For a Jiangnan celebrity like Qin Dacheng, if he is willing to serve the Fu Han Army, this is the 'success' of the Fu Han Army, and it can be used as a banner to wave and shout in front of all strata across the country. But it is obvious that Qin Dacheng is unwilling to become this banner, no national righteousness can compare to the word 'profit', the benefit of money, the benefit of reputation, Chen Ming's original idea of 'using Qin Dacheng's mother to threaten Qin Dacheng, and using Qin Dacheng to threaten his mother' was frustrated just after it was implemented.

Even the information he received from Qin Dacheng made Chen Ming very interested in other literati and celebrities in Jiangnan.

The positions of the two sides are different, the butts are not sitting in one place, it is too early to let these people really work, and they are really vomiting!

"Metropolitan Governor, Director Wei sent an urgent report." At this time, Liu Wu hurriedly ran in with a vermilion bamboo tube. The feeling of ridicule in Chen Ming's heart was swept away, and his expression was slightly awe-inspiring. Wei Xiuzhi's urgent report, he and Jiang Tianfang dealt with the Qing soldiers in Suzhou, and suddenly sent an urgent report, but it was very bad. If Chen Ming remembers correctly, this time yesterday was a big red news sent by Jiang Tianfang.

The difference between this big red and vermilion is one word, but it is a thousand miles of error. And the sender was Wei Xiuzhi, not Jiang Tianfang.

Chen Ming took out a small notebook from his waist, this was a miniature thousand-character text, and of course the order was out of order. As a codebook during this battle, the urgent report sent by Wei Xiuzhi was very short, with a total of thirty-three words: Breaking the Wu militia at night, Chenxi Jiang personally attacked Hushu, and exchanged Wu's father for Jiang's corpse in order to shoot his life. The enemy crossed the Taihu Lake with 3,000 troops, forced Wuxi, and retreated! But it's clear.

The team broke Wu Xiongguang's militia at night, and then Jiang Tianfang personally led his troops to attack Hushu Pass, and was killed by Qing soldiers with bird guns, and Wei Xiuzhi exchanged Wu Xiongguang's father for Jiang Tianfang's corpse. Moreover, 3,000 Qing soldiers passed through Taihu Lake and threatened Wuxi, the rear road of his army, and Wei Xiuzhi had already withdrawn.

was obviously in a good situation, but because of Jiang Tianfang's sudden death, it was ruined all of a sudden.

Otherwise, the Han army in Suzhou, Jiang Tianfang led them back to Wuxi, and the Qing army's offensive was not a threat at all.

But Jiang Tianfang, as the head of the first army, died like that, and things became tricky all of a sudden.

Liu Wu stood aside, quietly waiting for Chen Ming's orders. Just after Chen Ming translated the password, the content really scared him. Jiang Tianfang actually died in battle, this is the first battalion officer and first-class officer under Chen Ming to die since the formation of the Han Army.

"Order Chen Antong and quickly lead a team of people to Changzhou. told Wei Xiuzhi that Wuxi would return to Changzhou if he couldn't keep it. But Changzhou must be stabilized. "The Puxi strategy on the side of the large army has just begun, and Chen Ming doesn't want to withdraw his troops immediately.

Chen Antong was one of the officers he left behind in Nanjing, a battalion officer and director of the Military Justice Department of the Military Police Battalion of the Fu Han Army.

Chen Ming asked him to go to Changzhou Town, as long as the soldiers' hearts were not flustered, relying on the strength of those people, it would definitely not be a problem to hold Changzhou. Although Chen Ming had just expanded his troops, after deducting Jiujiang, Anqing and Yangzhou, there were still more than 20,000 naval forces in his hands, but it seemed that he still had spare strength when he did not move, and once he launched an offensive, facing more and more troops of the Qing army, he once again felt the trouble caused by the lack of troops in this sortie.

The army of Huai'an did not dare to take Baoying to attack Gaoyou Lake, but they could go to Yancheng, and along the ancient salt canal, they could go all the way to Haimen Hall. Whether it was cooperating with Guangdong's land and water reinforcements to attack Nantong Prefecture, or directly threatening Taizhou west on the peninsula in Fu'anchang, Huang Jie in Jiangbei directly felt the pressure, and he obviously told Chen Ming that the troops in his hands were not enough.

If the various units of the Qing army acted alone, they would not have an impact on the Fu Han army at all, but if they could have a similar cooperation, as now, the threat would have doubled.

Yangzhou and Zhenjiang are both under major threat, can Chen Ming still lead the army to sweep Songjiang and Suzhou Mansion? He could only return to the army. If this pincer is not broken as soon as possible, as the Qing army arrives with more and more troops and gathers more and more militia groups, the pressure on the Nanjing defensive circle of the Fu Han army will be greater, and the situation will eventually be reversed, and the Fu Han army will switch from attack to defense, and the Qing army will change from defense to attack.

At that time, it was time for Chen Ming to leave Jiangnan.

"Let the front-line troops speed up and take Huating within five days!"

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"Let Fu Liang beat me hard and take Wuxi. Within five days, General Ben was to come to Jingkou. ”

In Hushu Pass, General Jiang Ning Rong Bao shouted excitedly. Chen Ming wants to capture Huating within five days, and he wants to come to Zhenjiang within five days, just because the Qing army in Suzhou really picked up a big bargain. The Fu Han army retreated in the next battle at Hushu Pass, which made the civil and military officials of Suzhou Duzhang and the second monk confused. It wasn't until Father Wu saw the portrait of the killed Jiang Tianfang that he could see at a glance that this person was the thief chief who wanted to kill him alive, that the Qing army in Suzhou finally figured out the reason for the retreat of the Fu Han army. It turned out that the thief general who Wu Xiongguang commanded the shotgun to kill was their big leader.

At this moment, those people who are red at Wu Xiongguang are really going to be red at him. What is the huge loss of the militia group, with the current credit, Wu Xiongguang is only a lonely person left, and he is also a hero of the Qing Dynasty.

And now Zi Rongbao also came to confidence, many Suzhou Qing army civil and military officers also have confidence, they want to surround Wei to save Zhao, soldiers go to Zhenjiang, will definitely force the Chen thief army to lose Songjiang, return to the nest quickly.

This is an absolute credit.

And it's not very risky. Because the entire Jiangnan knew that the main force of the Fu Han army had gone to Songjiang, Suzhou Prefecture, that is, the area north of Yangcheng Lake, had been robbed, and as for the Changzhou Fu Han army that had beaten them to the ground, it was obviously a partial division. was able to beat the Qing army to the ground, but the Qing soldiers did not pay attention to it and were caught off guard. And now their big leader has died unexpectedly, and in the eyes of the military and political officials in Suzhou, this Fu Han army seems to have changed from a hard bone to a big fat without bones.

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In the city of Suzhou, a middle-aged man in his thirties dragged his tired body home. This is a very simple house, the area is less than eleven of the king's mansion in Dantu's hometown, but it is such a simple house, and the rent for a month is as high as three taels of silver. However, Wang Zongquan's family encountered robbers on the way to escape, and the lives of the family of five were still there, but their belongings were robbed.

Wang Zongquan is now ghostwriting on the streets, and the business objects are mainly those who are soldiers, and the family letters are the heaviest in the chaos, Wang Zongquan is not short of business, but the little money he earns from ghostwriting with others has to take care of a family of five mouths and rent, which is obviously not enough.

Wang Zongquan's eldest daughter and youngest son are at home with her mother, Wang's health is not very good, he was frightened during the escape, and his eldest son Wang Zhizheng worked as an apprentice in a pharmacy in Suzhou. The two sides signed a three-year deed, and there was no salary, but there was a mouth left for the family.

Wang Zongquan hates the Fu Han Army very much, if it weren't for the Fu Han Army, their family would still be living comfortably in Dantu, and the eldest daughter's wedding date is scheduled for July this year, and now the whole family is busy preparing a dowry for their daughter. The Wang family is a small landlord family, with one or two hundred acres of land, and this kind of family in Jiangnan is already considered a squire.

Now, it's all over.

But slowly Wang Zongquan can't hate the Han army anymore, he is now running more to make money, and more glad that his family escaped into Suzhou City early. Although Wang Zongquan has not been out of Suzhou these days, he has also heard about the tragic situation of hundreds of thousands of refugees outside the city.

"Dad, sit down and rest, the soup and rice will be fine in a while."

The sixteen-year-old eldest daughter brought Wang Zongquan a bowl of water. The Wang family does not eat dry rice at night, and only eats dry rice in the morning for three meals a day, because Wang Zongquan has to prepare food for lunch for Wang Zongquan, and Wang Zongquan, as the pillar of the whole family, does it twice a day. And the rest of the Wang family is gone.

"In charge, the officers and soldiers have all left the city?" Wang sat up, but did not get out of bed. The room was damp and hot, the windows and doors were all open, and people couldn't feel a trace of wind, and Wang's forehead was clearly sweating with a slight paleness. She was weak, but she couldn't stand the stuffiness.

"Dad, can the officers and soldiers fight back to our hometown?" The youngest son, who was only seven years old, asked expectantly.

Wang Zongquan held the bowl in one hand and touched his son's head with the other, "How can it be so easy." Many of the officers and soldiers have left the city, and today I have written thirty or forty letters from home alone. "A letter from home has three or five sons, and Wang Zongquan's pocket is full of copper coins." But if Chen Yi could be defeated so easily, they wouldn't be able to defeat Jiangnan. ”

"There is too much water here in Suzhou, the water network is dense, and now it is the rainy season, and the cannons of the thief army can't be dragged back, and it happened that Wu Juren killed the big leader, and the people retreated. If they were to change to their lair, hundreds of cannons would be lined up, and how many lives would it take to fill in them? ”

Wang Zongquan shook his head and laughed. What kind of virtue are the soldiers in Suzhou, Wang Zongquan, who came to Suzhou City for refuge for two or three months, is very clear. The Green Camp here is really rotten and rotten, just like his hometown. If they have such a great determination to take Zhenjiang with their lives, then it is better to take care of Wusongkou first, I heard that there are now ships full of saltpeter and sulfur being pulled to Chen Wei to trade every day.

The Fu Han military openly purchased saltpeter and sulfur at five times the price, and it would be better if it was finished gunpowder.

Wang Zongquan's youngest son's expectant face dimmed again, and even the Wang family sighed a long sigh.

"Dad, mother, eldest sister, younger brother, I'm back."

Wang Zhizheng's voice suddenly sounded outside the house. Wang Zongquan stood up suddenly, and Wang's body leaning on the head of the bed tensed. The young man who walked in from the door was not the fifteen-year-old Wang Zhizheng, carrying a few pills and a oily paper bag in his hand.

Five pairs of medicines, ten meat buns, a string of money, and the things that Wang Zhizheng brought home made Wang Xiaodi very happy. But Wang Zongquan and the Wang family, as well as the eldest sister of the Wang family, all had heavy faces. They remembered clearly, the deed signed by Wang Zhizheng was an apprentice without any wages, and now what happened.

"I don't know, the shopkeeper gave it. These five pairs of medicines are all warm and nourishing, so that my mother can drink one pair every other day, and one pair of medicines can be fried three times. In fact, Wang Zhizheng already knew the reason, and the pharmacy shopkeeper didn't hide it from him at all, not only him, but the other four apprentices who entered the pharmacy with him, as well as the original apprentices, buddies, and doctors in the pharmacy, all of whom were requisitioned by the government.

If the officers and soldiers want to go into battle to fight, then it is inevitable that there will be injured, so they will need the doctors in their pharmacies, and as for apprentices like Wang Zhizheng, they also happen to follow the army to fight and help.

Wang Zhizheng didn't dare to tell the truth to his parents. If he told the truth, his father and mother would not let him go back to the pharmacy. But he has signed the deed, unless he escapes from Suzhou City, Wang Zhizheng will not be able to escape the shroud of the pharmacy's 'power'. And the Wang family, who is exhausted, where can they go if they leave Suzhou? His mother was sick.

In the city of Suzhou, all kinds of gossip are intricate. Many of these rumors have changed the face of Fu Hanjun beyond recognition, like demons and monsters; And there are also rumors that the Fu Han army is praised like a flower, very good, treats people kindly, does not kill civilians, and does not loot Jianyin.

Although Wang Zhizheng is young, he is quite assertive. He didn't believe all the rumors, and he thought that he was following the army, and their doctors were used to save lives and help the wounded, not to charge into battle, and Wang Zhizheng felt that the danger was very small. He hid it from his father. The provincial father and mother are worried.

At dawn the next day, Wang Zhizheng, who was wearing a hat and a robe, followed the shopkeeper of the pharmacy and dragged out of Suzhou City, not knowing that this trip had completely changed his destiny and allowed him to embark on a glorious avenue that he had never thought of.

Sometimes, that's how people are destined.

When the large forces of the Qing army were converging in Wuxi one after another, on the canal from Zhenjiang to Changzhou, Chen Antong sat quietly in the cabin. His whole person was like the expression on his face, cold, hard, serious, like an emotionless stone statue. In fact, he doesn't need emotion, because he is a sharp knife that Chen Ming controls the army, and the blood dripping from the knife has never been broken, which is also the deepest impression left by the gendarmerie on the entire Fuhan army.

Of course, the gendarmerie is not the brocade guard of the former Ming Dynasty, let alone the former Ming factory. They are the Judge Advocate General's Office, which strictly enforces military law and military rules and does not tolerate personal feelings. Although many people were killed, more people were punished, and a great shock was given to the upper and lower levels of the Fu Han army, no one would think of the gendarmerie as evil and criminal.

Chen Tongan was a very gentle person when he was at home, but now he is cold and serious, which is into the state of work.

The Changzhou Fuhan Army died Jiang Tianfang, the commander-in-chief, whether the team will be now, whether there will be anyone 'presumptuous', that is waiting for his arrival. (To be continued.) )