A few days later, Lu Jianguo's Qincha returned with Wang Xiuquan. At this time, in the temporary camp of the remnants of the Ming army of Dalan Mountain on Tiantai Mountain, Chen Wen, a fierce general who was praised by a minister of the court of a certain Lu Jianguo as "Emperor Gao protects the Lu Jianguo", was enduring the spitting of Mao Mingshan, another fierce general of the Ming army of Dalan Mountain, who commanded Mao Mingshan in the back camp.

"General Chen, you let that person surnamed Xu send a letter, and I haven't seen that Tian Xiong reply for so long, what does this mean?"

After receiving Chen Wen's letter, Mao Mingshan led his troops to cover the retreat of the people, but he was not as clever as Chen Wen, and he did not have the full cooperation of the officials of the old camp in Dalanshan, so he had to forcibly take the people away.

There were nearly 4,000 people including the rear camp when they set out from Simingshan Town, and they did not encounter a large Qing army all the way down, but not only did not increase, but they also decreased by nearly half, and even more than one-third of the battalion soldiers in the rear camp fled. In addition to the lack of systematic management of Mao Mingshan's southbound team, this also has a certain relationship with his forcible requisition of the people.

Chen Wen set out from Dalan Mountain, and took many people along the way, reaching eight or nine thousand people when he arrived at Tiantai Mountain, and after Mao Mingshan arrived, he brought more than 2,000 people.

The Ming army of Dalan Mountain brought out more than 10,000 people of Siming Mountain this time, and these people were rescued from the knife edge of the Qing army's encirclement and suppression of the anti-Qing base in Siming Mountain in the fourth year of Yongli, but their livelihood has also become a bigger problem.

These people are all people, they will starve to death if they have no food to eat, they can't carry much surplus food this time, and even they don't have much surplus food to carry, it has been a few months here, most of the food has been eaten, many people are looking for food in the field every day in order to satisfy their stomachs, if it is not for the old camp of Dalanshan in the porridge field for relief, I am afraid that the thing of starving to death may not happen.

Although some people have been arranged to open up the wasteland, and they have asked for some sponsorship from the commander of the Ming army in Tiantai Mountain, Xinchang Boyu Guowang, the grain and grass brought from the old camp are still constantly consumed in this kind of relief work, and even have affected Chen Wen's new round of army expansion plan.

The Ming army in Dalan Mountain no longer has a base, and the Tiantai Mountain, where they live now, cannot reclaim much land to feed these people. During this time, Chen Wen was studying countermeasures with Wang Jiang, after all, if this continued, it would only completely drag down the remnants of the surviving Ming army. But at this time, Mao Mingshan came to the camp and once again raised the issue of rescuing Wang Yi.

"I'll wait to contact the Tartars again, or find out where Wang Jingluo is being held, so that we can rescue him."

Rescue?

Hearing this word, Chen Wen couldn't help but sigh. Since he knew that he had been deceived by Xu Lei's slippery fish, Chen Wen found that he had entered a dead end.

His previous plan was to exchange Li Ronglai for the captured Wang Yi with Tian Xiong's love, plus the problem of Li Ruixin's mother and young sister, so he asked Xu Lei to deliver the letter, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone. But on the way south, he learned the truth about this person's capture from Li Rong's mouth, so Chen Wenwen's complacent plan directly put him in.

Chen Wen felt that even with his knees, he could think clearly, although a Ming official of Wang Yi's status did not know where to be imprisoned, the Qing army would definitely be heavily guarded; After Xu Lei went back, the Li family's mother and daughter must have been monitored, or even secretly imprisoned.

Chen Wen didn't think that he and his subordinates had the ability of the heroes of Liangshan in "Water Margin", not only robbing prisoner cars, prisons, and even making trouble in Tokyo Bianliang City, privately meeting Song Huizong's junior son, and stealing into the palace, even if he went to Hangzhou with a few officers, he didn't dare to guarantee that he would enter the city alive.

In this way, if they want to rescue Wang Yi, the only way for the Ming army is to exchange Li Rong, a Qing army officer with a close identity, and the initiative of whether to exchange or not is still in Tian Xiong's hands; If Tian Xiong agrees to the exchange and releases Li Rong, Xu Lei will definitely die; As soon as Xu Lei died, the fate of the Li family's mother and daughter was self-evident......

Use Li Rong to exchange for Wang Yi, what should Li Ruixin do over there?

If you don't need Li Rong to change Wang Yi, what should Wang Yi do?

After going around in circles, Chen Wen found that no matter what he did, he could not escape the condemnation of his conscience. So, after meeting Wang Jiang, Chen Wen secretly told Wang Jiang the ins and outs of this, trying to get the best of both worlds from the deputy of Wang Yi, the commander of the Ming Army of Dalanshan, who has always been resourceful.

However, after Wang Jiang heard all this, the hope that emerged in his eyes when he learned that Wang Yi was not martyred was also dashed, and he did not mention the matter again, and when other officials in Dalanshan suspected that Xu Lei might die on the road and the letter was not delivered, and he should contact the Qing army again, Wang Jiang only faced it with silence.

Listening to Mao Mingshan's questioning, he knew very well that Mao Mingshan was promoted by Wang Yi from a young man to a handsome, and this person's loyalty to Wang Yi was not comparable to a modern person like Chen Wen who was born in an era that did not pay attention to loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness.

It's just Wang Yi's life and death, he and Wang Jiang are powerless, but these rescued people still have to live, so Chen Wen had to sacrifice his usual tricks again, in order to perfunctory Mao Mingshan, so as to continue to discuss these problems that still have a chance to be solved.

"Mao Shuai, whether to exchange Wang Jingluo for Li Rong is also a big deal for Tartar, how can it be so easy to decide. Even if we don't think about exchanging ways anymore, the rescue must first know where Wang Jingluo is being held, how can it be decided all at once? ”

Seeing that Chen Wen was ready to use the old trick to him perfunctory again, Mao Mingshan immediately became furious. "General Chen, I asked you the day before yesterday, you said this, I asked you yesterday, you still said this, I asked you today, you said this again, in the end, Wang Jingluo, do you still plan to save it?!"

Even if this problem is mainly a headache for Wang Jiang, Chen Wen knows very well that the history of Yongli in the four years has changed very little, and it is definitely not enough to change the plan of the Qing army to besiege Zhoushan this year.

In this way, this year is Chen Wen's last chance, and it is also the last chance for Zhejiang's anti-Qing movement, if he can't quickly occupy a base to develop and grow, then there are only two ways left to hide in the mountains and shiver and go to Fujian to join Zheng Chenggong.

If you want to develop and grow, you must launch an attack on the areas occupied by the Qing army, but if the people starve to death in Tiantai Mountain because of the dispatch of troops, whether it is out of personal conscience or the purpose of protecting the people since the formation of the Nantang Battalion, this is unacceptable to Chen Wen. The current situation has made him anxious, how can he have the heart to continue to appease Mao Mingshan's emotions?

"Mao Shuai, the last general will say it again, whether to change or not is not the last general's final say, if you have any questions, you should ask Tian Xiong, the dog thief. As for the location of the detention, the last general has already sent someone to investigate, the mountain is high and the road is far away, and the last general is not a god, so he can't figure out when he can find out. And even if it is found out, if the situation does not allow it, the last general will not risk the annihilation of the whole army to save people, Wang Jingluo established this Dalanshan Wang Division to recover the lost territory, not to rob prisoners like the Liangshan thieves! ”

Chen Wen took the case, and Mao Mingshan looked at each other angrily, and the smell of gunpowder between the two was full, and even the personal soldiers on both sides rushed in, trying to protect their respective generals.

Seeing this, Wang Jiang hurriedly got up and made peace, and after blasting out the pro-soldiers on both sides, he appeased Chen Wen on the left and Mao Mingshan on the right, and finally persuaded Chen Wen to sit down again. But Mao Mingshan has always been a fiery temper, and since Chen Wen has made it clear that he will not waste his energy to rescue Wang Yi, he turned around and left, but a word full of anger also reached the ears of Chen Wen and Wang Jiang the moment he walked out of the door.

"If you don't save it, you will save it yourself!"

"If he wants to go, let him go, and the vice constitution doesn't need to pay attention."

When Wang Jiang heard Mao Mingshan's words, he wanted to chase him out and dissuade him, but Chen Wen pulled him back, and he had to continue to study the matter of grain and grass.

The relationship between Chen Wen and Mao Mingshan was originally very good, and they did not mention it when they were in Dalan Mountain, and they also cooperated with each other to settle the people after coming to Tiantai Mountain. It's just that Wang Yi's capture led to the conflict between the two, in fact, if Chen Wen didn't know this history, he might have risked his life to rescue Wang Yi like Mao Mingshan, but it was precisely because he knew these imminent realities that he had to put the recovery of the lost land in the first place, after all, if he didn't change, the suffering of the next hundreds of years would come as he knew, and everything he did would be completely in vain.

After Mao Mingshan left, Chen Wen and Wang Jiang discussed for a long time, but did not come up with a feasible plan to use the limited grain and grass in the grain depot to balance the expansion of the army and the relief of the two current major events of the Ming army in Dalanshan. As a result, Chen Wen had no choice but to turn around and say goodbye and go back to deal with the affairs that had been entrusted to Sun Yu to help investigate.

Out of Wang Jiang's residence, Chen Wen went straight to the treasury of the temporary old camp. The temporary camp of Tiantai Mountain was taken over from Yu Guowang, when Wang Yi was chased and killed by the Fubiao camp, and when he took refuge in Yu Guowang, he camped here to tide over the difficulties, and this time Yu Guowang handed over this camp to Wang Jiang and Chen Wen again, which is also a kind of inheritance.

However, for a long time, there were very few repairs, and the whole camp seemed quite simple, and after coming here for a few months, Wang Jiang completed the renovation of the camp in the form of work for relief. Of course, there are some things, but it is by no means as simple as rectification can no longer occur.

"Master Sun, can you find out which thing that doesn't know whether it is alive or dead that dares to be greedy for military supplies and capture?"

Looking at the quartermaster Qi Xiufeng and the group of officials and Kuding behind him, who beheaded Chu Su successively a few months ago, Chen Wen became murderous again.