In the barracks near the left side of the town south of Dalan Mountain, Wu Dengke was sitting at a table with a sweat on his head, struggling against a piece of white paper on the table. If you look closely, you are writing the word "Yong" with a pen.

Point, horizontal hook, horizontal skimming, skimming, pinching.

After writing stroke by stroke, Wu Dengke felt that his right hand was starting to shake again, his arm seemed to be broken, and even his straight waist was sore, so he couldn't wait to lie down on the bed and rest for a while. It's just that in front of the teacher in front of him, he didn't dare to be rude in the slightest, the teacher of heaven and earth, in addition to the prince of heaven and earth, the teacher is the most important, even if he is illiterate, he understands this truth.

The teacher was specially invited by Wu Dengke to teach him to read and write after receiving his first month's military salary, and he spent a lot of money to invite this teacher to teach him, so that since then, he has always been greedy for cups and rarely goes to drink.

It's not that he doesn't want to, it's just that after all, this old gentleman only taught him alone, and the cost of inviting him was relatively large, plus the four treasures of the study room, pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, which squeezed his originally rich monthly salary and savings out a lot, and it was difficult to eat and drink like before. Even so, many of his current posts on practicing calligraphy are still looking for Sun Yu to come.

Originally, he first listened to Chen Wen and Sun Yu explain "Zuo Chuan", and later felt that he could only read military books if he knew how to read, so he begged Sun Yu to teach him to read and write, but Sun Yu was also very busy on weekdays, especially after being promoted to the head of the Treasury Department. And because he is an officer leading the troops, it is inconvenient for him to leave the barracks without permission, let alone go to Sun's house at night to make up for classes.

Sun Yu is very busy, Chen Wen is also very busy, he has to be cheeky to beg Gu Shouli, Qi Xiufeng and even Lou Jiye to teach him, but these people are like him on weekdays, always delaying others to rest Wu Dengke was also unhappy, so he invited this old gentleman to teach him to read and write during lunch break or evening.

"The word of the general......"

The old gentleman who taught was really embarrassed to say that the writing didn't look like a Yongzi at all, not only that, but it was not for nothing that the martial artists could write through the paper, but Wu Dengke's writing was no longer like writing with a pen, but more like drawing with a pen.

"There is progress!"

The old man really didn't dare to say too ugly, although Wu Dengke has always been very polite, but a martial artist is a martial artist after all, he doesn't plan to lose this well-paid job for a word, after all, this is a troubled time, and a teacher like him is far from being popular in peacetime, especially when he is just an old boy.

"Next time you write, take it lightly and don't push too hard. The general came to learn to read and write with the old man in order to read the military book, not to be the sword and pen officer. ”

Teacher, preaching, teaching, and solving doubts. Some things still have to be explained, otherwise this money will not be at ease.

"Thank you, sir, for your advice." As he spoke, Wu Dengke hurriedly got up and saluted, not daring to be rude in the slightest.

After more than a month of study, Wu Dengke now not only knows the words southeast, south, northwest, but also the numbers from one to ten, and he can also recognize the names of officers such as guerrilla generals, garrison generals, general generals, thousand generals, sentinel commanders, captains, and army commanders, but there are too many weapons used in the Nantang battalion on weekdays, and he has not yet recognized all those words.

However, the old gentleman also has a talent for selling himself, and taught Wu Dengke to write his name in the first class, and after learning it, he made Wu Dengke so excited that he couldn't help himself, and then devoted himself more attentively to learning to read and write in an atmosphere.

Wu Dengke took a breath and prepared to write another Yongzi, this Yongzi Eight Methods was not only taught by Mr., but even Chen Wen and Sun Yu also taught him, which made him even more determined to write this character well.

At this moment, Chen Wenfeng, who had come all the way from the mountain, broke in.

"Humble to the general."

"The student has seen Chen Dashuai."

It is normal for Wu Dengke to call Chen Wen as a general, even if Chen Wen is only a garrison with guerrilla rank at the moment, he can also be called according to the official rank of the previous guerrilla general; The teacher is different, he calls Wu Dengke a general, which is a nickname, and he can no longer call Wu Dengke's general Chen Wen a general, it must be reasonable to call him a marshal.

It's just that Chen Wen doesn't have the leisure to go to the regular meeting at the moment, but he just learned to make the horse run faster, and he has to fight the horse here for a few days, how can he care about this?

"Sir, please recuse yourself first, there will be urgent military affairs to discuss with President Wu Qian."

"The students obeyed." The old gentleman finished packing up the things he needed for class three times and two times, and hurriedly said goodbye.

Urgent military affairs, as an idle person, how dare you listen to nonsense, if you don't get it right, you will lose your head!

After seeing that Mr. Teaching was leaving, Chen Wen immediately informed Wu Dengke of the news of the Ming army's defeat in the Battle of Siming Lake, and in exchange for a look of anger, regret, unwillingness, and even the death of a rabbit and a fox, without the slightest schadenfreude.

Since Chen Wen knew Wu Dengke, he knew that this person generally had a great grudge against the officials and generals of Dalanshan, and after going up the mountain, he was very dissatisfied with the other Dalanshan Ming troops except for the Nantang camp because of the competition and weapon fighting, and later Chen Wen was excluded from the Ming army, which caused him to resentment against the Ming army in the entire Siming Mountain area, this kind of emotion is not only Wu Dengke, but also several cronies and generals under Chen Wen's command.

It's just that even if they are dissatisfied with these people, they are all Ming troops like Wu Dengke, and every defeat of the Ming army means that they are one step further away from the day when the Tartars are expelled, which makes him feel that he does not feel sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox. This time, Chen Wen informed these generals of the situation, and only Yin Yue replied with anger on his face, "You deserve it, if the general took our Nantang battalion out of the horse, he would have killed the standard camp a long time ago, and he would let Wang Sheng's villain succeed", but there was no schadenfreude in his expression.

"With the intensity of this battle, the Tartars may have to rest for a day or two, and the general has already scattered the cavalry, ready to intercept and kill the Tartars' horses at any time, and the retreat of the people must be covered as soon as possible!"

After receiving Chen Wen's order, Wu Dengke immediately mobilized the army, and the soldiers at the two posts C and D, who received the mobilization order, also immediately packed their bags, and then followed Wu Dengke to cooperate with Chen Wen's action.

At the same time, Chen Wen went to mobilize the officials and big households in those towns, which was also convenient for action. It's just that these officials and big families still refreshed his sense of these exploiting classes, and many of these people asked Chen Wen to just escort them, and not to escort other ordinary people, so as not to delay their march, as if the Nantang Battalion was just their full-time bodyguard.

In this regard, Chen Wen just told them a sentence: "If you want to live, you will be obedient, if you don't want to live, you will stay and wait for death, Lao Tzu will not serve". And this appearance that makes people gnash their teeth really frightened these people, after all, the brutality of the Qing army is well known, and the Nantang battalion is also a relatively effective army. With such a good opportunity, who would be willing to give up, so these people coaxed on the spot, saying that everything would obey Chen Wen's arrangement and fully cooperate.

Until noon, all the personnel and baggage of the old battalion arrived at the military camp in the south of the town according to the plan, and all the personnel and baggage entered the monitoring of the Nantang battalion, and Chen Wen was mobilizing the people outside the Chenghuang Temple at this time.

"In the battle of Siming Lake, although the Wang Division was defeated, the loss of the Tartars was not small. Even if the Tartars will not appear in these two days, once the Tartars are resting and recuperating, they will inevitably carry out a bloody massacre in this Dalan Mountain area in retaliation. I will be ordered by Jinglu to cover the evacuation of the people, and those who are willing to be protected and evacuated by my Nantang battalion will hurry home at this moment to pack up the softness, and are not allowed to carry too many chores, and will set off from the military camp in the south of the town on the fifth watch tomorrow; If you don't want to go with you, Ben will not force it, but the Tartars are cruel, please cherish them. ”

Chen Wen did not mention the matter of that intelligence, let alone the Qing army's plan to wash the mountains in the intelligence, because these may not be able to win people's trust. As a result, he had to claim that the Qing army had suffered a lot of losses, so that the massacre was imperative, so as to arouse the people's sense of crisis.

As for letting the people choose to stay on their own, it is out of the consideration of helping more people. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court's ability to mobilize the grassroots was very poor, and it relied more on the call of large families for something. During the Southern Ming Dynasty, many anti-Qing uprisings were initiated by local scholars or gentry, because these people were more prestigious among the villagers and more convincing in their words and deeds.

Chen Wen mobilized the local large families, but in the face of the gesture of these people just now, it is still unknown whether they will act wholeheartedly, and whether they can let the people who are unable to leave their homeland give up their family business and leave. Therefore, he once again sacrificed the method he had just used to deal with the big families, and put on an attitude of choosing whether he wanted to live or die, in order to let more people leave voluntarily. As for those who really don't want to leave with him, there's nothing they can do.

Chen Wen just shouted outside the City God Temple, and then handed it over to the local officials who had big names and faces and the officials of the old camp to continue to call, because they were more familiar with the people. It's just that as soon as he left the center of the crowd, he received a piece of news that made him resentful.

"Chu Suxian, the ambassador of the silver treasury, and several small officials and Kuding of the silver treasury are missing, and there are still a few carts of silver, which should be worth as much as fifty or sixty thousand taels according to the records in the account books, and Master Sun has already chased after discovering it."

5. 60,000 taels, the Ming army of Dalanshan took out a lot of silver for this war to organize the armament, buy grain and grass, and even carried a lot of silver to prepare for rewards after the war. Those brought to the town of Liang Lane were obviously cheap Qing troops; There are still some preparations for the southern front and for Mao Mingshan to inspire those friendly troops on the southern front in Simingshan Town, but there are not many; The rest is all in the silver treasury, and these are about three-quarters of the total number that Chu Suxian has taken away!

"Raised by a son of a bitch, I have to pick your skin!"

While strictly ordering Li Ruixin to hunt down Chu Suxian and others, Chen Wen, who was furious, also issued another order, asking Li Ruixin to be flexible.

"If that guy didn't run south, he didn't have to chase too far, just bring back Master Sun, don't be afraid if the money is gone, as long as the person lives, he will be asked to return it sooner or later."

After Li Ruixin left, Chen Wen continued to make preparations and arranged the order of march with the civil officials of the old battalion, which was a very troublesome task that barely ended in the middle of the night.

At the beginning of the shift, on the mountain road north of Dalan Mountain, Chu Suxian was moving forward with a group of defectors, but at this time there were three more people than when they set off, and one of these three was Sun Yu who was tied to the car, and two servants of Sun Yu who had sold themselves to take refuge.

After Chen Wen went down the mountain, Yin Yue, who stayed behind, was busy with affairs, so he had to arrange a team to monitor the vehicles of the old camp that were ready to go south. But in the end, the people in the silver treasury were late, and Yin Yue had to supervise and take care of the families of the Nantang battalion soldiers and the families of the old battalion officials and generals who were crying, so he had already led the team to set off, leaving only the remaining team of soldiers to supervise.

Halfway to the narrow part of the road, one of Chu Suxian's cronies cut the rope of a car in the middle with a knife, causing a large box that fell on it to fall down and block part of the mountain road, making it impossible to move forward.

The officer who led the team knew some words, and saw that the seals on the back carts of boxes were written on some temporarily insignificant things such as some tools used in the silver treasury to melt ingots and measure weights, so he followed Chu Suxian's request to supervise the advance of the vehicles with silver and copper coins pasted in front, and let them reload the scattered things and then follow them.

However, what this officer did not expect at all was that due to the haste and poor supervision, Chu Suxian had exchanged the seals on the boxes on several of the silver carts and the seals on some boxes containing inconsequential things before he set off.

As soon as the soldiers of the Nantang Battalion left, Chu Suxian and the others turned the cart that dropped things horizontally, unloaded the hitch of the old cow pulling the cart, and took it away with the other vehicles behind, thus completing this extremely crude transfer plan.

Although Chen Wen never mentioned the destination after the evacuation, since the meeting place was in the town to the south, Chu Suxian felt that he was probably preparing to go south to Tiantai Mountain to join Yu Guowang in Xinchang, just like Wang Yi back then.

Out of fear of Chen Wen and his understanding of the greed of the Green Battalion, Chu Suxian finally chose to head north into the mountains, and finally followed the mountain road to the route near Yuyao. In this way, it can not only run counter to Chen Wen's established direction of march, but also avoid the Qing army, and as long as he survives, he can go incognito or directly join the Manchu Qing.

It's just that he is not the only smart person, Sun Yu also realized this, and hurriedly took the servants to ride a donkey to chase after him.

But after catching up, due to the disadvantage of the number of people, coupled with Sun Yu's strict leadership on weekdays, he was arrested by Chu Su first.

During this period, he was not killed by Chu Suxian, who hated him, and most of it was thanks to Chen Wen's blessing, because Chu Suxian was afraid that Chen Wen's people would catch up and wanted to take him as a hostage.

The plan was perfect, and the luck was good, but it didn't work.

It was none other than Li Ruixin, who was a personal soldier under Huang Degong's account and could not be more familiar with the use of cavalry and scouts. Chu Su escorted the car forward, Sun Yu rode a donkey to chase after him, and the clues left behind had been easily discovered by Li Ruixin, and he had already chased after the cavalry at this moment.

Hearing the sound of horses' hooves coming from the south to the north, Chu Suxian hurriedly instructed a cronie to hold Sun Yu hostage with a dagger, thinking that he was a hostage.

Seeing Li Ruixin chasing after him, Chu Suxian hurriedly shouted: "Mr. Li Qian, Sun Yu is in the hands of this official, if you dare to act rashly, this official will kill him!" ”

Twenty or thirty meters away, Li Ruixin squinted at Chu Suxian's side, and behind the last ox cart, one of Chu Suxian's cronies was holding a dagger on Sun Yu's neck. And Sun Yu was tied up by Wuhuada, although he was still struggling, but the strength was not very great, looking at the tattered official uniform, he probably suffered a lot of injuries.

"Treasurer Chu, isn't it too rude for you to leave like this without notifying my general?"

Hearing Li Ruixin's ridicule, Chu Suxian was a little at a loss, don't say it's him, even if he is a few people who conspire with him, it is impossible to repel this "invincible hand who fought all over Dalan Mountain". What's more, Li Ruixin also came with a team of cavalry, and they all looked fierce and brave; But if Li Ruixin can't be allowed to retreat, he Chu Su will definitely die first.

"Mr. Li Qian, Jingliu has been martyred, and the iron cavalry of the Qing Dynasty is close at hand, why bother to work so hard for that surnamed Chen. There are more than 50,000 taels of silver in these boxes, and the official is willing to share 30% with Li Qian, just as the errand money for Li Qian and the brothers. With all this money, isn't it better to buy a house and land and become a rich man than to lick blood from the knife under the hand surnamed Chen? ”

Thirty percent of more than 50,000 taels, that is, nearly 20,000 taels of silver, which is beyond the reach of those ordinary soldiers under Li Ruixin in their lifetime. At this moment, Li Ruixin had already heard the sound of spitting from a few people, but he always took the Chinese cavalry team of the Nantang battalion with him, and these soldiers had long been accustomed to his orders, and no one dared to question or bargain without speaking.

Li Ruixin frowned and thought about it, and then said loudly: "Lao Tzu has a team of soldiers, it is enough to kill all of you, and when the time comes, the silver will be ours, and you will not be able to get a penny." Lao Tzu wants sixty percent, and if you don't give it, you will start fighting! ”

Sixty percent?!

Chu Suxian's heart seemed to have dripping blood, he spent a lot of effort, and he didn't even want his wife and concubine to get these silver, Li Ruixin's mouth is sixty percent, why should he bother with the rest. It's just that since Li Ruixin was willing to talk, he felt that he still had to discuss, so he began to bargain as if he were doing a deal.

"Fifty percent! At most, fifty percent, Mr. Li Qian, please forgive me, this official has been in this Dalan bandit camp for a long time, and if he wants to return to his hometown, he still needs a lot of silver, and fifty percent of the silver is also a lot, and Mr. Li Qian is also asked to smile. In the future, if the official can make a name for himself in the Qing court, he will never forget Li Qianzong's kindness. If Mr. Li Qian is still not satisfied, I will retreat these silver cars down the mountain! ”

Li Ruixin rode on the horse, walking back and forth on the side of the horse, although there was always one side facing Chu Suxian, but he always walked sideways on the horse, as if he was thinking.

After going back and forth a few times, Li Ruixin's left leg turned to Chu Suxian, and he was about to swing his horse's head to face Chu Suxian, only to hear him say: "Okay, five achievements are fifty percent." ”

got the information of the deal, and Chu Suxian and his cronies couldn't help but relax their tense nerves.

But at this moment, I saw that the head of the war horse under Li Ruixin's crotch was straightened, showing that his right foot was supporting the slightly smaller riding bow, and his right hand was holding an arrow and pulling the bowstring. At this moment, Li Ruixin lay on the back of the horse with an iron plate bridge, and his right leg was also flattened, and as soon as his right hand was released, the arrow was sent out with a "buzz" of the riding bow.

This hand is his Li family's family heirloom, when his grandfather was a horse thief in Liaodong, he relied on this hand to make a name for himself, and later even if he was recruited, such superb archery skills have never been lost, and it should be on Li Ruixin at this moment.

"Medium!"

An arrow flew out, hitting the eyebrows of the man holding Sun Yu hostage, and the man lay on the ground without even struggling, but the dagger still brought a shallow blood mark on Sun Yu's neck.

"Whoever dares to move, don't blame your Grandpa Li for being ruthless!"

At the same time as hitting the spot, Li Ruixin sat up again with a strong waist, and drew his hand towards the other bow bag and quiver on the left, which was another larger riding bow and arrow in his hand.

The deterrent power of that arrow was really amazing, and it could shoot arrows with his feet so accurately, it really stunned Chu Suxian and the others, and even Sun Yu, who was gagged by rags, widened his eyes, completely ignoring the scars on his neck.

Seeing Li Ruixin's arrow, the cavalrymen who had received the hint before he shouted hurriedly rode their horses and galloped, controlled these people one by one, and tied them up.

Seeing that the overall situation had been decided, Li Ruixin walked up to Chu Suxian with a disdainful face, raised his hand and whipped a horsewhip, which was directly whipped on Chu Suxian's face.

"General Chen's kindness to me is like a mountain, and it is rare in the world. Just tens of thousands of taels of silver, do you, a dog thief, want to buy away Lao Tzu and Lao Tzu, these sons, loyalty and hope? surnamed Chu, you can't help but underestimate me Li Ruixin and these loyal and brave men! ”

After that, Li Ruixin dismounted and untied Sun Yu's ropes, led these defectors behind a horse, instructed the accompanying cavalry to turn around the ox carts, and then ordered a cavalry to rush back to report the news.

Less than five watches the next day, due to the good military discipline and reputation of the Ming army in Dalanshan, and the news conveyed by Chen Wen had a great deterrent effect, many people in the Dalanshan area were willing to evacuate with the Nantang camp, and even if they did not want to go with them, they basically chose to take refuge for a while.

After a rough estimate of the scale, counting the personnel and military families of the Ming army in Dalanshan and the rout of the Ming army that fled to Dalanshan yesterday, it is estimated that there are six or seven thousand people.

This number has exceeded Chen Wen's expectations, but since he has decided to cover the retreat of the people, there is naturally no room for complaining.

At the fifth watch, Li Ruixin's messenger had already arrived, and if he estimated the distance and speed, he should be able to catch up soon. Chen Wen rode on the horse that he had named "Da Bai", and at the sound of an order, all the evacuees were assigned to every ten households under the command of a Dalanshan official, a small official, or a temporarily appointed leader, and they walked in turn according to the predetermined order number plates that these people had received.

Towards Xinchang!

………………

Two days later, the regrouped and replenished Zuo Battalion had passed a day's march and had approached the range of Dalan Mountain, and the scouts who had been scattered had also brought back the military information they had received.

"Report to Li Shuai, the thieves of Dalan Mountain are empty, and even the villages and towns under the mountain are empty."

Li Rong glanced at Xu Lei and Wang Sheng, who were accompanying him, recalled the topography of this place and the history of the Ming army in Dalan Mountain, and then said: "The bandits in Dalan Mountain must have gone to meet the thieves in Tiantai Mountain, and all the probe horses searched south. ”

"Obedience!"

At the same time, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty's Shaoxing Vice General exterminated the Ming army of Huijishan, he turned to try to relieve the siege of Xinchang, and at this moment he had set off from Shengxian County and went straight to Xinchang. After receiving the news of the Qing army's attack, Yu Guowang's subordinates, who were besieging Xinchang, were also hurriedly shrinking the auxiliary troops that had been scattered to collect supplies, preparing to withdraw to Tiantai Mountain.