After the incorporation of Luo Chengyan's Baitou Army, the occupied area of Jinhua Ming's army was no longer organized into a rebel army that raised troops to resist the Qing Dynasty under any other banner. It's just that at this moment, Chen Wen, who is far away in the city of Longyou County, doesn't know about it.

A few days ago, the Governor Battalion went south to raid the Ming army in Bandu, but was defeated by the Ming army. It was only based on Li Ruixin's and the military judge's post-mortem descriptions, as well as the number of beheadings and captures, that the casualties of the Qing army may have been far less than he had imagined, especially the cavalry, which was almost unharmed. The Qing army may not dare to fight in the wilderness at the moment, but with more than 700 horsemen of these two Qing armies, it should still be possible to contain it.

Therefore, in the past few days, Chen Wen completely expelled the Dubiao Battalion and the Quzhou Green Battalion to the west of Dingyang Creek to ensure that the military operation besieging Longyou County would not be interfered with.

Longyou County is located on the alluvial plain where the Qujiang River and Lingxi meet, and was once the capital of the Gugu Kingdom. This city was built in the second year of Longqing, the circumference is six miles, the height is one zhang six feet, the base is one zhang three feet, the face is nine feet wide, and all are covered with bricks. In addition to the four main city gates of Yong'an Gate, which is located slightly north of the west bridgehead of Dongge Bridge in Longzhou Park, Guiren Gate, the South Gate of Shengli Road intersection at the northern edge of Longzhou Road, the West Gate Taiping Gate 20 meters east of the Agricultural Bank Building of Taiping East Road, and the North Gate Xiangyi Gate, which connects Dazhong Road and Pingzheng Road and intersects with Wenhua East Road, there are also four convenient gates that circulate through the city waterway.

However, after Chen Wen's army arrived in Longyou County, he immediately gave up his plan to encircle him. Although the city is surrounded by walls and moats, it is surrounded by many houses and shops, and its buildings and surviving people reflect its usual prosperity as if it was in the last days of the Ming Dynasty.

Since coming to this era, Chen Wenshi has seen a lot of Chengchi, the original Xinchang County. After that, Tiantai County, and then Jinhua Eight Counties and Jinyun County, the capital of the prefecture. These cities are not to mention the inside, and none of the weather outside the city can be compared with this Longyou county, even Lanxi, which is also on the Qujiang River, is not much better, not to mention the Jinhua Mansion City, which experienced a massacre a few years ago, and then began to recover a little vitality under the destruction of Ma Jinbao until the recovery of the Ming army.

See it here. Chen Wen had no choice but to choose a section of the city wall between Quy Nhon Gate and Taiping Gate, which was not protected by a moat, which was just convenient for him to let the engineering team use this city to perform the collapse method of the late Ming Dynasty.

The collapse method, known as blasting in later generations, has been used in China as early as the Song Dynasty. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng also attacked Kaifeng in this way, but because the craftsmanship was too problematic, he did not succeed in the end, but waited for Hou Xun Hou to break the embankment soon after.

The captain of Chen Wen's "toy soldiers" once learned this craft from a friend in the army. Later, during the training in Tiantai Mountain, some of Chen Wen's understanding was mixed in, forming today's collapse method.

Since the day before yesterday, the Ming army requisitioned the people to build a small earthen hill in the direction of the entrance of the tunnel facing the city wall, and then sent sappers to dig the tunnel leading to the city wall. Unlike digging tunnels into the city, excavation and blasting only need to dig under the city, then install the blasted gunpowder and fuse, and then seal the small section of the tunnel. At that point, the gas and energy from the explosion will burst through the top of the wall above, creating a huge gap. And the Ming army could go directly into the city from there.

This may sound like a simple tactic, but there are a lot of difficulties. First of all. The tunnels must not be long, otherwise oxygen will not enter, and the sappers who dig the tunnels will suffocate to death due to lack of oxygen; In the same way, the entrance to the tunnel was crucial, and since it was not far from the city walls, the enemy could have sent the dead to block the entrance. Then the sappers below will be suffocated to death; In addition, especially in the south, where the underground is damp in many places, the equipment used to carry gunpowder must be treated with moisture, otherwise the gunpowder will not explode if it gets wet.

Other than that. For example, the location of the wall repair of the sealed tunnel, how the fuse can ensure that it is not damp or not interrupted in the ground, the place where the gunpowder is placed must be under the city, etc., etc., many details need to be foolproof, and the technical requirements are far more elaborate than imagined, but the slightest mistake will be wasted.

Since the excavation began the day before yesterday, the Ming army was responsible for excavation and blasting by full-time engineers, and because of the long-term training in advance and the rotation of three shifts throughout the day, the speed of excavation was much faster than that of the firearms battalion under the command of Zheng Chenggong, who had planned to blast Zhangzhou a few days earlier.

However, even if the cave dug by the Ming army was not very large, it had to be reinforced with wood for each section of the excavation, until it was already nightfall, and according to the estimated distance, it would not be completed until at least tomorrow afternoon. And that's not counting the time to place the gunpowder and seal off the gunpowder area, which will have to be completed tomorrow night at the earliest, and that's without digging up groundwater or rocks, otherwise the days will be in vain.

Last night, the dead soldiers of the Qing army had taken advantage of the night to fall down the city to block the entrance of the cave and were defeated by the Ming army guarding, at this moment the great achievement has been completed, the Ming army is very strict with the guard of this area, only to wait in Chen Wen's mouth after the loud noise will be slaughtered into this rich Longyou County, when the military merits of Kefu County will be in hand, and the family can also get a Yongye field that does not need to pay taxes.

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At the same time, in a large mansion in Longyou County, the Qing army guards stationed in Longyou County, Jinhua General Soldier Ma Jinbao is currently stationed here.

Ma Jinbao was born in Liukou, and during the Chongzhen period, he returned to the Ming court and served as the deputy general of Anqing. When the Qing army went south, he relied on the merit of persuading surrender and the ability to scrape the ground to hug the thigh of the Qing army commander Duanzhong Prince Bolo, who led the army to the south at that time, and then relied on the merit of slaughtering the city in Jinhua Mansion to sit on the official position of the Quzhou General Army, and later reappointed the Jinhua General Army under the political, economic and military needs of the high-level Manchu Qing Dynasty in Zhejiang, and then moved the administrative office to Jinhua Mansion.

returned to the land where the city was once massacred, Ma Jinbao did not restrain because of this, but intensified the **** people, even to the extent that the local officials "dare not speak". In addition to his filial piety to the upper echelons, it has never been the most generous, and at the same time, it is also indispensable to the credit of the local officials' hush money every year.

It is precisely because of this "ability to be a man" that Ma Jinbao was able to manage the military affairs of the four prefectures in Zhejiang in the early Qing Dynasty without suspicion, and he can always get a piece of the pie in the war that can achieve military merits, and there are big people like Qian Qianyi who used to be high and high often come to pat the ass, even if it is just to rebel, it can be said that it is very comfortable for a character like him who was born in a rogue.

But since last year, such good days have almost disappeared. In the second half of last year, Ma Jinbao, who was originally the president of the Qing army on the southern front, led his troops to participate in the siege of Zhoushan, but who knew that in Taizhou, Yu Guowang's troops with weak combat effectiveness, were pinned down by a phalanx of what kind of tooth and could not catch up with the battle.

It was easy to drive Yu Guowang away, and he was just thinking about how to turn the responsibility that did not come to the appointment into a small matter, but he didn't expect that this problem didn't need him to bother at all, and the Ming army general named Chen Wen had already solved it for him.

The shameless Chen Wen sent Yu Guowang to contain the army under his command, and thus entered Jinhua Mansion, this perfect statement whether others believe it or not, anyway, Ma Jinbao and his silver men believed it. And he believed that as long as his money was believed, the Manchu high-level in Zhejiang would also believe it, because he did it every time, and it was successful.

hurried back to Jinhua Mansion, and the general of the Ming army, who didn't know how many eyes Ma Wang Ye had, was still squatting in Yiwu and was busy training. It was planned to slaughter the two counties that were attached to the rebellion after defeating this Ming army, so that the wool would come out of the sheep instead of the horses. However, Ma Jinbao never expected that half of the Jin Quyan Sifu Green Battalion had a total of nearly 4,000 troops, and it would be easily defeated by a 2,000-strong battalion of the Ming army, and later the hateful Zhang Guoxun threw all the pots on him.

Relying on Bolo's face and filial piety over the years, Chen Jin suppressed this matter very righteously, and did his best to help him replenish his troops in preparation for another battle. I thought that I could wait until the Jiangxi affair, when the Qing army gathered in Quzhou, to encircle and suppress the Jinhua Ming Army again, but it was this helpless thing that Chen Wen, who had just occupied Jinhua Mansion, actually killed him again without even heating his buttocks, and the scale was larger than last year.

The army under his command has just been formed, and the combat effectiveness is still an extremely luxurious thing, he has no field ability to guard in this businessman and wealthy family have fled to the Longyou of Fucheng, looking forward to the stars and the moon is that the Governor Battalion and the Quzhou Green Battalion can hold the Lingxi defense line, but in the end what is expected is the Governor Battalion to raid the Ming army of Bandu, but was defeated by the Ming army, and the Ming army did not continue to pursue the city, but surrounded this Longyou roughly.

The situation is not favorable to him day by day, especially in the past two days, it was found that the Ming army was excavating in the southeast of the county, digging tunnels into the city Ma Jinbao knew how to deal with it in the city, but if the Ming army was determined to burn the city or collapse, then there was only one way out of the city to block the hole. But today, when the last hope of holding the city has also been extinguished by the Ming army, can we only pray for the sudden withdrawal of the Ming army?

Thinking of this, Ma Jinbao clenched his fists, there is no endless road, he came out of his hometown in Xi County back then, and escaped several times under the knives of the fierce men of King Cao Yan, He Madman, and Hong Butcher.

Until today, the gang of rogues who robbed food and silver together and robbed Xiaoniang were either dead or nowhere to be found, but he was able to sit as the chief military officer in this plastered place of Zhejiang, because he could always have a way to survive.

As long as you can manage to survive, there will always be a chance to turn the tables!

"Come on, post down, please go to the Marshal's Mansion to discuss countermeasures." (To be continued.) )