Chapter Seventy-One: Returning Home

The loss of Yiwu county town was shocking, and the Fubiao battalion entered the county seat in just a few hours, except that the county government was burned down by the Ming army on its own initiative, nearly half of the houses in the county town were damaged to varying degrees, and this is not the most important thing.

When the news of the Qing army's attack came, most of the people in the county town were reluctant to give up their homes. However, when the Fubiao battalion invaded the county seat, they killed all the people they saw on the grounds of rebellion, robbed them of any property worth some money and their wives and daughters, and cut off the heads of the deceased to be used as evidence for beheading.

It is difficult for both the Ming and Qing armies of this era to avoid this bad habit. But in this way, those people who chose to stay in Yiwu County inevitably suffered misfortune. A large number of people were slaughtered by the Qing army, and even in a few streets and alleys in the north of the city, Chen Wen could no longer see even a living person, but he didn't know how many of them had escaped this catastrophe.

Because of this, for Chen Wen's murderous intentions, he decided to pull out all the prisoners of the Fubiao camp and behead them to show the public, whether it was the soldiers under his command or the people of Yiwu County, they all applauded, and even the returning officials did not make any moral articles such as "killing prisoners ominous", after all, they also saw the tragic situation in Yiwu, even if all the prisoners of the Fubiao camp were executed, they could not make up for the losses suffered by the people of Yiwu, even if one life was exchanged for one life, it was far from comparable.

After the fire in Yiwu County was completely extinguished, Sun Yu led the returning officials to set up a porridge field with the only remaining warehouses, and sent people to collect grain, cloth and other materials from the surrounding villages and towns and Dongyang County, which was controlled by the Ming army, to actively organize post-disaster reconstruction.

Fortunately, while Chen Wen beheaded all the prisoners in the Fubiao camp for public display, he still chose to open the net to those who were recruited by the Qing army, only explaining that the killing of prisoners was because the Qing army slaughtered the people, and as for them, as long as they completed their labor according to the requirements of the Ming army, they could return to their hometowns.

However, the killing of prisoners really scared these people. Even after hearing Chen Wen's explanation, they still couldn't believe that the Ming army would keep its promise, and it was only because of the strength of the Ming army that they were forced to carry supplies, help the surviving people rebuild their homes, and repair the county government and military camps under the organization of Yiwu county officials.

It wasn't until a month later that these men who had completed the "labor reform" were released by the Ming army, and after receiving a dry ration, they completely let go of their worries during this period of time, and then embarked on the return journey home.

During the reconstruction of Yiwu County. Dongyang Ying took advantage of the power of the new victory to recover the county seat of Pujiang, and took advantage of the situation to occupy Anhua Town, which is known as the southern gate of Zhuji. After recovering Fucheng, the two battalions of Nantang and Yiwu led by Wu Dengke also occupied Lanxi and Tangxi counties, which were also abandoned by the Qing army.

When the news that the Fubiao battalion was completely annihilated by the Ming army and that all the captives and generals were executed by Chen Wen for the crime of slaughtering the common people arrived, the Qing troops in Wuyi and Yongkang counties chose to abandon the county seat in panic and fled in the direction of Chuzhou.

It's just that this is a series of wars. The Ming army also completely entered a state of exhaustion, and it was inconvenient to continue large-scale military operations. The soldiers of the Green Battalion of the Four Prefectures of Jinquyan, who participated in the encirclement and suppression on the southern front, were completely disabled, and it was not possible to recover their vitality overnight; The losses of the Inspector Battalion were not large, but the word repulsion could barely be counted.

On the northern front, the Fubiao battalion bypassed the Dongyang battalion at first and defeated a bureau of the Dongyang battalion with the advantage of strength and troop matching, and then it once entered Yiwu County, which can be regarded as the most fruitful Qing army in this encirclement and suppression. However, their glory only lasted for a day or two, and then they were surrounded by the two Ming armies that returned to the army, and then fell to the state of total annihilation. Even the captives did not survive as Chen Wen had done before, and were all executed outside Yiwu County.

As for the Shaoxing Green Camp. Last year and this year, he was beaten twice in a row by the troops of the Nantang battalion covering the old battalion and the people, and it seems that he has already produced the sequelae of trembling when he sees the three words of the Nantang battalion.

The surrounding Qing army was powerless against Chen Wendu for the time being, and the other two elite troops in Zhejiang, the Eight Banners of the Hangzhou Garrison and the Admiral Biao Battalion, did not dare to go south easily without the cooperation of the Fubiao Battalion.

This year's war has come to an end. Taking advantage of the Qing army's return to **** wounds, Chen Wen gave the soldiers under his command a holiday in batches to reunite with their families, and the first batch of soldiers were those who joined the Nantang battalion before his army attacked Jinhua.

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A few miles west of Yiwu City, Xia Yan is the largest settlement of the Yiwu Xia Yan Lou family. It's a little different from the old days. Today is a day when a wanderer who has been away from his hometown for several years goes home, and this wanderer has just driven away Ma Jinbao, defeated the Dubiao battalion, and then completely annihilated Chen Wenchen Dashuai's confidant and favorite general of the Fubiao battalion.

Walking on the way to the ancestral hall, he was surrounded by relatives of the same generation or juniors, most of whom were proud of touching his clothes and armor, and kept talking to him, and even affected the auspicious time for him to rush to the ancestral hall to worship his ancestors.

As a concubine, Lou Jiye has never had such an experience, and since he was born, only his long-deceased grandfather has never discriminated against his status as a concubine. Even when he joined Chen Wen last year, he was only in a dream about returning to his hometown, and it was a distant dream more than ten years later, how could he have imagined that one day would come so soon.

It was easy to get rid of this group of enthusiastic relatives, and Lou Jiye hurriedly came to the ancestral hall to worship his ancestors. The elders of the Lou family in the ancestral hall have already sat down one after another, looking at Lou Jiye who is kneeling towards the tablet, even when the family celebrates, there will inevitably be some more complicated thoughts in their hearts.

Xia Yanlou's family in the Jiajing, Longqing, Wanli three dynasties followed Qi Jiguang to resist the Japanese border in the process of a total of more than 30 officers above the general level, such as Lou Zizheng has been the chief officer, Lou Nan, Lou Dayou, Lou Zhihu, Lou Huasong, Lou Tingxun and others have also sat at the level of deputy commander-in-chief, can be said to be a handsome.

In the current situation, the phenomenon of indiscriminate lordship in the Southern Ming Dynasty is becoming more and more intense, and the military position is far less expensive than it once was. The general on Lou Jiye's body may have been a garrison before he was replaced by Jiashen, and it was estimated that he was not even a thousand in the year when the Lou family was star-studded, so there was really nothing to make a fuss about.

But now Lou Jiye's general is the one who has won the battle and won the battle, and Chen Wen, who has become a famous general of Zhejiang's anti-Qing Dynasty, is also the highest-ranking officer in the Ming army among the children of Xia Yanlou's family, which is naturally different from those general soldiers and deputy generals who have been injected with water in this era.

Because the children of the Lou family participated in the Qi family's army to resist the Japanese army. The whole family was also quite beautiful at that time, so this time Chen Wenshuai army came, with the slogan of rebuilding the Qi family army for the attraction of the Lou family is also unimaginable, the expansion of the army before the war Lou family has hundreds of children in the army, it is said that some of them have outstanding achievements may also be appointed as officers. Naturally, it is necessary to inquire about the temperament of this handsome man from Lou Jiye, a disciple who has followed Chen Wenliang for a long time, so as to get a bigger piece of the cake in the seemingly unstoppable rise momentum of this last Zhejiang Ming army.

After worshipping his ancestors, Lou Jiye saluted the elders of the clan one by one, until his father, Lou Jiye could no longer suppress the tears in his eyes. Thinking back to his long-dead grandfather, perhaps all these years of ordeal have taken on meaning at this moment. It wasn't until after these rituals that the old patriarch of the Lou family began to inquire in detail about Chen Wen's life experience and the history of this Ming army, as well as the personal merits and rewards of the Lou family's children in this battle.

Just when Lou Jiye was enthusiastically responding to the inquiries of the elders in the clan, in the ruins of the south of Jinhua Mansion for many years, Sun Yu took his wife, younger brother and child who was only a few months old from his hometown.

The reconstruction work of Yiwu County has also been largely completed, but the local people have suffered a lot of losses. In fact, the reconstruction work was only completed for the survivors, and many abandoned family courtyards in the city are still abandoned there.

Supervised the completion of relief and reconstruction work. Chen Wen began to inspect the counties in the occupied area, and also met with Zhou Qingui of Luo Chengyan to discuss the positioning of the two armies. As the prefect of Jinhua, Sun Yu rushed to his hometown of Jinhua Mansion City to help the affected people here.

Due to the fact that Wu Dengke led his troops to assist the people in disaster relief, the degree of loss in Jinhua Mansion City was much lower than that in Wuxian County. It's just that it suffered a large-scale massacre five years ago, with more than 50,000 people killed, coupled with Ma Jinbao's brutal conquest, the vitality of this capital city has never been restored, and the ruins in the city that have not been cleaned up can be said to abound.

This dilapidated courtyard and the house that has been burned down are Sun Yu's home back then. The store in front of him is a small snack shop opened by his parents, and it is precisely by relying on this small snack shop to support him to read and write until he is famous.

But many years have passed, and the father's honesty, the mother's shrewdness, and the young man who couldn't afford to buy books and find someone to borrow and copy them no longer exists, and all that remains is a soul full of revenge, and a non-jinshi civil official who pinned his dream of the title of the gold list on his younger brother.

In the Jinhua Massacre that year, there were many victims, and the bodies of Sun Yu's parents quickly decomposed and could not be identified in that summer. With the financial support of his father-in-law's family, Sun Yu built a tomb for his parents outside the city, but when he returned to his hometown, he immediately thought of it.

With his wife holding the child in his arms, and his tearful younger brother bowing to the ground facing the former main hall, Sun Yu slowly told his experience over the years until he met Chen Wen in Dalan Mountain.

"Father, mother, my younger brother's knowledge has also improved over the years, and I think that when the imperial court reopens the imperial examination, I will definitely be able to pass the examination and add glory to the ancestors and ancestors. Some time ago, Qing'er also gave birth to a baby boy, and now he is over 100 years old, and our Sun family can be regarded as having a queen. ”

After chattering for a long time, Sun Yu suddenly kowtowed heavily, and then said loudly: "The blood feud between my father and my mother has never been forgotten for a day, not long ago, Ma Jinbao's dog thief was defeated by Chen Shuai and fled to Quzhou in embarrassment. Please wait a while, the child will definitely assist Chen Shuai to recover more lost ground, and he will definitely avenge the second elder, definitely! (To be continued.) )