On the second day, Chen Wen first returned to the Yamen, the former governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, who was now the chief administrative and civilian official of the Ming army in Zhejiang, and discussed with Sun Yu what sounded extremely important, but in fact it was all nonsense, and then returned to the camp that had been occupied by auxiliary soldiers and civilian men, and continued to pretend to be a large battalion with sufficient soldiers. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After nightfall, Chen Wen quietly left the camp and chased after the army that had already set off. This arrangement is nothing more than an attempt to delay some time to be discovered by the Qing army. And his goal is to garrison the Eight Banners in Hangzhou on the northern front.

Chen Wen had already set off, but it would take some time on the road, but fortunately, between Quzhou and Zhuji County, where Anhua Town was located, there were only post stations and beacon towers of the Ming army. If the Qing army wanted to spread the news there, it had to make a quick detour to Yanzhou Mansion, all the way north to Hangzhou, cross the Qiantang River, and then south to Zhuji. It took too much time along the way, even the Qing army in Quzhou immediately saw Chen Wen's intentions, and by the time they sent the news to Zhuji, it would already be late in the eighth spring.

However, in order to prevent the flood or the Manchu Qing Dynasty to speed up the transmission of news, Chen Wen still created some illusions for sending troops to cover up his intentions. Of course, it is more important to let the Qing army on the other side find out a few days late, so that he will have more room for maneuver and Quzhou will have less risk.

As for defeating the Eight Banners garrisoned in Hangzhou and removing the threat of the northern front, the two battalions of Pujiang and Dongyang can be released, and Chen Wen can return to Quzhou with the five station barracks, and fight a decisive battle with the Qing army on the front line of Quzhou together with the Yiwu battalion in Quzhou and most of the Lishui battalion.

The army was advancing rapidly on the Qujiang-Dongyang waterway, but it was no better than the soldiers who had finally been relieved from the oppressive atmosphere of the stalemate, but Chen Wen had another thing to worry about, and that was that the situation on the side of the fort in Anwar Town did not seem to be very good.

On May 20 of the seventh year of Yongli, the heat of summer has long replaced the violent storms of late spring and early summer, but the fortress in Anhua Town seems to be the same as when the Qing army came to the city, but the low walls and wooden stakes on the periphery are much more damaged, and the filth on and under the city wall is far more than before. At least on the surface, that's exactly what it looks like.

Before that, it was the hottest time of the day, and Yu Shizhong, the commander of the fortress, got up from his bed, took the water handed by an auxiliary soldier who heard the movement, and poured it into his throat, which was so dry that it could ignite a fire.

Not only him, but the disgusting offensive methods of the Qing army have been going on for nearly a month, and they did not stop until a few days ago. In the past few days, except for those scouts who are still observing the situation of the defenders of the fortress as usual, and cutting off contact with the outside world, the Qing army of the brigade no longer appears in the city. I just don't know if I was defeated by the summer heat that had just arrived, or if there was an epidemic like the inside of the fortress and I had to give up the attack.

After nearly a month of bacteriological warfare, although the corpses used by the Qing army were not infected with any fatal plague when they were alive, the epidemic produced by the rotting corpses themselves still had a great impact on the defenders.

First the wounded in the first confrontation, then some auxiliaries who were responsible for cleaning up the filth, and soon they didn't know how it spread among the soldiers, and even the military doctor surnamed Hao couldn't avoid it.

Yu Shizhong knew that the military doctor surnamed Hao was good at bruises, and he was not a layman in these epidemics, but he was not as proficient as the former. It's just that he didn't expect that even he hadn't heard of those home remedies before, such as smoked vinegar, the effect was far from as good as imagined, only burning mugwort seemed to be useful, but the inventory was too small, and now it has long been used up.

In fact, in the past nearly a month, it is difficult to count how many epidemic barrels the Qing army thrown, and if there is no burning mugwort, there is no strict prohibition on drinking unboiled water and other methods, but I am afraid that it will not be able to hold on. But even so, among the current defenders, nearly half of the auxiliary soldiers were infected to varying degrees, and one-third of the soldiers were infected with the disease, and the officers were even more so, even Yu Shizhong and the military judges of the fortress were no exception.

Compared with the military judge, the guy who has been burned to the point of talking nonsense, Yu Shizhong is actually quite good, and when he got up from the bed, except for the weakness of his limbs and his dizzy head, at least his consciousness was very clear.

"What time is it?"

There were too many sick soldiers, and the original wounded and sick houses were no longer enough, including many barracks that had been turned into wounded and sick houses, guarded by specially trained nurses, and the rooms of high-ranking officers like Yu Shizhong were cared for by uninfected auxiliaries.

"It's been a moment since I returned to the general."

"It's too late."

As he spoke, Yu Shizhong got up to get dressed and put on his armor, and the auxiliary soldier knew that the guard general's temper was relatively stubborn, so he ran out without saying a word. Because he knew that only the sharp-toothed prison officer was still of some use for speaking at the moment, and he was a small auxiliary, unless he lured Yu Shizhong to scold him for a while, causing the weak guard to lose his strength, there was no other way to stop it.

After a while, Yu Shizhong's armor had been put on, and his helmet was already in his hand, just waiting to be carried on his head when he left the house, in case he damaged the feathers on it. It's just that this set of chain mail, which usually feels like it doesn't weigh much, now seems to have a thousand weights, and just putting it on is already a head of white sweat, which is really beyond his imagination.

"It seems that the body is still not good."

The wry smile was not over, but the door was reopened. I saw that the auxiliary soldier followed the prison officer surnamed Chu and rushed over, but when he arrived at the door, he saw that Yu Shizhong was not unusual, so he stopped.

"Brother Yu, you are now a patient, do you know, what are you doing on this hot day?"

"I've got to go up to the city and show my face......"

"No, your task now is to recuperate." Seeing that Yu Shizhong was unmoved, the prison soldier surnamed Chu had no choice but to say: "Brother Yu, even if you don't care about yourself, you have to hurt everyone, you look like this, if something happens, how can the morale of the army be maintained." ”

"Brother Chu, you don't understand, I haven't shown up for several days, and the Tartar Tanma can't see me, and sooner or later he will be suspicious. If you think about it, if the Tartars find out that even I am ill, they will not have to attack immediately. But look at it, now the soldiers below are like this, how should they face it? ”

What Yu Shizhong said was not incomprehensible, but as a prison officer, he must also be responsible for the whole army. "In that case, it's better to change someone, put on your armor, and go up and make a look."

"This is absolutely not good, the scouts in the army are all people with sharp and extraordinary eyes, even if they are far away, they can't see clearly, they can always recognize me as a person, if they find out about the fraud, then wouldn't they be self-defeating?!"

"This ......" Chu Jianjun thought for a moment, but did not let the door open at all. That's not good, you are sick now, if you don't care about yourself like Brother Cheng, when will this illness get better. I'm a prison officer, you have to listen to me this time, go back and rest first, and then talk about patrolling the city when you're in better health! ”

Seeing that the prison army still refused to let go of the road, Yu Shizhong slapped it on the table with a bang.

"The marshal said that the main general is in charge of the war, and the army is in charge of life. Just as the quartermaster is in charge of the military rations and grass, the military judges are in charge of the military law regulations, and the staff officers are in charge of the planning and planning, each performing its own duties is the foundation that our Zhejiang Wang Division has been able to persist in so far. Patrolling the city is a war, not a life, and I haven't violated military law regulations, even if you are now temporarily acting as Judge Cheng Jun's authority, you can't control me! With that, Yu Shizhong pushed the thin prison soldier away, and then walked step by step to the steps of the city.

Seeing this, the prison soldier had no choice but to follow after being stunned for a moment, following closely by Yu Shouzhong's side, not daring to leave an inch.

Soon, the two of them climbed to the top of the city, one after the other. When Yu Shizhong and the prison army approached, the soldiers guarding the city saluted one after another, and then continued their duties.

The sun is blazing, and even the air is already a little hot. The more he walked, the more Yu Shizhong felt that the ground under his feet was softer, and when he went clockwise, he soon saw the Qing army rangers in the distance, and seemed to notice his figure and rode his horse forward.

Seeing this, Yu Shizhong stood there, took out the binoculars in his holster and looked at them for a while before continuing to patrol.

Ascending the city from the north, following the clockwise, Yu Shizhong first walked to the east wall of the main fort, then went around to the south, and then walked to the west city wall facing the Dachen River.

The wisps of fresh breeze carried by the water made him feel a little cool, and even the already nauseating feeling had subsided a lot. After walking slowly through this section, Yu Shizhong quickly returned to the north city wall, confirmed that he had been around the city for a week before slowly walking down the steps, and then walked towards his residence.

However, the moment the front foot stepped into the door of the house and disappeared from the sight of the soldiers in the fortress, a feeling of relief struck, only to feel that the world just now turned more ferociously and pounced, and as soon as his eyes were dark, Yu Shizhong completely lost consciousness. (To be continued.) )