After resting for two days, Zhang Zisheng's grain and grass were also rapidly consumed, but before he could prepare for a decisive battle with the Qing army in the direction of Luxi, he received the news that the Qing army had sent troops from Nanchang, and it was said that he would be able to arrive soon.

One out and one in, this is the proper meaning, but in this way, the plan to use this as a base to rebuild the momentum after defeating the Qing army in front of it has completely failed. In order to prevent being surrounded by the Qing army again and falling into the possibility of running out of food and scattering, he had to fight elsewhere, and he quickly chose the location, which was the Wuyi Mountains near the border of Guangxin Mansion in Quzhou and Jianning Mansion in Fujian.

It's just that the chasing soldiers who will inevitably follow behind him still need to be solved, and at the same time, they also need to raise the grain and grass needed to move the town, so he and his military Gong Jirong decided to take a risk after discussing and "borrow" some grain and grass from the nearby Guangguang County of Shaowu Prefecture, Fujian.

At the same time, the messenger sent by Zhang Zisheng had also set out, but it was not as easy as they imagined to find Chen Wen who still needed to cross the western part of Quzhou, which was heavily defended by the Qing army in Zhejiang.

Quzhou is a government and five counties, and its government is located in the central Xi'an County, which is a typical Fuguo County like Jinhua County in Jinhua Prefecture, that is, the county does not have a special county seat, but is in a city with the government city. This situation was very common in ancient China, and even many prefectures were two or three counties in the same prefecture city, such as Renhe and Qiantang in Hangzhou, and Wuxian, Changzhou and Yuanhe in Suzhou.

The capital city of Quzhou is located on the bank of the Qujiang River, with the Qujiang River to the west, and moats named Doutan, Donghao and Nanhu in the north, east and south respectively. Due to its proximity to the Qujiang River, Chen Wen had to surround the other three sides for the time being, while the west side could only be vacated.

It's just that the good days when the Qing army relied on Qujiang to make it impossible for the Ming army to completely besiege the city are estimated to last long. With Ma Jinbao's fire, the Quzhou water camp suffered heavy losses, but the Ming army's water camp surpassed its strength without fighting with it. And so. After Chen Wen took the county seat of Longyou, he asked the envoy of Baojie to bring an order, that is, to let the water battalion of Jinhua Town carry the grain and grass baggage prepared before to the west of the river, and use Longyou as a military transit center, and then go straight to the capital city of Quzhou and surround this place.

Estimate the date, and the messenger will probably have arrived. It was estimated that within a few days the "transport brigade" would be able to reach Quzhou to suppress the more specialized Quzhou water camp of the Qing army, and he also planned to use part of the private property of Ma Jinbao, the chief military officer who never created wealth, but was only a porter of civilian wealth, to build more and larger ships to equip the water camp.

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As Chen Wen thought, the messenger had returned to Jinhua Mansion a few days earlier, and even the water battalion in Jinhua Town had set off the day before yesterday with the reinforcements marching by land after the military supplies had been loaded. As a result, only the garrisons of the counties and the half of the Dongyang battalion stationed in Zhengjiawu Town, Yiwu were left in the entire Jinhua Mansion. Of course, there is also the Luochengyan white-headed army that has just accepted Zhao'an and began to serve His Royal Highness King Lu as the orthodoxy of the emperor, but the current army has changed its vest. It was renamed Zhejiang Governor Standard Camp.

Compared with the ignorance of the regimental training general soldier surnamed Yin when he went to Yiwu and Pujiang, the matter of recruiting the Baitou Army of Anluo Chengyan was very smooth, which had a lot to do with the fact that Chen Wen and Zhou Qingui and others had always been inappropriate on the issue of incorporation. And Cao Conglong, after learning the details of the meeting between the two sides, understood the contradiction almost at the same time.

Zhou Qingui and others just wanted to use the ancestral system of the big and small systems to maintain the feudal power over the soldiers under their command, so as not to be drowned by the Ming army of Jinhua Town trained by Chen Wen himself, while Chen Wen wanted to concentrate the military power and ensure the unity of power. As a result, Zhou Qingui and others, who were declining under the siege of Jinhua's Ming army, hit it off with the envoys he sent, because only in this way could they ensure that they had a relatively high degree of independence while surviving.

In Cao Conglong's view, the demands of Zhou Qingui and others are not unreasonable. The use of civil control and military control and the control of size is the basis for ensuring that military generals will not commit rebellion. Chen's attempt was to concentrate power in his own hands. In this way, this person will inevitably get rid of the control of the civilian officials, and sooner or later there will be a big mess.

Regarding Chen Wen, the first time Cao Conglong heard about this military general was in Zhoushan, and the envoy sent by Wang Jiang to report the victory told the story of the months since Chen Wen went up the mountain.

A messenger entrusted by others to report the news resolutely stayed on Dalan Mountain, where there was almost no possibility of sparing, and through planning and training strong soldiers, he found a glimmer of life in the impossible. However, at the last moment, he was ostracized and suspicious, which eventually led to that fiasco. And just after the fiasco, it was still this military general, who did his best to cover the retreat of the people, and even did not hesitate to carry out that bloody battle against the Qing army, which was several times his size, and there was almost no possibility of victory. The result was a triumph not seen in several years.

Cao Conglong clearly remembered that at that time, like Zhang Kentang, Dong Zhining, Zhang Huangyan and others, how he celebrated the crown, and how he praised Chen Wen's strategy and martial arts. At least at that time, in his opinion, although Chen Wen was a military general, he was Wang Yi's general, and he had a natural affinity with the civilian official group, and could be used as an ally to contain Zhang Mingzhen and other nobles.

But as he came to Jinhua Mansion with a mission, what he saw was that this military general had begun to get rid of the control of civilian officials after Wang Jiang surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. This situation is very bad, but if it is only because of this, Cao Conglong has never planned to do anything to the new famous generals of this dynasty, as long as he is willing to welcome Lu Jianguo ashore and get rid of the current predicament, this person can still exist as a political ally of the DPRK, just like the previous dynasty.

However, this military general has no idea of loyalty to the king, and his mind is full of only the one-third of an acre of land in Jinhua Mansion, completely ignoring the predicament of the lord, and he is by no means a faithful person. At this moment, Chen Wen is still besieging Quzhou, waiting is meaningless, and only when he personally leads the army to recover Taizhou can he have the opportunity to welcome Lu Jianguo ashore.

Returned to the Yamen, the governor of Zhejiang, who was originally the governor of Zhejiang, in this unfestive May, Cao Conglong could hear the sound of firecrackers frequently every day, which seemed to start from the news of the Ming army's recovery of Longyou County. The rich lit gunpowder firecrackers and fireworks, and those who did not have money burned bamboo, and even a large number of people went out of the city to the graves and scattered paper money like snow falling in the north, as if not doing so would not be enough to express their joy, nor enough to inform the relatives and friends who died in vain about the good news.

It has been two months since he came to Jinhua, and Cao Conglong has a certain degree of understanding of the massacre of Jinhua and Ma Jinbao's subsequent conquest. First an accomplice, then the first evil, Ma Jinbao was captured by Chen Wensheng, and it is normal for the people of Jinhua to cheer. But if it goes on for a long time, the people's hearts will be on the warriors and not on the lord, and it will undoubtedly be a disaster for the country.

The current predicament and future worries all point to Chen Wen. So, whether it's solving the problem of the moment or preventing it before it happens, now is the best time!

Although Cao Conglong still does not dare to believe this person's reasoning to this day, the reason why such unsubstantiated speculations have appeared shows that there must be some latent grievances under the calm of Jinhua Mansion, and the people with these grievances are his most natural allies.

"Master Lu, have the officials of the government office, the county government office, and the ordnance department arrived?"

Standing in front of the governor of Zhejiang, Lu Wenlong already knew that there would be such a question, only to see him bow his hand, and then replied: "Back to the Fujun, my colleagues are already waiting in the lobby. ”

Hearing the reply, Cao Conglong left behind some cranky thoughts that should no longer exist.

"Let's get started!" (To be continued.) )