Seeing the Ming army in the distance, as well as the fiery red banner, the complacent Cao Conglong could no longer care about the governor's bearing, and couldn't help laughing. At this time, the generals, attachés and servants around him who knew the details also echoed each other, praising Cao Conglong's extraordinary wisdom in winning a decisive victory thousands of miles away from the dragon's strategy, even the famous general Chen Wen, who has always been known for his cunning.

The night before yesterday, Lü Wenlong, who had been sent to persuade Liu Cheng, sent a messenger saying that Liu Cheng was willing to continue to accept the military orders of the governor Yamen, and led the garrison of Dongyang County to attack Taizhou with him and welcome Lu Jianguo ashore.

However, at that time, Lu Wenlong's messenger also mentioned one point, that is, Liu Cheng thought that Chen Wen could chase after him at any time, and if the main force led by Cao Conglong was glued by Chen Wen in Dongyang County, let alone attacking Taizhou, I am afraid that it will be a question of how long it can last. If this is the case, instead of being broken by Chen Wen one by one, it is better to defeat him with two attacks in one fell swoop. It would be best if you could kill this person; Even if they can't do it, as long as they repel the pursuers, they can calmly attack Taizhou without worrying about the road back.

The possibility of this problem is very high, and Liu Cheng's response plan is perfect. Especially when Chen Wen's cavalry discovered their whereabouts, Cao Conglong sent a messenger to ask for help before the cavalry of the brigade began to interfere, just to break the pursuers in one fell swoop.

At this moment, reinforcements have appeared, and Cao Conglong, who has been overwhelmed by that martial artist since Chen Wen returned to the division, finally let out a bad breath, and of course he has to laugh at this moment, so as to vent the resentment that has been accumulated in his chest these days.

"Reinforcements have arrived, kill Chen Wen!"

Listening to He Decheng's morale-boosting shout, there were more compliments from subordinates and followers, but in addition to ecstasy, Cao Conglong was not careless because of this. Chen Wen still has more than 200 cavalry in his hands, even if they can break through the infantry of those few posts, he can still withdraw from the battlefield, it is too difficult to kill this martial artist, rather than wasting time and energy, it is better to repel the pursuers, relieve the trouble and continue to march into Taizhou as the first priority.

After receiving the good news that the reinforcements had arrived, the soldiers of the Fubiao Battalion, who were still retreating, took advantage of the momentary hesitation of the Jinhua Ming Army to reluctantly restrain their retreat and tried to reorganize the front and launch a counteroffensive.

However, at this moment, Chen Wen was still unmoved, seeing that the offensive of the Mandarin Duck Array killer team in front of him slowed down on its own, he secretly sighed that after all, there were still some local garrisons, Chen Wen's flag was pressed forward, and the passionate war drums sounded again.

"Tiger!"

Whether it is the barracks or the local garrisons, the long-term training, and the brainwashing of Chen Wen's practice of "rebuilding the Qijia Army", every soldier of this army has already formed a conditioned reflex -- the drums of the attack sounded, the word "tiger" roared out, and the whole army immediately launched the fiercest attack on the enemy in front of them!

In this way, the Fubiao battalion, which had just stabilized the battle line, began to retreat again under the attack of Jinhua Ming's army, and the gap between the combat effectiveness of the two sides in many aspects was too great, and in order to prevent the extremely mobile cavalry from detouring to the flank or back, He Decheng had to make up a decent round formation. In this way, the Fubiao battalion, which originally had more than 1,000 troops, actually only had two or three hundred people on the local battlefield in the fierce battle with the Jinhua Ming army, and it had lost the only strength advantage that could be relied on. If there is still hope that reinforcements will come to encircle the enemy, I am afraid that the army will collapse as soon as this second round of onslaught begins.

The reinforcements are still on the way, and the Fubiao battalion is struggling to support under the leadership of He Decheng, the chief officer who has personally arrived at the front line, and Chen Wen still has more than 200 horsemen in his hand who have not moved yet, but for Cao Conglong and others, as long as they are expelled from the battlefield, it will be a big victory, at least then the goal can be achieved.

As the reinforcements approached the battlefield in a hurry, the attachés and people who were still complimenting Cao Conglong closed their mouths one after another, and instead craned their necks to look at the fiery red Ming army general flag of the reinforcements.

"Liu Liu, deputy commander of the former battalion of the Ming Zhejiang Governor's Standard Battalion"

After seeing the words on it thoroughly, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and finally sent down the heart that had always been pinching, and then continued to praise Cao Conglong's strategy, which was much better than before.

On the battlefield, the Jinhua Ming Army is still pressing step by step, and the Fubiao Battalion is still struggling to support, at this moment the circle formation has become an ellipse, but because the right wing is the Dongyang River, so that the left wing is also squeezed by the Jinhua Ming Army while extending outward, and as time goes by, the entire formation is gradually squeezed to the Dongyang River. However, Chen Wen's cavalry still did not move, and even faintly maintained vigilance in the direction of Dongyang County.

The Ming army coming from the direction of Dongyang County is getting closer and closer, but the destination is not the right flank of the Jinhua Ming army, but the left flank of the Fubiao battalion that continues to extend. However, until there were still less than 100 steps, the banner of this Ming army suddenly fell to the ground!

In the army, the banner fell to the ground, which is a very unlucky thing, and there are even many times in history that this has led to the defeat of the army.

But before the people who saw all this could react, another general flag with the words "Guerrilla General Liu of Dongyang County, Jinhua Town, Daming" was erected, and the Ming army also began to change the formation to advance, and the archers behind the formation also began to shoot at the Fubiao battalion.

watched all this in amazement, until the first wave of arrow rain swept over the left flank of the Fubiao battalion, and the soldiers of the Fubiao battalion below Cao Conglong and He Decheng could react.

It is indeed a reinforcement, but it is not from their Fubiao battalion, but the reinforcement of Jinhua Ming's army, and it is Chen Wen's reinforcement!

The soldiers of the Fubiao Battalion, who were already on the verge of collapse, instantly turned into despair when they found their last hope, and their extremely negative feelings were immediately contagious. In just an instant, the disintegration spread from the left flank of the army to the front, and then spread to the whole army as a whole, but Cao Conglong was still standing under the banner and watching all this stupidly.

How so?!

Why is that military general named Liu Cheng like this, and even what happened to Lu Wenlong, he didn't have the idea to think about it, Cao Conglong stood in the chaos of the rout, if it weren't for the big banner still standing here, those former green battalion soldiers in the Fubiao battalion knew that it was a place of death, but they were afraid that Cao Conglong would have been involved.

"Fu Jun, run quickly, stay in the green mountains, don't worry about running out of firewood!"

Raising his head and glancing at the cronie in front of him, Cao Conglong smiled bitterly and shook his head. It's over, the Fubiao battalion is over, the plan to attack Taizhou is over, and the Lu Jianguo group in Fujian is also not spared.

It's completely over!

The collapse of the Fubiao battalion came suddenly, but the two Ming armies did not stop at all, but launched an attack even harder, especially the defenders of Dongyang County later. I want to go against the front, although I was also bewitched by the officers at that time, but if I don't work hard to kill a few more rebels now, and use the rebels' heads to surrender my name, who knows if I will be affected later.

The two Ming armies frantically slashed and killed the former green battalion soldiers of the Fubiao battalion, and the overall situation was decided, but Cao Conglong must not let him run again. As early as the moment of collapse, a group of cavalry rushed into the enemy line from the junction of the two armies. Horses and men stabbed them, and soon they made a bloody path, but before they could reach the flag, they heard a neighing and lung-rending shout.

"I caught Cao Conglong, I caught Cao Conglong."

What appeared in front of the leading officer was a high-ranking civil official in a second-grade official uniform who was pulled by a pair of big hands, and those who pulled Cao Conglong hated their parents for giving them a mouth, and they were afraid that the Ming army would not understand what they were doing.

………………

Cao Conglong was captured alive, to be exact, by his attachés and servants to the Jinhua Ming Army.

The official uniform of the well-dressed, loyal and benevolent governor of Zhejiang has been torn to pieces, and even the black veil on his head has disappeared. was knocked to the ground by Chen Fugui, the captain of the personal guard cavalry, and all the generals around Chen Wen glared at him angrily, eager to eat this despicable little man who stabbed him in the back.

Not to mention that Cao Conglong had previously held the families of these soldiers hostage, originally, they had surrounded Quzhou Mansion with Chen Wen, although the total number of Qing troops on the two routes was much larger than that of the Ming Army, but it was divided into two places, each of which was at a disadvantage, and the comrades on the northern front had also blocked the Hangzhou Garrison Eight Banners in Anhua Town, and the Jinhua Ming Army had occupied the absolute initiative on the battlefield in Zhejiang, as long as it held on for a few months at most, it would definitely be able to take Quzhou Prefecture. At that time, who else in western and southern Zhejiang can stop the pace of the Ming army's attack, and everyone will be promoted, rich, and rewarded, and even recovering Hangzhou in one fell swoop, and even Nanjing will no longer be an unrealistic dream.

But now, with the civil strife, the army was forced to retreat to Longyou, the Qing army in Quzhou and the Qing army assembled in Jiangshan County have completed the merger, the originally good situation has been completely reversed, and the war situation in Zhejiang is once again in favor of the Qing army, and the initiator of all this is Cao Conglong, the governor of Zhejiang sent by the imperial court to supervise and assist in handling military and government affairs!

Glancing at this third civilian official of the military supervision since he joined the army, Chen Wen's mind immediately killed him, but his mind faded.

"This traitor still needs a trial, so that the world can know the trial of his crimes!"

The Fubiao battalion has been completely finished, half of the Fubiao battalion soldiers were captured by the Ming army, and most of the rest fled upstream along the Dongyang River, and behind them were the Ming cavalry in hot pursuit, but the part of the Fubiao battalion soldiers who jumped into the rolling Dongyang River did not have to worry about the pursuit behind them for the time being.

In the cheering crowd, Cao Conglong was tied like a zongzi, and even a walnut was stuffed into his mouth, and he was directly escorted into the prison car. At this time, Liu Cheng, the guard general of Dongyang County, also knelt down in front of Chen Wen with himself bound, claiming to be a capital crime.

There are still many defenders of Dongyang County on the battlefield, Chen Wen is not afraid of what they will do, how they dare to do it, but he may still need this army to continue fighting, it is not good to slaughter the main general who has just made their merits now, that will only lead to the instability of the army's morale and inability to fight again. Moreover, it is still unknown whether Liu Cheng reported to the Quzhou battalion, and whether this officer is really forced still needs more evidence to support it.

"Let's talk about your affairs back in Fucheng, and now hand over the seal letter."

"Humble duty and obey the commander's orders."

Chen Wen's personal soldiers loosened the tie, Liu Cheng respectfully handed over the seal letter representing the military power, and then stood aside, without showing the slightest strangeness or dissatisfaction, it seemed that it was just the most normal work exchange, and no one could say what was wrong.

………………

"Vice General Liu, don't forget, it was you who let go of the Baitou Army of Luochengyan in the first place, you were the one who offered the plan to take the officer's family as a hostage, and it was you who planned to attack Taizhou from Yushan Town, and you also accepted the official position of deputy general of the Fubiao Battalion. Now, you've got no way back! ”

As Lu Wenlong said this sentence word by word, Liu Cheng's cold and sharp gaze like a blade began to sting Lu Wenlong's skin, but his words did not stop there.

The blade pierced into the skin, as if blood would drip out the next moment, but the next moment, the sharpness disappeared without a trace, replaced by a wry smile.

"You're right, no matter which of these things, Chen Wen will not let me go."

After all, he was just a civil official, and Lu Wenlong's breathing stagnated for a while in Liu Cheng's murderous aura, and it was not until he heard this sentence that he could be regarded as relieved.

"Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed. Liu Shuai, when you arrive in Taizhou, welcome His Royal Highness the Prison State back to Zhejiang, and then the officials may have to call you Lord or Marquis, so let's leave as soon as possible. ”

"Lu Zanhua is polite. It's just ......"

"Just what?"

"Chen Wen has returned, maybe he will catch up soon, we must be fully prepared!"

Next, the two of them worked together to calculate the possible situations one by one, and also came up with a contingency plan, and finally checked the details repeatedly.

It wasn't until early the next morning that Lü Wenlong sent his entourage back with letters to report the news, and Liu Cheng instructed his subordinates to prepare a room for rest for Lü Wenlong, who stayed as a supervisor.

"I'm sorry, Liu Shuai."

"Lu Zanhua is polite."

After that, Lu Wenlong, who was already sleepy, followed the subordinate to the door, but when the subordinate went out, not only did he not continue to guide him, but closed the door again.

Immediately afterwards, a big hand of a military general with calluses at the tiger's mouth covered Lu Wenlong's mouth, and at the same time, a cold blade really pierced his waist, no longer as illusory as before.

"Lu Zan painting, it seems that you have forgotten one thing. The things you said earlier, except for accepting the post of deputy general of the Fubiao Battalion, I dictated to you directly, and no third person heard it. What's more, I didn't leave you any handwriting or letters. So, I still have a way out! ”

The dagger twisted in Lu Wenlong's body, and then the blood mixed with the fragments of internal organs overflowed from the fingers of the big hand, and the body fell to the ground like a rag bag, leaving only the general's eyes overflowing with shocking coldness from time to time. (To be continued.) )