On the night of October 16, Liang Lane Town.

It has been ten days since the oath was sworn out, and most of the Ming army units of Siming Mountain who were invited have also reached the assembly point, and even Liu Yiming's left and right battalions have also shown their banners and stationed here, only Chen Tianshu is still lurking on the side, ready to give the Qing army a surprise attack at any time.

As for the Qing army, under the scout of the Ming army, it seems that the assembly has also been completed, and the commander of the northern line of the Qing army, Tian Xiong, the commander of the northern line of Zhejiang, swore in Yuyao a few days ago, and now has arrived at Yonghe Town, facing the Ming army across the Siming Lake. The only problem is that the number of troops dispatched by the Qing army this time was not as much as Chen Wen had previously estimated, only the standard battalion was dispatched with auxiliaries, but the Shaoxing Green Battalion did not appear.

These days, Wang Yi is busy every day in the big tent of the Chinese army outside Lianglong Town, handling military affairs and entertaining the newly arrived Ming army generals. It's just that if that's all, this is the first large-scale joint operation in the history of the Ming Army in Siming Mountain, and coordination is a big problem.

Fortunately, in the plan that Chen Wen had formulated for him before, if he had to fight face-to-face, the Ming army of Dalanshan would be the main force, and the other Ming troops would only be responsible for auxiliary operations. As long as these friendly forces do not collapse at the beginning, it is enough, and the most important combat tasks are all entrusted to the Dalanshan Ming Army and Chen Tianshu's subordinates, who have had experience in coordinated operations.

But the problem now is that because the Qing army delayed the encirclement and suppression operation, Liu Yiming had too many troops to hide, and it was likely that he had been exposed, so he had to show the banner in advance in order to boost the morale of friendly troops; And Chen Wen's Nantang battalion was also arranged by Wang Yi to guard the old camp and could not participate in the battle, so Chen Tianshu's more than 300 cavalry could only rely on cooperating with the cavalry of the Ming army gathered at the time of the battle, and strive to overwhelm the opponent in numbers.

In this way, Chen Wen's battle plan for pursuing suddenness was basically changed beyond recognition.

But for Wang Yi, there was information brought by Chen Wen in the early stage of this war, and Chen Wen's plan in the middle stage, although the plan could not catch up with the changes, but the Ming army still had an overwhelming advantage in strength because it obtained information in advance, as long as it could defeat the Qing army at the time of the decisive battle, there should not be too much of a problem. So much so that the political significance of this battle has begun to be greater than the military significance, after all, he is still preparing to try to kill Siming Mountain again after this battle, so at this moment it is more to unite friendly forces to plan for the future recovery of lost territory.

It's just that before Wang Yi swore to set off, almost all the generals of the Ming army in the central and northern parts of Siming Mountain swore that they would definitely come to the battle, but as soon as the news of the Qing army's assembly arrived, what "headache, foot pain, butt pain", or "the old mother is in the hall, the wife is young, and the child is still young" and other reasons began to emerge in front of Wang Yi's case. In Shen Tiaolun's words, these cowards had to move out the reason of "husband dead, no heir, widow, and uncle".

Fortunately, this time, Wang Yi and Feng Jingdi used all the contacts they had accumulated over the years. By this time, the more than 20 Ming troops that had arrived in Liangnong Town could be regarded as having gathered more than four or five thousand soldiers, although most of them were only barely able to compete with the local green battalion in terms of quality, but fortunately, there were many people, if you count the four battalions of Dalanshan and Chen Tianshu's cavalry battalion, it is estimated that the number of soldiers is more than twice that of the Qing army, and this is also one of the sources of Wang Yi's confidence.

However, these sources of confidence have also caused him a lot of trouble, such as disturbing the people.

According to Wang Yi's regulations, all Ming troops, including him, must be stationed outside the town, and are not allowed to enter the town except for the purchase of supplies, in order to prevent the phenomenon of disturbing the people. It's a pity that these Ming troops may still be a little more restrained in their respective defense areas, and when they arrive at other people's defense areas, they will immediately be exposed in their original form, and it is good to buy and sell by force, and there are really a lot of things about robbing people's property and molesting women.

Fortunately, Wang Yi is still around, these people don't dare to make too much trouble, and they don't toss up any big cases of kidnapping, murder and goods, and Wang Yi, as the boss, is just reprimanding out of consideration for uniting all departments.

"No wonder Furen's plan didn't put these people in an important position, and the combat effectiveness of these armies is really uneven."

At this moment, there are only Wang Yi, Shen Tiaolun, Huang Zhongdao and Liu Yiming in the big tent, and there are no outsiders at the moment, even Shen Tiaolun, who is a civil official, can't help but complain. These days have really exhausted him, just coordinating the camping sites of various departments is enough for him, and he has to patrol the town to prevent the occurrence of disturbance to the people, so that he can no longer manage the military affairs of the middle battalion, and all of them are handed over to Zou Xiaonan.

Compared with Shen Tiaolun, Huang Zhongdao and Liu Yiming, who were responsible for further revising the plan according to the real combat effectiveness of each department and coordinating the operations of each department, were even more speechless. In the past few days, according to their previous understanding of these Ming troops, some of them did carry out the guys at the bottom of the box, and some of them always planned to take advantage of the Ming army of Dalan Mountain, which was the leader of the alliance, and there was even a shameless one that all the soldiers did not carry any weapons except for the pro-soldiers, as if they had come to ask for food.

"Hey, these people have completely ruined Chen's guerrilla plan, but fortunately, the Tartars sent troops this time much less than Chen's guerrilla had expected, otherwise I really don't know if they should be bombed away, and then the Nantang battalion will be transferred."

Unlike Shen Tiaolun, Liu Yiming has never met Chen Wen, so it is impossible to be close enough to use table characters in terms of title, but only to be called by official position. Although I had heard about Chen Wen beating Chu Suxian before, the corrupt officials and corrupt officials like Chu Suxian themselves violated the interests of these military leaders, and Huang Zhongdao and Mao Mingshan privately spoke highly of Chen Wen, so Liu Yiming also began to favor Chen Wen psychologically.

As early as when he led the army to Lianglong Town, Liu Yiming expressed extreme dissatisfaction with Wang Yi's submission to the opinions of these Ming troops and did not let Chen Wen's Nantang battalion go with the army. Even though he knew very well that this was Wang Yi's decision out of political considerations, he was still very resentful. As a martial artist, he knows very well that soldiers are not expensive, but things are already like this, and there is nothing he can do.

In Liu Yiming's view, even if the Nantang battalion is just a new battalion that has never seen blood, as long as it has mixed up on the battlefield this time, this unit, which can easily crush the middle battalion in the school field competition, is bound to grow up quickly and become a strong force. At that time, the Ming army of Dalanshan can rely on these six battalions of the headquarters to gradually roll the snowball by recovering the lost territory, expanding its strength, and further recovering the lost territory, and there is no need to rely on these miscellaneous friendly forces.

"Brother Liu, after we defeat Tian Xiong and crush the Tartars' offensive this time, there will always be a chance to help the Nantang battalion grow up, there is no need to worry about this matter."

Huang Zhongdao, who has always prided himself on being a Confucian general, did not intend to say it as clearly as Liu Yiming, but he was not satisfied with this matter, and he also knew very well that not only Mao Mingshan, but even the Fang garrison in the middle camp who was defeated by Chen Wen was also very unfair. It's just that as a military general, it is a tradition to obey the orders of the civilian officials of the prison army, and he does not intend to break this tradition, and he is unable to do so, so he has to acquiesce in this matter.

Wang Yi didn't take the thoughts of his subordinates to heart, although he was a little tough, he was not a self-respecting member like He Tengjiao. The large and small phase system is the ancestral system of the emperor, and it is also a key system to maintain stability, as the leader of the military and civilian officials on the control side, it is equally important to control the coordinated combat of friendly armies and command the troops and horses of the headquarters.

Moreover, that opinion about the Broken Army Xingjun has always affected him, so that he does not dare to be too relieved and boldly reuse Chen Wen, and this also coincides with Feng Jingdi and Wang Sheng's intentions, plus the Nantang Battalion is indeed a new battalion leader who has not been in battle, it is difficult to say what it can become. Then, it became inevitable that this army and their main general would be responsible for staying in the old camp.

Just then, a probe horse that had been scattered earlier rushed in.

"Report!"

"Stand up and talk back."

"After the briefing, the Tartar Battalion has concentrated all the scattered forces, and the rangers have begun to extend in the direction of Liang Lane Town. Our department fought with them on the front line of Taohualing and Qiujia Village, and they made quite a success, but the Tartars did not retreat. ”

"Good!"

This cavalry was trained by Huang Zhongdao, and it has quite some combat effectiveness, and Wang Yi doesn't care how many Wang Yi wins, it is enough to have a kill. The key point is that Tian Xiong has begun to concentrate the troops that have been scattered to exterminate the righteous division of the Zuo Jinming army, and try to cover up the military situation, which is obviously preparing for a decisive battle. There are only about twenty miles between Liang Lane Town and Yonghe Town, so the decisive battle should be tomorrow.

"You will go down to eat and rest first, and then you will explore tomorrow morning."

"Obedience."

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At the same time, in the family of the largest landlord in Yonghe Town, Tian Xiong's personal soldiers had all the men of the family executed in the name of fornicating with the Ming army, while the women were put into the women's camp along with other captured women, either as a reward for the soldiers, or to sell the land after returning to the division, as they had done when they had led the army through the Ming occupied areas.

Originally, at the junction of the control area of the Ming army and the Qing army, most of the rebels of the Ming army or the regimental training of the Qing army were just grass on the wall. As this one did before, if someone intrudes on their territory, they can resist it, and they will ask some friendly troops who are usually on watch and help to resist it; If you can't resist it, you will find some broken settlements or the heads of foreigners to hand over, and the other party will be able to deal with them, and you will have some peace on your side.

However, the Qing army's current encirclement and suppression was completely different from the previous one, and it was completely aimed at completely eliminating the anti-Qing forces in the Siming Mountain area and preparing for the attack on Zhoushan next year. According to the habits of the Qing army, this means that they are bound to completely clean the 800-mile Siming Mountain area. In this way, there was naturally no need for the existence of wall grasses like them, who were inclined to the Ming army, and it became their fate to slaughter the men and the women to enter the camp as prostitutes.

In fact, before this, Wang Yi had already sent someone to inform them, asking them to temporarily flee into the mountains, but how could such a rich man who was reluctant to give up all this? As a result, they became ghosts under the knife of the Qing army.

In the main hall of the landlord's house, Tian Xiong, the Manchu governor of Zhejiang, was dining with his subordinates. Like the deputy general of the Chinese army who just rushed back, these people are all old brothers who followed him to eat under Huang Degong, from encircling and suppressing the Liukou, to garrisoning Jiangbei, and then to leading the people to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, these people have always followed his side, so there are some things that do not need to be hidden from them at all.

"Bring that guy up."

After a while, a man who was not tall and had low eyebrows and pleasing eyes followed Tian Xiong's personal soldiers to the main hall. Different from this room full of money rat tails, this man wrapped his head in a white cloth, and the top of his head looked a little bulging, and on closer inspection, he actually looked like a Han man with his hair tied, not at all like a figure in the Manchu occupation area.

It's just that the money rat tail in the room doesn't seem to be the target of the shaving order in front of him, and some of them even seem to be looking forward to it.

As soon as the man stepped into the main hall with his feet, he immediately fell to the ground before he reached the position of the salute, climbed to the position where he should have saluted with both hands and feet, and kowtowed respectfully a few times.

"The villain has seen Tian Dashuai."

Tian Xiong did not ask the person to get up, but just asked his soldiers to deliver the letter brought by the person. After reading it, Tian Xiong said lightly: "Your general has done a good job, and this marshal will ask the court and Governor Chen for credit for your general." ”

"The villain thanked the handsome man on behalf of the head of the family, and the head of the villain's family set a grass title ring to repay the handsome."

"Hmm. You go back and tell your general, do things for the court, don't worry about not being rich. ”

"The villain understands, and the villain will go back and return the meaning of the handsome man to the head of the family."

sent the man away, and Tian Xiong read the information mentioned in the letter brought by the man with several cronies and colonels, and then gave an order.

"Early tomorrow morning, the center, left, and right battalions of the headquarters will all be dispatched and march towards Liangnong Town."

Hearing the military order, the officers of the battalion in this room "soared" and all stood up at once.

"In the battle of engagement, the middle battalion attacked along Siming Lake to protect the right flank of our army."

"The last general obeys!" The lieutenant general of the Chinese army rose up and immediately took over the military order.

"The sons and daughters of the right camp must have had enough fun these days."

Seeing that several officers of the right battalion smiled, Tian Xiong continued: "Since the thieves plan to launch a surprise attack from the left of our army, then tomorrow the right battalion will deal with the main force of this group of Dalan Mountain bandits. ”

"The last general obeys!"

"The left battalion sits in the middle army, thinking that it is the main direction of attack, so that they can see how powerful our standard battalion is."

"The last general will definitely live up to the high expectations of the handsome!" Li Rong, deputy general of the Biaobiao Battalion, who was in charge of the guerrilla affairs of the Left Battalion, responded to the order.

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The hall of the Chinese army in the old camp of Dalanshan.

Yu Shi Wangjiang, the right deputy governor who was temporarily in charge of the affairs of the old camp, Chu Jiuru, the chief who was in charge of the various departments, and Chen Wenzheng, the commander of the Nantang battalion and the garrison with guerrilla rank, who was temporarily in charge of the military affairs in the area of the old camp, discussed military affairs in the second hall.

These days, in order to cope with the war, although there has been enough grain and grass to arrive in Liangnong Town, but the requisition of auxiliaries, the manufacture and transportation of ordnance, the transport of new batches of grain, grass and silver for the contingency at any time, or the preparation for the southern front, these things still keep Wang Jiang and the officials of the Fifth Division of the old camp busy enough. After all, fighting a war is to burn money, and this is also normal.

However, after Chen Wen's new proposal was accepted by Wang Jiang, the workload of officials, craftsmen and servants in the old camp was once again greatly increased, and Chen Wen's reputation in the fifth division of the old camp also began to plummet.

Compared with these busy people, Chen Wen, as the initiator, is quite relaxed. Although the main force of the Dalanshan Ming Army has set off, but in the two years since occupying this place, the Dalanshan Ming Army is famous, and his Nantang battalion does not seem to be easy to mess with to outsiders, so at this moment, there is no one who dares to touch the tiger's whiskers. Because of this, Chen Wen's side only needs to follow the deployment of the previous middle battalion, and there is no such thing as dealing with the attack.

At this moment, Wang Jiang, Chu Jiuru, and Chen Wen are not discussing internal affairs or military affairs, but another issue of life and death.

"Master Chu, is this matter serious?"

Chu Jiuru nodded, and then said: "This matter was told by General Wang Huwang, who was close to Pinggang, although General Wang did not go to Liangnong Town, but he has been ordered to be responsible for the defense of the Pinggang area since Chen Shuai accepted the order of the Jingluo army to go south to coordinate the attack on Xinchang. If anyone can get the news first, it must be him according to the distance. ”

Pinggang was the place where Zhang Huangyan once garrisoned, and later when Zhang Huangyan entered Zhoushan, he handed over all his troops and territory to Chen Tianshu. After Wang Yi captured Shangyu County for the second time, the rebels in the area of Siming Mountain took Wang Yi as the leader of the alliance in order to protect each other, but Chen Tianshu was not convinced. But later, as the two met, Chen Tianshu was also subdued by Wang Yi's loyalty and bearing, and thus became one of the most hardcore allies of the Ming army in Dalanshan, and this is why Chen Tianshu was ordered to go south to attack Xinchang together.

Pinggang is located on the west side of the Siming Mountains, and if you want to go to the Dalan Mountain area to fight together, you need to go around a long distance, and Chen Tianshu, who was originally stationed here, has already participated in the battle, so Wang Yi did not gather other rebels near this place. However, not far west of Pinggang is the Cao'e River, and it does not take long to cross the Cao'e River and then go west to reach the range of Huiji Mountain.

Chen Wen and the others just got the news that less than ten days ago, Wang Shanchang and Zhang Qincheng's troops stationed in Huiji Mountain were surrounded by the main force of the Qing army sneaking in on the night of the capture of a town occupied by the Qing army, and finally the whole army was annihilated, and even Wang Shanchang, who died after the Battle of Chongming in history, was not spared. As for the banner played by the Qing army, it belongs to the Shaoxing Green Battalion and the Upgrading Battalion.

History, apparently, has begun to show signs of turning in a direction that he is not familiar with......

"It is likely that the news that they planned to cooperate with our army has leaked. Vice Xian and Chu are in charge, do you still remember who did General Weiwu and Marshal Zhang tell during this period of time when they confirmed the news of sending troops? ”

Chu Jiuru thought about it, but he couldn't think of anything, since the actions of these two ministries were only used to contain the Shaoxing Green Camp, Wang Yi did not mention this matter to anyone when he sent him to collude with various ministries, because it was completely unnecessary.

And Wang Jiang, who was sitting on the upper hand, seemed to remember something, but he immediately denied it.

"Jing Luo wrote to Feng Shilang to inform him of this matter before, and Feng Shilang can't tell the Tartars, right?"

It really can't be.

Because although Feng Jingdi in history was a nerd, he was eventually killed by the Qing army because he refused to give in after being captured, if he was said to have defected to the enemy and treason, even Chen Wen, who was falsely accused by Feng Jingdi of being a remnant of the eunuch party, would never believe it.

From the beginning when Tian Xiong swore to go on the expedition and the Shaoxing Green Camp never appeared, Chen Wen felt that things might not be as smooth as he imagined. The news he got at this moment confirmed the thoughts in his heart, although the various units of the Ming Army in Siming Mountain did not fall into the dilemma of being broken by the Qing army as in history, but it seemed that the entire eight hundred miles of Siming Mountain had been shrouded in a larger conspiracy, which made him feel a little chilled.

"In any case, this matter must be informed as soon as possible. Vice Xian, at this moment, you have to load all the baggage trucks, and if things change, you can also respond. ”

Less than half an hour later, the east gate of the old camp in Dalanshan quietly opened, and a fast horse galloped away, disappearing into the vast night.