After passing through the lot of the West Market, turn west on a nearby street, and not far away is Tongyuan Gate.

Tongyuan Gate is located in the southwest of Jinhua City, Cao Conglong was shocked when he learned that Chen Wen chose to appear here, because a few years ago the Qing army collapsed the city wall near there before entering the city, and over the years, whether it is the Manchu Qing Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty, the seriously damaged section of the city wall near the left is a little half-hearted in the repair of the matter. And when Cao Conglong came here, the chill in his heart was even worse, because in front of the battle formation of the Ming army were two large-caliber Hongyi cannons.

Chen Wen's banner appeared outside the Tongyuan Gate and asked Cao Conglong to come up for a dialogue, and all the generals of the Fubiao battalion handed over the defense and work in their hands to their deputies and cronies, and rushed here to see the success of the counterinsurgency army with their own eyes.

Ascending to the top of the city, most of the generals had arrived, looking at the banner waving in the wind outside the city, as well as the neat infantry phalanx like a knife and axe and those light cavalry that were showing off their might everywhere in sight, the only thing that Cao Conglong's heart could comfort himself was that the strength of the Ming army outside the city did not seem to be very large, and it seemed that there were only seven or eight hundred people.

"It's probably just the vanguard."

Cao Conglong didn't know if it was the echo in his heart that spread outside his body, or if someone among the generals also thought of this, but looking at the reactions of the people around him, he knew that no one would believe that Chen Wen could suddenly capture Tangxi County, which had a moat as a support, with such a small army.

At this time, the Ming army under the city seemed to see Cao Conglong's guard of honor, and a loud officer with an iron horn nodded to Chen Wen, then put the iron horn in front of his mouth and shouted to the city.

"On March 29 of the seventh year of Jian Guolu, Lin Haibo received the news that the remnants of the Jiangxi Wangshi had been surrounded by the Tartar regiments, in order to relieve the distress of the friendly army, and at the same time prevent the Tartars of Jiangxi and the Tartars of Quzhou from converging after the fall of the Jiangxi Wangshi, Linhaibo and Cao Fujun agreed to recover Quzhou on a large scale."

"On the twelfth day of April in the seventh year of Jian Guolu, Wang Shi set off from Fucheng ......"

Next, this officer told the Ming army about the war in Quzhou according to the text given to him by Chen Wen before, especially how the Ming army crossed Lingxi step by step after a bloody battle, recovered Longyou County, captured Ma Jinbao, and then besieged Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, in a lonely city. With the officer's narration, the Ming army behind the battle began to pile up the nitrated Qing army heads loaded on the cart one by one in front of the formation, and later held up the banners of the Qing army one by one, and threw them on the hillocks piled up by the heads.

As the officers spoke, especially at the same time as they spoke, the Ming army under the city also began to place the heads that were bound to be hideous in front of the battle, and they were stunned when they landed on the top of the city.

From a purely moral point of view, the stabbing of Cao Conglong and others in the back, and the black materials used by these rebels to slander Chen Wen, even if they are true, will not provide proof of their justice. Especially at the time of the great victory of the Ming army, they relied on internal strife to seize military power and attack Taizhou, even if the plan was successful, the biggest beneficiary would be the Manchu Qing, although not necessarily how many people would immediately have the speculation that Cao Conglong and the Manchu colluded, but the seeds of doubt began to be quietly planted with the contrast between the actions of Chen Wen and Cao Conglong, the two Ming armies during this period.

Occupying the moral high ground and then condescendingly attacking the opponent is a common trick used by civilian officials, and their daily arguments such as "military generals don't read sage books, so they don't know loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness" are the most commonly used in suppressing military generals.

However, Chen Wen directly used the method of reasoning with facts at the beginning, and did not even talk about the gradual rules, but he still choked Cao Conglong, who had already prepared how to conduct a scolding war.

I thought that he would clearly question whether Cao Conglong had colluded with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but Chen Wen did not mention any such doubts, and just let others speculate on their own, Cao Conglong knew very well that Chen Wen had already taken the lead in the opening scolding battle, so he had to quickly let the servant who was in charge of shouting read the text. It was a "masterpiece" written by him after thinking about it for a long time, coupled with Lu Wenlong's speculation and understanding of the Ming army in Dalan Mountain, which was originally used to establish justice, and it was just taken out to attack the momentum of the Ming army at this moment.

But without waiting for Cao Conglong's servant to speak, as the Ming army finished carrying the head and the Qing army flag, a flagpole of nearly two zhang was slowly pushed up by the people behind the Ming army, there was no flag on the flagpole, but a wooden stick of only six or seven feet of the same thickness as the flagpole was tied to it, in the shape of a cross, and this "cross" was clearly tied to a big living person in the costume of a Qing army general!

"Ma Jinbao!"

An exclamation sounded at the head of the city, and then one after another, and almost in an instant, these three words were left on the city's head, and they were accompanied by hateful glances.

Ma Jinbao was born in a rogue, first for the Ming army, and then after the Qing Dynasty, he went south with the Manchu Duanzhong prince Aixinjue Luo Boluo. After Boluo captured the city of Jinhuafu, he slaughtered it on the grounds of "disobedience to the people's orders", and it is conservatively estimated that more than 50,000 people were killed, including the head and tail of Ma Jinbao's accomplice. In the following days, Ma Jinbao was appointed by Boluo as the chief soldier of Quzhou, in charge of the military affairs of the four prefectures, and it didn't take long for him to be reappointed to Jinhua, and in the following days, this blood-stained accomplice took the Jinhua Town Standard Battalion under his command to loot people's property in the entire Jinhua Mansion, bullying men and women, and destroying people.

First, he was an accomplice in the slaughter of the city and shaving his hair and changing clothes, and then he was the mastermind of bullying and **** the people, suppressing and slaughtering the murderer of the Jinhua Anti-Qing Righteous Army, and so on until Chen Wen defeated the Qing army in Xiaoshun Town, this guy burned all over the city with Zhang Guoxun's dog thief. For a long time, too many Jinhua people have been ruined because of this scumbag, and Ma Jinbao and the gentry and people of Jinhua Mansion have a deep hatred like the sea!

"Oh my God, it's Ma Jinbao's dog thief!"

"It turned out to be true, Lin Haibo really captured Ma Jinbao alive."

"Big brother, little sister, Ma Jinbao's brute was caught by Lin Haibo, he really caught it."

“……”

Most of the people in the Fubiao battalion at the head of the city were forcibly recruited from the city and the countryside, seeing that the great enemy was tied outside the city like a lamb to the slaughter, and the details of the attack on Quzhou that the Ming army had just told and the fact that Chen Wen had rescued them from the shadow of Ma Jinbao by recovering Jinhua Mansion last year echoed in his mind with a louder voice, even those scoundrels and criminals, and even the generals and soldiers of the Fubiao battalion from Luo Chengyan's Baitou Army.

The eyes around became more and more complicated, but Zhou Qingui, who was the chief officer of the Fubiao Battalion, was still staring at the enemy outside the city who was tied to the cross to protect the scorching sun.

When the Qing army entered Jinhua Mansion, Zhou Qingui led his neighbors to fight with these dogs and Tartars, and later united Jinhua, Taizhou, Chuzhou and other righteous armies to serve Yin Can, who was highly regarded as the commander. With the addition of Yin Can, as well as the rectification of military discipline and the strict prohibition of plundering, this anti-Qing army in the name of the Baitou Army once captured Jinyun County in Chuzhou, and the company camped for more than 80 miles.

But as Ma Jinbao moved to Jinhua Mansion, Yin Can died, Xu Shouping and others also died, and even those Yushan villagers who came out with him to fight against the Qing Dynasty were rarely spared.

Maybe Ni Liangxu is right, going down the mountain to conspire with these civil officials was a mistake from the beginning, if there was no constraint behind it, maybe even Chen Jin's dog thief was caught by Chen Wen now, so will the day of catching Aixinjue Luo Boluo's dog Tartar back with a thousand knives be far away?!

Although he didn't know that Bolo was dead, the scene in front of him still made Zhou Qingui fall into deep thought. But at this moment, many puffs of smoke rose from the direction of the north city gate, constantly moving towards the city. At this time, there was a scream of "the governor has run away" among the defenders at the head of the city. Not only Cao Conglong, but even the accompanying chariots and horses were gone, as if they had never appeared here.

The sudden change also suspended the spread of hatred for the enemy in the Fubiao camp, and at this time, I saw that the Linhai Bo Chen Wen, who had never said a word under the banner, snatched the iron horn and rode forward.

"Listen to the soldiers of the governor's standard battalion, I am Chen Wen, the governor of Linhai, Chen Wen, who recovered Jinhua Mansion and captured Ma Jinbao alive, and Cao Conglong, the governor of Zhejiang, pretended to be the will of His Royal Highness the Governor of the State, and harmed the country's affairs with his own selfishness, causing the army to fail to recover Quzhou as scheduled. At this moment, the counterinsurgency army has entered the city, those who open the city and surrender will not die, and those who resist the king's division will be killed, and they will surrender early! ”

"Descend early!"

With the roar of the Ming army under the city, the hearts of the soldiers of the Fubiao battalion at the head of the city also echoed these two big words, even the officers and veterans of the Fubiao battalion who were originally from the Baitou Army of Luochengyan. It's just that it is not as good as those recruits who were forcibly recruited, and the Baitou army of Luo Chengyan is all accomplices, and these people feel the increasingly unkind eyes of the recruits around them, and at the same time, they have retreated to Zhou Qingui and other Fubiao battalion officers, as if doing so can alleviate the contradictions in their hearts.

"Brother Zhou, Governor Cao has already run away, let's go, Luo Chengyan is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there will be a chance in the future."

Raising his head, looking around, and then at He Decheng, who was holding his arm and whispering persuasion, Zhou Qingui shook his head, and then said to a few old brothers around him: "There are many cavalry under the command of Linhai Bo, and we can't return with the whole division at all. Go away, I am the eldest brother, and I will always be responsible for these brothers. With that, he pushed He Decheng away, motioned for everyone to tie him up, and opened the city gate in exchange for forgiveness.

In the midst of everyone's crying and persuasion, Zhou Qingui took care of himself and found a rope in the city gate tower and loosely put it on his body.

Soon, the gate of Tongyuan Gate opened from the city with a creaking sound, and a large number of officers and soldiers of the Fubiao battalion dropped their weapons in front of the Ming army, and even Zhou Qingui and several leaders of the Luochengyan Baitou Army also knelt outside the city with their own ties.

Seeing this, Chen Wen gave up the alternative plan of using the Hongyi cannon to blast through the ruined city wall, and immediately drew his sword and swung it forward.

"Enter the city, put down the rebellion!" (To be continued.) )