Chen Wen is back!

This is to be expected. The old nest was taken by someone, and it was normal to return to the division to quell the rebellion, but Chen Wen came back so quickly was something that Cao Conglong never expected.

According to the information obtained by Cao Conglong and others before the rebellion, Chen Wen took Longyou County, and then surrounded Quzhou, the Qing army could never sit idly by and watch Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, be trapped in a lonely city, and would definitely send a large army to rescue him, and Chen Wen was bound to consume all his energy between besieging the city and sending reinforcements.

In this way, even if Chen Wen learned about their actions, it would be difficult for him to return to his teacher at the first time. It's not that I don't want to, it's that I can't do it at all. Because if the troops are forcibly withdrawn, the Qing army will inevitably pursue. At that time, Mo said that the rebellion had been quelled, and it would be unknown whether he could come back alive.

Under normal circumstances, Chen Wen should have blocked the news first, and then looked for an opportunity to defeat the Qing army's reinforcements, or tried to take the capital city of Quzhou, and then immediately led a small and capable army back to the division to quell the rebellion.

In this way, time is on Cao Conglong's side, and it is naturally no longer a dream to use this time to train the army to recover Taizhou. Once Taizhou is captured and Lu Jianguo returns to Zhejiang, then the losses caused by the fall of Zhoushan last year will definitely be supplemented, and even if Chen Wen can survive in such a harsh environment, will he dare to lead the army to attack Taizhou, which is dominated by Lu Jianguo?

Everything went according to schedule, and even if there were many unexpected situations, it didn't affect the overall situation much. However, Chen Wen quickly returned to the division, and even Tangxi County was not able to delay his progress for a moment, and the situation seemed to be completely unfavorable to Cao Conglong and the others in an instant.

It is absolutely impossible to continue like this, after Cao Conglong learned the details of the situation from Lu Wenlong, he immediately turned his attention to the generals of the Fubiao Battalion who were still thinking about whether to rescue Tangxi County just now.

"Fu Jun, Lin Haibo went down to Tangxi County in an instant, obviously the whole division returned. With such a large army, it is impossible for my troops to have a slight chance of victory, so it is better to temporarily avoid Luo Chengyan in the future! ”

Zhou Qingui is the chief officer of the Fubiao Battalion and the head of the Fubiao Middle Battalion, and he is the highest position among the generals, so naturally he was the first to speak. However, Zhou Qingui's opening was to retreat to Luo Chengyan and hand over the entire Jinhua Mansion to others, but such a brain hole really scared everyone.

For Zhou Qingui, as Ni Liangxu, He Decheng and others who raised troops against the Qing army under Yin Can's account back then, I really can't understand it anymore. This person is righteous, bold, and able to stick a knife in his brother's ribs, which goes without saying, but the kind of character that is safe and easy to get rich and has no enterprising heart still makes many people disappointed in him. For example, Sun Yu, Wu Dengke and others who left Dalan Mountain in a fit of anger were the same.

Even if it weren't for Chen Wen's unwillingness to compromise at all and try to control the anti-Qing forces in the entire Jinhua Mansion, Zhou Qingui would not have agreed to take the risk.

Ni Liangxu and He Decheng and others are all Zhou Qingui's old brothers, since Zhou Qingui has spoken, it is really inconvenient for them to refute in person, so they always have to find a separate time to persuade again. But hearing this, Yang Can, the current deputy general of the right battalion of Fubiao, who had served as a Jinyi guard by Lu Jianguo's side, immediately stood up to resist.

"What Zhou Dashuai said is inappropriate, the strength of the traitor Chen Wenhui's division is not yet known, maybe it is the Tangxi County City Guard who is afraid of the enemy and surrenders. Besides, since ancient times, evil has not prevailed over righteousness, Chen Wen is a disloyal and unrighteous rebel, justice is in me and not in him, our army has the prestige of the imperial court, how can we flee without a fight?! ”

Hearing this, Zhou Qingui and the others were all furious, and Ni Liangxu even took the case, pointed at Yang Can and asked, "What do you mean, surnamed Yang?" ”

The guards of Tangxi County are Ni Liangxu's cronies, if it is extended a little, there is also a suspicion of the loyalty of the generals from the Baitou Army of Luo Chengyan, Zhou Qingui and others are naturally furious. Seeing this, Cao Conglong hurriedly went down to explain to Yang Can, and after talking for a long time, he finally calmed down the anger of Zhou Qingui and others a little.

According to Cao Conglong's original reorganization plan, the Fubiao battalion was divided into five battalions: center, left, right, front, and rear, of which the middle battalion was directly led by Zhou Qingui, the chief military officer, assisted by General Ni Liangxu, and the deputy generals of the other four battalions were He Decheng, Yang Can, and Liu Cheng, the defender of Dongyang County, and the chief general of another relatively large garrison, Lin Zhongxiao, a guerrilla general stationed in the area of Anhua Town. As for Yin Yue, the chief general of the Ming Army on the Northern Front, he generously gave the title of Admiral of Western Zhejiang's military affairs, which was even higher than Chen Wen's rank in the army.

Although it is not perfect, it can not only ensure that the Fubiao battalion will not be enlarged by either side of the Luochengyan Baitou Army and the original Jinhua Town garrison under the ancestral system of the large and small systems, but also prevent them from falling to Chen Wen, which is already the safest way between the various forces under the premise of using literature to control the military.

However, with the frequent occurrence of accidents, Yin Yue and Lin Zhongxiao tried their best to resist Cao Conglong's wooing, so that the civil officials and garrisons of Yiwu and Pujiang counties all chose to resist, and Cao Conglong's planned use of troops was in Yushan Town, and Liu Cheng simply refused the invitation to go to Fucheng on the grounds of protecting the safety of the grain road. If you count the chaos in Yongkang County, the original army of a commander and five battalions of Fubiao is now only the three battalions of the center, left and right that are not yet formed, and the total is only more than 2,000 people. Among them, there are two battalions under the command of General Luo Chengyan, and Yang Can's battalion is mostly composed of the original garrison, and Zhou Qingui and others naturally speak more heavily.

It was easy to appease the most powerful group of military leaders under his command, but Cao Conglong found that it had been tossed for a long time, and he still didn't get an answer with a relatively high chance of winning. So, he had to signal to Lu Wenlong, who had been sitting in the position for a long time without speaking, to hear what this cronie who had been completely tied to him thought.

Seeing Cao Conglong's signal, Lu Wenlong, who had been thinking for a long time, gritted his teeth, then got up and said: "Fu Jun, all the marshals, according to the opinion of the lower officials, it is better to attack Taizhou before Chen Wen's rebels besiege the city." ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhou Qingui couldn't help but feel embarrassed, and Yang Can pointed out that Lu Wenlong denounced him as a coward who fled without a fight, and did not save any face for this civil official and his colleagues.

Speaking of cowardice, it is not absent in Lu Wenlong's heart, after all, he is the old man of the Ming Army of Dalan Mountain, and he has seen with his own eyes how Chen Wen rose in the extremely unfavorable situation of the Ming Army in Zhejiang in the past two years.

In just two years, although there are no very well-known generals who have fallen in front of this general, the army that was expanded by the sixth battalion of the Ming Army in Dalanshan - the Nantang Battalion has never defeated the "invincible" Eight Banner Army, but when it comes to training and using troops, he has never seen the existence of generals of the Ming Army who can be compared with Chen Wen, whether it is those marshals at the beginning of the establishment of the Lu Jianguo or the generals of the Ming Army in Dalanshan. If anyone has the better chance and qualifications to fight to the death with the Manchu Eight Banners Army, then there is no need to think twice at all!

But with the rise of Chen Wen, the generals of Siming Mountain and Tiantai Mountain were almost wiped out, Wang Yi and Wang Jiang, the two civil officials of the supervising army, met with accidents one after another, and others including Xinchang Bo Yu Guowang could be deceived, but he Lu Wenlong would not, and he who hated Chen Wen extremely could never compromise with him.

"Vice General Yang, please hear clearly, what this official said about waving his army to attack Taizhou is not to flee somewhere to avoid its edge!"

Hearing this, not only Yang Can, but also Cao Conglong, Zhou Qingui and others were also stunned. What Lu Wenlong and Zhou Qingui said is generally no different, but they are completely different in terms of details and actual operation, and the meaning is even more different.

Merely......

"Raise the banner to march into Taizhou, is it so that Chen Wen will not pursue?"

No one can guarantee this, even if Cao Conglong, who asked this, can't, but this method is the only one that everyone here can accept, because only in this way will there be a future.

However, the problem has returned to the original point, Yushan Town has indeed hoarded a large amount of grain and grass military supplies, but the confrontation between the two armies is to compete with the hard power of the two armies, the army under their command may exceed the Taizhou Green Battalion in terms of strength, but the Taizhou Green Battalion is not the only one on the ground in Taizhou Mansion, Taizhou's sailors can also drive in Taizhou Mansion with the water network, and it is not as simple as imagined to win the battle with the current combat effectiveness of the Fubiao Battalion.

After arguing for a long time, there was still no result, so at He Decheng's suggestion, Cao Conglong decided to make preparations secretly first, and at the same time, he also needed to see the quality of the counterinsurgency before making plans. If nothing else, we will find out tomorrow.

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While Cao Conglong and others were discussing with the governor of Yamen, the counterinsurgency army led by Chen Wenqin had also arrived at the scheduled boarding point -- the mouth of the river where Baisha River and Dongyang River meet.

Although the main force did not engage in any fierce battles, but the rapid march for two consecutive days, eating and had to be solved in the march, for the Jinhua Ming Army, which has been in a situation where the enemy is strong and we are weak all the year round, and has always been slowly moving slowly under the premise of preserving combat effectiveness, it is indeed a new attempt to break through itself.

Fortunately, the long-term training not only strengthened the soldiers' physique and courage, but also strengthened their will. Especially the officers whose families were imprisoned, they were even more eager to fly back to Jinhua Mansion City to kill those despicable villains who could only stab them in the back, so naturally they didn't have the heart to think about anything else.

The boats used to cross the Dongyang River have been docked on the bank of Baisha Creek, this time the water camp in Jinhua Town can only send a detachment to cooperate with Chen Wen due to the existence of the Qing army in Quzhou, but the water camp has only experienced two "battles" since its formation, last year in Fotang Town surrounded the warehouse, and this time the robbery of the ferry, this former soldier from a pirate family performed well, but Chen Wen felt a little comforted. It's just that in the future, when facing the elite of the Zhejiang Qing Army such as the Qiantang Water Division, it is still unknown how much success it will have.

After encouraging the captains and sailors of Yang Kai and the water battalion detachment under his command, the counterinsurgency troops from the battalion directly under the town also began to board ships to cross the river in batches under Chen Guobao's arrangement.

Stepping on Yang Kai's ship, Chen Wenyao looked in the direction of Jinhua Mansion City, which was still shrouded in darkness, and a cold smile crossed the corner of his mouth.

"Cao Conglong, you're dead!" (To be continued.) )