Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Mystery
The Ming army had already captured the city, but the sound of artillery in the city did not stop. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 After a while, the Ming troops who had destroyed the gate of the county government and the façade of the front swarmed in, but all those wearing the gray and blue uniforms of the green camp were killed. Later, the Ming army, which had risen up, did not even let go of some panicked servants and servants.
After the battle, the corpse of the county government was carried out by the Ming army's auxiliaries. There are probably less than 200 people wearing the uniforms of the green battalion before and after, which happens to be a garrison, and I think they are already here except for Wang Sheng and the personal soldiers he took away before.
The officers sorted out the defenses and continued to probe the surroundings, the quartermaster inspected the seizures and storage, the military judge and the pacifiers went around with the pacifiers to make rounds and interrogate the prisoners, and the supervising officers went to count the military merits and comfort the wounded. Everything was going on in an orderly manner, but Chen Wen was idle.
It's just that Chen Wen has been doing his best to do everything well, so that he has developed the problem of not being idle. It is better to patrol the city defenses, to comfort the wounded, or even to just walk around the city than to have nothing to do in the city where the smoke of gunfire is still exhausted and the air still smells of blood.
At night, Zhang Guoxun, who had already escaped from the city, was also captured by the ambush soldiers arranged by Chen Wen in the mountains and forests outside the west city wall, but it seemed that it took a little effort.
When Zhang Guoxun appeared in Chen Wen's gaze, he was being held by Chen Wen's guard captain Chen Fugui, who was like a humanoid road roller, by the collar, one leg was obviously broken, and the whole person was curled up, as if a little chicken was carried by Chen Fugui in his hand.
After entering the big tent, Chen Fugui threw Zhang Guoxun to the ground, and the pain was so painful that he shrank into a ball on the ground, sweating profusely and gritting his teeth for a while before he could barely control it. It's just that the pain receded slightly, Zhang Guoxun hurriedly endured the pain and crawled towards Chen Wen a few times, and then kowtowed vigorously, but the words begging for mercy were not uttered.
The deputy general of the Supervisory Battalion, Chen Jin's cronies, there is no need for Chen Wenwen to keep him. Coincidentally, not long before Chen Fugui returned, the overall reports of various departments on this battle were sent to Chen Wen's case, and he had some use.
In terms of city defense, the city walls on the north and south sides are somewhat damaged, the pheasant moat has been broken a lot, and the army has camped in the city and the original camp outside the city to rest; There is a lot of storage in the warehouse, which is said to be because the Qing army intercepted the autumn tax in Jiangshan County last year, plus the guards such as artillery, crossbows, and arrows allocated by the Qing court, which made Chen Wen make a small fortune; The statistics of military exploits continued, and the mood of the soldiers and wounded was relatively stable, and there was even some post-war euphoria, but it was not a big deal.
Now that Zhang Guoxun has also been arrested, Chen Wen just has some questions to ask him, and he must always clarify the questions in his mind.
"About this battle, Ben Shuai has some questions, I wonder if Vice General Zhang can answer one or two questions for me?"
As soon as he heard that Chen Wen had something to ask, Zhang Guoxun hurriedly said that he would definitely know everything and say everything, and he would never dare to hide anything.
Chen Wen knew very well that Zhang Guoxu's move was nothing more than seeing the hope of survival, since this was the case, he opened his mouth and said: "Ben Shuai saw in the document between you and Ma Guozhu that last year Ben Shuai attacked this place, and the traitors Yang Jie and Wang Zhigang led their troops to help defend it, is this matter Hong Chengchou's plan or Ma Guozhu's handiwork?" ”
Chen Wen had already identified this question as Hong Chengchou's doing, but now that there is a figure like Zhang Guoxun who is likely to know the inside story, he naturally still has to ask it.
Hearing Chen Wen's question, Zhang Guoxun hurriedly said: "Back to the Hou Ye, this matter was originally an order issued by Ma Guozhu, and the villain took the order to copy the door to resist the king here, and I hope that the Hou Ye will forgive the sin." "begged for mercy, Zhang Guoxun didn't dare to say more, he has been in the officialdom for many years, and he knows very well what he is of use to Chen Wen now, and wasting time on other issues can only be considered long-lived." Later, Hong Chengchou's old thief once asked the general to go to Nanchang once, and only after arriving there did he know that this order was given by his people in the name of Ma Guozhu. ”
Sure enough, Chen Wen had already thought of this, but when he really heard that it was indeed the case, he still felt shuddered.
"Then Deputy General Zhang, the Taizhou Green Camp and the Wenzhou Green Camp Assistant Defense Office, Qingtian County, the state capital, and the relocation of Jingnan Wang Geng Jimao to the town are also Hong Chengchou's handiwork?"
"Master Hou saw thousands of miles, it was the dog thief who did it."
When it comes to Hong Chengchou, Zhang Guoxun is an old thief with his mouth open, and he is still qualified in his attitude. After understanding those things, Chen Wen asked Zhang Guoxun again about the details of the battle of Tong'an, but this military general was not very clear about this, only knew that Geng Jimao claimed to have achieved a great victory in Tong'an, defeated the Ming army in Fujian, and took advantage of the situation to capture Tong'an County. As for the aftermath, I don't think I heard of another war over there.
Geng Jimao's move to the town Chen Wen had gotten the news not long ago, but the actual situation is not clear, although Zhang Guoxun doesn't know much at the moment, but from these words Chen Wen can still analyze something - the battle of Tong'an, the Qing army may have taken some advantage, otherwise the Ming army will not give up the city as the gateway to Zhangzhou, but the advantage is not much, and it is likely to be a lose-lose, otherwise it will not just take Tong'an and there will be no more inches.
After getting this answer, Chen Wen can be said to be both happy and worried, happy that Zheng Chenggong did not lose his troops like the Battle of Fengchao Mountain in history, and lost the ability to contain the Qing army in Fujian; What he was worried about was that although Zheng Chenggong kept Zhangzhou, it was difficult to do anything for a while.
Thinking of this, Chen Wen casually picked up a copy of the text, asked the soldiers to hand it to Zhang Guoxun, and then asked: "I already know that Wang Sheng is in prison, can Vice General Zhang tell Ben Shuai what this reprimand is all about?" ”
Zhang Guoxun had read that text many times, familiar notes, familiar words, he naturally knew what this was talking about, and then he talked to Chen Wen about Chen Jin's order to imitate the Ming army, and after the war, Jin Li wrote to the Qing court to ask all departments of the Zhejiang Green Battalion to change the training of the Mandarin Duck Formation and was severely punished. In his words, he is also a victim of these things, so he is naturally very clear, and according to what he said, not only Wang Sheng of the Supervising Battalion, Wang Sheng's familiarity, and Xu Lei, the garrison of the Raising Battalion, have long begun to imitate the establishment of the Ming Army, but he is not as famous as Wang Sheng.
Xu Lei, this name has disappeared in front of Chen Wen's eyes for several years, but he didn't expect that Li Ruixin's brother-in-law still has such a hand. However, if you think about Li Rong, the deputy general of the left battalion who was promoted to the standard, there seems to be nothing abnormal about all this.
It's just that once he thought that Jin Li's book to change the Mandarin Duck Formation was robbed, deprived, and imprisoned by the Manchus, Chen Wen laughed instead.
Historically, the Manchu royal family was not reluctant to learn from the West, they had a general preference for Western learning, Shunzhi, Kangxi, and Qianlong all had many records of exchanging Western learning with Western missionaries, and Daoguang won Jiaqing's appreciation because he shot two Tianli disciples with muskets instead of the ancestral cavalry in the Tianli uprising, and thus won the throne.
However, the Manchu royal family's preference for Western learning was limited to their own individuals, and they never dared to make public these good things that they knew well could benefit the country, so that the country and the people could benefit from it.
During the Qing Dynasty, the Manchus tried their best to suppress the power of the Han people, instigated ethnic hatred, and wantonly fooled the people and destroyed the achievements of Chinese civilization by means of shaving their hair and changing clothes, writing prisons, distorting history, and revising the "Siku Quanshu".
Because of this, they did not dare to take out these Western things at all, lest the Han people know about them, and the cavalry and archery they rely on to boast about will be compared, thus threatening their position as colonial rulers and slave owners.
Mandarin Duck Array, which once left a profound impact on some of the Manchu Qing Dynasty on the battlefield in Liaodong, has threatened the Manchu Qing Dynasty like foreign guns and cannons in later generations, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty's reaction was not to destroy the Ming army as it was in history, but to impatiently suppress the new thinking of the green battalion.
It's just that Chen Wen found that he still seemed to underestimate Hong Chengchou...... (To be continued.) )