After appeasing the messenger, Chen Wen sent someone to send him out of the city. Looking at the secret letter in his hand, he couldn't help but feel a sigh of "heaven and earth are all working together" in his heart. Just think about it carefully, this is actually the inevitable choice of the Qing army in the face of the superior Ming army, and there is nothing abnormal.

After weighing the pros and cons, Chen Wen returned to the Ruquan Pavilion, and after smiling at Sun Yu, he saw that he took out the secret letter in front of the gentry who was still in the Ruquan Pavilion, and loudly announced the contents to everyone.

"The Tartars entrenched in Yiwu are afraid of the power of the king, and have all fled, and the gentry and businessmen in Yiwu County have been looking forward to the king for a long time. Ben Shuai decided that early tomorrow morning, he will send troops to recover Yiwu! ”

As soon as the words came out, the whole house was shocked.

The details of the Ming army's easy defeat of the encirclement and suppression of the Qing army before, after this period of exploration, they can be regarded as figuring out a rough idea, such a strong Ming army is really unprecedented since the Liao incident. Coupled with the good military discipline of this army, they also saw more hope, more hope for preserving their family and ethnicity in the last days of the Ming Dynasty.

From the beginning of the decision to support the Ming army, it was actually only a few days, and the Ming army obtained more materials and information with their support, and recruited troops on a voluntary basis, which also improved its strength to a certain extent. If you wait for the left-behind troops of the old Taizhou battalion mentioned by Marshal Chen to come to converge, it will not be difficult to send troops to regain the lost territory in a dignified manner.

But to their surprise, who knew that the Qing army in Yiwu would choose to flee under the pressure of the Ming army, didn't this give the county seat to the Ming army?

"His Royal Highness the Prison State is blessed with great blessings, and he will definitely be able to revive my Han family; Governor Wang strategized and won a decisive victory thousands of miles away; Chen Dashuai's soldiers who surrendered without a fight are comparable to the famous generals of the ancients. Congratulations for Daming, congratulations to Emperor Taizu Gao! ”

"For Da Minghe. Congratulations to Emperor Taizu Gao! ”

“……”

For a while, everyone present expressed their heartfelt congratulations to Chen Wen and Sun Yu. In their opinion, the stronger the Ming army, the more it could resist the counterattack of the Qing army, and the more likely it was to keep the land.

After this period of contact, they also discovered that this Ming army was a dual structure composed of civilian officials and military generals. Although it is not as full responsibility as the civilian government, it can make them feel more at ease. But this Chen Dashuai often quotes scriptures in his daily speech, and he is clearly a Confucian general, and such a person must be their kind. In this way, their actions to support the Ming army should not only preserve the family business, but also perhaps obtain more rewards.

After everyone congratulated, Chen Wen announced that he would bring some of the children of Dongyang County families who had served in the county government to Yiwu as officials who took over the government affairs of Yiwu.

It is an ancestral system to be an official in a different place, not to mention that it is just not in a county, and the gentry of Dongyang County can also understand such a decision. And expressed great approval. In the final analysis, the existence of their own children in the government can better protect the family business.

After sending off the satisfied gentry and common people, Chen Wen and Sun Yu discussed some matters and returned to the barracks. It wasn't until the next morning that Chen Wen made a brief oath outside the city, and then led part of the army to leave Dongyang County under the eyes of the people who came to see him off. Go straight to the Dongyang River in the north of the city.

During this time, although no water battalions were formed. But some boats and boatmen were also found through the local gentry. This time, the troops were no longer on foot, but used the water transportation capacity of the Dongyang River to transport troops.

It is now September, and the scene of "a thousand mountains and plum rain" in Chen Zilong's poem has long been lost on the Dongyang River, and the air is humid, but it is getting cooler and cooler. Chen Wen stood at the bow of the boat. Looking into the distance, although it is against the current, it follows the wind, and the speed of the boat is not very slow under the action of the sails. In the evening, you can arrive at the left of Yiwu County.

Previously, Chen Wen also sent scouts to investigate the situation in Yiwu, and he knew the news of the Qing army's withdrawal before the secret letter arrived. He planned to send troops in the next two days, but who knew that with the arrival of the secret letter yesterday, Yiwu County was delivered to his mouth.

Chen Wen's scouts found out the news of the Qing army's withdrawal, but they did not know that the Qing army had plundered the city before evacuating. Such acts were understandable, because almost all the armies in the troubled times were like this, with few exceptions, but the gentry and common people in the city, as victims, naturally could not forget this deep hatred.

Then, the Qing army withdrew, but the magistrate could not leave because he had the duty to defend the territory. As a result, Yiwu Zhixian sent people to summon those local regiments to train soldiers, hoping that they could contribute to the battle to protect their hometown.

However, Nazhi County did not know that the regimental training outside the city and many of the families in their vicinity had already completed contact, and under the lament of the loss of clothing and culture and the desire to restore the glory of the family, as well as the threat of exploitation and plunder by Ma Jinbao's dog thieves and Manchu corrupt officials, after a round of deliberations, they finally chose to surrender their sincerity to the Ming army.

After the order of the county magistrate arrived, these regiments entered the county seat of Yiwu, not only did they not have the consciousness of defending the land for the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the county magistrate, but they colluded with the gentry of the county town who were resentful, and this is the scene of yesterday's letter delivery.

There is a way that God will not take, and you will be blamed for it!

In this case, then quickly occupy this place in order to further expand its strength in order to deal with Ma Jinbao's crazy counterattack that may come at any time.

These days, Chen Wen has also estimated the strength in Ma Jinbao's hands. Its headquarters, Jinhua Town, has a standard camp quota of more than 3,000, and nearly half of it has been disabled by Chen Wen; There are more than 1,600 green battalion soldiers from Quzhou, Chuzhou, and Yanzhou, plus 200 soldiers from Jinqu to guard the road, even if all of them come, there should be about 6,500.

More than 6,500 people does sound like a lot, but if they are all just green battalion soldiers of the level of Ma Jinbao's subordinates, Chen Wen really doesn't think it's a lot. At least in his opinion, as long as a force of more than 4,000 people can be formed and trained before this, even if most of them are only at the level of the competition in the old camp of Dalanshan back then, with the main force that he has trained for less than half a year and more than a year as the arrow of the whole army, Ma Jinbao is just here to die.

Moreover, Chen Wen felt that even if Ma Jinbao wanted to come with the whole division, the Manchu high-level in Zhejiang might not be as he wished. After all, that was the entire strength of the four provinces. Once something happens, it is likely to turn into a great turmoil that will sweep the whole of western Zhejiang, and this is something they cannot afford.

In this way, Ma Jinbao's troops will definitely not be as large as Chen Wen imagined before, and Chen Wen has already recruited more than two thousand recruits in Dongyang County, as long as he recruits another two or three thousand people in Yiwu and other places. Even if Ma Jinbao really came from the whole school, what could he do?

In the evening, Chen Wen arrived at a clearing more than ten miles from the county seat of Yiwu, which was the site where Chen Wen chose a piece of terrain obtained from the scouts to camp. In line with the principle of being surrendered as a soldier to the enemy, Chen Wen chose to camp here to prevent this secret trick from being a trick of the Qing army.

Early the next morning, Chen Wen pulled out the camp and continued to advance. It wasn't until he marched to the receiving official pavilion ten miles away from the county seat that he ran into a team of regimental training envoys who came to greet him.

Among the people who came, the first one was the messenger from before, and he was also a member of the regimental training that was let go by Chen Wen. And most of the others look familiar. After these people saw Chen Wen, they looked quite excited, and the worship in their eyes had already gushed out, and Chen Wen, who had always been cheeky, was a little embarrassed.

Seeing this, Chen Wen had a conversation with these regimental training soldiers, and everyone who was asked also showed a look of honor, which made him breathe a sigh of relief - these people didn't feel like they were good at hypocrisy when they saw them for the first time, and since they seemed even more excited than the last time. Then there should not be much of a surprise in the operation of taking over Yiwu County.

Relieved, Chen Wen took these regiments to train soldiers and continued to advance. Until the outside of the city. From a great distance, you can see that the gates of the city are full of people greeting them. Just after seeing this glance, Chen Wen immediately understood why the Qing army would withdraw from here in a hurry.

Behind the crowd, a city gate stood alone, surrounded by houses and pavilions, but there was no trace of even half of the city wall, which looked very strange. Therefrom. Compared with "1,335 zhang on Monday, 2 zhang 2 feet high, 1 zhang 8 feet wide", Dongyang County, which was built as a stone city wall in order to resist the Japanese invaders, the reality that Yiwu County has a city gate but no city wall does not give the Qing army any confidence to hold on.

With an order. The drummers beat the war drums, which were accompanied by the chanting of the word "tiger" in unison. At the same time, in the queue, the veterans of the Nantang Battalion who accompanied them also neatly put their blades on their shoulders or held swords and shields in their hands, always showing the posture of a strong army on weekdays; Even those recruits who had just entered the camp were in high spirits, lest they lose the face of the Ming army.

The east gate of Yiwu county is called Dongyang Gate, and it is obtained that it means that you can go straight to Dongyang. Last night, it was learned that the Ming army had been encamped more than ten miles away, and the regimental training soldiers, under the command of the village elders, detained the Manchu officials in the county seat and waited for the Ming army to fall. At this time, almost all of the people who could stand under the city gate to greet them were the people in charge of these regimental training families and the gentry of the county town.

In the distance, the Ming army was marching in formation, and the old patriarch of the Jin family stretched his neck to look there with the support of the children of the family. It's just that they are getting older, and their eyesight has also been affected a little, and it wasn't until the Ming army marched to a distance of more than twenty meters that they could see the blades in their hands clearly.

"Long card one, rattan card one, wolf whith two, long spear four, boring palladium two, flag gun one, even pointed flat poles, it is really a mandarin duck array, it is really a mandarin duck array!"

The old man looked at these soldiers who were still moving forward, and the picture that had been buried in the depths of his mind gradually emerged in front of him. It was the second year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty, Qi Jiguang had gone to Jizhen to guard the border wall, and after inspecting the northern border army, he wrote to the imperial court to go north to garrison the border with the Qi family army that had been under his command.

That year, it was also such a noon, and it was also a group of Ming soldiers with such blades in their hands, who set off from Yiwu to the north. The young patriarch of the Jin family sat on his father's shoulder, watching all this in amazement, his heart was full of worship and yearning for heroes, and he could not forget it until he was old today.

At this moment, the first drum of the Ming army ended, and when the second drum was beaten, a "tiger" roar instantly stunned all the people present. But before they could react, a moment later, the Ming army in front of them sang a triumphant song of victory.

"All of us are united, and the mountains can be shaken."

"Only loyalty and righteousness, angry bullfighting."

"The Lord will kiss me better than my parents."

"Committing a violation of military law is not free."

"The order is clear, and the reward and punishment letter is written."

"Go to the water and fire, dare to stay late."

"Report to the Son of Heaven and save the head of Qian."

"Kill all the slaves and find a marquis."

“……”

This is the "Triumphant Song" of the victory of the Qi army, which is the military song that Qi Jiguang personally taught when he was ordered to go to Fujian to fight against the Japanese and won the first battle in Hengyu, during the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15. In the midst of this, Chen Wen only changed the "Japanese slaves" to "Jiannu", which is more in line with the current situation.

The old man looked at all this stupidly, and the stirring in his heart seemed to make him return to his childhood, and when Ming Jun sang this slightly modified "Triumphant Song", the familiar melody filled every corner of his mind, and even wrapped in those childhood memories gushing out from his already hoarse mouth.

"Grandpa Qi's soldiers are back, and they are really back!"

The aftermath resounded here and could not be dispersed for a long time. (To be continued.) )