Throughout June, Chen Wen first ended the offensive in Jiangxi and began the necessary rest and recuperation work, and then with Chen Guobao led the Pujiang revenue to recover the entire territory of Yanzhou Mansion, but in Fuyang and Xincheng counties in the south of Hangzhou, he was intercepted by several elite southern green battalions and the remnants of the Eight Banners garrison in Hangzhou, and returned to Yanzhou Mansion after a confrontation for half a month. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Military expansion can only be halted at this stage, except that it is now June, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, which is not conducive to the operation of the army, and more importantly, the limited storage in his hands cannot support such a meaningless military operation.

The four provincial capitals were suppressed, and the Ming army in Zhejiang was defeated by 8,000 Han troops and eight banners. These Niu Lu were all formed when Huang Taiji was alive, and they were the so-called "Chen Hanjun". The loss of its elite troops was an aggravation of the already limited Manchu Qing Dynasty, which could not be recovered in a year or two, and this level of recovery was not a restoration of the old outlook, but only a recovery to a standard that could not be lowered.

In addition, the three battles before and after, one raid on the northern front and two pursuits on the southern front, were also quite fruitful. Tian Xiong and Zhang Jie threw away all the inconvenient things such as baggage and artillery to flee north, and the main force of the Qing army on the southern front led by Li Benshen lost more than 40,000 people and reluctantly fled back to Guangxin Mansion.

The surrounding situation improved greatly, Chen Wen also took advantage of the situation to recover Yanzhou Mansion, and consolidated the three counties of Jiangshan, Changshan, and Kaihua in the west of Quzhou, occupied Yushan County, and entered a state of confrontation with the Qing army in the west of Jiangxi.

In terms of seizure, the Qing army on the northern front discarded a large amount of heavy grain and grass, especially the large-caliber Hongyi cannons temporarily borrowed by the Eight Banners of the Hangzhou garrison, which really made him happy for several days. But this Qing army discarded these at the same time discarded a lot of infected soldiers and people, Chen Wen did not know whether the grain that was not burned was not burned by "Tian Ersugaard" to produce any ingredients that were not very beneficial to health, so he really didn't dare to put the grain that was burned enough for the previous Qing army on the northern front to eat for a few days, so he really didn't dare to put it into storage, so he still kept it to feed those prisoners.

In addition, the Eight Banners Group of the Han Army probably thought that they could go down to Jinhua Mansion with one drum, so they didn't bring any grain and grass at all, and the captured aspects were really commendable by those war horses. As for artillery, although it is indeed quite a lot in number, Chen Wen also used it when he returned to Quzhou, but the gunners of the Eight Banners of the Han Army were not trustworthy and could not be incorporated into the Ming army, and he did not plan to retrain the artillery crew for those artillery that he did not know how many times he had used and seemed to be more so-so, so he could only throw it in the warehouse and rust with those bird guns for the time being.

Of course, reheating might also be a good idea.

In comparison, the grain and grass discarded by the Qing troops on the front line in Jiangxi and Fujian are not only huge, but the most important thing is not to worry about poisoning, and to eat at ease, it seems that Gao Jie's subordinates are really a little kinder than Huang Degong's subordinates. However, in addition to cold weapons and firearms, which are also almost completely unsuitable for the Ming army, from Tian Xiong, Zhang Jie, to Shi Tingzhu, Liu Zhiyuan, to Li Benshen and Yang Minggao, these Qing army marshals looked like dogs one by one and didn't even have a set of armor, which was really stingy.

It's just that when he thought of this, Chen Wen seemed to have forgotten all about the fact that the Zhejiang Ming army did not wear armor when they went to war, as if the Qing army was a superman who was not afraid of heat stroke.

The results and captures were very many, but the losses were also not small.

Among the seven battalions, the Dongyang battalion suffered heavy casualties in the end, in addition to those killed in battle, there were also some seriously wounded who did not survive, and many soldiers were disabled and could not continue to fight in the army, so they had to allocate land as soon as possible to reassure the army.

Relatively speaking, the three battalions of Nantang, Shentang and Guards defeated the eight banners of the Han army, and the losses were not very large, only the cavalry needed to be replenished, and Chen Wen captured a lot of war horses, but it still took a lot of time to train the cavalry, otherwise it would be difficult to shoulder the heavy combat mission.

As for the Pujiang Battalion, which intercepted the Qing army and returned to the division, and regained the Yanzhou Mansion, the losses of the Yiwu and Lishui Second Battalions in Quzhou, which defended the city and pursued the Qing army in Fujian, were even smaller, as long as the limited shortfall was filled.

However, even so, the loss of soldiers was not small, at least more than 2,000 soldiers needed to be replenished, and this did not count the losses of soldiers in Jinhua, Quzhou, Lanxi County and Anhua Town Fortress.

This is only the infantry, the Zhejiang inland water division was almost wiped out, half of the water battalion officers and sailors were killed, and the ships were almost nothing, even if they could be replenished by capturing the damaged ships of the Qiantang Water Division, but if you want to compete with the Qing army on the Qiantang River, it will have to be a year or two later, after all, in addition to the Qiantang Water Division, there are also Taizhou Water Divisions, Zhoushan Water Divisions, and even water divisions from the south of the Yangtze River to the south, and the foundation of the Ming Army in Zhejiang is too thin.

In terms of officers, the battalion was mainly from the Dongyang battalion, and a bureau chief died of serious injuries, and a sentry commander died on the spot. In addition, the garrison of the Lanxi garrison died in battle, Qian Bin, the deputy general of the Zhejiang Inland River Division, was killed in battle, and even Yu Shizhong, the guerrilla general of the garrison of Anhua Town, also died.

The Lanxi guard is said to have died in the battle, the deputy general of the Zhejiang Inland River Division, Qian Bin, died a heroic death according to the captive, and Yu Shizhong, the guerrilla general of the fortress in Anhua Town, was more sad, at least the sentence that the general said when he returned to the light before his death, "I failed to wrap the body in horse leather, and the great regret of this life is also a great regret" until a month later, Chen Wen can not forget it.

The horse leather shroud is the best destination for a warrior, even if the children and grandchildren surround the old death bed for the ancient Chinese warriors is far less than martyrdom in a great war, this is a spirit that has been handed down for a long time, prompting those who have the heart to serve the country, for the well-being of the people to fight for the warriors to move forward bravely, not afraid of life and death.

Yu Shizhong died, and he regarded it as a regrettable death in his life, but Chen Wen knew that this military general could have been immortal, but in order to ensure that the empty Anhua Town Fort was not taken advantage of by the Qing army, and the subordinates in the fortress would not die in the offensive of the Qing army, he still did not forget his duty in his illness and insisted on patrolling, which eventually aggravated his condition. It's not as vigorous as the Horse Leather Shroud, but it's not something that everyone can do in silence to return to dust dutifully.

The sacrifice of these soldiers in exchange for this shocking victory, the loss of the Qing army he has known from various channels, and the chain reaction is not small, the four southeastern provinces of those small-scale anti-Qing movement revived, Songjiang's Qian Yingkui is specially sent to express his willingness to be the vanguard of the Ming army in Zhejiang.

It's just that Chen Wen can't do much at this moment for the time being, at least the offensive in the first half of this year is over.

The loss of soldiers needs to be replenished, Zhang Zisheng's army needs to be reorganized, the new occupied areas need to be digested, the military rewards need to be paid, and the bereavement pension must not be the slightest mistaken. Coupled with the scorching summer and the problems of warehousing, especially the latter, greatly restricted the mobilization ability of the Ming army in Zhejiang.

The problem of storage is mainly in three points, first grain and grass, then gunpowder, and finally silver.

In terms of grain and grass, the mobilized army confronted the Qing army and fought fiercely for several months, and also carried the burden of the people of Jiangshan and Changshan counties, which led to a rapid decline in stocks. And the captures are numbered, and they will soon be exhausted in the next training of recruits and the distribution of salaries, so you can't count on too much at all.

The second is gunpowder, the artillery fire Qing army camp seems magnificent, but the consumption of gunpowder is really amazing, so that the Ming army's already not thick foundation in this area has begun to bottom.

For this aspect, it mainly depends on the raw materials, charcoal is good to say, there are many mountains and forests in Zhejiang, and charcoal burning consumes only manpower, so there is no need to worry. Sulfur Quzhou also has pyrite, first roasting, and then using the sublimation method, the output is said to be not too miserable, but this is not too miserable or the view of the Department of Military Industry, Chen Wen will miss the era of overcapacity every time he sees military output, and the difference between the two is really incomparable.

In addition to these two items, the last one is saltpeter, which Chen Wen is more confident in than sulfur - boiling nitrate, this method is used in almost seven or eight out of ten historical novels, and the rest are premature times such as the Three Kingdoms, which I have seen too much at the beginning, and even to the point where I want to turn the page as soon as I see the details, but here I can just learn and apply it.

In comparison, the biggest problem is still the money, as soon as the cannon goes off, the gold is ten thousand taels, and the foreign wealth that was made on Ma Jinbao and Chen Jin has been squandered almost completely, but the place where money needs to be spent now is not less than last year.

The replenishment of silver money is first and foremost in taxes, and loans, military supplies, and the like can only be used as auxiliaries. However, after this war, Quzhou will inevitably need to be exempted from summer tax except for Longyou, and even the autumn tax cannot be guaranteed. On the same issue, the gentry in the capital city of Jinhua Mansion and Lanxi County, as well as the capital of the state capital, began to shout that they had also suffered from military disasters and demanded equal treatment.

Sun Yu is still investigating the specific situation, and there is no definite answer for the time being, but the area that needs to be tax-free may still be not small, among the newly occupied areas, Changshan, Jiangshan, Kaihua and Yushan must be tax-exempt, and Yanzhou Mansion is mountainous and has few fields, coupled with the sequelae of the land division policy, the income may not only not increase, but is more likely to decrease, and we must try to open up financial resources again.

Fortunately, I don't know if it is because the tax reduction and exemption has been done too much recently, and good people have good rewards, or if they have killed Tartars too much, God expressed satisfaction with the results of this work, and soon after discovering this problem, Chen Wen ushered in a God of Wealth, which can help him relieve some embarrassment. (To be continued.) )