The battle for the city wall of the east city soon ended, and when the Ming army under the city launched a general attack, the Qing army defending the city, which could only hold on to the danger of the city wall, was crushed by the previous fear and began to retreat. And when they noticed that Ma Sanxing, as the coach, was no longer in the city, they no longer had the courage to flee one after another.

The Qing soldiers quickly occupied the city walls, and opened the gates, which had been smashed by battering rams, to smash to pieces, and lured the Ming troops outside the city.

After the Ming army entered the city, it quickly occupied the city wall according to the previous plan, and began to concentrate its forces to advance to various important places in the city, while the Qing army's soldiers, who were the main force of the siege, were driven back to the camp outside the city after distributing the red note as a voucher according to the merit, and continued to be supervised by the Ming army.

However, even though Chen Wen's subordinates were already moving quickly, there were still many Qing soldiers who managed to break out of the control of the Ming army during the siege and disappeared without a trace.

After counting the number of people, although the losses of the Qing army were not as large as he imagined, they were by no means a few. It's just that how many of these losses were killed in battle, and how many were fleeing from the chaos, but it is difficult to get an answer at this time. After a short period of training, Chen Wen promised that their treatment would be determined according to the number of white and red notes, and after asking the officers in charge of guarding them to distribute some water, he left the camp and stepped into Dongyang County, which had been completely controlled by the Ming army, with Sun Yu and other old camp officials.

There was no street fighting in Dongyang County, the Qing army defending the city lost the city wall and lost the last fighting spirit, either kneeling to surrender, or fleeing from the road, the Ming army did not have much strength to take the most critical grain depot, cloth warehouse, silver treasury and other warehouses in the city, and even the Dongcheng military camp and the county government that thought that a bloody battle might break out were effortlessly taken down, and the rest was only the work of investigation.

After entering the city, Chen Wen parted ways with Sun Yu and others, and these old camp officials went to various warehouses and county offices to count the account books, while Chen Wen stayed in the Qing army camp in the city and began to arrange defense.

The military camp was located in the east of the city, but it was still some distance from the city wall, and when Chen Wen arrived, the leading officer in charge of attacking the military camp and Zhang Jun and his party were already waiting at the camp gate. Just at a glance, I always felt that there was a trace of helplessness between the eyebrows and eyes of the officer who led the team.

After entering the barracks, Chen Wen occupied a large tent in the middle of the barracks, and the wounded soldiers were also arranged to stay in the wounded and sick room cleared out and handed over to the people of the military medical team for treatment and care.

Chen Wen probably knew the details of the battle outside the city, but the fact that the expected battle did not break out in this military camp still made him feel a little surprised, but this surprise only lasted until Zhang Jun and the others, who seemed to be monkeys offering treasures, confided the truth.

It turned out that after the Qing army was defeated by the Ming army in the field battle and retreated to defend the city, Zhang Jun and others were trapped in the city, but they did not simply wait for the Ming army to enter the city, but waited for the opportunity to act. After discovering that it was impossible to complete the capture of the city wall or the beheading of the civil officials and generals defending the city, under Yang Kai's suggestion, they pretended to be the master of the horseshoe nail, and entered the military camp to wreak havoc, and the war horses in the stables were their results.

The spoils of war were still being counted, and when he learned that a batch of war horses had been intercepted in the barracks, Chen Wenteng stood up and walked away with the stables under the leadership of Zhang Jun and others.

Having a war horse means that you can train cavalry, and cavalry is an important type of military used to determine victory and defeat on the battlefield in this era. Chen Wen had faced the Qing army several times before, only when he besieged Tiantai County and camouflaged the Dongyang County garrison, he did not suffer a loss in cavalry, and in other battles, he was forced by the cavalry superiority of the Qing army to use some unconventional tactics, such as trapping the horse pit and luring the enemy with his body.

Knowing that a batch of war horses had entered the account, Chen Wen immediately rushed to the stable, but after seeing those war horses, he couldn't help but sigh.

"How many tons of crotons did you put in the manger?"

Although I don't know what kind of unit of measurement Chen Wen said about the ton, just listening to that tone, Zhang Jun and the others know that this "ton" will definitely not be a small unit of measurement, at least it should not be less than a hundred quintals.

But the problem is, they really didn't put that much!

While nailing the horseshoe, the two apprentices disguised as apprentices took out the crotons prepared in advance from the large bags containing the horseshoe, and took the opportunity of the small official to chat with the Qing soldiers who were watching their work, and they approached the manger on the pretext of leading the horses, threw croton, and even sneaked into the forage field near the left on the pretext of urgency.

In such a sneaky act, the number of thrashes is actually not very large, but after tossing all night, almost all the troughs were put all over, which led to the Qing cavalry having to abandon those war horses that had been straining when they faced the sudden special task force when the city was broken, and hurriedly fled from the barracks.

In this way, Chen Wen relied on their actions to obtain some war horses, and the number was about more than 100 horses.

Such a big supplement really made Chen Wen very happy, if he trained all of them, together with the cavalry brought this time, and the part of the cavalry team left in the temporary old camp of Tiantai Mountain, he could finally build a cavalry team of more than three hundred people, and this meant that he could finally go head-to-head with the strength of a single town of the Qing army in the plain terrain.

The team members who planned and participated in this operation were praised, and the officers and officials of the old battalion who were counted and captured near the left side of the city wall also completed their work, and all the captured were sent to the warehouse of the barracks, temporarily stored, and waited for Sun Yu to summarize after the inventory was completed.

The seizures were counted, and the arrangements for defense were completed as planned. The city had just been broken today, and the Qing army no longer had enough troops in Jinhua Mansion to come and seize the city, so Chen Wen only took the city wall, the county government, and the military camp as the center of gravity for defense, and assigned some soldiers to guard the warehouses and other key points, and arranged some teams that did not participate in the battle to patrol the main roads in the city under the condition of announcing a curfew, and finally completed the deployment.

According to the previous plan, Chen Wen will live in the military camp, and Sun Yu will stay in the county government and other places with the officials of the old camp, which can not only show the more familiar civil and military differences in this era in front of outsiders, but also more in line with the current pattern of the dual system headed by the governor Wang Jiang and the general Chen Wen of the Ming army in Dalanshan.

Just after the end of the defense work, Chen Wen still has to go to the county office, in addition to learning about the storage situation in the city, he also needs to discuss the situation that needs to be dealt with in the recent days and in the future.

After arriving at the county office, Sun Yu was still busy with those officials, compared to Chen Wen's limited seizure, it took a long time to check the land tax account books in the county government and the various warehouses, although the officials in the old battalion were obviously much more than the officers in charge of Chen Wen's hands, but the gap in numbers still made them face the dilemma of needing to work all night.

In ancient China, the local yamen were all the pattern of the former yamen and the rear residence, and when the county yamen was captured this time, the magistrate and his wives and concubines all hanged themselves in the residence. On the contrary, the prefect was captured by the Ming army who arrived when he tried to escape over the wall, and now he and other officials are all sent to prison to wait for investigation. Only Ma Sanxing, the commander of the Qing army, is nowhere to be found, and he only hopes that he can be netted out when the investigation is carried out.

Sun Yu and those old camp officials were busy in the yamen, and it was not until Chen Wen arrived that they entered a side room for negotiations. The barracks, county government and treasury were all kept intact, and the houses in the city were not damaged, only the east city wall and the city gate needed some repairs, and Sun Yu would arrange these things.

The affairs of the barracks depended on the members of the Einsatzgruppen, and the county government and the treasury were the "secret agents" that Zhang Jun had temporarily developed—the petty official who had led them into the barracks, and it was he who managed to convince his colleagues who had received orders from the county magistrate to burn down the warehouses when the city was broken, so that they could be saved.

Chen Wen summoned the little official over, appeased a few words, and announced that he would be rewarded as a meritorious person in this battle, and then handed it over to Sun Yu's banner. And Sun Yu did not hesitate at all, and directly appointed him as the chief secretary of the county, thinking that it would be a thousand golden bones.

From the lowest-ranking official in Dongyang County to the county master of Zhengjiupin, the little official helped the Ming army to do something under duress, and the reward was that he could not achieve it in his lifetime under the banner of the Manchu Dynasty.

After waving away the horse bones that had been thanked for thousands of thanks, the first verified account book had been delivered, and seeing that the materials were quite abundant, Chen Wen and Sun Yu's emotions began to become relaxed and happy.

"Brother Sun, the last time I went to Tiantai County, the soldiers under the command of the younger brother captured the magistrate of Tiantai County; This attack on Dongyang County captured the Jinhua prefect alive; However, Jin Quyan has just been dismissed, and the new official has not yet taken office, so Tartar is obviously disrupting the rhythm of the younger brother, which is really vicious. ”

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, two prefectures, three prefectures, or four prefectures would set up a branch of the guard road and a branch of the patrol road as a supplement between the prefect and the governor. There were occasional changes during the period, but most of the sub-guards at this time were held with the title of political envoy and senator, in charge of money and food; The sub-patrol road is hung with the title of political envoy and senator and procurator, and is in charge of criminal names. Among them, Jinqu is stationed in Jinhua Mansion and is in charge of Jinhua, Quzhou and Yanzhou; Jinqu sub-patrol road stationed in Quzhou Prefecture, in charge of Jinhua and Quzhou Prefecture.

Chen Wen said that the Jin Qu Yan Shoudao was called Wang Yong, who was a famous calligrapher in the late Ming Dynasty and the younger brother of Wang Duo, a scholar of Dongge University during the Chongzhen Dynasty. Wang Duo himself surrendered to the Qing Dynasty when the Qing army entered the customs, and was appointed as a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, a bachelor of the Hongwen Academy, and a prince Shaobao, and later entered the second minister. And Wang Duo's younger brother Jin Quyan Shoudao Wang Yong was dismissed and imprisoned for corruption, and the next Jin Quyan Shoudao has not yet taken office.

Hearing Chen Wen's ridicule, Sun Yu also had a rare fun, and only heard him say: "The old official has been removed, and the new official has not yet taken over, this is the will of God, then there is Lao Chen Shuai who has overstepped the level and arrested Xiao Qiyuan, the governor of Zhejiang." ”

Xiao Qiyuan?

Chen Wen shook his head. "Xiao Qiyuan's guy has been in the post of governor of Zhejiang for too long, in case he runs away before I have time to do it, so what?"

"Wouldn't it be wonderful to arrest Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, by two levels."

"Makes sense, one step at a time!"

The two looked at each other and smiled, and the relaxed atmosphere also promoted the discussion later, until late at night, Chen Wen returned to the barracks to reward the whole army.

Riding on the road between the county government and the military camp, the big stone in Chen Wen's heart can be regarded as falling. Dongyang County has been successfully taken, and the messengers sent back to lure the old camp to join have already set off, just need to see how many routs Chen Guobao can block, and this operation for the purpose of recovering Dongyang County will be completely over.

"Next, it's the entire Jinhua Mansion!"