From the Yellow Mansion in Pujiang to the Back Mansion in Yiwu, the corridor between the mountains was only a few miles, because the reinforcements led by Chen Wen with cavalry were only slightly smaller than the Fubiao battalion, and the county seat of Pujiang was also under the control of the Qing army before. Therefore, the Fubiao battalion generals focused most of their attention on Chen Wen during the march, and the number of Qing troops who explored the road first was very small, coupled with the paralysis caused by the knowledge that the ships were unharmed, so that they did not notice the Dongyang camp lurking in the mountains and forests.

Half-crossing, there is Song Xianggong as a negative teaching material, but anyone who knows some of the art of war knows what it means. The guerrillas of the Fubiao Left Battalion estimated that Chen Wen also planned to wait for the Qing army to start boarding before launching an attack, otherwise how could he always follow behind.

Therefore, after a little deliberation, the Fubiao camp decided to defeat Chen Wen who was following him first, and then board the ship and return to Zhuji. The troops were arrayed and were about to attack, but when the banner of the Dongyang battalion appeared behind them, the Fubiao battalion was selected into the atmosphere of the Ming army's tricks.

Shock, fear, panic, and even some more subtle emotions and thoughts, in the next moment, in the Fubiao Battalion from the left and right battalions of guerrilla attacks to the people recruited from Zhuji and Pujiang, these negative emotions emerged in their hearts one after another, and they were perfectly intertwined, so that the vast majority of officers and men in the army inadvertently completed the psychological positioning transformation from the attacking side to the attacked, or even the defeated side.

On the battlefield, the morale of the army is extremely important, so many times a gust of wind can cause the army that originally had an absolute advantage and was already in sight of victory to collapse. After the order to break through was issued, the Fubiao battalion changed from the rear to the front, leaving a part of the Qing army to resist Chen Wen's attack, while the other troops concentrated all their strength to attack the Dongyang battalion.

Merely. When the first round of attacks did not achieve the desired results, the Fubiao battalion was suddenly in turmoil, coupled with Chen Wen's fierce attack behind the Qing army, an elite army in Zhejiang second only to Hangzhou garrisoned the Eight Banners, the Supervisory Battalion, and the Raising Battalion soon fell into the dilemma of fighting their own battles, until they completely collapsed.

Under the siege of the two Ming armies in the north and south, the Fubiao battalion only held out for more than half an hour before completely collapsed. To the northwest of the Pujiang River is the Dongyang battalion of the Ming army. The southeast direction of Yiwu is the reinforcements led by Chen Wen, the Qing army that can get lucky to break through the siege has fled to the northeast, from there there is Zhengjiawu Town, and after there you can return to Zhuji from Anhua Town.

Seeing that part of the Qing army had already fled before the Ming army completed the siege, Chen Wen only ordered a cavalry officer leading the team to be responsible for pursuing those caught fish who fled to the northeast, and ignored the Qing army fleeing in other directions, and continued to command the army to besiege the Fubiao battalion that was encircled.

In the fiasco of Siming Lake a year ago, Chen Wen only learned some general information from the rout and Xu Lei, the garrison of the right battalion; After that, the Qing army's bloody military operation in Siming Mountain, he only heard about it in Tiantai Mountain; As for Zhoushan. It also comes from the records of those historical books in later generations.

Since returning to this era for more than a year, it can even be said that since he got rid of the brainwashing of the pigtail play, Chen Wen has only had some vague feelings about the tragic situation of the Qing army's massacre from history books or literary works. But when he saw the back house and the tragic situation along the way, his mentality and views began to show some subtle changes.

From the beginning of the attack, Chen Wen selectively forgot the routines he had used to shake the hearts of his opponents, such as "those who surrender will not die", and the officers under his command seemed to have been infected by him and forgot all about his advice.

The siege lasted for a long time. All the Qing officers and non-commissioned officers in the Fubiao camp who tried to resist were killed by the Ming troops who attacked in formation, and the rest of the soldiers chose to surrender when there was no hope of breaking through. Even if they knew very well that what they had done along the way would be difficult to be forgiven by the Ming army. But everyone has the desire to survive, and as long as there is a 1 in 10,000 chance, they will never want to die in this foreign land.

After the resistance of the Fubiao battalion was completely extinguished, these Qing soldiers knelt on the ground in large numbers and asked to surrender. After tying these captives with the ropes they had previously tied to the women and children, Chen Wen still needed to deal with some aftermath, so he escorted the captives back to Yiwu County, leaving Yin Yue and Dongyang Ying behind. Ordered them to try to recover Pujiang County.

In the final analysis, the Fubiao battalion was able to sneak through, but in the final analysis, it was because the number of cavalry of the Ming army was too small, and most of them were used on the battlefield on the southern front.

Chen Wen did not blame the officers at all levels of the Dongyang battalion. But the hard bone in Pujiang County was still handed over to them, and it also had the meaning of making meritorious contributions. In this regard, from Yin Yue to below, the officers at all levels of the Dongyang battalion immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and said that they would definitely include Pujiang County in Chen Wen's pocket.

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When Chen Wenshuai's army returned to aid Yiwu County, Lou Jiye and Wu Dengke also led the two battalions of Nantang and Yiwu to cross Xiaoshun Town and Tangya Town successively, and entered Jinhua County, which was governed by Jinhua Prefecture.

However, before they could join forces and start attacking the city, a large amount of fire and smoke rose from the city, and the gentry and people in the city hurriedly opened the east gate of the county town in order to welcome the Ming army into the city to maintain order.

It turned out that after the Qing army's Sifu Green Battalion and Dubiao Battalion were defeated in Xiaoshun Town, they fled back to Jinhua County. After plundering the city, the Green Battalion soldiers from Quzhou, Yanzhou, and Chuzhou left the place and returned to their respective defense areas. After some discussion, Ma Jinbao, the chief soldier of Jinhua, and Zhang Guoxun, the deputy general of the Central Army of the Supervisory Battalion, also retreated to Quzhou with the local officials. The fire in this city was used by the Qing army to delay the pursuit of the Ming army.

The Qing army has fled, and it is still interesting to say whether they can catch up, but the current capital city is urgent. Wu Dengke looked at the sky-high fire in the city, but what he remembered was the conversation with Chen Wen before the war.

With the deepening of the memory, Wu Dengke's eyes became more and more resolute, the officers of the two battalions had arrived, and he said loudly without the slightest hesitation: "Our department is the only remaining Zhejiang Wang Division under the command of the marshal. The fire in the city was full of sky, the people were in danger, the commander decided to give up the pursuit of the Tartars, the whole army entered the city, the Nantang battalion and the Yiwu battalion each divided a bureau to guard the city wall and the city gate, and the rest of the soldiers entered the city to assist the people to put out the fire! ”

"The last general will obey!" From Lou Jiye down, the generals of the two battalions shouted in unison without the slightest hesitation.

After a night of fighting, the fire in the city has been effectively controlled, and only one last action can put an end to the matter.

Under the care of the surviving domestic servant, Zhou Jingting gradually regained some spirit and strength. The extortion and looting before the Qing army left the city made him suffer a lot, but even so, the old mansion built in the Jiajing period was still in ruins in the fire.

That house has poured a lot of effort into the Zhou family over the past hundred years, and more importantly, it is to watch him grow up, the old butler who trampled on a broken leg from the frightened galloping horse in order to save him, and after pushing him out of the hall, he was buried in the fire with other servants who had time to escape in the future.

Before his enlightenment, he received an education that "everything is inferior, but only reading is high". In the Ming Dynasty, whether it was political and economic rights or prestige among the people, the social status of scholars with fame was not inferior to that of the Chinese dynasties, and even the former Song Dynasty may not be able to match it.

After the Qing army moved south, most of the magistrates had a tolerant attitude towards the same kind of scholars, and even those Qiu Ba had a more restrained attitude towards ordinary people. originally wanted to keep the family business as a remnant of the Ming Dynasty and survive the troubled times, but when the rule of the Qing army in this place was threatened, his fame not only did not become a talisman for his body, but almost cost him his life.

survived the humiliation, but the family business and the old housekeeper who was almost equal to the family still could not be saved, and returned to the ruins with the support of the domestic servant, Zhou Jingting's ears were full of the crying catharsis of the nearby people who found the corpse of his family, but his mind always echoed the cry for help in the old house when he escaped from the fire.

The cry in his heart could not be suppressed, Zhou Jingting picked up the scissors and cut off the ridiculous money rat tail on his head, left the ruins of the old house with the support of the servants, and walked towards the camp of the Ming army on the left side of the city gate.

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When Chen Wen returned to Yiwu County, it was already the evening of the next day, and the cavalry team responsible for pursuing the fleeing Qing army had already rushed back, but they did not escort any prisoners, but only brought back the heads of the fleeing Qing army and the seized property to hand them over.

After checking, the guerrillas of the right battalion of the Fubiao battalion still managed to escape, but the guerrillas of the left battalion, as the commander, were captured by the Ming army after cutting off an arm and tied to the car like a zongzi.

At this time, the fire in Yiwu County had been extinguished, but the blackened ruins and the corpses of the people and defenders still made Chen Wen quite shocked. The ruins along the way may still be a little unfamiliar, but this Yiwu county is where Chen Wen has lived for more than two months, and it is also the longest county town he has stayed in so far in this era.

The quaint, neat streets were in ruins, and the feet were covered with burning dust and fire-fighting water and mud; The people, who had rejoiced at his arrival, were reduced to corpses, men, women, and children; Loyal and brave soldiers died in the streets and alleys of the city, and even many of the dead could not even save their intact bodies, and were cut off by the Qing army besieging the city to ask for merit and reward.

The hatred in his heart burned the only trace of kindness that did not belong to this era in the depths of his soul in the winter night, and Chen Wen's aura began to become colder and colder, making Sun Yu beside him feel a chill.

Master Confucius once said that if you repay your grievances with virtue, how can you repay virtue? Repay grievances with straightforwardness, repay virtue with virtue! So since this is the case, there is no need to think about the fate of these Qing prisoners.

"Since the people who were recruited by the Tartars were willing to do things for the Tartars, there was no reason not to do things for the king, and all of them were left to serve in labor. As for the Fubiao battalion, all the guerrillas from the left battalion were executed, and a Beijing temple was built outside the city to pay tribute to the souls of the martyrs and soldiers in the sky. (To be continued.) )