When he returned to Fucheng, Cao Conglong sent someone to deliver the chapter according to the agreement with Chen Wen yesterday, but at the same time, he also asked the cronies sent to bring a private letter to Shen Chenquan, a cabinet scholar, so as to make the necessary preparations for the capture of Taizhou by Jinhua's Ming army.

After sending off the envoys, Cao Conglong, in the name of the governor of Zhejiang, ordered to inspect the counties, and asked the counties to send personnel to inform the gentry and people involved in the dispute to be calm and not to be impatient, and to consult with Chen Wen after he had ascertained all the matters, while those gentry and ordinary people who continued to make trouble were punished for interfering with the administration and were directly imprisoned.

However, according to Cao Conglong's itinerary, starting from Jinhua Mansion City, passing through Lanxi, Tangxi, Wuyi, Yongkang, Jinyun, and then going north to Dongyang, Yiwu, Pujiang, and returning to Jinhua Mansion City. After going all the way to the eight counties of Jinhua Prefecture and Jinyun County, the capital of the prefecture, in the area controlled by the Ming army, it would take a month or two to carry out relevant investigations and visits.

Using this time, Chen Wen can continue to complete the follow-up training tasks of the three combat battalions and the completion of weapons and equipment. In addition, not only can the fortifications of Anhua Town be completely completed, but the outlying fortifications and the camp located behind it can be further strengthened so that they can continue to hold out in the event of an unforeseen situation.

When Cao Conglong returned, Chen Wen sent troops to Quzhou in a big way, and the rear increased management efforts in the name of using soldiers, and anyone who dared to make trouble was dealt with by fornicating with the Manchu Dynasty, and it was best to catch a few typical examples, such as the Feng family in Hengdian Town, didn't his family have a son-in-law with a Manchu reputation, that was an excellent choice. In the future, agriculture has extremely strict requirements for seasons and climate. At that time, it is estimated that there will be no need for anything, and the gentry and the common people will have to be forced to obey the decree as long as they do not want to continue to suffer losses.

Chen Wen knew very well why Cao Conglong was willing to cooperate with him. The reason for this was nothing more than that he agreed to use troops against Taizhou after taking Quzhou and removing the actual threat of the Qing army on the southern front, and then take Lu Jianguo ashore. Cao Conglong came here for this reason, and he naturally didn't want to let go easily when he had the opportunity to complete the task.

It's a pity that when Chen Wen completely takes Quzhou, it is estimated that the news of Lu Jianguo's self-detention of the country should also be transmitted at that time, and the matter of Taizhou will naturally be stopped. And he could start to increase the development of the Qing army for several months when Li Dingguo forced Kong Youde to kill Kong Youde and the Qing army began to develop vigorously in the southwest battlefield. Relying on the summer and autumn taxes, another batch of soldiers was trained. Finally, at the end of the year, cross the Qiantang River and fight a decisive battle with the Eight Banners garrisoned in Hangzhou, or draw the Qiantang River to confront the Qing army while integrating eastern Zhejiang, waiting for next year.

And so it goes. The situation in the entire southeast battlefield will be completely turned upside down, even if Li Dingguo is squeezed out of Guangdong by Sun Kewang as in history, as long as he develops for another year or two, he can also wave his army to attack Nanjing alone!

Based on an understanding of the general trend of history and the essence of the deterioration of the combat effectiveness of the Manchu Eighth Banner Army. and his confidence in the Zhejiang Ming Army, which began to embark on the road of modernization. Chen Wen is very optimistic about the future of this plan.

However, in the past two years, it seems that every time his plan can't catch up with the changes, it still makes him inexplicably have a trace of hidden worry.

Fortunately, Chen Wen and Zheng Chenggong have the same idea on this point - as long as their own strength is strong enough, they can cope with any change, otherwise even if there is no change in the situation, they will inevitably be powerless. Just like when he was in Siming Mountain, if he had an army of 2,000 old Nantang battalions in his hands, he would not need the assistance of other Ming troops at all. With the former five battalions of the Ming Army in Dalanshan, you can take advantage of the advantages of the inner line to directly pounce on the battalion and the Eight Banners of the Hangzhou garrison, so why not be excluded before the war. Ultimately led to a fiasco.

Thinking of this, Chen Wen decided to increase the training intensity of the combat battalion again within the scope that his soldiers could bear, so as to improve the combat ability of the soldiers and increase the possibility of victory in the subsequent battles, even if it was only a small amount.

Now that you have thought of it, you should start doing it as soon as possible. A few days later, just when Chen Wen estimated that the prices of agricultural and sideline products in the vicinity of Zuojin might begin to rise with the increase in the amount of food eaten by the Ming soldiers participating in the training, Zhang Jun, who was guarding the door, came to report that someone wanted to meet Chen Wen.

"So Chang Xingbo's generals? And classified military intelligence asking for an interview? ”

Chang Xingbo sounds a little familiar, but in Chen Wen's impression, it is always vague. In fact, there is no way, the phenomenon of Nanming's abuse of lords is too serious, let alone an earl, even if it is a duke or a marquis, he may not be able to remember everything. But no matter what, people still have to meet each other, and besides, there is also classified military information.

After sitting down in the big tent, Zhang Jun invited someone in. The person who came was a father and son, and if he looked closely, the father was about thirty or forty years old, with a weather-beaten face, but the skeleton was not small, and the body looked very strong; His son, on the other hand, was a teenager, quite similar to his father, but more delicate, probably inherited from his mother's line. Seeing that the two of them were courteous, Chen Wen said a word of invitation and asked in detail.

"Ben Shuai sees that your hair is not new, dare to ask where did you make a living before?"

The person who came was Yu Shizhong father and son who had previously joined the army from Taihu Lake, and the father and son transferred to the ferry of the Dachen River in Anhua Town, and did not get off the boat until Yiwu, and then walked to Yiwu County and then transferred to Jinhua Mansion directly from Dongyang River.

Seeing Chen Wen's question, Yu Shizhong understood the question implied in this remark, and then replied: "Back to Linhaibo, he was a general under Qi Shaobao in his ancestor, and later inherited Jinshan Wei Qianhu because of his anti-Japanese exploits. After the fall of the southern capital, he went down to Taihu Lake to join the old Changxingbo and managed the firearms battalion as a guerrilla. After Changxingbo was martyred, he continued to fight against the Tatars in Taihu Lake, and it was not until the end of last year that he learned that Wang Shi had recovered Jinhua and handed over his subordinates to his colleagues. ”

Yu Shizhong said in detail, Chen Wen quickly remembered that he had resisted the Qing Dynasty in Taihu Lake many years ago, defeated the Qing army, and once had a huge momentum of the "White Waist Party" to resist the Qing Righteous Army. And the late Chang Xingbo should be Wu Yi, the Chang Xingbo canonized by Lu Jianguo.

Wu Yi, the word Risheng, the number Shuoqing, a native of Wujiang, Suzhou Prefecture, Chongzhen 16 years of Jinshi. He was the head of the staff during the Hongguang Dynasty and supervised the army in the French army. The first year of Hongguang. Wu Yi was ordered to go south to raise grain and grass, but before Yangzhou fell, he raised Sun Zhaokui with his fellow people. Zhusheng, Shen Ziqi and others raised troops to resist the Qing Dynasty in the Taihu Lake "White Waist Party". To the martyrdom of the first year of the state of Lu in June, during which he captured Wujiang County three times, and this person had a general who later re-cavalry in Taihu Lake under the background of Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan entering the Yangtze River, but he couldn't remember what his name was for a while.

However, it seems that Chen Zilong, the Zhizhejiang Jingluo at that time, had a very low evaluation of Wu Yi's righteous army, "The enemy is light, and the guests are all light and thin." The generals only plundered things, and the divisions were not in order", and records such as "military discipline was slackened" abounded. And shortly after Chen Zilong severed relations with him. Wu Yi was captured and killed by the Qing army because he secretly went to Jiashan to visit friends and was told by the enemy, and his army dispersed.

There may be something else in this, maybe it has something to do with that Ma Yaocao. Otherwise, even if he is unwilling to supervise the army in his army, it will not be so serious as severing relations. But how specifically. Chen Wen didn't plan to ask, Chen Zilong, Wu Yi and even Ma Shiying, these parties all died because of the resistance to the Qing Dynasty, and there are more important things now, so why bother to pick up these old things.

"It turned out to be a hereditary Jinshan Wei thousand households, do not hide from Your Excellency, this handsome ancestor once followed the Qiyang King Northern Expedition to the tyrannical Yuan, because of the hereditary Qingzhou Zuowei hundred households. Later, Emperor Chengzu moved the left guard of Qingzhou to the right guard of Tianjin, and then settled in the Tianjin Acropolis. Your Excellency and Ben Shuai are both hereditary military generals. It's a bit of fate. ”

Seeing that Chen Wen did not intend to continue to talk about this topic, Yu Shizhong could be said to be mixed, Chen Wen opened his mouth to mention the world position, which is obviously a recognition of identity among the same kind, which is a good thing, but he never mentioned Qi Jiguang, could it be that the statement of the son-in-law of the Qi family is just a rumor.

With this question in mind, Yu Shizhong didn't want to say anything, but before he could open his mouth to respond, he heard Chen Wen ask: "Yu Guerrilla said before that he came with military intelligence, and they are all close friends of the marshal here, please tell me directly." ”

In addition to Zhang Jun, there are only Zhou Jingting and a few guards in the big tent, Yu Shizhong didn't know that Chen Wen deliberately did this, but he was accustomed to it in the army for a long time, so he said bluntly: "On the way down from Taihu Lake to the south, I was entrusted by Mr. Wei Geng of Huzhou to report the situation to Linhaibo. ”

According to Mr. Wei, last year, Linhai Boquan annihilated the Fubiao Battalion, and in order to rebuild his army, Chang Jingong, the deputy general of the left battalion of the Dinghai General Battalion, led his troops to supplement the Fubiao Left Battalion, and the right battalion of the Hangzhou City Guard Association supplemented the Fubiao Right Battalion, and now the merger has been completed. In addition, the standard battalion was heavily damaged by the Wang Division the year before last, and although its unit had been completed, it was later transferred to the deputy general Ba Chenggong as the deputy general of Zhoushan, and at the same time hundreds of troops were transferred to Zhoushan, and then the Jiaxing and Huzhou green battalions were used to supplement the shortage of the standard battalion, and the training is still being continued. As for the vacancies, recruitment has already begun. ”

If this information is combined with the previous Huang Zongxi, the changes in the Qing army in Ningshao, the entire Hangjiahu Ningshao can be said to be well understood.

Just hearing the news, Chen Wen's heart couldn't help but sink. The recovery speed of the Qing army was far faster than he imagined, and the shortage of elite troops was quickly filled by the method of mobilization.

It seems that the fortifications of Anwar Town need to find a way to speed up the construction schedule.

Thinking of this, Chen Wen smiled angrily, and then said: "The news brought by Yu Guerrilla this time is very important, and this commander will be rewarded. ”

Seeing Chen Wen's words, Yu Shizhong hurriedly saluted and said: "Thanks to the favor of the imperial court and the shadow of the ancestors, you can live in Jiangnan in peace, and you dare not forget it for a day." Therefore, since the martyrdom of the martyrdom, I don't want to restore my Ming Dynasty for a day, but the world is difficult, and I have been stumbling so far. At the end of last year, I was glad to hear that Linhai Bo had recovered Jinhua Mansion, and he took his son south to serve Wang Shi, and hoped to take him in. With that, he took his son to bow to Chen Wen.

Hundreds of miles away from Huzhou to the south, Chen Wen suddenly wondered if he was a bit of a tyrant, but once he thought that this person's ancestor had been under Qi Jiguang's command, it was like a basin of cold water splashed on his head.

Since Jin Shengheng, Li Chengdong, and Jiang Hao were suppressed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty one after another, not only Jiangxi, Guangdong, and Shanxi, which had been restored, were reoccupied by the Qing army, but even the Ming army on the battlefields of Guangxi and Huguang also suffered heavy losses. On the southeast battlefield, the year before last and last year, the Ming army of Siming Mountain and the Ming army of Zhoushan were defeated one after another.

During the current period, even if there is his battle on the battlefield in Zhejiang and Zheng Chenggong's successive victories in Zhangzhou, Fujian, it can be said that the anti-Qing movement in the Southern Ming Dynasty was the most sluggish period, and it can even be said that it fell to the bottom.

During this period, more and more anti-Qing people began to choose to stay silent, hide in their homes or in the mountains and seas, and no longer continue to fight for a civilized environment. In such an atmosphere, there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to serve the Ming army, and even Chen Wen has been affected to a certain extent after entering Jinhua Mansion, at least for now, there are very few soldiers who are willing to join the Ming army in Zhejiang, far less than he imagined.

And this phenomenon did not come to an end until Li Dingguo's formation beheaded Prince Nikan, one of the three kings of the Qing Dynasty, and broke the so-called myth of "the invincibility of the Eight Banners", and the anti-Qing people's hearts were re-energized.

Historically, after hearing that Li Dingguo had become a famous king, anti-Qing people from all over the country came back one after another, running in tandem to provide intelligence for the Ming army, and the entire anti-Qing movement in the Southern Ming Dynasty entered a new peak. It is no wonder that there is a heroic poem of "the remnant monument reads the male ghost, and life and death are from King Li Jin".

Looking at the two in front of him again, Chen Wen smiled and got up to help the father and son up, and said that they would be arranged according to their abilities, while Yu Shizhong's son was directly arranged to work in the pro-soldier team.

Recalling the origin of this person, Jin Shanwei seems to be a guard station, and his person has been fighting the Qing Dynasty in Taihu Lake for many years, and the water war should be very familiar. After thinking about it, Chen Wen planned to let Yu Shizhong study military law in the Chinese army first, and then report to the town's water camp.

It's just that before he could say this, he saw that Yu Shizhong said that there was a "treasure" to be dedicated to Chen Wen, and when he saw those things and asked Yu Shizhong to demonstrate how to use them, this decision was put behind him. Yu Shizhong, who "offered treasures", was directly appointed as a training officer of the Military Training Department, and participated in the training of troops while studying military law and other things.

It's just that the front foot has just placed the father and son, and the back foot has ushered in the messenger who came back from Quzhou to deliver information.

After the capture of Jinhua Mansion City, Chen Wen used the part-time liar named Bai Jinghe and his previous personal soldier Yu Li to go to Quzhou Mansion City to collect intelligence under the code names of "Xuzhu" and "Ring Phase" respectively. It wasn't until later that the two established some channels for obtaining information through different means. However, as Wang Sheng was transferred to the Governor's Camp, Yu Li, who had been under the command of this person, had to come back with information and send others to cooperate with Bai Jinghe.

Looking at this former pro-soldier, he is still the same old man who is silent, but the perseverance in his eyes is better than before. Until he explained everything clearly, Chen Wen asked him to rest for a few days, saying that there would be other tasks assigned to him soon.

Recalling that information, Ma Jinbao's Zhenbiao Battalion was rebuilt by the same means, but because it was adjacent to the Ming army's occupied area, the treatment was far less generous than that of the Fubiao Battalion and the Raising Battalion; Wang Sheng was transferred to the Governor Battalion, and at this time Chen Wen had already learned from the mouth of the messenger; The change of Wang Jiang's resettlement location from Hangzhou to Nanjing made him feel a little unexpected, but it was not strange when he thought about it.

In addition, Chen Jin's envoy to Fujian should be because Zheng Chenggong besieged Zhangzhou, but he did not have the slightest impression of what happened in Jiangxi during this period.

At this time, Cao Conglong, the governor of Zhejiang, who was about to set off to start visiting the counties, welcomed a guest.

"Lu Wenlong, the chief secretary of Jinhua County, ask to see you." (To be continued.) )