Almost when the Lou family was discussing how to give Chen Wen a big gift, among the officials of Jinhua Mansion, Li Zhifang, the governor of Jinhua Mansion who was in charge of general affairs, also convened the officials of the mansion to discuss the countermeasures here.

Li Zhifang, a native of Wuding Prefecture, Shandong, a four-year jinshi of Shunzhi, in Chen Wen's era, once served as the governor of Zhejiang during the rebellion of the three feudatories, and effectively resisted Geng Jingzhong's attack on Zhejiang.

A long time ago, there was a historical legend of "Li Ge Lao" in Wuding Prefecture, and its prototype was this person. It's just that in that legend, Li Zhifang is the crystallization of the love between Wu Sangui and Chen Yuanyuan, and was adopted by an old man Li who sold tofu and was surnamed Li, and later not only won the champion, but also led an army of 200,000 against Wu Sangui alone.

It's just that Li Zhifang here is not the "Li Ge Lao" who was named the "King of Pingnan" by Kangxi after the war in the legend, but the first half of his life, waiting for more than 20 years later to fight Geng Jingzhong in Quzhou, but at this moment he has to face a big change in his life Li Zhifang, the magistrate of Jinhua Mansion!

Since August 28, after the Qing army was defeated by the Ming army and then approached the city, the prefect, who had planned to flee back to Fucheng to prepare for war, was persuaded by the prefect after leaving the three provinces. After all, the Qing army had just been defeated, and the prefect fled back to the city, and the hearts of the people in the county town would be in turmoil, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty would never forgive such behavior, and it would cause disaster to the family.

said that it was inconvenient to leave the county seat for the time being, and the prefect still sent a letter to the Fucheng Feigeon, asking Li Zhifang, the official in charge of the general affairs, to ask for help from Hangzhou according to the information he provided. After receiving the letter asking for help, Li Zhifang also relayed the content written by the prefect and immediately flew the pigeon to Hangzhou.

It's just that as soon as Li Zhifang finished writing a letter on the front foot, the news came from the back foot that Dongyang County was broken by the Ming army. Seeing this, Li Zhifang hurriedly sent someone to stop the carrier pigeon that was ready to be released in the pigeon loft, and rewrote a more exaggerated letter for help.

Chen Wen only brought less than 700 people with him when he sent out his troops, and the number of people in the message from Hengdian Town was also a few hundred people. But after he defeated the defenders of Dongyang County, the number of Dongyang Zhixian became more than three thousand. When Li Zhifang received the letter of help from the Qing army in defeat and retreating to the county seat, it became more than 7,000, more than nine times more water.

Dongyang County was captured by the Ming army, so according to the style of the army in this era, sweeping the floor for soldiers is almost inevitable, so there should always be a scale of 10,000 people.

So, Li Zhifang did not hesitate to wave his pen on the letter asking for help, "In the tenth month, 100,000 people are thieves", and the scale of 100,000 people is in line with the standard of "Xu Du, Yin Can's rebellion has reappeared today".

In this way, this letter for help was sent to Hangzhou from Jinhua City, and after changing flights from Hangzhou, it was transferred to Dinghai, Ningbo, and it took another boat to deliver it to Chen Jin on the night of the third day of the ninth lunar month.

However, Li Zhifang knew very well that this letter of request for help, which was neither "ten months" nor should have reached the scale of "100,000 thieves", was nothing more than to let the reinforcements speed up, but the reality that the main force of the Qing army left behind in Jinhua Mansion was defeated by the Ming army could not be changed at all. Dongyang is down, Yiwu will not be spared, and from Yiwu to the river, that is the capital of Jinhua Mansion!

Sitting in the second hall of the mansion, Li Zhifang looked at his colleagues who were arguing in front of him with a gloomy face, since the news that the Qing army was defeated by the Ming army who were changing their clothes came to the battle, these people have been arguing.

Since the fourth year of Shunzhi, Li Zhifang has been fighting in the officialdom for several years, although he is not an old fritter, but he also knows that these people are ostensibly quarreling for the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in Jinhua Mansion, but they are not called red-eared, and there are no excessive words, as if they are arguing for the sake of quarreling.

A bunch of rubbish!

When looting people's wealth on weekdays, it is beyond the reach of capable people, and when there is something, it is silent like a table or a chair, and when the current catastrophe is approaching, it will only shirk responsibility.

First the guard general of Dongyang County, and then the commander of the Qing army, Ma Sanxing, and so on, Ma Jinbao, who was far away in Taizhou, and Taizhou Wenwu have also become the objects of their shirking responsibility.

Li Zhifang took a deep breath and made her expression more natural by exhaling it. Although these guys are a bunch of waste, if they are separated from them, it will be extremely difficult to succeed.

"Don't be impatient, can you listen to what this official says?"

Hearing Li Zhifang's words, this group of people immediately became like an old monk and returned to everyone, but they just set their eyes on Li Zhifang, the convener of this discussion.

"Princes, at present, there is no news from General Ma and the prefect, and General Ma is still participating in the siege of Zhoushan, but the big Lan thief Chen Wen has already captured Dongyang County, and the capital is in danger. Before leaving, the prefect instructed the official to act as the general officer, and now this burden will be picked up by the official, and I hope that the princes can do their best to cooperate, so as to repay the kindness of the Qing Emperor. ”

Seeing that someone came out to fight the thunder, these officials in the prefecture were stunned for a moment, and then they all stood up to praise Li Zhifang's loyalty and ability, and said a flattery to the extreme, and tried to ensure that they would obey Li Tuiguan's orders, lest Li Zhifang would turn his face and deny it.

It's just that in Li Zhifang's view, the purpose of this time has been achieved, and what he wants is the support of these officials!

Seeing that everyone had affirmed his leadership position, Li Zhifang immediately assigned tasks, ordered martial law, organized the people in the city to make city defense equipment, and studied rewards; Then he summoned the officer who remained in the city to open his arsenal and put all the artillery on the wall; Later, he sent someone to find the garrison subordinate to Jin Quyan's guard, and he had two hundred formed green battalion soldiers in his hands, which could come in handy.

After the affairs in the city were distributed, Li Zhifang locked his eyes on the area outside the city.

"Don't worry about the defenders of the other counties, let them continue to maintain the place, and transfer the defenders of Yiwu back to Fucheng as soon as possible, the next target of the thieves must be there, they can't last even an hour under the bandits' troops."

Hearing this, the surrounding people hesitated. "Li Tuiguan, giving up the county seat is a big crime, how can this be done?"

"Now the key to the entire Jinhua Mansion is the capital city, Yiwu can't hold it at all, there is no need to waste troops." Seeing that everyone was no longer dissuaded, Li Zhifang continued: "Wait for the regiment to retreat from training, let them all return to their hometowns, and they don't have to go into the city to defend the palace." ”

"Why is that?"

Li Zhifang had previously preferred to give up Yiwu and take back the soldiers, but at this moment, he wanted to bomb away all the local regimental training troops.

"Is Li Tuiguan afraid that there will be thieves here?"

"For this reason, in fact, there is no need to be meticulous at all, the official thinks that as long as the thieves occupy it, or even just threaten to occupy their hometown, these regiments will immediately collapse without a fight, and even sell the city to protect their families. But if they return to their hometowns, as long as the thieves dare to cause trouble, these people will be the help of the imperial court. ”

What Li Zhifang said is the truth, the regimental training of troops in this era is far from the local armed forces of the Hunan army and the Huai army in the late Qing Dynasty, and its combat effectiveness comes from the understanding of the local area and the duty to protect the hometown.

Next, Li Zhifang continued to assign tasks, and finally mobilized all the forces of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the entire Jinhua Mansion City to meet the momentum of Chen Wen sweeping the entire Jinhua Mansion.

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A few hours later, it was already nightfall, and as a representative of the regiment's training, Jin Fu of Qingcun, Fotang Town, Yiwu, also rushed back to his home at the foot of Tangshan Mountain.

Jin Fu is only in his twenties, the youngest of his generation, and one of his brothers is called Jin Guang, who is now working in Shang Kexi's curtain, but he has long since stopped interacting. Although many of the children of the Jin family he brought out this time were older than him, they still respected him in terms of seniority, so naturally he took the lead in doing things.

When he returned home, he rushed to his grandfather's house after paying homage to his ancestors. Jin Fu's grandfather was born in the Longqing period, and is now in his eighties, and it is said that he once saw Qi Jiguang with his own eyes when he was young, and he is a rare old man in the local area.

After meeting his grandfather, Jin Fu described everything he saw and heard along the way with his grandfather, especially in the battle with the Ming army.

"Are you sure it's the Mandarin Duck Formation?"

"Back to my grandfather's words, the first long card, the first rattan card, the second wolf tweed, the fourth spear, the second boring palladium, the first flag gun, and the pointed flat dan, you told the child since you were a child, Qi Shaobao's mandarin duck array was equipped with weapons in this way when he was fighting against the Japanese in the south, how dare the child be wrong."

Hearing this, Jin Fu's grandfather leaned back in the Taishi chair, and the memories that had been hidden in his heart for decades began to flood into his mind, and some even overflowed his eyes.

When he was young, he once met Qi Jiguang, and the elders of the family told him that he was a hero who stood up to the sky and the earth, and came to Yiwu to form the famous Qi family army in order to drive away the Japanese invaders. At that time, he dreamed of becoming a hero like Qi Jiguang one day, even if he couldn't do it, he must fight for the Han family under such a hero.

But before he became an adult, Qi Jiguang died, and since then, there has never been a hero like him in his mind. Until today, the world is occupied by the Tartars, and China will once again die to the Tartars, but he can only stay in this old age, waiting for the day when a hero can appear and reverse all this, just like Qi Jiguang in his childhood memories and Yue Wumu told by Mr. Storyteller when he was young.

It's just that Jin Fu didn't notice this at this time, but continued to speak. "The people of Xia Yanlou's family, Beilei's Chen family, and the Yang family also saw it, and even the children heard in the camp that this Ming army marshal was half of the Qi family."

As soon as Jin Fu's words came out of his mouth, the word Qi family Banzi immediately pulled Jin Fu's grandfather back from his memories, and even the scattered focal points were regrouped together, and even became more and more sharp. Next, the old man asked Jin Fu a few more questions, but he was never able to determine the identity of the Ming army marshal.

Forget it, since the Mandarin Duck Array can be used to such a level, I think it is either related to the Qi family, or related to the Qi family troops who stayed in the north when the Great Wall was built, and he is also surnamed Chen......

"This kind of thing, the people of the Beilei Chen family should be very positive, right?"

When Qi Jiguang first came to Yiwu to recruit troops, it was Chen Dacheng of the Beilei Chen family, who was quite prestigious in the countryside, that he became his runner, and only then did he encourage a large number of Yiwu men to join Qi Jiguang's new army.

"Exactly, the people of the Chen family asked me to wait for tomorrow afternoon to go to Beilei to discuss this matter, and I heard that they mean that they plan to do a big job and regain the glory of the Qi family's army!"

"I see."