynasty's rule in the south in one fell swoop. After gaining a firm foothold, and then using Nanjing as the fulcrum, gradually encroaching on and occupying the imperial court's territory in the south of the Yangtze River, and finally freeing up his hands to kill Ji Qingwen, this kid, can form a situation of confrontation with the north and south of the Ming court, and a situation of confrontation and confrontation.

He thought that he was following the successful path of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, but he didn't expect that compared with Zhu Yuanzhang, Xu Hongru, the leader of the White Lotus Sect, was closer to Hong Xiuquan of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Hong Xiuquan and Xu Hongru naturally don't know each other, but Zhu Yuanzhang, who is decisive in action and ruthless in style, is admired by Xu Hongru in his heart - although what he wants to overthrow is the Ming Dynasty established by Mr. Zhu Yuanzhang.

Therefore, Xu Hongru also learned from Zhu Yuanzhang's "decisive action and ruthless style", and took advantage of the urgent pressure of the Fujian defenders, and immediately waved his army north and entered Zhejiang.

Zhejiang.

Zhejiang Governor Zhang Yandeng listened to Ji Qingwen's order, although he intended to introduce Xu Hongru's White Lotus Sect to the ground in Zhejiang, but he couldn't make it too obvious, he still had to pretend to resist and then pretend to be defeated, so that the play could be completed.

But as soon as he got on the stage, Zhang Yandeng suddenly made this fake play real.

It's not that Zhejiang Governor Zhang has excellent acting skills, but that he really has no choice.

Speaking of which, the White Lotus Sect is a rabble, but the Zhejiang Guards under Zhang Yandeng are not much better than them. In addition to the ordinary believers who were temporarily gathered in the White Lotus Sect, there was also a team of old believers close to Xu Hongru, a team of capable people selected by Xu Daoqing from among the newly recruited believers, and the tigresses of the "Women's Army" around Zhou Xiuying.

These people can be called the backbone of the White Lotus Sect's team and the core of combat effectiveness, every time they encounter a fierce battle, the White Lotus Sect always uses these backbone forces to charge and break through, and after they break through the defense line of the official army, they can completely defeat the official army by a large group of people and horses.

In this way, whether Zhang Yandeng did it intentionally or unintentionally, all in all, Xu Hongru easily broke through the defense line in eastern Zhejiang and entered the boundary of Wenzhou, Zhejiang.

The reason why Xu Hongru chose the eastern front to enter Zhejiang instead of the western front was because Ji Qingwen led a total of 5,000 men and horses from the "Ming Wu Army", 2,000 white pole soldiers, and 2,000 Beijing division battalions to march and demonstrate in Fujian and western Zhejiang with great fanfare, deliberately showing that the imperial court placed the main force on the western front.

Fiction is real, reality is virtual.

Although Xu Hongru didn't know what Ji Qingwen's intention was when he appeared on the Western Front, the only thing he knew was that Ji Qingwen was the most difficult opponent to mess with, although sooner or later he would have to fight to the death, but now was not the time to confront him, but he should try to avoid his edge and accumulate strength.

So Xu Hongru discussed with Zhou Xiuying and Xu Daoqing, and felt that since the big cities of Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Nanjing in his target were concentrated on the eastern front, he would "find a soft pinch of persimmons", so he simply moved to the eastern front.

Therefore, Xu Hongru attacked the defense line in eastern Zhejiang with all his might, and in less than ten days, he led the main force to leave Fujian and enter the territory of Zhejiang. This made Xu Hongru a little proud, but he didn't know that all this was arranged by Ji Qingwen in advance, he seemed to act quickly and actively, but in fact, he was being led by the nose by the opponent.

After Xu Hongru entered Zhejiang as planned, Ji Qingwen issued three orders in a row: first, he asked Zou Weilian, the governor of Fujian, to step up the pursuit and continue to compress the White Lotus Sect to Zhejiang; second, to ask Zhang Yandeng, the governor of Zhejiang, to continue to resist and retreat, but let go of the main road and lure the opponent in the direction of Wenzhou City; Article 3: Liu Kongzhao, the commander of the Nanjing garrison, and Han Zanzhou, the eunuch of the Nanjing garrison, were to lead a large army to deploy defenses on the Oujiang River in the north of Wenzhou to prevent the White Lotus Sect from entering Wenzhou and then returning to the north, so as to further expand the scale of the White Lotus Rebellion.

And Ji Qingwen himself continued to lead the five thousand men and horses composed of three parts of his subordinates to move around the west of the main force of the White Lotus Sect bandits, scaring them from developing inland.

In this way, although Xu Hongru of the White Lotus Sect seems to have successfully broken through the defense line of the official army and entered Zhejiang, he is surrounded by the endless East China Sea to the east, Ji Qingwen's troops to the west, and Fujian that he has just left to the south.

So far, although Xu Hongru has not lost a single battle since he started his army in Fujian, and all the progress of his actions seems to be within his control, but somehow, now there is only one way left to continue north.