Only two days after the envoy to Tiantai Mountain returned to Zhoushan, as in history, the Eight Banners of the Hangzhou garrison set out from Hangzhou to Dinghai in Ningbo under the command of the Pingnan generals Gushan Ezhen Jinli and Gushan Ezhen Liu Zhiyuan. At the same time, the Governor Battalion under the command of Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, also completed the assembly, and set off from Quzhou six days later, and arrived in Dinghai via Taizhou and Ningbo.

On July 19 of the fifth year of Yongli, the standard camp of the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian also set out, while Chen Wen, Wang Jiang, Yu Guowang and others were welcoming the remnants of the left and right battalions of the Ming army of Dalan Mountain and part of the Ming army of Pinggang from Pinggang to Tiantai Mountain.

Different from when the rest of the old camp of Dalanshan arrived here a few months ago, this time, in addition to Wang Jiang, the governor of Zhejiang of the Ming army system of Dalanshan, and Chen Wen, the general of the conquest, even Ye Shirong, the deputy general of the rear battalion, also rushed over, and almost all the generals of the Tiantai Mountain Ming army led by Yu Guowang of Xinchang also arrived, which was far more lively than when Wang Jiang and Chen Wen led the army south.

If you think about it, it's normal.

Although Chen Wen had just won a big victory and made a momentum under Xinchang City, in the final analysis, it was just a team of refugees, and it was also a team with a clear right of belonging.

Especially Chen Wen has just achieved an extremely rare victory, such a fierce general, at most an ally, if you don't get it, you may be a thief who grabs territory, so at that time, only Yu Guowang and Jin Tang, who are not far from here, came to greet him.

On the other hand, the Ming army from Pinggang was composed of the remnants of the left and right battalions of the Ming Army of Dalanshan and part of the Ming Army of Pinggang. The Pinggang Ming Army has always been known for its cavalry in the Ming Army in eastern Zhejiang, and the left and right battalions of the Ming Army in Dalanshan were also the cavalry commanded by Chen Guobao. Although only half of the southward this time, there were more than 100 horsemen, and the Ming army in eastern Zhejiang was also a large force.

Cavalry, in this era, is a class of troops with decisive power on the battlefield. Although this place is in the east of Zhejiang, where the water network is crisscrossed and the roads are rugged, having a cavalry means that you can fight into the plains with impunity, and this also means that you can grow and grow rapidly.

The army that had just arrived here, with Liu Yiming, the commander of the left and right battalions of the Ming Army in Dalanshan, martyred in the Battle of Siming Lake, and Chen Tianshu, the commander of the Pinggang Ming Army, also died of illness in March, and the two armies were under the command of Chen Guobao.

But the problem is that Chen Guobao himself is just a general under Liu Yiming, not a figure with the prestige and ability of Liu Yiming and Chen Tianshu. As long as you are good at influencing, you can always gain some value, and if you can merge with it, even if it is to give Chen Guobao or someone else a second-in-command position, it is definitely worth it.

Even if you can't pull away the remnants of the left and right battalions of the Ming Army of Dalanshan, the joining of that part of the Pinggang Army can also improve the strength of a lot. With such a mentality, the commanders of the Ming army of all departments of Tiantai Mountain rushed to meet this Ming army.

Of course, there are exceptions to everything, and that exception is Chen Wen.

Since the Battle of Siming Lake, with Wang Yi's will, Chen Wen's performance in preventing and covering the evacuation of the people, and the great victory in the battle behind the palace, it can almost be said that he has become the second person in the Ming army of Dalanshan from Wang Jiang down. In terms of military affairs, Wang Jiang's trust in Chen Wen's ability also made him the most powerful military general in the entire Dalanshan Ming Army, even heavier than Mao Mingshan before he left here.

With the departure of Mao Mingshan, the canonization of Lu Jianguo, and the reason why Wang Jiang was weak in character, Chen Wen's position in the rest of the Ming army in Dalanshan was actually comparable to Wang Jiang. In terms of division of labor, Chen Wen is also in charge of military affairs, and Wang Jiang is responsible for the logistics of the entire Dalanshan system.

If that's all there is, it's nothing. It's just that the existence of the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty to prevent the retainers from becoming big threats to the imperial power - the existence of the big and small system made Chen Wen begin to become a little constrained in this.

According to the principle of the big and small system, Chen Wen, as a member of the Ming army system in Dalanshan, had absolute rights only the Nantang battalion whose officers' rights were limited and could not complete the feudalization. As for the rear battalion, or the troops of the other Dalanshan Ming Army, Chen Wen also has the right to command the battle, that's all. Just as the general army is only directly in charge of the main barracks, while the battalion heads such as the odd barracks, reinforcement barracks, and guerrilla battalions are directly under the command of officers such as deputy generals, staff generals, and guerrillas.

When Mao Mingshan was still in command of the rear camp, Chen Wen never felt that this army would be an eyesore, because at that time, the rear camp could still maintain the tradition of the Dalanshan Ming army not disturbing the people and not harming the people, and he and his Nantang battalion were still in the same category.

But after Mao Mingshan left, especially with the occurrence of the disturbing incident, the Ming army of the same system became more and more disregarded by Chen Wen, and even subconsciously believed that they were just a group of outliers, and even the officers and soldiers of the Nantang battalion also had such a mentality, only because the station was far away that no conflict broke out, but the discrimination on weekdays already existed.

Chen Wen was already aware of this question through the reports of military judges, suppression soldiers, and several young soldiers at all levels of officers and attendants. It's just that after thinking about it, the reason for this discrimination actually comes more from the Nantang Battalion's own positioning, the replication and inheritance of the Qi family's army, and the positioning that he has always instilled as a king to protect the territory and the people.

Therefore, Chen Wen is reluctant to reverse this mentality, especially when he himself also has such a mentality.

As a result, the estrangement between the Nantang battalion and the rear battalion became deeper and deeper, and even Chen Wen had already determined that such an army was completely different in nature from the Wang division established by Wang Yi back then, so the existence of this rear battalion was also regarded by him as a waste of limited resources.

At present, the Ming army of Dalanshan has lost its base area, and the absence of a base area means that there is no foundation for raising troops. Chen Wen plans to start recovering the lost ground in the near future, so this rear battalion that eats and does not do anything and occasionally disturbs the people looks like an eyesore, not to mention that the claim of returning to the team is actually just the remnants of the left and right battalions who have come to eat in his eyes.

The lack of resources caused Chen Wen's tolerance to plummet, but he also had to spare precious time to deal with errands, after all, this army was also in the same system.

In order to accommodate this Ming army and their military dependents, Wang Jiang specially built a camp near the temporary camp for them to live in.

Here, outside the gate of this new camp, in addition to Chen Wen, Wang Jiang, Yu Guowang and others, more of them are the military dependents of the left and right battalions who stayed in Dalanshan. Compared with these officials who have their own thoughts, their thoughts are much simpler.

In the battle on the shore of Siming Lake, the Ming army was defeated, and the Ming army of Dalan Mountain, which was able to flee back before Chen Wen covered the people to the south, was only two or three hundred people, and more survivors were either exiled elsewhere, or hidden in the mountains and missed the opportunity to leave together. When organizing the people to go south, these military dependents were the biggest obstacle to the evacuation, and it was only under Chen Wen's strong suppression and the strong organization of the officials of Dalanshan that they had to make the trip.

From the very beginning of their journey south, they fantasized that their relatives who had fought in the war would survive. It's just that as time passed, the news of survival never came, and such dreams gradually turned into fantasies, and even began to evolve into default.

However, at this moment, the envoy of the Hiraoka Ming army arrived, and the news came that some of the soldiers of the left and right battalions had survived, especially as they were on their way to Tiantai Mountain, and the flame of hope for reunion was rekindled.

Outside the camp, these military families were waiting one after another. As the team they had been looking forward to appeared in the field of vision, their feelings of joy and worry began to intertwine, and even a mess became entangled in their hearts.

"The criminal general Chen Guobao temporarily led the command of the two battalions of cavalry on the left and right of Dalan Mountain, and met with Governor Wang."

As Liu Yiming's subordinate general and a member of the Dalanshan Ming Army, Chen Guobao saluted Wang Jiang, the nominal supreme commander of the Dalanshan Ming Army, as soon as he turned over and dismounted. This was supposed to be, and Wang Jiang immediately helped the young military general up.

"General Chen can not forget his duty as a king, and Liu Shuai's spirit in the sky can also feel gratified. The term sin is in the past, and it is the right way to fight to kill thieves in the future. ”

The relationship between Liu Yiming and Chen Guobao is like father and son, Wang Jiang naturally knows about this matter, and Liu Yiming is mentioned here in order to appease this newly returned general. Of course, this also contains a certain amount of encouragement, after all, Wang Jiang had the responsibility of supervising the army at the moment when Lu Jianguo canonized him as the governor of Zhejiang, and it was also his duty to encourage the generals to fight bravely to kill the enemy.

It's just that Wang Jiang didn't mention Liu Yiming, but when Liu Yiming was mentioned, Chen Guobao was ashamed, and he said that Wang Jiang must punish him for his crime of escaping in the Battle of Siming Lake, and even knelt down like this.

Seeing that the welcome party was about to turn into a farce, Chen Wen finally understood why this military general offended Wang Chao and was sent home by Liu Yiming in the first place. It's okay to be a pro-soldier captain with such a character, and you can win the hearts of soldiers, but it's really a bit reluctant to lead the soldiers independently.

Seeing that Wang Jiang was a little caught off guard, Chen Wen had to stand up to stop this farce from going on.

"The culprit in the battle of Siming Lake is Wang Sheng, if it weren't for the dog thief who stood up to prevent Ben Shuai from participating in the war, and turned against him during the war, how could Wang Shi be defeated? Here is to welcome the soldiers of the left and right battalions home, your problem will be punished in the old camp tomorrow, stand up now, don't lose the face of the king of Dalan Mountain! ”

Chen Guobao stood up, looked at Chen Wen, and then asked, "Are you Chen Wen Chen Dashuai?" ”

"It's like a fake."

Hearing this, Chen Guobao turned to Chen Wen and fell to his knees at once.

"The sin will hear Chen Shuai's name for a long time, Chen Shuai slashed Li Rong, and avenged the blood revenge for those loyal and brave soldiers on the shore of Siming Lake. Today, Sin will have a reluctant request, and I also ask Chen Shuai to agree. In the voice, there was a faint whimper, causing everyone else to look sideways.

Having probably guessed what Chen Guobao was asking, Chen Wen struggled to maintain the calm in his words. "General Chen, please speak."

"The sin general was taken care of by Marshal Liu, and he commanded the cavalry of the left and right battalions of the Dalan Mountain King Division. Now that Liu Shuai has been martyred, the remnants of the guilty generals have returned to the team, and Chen Dashuai is also asked to take these soldiers under his command and strictly control them, so as to avenge Liu Dashuai and the soldiers who died in vain on the shore of Siming Lake! ”

As soon as these words came out, almost everyone present cast their eyes on Chen Wen, and during the mixture of envy, jealousy, and even a little resentment, only Wang Jiang's relief and Yu Guowang's admiration seemed a little lonely in it.

After the battle of Siming Mountain, a rare victory of the Ming army since the Qing army went south, Chen Wen, as the commander, finally ushered in the first batch of people who came to serve in the system. It's just that there are only a few dozen cavalry in Chen Wen's hands, whether he can bring them well, and even whether he can ensure that the dozens of cavalry in the Nantang battalion itself will not be damaged, this is obviously a big problem.

It's just that since the meat has been delivered to his mouth, Chen Wen has no intention of letting it go like Houying. personally picked up Chen Guobao, whose face was full of tears, and Chen Wen promised that he would regard these Ming troops as the same as the Nantang Battalion, and he would be regarded as taking them under his banner.

confirmed the belonging of Chen Guobao's Ming army, and the other Tiantai Mountain generals looked a little stupid. It's just that they were never the protagonists of this welcoming ceremony.

Chen Guobao and the officers of the Pinggang Ming Army, who had been under his command in accordance with Chen Tianshu's will, finished their speeches in Wang Jiang and went to the big tent to have a banquet together. Seeing that the officers had left, the military dependents and the soldiers of the left and right battalions who had returned alive recognized their sons and their husbands, while more military families still could not find their relatives among the survivors.

For a moment, joy and sorrow were clearly distinguished, but the sound of crying was intertwined.

A few days later, Chen Wen invited Wang Jiang to have another secret conversation with Yu Guowang. After the three argued for a day and a night, Yu Guowang returned to his old camp and began to secretly mobilize the whole army; And Chen Wen also suspended training, redivided the tasks of the officers under his command, and prepared to cooperate with Yu Guowang's troops to fight and share the pressure for the Ming army in Zhoushan.

PS: During the Southern Ming Dynasty, because the Manchu Qing Dynasty suppressed the Ming army in some relatively small areas almost in one fell swoop, limited resources became a fuse of mutual distrust between various forces. After all, no one is a heart snatcher, and what others think, whether they will calculate themselves, is unknown. The crisis of confidence is one of the biggest problems among the various forces in Nanming, and this is only one of them.