A few days later, Simingshan Town.

Starting from the oath of the Qing army on the northern front, the Qing army on the southern front was also preparing to enter Siming Mountain from the southern line under the leadership of the Manchu Pingnan general and Gushan Ezhen Jinli.

It's just that, unlike the standard battalion on the northern front, which is progressing smoothly, this army, which is composed of the Eight Banners of Hangzhou Garrison and some of the green battalions of Ningbo Prefecture, has begun a dream journey of taking one step and two steps back, and taking two steps and one step back.

Since that day, Jin Li swore to go on an expedition outside Fenghua City, and the attacks of the Ming army on the southern front have not stopped.

According to the 16-character formula of guerrilla warfare -- the enemy advances and we retreat, the enemy is stationed and we disturb, the enemy is tired and we fight, and the enemy retreats and we pursue, the Ming army on the southern front dispersed all its forces, and the Qing army would be harassed every day when it marched, but each time the scale was surprisingly small, often one or two rockets and one or two guns and guns, and the Ming army retreated far away before the Qing army could react.

Such an attack was tactically meaningless, except for one incident when a rocket detonated a cart of gunpowder. However, every time the Qing army was attacked, they had to stop and defend, and after finding that the guerrillas who had been fired by the Ming army did not kill them, they went to launch a search for soldiers, so that the speed of the march was also infinitely slowed down, and this was just a march.

Every night, the Ming guerrillas who came to recruit at every turn during the day went out again. This group of monsters, who don't seem to need to sleep, may burn a few carts of grain and grass tonight, set up tents near the edge of the camp tomorrow night, and even cry wolf, so that the Qing army almost blew up the camp a few times.

In this way, the Qing army, which was exhausted by the surprise during the day, still couldn't sleep well at night, and it was even more unbearable now.

In fact, for guerrilla warfare, although the Ming army is very unfamiliar with beginners, the Qing army has never seen such a disgraceful thing at all, is this a war?

As a veteran traitor who has already surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in Liaodong, Jin Li has not fought with the gang of people who will come out to fight the autumn wind as soon as the Qing army attacks Liaoxi or Liaobei, and even hit the mud legs of Dongjiang Town in the hinterland of Liaodong with the autumn wind, and even served as ministers in the same palace with some of the scum. However, this group of cowards in eastern Zhejiang was even more shameless than the gang in Dongjiang Town, these Ming troops always attacked with long-range projectile weapons, and the targets of the attacks were mostly auxiliary troops, baggage teams, grain trucks or gunpowder trucks and the like, and never faced the main force of the Qing army.

Is this still okay?!

Jin Li, who couldn't bear it anymore, immediately gathered all the Qing troops accompanying him and carried out a dragnet and thorough purge of the surrounding areas for several miles, but when these Qing troops moved in a big way, the Ming army disappeared as if it had turned into air.

Just when Jin Li was puzzled, an urgent report came from Fenghua that the local magistrate of the county claimed that the Ming army of more than 5,000 was besieging Fenghua County. Jin Li, who had easily found the main force of the Ming army, immediately led his troops back to help, but after arriving in Fenghua, he found that the group of Ming troops had already retreated, and there was only a mess left outside the city.

After discovering that he had been tricked by the Ming army, Jin Li once again led the army to the hinterland of Siming Mountain. After being disturbed by a single attack again, the emergency report from Fenghua County came again. However, this time he learned well, and only let the Ningbo Green Battalion come back to help, while the Hangzhou garrison Eight Banners continued to advance.

Then, the grain route was cut off......

"The emperor is not a hungry soldier."

"If the army has no food, it will be scattered."

"Before the soldiers and horses moved, the grain and grass went first."

There are countless similar military wise sayings, how can Jin Li not know?

Jin Li, who was already ready to eat the enemy, found that the Ming army on the southern line of Siming Mountain did not play cards according to the routine, and felt that he could not grab any grain and grass, so he had to lead the team to retreat for a period after scolding the shamelessness of the Ming army and the inaction of the Ningbo Green Battalion, in order to temporarily shorten the grain road, and strictly ordered the Ningbo Green Battalion to send troops to guard the grain road.

After getting ready again, Jin Li set off again, but the Ming army's attack began again, this time in addition to the auxiliary soldiers and baggage, even the Ningbo Green Battalion guarding the grain road was also affected......

For more than ten days, the Qing army on the southern front was exhausted, and it has not reached Simingshan Town until now, but even so, it only caught a few Ming troops who did not have time to run away.

Since the attack on Jin Li, Wu Kuiming seems to have a good time every day, and every time he gets the news that the Qing army has been tricked, he seems to have drunk how much spirits he has drunk, and he doesn't know what to say. Originally, Wu Kuiming, who was still full of doubts when Mao Mingshan first proposed this tactic was created by Chen Wen, was completely convinced during this time.

It turns out that the battle can still be fought like this!

Wu Kuiming felt that if he had known that he could still fight like this, he would have tossed and crippled the green camp here in Ningbo, and he would still use the armor that was beaten like he had done at the beginning to lose his armor and almost die?

But just when Mao Mingshan and Wu Kuiming were so excited every day, they arrived at Simingshan Town on a fast horse.

After reading the letter, Mao Mingshan, who didn't seem to know what the word fear was, sat on the chair with his ass, and was so depressed that he was speechless for a long time.

Seeing this, Wu Kuiming had to take the letter himself, fortunately he still knew some words, but after reading it, he really wished that he might as well not know words.

"On July 17, on the shore of Siming Lake, the main force of the Wang Division and the Tartar Battalion fought a decisive battle, and the casualties were equal. Unexpectedly, the rebel king ascended to the battle, the left flank was scattered, the whole army was annihilated, and most of the people who were martyred by Jinglue, Huang Dudu, Liu Dudu and others were probably martyred......"

“…… Hearing the news, Vice Xian was ill and could not be a director. The younger brother was ordered by Jinglu to cover the evacuation of the people from the Siming Mountain area. Brother Wang's last words can also follow the last words of Jinglu and protect the people from retreating, so that they will not be slaughtered by the Tartars......"

After reading it, Wu Kuiming also sat on the chair like Mao Mingshan, and after being shocked, tears full of the word self-blame had been sprinkled all over his face, but as if the pair of tiger eyes were a bottomless pit of self-blame, the tears couldn't stop.

After a long time, Mao Mingshan finally recovered from his shock and disbelief, and after he ordered the letter to eat and rest and strictly forbid him to leak the news, he strode towards Wu Kuiming.

"Wu Shuai, Jing slightly left a last word, let the last general follow Chen's guerrilla instructions and cover the retreat of the people. The last general is stationed here, preparing to take away the people in Simingshan Town and the surrounding areas, and go to Xinchangbo, Wu Shuai is willing to go with him? ”

Hearing this, Wu Kuiming also seemed to have crawled out of the abyss-like bottomless pit, but the moment he looked up and saw Mao Mingshan, Wu Kuiming immediately fell to his knees and couldn't cry.

"Mao Shuai, kill me! It was the last general who harmed Jinglu and the soldiers of the northern front. The last general listened to Wang Sheng's slanderous rumors and colluded with everyone to resist Chen's guerrilla participation in the war. Just look at this guerrilla warfare, you know that Chen guerrilla is unique, if Chen guerrilla was on the battlefield at that time, how could my Ming Dynasty be defeated? Mao Shuai, kill me! ”

Seeing that Wu Kuiming had been completely defeated by self-blame, repeating the words just now in his mouth like a repeater, the anger in Mao Mingshan's heart gradually dissipated. He has been friends with Wu Kuiming for many years, and this person is not the kind of person who will deliberately corrupt state affairs, but he only hates that Wang Sheng is too cunning, and actually uses Feng Jingdi and many friendly generals in Siming Mountain to squeeze out Chen Wen, resulting in a great defeat. At this moment, Mao Mingshan's heart was on fire again, and he just wanted to eat his flesh and sleep on his skin.

Mao Mingshan helped Wu Kuiming up, and said loudly: "Wu Shuai, in the last words of Jing Liu, let the last general cover the retreat of the people, if you have the heart to redeem yourself, you should follow the last words of Jing Liu, and work with me to cover the retreat of the people, so as to comfort the spirit of Jing Lu and the soldiers in the sky." ”

"Self-redemption, self-redemption......" After reciting silently a few times, Wu Kuiming quickly walked out of his grief and self-blame, and his eyes gradually became firm.

"Mao Shuai, you're right, I'm just trying to be a woman again just to laugh at people, and only by fulfilling the last wish of the strategy at that time can I be worthy of those loyal and brave soldiers."

"Mao Shuai and go to cover the evacuation of the people, the last general is not talented, and he is willing to continue to attack the Tartars from Fenghua to delay time for Mao Shuai and General Chen!" With that, Wu Kuiming bowed and saluted, and strode out.

Mao Mingshan originally thought that Wu Kuiming would naturally fully cooperate with him to fulfill Wang Yi's last wish if he could come out of self-blame, but who would have thought that this cooperation in Wu Kuiming's mind would be like this. Looking at the back in the distance, Mao Mingshan recalled Wu Kuiming's expression just now, but it was clear that he was bent on dying, which made him feel a little sour in his heart.

put away this senseless sentimentality, and temporarily put away his feelings for Wang Yi, the Shangguan who took care of him, and Huang Zhongdao and Liu Yiming, Mao Mingshan immediately arranged the task and prepared to cover the retreat of the people according to Chen Wen's requirements.

………………

At the same time, Chen Wen has been leading the people in the Dalan Mountain area to set off for several days.

According to the nearest distance from Dalanshan to Xinchang, you should go directly south to Simingshan Town, and then continue to walk a mountain road into the range of Beizhang Town, and finally arrive at Xinchang and Yu Guowang Rendezvous. It's just that although Chen Wen sent a messenger to Mao Mingshan, he didn't know the situation there, so he didn't dare to rush south, so he had to go around the mountains to cover up his travels.

Along the way, Chen Wen gathered many people along the way, but more people chose to stay in their hometown because they couldn't leave their homeland or because they didn't know much about Chen Wen's Nantang camp.

In this regard, Chen Wen did not have any way, the organizational ability of this team had already reached the limit, and it was more dependent on those big families and prestigious people to assist, and he was powerless to forcibly take away the people along the way, and it might also corrupt military discipline, so he had to give up this idea and pray that they would survive.

On the second day of departure, Wang Jiang also woke up from a coma, but he had collapsed mentally and still needed time to recuperate, so it was inconvenient for the director. Seeing this, Chen Wen had no choice but to hand over Wang Jiang to his family to take care of, and the evacuation team of the Dalanshan Ming Army was still under his command.

On the same day, Li Ruixin and Sun Yu also caught up, with a lot of silver cars, plus a few traitors who were tied up into twists.

When Chen Wen went up to meet him, he rolled up Sun Yu, what "You are an official who looks at the grain depot to grab the fast business, do you want to receive two salaries", "Don't be strong if you have no power to tie the chicken, be honest when you are a little fresh meat of the Ming Dynasty", "Do whatever you are told to do in the future, don't do anything to overstep your authority and cause chaos to others" Yunyun, only shamed Sun Yu to shame himself.

It's just that Sun Yu hasn't figured out what the concept of "Ming Dynasty Little Fresh Meat" is, and Chu Suxian, who was tied into a twist, also ushered in a cordial reception from his brother Chu Jiuru.

The team was still marching, Chen Wen and the others stood in front of the prisoner car prepared for Chu Suxian, watching Chu Jiu beat his clan brother like a mad tiger, as if they wanted to kill him with their own hands. In the back, there are no more hands and feet, and if you listen carefully, it is either "You dog thief dare to go to the tartar and lose the face of the ancestors of the Chu family", or "Are you bastard acting like this, worthy of the trust of Jinglu and the vice-constitution".

Seeing that there was nothing new anymore, before Chu Jiuru bit him to death, Chen Wen still pulled him away.

"Master Chu, are you planning to kill people or what, this guy's crime should be tried by the law of the country, and it is not your turn to abuse lynching!"

As soon as these words came out, Chu Jiuru was angry enough, but he also knew that what Chen Wen said was right, but he didn't dare to imagine what the outcome of the trial would be after evacuating to a safe area.

Since its departure, this southbound torrent composed of ordinary people, although there is no shortage of food, but the speed of travel is surprisingly slow, and it is good to be able to walk ten miles a day, but it is not fast. It's normal to think about it, the strategic movement speed of the army in this era is not more than twenty miles under normal circumstances, which is not much faster than that of these ordinary people.

For such a speed, the civil officials of the old battalion and several generals of the Nantang battalion also said that they could accept it, but Chen Wen couldn't stand this kind of marching speed that he called creeping.

From a military theory point of view, the marching speed of human beings is determined by the will to fight, so the strategic movement speed of modern armies and modern armies is frighteningly high. Not to mention the modern army, because they are still too far away, it is only said that the march speed of the modern army is more than twice that of the feudal army of this era.

After a ten-mile grind on this day, when will we be able to rush to Xinchang?

Due to the fact that a lot of carts were made before, and there were also some ox carts, donkey carts, wheelbarrows and other things in people's homes, although the roads that Chen Wen had asked Li Ruixin to lead people to explore were far away, they were still easy to walk for these vehicles, but the traces left by the convoys and pedestrians were difficult to clean.

Chen Wen didn't know if the Qing army would catch up, but just in case, he still ordered the engineering team to lead the newly organized people to dig the road all the way to the mess, so that if the Qing army pursued, it would also be delayed by the road.

As for the cost of road maintenance, Chen Wen had never heard of it in the last days of the Ming Dynasty!

Chen Wen, who was tense every day, wanted to rest, but these thousands of people were all counting on his decision to move forward, and if they stopped, they were likely to be encountered by the Qing army.

At this moment, the soldier in charge of the cavalry team suddenly noticed that there was something unusual in the woods beside the road, but he didn't know whether it was the spies of the Qing army or the people who had fallen here.

Seeing this, Chen Wen immediately ordered the team to keep moving forward while drawing some soldiers from the rear team to search the woods. After a while, several men dressed in tatters were brought to Chen Wen. I saw that these people were in tattered clothes, even at this time, they were still just thin cloth clothes, and they were still covered with plaster, and the dust on their faces was washed by sweat one after another, and it was even more shallow when you looked closely.

Looking at these people, Chen Wen naturally remembered him when he first entered Siming Mountain, and at that time, he was just luckier than these people in that the weather was still hot.

It was only at this moment that Chen Wen noticed the youngest of these people. Squinting his eyes and thinking for a moment, a contemptuous smile crossed his lips as a fragment of a memory flickered.

"I remember you, you are Wang Sheng's subordinate."