On the first day of September, just as the three Qing troops of different sizes in Guangdong and Fujian provinces announced that they would return to the Ming Dynasty anyway, Chen Wen, as the initiator of all this, had already returned to Nanchang to sit down. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

After two months of operation, relying on his own occupation area to cut off the Qing army's north-south grain routes and passages, and at the same time, with the help of other systems of the Ming army, as well as the strong deterrent power of the mortar shelling that even the fortress could not withstand in one day, Chen Wen successively reached an agreement with Hao Jiushang, Geng Jimao and Shang Kexi.

Hao Jiushang, the general of Chaozhou, announced that he was going to be anyway, and this Li Chengdong's subordinate general finally returned to the "big family" of the Ming army after following Li Chengdong to the Qing Dynasty, following Li Chengdong to the Qing Dynasty anyway, and surrendering to the Qing Dynasty on his own, and under the persuasion of Chen Wen, he announced the right thing again. Chen Wen needs him to keep an eye on Shang Kexi, as a nail buried between Shang Geng's two domains, and he needs the endorsement of Chen Wen, a powerful faction, and the title of a marquis, and the deal is reached, each with its own benefits.

At the same time, Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, also relied on the announcement to get the endorsement of Chen Wen's continuous rejection of the Fujian grain road anyway. For the rest of the matter, on the side of the Ming Court, Chen Wenzhi said that Zheng Chenggong in Fujian still needs to spend time to continue to persuade. However, Chen Wen has now eroded the two prefectures of Tingzhou and Shaowu in Fujian, and the passage into Fujian is in hand, and Xianxia Pass has become a fictitious, and then it has occupied a certain degree of initiative in any case.

Pingnan Domain, Shang Kexi's son Shang Zhixin announced that he had obtained half of the Guangzhou Mansion and a Shaozhou Mansion anyway, and Shang Kexi retreated to Huizhou, which was the internal operation of the Shang family. According to the agreement, the three counties of Gao, Lian, Lei, Qiong, and Zhaoqing in western Guangdong and Lianshan in the north of Guangzhou, which were occupied by Li Dingguo, his generals and the allied forces, were officially assigned to Li Dingguo's defense area, and the Qing troops in Xinhui and Xinning counties in the south of Guangzhou were also handed over to Li Dingguo. The Nanxiong Mansion in northern Guangdong was assigned to Chen Wen as a shield for Southern Jiangxi.

Guangdong was cut into several portions like a cake by Chen Wensan, and the result was that he successfully avoided the tragedy of Xinhui, Li Dingguo avoided a possible fiasco, and the Shang family was forced to become a two-headed wall grass from the Manchu iron, and this was the only way for the time being.

With the collective reversal of these three Qing armies, at least superficially, south of the Yangtze River, there was not much left of the Manchu occupation zone. In the remaining areas, the main occupation areas are still Huguang and Jiangnan, but Guangdong and Fujian, which were originally the territory of most of the provinces, are now invisible.

As for the discipline of the three of them, in Chen Wen's opinion, as long as they are not moved, these three are still very happy to be the soil emperors on their respective territories. Of course, this is under the condition that he still has strong strength and deterrence that led to all this, otherwise they will continue to toss nine times out of ten.

Iron also needs its own hardness, this is an eternal truth. Now it is only by relying on some deterrence and its own strength to crush in some parts or in a certain aspect that the current effect has been achieved, but the ability to expand has also reached the limit with the successive recovery of the whole territory of Jiangxi, Nanxiong in Guangdong, and Fujian.

Large armies were stationed in various places, but any attempt to concentrate even two or three battalions would result in a shortage of troops in that area. This is extremely dangerous, especially when some news reaches Chen Wen's ears, and he has to acquiesce to Shang Kexi's sloppy behavior for the time being.

As the negotiations unfolded, Geng Jimao and Shang Kexi successively informed Chen Wen of a piece of news, that is, Prince An's Yue Le's Eight Banners Army was on the way. This is far water, and it can't quench their near thirst, so they have to compromise with Chen Wen. According to Chen Wen's calculations, the fast is October, the slow is the month, and Yue Le will not be able to reach it even further. In one to three months, you can still make a lot of preparations, but there is no hurry. But with another piece of news, he had to return to Nanchang as soon as possible.

At the end of July, Liu Wenxiu, the king of Funan, led 60,000 southwestern Ming troops from eastern Guizhou to march. As in the Battle of Changde in history, Liu Wenxiu chose the strategy of cutting off the east and west of Dongting Lake, thereby cutting off the retreat of the Qing army in the south of Huguang. If it succeeds, the main force of the Huguang Qing army will be annihilated in the southern part of Huguang, then the northern part of Huguang will be at your fingertips.

So, in early August, Liu Wenxiu's army arrived at Chenzhou Mansion and immediately divided his troops into two routes. The main force was led by him and Feng Shuangli to attack Changde by land; The partial division was led by Lu Mingchen with more than 100 warships, took the waterway, and joined Liu Wenxiu in Changde.

The battle of Changde in history took place in April, when it was in the rising water period, and Lu Mingchen's troops only took a very short time to reach Taoyuan County, which was only dozens of miles away from Changde Fucheng, captured the city, and captured Li Ying of Zhixian alive.

However, it took Lu Mingchen more than a month to pass through the river that was not garrisoned by the Qing army for dozens of miles until May 23. As a result, outside the city of Changde, he was ambushed by the Suke Saha Department of the Qing Eighth Banner Army, and fought hard all night, the main force did not follow up in time, Lu Mingchen was killed in battle, and his troops were defeated. And Liu Wenxiu, who led the main force, did not dare to advance again after receiving the death of Lu Mingchen, and the battle of Changde ended with the victory of the Qing army.

Lu Mingchen was in Taoyuan County for more than a month, in fact, waiting for Liu Wenxiu's main force, it is said that it was raining for days and the roads were muddy, and Liu Wenxiu's army was "stranded for dozens of days by horse infantry", so it was delayed for such a long time.

But the problem is that the straight-line distance from Chenzhou Mansion to Changde Mansion is nearly 300 miles, half of which is still a mountain road in Xiangxi. Even if Liu Wenxiu's main force was not unlucky enough to encounter days of rain, his speed was far from being comparable to that of the sailors who went down the river for hundreds of miles and played the same time, and the time difference between the two was about ten days. Moreover, Liu Wenxiu, an unlucky bastard, encountered days of rain.

The defeat of Changde in history was defeated on this time difference, Lu Mingchen rushed to Taoyuan County, Liu Wenxiu was stranded in the mountains of Xiangxi, fighting grass and startling snakes, the Qing army used this time to transfer the Eight Banners Army from Jingzhou to the south, and defeated Lu Mingchen under the city of Changde when the naval division and the main force were out of touch for the second time, and the distance from Jingzhou to Changde was even longer than Chenzhou to here!

This time, thanks to Chen Wen's blessing, Liu Wenxiu did not advance eastward during the rising water period, nor did he encounter continuous rainfall, but when Lu Mingchen captured Taoyuan County, he still waited for Liu Wenxiu for nearly ten days.

Of course, the time was greatly shortened, which was not enough for the Qing army to move south as soon as possible, and Liu Wenxiu successfully captured the city of Changde Fucheng, completing the first half of the first step of the strategic goal. The second half of the que, which is to march into the capital city of Yuezhou on the east bank of Dongting Lake, so as to complete the strategic interception of the Qing army in the south of Huguang.

After Lu Mingchen's fleet set off, it soon approached the capital city of Yuezhou, but was ambushed by the Qing army that night, and fought hard all night, but it was never supported by the main force, and was finally defeated by the Qing army, but Lu Mingchen was not shot like the last time.

Liu Wenxiu's main force is still walking, but the current Dongting Lake has not yet been enclosed by the lake in later generations, and the area is more than twice that of later generations. The straight-line distance alone is similar to the difference between Chenzhou and Changde, not to mention that the soldiers, war horses, and war elephants in Liu Wenxiu's army have not practiced light skills on water floating, and detours are inevitable.

In this way, the main force of the Ming army made a big circle to reach Yuezhou City, and it was strange to be able to provide effective support to Lu Mingchen. However, because Jiangxi fell into the hands of Chen Wen, the Qing army was forced to increase its forces in the important place of Yuezhou to prevent Chen Wen from advancing westward and cut off the communication between Wuchang and Changsha from Yuezhou.

Liu Wenxiu has a big problem in using soldiers. Luck is often extremely bad and not mentioned, the details of strategic planning are too poor, especially not good at calculation. The sailor and the main force are repeatedly out of touch, and each disconnection is many days, which not only gives the Qing army time to reinforce and set up ambushes, but also fails to rescue the main force in time when the faster sailor attacks, this is no longer as simple as Li Dingguo being calculated by Sun Kewang in the victory of Hengyang, it is clear that he does not know what this time difference means!

If you think of the fiasco in the Battle of Baoning two years ago, at the beginning of the attack on Sichuan, it swept Bashu, and it was not good to take it, so you had to take a group of friendly troops with weak combat effectiveness to the north to storm Baoning Jiancheng, trying to recover the last lost territory in Sichuan and open up the passage into Shaanxi. As a result, the whole situation in Sichuan was corrupted, and all the food was vomited back, and tens of thousands of troops were around.

Chen Wen can only say one sentence, his heart is commendable, and his method is not advisable. To put it bluntly, the ability is not enough to support the strategic concept, and Liu Wenxiu is really not suitable as the commander of tens of thousands of troops.

This time, after Liu Wenxiu received Lu Mingchen's rout, he had to retreat to Changde because of the blur of the line of Yuezhou Mansion City, waiting for the situation to change, but it could be regarded as recovering the lost territory of a prefecture, and it was not purely in vain.

However, Liu Wenxiu's attack and defeat caused some chain reactions, and the frightened Fan Wencheng began to shrink his army and strengthen his control over Yuezhou. After receiving the news of Liu Wenxiu's defeat, Chen Wen had to return to Nanchang in person.

After careful calculation, he calculated like this, and in the end, he only won for this short period of two months. Fortunately, he has not been idle in the past two months, and he has not entered Guangdong in a big way in order to fight for Shang Kexi's breath, otherwise he will not even have the opportunity to come back and stabilize people's hearts.

Chen Wen, who was also shocked, returned to Nanchang, and the first thing Wang Jiang said when he saw him was "You can be regarded as back", which made Chen Wen think that something was wrong in Jiujiang or Zhejiang. Unexpectedly, it was just the news of Liu Wenxiu's defeat that came, and I was afraid that Fan Wencheng would move eastward without anyone to restrain him.

Wang Jiang's courage, Chen Wen had already seen it four years ago. This time is not bad, at least the news has not spread, it was blocked by him, and only he and Li Ruixin know about Nanchang. It seems that in recent years, he has received little experience in house arrest in the Manchu occupation area, and his psychological quality has been greatly strengthened.

"Furen, are you sure there is no problem over there in Huguang? Do you want to send some reinforcements to Yuanzhou? ”

Civilian interference in military affairs is extremely disgusted by Chen Wen, just like military generals interfering in administration, professional things must be handed over to professional people to do, and laymen command insiders to be finished. However, Wang Jiang's temper, Chen Wen also knew that he did not dare to interfere in military affairs, and he was just uneasy to ask this question.

"No, I've already let the grenadiers pass. Wu Dengke has a complete battalion of soldiers, plus half a cavalry battalion, as soon as the grenadiers arrive, with Yuanzhou Jiancheng, I want to see how Fan Wencheng came across a bloody face, but I am afraid that this guy may not give me this opportunity. ”

Jiangxi faced several defense points in Huguang, Yuanzhou, Jiujiang and now Nanchang all have war barracks, and Nanchang has Chen Wen to unify the overall situation of Jiangxi. After that, Chen Wen convened a joint meeting of the officials of the Zhejiang Governor Yamen and the Xiuguo Mansion Nanchang Xingyuan.

There is still a month to go, and it will not take more than three months at the earliest, and Yue Le's army will arrive, and then Chen Wen would like to see if Yue Le dares to fight him without anyone cooperating, but before that, he still needs to deal with more things, and seize every minute and every second to enhance his strength, first of all, military strength!

"So far, our company has recruited more than 22,000 recruits into the camp in Jiangxi and is seizing all the time for training. Follow-up recruitment is still ongoing, and a large number of recruits from various counties are on their way to Nanchang. All in all, the people of Jiangxi are extremely enthusiastic about joining our army, but the training time is too tight. ”

Jiangxi is far away from Jinhua, Chen Wen had to set up another recruit training camp here, the personnel were transferred from Jinhua, and the venue was opened up by Hong Chengchou when he trained the standard battalion to use the Spanish phalanx.

As early as the capture of Guangxin Fucheng, Chen Wen already had the intention of expanding the army on a large scale, and even before he came to relieve the siege of Yushan, Zhejiang already had a new recruitment plan being implemented.

After three months of training, some of the soldiers in Zhejiang's recruit training camps who began training before the war have taken over the defense of several war battalions in Ningshao and Ningshao Prefectures, and the other part will take over the veterans of the garrisons in Zhejiang's prefectures and counties in accordance with the old rules and continue to train in the local garrisons. Those veterans who have been replaced will begin to form new battalions. Of course, it is inevitable that some soldiers will be transferred from some old battalion leaders for mixed formation.

On the Jiangxi side, some of the 2,000 local garrisons that Chen Wen brought with him during the decisive battle with Hong Chengchou have been replenished to these battalions in Jiangxi, so that these battalions can be replenished at the first time. The other part will be used to form a new battalion head, which will certainly be the fastest new battalion head to form combat effectiveness.

The rest of the new combat barracks will depend on the progress of the training. In terms of infantry, the earliest batch of Jiangxi has been training for a month, and the slow ones have just entered the camp; The newly recruited group in Zhejiang has just completed the recruitment work, and it will take two or three months before they can leave the camp.

As for the cavalry, mounted infantry, artillery, and engineering troops, the training time is even longer. Especially the cavalry, the war horses were defeated in three major battles, and tens of thousands of horses were also captured. The injured leg has become a meal for the soldiers, and there are many intact, the cavalry of the infantry battalion and the special cavalry battalion are urgently needed by Chen Wen, in addition to thanking Dasu and Hong Chengchou, he is also seizing the time to train, but compared to the veterans of the Qing army, these recruits still have a long way to go, otherwise he simply does not have any confidence to cross the Yangtze River and the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains.

"Good." Motioning for the officer of the Training Department to sit down, Chen Wen looked at the officer in charge of the Military Industry Department. "The seized equipment, but it has already been examined?"

"Back to the marshal, our company has specially carried out inspections, and the spears used in the five towns of the Tartar Jingbiao and the Jiangxi Upgrading Standard and the Jiujiang Town Standard are the same in length, and the weight is generally slightly lighter, which can be temporarily used as a substitute and training before the completion of military production. After testing, the comprehensive assessment of our company is that there is no need to train artillery groups and equip troops. As for the green camp used by other prefectures and counties, the last general thought that returning to the furnace and recasting was the best choice. ”

"Hmm."

Chen Wen had already read the report of the military industry workshop in Jinhua before the meeting, and now the system of working in three shifts and working overtime without stopping the machines has been restored. However, this gap in armament is really not small, and it will take several months to complete the initial completion. As for Chen Wen's big plan to send the cotton armor to the garrison and equip the combat troops, it is even more distant.

Training and armament are extremely important, but even more important is the strengthening of the will to fight. Brainwashing is one thing, but the key is to confer military merits, and with a material foundation, spiritual construction is not a castle in the air.

"Governor Wang, how many of the investigation team have returned?"

Hearing Chen Wen's question, Wang Jiang hurriedly got up and replied: "If you return to the country, only the investigation team investigating the situation in Nanchang and other neighboring prefectures and health centers has returned, and the farther prefectures and counties will need more time." ”

The abolition of the old guard post and the establishment of the new guard post are the most important tasks in the Ming army in Zhejiang. However, the land area of the ten prefectures before his expedition was already larger than that of his occupation in Zhejiang, and even if the system and work process of the investigation team had already been perfected, it would take more time to conduct investigations, after all, Jiangxi's administrative system was far less perfect than that of Zhejiang, and the strength of cooperation would also affect the progress of the work.

Fortunately, Chen Wen was quite satisfied with the next series of reports. During the more than half a month since he left, the work of departments at all levels has not been delayed, and they have been working overtime.

Now that the prefectural-level officials of the 10 prefectures in the north-central part of Jiangxi have been able to carry out their work, it will take time and personnel to establish the 100 households in the townships and towns. In the six prefectures of Ji'an, Ganzhou, Nan'an, Nanxiong, Tingzhou and Shaowu, Wang Jiang has already sent someone to inform Sun Yu, and it will take some time before the next group of officials arrives.

At the end of the meeting, Chen Wen did not let the officials leave, but sent people to the post house. This move immediately caused everyone's surprise, in fact, many people already knew that this day was coming, but they didn't expect it to happen today.

"Furen, let's pick an auspicious day and auspicious time, isn't this too hasty."

The ancients talked about etiquette, especially major events such as canonization, and they always had to choose a suitable time to carry it out, at least they had to choose an auspicious time, bathing and changing clothes, burning incense and praying, otherwise they always felt that it was too hasty, and even misunderstood that it was not a good thing, and it was a crime to get it wrong.

"No, I'm going to take a shower and change my clothes, and I'm waiting for the messenger to arrive. Today, while there is still work, I hurriedly got things done, and I still have time to celebrate and feast in the evening. Starting tomorrow, everyone will have to work with 120,000 points of spirit. Time is running out, gentlemen! ”