As early as a few days ago, Chen Wen's handsome army appeared outside Jinhua Mansion City, and Cao Conglong didn't expect that Chen Wen would not give him a chance to speak at all when he asked him to come. However, as the flagpole binding Ma Jinbao was erected by the Ming army, even if he had not heard of psychological warfare, Cao Conglong could see the ominous abnormality from the surrounding soldiers of the Fubiao battalion, especially this abnormality even in Zhou Qingui and others.

Seeing this, knowing that the army's heart was about to collapse, Cao Conglong hurriedly took Lu Wenlong and the servants of the two of them to secretly go down to the city, and then he didn't even go back to the governor's yamen, and went all the way east directly out of the city from Chisongmen.

However, the city was out, but the question of "where to go" was immediately placed in front of Cao Conglong and others.

As Chen Wen had predicted, three theories appeared among Cao Conglong's attachés and servants, the first of which managed to return to Fujian, impeached Chen Wen for attacking friendly forces, and put all the basins on Chen Wen's head; the second is Liu Cheng, the guard general of Dongyang County and the deputy general of the former battalion of Fubiao; And the third is to go north to Hangzhou to surrender to the Qing Dynasty and use the power of the Manchu Qing to deal with Chen Wen.

The first method was quickly rejected by Cao Conglong, the task was not completed, even if the basin was really buckled on Chen Wen's head, it would be useless, and the predicament of the Lu Jianguo Group could not be shaken off, and it was still a big problem whether it could be deducted. And the second idea is even more nonsense, from Liu Cheng to the officers and non-commissioned officers under his command, they were all brought out by Chen Wen, who knows if this guy will directly sell Cao Conglong and others for a good price. As for the third one, the congren who said that idea was dragged down and executed by the furious Cao Conglong before he could finish his words, and it is still unknown whether this guy has an idea similar to the curve to save the country in his mind.

That night, there was no way to have soldiers, and there was no way to do it, and the dilemma of Cao Conglong and his party had not had time to disagree, which led to infighting, and they were caught up by He Decheng and others who were chasing him, and He Decheng also brought Cao Conglong a solution that was not a way.

Sneak attack the coolie battalion composed of former green battalion soldiers, and then coerce those Qing army veterans to continue to attack Taizhou eastward!

It was a bold idea, but it was difficult, but there was nothing else they could do for a while. So early the next morning, Cao Conglong, Lu Wenlong and their followers, plus nearly 100 people brought by He Decheng, rushed all the way to the coolie camp.

The coolie camp was originally located near Anhua Town, and they participated in the whole process of the fortress project in Anhua Town, and they also paid the price of more than 100 deaths and more than 200 injuries. After the civil works on the fort were completed, the coolie battalion moved east of the village of Huaxi in Yiwu, and their job was changed to cutting down trees in the mountains and forests further east that could be used to build river warships.

Although this work is not very safe, it is also prone to accidents, but the officers in charge of the coolie battalion are afraid that it will cause chaos in wartime, so the requirements for the workload are very low, but it is far easier and safer than the desperate rammed earth construction city, plus these coolies have already succumbed to the oppression of the Ming army and the overseers when they were in Anhua Town, these former green battalion soldiers began to enjoy this "job", and even some people appeared to be grateful to the Ming army and the overseers.

However, with the occurrence of Cao Conglong's rebellion, although no officers' families in the coolie battalion were held hostage in Fucheng, the civilian officials of the supervising army openly fought among themselves when the army went out, for fear of chaos, so the officers in charge of the coolie battalion stopped their daily work and confined the coolies in the camp to prevent news from reaching it.

Trembling and sincerely waiting for the Ming army to return to the division to quell the rebellion, it turned out that an army in Ming uniform came, and the officer who claimed to be sent by Chen Wen to inspect the coolie battalion took advantage of the moment when their nerves, which had always been tense, to storm and take control of the entire coolie battalion in one fell swoop.

The officer who led the sneak attack was He Decheng, and when he controlled the situation, Cao Conglong came forward to pardon the coolies who were willing to join the Fubiao battalion, and then handed over the captured Ming soldiers and the overseers from the green battalion to the coolies who had been pardoned in order to collect their loyalty.

In the coolie camp, the identity of the owners and the animals was reversed, but the frightened animals did not dare to move their owners who were tied to the shelves by the rebels like lambs to the slaughter, as if they feared that this was a trap to test their loyalty. It wasn't until one of Cao Conglong's cronies that an officer forced a frightened unlucky guy with a knife and whipped lightly but was not punished, but was rewarded, and the entire school field instantly boiled.

It was only after the brutal killing that the screaming and lungs-splitting slaughter that the ferocity of these former Green Battalion soldiers was re-energized and became uncontrollable, and they tossed for several days, slaughtering several surrounding villages before they were overwhelmed by exhaustion.

The day before Chen Wen received the news, these former green battalion soldiers and coolies, and now the chief officer of the Fubiao battalion, the Ming army of the Fubiao Middle Battalion, which was directly under He Decheng, regrouped and regrouped under the intimidation of the Ming army's counterinsurgency troops who could kill them at any time, and began to march to Dongyang County in accordance with the military order.

These green battalion soldiers were able to regroup mainly because their original officers either became overseers, or were purged by the Ming army in order to prevent the coolies from taking the lead during this period of labor, so that these previous green battalion soldiers were already scattered by Cao Conglong's incorporation, and they were easily dispersed and reorganized by He Decheng into a new Fubiao camp composed of cronies who fled the city with him.

Although these coolies were originally green battalion soldiers of the Qing army, the long-term overload of labor was not something that could be relieved in less than a month since the rebellion, and the food distribution was also reduced when there was no labor, and the physical condition was generally poor, especially since this Fubiao battalion had just been reorganized, it was doubtful how much combat effectiveness it could have.

However, with more than 1,000 veterans in his hands, his courage was naturally stronger, and in order to better accomplish the task of capturing Taizhou and welcoming the landing of the Lu Jianguo group, the main helper of the rebellion, Lü Wenlong, the governor of Yamen, rushed to the garrison camp in Dongyang County, in order to persuade Liu Cheng and Cao Conglong to join forces to enter Taizhou in the east.

And their wishful thinking was to use the Dongyang County garrison trained by Chen Wen as the arrow, the newly formed Fubiao battalion as the auxiliary, and the grain, grass and military supplies hoarded in Yushan Town, to take Taizhou in one fell swoop. Even if you don't wait, you can retreat to Luochengyan and sit and watch the situation around you change.

"Vice General Liu, the old man of the Fu army said that as long as Vice General Liu is willing to accompany the army to the battle, a general with a seal is naturally indispensable. In the future, if you take Taizhou, there will be good words from the boss of the Fu Army, and His Royal Highness will never hesitate to give the reward of the marquis, and then Vice General Liu You will be a noble who will retire with the country, isn't it better than being a guerrilla general under the villain surnamed Chen? ”

In Liu Cheng's private house in Dongyang County, Lu Wenlong's abacus was loud, but Liu Cheng still seemed to have some scruples, far from being as decisive as Lu Wenlong had when he met with him last time.

The garrison strength of Dongyang County is the first of the garrisons in Jinhua County, and the strength of an infantry bureau plus two infantry posts and up to 600 soldiers is dwarfed even by the defenders of the fortress in Anhua Town. However, the scale of the army is so large, the area that needs to be controlled is naturally larger, and Dongyang County in the Ming and Qing dynasties has a vast territory, which is probably the territory of Dongyang and Pan'an counties in later generations. And this garrison was also divided into two parts, one part guarded the county seat, and the other part was used to besiege Luochengyan.

After Luo Chengyan's Baitou Army accepted Zhao'an, Liu Cheng transferred that part of the garrison back to the county seat, and later Cao Conglong hoarded military supplies in Yushan Town, so he transferred two infantry posts to guard.

It's just that the garrison of the county town has only stabilized the situation since the beginning of the rebellion by using his position and the authority of the imperial court, and most of the officers' families were controlled by Cao Conglong.

"Lu Zanhua, this time is different from the past, the lord has returned, I am issuing a military order, and how many soldiers will go on an expedition to Taizhou with the boss of the Fu army, this matter is better to think in the long run."

Chen Wen is the founder of this army, and he has taken the lead in several bloody battles, and his prestige is not at all comparable to the so-called authority of the imperial court far away. Lu Wenlong is not unaware of these things, Chen Wen is indeed an obstacle that they cannot overcome, but the matter has come to this point, there is no way to retreat, instead of going back to face Chen Wen's anger and the almost invincible means of using troops, there may be a glimmer of life in attacking Taizhou.

"Vice General Liu, don't forget, it was you who let go of Luo Chengyan's Baitou Army in the first place, and it was you who offered the plan to take the officers' families as hostages, and it was you who planned to attack Taizhou from Yushan Town and fight back to your hometown, and you also accepted the official position of deputy general of the Fubiao Battalion. Now, you've got no way back! (To be continued.) )