Chapter VII: Intelligence

As the sun set, Chen Wen had been lying here for a whole day.

"Today should be the fifth day of the seventh month."

Getting up from the bed, Chen Wen stretched his waist, the soreness on his body was gone, and his head was no longer dizzy, but he was still a little tired, maybe he exercised too much yesterday.

"The medicine prescribed by this old Chinese medicine doctor is still very effective."

After a day's rest, Chen Wen felt that he could and had to go to see Wang Yi.

Originally, according to the plan he had made before, he should have told the information as soon as he saw Wang Yi, which was the most normal. However, Wang Sheng's appearance disrupted his plans.

Can't wait any longer, shouldn't the person who reported such important information tell the details as soon as possible? Even if he is unwell, he can't really wait for Wang Yi to come to see him. Chen Wen felt that the credibility of his words would be one point lower every day that passed, so he couldn't afford to delay it at all.

Of course, when the Qing army officially began to encircle and suppress, Wang Yi would have believed Chen Wen's words, but at that time, it would be extremely difficult for him to leave again.

"Life flies so fast, there are less than two months left."

Looking at the twilight outside the window, Chen Wen couldn't help but sigh that it had been more than ten days since the sunrise and sunset, and he still didn't quite adapt to such a living habit. He touched the phone in his pocket, it was out of battery, and he probably couldn't hear the familiar boot music anymore.

"But it should also be used as a paperweight, just like that power bank."

Chen Wen pushed open the door and walked out, as far as his eyes could see, he was in a small courtyard, under the porch of the opposite room, Lu Lao Langzhong and the boy were eating.

"It's not the right time." Chen Wen walked over.

Seeing him coming, Lu Lao Langzhong stood up and said, "Little brother is up?" ”

"Yes, it's much more comfortable. Thank you Lu Lao for saving your life, and you are polite here. "Chen Wen is courteous.

Lu Lao Langzhong immediately helped Chen Wen up. "It's not like this, the main thing is that the little brother has a good foundation, and the old man hasn't done anything."

"Old Lu, you are too modest. I want to see Wang Jingluo. ”

"Oh, why don't you eat first?" Lu Laolang was quite surprised.

Chen Wen shook his head and said, "Thank you Lu Lao, it's just that I've been sleeping until now, and it's been delayed for a day, and the stakes are very high, and I ask Lu Lao to tell me where to find Wang Jingluo, and I'll go by myself." ”

"In that case, then the little brother will come with me."

Chen Wen was stunned for a moment, and then relieved, after all, this is a military camp, which is different from the office place where he used to come and go. I'm really out of place.

"Well, there is Lao Lu who is old."

Out of the small courtyard, it is the school field, and the courtyard where the Chinese military hall is located is located directly north of the school field.

Chen Wen followed Lu Laolangzhong step by step, and soon arrived at the gate of the compound. I saw Lu Laolang Zhong step forward and say a few words to the officer guarding the door, and the officer glanced at Chen Wen and turned around and walked in.

After a while, a man dressed as a small official walked out with the officer. The little official looked at the two people in front of the door and saluted Lu Lao Langzhong. Immediately, Lu Lao Langzhong returned the salute and turned to leave, but this little official led Chen Wen to the gatehouse.

And all this is as if the heart is in the heart.

The gatehouse was almost full of people, and at a glance, they were either civil officials in green and green uniforms, or martial artists in armor and military uniforms, all young without exception. Without waiting for the little official's guidance, Chen Wen took care of himself and found a seat.

A room full of people frowned when they looked at Chen Wen, who was on straw shoes, his clothes were still full of mud and dirt, and the civil official beside him saw Chen Wen sitting over, and immediately got up and changed his position.

"Why is there still a beggar?"

"Don't come here to sue."

"What nonsense, what if someone is a righteous man who joined the army."

"The righteous men who joined the army should go to see Huang Dudu and Mao Jingang, what are you doing here?"

It's really a group of young grandmothers in the Republic of China.

Chen Wen ignored them and sat there contentedly.

Soon, the door opened again.

I saw that the little official rushed in without touching the ground, and before he could catch his breath, he said loudly: "Mr. Chen, Wang Jing is slightly invited." ”

"There is labor." Chen Wen left the chair that was not yet hot and walked out.

After listening to the back, the little official said to the officials: "Wang Jingluo said, I won't be on the board today, so let's come back tomorrow." ”

When they heard this, they were astonished, and they must know that this had never happened before. Whether it is Wang Yi or Wang Jiang, as long as there is official business, whether it is civil or military affairs, no matter how late it is, it has always been done today, and it has never been postponed to the next day.

The officials involuntarily moved their eyes to Chen Wen, their faces full of incredulity.

Chen Wen followed the little official to the hall of the Chinese army, only to see that in the hall of the Chinese army, a group of civilian officials in blue and green clothes were getting up and leaving.

Coming out of the hall, the group of civil officials walked together in twos and threes, looking at Chen Wen like a beggar with surprised or puzzled eyes.

"It might be a good thing to know less, at least not to worry about the catastrophe in two months' time."

When he walked to the front of the hall, Chen Wen tidied up his clothes under the anxious gaze of the little official, and then pulled his hair with his hands, and then strode in.

In the lobby of the Chinese military hall, Wang Yi sat on the main seat, while a young civilian official with a peacock complement sat at the bottom, and there was no one else.

When Wang Yi saw Chen Wen, he was stunned for a moment, and then beckoned the little official over and whispered a few words. The little official looked Chen Wen up and down, and then walked out.

At this time, Chen Wen looked at the civil official sitting at the bottom and thought carefully.

It stands to reason that when you meet someone you don't know, you should wait for someone you don't know. But for him, what he needs most now is not to know who this person is, but to take the initiative in the next conversation.

"Do you want to gamble?"

Chen Wen looked at the civil official, his face was full of shrewdness, and he was not a foolish character at first glance. The official uniform is very decent and clean, but there are some black spots on the cuffs, which are ink. In addition, there are some white spots on the official boots, is it white ash or flour?

Chen Wen thought about it, a three-grade civil official who was good at cases and often went in and out of the grain depot......

"I hope the history books didn't lie to me."

"In Xia Chenwen, knock on Wang Jingluo, knock on Wang Vice Xian." Chen Wen was courteous.

Wang Yi and the civil official looked at each other for a moment and said, "No courtesy." ”

"Xie Wang Jingluo, Xie Wang Vice Xian."

After Chen Wen got up, Wang Yi asked, "Why doesn't Furen rest for a few days?" ”

"Lu Lao's wonderful hand rejuvenation is already very good. Besides, the stakes are so high that there is no room for idleness. ”

This is the civil official sitting next to him and asked, "How do you know that this official is Wang Jiang?" ”

You guessed it.

Chen Wen breathed a sigh of relief and said to Wang Jiang: "The two kings of Dalan Mountain, like thunder, how can they not know? Moreover, there were ink stains on the cuffs of the vice-constitution, and he was apparently often dealing with cases, and there were several white spots on his boots, which were presumably flour underneath. So you don't have to ask. ”

Wang Jiang looked at his cuffs and boots, and smiled at Wang Yi. "It's a good one."

"The vice-constitution is overrated." Chen Wen bowed.

In his impression, the civil officials of the Southern Ming Dynasty who appeared in the Siming Mountain area in the history books during this year should be Wang Yi, Li Changxiang, Zhang Huangyan and Feng Jingdi, as well as Huang Zongxi and Wang Jiang, the deputy imperial envoys of the capital.

Wang Yi is right in front of him; Li Changxiang and Zhang Huangyan should be in Zhoushan now; Huang Zongxi was no longer in the Lu Jianguo Dynasty after going to Japan to beg, but engaged in "underground work" with Qian Qianyi; Then the only options left are Feng Jingdi and Wang Jiang.

According to the story about Feng Jingdi recorded in the history books, it should be an image of a bookish and a little stubborn, obviously not him. And if Feng Jingdi was present, Wang Sheng should also be there, after all, he and Wang Sheng had a conflict before, but Chen Wen had heard the news that Wang Sheng had already gone down the mountain yesterday.

In comparison, although there are not many records about Wang Jiang, the bureau he set up later left a deep impression on Chen Wen, and this face is obviously closer to the person in front of him.

At this time, Wang Yi asked, "Furen must have come here to teach me." ”

"Don't dare, I'm just here to finish what I didn't do yesterday."

Hearing this, Wang Yi immediately sat down and said, "There is no fourth pair of ears here at this moment, but it doesn't hurt to say it." ”

Chen Wen thought for a while and said, "Can you borrow a pen and paper?" ”

"Then Furen will come and talk about it."

Chen Wen walked to Wang Yi's desk, picked up a brush, dipped it in ink, and drew a map of Zhejiang on paper according to his memory.

As the saying goes, there is a picture and the truth, and you don't have a picture to say a JB.

Wang Yi and Wang Jiang stood up and looked at Chen Wen's graffiti, until he marked the place name and realized that it was a map.

Chen Wen saw that the attention of the two had been attracted by himself, pointed to the map and said: "For four years, His Royal Highness the Prison State has been stationed in Zhoushan. ”

In 1649 A.D., the lost territory recovered by Lu Jianguo in Fujian was lost again, and Zhang Mingzhen, Ruan Jin, Wang Dynasty Xianhuo and Huang Binqing were stationed in Zhoushan, and the strategy was also changed from restoring Fujian to running Zhejiang.

Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang, Fujian and Zhejiang, was afraid that Zhejiang would be like Fujian again, so he agreed with Jin Li, the general of Gushan Ezhenpingnan, Xiao Qiyuan, the governor of Zhejiang, and Tian Xiong, the governor of Zhejiang, to take advantage of the unstable foothold of His Majesty in Zhoushan, to first appease and then encircle and suppress, and first remove the branches and then remove the fundamental policy. The previous surrender of Yan My Gong was only part of it, and since this year, a strategy of encirclement and suppression has been adopted against those who refuse to surrender. ”

Yan My Gong's surrender activities were an inevitable choice against the backdrop of a large-scale anti-Qing uprising across the country, and the Qing army was exhausted and not good at water warfare. Since Wang Yi's subordinates had just killed Yan My Gong's envoy to surrender two months earlier, linking such a thing to what Chen Wen was about to tell them would increase the credibility of his words.

"And the plan of the Tartars is divided into two lines, north and south."

"On the southern front, the Tartars took Jinhua General Ma Jinbao as the main general, and led the Jinhua, Chuzhou, Wenzhou, and Taizhou Green Battalions and the Vice-General Zhang Guoxun of the Central Army of the Governor of Zhejiang and Fujian to encircle and suppress Wenzhou He Zhaolong, Jinhua Xu Shouping, Chuzhou Ye Linghua and other volunteers." As he spoke, Chen Wen drew several arrows on the map, which extended from Jinhua Fuzhi to Jinhua Dongyongshan, Wenzhou and Chuzhou.

"Of course, the original target of the Tartars was the Pingyi Marquis and the Min'an Marquis of Wenzhou Sanpan, but ......" Chen Wen shook his head.

Pingyi Hou Zhou Hezhi and Min'an Hou Zhou Rui are brothers of the same clan, so Lu Jianguo ordered the two to be stationed in Wenzhou Sanpan together, but the result was that the brothers were in trouble, Zhou Rui went south to seek refuge in Zheng Cai, and later became Zheng Chenggong's general, and Zhou Hezhi was sent to the general of the navy under the command of Lu Jianguo, Langhu Hou Ruan Jin.

This was a well-known incident of infighting that occurred in the Lu Jian State Xing Dynasty, and the result of this directly led to the fact that in the Battle of Zhoushan that occurred next year, the Ming army in Zhoushan was forced to divide its troops to meet the Qing army on the southern road from Taizhou to the north.

Hearing this, Wang Jiang immediately interrupted Chen Wen. "What happened to the Marquis of Pingyi and the Marquis of Min'an?"

"Don't they know about it? Or maybe it hasn't happened at all? Chen Wen thought about it, but he couldn't remember how much this happened in the month of this year.

In this case, Chen Wen had to pretend to be surprised and said, "Don't the two officials know? The Marquis of Pingyi and the Marquis of Min'an are incompatible, and now they have parted ways. ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw that Wang Jiang was stunned at first, and then sighed, his expression was a little decadent, but Wang Yi was completely unmoved.

Chen Wendu didn't expect Wang Yi to have this expression, so he had to continue talking.

"The following is the northern line, the Tartars are afraid that Siming Mountain and Zhoushan will be horns of each other, and it has been agreed that in September this year, the Pingnan General Gushan Ezhen Jin will be the commander of the Eight Banners of the headquarters of the Eight Banners and the Ningbo Green Battalion will go out of Fenghua, and the Zhejiang Governor Tian Xiongshuai will raise the standard battalion and the Shaoxing Green Battalion will go out of Yuyao and join Dalan."

"The Tartar plan is to take Dalan Mountain as the center after leveling your department, ride out in all directions, sweep Siming Mountain, and execute all of them, regardless of the old and young, so as to prevent Wang Shi from reusing this place."

In the history of Chen Wen's time, the Qing army sent troops in September, marching in the direction mentioned by Chen Wen, and carried out bloody mountain washing atrocities after capturing Dalan Mountain.

During this period, Feng Jingdi died and Wang Jiang was captured. When Wang Yi was hopeless in repelling the Qing army, he was forced to go to Zhoushan to ask for help from the Pingxibo Dynasty, trying to attack Hangzhou by sea when the Qing army gathered on Siming Mountain. However, by the time he arrived in Zhoushan at the beginning of the second year, the dynasty had already been killed by Zhang Mingzhen, the Marquis of Dingxi, and Ruan Jin, Marquis of Danghu.

In July, Wang Yi returned to Siming Mountain, and what he saw was "all the generals in the mountains, surrender and kill them", and at this time, the Qing troops had begun to assemble and prepare to attack Zhoushan. In desperation, he had to go to the rooftop to recruit troops. On July 24, he "insisted on Beixi for the regiment training", did not surrender, and by August 12, he was brutally killed by the Qing army in Dinghai.

"And that's exactly what comes down here."

Chen Wen looked at the two people who were silent with gloomy faces in front of him, and secretly thought about the pros and cons of this.

Maybe I can do more, the Qing army is bound to win, but if Wang Yi can lead the people of Siming Mountain to avoid the edge temporarily, maybe more people will survive.

If the Ming army of Siming Mountain is not completely wiped out, it will be able to retain more strength for the overall situation of resisting the Qing Dynasty, and for himself, it is also a qualification and good fate.

Chen Wen pondered for a moment and decided to drop another depth charge.

"In addition, I don't know if the two officials know that now Dingxihou and Ping Xibo are at odds, and the two sides are already on the same page."

As soon as the words fell, Wang Yi and Wang Jiang asked almost at the same time.

"What is the total strength of the Tartars?"

"How did you know about Zhoushan?"

Chen Wen said: "The two officials, which question should you answer first?" ”

Wang Jiang was stunned for a moment, and then raised his hand to signal Chen Wenxian to answer Wang Yi's question.

Chen Wen hesitated for a moment and said, "As far as I know, there are 3,000 soldiers in the standard battalion, and all of them are dispatched; There are 2,000 people in the Shaoxing Green Battalion and 3,000 people in the Ningbo Green Battalion, which should be part of the war; Hangzhou garrisoned 4,000 soldiers in the Eight Banners, and the number of troops sent is unknown, but it should not be less than 2,000. And this is only the soldiers, and the auxiliaries are unknown. ”

Chen Wen didn't know how many troops the Qing army had sent at all, because the books he had read didn't write about them. In this case, he had to say as much as he could according to the more reasonable statement. It stands to reason that with seven or eight thousand soldiers, there will only be more auxiliary soldiers, and such a force is obviously not something that the Ming army of Dalanshan can compete with.

At this moment, Chen Wen's purpose is very clear, that is, to urge Wang Yi to temporarily avoid the edge of the Qing army. Because in history, the Ming army of Siming Mountain was almost wiped out this year, so that next year, the Ming army in eastern Zhejiang will play a role in the Qing army attacking Zhoushan.

Endure the calm for a while, take a step back and open the sky.

Let's go, only when you are alive can you have output.