In the news received by Chen Wen, it was very clear that the retro tactics used by the Qing army were mentioned. After seeing this series of words www.biquge.info he also immediately understood - since he could not capture the fortress head-on, he should simply find a way to infect the defenders of the fortress, weaken their defensive strength, or force the defenders to abandon the city defense on their own.

However, in the report he received, the report sent when the Qing army had just begun to attack the city with this, and the cavalry had not yet cruised around, only one wounded member of the Ming army showed symptoms of infection with the epidemic, and the military doctor in the report also said that it had been properly dealt with, and there was no problem for the time being.

However, after receiving the report, Chen Wen already felt that something was wrong, the Qing army would not come up with this method for no reason, and since it was taken out, it would not be used only once, and even the scale would get bigger and bigger......

There is already a soldier who has contracted the disease, although it is not without regulations, but no one can guarantee that there will not be a second disease. Anhua town fortress is very important, if the Hangzhou garrison eight banners and the Qing army of the standard, Fubiao from there into Jinhua Mansion, Yiwu no city wall is difficult to hold, the end can not take care of each other, Zhejiang Ming army will only be defeated.

After getting the news, Chen Wen properly explained everything, and after a few days of showmanship, he made sure that the Qing army knew that he was still in Quzhou and did not leave before sneaking out troops. It's just that it can be kept secret for a long time, but it is still unknown, and during this period, he must rush to Anhua Town as soon as possible to defeat the Qing army on the northern front to ensure the safety of the fortress in Anhua Town, and rest assured to take away the two battle camps of Pujiang and Dongyang to meet the main force of the Qing army.

After weighing and comparing the strength of the enemy and us, the General Staff Department believes that although there are Eight Banners garrisoned in Hangzhou, the raising of the standard and the raising of the standard are now no longer in the eyes of the Ming army, and the troops taken from Quzhou this time plus the Pujiang battalion are enough to defeat the Qing army in the field battle, the difference is how much to pay, and how many results can be obtained.

The cost is naturally casualties, as well as the loss of ordnance, of course, there is also the possibility that the Qing army will flee, so that the Pujiang battalion can not be relieved to move to Quzhou, but the possibility is very small. There is no other reason, this Qing army group is controlled by the Eight Banners of Hangzhou Garrison, if even the soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty flee from the wind, the Manchu court will not be able to say it in the first place. In this case, there is only one possibility: field warfare.

As for the results of the battle, in addition to how many Qing troops could be left, especially the Eight Banners garrisoned in Hangzhou, the expansion of the occupied area has become an aspect that Chen Wen was forced to ignore. There is no way, no matter how much land is occupied, as soon as the army withdraws to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Qing army in the direction of Quzhou, the Qing army will easily take it back, even if it takes Hangzhou, it is useless, but it will suffer the local people.

Originally, Chen Wen planned to defeat the Qing army on the southern front in the direction of Quzhou first, remove the threat there and then go north. In this case, it is likely that this eastern Zhejiang will be easily recovered, so as to face the Qing army across the Qiantang River, and the occupied area will be even larger than when the Lu Jianguo court was first established.

However, now that there is no way to defeat the Qing army in the direction of Quzhou first, and there are also unstable factors in the fortress of Anhua Town, the order can only be reversed. As for the Qing army on the eastern front that had withdrawn from the city of Chuzhou, but had not returned to Qingtian, whether the Qing army of only 4,000 people was annihilated or not had no impact on the overall situation, so let Wu Dengke sit quietly with them for the time being.

The army set out by boat, first down the Qujiang River, and then up the river with the occasional wind and the manpower that had already been organized. Along the way, Chen Wen didn't even enter Jinhua Mansion, and directly led the army to get off the ship at the dock in Yiwu. Fortunately, his soldiers are basically the children of various provinces in Zhejiang, even if they can't swim, the boat can do it. If you are a northerner, you can stay in the local area to recuperate without vomiting and diarrhea after taking the boat for so long, let alone continuing to march after getting off the boat.

But even so, after getting off the boat, Chen Wen could not drive the army to march north, so he had to march at a normal speed.

A few days later, Chen Wen's army entered the camp in Zhengjiawu Township, which was the supply center for the fortress and containment forces in Anhua Township. On weekdays, he is responsible for military supplies, and even the containment troops are stationed here; In wartime, the fortress of Anhua Town will be besieged, so it will have to use the supplies from the warehouse inside the fort, which is only responsible for supplying and pinning troops, and there will be a supplementary army stationed here.

Since the Pujiang battalion was always on the side, although the Qing army had a large number of cavalry, it could only maintain it to the fortress of Anhua Town, trying to cut off the transmission of information and personnel from there to the outside world. As for this, it is not taken into account at all, and there is no need to take care of it.

Early the next morning, Chen Wen led the army north, and the destination was not Anhua Town, but Paitou Town, north of Anhua Town, where the Qing army was facing each other across the Puyang River, and the company camps on both sides of the river were connected by pontoon bridges. Previously, he had ordered Chen Guobao to lead the Pujiang battalion to detour downstream, and when Chen Wen gave the signal to attack, he would cross the river, forming a front and rear attack.

The army set out before dawn, and the cavalry took the eastern mountain road to the north of the Qing army's rangers to intercept it.

It wasn't until he marched to the fortress of Anhua Town that Chen Wen stopped slightly, and the whole army was able to rest for a while, and the cavalry of the Ming army had already swept away most of the Qing army's rangers, and only a few of them had escaped into the mountains.

Chen Wen didn't have time to understand the situation of the fortress in Anhua Town, so naturally the troops, auxiliaries, and military doctors who followed from the camp in Zhengjiawu Town entered the fortress. After receiving the news from the cavalry, Chen Wen continued on the road, but when he passed through the battlefield of the fortress, Chen Wen couldn't help frowning.

At the end of last year, it was said that there were two convex corners on the north side of the fortress, and a city wall had been torn off by the Qing army, revealing the inner wall of the city wall. The walls of the fortress were not damaged, but the filth and the rotting corpses dressed in the clothes of the people on the side of the moat were constantly releasing a foul stench, summoning patches of green-headed flies in Wuyang.

The low wall at a distance of one hundred and fifty paces of the fortress was not greatly damaged, but the extent was far less than imagined, and it was obvious that the siege equipment of the Qing army rarely rushed into these distances to cause a direct attack on the fortress. This is also evidenced by the damage to the wooden stakes on the ground.

After passing through that area, the army accelerated its march and soon approached the bank of the river a few miles ahead, and used the Jiangxinzhou there to build a pontoon bridge with the joint efforts of the engineering team, and quickly completed the maneuver of crossing the river.

The crossing of the river by the Ming army immediately aroused the vigilance of the Qing army's horses, but it was not as good as Chen Wenna and others who left all the baggage, the Qing army's camp was full of unloaded baggage, and the soldiers were also scattered in the camp, and they might not be able to run if they wanted to. After the army crossed the river, the Ming army immediately marched north, and the cavalry of the Ming army soon began to enter a white-hot cavalry battle with the cavalry of the Qing army.

However, when Chen Wen's army arrived not far from the Qing army's camp, what they saw was that the Qing cavalry scattered and fled regardless of casualties, and the Qing army's camp was accompanied by a fire that cried for his father and mother.

"Hangzhou garrison eight flags ran away?!"

This is a fact that Chen Wen can't believe and doesn't want to believe, but this is really happening in front of his eyes. But when Chen Wen was still shocked by Liu Zhiyuan's cowardice, Chen Fugui, who led this large group of cavalry, rode back on horseback, and when he arrived in front of Chen Wen, he directly threw a Qing army general wearing yellow flag armor and a "lightning rod" on his head to the ground.

"Say, tell us what you just told you!"

Chen Fugui was born as a charcoal burner, and when he was in Dalan Mountain, he was able to lift the bronze incense burner in the courtyard of the City God Temple, and his nutritional intake increased greatly after joining the army, and he was already like a human-shaped road roller, and even his war horses were specially selected.

This habit directly knocked the generals of the Han army with yellow flags into two eyes, but when he heard the angry rebuke of this humanoid monster, his consciousness immediately sobered up, his head shook, and a pair of thief eyebrows looked around, and noticed that Chen Wen who was riding on a white horse obviously had the momentum of a superior person, so he hurriedly climbed in front of Chen Wen's horse.

"Lord Hou spares his life, the villain is not a Tartar of the Han Eight Banners, the villain is a subordinate of General Zhang, and he was put on this by the order of the above, the villain is not a Tartar......"

After the next chatter of the officers of the "Han Army with Yellow Flags", especially the next sentence "The Eight Banners of the Hangzhou Garrison did not follow the troops, but they played the banner", not only Chen Wen, but almost all the Ming Army officers present were stunned on the spot.

It wasn't until a moment later that an officer's exclamation woke Chen Wen out of the shock and the possibilities it meant. And when he followed the officer's point, what he saw was a faint beacon fire in the direction of Zhengjiawu Town, soaring into the sky. (To be continued.) )