Chapter 34 Borrowing
At night, Chen Wen saw the city wall of Dongyang County as he wished. However, it was only the city walls that I saw.
When the Qing army was defeated, Ma Sanxing, as the commander-in-chief, immediately fled to Dongyang County with the general's flag and the reserves in his hands, without the slightest hesitation, showing the demeanor of a generation of generals. In comparison, the soldiers he got up early in the morning and brought out were very few who were able to escape.
Ma San Province entered the city with his own soldiers and reserves, and in order to prevent the Ming army from taking advantage of the chaos to seize the city, the back foot closed all the city gates. Only the two cavalry followed with great speed, and the rest of the Qing army was all blocked outside the city.
The green battalion soldiers in the backbone of the Qing army's formation were always bitten by the first game, and reluctantly escaped to the city, and were bombarded into the military camp outside the city by a burst of random arrows from the city, and they were completely dumpled in the first game that was pursued.
The regiment on the right flank walked slower than the small-footed old lady when it attacked, but when it fled, it became an old card chasing the bus, and even the tail was left the battlefield without being touched by the Ming army.
The regimental training troops on the right flank themselves came from Fucheng and the villages and towns near it, and they arrived at Dongyang County by boat along the Dongyang River, and as long as they bypassed the city to reach the port where they had landed, they could go home by boat. As for grain and grass, although the Qing army will take out some of it when it transfers group exercises, the organizers of these regimental exercises and the soldiers of the regimental training will carry some of them, so it is inevitable that they will be hungry, but it is not enough to die of hunger.
However, in comparison, the regimental training of the left wing was much more fortunate. Most of the regimental training soldiers on the left wing came from Yiwu County, and because of the prestige of the Yiwu soldiers in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the Qing army originally had high hopes for them. But who knew that these Yiwu regimental training soldiers did a better job than the regimental training on the right wing after seeing the mandarin duck formation, and they did not move like a mountain during the battle, and when the green battalion of the Qing army collapsed, they simply retreated with the green battalion military management under supervision and command.
But the problem is that they are from Yiwu, and because Dongyang County and Yiwu County are adjacent to each other, a large part of these regiments came on foot; Most of the other boatmen are by boat, but because of the proximity, most of the boatmen have already sailed back to continue their livelihood, and even if they arrive at the dock, they may not be able to go back.
So, he simply sent the Qing garrison to the Ming army who caught up, and asked the Ming army not to continue to chase and let them go back to their hometowns.
Coincidentally, the leading officers of the left-wing regiment training who caught up were also from Yiwu, and they were the first to follow Chen Wen's fellow villagers of Wu Dengke.
After negotiations, it was found that there were many Jinhua mansions on the side of the Ming army, and even fellow villagers in Yiwu County, and even Lou Jiye, the general who was responsible for commanding the first bureau, was also a child of the Yiwu Xia Yanlou family, and this Nantang battalion was formed under the slogan of rebuilding the Qijia army.
By the time they joined the main force of the Ming army, they were already in the camp where the Qing army was temporarily stationed outside the city. After Lou Jiye saw the leaders of the regimental training, he thought about how to deal with them or whether it should be decided by Chen Wen, so he only calmed them down a little and placed them in the camp and waited for Chen Wen to arrive.
In less than half an hour, Chen Wen arrived with the rear team, but in addition to the soldiers who were guarding under the banner of the generals during the battle, as well as the old battalion officials led by Sun Yu, there were also a group of people recruited by Chen Wen from Li Zhai Town, which was not far from the battlefield.
For this advance force of the Nantang battalion, the residents of Li Zhai Town only thought that a group of bandits had descended the mountain and were lucky enough to defeat the encircled Qing army, so they were arrogant enough to attack the county seat. However, since entering the vicinity of Dongyang County, especially after camping outside Lizhai Town, this "bandit" has never disturbed the people, let alone has no intention of attacking the town, and the military discipline is far stronger than the green battalion soldiers of the Qing army, and this makes them feel a little abnormal.
In the afternoon, when the Nantang battalion changed its clothes in front of the two armies and revealed its true face, the residents of Li Zhai Town found out that this was a Ming army, and it was also the exaggerated "total annihilation" of the Admiral Standard Battalion and the Shaoxing Green Battalion that had been rumored among the people before, and then made a big fuss about the Dalanshan Ming Army in Xinchang County.
It's just that before the people of Lizhai Town had time to react from the shock, the Ming army easily defeated the Qing army of Jinhua Mansion that far exceeded their own strength, especially when some of the villagers and older people in Lizhai Town recognized that they were using the Mandarin Duck Array, the town mayor and village elders planned to provide some grain, grass and people in order to form a good fate.
It's just that when they were not ready, Chen Wen had already sent someone to collect it, and among the people sent over, the leader was an official from the old battalion, and the official was not polite, and when he saw the town mayor and the village elders, he opened his mouth and told the rumors that had spread in Tiantai Mountain.
In his words, this Nantang battalion is the Qi family army rebuilt by Chen Wen, the son-in-law of the Qi family in Penglai, and has already defeated the main force of the Tartars entrenched in Jinhua Mansion at this moment, and is ready to recruit troops in Jinhua Mansion like Qi Jiguang did back then, so as to recover the two capitals and prosper the Ming Dynasty, and this is also an easy matter. As for the present, it is to ask them to provide people with men and grain and grass to be used by the army.
After getting this news, the entire Li Zhai Town immediately boiled. When I saw that the Ming army was in a mandarin duck array, I thought it was a Ming army general who learned from the military book, but who knew that it would be the son-in-law of the Penglai Qi family.
Although the commander of this army is not surnamed Qi, but the son-in-law is also half a son, in case he gets the secret of the Qi family's art of war, even if he only has a few points of Qi Jiguang, or even a few tenths of the means, it is not something that the Tartars can stop. And the rumors of Chen Wen's "total annihilation" of the standard battalion and the Shaoxing green battalion at the end of last year, as well as the scene where the Ming army easily defeated the Qing army just now, also appropriately raised this idea infinitely.
The people of Dongyang County are not inferior to Yiwu in the superstition of Qi Jiguang, you must know that Qi Jiguang later entered Fujian during the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese invaders, he used to recruit troops in Dongyang County, and there were many children of Dongyang County in the Qi family army, but they were not as famous as Yiwu.
After the mayor and village elders of Li Zhai Town were led by that official to see Chen Wen, although Chen Wen did not admit the matter of the Qi family's son-in-law, he was still tacitly acquiesced by the township elders. After all, the Qi family is still in Shandong, which is occupied by the Qing army, and even if it is inconvenient to admit it.
At this moment, several people were exempted from even looking at each other a few times, and immediately assured Chen Wen that they would collect a large number of people's husbands, grain, grass, poultry and livestock, and even said that they would try their best to persuade the surrounding villages and towns to give grain to the Ming army.
While sending off these enthusiastic people, Chen Wen couldn't help but sigh at the old camp official's ability to fool. But in fact, it was by no means as exaggerated as he imagined, not so much that these people were fooled by the old camp official, but in fact, it was better to say that these people got a statement that they were willing to accept from the bottom of their hearts.
After the defeat of Jiangshang's division, the Qing army entered Fujian from Jinhua and Quzhou under the leadership of Boluo, the general of Zhengnan and the prince of Duanzhong. Passing through the city of Jinhuafu, more than 50,000 people were killed with the idea that "the people did not obey their orders, and there were even more massacres that were not recorded.
Boluo returned to the north, and Ma Jinbao, who had participated in the Jinhua massacre, was appointed as the general army of Quzhou, in charge of the military affairs of Jinhua, Quzhou, Yanzhou, and Chuzhou, and later transferred to the general army of Jinhua and changed to Jinhua.
During Ma Jinbao's stay in Jinhua, "the people are solid, and the weapons are hung upside down, and their noses are poured with vinegar, and people are unbearable, and they all give everything they have, and the dead are not counted." Fuguang occupied the people's houses, and the soldiers went out to loot, and the government did not dare to ask. ”
There is no way to know the specific number of people who plundered the people's property and killed and injured the people, but when he stepped down from Jinhua as the general soldier and was promoted to the governor of Susong, the bribes used in Beijing alone had "more than 20 treasures, millions of gold and silver, and he was incalculable, stretching for hundreds of miles." And this is only a very small part of Ma Jinbao's income, the three thousand vicious standard battalion generals under his command have plundered geometry, I am afraid that there will always be a hundred times and a thousand times.
These gains of the Qing army are all the people's fat and ointment of the people of Jinhua. It's just that gold and silver are easy to calculate, and how can the blood debts behind this be calculated?
Since the Qing army marched south, they slaughtered cities at every turn, not to mention villages and towns, and the historical materials, archives and county records of the Manchu atrocities recorded in this era abound, and words such as "flattening", "purging" and "slaughtering" are full of words. The targets of the Manchu beast soldiers were not limited to the anti-Qing rebels and the Ming army who were orthodox in the Ming Dynasty, but more of the people who were cornered by the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and were forced to go to the mountains to farm for survival, often without even a single weapon.
Jinhua, the bitter horse into the treasure for a long time, the bitter Jinhua Mansion green camp for a long time, the bitter Manchu Qing Dynasty is even longer!
But the more such a period, the more people are eager for the appearance of heroes in their hearts, and in the hearts of the people of Jinhua Mansion, only Qi Jiguang can be called such a hero.
It has nothing to do with anything else at this moment, it's just that Qi Jiguang once led the Qi family army, which was mainly composed of people from Jinhua Mansion, to sweep through the Japanese and break through the northern captives, because what people are eager for is to appear such a hero to lead them out of the miserable situation here!
And the appearance of Chen Wen just met their needs. An unheard of general, the fledgling first battle was in Siming Mountain's "total annihilation" standard battalion and Shaoxing green battalion, and then it was even more troublesome in Xinchang County. If these are just rumors, then the scene that just happened in front of their eyes is enough to support these rumors. In addition, Chen Wen is good at using the Mandarin Duck Array, and he has the identity of "the son-in-law of the Penglai Qi family", isn't this what the hero sent by God should have, and it is also the trait that the local people desire?
Historically, Li Dingguo became a famous king twice, the world was shaken, and people from all over the country who resisted the Qing Dynasty rushed to contact each other, in order to be the forerunner of Li Dingguo......
Historically, Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan besieged Nanjing, and broke the Eight Banners of Jiangnan garrison in Zhenjiang......
And today, although Chen Wen only defeated a left-behind army of the standard battalion in Jinhua Town, it is a beginning full of hope in the hearts of these people in Li Zhai Town, who have been fantasizing for many years. Just like Qi Jiguang led them to extinguish the Japanese invaders, Chen Wen, the "son-in-law of the Qi family", will definitely be able to lead them to drive out the Manchus and recover the two capitals!
Chen Wen didn't know that his victory of more than 4,000 people on the scale of the two sides together would have such an exaggerated impact, but when he arrived at the military camp near the left side of Dongyang County, the regimental training soldiers who were placed in the camp all showed excitement, admiration, and excitement, and it was precisely the fear that should be shown at this moment that should not exist at all.
Chen Wen had heard about the rumor about the Qi family's son-in-law before, but at that time he only thought that it was just a joke from the imagination of some people in order to explain the mandarin duck array used by the Nantang camp. But only today did he realize that there were many people who believed this rumor.
Perhaps, a wave of advertising marketing can be carried out along this line. Perhaps, this military operation to recover Jinhua Province can reduce some casualties as a result. ”
That night, Chen Wen killed pigs and sheep to reward the whole army, and even the people and regimental training soldiers also got a full meal. At the same time, he once again made a cameo appearance as a storyteller, and told the soldiers of the battalion and those regimental trainers and people about Qi Jiguang's glorious deeds.
At noon the next day, after Chen Wen gave some dry food and asked them to bring their weapons with them for self-defense, he let go of all the captured regimental training soldiers. And those captured green battalion soldiers who drank the northwest wind all night, under Chen Wen's coercion and temptation, began to attack the city.