Chapter 104: Flower Street

On May 22 of the seventh year of Yongli, the battle for the city of Jinhua Mansion had broken out, and the main force of the Zhejiang Ming army that had returned from the rapid march of Paitou Town also returned to Zhengjiawu Town. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

When the beacon fire was lit, the left-behind officers in the camp in Zhengjiawu Town guessed that Chen Wen would definitely return to the division, so they had already asked people to deal with the ingredients. After a while, the herald's scouts arrived, and they accelerated their movements, and finally made most of the food when the Ming army rushed back.

Time is pressing, it is impossible to sit down and eat slowly, cakes were distributed on the school ground, and special auxiliaries filled the gourds with water for the non-commissioned officers, and the left-behind officers were even more ingenious to let the auxiliaries in the battalion cut straw paper and fold it up to hold some vegetables and meat without any soup, so that the soldiers could take the food away as quickly as possible.

On the school field of the big camp in Zhengjiawu Town, the officers and soldiers of the three battalions of Nantang, Shentang, and Guards silently received water in the order of the queue, and then continued to embark on the road to Jinhua while eating dinner. The whole process was not calm and orderly, there was no chaos, and there was no phenomenon such as stuck position, which Chen Wen was quite satisfied with.

From the fourth year of Yongli, for nearly three years, this large army, which was stuck in the cracks of the Qing army, finally lived up to his efforts, at least on the surface, the impact of feudalism has become less and less, and the entire army has been integrated into one, making the slightest action under one voice. Unlike the feudal army, which connects first-class officers and their cronies by a chain of allegiance, like a curtain on the door, it seems to be one, but it is not.

The army walked out of the camp in order, and walked on the official road to Jinhua while eating, why did they march to Jinhua in a hurry, these Chen Wen had already conveyed the news of Jinhua's attack to the army level, and every soldier knew what they were going to do at the moment.

This is the tradition of this army, and it is precisely this that makes them have a higher fighting spirit, because the families of most of the officers and non-commissioned officers in the army either live in the Fucheng, or the counties of Jinhua Mansion have divided the fields, and once the Fucheng is lost, it is likely to mean that heaven and man are separated forever.

However, to motivate morale, it is naturally not all due to these sense of crisis, the prison officer surnamed Huang in the Shentang Battalion has already come up with a better way, and after getting Chen Wen's permission, he will use it.

As the rear army of the palace when it went north, the Shentang battalion turned around in place when the Ming army returned, and became the vanguard of the army, and it has been maintained. Prison Officer Huang Jian walked on the periphery of the queue and shouted, "Brothers, we are going to Jinhua to help our brothers and families, sing our songs, and everyone will know that we are coming!" ”

"One, two, three, ready, up!"

"We're all marksmen,

Kill an enemy with every bullet,

We're all flying troops,

Even if the mountains are high and the water is deep.

……”

"The Song of the Guerrillas" has long been renamed "The Song of Dalan Mountain", which is a song that Chen Wen sang in the army early on, and the whole army can sing it, and even those who can't sing it all will hum a few words. At the beginning, they sang this song from Tiantai Mountain all the way to Dongyang County, where they walked all the way to Dongyang County, thus recovering the first piece of lost land, and now it is precisely with the help of this spirit of revolutionary optimism that the soldiers have greater fighting spirit and perseverance.

"In that thick woods,

Everywhere there are camps for comrades,

On that high hill,

There are countless of our good brothers. ”

……”

Since the end of the fifth year of Yongli, Chen Wen led his troops to recover the entire territory of Jinhua Mansion, and it has been a year and a half since it returned to the embrace of the Han family. The Han family's clothes are restored, and every inch of land here also belongs to the Han family's children, and there are supporters of the Ming Army in Zhejiang.

"No food, no clothing,

His own enemy sent forward,

No guns, no cannons,

The enemy made it for us. ”

……”

For a long time, capture is an unobtainable part of the Ming army's equipment, and the premise of capture is to win the war, for the Ming army, from the battle behind the palace of Siming Mountain, they have not been defeated, and even had a small army was wiped out of the example, but in the war has never been lost, this is the continuation of the glory of the Qi army, but also from Chen Wen to the result of the efforts of each of them.

And today, since the Qing army dares to raid Jinhua on a large scale, it will definitely not be just a small army, because there is not no war camp stationed in the city of Jinhuafu, and since it is here, it will definitely be a large-scale field battle, or even a decisive battle. And this wild wave war, from the Qi family army a few decades ago to the current Zhejiang Ming army, has never failed in this land.

"We grew up here,

Every inch of land is our own,

Whoever wants to take it by force,

We'll fight him to the end.

……”

Jinhua, for most of the Ming army in Zhejiang, was not only their hometown, but also the place where their families were able to settle down after obtaining the land in the army. There was no tax on the military and pension fields, which meant that they could no longer be exploited by the officials and gentry, and they could live happily ever after.

However, the return of the Tartars who had caused such horrific massacres as the Jinhua Massacre, and then the remnants of the land to the point of doing everything they could, would not tolerate the return of these beasts who wanted to rob them of their hard-won happiness!

The horses had already been scattered, and there was no place to set up an ambush on the road after dark, but this journey of one hundred and thirty miles, even if the official road repaired by the Zhejiang Ming Army in the past two years was impossible to keep on guard and walk slowly on the road as usual.

The baggage has long been lost in Paitou Town, and together with the capture, the reinforcements of the Zhengjiawu Town battalion will be responsible for transporting it back. After leaving the camp, the whole army had already begun to run and move forward, except for the time when they were eating dinner while walking, and it was no longer possible to stop and rest, and it was already a rare rest to turn to walking every time they ran and advanced a certain distance.

Except for the singing led by the prison officers while walking, Chen Wen had already dismounted, and after leaving the camp, he walked with the other soldiers and shared the weal and woe with the soldiers.

Hour by hour, at first it was the artillery of the army, the tiger squat cannon, and the Franc machine, which gradually began to fail to keep up with the queue, were constantly discarded on the road, at most only one or two auxiliary soldiers were left to guard it. And then, some soldiers with poor physical strength or sprained injuries also fell behind from time to time, Chen Wen also left auxiliary soldiers to support them to continue to advance, and the army did not stop at all.

I don't know how long I walked, until a hint of red appeared in the sky, and Chen Wen was already able to see some familiar outlines in the distance.

Since the first hydraulic boring machine was built, Chen Wen has built a large fence along an area of the Dongyang River east of Jinhua Mansion for the use of the hydraulic workshops. The outline he observed was the recruit camp in the northeastern part of the area, and from the official road he could see the checkpoints in the distance. And then, the Tanma in front of them passed back everything they saw while expelling the Qing army Tanma in the northeast of the city.

"The order goes down, and two miles away is Jinhua Mansion City, and now it is still in the hands of my Zhejiang Wang Shi!"

The city was still in the hands of the Ming army, and this news made the already exhausted soldiers can't help but be shocked. However, Chen Wen did not give the order to turn south and enter the city through the Chisong Gate in the east of the city, but continued to advance along the official road north of the city.

Drove more than 100 miles in one night, and the former Qi family army also did it, in the battle of Huajie in history, the Qi family army ran 110 miles on the mountain road in Taizhou to return to Fucheng. And this time, although the road is all official, but from Zhengjiawu Town to Jinhua Mansion is one hundred and thirty miles, and yesterday it was from there to Paitou Town without stopping, which is not inferior to the Qi family army in the past.

However, according to Tanma's next report, the Qing army that came this time was not only Hangzhou garrison Eight Banners, but also thousands of Han Army Eight Banners on the side, this heavy army group thought that it could capture Jinhua Mansion in one fell swoop so that even the camp was not built, if they were allowed to flee, the threat in this direction could still not be lifted, and even if Jinhua Mansion was not lost, Hong Chengchou could still consume the Zhejiang Ming army to death on this land. At the moment, only by defeating them in one fell swoop can the threat be completely lifted, at least not allowing them to return to Lanxi easily.

"In April of the ninety-second year, Qi Shaobao led the army to run more than 100 miles in one night and returned to the capital of Taizhou, and defeated the invading Japanese invaders without eating. Now I waited for a night and marched 130 miles, and I was no longer inferior to those predecessors, but the Tartars were wreaking havoc in the west of the city. Soldiers, tell me Chen Wen, can we sit back and watch here?! ”

"Can't!"

"Can't!"

"Can't!"

“……”

Whether it was before or after the establishment of the Supervision Division, the ancient army had never disappeared in this Zhejiang Ming Army, but the later supervision officers had undergone special training and were more professional. Among the stories told, there are heroes who defend the civilization of the Han family, warriors who are famous outside the territory, and naturally the story of the Ming army itself, as well as the glorious achievements of the Qi army a few decades ago, which is the object of their reconstruction.

The Battle of Huajie, as one of the most glorious examples of the Qi family's army in Taizhou's anti-Japanese war, there was no one in the army who did not know. At this time, they are only one step away from those glorious predecessors, as long as they defeat those Tartars in the west of the city, they can surpass the Qi family army and become a new legend. Once I thought of this, the soldiers in the army were all excited, and even the fatigue of the body was swept away under the excitement.

"Ben Shuai has already ordered the chefs of the major restaurants in the city to prepare wine and meat, and kill all the Tartars in the west of the city before going to eat, just like the Qi family army back then!"

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

“……”

Holding high the weapons in their hands, less than 6,000 soldiers from the three barracks of Nantang, Shentang, and Guards of the Ming Army in Zhejiang rushed to the west with resolute steps. What awaits them is no longer the Japanese Kou of 92 years ago, but the 8,000 elite troops from the Eight Banners of the Han Army.

One team spent a night to run more than 100 miles, and the other team spent the whole night in the city, tired soldiers fighting tired soldiers, and the bloody battle of Jinhua was about to play the strongest voice that had been suppressed for a long time. (To be continued.) )