Due to the defeat of the Qing army in Longyou County, the Zhejiang Ming army led by Chen Wen quickly surrounded the capital city of Quzhou, separating the Qing army stationed in Quzhou from the Qing army that came to aid Quzhou.

At this moment, there are more than 4,000 troops in the capital city of Quzhou, including the Dubiao Battalion and the Quzhou Green Battalion and the Quzhou Green Battalion, which were injured before; The reinforcements that arrived in Jiangshan County were a battalion of 800 men belonging to the Wenzhou Green Battalion, 2,000 soldiers and horses of the deputy general of Fujian Jianning Prefecture except for the battalion left behind, and the standard battalion brought by Wang Zhigang, the general soldier of the left road of Fujian, from the battlefield in Jiangxi, with a strength of no less than 5,000.

At this time, the army besieging Quzhou was besieged by the Ming army, including two battalions of Nantang and Yiwu and half of the Dongyang battalion, Chen Guobao was responsible for commanding the battalion directly under the town of less than 1,000 soldiers, as well as the garrisons and reserve troops from all over the country, and the number of soldiers exceeded 6,000!

An army of such a size can be in a position of superiority in strength in the face of any Qing army alone, coupled with the spread of the news of the defeat of elite troops like the Biao Battalion in the field, which led to the lack of psychological advantage that the Qing army on the ground in Quzhou has accumulated for many years, and at the same time lost the courage of the Qing army's green battalion in the face of the Ming army and the righteous army in the past, and the Ming army was in an overwhelming advantage in the face of any Qing army alone.

However, retreating from the enemy has been a dangerous thing since ancient times, and if you don't do it well, it will turn from retreat to rout. The Ming army, which is about to be unstable, must take shelter temporarily, and by then the two Qing armies have merged, with nearly 10,000 soldiers in hand, Chen Jin, who is outnumbered, is bound to catch up and bite like a mad dog.

It is undeniable that Cao Conglong chose the right time, Chen Wen fought with the Qing army on the front line, and he could sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight with peace of mind, and then seize the real power in his hands.

It's just that today's Chen Wen is no longer the general of the civilian supervision army back then, and the garrison of the Ming Army of Dalanshan with guerrilla rank wants to rely on such despicable means to defeat him, but he has to ask whether this army he has personally honed has agreed or not.

Ordering Zhang Jun, who had always been guarding outside the tent, to go to beat the drum and gather the generals, looking at the panicked, intersecting and intermittent expressions of the two brothers and sisters of Zhou Jingting, Chen Wen deliberately showed a confident look.

"Little Lady Zhou came hundreds of miles away to report to the king, which is deeply in the style of the ancients. To quell the rebellion, Ben Shuai will definitely ask the court for the little lady's order to show the little lady's merits. After that, Chen Wen signaled Zhou Jingting, who was infected by the confidence he exuded, to arrange for his sister's residence, but the little sister of the Zhou family, who bowed and excused herself, was still a little worried.

With the beating of drums, the generals and staff officers of the large battalion in the south of the city rushed to the big tent of the Chinese army, and after only a moment of silence, the sound of fierce quarrels filled the room.

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Early the next morning, the Ming army carried out the task of diverting the water from the moat and blocking the Qing army from the city as before. Until after nightfall, from the city wall of Quzhou City, the sparks are moving from the direction of Dingyang River to the south camp of the Ming army, until it is integrated with the camp fire of the Ming army.

There is a kind of science in the military called Wangqi, which is mixed with some theories of Feng Shui, and also contains the experience of calculating the movement of enemy troops by observing phenomena such as smoke and dust.

The next day when the Ming army's camp was abnormal, there was obviously more cooking smoke, and even a group of people were requisitioned to expand the camp, all of which showed that the Ming army was increasing its troops. What's even more frightening is that this situation continued to play out in the following days, and it was not over until the evening of the third day of June.

Besieged the city for half a month, fortunately, there was a lot of grain and grass hoarded before, far from the extent that it was not enough, in fact, even if the grain and grass were not enough, the people in Quzhou Mansion were not all born in life. When Zu Dashou was surrounded by the Qing army in the Daling River, he ate up the merchants and people in the city, and Chen Jin, who was the capital of the Daling River at the time, was among them.

However, as the Ming army began to increase its troops, Chen Jin's worries began to become more cautious. Since the Nantang battalion that raided Bandu was defeated by it, he had to hope that the Eight Banners of the Hangzhou garrison could enter Jinhua Mansion with the lifting and raising standards, thus forming a two-sided attack. For this reason, even after Wang Zhigang arrived in Jiangshan County, he sent people to sneak out of the city at the risk of death, and ordered him not to act rashly, but to continue to maintain his presence in the direction of Jiangshan County to prepare for a counteroffensive.

It's just that there was no further news from the Eight Banners garrisoned in Hangzhou after they moved south, and the Ming army further increased its troops, which made him suddenly have a hint of foreboding about the Qing army in the direction of Hangzhou.

Although the Eight Banners of the Hangzhou garrison are only the soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, they are not comparable to the Zhejiang Green Battalion under him in terms of combat effectiveness, and the Eight Banners of the Han Army, which is composed of the Han Army of Liaodong, the Dongjiang Army, the Guanning Army and the surrender army of the Qing Army after entering the customs, even if his supervision battalion is not an opponent. Moreover, the prototype of the Han Eight Banner Soldiers, Wu Zhenchao Haben, appeared for the formation of the Manchu Dynasty's own artillery unit, and the Yiwu county town on the road they had to pass through did not even have a city wall, which without exception made Chen Jin begin to suspect that Jin Lidun's soldiers were using Quzhou to consume the Ming army's sharp energy, and wait until the Ming army's sharp energy was exhausted and then enter Jinhua Mansion in one fell swoop, so as to achieve twice the result with half the effort in the real sense.

This kind of thing has really been seen a lot for Chen Jin, who has been in the army for many years, and with the incident of Ma Jinbaohuo and Quzhou Shuiying, this possibility has also begun to take root in his heart.

But compared to these possibilities, the threat of the Ming army has already appeared in front of us!

In the middle of the night on the fourth day of the sixth lunar month, the sound of drums was heard in the distance in the direction of the Ming army's camp. Hearing the sound of drums, Chen Jin, who had just fallen asleep, hurriedly got up from the bed, and rushed to the south city wall under the service of Li Jinzhong, Li Zhong, Lu Pichang, and Chen En, who were personal slaves.

In the distance, the campfire in the direction of the Ming army's camp was even better than before, and even the war drums were beating loudly. Chen Jin found out yesterday that the Ming army stopped increasing troops after he ordered the defenders to wait for the day, the Quzhou green battalion responsible for guarding the city wall even if it was not on duty to wear armor and sleep, at this moment the Ming army was beating drums, and the Qing army of the brigade hurriedly climbed the city wall everywhere to defend the palace, even the west city wall adjacent to the Qujiang River was no exception.

The Ming army camp outside the southern city tossed for a night, and the drums did not stop until the next morning, and Chen Jin, who felt that something was not quite right, hurriedly recruited the dead soldiers to go down the city and go to the direction of the Ming army camp to investigate clearly. But it wasn't until those dead soldiers ran back exhausted that they knew that the Ming army camp was already empty!

After repeatedly confirming that it was correct, relying on the intelligence network obtained by spreading the cavalry, Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian with black circles, personally took the superintendent battalion out of the city and slowly advanced towards the Ming army camp, as if he was afraid of falling into the plan to lure the enemy. Until he arrived at the camp of the Ming army, Chen Jin looked at the layout in the camp, and his face immediately turned blue.

At this time, among the staff who came with him, Li Zhifang and Zhu Zhixi glanced at each other and immediately read the answer from each other's eyes.

"Reduce troops and increase the number of stoves!"

"Hanging sheep drumming!"

The commander of the Ming army on the opposite side used the old skills of Sun Bin and Tan Daoji to deceive the Qing army that did not dare to fight easily, so as to successfully complete the most dangerous first step in the withdrawal of the enemy.

Subsequently, according to the report of Tanma, the Ming army had successfully crossed the Dingyang River and returned to the division in the direction of Longyou. Chen Jin immediately realized that something had happened in the rear of the Ming army, and it was very likely that the Eight Banners garrisoned in Hangzhou had entered Jinhua Mansion.

The two-way flanking attack was a fixed plan, and it was also the only choice for the Zhejiang Qing army to achieve the annihilation of the last Zhejiang Ming army. Seeing this, Chen Jin immediately sent people to Jiangshan County to summon the Qing army to help Qu go north, while he personally raised the army to wait for the arrival of the whole army before trying to cross the Dingyang River, in case it was plotted by the Ming army.

A few days later, a large number of Qing troops rushed to the bank of Dingyang Creek to prepare to cross the river. On the east bank of Dingyang Creek, a group of Ming light cavalry observed the movement on the opposite bank from a distance.

The plan to withdraw the army was proposed by Chen Wen, and those strategies were all seen in the forum in his early years and when he read novels, but they were just copied, and the details were filled in by his staff officers, in fact, they were not as exaggerated as the Qing army officers and staff below Chen Jin imagined, but the staff officers have begun to play a role in the army, which is a rare good thing for Chen Wen.

Riding on the east coast, Chen Wen took out the monocular that Yu Shizhong had sent before. As far as the eye could see, a large group of high-ranking officers and staff members of the Qing army were surrounding a high-ranking official in rich armor, as if to flatter him.

"Chen Jin, count yourself lucky, wait until Lao Tzu solves that group of traitors and come back to clean you up, you wait for me!" With that, Chen Wen took the light horses of the guards and rode away in the direction of Longyou County.

There, an elite army that would not shake the Longyou defense line was making the necessary rest, ready to follow him on a rapid march back to Jinhua Mansion to quell the rebellion! (To be continued.) )