The two Qing armies that went south mentioned by Qian Qianyi were still on the way to set off later, and they had already arrived at Nanchangfu, the provincial capital of Jiangxi, at the moment when they went south.

According to geography, from Nanchang Mansion to the east, you can enter the ground of Guangxin Mansion by crossing Raozhou Mansion or Fuzhou Mansion, and then you can attack Jinhua eastward with the Qing army gathered in Quzhou; If you go all the way south, there are more routes to take, as long as you enter Ganzhou Mansion, to the east is Zhangzhou in Fujian, and to the south is Guangdong; As for sending troops to the west, they can also join Shen Yongzhong to stabilize the situation on the Huguang battlefield and join Nikan who is on the way.

From the perspective of the Ming army, Li Dingguo and Feng Shuangli in the southwest were still attacking cities in Guangxi and Huguang like destroying the withered and decaying, and Liu Wenxiu, who had entered Sichuan, began to march forward; On the side of the southeastern Ming army, Zheng Chenggong of Fujian was still besieging Zhangzhou, and Chen Wen of Zhejiang entered a stage of confrontation with the local Qing army in Zhejiang.

In the several directions that can be reached, Arzin can exert enough influence no matter which one he takes. However, he is not yet qualified to make a decision on the question of where to enter the army, which has reached the level of grand strategy. Even if they were qualified, the Manchurian soldiers he brought with him were already unable to fight after a long period of travel and fatigue, so they had to temporarily rest and recuperate in the capital city of Jiangxi.

The work of serving the "Manchurian Taijun" had already been picked up by Cai Shiying, the governor of Jiangxi, and Chen Jin, as the highest-ranking official in another governor's district, had also received some information. Since Li Dingguo killed Kong Youde, the king of Dingnan, and recovered Guangxi in one fell swoop, the use of this elite Qing army that arrived in advance of Alzin has already caused controversy within the Qing court.

Giving priority to the southwest battlefield or giving priority to the southeast battlefield, even the southeast battlefield is divided into several possibilities, and Quzhou, where the standard battalion of the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian under his direct jurisdiction is stationed, is only one of the possibilities. Although this possible opponent already needed to be taken seriously to a certain extent, compared with the Ming army of the Great Western Army system, which had hundreds of thousands of troops and could easily recover one or two provinces, the strength of Chen Wen and Zheng Chenggong in the southeast battlefield was still too weak, and the limited mobile forces of the Manchu Qing Dynasty had to be used at key points.

The counteroffensive operations of the three systems of the Ming army in the southwest and southeast battlefields, although they were not geographically able to coordinate with each other, nevertheless caused the Manchu forces south of the Yangtze River to begin to be overstretched. For this reason, the Qing court dispatched the Eight Banners of Manchuria to the south to help suppress them, but these Zhenyi, who have always been regarded as the pride of the sky, are really insufficient in number. Prioritization, then, is a key issue.

It's just that, like Arzin, Chen Jin is not qualified to decide the whereabouts of this Manchurian Eight Banner Army.

Historically, the original target of this Qing army was Guangdong, but with the victory of Guilin, Alzin was forced to stay in Jiangxi to assist the local Qing army to encircle and suppress the rebel army in western Jiangxi, and in the following days, it was transferred back and forth, and finally due to the defeat of Baoning and the stage of the victory in Hengyang, he was left in the Huguang battlefield by the Qing court, but his original goal was never had the opportunity to go, and even Alzin himself did not have the opportunity to set foot in the second half of his life.

Just like the change of formation on the battlefield, the strategic use of troops must also change with the change of the battle situation, and the southwest battlefield is no different from history, but the pressure on the southeast battlefield has increased dramatically. The Ming army in the southwest was strong, and although the Ming army in the southeast was small, it threatened the wealth of the southeast. For this reason, the Manchu high-level is still arguing, so Chen Jin now does not know whether he will wait for this reinforcement army.

Since the beginning of this year, as the Ming armies in Fujian and Zhejiang have won successive battles, Chen Jin has also heard some rumors within the Qing court. It is said that if it had not been for the victory in the Battle of Zhoushan and the complete cripplement of the Lu Jianguo group, the largest Ming army group in the southeast, I am afraid that in the recent overwhelming impeachment, he would have been taken back to Beijing for a crime, and the most likely of those who were ready to replace him was Liu Qingtai, who was the red flag of the Han army.

Unable to calm down Chen Wen and Zheng Chenggong, the two Ming armies, Chen Jin is no longer as high-spirited as when he captured Zhoushan, every time he gets the news of the impeachment of the courtiers, Chen Jin knows that there is nothing he can do for the time being, so he can only take the house slaves around him to be angry.

In the capital city of Quzhou, in the lobby of the yamen of the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, Chen Jin was carrying a horsewhip and beating these few house slaves who he suddenly looked at unpleasantly.

In the Manchu system, just as he himself was the slave of the emperor and the banner owner, these domestic slaves were also his slaves, and even if they were killed, they did not have to bear any responsibility. And with the newly delivered impeachment, Chen Jin picked up these house slaves again as usual, because in addition to this method, it was impossible to kill Chen Wen and Zheng Chenggong, the two commanders of the Ming army, who led to his impeachment, for a while. The only thing that could be used to perfunctory the Qing court was Taizhou General Soldier Ma Xin who burned down the warehouses in Yushan Town and beheaded more than 100 people, and he did not hesitate to take this credit for himself.

The weather was so hot that even if there was ice in the corner to cool down, it would not be able to extinguish the anger in his heart a little. The imperial history surnamed Gong is really too deceitful, how can he Chen Jin say that he is also a banner man, he has already surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty when he was in Liaodong, how can he be a "break in, and if you come in, you will drop to the full" wall grass can be slandered casually, is the current wind direction of Jingshi so unfavorable to him?

"How dare you hide!"

As he spoke, Chen Jin turned his attention to the house slave who trembled slightly, and whipped it down, as if it was difficult to dispel the evil anger in his heart if he didn't beat this guy to death.

The whipping continued, the beaten several house slaves knew Chen Jin's temper very well, the louder they screamed, the more they aroused Chen Jin's anger, when Lu Jianguo had just returned to Zhejiang, there was a house slave who was beaten to death by Chen Jin, even if they had been beaten all over their bodies at the moment, they had to grit their teeth at all, and they didn't dare to shout out, just wait for Chen Jin's physical strength to be almost exhausted and let them go for the time being.

After a long while, Chen Jin's anger had dissipated a lot, and the whole person was panting because of the incessant whipping, and at this moment he was sitting on a chair next to him to rest.

Seeing that Chen Jin's anger was no longer so great, the captain of the pro-soldier walked in and told Chen Jin that Zhu Zhixi and Li Zhifang, the two staff, wanted to see him.

Zhu Zhixi's worries will not end until next year, and Li Zhifang has lost his powers, these two people Chen Jin has always regarded as a "potential stock" among the future court civil officials, and their names are occasionally tied in the recent impeachment of Chen Jin. Although Chen Jin was already a little dissatisfied with the planning of these two people in his heart, he did not have better talents around him, so he could only be a dead horse doctor for the time being.

"Get out!"

After blasting away a few house slaves who had been pardoned, Chen Jin sorted out his scattered official uniforms and sat down on the master's seat again. The captain of the pro-soldier brought the two in.

Zhu Zhixi and Li Zhifang also saw those house slaves just now, and after coming in, they saluted like a courtesy, and began to report the progress of the matter that Chen Jin had explained before.

Some time ago, Chen Wen's sudden withdrawal of troops Chen Jin didn't know what was going on for a while, and in the process of continuous probing, he got the news of a rebellion in Jinhua Mansion from Taizhou. For this reason, Chen Jin praised Li Zhifang's strategy, although he knew that the Ming army's internal fighting had become a tradition, but the use of this might lead to the Ming army's liberation, which was indeed extremely rare.

However, within a few days, after the first attempt to attack Longyou County was forced to retreat by the Nantang battalion that suddenly appeared in the rear, Chen Jin had not had time to find an opportunity to defeat the Nantang battalion first, and Chen Wen returned to Longyou. And his return also meant that the Ming army put down the rebellion in the rear.

Quzhou could not ensure a steady victory on the battlefield, and the news of Zhang Zisheng's breakthrough also came from Jiangxi, so that Guangxin Mansion had two anti-Qing rebel armies with a scale of more than 10,000 people, and after secretly scolding Jiangxi's civil and military incompetence, Chen Jin immediately received the news that Jin Li said that he could not break through the defense line of Anhua Town for a while. Coupled with the increasingly hot weather, the fatigue of the soldiers and the fatigue of the soldiers were also prone to epidemics, so Chen Jin had to agree with Jin Li to withdraw the army for the time being, and wait for Jin Li to find a way to break the city and then besiege it.

Previously, the Ming army did quell the rebellion, but some gentry who knew they would die still managed to escape to the area controlled by the Ming army. During this time, Zhu Zhixi and Li Zhifang were secretly contacting potential opponents through these fugitives, gathering intelligence from Ming-controlled areas in preparation for the upcoming attack.

But as the two of them talked about it here, Chen Jin summarized the information obtained by his side according to traditional channels, but found that the strength of Jinhua Mingjun was growing almost every day, and Chen Wen's methods were gradually displayed in front of his eyes.

Raise a strong man with the soil!

Military merit awards!

If it is said that the borrowing in the first half of the year was to solve the urgent needs of the moment, the recent implementation of the movement to divide the fields is clearly a replication of the government and military system, and its purpose is to lay a solid foundation for this large army.

We must not let it go any further!

However, before he and the two staff members could discuss practical and effective countermeasures, the captain of the pro-soldiers guarding the door didn't know what to say to anyone, so he entered the lobby and handed over the two letters to Chen Jin.

Both letters had just arrived, and Chen Jin opened the first letter casually. The person who wrote the letter was the Pingnan general Gushan Ezhen Jin Li, who is now stationed in Zhuji, although Jin Li and Chen Jin are not the same banner, but the relationship between them on weekdays is not bad, and they can also cooperate in combat. The news brought by Jin Li this time was that he had found a way to conquer the fortress in the defense line of Anhua Town, and planned to make an appointment with Chen Jin to attack again.

This news is what Chen Jin has been waiting for for a long time, the soldiers are not expensive, and he has fought fiercely with this Ming army several times, he knows very well that the green battalion in these places under his command is not the opponent of the Ming army at all, and there must be the Han Eight Banner Army of up to 4,000 people under the command of Jin Li to successfully eliminate this Zhejiang Ming army. However, the terrain of Zhejiang divided the army into two places, and now Jin Li has found a way, so as long as he pressed up before, he could win a complete victory if he did not let the Ming army come back to help.

This news relieved Chen Jin's urgent need, and he immediately handed the letter to the two staff members in front of him for further planning. But as he opened the second letter and just read the text once, Chen Jin sat on the Taishi's chair like a deflated balloon, and even the letter slipped quietly from his hand.

As for the contents of the letter, in short, it was a few days ago that the Ming army of Fujian had captured the capital of Zhangzhou, and now Zheng Chenggong's army could continue to sweep towards other prefectures and counties in Fujian at any time.

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Since the victory of the magnetic stove in May last year, Zheng Chenggong has defeated the reinforcements of the Qing army in Fujian in the two battles of Qianshan and Xiaoyingling, and at the beginning of this year, he made a forced landing in Haicheng County, swept through the southern part of Zhangzhou, and then surrounded this prefecture.

Zheng Chenggong knew very well that if it weren't for Chen Wen to contain the Qing army in western Zhejiang, even if he defeated the Qing army in Fujian last year, it would be impossible for him to go through the past six months in peace. And now, with Chen Wen leaving Chen Jin, who came to aid in history, in Zhejiang, Ma Jinbao was wiped out by the whole army, and Zhejiang was in full swing, while Zheng Chenggong's half-year-long siege was not hindered in the slightest, including Yang Minggao, the governor of Fujian, and Ma Dede, the chief soldier of Fujian's right road, all of whom were waiting for reinforcements from other provinces in Tong'an, because the entire Fujian no longer had mobile troops that could reach the level of combat effectiveness and scale to come and relieve the siege for the defenders.

After a long period of no reinforcements arrived, the defenders of Zhangzhou fled in hunger and panic until they completely collapsed. Zheng Chenggong took the capital city of Zhangzhou, and Wang Bangjun, the commander-in-chief of Zhangzhou in the Qing Dynasty, surrendered. Zheng Chenggong was not as strict with his soldiers as Chen Wen, and there were many generals in his army, so he chose another number and took Wang Bangjun and the remnants of the Zhangzhou garrison for his own use.

It's just that the newly recovered Zhangzhou capital city is in this half-year-long siege, so that "the people in the city cannibalize each other, the people are dead, and the soldiers and horses are all in the belly", in fact, there are not many people left.

Such an ending did not surprise Zheng Chenggong, due to the failure of the collapse method, he had no other way, fortunately, the several batches of reinforcements in the history of the Qing army were all contained by Chen Wen, otherwise there would be fewer Han people left in the city. Because historically, the Qing army successfully relieved the siege of Zhangzhou in late September, when Zhangzhou "was as expensive as 550 taels per stone, and the grassroots, wood, leaves, rats, birds, cattle and horses searched for food, and then human flesh." Fathers and sons cannibalize each other, those who do not smoke and fire for more than a month, die of illness, starvation, and death by throwing themselves into the water, and soldiers die by forcibly seizing Chu, thousands of people every day. Mountains of bones and foul smells for miles. ”

In any case, this long-delayed capital city has been taken, and a month and a half ago, after learning the news that Cao Conglong's rebellion was quelled by Chen Wen, Lu Jianguo also chose to go to Jianguo and changed the title of Yongli Tianzi to the orthodoxy of the emperor, and even Zhang Mingzhen and Shen Chenquan, who were still stubborn before, also changed their courts.

Zheng Chenggong is well aware that his recent achievements are all related to Chen Wen. As a thank-you gift, when Lu Jianguo went to Jianguo, he drafted a recital to show the Yongli court Chen Wen's achievements in Zhejiang, hoping that the Yongli court would not hesitate to take the title, and the future marquis would continue to contain the Qing army from the north for him in Zhejiang. (To be continued.) )