From Yin Yue's emergency document, Chen Wen learned the specific situation of the front-line battle from Anhua Town to Zhengjiawu Town.

The Dongyang battalion arrived at Zhengjiawu Town soon after departing from Yiwu, and began to deploy defenses there. Immediately afterwards, a vanguard of the Qing army encountered a small force of the Dongyang battalion exploring north on the way south, and the two sides retreated separately after some probing, and did not continue to make contact.

According to Chen Wen's previous deployment, the Dongyang battalion blocked Zhengjiawu Town, which is known as the north gate of Jinhua, and learned from the mouths of the captives that the Fubiao battalion had already entered Anhua Town at that time, and sent a large number of rangers to cover the main force of the Fubiao battalion behind this corridor.

Because Chen Wen had previously incorporated all the cavalry into the Nantang battalion, the cavalry in Yin Yue's hands was pitifully few, and he could not compete with the cavalry of the Fubiao battalion on the battlefield. In order to ensure safety, Yin Yue had to order the fourth game of the Dongyang camp to cross the ball mountain and camp on the bank of the Puyang River to protect the safety of the flank.

It was only as time went by, and the frequency of the Qing army's cavalry activities dropped sharply after reaching a peak, and after Yin Yue realized that something was wrong, he led his army north to try to fight the Fubiao battalion in this corridor. However, when his vanguard arrived near Anhua Town, he learned from the villagers that the Qing army had been preparing ships these days, and had set out from there early the morning before, along the Puyang River into the boundary of Pujiang County, and tried to enter Yiwu from there.

Knowing the information that the Fubiao battalion had marched on the way around Zhengjiawu Town, Yin Yue hurriedly retreated south, but before he could return to the starting place, the news came that the fourth game was defeated by the Fubiao battalion on the bank of the Puyang River.

The Qing army traveled up the river by boat, while the three bureaus of the Dongyang battalion marched in pursuit on another road. Chen Wen estimated the time, and it was not surprising that the Qing army would arrive in Yiwu County in a short time.

Yiwu county only has a city gate, but it is rare that there is no city wall. Since there is no danger to defend, Li Zhifang chose to disarm last time for this reason. However, for Chen Wen, Yiwu County was the stronghold of his supporters of the Ming army, and if the county seat of Yiwu was lost, it was likely to cause a series of chain reactions that were unfavorable to the Ming army, especially at a time when he was still trying to recover other parts of Jinhua Province.

The three bureaus of the Dongyang battalion were on their way. However, in terms of time, it will definitely lag behind the Fubiao camp by two to three days. At this moment, there are still two infantry posts in Yiwu County to maintain law and order, but since the Dongyang Battalion can't stop the Fubiao Battalion, these two infantry posts naturally can't last long.

After a moment of calmness, Chen Wen issued a new military order. Li Ruixin had already driven away the Shaoxing Green Camp with the help of Yu Wei of the Nantang Battalion, so he asked him to immediately return to Dongyang County to protect the safety of the old camp stationed there.

And since the Nantang camp here has already set off, there is no need to rush back, and even if it comes back, it will definitely not be able to catch up. At present, the Yiwu battalion has been prepared, but although the remnants of the Governor Battalion and Ma Jinbao are newly defeated. However, there were still a lot of troops, and Chen Wen had to ensure that the southern front put pressure on the Qing army, so he sent most of the Yiwu battalion to continue to march towards Fucheng, and ordered Wu Dengke to attack the city under his banner in order to deceive the Qing army.

There was also a bureau of the Yiwu battalion in his hand, as well as Yu Guowang's bird hand, Chen Wen summoned Chen Guobao and ordered him to lead most of the cavalry of the Nantang battalion to cooperate with Wu Dengke to attack Fucheng. And he took the remaining more than 100 cavalry and all the troops in his hands who stayed in Xiaoshun Town to protect the wounded, and all the troops in his hands marched back to Yiwu to defend Yiwu, and transferred the two infantry posts guarding the water division in Fotang Town to return to Yiwu to buy time for the reinforcements he led.

And so it goes. There should be three infantry posts in Yiwu County, as well as a very small number of garrison soldiers; Chen Wen's reinforcements were probably infantry of a bureau and cavalry of a hundred people, even if they were combined, they were less than a thousand, and the opponent he had to face was the 2,000 army of the Fubiao battalion.

There is a huge disparity in strength, and there is nothing to be done, if the newly defeated Qing army on the southern front can regain a foothold in Jinhua Fucheng. Then the previous sacrifice was in vain, and even if he returned to the reinforcements and defeated the Fubiao battalion, he would inevitably be dragged to death here by the Qing army. Since this is the case, it is better to give it a go, after all, the Dongyang Battalion is still on the way, as long as you insist on returning to the Dongyang Battalion. There's still a lot to be done.

After the order was issued, Chen Wen led the team to set off to help. At the same time, after bypassing the heavily defended Zhengjiawu Town from Pujiang County, the Fubiao Battalion defeated the fourth game of the Dongyang Battalion with superior forces, and then continued to go upstream.

The Puyang River originates from the mountains in the western part of Pujiang County, and was originally a river that flows into the sea alone, but after the Ming Dynasty, a dam was built to forcibly lead its upstream into the Qiantang River. It is said that in the Spring and Autumn Period, the Xishi Huansha Sinking Fish is related to this river, so it is also called the Huanjiang River, but the specific location is in Zhuji in Shaoxing, not Pujiang County in Jinhua.

After the Qing army continued to board the ship and marched, while summoning the defenders of Pujiang County to act together, they landed in the area of Huangzhai and went south, and went south to Yiwu through the corridor between Wushan and Qiaotou Mountain, and at this moment they had arrived at Houzhai Town in Yiwu County.

Houzhai Town is located in the north of Yiwu County, which is the necessary place for Pujiang County to go south to Yiwu in the corridor between Wushan Mountain and Qiaotou Mountain. After arriving in Houzhai Town, the Fubiao battalion slaughtered the local people on the grounds of rebellion, packed the looted goods into boxes, and tied their children to the back of the car to be transported to other prefectures and counties for sale after the end of the war.

Not only the back house, since entering the boundary of Yiwu County, the villages along the way were slaughtered and burned, and the smoke rising with the flames after the Qing army withdrew seemed to be wolf smoke indicating the news of the coming of the Qing army.

There is no danger between the back house and the county seat, just like a candy whose sugar coating has been removed, as long as it is tentacles, it can be taken into the mouth. The Qing army marched very fast, and Sun Yu and others were unable to organize the local people to retreat after receiving the news, so they had to send Wang Jiang's mother and wife, Wang Yi's daughter and his wife, and the child who was only a few months old, as well as some officials and their families, to stay and gather a group of hundreds of volunteers to cooperate with the Ming army defending the city.

The military camp outside the west gate has been abandoned, and the Ming army officers who stayed in Yiwu County with the rank of garrison dispersed all the infantry teams in various parts of the county, trying to delay time for reinforcements by relying on the advantages of the Mandarin Duck Formation in the narrow terrain.

It's just that at this moment, the Qing army is only a day's journey from Yiwu County, and Chen Wen and the two parts of the Dongyang Battalion reinforcements will take two to three days to arrive at the earliest, which means that they need to rely on this county town without city walls to support more than a day in front of the elite of the green battalion like the Fubiao Battalion.

And this is really an unattainable task for the Ming army defending the city, which is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of strength. (To be continued.) )