The Tongsi Bridge in Longyou County is located outside the east gate of Longyou County, with a total length of 165 meters. Tongsi Bridge was originally a wooden bridge, the Northern Song Dynasty Xuanhe period of the county people Zhu Changyou's wife Xu Shi to the wooden bridge to decay, is to lose more than 10,000 gold to face the stone did not succeed. Decades later, to the Southern Song Dynasty Chunyou period of the ten piers of stone bridge was built, after knowing the Quzhou affairs of Ma Tianji on the bridge and built 50 houses, to the Ming and Qing dynasties also have many reconstruction.

More than a month ago, the Ming army attacked Quzhou on a large scale, and the Qing army Jinhua general soldier Ma Jinbao, who was responsible for the city defense, demolished the stone arch bridge, but due to the urgency of time, in the end it was only the bridge deck and the buildings on it were all demolished, and the amount of work to demolish the bridge piers was obviously too large, so it had to be given up and let it continue to stand in the Lingxi.

When the Ming army captured Longyou County, the staff who was temporarily appointed to act as the agent of Longyou County County received Chen Wen's permission to requisition craftsmen and people to rebuild the bridge, one is to facilitate the transportation of materials and personnel for the Ming army, and on the other hand, it also has the intention of restoring people's livelihood.

In the night, under the Jiming Tower next to the village under the bridge on the east bank of the Tongsi Bridge, Ni Liangxu took his own soldiers to watch the carriage drive up to the bridge deck that had just been repaired for a day.

When the woman gently spit out the words "The general decided that only the concubine came to report the news with two domestic servants", Ni Liangxu's first reaction was that the scholar who helped the little sister of the Zhou family leave the mansion parted ways with her, and she was just a bait on the surface. But after seeing this woman again, he quickly reacted, and finally completely understood what this little woman was talking about.

The little sister of the Zhou family is right, the rebellion has been five days, and the Ming army camp outside Jinhua Mansion and Quzhou Mansion is only two hundred miles away, and from the beginning, Cao Conglong has not done a particularly good job in blocking the news because of his superstition about the authority of the imperial court and the means of coercion and inducement, as well as the necessity of follow-up plans. Although the suddenness of the rebellion and the backward means of communication led to the fact that they would inevitably get a certain amount of time, and Chen Wen's army was besieging the city of Quzhou, the time should be enough for them to complete their preparations, but at the same time, Chen Wen had already formed his own force in Jinhua Mansion, and it was absolutely impossible for such a little woman to rush to Quzhou to report the news, and this meant that intercepting and killing the three of them would not only fail to achieve their goal, but also make them completely tied up with Cao Conglong's civil officials.

Once he figured this out, Ni Liangxu, who was already opposed to conspiring with Cao Conglong to seize Jinhua Mansion, quickly put his original plan behind him and reached an agreement with the little sister of the Zhou family instead. According to the agreement, the little sister of the Zhou family will instigate her brother Zhou Jingting to speak well for Luo Chengyan's white-headed army in front of Chen Wen, so as to reduce the strength of Chen Wen's revenge once the situation is reversed, while Ni Liangxu needs to protect the Zhou family from too much persecution in Jinhua Mansion City, nothing more.

After the two sides swore an oath on the ancestral tomb and the well-being of their descendants, Ni Liangxu let go of the road and let the unarmed women pass, while he took his own soldiers on the way back to Tangxi County.

It's just that when he returned to Tangxi County, he got two pieces of news, one good news and one bad news. The good news is that in the past two days, his close deputy has recruited nearly 200 recruits in Tangxi County, although the cost is still higher than the standard of the Jinhua Ming Army, but with the support of the civilian officials in Tangxi County, it is enough to deal with it. As for the bad news, the captain of the two families who were not controlled fled from Tangxi County with nearly half of the original garrison, and the rebels who followed him to Longyou were powerless to pursue them.

One out and one in, judging from the numbers, they still earn a lot, but most of the original garrisons have been on the battlefield, and their combat effectiveness is by no means comparable to those recruits who have just been recruited.

The morale of the army was unstable, and the original garrison was really not suitable to move lightly, so Ni Liangxu had no choice but to start training new recruits here as soon as possible on the basis of repeatedly stating that he would not infringe on the remaining officers and soldiers of the garrison, so as to prepare for various possibilities in the coming days.

At least according to common sense, whether Cao Conglong succeeds in seizing power or Chen Wen achieves a turnaround, there will be more room for turning around if he has soldiers in his hands.

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On May 28, the sixth year of Yongli, Shuiying sent a new batch of supplies to the besieging troops. This batch of supplies was collected from Longyou County, partly from taxes collected by the staff who stayed behind, and partly from the sale of some of the seized jewelry, jade and antiques and other luxury goods by Chen Wen to local merchants in Quzhou in Longyou.

From the beginning of the capture of Longyou County, Chen Wen began to build ships in Longyou, but the local merchants in Longyou County were in charge of this matter, and the shipbuilders they hired used the air-dried wood they had previously hoarded in the city and began to build soon after receiving the deposit, which was much faster than the craftsmen and people recruited by Chen Wen in Jinhua, and the scale of the ships was also larger.

Among the family properties seized by Ma Jinbao and some of his subordinates in Longyou County were hard currency such as gold and silver ingots and copper coins, as well as luxury goods such as jewelry, jewelry, jade, antiques, calligraphy and paintings. In Chen Wen's view, precious metals such as gold, silver, and copper could be directly used to pay military salaries and buy military supplies, and the Ming Dynasty people also preferred hoarding, which was not conducive to circulation, so trading with local merchants generally gave priority to the use of these luxury goods.

After several days of observation of the garrison, the local merchants also reaffirmed the reality of the strict discipline of the Ming army, and there was no great resistance to the trade as when facing the Qing army. In addition, the original main business scope of the Longyou Merchants Gang in Quzhou included the trading of these luxury goods, and there would be no circulation obstacles if they were familiar with the way. And Chen Wen's request for the supervision of the officers of the water battalion and the military judge is also a matter of course, so that both sides can also trade with peace of mind.

Through equal transactions, Chen Wen quickly mobilized a large number of local merchants, craftsmen and people to devote themselves to the work of enhancing the strength of the Ming army, not only the naval ships under construction, but also a large number of military materials began to be sent into the warehouses of the Ming army, and even the people of Chuzhou carried Songyang to Quzhou to sell materials, so that the Ming army under his command had a momentum of being like a fish in water in Quzhou, but the local Qing army and the Qing army that still occupied most of Quzhou began to look more and more like a group of undesirable villains.

The Qing army in Quzhou was now divided into two parts, the largest of which was the Dubiao Battalion and other units besieged by the Ming army, while the other part of the Qing army was concentrated in Jiangshan County, all of which were reinforcements from southern Zhejiang and Fujian.

According to the report of the Tanma, it seems that the army has been assembled, and even the strikers have gone out of the city, but they retreated inexplicably, and I don't know what Wang Zhigang, the general soldier of the left road of Fujian, who was appointed to become the commander of the support army, was thinking.

However, in any case, since the Qing army did not attack in a big way, Chen Wen did not plan to put the heavily assembled capital city of Quzhou to attack Jiangshan County. It's just that the defense of this Quzhou capital city is abnormally strong, and it is not easy to capture it.

If you want to attack the city, the simplest and most common is to build siege equipment ant attached to the city, after taking the city and the city gate, the overall situation is basically decided, and few can drive the enemy out after the city is broken. However, for Chen Wen, it costs a lot to train and equip the army under his command, and most of the soldiers have experienced great battles, so he does not intend to sacrifice it like cannon fodder at the head of the city in exchange for this city, and now he has to try to use the excavation and blasting that did not take place not long ago in Longyou to break the city.

It's just that Quzhou's capital city is not a dragon tour, and its city is either a river or a moat on all sides, and it is obviously impossible to blast the west city wall close to the Qujiang River, and blasting the city walls in all other directions also try to divert the water of the moat first, and then dry it for a few days before digging and blasting, otherwise the water of the moat will be submerged or soaked in this tactic.

Outside the southern wall of Quzhou's capital city, the Ming army's sappers were still leading the people to try to divert water from the moat of Quzhou's South Lake, but the progress was unusually slow, making it impossible to start the blasting work.

Although Chen Wen was a little impatient in this regard, he could not do anything, so he had to let those professionals do it, and took advantage of this time to continue to train non-commissioned officers, and at the same time let his staff and those training officers transferred from the old battalion to give literacy to low-level officers, plus impart some military knowledge, in an attempt to further improve the combat effectiveness of the army.

At this time, Chen Wen was in the camp to explain the art of war to the middle-level officers and staff officers in the army, but the method he used was still the same as telling theories and citing historical facts at the same time. However, this way of explaining is also easier to deepen understanding, and the officers and staff officers are also very happy to be able to get Chen Wen, the new famous general of the dynasty, to personally explain the art of war to them, and naturally they are more diligent, but there are very few doubts in it, and it is not at all like Chen Wen when he explained "The Art of War" on Dalan Mountain, and he had to usher in a lot of problems at every turn.

This is a good thing, but it is not a good thing, so Chen Wen added a free discussion session, so that they can voice their doubts and deepen their understanding through discussion and debate under appropriate guidance, rather than holding back their hearts and waiting until they make mistakes when leading the troops alone.

Fortunately, most of these officers have experienced literacy in Tiantai Mountain last year and in Jinhua Fucheng camp this year, and the common words and sentences of military terminology and orders are coarse, and their literacy has also improved their understanding of the art of war, and the problems that arise when discussing each other are also varied, but in terms of overall quality, they are much better than the group of illiterate officers he brought with him when he was in Dalanshan.

The free discussion was still going on, and Chen Wen listened to their arguments as always. But at this moment, Zhang Jun, the captain of the pro-soldiers, secretly came to Chen Wen's side, saying that Zhou Jingting hoped that Chen Wen could move to the Chinese army's tent as soon as possible, and it was said that there was something important to discuss. (To be continued.) )