The day after Hong Chengchou gave the order, Liu Guangbi, who had led Jiangxi to raise the standard and besiege Yongfeng County for several days, issued an order to attack as the order arrived in front of the army. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Yongfeng County, since the withdrawal of the Ming army in Zhejiang last year, has been occupied by the Jiuxian Mountain Righteous Army as an ally. A year later, the Jiuxian Mountain Righteous Army, which originally had 9,000 people, also increased in strength with the acquisition of the county seat, and the original 2,000 Ding Zhuang and more than 1,000 soldiers have now expanded to more than 10,000 Ding Zhuang and 3,000 soldiers.

It's just that in front of the Qing army, which still has an overwhelming advantage in cavalry, their limited scouts can't even give the most basic warning. First, more than 1,000 cavalry rushed wildly, and then the army besieged the city, and the Yang Wen and Yang Wu brothers who were stranded in the city became turtles in the urn.

After the Qing army besieged the city, they did not rush to attack, but besieged it in a step-by-step manner, but released a large number of scouts in the area north of it.

To the north of Yongfeng County, across a large area of hills is the Ming army heavily garrisoned Yushan County, the distance between the two is only forty or fifty miles, with the marching speed of the Ming army in Zhejiang, to maintain vigilance and march, one or two days of time is completely enough.

Liu Guangbi did not rush to attack the city after he arrived, and his intention was self-evident. But after waiting for several days, the Ming army in Yushan County did not cross Jinshaxi and came to relieve the siege of Yongfeng County. But if they didn't know about this, it was not, because according to the report of Tanma, the Ming army in Yushan County began to rapidly shrink the defensive line and called on the people to withdraw to the territory of Changshan County. And they stepped up all the time to strengthen the city defenses.

Thinking about whether the information had been leaked, Liu Guangbi finally waited for the order on the third day of the fifth lunar month. The task of luring the enemy was canceled, and the Jiuxian Mountain rebels of the Yang Wen and Yang Wu brothers were first eliminated to ensure that the rear grain route would not be threatened, and then they could rush to join the main force.

Yongfeng county was founded in the Jiajing period, there are eight city gates at this time, but this county seat from the ancient city of Enjiang, the area is not very large, an Enjiang River passes through the city, it is more narrow.

As soon as the order to siege the city was issued, Jiangxi launched a general offensive that covered the mountains and seas. Because the old camp of the Jiuxian Mountain Righteous Army is on the Jiuxian Mountain, the reinforcement of the Yongfeng County city wall is general, but Yang Wu is stationed with part of the righteous army on weekdays, and just a few days ago he went down the mountain to inspect, and as a result, he was surrounded in the city.

This time the Qing army attacked the city, although Jiangxi had been hit the battlefield in Zhejiang, but this year's expansion, the small group of rebels in the west and the people who formed the village to protect themselves, most of the soldiers also saw blood, and the training of the Spanish phalanx has further improved its combat ability. Therefore, when the battle was fought together, the rebels who were just able to bully and bully the landlord's house on weekdays were attacked by the Qing army before they could even finish a drum.

The next battle can be said to be without suspense, the Qing army of the brigade entered the city, and quickly extinguished the resistance of the rebels, and even the heads of Yang Wen and Yang Wu brothers were sent to Liu Guangbi not long after.

"See clearly, this is the thief leader Yang Wen and Yang Wu brothers?"

One of the soldiers, holding a head with a bundle of hair in one hand, strode up to the gentry and raised his hands forward, so frightened that they couldn't help but take a few steps back, not knowing whether they were afraid that the blood that was still dripping would splash on their bodies, or whether the two pairs of dead eyes would rob them of their souls.

The brothers of the Yang family were originally from poor backgrounds, and it was precisely because they could not stand the double exploitation of Manchu officials and gentry that they went to Jiuxian Mountain. Before last year's war, they also had many actions to attack the landlord class gentry, and later took over Yongfeng County from the hands of the Ming army, and with the further improvement of their strength, they naturally intensified.

Yongfeng County is in a gray area of the confrontation between the Ming army in Zhejiang and the Qing army in Jiangxi, and the enthusiasm of the Jiangxi people to resist the Qing is not low, but it is impossible for the Ming army to offend their allies for a few gentry, not to mention that the Ming army in Zhejiang is not very friendly to the gentry class, they naturally do not hesitate to pin their hopes on the Qing army.

In the Jiuxian Mountain Righteous Army, the Yang family brothers are each other's inside, one is in the old camp and the other is in the county seat on weekdays, and only when Yang Wen goes down the mountain to inspect, they will get together. And Yang Wen's whereabouts were also sent to the Qing army by a few of their gentry who had been bullied on weekdays.

looked at the two heads tremblingly, the two heads were all wide-eyed, and they thought that they had fought unyieldingly before they died. I don't know how many mouthfuls of saliva I swallowed, and the gentry headed by me looked at everyone for a while, before he came to Liu Guangbi and bowed.

"Tell Liu Shuai, it is the two thieves of the Yang family."

With that, the gentry waved his hand, and several domestic servant-like figures carried two boxes of gold, silver and jewelry to Liu Guangbi.

"It is the duty of the official army to beg for thieves, but a famous general like Liu Shuai personally went out, and I really didn't want to go. It's a small meaning, not a tribute, and I hope Liu Shuai will smile. ”

The words were full of flowers, but Liu Guangbi did not accept the compliments here, and was even more dissatisfied with the intentions of the two big boxes, but he replied coldly, and a group of soldiers rushed up and escorted these stunned gentry.

"Keep your head without hair, keep your hair without your head, I don't understand this truth, and the books are all read in the dog's belly."

A mouthful of spit on the ground, Liu Guangbi said to the herald beside him: "Tell the front camp and the rear camp to be clean, and don't leave a living thing in the city." Especially these few companies, they must be cut to the roots, so as not to jump out of some chicken and dog bits and pieces in the future to block Ben Shuai. ”

The fat difference of the slaughter of the city was handed over to the front and rear battalions responsible for the siege, and the generals of the other three battalions were a little dissatisfied, but they did not dare to pick it out. However, this little bit of thought has not escaped Liu Guangbi's eyes, and it can even be said that this is the result he wants.

"Yongfeng County was handed over to the second battalion before and after, which was their reward for capturing the city. Hong Lao Jing said slightly, Zhejiang is rich, far better than Jiangxi, the traitor Chen Wen entrenched in the eight mansions of eastern Zhejiang, to be defeated, always slaughter some cities for deterrence. When the time comes, whether it is soup or meat will be distributed, it depends on the merits of the next battle. ”

Although the year before and last year were defeated by the Zhejiang Ming army, in the past six months, through the practice of Western tactics, the combat effectiveness of the command has been greatly improved. He also confronted the spear array and mandarin duck array of the Ming army many times, and his confidence was restored. According to the intelligence, the overall strength of the Ming army was inferior to theirs, and they had to divide some parts to defend various places, so as to fight more and fight less, and the chances of victory would naturally multiply.

"The last general and others will never dare to live up to the high expectations of the old man and the marshal."

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"The concubine sends her husband on the expedition, and I wish her husband a victory and success."

Last night, the information that Chen Wen received was the military information sent by Li Ruixin about the Qing army's attack on Yongfeng County.

Due to the northward march into Ningshao last month, the number of Ming troops on the Yushan front line has declined, and now there are only three battalions and half a cavalry battalion, and even if the local garrison is added, the strength is only more than 7,000 people. In the face of the military pressure of Guangxin Mansion, it was already stretched, and Li Ruixin, who smelled out that the smell was wrong, simply did not think about going to the rescue, and directly ordered to shrink the defense line and strengthen the city defense.

Chen Wen knew very well that the Jiuxian Mountain Righteous Army, this friendly army was just a group of outliers in the eyes of the Zhejiang Ming Army Group, especially Zhang Zisheng's group, and he felt that their refusal to belong to Chen Wen's command was to see them Jiangxi warriors.

Although the Jiuxianshan Righteous Army and the Zhejiang Ming Army were not friendly to the gentry, their fundamental interests were different, one was to kill the rich and help the poor, and the other was the landlord class armed, but it was the emerging military merit landlord class in the early days and the Confucian gentry class to compete for control of the land, the means of production, which can be described as a world of difference.

The existence of differences, the rescue will naturally not be so attentive, especially the current situation, Dasu was defeated in Siming Mountain, the Manchu Qing lost the territory of the two prefectures, but Hong Chengchou only sent Jiangxi to raise the standard to move Yongfeng, such a county, and a rebel army entrenched there, its intentions, Chen Wen almost saw at a glance.

Overnight, he convened a meeting of the civil and military officials in Jinhua Mansion City, and the next day, while the military officials under his command were trying their best to prepare, Chen Wen and the Xiuguo Mansion guards were also about to embark on the ship to Quzhou.

At the gate of the Xiuguo Mansion, Zhou Yueying lowered her eyebrows and said these words that a general's wife should say, and the affection of the money was wrapped in the conventional clichés, but the concern in her eyes dripped into Chen Wen's heart like substance.

"Take care of yourself and the baby in your womb."

Nodding to Zhou Yueying, Chen Wen turned over and got on the horse. The cavalry followed him and rushed to the Wujiang Wharf in the south of the city, leaving only the woman still looking at Chen Wenyuan's back.

Long.

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First down the Dongyang River, and then up the Qujiang River, Chen Wen soon rushed to the capital of Quzhou.

After the last year of Ma Xin and Hu Lai's pilgrimage, the threat of the Qing army mainly existed in Guangxin Mansion in Jiangxi Province and Hangzhou Mansion in Zhejiang Province, while Ningshao was almost an intermediate area without danger to defend. Therefore, Chen Wen gathered a large army on the western front to prepare for Hong Chengchou, among which Yushan County had four battalions of Guard, Yiwu, Yushan and Tiecai, and Quzhou, which served as a backing and took into account the direction of Fujian, and there was the Shentang Battalion that was previously stationed in Yushan County.

After the recovery of Ningshao, the pressure on the northern front suddenly disappeared, but it was necessary to assist in the defense of the newly occupied areas that were not very stable, and to maintain military pressure on Hangzhou, it was impossible for Chen Wen to transfer all the war battalions back. However, the three battalion leaders of Nantang, Feixiong, and Chun'an, who participated in the reconquest of Ningshao, and the Lishui battalion, which originally took care of the defense of Chuzhou and Wenzhou, were freed up. In addition, with the half of the iron cavalry battalion that participated in the battle and the extra 2,000 infantry after adjusting the number of garrisons, 20,000 troops could finally be put together.

It's just that Chen Wen originally planned to fight a decisive battle with Hong Chengchou after the autumn, and then the general transition of the newly occupied area can be completed, and the newly trained soldiers can also be used as garrisons to supplement various places, and the vacated war barracks, as well as the planned new battalion heads, are enough for Chen Wen to have a strong force that is not inferior to the southeast economic and strategic standard battalion. In terms of weapons and equipment, it can also achieve a fly-like change.

However, the plan has obviously been unable to be carried out with Huang Zongxi's resurrection of Dalan Mountain's cry, which is no longer a matter of choice. In this case, it was necessary to assemble a large army as soon as possible to prevent being separated by the Qing army.

"How is the Shentang Camp preparing now?"

"If you go back to the commander, always be ready for battle."

"Very good, early tomorrow morning, we will leave for Changshan County."

"The last will obey."

"Where's Yeosu Camp?"

"The Lishui camp is also ready, just waiting for the commander's order."

"That is also tomorrow's departure, and the order of the march is subject to the arrangement of the General Staff."

"The last will obey."

The Flying Bear Battalion and the half of the Iron Cavalry Battalion had already crossed Longyou, while the Nantang Battalion and the Chun'an Battalion had arrived by boat, and the bureau from which the Nantang Battalion had set off first had already crossed Quzhou and was preparing to disembark along the Changshan River, because the wind direction was not very suitable for the troop carriers to continue their advance. As for the more than 2,000 infantry who set off at the end, they were still waiting to board the ship in Jinhua, and it was only a few days before they arrived in Changshan County.

The cavalry of the Qing army had an absolute advantage, and it was really dangerous to transport battalion by battalion to Yushan County, so Chen Wencai set the order for the follow-up army to assemble in Changshan County.

Li Ruixin was on the front line of Yushan, and now in Quzhou Prefecture, there are only two battalion officers, Wu Dengke and An Youfu, who issued military orders, but Chen Wen did not immediately let them return to the station to prepare, but had something to say to them.

"You must already know about Liu Cheng's defection."

Chen Wen's tone of voice was not inquiring, and Wu Dengke and An Youfu did not show any doubts about this matter. People have been getting along with each other for a long time, and they can probably see how temperament they have, but Liu Cheng has always been very good to his boss and subordinates, so the two of them would speak for him before.

has a very good personal relationship, and he was really desperate when Jinhua defended the war, but his heart to chase power has never changed, so there was this betrayal.

"When that guy goes to the Tartars, he will inevitably betray some of the inside information of our army. After that, you are not friends or enemies, both of you are my Chen Wen's henchmen, if you can't bear to fight against your old friends, I can let you be in charge of other fronts during the war. ”

Chen Wen is really sincere in asking this question, these two generals have grown up under Chen Wen's watch, and his temperament and temperament are all deeply known to him. This question is actually not a temptation, but more to give them a chance to show their attitude on Liu Cheng's defection. And their answers did not live up to Chen Wen's trust in them.

"The last general said in the small courtyard of Governor Sun's house that he would swear to follow the commander to the death, and there would be no second words. Now that guy has betrayed Dashuai and betrayed our Zhejiang Wangshi group, then he is our mortal enemy, and the general will never be merciful. ”

Wu Dengke seemed to be much more relaxed when he said this, while An Youfu obviously suppressed more intense emotions, and only waited for this loud oath to be cathartic.

"The traitor Liu Cheng dares to betray my Zhejiang Wang Shi, and the last general An Youfu will kill this wingman to comfort the souls of his comrades who have died on the battlefield over the years!"

In other words, Wu Dengke would have jumped out to kill this traitor alive, but he has been studying for many years, cultivating his qi for a long time, and his temper is far less violent than back then, but Chen Wen can still see his determination.

In contrast, An Youfu obviously hated this person very much, and gritted his teeth and wanted his life.

Behind the successive victories of the Ming army in Zhejiang over the years, although the casualties have been greatly reduced due to the victory, they still paid an unknown amount of lives. So far, only about 300 people are alive who came down from Dalan Mountain, and some of them have been injured and retired from active service.

Step by step, we have walked through the cracks to today, and we have paid so much to have the current good situation. Probably as he implied, Liu Cheng betrayed this group, not only betraying his living comrades, but also betraying those martyrs who died in battle. Avenge the living and avenge the dead, the oath of the year has long been melted in blood, and naturally there is no room for the existence of such traitors, even if they have had excellent personal relations with each other.

After the military salute, the two returned to their respective camps to make final preparations for tomorrow's departure. It's a pity that this night, Hong Chengchou was obviously not ready to let Chen Wen sleep peacefully, and before he even touched the bedside, there was an urgent report from the front line that the Qing army had crossed Yulang River and arrived at the city of Yushan County. (To be continued.) )