According to Zheng Chenggong's envoy, Zhangzhou was held for up to half a year before it was captured by the Ming army, and the treasury had grain stocks until the end of July, although cannibalism was still unavoidable, but it was only a few months later. If you calculate www.biquge.info according to this law, Quzhou has only been around for a month, and it should only be a grain price increase, which is harmless.

However, the Ming army outside the city did not know that because the two armies had been fighting in Quzhou since April, the Qing army had mobilized more than 20,000 troops and auxiliaries twice this number, plus the loss of the summer tax and the autumn tax had not yet begun to be collected, and the grain stocks were already stretched thin when they were transferred from all over the country. Chen Jin's actions to hold on and provide food and grass to the reinforcements have exacerbated the phenomenon of food shortages among the people, and the killing caused by hunger has already descended on the city, and it is increasing day by day.

The night has completely covered the earth, and the Ming army, which knows nothing about everything in the city, except for the troops who patrol the night and keep vigil, as well as those sappers who dig day and night, the other Ming troops have already eaten dinner, digested and digested, and are ready to rest, accumulating physical strength for tomorrow's decisive battle reported by the General Staff.

No more than junior officers and non-commissioned officers, Chen Wen was still discussing the military situation with the senior officers in the army and the staff officers of the General Staff Department at this moment.

In these ten days, he sent cavalry to attack the three counties of Kaihua, Changshan and Jiangshan, intending to expel the Qing army's Tanma and conceal the intention of the next military action. However, I did not expect that in the face of the Ming army's cavalry of 15 and 100 at least, the Qing troops in the three counties unanimously chose to close the four gates and strictly defend them, as if they were afraid that these three small groups of cavalry of the Ming army would be able to rush into the city and kill them all.

This must be abnormal, if you are really afraid of this, it is impossible to still be in those places where the Ming army may attack at any time, obviously only after receiving the death order from above.

After a few days of tongue-scratching operations, Chen Wen finally figured out what was going on. The reason why the Qing army in the three counties was like this was because of the order of Ma Guozhu, the governor of Jiangnan and Jiangxi, - there was no need to consider the matter of breaking the siege, as long as the counties were held to the death, and the Ming army's troops were not allowed to threaten Jiangnan, Jiangxi and Fujian, otherwise the general soldiers and deputy generals of all departments would be beheaded and would not be tolerated!

In addition, it is said that in the direction of Guangxin Mansion in Jiangxi, another Jiangxi Green Battalion of several thousand people has arrived and will exist as the backing of the Qing army in these three counties.

Ma Guozhu ordered Jiangxi to raise the standard and Huizhou Green Camp is right, and these Qing troops are under his management. However, the Qing army in Jiangshan County came from the standard battalion of the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian and the standard battalion of the general army of the left road of Fujian, these two armies were subordinates of Chen Jin, and even if Chen Jin could not achieve command, it should be taken over by Xiao Qiyuan, the governor of Zhejiang, or Zhang Xuesheng, the governor of Fujian.

Ma Guozhu's command of the soldiers and horses in Zhejiang and Fujian was clearly an act of overstepping his authority, and Wang Zhigang and Zhang Guoxun accepting orders was even more incredible. However, if you think of the rumor brought by Qian Qianyi, the Manchu Qing may really appoint a governor of the four southeastern provinces to unify the command of the southeastern Qing army and destroy the two Ming armies of Chen Wen and Zheng Chenggong, who were in full swing. And the southeast strategy, it is not the rumored Hong Chengchou, but Ma Guozhu, the governor of Jiangnan and Jiangxi, who is more familiar with the current situation in the southeast battlefield and has more seniority.

If that's the case, everything before can be explained!

From the point of view of his heart, compared with Hong Chengchou, Chen Wen is also more willing to face Ma Guozhu, after all, the famous name of that guy is not covered, and the Ming army of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, which is still in the development stage, should have a far better chance of winning against Ma Guozhu than Hong Chengchou.

It's just that at this moment, for Chen Wen, no matter who comes, the capture of Quzhou Mansion is the first thing, and tomorrow is the day of the decisive battle!

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While Chen Wen was discussing the siege of the city tomorrow, Chen Jin had just finished discussing with the officers defending the city, the civil officials of the government and county offices, and his staff.

Taking advantage of the fact that the blind were better at hearing than ordinary people, the upside-down tanks worked, and at night, the guards on the ramparts reported that they had heard two tunneling routes, and the last one was probably due to the slow progress of the tunnel, and it was not yet possible to determine it.

Now that it has reached this point, the Ming army will definitely attack the city tomorrow, just like lice on the monk's head.

Tomorrow's defense plan has been agreed, only a small number of Qing troops will be left on the city to observe the movement outside the city, and the people will dig out from the determined position, and after digging through the cave with the Ming army, they will directly use the dug waterway to pour water into it, and directly soak the gunpowder and drown the Ming army in the cave. If the Ming army changed to an ant-attached siege city, the Qing army under the city would go to the city to defend, and Chen Jin himself would personally go to the city to beat drums and cheer, always defending this long-accumulated fatal blow.

For the sake of tomorrow's war, Chen Jin rarely used a banquet tonight to relieve the boredom in his heart, and those maids and courtesans had to rely on the bad luck of a little unpleasantness and a whip.

The military discussion had ended, although it was already a little late, but there was no time to eat dinner, Chen Jin was a little hungry, so he asked his subordinates to prepare dinner. A moment later, the small kitchen of local celebrity chefs prepared for Chen Jin in the governor's palace prepared the dinner and the maids delivered it to Chen Jin in turn.

Today's dinner is very simple, a loach drill tofu, a red-billed green parrot, a dish of eight treasure dishes, a ham and three fresh soup. In addition, there is a dish of boiled mutton, which is also defatted with hawthorn.

There are only four dishes and one soup, even in the besieged city, Chen Jin rarely has such a few dishes when he eats. However, considering that the night was also a little dark, and it was easy to store food after eating too much, he didn't get angry about it, but while thinking about things, he was served by the house slaves around him.

Loach drill tofu is also called one green and two white, loach in tofu, can not be seen on the surface, is the most suitable for those civil officials who claim to be honest and honest on weekdays. However, Chen Jin has never been so secretive, he was born as a military general, and he doesn't care much about the establishment of the archway, and he naturally just eats this dish, and he can't taste this three flavors.

The large-leaf spinach in the red-billed green parrot material comes from outside the north gate, and it can only be planted in the yellow mud outside the north gate, which was picked by the Qing army out of the city at night, and only for Chen Jin's personal consumption. In contrast, although there are a lot of ingredients for Babao Cai and Ham Sanxian Soup, they are not so rare, and they can still be obtained in the city with Chen Jin's identity and power.

After a long time in Jiangnan, Chen Jin also began to follow the local customs, first drank the soup, and then began to taste the dishes in turn. Drinking a little wine, a few dishes were eaten, and the taste was still the same as usual, nothing unusual. But when he tasted the boiled mutton, the tender and smooth texture rolled back and forth in his mouth, which made Chen Jin suddenly have a sense of déjà vu.

Where did he eat it, Chen Jin thought about it for a long time, and he also ate a few pieces of mutton, until a meal was about to be used, and he suddenly recalled that moment twenty-one years ago.

"Lu Pichang! Go and bring the cook who made this dish to the Governor. Today, the governor wants to ask who lent him the courage to cook human flesh for Lao Tzu to eat! (To be continued.) )