Fu Dingquan asked Wang Kefan for help, but it was actually a forced choice.

Among the officials of the Southern Ming regime, Wang Kefan's attitude towards the peasant army was already very enlightened, but the Chu army on which he relied was also the regular army of the imperial court.

The so-called volunteers, is the armed forces that spontaneously participated in the struggle against the Qing Dynasty, their composition is very complex, there are not only the people who do not want to shave their hair, but also the robbers who occupy the mountains as kings, both the peasant army who rebelled in the early years, and the green battalion soldiers who have just returned to the Ming Dynasty anyway, the only thing that can be determined is that there is absolutely no regular army of the Ming Dynasty in the volunteers, or even if there has been, they have quickly changed the court and voted to the command of Wan Yuanji.

In the eyes of most Nanming officials such as Wan Yuanji, the volunteers are cannon fodder that can be sacrificed at any time, and it is enough to use them to consume the strength of the Qing army, and it is definitely not worth making any more investment. As for Fu Dingquan's Jiangxi Governor's Yamen in Raozhou Mansion, it was just a grass platform team that was temporarily set up for emergency purposes after the fall of Jiangxi......

Fu Dingquan knew this, it was good that Wan Yuan Ji didn't fall into the well, don't expect him to reach out and help.

Asking Jin Shenghuan for help was also in vain.

After the Battle of Nanchang ended, Jin Shenghuan lost his troops and lost his generals, his vitality was greatly damaged, and he was busy licking his wounds, and he was reluctant to send troops nine times out of ten. Second, before Jin Shenghuan was anyway, Fu Dingquan and him fought for several years, although they were their own masters, but they also formed a bond with each other. The third is because of the Raozhou guard Pan Yongxi. Fu Dingquan and Jin Shenghuan have always been not very good at dealing with each other.

Pan Yongxi was originally Jin Shenghuan's general, and because of his good management of the army, he was entrusted with important tasks. Garrisoned Poyang, the capital city of Raozhou Mansion, but he realized it earlier than Jin Shenghuan, as early as when the Gongyi Battalion made a big disturbance in Jiangxi, he took the lead in returning to the Ming Dynasty anyway and became a general under Jiezhongxi and Fu Dingquan.

Enlightenment is early and late, and the revolution is in no particular order, waiting until Jin Shenghuan is anyway. He frequently extended an olive branch to Pan Yongxi, hoping to recruit this elite army back under his command, for this kind of blatant digging of the wall. Jie Chongxi and Fu Dingquan both resolutely fought back, and if they came and went, they naturally couldn't be good friends.

Fu Dingquan sadly found that although there were all friendly troops behind him. But no one can count on it. In desperation, he had to ask Wang Kefan for help.

But whether Wang Kefan will help or not, he has no idea in his heart.

The territory of the Chu army is in the west of Jiangxi, and the territory of the Fuzhou volunteers is in the northeast of Jiangxi. Moreover, they only helped the Gongyi Battalion a small favor back then, but Wang Kefan gave back a large number of weapons, equipment and materials, and helped the Fuzhou volunteers to lay a large piece of land, and the favor owed has never been repaid. Now that he is in trouble, he begs to come to the door again, and Wang Kefan even refuses. I can't pick and choose.

But Fu Dingquan couldn't help but come.

He and Jie Chongxi have been operating dismally for several years, and it was easy to gain a foothold in the area of Raozhou Mansion and Guangxin Mansion, as the saying goes, it is difficult to give up the family, and you can't throw these family belongings to the Qing army, if you return to Fuzhou Mansion, it will be safe for the time being, but there are only two or three counties left in his territory, what will the tens of thousands of troops eat in the future? What to drink?

There is no other way but to rub your face hard.

Unexpectedly, Wang Kefan agreed very happily and did not stumble at all.

Fu Dingquan was overjoyed.

"After beating away the Tartars, if Wang Junmen intends to garrison troops in Raozhou Mansion, there are a few good places, Fuliang (now Jingdezhen) is backed by Poyang Lake, facing Nanzhili, it is a place where soldiers must fight, Bazi Brain and Shuanggang are on the edge of Poyang Lake, and you can train sailors......"

Fu Dingquan asked for money but no money, and he had no food, so he had to take out some land as a reward for the Chu army's troops.

Wang Kefan smiled and waved his hand, and said, "This is not in a hurry, let's talk about it later." ”

Of course, the more territory, the better, but Fu Dingquan's territory is on the front line, which is a burden for the Chu army, Wang Kefan will not be surrounded by Fu Dingquan for this little profit, and send the Chu army to guard the gate for him for a long time.

But as the saying goes, no profit is not early, since the Chu army has sent troops, it must also have something to gain, Wang Kefan has actually chosen the target a long time ago, but it is inconvenient to sue Fu Dingquan for the time being.

Jiangxi is the country's largest silver mine, Lengshuikeng silver mine is the largest silver mine in Jiangxi, the total reserves of 7,300 tons, the annual output of 22 tons of extra-large silver mine, is located in the northeast of Jiangxi Guixi County, mainly Yinluling, Baojia, Yinzhushan and other six mining areas.

In his previous life, because of a military-civilian cooperation project, Wang Kefan had worked in the Guixi Lengshuikeng Silver Mine for two months, and was very familiar with this super silver mine, and could even point out the specific location of the mining area, as long as enough manpower and material resources were invested, this silver mine could be developed.

Silver! What Wang Kefan lacks is silver!

With the technical conditions of the Ming Dynasty, there is no need to think about the annual output of 22 tons, but Wang Kefan can mobilize a large number of manpower and material resources to carry out barbaric predatory development, no matter how much waste, as long as he can produce more than 2 tons of silver a year, he will make a lot of money.

The unit of measurement in the Ming Dynasty and modern times is different, one catty is about equal to today's one catty and two taels, but one catty has sixteen taels, so 2 tons of silver is about 53,000 taels...... Fifty thousand taels of silver doesn't sound like much, but this is a long-term transaction, and with the deepening of development, the output will gradually increase, greatly improving the financial situation of the Chu army.

"The Fujian Green Battalion has a long expedition, running thousands of miles back and forth, and it is already the end of the strong crossbow when it arrives in Raozhou Mansion, Mr. Fu'an only needs to send an elite army to hold Anren, he can block the offensive of the Fujian Green Battalion, and I will conquer Guixi with a strong force, and I can gather it and annihilate it."

Hugging the grass and beating rabbits, Wang Kefan not only wants to eliminate the Fujian Green Camp, but also occupy Guixi by the way and occupy the future Lengshuikeng silver mine.

Of course, Fu Dingquan didn't know the storage of Lengshuikeng silver mines, so he admired Wang Kefan's high wind and brightness even more, Guixi County is located in the west of Guangxin Mansion, bordering Raozhou Mansion and Fuzhou Mansion, although it is not a poor mountain and bad water, but it is not a rich place, it belongs to the transition zone between the two armies of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and no one attaches too much importance to it.

Wang Kefan didn't want Jingdezhen or the wharf of Poyang Lake, but he sent the Chu army to attack Guixi County, obviously because he didn't want to get involved in the territory of the Fuzhou volunteers, and only thought about how to relieve the siege for the Fuzhou volunteers...... This favor is owing more and more money!

"May I ask Wang Junmen, how many soldiers and horses do you plan to send to battle? When can I get to Guixi? "These two questions are very critical, and Fu Dingquan can't help but ask.

"Wang Sheng and the others have a total of 10,000 armor, and they rushed to Guixi at dark five days later, how about it?" The specific force to send to fight, Wang Kefan has already thought about it.

At the beginning of the establishment of Chen Youlong's Zhenxiao battalion, it was reorganized and trained in Hunan for more than half a year before entering Jiangxi to fight a battle, and the troops' mental outlook and military discipline were not too problematic, and they could also participate in this battle.

The Chongyang battalion and the Zhenxiao battalion, one old with one new, are elite troops that can fight, enough to deal with the Fujian Green Battalion, but in order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, another reserve will be sent to Wang Sheng, Wang Kefan carefully considered, and decided to let the Ji'an battalion undertake this task.

In the Chu army system, the Ji'an battalion has always been a second-rate army, so it is less arrogant, and there is a local Jiangxi unit participating in the battle, which is of great benefit to morale and cooperation with friendly troops.

The Chongyang Battalion and the Ji'an Battalion are both large battalions that include three small battalions, and the Zhenxiao Battalion has a smaller number of troops, but there are also 2,000 armored soldiers, and the total strength of these three battalions is nearly 20,000, of which there are 10,000 armored soldiers, and they are also equipped with a large number of flintlock pistols and new artillery.

After the Battle of Nanchang, Tan Tai retreated to Jiujiang, the Qing army's sailors did not dare to enter the territory of Nanchang again, the Ming army's transport ships could swagger and rest assured, around Poyang Lake and Nanchang, the waterways in central Jiangxi were crisscrossed, Wang Sheng's troops could go to Guixi by boat, five days was enough.

"Good! Wang Junmen is strategizing, this battle will be won, I will rush back to Poyang, and prepare food and salary for General Wang San. The big stone in his heart fell to the ground, Fu Dingquan was very excited, very relaxed, and said happily: "I dare not say more, there is absolutely no problem with the army's January food, and I will prepare tens of thousands of handfuls of silver for General Wang San to reward meritorious soldiers." ”

"The silver is not needed, as long as you prepare some military rations, saving soldiers is like fighting fires, the army can not carry too much grain, and please ask Mr. Fu'an to select elite soldiers, we must ensure that Anren County is not lost, and wipe out the Fujian Green Battalion in one fell swoop, so as not to leave trouble!"

The two of them had a careful discussion on the specific battle plan, and after making sure that there was nothing missing, Fu Dingquan got up to say goodbye and returned to Raozhou Mansion by boat.

When the boat arrives at the pier, you can see the city wall of Ji'an Mansion from a distance, high and low, each section is different, very distinctive.

The Gongyi battalion had two dozen Ji'an mansions that year, and the city wall was blown to shreds, and then the owners changed several times here, the Chu army, the Qing army, the Jiangxi army, and Liu Shu's Ji'an volunteers ......, and everyone failed to occupy this place for a long time, because the cost of rebuilding the city wall was too great, so they were simply repaired, and it was just a matter of making do.

After Liu Shu occupied this place, he also considered overhauling the city wall, but was vetoed by Wang Kefan.

Fighting a war is compared to the strength of the army, no matter how thick the city wall is, it is useless, as long as the Chu army can continue to achieve victory, Ji'an Mansion is a safe rear, and there is no need to spend tens of thousands of taels of silver to rebuild the city wall. (To be continued......)