While the Qing army in Zhejiang concentrated almost all of its mobile forces to besiege Zhoushan, Zheng Chenggong of Fujian led his troops into Zhangzhou, which was located west of Xiamen.

On May 25, the fifth year of Yongli, Zheng Chenggong led the army into the magnetic stove in Haicheng County, Zhangzhou Prefecture, and on the second day, Wang Bangjun, the general soldier of the Qing army in Zhangzhou, led a thousand cavalry and two thousand infantry to arrive near the magnetic stove and confronted the Ming army. Zheng Chenggong expected that the Qing army would inevitably be arrogant and underestimate the enemy, so he decided to ambush the Qing army at Cizao.

The Qing army did not suspect fraud, and the whole division attacked the Cizao Society and surrounded Zheng Chenggong. Although the Qing army struggled to break through with the advantage of cavalry, Zheng Chenggong also took out the killer weapon he had already prepared - rattan armor soldiers.

The rattan armor soldiers in Zheng Chenggong's army were in groups of three, one holding a rattan card to cover, one cutting horses, and one cutting people. Under the fierce attack of the Ming army, the Qing army was defeated, Wang Bangjun led the defeated army to flee, and the Ming army won the battle of the magnetic stove.

In the fifth year of Yongli, Zheng Chenggong defeated the pirate Chen Chun who had defected to the Qing army in July after the great victory of the magnetic stove, and in September he marched to Zhangzhou. In the face of Zheng Chenggong's troops, the Fujian Qing army sent Chen Shangzhi, an adjutant general, to lead the army to aid Zhangzhou, and joined Wang Bangjun's troops to confront the Ming army in the Qianshan area.

On September 25, the Qing army took the lead in launching an attack, and the Ming army annihilated the Qing army's advance in one fell swoop with Wang Xiuqi of Rongqi Town, Lin Sheng and Su Mao of Zuozhen, and then Qinding Town, Qianchong Town, and Youzhen were killed. The Qing army was strewn with corpses, and Wang Bangjun and Chen Shangzhi fled in embarrassment and fled back to Zhangzhou City, which was a great victory for Qianshan......

In November of the fifth year of Yongli, with Zheng Chenggong's successive victories in Zhangzhou, the Fujian Qing army was forced to send Fujian Governor Yang Minggao to lead thousands of cavalry and infantry south to reinforce the Zhangzhou Qing army. Since the Qing army came south to Zhangzhou, it must pass through Quanzhou, so Zheng Chenggong prepared to intercept the Qing army at the boundary of Quanzhou.

Zheng Chenggong led his troops across the strait and camped in the area of Xiaoyingling. Yang Minggao ordered the Qing army to attack Xiaoyingling in three ways, and at the same time sent a Qing army to return to the rear of the Zheng army from Hongjian Mountain, in an attempt to encircle the Ming army.

Zheng Chenggong personally commanded the Ming army to kill the enemy bravely, the Qing army was invincible and defeated, and Yang Minggao fled on horseback. The Qing army responsible for outflanking the road went smoothly at the beginning, and the Ming army was invincible in Chong Town and the guerrilla battalion, and Lai Qi Bingzhen fought hard and barely stabilized the front. Later, Gan Hui led Qinding Town to arrive and fought hard with the towns, and the Qing army was defeated on all fronts. The Ming army joined forces in one place, pursued to Macuo Lane and returned, known as the great victory of Xiaoyingling in history.

And when Zheng Chenggong was fighting a series of battles on the battlefield in Fujian, in the mountains of Dongyang County, Jinhua Prefecture, a team of six or seven hundred people composed of all strong men was marching in the middle of it. Led by the leader of the walking group, these men sang in a southern and northern accent.

We're all marksmen,

Kill an enemy with every bullet,

We're all flying troops,

Even if the mountains are high and the water is deep.

In that thick woods,

Everywhere there are camps for comrades,

On that high hill,

There are countless of our good brothers.

No food, no clothing,

His own enemy sent forward,

No guns, no cannons,

The enemy made it for us.

We grew up here,

Every inch of land is our own,

Whoever wants to take it by force,

We'll fight him to the end.

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The leader of this team is Chen Wen, and at this moment, he is leading the advance troops under his command to sing the famous anti-Japanese song "Song of the Guerrillas". Of course, as a shameless copyist, Chen Wen took out this song at the same time, and also changed his name to "The Song of the King of Dalan Mountain", which can be regarded as a kind of remembrance of those robes who died in battle.

This "Song of the Guerrillas" has a brisk rhythm and is full of revolutionary optimism, and it is very appropriate for the Ming Dynasty to be in the current situation of danger, but the officials and soldiers of the Ming Army of Dalanshan are still working hard to restore Kyushu.

Even the word comrade, which was once considered by Chen Wen to be not very suitable for the times, was also praised by Wang Jiang and Sun Yu and others, after all, the word comrade is still the meaning of like-minded people at the moment, which is very in line with the spirit of the Dalanshan Ming Army, especially the common ambition of Wang Jiang and Wang Yi when they raised the army.

After Chen Wen took out this revolutionary song, which was popular in later generations, not only the soldiers of the Nantang battalion liked it, but even the officials of the old battalion would sing a few words when they had nothing to do, and only Wang Jiang was inconvenient to speak out in front of the officials under his command because of his status as governor. It's just that Chen Wen knows very well that in private, Wang Jiang actually likes this song very much, and occasionally hums a couple of sentences after work.

After setting off from the temporary old battalion on Tiantai Mountain, Chen Wen would lead the advance army to sing this song every day, and from the current point of view, the effect was unexpectedly good.

Chen Wen clearly remembered that on the way to retreat from Dalanshan to Xinchang last year, the Ming army's daily marching speed was only about ten miles under the condition of covering the retreat of the people.

In addition to the first round of the Nantang battalion, the cavalry, firearms, engineers, artillery, and military medical teams of the Chinese army were all partially accompanied, and Wang Jiang also sent some officials of the old battalion to prepare under the control of Sun Yu to rule Dongyang County after capturing it.

Although the actual number is less than 700, there are by no means a small number of military supplies. However, even so, from the Tiantai Mountain to the present, it has always marched on the mountain road, and the marching speed of this advance force has always been maintained at about twenty-five miles, and if it is marching on the plain terrain, the marching speed should be even faster.

Recalling the theory that he had seen on the Internet in later generations that the speed of human marching was directly determined by the will to fight, Chen Wen secretly sighed that "modern people do not deceive me."

The Nantang battalion had won two battles and two victories in the south of Siming Mountain, and this march was aimed at recovering the lost territory, and the morale was already very high. Along the way, Chen Wen always led by example and insisted on walking with the soldiers, and under the atmosphere woven by this song full of revolutionary optimism, this advance army has reached a height in morale that is almost impossible for the army of this era. And all this also infected those old battalion officials who were traveling with them, making the march extremely fast.

The purpose of this expedition was to recover Jinhua Mansion and use it as a base to continue to negotiate with the Qing army.

There is a way that the golden horn and silver edge are rotten belly, the game of Go is like this, the location of the shop is like this, and the same is true of the place where the emperor is guarded. If you look at it in this way, Jinhua Mansion is by no means a suitable base, didn't Xu Du and Yin Can not gain a foothold in Jinhua not long ago?

Moreover, in a secret conversation before the siege of Tiantai County, Yu Guowang also expressed his opposition to this plan. Although the reason for his opposition was based on containing the Qing army on the southern front, assisting it in recovering the lost territory after the defeat of the Qing army in Zhoushan, and if Zhoushan was lost, with Chen Wen and him cooperating, it should be enough to open up a new base for Lu Jianguo in Taizhou. And once Chen Wen sends troops to Jinhua, then Zhoushan will be powerless whether it wins or loses.

It's just that, on the one hand, Chen Wen didn't feel that the task of the Spanish phalanx he taught Yu Guowang to contain the thousands of Qing troops on the southern front was not very problematic, and on the other hand, because of his previous encounters in Siming Mountain, he had a great sense of distrust about the various units of the Ming army in Tiantai Mountain, and the problem of needing to cooperate with the Ming army in Zhoushan after changing territory with the Qing army.

So, Chen Wen quarreled with Yu Guowang for a day and a night on that occasion. And Wang Jiang, who was originally pinned on by Yu Guowang, showed a state of trust in Chen Wen's strategic vision, and forced Yu Guowang to give up his plan to continue persuading Chen Wen, and the plan to besiege Tiantai County that had been formulated before was implemented according to the original plan.

The reason why Chen Wen chose Jinhua is not only the positioning of the army under his command, but also the impact he saw on Zhejiang's defense during the months of the siege of Zhoushan through the fog of history.

In order to besiege Zhoushan, the Qing army transferred the Hangzhou Garrison Eight Banners and the Admiral Standard Battalion, which were originally stationed in Hangzhou, to Dinghai to Zhoushan, and transferred the Governor Standard Battalion to assist in the defense of Ningbo, so as to prevent the Ming army from attacking Ningbo and cutting off the back road of the Qing army; At the same time, Biaoying, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, who was originally stationed in Quzhou Prefecture, was also ordered to go to Dinghai; In addition, after Jinhua General Ma Jinbao was appointed as the president of the southern front, the standard battalion of Jinhua Town and the green battalions of Chuzhou, Quzhou, and Yanzhou were also transferred to Taizhou. As a result, in the whole of Zhejiang, the Qing army no longer has any troops that can be used to maneuver.

And there is actually a bigger problem here, that is, in Zhejiang at this moment, the Qing army's troops in Hangzhou, Jinhua and Quzhou are seriously insufficient, and even to the point of being overstretched to defend the imperial capital and county.

Suppose, if a powerful Ming army suddenly enters, the Qing army in these three prefectures will not be able to deal with it at all. So, for Chen Wen, the rest is a multiple-choice question.

If you talk about influence, you should naturally choose to attack Hangzhou. Hangzhou is the provincial capital of Zhejiang, and its influence is also the largest, and its wealth is also one of the best in Zhejiang, and the recovery of this place has a crucial impact on the overall situation of Zhejiang's resistance to the Qing Dynasty, and with the wealth here, it should not be a problem to feed an army of nearly 10,000 people.

But things are two-sided, there must be advantages and disadvantages, Hangzhou's influence is outstanding, and the economy is developed, plus this is the Hangzhou garrison of the Eight Banners, the Admiral Standard Camp and the Governor Standard Camp, and his family members are here. If Chen Wen attacked here, he would inevitably be attacked by the frenzied counterattack of the Qing army, which he could not bear at all with only more than a thousand people.

If you retreat to the next best thing, it is Quzhou. Quzhou is located at the intersection of Nanzhili, Jiangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang, and is worthy of its name, and its wealth is only ranked after Hujiahang. Moreover, this place is the residence of the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, and the impact of capturing here is not small.

But Quzhou is a thoroughfare, and it must be common for it to be besieged by the Qing army in several provinces, and another part of the main force of the Qing army in the southeast is now encircling and suppressing the anti-Qing forces called the four great gangs in Jiangxi by the Manchus. Whether it is to attract the Qing army or the Jiangxi righteous army, it is not a good thing for Chen Wen.

Of course, the most important point is that the area he is in is Tiantai Mountain in Taizhou Prefecture, and to go to Hangzhou is to pass through the entire Shaoxing Mansion, and the nearest route to Quzhou is to pass through Jinhua, and this cannot guarantee the suddenness of the attack, so the answer is only the last one.

Jinhua, known as Wuzhou in ancient times. However, in the Ming Dynasty, this place was synonymous with the fierce folk customs, but in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, with the performance of Qi Jiguang's Qi army in Jiajing's anti-Japanese war with the miners of Yiwu and Dongyang counties of Jinhua Mansion as the main force, this place was also recognized as a place for good soldiers. After that, the Ming court repeatedly recruited troops here to deal with internal and external troubles, and even to the extent that the population of the entire Jiangnan surged, and the number of people here dropped sharply.

The Nantang battalion under Chen Wen was originally organized and trained in the name of rebuilding the Qi family army, and the long-term brainwashing made every member of this army firmly believe that they were part of the new generation of Qi family army in terms of psychological positioning. And to this day, they have performed well enough to do so.

Then, a rebuilt Qi family army returning to the place where the old Qi family army was formed decades ago is also an effective reinforcement in the psychological positioning of the soldiers.

Moreover, this place is also the place where Wang Yi planned to recover it in his heart, and even formulated a plan to besiege Xinchang, Shengxian, and even Jinhua for this purpose. As a subordinate general trained by Wang Yi, Chen Wen felt that it was only a matter of duty to complete the will for this Shangguan who would never choose to surrender.

In addition to these spiritual reasons, although Jinhua is far inferior to Hangzhou and Quzhou in terms of business, it is located in the Jinqu Basin, and there are many fields. Coupled with the massacre of this place when the Qing army went south, the chaos of Yin Can's anti-Qing Dynasty, and the hard work of Ma Jinbao, a famous professional player in scraping land in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, there is a lot of abandoned land, which is used to repay the pensions of the fallen soldiers, as well as to support the new system implemented in preparation, as well as the expansion of the army, I think it should be enough.

As for the return of the Qing army and the fact that he was in the place of the four wars, Chen Wen felt that he could only be a soldier to cover up the water, and the current Zhejiang really couldn't find a better place to use as a base, so it could only be so.

At this moment, it is August 19 of the fifth year of Yongli, and after the Mid-Autumn Festival hastily passed on the road, Chen Wen continued on the road, and now he has arrived at Wangtanling in Dongyang County, and tomorrow he can reach the destination of this trip - Hengdian Town.